Chapter Seventy-Six: Phoenix Vermilion
The foot that slashed into the lava emitted a puff of green smoke when it touched the bubbling magma bubble. There are not a few pieces of flesh left on Chopping Yu's feet, only the soles of the feet are still intact. The flesh on the soles of his feet melted instantly, and when he stepped on it, only bare bones remained. The bones were slowly softening, melting layer by layer, becoming thinner and thinner—but the jade didn't fall.
The lava was just submerged in his thighs and stepped on the ground. The ground was like a piece of cold ice, seeping out the coldness of the forest, and spreading through the remnants of the leg bones of the jade, all over the body. This coldness kept Chopyu's leg bones from dissolving, maintained Chopyu's keen senses, and kept him completely and truly felt, the pain that is unique in this world.
Chopping jade is moving forward in this purgatory of "ice and fire".
The "fire of detachment" on the four walls swallowed, and the flesh and skin on the body of the jade that was still bleeding quickly condensed, then turned black, and then burned. Chopping Jade had completely turned into a burning man, dropping a clump or two of burning flesh from time to time.
Those two protruding eyeballs finally became hotter and hotter in the heat, hotter and hotter, and then, like an expanding water ball, burst open in an instant. The scattered residual liquid was evaporated by the high temperature before it could fall to the ground.
By feeling, this fire man in the purgatory "Nirvana Gate", this remnant body that has completely lost its vitality, this will supported by the power of hatred, is still moving, moving slowly towards the light ahead.
He did not stop, he did not fall, all the pain, all the bones, all the burning, were clearly presented to the senses. It is definitely not a pain that one person can bear, and there is absolutely no living thing in the world that can walk in such a "purgatory".
Chopping Jade is no longer a living entity, and he is no longer a person. Regardless of the outcome, Chopping Jade is no longer a person.
At this moment, the scorched jade can no longer find any signs of a human on his body, except for the dragon-shaped steel lock on his wrist, which still shines with a faint blood.
This blood color seems to be the fire of life that slashes jade.
Finally reaching the end of the "Nirvana Gate", Chopping Jade was unable to lift his legs, which were only white bones, and walked out of the lava. He finally fell, on the black, cold ground in front of him.
At the place where Chopyu fell, there was some white powder, scattered on the ground in the form of a human. That is also the loser who came to this trial among the ancestors of the slashing family, but unfortunately the slashing jade is invisible.
At this time, the lower half of the body is full of white bones, and the upper body is already charred black, like a charcoal stick. Although he reached the end of the "Nirvana Gate", Chopping Yu finally fell, and in a few years, his remnants would be like the ancestors of the Chopping family next to him, turning into wisps of ashes and scattered in this isolated "purgatory".
The dragon-shaped steel lock on the wrist of the slashing jade was also gradually losing its blood color, beginning to fade and fade, and finally extinguished, like a faint candle in the cold wind, losing all signs of life.
"Hey......" A heavy sigh came from the depths of the darkness, and the crisp voice sounded again, "It seems that your hatred is still not deep enough, you still can't pass this level after all." Could it be that I still can't wait for the slashing family who is qualified to become the emperor of the people?"
After a long silence, the Chopping Jade on the ground remained motionless without the slightest change, and the person who was speaking in the shadows finally lost hope and confidence in the Chopping Jade, and muttered: "Doesn't it mean that there will definitely be an outstanding descendant of the Chopping Family, who can go through this test, pass through the 'line of muscles and bones', cross the 'worm spirit quagmire', walk through the 'Gate of Nirvana', and taste the suffering of 'purgatory'......, and revive the glory of the Chopa Family? Hey, my Suzaku wants to see the light of day again, but it seems hopeless. ”
The "fire of ambiguity" was still spitting, the lava was still churning, and the whole world was still, as if nothing had happened, had not begun, and had never ended.
"You said your name was Suzaku, right? An unusually cold voice came from the corpse on the ground, "You are one of the four divine beasts that guard the secrets of the human race, the Vermilion Bird of the Phoenix Clan, right?"
"You...... Are you speaking with your soul?" Suzaku's shock could be felt directly in his tone, "You're not dead yet?"
"How dare you die if you haven't attained nirvana yet?" Chopping Jade's hand began to move. Strictly speaking, it can't be called a hand, it's just a blackened dry bone. The bone-like hand shook slightly, then slowly groped forward, and when it straightened, it began to clasp into the dark and cold soil, and then contracted its arm, and the whole body moved forward about half a foot.
Chopping Jade is crawling forward.
"How is this possible?" Suzaku's shock also revealed a hint of surprise, "You obviously have no signs of life, your heart is not beating at all, every cell of you is dead, how can you still move?"
"My body is dead, and my soul is dead. Chopping Jade's voice was unusually cold, it was by no means a human voice, it was never a voice that any body organ could make, "But my hatred is still there." When he said this, Chopyu advanced another foot.
