Chapter 9: Spirit and Flesh

The silver, graceful allosaurus looked down on the person in front of him. It smelled something strange on his body. In the world of thought it reads, the soul of the creature before it has far more years than it should have been.

This is not an irrational phenomenon.

In Joanqiu, he had not seen such a phenomenon. In other words, even since the opening of the heavens and the earth, there has never been such a phenomenon.

However, the years his soul had spent were only a child in front of the elder dragon. It's just that the part that really sustains this person's life wrapped in that layer of human skin is longer than the years that Gu Chuan's soul has spent. The longevity of matter is something that the elder dragon cannot read.

It honors only the signs of the soul, and within the dynasty, the "political enemies" who hold diametrically opposed theories to him have now rebelled against the system of the elders of the dynasty.

The man did not understand what he meant, but only cautiously looked at the hill made of flesh. Standing at the foot of the mountain, he repeated meaningfully:

"Soul ......?"

"You don't know the soul, I don't blame you. Because the soul is an invisible thinking being that exists in the body, it has the ability to recognize and be recognized, but it is only used when the organism thinks, but it is always unaware of it. ”

The Elder Dragon leaned on the ground and patiently explained to Gu Chuan the truth of what it thought was the world it had comprehended dozens of generations ago:

"It is born with the birth of a living being, grows with the growth of a living being, and leaves this world when the living form dies. It is the true content of matter, the only reason why active matter is different from inorganic matter. Life is a living animal. The spirit cannot move, but it is the fundamental cause of the movement and change of the living body, just as the head of a creature moves by its feet, but it must not be said that the feet move by themselves, it cannot take the initiative to do this, it only has the function of doing this. And, more importantly, it is important to know that only a noble soul can make a great body. We are undoubtedly the noblest beings in nature. ”

As for the snake, looking left and right at Tianheng's gaze, and then at the inexplicable outsider, almost decided, his heart was overflowing with a large sourness, its mouth was closed, and it almost bit its own tongue.

It could not comprehend the Elder's favor for the man, even though it had understood that the man was just another creature in human skin, and that it might have something to do with their race. In fact, this signal, when the snake touched, was found, but it did not take it seriously.

And now, to the best of its knowledge, it can explain the favor of the elders...... Only, the genealogy of dynastic blood, that is, ...... The lineage represents the glory created by a certain type of ancestor.

Although it is also called Allosaurus, there are all kinds of discrepancies in the race of Allosaurus or Arosaurus, and some are even suspected by modern Allosaurus to be the same creature, but ancient rumors. The snake's father once said to the snake that among the modern elder dragons, Tianheng is the Venerable who most follows this set of theories, and he also participated in the editing of the second degree.

"What does Elder Tianheng mean...... Am I related to you guys? ”

The young man held his breath, not daring to recall any details of the past. His hand was still hidden under his shoulder coat, and he clenched the dragon's heart horn.

He knew that his memory was indeed more extensive than that of ordinary people. But there was no doubt that his body was a product of the Heavenly Punishment, but the Elder Yilong in front of him had a different interpretation of this from his own philosophical point of view.

In the face of the unknown giant, since Gu Chuan entered the door, he has been using the dragon's heart horn for the first time and continuously on his body, to peek into what he sees and thinks, and input what he wants him to think.

His "spirit" was calm, but his "flesh" was sweating.

The elder said:

"Stretch out your hand."

In front of this monster, Gu Chuan didn't dare to disobey.

He let go of his hands clenching the dragon's horns. Cold sweat on his hands. All these signs fell into the eyes of the elders. It was silent about it. The young man raised his hands forward, and the iridescent scales on his left hand were evident in the darkness.

The Elder Dragon stared at the scales with a thoughtful expression.

"Ancient, mysterious, the taste is not the same as the taste of meat."

It lowered its head, and the head of the huge beast rushed in front of the human as if a truck was about to crash into the human body. What happened next made the snake on the side widen its eyes.

"This, this is ...... The highest courtesy. ”

This shows that the part of the alien dragon in the human body of this foreigner may be about the same as that of the elder in the genealogy of the bloodline compiled by the dynasty that has been carried out for thousands of years.

The Elder Dragon stretched out its blood-colored tongue, the area of which could swallow a human body into its abdomen completely, but under the control of this anomaly, the weight was light, and the rounded tip was lightly resting on the scale.

And the young man, who faced his tongue like a curtain, smelled a fierce fishy smell.

It took him a moment before he remembered that it smelled blood.

The elder dragon's mouth seemed to be swallowing blood all the time.

He seemed to understand better the terrible situation of this huge creature in the new world.

