Chapter Ninety-Eight: A Hundred Years of Nightmare

The Dragon Palace is not deserted, it seems to have been carefully dressed, with stone lamps emitting orange beams hanging above, the light softly hitting the white bones and roots, and the grass below is also illuminated.

The flowers and plants on the ground are all full of strange fragrances, and they seem to be precious medicinal herbs.

"Your home?"

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing looked at the tearful Sanhua cat together.

The cat-sanhua sat on the grass wagging her tail, she wiped her face with her paws, and she didn't know what she was crying for.

A year ago, when it first became conscious, it found itself awakened in a small space, which was made up of many vine-like things, so it was called the tree dwelling.

It lives in a tree dwelling, often looking out through the cracks in the tree dwelling, and it has a narrow horizon, only seeing a small part of the world, and then thinking about its whole picture.

Then it heard someone talking to it.

The sound came from above, and it could barely hear it when its ears were close to the tree. The voice taught it to read, to describe the world to it as it was, and it listened attentively, gradually developing a desire to see the world.

And so it began to think.

It discovered that the power of the spirit could be transmitted to the outside world through the constraints of the tree dwelling, and it began to use this power to write books, communicate with people, and even conceive a self-view of the outside world.

But its body is always trapped in the tree dwelling, trapped in the complex roots of the sacred mulberry tree, like an embryo born from a giant tree.

In the past, it had never really seen what it was like outside of the dwelling, and it was only now that it finally realized that it had grown in the body of a dragon's remains.

The heart of the keel is the greenhouse where the Lord is born......

There is still such a secret hidden under the Three Realms Village!

Sanhua Cat had thought that he would write down the experience of this trip in the future and write an adventure in the Dragon Palace, but now it seems that the title of the book is going to be changed to the way home.

The three-flowered cat did not answer Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing's question, it looked up at the dragon corpse with a fascination on its face.

"What is the origin of this dragon corpse? Why is it hiding underground in the Three Realms Village? Lin Shouxi looked up at the giant bone and asked to himself.

"The Three Realms Village was the land of dragons hundreds of years ago, could it be that there is more than one giant dragon hidden here, and it was their king ...... who flew away back then" Mu Shijing guessed unconfidently.

"If so, what level should this dragon skeleton be?" Lin Shouxi's voice trembled slightly.

"Red pupils? Muddy gold? "Mu Shijing doesn't know much about dragon corpses, only that their rank is divided by the color of their pupils.

"Nope! I've seen a dragon corpse before, a red-eyed dragon corpse, but it's nowhere near as big as this one, and the difference in size between them is even three times as big! ”

Lin Shouxi will never forget the coercion he felt when he first saw the dragon corpse, when it crawled out from under the high cliff, the tyrant-like hideous aura spread throughout the four fields, even if it was a formidable evil spirit, it was just the end of being crushed into mud by sharp teeth!

The red-eyed dragon was already so powerful, and the one in front of it was even more terrifying, its toes were the size of a man, and if the pair of bundled bone wings were opened, the full wingspan would probably cover the entire Three Realms Village.

What level should this be?

They all thought of the rumor that no one could really kill a dragon corpse, only to limit the growth of its heart, but once they regrow their hearts, the pupils of the flames will burn again, and when they wake up from their eternal sleep, all disobedient people will be burned to ashes!

They were all shocked by the scarred white bones, as if from the scars on its body, they could see the secrets of the ancient history.

"Wait......"

Lin Shouxi suddenly remembered something, "Where did the King of Cangbi who broke through the divine wall go back then?" ”

"The King of Radial?"

Mu Shijing soon realized that Lin Shouxi suspected that the head in front of her was the skeleton of the King of Cangbi, but she did not agree with this opinion, "The King of Cangbi was defeated by the Patriarch's Dharma Body back then, and I am afraid that he has already been detained in the Divine Mountain and soaked in the Divine Turbidity at this moment. ”

"Really?"

