Chapter 59: Three Lives and Three Stations
I saw that the man was dressed in a black robe and a black hat, his face was pale and bloodless, his eyes were deep-set, his cheekbones were protruding, his hands were like eagle's claws, his skin was covered with bones, and his nails were as long as fingers. If he hadn't stood up, he would have been like a dead body.
The man said as he walked, "It's been decades, and you're still the first person to get here. The voice was sharp and harsh.
Zhan Wuxian also smiled: "Who doesn't know that Zhang Huatai was built by the current King of Chu, but it has only been a few years. ”
"Zhang Huatai, haha...... It was the king's palace, how dare I be there. ”
The "......" exhibition was stunned, isn't this Zhang Huatai?
"However, seeing that you are about to turn into a pile of bones, I will tell you that this is the Sansheng Terrace, which has been there since the Chu State."
"Sanshengtai?"
"One life is two, two is three, and three is everything. Haha......"
"That white bone is an illusion?"
"A little illusion is not worth mentioning, it's just a few more white bones, and there will be one more today." The man walked over to a wooden box. In addition to an additional door, there is also a wooden chest on this floor.
"You're the guard of Sanshengtai?"
"I'm just a witch doctor, and what I do best is to instantly remove people's pain and make people happy and immortal."
"So you're not a guard here, then I'll go upstairs."
"Wait, I see that your face is haggard, Yintang is black, I'm afraid you are terminally ill." The man said and took out five things from the box: "I have five flavors of medicine, which is the Kuaihuo San, Forget Worry Pill, Refreshing Powder, Bliss Water, and Xiaoyao Pill that I have spent many years concouraging, specifically to treat people's suffering, it is not too late for you to eat it and go up again." ”
Zhan Wuxian walked over and said with a smile: "I know that this is the five poisons and forgetting life, how about I eat them all?" ”
The man exclaimed, "Really? It seems that you are the one who understands. After speaking, he took out a pottery bowl, poured all the five poisons into Heeven, and handed it to Zhan Wuxian. Zhan Wuxian took the pottery bowl and drank it all in one gulp, then turned around and left. The man said silently in the back of his mouth: "One, two, three, pour." "Why can't he fall, isn't he a human being, impossible, anyone who eats my five poisons and forgets to live but only three steps will have to die, and he must not be allowed to pass me." The man flicked his sleeves, and a white snake flew out, piercing through the back of Zhan Wushirt's heart. Zhan Wuxian turned his head and pointed at the man: "You don't talk about credit." And he fell down by the stairs.
The man laughed: "I've thought about my spirit snake, don't think about it." Haha......"
"Haha......, untrustworthy villain!" There was also a voice from behind.
The man was startled, turned around to look, and immediately gasped: "You, weren't you killed by me?" "I went back and looked at the body on the stairs.
"Don't look at it, that's my phantom warrior." Zhan Wu Xiandao.
"Impossible, there hasn't been any change since you entered the Sansheng Stage, when did you transform into a phantom martial artist?"
"Just when I drank the five poisons and forgot to die. You think that the five poisons are the first strange poison in the world, and no one can resist it, and the moment I drank it, you relaxed your vigilance. Tell you, there are many ways to restrain the five poisons and forget life, and you can't be self-righteous. ”
"You!" The spirit snake was furious, and since his debut, no one except Childe had been able to escape from his five poisonous deaths. As soon as the spirit snake flicked its sleeves, a golden python appeared, with the thickness of a bowl mouth and more than a zhang long. The spirit snake grabbed the snake's tail and twisted its wrist, and the python immediately turned into a snake staff, attacking Zhan Wuxian without saying a word.
