Chapter 1: Valley of the Shadows
Boom, boom......
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It was the first rain since the beginning of spring, and the spring thunder was rolling.
Tu Yuan held a magnifying glass, sat under the lamp in front of the table, and carefully looked at the remnant stone seal that he had just bought from the antique market.
He was an orphan, taken care of by the national policy, and through his own efforts, he has been promoted to higher education with excellent grades and admitted to Peking University, but he studied archaeology.
After graduating, he worked as a junior appraiser in a large antiques company.
He looked carefully at the bottom of the residual seal on his hand, trying to recognize the pattern on the bottom of the seal, he was sure that this seal would definitely not be an ancient official seal, but a Taoist sigil. I heard from the man who sold the remnant seal that he picked it up from a mountain temple.
In ancient times, the Taoist sigil was the ability to command the gods and ward off demons
The broken spot was sharp, and he scratched it lightly with his fingers, trying to feel if it was stone or metal.
There was a slight pain in the fingertips, and the sharp part of the broken hand was actually cut.
"Boom ......"
Suddenly, the thunder seemed to explode in his ears, Tu Yuan was startled, his ears were buzzing, a little fire appeared in front of him at some point, and an inexplicable fear surged into his heart.
"Thunderfire ......"
It was only fear that came to his heart like a tide, and the firelight had already fallen on him, and in an instant, his eyes felt a firelight covering the sky and the sun, and there was a trace of lightning flashing in the firelight.
His body was instantly turned to ashes in this firelight, and the remnant mark in his hand also turned into a cloud of black ash in the thunder and fire, scattered all over the ground.
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When Tu Yuan regained consciousness, his whole body was extremely sore.
He opened his eyes with difficulty, and what he saw was a gray sky with heavy snow in the sky. And he was lying on the snow, and the snowflakes fell on his face, and it was biting cold.
"It's alive, it's okay to be alive, someone will come soon, remember who you are, don't say the wrong thing. A cold voice suddenly appeared.
Tu Yuan was shocked, turned his head sideways, and saw a man dressed in white standing next to him. The white clothes he was wearing were the kind of clothes that only the ancients would wear, with silver lines on the cuffs of the sleeves, long black hair, and a blue crown, and the whole person exuded a casual and indifferent atmosphere.
He was a little confused, and the man in white standing there narrowed his eyes slightly, as if there was a faint mockery.
"Your father begged you to do this, and you had better not do anything bad, because if you do something bad, your family will die because of you. ”
The man in white sneered, his whole face suddenly began to blur, and then the whole person turned into a puddle of water and drowned on this piece of snow, quickly seeping into the ground.
Tu Yuan's heart was beating wildly.
"What's, what is this?"
"Visions, dreams, spells. ”
His heart was cold, this was fear, the fear of the unknown.
He sat up with difficulty, and found a man lying not far away, his scalp numb, and his intuition told him that the man was dead.
His first thought was to leave here, whether he was bad or not, whether he was a family member or not, I didn't know anything.
But when I looked around, there was only a white expanse, heavy snow was flying, thousands of miles were gray, and the cold wind was biting.
Behind it was a snow-covered mountain that stretched for hundreds of miles, and in front of it was a large river, in which a large area along the bank was covered with snow and ice, and only the river was flowing slowly in the middle.
Where to go?
Tu Yuan didn't know.
When I looked down, I realized that the clothes I was wearing were wrong, the same clothes of the ancients, gray. When he reached out and touched his hair, it was a long black hair.
"Why am I here, where is this?" he was dazed and frightened, at a loss.
Spinning in place, asking in his heart, his mouth open, a cold wind swept snow into his mouth and nose.
Just when he was dazed and at a loss, in the vast snow, a birdsong suddenly sounded, looked up, and saw a black eagle falling towards his face, and hurriedly retreated, the black eagle directly in front of him surged a ball of blue light, and the black eagle turned into a person in the blue light.
A middle-aged man in a black robe landed on the snow, his eyes full of anger.
"Who killed your master. ”
Tu Yuan shook his head reflexively, but he was thinking in his heart: "Then it's my master who died?"
"Don't you even know who killed you?"
Tu Yuan instinctively shook his head again.
In this case, he didn't dare to say anything about the man in white, not because he was afraid of the threats that the man in white said, but because he felt that if he said something, there would definitely be a series of questions, why did he only kill his master, but kept himself and didn't kill him, how to answer this question.
This is not something he thought of after careful consideration, but a kind of reflex in his heart.
"Your master is dead, why are you okay? Do you see the person who killed your master?"
Tu Yuan shook his head again and said, "After I woke up, Master was already dead. ”
The black-robed man stared at Tu Yuan coldly, Tu Yuan lowered his head, not daring to look at each other, but his heart was up and down, and his heart was beating even harder.
After a while, the man snorted coldly, turned around, and suddenly there was a gray snake in his hand, the gray light flashed, the snake bounced on the snow, writhed and swam to the side of the corpse, the small snake's mouth suddenly opened, a gust of wind surged, the corpse was swallowed directly into the snake's belly with a piece of snow, and the snake suddenly became huge and the mouth was disturbed, and the snake was still small.
The man stretched out his hand, and the gray snake twisted in the void, as if it had broken through the void, appeared in the man's hand, wrapped around his sleeve and disappeared.
"Is this a spell? Is this a world with spells? I've come to a world of gods and demons!"
