What's underneath the maelstrom?

Without him, it's just a long, dark passage.

After falling into the whirlpool, there was a faint spatial fluctuation in the space, and when the spatial fluctuation dissipated, Zhang Ning felt that he was stepping on a piece of ground that he had acquainted. The reason why he used the word "feeling" was because the place where he was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything at all. Even with the use of the Eye of Truth, there is still a pure, unshimmering darkness in front of him.

The so-called darkness is absolute darkness, darkness that does not allow any ray of light.

Although he couldn't see it really, Zhang Ning knew very well that the place where he was a long passage, a deep passage full of darkness. There was no other reason, because a few years ago, he had entered this passage for some reason.

And the reason why he was able to pass through the passage smoothly last time was because the power on the square seal could match the power of the channel, even if this passage had the function of devouring light, it could not swallow the light emitted by the square seal itself, so Zhang Ning finally completed this journey smoothly.

But even with the light of the square seal, Zhang Ning still walked for a full thirty days before finally completing the long passage.

And now, he was going to walk in a passage of absolute darkness for thirty days......

"Damn, I said last time that I won't come back!" complained a word, Zhang Ning stepped on the ground under his feet, a dull voice suddenly came from the darkness, shrugged his shoulders, and Zhang Ning started his journey in the boundless darkness.

Darkness is the environment where people are most likely to have distractions. There was no sound, no light, just endless darkness and a seemingly endless road ahead, and walking on such a path could not help but give birth to many distractions in one's heart.

The darkness is not scary, what is scary is what grows out of the darkness. And what grows in the darkness is evil, degenerate, no, it is actually the human mind, and it has nothing to do with the darkness itself.

In the darkness, people can't help but recall many things, those things they don't want to face will come to mind, and those trivial things that they don't care about on weekdays will slowly come to mind.

Although he thought that his mind was tough enough, as time passed, in this long road without any sound or a trace of light, Zhang Ning still fell into a state of panic.

I don't know when he began to think, when will I come to the end, when will this road end, will I really be able to complete this road smoothly? Originally, it was just a little doubt, but when it developed into the back, countless thoughts rose up, hovered in his heart for a long time, and never dissipated.

Walking and walking, on this road, Zhang Ning's heart was confused.

"Take advantage of this opportunity, let me see if I can ascend to the fourth layer of Jiuhua Jue. Although his heart was messed up, Zhang Ning was not bothered, but sat on the spot, began to hold his breath and concentrate, trying to merge his mind together.

The fourth layer of the Jiuhua Jue requires people to condense all their thoughts together, so that the thoughts are pure, so that they can draw out the power of the mind. It is also very suitable to cultivate the fourth layer of the Nine Flowers Jue in this place where thoughts are chaotic.

Although it does not have the power of Chaoyang Lake, but the simple darkness can affect people's minds more, Zhang Ning tried to soothe the distracting thoughts in his heart several times, but it did not achieve results for a long time. Jiuhua Jue asked to disperse his thoughts again after calming his thoughts, and in this darkness, Zhang Ning couldn't even calm down a thought, and the power of this dark passage was even higher than that Chaoyang Lake!

Gradually, as his mind became more and more chaotic, Zhang Ning suddenly saw a bolt of lightning.

A pure white bolt of lightning.

The moment he saw the lightning, Zhang Ning suddenly remembered some things that he had deliberately forgotten. He began to understand his own problems, he began to understand why he had made up his mind to get away with the world at the beginning of his rebirth, but now he was afraid of feelings, he also remembered why he was able to forget Sophia so easily, and he understood even more about what the lightning in front of him was.

This lightning bolt is not Zhang Ning's original thing, to be precise, this lightning is lightning, it is the lightning that roars above the nine heavens.

The reason why Zhang Ning was able to be reincarnated and reborn was actually because when he was enjoying the shade under the tree in this life, a pure black lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, and the lightning fell on Zhang Ning's head in the previous life, taking away the life of the boy You, and also bringing Zhang Ning's soul from another world.

