Chapter 207: The Mist of Time
The girl's crisp and beautiful voice revealed concern, making Lin Shouxi's consciousness change from chaos to sobriety, Xiao He knelt beside him, the red skirt was soft and flat, she lowered her fair cheeks, wrapped his hands carefully with a white cloth, and tied a delicate bow.
Everything is so real......
How did I end up here?
Lin Shouxi clearly remembered that he had come to the back of the courtyard and stepped on a long bridge over a blood pool, and then he inexplicably fell into the illusion and witnessed the scene where the demon god of time and space was killed, it stands to reason that he should return to the bridge after waking up, but ......
"What's wrong with you, can't you be stupid?" Xiao He stretched out his hand, shook it in front of him, and asked worriedly.
When Mu Shijing saw that he was awake, he also approached, squatted down and taunted him.
"Such a delicate body and a weak body can't help but be windy, you will be commensurate with the Xiaohe sisters in the future." Mu Shijing said with a smile.
Lin Shouxi was in a heavy mood, and he didn't have the heart to argue with the jokes of the two girls, he asked bluntly: "Don't you remember anything?" ”
"Remember? What to remember? Mu Shijing asked.
"We've entered the Divine Court once, and now we're back here." Lin Shouxi seriously.
"Do you know what you're in?" Mu Shijing frowned and asked.
"I know." Lin Shouxi took a deep breath, looked at Xiao He, and said, "What I do next may be very bizarre, but you have to believe me, every word I say is the truth." ”
Xiao He saw that his expression was serious, not like a joke, so he also restrained his smile and said softly: "Hmm...... Thou. ”
Lin Shouxi recounted everything that had happened before.
After listening to this, Xiao He and Mu Shijing both opened their mouths, revealing a confused look.
"You just fainted, did you have such a dream?" Mu Shijing was surprised.
"I can be sure that this is not a dream." Lin Shouxi said categorically: "It's not the first time I've been here. ”
"Of course it's not the first time, we've been here a year ago." Xiao He said softly.
When Lin Shouxi heard this, he was disappointed, he looked at Xiao He's bright face, and asked, "Don't Xiao He believe me either?" ”
"I ...... I believe it. ”
Although Xiao He is like this, his face can hardly hide the look of suspicion.
They also have complete memories, clear logic, and clear pictures, and it is really difficult for them to believe such an unintuitive thing immediately...... Lin Shouxi comforted himself like this in his heart.
The three disciples also came over to say hello after eating the fish, and Lin Shouxi asked about Li Wenxiu, and sure enough, none of them remembered.
On the way to the Shinto, Lin Shouxi inquired about their backgrounds.
As they replied before, these three people are all from poor families, Gu Ming and Gu Xiaoruyuan themselves are in a good family, how can the family infighting fall apart after the old lady's death, the father was poisoned, the mother cried blindly, and died within a few months, and they began a five-year life under the fence.
In the past five years, they have been tired and tired of helping people every day, suffering all kinds of beatings and scolding, unable to eat enough, and vomiting sour water every morning, until a family banquet for the immortal master, unexpectedly saw the two brothers and sisters sitting by the cowshed, and took them out of the sea of suffering.
As for He Yaoqin...... She seemed to be quite evasive about her life experience, and she refused to speak.
Along the way, Xiao He was always by his side, holding his hand gently, seeing that he was depressed, he kept comforting him not to be swayed by the illusion in his dream, Lin Shouxi listened to her comfort, and didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Walking through the three dilapidated buildings, walking through the royal court, and coming to the courtyard, everything was so familiar.
The door of the backyard was closed, and just as Mu Shijing wanted to open it, Lin Shouxi suddenly:
"There is a lake behind the courtyard, and there is blood in it, and there is a single-plank bridge across the blood lake."
"Really?" Mu Shijing frowned.
"If it's true, will you believe what I said?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Yes."
Mu Shijing replied simply.
