Chapter 60, The Death of the Chai Golem
With difficulty dragging the heavy wooden body of the wood golem away from the dark place, Bai Gu sat on the ground and gasped, observing his surroundings around.
According to what the chai puppet said, they are now in a huge coffin, Bai Gu saw a dark black ancient coffin behind him, he didn't know what material it was made of, and there were no special symbols on the surface, or he couldn't see it clearly from a little distance, but he couldn't see it when he was close, because as soon as he approached the three-zhang range, Bai Gu's eyes were dark everywhere he looked.
The walls around are orange-red firelight, with the illumination of this firelight, the originally lonely tomb seems less terrifying, this tomb is beyond imagination, Bai Gu can't see the end of one side of the wall, the fire on the wall has no fuel but keeps burning, it doesn't seem to go out, maybe it really won't go out.
"We are now in the coffin head area inside this giant tomb, facing east. This one is the Tianshu Formation, and the one opposite it is the one in front of you, which is the Tianquan Formation, and the two in the south are Tianxuan and Tianji Formations one after another, and the four black coffins in these four positions all contain earth-shattering aura, and I am afraid that your masters and uncles will be shocked when they come here. The voice of the wood golem reached Bai Gu's ears.
"Senior Brother Chai, how do you know this, you... Where?" or this question, Bai Gu's feeling now was that the soul of the Chai Golem was talking to him, because the wooden man lying on the ground couldn't move his mouth at all, and it seemed that the tone of the Chai Golem at this time did not have much respect for Master Xuanshuang and Uncle Weisheng.
The golem asked, "A little scared, do you want to know where I am?"
Bai Gu lowered his head, thought in his heart for a moment, and said 'um'.
There was a short silence, and then, from the wooden body of the wood puppet, a trace of golden spirit silk slowly drilled out, more and more, swimming around, Bai Gu was stunned, looking at these golden spirit silk The light was dazzling, very dazzling, they slowly gathered, converging into a human figure, the appearance was seven or eight points like a wood puppet, but it was just a human appearance of light filaments gathered.
This is the firewood puppet at this time, Bai Gudu looked at the figure in front of him, although it was shining, there was an indescribable sadness, as if the body had died, and only the soul was left as a phantom.
"Don't be surprised, listen to me quietly. The firewood puppet that turned into a golden filament gathered seemed to have lost human emotion for a moment, and said awe-inspiringly:
"In the world of life, there is no loss of favor, this is the origin of my name in my last life, which was taken by my father at that time. When I died in vain at the foot of the mountain, fortunately rescued by ten thousand brothers, I got the longevity of more than 100 years, I was with him for a lifetime, never abandoned, and was willing to become a stepping stone for him to verify the avenue, now he does not know life and death, I saved him heartwarmingly, although there was hesitation in my heart when I went out of the mountain, I finally carried you, along the way, there was a sense of evil omen in my head, but I was blindly obsessed, and finally trapped you in this unknown place, it was all my fault, after careful thinking, there was still the use of your brother and brother in the bottom of my heart. β
Bai Gu looked at the tall light silk figure in front of him, and couldn't help shaking his head, thinking in his heart, 'It's not like this, it's not Senior Brother Chai who is at fault, it's that person, the person who carries the sword. β
The Chai golem continued:
"During the period when you were unconscious, I explored the entire tomb, and found no mechanism to get out, everything here is integrated, it can also be said to be a dead tomb, only the most central, the water hole in the Tianquan array is where the vitality is, although you have spiritual power in your body at the moment, but there is not much vitality left in your body, you need to eat as soon as possible to replenish the essence, follow me to see." β
The Chai puppet said, and slowly floated towards the front of Bai Gu, where in the distance was the Heavenly Power Formation, a little far away, and he couldn't see the scene around it clearly.
After a short time, approaching the Tianquan formation here, away from three zhang, I found that the layout here is very different from the black coffin around the Tianshu formation, in the outside, in addition to the coffin that is similar to the black ancient coffin just now, there is a circular half-human high black stone surrounded by a pool, inside is water, the coffin is half immersed in the water, the water color is blue, it is the kind of dark blue black color, look carefully, this water is weird, the sound of water droplets can be heard in the ear, but you can't see where it drips, and there are no ripples and ripples.
