Chapter 203: The Cherry Blossom Tree in Yingzhou
After passing through the light gate, Chen Liu originally thought that he would be able to reach the Three Mountains directly. If you fantasize about it, maybe someone will give him the whole welcome ceremony or something.
Although the latter was purely a dream, the situation in front of Chen Liu now really made him a little confused.
The boat was still floating on a tranquil water, but Chen Liu was the only one left on the boat. Lao Zhouzi, Yuan Ping and Taiwa have all lost their traces.
There was nothing but the lone boat in the waters, and there was not even a sound around it. If you are still, you can hear your heartbeat and breathing.
"Is anyone there?"
No one answered.
Without any guidance or clues, this is probably the most uncomfortable scenario.
However, Chen Liu did not panic too much. Everything happens for a reason. Now this situation is either caused by Longmen, or it is the sophistication of Sanshan.
Either way, there's a way to deal with it.
At this time, he did not have Vajra in his hand, so naturally there was no way to break this prohibition. So Chen Liu chose to sit on the bow of the boat first, took a teacup from the boat, and threw it under the mirror-like water around him.
It's just that when the teacup enters the water, it doesn't make ripples, but it seems to be directly integrated into it, and it disappears silently under the water.
He also found the bamboo pole of the old boat on the side, so he picked it up and placed it under the water. It's just that there are still no ripples, and the bamboo poles seem to melt directly into the water.
In this way, Chen Liu had no way to determine the movement of the boat.
Seeing this, Chen Liu took out the tables and chairs from the cabin, cooked tea, and waited quietly.
The tea boiled three times, but Chen Liu did not remove the charcoal fire under the furnace and let it boil. Wisps of steam drifted upwards and sideways.
"Sure enough, it's still moving."
The absolute tranquility seemed to belong only to the outside of the boat, and inside the boat it was still the same as the normal world.
Obviously, this is not a meaningless blockage, but a test.
It was only after he came to this conclusion that the water around him changed.
Ripples rippled on the surface of the water, and the ripples spread out in all directions, centered on the boat. The ripples rise and fall, and when the waves fade away, a lantern that lights a blue flame is left on the water.
The faint blue candle flame on the lantern flutters, beautiful but a little weird.
There were more and more lanterns on the water, and they slowly filled the entire water, leaving only a waterway in front of the boat.
Chen Liu picked up the bamboo pole and poked those strange lanterns.
The moment the bamboo pole touched the lantern, the candle flame inside instantly stopped swaying. The four walls of the lantern gradually opened, and finally the candle flame broke away from the lantern and flew away.
Chen Liu immediately put away the bamboo pole and waited for the change under the flame.
However, the other party didn't seem to sell his face, and chose to quietly follow behind Xiaozhou.
Chen Liu didn't mind, and he didn't stop his work. He sped up the speed at which he hit the lanterns, but still retracted them back within range of the boat after each shot.
Gradually, the flames that followed the boat grew longer and larger, until they reached a certain tipping point and then ceased to grow.
At this time, the rest of the lanterns no longer reacted to Chen Liu's bamboo poles.
Chen Liu thought for a moment, and then sat down at the table again. Z.br>
He took out a purple gold vermilion pen from his bosom and sketched something on the other teacup.
He had never practiced the profound talisman, so he naturally had no idea where to start, so he only chose to keep sketching the same word on the teacup with a pen dipped in water without listening: broken.
This word doesn't have any special meaning, Chen Liu just chose a suitable one for the occasion.
As the broken characters are sketched more and more on the teacups, the bearing capacity of the teacups seems to have reached a limit somewhere. Chen Liu then used the teacup as a dart and threw it at the gunpowder clustered behind him.
The teacup exploded in an instant, causing the flames to transmutate in a way.
The flames began to collapse inward, shrinking, and the blue color deepened, and finally collapsed into a small dot.
"Hey, are you going to play the Singularity Big Bang?"
As it turned out, the little dot didn't think that way.
It didn't choose to explode, and after becoming a small dot, it didn't change anymore, still following the boat.
Chen Liu didn't care about him, because he was faintly aware of some kind of aura that he had been in contact with at this time.
In front of the boat, a thick mist spread. As the mist arrived, there was also a chill that went straight into the marrow of the soul.
However, before the cold reached the boat, it would suddenly disperse in all directions, and it did not spread into the boat, so it could not affect Chen Liu.
In this fog, Chen Liu didn't know how far he had gone or how long he had waited, but in the end he seemed to have stepped through some kind of barrier and arrived in another world.
"Isn't it ......?"
The familiar feeling grew, and then Chen Liu saw a huge portal hanging upside down, and everything was reversed from the direction of the boat.
The vermilion doorpost and the green eaves, last time Chen Liu could only see the three big characters on the door, this time he could see the door couplets on both sides clearly.
"If you have the heart to do good, you will not be rewarded for good, but if you have no heart for evil, you will not be punished."
