Chapter 2: The Land of the Dead
Suzaku came out of the sky, thinking that he would have to stay in the Nine Heavens for a few more days, so he turned around and went to the largest market in the Nine Heavens. Not as troublesome as when he came, Suzaku raised his hand and made a split-second decision, but in the blink of an eye, he arrived at the market.
Walking through the flow of people and hearing the cries of the vendors, Suzaku stopped in front of a vendor, looked at his fluffy gray ears, and asked, "Demon Clan?" β
The vendor nodded, and then introduced her to the bead in his hand, "This is a dream bead unique to the Dream Weaver Demon clan, if there is anyone who wants to see where they want to go, crush this bead to fall asleep, although it is not true, but it can also be used as a consolation." β
Suzaku picked one up, looked at it carefully, and said to Si Ming: "She is coming back soon, she has slept for so many years, she doesn't know anything, like a blank piece of paper." You should like these new things, so buy more. β
The priest paid the money, noticed the two people following behind, and asked Suzaku in a low voice. She waved her hand to tell him not to care.
Sunrise strode in front of Suzaku, blocked her footsteps, and said, "I just have time today, so why don't you do what Your Excellency thinks." β
Suzaku looked at Fuso, and his eyes expressed a silent rejection. Even if the past is the same as before, but the willow branches by the river are broken, and even if they grow again the next year, they will not be the same.
She is very vindictive, even if the matter of Chen Bran's rotten valley has to be turned over and settled, not to mention, Fusang once almost killed her.
Fusang understood what she meant, clenched his hand tightly in the wide sleeved robe, and said to Sunrise, "Go ahead, don't embarrass her." Sunrise raised his eyebrows as if questioning what he really meant, and Fusang nodded.
Dayyang was a little regretful, thinking that he would be able to catch up with a big show today, but unfortunately the two who should sing the opera didn't have much thought, so they had to go to Nanxu with Suzaku first.
The palace of Nanxu was the residence of the lord of Nanxu in the past dynasties, and now Suzaku lives in it.
However, the palace was built a long time ago, and Suzaku has always been lazy, so naturally there is no spare time to renovate. So he let the vines climb around the pillars to the tiles on the top, and the south was empty and the rain was abundant, and the days were accumulating, and the cracks in the stone slabs and the cracked walls on the ground were also filled with moss.
It was the rainy season, the sky was overcast, and a large dark cloud shrouded the palace above, and there were few people in this palace, so it became more and more dark and damp. Walking on the porch, I felt that there were some terrible monsters hidden in those dark corners.
Other people's Shenjun's cave mansion is not to mention splendid, but it is also more or less bright, where would she be as lazy as she was, tossing her nest into such a miserable situation.
I'm afraid that the senior brother of the day sun will be distressed to death when he sees it, day sun is a big deal to see the excitement, and when he saw the scene of the palace of the king of Nanxu, he made up his mind to ask his senior brother to come to Nanxu for a walk.
Daysun looked at Suzaku, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised with a touch of schadenfreude.
Although he set up his residence in a quiet bamboo forest, he was really not a master of the world, and his favorite thing was to muddy a pool of clear water and watch the people who were trapped in it rise and fall. It's too quiet to be fun, and it always has to be a little splash to be interesting.
At the end of the corridor was a small vermilion door, the eaves of which were low enough for only one person to pass through, and Suzaku pushed the door in, followed by Si Xing and Daysun.
The dazzling sunlight made the eyes of the day yang who had just been in the dark a little uncomfortable, and he raised his hand to cover it, and it took a long time to recover. As far as the eye can see, there is a huge lake, the water of which looks like fish scales in the sun, but the water level is so shallow that it is only about ankle high.
Suzaku lifted the seal with one hand, and a whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake, and something was slowly rising from it. The water in front of them parted to form two walls of water, revealing a path paved with white jade.
Near the middle of the lake, Daysun saw clearly that it was a coffin.
A coffin covered in pitch black, in which lay a girl dressed in lake blue clothes, her hands folded on her abdomen, her complexion was very pale, and the cyan blood vessels were clearly visible.