This snake staff can be bent and straight, soft as a leather whip when bent, and as hard as dark iron when straight. The serpent's staff pierced the sky with a high-pitched and piercing sound. Zhan Wuxian was not in a hurry to attack at first, and after less than ten rounds of fighting with the spirit snake, he figured out his kung fu path. In the eleventh round, Zhan Wuxian threw two red beans, turned into a phantom warrior, and rushed to attack the Spirit Snake Face Gate. In the face of the sudden change, the spirit snake immediately turned from attack to defense, and in the retreat, the snake staff turned into a soft snake whip, swept across, and killed the two phantom warriors. At this moment, Zhan Wuxian had already escaped in front of the spirit snake, slapping the face door of the spirit snake, the spirit snake was taken aback, and said secretly: What a fast body, and then the soft whip turned into a snake staff, blocking the face door. With a bang, Zhan Wuxian hit the snake staff with one palm, and the spirit snake suddenly felt a powerful thrust, and the snake staff gradually bent from the middle, heading straight for his face. The snake tried to escape, but felt a suction, and Zhan Wuxian grabbed his snake staff and pulled it back, kicking out with his right foot.
The spirit snake said in his heart: It's not good, this kick will kill me. Immediately, the snake staff turned into a soft snake, and the snake's head bit the wrist of the shirtless, and the spirit snake held the snake's tail in his hand and pulled back. Seeing this, Zhan Wuxian hurriedly jumped away, the two were three feet away, and the head of the snake was only more than one zhang away from Zhan Wuxian. At this time, the spirit snake laughed treacherously, and the index finger of his hand holding the snake's tail moved slightly, only to see a rapid movement of air in the body of the snake more than a zhang long, and instantly a venom sprayed out from the snake's head. This venom is extremely poisonous, and it is even more poisonous than the five poisons of the spirit snake. Zhan Wuxian didn't dare to underestimate it, and used his internal strength between his palms, and his left palm aimed at the momentum of the venom, stopping it an inch away from the palm of his hand, slowly forming a venom ball, and his right palm slashed across the side of the venom ball, pushing towards the spirit snake. I saw that the venom ball smashed directly on the face of the spirit snake with a lightning speed. Listening to the scream of the spirit snake, he hid his face and fell to the ground, in pain, and after a while, the whole person turned into a puddle of pus.
Zhan Wuxian walked in to take a look, shook his head and said: If you don't die, you won't die.
Zhan Wuxian continued to go upstairs and found that there were no bones left on the stairs. After going up to two floors, I looked back and saw that the stairs below were hidden in a cloud of mist, and then I vaguely heard "quack" from upstairs...... "Quack ......" dull cry, the sound from far to near, from less to more. Zhan Wuxian secretly thought: Could it be that there is a big pond on this Sansheng Platform with a group of frogs, I don't know what kind of monster this is.
Just thinking about it, suddenly jumped down from the upper floor a toad, the strange thing is that this toad only has three legs, the front two are slightly smaller, the back one is connected with its body as a whole to extend a thick thigh, jumping up and stretching the legs is twice as long as the toad's body, the toad's whole body is covered with red bumps, its bright as blood, the light shines, crystal clear, as if transparent. Each bump of blood had a pit in it, and in the pit it seemed to be inlaid with a square hole coin, which shone with a golden light. This is the coin used by the Qin State - Qin half tael, which is generally minted in bronze, but the square hole round coin on the back of this toad is minted in gold, which is really rare, is this toad the legendary three-legged golden toad? The golden cicada jumped up and down to the corner, opened its big mouth, bit into the dark part of the corner, bit a gold coin from it, chewed it a few times, swallowed it in its stomach, and jumped upstairs.
Zhan Wuxian followed the three-legged golden toad and walked up, and found that there were more and more three-legged golden toads, with different sizes, the larger three-legged golden toad had larger gold coins, and the smaller three-legged golden toad had smaller gold coins. They jumped from all sides of Sanshengtai towards a huge gold-minted golden toad in Sanshengtai, which occupied an entire floor of Sanshengtai, its feet touched the ground, its head was on the roof, its huge mouth was open, and it held a huge square hole round coin in its mouth. The three-legged golden toad came to the bottom of the giant mouth, jumped its hind legs, passed through the square hole in the gold coin, spit out the gold coin that had been swallowed elsewhere at the mouth of the golden toad, and slid into the belly of the golden toad, and then the three-legged golden toad jumped down from the square hole of the gold coin, and jumped around looking for the gold coin.