But when she pushed open the courtyard door, the scene in front of her was beyond everyone's expectations. There was no blood lake or single-plank bridge beyond the courtyard gate, there was a black wasteland, and the white bones of the wasteland were piled up in the shape of countless giant mushrooms, and they were clustered around a tree, a twisted white bone diseased tree, which rose from the ground to the sky, and the pale trunk was densely packed with fungi, like one step after another.
"Look, what's the lake of blood here?" Mu Shijing shook his head, "I've been here for a long time, what you experienced before was an illusion, you should be awake now, right?" ”
"Hallucination......
Lin Shouxi's eyes showed a look of confusion.
The giant tree of white bones in front of him was thick and crooked, and there were many corpses hanging upside down at the top, the bones were twisted and deformed, and I don't know how terrible the torture was before death, this piece was like a sanctuary of many cults, and the top of the tree seemed to be inhabited by an unknown race that fed on flesh and blood.
Seeing this scene, Lin Shouxi and the three of them were still able to control themselves, Gu Xiaoru immediately covered her eyes, He Yaoqin seemed to think of something disgusting, knelt on the side and kept retching, and Gu Ming kept comforting her by her side.
"Giant Tree, Hanged Ghost...... This is like the sacred tree totem recorded in many ancient books. Xiao He said quietly: "Let's go, go over and take a look, maybe you can get any clues." ”
Then, Xiao He took his hand and wanted to go forward, but Lin Shouxi didn't move, he looked at Mu Shijing and asked a question that shocked everyone:
"Is what happened that night also a hallucination?"
"What?" Mu Shijing was taken aback, "What are you in?" ”
"That night...... Have you forgotten? Lin Shouxi continued to ask.
How could Mu Shijing forget, her pupils fluttered, and she burst out with a dazzling look of disappointment and shock: "You...... You know? You were really pretending? You...... This kind of person?! ”
Mu Shijing's series of questions didn't confuse Lin Shouxi, but made Xiao He dizzy.
"Where are you? What night? You guys...... What was done? Xiao He was uneasy.
Lin Shouxi did not answer Xiao He's question, but continued to say to Mu Shijing: "I don't know, you told me in person." ”
"I'll tell you personally? When? Mu Shijing was puzzled.
"The last time I was here." Lin Shouxi lied.
"Ridiculous!" Mu Shijing blurted out, "How can I tell you this kind of thing?" I see, you must have felt guilty in your heart, so you formed a nightmare...... Lin Shouxi, you are also a cultivator of the Golden Realm, how can you still be confused by nightmares and obsessed? ”
Facing Mu Shijing's questioning, the confusion in Lin Shouxi's eyes disappeared, and the faint light fell from the gap in the yellow clouds, just illuminating the corners of his black clothes, and he looked up at the sky, his eyes gradually became clear.
"Yes, I'm also a cultivator in the Golden Realm, how can I still be confused by nightmares and obsessed?" Lin Shouxi muttered to himself.
"You're crazy." Mu Shijing said coldly.
Lin Shouxi didn't answer, but raised his left hand, "I obviously scratched myself in a dream, how could the wound come out?" What's more, Xiao He was holding my hand at that time, how could I really cut my palm? ”
"You...... And what? Xiao He was shocked.
"Such a small injury, why do you want to help me bandage it, you know, with my physique, it will be back to normal in a while." Lin Shouxi calmly.
"I ...... I care about you. Xiao He's nose fluttered and explained.
"What the hell do you want?" Mu Shijing was extremely angry, and said in a cold voice again: "You are crazy! ”
"I'm sober."
Lin Shouxi sighed: "I'm very awake, you are the nightmare." ”
"You...... Don't scare me. Xiao He's red lips trembled.
Faced with Xiao He's pitiful state, Lin Shouxi was surprisingly hard-hearted, and he said indifferently: "You are not my Xiao He." ”
"Why?" Xiao He asked.
"Because my little He won't believe me." Lin Shouxi.
