Deep in Cangwu Mountain, Hou Yi, the son of Orion, was born with the Scale of Beiming in his hand, and the seal of the sun loomed in his palm. The Bone-cutting Old Man has been waiting for his arrival for seventy years; the White Fox entrusted him with his life, leaving him with a path that he would never get lost; Hengge used his weapon to protect him from all the weapons in the world. He walked from the mountain village to Qingqiu, from Qingqiu to Beiming, and saw his ending in the ruins - shooting down for nine days and giving everything.
He walked through the country of adults, the country of gentlemen, the country of immortals, the country of women, the country of husbands, and the country of the poor. He defeated the tiger, the vulture, the dream tapir, and the enlightened beast. He rejected Wu Xian's temptation and endured Ying Huo's gaze. He opened three doors in Kunlunxu and drew the Falling Moon Bow by Tanggu.
Nine arrows. Nine suns. Nine prices.
He lost sight in his right eye, his left arm was broken, and all the vowels in his father's memory disappeared. The horizontal leather shattered into golden light spots, Tu Shanyue fell into eternal sleep, and Kua turned into a wisp of ember in the ice crystal axe. He shot down the sun, but not the loneliness.
He took the sleeping Tu Shanyue on his way home and carved everyone's names on his new bones. At the end of the story, the young man has become a legend, and the legend still doesn't know where he should go - to return to the ruins, or to the soft place deep in the heart that is farther than the return to the ruins?
Is it Guixu, or is it something further than Guixu, that soft place deep in the heart?