Zhan Wuxian walked in to take a closer look, the golden toad cast in gold was shining golden and dazzling under the skylight. There is no way out of the whole room except for the source, and the only feasible place is the money eye. Zhan Wuxian also learned the three-legged golden toad to cross the eye of money, standing on the gold coin and looking down in all directions, there were three-legged golden toads everywhere, and there was still no other exit. Zhan Wuxian looked into the mouth of the golden toad, there seemed to be a flash of golden light inside, Zhan Wuxian jumped and slid into the belly of the golden toad. Zhan Wushirt felt that the feet were sliding when he landed, and the deposit looked at it, it turned out that the belly of the golden toad was a huge room, the ground was covered with thick gold coins, the walls, pillars, and window lattices were made of gold, and the exquisite patterns were carved on them, and even the curtains were made of thin gold leaf, and there were faint dragons and phoenixes swimming under the sunlight, which was extremely luxurious, and the golden light was shining.
In the middle of the room, there is a table of eight immortals made of gold, under the table there are three white bones crooked to the side, there is a set of six Bo on the table, a three-legged golden toad lying next to it, and a person on the opposite side is throwing picking. The man laughed when he threw it, and the three-legged golden toad honestly spit out a gold coin from his mouth, jumped off the eight-immortal table and left, and then another three-legged golden toad jumped up, grabbed the color with one front leg and threw it. It turned out that the man was gambling with the three-legged golden toad.
I saw that the man had a fat head and big ears, gorgeous clothes and beads, and Yanran was a wealthy businessman. He saw Zhan Wuxian come in and said with a smile: "You are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time." Well, I haven't had a living person in years. It's all to blame on the old poison downstairs, who poisoned everyone who came. Well? How did you get in, did you kill that old poison? Okay, great, haha......"
"......" Zhan Wuxian glanced at the three white bones under the table.
"You said this white bone, the old poison downstairs thirty years ago was negligent for a while, allowing three people to slip in, isn't this what it is like now. For this matter, the king punished the old poison once, and it was enjoyable to think about it, but unfortunately, no one has come to me since that time......"
Zhan Wuxian listened to this person's kiss, knowing that this person was also a master of guarding Sanshengtai, so he didn't talk nonsense to him, and said, "How can I get over?" ”
"Why bother talking so bluntly, what is not what is not, I am not like the old poison, I have to poison people to death. My favorite thing is gambling, what do people live for? Money! How to make money fast, exciting, fun and enjoyable? Bet! In the past, when you didn't come, I could only bet with my pet three-legged golden toad, and these three white bones, the gambling skills were too poor, and I lost in one game. I'm tired of playing for a long time, and you're here to make a bet with me. Oh! By the way, do you have money? ”
"I don't have any money and I won't gamble with you."
"Then take your most precious thing."
“……?” Zhan Wuxian is unknown for a while.
"Of course it's your life, you think, if your life is gone, there will be nothing."
"Haha......" Zhan Wuxian suddenly laughed: "What is my Tao?" You are wrong, the most precious thing about people is not life. ”
"What's that?"
"I'll tell you when you lose."
"Okay, I'll make a bet with you."
"Wait, what if I win?"
"If you win, not only will I let you go, but I will also accompany you with my life. But if you lose, you have to hang here like them. After speaking, he tore off a piece of gold leaf silk behind his back, and there were four people hanging behind him, and the blood fell into the golden basin at his feet one by one, and the man dipped a drop of blood with his finger and sucked it.
"So you're a bloodthirsty monster."
"No, I'm just a money-loving toad."
"Come on, how do you bet?"
"This is Liubo, throw it first, whoever gets to the middle of the river boundary first wins."
"Okay, you throw first."
