Cleansing the Dust Record
洗尘录
by Wen Lin (温凛)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 28k Words
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Ancient Era
- Updated
- 5mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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There are more than sixty mountains in the Pure Realm. There are five major families in the mountain, each with their own bloodline secrets - the Wen family has purple eyes, and it takes hundreds of years to have a baby girl; the Wu family has supernatural power, and can break a human arm bone with a break of the wrist; the Wei family has green blood, and the blood-tempered wood can protect the building from falling down for a hundred years; the Chen family is the only son, and the accounts he handles are never wrong; the Mu family has lotus flowers on its wrists, and is in charge of classics and spiritual plants, living in the Valley of Flowers where it feels like spring all year round. Mu Qingci is the youngest daughter of the Mu family. She was born different from others - her hair was like the Milky Way falling in the sky, and the ink color gradually turned to pink; her eyes were the same color as the tail of her hair, as clear as the morning glow reflected in the spring; the lotus birthmark on her wrist was getting darker day by day. Her mother tied her wrist with a ribbon and told her day after day: Never let others see her. At the winter solstice of the fifteenth year, the Chen and Wei families joined forces to massacre the Mu family. She escaped from the secret passage alone and stood above the burning valley without shedding a single tear. A man came out of the snow. He has white hair and black clothes, golden eyes like ice, and holds an unlit lantern in his hand. He asked: "Is there hatred in your eyes?" She shook her head. He handed her the lantern. The lantern lit up in her hand. That person is Yin Linyuan, the master of the Silent Peak and the true master of the Pure Realm. For hundreds of years, no one from the five major families has seen his true face. He waited for someone for a hundred years. He took her to the Silent Peak and accepted her as his disciple, teaching her mental skills and swordsmanship. The lotus on her wrist is getting hotter day by day, and the lantern under the eaves is getting brighter every night. She gradually learned that her bloodline was called "Ku Rong" - where the blood fell, the grass and trees withered; where the heart went, the dead trees bloomed. The last awakened person was named Rong Yuan. He fell in love with the son of the first realm lord a hundred years ago, lost control of his power, and died of all his blood. Before he died, he carved four words on the stone wall: I have no regrets. As for the lantern in Yin Linyuan's hand, the previous owner was Rong Yuan. When the light goes out, people die, but when the light comes on, people remain. The taboos between master and disciple, the fate of blood, and the hundred-year wait are all tied to an eternal lamp. And when Mu Qingci finally learned to control the power of withered glory and let flowers bloom again in the ruins, what she said to him was not "I learned", but - "Then can I keep it forever?" She was talking about herself. He said: "Yes." There are more than sixty mountains in the pure world, three waterfalls washing the dust, a lamp, a lotus, and two people. This is a story about failure and prosperity, waiting and return. Concept: The concept of this novel is multi-layered. As the story unfolds, it gradually rises from personal destiny to the questioning of "purity" and "turbidity", "dryness" and "glory", "preservation" and "return". --- First layer·Surface concept "What is being washed away is not dust, but prejudice." The Jingjie is isolated from the outside world with a triple waterfall. It calls itself "pure" and regards the outside world as "turbid". But the disaster of annihilation arises from ambition within the Pure Realm, and the noblest sacrifices come from those who are excluded from the Pure Realm. What the waterfall washes away is not sin, but arrogance. --- Second level·Character conception "Withering glory is not a curse, it is a choice." Mu Qingci's bloodline can make all things wither, and it can also make dead trees bloom again. She went from being afraid of her own power to learning to control it, and finally understood that withering and prosperity are never opposites - only by daring to let the old wither can the new grow. Her growth is a process from "being chosen by fate" to "actively choosing fate". "Waiting is not standing still, it is holding a light in the darkest night." Yin Linyuan waited for a hundred years. He could have left Buyu Peak, he could have stopped carrying that empty lantern and walked through more than 60 mountains year after year. But he didn't. His waiting is not passive or miserable, but an active persistence - when everyone thinks that the light will not turn on again, he still believes that the light will come. Real waiting is to maintain a welcoming attitude despite the inertia of despair. --- The third layer·Group portrait conception "Everyone guards their own 'pure world', and everyone is trapped by their own 'pure world'." Wen Heng was trapped in a sick body, but he had the deepest purple pupils and could see light that others could not see. Wu Shuang was trapped in strength and could not save anyone on the night of the destruction of his family. Since then, he practiced hard day and night, just to protect the people he wanted to protect next time. Chen Su is trapped in his family. He has never participated in his father's sins, but he has to spend his whole life facing the row of peach stones in the drawer. The twins of the Wei family were trapped in silence. They spent a lifetime building bridges and buildings, but they could not make up for the distance that was separated that night. There are more than 60 mountains in the Pure Realm, and everyone has his own silent peak. --- The fourth layer·Core idea "The true realm of purity is not behind the waterfall, but in people's hearts." This is the text of the whole book. Shen Yunzhou never passed through that waterfall until her death, but she proved with her life that the purest soul can grow in the world that she once thought was filthy. Yin Linyuan guarded the Pure Realm for hundreds of years, but finally discovered that what he really wanted to guard was not the more than 60 mountains, but the person who walked into his snowstorm with a lantern. Mu Qingci fled from the Pure World to the outside world, and then fought her way back to the Pure World. She finally understood that she was not looking for a place, but to become the person who would turn any place into a "Pure World". The waterfall is still flowing. But it is no longer isolation, it is witness. --- One word of intention "There is no natural purity or turbidity in this world. There are only choices again and again - choose to wither or prosper, to stay or to let go, to wait or to return, to love or to love more."