Chapter Seventy-Two: The White Lady
"The first statue of the Pure Roof?"
Lin Lan was a little surprised, and then glanced at Qiao Baiyue again, a little concerned about her title for the chief.
First ...... My lord?
However, he didn't say much, just frowned slightly and said, "That Pure Heaven Terrace leader, is it a man or a woman?" β
Qiao Baiyue became more and more strange and replied, "Of course it's a man." β
"He's human?" Lin Lan asked.
"Nature is human." Qiao Baiyue bowed slightly.
Lin Lan was silent for a moment and said, "Qiao Baiyue, you are also a Xuezheng of the Academy Palace, right?" β
Qiao Baiyue was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "My identity is indeed the Xuezheng of the Academy Palace, and I happen to be able to learn art in the Academy." β
Lin Lan asked again: "Speaking of which, you should call me junior brother, right?" β
"Nature." Qiao Baiyue bowed her head and said, "I did get started a few years earlier than Mr. Lin. β
Lin Lan pondered.
According to what was seen in the endgame, it was undoubtedly the snake demon who set off a monstrous wave to kill him, or a woman, calling him a junior brother, and most likely in a dream.
The most qualified is undoubtedly Qiao Baiyue in front of him.
But......
Now it seems that Qiao Baiyue should have no reason to kill him.
Lin Lan was still a little confused, and asked again: "Do you know that there is a second dream snake in this Chonghua City or somewhere?" β
"The second dream snake?" Qiao Baiyue was stunned, then shook her head and said, "Mr. Lin, the dream snake is unique, and there can be no second dream snake in the world." β
"Unique?" Lin Lan frowned slightly.
Qiao Baiyue pondered for a moment and said, "Mr. Lin, do you know how the demon was born?" β
Lin Lan said: "Emperor flow pulp. β
"Yes, Emperor Flow." Qiao Baiyue said: "But do you know, why is Emperor Flowing Pulp useless to humans? β
"I don't know." Lin Lan said.
"Because...... Humans are humans, not demons. β
Qiao Baiyue said a nonsense that seemed meaningless, and then said: "Human beings are the chief of all spirits, and this has been the case since ancient times, but why do ordinary beasts and birds become demons?" β
She paused and said softly: "This is because of the bloodline, all the beasts and birds in the world are the descendants of the demon clan, and the bloodline of the ancient demon clan is hidden in the body. β
Lin Lan listened quietly.
Qiao Baiyue continued: "According to legend, the source of many demon bloodlines is the demon ancestors born in the primeval period, which were also called divine beasts in the primeval period, but now they have long been extinct, only the bloodlines have been handed down, and the pure bloodlines of divine beasts are also restricted by the heavens, so any kind of divine beasts are unique. β
"What do you mean......" Lin Lan said softly, "The dream snake is an ancient divine beast?" β
"Yes."
Qiao Baiyue tapped her head and said: "The ancient divine beast 'Dream Snake', that is, the bloodline of the Dream Demon Ancestor, has already spread countless bloodlines, all kinds of snakes, Jiao, down to the most common anxiety-relieving snake, up to the legendary mirage, all have the bloodline of the Dream Demon Ancestor in the body, but more or less, but only the Dream Snake is unique. β
Lin Lan was silent for a moment and said, "Your sisters said that you felt the call of your ancestors, so you came to Chonghua City?" β
Qiao Baiyue sighed softly and said, "That's right, because there is an ancient relic of the Dream Demon Ancestor hidden in this Chonghua City, and it is only because of the awakening of my bloodline that I feel its calling." β
No anti-theft
"So, you're the only dream snake......"
Lin Lan narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked again, "Then do you know, what other powerful demon clans of snakes are?" Can you pull people into such a dream, and then kill them in the dream? β
"Killing people in the dream?" Qiao Baiyue was stunned, then shook her head and said, "Mr. Lin, do you know why I am so sure that Dream Snake is unique?" β
"Huh?" Lin Lan looked at her.
"It's not just because of the classics and the memories of the bloodline."
Qiao Baiyue slowly turned around, looked at this endless dream sea, and said softly: "It's even more because this is the 'Dream Sea' that only dream snakes can dive into." β
She pointed to the islands in the distance and asked, "Do you see them?" β
Lin Lan hummed.
The island beneath his feet looked the same as the islands.
"This sea of dreams seems boundless, but in fact it is only the appearance of dreams."
