Chapter Twenty-Three: The Fire Disappears and the Wind Disperses
"Where? Where can I get out? Sun Yan shouted as he groped along the mountain wall.
The old man beside Zhou Cun dissuaded again: "Father, my lord! You can't do that, once we forcibly break the way home, there is a good chance that we will never have the best day. ”
Zhou Cun also seemed to be a little hesitant, but in the end he still shook his head, "If he can't break through, then he will stay here forever and suffer, how can I bear to ......"
Zhou Zheng waited for Sun Yan's signal, but Sun Yan calmed down, and the indomitable energy in his bones made him unwilling to give up. Now that you're sure you can go out, why not try again? At most, he suffered a little, but once he gave up, Zhou Jie would never be able to come back to life.
Why not try it again? Sun Yan did not jump, but silently re-embarked on Wangxiang Road. Swept back, walked again, swept back again, and continued to get up and walk...... Why not try again?
Thirty steps, fifty steps, eighty steps...... In the square, even many men shed tears. What do they see? In the image on the high platform, Sun Yan has long lost his human form, and his flesh and blood are scattered on the skeleton like strips of rags, and every step he takes, he will be blown off by the wind. Behind him, there was a long trail of blood, and the whole foot bone was blown apart, and he poked his shin bone on the ground to support him, and his hands and feet were gone, so he used his mandibles to point to the ground and move forward......
As Zhou Cun suddenly bowed to Sun Yan, who was still meandering forward like a snake with only a skull and spine left in the picture, everyone in the square bowed down with him. Finally, someone couldn't help crying, which also touched everyone's heartstrings, and the square sounded as if a funeral was being held, and the earth-shaking howl sounded.
Zhou Jie seemed to have dried up her tears, and she fell to her knees in a daze, staring at the skull that didn't know whether to use her teeth or what to do, and was still rolling towards the boundary monument little by little. She had never seen anyone like it, she had never even heard of it.
The other young women occasionally looked at Zhou Jie with deep envy, they didn't know that Sun Yan and Zhou Jie had only known each other for less than a day, and they all sighed in their hearts why they had never met a man like Sun Yan, if someone was willing to pay so much for them, then they would be like Zhou Jie, and they would not hesitate to go to the curtain call for him.
"I understand my father," the old man next to Zhou Cun thought thoughtfully, "you are right, he deserves what we do." ”
Zhou Cun nodded with a little relief, but said to himself as if he was distracted: "Below, it should be karma......
……
When Sun Yan felt that he was standing up like a human again, he was standing next to the boundary monument. Sun Yan had even forgotten how he had come here, as if the wind had blown away all his thoughts, leaving only faith.
Sun Yan wanted to look back at the road he had just finished, but all he could see was the mountain wall that followed. That's fine, you have to move forward to reach your destination. Wait, something seems wrong?
Soon Sun Yan found that he had changed back to the spirit state, and his body that had just been blown away by the wind had not recovered, and his spells and divine thoughts could not be used again. What can Sun Yan do? I had to continue to set foot on the last mile of Wangxiang Road.
"Fire?"
Sun Yan felt like he had jumped into the fire, and he didn't even have a way, and there were dancing flames all around him. The pain then struck, this was an indescribable pain, depressing and deep, so that Sun Yan, who had just come out of the sixth mile and had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief, couldn't wait to climb back immediately.
Sun Yan seen by outsiders was still an entity, but they were all a little strange, as soon as Sun Yan passed the seventh stone tablet, he began to spin in place and no longer walked forward.
"What's going on? Why don't you go? ”
"Karma Burns the Soul ......"
"Looking at the seventh mile of the hometown, I heard that even the ancestor didn't walk over. And once you give up, you will be sentenced to ten years in prison in the soul. ”
"Auntie, I finally know why you haven't let me go home."
……
Sun Yan couldn't bear it anymore, but he couldn't see anything here, let alone find a way out, only an endless sea of fire. If the Sixth Mile can still be supported by faith, then it seems that even people's beliefs can be burned here, in addition to pain, there is despair and fear.
I can't survive, I can't die, I probably mean Sun Yan's current state. He desperately wanted to shout, but he couldn't vent. He was so sick that he was about to ......
"Huh?"
Sun Yan was suddenly stunned, yes, he was stunned. The fire was still there, but suddenly he didn't feel the slightest pain, and it was warm and comfortable.
"What's going on?" Sun Yan didn't know how many times he had asked himself this today, he looked down at his body, and the body that his soul had transformed seemed to be flashing with golden light in the fire.
