Chapter 14: The Bridge of the Heart
Looking at the red swimming fish in front of his palm happily, Ye Xu's gaze gradually became a little stagnant, countless tiny red mangs kept hovering at a special frequency, the shape of the fish in front of him became clearer, and the body of the fish visibly evolved into a fin and tail, and gradually even the fine fish scales appeared. Just as Ye Xu was watching this ingenious evolution with some expectation, the giant eyes of the big red fish suddenly opened, and the dazzling red light broke through the mountain wall and pierced Ye Xu's eyes. In a trance, the big fish and its weird angle opened its huge mouth, and a large number of black mangs blurted out, and as soon as they broke away from the mountain wall, they immediately let out a piercing screaming sound and rushed towards Ye Xu.
"Great Might, King Kong! Shock!" the old monk shouted, and a golden light poured out from the sleeve of the old monk's robe, rolling in the air like a living thing, sweeping away the big red fish and a large number of black mangs that broke through the mountain wall, and at the same time cutting off the passage inside and outside the mountain wall.
"What does this smell like? What was it just now?" Ye Xu, who was trembling with fright, stammered and asked.
"Amitabha! These are all mundane thoughts, suppressed in the mountains, and it is not easy for the obsessions in them to be completely realized. The little donor should be careful in the future!" the old monk turned pale and proclaimed the Buddha's name.
"Why didn't you remind me earlier?" Ye Xu calmed down easily, even if it wasn't his real body, the violent heartbeat still made him a little short of breath.
"With the old man by his side, the little benefactor doesn't have to worry too much, besides, there is a Buddha fate arrangement in the dark!" the old monk regained his previous calmness, bowed with one hand in a chic manner, and continued to walk forward.
"Don't worry, do you have a problem or do I have a problem?" Ye Xu walked in the crack with palpitations, keeping up with the old monk's pace, his eyes kept scanning around, for fear that another red fish would come out. If it weren't for the strong face, he would even have the urge to ride on the old monk. After following stupidly for a long time, Ye Xu finally couldn't help but ask, "Master, how far is it?"
"The Bridge is here!" the old monk breathed a sigh of relief, and said as he moved to the side, revealing an extremely wide space in front of him.
"Not far, what's not far?" The passage in the mountain wall was too narrow, and it was obscured by the figure of the old monk, and he couldn't see the situation ahead at all.
"Here, too, too," Ye Xu looked at everything in front of him, and his words of surprise were incomplete.
A huge abyss suddenly appeared in the middle of the mountain, and a river with a shimmering blue light gushed out strangely from under the abyss, rushing straight to the top of the mountain. A large amount of mist-like cyan light floated around the two, fluttering and swaying, which was very fantastical.
"Damn!" the old monk's burly figure suddenly disappeared in front of him. The unprepared Ye Xu was taken aback. Before he could react, he felt that his feet were empty, and the whole person moved forward. In a panic, he grabbed one of the old monk's arms and almost fell into the abyss. Looking down in horror, he could only vaguely see a large number of dazzling crimson lights at the bottom of the abyss, slowly circling like a galaxy, and even a low roar.
"Pull me up!" Ye Xu felt that the old monk didn't want to pull him up, and immediately yelled angrily.
"Is there really nothing to hold up under the benefactor's feet?" the old monk frowned and looked frustrated.
"Thank your mother, if there is something to step on, I can still hang here?" At the critical moment, Ye Xu didn't care about any etiquette, and scolded loudly.
"Amitabha, isn't this right?" Ignoring Ye Xu's scolding, the old monk looked sideways at the abyss under his feet, his mouth chattering, and the expression on his face quickly changed between worry and disbelief. Slowly with both hands, he lifted Ye Xu up.
"Damn! You don't want to remind you!" Ye Xu immediately took a few steps back, holding on to the mountain wall with his hand, before he dared to open his mouth and complain: "You said it's the Suxin Bridge, where is the bridge?"
The old monk's gray eyebrows tightened suddenly, and he asked hesitantly, "Little donor, you really haven't seen anything?"
"What do you see?" Ye Xu stretched his neck as much as he could, looking at the huge abyss in front of him, and several cyan-colored swimming rays floated in front of his eyes slowly, floating in place curiously, as if observing him, the person who suddenly broke in.
"This, what is this?" Ye Xu carefully stretched out a finger, wanting to touch a few points of light in front of him.