Qiao Baiyue said softly: "The key is that these countless islands, in fact, these islands are the embodiment of the hearts and minds of countless people, and the part buried under the surface of the water is more, which is the deeper root of the soul, Taoism calls it Daozang, Buddhism calls it Rulai Tibet, can you understand?" β
Lin Lan nodded, "You go on." β
He had also looked through the many books in the library, so he naturally knew what she was talking about.
- Subconscious.
And this sea of dreams is the so-called collective subconscious?
"This sea of dreams is special."
Qiao Baiyue said: "The innate supernatural power of the dream snake is powerful because it can dive into this dream sea, and through these isolated islands that represent everyone's heart, it pulls people into the dream sea, directly targeting the deep depths of the soul. β
She was silent for a moment and said: "Normally, it is impossible to kill people in dreams, but in this dream sea that is connected to reality, it can be done, and with the help of the dream sea, the dream snake has greatly increased its Taoism, while outsiders have greatly reduced its Taoism. β
Speaking of this, Qiao Baiyue looked at Lin Lan.
"So...... If it's a dream to kill people against water, it's the only place where you can do it. β
Qiao Baiyue said: "I can indeed drive this dream sea to set off a wave, and kill the people I pulled into this dream, if it is a snake, only the dream snake in the world can do it, but the legend of Buddhism also has some power to become enlightened, and it seems that it can also dive into this deep dream sea." β
Lin Lan fell silent.
In the endgame, he did die in a dream, and when he was drowned by the monstrous tsunami, the real feeling of being hit by the immensity of power could not be wrong.
In this way, he really died at the hands of the dream snake.
Maybe...... Something else will happen in the remaining days that will cause the Dream Snake to kill him?
"What's wrong, Mr. Lin Lan?"
Qiao Baiyue asked cautiously, "But what acquaintance did you know die in such a way?" β
Lin Lan slowly exhaled a breath and didn't answer her, but asked softly, "Qiao Baiyue, let me ask you a question, under what circumstances will you kill me?" β
Since you can't figure it out, let's just say hello.
"Kill you?" Qiao Baiyue couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "You have a great favor to me, how could I kill you?" β
"That is, what if." Lin Lan said: "You answer honestly. β
Qiao Baiyue thought for a while, then lowered her voice slightly, and said, "If there must be such a time, then ...... It can only be that you and I have formed an irreparable hatred. β
Lin Lan looked at her and made her words clear: "For example, kill your two sisters?" Will you kill me for revenge? β
Qiao Baiyue was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and said in a low voice: "I...... Yes. β
Immediately, she couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean by asking?" β
Lin Lan was silent for a moment, slowly shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I have no grievances with you, why do you want to kill your sister?" I just want you to remember what I said, and whatever happens in the future, you have to find out. β
"Yes, White Moon remember." Qiao Baiyue nodded seriously.
Lin Lan pondered for a moment, and then said, "I want to know your previous experience, especially the more special parts, can you let me see it?" I've read some classics, and I know that Dream Snake has the ability to turn memories into dreams. β
Now it seems that the person who killed him is likely to be the dream snake, and there must be some unplanned misunderstandings or coincidences in this.
The matter is the endgame, and he naturally wants to find out what the situation is.
Qiao Baiyue was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you want to see it?" β
"Hmm." Lin Lan nodded.
Qiao Baiyue was silent for a while, and said: "I can show you, but some things involving the secrets of the Pure Tiantai, I think it's best for you not to know, otherwise once I leak it out and break the oath, the head of the Pure Tiantai will know, and then you will be in trouble." β
"Okay, you can't tell me, you can skip it." Lin Lan nodded slightly.
Facing the endgame at this time, he naturally will not take the initiative to find death and attract the hatred of Jingtiantai.
Even if he forced Dream Snake to tell him everything, maybe it would be the reason for the endgame?
He just wanted to increase the favorable factors as much as possible and grasp the situation as much as possible.
"In that case...... Well, take a look. β
Qiao Baiyue slowly stood up, looking at the vast blue waves and the sea and sky in the distance, and gently waved her sleeve robe, only to see that the sky and the earth changed color, and the surroundings changed their appearance.
This is a dream scene where memories are transfigured.
The surrounding fog is drifting, and you can see the flourishing flowers and trees, and it is impressively a valley.
The moonlight was bright, and there seemed to be thousands of golden streamers crossing the sky.
