142: Courtyard of the Dead
In this world, there is never love for no reason, and if there is, maybe this person is your parent or child, but you don't know it yet.
As the saying goes, people in the rivers and lakes are most afraid of forgiveness.
"The mountain chief is magical, is there anything else you can't do?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Hehe, you want to refuse?" The mountain chief stared at Lou Jinchen with a faint gaze.
Lou Jinchen cheered up, he felt that the mountain chief at this time was dangerous, and said: "I'm just afraid that I can't do it well." ”
"Your sword, it's just right for you." The mountain chief said.
After speaking, he walked towards the door, which meant that Lou Jinchen would follow.
Lou Jinchen hurriedly picked up the mirror on the table, took his sword and followed the mountain chief.
The mountain chief walked all the way to the outside of Taixue.
Lou Jinchen didn't know what the mountain chief was going to do, he only felt that the darkness in front of him was as thick as ink, and he felt that he had walked into a mountain and river painted in ink.
Lou Jinchen didn't use his eyes to see, he believed that his eyes would be able to see something clearly, but he was also afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so after thinking about it, he resisted this impulse.
"Do you know how long the old man hasn't been out?" The mountain chief asked suddenly.
"Xiaolou is young and short, and I don't know the life of Shanchang." Lou Jinchen said modestly.
"The old man entered this Taixue at the age of fifty-three as the chief of the mountain, and it has been more than 200 years, and you have also heard a saying that people in the world live no more than 300 years, and if they pass, they will either go crazy or change their ways." The words of the mountain chief made Lou Jinchen's heart suddenly, before he felt that the mountain chief sometimes looked tired, but now he felt that the mountain chief was unfathomable.
"I'm going to die, when the time comes, I must die completely, otherwise, I will be like the previous two mountain chiefs, who will always run out if they die incompletely." The words of the mountain chief were obviously telling some secrets to Lou Jinchen.
It was also telling him that the existence that had just been summoned was one of the previous two mountain chiefs.
"No matter what happens when a person is alive, he must die quietly, without any concern, Xiaolou, don't you say?" The mountain chief asked.
Lou Jinchen, who followed behind the mountain chief, is not easy to answer, after all, many people don't want to die, there is a saying that the winner is the one who lives for a long time, of course, those who can still get up after death may say: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm not dead yet." ”
"Death may be just the beginning." Such a sentence suddenly flashed in Lou Jinchen's mind.
"Okay, that's right, Xiaolou, there is Huigen, but this beginning is in the world of the dead, and we are the living, and the world of the living does not allow the dead to come out at will, otherwise, the world will be in chaos, don't you say Xiaolou?" The mountain chief asked again.
"Xiaolou is only a shallow learner, I think it's ......"
"Okay, that's right, there are too few people like you Xiaolou who have a clear self-awareness now."
The mountain chief's words made Lou Jinchen hold back a word, and suddenly, he felt that the mountain chief must have no friends.
"Xiaolou, it's not that the mountain chief doesn't like what he says, but the world is too complicated, some people obviously don't agree with other people's words, but they still pretend to praise you, and then talk about it elsewhere, old man, I hate such people the most." The mountain chief walked in front, and there was the sound of water under his feet.
Lou Jinchen only felt a bone-chilling chill surging up from his feet.
"Chief, where are we going?" Lou Jinchen couldn't help but ask.
"I told you so much, you still haven't understood, you said that you are only a shallow learner, you really didn't lie, of course we are going to the world of the dead." The mountain chief said.
Lou Jinchen couldn't help but look around again, all he saw was the boundless darkness, and he wanted to see it with his own eyes again.
"Xiaolou, has anyone told you that on the way to the deceased, we can't wake up the souls of the dead who are not completely dead, your eyes are like stabbing people with needles when they look at people, it is best to be more restrained." The mountain chief said.
It was really the first time that someone had commented on his eyes like this, and he was still very surprised and said: "Don't bully Xiaolou young, my eyes are also good eyes, how can this be." Lou Jinchen said.
"If you don't believe it, then you can go and take a look, and then you will be entangled by some strange things, but don't blame the old man for not telling you in advance." The mountain chief said slowly.
Lou Jinchen always felt that he was alarmist, but there was no evidence, for the sake of his long life, he didn't fight him.