Liubo is a popular entertainment gambling device among scholars and doctors in the Spring and Autumn Period, divided into six black, six white twelve chess pieces, six Bo and one pick. The bettor throws first, and moves the chess pieces with the Bo Gong according to the number of throwing points. Throw the maximum point, the chess piece can go to the river boundary in one step, and the first to reach all six points wins. (Note: The gameplay of Liubo has been lost, and the description in the article is made up by the author.) )
Lingchan throws a pick first, which is the biggest point, first go to a sunspot to the river boundary, and Zhan Wuxian also throws a pick, which is also the largest point, and uses the Bo Zhen to move the white son to the river boundary, so back and forth, the two are equal, and each move five sons to the river boundary. Lingchan said in his heart: "This person has profound skills, every time he throws me, I use internal force to block it, so that it throws a small point, but every time it is hit back by an invisible force, this last throw, we must find a way to win him." The spirit toad wiped the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead and said, "After a few rounds, you and I can throw the highest point, and if we continue to throw like this, we will not be able to distinguish the winner or loser." You and I have the last pick left, we roll at the same time, whoever has the bigger point wins, do you dare? ”
"Listen to me." As soon as the words fell, the two of them threw the mining into the air at the same time, and the two mining rotated rapidly, constantly colliding with each other in the air, and then fell into the Liubo plate, and the rotation speed of the second mining not only did not decrease but had a tendency to get faster and faster. It turned out that both of them were constantly inputting internal force into the mining. Ercai in the rapid rotation, the golden silk sandalwood Liubo disc emitted wisps of white smoke, Ercai will penetrate the disk, making a clicking sound, suddenly, the Liubo disc showed cracks, instantly turned into fragments, scattered and flew away.
Slowly, the temperature around the second mining rose, the gold table began to soften, and the second mining fell into it, but it was still rotating rapidly. After a while, gold water began to drip out from under the gold tabletop, and the second mining drill fell to the ground through the tabletop, and the gold coins all over the ground swirled away, and the surrounding three-legged golden toads dodged one after another. The gold coins that flew up were extremely fast and strong, and they hit the table legs and inserted them directly, and some of the three-legged golden toads couldn't dodge, and were hit by the gold coins, and they were killed. There were also gold coins that hit Zhan Wuxian and Lingtoad's legs, and they saw their feet flying, and the gold coins collided with each other under the table, making a dangling sound. The spirit toad's face was solemn, and a bloody gold coin flew under his feet and landed in the middle of Ercai, who collided again with the bloody gold coin and slowly stopped. I saw that the four corners of the toad were rounded, and the body was slippery and smooth, and there was nothing at all.
Lingchan watched the two Cai slowly stop, cold sweat had soaked his gorgeous clothes, and the trouser leg below the knee had already been slashed by gold coins, and blood flowed all over the surface of one foot.
"You've lost." After Zhan Wuxian finished speaking, he turned around and walked upstairs. After taking a few steps, he suddenly felt the gold coin shake under his feet, slowly rose up, and moved closer to him. Zhan Wuxin said: Not good. "Toad, you unbeliever!"
Ling Toad smiled: "Gamblers are not trustworthy in the first place. Immediately, his palms turned up, his palms condensed his true qi, and suddenly with force, countless gold coins attacked Zhan Wuxian from all directions, and at the same time, all the three-legged golden toads returned, surrounding Zhan Wuxian, and their mouths continued to spew gold coins and mixed with mucus. After the half-pillar of incense, Zhan Wuxian's body was already wrapped with gold coins, forming a huge gold coin man, hanging in the air, shining in the sun.
The toad limped out from behind the gold-inlaid jade table, and it turned out that he only had one leg. The spirit toad said coldly: "It only takes seven seven forty-nine days, and you will turn into my gold coins, haha......." It's a pity that Lingji never looked at me squarely, and this man he couldn't conquer was defeated in my hands today, otherwise she would have burned this gold coin ball with her divine fire, and it would have turned into gold in seven hours. Alas, forget it, it's better to ask for others than for yourself, let you live a few more days, I don't know when someone will gamble with me again. After he finished talking to himself, he turned to pick up the two picks on the ground.
