Chapter 25: The Past (I)
Twenty years ago, it was a time when Mo had not yet been born into this world. At that time, the Saigyoji family was famous as a family of exorcists, and its reputation was very powerful.
At that time, the contemporary head of the Xixing Temple family was known as one of the strongest mages in the world, and he was in the limelight.
But even so, he, like many cultivators, still has an insurmountable mountain. That is the one who seems to be above all cultivators, the only 'Holy One', the Yin and Yang Holy Master, Ampei Qingming. There is also the inevitable fear of the living soul, the end of the name 'death'.
Even if he exerts all the strength of the whole race, when facing the 'inhuman' existence, he is still just a mantis arm as a car, and even if he has the undefeated power to cross the world, it is still difficult to resist the passage of time and enter the end of death.
So, in order to explore the possibility of going further, he, or all of them, finally decided to reach for the 'taboo'......
It was a 'coincidence' that they stumbled upon a particular 'being':
It was in a special place, in a special geography, in a special location, where there was a weak point in the boundary between the netherworld and the world. And at the center of that weak point is that there is a certain 'being' that can communicate the two worlds of life and death.
It was a huge, huge, huge, cherry blossom tree. Needless to say, its beautiful posture is even more staggering.
Not on this shore, not on the other side. It is obviously a 'living being' full of endless life, but its true body exists in the 'Netherworld' full of dead silence.
Whenever spring comes, its figure will be projected from the depths of the netherworld to the present world, and the full blooming cherry blossoms will show the world, which is the integration of the netherworld and the present world.
Whenever its form appears in the world, countless ghosts will gather around it. Life and death, yin and yang, at this moment, are mixed into one, without distinguishing each other.
And when they noticed such a special 'being', they were ecstatic. The posture that runs through life and death is the 'immortality' they are striving for, and the power that crosses the two worlds of the Netherworld is the 'powerful' they desire.
If you can control that kind of power......
I don't know when such thoughts took root in their minds, and they were out of control.
They tried many ways to get in touch with the 'beautiful' being, but they failed.
That's a matter of course. Although they can peek into each other's posture from the present world, in essence, the other party's true body still exists in the depths of the underworld on the other side, which is beyond reach.
In the end, they made a 'sensible' proposal: since we in the 'Yang World' have no way to directly contact each other in the 'Netherworld', why not guide the other party to this side?
This is a very feasible proposal. Because after their many observations, they found that the position of the other party was not as 'out of reach' as they imagined.
That is the weak point of the separation between the two worlds, especially when spring comes, the 'space' of the other party is almost overlapping with the space of the present world. It is precisely because of this that they can observe each other's 'figures' so clearly.
Then, things are simple, they are already good at the art of enchantment, and how to further break the 'boundary' between the two, or divide the cleavage, is their specialty.
So, after many attempts and confirmations, they began to help the 'other party' completely break the boundaries of the netherworld.
It is true that although they themselves do not have the great power to penetrate the two worlds, this great power itself does not need to be taken out by them. Because the huge cherry blossom tree itself is an existence that runs through the netherworld. The reason why they didn't really come to the 'present world' was just because the other party happened to be at a point of equilibrium, not on the other side, not on this shore, and so on.
And now, they only need to add another 'straw' to one end of the scale, and the balance will naturally be broken by the huge power of itself.
Everything is in place, and when spring comes, that is the time when the other party and the present world overlap the most, after using the strength of the whole clan, after years of preparation, at the most appropriate time, the most complete preparation, they succeeded!
Then came the 'despair'......
The boundaries between life and death are broken; The netherworld and the eternal world are turned upside down.
What appeared in front of everyone in Xixing Temple was not the hope of 'eternal life', but the end of 'death'!
The 'cherry blossom' that was supposed to contain endless vitality, at that moment, turned into an endless 'death', and each flower, each piece, was enough to take away a piece of 'vitality'.
If you allow the cherry blossoms to bloom in the present world, those thousands of petals will bring thousands of deaths!
"Ahh Yes! What the hell did I do!? What the hell did we do!?? ”
It was the last cry of the head of the Saigyoji family. The moment he really saw the other party's 'face', he finally understood that what they were pursuing was the 'abyss' of despair that they should not touch at all!
The netherworld and the present world are the opposites of yin and yang.
And they saw each other's endless vitality in the endless dead silence. It is natural to think that it is the true 'posture' of breaking life and death, and it is their ultimate pursuit to achieve immortality and even 'immortality'.
But as everyone knows, when the 'vitality' that belongs to the underworld comes to this world, it is from yin to yang, and from yang to yin. For them in the present world on the other side of yin and yang, that is the opposite of the real 'life', which is called 'death'!
The balance had been broken, and they were powerless to reverse it in the face of the overwhelming power of the two worlds.
After the sorrow of despair, the head of the Xixing Temple family resolutely sacrificed himself and re-established the final barrier, stopping the existence that had not completely crossed the two worlds of life and death in the middle of the path of the two worlds.
Just as they used the power of 'straw' to break the original balance at the beginning, with the power of the head of the Saiyuji Temple and the power of uniting everyone at that time, another 'straw' was added to the other side of the scale.
Originally, it stands to reason that this should restore the original balance. But once the real balance is broken, how can it be so simple to restore it?
At the moment when life and death are reversed, even if only a part of the power leaks out, it has already caused the death of an unknown number of living beings in the vicinity.
Since then, the balance between life and death has been broken, and no matter how much he tries to make up for it, even if he fills in the life of the head of the Xixing Temple family himself, it only delays the moment when the other party completely descends into the present world.
One day, the scales will be completely unbalanced, the netherworld and the present world will be reversed, and life and death will be reversed. The countless 'vitality' of this side of the world will be taken away by the 'death' that comes.
…… To be continued......