Not far away, in the moonlight, you can see a huge python with a body like white jade, which is entrenched in the flowers and plants and slowly trembles, and then the snake scales retreat, gradually growing human hands and feet, body, and face, and after a while, it will completely transform into a stunning girl with a red fruit, holding her knees with both hands, curled up in the lush flowers and plants, and the carcass is looming under the cover of the flowers and plants.
"This is what I look like after I just devoured the Emperor's Liquid Pulp to produce spiritual wisdom and transform into a shape." Qiao Baiyue's eyes were confused, and she said softly: "Then, I will go to find my twenty-one sisters." β
Her fingertips moved, and the illusion around her kept changing.
Lin Lan found himself in front of a cave in a deep valley, and twenty-two snake demon women, including Qiao Baiyue, were lying on the smooth rocks in front of the cave like snakes, lazily basking in the sun, wearing only clothes made of flowers and plants.
And Qiao Baiyue in her memories was looking into the distance, which was the southeast direction.
"Little sister, why are you looking in that direction every day?" A snake girl suddenly asked.
The stunning girl with a wreath of flowers and a flower dress was looking in that direction a little stupidly, and muttered: "Eldest sister, I really feel the call of my ancestors, do you know what kind of place it is?" β
The snake girl thought for a while and said, "Did the nerd who strayed into the valley last time still leave a copy of the geography of the world?" Our Qingmu Mountain is in Dayu Yanzhou, one of the four dynasties of mankind, right? Further southeast...... It should be the Jingzhou of Dayu? It's the direction of the legendary Chonghua City, and further southeast, it seems to be Youzhou, Chizhou, and the sea area, right? β
"Eldest sister, I want to go and see." The stunning girl said suddenly.
"No, you're not allowed to go out!"
The eldest sister of the snake girl immediately said sternly: "There are all human beings outside, those stinky monks and stinky Taoists are all over the world to eliminate demons, in case you are discovered, those monks and Taoists come to arrest you, and if you are lucky, you will be caught back, when the spirit beast mount guards the cave, if you are unlucky, I am afraid that you will be killed directly." β
"I'm not afraid." The stunning girl snorted: "Last time, there was a Taoist priest who sneaked into the valley, wasn't he put down by me at once?" When I sent him out, he thought it was a dream and forgot what was going on here. β
"That Taoist priest is not high, but there are many advanced people in the human race."
The eldest sister of the snake girl said: "Legend has it that our demon clan was more than 800 years ago, it was cleaned by the first generation of Dayu national teacher, a human named Tang Tianyuan, according to my ancestors, 600 miles away in the black water cave, there was a 10,000-year-old demon king eight hundred years ago, but because of the evil, was killed by the Dayu national teacher, you think about it, that is a big demon king." β
"Isn't that a good thing?" The stunning girl's beautiful eyes suddenly widened, and she glowed with the brilliance of a little star, "Cleaned up the bad guy who did evil, that first generation of national teachers is a good person, eldest sister, I want to learn from him!" β
"It's a pity that the first national teacher has passed away a long time ago." The eldest sister of the snake girl glanced at her, and said: "However, that Tang Tianyuan seems to have established a sect called 'Human Sect', it is rumored that the Human Sect accepts disciples without class, only looking at character and qualifications, I heard that there was indeed a demon clan that had transformed into a human sect. β
The stunning girl's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Human Sect? Renzong ......"
"You are not allowed to go." The eldest sister of the snake girl glared at her, "Blame me for being too talkative, I shouldn't have told you." β
"Eldest sister, why? Doesn't the Human Sect only accept good people and good demons? The stunning girl pouted, looked at the eldest sister with tears in her eyes, and seemed to be about to cry, "I'm obviously a good demon, I never kill anyone, and I have saved people who have lost their way and fallen into the valley." β
"That's not going to work, anyway, you are not allowed to go." The eldest sister of the snake girl snorted coldly, and said softly: "Little sister, isn't it good for our sisters to hide in Qingmu Mountain to practice?" It's so much fun every day. β
"But...... People want to go out and have a look. β
The stunning girl lowered her head and said with some grievances: "And Zu is also calling me." β
"Are you because of the call of your ancestors?" The eldest sister of the snake girl couldn't help but laugh, "I'm not rare to expose you, you obviously covet those delicacies of human beings, and you still want to go out to play, and return the call of your ancestors." β
The snake girls around laughed.
"Oh, big sister!" The stunning girl stomped her foot and went back to the cave in a huff.
In the dream of recalling, in the laughter of snake girls, Qiao Baiyue slowly closed her slightly red eyes, then turned her head to look at Lin Lan beside her, and said softly: "Mr. Lin, I used to ...... Isn't it naΓ―ve? β
"It's a little." Lin Lan nodded slightly.
