Chapter 4: Falling into the Abyss
Cold Spirit City, Spirit Mine Mountain Range
Seven Nights didn't know how far he had groped his way forward in the dark cave, and he didn't know how long he had been walking, and when he looked at the half-burned torch in his hand, his nervous heart suddenly became heavy.
The linen shirt on his body has been completely wet with the stagnant water dripping from the roof of the cave, and his body is cold and wet with cold hair. The deeper he went, the lower the temperature in the cave became, and Qiye felt that his whole body was trembling uncontrollably, and even the turbid breath exhaled condensed into a white mist, with a trembling gasp in his body.
The wolf guards and more than a dozen soldiers who were also following behind Qiye were not in very good health, and the soldiers were shivering, rubbing their hands and feet to carefully examine the situation in the cave, and from time to time a more biting cold wind blew from the depths of the cave, which would touch the panicked nerves of the soldiers.
"Lord Wolf Guard, this cave is unfathomable and cold, and we may ......not be prepared for such a hasty exploration," finally a soldier who couldn't hold his breath approached Wolf Guard, and said timidly.
When the wolf guard heard this, his footsteps stopped, and he glanced at the corner of his eyes with a cold overlord, and said coldly: "Are you afraid?"
After hearing the wolf guard's questioning, the soldier trembled, cheered up, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Don't dare, the subordinates are just thinking about the safety of Lord Wolf Bingwei, and they are afraid that something will happen." ”
The wolf guard retracted his vision and continued to walk forward, heading deeper into the darker cavern. Seeing this situation, the soldiers could only helplessly force themselves to cheer up, and with a panicked heart, they continued to grit their teeth and follow.
The cold of the cave began to make Nanaya's body tremble a little, and the left hand holding the torch had stiffened, and the flames had shrunk by half, and he could no longer feel the scorching temperature before. Although the right hand that touched the rock wall and explored the rock wall in the seventh night did not feel the pain of the past, it was already frozen and unconscious, and the feet in straw sandals were even more pale and swollen and lost their blood color after stepping on the small pools of ice all the way.
The mountain wind was still becoming cold and biting, wantonly cutting through the cold cheeks and purple lips of Qiye. Nanaya felt that he was becoming more and more fragile and weak, his legs were staggering and unstable, and his consciousness began to be in a trance, and his vision around him became more and more blurred, blurring to the point that Nanaya's pupils were about to become dilated.
As the darkness in front of him gradually swept in, the burning torch had become a point of light the size of a needle in the darkness in the vision of the seven nights. The hearing, touch, and all the senses of the outside world became closed at some point, and I could no longer feel any sound except for the fluttering of my heartbeat. Quiet, deathly still.
Among the people who followed behind Qiye, except for the wolf guards who protected themselves by urging spiritual power, the mental and physical conditions of the rest of the soldiers were still declining, but despite this, no one made any more suggestions to the wolf guards.
Sensing that he was about to lose consciousness, Nanaya gritted his teeth and clung to the last wisp of consciousness in his heart, staggering forward against the rock wall, sticking out one foot and trembling on the frozen ice of the pond.
Click~
Suddenly, when Qiye stepped on the ice of a large pond of water, the thin layer of ice cracked instantly, and the entire ice surface shattered in an instant. In Qiye's trance, before he had time to react, his whole body fell headlong with the empty ice, and fell into the mountain stream with the broken ice.
As the ice crevasses continued to crack in a chain reaction, the ice around the entire cave wall was also shattered in an instant, losing the support of the ice, and the stable structure of the entire cave was immediately broken. The huge rock at the top of the cave slammed down on it, collapsing with the ice and blocking the way forward.
The sudden collapse scene in front of them immediately woke up everyone's minds, and made many soldiers who kept a certain safe distance behind Qiye feel thorns in their spines, sweat on their foreheads, and panic in their hearts. And the wolf guard was still calm in the face of this sudden collapse, but frowned slightly:
The boulder that collapsed in front of it has completely blocked the way forward, and the amount of collapse in the entire cave tunnel is also very huge, and it is estimated that it will not be able to be cleaned up in a short time.
Now that the cave has collapsed and the mountain is unstable, it is no longer possible to move forward, and I don't know what the situation of the tunnel ahead is? Will it collapse again? Once buried deep in this narrow cave, even if I am a Tomahawk-level spiritual cultivator, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape the doom, so I must not rush into danger......
The wolf guards quietly looked at the blocked boulder in front of them and thought, and the soldiers didn't dare to rush forward when they saw the wolf guards silent. Quietly waiting for the wolf guard's decision by his side, everyone really pinched a cold sweat in their hearts for the thrill just now, and at the same time, they were all very glad that they had sent a slave to explore the way in front and keep a safe distance, otherwise their lives would have been dead at this moment.
