Chapter 4: Temple of the Moonlit Night (1) The Mysterious Old Man
200,000 years ago, there was no fierce beast forest in this place, and in this vast land, there was the top force in this world at that time, the Moon Night Clan.
The Moonnight Clan, strong and wise, unyielding and fearless, and extremely imaginative, creative and exploratory.
At that time, even the now powerful shadows, elves, and shadows had not yet appeared, perhaps at that time, they did not know where they were living a primitive life of grinding their teeth and sucking blood in the wilderness, and the appearance of the human race was even more far away.
From the earliest beginning, there was not much special qi in this heaven and earth that could be cultivated, so most people still followed the natural rules of the Heavenly Dao of birth, old age, sickness and death.
But often there are people who are unwilling and not satisfied to follow the existing rules.
The new Moon Night King of the Moon Night Clan, along with the other four elders of the Moonnight Clan, who were extremely gifted, began to try to find a new path, a new path that might be able to avoid the rules of the Heavenly Dao and the natural laws of birth, old age, sickness and death.
The Moon Night King, along with the four elders, after continuous exploration and exploration in their limited lives, finally touched a trace of special energy in this heaven and earth, and thus inadvertently opened a new path - the path of cultivation.
After perseverance through many difficulties and dangers, the Moon Night King and the four elders of the clan also went through a lot of hardships in their limited lives, and finally got out of the limit and gained great strength and a long life.
The moonlit night powerhouses who had broken away from their limits had reached unprecedented heights, and with their great strength and long lives, they began to look beyond the Void Domain, which was higher and farther away than the sky.
They began to try to touch the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao of this heaven and earth, praying to break the original outdated rules of the heavenly way of this heaven and earth, untie the shackles, and make themselves the so-called true gods who truly stand side by side and even override all things in the void, that is, to gain immortality and eternal life.
At the same time, it also allows the cultivators under this sky to make better and faster cultivation breakthroughs without the restrictions of the old Heavenly Dao rules.
Under the sky, the five top powerhouses of the Moon Night Clan who had reached the Void God Realm had already reached a consensus, ready to work together to attack the Heavenly Dao shackles that firmly locked this heaven and earth.
The five powerhouses paid a great price, and on the hundredth day, the chains of the Heavenly Dao shackles were finally overwhelmed and broken by the impact.
They reopened the cage.
The shackles were shattered, the cage was opened, and the majestic and powerful energy mass outside the void seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and instantly began to frantically pour into this world that had reopened its door.
The five powerhouses call this mysterious energy qi mass that can help cultivators quickly improve their strength as Xuan Qi, and the special powerful energy that cultivators obtain through cultivation is called Xuan Qi.
However, the good times were short-lived.
They thought that the shackles were naturally formed by heaven and earth, and that its existence was a test, and its ultimate goal was to let the people of this heaven and earth try to break it through their own strength and unremitting efforts, and go higher.
They thought that after breaking the shackles, they would soon be able to ascend to the void, touch the top, and comprehend the higher laws of the universe.
But everything is not as good as they think......
And the memory came to an abrupt end.
The young man slowly opened his eyes, with a puzzled expression, he felt that the story was not complete until this end, and it seemed that the most important second half was missing, but the memory image that had just appeared in his mind was indeed gone to this paragraph.
The purple patterns around him had all disappeared, and the huge door of the ancient hall had completely opened at some point, and the dark green light that overflowed from it shone on the young man's body.
The young man looked certain, and walked in quickly with the dark green mysterious light.
After entering from the door and walking inside for a long time, the dazzling dark green glare weakened tightly.
The boy finally came to the temple, and what he saw was the simple and mysterious central hall, and the air was wafting with a little dark green glow like fireflies, making the hall reveal an indescribable feeling.
In the center of the vast hall, there is a huge high platform, which seems to be impossible to see from the top, and it is also dark above.
The huge walls of the hall around the high platform are carved with various murals, vividly depicting various scenes of life of the moonlit night people 200,000 years ago.
The cold moonlight, shining through the huge skylight at the top of the temple, shone on the frescoes of the temple walls, shining on the once powerful and great mysterious people.
The young man unconsciously stretched out his hand and gently stroked the outline of the mural on the wall of the hall, his eyes were misty, but he really felt the strange familiarity.