It's just that the words good and evil on it are a little blurry, and there seem to be traces of knives and axes on it, and some people seem to be dissatisfied with this couplet.
On each side of the doorpost, there is a sculpture of a fierce ghost.
One on the left opened the mouth of an abyssal that could not be seen, while the other had angry eyes and an outstretched hand as if begging for something.
The next moment, Chen Liu also knew what they each represented.
There was a long queue of unknown sources that appeared in Chen Liu's sight, all of them with dull faces and floating bodies.
The procession marched in order towards the upside-down portal.
Most of them had a note of unknown importance, and they handed it to the demon on the right, then stepped into the portal and vanished.
But a few people who can't get this note will be swallowed by the evil ghost on the left side, and they will also disappear.
"Lu Yin ......"
Chen Liu thought about the legendary records of his previous life, and at this moment, the blue light spot that followed Xiaozhou suddenly became excited.
It began to move left and right behind the ship, as if hoping to attract Chen Liu's attention, but it did not dare to come to the bow of the ship.
This abnormal reaction quickly attracted Chen Liu.
It quickly occurred to him that the blue dot of light was clearly related to what was happening in front of him.
"You want to go in?"
Chen Liu asked tentatively.
After his question fell, the range of the light point fluctuation became larger, and he was obviously more excited.
This situation also made Chen Liu realize that his guess was right.
The flame in this lantern is not an ordinary flame, but a ......
"Who dares to peep into the underworld!"
At this moment, a shout of rage suddenly came from behind the portal.
Two huge black and white figures floated out from behind the portal, one holding a mourning stick and the other holding a shackle.
These two familiar and unfamiliar existences made Chen Liu a little flustered, and the point of light behind the boat lost all the changes, and he cowered and hid.
Thankfully, the two figures didn't seem to be targeting them, and the mourning rod was sacrificed by one of them and shot at somewhere in the mist.
There was a thud, and the mourning stick flew back, stained with a little blood, but it dissipated into black smoke in an instant.
"Humph!"
This result made the two figures not satisfied, and they did not capture the person who was watching.
Due to the rules, they couldn't chase them away, so they had to return to the portal.
After waiting for a long time and seeing that there was no movement, Chen Liu was relieved again.
He could probably guess the quilt
The person who repelled him was probably the one who brought him here.
Regarding the truth and falsehood of everything he saw in front of him, Chen Liu did not know clearly.
When I was dying in Qingyang County, I had seen such a situation in my dreams, and I also arrived at the huge pavilion that was no different from the country.
But to this day, he doesn't know exactly what he was going through.
If it were true, it would be terrible.
If the reincarnation denied by this world really exists, it is earth-shattering news, enough to cause a sensation.
But if it didn't exist, what was the explanation for the five frog coins he got from that pavilion?
"Well, I don't understand."
According to Chen Liu's consistent attitude, if you don't understand, you don't want to think about it.
He refocused his attention on the blue dot of light. He shouted at the back of the boat:
"It's okay, come out. Come to the front."
The voice fell, but there was no response.
Estimating that the thing was frightened, Chen Liu didn't urge, made a cup of tea and drank it and waited.
After a long time, the blue point of light seemed to be sure that there was nothing unusual, and it flew up from the underside of the stern. After hesitating for a long time, he flew to the front of the ship.
"You can't go because you don't have that way?"
The point of light began to get a little agitated again.
Chen Liu probably already knew that those lanterns were the souls of living beings after death, and this point of light was their aggregate.
They don't seem to have any spirituality anymore, and even if they gather so many souls, they can only react simply.
"But I don't have a way."
How could Chen Liu get that kind of thing that involved the immortal system? It's impossible for him to write a blank sheet on his own.
The point of light seemed to be a little disappointed and languished when he heard this.
It's just that no matter how much it can't conjure up a road guide out of thin air, Chen Liu is also a clever woman, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
He dared to write it himself, but he didn't dare to use it.
After this answer, Chen Liu suddenly felt his body shake a little, and the next moment, he disappeared from this world.
"Are you awake?"
Chen Liu opened his eyes and had some inexplicable headaches.
The dim sunlight covered Chen Liu's pupils, and the time at this time was actually dusk.
After Chen Liu heard the unfamiliar voice, he immediately stood up and searched for the source of the sound.
I saw a colorful flower tree, the petals are pink and white and delicate, wrapped in delicate buds, exuding a light fragrance. Chen Liu recognized that it was a cherry blossom.
Under the cherry blossom tree, there is an old woman who is hunched over, with her back to her, looking into the distance.
"Here? Are you?"
Chen Liu asked tentatively.
The old woman didn't answer, but a familiar voice appeared behind Chen Liu.
"This is Yingzhou, and the one in front of you is the Grand Priest of Yingzhou, Granny Kunyuan."
Chen Liu turned around and looked, that person turned out to be the envoy of Yingzhou who had met in Jiangning City, the old man.
"What just happened?"
At this time, the old woman finally spoke again, and asked:
"Do you know what this cherry blossom represents?"
"Death?"