The old monk stood beside him, his frowning brows shook slightly, and there was a hint of determination in his eyes when he looked at Ye Xu, as if he had made up his mind with difficulty.
"Master, Master, we have something to say!" Ye Xu saw that his gaze was not good, and a chill instantly spread throughout his body, seeing that the old monk's gaze was becoming more and more determined, he couldn't help but plead.
"Amitabha! Little donor! Please forgive the old man for putting the common people first!" The old monk resolutely moved out the common people in the world. As soon as these words came out, Ye Xu knew that he was about to be abandoned!
"Master, I'm also a common man!" Ye Xu clung to the mountain wall beside him, although the mountain wall was as smooth as ever, he still wanted to make one last effort, his body leaned back, and begged for mercy: "Master, I said a long time ago that I don't have Huigen, you want to bring me over, since it has been proven, I beg you, let me go back!"
The old monk's eyes were firm and unwavering, but there was a little more apology on his face, his brows furrowed, and he whispered: "Amitabha! Please rest assured, now that you and I are here, no matter what happens next, the old monk can promise that even if all my foundations are destroyed, I will keep the donor safe!"
"You fart!" Ye Xu saw that the determination in the old monk's eyes turned into compassion, knowing that no matter how much he pleaded, the other party would not change his decision, and was just about to turn around and run away, but his arm was clamped by the old monk, and his real body became stiff. Seeing this, Ye Xu simply scolded. Before the scolding fell, the body was violently thrown away by the old monk, and flew straight to the long cyan river that rose to the sky, smashing many green mangs along the way, and after the miserable "fart!" ended, the sharp screams began to echo from the abyss.
The muscles on the old monk's face trembled, as if he had made a more difficult determination, his tall body was slightly rickety, and he slowly sat down cross-legged, the Buddha seal in his hand kept changing, and bursts of clear and solemn Zen chanting sounded at the edge of the abyss, from small to large, causing bursts of resonance between the mountain walls. Those floating green mangs were infected by the chanting and stood still. After a while, the lonely voice grew louder. Nearly transparent crystals fell from the surrounding cliffs, and as the chanting swirled over the abyss, a cloud of crystals gradually formed.
"Amitabha!" The old monk's face turned pale, his entire body was blurred a lot, and a small Buddha statue poured out from the top of his head, hovering in the crystal cloud, and a large number of crystals were sucked into it, and the illusory body immediately became larger, and it was much clearer. After all the crystals were absorbed, the little Buddha statue swooped down and rushed towards the place where Ye Xu disappeared.
Ye Xu didn't know how long he fell, and suddenly the red light in front of him was sheng, the temperature around him rose sharply, and the body that fell straight down was driven by the red light, although the speed slowed down, but it was also wrapped and began to rotate slowly.
Struggling, he found that the skin on his body began to appear a lot of wrinkles, and the red light around him was continuously baking his body, although the old monk had told him that it was only a soul body now, but the feeling was so clear, he didn't know what the soul body was made of, but the body in his eyes was drying up at an accelerated pace, and even his breath could feel the hot gas shuttling back and forth in his body, burning.
"You bastard! I won't let you go if I become a ghost!" Ye Xu had given up the senseless struggle and all hope at this moment, leaving only a deep hatred for the old monk. As the body fell, the hatred also deepened rapidly.
A violent vibration slowly spread to Ye Xu's brain, and he barely opened his dry eyes, the dazzling color was still the same, and the heat around him was even more violent. In the harsh friction sound, Ye Xu easily stood up. Looking at the body that has almost become a skeleton, I am so scared that I don't know what to do.
The earth was red, and every piece of sand and gravel was burned to a reddish color, and the orange-red in the center flickered like breath, and the temperature was so high that the space on the ground was slightly distorted. Looking into the distance in horror, Ye Xu found that this sea of crimson sand stretched all the way to the skyline, and the terrain in his line of sight was not even a little undulating. A huge crimson vortex stretched endlessly in the sky, still slowly rotating, and the giant mouth was slowly swallowing up the entire space.
"I rely on your grandma!" Ye Xu wanted to scold, but there was only a few "gurgling" bones colliding and a roar that did not resemble a human voice. Wisps of black smoke silently emerged from the sea of red sand under his feet, coiling up Ye Xu's bones with extreme care.