Lin Shouxi shook his head slightly, and had a bolder assumption in his heart: "Is the primeval-level dragon corpse really captured by humans?" ”

"What do you mean......" Mu Shijing also vaguely guessed something.

Lin Shouxi sorted out his thoughts and quickly said his guess: "The king of Cangbi was defeated back then, but it may not have been captured, it is very likely to drag its seriously injured body and escape, and sneak back to its old palace along the turbid river, ready to repair its broken heart, but by coincidence, the seed of the sacred mulberry tree fell on the top of this palace, and its root system extended downward, just wrapping the sleeping keel, and grabbing its heart, absorbing nutrients from it, so that it can no longer open its eyes!" ”

Mu Shijing listened to his words, and his heart was terrified.

If this is really the culprit who caused the wall-breaking disaster back then, then the large area of mutilation and scars on its body can also be explained!

They didn't expect that they had stumbled into this place by mistake and saw the bones of an ancient junior god who had the ability to destroy the world!

And they soon realized that more than one person must know this secret, otherwise the legend of the Divine Tree to suppress demons would not have spread in the Three Realms Village......

It is even said that the location where the Scaly Sect created the Holy Son is here, which may also be related to this dungeon dragon bone!

Ryugu was frighteningly quiet.

Beneath the bones, the small boy and girl gradually calmed down, and they began to discuss what to do next.

"Zhong Wushi must know the secrets of this underground dragon palace, as the demon god of time and space in the past, he is ambitious, the so-called creation of Allah may be just a means for him to hide people's ears, and what he wants to do is even likely to be related to this dragon corpse."

Mu Shijing quickly made a judgment and said, "On the day of the Scale Worship Festival, he will definitely come here to take the true body of the Venerable Lord, and we can ambush him here and kill him." ”

"Nope." Lin Shouxi vetoed it after thinking about it carefully, he said: "First, this Dragon Palace is too open and there is almost no hiding place, secondly, the real body of the Sanhua Cat is still here, it is inevitable that it will be injured by mistake, and most importantly, if our battle is too fierce, the root system here may be cut off, and the dragon corpse will lose its restraints." Once it grows a new heart, we will have to deal with more than just a remnant of an evil god. ”

The matter is big, Mu Shijing will not quarrel with him on this anymore, she thought for a while, and also agreed with Lin Shouxi's statement.

If the King of the Blue Realm recovers, the scene of three hundred years ago will surely be repeated, and the entire Three Realms Village will be directly destroyed......

Nothing like that can happen!

"Do you have any ideas?" Mu Shijing asked seriously.

Lin Shouxi pondered for a moment and said, "There must be other secret passages leading to here from the Three Realms Village, and we can find out about it...... It is even said that we can take the initiative to dig a tunnel to get out. ”

Mu Shijing nodded lightly.

"Do it now?" She asked.

"No, there are still two days left in the festival of scales, and what we need to do now should be rest." Lin Shouxi said.

"Hmm." Mu Shijing nodded.

Fleeing all the way to this point, their true qi consumption is fierce, and they are all exhausted, if they don't cultivate their spirits, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with a strong enemy.

This is the Dragon Palace, and the abundant true qi has a unique intensity, such as a good wine that has been covered for many years, and the qi pills of ordinary cultivators can't bear such true qi at all, but Mu Shijing took two sips with the mental method contained in the river diagram, but he was willing to eat it.

Lin Shouxi also leaned down to observe the grass growing here, he pulled out a grass with silver leaves, put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, then took out a booklet from his arms, looked at it against it, and showed a surprised look.

"What are you looking at?"

Mu Shijing leaned her back against the keel, meditated and breathed for a while, and when she opened her eyes, she found that Lin Shouxi was practicing against an ancient scroll.

"Practice." Lin Shouxi succinctly gave a useless answer.

Mu Shijing, in line with the principle of knowing Lin Shouxi, naturally sat beside him, "Let me see." ”

Lin Shouxi didn't hide his secrets, and spread out the book for Mu Shijing to read.

