Chapter 18: The Spirit Emperor's Will
“......”
Suddenly, there was silence in the small, dimly lit rock chamber.
Bai Xiaofei couldn't help but swallow his saliva, secretly turned his gaze behind him, skimming the body of the Spirit Emperor on the futon shaped like dead wood, he couldn't help but have a layer of fine sweat flowing down the back of his head, and couldn't help but beg secretly in his heart: "Old man, everyone is gone, and they won't come back......"
I stared at the body sitting quietly on the futon for a long time, but I never saw any vital signs of the body.
Bai Xiaofei breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Luo Fan and asked, "You just spoke?"
"No, I don't. ”
Looking at Bai Xiaofei, who was acting strangely, Luo Fan couldn't help but have a suspicious expression on his face, and replied lightly.
"Huh!?"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei's face was full of astonishment, and he saw that Luo Fan was looking at him with an inexplicable look, which made Bai Xiaofei also look suspicious.
Thinking back to the words he heard just now, Bai Xiaofei suddenly had an epiphany, and suddenly asked Luo Fan, "You just said that this is called the Gathering Spirit Bead?"
"Ah...... Be. ”
Seeing Bai Xiaofei's exaggerated expression, but he asked such a childish question, Luo Fan was even more puzzled, and even suspected that Bai Xiaofei might be abnormal in his heart.
"Then this spirit bead is used to gather spiritual wisdom?"
Hearing this, Luo Fan was also slightly stunned, and he didn't expect to suddenly ask such a thing.
"This ......" Luo Fan's slender fingers lightly swiped across his cheeks, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly woke up like from a dream, "Yes! It seems that there is a more obscure record that some strong people will keep their spiritual wisdom in it." ”
Bai Xiaofei's words reminded Luo Fan, but Luo Fan still showed a trace of doubt in Shui Ling's eyes: "How do you know?"
"Hmm......" Bai Xiaofei frowned slightly, and immediately made a bold inference: "Probably the mind of this Spirit Emperor is stored in this......
As he spoke, Bai Xiaofei's hand pointed to the suspended sphere in Luo Fan's hand, and there was a heavy color in his eyes.
Hearing this, Luo Fan also looked at the spirit gathering bead in his hand with a complicated expression.
"Give me ......"
Suddenly, Bai Xiaofei stretched out a hand and said lightly with a gloomy face.
Seeing this, Luo Fan was also slightly startled, although he didn't know what Bai Xiaofei was going to do, he still pushed his fingers lightly and sent the spirit bead to Bai Xiaofei.
I saw that Bai Xiaofei suddenly grabbed the spirit gathering bead flying from the air, his eyes became more and more solemn, and even revealed a faint murderous aura, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching a few times with anger......
However, Bai Xiaofei's next move made Luo Fan look disgraced.
"Old man, is it scary to hide inside?! If you don't come out again, I'll just smash your broken beads into powder!"
As he spoke, Bai Xiaofei suddenly raised the bead in his hand and wanted to fall towards the rocky ground.
Seeing this, Luo Fan's pair of curved eyebrows couldn't help but spread slightly, but it was too late to stop Bai Xiaofei's crazy move......
"Okay, okay, can't the old man come out......"
Suddenly, an old and frightened voice came from the gathering spirit bead.
Then, under the stunned gaze of the two, an old figure slowly floated out from the spirit bead.
I saw that this figure was less than half a foot long, and the lower half of its body was also floating illusory like a ghost.
"You little doll, I can't imagine that your temper is quite big......"
"Huh!"
Seeing this, Bai Xiaofei's face was also full of consternation, just now, he was naturally planning to try his luck, but he really didn't expect that a ghost-like body could come out of it.
Of course, the sudden appearance of a ghost should scare Bai Xiaofei a lot, but looking at this figure that is not much bigger than the spirit gathering bead in his hand, it is really about the same size as the figure in his home.
"Old man, you are ......"
As he spoke, Bai Xiaofei turned around and looked at the body on the futon.
After that, Bai Xiaofei's quick comparison, in addition to the size, that is, the aura revealed by the expressions of the two was a little different.
One sat on the futon with a simple and majestic face, and the other looked a little ...... in his own hands Some of them are old and improper......
"That's right!" The illusory old man in Bai Xiaofei's hand put his hands in front of his chest, and the illusory form under his feet swayed, revealing a majestic expression, "I am the Spirit Emperor Ginseng!"
As he spoke, the illusory old man straightened his back again, and the sudden silence around him seemed to tell him that his deterrent power had completely shocked the two juniors next to him.
However, the truth is......
Even Luo Fan was suspicious of this illusory old man: it seemed that he was really unreliable than Bai Xiaofei......
