Chapter 7: Afterimage

Walking to a large hall, you can see the door of the vermilion lacquer hall from a distance, dotted with a layer of gold nails.

At this time, the door opens slightly and allows one person to enter.

"Only the master can enter this hall."

The machine spirit introduces:

"This hall master re-refined before his last long trip, implying the wonder of Da Luo."

"If an outsider forcibly breaks in, no matter what kind of mana is used, what magical power there is, it will be destroyed, and since then, even if it is the true monarch and Taoist ancestor who has proved Taiyi and understood the beginning of the yuan, he will not be spared."

"For 20,000 years, I have ingested the elites of all worlds according to the orders of my lord, and most of them have been sealed into this hall.

"Master, this trip should be useful!"

There was some joy in the machine spirit.

Lin Zhengyang looked up at this hall.

Located in the light, boxy, magnificent, the whole body is decorated with glazed tiles, white marble, although it is not as prosperous as some secular palaces, but it reveals a kind of simple rhyme.

Just by getting closer, you can feel a deep, heavy sense of historical vicissitudes coming to you.

It is worthy of being a fairy family with a heritage of more than 10,000 years!

In contrast, the so-called thousand-year-old temple in the mortal world can't really be inherited for thousands of years, as early as halfway, it has been repaired several times, and I don't know how many times it has been changed and how many layouts have been dismantled.

mixed with the craftsmanship of later generations, that bit of ancient meaning is not pure.

A few steps into the hall, the sky swirled in an instant, as if stepping on cotton, and he couldn't stand steadily for a while.

There was a heavy sound of the door slamming behind him.

The main hall was completely plunged into darkness.

In the darkness, a string of silver sparks appeared, and then quickly burst out, lighting up a string of fluorescent lights around the surroundings.

At this time, the center of gravity had been stabilized, and Lin Zhengyang looked fixedly.

found that the strings of fluorescents, all of which were round pearls of the same size, about the size of a fist, all emitted a quiet cold light.

Gradually, the light spread in all directions, and the entire hall was covered with pearls.

Millions of pearls, the light gathers together, like a vast ocean, but it is not dazzling, but the quiet and cold makes the hall more and more empty and silent.

There was nothing else in the hall, only the bookshelves, all of which were empty, only a few with fluorescent.

By the light, he tried to walk to a bookshelf, and on the third floor there was a bamboo slip with a faint white light.

The feet are soft, and there is no force at all, and the further you go, the farther away you feel.

I walked hundreds of steps, but the distance did not shorten at all.

I realized that if I went on like this, I would never get there.

He stopped and looked at his feet.

It looks like just plain brown marble floor tiles.

Squat down and touch with your hands, smooth and seamless.

Knocked, the texture is hard.

What's the deal with that feeling of stepping on cotton?

"This place always feels familiar to me."

Lin Zhengyang stood up.

Since it was really set up by his predecessor, there was no reason to play tricks on himself in such a place.

"Follow the familiar feeling."

He followed his feelings and walked casually.

It's completely aimless, and there are no clear clues, it's purely a whim.

This time, that inexplicable obstruction did not appear.

Sometimes he would stop in front of a bookshelf for a moment, sometimes he would pass by the same place over and over again, and he didn't know what his next moment would be.

Gradually, I have forgotten the purpose of coming, but my heart is becoming clearer.

It feels like ······ I've been here before, and it's very familiar.

It's the first time I've been here········

Soon he was bypassing all the bookshelves.

There was a desk here, and in the tea bowl on the table, steaming, a spread book, facing him.

It's as if the host's family has just left.

That sense of familiarity, the inexplicable sense of déjà vu gets stronger the older you get.

Without hesitation at all, he sat down at the table as if it had been 10,000 years ago.

Then, habitually, he took a sip of the tea from the bowl and looked at the scroll on the table.

An invisible gravitational pull poured out of the page, and the eyes began to blur, as if through a layer of mist·······

Then, his eyes began to change when he appeared in a small rental house plastered with wallpaper and posters.

A "crackling" sound sounded next to him, and a young man in his twenties with glasses sat at a computer desk, concentrating on typing.

The chair where Lin Zhengyang sat with him was ignored by him.

"This is me, two years before the crossing, I was twenty-six years old."

