Chapter 13: Eight Sufferings

In the gloomy sky, there was only the huge moon that looked like a bloody eye, and there were altar-like things all around. Xiao Chao didn't know which direction he should go, let alone where he would go. Everything here exudes yin qi, ghost fire wafts all over the sky, and there is a faint smell of rotting corpses in the air, this smell is very clear, but as long as you want to smell it carefully, then this smell will disappear without a trace. It was as if I was on the verge of a great purpose, and I felt a sense of panic in my heart.

There are soul seducers in hell, and angels in heaven to guide them, and because of this, I believe that no matter where this place is, as long as I can come here, then I will naturally be able to leave. But how he left, and what happened to him when he left, these chaos is unknown.

Legend has it that the immortals have the ability to open the valley, but in Xiao Chao's opinion, that is pure. Although cultivation can make one's body much stronger, it is still a creature after all, as long as it is a living being, it has the operation of energy, and this power will not flow into one's body from the world for no reason, so human beings need to eat. It's just that the stronger people do have the ability not to eat or drink for days or even months, but the legendary Bigu is indeed impossible.

Xiao Chao didn't carry any food on his body, the people took food as the sky, even if Xiao Chao wanted to find a way out from here, he still needed to survive in this vast space, only to live. It is the beginning of everything, and only death is the end of everything. Human beings cannot determine their own origin and death, though. But human beings can decide what they can do in the time they live, and this is probably the only freedom for human beings.

Looking around, since there is no end, the so-called beginning has no meaning. Xiao Chao didn't think about it, but casually found a direction and walked out. As he walked, Xiao Chao glanced at the altars he had brought with him. Each of these altars was an existence that had absorbed countless lives on the continent, but Xiao Chao found out. None of the undead came here to take these things away, although a small skeleton shattered the shell of the altar that sent Xiao Chao down, but the skeleton's strength was too weak. If this is a very important project, there must be strong people to handle it.

There was a gap of more than a meter between each altar, and Xiao Chao walked casually towards the front in this interval. But the arrangement of these altars is very strange, if these altars are extremely important. Then these altars will be placed neatly. But Xiao Chao has not walked in a straight line at all along the way. When he didn't walk a certain distance, the direction of Xiao Chao's progress would be blocked by a round altar, and Xiao Chao could only choose a direction on the left and right, fortunately, although these altars were placed very casually, the scale of these altars was the same size, so Xiao Chao would not lose his sense of direction if he turned left and right.

As he walked, he looked at the situation of these altars, and Xiao Chao gradually found some very doubtful places. The first point is that the altars are usually smashed open. In each altar, there were creatures frozen in the same cold fire as the altar that Xiao Chao had come here, and these creatures stood there silently. Lifeforms frozen by cold fire will also dissipate over time. And Xiao Chao saw that there were no more cold fire packages in many altars.

Just as the human body cannot move after death, the creatures in these altars are not wrapped in cold fire, but their vitality has been cut off, leaving only a corpse standing quietly. As time passed, the bodies of these creatures were being corroded by time at an extremely slow rate, like rusty vessels. As the corrosion intensified, the bodies of these unknown creatures began to emit black gases, which slowly floated in the air, and in each wisp there were souls similar to creatures floating in them.

In this smoke it is not only the soul of a human being, but the soul of almost every living being. Dogs, lions, wolves, ....... Among these, Xiao Chao has seen them, but more of them are things that Xiao Chao has not seen, Xiao Chao is not only a little suspicious, could it be that there are so many kinds of creatures in the whole world, and after they die, their souls will be absorbed by these altars, and then brought to this place.