"You go," Zhou Cun, who had been staring at Sun Yan outside, suddenly ordered, "Go and invite Jie'er here." ”
The eldest son next to Zhou Cun was startled, no matter in his memories before and after death, he never remembered which family member his father used the word "please", and hurriedly flew off the stage.
Just now he wanted to scream in pain and depression, but now it is also a meaning, Sun Yan is so comfortable at the moment that he wants to shout out loudly. Although there is no body, the feeling of warmth is very real, as if a person who is about to freeze is placed in the warm sun, radiating cold from the dilated pores and infusing it with vitality.
"Look, he's ......"
"My God......"
The crowd was in a commotion again, and even Zhou Jie, who had just come to the stage, widened her eyes, and even the ancestor forgot to meet her.
There is no flame in the image, but Sun Yan's figure is very clear. On the mountain road, Sun Yan's body floated above the ground, constantly swimming forward, and that wandering posture and expression were no worse than swimming fish.
Ever since Sun Yan discovered that he could float in the invisible flames, he began to swim forward non-stop, changing his swimming style from time to time, and the feeling of stirring the flames made him more comfortable.
"Jie'er is exempt,"
On the high platform, Zhou Cun asked Zhou Jie to get up and asked, "How did you get acquainted with this Sun Yan?" Do you know where he came from? ”
Originally, when the souls of the inheritors of the past generations arrived here, someone went to inquire about the review to determine rewards and punishments, and Zhou Cun would never ask. At this moment, everyone was surprised to see that the ancestor actually asked Yu Zhou Jie in person.
"Oh, the three-eyed ape can be summoned, and you still want to open the passage to the netherworld through the soul explosion of the eight soul corpses?"
After listening to Zhou Jie's detailed report, Zhou Cun was silent for a moment and said, "So you and he only met for the first time yesterday?" ”
"Back to the ancestor, that's exactly the case!"
"Hmm...... Is it because of him that you committed the forbidden Thank-You Technique? ”
"Grandchild ......"
Zhou Cun further asked: "Then do you know that only when the family is in danger, or at the last moment of life, the technique of thanking guests is allowed, and those who violate the prohibition will be punished in the soul prison for a hundred years?" ”
"My grandson knows."
Zhou Cun nodded, raised his eyes and glanced at Sun Yan, who was still swimming there, and changed the topic: "If he can really cross the way home, are you willing to follow him back?" ”
"Grandson ......" Zhou Jie concluded again, putting Sun Yan aside, who doesn't want to live well? But she was afraid of breaking the family rules. If you can still live after using the Xie Ke technique, what do you think about the living clansmen and the dead inheritors.
"The grandson is all up to the ancestor!" After thinking about it, Zhou Jie decided to listen to Zhou Cun.
Zhou Cun was very satisfied with Zhou Jieneng's attitude of thinking about the clansmen, and said gently: "No matter what the result is, I am in charge to save you from the forbidden crime." You just stay on the stage and see how he makes it through. ”
Zhou Jie hurriedly knelt down and said, "Grandson, thank the ancestor!" ”
"Pak~"
Sun Yan was swimming in a hurry, and suddenly his body was empty, and he fell directly on the mountain road. Sun Yanxin said that this experience is too real, right? However, Sun Yan didn't have time to think about it, because after the flames disappeared, he had already seen a large stone tablet standing on the side of the road not far in front of him.
"Homesickness!"
Sun Yan read out the three big characters on the stone tablet, and it turned out that this homecoming road was composed of Wangxiang Road and Homesick Road. He hurriedly leaned over to look at the small print underneath.
"Three miles of homesickness,
One step at a time.
I advise you not to look back,
Don't hesitate to move quickly. ”
There is also - "On the homesick road, pedestrians must not turn back, otherwise they will automatically leave the homecoming road." ”
No one has walked the Wangxiang Road in the square, including Zhou, so no one has been here yet, and now they all follow Sun Yan to look at the stone stele carefully.
"I heard that it is impossible to walk through the Sanli Homesickness Road behind, and once it fails, the Wangxiang Road in front of it will be in vain, and you have to start all over again."
"Not necessarily. Let's just say this Sun Yan, at first, can you believe that he can finish the Wangxiang Road? But haven't they come here yet? ”
"Alas, you don't understand. Last time...... Don't say it, it's when Li Shimin was the emperor, I happened to hear the ancestor and the second ancestor talking about here, and the ancestor said that the homesick road is actually going to be a catastrophe. ”
"What !??"
"Hey, you're a little quiet......"
Sun Yan went through the karmic fire and disaster on Wangxiang Road, and he really couldn't think of anything more terrible in the world, so he strode across the stone monument and still wanted to embark on the homesick road.
He turned around a bush and found that there was a teleportation door in front of him, so he didn't stop and stepped in.