Chapter 692: Fountain of Wisdom and Giant of Wisdom
"Ah—it must be long, maybe it's a tree......," the old giant relented.
It took a lot of effort for Akon to pull out the thick stick, and it was indeed as thick as a tree five or six feet high. He gasped and lay on the ground, feeling his throat even more thirsty, "Hey, I said uncle, can you let me drink that spring water now?" Akon felt he should reward himself.
The old giant shook his head, "No, anyone who wants to drink this spring water will have to pay the price!" ”
"Then I'll help you pull out that big tree, doesn't that count?"
"You help me pull out that thorn, and I can only answer that question of yours......" The old giant looked unrecognizable.
"You-" Akon was so angry that he lay down again, he really didn't have the strength to speak, and said helplessly, "Well, you say, what kind of price? ”
The old giant rubbed his feet in satisfaction and said with a smile: "I remember a long time ago, the guy who drank this spring water last time paid the price of one right eye. Do you think you can afford that? ”
Akon was taken aback, drinking saliva also has to pay such a price, if you are hungry, you can't eat anything for half your life! But he thought for a moment, and said to the old giant: "If a man who is dying of thirst can save his life by drinking this sip of water, it will be worth the price of losing an eye." And I'm dying of thirst right now......"
"Would you lose an eye in exchange for drinking this spring water?" The old giant laughed, his eyes full of cunning wisdom.
Akon muttered, "For the sake of the tree I pulled out for you, can you make me choose which eye to lose?" ”
The old giant daxiao said: "Haha! See you pull out that thorn for me, and I'll let you choose which eye to lose! ”
"A word?"
"Never break your word!"
"Then you swear!"
The old giant was helpless, so he made an oath to the shijie tree, and the oath turned into a mysterious symbol and flew into the shijie tree. "That's it......"
Akon smiled, smiling like a weasel that had stolen a chicken, and he said, "I am willing to lose this eye...... After saying that, his smooth forehead opened an eye, which was the place where the puppet of the 'One-Eyed Mountain King' was accommodated!
"You! ......" The old giant trembled with anger when he saw the sudden appearance of the eye, he was known as the giant of wisdom, and he actually fell for this little man, this guy is even more evil and hateful than a goblin! But he had already made an inviolable oath to this shijie tree, and naturally he couldn't go back on it.
"You cunning and hateful human ......," the old giant's voice made the Great Tremor tremble at the ear.
Akon laughed, "It's time to make good on that promise!" ”
"Well, if you really want to drink the Fountain of Wisdom. I will tell you, drinking this spring with human power will make you gain wisdom and lose even more! As soon as the old giant stretched out his hand, he wiped it off Akon's forehead, and a large eyeball fell into his palm, "This is really an evil eye, like a ...... that fell from the hundred-eyed giant."
He snapped his fingers, and the spring water flowed to Akon's feet, as gentle as a lover's arm. Akon bowed his head and took a big gulp of the spring water, which seemed to melt directly into his throat, seep into his water-deficient body, and soon flowed all over his body. Not only did his body get replenished with water, as if the water flowed into his soul, wiping his soul, as if his soul eyes were more thorough!
Countless truths rose in my mind, and even the shijie tree in front of me seemed to become transparent. Its germination, growth, and support of the entire shijie are vividly visible. But Akon's soul was instantly submerged because of the innumerable emergence of knowledge and truth in this fountain of wisdom! He is lost in the universe of truth and cannot extricate himself!
The Wisdom Giant sneered, watching Akon stand as petrified as if he had drunk the Fountain of Wisdom, his eyes had lost focus, as if there were two nebulae spinning slowly!
"As a human being, you also want to try the fountain of wisdom, and you will be lost forever in this sea of truth!" The old giant said coldly, "Do you know who drank the Fountain of Wisdom last time? It was Odin, the king of the gods. With his divine power, he will have to pay the price of gouging out his right eye to be able to escape the terrible end of his soul being lost in the sea of truth! ”
Of course Akon couldn't hear it, the loss of the soul was even more terrifying than death. Because of the death of the body, the soul remains. But if you lose your soul, you're the walking dead.
The old giant glanced at the cane on the ground, picked it up, and muttered, "The staff of benevolence...... Many runes on the cane flew out, the old giant squinted his eyes, looked at those runes carefully, and found that there was one that he was very familiar with, "Rune runes?" It's really providential, Odin, the king of the gods, also obtained the rune of rune after drinking the fountain of wisdom, and then got the great liliang! ”
Among them, he picked up the thick thorn that tormented the soles of his feet, "The branches of the Shijie Tree, this is really a joke of the goddess of fate, Odin's lightning spear 'Kungunir' is not also made by the branches of the Shijie Tree, this strange human ......"
