Chapter 1466: Character Side Story: [Memory] Believer, Li Jingming

Character Side Story: 【Memory】 Believer, Li Jingming

Li Jingming's first trial was a prayer trial; his wish was to "return" to Yunye Temple.

The 【Faith Game】 randomly reset everyone's rest area, so Li Jingming was naturally forced to leave Yunye Temple. However, he did not want anyone—at least, not anyone who was not a Yunye disciple—to desecrate that place. Therefore, the moment he stepped out of the Starting Point of Destiny, he spoke that wish to 【Memory】.

【Memory】 granted him a 【Memory】 trial. Because the time it was initiated was so early, this trial consisted basically of 【Memory】 believers participating in their first trial.

A trial for six novices sounded very simple, but one must know that on the day the gods first descended, any player who dared to pray the moment they emerged from the Starting Point of Destiny was someone with intense goals and desires. Furthermore, Li Jingming's prayer was practically "expelling" another player who had been assigned to Yunye Temple, so that trial did not go smoothly.

The six blank slates nearly lost themselves in the labyrinth 【Memory】 had fashioned for them.

The initial trials still only had names and hints; no one had ever told them how a 【Memory】 trial should be completed. Fortunately, when facing the unknown at the beginning, the players were relatively united. They constantly engaged in trial and error, took risks, weathered infighting and division, and finally won the trial.

Everyone was very happy, and the other five followed Li Jingming back to Yunye Temple.

It was also from that day on that Li Jingming began to write the sutra scrolls belonging to the 【Faith Game】, and the first batch alone consisted of five volumes.

For the vast majority of players, the 【Faith Game】 was a dangerous and terrifying game, but for some, it was a once-in-a-millennium opportunity.

The secrets reality would not tell them, the truths buried in the past that were no longer known to anyone, the past lost in the long river of history that no longer had any basis—the gods could provide answers to all of this.

Therefore, in order to complete the past of Yunye Temple, Li Jingming began to pray constantly.

He was not sure if every trial would be as bumpy as the first, so for the sake of safety, he broke the past he wanted to understand into many trivial and simple wishes, such as obtaining local county annals, perusing others' records, or talking to the descendants of those in the know. Unless he had absolutely no harvest, he would never take risks.

Just like that, under high-frequency trials, he harvested more and more intelligence, secrets, and information. The power of 【Memory】 also helped him remember more and more things. He began to have a small reputation in the trials, until his name topped the leaderboard of the Ladder of Audience.

Li Jingming (Memory).

This 【Memory】 believer who topped the list with his real name slowly became known to the world, and everyone's memories became the anchors of his existence.

It was also in this process that he gradually understood the past of Yunye Temple.

It was just that this past, which had never been recorded, truly exceeded Li Jingming's expectations. He had always thought the masks in the Starting Point of Destiny were the "epitome" of the freedom and unrestraint of the past patriarchs, but he never imagined that Yunye Temple itself was a thorough "lie."

In fact, Yunye Temple was not "born" to be a temple. At the beginning, this was merely a wind-shelter room piled up on the mountainside for woodcutters to rest their feet. As more people came and went, it expanded a few circles and became a courtyard.

Later, there was war at the foot of the mountain. A refugee suffered from the disaster and took refuge on the mountain. Seeing that this place was sparsely populated and habitable, he stayed. This person suffered from the bitterness of war and the pain of losing his home, and his mental state developed some problems. After settling down, he was unwilling to believe that he was a displaced person who had lost his home, so he claimed he was a Daoist in the temple who had never entered the world. Seeing the suffering of all living beings, he entered the world to suffer and pray for the world.

He turned this place into his Daoist temple, meditated and performed rituals every day, and "recalled" the past events in the mountains before entering the world. Gradually, these memories were recorded by him on the wooden walls to preserve them.

When the war at the foot of the mountain was about to die out, the refugees did not know how many times they had changed. People who decided to take root here went up the mountain to cut wood and saw this dilapidated Daoist temple, so they told the Daoist that the war had died out. The Daoist believed that his prayers had worked and became even more convinced, so the name Yunye was passed down from generation to generation from that time on.

On the day he learned the truth, Li Jingming sat blankly in the temple for a whole day.

It turned out that the "rise" of Yunye Temple and the "succession" of Yunye Temple had always been of the same origin. Whether it was the patriarch or the master, in the dark, they stayed here because of the same suffering, thereby continuing the incense inheritance of Yunye Temple for many years.

Even so, emotionally, it was very difficult for him to accept that a large part of the many pasts he had copied since childhood was actually based on the "delusions" of the patriarch...

Looking at those vivid and interesting "memories," Li Jingming hesitated.

He remembered the words his master had said: "This is 'recollection'; tracing the past, joy and sorrow come from the heart."

Li Jingming's Daoist practice was not that high. After learning the truth, he could not achieve joy and sorrow coming from the heart. Since he could not achieve it, he simply solved it from the source. So he struggled back and forth, and finally made an adventurous move that "desecrated" 【Memory】.

He prayed to forget that memory.

He wanted Yunye to remain the vivid and interesting Yunye in his memory. This was not denying the origin, but "joy and sorrow coming from the heart."

He was persistent in recording, but he also made choices when recording.

He originally thought that such an act would suffer the punishment of blasphemy under the gaze of 【Memory】, but he did not expect that since then, he had become closer and closer to 【Memory】, and even became a guide on the path of 【Memory】.

Along this journey, he had never forgotten his master's entrustment.

"Pass Yunye down..."

Every individual who could serve as an anchor for Yunye's memories exchanged memories with Li Jingming. He was never stingy about using Yunye's memories to exchange for other people's secrets. It was also because of this that this small mountain temple of Yunye became known to more and more people.

Li Jingming originally wanted to use this to make the world remember Yunye, but who knew that he would later learn about the Fixed from Cheng Shi's mouth.

It turned out that this world was not "revolving," but revolving around a Fixed!

Since that was the case, as long as the Fixed knew about Yunye... presumably, no matter what, the name Yunye would always be passed down, right?

He did it.

Even if he became 【Memory】 and filled the vacancy of the divine throne with will and faith, Li Jingming did it.

He let the name Yunye be passed down in that foreseeable new world; at least the "Origin" knew.

Of course, he had also thought that with the Clown's temperament, that future that lost everyone might not come. But it didn't matter; when that future did not arrive, it meant that in "another future," he still had the opportunity to spread the name of Yunye with his own body and actions.

That was enough; at least Yunye was always there.

I, Yunye disciple, Yunye Temple Master, 【Memory】 believer, Li Jingming, in this life, I am worthy of Yunye, worthy of my master, worthy of the Clown, worthy of the Fixed, worthy of my friends, and worthy of myself.

I was born in memory, lived in memory, and died in memory, using this unchanging memory to remember the eternal past.

Once I recorded long, flowing light and tracing shadows.

I am Yunye's Li Jingming.

Li Jingming, Yunye disciple, traveler of memories, 【Memory】.

Birthday: September 7

Age: 30 ===== CHAPTER 1467 =====