As he spoke, a familiar and unfamiliar voice seemed to come from infinity.

"This place, called Earth, is an aqua-blue planet that is pregnant with the miracle of life, and I am one of the many beings in it."

Lin Zhengyang suddenly realized.

"So this is the Earth, the legendary place, the real, the original Earth?"

There was no reply, and the voice continued:

"With the advent of the information age, the secret of the Danshu in the past is almost semi-public, and anyone can easily get the information they want, and it happens that I am more interested in it, and I have made great progress after years of study········

Lin Zhengyang keenly heard the hint of reserved pride.

"That's a lot of progress, I'm afraid it's still a modest statement······

He thought to himself.

The voice continued:

"I don't look for famous teachers, I only refer to the books of predecessors, self-cultivation and self-understanding, and my achievements are not small, which can be regarded as enlightenment."

As he spoke, the young man took off his glasses, which had no prescription at all, threw them away, and put them in the trash.

Just standing up, a bright full moon wheel appeared behind him, hanging behind his head, with a diameter of half a meter, shining a clear white light, with a brilliant golden inner layer of the aperture.

As soon as the moon wheel appeared, a strange fragrance suddenly wafted in the room, and the air became clear.

"Look, this is the proof of my enlightenment, and this moon wheel is like a full moon, which means that my practice has manifested."

"Although in terms of pure strength, I am not as good as the ghosts and gods who have accumulated for years, but in terms of level, I am not inferior······· You can even hold a priesthood, even if you are a serious city god! ”

"Hundreds of years ago, in this country, I had this practice, and it was really deserved to be called a real person."

"Historically, there have only been tens of thousands of people who have been able to reach my level in the world, and I was only twenty-six years old at this time."

Where the light shone, a curtain of water gradually appeared, and a circle of ripples swayed in the air, and the young man was clothed with this light, and took a step forward, and disappeared into the ripples.

In the next moment, the perspective shifted, appearing in a lightless, dimly lit place.

The sky was gray, there was gray mist everywhere, and there were many disembodied gray figures, wailing, shattering inch by inch, turning into gray and black gas, and gradually precipitating under the black soil.

The young man walked in the air, and the full moon wheel shone on the earth like a real moon, and the white light was softly sprinkled around.

Wherever they passed, the wailing subsided, and the gray mist cleared, revealing the way.

"This is a layer that has been precipitated by this earth for thousands of years, which can be called the spiritual realm, and I generally call it the underworld······· There are many layers of the underworld, and here is the shallow layer of the underworld, which may be the first layer or the second layer, and I tend to be the first layer. ”

"Souls have been born since the beginning of life, and there was no such place as a soul-inhabited underworld."

"The soil layer itself is just a mixture of organic and inorganic matter, and there is no so-called Heavenly Dao to provide life with an afterlife."

"It's just billions of years, the incalculable souls, the fragments and residues after they are broken, penetrate the soil layer, and gradually accumulate and give birth to this level that is both illusory and real, forming an underworld that can protect the soul."

"This is the shallow underworld, different from the deep underworld, it has not been formed long here, the division of the layers is not clear, the boundary between the first layer and the second layer is blurred, generally this is the junction of the two worlds of yin and yang, the conflict of laws is the largest, and it is also the transit of the soul into the underworld."

"Unlike the Yang World, which is full of physical rules, here, the power of the enlightened people and ghosts and gods of our generation can be maximized."

Lin Zhengyang sat on the chair, his perspective floating all the way, following behind himself in the past, watching his movements.

Sure enough, compared to the previous in the Yang World, now he is in this underworld, his strength is not constrained, and both his performance strength and the scope of influence have been greatly improved.

The figure with the full moon wheel on top of it flew very fast, almost without considering any air resistance along the way.

In this underworld, there is almost no light source, only gray fog and wailing, and other than that, it is very desolate.

Looking down from the sky, there was only occasionally some extremely faint light, like a candle in the wind, and it seemed so helpless.

Soon, "Lin Zhengyang" traveled to a bright place.

This is a palace complex with light throughout, covering an area of about 30 acres, and there is a small hill behind it.

On the hills, there are even verdant trees growing and the sound of birdsong.

In the palace building, the passers-by are the same as living people.

