Chapter 81: The Dark Passage
No sooner had he entered the secret passage in the left eye of the relief than the door closed silently.
I don't know how many years ago, the deep hidden road is narrow enough for only one person to walk together, and you can feel the metal rust through the walls without reaching out, and every half a zhang distance, there will be a little green spot of light burning and burning, reflecting the road in a ghostly color.
Because of the Forbidden Dust Curse, the passage remained eerily clean, leaving a hollow echo as it traveled along.
Smack-click!
I didn't encounter any mechanism along the way, but the calmer the road, the more gloomy the clouds in Li Yunuan's heart became and could not be dispelled.
Tai Chang deliberately left this path for what to do, and who was the person he was waiting for?
Who are the bronze masks that fall out of the cracked space in front of the bronze reliefs, and the woman who is pierced by the bronze vines in the hallucination?
It was an accidental piece of information, and there was a mysterious connection behind it, but she couldn't read it, so she could only live up to it.
Walking through the endless greenery, with a new twist every time you think you are coming to an end, is a road that is too complicated to reconstruct in your mind, and if it weren't for this only path, no one would have been able to make the right decision to move forward.
If she had made the opposite decision before the bronze relief and entered another eye, what she saw at this moment would have been the scenery of hell, right?
But is stepping to the left really the right path?
I don't know what to do, but I can't regret it.
Because the retreat has been sealed, there is no other possibility.
There are often people who wonder if my fate would have changed completely differently if I had made a decision to turn right at a certain left-turn turn, but such a fantasy is ridiculous. Life is a one-way street that can never be repeated, and when the fork in the road is crossed, the rest may have been sealed.
No one was born to kill people, Li Yunuan also longed for the romantic legend of the talented and beautiful princess Tanhua in the bedside story of the deep palace grandmother, but now she only has one life. Becoming stronger, killing Kuze, and avenging those who have been lost is the life she has chosen for herself.
I have nothing, I can't save the world, I can't save anyone, I only have a heart of revenge, a stubbornness that will not give up even if I am played beyond recognition by fate!
......
......
After another turn, the scenery in front of me finally changed.
Every half a zhang of dark green lights, there is a drop of white lotus in half an inch, suspended slightly above the shoulder, seemingly crumbling, but in fact between life and death. It is a kind of phantom fire, which does not produce temperature when burning, but if you despise them and reach out and touch them, you will be burned by them, as if you have been cut by a knife, and a large piece of flesh will be corroded at the same time.
The ground is no longer a dust-free place, and the walls are no longer a bronze hollow.
The smell of suffocating pigment hits the face.
She subconsciously slowed down and carefully studied the murals on both sides.
Beautiful, raw, intense!
Ancient painters grinded minerals into paint, and painted abstract and mysterious imaginations on the walls several feet high, such as kings with human heads and snake bodies, priests with ghost masks, and gods who were half human and half birds...... All of the images are overly colorful, and even though the depictions are thousands of years old, they still contain a vivid feeling that is so strong that you almost jump off the wall.
Along the way, these drawings are not only bizarre, imaginative, and full of images of demigods, but the further you go inside, the more you feel that there is an obscure hint in the unbelievable picture.
The first few pictures were of worship and fighting. He was depicted as a god standing on the top of the heavens and the earth, wrapped in red robes, wearing black masks, and countless black figures who only reached his feet knelt down to him, offering precious tributes such as grain and ore. There are also equally dark villains and enemies who have been turned into beasts, and the sky is painted in swirls of red and indigo. The hearts of the fallen gods were gouged out by the victors, and the flesh was eaten by the little people on the earth.
After such hundreds of ancient paintings of scenes of gods and people living together, the content of the pictures gradually became absurd and symbolic.
The big bird with five heads was lying on the ground, its blood-red eyes were poisonous, and the mountains were cut by its wings like cakes; the man frozen in the ground, a huge peak rose in his palm, and a giant snake was curled up in his chest to gnaw at his left eye; a white-clothed and red-haired girl held a golden cup to drink water, and the blood flowed into her mouth, merging into her stomach to form white bones and beauties entangled with yin and yang...... The further she went, the more bloody and dark the picture became, and the more dizzy Li Yunuan became, and there was a kind of discomfort that tied her like a chain, making her nauseate but unable to vomit.
It seems that those images have actually happened and will be repeated one day in the future!
It's like painting with blood!
As soon as the thought was born, Li Yunuan subconsciously scraped the wall with his fingers, and it was actually damp!
The mural was painted at least 1,000 years ago, but the paint used for smearing has not dried up yet!
It's incredible!
Perhaps there were some special creatures in ancient times who mixed their blood with pigment and could be as viscous as a paste for thousands of years. The deliberate use of such precious pigments shows that there is a special religious meaning in what is depicted.
Although he did not understand the symbolic meaning of these ancient paintings, Li Yunuan was still cautious and carefully tested with his fingers, and found that only a few human figures on the murals used this special pigment, and most of the other images used ordinary mineral pigments.
But with such a long mural road, what kind of message is the owner of the Ice Palace trying to convey to the people he is waiting for?
I don't understand, I don't even dare to understand, the bronze mask that fell into her hand through fantasy has made her frightened enough. She knows that things that are too coincidental often only mean being dominated by another force!
Who is the one who waits too often?
