Chapter 36: One Eye
"Now that I'm here, I have to go and see what is going on!"
Wei Zhen made up his mind, ate some food, and rested in place for another hour before continuing to move forward.
In the empty tunnel, the cold feeling became more and more solemn, and the cold light above the head became more and more clear, which made people feel like a thorn in the back, and the yin wind blew from the depths of the mine, which added an inexplicable eerie feeling to this feeling.
There was no longer a trace of cold sweat on Wei Zhen's body, as if the sweat in his whole body had already flowed before this, or because as he marched deeper, the heavy load on his body slowly spread from his body to his heart, turning into an invisible and huge pressure, forcing the sweat of his whole body into his body.
Every time he took ten steps, he had to stop and rest for a while so that he could take the next distance. In his head, a voice gradually echoed, as if warning him.
"Can't go any more, that's enough, turn back!"
Xiao Hei Hei hid in his arms, his little body kept trembling, and occasionally he let out one or two wails that were almost resentful, it was terrified, afraid of something unknown - this Wei Zhen could feel it deeply, it was the first time he had seen Xiao Hei Hei behave so abnormally, even when the old man in Mai had imprisoned it under his palm, it had never been like this.
"It would be nice if little Hei Hei could speak, but his first sentence is probably to scold me - 'you stupid'!"
Wei Zhen gritted his teeth and thought secretly. At this time, he was not enlightened, but suddenly, he calmly understood in his heart that he had fallen into an absolutely dangerous situation, which was an instinct of life.
On the way ahead, he also encountered more than a dozen of those mist monsters with faces, but they were all devoured by the black sticks one by one.
But when he entered the sky behind the cold light above his head, Wei Zhen never met one again, he unconsciously broke in, and when he looked back, he happened to see a mist monster being hit by a companion, hitting a corner of this light curtain, and then disappeared in an instant, without a trace.
Wei Zhen didn't know why this was happening, and he couldn't understand why he hadn't disappeared silently like that mist monster.
But at this moment, he also understood a very serious thing, that is, he must not have any slackness, once his mind is slightly shaken, his body will be like that mist monster in an instant, leaving no trace in the world.
In an empty world, there is no sky, no earth, no human figure, only a faint mist floating in the void.
This is the place where Wei Zhen's consciousness has entered several times.
At this moment, in the center of this world, in the white fog that is many times thicker, there is a virtual shadow of a tree gradually condensed, it is a giant tree as high as fifteen zhang, full of bright green, the crown of the tree is like a canopy, covered with bright green heart-shaped leaves, and thousands of strands of roots hang down, enveloping the body of the tree, overflowing with a quiet and dreamy beauty.
Under the giant tree, a delicate white figure sat in the white mist, and the shadows were so dense that people couldn't see the true face. The figure seemed to be a little annoyed and a little surprised, as if even she felt the abnormality of Wei Zhen's current place. But in the pupils of autumn water, which outsiders could not see, there was a faint expression of struggle, as if she was trying to remember something, but the memories were like rosaries with broken threads, or like shredded pieces of paper, mutilated, so blank that it was difficult for her to recall even a simple fragment of life - and to her astonishment, there was such a place in the outside world that could evoke her memories, and to her chagrin, she could not remember anything.
Almost instinctively, she pinched a trick with her slender ten fingers, and spat out an inexplicable ancient sound that even she herself had, and then a transparent shield was generated in the outside world, protecting Wei Zhen. It wasn't the first time she'd done this, the last time was when the little guy who didn't know what it meant to live or die pulled out that black stick that even she thought was a little weird.
But she still hadn't figured out why she wanted to protect such a fragile little creature who had nothing to do with her, she was sure of.
Wei Zhen naturally didn't know that there was a person who had nothing to do with him who had secretly saved him twice, and he was able to safely walk into the canopy formed by the cold light above his head, not at all how lucky he was, the most important point was that his cultivation was low enough, low enough to make the power of the enchantment formed by the canopy almost completely ignore him, but the coercion generated by this enchantment power was still not something his body and mind could bear, so there was a white figure under the giant tree.
Wei Zhen didn't know how long he had been walking in this mine, and where the end of the mine was, but just when he was about to give up, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that he had become an extremely small ant, this ant was looking up at a majestic mountain range that suddenly appeared in front of him in a daze, seemingly dazed, but at this moment, it was not such a majestic mountain range that really caught Wei Zhen's shocked eyes, but an eye whose size cannot be described in words.