"Withdraw!" Wolf Bingwei thought for a while, and then his eyes were cold, and he said softly. When the soldiers heard the order to retreat, they were on the verge of amnesty! The tense and suspenseful hearts were finally relieved, and they could finally leave this cold and dark ghost place, and as for the seven nights buried under the collapse, everyone had no intention of paying attention, and everyone already believed in their hearts that he was dead.
What's more, in such a dangerous situation, who cares whether a lowly slave is dead or alive? The wolf guard turned around and looked back at the buried ruins, unwilling to find nothing, but reluctantly withdrew his gaze and walked away, and the soldiers also followed the same path and quickened their pace to return quickly.
In the mountain stream, with the gravel and ice falling into the deep valley together for seven nights, my eyes were dark and my mind was confused. The weightlessness of the body continued to fall, and occasionally there was a sharp pain from a blow somewhere in the body, followed by a heavy whimper in the throat. Although I can feel the severe pain in various parts of my body in a groggy state, it is obvious that I can't help myself in my current situation.
Gradually, Qiye's feeling became more and more sluggish, and the pain in various parts of his body seemed to be gradually shielded. "Knock" After an unusually loud crashing sound, Nanaya completely fainted......
I don't know how long it has been, but Qiye's originally closed eyes felt a faint ray of light in a daze, like a white silver thread in a black curtain. As consciousness gradually regained consciousness, the light became brighter and brighter, and the darkness covering the eye sockets began to be dispelled by the silver light.
In the end, the darkness covered by the entire eye socket of Seven Nights had become brighter, and Seven Nights blinked his weak eyes slightly, and after truly feeling the exact light in front of him, the confusion in the darkness was immediately awakened.
When he was fully conscious, a spirit, the cold body of Seven Nights instinctively wanted to sit up. In an instant, all parts of the body seemed to be pierced by a powerful electric current, and there were bursts of continuous severe pain in an instant. Qiye couldn't bear it, his eyebrows furrowed, and his facial features were distorted in pain. The severe pain also made the body unbearable, and Nanaya had to dispel the idea of getting up.
As time passed, until he was able to barely get used to the severe pain, Nanaya gritted his teeth and endured it, and tried to sit up slowly again. Gently rubbed his cloudy eyes, and glanced around: I saw a huge white light curtain floating slowly overhead, countless colored lights intertwined with each other, forming a variety of completely incomprehensible patterns and symbols, I was sitting on a huge graphic light screen, the light screen not only did not have a trace of coldness but appeared warm and comfortable.
"Where is this?" Nanaya muttered with wide eyes of curiosity, except for what happened to him before, except for the moment when he fell, the rest of the rest was blank, perhaps he had already decided in his heart that this was the space world after death......
"Haha... , little guy, you're finally awake!" When Qiye looked around, an old voice came from the space, and Qiye hurriedly raised his head and looked in the direction from which the voice came. I saw that in the center of the entire huge space light curtain, an old man wearing a white robe, crane hair, and a long beard sat firmly in mid-air, exuding an immortal smart light, looking at it from a distance.
"That.... I'm sorry, the juniors have no intention of breaking in, breaking in, and disturbing the seniors, and I hope the seniors will forgive their sins. Nanaya got up from the ground with difficulty, stood extremely unsteadily, and organized his speech in some confusion. As for why he appeared here, Nanaya was a little confused.
"Haha, it's okay, I didn't expect to see the human race again after seven thousand years, it's really rare!hahaha...."The old man who was sitting on the hung side couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile after a long beard.
"What?7,000 years?" After listening to the old man's words, Qiye was even more confused. But apparently the old man was glad to see him here, but he didn't know why he was so angry.
Despite this, Qiye still asked respectfully: "May I ask the senior, is this place?" For the old man's words, Qiye didn't want to delve into it, and what Qiye wanted to know most at the moment was where he was.
"This is the place where old decay has fallen...... the old man replied calmly after laughing and recovering slightly.
Hearing the old man's reply this time, Qiye was even more surprised: The person who appeared in front of him was dead, why did he still appear here? Could it really be that he was dead? All kinds of questions made Qiye's heart even more uneasy, despite all the confusion in his heart, Qiye still suppressed his inner uneasiness, and once again clenched his fists and respectfully asked:
"Since the predecessors have fallen, why are they still here?"
"The old decay body is gone, and what you see is only the last wisp of spirit left by the decay"
"What!" Nanaya's voice trembled even more when he heard this.
"The old decay has stepped into the 'holy level' realm before his death, so the spirit can still exist in the world for a period of time after the death of the physical body, but now the last wisp of the spirit of the old decay is about to dry up. The old man sighed slightly sadly.
After a few brief exchanges with the old man, Qiye's heart was extremely shocked: he never knew that in this world, cultivators could still reach the realm where the body was destroyed and the soul was immortal, and this experience was also the most shocking thing that Qiye had heard since he was a child.
It was precisely because it was so shocking that it made Qiye's attention shift from the eagerness to know where he was to the old man's narration, to ponder all kinds of incredibleness.