Chapter 25: The Crystal Skull

When Li Jingwei looked inside, he found that it was a stone room of about forty square meters. On the stone walls around the stone room, there are many night pearls. Roughly counting, there are more than 20 night pearls on each stone wall. These night pearls illuminate the entire stone chamber as if it were day.

In the middle of the stone room, sat eight middle-aged people who looked to be in their fifties, although they looked thin, but they seemed to be alive. These people's costumes are very peculiar, everyone wears a bun on the top of their heads, and they are wearing slightly loose and fat indigo blue robes, which are very similar to the costumes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in costume dramas.

Li Jingwei was very surprised, he didn't know how these people entered this stone room, and how they breathed air in such a closed space. Also, there doesn't seem to be any cooking utensils in it, and how do they eat?

In such a closed stone chamber, how to maintain vitality is indeed incredible.

Li Jingwei encountered too many things that could not be scientifically explained in this cold pool today, which had a great impact on his worldview for a while. For example, there is no scientific explanation for how people get in this enclosed stone chamber.

In the middle of the circle of eight people, a green crystal skull was suspended, scattering green light in all directions. Li Jingwei was very sure that this crystal skull was suspended, and there was no support underneath.

What's even more strange is that Li Jingwei found that when the stone door was opened, there was no water flowing into the stone room. It's like now, standing outside, completely in the water. Inside the stone chamber, there is no water.

He looked closely, and found that there was a transparent glass cover in the opening of the stone wall, through which he could see everything inside, but the water could not flow in.

Actually, it's not quite accurate to say that it is a glass cover, but more like an invisible air current, isolating the water from the outside.

Just when Li Jingwei was about to study why the water couldn't flow in, another voice appeared in his mind: "What are you doing there? Why don't you come in quickly?"

Li Jingwei is now accustomed to repeated voices, but he noticed that when this voice appeared in his head, none of the eight people inside opened their mouths to speak.

In fact, since Li Jingwei looked inside, these eight people have always closed their eyes and mouths, without any movement, as if they were asleep.

Li Jingwei tried to enter through the opening of the stone wall, but he easily entered, and it turned out that the water around him was actually isolated from the outside.

"Hurry up and thrust the dagger into the top of the middle skull. The voice just now sounded in his head again, and he commanded anxiously.

Li Jingwei looked around blankly, and then asked loudly, "Why?"

At the same time, he noticed that the crystal skull in the middle of the eight people actually began to tremble up and down violently, as if it was caught by an invisible net, and now it was trying to break free.

At this time, the voice sounded in his sea again, and he said eagerly: "Quickly insert the dagger into the crystal skull, otherwise once the Thunder Demon skull breaks free, my Huaxia clan will be wiped out." ”

At this time, on top of the green crystal skull, countless bright red silk threads began to appear, which looked extremely weird. Then, the red threads began to gather rapidly towards the eyes. At the same time, the crystal skull vibrated up and down with greater amplitude.

A strong sense of crisis began to rise in Li Jingwei's heart. He didn't know why, but he just felt that if he let the crystal skull break free, the consequences would be unimaginable.

He didn't dare to hesitate at the moment, pulled out the dagger, jumped into the middle of the eight people one by one, and plunged the dragon slaying dagger into the heavenly spirit cover of the crystal skull like lightning. At the same moment, two red beams of light shot out from the eyes of the crystal skull, hitting Li Jingwei's dantian, knocking him out violently and slamming into the stone wall.

Li Jingwei spurted out a mouthful of blood 'wow', and almost fainted in pain. He trembled against the wall, trying to stand up, but impatiently another mouthful of blood spurted out, and fell to the ground again.

Relying on the support of the stone wall, Li Jingwei reluctantly sat up straight against the wall. Then, he tried to use the Tai Chi True Qi, hoping to lift up the Qi together. After trying a few times, he found that he couldn't mobilize any trace of true qi.

Li Jingwei has no experience, he just feels pain at the moment, and he doesn't think too much. He didn't know that his dantian qi sea had been shattered by a red beam of light emitting from the eyes of the crystal skull. And for a martial artist, this means that the whole body is lost, and I am afraid that I will not be able to cultivate again for the rest of my life.