"Mountain Chief, Xiaolou has always been curious, what kind of path are you cultivating?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Boy, do you think it's polite to ask me this question from day one?" The mountain chief said with a sneer.
Lou Jinchen was silent, looking at the back of the mountain chief, and then at his neck under his white hair.
"Alas, Xiaolou, don't blame the old man, I don't like what I say, after all, I'm old, and I don't have a few years to live, and there are always some emotions that I can't control, can you understand the mountain chief?" The mountain chief asked.
"Mountain Chief, I think, you ......" Lou Jinchen's words began, and the Mountain Chief had already sighed and said: "Today's young people, it's always 'I think, I feel', can't you speak more simply?" ”
"Chief, Xiaolou is still young, I can't understand the mood of an old and dying person like you!" As soon as Lou Jinchen's words fell, the whole road suddenly became silent.
The mountain chief stopped talking.
"Chief Shan, can you share the mood of old age with someone like Xiaolou who is less than thirty?" Lou Jinchen asked again.
"Hehe, hehe!" The mountain chief suddenly laughed in front of him and said: "Now young people, you can't eat at all, and the old man who said it in a few words is full of excitement and wants to eat people!" ”
His last sentence dragged out a long note, with infinite exclamation and that suppressed sense of pain.
Lou Jinchen's heart tightened, and said: "Mountain Chief, let's have a good chat, if you chat well, you will be in a better mood, you say yes?" Mountain Chief, you are old and strong, and you will definitely be able to break through the shackles of Shouyuan. ”
"Okay, what a good boy, it sounds good in a blink of an eye, it's really a rudder." The mountain chief sighed.
Lou Jinchen was silent.
Ahead, a long river appeared, and the water was glowing with a faint cold light.
The mountain chief walked along the river step by step, and he suddenly said: "Xiaolou, do you want to be this Taixue mountain chief?" ”
"Xiaolou doesn't want to." Lou Jinchen said.
"What's the point of being locked up here every day?" Lou Jinchen said.
"What if you could not be locked up here?" The mountain chief said.
"I don't want to, I come and go with a sword, I can't go anywhere in the world, why stay in such a square place and wait for death?" When Lou Jinchen's words fell, he felt that he was not speaking well, because when he said 'waiting for death', it seemed to be satirizing the mountain chief.
The mountain chief was silent for a while, and sighed: "Young people nowadays, they are very stingy, and they say that everyone talks well, but they always carry swords and swords. ”
"Mountain chief, I'm sorry, I couldn't hold back." Lou Jinchen corrected his mistake and immediately apologized.
"Forget it, young people have not reached the realm of life and death, but they always love to wander between life and death, Xiaolou, you say you don't want to be the mountain chief, but there are people who want to be the mountain chief, what do you think they think?" The mountain chief asked.
"Why did the mountain chief become this mountain chief at that time?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"I've forgotten for too long." The chief said, "If I remember, where would I come to ask you." ”
Lou Jinchen looked up at the sky, there were no stars in the sky, looking into the distance, it was pitch black in the distance, only the river next to it was rushing, but the river was rushing without the slightest sound, under the sparkling waves, there seemed to be endless mystery.
Suddenly, something jumped out of the water, like a fish, but there was a huge fish in the water, which jumped up behind him and devoured it in one gulp.
"Is this really the world of the dead?" Lou Jinchen couldn't help but ask.
"The dead are just the name of the living, whether they are alive or dead, they are just a state, don't you want to know the way I cultivate? You guess first. The mountain chief said.
"Yama!" Lou Jinchen said directly.
The mountain chief was silent for a while and said, "So the old man has always felt that young people are dishonest now, and they know it in their hearts, but they still pretend not to know. ”
"Mountain Chief, you misunderstood, once, I met an old man, after Xiao Lou said what he cultivated, he seemed to be unhappy, so Xiao Lou felt that he might need to pretend to be able to please the elderly." Lou Jinchen said.
"Alas!" The mountain chief sighed again and said, "Xiaolou, let's talk well." ”
"Yes, Chief." Lou Jinchen said.
"There are few inheritances in the world of Yama Dao, how could you guess that you have seen it?" The mountain chief asked.