"It turned out to be the art of alchemy...... Mu Shijing thought for a moment, she had seized a similar copy in the Demon Nest.

The essence of refining is still 'turning into a god', and people give themselves godhead by refining the artifact into their body, and the better the artifact they refine, the stronger their divinity will be.

Mu Shijing expressed contempt for this, after all, for her, divinity is an innate thing, and there is no need to fake external objects at all, but in the spirit of respect for her opponent, she also silently recited the exercises on the scroll and practiced for a while.

When she was practicing, she felt that the qi pill was faintly hot, and the feeling she had when she had climbed through the stone gate had returned, her brows trembled several times, and finally she opened her beautiful eyes curiously, snatched the book, and asked, "What kind of exercise is this?" ”

Lin Shouxi didn't stop her from snatching the book, but just looked at her with a smile.

Mu Shijing opened the cover of the book and found that there was no word, so she turned to the title page again, and then, her whole person seemed to be still, this stillness was a precursor to the coming storm, after a while, Mu Shijing turned her head, her black and white pupils were angry, and she had always maintained elegance picked up the book and smashed it towards Lin Shouxi.

"You evil devil, you really don't have anything hidden on your body!" Mu Shijing knelt on the ground, leaned forward, rolled up the book and hit him.

"Isn't it what you want to see......" Lin Shouxi reached out to block it and said innocently.

"Who wants to see this kind of thing, you and your fiancΓ©e should practice." Mu Shijing threw away the book, turned his head and got up, and returned to his place angrily.

Without her to disturb, Lin Shouxi concentrated on cultivation even more.

With the ingestion of immortal grass, the tripod shape in his qi pill became more and more regular and clear, and when it was completed, he could use his body as a tripod to continuously refine the pill.

After about half an hour, he completed the first round of practice.

After opening his eyes, he rested for a moment, and then he vaguely felt that something was missing here......

Only then did he remember that it was the three-flowered cat who had always been talkative, and he hadn't spoken for a long time.

He looked around and saw that the three-flowered cat had somehow climbed up along the root system and climbed to the side of his little tree, and it curled up, lying on its stomach, just quietly looking down at them, like a living bird's nest.

"What's wrong with you? Not happy to be back home? Lin Shouxi realized that something was wrong with the three-flowered cat.

"I'm not unhappy." The three-flowered cat lowered its ears, smiled reluctantly, and replied, "Home is the second most comfortable place in the world." ”

"What's the first place you feel comfortable in?" Lin Shouxi asked curiously.

"Shut up." Mu Shijing closed his eyes and meditated, and suddenly said coldly.

Lin Shouxi realized.

During the conversation, the three-flowered cat stretched its body and jumped off the tree deftly, it ran to Lin Shouxi's side, rubbed at his feet, Lin Shouxi stretched out his hand and rubbed its head, scratching its slightly thick neck hair.

"Why are you still listless?" Lin Shouxi asked.

"No, it's just that after I got here, I suddenly remembered something." The three-flowered cat looked in a trance, and it did not return to the spirit of the past.

"What do you remember?" Lin Shouxi asked.

Sanhua Cat didn't answer directly, but said: "About half a year ago, a group of monsters came to the Three Realms Village to make trouble, and they were all caught, locked in the dungeon, and directly poisoned and killed...... I thought it was cruel. I asked Granny Dou why she didn't give them a chance to mend their ways, and she told me that they had killed a lot of people and that it would be disrespectful to the dead to let them live. That's when I knew that if I made a mistake, I would be punished. ”

"Well, in fact, there are also demon girls who are at large......" Lin Shouxi said this, and glanced at Mu Shijing by the way.

The three-flowered cat smiled, it lay on Lin Shouxi's lap, and said: "So I have actually been very careful since then, for fear of making any mistakes and being arrested, after all, the book says that the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people." But...... I always felt like I was doing something wrong. ”

"What can a kitten like you do wrong?" Lin Shouxi disagreed.