If Zhang Longcheng, Zhuge Qingxuan or Xiao Chufeng were here, they would definitely be heartbroken. Li Jingwei has already entered the realm of selflessness at a young age, and can be said to be a genius who cultivates the way of Tai Chi. And with the shattering of Li Jingwei's dantian qi sea, all this will cease to exist.

Throughout the ages, among those who practice martial arts, there are countless people who commit suicide because the dantian qi sea is shattered and they cannot cultivate. The reason is that many people can't bear the huge gap in their hearts from the peak martial artist to the powerless chicken.

Li Jingwei still didn't know anything about these things, and it was hard to believe that if he knew the consequences of the shattering of this dantian qi sea, what kind of reaction he would have. From a proud son of heaven who cultivates the way of Tai Chi to an ordinary person who can no longer cultivate, what a blow it will be.

At this moment, the crystal skull began to shake violently, and at the same time, a terrible scream sounded in the stone chamber, and the voice was full of unwillingness and resentment.

Then, the crystal skull exploded into countless fragments with a 'bang', and the stone chamber was instantly full of green light, making it impossible to look at it directly. Li Jingwei also immediately closed his eyes.

At this moment, three red clusters of light and seven green clusters of light faintly appeared in the fragments, each about the size of an egg yolk. After these ten light clusters intertwined and danced in the air for a moment, they saw three red light clusters flying straight towards Li Jingwei's head, shooting into his three acupuncture points in Baihui, Shenting, and Yintang respectively.

Subsequently, seven green light clusters also flew towards Li Jingwei, and instantly entered the seven key points of Jizhong, Zhongguan, Shenji, Qihai, Guan Yuan, Shendao, and Mingmen.

According to Taoism, people have three souls and seven spirits. The three souls are the heavenly soul, the earth soul and the life soul. The soul of life supports the soul of heaven and earth of man, the prosperity and decline of fortune. Fortune is the master of fate, and fate is sent by fortune. The fortune lord is empty, the fate is the reality, the fortune is invisible and the life is tangible.

The seven spirits are the Heavenly Spirit, the Spiritual Wisdom, the Spirit, the Strength, the Pivotal Spirit, the Essence and the Heroic Spirit. Among them, the central spirit is the center of the seven spirits. The soul of man leads the thought and wisdom through the heavenly spirit and the spiritual wisdom, the action through the spirit, the strength, and the central spirit, and the physical strength through the spirit and heroism.

According to Taoism, when a person dies, the three souls and seven spirits will dissipate.

The crystal skull was stabbed by Li Jingwei with a dragon slaying dagger, completely destroying the remnants of the Thunder Demon in the world, thus making the three souls and seven spirits have no attachment and become ownerless.

However, a trace of Thunder Demon's resentment remained. This trace of resentment mobilized his own three souls and seven spirits into Li Jingwei's body, trying to attack Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits, trying to destroy Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits before he was annihilated.

If a person's physical body dies, the three souls and seven spirits will also dissipate, and then this life will be completely lost and enter the next reincarnation. If the three souls and seven spirits of a person are extinguished, but the body is immortal, the person will become a walking corpse.

And if a person becomes a walking corpse, he will never be reincarnated and will fall into infinite suffering. This Thunder Demon resented Li Jingwei for destroying the crystal skull, so he finally resorted to such a yin damage trick.

After the three souls and seven spirits of the Thunder Demon entered Li Jingwei's body, they immediately launched a crazy attack. Before Li Jingwei, his body had been deeply damaged, and his soul consciousness was also in the weakest state. The three souls and seven spirits of the thunder god have been cultivated for thousands of years, how powerful they are. Therefore, after Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits were attacked, they had no power to resist, and they were on the verge of dissipating in an instant.

