Chapter 143: The Elephant of Destiny
When his right foot stepped on the surface of the river, Lu Xin felt that the river under his feet was strong enough to bear his weight. Then he stepped up with his left foot, and sure enough, his whole body stood on the surface of the river, and he was walking on the ground, without the slightest feeling of sinking.
When you get down the river, the black wind and sand around you disappear. The sky became high and clear, like the reflection of the river. When I looked back, I saw that the road I had come from had disappeared except for the endless riverbank. The whole world presents an incomparably ethereal taste. The Six Heavenly Azure River seems to really flow down from the sky.
"Floods and heavy waters...... This place is really getting more and more surprising! ”
Lu Xin traveled from modern times to the Tang Dynasty and had never experienced such a scene as he is now. Every aspect of the entire Fengdu Ghost Domain seems to be violating the natural laws of the world.
The black wind and sand, the red earth as hard as iron, heavy enough to hold up the river water...... Everything here is magical like a dream.
"If this is what the Flood Desolate World looks like, then the strength of the Flood Desolation Demon Clan is enough to imagine. Not all living beings can rule such a world. ”
Sighing in his heart, Lu Xin began to walk cautiously towards the other side of the river. The direction of the Liutian Azure River is changing all the time, and there seems to be some kind of huge gravitational pull under the riverbed, pulling everything on the surface of the river, making people slow down. It took Lu Xin more than an hour to reach the middle of the river. At this time, a thick white fog suddenly appeared around, misty and gloomy, making it difficult to see the direction. Lu Xin tried to go out, but after a long time, he was still in a haze. The surrounding fog is like taking root and cannot be dispersed.
Lu Xin was a little irritable, and suddenly fell from an ethereal and clear world into a misty and gloomy world, this contrast is too great. To make matters worse, he couldn't think of any way to get out of here.
"You're lonely and helpless. You can't figure out why this is happening, but that's how you end. It's also the ending I don't want to see the most. ”
"Who, who's talking?"
Lu Xin looked around blankly, but a voice suddenly sounded in his ears. The sound was staccato and staccato, sometimes heavy, sometimes light. He could only hear part of it, but he could feel that the person speaking was familiar to him. And this familiarity made his hair stand on end.
"The last thing you want to see? Hahaha, didn't you want to kill me a long time ago? When I first entered Chang'an, you tried everything possible to let me die. Now, as you wish, isn't it great? ”
"Yes, I thought about killing you, but I wish you had listened to me. Leave Chang'an, stay away from the rights and wrongs of this Tang Dynasty. You don't belong to this world, and your crossing is just an accident. Therefore, even if you are so powerful, you still can't change everything. Just like this mountain, it towers into the sky, making the world look up, but it is forever crushed under the heavenly way. And I am the only way! ”
Following the source of the sound, Lu Xin soon saw a picture that made his heart palpitate in the depths of the distant fog. It was a huge mountain that towered from the sky. On the top of the peak, a man in black was surrounded by blood and light, standing in the air. Underneath it, another white-clothed boy was half-kneeling with a sword, apparently having just experienced a terrible battle, covered in blood, and with a broken arm. The reason why Lu Xin had palpitations was because the person kneeling on the ground turned out to be himself. And the man in black is the murderous Lu Tingfang.
In this picture, the two brothers finally came to the point of drawing their swords against each other.
"Ahem, Heavenly Dao? Lu Tingfang, I don't believe that you are like this day. Maybe you've become the best in the world, or maybe the world is afraid of you. However, from the moment you kill my master, even if you are really the way of heaven, I will do whatever it takes to destroy the way and punish the sky! ”
A long roar shook the mountains and rivers. The young man bounced off the ground, his body merged with the sword, and turned into a dazzling golden sword qi and rushed towards Lu Tingfang. But in the next second, the golden sword qi was surrounded by blood in the sky, and it disappeared completely in an instant. When the world was restored to its original state, the young man in white was gone. A bright sword fell from the void, emitting a jolting golden sound. Lu Tingfang overlooked the top of the mountain, took a long breath, and the mana on his body was surgingly surging. It was as if in an instant just now, he ate the young man in white and took all his cultivation for himself.
The scene in the distance was terrifyingly real, and every moment, Lu Xin was terrified. Especially the moment when the young man in white disappeared, his heart ached like a knife, and he couldn't even stand firmly. He wanted to say that the young man in white was not himself. But the scene in front of me was so real, real as if something was about to happen.
"Hmph, who dares to peep at this seat?"
Suddenly, Lu Tingfang in the scene turned his head suddenly, his eyes were cold, and he looked straight at him. That gaze, as bright as the sun in the sky, sees everything, and makes everything in the world hidden. Lu Xin was frightened, his heart was beating so fast that he almost rushed out of his chest. Lu Tingfang's coercion is so powerful that it seems to have broken through time and space, and he wants to wipe him out in this world.