"In your body, I smell two life-sustaining forces that are getting along. But neither of these forces is yet human power. There is no doubt that you are not human...... Not who you think you are. ”

Elder Long said.

"And what am I?"

The young man asked.

The breath of the long dragon dragon was extraordinarily long, and in the silent space, he seemed to be able to hear some kind of life beating. The Elder Dragon said:

"A species of allosaurus that has been cut and covered with human skin."

The young man did not say a word.

At this time, the snake spoke eagerly:

"No, he can't be...... It doesn't taste like this, Elder Tianheng, according to the theory of the spirit flesh you taught me. 'Meat' shouldn't be matched like that. ”

The elder dragon's gaze shifted.

"Tell me your opinion, then? Tian Tinghou? ”

Compared to the elders, a snake about the size of a human is really a small snake with long legs.

The snake opens its mouth:

"I know that one of the bases of your judgment is that the time limit of his spirit exceeds the time limit of the human body, so it can only be based on ...... Based on the variation of 'meat' of our clan. But this does not necessarily prove it. This outlander may just be something somewhere between an alien dragon and a human......"

"By what kind of effect?"

The elder dragon asked the snake condescendingly.

If I knew, I wouldn't have said it was possible. Need to know more! β€”β€”

The snake swallowed the phrase into its stomach, and it decided to wait until later.

As they argued, the young man felt like a superfluous presence here.

"What does that mean?"

The elder closed his eyes, brought his head closer to his body, and hung the wings of a feathered bird on his body, and said:

"You should come back to our ranks and stay with us. You may have been lost for a long time, and I still don't understand the reason for your genealogy, but when we succeed in quelling the rebellion, I will follow the ancient teachings and restore you to the glory you deserve, and help you return to the way you were. ”

When the young man didn't expect it, a strange opportunity fell to him.

An interesting guess is that if he had come here earlier, this chance, could have been absolutely high. Because in the New World, the dynasty he met with, the actual scope of control, and the territory spread by the inhabitants far exceeded the Sunset City or the City of Answer, which only had one city, and as for the people who migrated in the depths of the netherworld, it was even less worth mentioning compared to it.

But this opportunity is now delicate, in the situation he knows. The reason is very simple, although it is not known what the origin of the civil war is, this family is undoubtedly a lost dog, has come to the border, making the border villagers war, the situation is so difficult and embarrassing that it is difficult to imagine that it can be reversed.

The young man looked up and saw the elder dragon.

He had discovered that the elder, known as Tianheng, was not strong enough to read his thoughts. In the same way, he was not close enough to read his thoughts.

Based only on the instinct of the living being in contact, he felt that Tianheng might be sincere.

Therefore, he was not motivated by any other reason, neither by coveting a possible position of power, nor by a fear of possible risks. He thought about it all, and then put it all out of his mind.

He said:

"I can't accept that."

The elder looked at him calmly.

"It's not what I want, and that's not what I'm aiming for. I am an explorer. ”

The snake jerked its head. It had already guessed that the Elders would promise to be restored, so it was not surprised, but it was the refusal of this unknown human.

"You don't know what you're doing? Are you going to give up the glory of the dragon? ”

The snake shouted.

"Didn't you say, didn't I?"

The snake choked.

The young man smiled: "I don't think I'm either, and even if I am, that's not what I want, so I still don't want to." ”

"You don't know the glory in it, so you can make a big deal of it, and don't want it yourself."

The snake glanced at it.

"Glory also has weight."

The young man shook his head:

"That's why you're fighting here, isn't it? You can't just enjoy the benefits and give nothing...... In that case, I'll be uneasy. ”

He spoke of the sore spot of the serpent.

"This is the act of cowards, this is the act of that group of betrayers! I know, I know, there are people who throw our old glory, our eldership, our defense, our love, our law all in the dustbin and pursue what you call a new glory of self-righteousness, and trample on the old glory with this glory and be complacent. I don't know what gave birth to them, and who raised them...... It's like an ignorant child, bent on rejecting the advice of his elders...... It just looks different, say no, and you're going to run away. When things fall on you, you have to endure and bear them. All the people in the past have taken on this responsibility, and only then did you have you, your origin, the origin of your origin, if it weren't for your ancestors who once maintained the existence of the dragon, you might not be able to see this world! And you're going to say now, you don't know, you can't afford it, so you don't want it? ”

Speaking of this, the snake remembered the past, was furious, and continued to talk.

But then, the elder looked up.

It says:

"Don't argue in front of me. You are different in appearance, but you are all one race, and you should not quarrel, but you should help each other. ”

The snake was silent.

The elder looked back at the young man and said:

"And what do you want?"