At this moment, the bracelet that was originally worn on Li Jingwei's left wrist suddenly shone brightly, and a voice of eternal vicissitudes sounded with it, reciting the Taoist mantra of purifying the heart, 'Taishang Taitai star, strain without stopping, exorcise evil spirits, protect life, wisdom and purity, peace of mind, three souls are eternal, and there is no loss of souls. ’

Immediately, in the stone room, there was a 'Taishang star, which never stops, exorcises evil spirits, protects life, wisdom is clear, the mind is peaceful, and the three souls are eternal, and there is no loss of soul. These thirty-two golden characters in traditional Chinese characters. In an instant, these words converged and reorganized into a huge Tai Chi Bagua diagram, enveloping Li Jingwei's whole person in it, suspended in mid-air.

At the same time, as the chanting of the Pure Heart Mantra sounded, Li Jingwei's Three Souls and Seven Spirits burst out with supreme vitality in an instant, as if it had infinite suction, wrapping the Thunder Demon's Three Souls and Seven Spirits and began to fuse.

After the crystal skull was shattered, the three souls and seven spirits of the Thunder Demon were already ownerless, and they were completely driven by the resentment of the Thunder Demon before they launched an attack on Li Jingwei's Three Souls and Seven Spirits. And the appearance of the Taoist curse completely wiped out the last trace of resentment of the Thunder Demon.

Although the three souls and seven spirits of the Thunder Demon are powerful, and there are even signs of enlightenment, compared with Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits, after all, there is no master against the master, and there is no resistance.

And, as an ownerless thing, it will eventually dissipate. Thunder Demon's Three Souls and Seven Spirits faintly already have divine thoughts, so he naturally does not want to dissipate them, if he can merge with Li Jingwei's Three Souls and Seven Spirits, it is also a good choice, at least it will not return to nothingness. It is precisely because of this that the three souls and seven spirits of the Thunder Demon also took the initiative to give up resistance, and gradually merged with Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits.

The bracelet that Li Jingwei carried in his hand was still given by Zhou Chenggang on the plane to Wushi. However, Zhou Chenggang actually doesn't know its true origin.

Zhou Chenggang traveled to Huashan when he was young and met a Taoist, and the two became old friends. Later, my friend died, and before I sat down, I handed over the bracelet to him, hoping that he could one day transfer it to someone who was destined for it.

Zhou Chenggang was at a loss, and immediately asked what a destined person was, but his friend smiled and said nothing.

met Li Jingwei on the plane, and received Li Jingwei's business card when they were separated, Zhou Chenggang completely subconsciously took off the bracelet and handed it to Li Jingwei casually. After handing it over, he immediately felt relieved in his heart, and said in his heart, it turned out that this is the case with destined people.

This bracelet actually has an extraordinary origin, it was originally a relic of Chen Lu's ancestors. In the early years of Duangong, Chen Tuan Ancestor had a premonition that he was about to die, and his famous disciple Jia Desheng chiseled a stone room in the foggy valley of Huashan Maonu Peak. After Chen Lu's ancestor, he sat in the stone room. When the disciples were packing up the relics of the ancestor, they found this bracelet and the last words of the ancestor asking for a gift to the destined person.

For more than 1,000 years, bracelets have been passed down to different people. Later, the bracelet passed to Zhou Chenggang's friend. When he died, he entrusted Zhou Chenggang to find someone destined for him. When Zhou Chenggang asked him what he was, in fact, he didn't know it himself, so he naturally couldn't answer.

This bracelet is an object that Chen Kuan wears for his ancestors, condensing the enlightenment and Taoism of his ancestors. Legend has it that after the death of the old ancestor, the five-colored clouds covered the entrance of the stone chamber, and the moon did not disperse, and then they were all condensed into this bracelet.

After the Chen Tuo Old Ancestor Dao method condensed in the bracelet appeared, the trace of resentment of the Thunder Demon suddenly had nothing to hide, and it was inevitable that he would be killed in an instant.

About half an hour or so, the Tai Chi Bagua diagram surrounding Li Jingwei's body disappeared, and the three souls and seven spirits of the Thunder Demon had also been completely fused by Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits, which made Li Jingwei's three souls and seven spirits more condensed.

In particular, the spirit of the thunder god, after entering Li Jingwei's dantian qi sea, fused with Li Jingwei's qi, quickly repaired his dantian qi sea, and at the same time increased his accumulated Taiji true qi by several times.

For Li Jingwei, it can be said that it is a blessing in disguise. Of course, he himself was not aware of these changes.