The old giant put the branch of the shijie tree together with the 'staff of benevolence', he waved his hand, and scattered the Taoist runes and Buddhist runes, leaving only the runes of Rune, the wooden stick and the cane were wrapped in the 'Rune Rune', fused together, and the new staff turned into a spear tip, and the Rune runes gathered on the tip of the spear, shining with dazzling brilliant starlight!
"You're lucky!" The old giant took the spear and put it in the hands of Akon, who was kneeling there in a daze, and the starlight spread throughout the spear, and even more rushed to Akon's hands......
The light traveled along Akon's hands, wrapping Akon's body, like a shining deity that made it impossible to look at. After a long time, the nebula in Akon's eyes turned into clear eyes again, but the flickering light seemed to penetrate people's hearts.
"It's so intoxicating—" Akon sighed as if he had spent infinite time in the sea of truth. Zuihou, there is a bright meteor rushing towards him from the infinite space, and waking himself up.
He looked down and saw the cane in his hand, as if it had changed, and it actually turned into the tip of a spear, and on the long hilt of the spear, there were mysterious golden wood grains, like the most simple and natural runes. On the tip of the starry spear, countless runes as fine as powder were like streamers, as if they were condensed from Rune's runes.
"This is ......" Akon looked at the old giant hesitantly, and found that his eyes were vast and distant, as if he was remembering something.
"Let's go...... Get out of here...... Go over there, the goddess of fate, and see what they have to say......" The old giant waved his hand, and the rhizome of the shijie tree separated a path, and in the distant sky, there was another root system of the shijie tree.
"Don't take the wrong path, if you go in the opposite direction, you will go to the land of the dead that you can never return to - the cold and helpless Niforheim, the land of fog ......"
Akon's heart was still ringing with the words of the old giant, and he set out again on his legs, 'the branches of the tree of shijie', and trekked through the boundless wilderness. Will the goddess of fate give her the right guidance?
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"At the other root of the Shijie Tree, the three goddesses Nolan are able to see the past, present, and future of everything. If I go, I have to ask if I will cultivate into a real human in the future! "The bookdemon seems to be very persistent.
Zhang Fan patted the book demon, "You don't have to ask them, I can tell you that cultivating as an adult, that's just the beginning, when you come out of the scene in the future, you will see that there are flies and dogs in this world." You may hate it, and miss the quiet days of the 'Confidential Archives'. ”
"Maybe......"
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Akon, who drank the fountain of wisdom, had a deep understanding of this shijie, and those mythical kingdoms were as distant and illusory as dreams. Akon suddenly remembered the Buddhist phrase that Zhang Fan always talked about: everything created by idealism is just the common karma of all sentient beings. He felt that this sentence summed up the giants, gnomes, elves, and kingdoms he passed through, and the intelligent creatures in them all had the same attachment as their kind. The stubbornness of the gnomes, the arrogance of the elves, the dullness of the giants......
"Things gather by like, and people are divided by groups." Akon laughed, "This is the so-called 'common karma'......" and this shijie tree is like a long river of history, connecting the past, the present and the future. Whether it is the once invincible giants, the gods who thought they were eternal, or the lowly dead, they all revolve around the present world.
So what are you looking for in such a pursuit? Even the goddesses of fate, they weave the web of other people's fate all day long, aren't their fates also in the net?!
Akon suddenly hahadaxiao got up, the fountain of wisdom, the goddess of fate, he felt ridiculous. This shijie tree is so vast that it is difficult to walk to it in the first place. And he is still trekking hard, isn't he begging for fish in the edge wood. Since he has trekked for a thousand years and has not died, what is the significance of this thousand years, it is just a step......
Thinking of this, Akon felt as if he was growing taller, as if this body was illusory, and the shijie tree was like an ordinary tree, although it was very huge, it was no longer terrifying.
It was only a few steps before Akon came to another rhizome of the Shijie Tree, from which a spring also flowed to nourish the mountain-like tree. Next to the root of the tree, three women were weaving a web, and the thread of fate was shadowy, one end was in the hands of the three women, and the other was connected to the center of the Shijie tree.
Three women, one always looking back at the past, as if there was always something calling to her. A young man is just right, and his eyes are always looking ahead. The youngest, veiled and masked, had a book in her hand, but she didn't look at it, and no one knew what was written in it, because even she hadn't read it herself.