Chapter 47: Thirty-Three Heavens
"What is this?" I looked curiously at the mysterious object behind Bai Ya, all green and gray, the same color as the tender wood branches of spring and summer, similar in size to a vehicle, but the shape was fuller, and the oval appearance was the same as the flying saucer in science fiction.
"It's a wheel, similar to your car, but more advanced, and it can travel through the invisible."
"Planshoe?" I looked at Bai Yaxi in surprise.
"No, this thing just flies stealth." Bai Yaxi corrected.
Sitting in the chariot, I heard some of the most ridiculous and true stories I had ever heard in my life. The spiritual root of heaven and earth is actually not exhausted, there are many immortals like Bai Yaxi who are still alive in the world, they are the same as mortals, the so-called heavenly court is not as mysterious as we imagined, they are just powerful beings living in another space, they are weak and strong, there are armies and civilians, they are not immortal as we imagined, they have to work hard to prolong their life.
Bai Yaxi said that there are a total of thirty-three layers in thirty-three days, each layer is divided according to cultivation, different heavenly realms have different guardians, most ordinary immortals only have a lifespan of a few hundred years, they are no different from the civilians in the human world, for thousands of years, countless cultivators have entered the thirty-three days realm through cultivation, some of them have been supported by the world, and some have been given heavenly vocations, but most of the cultivators are the same as other creatures in the immortal world, and they will return to dust after hundreds of years.
This tranquility lasted for a long time, until the last century, when World War II broke out, countless undead souls crowded into the underworld, and the overwhelmed Eighteen Hells collapsed. The rise of the desolate gods, slaughtering the immortals, and releasing the ancient beasts, as if premeditated, at first the gods of the thirty-three layers of heaven could still deal with it, but later the desolate clan used the power of chaos to open up the other world, cutting off the root of the immortals, and countless Shura true immortals fell one after another, and the gods became increasingly inferior in the confrontation.
Bai Yaxi and Zifeng were depressed, it should be a painful memory for them, the desolate god slaughtered almost half of the fairies in the thirty-third layer of heaven, and used a trick to lure the remaining fairies to the other world and seal them, since then the so-called heavenly realm has come to naught, and the guardian gods of the world are trapped in another time and space like prisoners, and they gradually fall with the passage of the power of the immortals.
Bai Yaxi drove the car and soon came to the foot of Kunlun.
"What are you bringing me here for?"
When I looked up, the Kunlun Mountains were even more majestic than I had expected, with high altitudes and thin air, and the altitude from Golmud in Xinjiang to the Kunlun Pass rose sharply, while the temperature and pressure decreased. For a while, I seemed to have suddenly entered the harsh winter from the scorching summer, reckless Kunlun, magnificent, covered in silver, towering, straight into the sky. Standing in the Kunlun Mountains, there is a feeling of soaring clouds and fog, man and nature are one, and you and I can't distinguish between you and me.
I watched the wild antelope herd run past the corner of my eye, the cheetah and the wolf chased each other, this seems to be a pure land that no one touches in the world, Bai Yaxi's eyes are closed, there are words in her mouth, and the car starts, just like time and space travel in science fiction films, we did not enter the top of Kunlun Mountain, and came to another world in an instant.
The ruins of tall buildings, the broken ancestral temple, the white bones among the ruins, there is no intact building in the whole space at a glance, the silence and serenity around people will not be afraid of the white bones everywhere, the young grass adds a layer of new green to this place, and the dazzling and unscorching sunlight makes the whole ruins bright.
This is the thirty-three layers of heaven, tens of thousands of years ago my demon ancestors opened up here, the supreme demon king Emperor Jun established the heavenly court here, the broken buildings are full of traces of history, the grandeur of this place appeared in the corner of my eyes, I limped through the ruins, Bai Yaxi and Zifeng sat expressionlessly on the side, Mu Lin wiped the chariot, this was the place where they lived, I can imagine their inner anxiety at the moment.
"How many fairies used to be here?" I asked, looking at the endless ruins.
"Millions." Bai Yaxi said expressionlessly.
The dilapidated buildings on the ruins made my fingertips inexplicably hot, and in the peaceful ruins I faintly heard the frightened roars of the fairies, the scene was so familiar that I seemed to have seen it somewhere.
The dream, it dawned on me, was in the corridor of the Changlin Hotel, where the tall buildings were the same as here, the earth was torn, horned men were fighting fierce beasts, and young mothers were jumping from cracks with their children.
"What do you see?" Bai Yaxi asked.
My frightened eyes dodged around, "Fierce beasts are slaughtering, buildings are collapsing, the earth is torn apart, everyone is fleeing, no one is fighting. ”
Bai Yaxi looked at me expressionlessly and said, "The warriors of Jade Wantian have all died in battle, my mother has fled around with me, and millions of immortals have been slaughtered like ants. ”
"You are the child that the mother is holding in my dream?" I looked at Bai Yaxi in surprise.
"Do you have a picture of me in your dreams?"
"I don't know," I shook my head, "that day I dreamed of a young mother running around with her baby in her arms, and horrible beasts slaughtering everywhere. ”
"What else?" Doctor Zi Feng's eyebrows tightened.
"There's also a man with horns on his head, and he's desperately resisting, for the sake of the mother and daughter."
I was distressed, the dream was bothering me, there were so many doubts that I was trying to figure out.