Tu Yuan's heart suddenly became excited, and there was a fear of the unknown in the excitement, and the whole person began to tremble.
When the man saw it, he just said, "Follow me back to the Valley of the Souls." ”
The words fell, with a wave of his hand, a black mist emerged, wrapping Tu Yuan up, and in Tu Yuan's exclamation, the black mist wrapped Tu Yuan roared up in the wind and snow, and flew away in one direction.
Tu Yuan couldn't see anything clearly in the black fog, only saw a hazy piece, for him who was a little afraid of heights, this weightlessness of hanging in the air and being blown up by a tornado was extremely terrifying.
When his feet were down-to-earth, the whole person couldn't help but staggered forward and took two steps.
It was the entrance to a valley where snow was still falling in the sky.
Taniguchi had a huge brownish black stele, and he found that he recognized the words on it at a glance, and could understand the words of this world, but he had no memory of his own body.
Looking into the valley, all I saw was a hazy black mist, and nothing else.
Looking at the black-robed man again, he was staring at himself scrutinically.
Hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at each other, he knew his performance, and it was estimated that it was wrong. But the man didn't say anything more, and led himself into the Valley of the Shadows.
Following the man, he entered the Valley of the Shadows, looked up, and found that the snow could not fall at all.
The Valley of the Shadows is not small, a house, the houses are connected, but the entire sky is filled with a faint layer of black mist, although it does not affect the eyesight, but as soon as you enter here, the sky suddenly darkens a lot.
He was taken to a room, where the black-robed man told him to wait.
I thought to myself, there may be a lot of interrogation in the meeting, how should I answer. I was nervous.
From suddenly coming to this world, without even adapting to the process, Tu Yuan felt that he was involved in a conspiracy.
What exactly is the conspiracy, he does not know, because there is so little information to be learned.
Who is this conspiracy directed at? He intuitively felt that it was against this Valley of the Shadows.
"Could it be that this body of mine betrayed his master because his family was threatened before, and then he had to betray his master? In the process of killing his master, he was killed by the counter-killing, and then my soul took possession of my physical body?"
Walking back and forth in my heart, thinking wildly, thinking about all kinds of possibilities, thinking about the man in white who could turn into a puddle of water, and thinking about the one who brought me here with me.
Suddenly, the door opened.
"Follow me. It was the eagle-nosed black-robed man who came back, turned around and left after speaking, and Tu Yuan hurriedly followed.
In front of a large attic, there was a plaque that said Secret Room.
"Go, tell me about your situation, record it in the file, and then you will officially become a disciple of the inner sect of the Yin Soul Valley. The man said.
Tu Yuan's heart was shocked and shocked.
I don't know what's going on.
He entered a secret room, and across from him sat a woman dressed in black, with an ordinary appearance. Seeing the eagle-nosed man coming in, he hurriedly got up and shouted, "Senior Brother Qiu." ”
"Well, help him record it. Senior Brother Qiu said.
"Yes. After the woman in black sat down, she picked up the pen and asked, "Name?"
Tu Yuan hesitated, didn't dare to answer, and glanced at Senior Brother Qiu, who was pacing there expressionlessly.
Of course, he didn't know the original name of this body, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "Tu Yuan." ”
When he finished talking about Tu Yuan, Senior Brother Qiu, who was originally pacing beside him with an expressionless face, suddenly stopped, then turned around and looked at him with a cold sword-like gaze.
Tu Yuan's heart was beating wildly, and he secretly thought, "It's over, it's over." ”
But the woman sitting there on the other side of the registration lowered her head and wrote, and asked, "But the first yuan of the first yuan?"
"Yes. Tu Yuan said again.
"Where's the people's clan. ”
Tu Yuan's heart was about to be pinched together, he didn't dare to look at Senior Brother Qiu's judgmental cold gaze, so he had to bite the bullet again and said vaguely: "Hexi East Village." ”
The woman in black was slightly stunned, frowned, and did not put pen to paper, looking at Tu Yuan, Tu Yuan did not dare to look at her.
But I heard her ask: "But this is Mingzhou, west of the Canghe River?"
Tu Yuan replied stiffly again: "Yes." ”
There are some questions later, also about the family situation, Tu Yuan directly said his situation in that world, eagerly, how did he make up an identity.
……
When he walked out of the terrifying secret recording room, he felt a sense of collapse.
The black-robed man surnamed Qiu next to him no longer looked like a sword at this time, but a kind of scrutiny, a kind of alienation.
"From today on, you are a disciple of the Yin Soul Valley, my surname is Qiu, you can call me Uncle Qiu, this is your nameplate, you can find a place to live according to this nameplate, and after you settle down, you can go to the Dharma transmission room to learn the cultivation method. ”
After Senior Brother Qiu handed over a non-iron and non-wood nameplate to Tu Yuan, he turned around and left, throwing him here directly.
Tu Yuan looked at the disappeared Uncle Qiu, and his heart was extremely excited, did they just pass the test?
Looking around, in the gray mist, the buildings were connected, and he stood in them, everything seemed like a dream.
Before this, he really couldn't imagine that he had experienced so much in this short period of time.
"I'm going to become a disciple of the Yin Soul Valley? I've crossed over, and I can practice spells?"
When he retracted his restless thoughts, suppressed the throbbing mood, picked up the nameplate and looked at it carefully, he decided to find his own place first.
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