"This place is different from the others, but you can take a closer look. The wood puppet slowly floated into the three-zhang range of this formation, and Bai Gu followed in.
Unexpectedly, when I came in, it didn't become dark like the black coffin in the Tianshu formation before, but there was a kind of dark blue light that set off the darkness, not the state where nothing could be seen.
Bai Gu was curious about the source of the sound of water and asked, "Where did the sound of water drops come from?"
"In the coffin~" The wood puppet replied, and gradually floated to the center of the pool, on the black coffin.
The firewood puppet looked down and said: "I have been studying for many days, and once the rest of the ancient coffins touch their bodies, my spiritual power will be consumed, but this one has a lot of vitality flowing out, and there is a black stone sword-shaped embryo floating in the air inside, which does not look like a divine object, it should be an auxiliary artifact, and there are water droplets dripping into the bottom of the coffin from the ring hole in the middle of it, as if it is ...... The one at the bottom is a piece of blue jade. β
After saying that, as if he was not sure, he thought silently, in fact, in the so many days that Bai Gu had been in a coma, the firewood golem would float to this position every day, staring at the faint blue in the depths of the tiny hole for a long time.
After thinking for a while, the chai puppet said: "I am in a spirit state at the moment, and I can sense it from all directions, but this coffin can only observe what is going on inside through the holes, this should be the power of the formation to arrange this large array, and it may even be the means of the owner of the construction of this tomb, in short, the opportunity to go out is here, and I have thought of a feasible way." β
"What method?" Bai Gu asked.
"As far as I know, the formation between heaven and earth is divided into two categories, the living array and the death array, but all the formations specially prepared for the construction of tombs are generally dead formations, and the aura in the death array is not used to continue to run the formation, nor will it flow around, it will only be imprisoned in each array, thousands of years like a day of silent waiting, once the most important thing in the array is touched, the covered aura will riot, and the whole body will be affected, and the aura on all the arrays will burst out in an instant, destroying the entire tomb, which is to prevent people from stealing important things in the tombγ You see this tomb is one, all the objects are immovable, is it a dead formation?"
Hearing the firewood puppet's question, Bai Gu thought about it, and couldn't stop thinking about the sound of water droplets in his ears, Bai Gu replied: "The fire on the wall and the water in the pool are all moving, and this array should be a formation." β
"Yes, although the tomb is a dead tomb, but the array is not a dead array, the fire is actually supported by aura, this water is not stagnant water, this tomb is not a burial, there is only one object in the entire tomb that can be moved, that is, the black stone sword-shaped embryo in this coffin, this thing is floated by the aura, used to compare the size of the falling water droplets, to ensure that every drop of water absorbed by the jade at the bottom of the coffin is the same weight, I guess as long as we remove the black stone sword-shaped embryo, the weight of the water droplets will inevitably increase the excess, the jade may be broken, the jade will be broken, this array is not a dead array, after the formation is broken, all the aura will either return to heaven and earth by itself, or be absorbed by the magic weapon set up by the arranger in advance, you are immediately free to seek food to replenish your strength. β
It was naturally a blessing to be able to go out, Bai Gu's face appeared with joy, and he asked, "That... Brother, shall we start now?"
"Good".
Bai Gu immediately raised his foot and stepped on the edge of the pool, his left foot stepped first, only to hear the firewood puppet say: "Wait!"
Bai Gu was puzzled, listening to this voice with urgency, Senior Brother Chai seemed to have something to say, so he had to wait quietly and look at the golden silk figure on the top of the coffin in front of him.
ββ¦β¦ It's okay, you come up. The golem floated away from the top of the coffin.