And after doing these things, this pure black lightning didn't know what mutation had happened, and it turned into pure white lightning, and it was suspended in Zhang Ning's heart from then on! There is an infinite mystery in this pure white lightning, although it exists in Zhang Ning's heart, it is not controlled by Zhang Ning, only if it is willing to let Zhang Ning see it, Zhang Ning can see it.

The first time Zhang Ning faced lightning was on the night of his breakup with Sophia.

On that night, Zhang Ning used the power of pure white lightning to cut off everything in his emotions! In this way, Zhang Ning will be a little lacking in emotion in the future, and he may still be warm and affectionate in the first moment, but in the next moment, he will become insensitive.

However, because Zhang Ning got rid of the emotions after knowing Sophia, his emotions when he was a child did not decrease by half a point, but because the emotions in the following years were cut off, he cherished his feelings when he was a child even more.

Now Zhang Ning is more like a combination of a child and an adult.

The nine years of traveling abroad are not long, but not short. During this time, Zhang Ning has experienced a lot, after leaving Sophia, he has seen many things, the joys and sorrows of this world, the pain and sorrow of this world, Zhang Ning has experienced them all. He has seen the tragedy of being affected by the great war, and all the villagers in the village died, he has seen the tragedy of eating children alive, and he has also experienced the pain of parting with his comrades, in the face of this pain, Zhang Ning used the power of pure white lightning every time.

Every time his feelings fluctuated, he would cut them off with the power of lightning, because he did not want to face the pain, he did not want to accept the pain.

Because of this, he has not grown up for a long time.

Without going through joys and sorrows, without experiencing the tempering of the mind, how can people grow up?

Pure white lightning, although Zhang Ning only saw it for the first time when he was out of love. But in fact, when he was very young, he had already begun to use the power of pure white lightning. The first time he engraved the alchemy pattern, he lost consciousness because he couldn't stand the great pain, and when he woke up, he found that the inscription had been successful. This was actually because at that time, pure white lightning cut off all his pain, all consciousness, and he subconsciously completed the inscription.

When he was cultivating Jiuhua Jue, when he was most painful, it was also because of the effect of pure white lightning, he cut off the pain at the last moment, and finally successfully completed the cultivation of the third layer of Jiuhua Jue.

It can be said that along the way, Zhang Ning feels that he has been smooth sailing, which is actually wrong. It's not that everything is going well for him, it's that he forgets what didn't go well.

Once again, he lived like a child more than in his previous life.

That's why he used the power of silver lightning to cut off his thoughts about Sophia after falling out of love, and because of this, he used the power of silver lightning to cut off all the unhappiness and all the things he didn't want to bear.

He is afraid to face pain but thinks he can face it head-on, he is afraid to face pain but thinks he is strong enough, and at the end of the day, he is still the otaku in his previous life, or the man who was not strong-willed in his previous life.

However, there was no way to condense thoughts using this method, and there was no way to complete the cultivation of the fourth layer of the Jiuhua Jue. So in the midst of this boundless darkness, he saw the silver lightning and saw his past.

Yes, of course, he can dodge those sad things with the power of silver lightning, but no matter what, those things have happened, and they can never be cut off from their hearts forever! Everyone has their own places that they don't want to touch, but no matter how you try to escape, in the end you still have to face him, you still have to face your heart.

As time passed, what was buried in Zhang Ning's heart, what he didn't want to face, poured out of his heart again. Endlessly, never again.

The sadness of being rejected, the dazed feeling when I saw death for the first time, the pain of experiencing war for the first time, and the death of war. People who don't want to face, things that don't want to face......

All of this kept coming to mind.

Are you really strong enough? Are you really able to face all the difficulties? Are you really able to stand firm in your beliefs?

The voice of asking himself kept coming from his heart, Zhang Ning's breath became more and more chaotic, and in the end, he lay on the ground in pain, with a hideous face on his face.