Chapter 8: Unintelligible Prophecy

After a day of tossing and turning, Akasu was already exhausted to death, and the bruises he had stumbled upon when he entered the meditation place began to ache faintly. Sitting on the bearskin stone platform, before he knew it, Akasu fell asleep.

In his dream, Akasu saw the tall Temple of Time begin to collapse, and beneath it was a boundless infernal flame. A long serpent, thicker than a stone pillar, rolled in the flames, and finally the long snake bit its tail and devoured its body. And he stood on top of a hill with his sword in hand, and looked at the valley full of bloody corpses, the corpses of mages, warriors, wyverns, giants, and various creatures that he could not name. Suddenly, Akasu saw a very familiar face in the corpse, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be his friend Rukes. Suddenly Akasu woke up from his dream, only to feel sweat all over his body, and only the cool air of the night slowly calmed his chaotic heart.

Akasu got up and took a big gulp of water bladder. The night in the meditation land is quieter than that of the snowy mountain city, and even the waterfall cascading down next to it does not make a sound. It wasn't dark in the stone chamber, and a little starlight filtered through the crystal set above the stone chamber. At this time, Akasu did not feel a little sleepy, and walked out of the stone room and sat quietly on the platform outside the house. Moonlight and starlight shone over a pool of water in front of you, the breeze blows, the fish move lightly, and the water ripples. Akasu thought about how wonderful all this was, I am afraid that the legendary fairyland should be like this.

An idea suddenly came to me, if he was not the future priest of the Time Kingdom, if he was not about to face the test of the Whip of Death, if he could freely arrange his future, then he would definitely choose to live here for a long time. Although there is no warmth of friends and no company of Master here, there is a quiet place of its own and a life of its own.

When Akasu woke up again, it was already the next morning. The sun shone warmly on Akasu's face, like a mother's kiss in a dream. After waking up, Akasu fetched water in the waterhole and washed up, and decided to clean the stone room first, after all, he would be living here for the next forty months. Akasu recited the Wind Spell, and small whirlwinds flew into the room. About half a pillar of incense, the entire stone room was cleaned dry and quiet.

Then it's time to learn the art of prophecy, and thinking of this, Akasu happily walked into the stone room. Just as Akasu entered the stone chamber, he vaguely felt that something was watching him in the waterhole, and Akasu quickly looked back at the waterhole, but found nothing unusual. The breeze gently stirred the waterhole, leaving ripples in its wake. Akasu thought that maybe he was a little too sensitive after meeting yesterday's uninvited guest.

The master said that he should let Akasu learn the power of heaven and earth in prophecy first, and Akasu thought that Master's arrangement should be reasonable. Akasu will soon be tested by the Whip of Death, and the spells of the power of heaven and earth are the fastest to learn.

Akasu began to read the words engraved on the stone wall carefully, only to see the beginning of "Heaven and Earth" written, "The world is infinite, Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to eight forces, and eight forces open heaven and earth." Heaven and earth feed all things, all things have men and women, men and women become husbands and wives, husbands and wives give birth to fathers and sons, fathers and sons descend kings and ministers, and kings and ministers become up and down." Akasu felt that such a long record at the beginning seemed to be talking about a kind of inheritance relationship between heaven and earth, and it had nothing to do with spells. How can it be different from the master's statement that the power of heaven and earth is similar to the mage's spell? Maybe the use of the spell is recorded later, Akasu thought and continued to look back.

"Without the origin of the extreme, all things are born and destroyed. Tai Chi is mutually reinforcing, and yin and yang are suitable. Light and darkness live and die together, wind, fire, thunder and water are the same. Successively, the distance is generally the same. "I'm afraid this passage is about the eight energies of heaven and earth that Master once said, light, darkness, life, death, fierce wind, divine fire, heavenly thunder, and heavy water. But Akasu still didn't see any explanation of the spell. I saw that it was written on the back, "The middle of the day is bright, and the moon is eclipsed." Heaven and earth are empty, and the news is in time. "Bright is the Heavenly Father, the dark is the Mother Earth, the life is the beauty, the death is the forgetting of suffering, the fire is the armor, the thunder is the soldier, the wind is restless, and the water is hidden." Akasu was a little overwhelmed by this, and really didn't understand what these prophetic words had to do with spells. The master let himself comprehend here alone, and Akasu thought that forty months would be forty years, and he might not have any comprehension.

Looking at the words recorded in these heavenly languages, Akasu was a little disappointed.