"I can make another bet with you." Before the words fell, I saw that the huge ball of gold coins kept shaking and spinning, and some of the gold coins fell to the ground loosely. "Impossible!" The spirit toad was secretly shocked, and as soon as he turned around, a gold coin shot straight towards the spirit toad's face door. The spirit toad hurriedly turned sideways to pick it up with his hand, and the gold coin passed directly through his palm, grazed his left ear, and did not enter the wall behind him, which showed the swiftness and strength of this gold coin. The spirit toad was horrified, and was about to find something to hide, when countless gold coins shot over, like a storm, and in an instant, the spirit toad was hit with holes all over his body. None of the three-legged golden toads lying on the ground were spared, and all of them were killed.
After the gold coin was played, Zhan Wuxi's whole body was golden, hanging in the air, and slowly falling. It turned out that Zhan Wuxian was wrapped in gold coins, and his whole body was hot, and the gold coins were constantly integrated into his body. At the beginning, the pain was incomparable, and Zhan Wuxian used his internal strength to fight against it, and when he used the water escape of the Five Elements Escape Technique, he suddenly felt that his whole body was relaxed, and his true qi was even more vigorous. Zhan Wuxian immediately understood: The qi of less yin, warm and moist, all depends on water, and gold is turned into water, which is gold and water. Therefore, Zhan Wuxian not only did not suffer anymore, but his skills increased greatly and became stronger and stronger, so he gathered his internal strength and rushed out of the gold coin cage, and those gold coins also happened to be used as a weapon to kill the spirit toad.
Zhan Wuxian lightly landed on the floor, looking at the bloody toad: "Self-inflicted, nine out of ten bets will lose, and gamblers will not end well." ”
Zhan Wuxian continued to go upstairs, at this time from upstairs came a burst of melodious piano sound, soft and steady, miserable and miserable, like a trickle, slowly descending from the sky, although the sound of the piano is beautiful, but accompanied by a trickle of grievances, like a lonely young woman missing her husband who has not returned for many years. Zhan Wuxian listened to the sound of the piano, unconsciously slowed his steps, and tried to avoid making a sound every step he took, for fear of alarming the continuous piano music. Zhan Wuxian thought while walking, and when he heard the sound of the piano, he couldn't help but think of Mo Wuya who was far away in Caicheng, although they didn't have much time to separate, they were also very concerned: I don't know if their mother and son are good, whether the corpse beast pawn conquered the city, if so, how they avoided the corpse beast pawn, and how to protect themselves. Thinking of this, Zhan Wuxian's pace accelerated, he wanted to find a way to crack the immortal body of Gongzi before Cai Cheng was breached, and suddenly felt that time was pressing, the pressure rose sharply, and he had reached the top of Sansheng Terrace unconsciously.
Standing on the top of the stage, what greeted me was a fairyland. I saw that the distance was full of smoke, auspicious clouds and colors, the mountains were verdant, and the red and pink dots were dotted inside. Around the top of the stage, hundreds of birds are flying, and a woman in red is being in front of her, with her back to Zhan Wuxian and stroking the piano. This woman's long hair is as soft as a waterfall, her red clothes are as thin as cicada wings, and her skin is like snow, looming, hazy, and her clothes move slightly with the wind, like a fairy.
"You're here anyway." The voice came from the woman in red.
"You are?" Zhan Wuxian was puzzled and alert, this voice was so familiar.
"You know what? I have hoped that you will come, and that you will not come. Looking forward to your coming, I miss you, I hope that you will not come, right...... I have to kill you again. The woman in red said lightly.
"You are also the guardian of this chapter of Huatai," Zhan Wuxian said.