The young man lowered his head, looked at the occasional scale in his hand that had brought him a great benefit, and between panic and imagination, he calmly said what he had always wished:

"My companions are still waiting for me, I need to meet them, and when we do, we will set out higher and farther places, and we will not stop here."

The world will be trampled under our feet, and the frontier of life cognition will continue to move forward.

"Where are you going?"

Elder Long asked.

The young man smiled, and when the sun came out, the question became simpler.

"We're goingβ€”"

Where the sun finally sets.

He said.

There, green grass, majestic rivers across the sky, good water, good mountains, a city that may have changed a lot, and I take with me everything I have acquired on my journey, in which I will prove my imagination and my quest.

Prove that the world is not endless, and that what I am asking for is not from a deception.

The snake listened dismissively.

It had seen adventurers, and even seen many adventurers from this dynasty, but none of them could come back.

The elder didn't say a word, and only asked Gu Chuan to perch first. And the prisoners can also be treated to a higher level for the time being. But you still can't leave the cave.

This is for intelligence reasons.

The young man was gone.

The cave is still deep. In the huge space, the winged snake lying prone closed its glimmering eyes. The scales made a sound of grinding on the ground, and the island began to turn unexpectedly in the air, signaling to the co-lifters of the other islands in the path of the sun.

The serpent said:

"Elder, you've met someone who indulges in his own fantasies. He may not have realized his contradictory and comical schizophrenia yet. ”

The elder did not speak.

The serpent continued:

"I still don't agree that he could be from my clan. At the end of the day, we're too far apart. ”

"Not really." Elder Long opened his eyes, "Tianting, you are still young, and you have only lived two generations of life. In fact, throughout history, we have had many people who have been banished to distant places, and there have also been people who have left alone or suddenly disappeared. Some of the races that choose to leave or are forced to leave will be called sick and dead, so you don't know it now. ”

It was also the first time that the snake had heard this modern secret, and it could not help but say:

"Elder, can you target from the list?"

"The memory is far away, and I'm old."

The elder dragon scraped the rocks. Crushed stone chips, hanging from its claws.

Its subtext is that it can't.

However, the smell of the flesh it smelled on Gu Chuan's body, in retrospect, was even stranger and older than what it had thought at the beginning.

"What if he's not? It's just a stranger who is a little abnormal, maybe it's stained with blood? ”

And the serpent said.

The Elder Dragon Says No:

It is written in the Code that the spirit and the flesh are one, and that the attributes of the spirit will be fully embodied in the flesh. There is nothing wrong with teaching, nothing wrong with my judgment, and you don't have to doubt that like those new people. ”

- But what if it's wrong?

The serpent stopped talking, bowed his head humbly, and then excused himself and left the depths.

As he left the depths, the serpent remembered the new argument of the Black Elder, who had betrayed the system of eldersβ€”that even if spirits existed, they were not important, and that they could not exist on their own, in other words, they could only be subordinate to flesh. And the flesh, the outer body, judging from the stones that have remained in the ground at present, all the creatures in the world may be traced back to an original and different appearance. We have all changed dramatically in the midst of multiplication.

It didn't dare to think about it, but it bumped into Jingri head-on.

"I'm sorry, sir."

"Nothing."

The snake was flustered and was about to leave.

Jing Ri whispered that he had something important to tell.

"What's the matter?"

"Nei Ying, who we have arranged in the cell, said that, according to the chatter he heard, the guest may have a great connection with the lake in heaven."

The snake stopped and looked at the sun.

Jing Ri didn't dare to look at it directly, and continued:

"At the same time, my hunter's subordinates also said that when he was looking out, he saw two black dots that swam out of the 'big beetle' in the water and swam all the way to the island."

As for the 'big beetle', it has been taken to the Hanging Garden by the dragon warships of the counterinsurgency.

The snake remembered Gu Chuan's words.

He has companions.

His mood was a little anxious.

"At the end of the day, the interests are the same. Did he refuse so early and not give himself a step down? Or is he just relying on himself now and doesn't want to get too involved with us? ”

The snake thought to himself.

When Jing Ri saw that the snake had been silent for a long time, he said:

"Do you want to tell the elders about this?"

"No need, the elder has a lot of opportunities, such a trivial matter, do you want me to disturb the elder?"

At that time, the serpent crawled slowly forward on the ground, and then commanded:

"Tell me where the prisoners will be placed in the future, and right away, I have something to talk to him about." Perhaps, he would be a good card.

In the depths of the cave, the elder dragon gazed at the departing people, slowly closed his tired eyes, and sank into the ancient dreamland.

Here, it's not its time.