Time passed minute by minute, I don't know if what the old man said is true, and I don't know what the so-called "soul" is for, but when I calm down and think about it, it is definitely not that simple, at least the reason why all this happened is definitely not simple.

So, I immediately calmed down and said, "Senior, if you have anything to tell me, it's better to tell me directly!" ”

The old man with the white beard sighed wryly and said, "Her soul has been placed on you, and now you have two souls. ”

"What?" I said puzzled.

"I don't know whether to congratulate you or comfort you, all the people who want to come here are for the realization of their own selfish desires, but it is best to end up with a catastrophe, but you are lucky, you have obtained the ancient scroll, and you have been enlightened by the evil mother, at that time you can go back, and now every step you take, is a risk, because you are very likely to get nothing."

"I'm not praying for anything, I'm just wondering—"

"Want to know the secret?" The white-bearded old man interrupted, "Secrets are nothing more than the selfish desires of man, and you are no different from anyone else. ”

"If you are given a choice, go ahead and you can get the secret you want, but you will never be able to get out of here, or, you turn away, I can give you true eternal life."

"Senior, you may not have heard of a saying that people are born free, but they are invincible and in shackles. We shouldn't be bound by our own confinement, so I can't answer this question, because I'm going to turn around now, maybe I'll come back again, because there's what I want, but I also know that I have more important people and more important things to do than the secrets here. ”

"Interesting." The white-bearded old man smiled, and then his body disappeared into the darkness, leaving only one sentence, "Then everything is fate, and see if you have this chance." ”

Before I could ask, the man was nowhere to be found.

It's just that I walked in the direction from which the sound came, and I vaguely seemed to see another world ahead. As I walked, I saw a bridge appear in front of me, but halfway through the bridge, it naturally disappeared, and all that was left was this slow flow of water.

I walked to the bridge, and a stone staircase appeared, but at the end of the stone staircase there was nothing, empty, I stood at the end and looked at the undulating waves below, and wondered: "This stone staircase is too unreasonable to build, there should be a linked building here, otherwise there is no way to explain." ”

At this moment, a loud rumbling sound rang out throughout the underground space, and even those gentle and slow flowing water began to roll in waves, and a large amount of jade-white liquid stirred up the stone bridge, instantly dried up and hardened, turning into a crystal clear hard lump.

However, there was not much time for me to distract myself from these things at this time, and the movement of the flowing water was getting bigger and bigger, and in the blank space below the stone steps, the water surface suddenly broke open and swelled up, dividing into two strands that flowed against each other, forming a jade-white whirlpool in the middle.

"This ......"

Just when I was at a loss, a flat, transparent and transparent platform slowly rose up, and the speed quickly passed the stone steps, and after a bang, the crystal platform stopped, and the crystal steps above corresponded to the stone steps.

"It's ...... A Crystal Throne? ”

I saw that the four pillars of the crystal throne were firmly grasped in the middle like dragon claws, and there were many crystal horns sticking out of the seat, corresponding to each other, until the center of the top of the seat, where a fist-sized night pearl was inlaid, exuding a kind of shining light.

I was alone at this time, standing on the stone steps, staring at the throne in amazement, and saw a man sitting upright, dressed in a black robe, with no face in sight.

"Senpai?" I timidly took a step back.

"There are things you shouldn't know, so don't think about watching them, or you'll ......," the dark figure slowly stood up from his seat.

The hood retreated, revealing the old man's face I had just seen, and I asked vigilantly, "Senior, who are you?" ”

"Who am I? Boy, you're asking a strange question. The old man closed his eyes and faced Lin Kun, suddenly laughed, and said, "In this world, I am a god and a devil. ”

I looked at him in shock, thought of a possibility, that is, the doubt hidden in his heart before, and asked, "Are you the Demon King?" ”

"It's scarier than that." The old man smiled mysteriously, "Do you want to see it?" ”

"Huh?" I was stunned after listening to it, the legend of the demon king had already been said by Ji Weiqi before it was just a legend that could not stand scrutiny, but at this moment this old man said that it was more terrifying than that, isn't that true?

After speaking, the old man with the white beard slowly stood up, stared at me coldly, and said, "Actually, my name is not unfamiliar, haven't you been looking for me?" ”

The skin on his face gradually fell off with the shaking of his words, revealing a layer of white new skin, which was originally a little hunchbacked, but at this time he also stood up straight, a large amount of exposed skin began to crack and fall off, and the originally corroded skin began to change to a new layer, and in just a few minutes, an old man actually turned into a young man with gloomy eyes in front of Lin Kun. And the young man's appearance—the most shocking—was so familiar, so incredible, that it was exactly the same as that of the Linqiong Taoist Koko.