"Ahh
"Ahh
Immediately after, Bai Xiaofei and the old man sneezed almost at the same time.
"How long have you been here, and how many bacteria have grown on your body?"
Bai Xiaofei wiped his nose, deliberately lifted the old man's figure far away, and said with a disgusted face.
"What bacteria are not bacteria, the old man has been here for thousands of years, and he has never been sick......
Hearing this, the old man said unconvinced.
"Old man. ”
Suddenly, Luo Fan interrupted softly.
"Yo, this female doll still knows the rules. Hearing this, the old man turned around, exclaimed, and asked kindly, "Girl, is there anything wrong with you?"
Hearing this, Luo Fan's face was suddenly a little embarrassed, because he was usually easy to talk and easy to prick the other party's heart, so he asked cautiously: "That, old man, why is there a gap in momentum between you and the Spirit Emperor sitting there......
"Click!"
Bai Xiaofei seemed to suddenly hear something strange, and immediately asked, "Old man, what did you fall to the ground and break?"
Looking down, I saw the old man bending over and lying silently on Bai Xiaofei's palm, as if he had been hit by something, with a few beautiful black lines around his body.
"Grandpa, are you alright......" Luo Fan comforted with a sense of guilt.
"I've been in this spirit bead for so many years, I'm used to being alone, I finally met two little dolls to talk to me, change my style and make ......mistakes," he said, and the old man felt from his heart again, and cried sadly.
"Also...... There's really no Spirit Emperor's shelf......"
At this time, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan secretly sighed with some embarrassment.
"That's it, after waiting for so many years, it's finally ......," said the old man, straightening up again, "This little injury is nothing." ”
Looking at the old man's emotional changes, it was like taking a form, and now with a calm and breezy demeanor, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan couldn't help but feel a trace of embarrassment in the atmosphere.
"Then the old man is indeed the Spirit Emperor?" Luo Fan asked lightly.
"Exactly. ”
The old man's simple and majestic aura came faintly from this illusory and ethereal body.
"What are you waiting for, old man?"
Bai Xiaofei still asked with a casual attitude.
"Wait for someone. ”
"Who are you waiting for?"
"The one who is said to be able to pass through my barrier......"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan were both shocked, and couldn't help but show a stunned look on their faces.
"I wonder which of the two of you is a doll?"
As he spoke, the old man looked at the two stunned faces with a scrutinizing gaze and asked lightly.
"Is it this female doll, or is it this rude doll?"
"No, why does my name sound so special?" Bai Xiaofei couldn't help but complain weakly.
"Because, you were the one who passed through my barrier, didn't you?"
"Huh!?"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei was suddenly startled and sighed: "It turns out that the old man knows everything......"
"Haha, that's nature. ”
Hearing Bai Xiaofei's admiration, the old man also smiled faintly.
"That ......"
"How?"
"Then what are you pretending to be, old man, knowing that you are a consultant!"
Hearing this, the old man also smiled indifferently with a little embarrassment.
"Grandpa, what is your purpose for?"
Suddenly, Luo Fan blinked his puzzled eyes and asked directly.
"Ah, if you want to talk about this problem, it's a long ......"
In fact, no one remembers the truth of the earlier days, only a legend that has been handed down from the world. ”
"When a young man who can easily break through the Spirit Emperor level appears, this world can truly be redeemed. ”
"I'll go, who said this legend?" Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei couldn't help but feel a little nonsense when he heard it.
This is what has been handed down in the temple inscriptions. ”
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan were stunned, and they never thought that Bai Xiaofei could really ask a source with such a casual question.
"The old man was also a disciple of the temple, and the whole hall was convinced of this, and all the disciples who reached the level of the Spirit Emperor back then would be sent to every corner of the spirit world to find this person to appear. However, the brothers and sisters who were in the same school as the old man were just like the old man before his death, and they were still searching for the second half of their lives, and they were still searching for no results. But ......"
"I can't imagine that this person can meet the old man's remaining wisdom thousands of years after his death, hey...... It's really worth it......"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan were like outsiders, looking at the old man's self-emotion, a little embarrassed......
"Eh, old man, what can you do now that you have found it?" Bai Xiaofei said lightly with some unbearable interruption of the atmosphere.
"Although the old man can't take you there personally, as long as you go to the temple, this world will still be saved!"
"But, ah......"
Luo Fan couldn't bear to hit the old man, and said cautiously: "The temple, this force, I have only seen a few simple descriptions in ancient books, and now look, the temple may have collapsed......"
"Shenma!?"
Hearing this, the old man's mouth opened wider and wider, and his chin almost fell to the ground.
"Already...... Is it disintegrating......"
The old man's eyes revealed a deep sadness, and the surrounding atmosphere was silent for a long time.