"Hmm...... I, I think I've broken something. Sanhua Cat said hesitantly.

"Bump into something?" Lin Shouxi didn't think deeply, just said, "What can you break?" I think you're a tall man, and you're going to break a teacup at most. ”

"Hmm...... I don't know, I can't remember anything. "Sanhua cat has a headache.

……

This night, the three-flowered cat was always listless.

It can feel the deep guilt in its own heart, but it doesn't know where the guilt comes from, and this feeling is like hearing the rat commotion in front of the wall, and you know that the rat is hiding in the wall, but the wall is so tightly built that it can't find any entrance.

It suddenly wished that it was not a lord, just an ordinary cat, and every day in addition to eating and sleeping was hiding in the arms of the hostess.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing didn't have much time to comfort it, and all night, they were cultivating intensively, trying to restore their spirit to the peak.

In the middle of the night, Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing sat opposite each other and discussed the exercises of Luo Shu and Hetu together.

This was the beginning of their old-world practice.

Soon, they discovered that the two exercises did have a lot in commonβ€”they were like two pieces of broken wood, each notch and groove could be tightly connected.

Could it be that the connection between Hetu and Luo Shu is a complete exercise?

As soon as this conjecture was born, both of them felt a heat in their chests and immediately made an attempt.

They meditate face to face, palms together, and at the same time running the exercises, the true qi flowed between the two of them, like an invisible wind, gradually connected end to end, forming a circle, that is the yin and yang fish of Tai Chi, Mu Shijing is yin, Lin Shouxi is yang, the two slowly rotate, connected to each other, but can not really blend, only the appearance of the gods.

In between...... Something seems to be missing.

"Missing eyes." Lin Shouxi quickly figured it out.

He drew a Tai Chi pattern on the ground with his fingers, and their current state is like two solid yin and yang fish, the yin fish has not opened its white eyes, and the yang fish has not opened its black eyes, and it cannot really be integrated.

Moreover, when they are running their true qi, they clearly feel the unobstructed flow of their true qi, which should be related to the posture of the two of them meditating, and they should be like yin and yang fish, upside down, head to tail. Both of them thought of this, but this posture was somewhat ashamed, and no one took the initiative to mention it before they thought of the finishing touch.

They tried to practice for a while, but they still didn't make much progress.

When Lin Shouxi opened his eyes again, he found that the three-flowered cat that had wilted all night had curled up on the side and fell asleep, biting its tail, its body was shaking, and its mouth was making a meow meow sound.

It...... Seems to be doing something nightmare.

……

The three-flowered cat did have nightmares.

In the dream, I hit a wall, and I bumped into it, as if I didn't know the pain.

Where am I? Where am I going? What am I doing......

The three-flowered cat can't remember anything, it's just like a big fool who doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back.

The wall was not as strong as it seemed, and soon, it was knocked out of a hole.

It looked through the hole.

What's going on...... Why are the buildings so small? Short like a mouse, it seems that if you can trample them to pieces just by lifting your feet.

The crowd weaved through in confusion, shouting and screaming as if they were running away in fear.

What are they afraid of?

Are you afraid of me?

His gaze went back and forth in the sky above him, and finally fell on a petite figure.

It was a cute little girl sitting on her knees, holding a flower pot in one hand and a white letter bag in the other, she was looking up at herself, her pupils were showing fear, and her face was as pale as snow.

It stared at her silently.

Time seems to freeze.

The sky was very clear, the sun was shining, and all the joys and sorrows were in full view.

Then, something like a sword stabbed into its eyes, and it was frightened, its teeth clenched, and it woke up from its nightmarish dreams.

The three-flowered cat found that it was biting its own tail.

When I opened my eyes, it was still in this dragon bone palace.

Mu Shijing was leaning on the keel and sleeping, breathing slowly and sleeping quietly.

Lin Shouxi was still awake, the sword in front of him was shining again, he put his hand on the sword as usual, and he didn't know what he saw, but he showed a gentle smile.