Poof!
Lu Xin fell to his knees suddenly, breathing terribly short. A haze of death occupies all thoughts in my mind. He was terrified, terrified, as if in an instant he had turned back into the helpless child who only knew how to cry.
Above the Liutian Qinghe River, there was still a heavy fog. The world is silent, empty, cold......
"What the hell is going on in that picture just now? I...... Did you see the scene before you died? ”
I don't know how long it took for Lu Xin to recover from that near-death pain. At this time, his eyes were red and he was sweating profusely, as if he had just experienced a battle of life and death. Looking up, the distant sight vanished. No matter how much he searched, he could no longer see the towering mountain peak and the figure entwined with blood light.
Lu Tingfang was gone, but he was very depressed in his heart. In the back of my mind, the images I had seen before lingered. Lu Xin thinks that he has experienced so many disasters and has long looked down on life and death. But he was wrong, and at this moment, he understood. No one, not afraid of death. At least, no one can remain unmoved at the moment of seeing their own death.
"Master? It is impossible for the master to die at the hands of Li Chunfeng. Everything just now must be deceitful, it must be deceitful......"
"Everything has a cause and effect, as long as you are still in these six red dusts, you can't escape the pain of life and death. If there is cause and effect, everything has a destiny. Some things are already predestined. What you have just seen is your future, and it is also your always. ”
"Master Dao'an?"
Looking ahead, a monk appeared in the mist a few steps away. It turned out to be the holy monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that Lu Xin had seen in the broken temple in Xuanzhou, and the Bodhisattva Shi Dao'an. But he clearly remembered that Shi Daoan had been dead for hundreds of years. Even when the temple was broken, there was only a wisp of remnant soul left.
The strange thing is that in the face of Lu Xin's question, the monk did not answer. Instead, he folded his hands and pronounced the Buddha's name with his eyes closed.
"People will eventually die, but the Buddha is merciful and transforms the West Heaven into Elysium. You should put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot. ”
The monk's voice fell, and he suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were blood-red, like a ghost. At the same time, the monk slapped out with a palm, and the golden dragon roared, filling the sky with light. Lu Xin only felt that he was in the midst of a monstrous wave, and he could be overturned at any time. The person in front of him is not an illusion.
"What do you mean it's already predestined? Destiny is not a plaything in any of your mouths, I believe in cause and effect, but I don't believe in you ghosts! ”
Lu Xin sneered, stood up suddenly, and also slapped a palm at the monk. The two mana forces collided, and the dazzling light covered the boundless white mist. The young man then rushed into the light with his sword, only to see a black flying shadow galloping away. After a few more moments, the surrounding fog disappeared. Heaven and earth have returned to their clean and clear appearance. In the distance, a black bird was flapping its wings in horror and flying towards the opposite shore.
Looking back, the riverbank was still visible, but there was no trace of white mist. Everything I had just experienced seemed to be just a nightmare for a moment.
At this moment, Lu Xin suddenly remembered what Zhao Li had said to him on the way from Chang'an to Xudu City. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas? In the article "The Book of the Sea", there is a description of the ghost domain of Fengdu.
Zhao Li's original words at that time were, "It is said that in the Beihai, there is a mountain called Youdu Mountain." Black water flows from there, and there are black birds, black snakes, black panthers, black tigers, black unkempt tailed foxes on it. Tubo looked terrible, holding nine ropes in his hands, with sharp horns on his head, and bloody hands on his back, chasing people quickly. With three eyes, a tiger's head, and a body like a cow, it treats people as delicious. ”
"Black Bird...... It seems that everything just now is all an illusion created by it. ”
Thinking of Lu Xin here, his face was obviously much better. Although the haze of being killed by Lu Tingfang lingered, he finally had the courage to continue walking. Since then, Lu Xin's pace has been much faster than before. In less than half an hour, the entire Six Heavens Blue River was crossed. However, the moment Lu Xin stepped on the riverbank, the ground suddenly became extremely soft. People on it, as if stepping on cotton, were a little unstable for a while.
Not only that, but in front of the palace not far away, Lu Xin saw a large number of blackbirds attacking the crowd. The birds were as big as eagles, pitch black, three-legged, and fierce. Around the palace lay a large number of corpses, all of which had been eaten out of their eyes and blood falling to the ground.
Roar, roar, roar!
A low roar suddenly appeared in his ears, and Lu Xin turned his head to see that a black wolf shaped like an elephant was walking towards him step by step from the left hand side. The black wolf even had an unrecognizable head in its mouth. And on the back of the black wolf, there seems to be a vague shadow, which disappears from time to time.
"Living people, don't come to this hell!"