Chapter 163: Illusion
The black flames of filaments seemed to be endless, but when they poured out of the hole, they were still more or less.
Xue Tianqing saw the opportunity, and when the Nine Shadows Fire was at its least, and the hole in the cave was exposed, a dodge rushed over.
The surging filaments of light seemed to have intelligence, and the snow was still a few feet away from the entrance of the cave, and they that had gathered together quickly soared, trying to completely block the entrance of the cave.
Fortunately, the speed of the snow was fast enough, and when the light filament swelled, it had already rushed into the hole.
However, the process of entering the cave was dangerous, and as he passed through the narrowest point, the nearest filament had rubbed against his clothes.
After rushing into the hole, Xue Tianqing flashed to the side without the slightest pause.
When he was in the underworld, Bai Wuchang said that the Nine Secluded Caves were extremely spacious, and as long as they could rush into the hole, they would pass the level.
That's right, although the entrance of the Nine Shadows Cave is narrow, the inside is extremely spacious, enough for the snow to avoid the encirclement of the light filament.
After flashing to a corner, Xue Tianqing froze and held his breath. The next moment, the filament of light, which was still chasing him just now, seemed to have lost its purpose, and scurried around like a headless fly, and finally mixed into the black torrent and rushed out of the cave.
Seeing this, Xue Tianqing breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to look around.
Although the Nine Caves are the birthplace of the Nine Shadows Fire, they are no different from ordinary caves, except for the endless black filaments of light that emerge from the bottomless depths.
In the spacious cave, the black torrent was more like a well-trained army, except for some of the light filaments that had just chased Xue Tianqing, the rest were gathered in a radius of several zhang and upward, and the situation was like a black liquid flowing in a transparent water pipe.
Seeing that there was no abnormality in the Nine Shades of Fire, Xue Tianqing urged the clouds to go down.
After about ten miles, the originally independent and clear light filaments began to blur, and finally became an ink-stained black mist.
To be precise, it is not the light filament that turns into black mist, but the black mist that turns into a light filament, because Xue Tianqing is sailing against the current, heading towards the source of the Nine Shadows Fire.
As you descend, the Nine Caves grew larger and larger, and at last you could barely see the walls around you.
At this time, the Nine Caves were not so much a cave as a space with almost no boundaries.
After descending for a few more miles, the place where Xue Tianqing was located had long since lost the concept of a cave, because at this time there was only an infinite emptiness around him.
At this moment, Xue Tianqing also stopped.
Because not far below him, the black mist spread out without warning, spreading all over the space under his feet.
The black fog seemed to be blocked by an invisible border, and there was only one exit from the border, allowing the black fog to gather together and head towards the mouth of the cave.
Xue Tianqing took a closer look at the black mist under his feet, and finally began to descend unusually carefully.
When his feet almost touched the black mist, he stopped descending and crouched down as much as he could. Then he took a deep breath, then used a jack pendant and slammed into the black mist.
Then Xue Tianqing felt an unusually viscous barrier blocking him, but because his momentum was too strong, the barrier broke open after a while, and his whole person fell straight into the black mist.
Although the barrier was broken, the black fog did not overflow half a cent, but after Xue Tianqing entered the black fog, he felt that his body was light, and then fell heavily into the dust.
With a shout of "ouch", Xue Tianqing opened his eyes and found that he had fallen to the ground.
Getting up from the ground, Xue Tianqing looked at the surrounding green mountains and was confused: it only took a moment from breaking through the barrier to falling to the ground, and I am afraid that it would fall less than a few feet, why did it fall directly to the ground?
Kicking it hard, Xue Tianqing was sure that the real earth was under his feet.
Looking up at the surrounding mountains, he became more and more puzzled: what kind of place is this, and how does it feel so familiar?
Feeling the oncoming breeze, Xue Tianqing's eyes widened and she wanted to find the traces of the Nine Shadows Fire, but in the end, she found nothing.
Even though everything around him was so real, he still thought it was an illusion, so he threw a punch forward!
This punch Xue Tianqing used all his strength, the fist wind was everywhere, and the front of the originally empty thing shattered like glass, that is, the space could not withstand the power of this punch, and it cracked.
Looking at the nothingness exposed in the cracks, Xue Tianqing was confused: could it be that this is the birthplace of the Nine Shadows Fire, but how can the more you look at it, the more familiar it becomes?
Standing there and reminiscing for a long time, Xue Tianqing finally prepared to go northwest, because the passage to the outward direction of the Nine Shadows Fire in his memory was there.
Xue Tianqing didn't know why, he was supposed to set up the clouds, but in the end he chose to walk.
After about an hour of walking along the mountain path, which can hardly be called a road, a stream blocked the way, and at the narrowest point of the stream there was a wooden bridge made of tree trunks.
The moment he saw the wooden bridge, Xue Tianqing's pupils shrank sharply: no wonder I felt so familiar just now, it turned out that this was my hometown!
Originally, when she first remembered, Xue Tianqing had already understood that everything around her was an illusion.
But then, his mind was blurry, and his memories seemed to go back to his teenage years, because this wooden bridge was a forever memory in his heart.
At that time, Xue Tianqing was only thirteen years old, and during the summer vacation, he went into the mountains to collect firewood or pick wild animals to support his family.
On this day, seeing that the weather was clear and the snow was clear, I set off into the mountain early.
Because he was already familiar with the neighborhood, his family was not worried about his accident at all.
This time I entered the mountain, and there was an unexpected harvest on a sunny snowy day. On the side of a hillside that he had never set foot in, he dug up a ginseng plant that was almost about to take shape.
Looking at the ginseng that was almost a foot long, Xue Tianqing was ecstatic.
Although he didn't have a deep concept of money at that time, he also understood that this ginseng was enough to change his life today.
Thinking of this, Xue Tianqing took the ginseng into his arms, and ran out of the mountain.
In a trance, now Xue Tianqing seems to see a child running from the road he has just walked, even if his leg is scratched by a branch, he doesn't care.
When the child ran in front of him, Xue Tianqing wanted to get out of the way, but for some reason, his feet were like roots, and he couldn't move.
When the child rushed in front of Xue Tianqing, he found that he could finally move, but then he was even more frightened, because at this time, he and the child's body were almost one, and ran to the wooden bridge not far away.
Running and running, Xue Tianqing only had one thought left in her mind: to bring the ginseng home and sell it for money, so that the family would no longer have to live in that dilapidated thatched hut.
At this time, Xue Tianqing had long forgotten everything just now, and the only memory was the ginseng in his arms.
Running to the edge of the stream, Xue Tianqing did not hesitate to run onto the wooden bridge, because he had walked on this bridge I don't know how many times.