"So you can't read my mind. Chopping Jade continued to crawl forward, continuing, "Because I'm long dead." ”
"So?" said Suzaku in the shadows, interested, "This is the first time I've encountered such a situation. Tell me, how did you die?"
"You also said that the crack in the mountain wall is called the 'line of muscles and bones', and no mortal can pass through the 'line of bones and bones' alive. Chopping Yu's unusually cold voice, combined with the slowly squirming body on the ground, made people feel indescribably weird, "There are many protruding rocks in the 'line of muscles and bones', all of which are as sharp as blades, and my body has already died in the 'line of muscles and bones'. ”
Suzaku suddenly said with a sense of realization: "So, it is your soul that supports you to enter the 'worm spirit quagmire'?"
"'Insect Spirit Quagmire' is a game of ten thousand insects devouring souls. Entering the 'worm spirit quagmire', naturally it can only be the soul. Chopping Jade has climbed out several feet away, but the darkness is still far away, "Only pure souls are qualified to receive the baptism of ten thousand insects." My soul was also gnawed away in that 'worm spirit quagmire'. ”
"How can such a thing happen?" Suzaku knew the names of these levels, but didn't seem to know what they were actually used for, "So, I'm curious, since the body and soul are dead, what are you talking in now?"
Like a scorched, skinned worm, still slowly wriggling, his voice that seemed to come from hell said coldly: "I am hatred now, and I am speaking with hatred. ”
Silence, Suzaku was silent. Because of the words of the jade, Suzaku couldn't understand it.
The scorched bones that Chopping Jade buckled into the dirt were getting deeper and deeper, and the speed at which his body was moving forward seemed to be getting slower and slower, but he didn't stop, and he couldn't stop.
"In other words, I am dead in body now, my soul is gone, I am only hatred, I am now a mass of resentment. At this point, Cho Yu said extremely sad and angry, as if his whole body was trembling. But Suzaku knew that the corpses crawling on the ground would not even have the strength to tremble.
"The body dies in the 'line of muscles and bones', the soul is scattered in the 'worm spirit quagmire', and the remaining hatred steps into the 'gate of nirvana', and the 'gate of nirvana' does not extinguish my hatred, so I am hatred nirvana, and when I am reborn, this world will all turn into hatred. After saying this, the scorched bones of the jade scorched and touched a stone door.
"Nirvana with hatred is reborn as hatred...... Nirvana with hatred is reborn as hatred...... With hatred nirvana, he will be reborn as hatred......" Suzaku kept repeating this sentence, as if there was an extremely important secret hidden in this sentence.
In Suzaku's muttering, Cho Yu had already climbed the stone gate and stood up staggeringly. Suzaku was still intoxicated by the Zen machine of that sentence, savoring it, chewing quietly, and falling into a state of meditation. But this taste, it seems that there is always something missing, and Suzaku always misses the essentials, because he falls deeper.
Chopyu finally stood up, rubbing her hand against the stone door. He rubbed very slowly, lest he miss a single slight bump in the stone door......
"No, even if you have hatred, you have lost the vessel of hatred—you don't even have life and soul, where is your hatred?" Suzaku's voice became eager, as if grasping a key, "Is it ......?"
Chopping Jade had already groped for a small hole in the stone door, and the dragon-shaped steel lock on the scorched bones was like a wolf smelling blood, swimming from Chopping Yu's scorched wrist to the stone wall, and drilling into it along the small hole.
With a loud roar, the stone gate opened, and a strong light shot out from inside the stone gate, making it impossible to open one's eyes—even though the jade was no longer eyeless.
Inside the stone gate, there is a huge circular space, the entire ground is burning, and the flames more than a foot high are constantly swallowing, illuminating the entire space like day under the scorching sun.
This flame is actually transparent.
Directly opposite the jade chopping, a legendary divine bird appeared - the phoenix.
This huge phoenix has a brilliant and dazzling phoenix tail, and the feathers all over its body are like flowing bright pictures, a piece of golden light, shaking people can't open their eyes.
At this time, the dragon-shaped steel lock, which had lost its blood, swam back to the wrist of the slashing jade.
"Could it be that the vessel of hatred is this evil dragon with great sins?" said the golden phoenix, looking at the jade slashing across the sea of fire, and said with a smile, "The body and soul can be lost, but all the hatred is placed on this evil dragon." The blood-colored red light on the dragon's body just now is your hatred. This evil dragon helps you bring hatred to the other side of the 'Nirvana Gate', and then injects hatred into your body, so it will fade and fade. The power that sustains you in climbing here is the power of hatred that the dragon has helped you to bloom - with hatred nirvana, you will be reborn as hatred. Nirvana with hatred is reborn as hatred...... Hahaha...... My Suzaku understood, my Suzaku has been waiting here for thousands of years, and sure enough, I didn't wait in vain, I understood everything. ”