Chapter 1 Sleepwalking in the White Dragon Nightmare
The story begins in a modern prosperous and supernatural city - Tian Yuan City.
The lights are gone, and everything is silent. On what should have been a hot summer night, a cold wind blew, and the earth, which had long been shrouded in darkness, seemed to be about to twist in a mysterious and terrible energy, but people who had been tired all day were unaware of it in their deep sleep, and they inadvertently slapped the blood-sucking mosquitoes in their sleep.
In Tengen City, only one teenager felt the interference of energy. Teenage Phantom Night, the protagonist of this book, is sixteen years old this year, but at the moment he is trapped in a nightmare and cannot wake up. In the dream, I saw a silver-haired man curled up in a white world and cried sadly:
"Master, Xiaobai can't live in the world without you! The world is big, where can I find your figure? ”
As soon as the silver-haired man raised his head, his melancholy golden eyes reflected a heavy sadness that could not be healed for thousands of years.
Phantom Night didn't remember that he had ever met the silver-haired man, but when he saw those golden eyes, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity and sadness. He even wanted to reach out and comfort the grieving silver-haired man. Because the cry was hoarse, and he tugged at his heartstrings! At this moment, the world realm of the illusory night suddenly went blank, and his soul traveled through time and space at this time, and came to a strange and dark place......
When Phantom Night regained consciousness, he found himself sitting on a small wooden boat. Small wooden boats drift in the rushing waters. But the river came up from heaven and stretched to the end of the infinite end. And the water and sky are dark, and the chaotic gray air is oppressive.
In this dark river, Phantom Night is not the only ferryman.
Not far away, some small wooden boats are sparsely rippling. The passengers on these small wooden boats all have one thing in common. It was that each boat was carrying two people, one with pale clothes and skin, and the other in a black suit. In the river, there is only the reflection of the miserable white man, and the shadow of the man in black cannot be seen. Phantom Night even saw vivid fragments of the miserable white man in the reflection under those ships: from birth, to growth, to death......
"Where is this...... knowing that no one answered, Phantom Night still subconsciously asked.
"Welcome to the Underworld!" A gloomy voice suddenly sounded behind him, and then the ship sank, and Phantom Night felt that something had fallen on his ship, so he looked back sharply!
If you don't look at it, you'll be shocked when you see it. Where is this what a person looks like. The head is hexagonal, the skin of the whole body is red, the face is hideous, and the fangs are protruding. If the silver-haired man who appeared in the dream before was a god in the sky, then the one in front of him was a demon in the underworld.
Although I was surprised, Phantom Night didn't show it. He had an unusually calm presence that a child of his age did not have.
Phantom Night is no ordinary person. Before he was born, his father died. Since childhood, he was brought up by his mother Hongling and aunt Leng Xiang. As a child, he lived in a mysterious place full of all kinds of demons and monsters.
When he was seven years old, he moved to Tengen City with his mother and aunt and blended into human society. But his mother and aunt never explained much to him about the demons and monsters. Just teach him to pretend that he can't see or hear anything, and to live like an ordinary person. If Phantom Night wants to do this, then Mother will just say, "This is for your own good...... and there are some things, and the more you know about it, the more dangerous it will be. Danger often endangers those around you. Phantom Night is very filial to her mother, so she does what her mother wants.
In the nine years he lived in Tengen City, it was the first time that he had dreamed of coming to the underworld. Moreover, this dream is so real that it is not like a dream.
Phantom Night is now facing a hexagonal youkai!
"Who are you?" Just asked indifferently, Phantom Night slowly stood up and looked at the hexagonal monster. Standing in the wind, with a tall posture and clear black pupils, there is no trace of fear to be found. Such a phantom night makes the hexagonal monster cowardly!
So the hexagonal monster was originally a hideous face, but it was twisted into a funny smile.