Outside the palace, the armor and fierce armor soldiers, in groups, patrolled back and forth.

"Lin Zhengyang" descended not far away, as a sign of respect, and came on foot.

It's just that the divine light around the body has already alarmed the inner room, and immediately there is a team of armor soldiers, and several scribes with mysterious magic patterns on their faces, stepped forward to greet them.

"Lin Zhengyang" seemed to be very familiar with them, and after just a few words of greeting, he was welcomed into it.

In the palace, I saw another ghost god wearing official robes, and he also had divine light on his body, but it was pure red, and the light flame was several feet long.

Then the voice explained:

"This is the god of the shrine, also known as the god of the land, who is in charge of the priesthood of a land."

"That mountain is the land mountain, and the souls of the native will temporarily reside here after death, and the land god has the authority to rule over the soul."

"These souls need to be clarified from their origins, and each has its own place according to what they were created during their lifetime."

"I've worked part-time here, investigating the identities of some foreign souls and things that ghosts and gods are not suitable for meddle in, and of course this is also paid."

"Alas, after attaining the Tao, you will still be preached."

"This sermon is not empty talk, but to be put into practice, to reflect the evidence, to practice, this work is the step of my manifestation of the Tao fruit."

"Don't look at this inconspicuousness, through this, I have a lot of understanding of the underworld, the ghost and god realm, and I also know a lot of knowledge that is hidden for the living."

"I not only work for this land god, but also with the entrustment of dozens of ghosts and gods, I travel back and forth between the yin and yang worlds, and I have handled tens of thousands of cases, gradually accumulating resources and mana."

The next moment, the scene changed rapidly, and when I stopped again, two years had passed.

"On my twenty-eighth birthday, I have transformed the primordial spirit."

The moon wheel behind "Lin Zhengyang" expanded, with a diameter of about one meter, and the whole body emitted red light, as if a fire burned clouds, but the center of the moon wheel was a bright golden flame.

"At this time, I am no less powerful than the average county-level magistrate, and in any era, I can call myself a real person."

"If this continues, I am even sure that before I am 100 years old, I will take the mana of the Yuan Shen to a higher level, turn the whole body into golden light, reach the extremely high level that people in this world can cultivate, prolong the life of the physical body, and even achieve the sanctification of the physical body in the future·········

"It's a pity that I crossed the ········· at this time"

Between heaven and earth, suddenly from top to bottom, a pillar of light shrouded down, and in the shattered white light, Lin Zhengyang only held on for a moment, and his body turned into flying ashes······

In my memory, the last impression is that this vast white light penetrates deep into the underworld, penetrating through countless levels, and even faintly visible a long river in the depths.

"This is my last memory from before the earth."

"The afterglow of that white light was imprinted in the Yuan Shen by me, and later guided me to find the path above Taiyi, and now ····· There are still some left, and you have gotten them. ”

Even so, Lin Zhengyang really didn't feel any change.

"I leave this memory for my future self, and being able to come here and unseal this afterimage shows that I haven't failed."

"Above Da Luo, at the end of the avenue, there must be······· The way to Earth! ”

The scene in front of him was frozen, and a figure similar to Lin Zhengyang was eight or nine points, wearing a white Taoist uniform, slowly emerging from the air, and a pair of silhouette-like eyes looked at him.

I even have the illusion of looking at myself.

"Is it still the same person who came back then?"

The young "Lin Zhengyang" had a flickering look in his eyes, and asked faintly:

"Are you really still me?"

A strong qi enveloped him, his heart seemed to be stagnant, and his whole body seemed to be pressed by a heavy object.

Lin Zhengyang didn't know how, and subconsciously retorted:

"Naturally, it's still me!"

Not only that, but an inexplicable force emerged from his body to dissolve this qi.

"Lin Zhengyang's" eyes lit up, seemed to be happy, and with a little surprise, he looked up and down a few times, and said suspiciously:

"Is this the Tao obtained from the end of the avenue? Just a little remnant of the qi machine can resist the forbidden law I have placed here? ”

Then he shook his head again, a little disappointed, and muttered to himself:

"It's a pity, only part of the qi has returned, and the deity should still be trapped at the end of the avenue, but the qi is revealed, and the incarnation formed should still be far from completion."