Bai Gu hesitated a little, jumped on the black coffin hard, the soles of his feet were cold, and when he looked down, there was a round hole the size of a human face, and the hole was full of blue light, which was emitted at the bottom, and there was a vague black long object in the middle of the half of the ancient coffin, which could not be seen clearly, it must be the black stone sword-shaped embryo that Senior Brother Chai said, and the water should have dripped from the other side of the coffin lid under his feet on the long object, it was very strange that there was such an endless stream of water droplets dripping on the coffin lid for no reason.
"Senior brother, I just need to reach in and remove that thing, okay?" Bai Gu had already reached in as he spoke.
"No!" said the golem urgently.
"Hiss......" The chai puppet screamed a moment late, Bai Gu's hand quickly retracted, screaming in pain, and with a long hiss, two blood marks appeared in the palm of his hand.
Unexpectedly, the black stone sword-shaped embryo really had an invisible sword qi born, and it cut Bai Gu's palm in an instant, and then looked down, there was already a string of blood beads along with the rest of the water droplets into a large water droplet that dripped down the round hole, and landed on the jade, and the blue light instantly turned red, which was extremely dazzling.
A thick golden aura condensed into a golden glove from Bai Gu's hand, and Bai Gu turned his head to see the firewood puppet sending an endless stream of aura to him.
"Quickly reach out and remove that thing, your blood has already dripped into the blue jade, and I am afraid that it will change later. β
The firewood puppet spoke eagerly, Bai Gu did not delay, reached in and probed to the edge of the black stone sword-shaped embryo, the invisible sword qi impacted the golden aura condensed glove, sizzling, seeing the golden aura slowly fade and weaken, the chai puppet exerted his strength again, and a thicker aura flowed around Bai Gu's hand to make up for the damage of the sword qi to the golden glove.
After holding the edge of the sword-shaped embryo, Bai Gu found that he couldn't move it, his strength had been used to the limit, and the object still didn't move in its original position.
The Chai puppet expected this to happen, and the golden light around his body was flourishing, and the golden aura frantically surged towards Bai Gu from slow to fast.
Bai Gu only felt that he had a lot more strength all of a sudden, and he was able to move the sword-shaped embryo with all his strength, gritting his teeth and moving the object a little bit, seeing that the water could drip directly without passing through the round hole, Bai Gu was overjoyed.
A small sound came from the "click...... and Bai Gu felt that there was silence around him.
In a moment, the entire burial chamber rumbled and vibrate, Bai Gu did not stand firmly, he fell directly back into the water, he was cold in the water, and before he could stand, he saw that the black coffin lid half-immersed in the water was steeply overturned, and the remaining four coffin panels could not stand upright, as if the gift box was opened, they fell on their backs and splashed water, and a blood-red round broken jade slowly floated in the air, it was not completely broken, but the original ring-shaped appearance became broken at the moment, and the joints were uneven.
The black stone sword-shaped embryo was already lying quietly in the water, and it floated up unexpectedly, entangled and rotated in parallel with the blood-red broken jade, and the aura vortex arose, and the boulder above the tomb began to collapse.
"Let's go!" called the golem.
Bai Gu came back to his senses, got up and ran, and before he could take two steps, there was a sound of "Zheng ......" behind him, which was like a sword sound, Bai Gu didn't care so much, paused and continued to run, running and running, but he didn't expect his whole body to float in the air and fly backwards, as if he was about to be absorbed into something.
Bai Gu turned his head and looked, the soul of the dead was rising, the originally separated sword-shaped embryo and the blood-red broken jade were actually merged into one at this moment, and the jade body was embedded in the only hole in the sword-shaped embryo, the blood-red broken jade because the already broken jade body looked like a dead man's eyes at the moment, the eyeballs stared at Bai Gu, Bai Gu saw his own figure in the eyeball, and he couldn't help shrinking.
"Ah......h
Bai Gu shouted, his hair standing on end, what the hell is this?
The next moment, a golden aura dragged Bai Gu who was flying upside down, and Bai Gu knew that it was Senior Brother Chai Puppet who was helping him.
