Looking at the watch in his hand, four hours had passed, and although it was usually said that the downhill road would be faster than the uphill one, this speed was not valid for the few of them.

At first, with an attitude of adventure and the unknown, they did not walk fast when they came down this staircase, on the contrary, they almost ran when they returned. At this time, the time is about six o'clock, and according to this season, the sky should have already dawned.

Looking up at the sky, there is not a single light projected from the top, it is like a permanently dark well, and the manhole cover is opened by your own hand, and then tightly closed, or simply, the wellhead of the well has disappeared.

What a desperate result this is, perhaps Cha Wenbin has already seen it, so he chose another "road", an unknown road, and even a path that may kill him directly.

He dares to jump, not because he is not afraid of death, but because he understands. With the skills of that "old knife", how could he be easily pushed down by Chaozi. That kind of wild laughter is ridicule, a kind of naked contempt, so he decided to give it a go and go with the man, since he came in, how sure are he that he plans to go back alive?

Just like the steps leading to hell, the reason why man is cycled to death by this seemingly simple step is because man is always going back and forth on the steps, because there is only this seemingly road under his feet, and he never thinks about what it would be like to leave this road. Because in front of people, if there is a visible road, people will not choose other roads, this is like a fire in a high-rise building, only when the fire is forced to have no way to escape, those who seem to be timid on weekdays will choose to jump off the building to escape, although people know that the chance of jumping from this building to survive is also very slim, but he will still choose.

In this desperate situation, people choose another path because they have no way out. If this seemingly walkable path but never leads to it has always existed, people will keep walking, going all the way until they die.

Looking back, the road is still there, but this road is no longer the original road, just like you can't cross the same river twice in the world, and the road back is still not the road you wanted to walk.

A simple and complex staircase, a space that loops infinitely to death, a seemingly simple, but unbreakable path, this is what the man who can be called the "Ghost Emperor" built for the world.

Is hell and hell the most terrible? Are the oil pots and knife mountains the most insurmountable?

No, in the end, it is only oneself that one cannot defeat. Understand this truth, what steps, what darkness is not so important. As long as you want, there is a way, and as long as you want, there is also a way.

The Tao is the sky, the Tao is the earth, the Tao is natural, all things are the Tao, and all can become the Tao, but if people have been stuck to their feet, how can they truly become Taoist!

So, jumping out of this cycle seems to be the only way out!

Woke up.

There was silence in the surrounding light, and the hazy white light was a little dazzling. Like the top of the dance hall that was just popular in that era, it is a pity that people like Cha Wenbin have never been to such an occasion.

Cha Wenbin staggered to his feet, his body hurt a little, and he shouldn't have broken his muscles and bones. When I looked up, there was a white expanse of stones the size of goose eggs, glowing white.

"Pearl of the Night?" He looked at this place with some disbelief, this is a precious stone, that is, fluorescent stone. In the past, the Night Pearl was a priceless treasure, but there seem to be countless Night Pearls here, which have been spreading far away.

Looking up again, he couldn't find the direction in which he had fallen, it seemed that this was a relatively closed space, and somehow, he came here.

There are huge stone pillars one after the other standing symmetrically on top of the vaults on both sides.

It's really a somewhat magnificent underground palace, and the people who can build this palace can't be described as powerful. Even the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty may not be able to build his imperial tomb into such a state. Because the fluorescent stones in the sky are not simply used for decorative lighting, they are arranged in an orderly and complex manner according to the stars in the sky.

On each stone pillar, there is a dragon hovering upward, sometimes flamboyant, sometimes angry, each representing a different emotion. These dragons are like the guardians of this palace.

At his feet, he was spliced and paved with flat stones, and a thick layer of ash on top of it announced to Cha Wenbin that history had forgotten this place.

The fluorescent stone on the top of the head began to spread from here, so in people's subconscious, they would want to go forward and take a look, and Cha Wenbin was no exception.

The things around him were still there, and after trying, it was okay that he could still walk, so he began to walk inside.

Somehow, walking in this hall, Cha Wenbin seemed to have a sense of familiarity, he always felt that he had been here, although he was just a little Taoist priest born in the countryside, but he felt so familiar. This familiarity was soon recognized, as he began to see something more familiar: the murals!

Mural painting is the only simple and intuitive way for the ancients to convey information to future generations.

Standing in front of this mural, Cha Wenbin stood still.

The portrait depicts a man with a sword on his back, followed by a three-legged toad, and in front of him is a huge coffin-like thing, in front of which he stands.

If this is a coincidence, then Cha Wenbin can clearly feel that the man in the painting is himself, because this man is still carrying a bag, and the bag has been carved with a little gossip by a clever craftsman.

Today's Cha Wenbin, in order to facilitate the mountain, he did not wear a Taoist robe, but a simple casual clothes, and it was this dress that was also almost identical to the person in the painting. It can be said that there were no photos in that era, and if there were, then this picture, except for the three-legged toad, is the same as the current Cha Wenbin, as if it is portrayed in his photos today.

This discovery is no less terrifying than when we open a tomb thousands of years ago, only to find that the tomb is hung with a picture of ourselves. Therefore, Cha Wenbin pinched his arm fiercely, and the pain and redness told him that this was not a dream, it was real.

In this empty hall, apart from himself and the little tadpole, he couldn't feel the third living creature for the time being, and he wondered, where did the "old knife" go?

Because the ashes on the ground are thick enough, people will leave footprints when they step on it, and soon, he found such a row of footprints on the other side, and the direction of the toes is towards the inside, so Cha Wenbin quickly decided to continue along this series of footprints, and the things that person was carrying must be what he really wanted to find.

This road is very long, Cha Wenbin thought, if this was really built by the Ghost Emperor Tubo, then he must have found all the stones that could shine all over the world at that time, because there were too many fluorescent stones here, so many that they were incredible. There is a miserable white color everywhere, and this kind of white makes people feel a little infiltrated.

After walking about 300 meters, a huge stone door began to appear in front of me, which was open and not closed. Standing on the road only 20 meters away from the gate, Cha Wenbin found something unusual, there were "people" in this gate!

Not just one person, but a lot of people!

Some people wear purple and black shrouds, and some people wear ordinary clothes, these people, there are boyfriends and women, old and young, and some are just children. These people came from nowhere, their eyes were misty, and they appeared out of thin air at this gate, and then jumped in one by one.

What kind of person is Cha Wenbin, will he not know that these are not "people", but souls? But will he be afraid of souls? No, so he decided to go inside and have a look.

I just wanted to move my steps, but I felt that someone was patted on my shoulder, Cha Wenbin knew that in this kind of place, the probability of people appearing was extremely low, so the seven-star sword "poof" out of the sheath, and turned his head to prepare for this blow, but found that standing behind him was a person who was too familiar and too familiar with him.

Looking at that face, the five-flavor bottle in Cha Wenbin's heart seemed to have been knocked over, he felt that his eyes were wet, and he muttered: "Master! ”

The old man looked at his disciple with some kindness, and shook his head at him, meaning not to go in.

Where does Cha Wenbin care so much, he still has too many things to ask him, and quickly wiped his tears, wanting to catch this crazy Taoist priest who gave the order to his aunt back then to ask what happened, but found that he was now empty now, where are there still people