This eye stared coldly at this side of the world, the look in his eyes was not indifferent and ruthless, let alone gentle and thoughtful, and it had nothing to do with the ethereal mystery, only as if endless cold light poured out from the green eyes, forming this piece of heaven that seemed to be independent of the world.
Wei Zhen was stunned for a while, his eyes finally rolled, and then he was surprised to find that he was not the only one here.
Far away, I don't know how far away, there was a person standing in front of him, this person was as small as a black dot like him, but when he looked a little harder, the other person's appearance was clearly reflected in his mind.
It was an old man of about fifty years of age, with a round ruddy face, a long beard and long eyebrows, and long white and black hair tied in a bun on the top of his head, no more than three feet tall, and he stood quietly in the center of the sky where one eye was looking.
When Wei Zhen looked over, he just stretched out his hands, looked up to the sky and yawned twice, as if he had just slept well, and suddenly opened his eyes with a cunning that was very inappropriate for his age.
He quickly put away this cunning intention, stared at the emerald eye in the sky with hatred, and scolded and said in his mouth: "Guarding Lao Tzu every day and every year, you are not annoyed, Lao Tzu is still annoyed!
As if he had scolded enough, the red-faced old man turned around and put on the demeanor of a righteous gentleman and a man of morality, stroked his long beard under his chin, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Which doll are you, why did you run here indiscriminately? This is not the place to play eagles and catch chickens." ”
Wei Zhen saw that the old man's lips were squirming frequently, and there was no sound in the air, but his clear voice came from his ears.
"It turns out that the strange eye in the sky is specifically for guarding him, and he should also be a senior master!" Wei Zhen chewed carefully on the old man's previous words, forgetting his later question.
The red-faced old man's eyebrows trembled again and again, his eyes were furious, and he seemed to be very angry, and suddenly he raised his red rosacea nose and sniffed violently in the air.
"How do I smell another old villain?" he scratched his head and deliberately made a contemplative look, "No, no, the legend has it that he has fallen, and this little creature is obviously a Terran!"
He asked a series of questions to himself, and Wei Zhen saw that the expression on his face changed several times in an instant, rich and weird, but he still couldn't help but burst out of his mouth.
"Senior, can you accept me as a registered disciple?"
In Wei Zhen's heart, Mao Yiqing was his only master, so although he really wanted someone to teach him powerful spiritual skills and cultivation methods, he still asked so.
"Registered disciple?" the red-faced old man's eyes flashed with his usual cunning, he stretched out his left little finger and picked his nose, and then moved it a few times.
His expression fell into Wei Zhen's eyes, which immediately made Wei Zhen feel regretful, but the red-faced old man didn't give him a chance to regret it.
"Okay, the old man will accept you as a registered disciple!" The red-faced old man's slightly narrowed eyes flashed, as if he had thought of something that made him extremely excited.
"Well, the old man is very happy today, I will give you a gift as a gift for the apprenticeship!" he said, pointing out with his right index finger, only to see a black light flying from his fingertips, straight into Wei Zhen's mind.
"You go back and practice slowly, this is a peerless technique from the otherworldly Shura Kingdom!" The red-faced old man looked serious, and deliberately accentuated his voice on the word "peerless".
Wei Zhen heard him say very solemnly, and kowtowed to thank him at the moment, but he was not in a hurry to watch it for a while, and only listened to him continue.
"Master teaches his disciples to practice, he works hard, he never hides his selfishness, and he should be a disciple who knows his kindness and respects his master, right?"
Wei Zhen was stunned, he didn't know why this named master suddenly said such a paragraph, and he only said secretly in his heart: "You seem to have passed on a piece of exercise to me, where can you talk about any painstaking efforts and never hide selfishness?"
The red-faced old man seemed to have guessed that he would have such a reaction, and his expression did not change at all, and it was not the first time he wanted to do such a thing.
He stretched out his finger and pointed at the huge emerald eyes in the sky, and said with hatred in his mouth: "This is the biggest enemy of the master-by the way, our sect is called the Empty-Hand Sect, no, it's the Treasure Hunting Sect-oh, by the way, it's the Empty-handed Treasure Hunting Sect!"