Chapter 006: Death and Resurrection
When Nangong Ruxue suddenly fell into the Fengshen Spring, struggling desperately with a sharp pain in her mind, she knew that she should definitely die, because she had heard the queen mother say that in the palace, among the ways to execute the concubines who made a big mistake, the most extreme way to die was to throw them into the Fengshen Spring.
Because the liquid in the Fengshen Spring will not only corrode a person's whole body, but also corrode a person's soul, which is a kind of torture that is a hundred times more painful than Ling Chi's execution, and the main reason is that the pain goes straight to the depths of the soul.
Because Fengshenquan belongs to the royal forbidden land, no one usually comes here, and even the Praetorian Guards are not allowed to approach, so Nangong Ruxue understands that even if he shouts for help, it will be useless, and there is a strong suction and hypnotic power in this pool, even if he can swim, he can't escape, so he doesn't have much hope of survival, but the only thing he is unwilling to do is who wants to harm himself? She really couldn't figure out why someone in the palace wanted to harm her.
First, she is not a concubine, there is no competition for favor with others, and those ladies who want to get the emperor's favor should not poison her; Second, she is not a prince, and she is not qualified to compete for the crown prince, and it makes little sense to be the prince in the Divine Bird Empire.
After all, as long as the emperor's life span is not harmed, life is eternal, unless someone deliberately assassinates in secret, or leads troops to force the palace, it is possible to get the throne, otherwise even if he becomes the prince, he will never have a chance to inherit the throne.
So Nangong Ruxue didn't figure out who harmed her at the moment when she was on the verge of death. In a trance, she felt that she was sucked to the bottom of the pool by a powerful suction, and her mind was accompanied by a burst of numbness and dizziness, and she knew that it must be the hypnotic power in the Fengshen Spring that had also begun to work.
However, she has a tough and stubborn personality since she was a child, and she was suddenly extremely unwilling to die like this, she thought to herself that since birds can fight against this liquid and have the opportunity to become a divine bird, why can't she as a human?
In fact, she once asked her father why the Fengshen Spring could only seal birds and not people, and her father couldn't tell the reason, but told her that for so many years, everyone who entered it and wanted to be a god eventually died, so no one dared to enter it later.
But Nangong Ruxue still stubbornly thinks that no one comes out alive, it doesn't mean that the god spring can't be sealed, isn't it possible that people who are smarter than birds can't become gods? Maybe those people don't have a strong desire to survive, or maybe they don't fight hard enough.
Thinking of this, she was extremely drowsy, and she tried to bite the tip of her tongue desperately, and suddenly her mouth was full of blood, obviously a lot of blood flowed from the wound on the tip of her tongue. But although it hurts, the person is much more awake. But after all, it was in liquid, unable to breathe, although she was awake, but it couldn't last, and finally she couldn't hold it anymore, and after her mouth opened instinctively, she choked on a big mouthful of golden liquid.
I thought that she would be fainted by this liquid, but after the blood in her mouth was mixed with the golden liquid, she not only did not feel difficult to breathe, but also felt that her originally stuffy chest was much more comfortable.
It's just that the good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for her to feel extremely depressed again, although biting the tip of her tongue again was to no avail, but she found a problem, that is, the wound on the tip of her tongue seemed to be completely healed, and the tip of her tongue became extremely tough, and she couldn't bite it anymore.
In a hurry, Nangong Ruxue couldn't take care of it so much, she tried her best to raise her arm up, and bit her arm hard, and the instant pain made her vague consciousness much more sober.
When she let go of her mouth, she was surprised to find that the golden liquid in the Sealing God Spring had actually entered her body along the wound, although it was very painful, but to her surprise, the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
What was even more surprising to her was that when the golden liquid entered the wound on her arm, she suddenly felt that her suffocated chest became comfortable again, and she suddenly understood that as long as the golden liquid entered the wound on her body, it seemed to solve the problem that she could not breathe.
To confirm this idea, she bit the rest of her arm again, and sure enough, with each bite of a new place, her consciousness was much clearer, and as the golden liquid entered her body from the wound, she no longer felt breathless.
After several attempts, she finally found a rule, that is, the place where she has bitten, even if it heals, she can't bite again, and the next time she has to bite in a new place. And the more the wound bleeds, the more golden fluid will enter the body.
Whenever the golden liquid entered her body, she felt that her breathing was smooth and she was no longer suffocated, which meant that the longer she didn't have to breathe in the Fengshen Spring. What made her even happier was that her body's ability to resist the suction at the bottom of the pool was also getting stronger, and if she continued like this, it was entirely possible for her to finally surface the Fengshen Spring and complete the process of Fengshen Baptism.
When another wound on her arm healed, and she felt dizzy and suffocated again, she suddenly remembered one thing, that is, the sooner the bird of paradise wakes up and flies out of the Fengshen Spring during the baptism, the higher the grade of canonization.
In other words, if she can quickly surface the Fengshen Spring and climb out of the mouth of the pool, then the grade of her canonization by the Fengshen Spring should be higher. On the contrary, if she dragged on for too long, if she exceeded the time of the five pillars of incense, would she also be melted into a golden liquid and become a part of the Divine Spring?
In this case, Nangong Ruxue made a bold decision, that is, to cut her wrist and try to bleed, because she has seen some of the palace maids who committed suicide in the palace, and some of them died of blood in this way, anyway, they are all dead, it is better to gamble, maybe there will be a glimmer of life.
When Nangong Ruxue cut her two wrists with a hairpin, a miracle really appeared, although the blood in her body was losing rapidly, but the golden liquid in the Fengshen Spring was also constantly pouring into her body, and it seemed that the golden liquid was completely replacing all the blood in her body.