Lou Jinchen thought for a while and said: "I don't know, I once met a black ape, who seems to have the ability to walk in yin and yang, and the mountain chief took me from the world of the living to the world of the dead, so I have never seen it before, so I guessed that it was Yama Dao!" ”
"You guessed it right, what I cultivated is indeed the Yama Dao, and the first two mountain chiefs also cultivated this Dao, and it is precisely because of this Dao that I am unwilling to die at the end of my life, and I think that I can still live in another way, after all, the Yama Dao is a cultivation method that walks in yin and yang and has the most contact with the dead, even if you want to die, it is difficult to die completely." The mountain chief said.
"Then I don't know where the mountain chief is going to take Xiaolou now? Please also ask the mountain chief to make it clear, so that Xiaolou can be mentally prepared. Lou Jinchen said.
"I'll take you to kill those two mountain chiefs." The mountain chief said.
This answer not only surprised Lou Jinchen, but also made him feel unsurprised.
"Didn't the mountain chief just say a word and drank away the 'mountain chief'? How? "What Lou Jinchen wants to say is, if you want to kill, isn't it very easy, do you need me to go?
"I can't kill them, I'm with their fellow practitioners, they're already dead, how can I kill them again? Now they are just being detained, but I myself will die, and I will die in the future, and there will be no one to detain me, who is already dead. There was a hint of concern in the chief's words.
But for some reason, Lou Jinchen heard a sense of excitement again, and Lou Jinchen felt a strong ambivalence from him.
The mountain chief seemed to be looking forward to his death, and no one could help his own scene.
"Mountain Chief, my sword, will not let you down, you just said that someone wants to be a mountain chief, who is it?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Two Great Teachers, of course." The mountain chief said: "The high-ranking priest of the Winter God, Gong Yao wants to be the mountain chief, and so does Liu Hanfeng from the National Teacher's Mansion. ”
"They are not from Yama Dao, can they also be the chief of this mountain?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Whether you can do it or not, you have to be it to know." As the mountain chief spoke, he came to a place where lights appeared.
If he hadn't told Lou Jinchen that this was the world of the dead, he wouldn't have felt anything strange about the light at all, because the light was like a lonely farmhouse courtyard, and the light in that courtyard was yellow, the only light in this darkness.
The two approached step by step, and the small courtyard and lights in the painting slowly became clear in Lou Jinchen's eyes.
Lou Jinchen didn't make a sound, he was looking at this courtyard.
When approaching this courtyard, the two came to the door, the door was locked, the mountain chief actually took out the key, opened the door, Lou Jinchen followed in, reached out and touched the door, stretched out his finger and buckled the door.
Some of the wood chips were detained by him, and he pinched them on his fingertips, and those wood chips flew away like dust.
An aggrieved courtyard.
The light came from that room, and Lou Jinchen felt that it was like a prison.
There were windows with paper on them, and there were lights in the room, and suddenly a figure threw itself on the window and looked out through one of the broken windows.
It was a pair of eyes full of death, and this was the first time that Lou Jinchen had looked at such a dead person's eyes so closely.
From these eyes, he saw only negative emotions.
The eyes of a living person, no matter what, will always have a kind of vitality in them, and these eyes, watched by it, as if the body is slowly dying.
Lou Jinchen didn't look too much, but looked at the three rooms and said, "Didn't you say that only two mountain chiefs were locked up here?" How can there be three rooms? ”
"Because there's a room for myself." The mountain chief said.
"Oh, so what do we do now? Do you want to go straight in? Lou Jinchen asked.
He always felt that things should not be so easy.
"Of course, as long as you push open this door and kill the person in the house who deserves to die but refuses to die completely, this trip will be over, and the hidden danger of the entire Taixue will be eliminated." There seemed to be a little more excitement in the voice of the mountain chief, as if a long-cherished wish for many years would be fulfilled.
Lou Jinchen pondered, as if he was thinking about something, and only after a while did he speak: "Mountain Chief, can I kill to death?" ”
"The old man has never seen such an excellent young man as you, Xiaolou, you can." The mountain chief said.
So Lou Jinchen took two steps forward and slowly pulled out his sword.
The sword groaned in this silence, and the aura on his body became lighter and lighter, but the sword seemed to be a thousand weights, and it seemed to hide a touch of the moon, which needed to be carefully pulled out, and the light shone in this small courtyard.
It's not there today.,I wanted to add a little more today.,But,Isn't it a holiday.,My friend shouted to go out and drink two cups.,If I didn't drink too much.,Then come back and continue to write.。
At the end of the month, I sincerely wish you all the best and all the best.
(End of chapter)