"You...... It's finally here. ”
An old and heavy voice suddenly came from behind the young man, as if breaking this ancient hall that had been silent for many years, and the top of the originally dark and lightless high platform was like a bright star, and the top of the high platform was gradually lit up.
The young man turned around quickly, only to hear the old voice just now coming from the high platform again.
"Come up, boy, let me take a closer look!"
This time, the voice was slightly filled with excitement and eagerness that could not be concealed.
Ben was startled and was about to flee immediately, but as if infected by the eager and excited old voice, he walked quickly along the stone stairs to the top of the high platform.
The reason why he didn't flee immediately was that the boy really wanted to find out if this ancient temple, which made him feel close and familiar, had any connection to the past he had forgotten.
Along the way that the young man passed, the faint green fire in the originally dim ancient lamps on the side of the road flickered and ignited, instantly illuminating the stone staircase leading to the top of the high platform, but the faint glow of the ancient lamp was indescribably weird.
Coming to the top of the high platform, it is more accurate to call it a huge ancient altar than to call it a large ancient altar.
I saw that in the center of the altar, there were five pairs of dark green jade coffins with strange and classical styles.
Four slightly smaller jade coffins, surrounding the darker and larger coffin in the middle, present a strange pattern.
In the slightly dim place not far from the jade coffin, it seemed that a group of funeral puppets in different clothes and bowing their heads knelt quietly, as if they were mourning sincerely.
Possible...... It's a sacrifice.
The boy tried his best to think about it, although all the scenes in front of him seemed so silent and weird.
The young man slowly approached and looked around, and said nervously: "I don't know, the seniors who just called below, but they are still there?"
"Hmm...... Behind you, boy, come on! stop grinding, turn around and let me take a closer look!"
The old man's heavy, but slightly anxious voice, came again from behind the young man without warning.
The young man's feet suddenly weakened when he heard this, and he almost sat on the ground, but he still slowly turned his head.
Why... You are standing alone in front of five strange coffins in the middle of the night, and there is a group of strange things kneeling not far away, when an old voice suddenly tells you not to grind, turn around and take a look at him.
The boy was not scared, and it was estimated that it was enough to go out and blow for half a year.
Turning around, not far away was an old man in a dark green robe, full of silver threads, with a vicissitudes of life, his dark green eyes, constantly looking the young man up and down.
It seems like... You can't call him an old man, looking at his body looming, translucent, and floating in the air...
Slow! Floating, in mid-air?
You look old, legless, floating, translucent, you should be a ghost, phew—it's obviously a ghost!
As soon as he thought of this, the young man suddenly felt terrified, although don't look at him, he is usually quite bold and often runs to the fierce beast forest, what strange shapes, ugly beasts he has not killed, he looks like a master with a cold face and unparalleled in the world, but he has never met a ghost, today for the first time.
This is more than not long ago, when he met a man in white who had a special hobby in the forest, it made him feel cold.
The old man looked at the young man who was a little stunned in front of him, his old and dry face was as dull as a ghost at this time, and he kept muttering softly in his mouth (young man: You still have a ghostly face, I am really a ghost).
"It's like, it's like, it's ...... It's just one person!"
Seeing this, the young man instantly felt that the old man did not seem to be as terrible as he imagined, relaxed slightly, and couldn't help but scratch his face in surprise.
The figure of the old man of silver floated in front of the young man in a flash, circled around him, looked up and down a few more times, and shouted again: "It's too similar! Not only the face, but even the breath is almost identical!"
"But...... It's just that the age doesn't seem to be right, and there are ...... eyes."
The old man stared at the young man's lilac eyes, puzzled, but there was nothing wrong with that familiar aura.
Don't......
The old man's expression shook suddenly, and his expression seemed to have thought of something incredible.
"Senior, what do you say is true?"
The young man's cautious questioning awakened the old man who had fallen into deep thought.
The boy almost knew that he might look a lot like someone the old man in front of him who had known him before.
Just when the young man was still thinking secretly in his heart, the awakened silver old man suddenly stretched out his withered hand and grabbed the young man's right hand.
The young man's body shook and he was shocked.
"What do you want to do?"
The frightened teenager just wanted to continue, "I'm still young, I don't have much meat - don't eat me!"
