"What's more terrifying than Chiyou?" At this moment, my heart was full of anxiety and uneasiness, and I truly understood that the ancestors of the Seven Gates had been passed down from generation to generation, sparing no expense of life and blood, and it was not only the corpse of Chiyou that was still under the river that I was guarding against, but also the things in that white light, which suddenly became the center and focus of everything.

"I can't tell." The old scholar shook his head and said, "Perhaps, the two pages of the book that Xuannu passed to Chi You back then were all used on this big river. ”

I felt regretful in my heart, but when I thought about it, I felt that there was nothing to regret, that kind of shocking secret, it was impossible for everyone to know. However, looking at the old pedant in front of me, I was even more curious about his identity. This man knew a lot, told me for the first time about things that no one had ever mentioned before, and more importantly, why would he tell me this?

"Can you tell me who you are?" I wanted to find out who the other person was, and he might not say it directly, but I had to ask.

The old scholar probably thought that I would ask him about his origin, paused, looked at the starlight in the sky, and said: "Xuanmei has a quiet nature, does not seek fame and fortune, she said, in this world, birth, old age, sickness and death, wind and clouds, mountains, rivers, birds and beasts, are all in nature, everything is false." Her Taoism is called the Natural Dao. ”

"Natural Dao, Natural Dao" I muttered silently, no wonder the old scholar knew so much about the past, he must be a member of this Xuannu Dao system.

When I asked this, the old pedant did not evade it, and bluntly admitted his origin. The identity is clear, and there is less estrangement between the conversations, and it is involved in the grievances and entanglements between the Seven Gates and the Sanctuary and the thirty-six side gates of the Great River.

The Taoist heirs of Xuannu have not been cut off for so many years, and they have always existed. But they generally don't care about the affairs of the world, and the affairs between the Seven Gates and the Holy Realm, the natural Dao knows better than anyone else, but they never get involved.

"Right now, it's time for us not to go out." The old scholar smiled bitterly, the old ghost said that the river is unstable, and within five years at most, there will be a legendary sky collapse coming, and the natural way can also sense this, the stakes are very high, they can no longer bear it, and they have quietly appeared on the big river beach.

I felt a burst of excitement in my heart, as soon as the people of the Natural Dao appeared, it was bound to affect the current trend, and it was likely that it would be a force that stood on the same line as the Seven Gates. But after talking about it for a few words, the old pedant's answer made me faintly feel a little cold, they don't make enemies of the Seven Gates, but they also don't want to be enemies of the Holy Realm, their purpose is just to use calm means to try their best to stop the development of the situation. That was the original intention of the natural way, and since the feathering of the Xuannu, the people of the sect have never violated it.

"We try our best to do what we have to do, the things between the Seven Gates and the Sanctuary are not something that the Natural Dao can completely control." The old pedant told the truth.

I was faintly disappointed, but on second thought, I didn't think it was necessary. The affairs of the seven gates, the seven doors of the people bear their own responsibility, I am no worse than others.

When I said this, I already fully understood the secret story of the ancients. I suddenly remembered what the red light in the well said when it attached to the corpse. It was strange and shocking to me, and now that my mind is calm, I feel more and more that there is something deep in it. As soon as I was distracted, the conversation with the old pedant was interrupted for a moment, and it was a coincidence that I was thinking about it, and the old pedant asked about it. He asked me if the white light under the heart in the well I saw behind the stone gate was vigorous, and if there were any signs of it rising to the sky. I answered truthfully, and then hesitated, "That heart said two words to me." ”

"Oh?" The old pedant looked very interested, and asked, "What did you say?" ”

It said" I thought nervously for a while, and felt that there was no need to hide this: "It said, Dayu, meet again." ”

The old pedant's expression suddenly became strange, and the gaze behind the glasses seemed to condense into a line, all projected straight at me. This kind of gaze makes me feel strange and uncomfortable. The thought that kept turning over and over in my head couldn't help but swell again.

Past life, this life, what is it exactly? If it weren't for the past life and this life, the heart in the well that was not yet dead would have said something like that? Chiyou was the only participant in that incident in ancient times, and no one knew better than him the origin of the incident and the interpersonal relationships involved.

The eyes of the old pedant wanted to see through the human heart at this moment, as if they understood at once what was in my mind. The two of us looked at each other in silence for a while, each thinking about what was on our minds, and after a while, the expression on the old pedant's face converged, and he shook his head vigorously and said, "No, absolutely not." ”

"What wouldn't?"

