Chapter Twenty-Five: The Barren Plains
On a late autumn morning, a round of morning sun appeared in the eastern sky, and everything on the earth seemed to be covered with a layer of thriving vitality.
The hazy gold sprinkled on Bian Yao's face, bringing a trace of warmth.
There was a "squeak" and the door to the cabin was pushed open.
He Qingyin strode to the bow of the boat, and saw Bian Yao lying down at a glance. The girl frowned slightly, pursed her lips and moved to sit down beside him.
"Why did you run outside to sleep?" He Qingyin asked curiously.
"It's fun outside, and you can see the moon. Bian Yao turned around and sat up, stretched his waist, and replied with a smile.
"Hungry, aren't you?" Bian Yao said as he took out a few "Bixiang Fruits" from the space bag and handed them to He Qingyin, then turned his head to glance at the night corpse leaning against the bulkhead, only to see that he was closing his eyes and looking like he was asleep, but the corners of his mouth hooked a strange smile.
Bian Yao rolled his eyes at him, threw a few spirit fruits into his mouth, chewed and swallowed them indiscriminately, got up and bent down into the cabin.
"Do you still want to sleep?" He Qingyin followed behind and returned to the cabin, and when he saw Bian Yao sitting on the couch, he couldn't help but ask.
"It's not sleeping, I'm going to practice a very interesting trick next, but it's a bit troublesome. You go and close the hatch so that the wind doesn't blow in. Bian Yao smiled mysteriously at He Qingyin and said.
"It doesn't matter if I watch you cultivate?" He Qingyin turned around and closed the door of the cabin, turned around and asked Bian Yao.
"As long as you don't get scared, I'm going to summon the 'soul'!" Bian Yao said with a smile on his face.
"I'm not afraid of your 'soul'!" He Qingyin blinked his eyes and replied resolutely.
"Hehe~ Actually, the 'soul' looks the same as me, that is, it will float in the air. Just sit there and watch, and just close the hatch when you want to go out. As he spoke, Bian Yao crossed his legs and closed his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, the "illusory body" that looked the same as Bian Yao's appearance appeared in the cabin, and then Bian Yao's "soul" appeared out of thin air at the place where the "illusory body" stopped. But in the blink of an eye, the "illusory body" disappeared, and the "soul" also drilled back into Bian Yao's body.
He Qingyin, who was sitting on the couch opposite, his eyes were round, and his face showed surprise.
Bian Yao tried dozens of times in a row, and the results were the same as last night, the "illusory body" and "soul" always failed to fuse. The pause between this call and the one after the other could not be shortened.
In this regard, Bian Yao didn't care about it, and he was not in a hurry. From the mouth of the night corpse, I already knew that this "dream clone" was not so easy to cultivate. Now it's just a matter of practice, thinking, and figuring out a way to shorten the time between summons.
In the next two days, Bian Yao rarely left the cabin, and most of the time he sat on the couch in the cabin to practice fusion, or he thought about it repeatedly and looked for a breakthrough.
Once a person concentrates, time flies.
This morning, Bian Yao was lying on the couch thinking hard, when the door of the cabin was suddenly pushed open, and the night corpse reached out and knocked on the cabin door a few times.
"Everyone, the ship is going to dock~" The middle-aged man standing at the stern of the boat suddenly opened his voice and shouted, his voice full of joy.
After Bian Yao and He Qingyin heard this, they glanced at each other, got up from the couch and ran towards the outside of the cabin.
"Haha~" Bian Yao stood on the bow of the boat and smiled happily.
What caught my eye was a small village, similar to the one I saw a few days ago, and the ferry was enclosed in the village. There were seven or eight boats parked on the banks of the river, and in some of them there were still a few figures standing on them, and the voices of speech could be faintly heard, as if they were about to leave the boat.
Without much effort, the boat slowly approached the shore. When there were still three zhang away, Bian Yao couldn't wait to rush forward, jumped up and jumped to the shore, and then turned around, waved and smiled at He Qingyin at the bow of the boat.