The old man hurriedly interrupted in a deep voice, and chuckled kindly: "Don't be afraid, old man, I don't eat people. ”
"It's just...... Borrow a little bit of your blood and see if you're the one I'm waiting for. ”
The old man was talking, but his other hand was not idle, and his fingers lightly swiped the palm of the young man's right hand.
The old man's technique is done in one go, without dragging the mud and water at all, and I don't know if this old man is a veteran of doing this kind of thing.
Before the young man felt pain, a slender and deep wound appeared on the white palm, and the blood flowing from the wound was not as bright red as ordinary people, but slightly purple-red.
The young man really wants to ask the old man Hou's family, what kind of habit are you old for, saying that you will let it go when you let it go, just put it at the door and almost didn't suck it dry, and now it's again, and you also pick your right hand, and your right hand offends you.
The old man in front of him obviously didn't think about the feelings in the young man's heart and his right hand, which was bleeding blood.
Looking at the pale purple-red blood floating in his dry palm, the old man couldn't help but hurriedly lean close to his nose and sniff it without hesitation, and his originally dark green and sunken eyes suddenly brightened, and it seemed that a light called hope was instantly emitted.
After smelling the blood, the old man beat his chest in pain, looked up to the sky and laughed, and then grinned at the corners of his mouth as if he had suddenly gone crazy.
After a while, the old man Yin, who had recovered slightly, stared at the frightened young man in front of him with a frightened face and was ready to slip away again, and immediately held his hand tightly, for fear that he would run away.
Well, this scene...... Déjà vu.
The old man's various behaviors gave the young man in front of him the feeling like, just like when he had just woken up from a deep sleep, touching his hungry belly, and staring at a ...... grazing in front of him Rabbit.
That's right, that's what it feels like.
Wait—old man! You just said you don't eat people.
Looking at the weird old man in front of him with a blazing face, staring at himself tightly, and longing to put his eyes on his body, the young man no longer cared about whether his right hand was bleeding.
Suddenly withdrew his hand, clenched his fists tightly in front of his chest, and then took a few steps back and said nervously and defensively: "Senior, senior, you are old, but you said that you don't eat people, if you are really hungry......"
"Let me out, I'll get you some rabbits back, you, what do you see? ”
The old man was stunned for a moment and then laughed, then floated in front of him and waved his hand again: "Silly boy, I'm afraid of a ball, the old man said, it's just to borrow a little blood from you to verify your identity, don't be so nervous." ”
"Old man, am I so kind, like an old monster who can eat people?"
With that, his old face full of folds tried to twist it, grinning as much as he could, showing what he thought was a very kind smile.
The boy couldn't help but be stunned for a while.
Well...... It is indeed very kind, kind like a broken old chrysanthemum.
"Senior, what do you mean by verifying your identity?"
"Could it be...... Do you know my past?"
The young man was very surprised, and he could see that the old man had obviously no ill will towards him, otherwise he could easily pinch him to death with a slight movement of his fingers.
Seeing that the old man did not reply immediately at this time, he just closed his eyes slightly as if he was recalling something.
The young man felt that if he missed this opportunity, he might not know how long it would take to remember the past, and he couldn't care about anything, so he pleaded eagerly: "Senior, if you really know about my past, please tell me, I need that memory very much." ”
Since he came to the ancient hall, a series of strange things have happened one after another, which has made him feel that this ancient palace is not simple.
Coupled with the old man's look that didn't seem to be fake when he saw him, the young man felt that the old man in front of him must know something about his past, that is, the dusty memory in his mind.
The old man opened his eyes, looked at the earnest young man in front of him, and wondered, "Boy, you really can't remember anything at all?"
The boy shook his head.
"For some reason, I can't remember anything before I was fifteen. ”
That's right, the teenager barely remembered everything except his age.
But he didn't tell the old man that through the purple jade pendant he wore on his chest, he could see a huge shackle in his mind, and that shackle seemed to block some of his important memories.
After all, he had just met this old man, and although the old man was not hostile to him at the moment, it was hard to guarantee that if he told him, the old man in front of him would be curious to open his head to see what was going on.
After all, the old man can bleed without blinking, so cutting other people's heads to explore the novelty is probably the same as playing.
"Boy, you have to listen carefully to what I say next and remember it all the time, and you may be able to clear up your doubts when you finish listening. ”
The silver old man turned around and sighed softly with his hands behind his back.
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Lewen