"No, it's Sanshengtai." At this time, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the woman in red slowly got up, turned her head slightly, and under her hair, Zhan Wuxian saw that this person was Ling Ji, just like she imagined.
"You're right, I'm here to guard the enemy's primordial body by order of the king, and whoever tries to approach him will have to kill that person. Since I saw you at Luoxia Villa four years ago, I can't forget it, and I knew at that time that you were the only one in the world who could go to Sanshengtai. Since then, I have been hoping that you will not come, and I will go to Caicheng City to meet you halfway, the purpose is that if you promise me, you don't have to come to Sanshengtai, even if you don't agree to me, you will leave Caicheng with your wife, and you don't have to go through this troubled water. But you still came, alas! What do I need to do? ”
"So you know the secret of Childe's immortal body?"
"Hehe, what do you say?"
"If you tell me the secret of cracking the infinite cycle of life technique of Childe's defeat, I am willing to exchange my life, and I am willing to die at your hands."
"How would I be willing to let you die. Again, if you divorce your wife, fly away with me, and stay together for the rest of your life, I will tell you the secret of the immortal body of the son, and the siege of Caicheng will be ......solved immediately."
"Don't even think about it, they are the most important part of my life, more important than my life." Zhan Wuxian interrupted Lingji and said suddenly.
"Then you and all the people in Cai City have only one way to die." Lingji's sword eyebrows counted down, and the two divine fires had already attacked Zhan Wuxie.
Zhan Wuxian saw that the divine fire was coming quickly, so he jumped high to avoid the divine fire, in mid-air, saw that there were two more divine fires fluttering, Zhan Wuxian hurriedly crossed with both hands, and an ice curtain came out to block the two divine fires in front of him, at this time two more came down from the top of his head, and he didn't think of how to defend against the two more attacks under his feet, Zhan Wuxian was just about to dodge backwards, and two more attacked behind him, its speed was extremely fast, it was something he had never seen before, it seemed that Lingji was really a killer this time. According to legend, this divine fire is extracted from the pillar of divine fire in the clouds, and it is equivalent to the true fire of Samadhi, and everything can be burned.
Zhan Wuxian saw that he was besieged on all sides, and there was no way to dodge, so he immediately wrapped himself in an ice curtain to temporarily resist the divine fire. As soon as the ice curtain was closed, I felt that the divine fire outside was spraying the tongue of fire, the fire flickered, the ice curtain was unstoppable, the water vapor was rising, and the ice curtain was in danger of being burned through. Zhan Wuxian felt that defending in the ice curtain was undoubtedly sitting and waiting, and he couldn't delay inside, he had to attack and defend, and he had to subdue Lingji first.
Zhan Wuxian constantly strengthened the ice curtain, so that the water vapor increased, and then he performed the water escape technique in the escape technique, first penetrating the water vapor in the ice curtain, and then using the fire escape technique to penetrate the divine fire outside the ice curtain.
Zhan Wuxian just cast the water escape through the ice curtain, but he didn't expect that the divine fire had already penetrated the ice curtain, and the water and fire were blending, and Zhan Wuxian immediately had the water escape transformed into a fire escape, just like that, when crossing the divine fire floating, most of his hair and sleeves were burned. Lingji saw a flash of light outside, Zhan Wuxian was already standing behind him, his palm against her throat, skin to skin, Lingji's whole body moved, and then her heart also moved.
"As long as you tell the secret of Childe's immortal body, I will spare you and you will not die."
Ling Ji smiled slightly: "The man I fancy is really the number one hero in the world, and even my Bafang Divine Fire Cover can penetrate it." Or can you hug me before I die? After speaking, Lingji slowly turned around and looked at Zhan Wuxian sadly, Zhan Wuxian suddenly didn't know what to do, and froze there for a while, whether to kill her or hug her.
In the gap when Zhan Wuxian was stunned, Lingji suddenly hugged Zhan Wuxian's feet and forced, and a hole suddenly cracked on the top of the Sansheng Terrace, and the two fell down at the same time.