Subsequently, Nangong Ruxue obviously felt that her body quickly floated towards the mouth of the pool, when the two wounds on her wrist were completely healed, her body finally surfaced out of the mouth of the pool, and she was ecstatic and quickly swam to the edge of the pool, and when she finally sat on the carbon crystal on the edge of the mouth of the pool, the excitement in her heart was indescribable.
She roughly estimated the time in her heart, and she should have completed the baptism within a pillar of incense, could she really be regarded as having passed the canonization of Yipin?
Just when she lowered her head and fell into contemplation, she suddenly heard the sound of wings stirring around her, she looked up in surprise, and saw that in the golden * bird sculpture above the mouth of the pool, a golden translucent bird of paradise actually flew out, it happily circled around Nangong Ruxue three times, and shot out a beam of golden light from its mouth, instantly enveloping her whole body, at that moment, she felt very warm and comfortable, and then became a whole body fluttering up.
Nangong Ruxue subconsciously looked down, only to find that her whole body was translucent, she tried to touch her body, and her hand actually passed through it very easily, that is to say, her translucent body was actually ethereal, not something real at all.
What made her feel even more incredible was that by the carbon crystal pool of the Fengshen Spring, there was a girl who looked exactly like her sitting there, and her body and demeanor were exactly the same as before! But at this moment, the girl seemed to have fainted, fell from the edge of the pool, and lay motionless on the ground.
As Nangong Ruxue and this golden* bird of unknown origin flew higher and higher, the entire Fengshenquan Square and the Royal Garden were in full view, and she slowly rose, and she also saw a black-clothed masked person, hiding behind the rockery at the entrance of Fengshenquan Square, looking like he was constantly secretly looking in.
And at this time, a team of patrolling royal guards happened to pass by and found the suspicious man in black, so they surrounded him, although the man in black was good, but after all, there were many royal guards, so the man in black resisted for a while, but was completely subdued and pressed to the ground.
When the guards tore off the veil of the man in black, Nangong Ruxue saw the other party's true face - it was actually her most trusted personal palace maid Ling'er! It stands to reason that before Nangong Ruxue left the dormitory, she told Ling'er to stay at the door of the dormitory, no matter who came to her, even if her father and mother came later, she would be sent away on the grounds that she was unwell and rested early.
Because Nangong Ruxue just wanted to stay alone quietly for a while, and didn't want anyone to disturb her, she only told her most trusted palace maid Ling'er, but she didn't expect that it would be Ling'er who killed herself just now! This made Nangong Ruxue unable to accept this reality.
In her mind, Ling'er has always been well-behaved and clever, and she is also sincere to her, so Nangong Ruxue completely treats Ling'er as her own sister, and she can't figure out why Ling'er wants to harm her. It's also a little strange that Ling'er, an ordinary girl who usually looks extremely weak, still has such good skills.
At first, Ling'er, who was arrested, looked a little hesitant, but soon Ling'er seemed to have suddenly figured out something, and pointed to the Fengshenquan Square and didn't know what to say, and then those royal guards suddenly became extremely nervous and flustered.
One of the guards turned around and rushed in the direction of the palace, as if to tell the emperor, and the other guards escorted Ling'er and asked her to lead the way, and rushed all the way to Fengshenquan.
Nangong Ruxue, who was still slowly rising with the golden bird in the air, saw everything that happened below very clearly, and saw those guards come to the Fengshen Spring, and when they saw the girl who looked exactly like her lying on the ground, they all screamed in fright.
In the direction of the palace, Nangong Ruxue saw her father and the emperor, and was hurrying towards Fengshenquan Square with the guards who had reported the news before. When her father finally came to the girl lying on the ground by the Fengshen Spring, he ignored the guards who knelt on the ground, as well as the black-clothed Ling'er, and quickly squatted down to check the girl's breathing, perhaps thinking that there was still help.
Without saying a word, he picked up the girl by the waist and rushed towards the palace, and the kneeling royal guards hurriedly got up and chased after Ling'er.
Since at this moment, Nangong Ruxue had already flown into the air, as the figure below became smaller and smaller, she would soon be unable to see clearly, but her heart was full of doubts, who was the girl who looked exactly like herself?
If the unconscious girl below is also herself, then what is this self who is now flying into the air with a translucent body? She looked up in confusion and saw that the translucent golden* bird was still flying towards the sky.
She didn't know how long she had been flying, but suddenly it was pitch black all around, and she instinctively looked back to see a huge glowing ball behind her, which was moving away and soon becoming smaller and smaller.
Nangong Ruxue found that there were many dense small points of light in the distance around her, flashing and flashing, very spectacular and beautiful. In her memory, she had heard the queen mother say that there was a dark world outside the Divine Bird Empire, where many planets of different sizes would glow, and in that world there was a beautiful thing called the star that twinkled every day.
She thought she wouldn't see this legendary beautiful world, but she didn't expect to see it so soon, and this was the first time she had seen such a completely black world when she was so old, and those magical things that could glow.
The golden bird of paradise was still flying forward very persistently, and her body continued to fly uncontrollably, just when Nangong Ruxue felt that she was sleepy, a large and bright blue glowing ball gradually appeared in front of her eyes.
The ball seemed to be spinning slowly, surrounded by a hazy white mist, which looked extremely pleasing to the eye, just when Nangong Ruxue was about to take a closer look at this beautiful planet, the golden bird of paradise suddenly burst out with a brilliant golden light, and then Nangong Ruxue completely lost consciousness......