Chapter 185: Life and Death
Out of the room carved into the mountain wall, we walked up the staircase carved out of the cliff, and I held up my flashlight and found that many houses had been carved out of the mountain wall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Were these houses all dug out by the rebels back then?" I asked the old lama.
The old lama said: Well, this is to house the army. So it was dug directly on the mountain wall, and the ice snake was in the top room, and it was specially taken out, but everyone tried it back then, and no one could make the ice snake come back to life.
I feel like we're walking in the Thousand Buddha Caves, and the mountain walls are full of large and small Buddha shrines, and we feel this way.
When we reached the top of the hill through the thick snow, the old lama pointed to a house that looked like a prison cell and said to me, "The Ice Serpent is inside."
The house was carved out of a hilltop and looked like it had been cut out of a large block of stone, with iron pillars added to it, reminiscent of a Qing Dynasty prison.
It was dark inside, and I couldn't see what it was.
I asked: The Ice Snake is here?
"Yes, the ice snake is placed inside, and you can go the rest of the way yourself. I'm not going to go. Remember to drip your blood on the snake's head. After the old lama finished speaking, he sat cross-legged in the snow and settled down.
I scratched my head, thinking to myself that when I resurrected the Ice Serpent, I must not come in an old lama, then I will definitely not be able to tell the real from the fake.
Stepping on the snow and crunching under my feet, I raised my flashlight and entered the cell.
This room is not big, at most 20 square meters, and the furnishings in the room are also very simple, with a bed in the west and a window in the north. Other than that, there was a stone table in the middle of the room.
Square Eight Immortals Stone Table!
The moment I gathered the flashlight on the stone table, my dick mentality was undoubtedly leaking, this scene was so beautiful!
On the stone table, a small flower snake with its head raised was frozen in the ice crystals, and the light shone in the past at this moment, and the edges and corners of the ice crystals reflected colorful light, like bright crystals.
"This is the Ice Snake?" I said it to myself.
As I walked towards the Ice Snake, I felt that the temperature was dropping significantly. By the time I got to the Ice Snake, the temperature was so low that I was shivering.
Beautiful things always attract people's attention.
This crystal-like ice snake made me can't help but look at it a few more times, and the more I looked, the more I didn't want to start. The more you look. The more I wanted to take the ice snake away. Take it home and keep it for yourself.
Just looking at it, I felt that my breathing was gradually failing, and I felt that my eyes were slowly blurring, and I felt like I was slowly becoming short-sighted.
I looked down at my hands, and there were many fine wrinkles on the backs of them, and I immediately gasped until I started to age again!
I quickly took out the dagger and slashed directly at the belly of my finger, and immediately the blood flowed profusely.
I pointed the blood at the snake's head and dripped it, and the drop of blood snapped and fell on the snake's head, flowing down the snake's head, staining the entire ice crystal snake's head red.
"Come back to life, come back to life," I kept muttering, because I was afraid that if the ice snake didn't come back to life, I would keep aging until I died.
A moment later, there was only a click, and the ice that had solidified around the snake's head shattered.
The crack began to gradually grow larger, extending to the whole body, and with a clattering cracking sound, this ice crystal flower snake, which was more than a foot long, suddenly shattered completely.
With a snap, ice crystals fell all over the stone table, but the little flower snake was like a long-dead one, slumped on the stone table, unable to move at all.
I was dumbfounded.
The ice snake dances, this flower snake is a dead one, how can it dance?
I tentatively dripped blood on the snake's head, and at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and the flower snake, which was lying on the ground and dying, slowly wriggled.
It squirmed strangely, not in the traditional S-shape, but in a circle around the crumbling ice cubes on the stone table. Its body was like a magnet, and the shattered ice crystals were like pieces of iron, and when the two touched each other, those ice crystals immediately attached to the body of the flower snake.
After the flower snake had absorbed all the shattered ice cubes on its body, it stood with its head held high again, its upper body held high, and its lower body coiled together, turning back into the shape of the ice snake before it shattered.
This!
What the hell is going on?
I stood stupid, the ice snake danced, I never understood what it meant, I used blood to unseal the ice crystal, but the snake was dead. The blood dripped on the snake's head, and the snake came back to life, but instead of dancing, it absorbed the ice crystals back into its body and turned into an ice sculpture again.
Just when I couldn't figure it out, I suddenly noticed that the wrinkles on the back of my hands slowly stretched out, gradually revealing plump and white skin.
The wrinkles are gone!
I quickly touched my face with both hands, and it felt smooth, a twenty-something face.
"I made it!"
I am very happy, although I don't know how I succeeded, but I succeeded in preventing aging, this must be a success, the second link of birth, old age, sickness and death, I must have passed! Throw the blood of the bird.
The moment he left the cell, the old lama opened his eyes, looked at me, and said with a smile: "Abu, you are indeed beyond my imagination!" Ice Snake, Dance for You!
On the way back, the old lama told me why the ice snake danced, and I understood.
The so-called ice snake dances, not that an ice snake can dance. It was a small flower snake that had been fortunate enough to enter the nine-story tower, and after experiencing the reversal of time and space, it didn't know what was going on, but it was able to resist the power of aging, so it was sealed by the Tianshan Mountains and became this important second ring.
The second ring, the test is old!
Before the Ice Serpent statue shattered, I began to age, and when I dripped with blood, the Ice Serpent statue shattered. Then drip the blood on the top of the flower snake's head, it is not dancing, but regathering the ice crystals and reshaping into its original appearance, in fact, this process is called the ice snake dance.
The ice serpent is placed on a stone table, and this initial form is raw. I broke the ice snake with blood, and the flower snake was exposed beyond the ice crystals, and it died completely, which is death. In the end, I resurrected the flower snake with blood, and it absorbed ice crystals to restore it, and this is the last life!
It represents a complete cycle, a cycle from birth to death and from death to life.
I went through this cycle, so the power of aging resisted the past.
Along the way, I was full of emotion, thinking to myself what secrets there were in this person's Wang Jing that could make the ancestor work so hard to find it, but what I was most worried about now was not anything else, but the lives of Uncle in a suit, Haibo, and the three of them.
I don't have a heart, a soul, a skeleton, or a body, but I can still eat, sleep, feel pain, to put it bluntly, like a normal person, I don't know what is supporting me, maybe just like the second master said, now I am not a person at all.
It's a mass of faith, a belief.
A belief in goodness is sufficient to sustain everything beyond the soul and the body.
When I returned to the nine-story tower, the ancestor looked at me for the first time, and smiled directly, the joy on his face was completely unbearable, he came over, patted me on the shoulder and said: Apprentice, well done! I didn't look away, and the hundred years of waiting were not in vain.
I hummed and said, "Then let's go to the third layer now, and after reading the third layer, start cracking the fourth layer."
The ancestor waved his hand and said: No need, there is no need to enter the back floors, get ready, let's go to the Dragon Cave! Looking for the Book of the King.
Say no, it's impossible, after all, this matter has also wasted a long time, the three of us went straight to the third floor, and the moment we pushed open the wooden door on the third floor, we were all stunned in place.
The third floor was filled with scrolls, like tantric scrolls, all stacked on top of each other on the third floor.
I said, "The second floor is full of scriptures, and the third floor is full of scrolls, is this nine-story tower a library?"
The old ancestor and the old lama didn't speak, they looked at each other at the moment, and I could feel it from the eyes of the two of them, they were very excited, very excited!
Especially the corners of Old Ancestor's mouth began to tremble.
He looked at the old lama and said excitedly: Is the legendary Tianyan diagram here?