"When you meet for the first time, don't be so cold. I'm the Grim Reaper, and I'm on a special mission to help King Yama. It's hard to get sightseeing in the underworld, and I'm not happy about it. Hey! ”
Phantom Night seemed to be smiling, but his expression did not change, and he said leisurely: "Since it is the first time we met, why are you enthusiastic?" What's more, seeing the Grim Reaper means that you are dead. My mother on earth is grieving over my death, so why should I be happy if I am unfilial? ”
The Grim Reaper Hum Qi patted Phantom Night's shoulder and smiled: "Don't worry! You are still alive, but your soul has come to the underworld. After the matter explained by the king of Yama, I will send you back immediately. Make sure you wake up tomorrow morning and be alive again! ”
"It's flattering. I wonder if there is anything that can serve the king of Yama? Phantom Night secretly laughed at himself, whether he should be happy for his fate or a cup. How lucky is it that you don't have to die in the underworld? But there are still things that King Yama can't do to do by himself, what are the chances of winning? For the first time, Phantom Night felt more dangerous than ever.
The river rises higher and higher, and the current becomes more and more rapid.
On the small wooden boat fluttering in the wind, Hanqi dragged out all the things that the king of Yama had dragged, and danced with his hands and feet to match his body language to make the most vivid effect. After explaining for a long time, seeing that the phantom night was still unfazed, the god of death was a little annoyed, and scolded in his heart: Are you an idiot who doesn't know how to be afraid or is facial paralysis?
It turned out that more than a thousand years ago, there was an earth-shattering battle between people, gods and demons in the other world. The soul of a stillborn dragon full of resentment crossed from the other world to this world, and attached itself to a thousand-year-old white fox, causing misery to the world. King Yama sealed this divine dragon on the Spirit Fox Bead.
A thousand years later, a young man named Mu Weilai broke the seal with blood and resolved the resentment on Shenlong's body. Shenlong recognizes Mu Weilai as the master. Although the two have a master-servant relationship with each other, in the catastrophe of birth and death, they have established a deep friendship between brothers and sisters. Eating the flesh and blood of the divine dragon can live forever, and his skill has increased greatly, which makes many gods and demons covet it, which makes the divine dragon several lives in danger. Mu Weilai sacrificed his life to save him many times, and after Shenlong felt love from his master to the love he had never had, he fell into the world of his master and couldn't extricate himself.
Sixteen years ago, in a battle between gods and demons in another world, Mu Weilai and his long-cherished enemies died together. Mu Weilai knew Shenlong's affection for him, and before he died, he ordered Shenlong to live in his place, and take a good look at the ordinary world that he longed for and was out of reach. After all, the dragon was unable to resist the torture of grief, and was unwilling to live up to the promise of its master, and in despair, he sealed himself in the hometown where his master buried his bones.
Originally, the dragon sealed itself, and it has been in a state of sleep. At that time, after several battles before Mu Weilai's death, the evil demons in the world had been cleared, the world was peaceful, and people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The bad is the bad, and one day the sleeping dragon began to dream. In a dream, a remnant of the dragon's soul travels to the underworld in search of his lost master. Of course I can't find it! The angry dragon had no reason in his dreams, and hovered frantically over the underworld, calling out thunder and lightning. Dark clouds enveloped the underworld, and it was about to rain heavily. The rain comes from the river, and the river of the underworld is only the River of Shadow. The water of the Shadow River can erode all things, and even a drop of human soul will be scattered, and it will never be reborn!
The torrential rain will instantly destroy the souls of humans who stay in the underworld. What's even more terrifying is that once the Shadow River lacks an embankment during the storm, the river water will directly pour into the human realm in the form of rain, which will cause a catastrophe that will destroy the world at that time.
"You must wake the dragon from its dreams." When Hukie said this, he had put away all his grinning faces.
"Why does King Yama have to ask me to do this?" Phantom Night asked coldly.
"Heaven cannot be leaked. You can choose to sit back and watch as the souls of the underworld and the creatures of the world disappear and you die here. Huqi said with a solemn expression.
"You mean I don't have a choice and I don't have a room to lose." Phantom Night's face sank, and he came to a conclusion.