Why did Yuehua's predecessors stop speaking out after entering the bronze relief range?
What could have happened if the people who had passed through the mural passage and entered the center of the Ice Palace were not the ones who waited too often?
A series of unexplained worries haunted her.
Click!
There was a sudden sound of fine footsteps ahead, and two slight breathing sounds were clearly heard in the ears tempered by the stardust, and Li Yu quickly retreated to the corner with a weak heart, finding a place for himself to hide.
However, it seems to be a little late.
"-Who!
Before the person arrived, the sound sounded first, and Li Yunuan, who was squatting in the dark, saw two strange men turning out from the other end of the mural corridor, more than 20 years old, just past the cultivation of the foundation, and approved a robe embroidered with light cyan bamboo leaves outside the narrow sleeves.
It's actually Azure Gate!
Li Yunuan's head buzzed loudly.
Different from the Wan Shi Sect that has been inherited for thousands of years, Tianqingmen is a small sect that has only been established for a hundred years, and the Tianqingzi of the ancestor of the door has been built so far, but the Yuan Ying cultivates for only one ordinary spiritual vein in the territory, which can be described as a shallow foundation. Maybe it's the ancient times with too thin background, Tianqingmen's style of acting is comparable to the domineering and fierce of a newborn calf, without scruples, fighting hard, and actually joining the Xiuzhen Alliance in just twenty years from standing out from hundreds of small sects and entering the top hundred, even this time in the Northern Underworld Secret Realm, I was fortunate enough to get a permission to enter.
But the Azure Gate is the sect that Li Yunuan doesn't want to encounter in the bronze palace.
Not to mention that the people of Tianqingmen are all villains who are so eager for quick success that they don't even want to put on a fig leaf, just looking at the blood spots on their sleeves, you can see that these two people must have happened a lot along the way...... things, just "by mistake" came here......
"Don't hide anymore, we've seen you!"
The slightly thinner one pulled out his knife, and the slightly taller one was approaching Li Yunuan's location step by step.
They found me?!
Li Yunuan, who was afraid of being attacked, grabbed the Qiankun bag and prepared to jump out. Fortunately, she was calm and her heart sank a little, and she found that the two people from the Azure Gate were moving forward back to back.
It turns out that they only feel that there is an ambush here, and they have not yet discovered their existence!
Afraid of being attacked, so back to back, I don't know where the enemy is, so I bluff.
Whew-
At this moment, whoever can't bear it first will die without a place to bury!
Although they hadn't spotted her yet, their steps were steady and cold, and they had obviously preconceived that it was a life-and-death struggle!
The people of Tianqingmen, who are known for their ferocity and aggressiveness, both of them are foundation builders and have just killed people......
Tick!
Tick!
The heartbeat was as loud as a drumbeat, and the fear was roaring, Li Yunuan compressed his body, and any negligence at this time could lead to death.
Tianqingmen are all outlaws, once they meet, there is only life and death!
It's getting closer.
They're getting closer.
The breath of death, like breath, wrapped around him.
His fingers were a little sweaty, and in the blink of an eye, they were vaporized by the high temperature of the phoenix fire.
Li Yunuan's eyes were red in a hurry, and she knew that she was once again standing at the fork in the road of choice.
Killing, or being killed, it's as simple as that.
Hmmm-
The cold hit, and the edge was only three inches from her neck!
A wisp of green silk was slashed off by the sword qi, Li Yunuan raised her eyes, no matter whether the other party found her or not, this sword made her unable to be silent anymore.
I can only kill!
Two phoenix fires were hooked up on her fingertips, and they were so beautiful that they were like decorations: although Li Yunuan was not skilled in swordsmanship, her realm was ordinary, and her sect's Taoism was sparsely learned, she had a weapon that was rare in the world!
chose Phoenix Fire, not only because this is her greatest advantage, but also because she has not killed anyone so far, the tragic situation of people rolling like melons and fruits on the night of the fall of the Tang Palace made her instinctively resist the sword, and the moment the sword cut through the flesh and splashed blood and water would always make her stomach sick.
"Go-"
In a low voice, two points of golden light swept through the darkness, crackling and falling on the placket of the Tianqingmen man's clothes, and the clothes immediately burned a hole the size of a needle.
"Mars?" The two people of Tianqingmen are shallow in the end, and when they see the ferocity of Mars, they also think too much, so they shoot it with their backhand, and they want to continue-
Crackling, the moment the spark wrapped around his finger, the palm of his hand was burned to pitch black, turned into dust and scattered, and there were even signs of intensification! This sudden and terrifying change made the Azure Sect disciple even stunned for a moment before reacting!
"Ahh
What the hell is this!
The more frightened it became, the more intense it became, and the golden flames that were fierce with the hearts of people could not be extinguished at all, and they instantly devoured half of one of them's arms!
"Ahh
Unlike the scorching heat produced by ordinary flames, the golden flames did not have any smoke and dust when they engulfed the flesh, and although the heat was generated, only the burned person could feel it!
In just a few breaths, there was only a pool of charcoal ash left on the ground.
Li Yunuan, who was glad that she didn't have to kill people with her own hands, walked out of her hiding place, and she didn't know what to do, and the phoenix fire released was actually a more cruel means than killing people with a sword!
The so-called heresy, in many cases, is not deliberately cruel, but the naivety of thinking that it is good.