"But this time was my happiest experience." Qiao Baiyue laughed at herself, "It's just that at that time, I didn't know how to cherish it, and I only longed for the outside world." β
She stretched out her hand, as if holding the wheel of time, and flicked it gently.
The illusion of memories changes rapidly.
The night was dark, and only a soft moonlight fell on the valley.
In the moonlight, a stunning girl wrapped in tree bark was cautiously poking her head out of the cave, looking around, and then cautiously walked out of the cave.
She was tiptoeing out of the cave when she heard a commotion in the woods beside her.
The stunning girl turned her head to look, and suddenly her little face collapsed, "Eldest sister, second sister ......"
Several snake girls who came out of the nearby woods looked at the stunning girl angrily.
"The eldest sister is right, the younger sister really plans to sneak away."
"Little sister, you're too disobedient."
"What if you run outside alone, what if you run into danger?"
Several snake girl sisters couldn't help frowning, but after saying a few words, they found that the snake girl didn't speak, just looked at the little sister silently, and one of the snake girls couldn't help but say: "Big sister, why don't you speak, you also teach the little sister a lesson." β
"Big sister......" The stunning girl looked at the snake girl sister pitifully.
The eldest sister of the snake girl sighed and said, "Forget it, what's the use of teaching this girl a lesson?" This girl is the royal bloodline of our Worry Relief Snake, the 'Dream Snake', and her future cannot only stay in this small valley after all. β
She reached out and touched the girl's head, "If you want to go out, you can go, but you have to be prepared, if you go out like this, you will definitely be arrested by humans." β
"Really?" The stunning girl looked at the eldest sister happily, couldn't help but stepped forward and hugged the eldest sister hard, and said happily: "I know that the eldest sister is the best for me!" Why don't you go out with me? β
"I've been out, I know what it's like, I'm not going."
The eldest sister of the snake girl shook her head, looked at the girl again, and said, "You can't go out like this, you have to change into human clothes and dress plainly, otherwise it will be too eye-catching." β
The stunning girl nodded excitedly.
And Lin Lan stood beside Qiao Baiyue, watching these snake girls babble and teach the girl 'common sense' about the human world.
"Later...... After I left the valley, I met a man in a nearby town. β
Qiao Baiyue said softly, and the memories and dreams in front of her were constantly changing one by one, "She lied to me and said that she could take me to Chonghua, take me to Renzong, buy me a lot of delicious food, and also told me a story written by the first generation of national teachers eight hundred years ago, which is called "White Lady", I was very happy to listen to it, and I quickly believed her. β
The subsequent memories are obviously not very good, and she is not even willing to show the memory images again, but just strips the picture from the memories.
Lin Lan just watched this scene silently.
The middle-aged woman-like person Yazi was shocked when she saw the stunning girl.
There was a man who heard the stunning girl say that she was a wandering official lady, and the seemingly gentle but greedy eyes were actually greedy.
Someone poisoned the food, but found that the stunning girl was surprised after eating it.
"Then, this group of people found that no matter how much they drugged me, it was useless for me, and suspected that I was a cultivator, but when they found that I was too naΓ―ve, they still wanted to be a big vote, so they tied me up."
Qiao Baiyue's somewhat dazed eyes reflected the ever-changing memories and dreams, "I haven't started to practice at that time, my physical body is not much stronger than mortals, and my innate supernatural powers are still awakening, I keep in mind my sister's words, until the moment of life and death, I must not let humans discover my supernatural powers, so I didn't resist." β
She laughed self-deprecatingly, "At the time, I was naΓ―ve enough to think ...... These people probably want to take me to Chonghua City. β
Immediately, the illusion of memories stayed on one screen, only to see a huge python like white jade entrenched on the ground, surrounded by humans with torches constantly besieging it.
"Later, they broke my tendons and tendons, and pinned my hands and feet with rivets and hemp ropes, and I was so in pain and so scared that I had to reveal my original form and break free from the rope."
Qiao Baiyue sighed: "They are all scared, desperately besieging me, I want to explain, but no one listens, I don't want to be a bad demon, and I don't dare to kill, so I have to flee." β
The dream picture of the memory flashed past the stunning girl sitting by the river crying and pulling out the rivets on her hands and feet, and then looking at the book of "The White Lady" while crying.
Lin Lan was silent for a moment and said, "White lady...... It's a tragedy. β