"You won't be the reincarnation of King Yu." The old pedant said with certainty: "Nine is the extreme number, King Yu is the emperor of the ancients, ten deaths and ten lives, it is already the limit, he has no chance of reincarnation." ”

In the words of the old pedant, King Yu is really dead, and it is impossible for him to be reincarnated as a human again. It's not that I don't believe what he says, but his words are diametrically opposed to what the heart of the well says, and I don't understand what it's all about. However, listening to what the old pedant said, I felt a little more down-to-earth in my heart, Dayu was reincarnated, who could afford such a heavy cleansing.

"You are definitely not the reincarnation of King Yu, but why did that heart say that?" The old pedant was also thinking, and looked at me as he thought, and there was always a very strange expression in his expression. I was a little hairy by him.

As he spoke, the old scholar took out a very small velvet cloth bag from his body, and the cloth bag was opened, and inside was a three-inch-high jade statue. I've been running back and forth with Maitreya for so long, pretending to be a second-tier dealer who collects antique goods, and I know some relevant knowledge. I can see that the jade material of this jade statue is very rare, and the carving is extremely exquisite.

The jade statue is a woman, the three-inch jade statue is lifelike, and the eyebrows are emotional. She was gentle and kind, and her face was like a shapeless cloud, natural and flawless.

As soon as the old scholar took out the jade statue and held it in front of me, his hand trembled, and his face changed. It was still late at night, and there was a bright starlight overhead, and my attention was all focused on the old pedant, and when I saw his hands trembling and changing color, I felt as if something had happened. Inadvertently, I glanced at it, and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be two crystal droplets of water dripping from the face of the jade statue.

"You are not the reincarnation of King Yu, but" the old scholar picked up the jade statue and hesitated for a long time before he said slowly: "But you have the breath of King Yu on you." ”

"With the breath of King Yu?" I don't know what he means, but if it weren't for that, the heart of the well wouldn't have mistaken me for Dayu.

"It's with the breath of King Yu, but I don't know where that breath comes from." The old scholar put the jade statue up and looked up at the sky.

I don't know if he really didn't know, or if he was vague enough to say it, but he stopped talking and moved away from the topic.

"I know the duties of your seven gates, what you have to do, I will not hinder you." The old pedant said: "The matter is urgent, and naturally Dao will do his best." At least two or three of the Jiuding left by King Yu have lost their effectiveness, and when all the Jiuding leave the river, the catastrophe may not be able to stop. ”

For Jiuding, I gradually have other ideas in my heart. The side door of the holy realm Jiuli is looking for Jiuding with all their might, and if they find one, they will fish out one, if Jiuding really can't keep it, then they have to go all out to collect the blood essence in the big ding, which is much stronger than falling into the hands of the other party.

"Where are you going?" I thought that it was the old pedant I met in the car, and he must have to go far away.

"You go, meeting is fate, separation is also fate, everything has a cause and effect, don't ask." The old pedant waved his hand and stopped the conversation. This is the purpose of the natural Taoist people, not to be enemies of others, and rarely to make friends with people, I understand him, I didn't say much, turned around and left.

After walking a few steps, I thought about the purpose of this westward journey, stopped again, turned around and asked, "Do you know the Mountain of Life and Death in the Holy Land?" ”

"I haven't been to the Holy Realm, nor have I been to the Mountain of Life and Death, but I know that it's Chiyou's clothed mound."

After Chi You was killed and suppressed by King Yu, the news spread that Jiuli in southern Xinjiang was the place where Chi You hibernated after his resurrection, and the holy area in the extreme west was his nest against King Yu. Chi You is brave and fierce, there are many subordinates, the news of his death came out, Jiuli and the Holy Land have carried out funerals, his true body was pressed under the big river, the Mountain of Life and Death of the Holy Land is a well-dressed mound, and it is also the ancestral land of the Holy Land, every once in a while, the people of the Holy Land will carry out a grand sacrifice in the Mountain of Life and Death.

"In the mountain of life and death, there is a tree, a very big tree, do you know that tree?" I asked, I was leaving, anyway, and took the opportunity to ask all these things.

"Big trees?" The old pedant was stunned, people who had never been to the Holy Realm could know that it was not easy for the Mountain of Life and Death to know, and the old pedant did not know about the tree in the picture.

The old pedant slowly disappeared into the night, and I turned my head and looked far away to the west. My maternal great-grandmother said that the tree in the Mountain of Life and Death is rumored to have been planted by Chi You himself, what does it mean to be a tree? The old ghost regarded this matter as more important than anything else, and when he woke up for a while, the only thing he could express was to let me rush to the mountain of life and death immediately. Although he didn't have the opportunity to say more, I knew very well that the tree must have a very important meaning.

I can't guess anything now, but I believe that when I set foot on the Sanctuary and find the Mountain of Life and Death, everything may reveal the mystery.