Suddenly, Xiao Chao felt that his body was a little itchy, and stretched out his hand to take a closer look, Xiao Chao found that he didn't know when he was stained with a black powder on his body. Gather your heart and look at the black powder, and among this powder are countless pitch-black insect larvae, which are crazy and hoarse with their chaotic bodies! But because these insects are so small, with their shambled skin, these insects can't bite at all. But as the saying goes, drops of water wear stones, these insects don't know how long they have been standing on Xiao Chao's body, after a really long time, although Xiao Chao was not injured, he was still bitten open the gap, which is why Xiao Chao felt very itchy.

Although it was discovered that these black powders were countless black bugs, Xiao Chao did not immediately reach out and shoot these bugs to death. There is a strange aura everywhere here, and only by understanding the truth of the matter can Xiao Chao be able to solve these puzzles. Because of this, Xiao Chao not only didn't make any movements, but stopped his body and carefully watched the movements of these insects.

Xiao Chao found that although these insects were constantly biting their bodies, they did not devour their own flesh and blood when they bited, but secreted a green liquid after each bite of a piece of flesh, which decomposed Xiao Chao's flesh and blood into extremely small residues, and then slowly flew around. It's like a parasite, and the other person doesn't want your life, but just cleansing your body.

Xiao Lan doesn't feel how dirty his body is, and even if his body is dirty, his flesh and blood are absolutely clean, so what are these little insects purifying themselves? Suddenly, Xiao Chao's expression became serious, because Xiao Chao found that these little insects were biting the residue flying out of their bodies, and they turned out to have a different color! These residues are colorful, and they are so different!

Xiao Chao's heart moved, and he felt that he stretched out his hand and condensed a trace of ghost fire, and then began to look carefully towards the ghost fire. Everyone should have the feeling that although they look in the mirror every day to see their face, because this face was cultivated from childhood to adulthood, everyone feels very familiar. But every day I wash my face, I put on makeup every day, but everyone is really familiar with their faces.

How many freckles are on a face, how pale is the color of these freckles, and how much area does it occupy? How many wrinkles are there on a face, how deep are each wrinkles when they rise, and how long are each wrinkles? Maybe some people have cherished themselves to the extreme, and know every detail of their body well, so will anyone know how many pores they have on their face, and how many mites they have hidden under the skin on their face? The answer is that no one knows. Just because he is too familiar with himself, he subconsciously ignores his body, which is human instinct.

Since he had the ghost fire, Xiao Chao just hadn't studied the ghost fire carefully, after all, in Xiao Chao's opinion, since I had already mastered this power, why bother studying this power? But it wasn't until this time that Xiao Chao discovered that this ghost fire was not a flame. In other words, ghost fire and mortal fire are two completely different things.

The appearance of the ghost fire looks like a flame, but the overall color of this ghost fire is green, and the higher it goes, the color of the ghost fire becomes lighter and lighter like a mortal fire, which is why there are different representatives in this ghost fire.

There are eight colors in the ghost fire, and after watching Xiao Chao Love for a long time, I reacted, these eight colors should correspond to the eight sufferings of life. There are eight sufferings in life, birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, resentment and hatred, unwantedness, and five yin blazing. As long as there are sentient animals, they will have these eight kinds of suffering. Born sick and dead, parting, resentment, attachment, renunciation. These black insects are constantly devouring these countless souls, and then separating them from the eight sufferings of the human world, and then dissipating into the air.

Xiao Chao was suddenly a little confused, what is the purpose of living this life, I always think that I will succeed if I work hard, but after all, I just lived for a hundred years, and then turned into a pile of loess, and finally the soul carried the will to be devoured by these strange insects, and then differentiated into countless emotions, which were emitted in the air at one time. Could it be that this is actually the reincarnation of the soul? There is no so-called soul in this world, but countless emotions are gathered together, people will only cry when they are born, but as they grow up, these emotions will enter people's hearts, and then people will die and the lights will go out, and these emotions will be dissipated in the air. Is the world because people have emotions, or because emotions have people? Or is there really the kind of so-called reincarnation in this world where people give up everything, and then create so-called emotional objects to control human beings, and then look at human beings from above? (To be continued......)