Suddenly, the old man raised his head again and said lightly: "The temple has an unfathomable heritage, even if it has been disintegrated on the surface, there will inevitably be remaining forces hidden in the world......
Before the words fell, suddenly, the old man's ethereal form was a little more illusory compared to Fang Cai.
"Old man (master)!"
Seeing this, Bai Xiaofei and Luo Fan were both slightly surprised.
"It seems that the old man's wisdom will not last long. The only thing I can do is to give you a few treasures that the old man is carrying......"
As he spoke, the old man stretched out his slightly withered arm and waved it in the direction of the futon.
"I'll ......"
I saw that the old man's body shook slightly. Although it was already clear that the body on the other side did not have any intention of resurrecting the soul, it was really uncomfortable to watch a body that had lost its life move again.
The old man's arm controlling his body flipped left and right in the robe, and after a long time, he finally took out half a scroll of fragments, a magic crystal and a ...... An old tree root.
The old man also smiled embarrassedly and said, "I haven't turned it over for thousands of years, and I almost forgot where to put it......"
"This is ......" Bai Xiaofei looked at the three "treasures" that he took out of his robe, except for a glowing magic crystal that was useful, the other two were really ......
The old man had already seen the confusion in Bai Xiaofei's eyes, so he explained: "Maybe it's the opposite of what you see, the one in the middle glows with a wood-based magic crystal, although it is also very rare in this world, but compared to the other two things, it is worthless. ”
"Although this root looks no different from an ordinary tree root, as long as you exert enough force to reactivate it, even if the seven orifices bleed, as long as there is still one breath, it can bring you to life. ”
"As for this half-volume fragment, I have not yet been able to understand the meaning of his existence, but it was found in an even older coffin in the second half of my life's journey, and it is estimated to be of the highest value. ”
"More valuable than a tree root that can save lives?" Bai Xiaofei couldn't help but be a little suspicious when he looked at the well-made remnant picture of the animal skin that had not yet been written by the old man who had not yet written his last words......
"Okay, the old man has almost no time left, so go and take these three treasures. ”
As he spoke, the old man's body became more transparent, and only deep wrinkles could be faintly seen on his face.
"Old man......"
Seeing this, Bai Xiaofei also shouted nervously, but seeing the other party waving his arm, he finally stepped forward and held the old man's three gifts tightly in his hand.
Suddenly, the light from the rock crevice at the top of the rock chamber gradually became dim, and at the same time, it gave Bai Xiaofei a feeling like an electric shock.
"What's going on?"
Bai Xiaofei was also slightly startled by this, and immediately looked at Luo Fan with some nervousness.
As soon as the words fell, Luo Fan had already released the magic from the divine element, quietly sensing the changes in the energy outside the rock crevice.
"Oh no, it looks like the time of the eclipse has been advanced!"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei's face couldn't help but be filled with a nervous emotion.
"What? What are you going to do during the eclipse?"
Suddenly, the old man in Bai Xiaofei's hand, who was becoming more and more transparent, asked lightly.
So, Bai Xiaofei made a long story short and told the old man the purpose of his trip simply.
"Before the spirit of the covenant, there is a dual-line divine element...... Sure enough, you can't go wrong. As he spoke, the old man smiled indifferently.
"Old man, it's time to joke now!"
"Are you in a hurry?" a sly gaze gradually appeared on the old man's illusory face.
"Isn't the mountain you are talking about that can gather the energy of heaven and earth the same as the one on the top of the old man's head?"
"This is Qiluan Peak?" Hearing this, Luo Fan couldn't help but be slightly surprised. I didn't expect that through this underground rugged passage, I would arrive at Qiluan Peak in advance.
"That being the case, without further ado, it can only be done here. ”
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei also nodded slightly, and looked at the illusory form in his hand as if he was asking for the consent of the old man.
"Since you have come here, you are guests, and as a host, I cannot treat you badly. ”
As he spoke, the old man's form gradually floated into the air, suspended in front of Bai Xiaofei's face, stretched out his illusory arm, and gently touched Bai Xiaofei's eyebrows. Immediately, a strange force spread from Bai Xiaofei's eyebrows.
"Little doll, this is the last meeting gift from the old man, your meridians have been penetrated by me, which can make you twice as effective with half the effort when you are in the spirit of the contract......"
As he spoke, the old man's form gradually faded, and the spirit bead in Bai Xiaofei's hand also turned into a wisp of dust from top to bottom and slowly drifted away.
"Old man!"
Bai Xiaofei's heart trembled suddenly, and the pain like drilling his heart gradually spread. At the same time, a stream of tears that quietly hit him couldn't help but warm his eyes.
"Little doll, both of you have an unpredictable fate, and the spiritual world will depend on you in the future. ”
An old voice finally faded away with the dust and disappeared in this world......