The dust on the heart mirror was brushed away, at this moment, Lin Shouxi's mind was clear, Luo Shu moved in response to his heart, and a roaring sound broke out in his body, and in an instant, his limbs and hundreds of bones were like dry firewood that was ignited in an instant, as if his consciousness was going to transcend his body, turn into a pure spirit, and fly away.
The surrounding scene collapsed, everything distorted in the field of vision, and at the same time, countless mournful wails sounded in his ears, the sound was full of unwillingness and anger, grief and despair, Lin Shouxi had no distractions, like a drowning man desperately rising from the deep lake, until he suddenly burst out of the water.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you stunned when you stand still? ”
The line of sight became clear again, Xiao He's fierce cheeks appeared in the field of vision, she was holding Lin Shouxi's hand, and under her feet was a single-plank bridge and a thousand-foot blood lake.
Lin Shouxi was worried, he was afraid that he would be freed from a dream like he had just done and fall into a deeper dream, it was difficult to distinguish between true and false, but the moment he looked at Xiao He, Lin Shouxi was sure that he was awake.
He took the girl in front of him in his arms.
"Oops...... What are you doing, so many people are watching, you are crazy? ”
Xiao He was suddenly embraced and caught off guard, the fierce look on her face turned into nervousness and shyness, she tightened her arms and wanted to break free, but Lin Shouxi's arms were like steel and iron locks, and she couldn't break them without brute force.
"Is it time to be affectionate? Can you do things in a measured way? If you don't want to go, don't get in the way. ”
Seeing this scene, Mu Shijing's cheeks were slightly red, and he angrily reprimanded them for their rude behavior.
Lin Shouxi looked at her with her hands on her hips, thinking about the previous dream, and only felt that Mu Shijing in front of him was extremely cute, but he still didn't know what happened on that so-called night, so that when he mentioned it in the dream, Mu Shijing had such a big reaction.
Lin Shouxi let go of Xiao He's arm and asked, "Xiao He, do you trust me?" ”
Xiao He seemed to smell something, she stared at Lin Shouxi suspiciously, and said vigilantly: "You...... Are you trying to confess something to me? ”
Lin Shouxi smiled dumbly, he didn't explain immediately, but took Xiao He's hand and walked onto the long bridge.
Although the long bridge is narrow, it is also like walking on the ground for people of their realm, gradually walking to the center of the long bridge, the blood pool under the bridge is dazzlingly red, and the rolling blood foam is wriggling like a living thing, putting on a strange expression, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, sometimes hideous, sometimes funny.
Lin Shouxi was still thinking about Fang Cai's illusion.
Why did he fall into the illusion, obviously Mu Shijing's perception is more keen, and it is easier to be captured, is it because he was the first to set foot on this bridge? Moreover, the people and objects in this fantasy world are so realistic that if the relationship is really intimate, it is impossible to distinguish the difference. Gu Di
Will others fall for such illusions? Will they be able to get out?
Thinking of this, Lin Shouxi glanced back.
The four disciples also followed on the long bridge, Li Wenxiu walked in the front, Gu Xiaoru followed behind him, Gu Ming protected behind his sister, and He Yaoqin walked in the back, a little closer to Gu Ming.
In the dream, Li Wenxiu died, and the rest of the people no longer remembered him, could this dream be a prophecy?
Although they escaped from the illusion, Lin Shouxi did not dare to take it lightly, when they came to the Divine Domain, the conversation with the four disciples on the beach was still vivid, which meant that the illusion they had experienced before was very likely to become real.
Lin Shouxi couldn't imagine how a person's traces could be completely erased, let alone Xiao He or Mu Shijing disappearing, and he didn't remember their scenes at all.
He felt cold.
"Do you have something on your mind?" Xiao He asked.
Lin Shouxi nodded, he didn't hide it anymore, he told Xiao He and Mu Shijing what happened in the previous dream concisely, the two girls were terrified when they heard it, in their eyes, Lin Shouxi just hesitated, but so many terrible things happened at this moment.