I was almost speechless in shock, I had never seen anything like this magic, "What, Koko? Are you Koko? No, you're a Linqiong Taoist? Five thousand years, you have lived for five thousand years, you are ...... Tender...... Ran Xu?! ”

Rejuvenation, originally just a human luxury, at this time in front of me really happened, trance felt that I must be dreaming, not yet awake.

"Ran Xu? I can't even remember the name. The old fellow, who had already transformed into a young man, seemed to be full of strength, and said bare-chested, "That's right, I'm the high priest, Ran Xu!" ”

"But......" Suddenly, my face froze, as if I thought of something, "You are King Yu's most powerful assistant, holding the sacrificial power of the Xia Dynasty and all witchcraft, so you are the first person in the world to achieve immortality, right?" ”

"Hahaha, hahaha." As soon as my words fell, I heard Ran Xu let out a maniacal laugh.

The smile is twisted and the voice is desolate.

Ran Xu retracted his hand and put it at his side, muttering, "I have a story, do you want to hear it?" A very old story. ”

He didn't listen to my answer and asked, "Do you know where this is going?" ”

Then he pointed to his feet.

"Burial Dragon Pit." I replied.

He shook his head and said, "It seems that you still don't know that the ultimate secret hidden under this dragon burial pit is actually the word dragon burial." ”

"Burial Dragon?" I subconsciously asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"As the name suggests, it's about killing the dragon and then burying it." Ran Xu said unhurriedly, "King Yu lock Jiaolong, I believe you must know, but unfortunately, this is just a legend fabricated by later generations, and the ultimate thing you want to know is actually the truth behind this." ”

"The truth?"

"That's right." Ran Xu nodded, turned his gaze to me again, and said, "Do you know the story of Mother Xu stepping on the dragon's footprints and giving birth to Fuxi and Nuwa?" But have you ever thought about where that dragon went? Dayu's water control is not really water control, but Jiao control. ”

"What?" I can't turn my head anymore.

Ran Xu closed his eyes and recalled: "I participated in the cause and effect of the whole thing, but none of us thought that in the eternal years, our people still did not escape the curse of fate. ”

I don't know why, it's like something stimulates the brain, and a lot of things that I can't understand gradually become more and more spliced together in Ran Xu's words, and asks: "So, in fact, from the beginning, this is all fake?" It's you, it's you who directed and acted in a play that is still being played over and over again to this day? ”

Ran Xu suddenly smiled and said: "You are only half right, eternal life, it means salvation, we closed one door and opened another door, the reason why the other door has never been opened is because we can't see what is behind eternal life." Otherwise, how could I spend so much time in a void space? ”

His smile disappeared, and he said in a cold tone: "However, since you have come, there is no room to retreat, do you want the truth or eternal life?" ”

I closed my eyes, and the sharp pain in my head made him a little unable to open them, so I had to close my eyes and continue: "Everything is actually a lie, right? Mother Xu stepped on the footprints of the dragon and gave birth to Fuxi and Nuwa, so where did the dragon go? Maybe you've already given me the answer. ”

Ran Xu smiled and said, "You are indeed very smart, even if you are not wise, but I still admit that you are smart enough, no wonder those descendants of mine were defeated in your hands in the end." ”

"Now you can tell me the truth, right?"

"The truth?" Ran Xu shook his head, "There is no real truth in this world, and there is no absolute falsehood, the truth and falsehood are relative. In fact, you have already guessed that the governance of King Yu was not a flood at all, but a cure for Jiao, and the secret of the god and ghost contract turned out to be a bloody massacre, just because human beings coveted the power of the dragon clan, and carried out a war full of selfish desires. ”

"If the flood at that time really reached enough to destroy human beings, it was impossible to manage it so easily in the era at that time, and it was so long, what should have been washed away would have been washed away, and what the flood should have receded should have receded. As you said, he was cured by Jiao, if the flood at that time was actually Jiaojiao, then the matter was said. ”

"It's a pity that the power of the dragon can't be possessed by humans at all, and the uncontrollable consequences of human greed, especially the greed of human nature, directly contribute to our determination to seal this power." Ran Xu said with a smile, "We did something wrong, and future generations will fall deeper and deeper into this mistake, in the final analysis, it is all retribution." ”