"Who the hell are you? What are you bringing me here for? ”
Mu Lin sat aside and didn't say a word, the doctor Zifeng looked at the endless ruins here and stopped talking, Bai Yaxi looked at me, her expression was complicated.
"This is Taiming Jade Wantian, one of the six heavens of the desire realm, thousands of years ago the demon king Emperor Jun and the Eastern Emperor Taiyi discovered here, so they established the heavenly court, and divided the thirty-three layers of heaven into the desire realm, the color realm, the colorless realm, the four Brahma and the three Qing heavens five heavenly realms, the desire realm has six heavens, namely the emperor Huang Zengtian, Taiming Yu Wantian, Qingming He Tongtian, Xuanti Ping Yutian, Yuan Ming Wen Jutian and Qiyao Moyi Heaven; There are eighteen layers of heaven in the color world, which are the Void Yue Hengtian, Taiji Mengping Tian, Chiming and Yang Tian, Xuanming Gonghua Tian, Yaoming Zong Piaotian, Zhu Luo Huang Jitian, Xumingtang Yaotian, Guanming Duanjing Tian, Xuanming Gongqing Tian, Taihuan Ji Yao Tian, Yuan Zai Kong Ascension Heaven, Tai'an Huang Ya Tian, Xianding Jifeng Tian, Shi Huang Xiao Mangtian, Taihuang Weng Chongtian, Wu Si Jiang Youtian, Shangyang Ruan Lotian and Wuji Tan Oath Tian; There are four layers of heaven in the colorless realm, Haoting Xiaodu Heaven, Yuantong Yuan Cave Heaven, Han Pet Miao Cheng Heaven and Xiule Forbidden Heaven to the Heavens; The four Brahmas are the Supreme Changrong Heaven, the Jade Dragon Tengsheng Heaven, the Dragon Transformation Brahma Dutian, and the Pingyu Jia Yitian; Sanqingtian is the highest heaven, in fact, there is only one layer, because Sanqing is located, so it is divided into Taiqing Realm Da Chitian, Shangqing Realm Yu Yutian, Yuqing Realm Qingwei Heaven. ”
Bai Yaxi paused and continued: "Every layer of the heavenly realm is inhabited by immortals, the desire realm and the color realm are the foundation of the heavenly court, countless ordinary immortals live here, my clan and I used to live in the jade end of the sky, when the desolate god slaughtered the jade end of the sky, all my people were slaughtered, Zifeng and I were fortunate to escape, my mother was locked into the other world by the desolate god in order to protect me. ”
Zifeng then Bai Yaxi said: "We have been wandering in the world for many years, until the messenger of the heavenly realm found us, and he asked us to gather the immortal spirits scattered in the world, resurrect the white jade toad of the five ancestors of the Southern Sect, collect the fragments of the Seven Treasure Glass Cup, and then open the gate of the other world to rescue the trapped immortals. ”
"So you really killed Ren Yaoyao and Hui Ling to resurrect the Fifth Ancestor Bai Yuchan?" I asked.
Bai Yaxi nodded, "Bai Yuchan is the only person in the history of Dao who has gathered the five spirit arrays, and only his Thunder Book and Seven Treasure Glass Jar can open the gate of the Otherworld, release the immortals, and rebuild the Heavenly Realm." ”
I limped towards Zifeng with a wooden cane, "Just for a so-called secret method, and use the lives of others to brutally resurrect a deceased person?" Is this the law of the billions of beings that you are guarding in the thirty-three heavens? ”
"Do you think it's wrong to sacrifice four inconsequential people and save the world?" Bai Yaxi asked coldly.
"The tragic situation in your dream, the slaughter of Gusen Academy, you think that the Aragami will let you go, sooner or later the war will spread, and all the creatures in the world will not be at peace."
I was silent, and in the face of such a fact, the firm righteousness in my heart was shaken.
"The high priest said that in addition to Ren Yaoyao, Hui Ling and Jiang Qi, the fourth person who is alive must be a person from the demon clan and cultivating imperial qi." Bai Yaxi looked at me expressionlessly.
"I'm the fourth?"
Mu Lin wandered left and right, "This is not right, he is the person in Emperor Jun's prophecy, and he is the fourth person to be sacrificed alive in the mouth of the high priest, there must be something wrong with this." ”
"Have you ever been to the Otherworld?" I asked.
Bai Yaxi shook her head, "No, no one can go in except for Aragami." ”
"Where then did the messengers and high priests of your mouths come from?"
"They," Zifeng looked at Bai Yaxi on the side hesitantly, "Are you doubting the identity of the envoy?" ”
"When I was at Gusen Academy, Mr. Snow once told me that resurrecting the white jade toad was simply a cover, because the white jade toad never died immortal."
I looked at Zifeng and Bai Yaxi, they didn't show any doubts about what I said, I didn't mean to deceive them, nor was I afraid that they would take me alive and sacrifice me to Bai Yuchan, what else is there to fear about people who have already died once.
I'm just worried that Snow once said that Ren Yaoyao has the blood of the dragon clan on her body, and the fierce beast herd under the Siberian permafrost has harassed Lei Chi many times, if all this is a conspiracy of the Aragami, then Bai Yaxi and them are likely to be used by the Aragami.
"You mean it's all a conspiracy?" Mu Lin asked suspiciously.
"I can't rule out this possibility, because you don't know if the so-called celestial envoy is really from another world."