This is the person Suzaku asked him to save, but this lifeless appearance is clearly just a corpse, and I am afraid that even the soul is gone. Just now, he thought that the palace was a little gloomy because of the rainy season, but now it seems that there is something else hidden.
This lake is a formation that gathers all the vitality of the king's palace on top of the coffin, so that the girl's body does not rot and stays in the same way as before death.
The so-called resurrection of the dead is nothing more than reshaping the body of a person whose soul is not destroyed. The girl's body was still there, but Suzaku was helpless, and most of her soul had disappeared.
"The body is immortal, the soul is extinguished, and the dead are brought back to life?" Sun Yang smiled, and said in a low voice with a slight mockery: "Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch, how can there be such a good thing in this world. β
"I can't do this errand." He has never done something that he is not sure of, let alone such a thankless thing.
Suzaku looked at the girl in the coffin with a sad expression: "She's not dead, she's just trapped......"
She turned to the sun and said, "I came to you in the hope that you could bring her back." The place where her soul is located, there are too many demons around, I have been there, but they can even eat away at the demonic power. You are cultivating Haoran Dao, and you are born to be their nemesis, and only you can bring her back. β
Daysun had never heard of such a Jedi, and asked, "Where is it?" β
"Return to the Ruinsβ"
Only exists in the legendary country of the dead, and the living are not allowed to enter it, so there are not many records of returning to the ruins in the world, but they can be consulted from some classics in the underworld. It is recorded in the texts that it was a Jedi where life and death were reversed, and only the dead could exist, while the living would become nourishment for the ruins.
If they have cultivated to their Dao practice, they can also break through, but no one has ever found the place to return to the ruins. So much so that many people now think that this is just a story made up by their predecessors.
He often reads some ancient books in his spare time, and has always been very curious about Guiru, so he has no choice but to record just a few words over and over again. When he heard the news of returning to the ruins from Suzaku's mouth, he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Do you know how to enter the ruins?" β
"As long as there is enough sacrificial power to open the door to the ruins, the sacrificial power here is enough." She touched the wall formed by the water of the lake, which she had collected for her sacrificial power.
Daysun looked around, so much sacrificial power, I'm afraid that the entire demon clan poured out, this little girl's identity is really unusual.
"It's just ......" Suzaku looked strange, and he stopped talking: "Although it is only the periphery of the ruins, it is also very dangerous, if Dayyang-kun feels embarrassed, I also understand." β
He smiled and behaved very calmly: "It's okay, since the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch has a way to enter the ruins, how can I not go." β
Suzaku breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you." He took out a dark chain from his bosom and handed it to Sunshine, the chain was about the thickness of a little finger, and there were many characters of Nanxu densely engraved on it.
"It will take you to her spirit, and if you can bring her out and put it on her before you go out of that door, this will protect her from the evil spirits inside the door. Her soul is locked in a lake, and if you can't get her out, forget it......" she said slowly, and when it came to the end, she was a little weak.
Daysun and the girl lay side by side, the lake glowing with light over their mouths and noses, obviously only to the ankle level, but they kept sinking.
He found the girl's hand slowly interlocked, unexpectedly cold, he looked sideways at her, and there was some subtlety in his heart. He has done many things, sometimes to relieve boredom, sometimes to watch a play, or the first time just to save an unknown person to do these many things.
Suddenly I wondered what this little girl would be like when she woke up.
He closed his eyes, waited for the dampness on his body to fade, and then opened them, and the scene in front of him had changed. In front of him was a very tall portal, almost between heaven and earth, with only two flat boulders as the door, and nothing else.
"Boom-" The two boulders slowly separated, and Daysun stepped in, and the sky here was similar to the Nanxu Palace.
However, the palace was shrouded in darkness because of the formation set up by Suzaku, and there was a kind of black ash floating everywhere, like the remains left after the paper was burned, and the number was so large that it even covered the entire sky.
The earth was scorched black, and there were many cracks in the surface, and there was not a single grass to grow, let alone any other living beings.
He took out the chain that Suzaku had given him, and the chain seemed to come to life, and he broke free of his hand and circled in mid-air like a swimming dragon. It circled around a few times, and then slowly walked in one direction.