After the boat docked on the shore, the night corpse paid the middle-aged man fifty "green fruits" as a reward. Originally, only thirty pieces were enough, but the night corpse gave twenty more, and the happy boatman couldn't help but thank him.
Under the golden morning sun, the group of three people stepped on the land again, which can be regarded as entering the boundary of the imperial city. The night corpse walked ahead and led the two out of the stockade directly.
What comes into view is a small barren plain. When you look at it, it seems that there is nothing but wild grass and trees.
The three of them walked in the wilderness until noon, and on the way, they saw many ruined houses and broken walls, but they were stunned that they did not meet a single living person.
"What the hell is this place? I can't see anyone. Bian Yao walked and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"It used to be a nice place, and it used to be inhabited by many people, but it was surrounded by mountains, like a piece of meat swallowed in your mouth. I don't know when this plain began to be attacked by strange beasts in the mountains and forests, especially in the beginning of spring and winter, when a large number of strange beasts came to feed. Due to the terrain that could not be effectively resisted and defended, the inhabitants suffered heavy casualties, and more and more people could not bear the panic and moved away from the place one after another, and the uninhabited plains became barren. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer strange beasts attacking this place, but this originally bustling land has long since become a wasteland. The night corpse held the wine gourd in his hand, and after saying these words, his face couldn't help but show a little bitterness.
"It's so pitiful!" He Qingyin couldn't help but whisper after listening.
Bian Yao let out a sigh, shook his head and didn't speak, but threw a spirit fruit into his mouth and chewed it.
"Have you come up with a solution to the fusion of the 'Dream Clones'?" the Night Corpse suddenly asked with a smile.
"Not yet, if only the heart and the brain were connected! Bian Yao frowned and sighed.
"Hey~ Not bad! I thought of the idea by you, in fact, the mind and the heart are faintly connected, and you need to open up the hidden path. Have you ever felt as if you were being teased when you saw or heard, or even thought of something or something? If so, it was your mind and heart that were sensing. The Night Corpse explained, his face beaming.
"Really? huh...... It seems like there was a situation like you said, but I don't remember much. But how can we penetrate the passage between the mind and the heart?" Bian Yao raised his eyebrows and thought about it seriously.
"It's actually very simple to say, experience more exciting things, and that invisible channel will naturally break through. That's all there for now, think about it. The Night Corpse sneered.
When the sun was about to set, the three of them walked in front of a river, there were many dilapidated houses on both sides of the river, and the nearby vegetation was also very dense, and there were many pheasants and wild ducks hiding in it.
After finding a broken wall that could block the wind, and after the three of them settled down, the night corpse suggested getting some game to taste, so Bian Yaoxing hurriedly rushed into the grass and wood pile to catch the pheasant.
The night covered the wasteland, and Bian Yao set up a bonfire and happily roasted pheasants under the guidance of the night corpse. It didn't take half an hour, the meat was fragrant, Bian Yao took out some seasonings from the space bag and spread them evenly.
"How long will it take to get out of this wasteland?" asked Haruka, munching on the oily chicken legs.
"At the current pace, it will take about three or four days to go in a straight line, depending on how fast you are. The Night Corpse took a sip of wine and replied with a smile.
"Then I'll run faster tomorrow, you just take Xiao Yin with you. Bian Yao bit down a piece of chicken and said nonchalantly.
In winter, after nightfall, the north wind howls in the wasteland.
After dinner, the night corpses sat up by the fire. Bian Yao took out a blanket and wrapped it in He Qingyin, and then leaned against the wall by himself, quietly thinking about the fusion of the "dream clone".
"Since the mind and the heart are faintly connected, then 'the soul moves at will' can become 'the soul moves at will', so that the time to switch summons is also saved. Now the question is how to make them transparent. What the hell is the old ghost talking about experiencing excitement?"
After a long night, Bian Yao was entangled in some questions and fell into hard thought.