Xiao He still wanted to ask some questions, but Yu Guang caught a glimpse of something, and his heart sank, and he said, "Is that tree the one you dreamed of?" ”
Following the position of Xiao He's finger, Lin Shouxi looked into the blood pool, and in the blood-mist pool water, a pale tree trunk was exposed, although it was only one, but the strange wood grain and dense fungi all showed its identity.
Could it be that the scene seen in the illusion took place in the past, where it was originally a solid land, but due to the collapse of the Divine Domain a year ago, it fell and became a lake of blood?
"It's it." Lin Shouxi.
This confirms the truth of his words.
"Why are you the only one who has fallen into the illusion?" Mu Shijing still didn't forget to taunt Lin Shouxi: "Could it be that you are not strong-willed, right?" ”
Lin Shouxi shook his head, pointed to the four disciples behind him, and said, "It's okay if they're not." ”
Mu Shijing nodded thoughtfully, and said, "By the way, those disciples, I just thought about their words carefully, and I think there are some problems. ”
"What's the problem?"
"Before them, the Divine Domain was a dangerous and unknown place, no one wanted to come, they came here because of the rich rewards."
Mu Shijing said slowly: "There is nothing wrong with this method, but ...... There are too many of them, what kind of place is the Divine Domain, they are just a group of young disciples who have not yet reached the Immortal Realm, why would they collectively take risks? The goddess also strangely agreed...... The previous generation of goddesses was not stupid enough to let so many young disciples go to their deaths, right? ”
After Mu Shijing woke up, Xiao He and Lin Shouxi also realized this.
Yes, what kind of place is the Divine Domain, there are not many people under the previous generation of goddesses, isn't she doing this in a careless way? The most important thing is, where did the goddess of the previous generation go and why is there no news?
"Do you think there's something wrong with the previous goddess?" Xiao He asked.
"Hmm." Mu Shijing nodded, "She has mental problems herself, and she is likely to do extreme things, and the most important thing is ...... She looked so much like her sister. ”
"It's normal for sisters to look alike, right?" Xiao He.
"Hmm...... Maybe. Mu Shijing also felt that he was too worried.
But for some reason, the red-haired goddess took off her black robe and looked up at the sky always haunted her memory, and it lingered in her memory, and it also made her feel an inexplicable chill, as if she was the devil himself.
The three fell silent again.
The long bridge was narrow, the blood mist fluttered, and the magma-like blood water boiled endlessly below, as if it was the road to the Netherworld, and death at the end.
"I'll talk to them later, maybe we'll find out something." Lin Shouxi looked at the four disciples behind him.
"It's time to talk to them." Mu Shijing agreed.
"Sister Mu is suspicious of them?" Xiao He asked.
"Of course, the monsters who may not kill people are mixed among us in the skin of their disciples, so we must be on guard." Mu Shijing said cautiously, she had heard many similar stories when she was young, and she had subdued demons and eliminated demons for a long time, and found that the biggest ghost was actually someone close to her.
"If any of them have a problem, who do you think is most likely to be?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"He Yaoqin." Mu Shijing said without thinking.
"Why?"
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He asked in unison.
"Because she has a nice name, it doesn't look like she's going to die casually." Mu Shijing analyzed with his experience of reading Zhushenlu.
“……”
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He tacitly did not evaluate.
After crossing the long bridge, I came to the opposite bank, which was still a lonely cliff, and the cliff was overgrown with different vegetation, which looked like octopuses planted upside down in the wall, and the tentacles full of suckers were stretched branches.
There is a path on the cliff that leads to the bottom, and at the end of the road is gray mist, and the outline of a majestic temple can be faintly seen.
Lin Shouxi's intuition told him that the corpse of the Space-Time Demon God was most likely hidden in that hall, and as long as he got there, he could find a way out of this divine domain.
But he didn't rush to leave, but waited for the four disciples to come.