"Hold on!" "Hold on!" The suction continued, the golden light around the chai puppet was dazzling, and the endless lines of spiritual power were tied to Bai Gu's body, pulling and fighting, and at this moment the strongest enemy between heaven and earth was on the opposite side, that is, the floating sword embryo, the purpose of the chai puppet was very clear, to protect this Bai junior brother who had not yet been involved in the world, and he also had a face to see Wan Qing under his own Jiuquan.
I don't know how long it took, the suction gradually decreased, the collapse of the boulder above the tomb continued, and under the repeated moonlight, it was dark outside now, and the black stone sword embryo also fell, Bai Gu sat paralyzed on the ground, looking at the gloomy firewood puppet that was still outlined by the golden aura, extremely sad.
Two lines of tears fell, and Bai Gu let out a low cry, "Senior Brother Chai......"
"Haha, if you don't die, there will be a blessing!" The firewood puppet slowly floated forward, and Bai Gu slowly crawled and approached the firewood puppet.
When the two of them were within easy reach, the Chai Golem stretched out his hand and pointed it on Bai Gu's forehead, Bai Gu's expression slowly froze, and his mind remembered the voice of the Chai Golem.
"Don't speak, listen to me, I'm running out of oil at the moment, my body is about to dissipate, there are six extremely powerful breaths around here, it should be the existence of guarding that thing, your blood has caused something to happen, wait for a while, don't stay immediately, quickly replenish your energy after you go out, ask where is the boundary here, how far away is it from Chengzhou, try your best to return to Chengzhou on the premise of preserving your life, as long as you go to Chengzhou, you can send a message to Lushan if you find a sect at will......"
The form of the chai puppet gradually dimmed, and Bai Gu burst into tears, he didn't know how many times he had cried this time.
"On the occasion of parting, I have three words for you to hear, first, human nature is evil, do not trust others. Second, find your life's persistence, and the rules become good, and the loss becomes evil. Third, if you have something to gain in life, you will lose something, and everything that has more benefits than disadvantages can be done. β
"Hide your name after you go out...... "Only the illusory wood puppet is still talking about something, Bai Gu knows that the person in front of him is going to leave him after all, remembering the sentence not long ago, 'You are free immediately', I am afraid that he expected this result before.
At the last moment, the phantom returned to the light, and Bai Gu clearly saw a young figure, which should be the appearance of the Chai puppet before, very ordinary and ordinary, he bowed to Bai Gu...... The phantom faded and disappeared, and the last blessing came from Bai Gu's ears:
"Evergreen Daoist, you are a disciple of Xuanshuang Zhenren, you are a respected person, you are persistent in cultivation, he will have some achievements in the future, and you will say goodbye. β
Just like spring is born and summer is long, autumn is harvested and winter is hidden, people also have life and death, Bai Gu knows this truth, but he is unwilling, unwilling, angry, and sad.
Bai Gu cried and howled, this feeling was like when his grandfather died, he was so helpless.
"Ah...... Senior Brother Chai......" Bai Gu pounded the ground with both hands and cried loudly.
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A wisp of wind blew, I don't know when the collapse of the tomb had stopped, Siye looked, this was in an unknown mountain, Bai Gu did not forget what the wood puppet said, and after crying, he ran to the wood puppet's body, took off the storage ring of the wood puppet, and slowly crawled towards the outside of the tomb.
Halfway up the climb, I turned around and saw that the wooden body of the firewood puppet was still lying there desolately, and with a pinch, a small flame of aura emerged, flying to the wooden corpse of the firewood puppet, and the fire ignited instantly, Bai Gu whispered: "Senior Brother Chai, farewell to Changqingzi." He turned his head and crawled away.
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In the night, the moonlight was shining, a thin figure shuttled through the woods, there was a black long object behind him quietly floating and following him, he didn't notice it, he continued to run, where his feet landed, blood marks were imprinted on the stone slabs, stumps, and fallen leaves, this figure was bleeding regardless of his body, he knew that he had to run out of this mountain before dawn, otherwise he would become the stomach of those large beasts, at this moment there were still some spiritual qi cultivation that could be used, he had to quickly find the crowd and find the village.