The four disciples were extraordinary, and they all crossed the wooden bridge smoothly, Lin Shouxi invited them to go along, and although the four of them were restrained, they also agreed.
On the way together, Lin Shouxi asked a lot of questions about them and their sect.
Lin Shouxi learned that it was not only their life history that was tortuous and miserable, but most of the disciples of their sect were almost from poor families, and most of them were orphans, and they were even nicknamed the Ancestral Mountain Orphan Cave Mansion by other sects.
"Why do you take in so many orphans?" Lin Shouxi said curiously.
"Of course, it's because the master is kind-hearted, and the general sect loves to accept disciples from the family, because they have money in the family, and they can give a large amount of money to the mountain gate every year, but our master is different, not greedy for fame and fortune, and there is no class in teaching." Gu Xiaoru looked reverent.
"Then why did she pick you orphans when she was in danger?" Lin Shouxi asked again.
"I've passed, it's not the master who picked us, we volunteered to come! It's voluntary! Gu Xiaoru argued loudly, she didn't allow anyone to speak ill of her.
"I see you, you were sold and you helped count the money." Mu Shijing saw her arrogant appearance, and couldn't help but make mockery.
Gu Xiaoru was even more angry, she glared at Mu Shijing hatefully, her eyes were cold.
On the other side, He Yaoqin took out a gray stone slab, held it in the palm of her hand, closed her eyes, and seemed to convey information to the outside world.
In the Divine Domain, almost all magic weapons have failed, but only the Gray Tablet still plays a role.
"What are you posting?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"What you see and hear here." He Yaoqin: "This is the task of our trip. ”
Lin Shouxi approached her, looked at the words that appeared on the gray board, and read them carefully several times, but found nothing wrong.
The seven of them set off together and walked towards the main hall below the mountain road.
On the way to the main hall, there are many iron trees growing on both sides, and on each iron tree are corpses hanging upside down, these corpses are human stumps, but they are larger than yaks, as if they are giants in the legend of the wilderness.
Passing through the iron grove, the main hall is in front of you, and it is far more magnificent than it can be seen from afar.
With Lin Shouxi's arrival, the door opened silently, and gray fog poured out of it, and behind the fog, there were many huge, motionless black shadows.
Suddenly, a strange voice sounded, like some unique instrument playing.
Lin Shouxi was stunned for a moment, still looking for the source of the sound, and behind him, Xiao He's clear voice suddenly sounded:
"Watch ahead!"
In the gray mist, several pairs of bristle-covered arthropods, like spider's feet, stretched out impressively, and it lay on the door, its body compressed, and then violently ejected, extremely fast.
Lin Shouxi's pupils shrank, and he wanted to dodge in surprise, he could have avoided it completely at his speed, but at this moment, his consciousness was in a trance.
The feeling is familiar.
Not good......
When Lin Shouxi's heart was not good, his consciousness was captured by some strange existence, and when he came back to his senses in horror, he suddenly came to the place where the woman in the black dress slashed the demon god of time and space, but the girl and the demon god had disappeared without a trace, and only the god wall stood tall behind him for thousands of years.
Why is it this time......
Lin Shouxi, who had fallen into the illusion realm twice, was very experienced, and he wanted to use the Luo Shu Mental Method to leave here, but at this time, he hesitated.
The Zhangong sword on his waist suddenly began to glow.
Since leaving the Three Realms Village, it has not emitted such a light.
"Little ...... Whispers? ”
Lin Shouxi's heart was shocked.
Almost instinctively, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the Zhan Gong sword, and his consciousness hooked up.
Boom –
Zhihai suddenly turned into a blank blank, and vaguely, he heard someone say:
"Welcome Miss to come and worship the sword."
After a while, the picture in front of me became clear, a girl about seven or eight years old knelt in front of her, wearing a green dress, childish, and her hair was combed gracefully and cutely.
She folded her hands and looked reverent, her mouth whispering something in pieces, as if expecting Excalibur to respond.
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