Chapter 119: The Town Outside the Cave
In his memory, the location of the original weathered white bones was scattered all over the stone wall that had been shattered by the silver feather arrows, but when Jiang Feng walked over cautiously, the weathered white bones were gone, and he looked left and right, but saw that in the deeper darkness, another little starlight suddenly appeared, penetrating the extremely viscous darkness and rushing into his field of vision.
There was a disturbing murmur in his ears, as if he had just emptied his ears and was thrown into the noisy bazaar, every voice could be understood, every word was memorized, but he could not grasp the specific content, and as he left the scattered stone pile and headed for the starlight, the whispering suddenly disappeared again, returning to the stagnant silence.
In the silence, the familiar voice sounded again:
"You attacked me, unforgivable!"
"What do you want?" Jiang Feng simply talked to him, wanting to use the sound to locate the other party, although this was very difficult in the complex terrain and echoing in the cave, but it was better than nothing, he found that the light of the Soul Fire Palace lamp returned to within ten steps again, and the uneven ground appeared again, there seemed to be some messy footprints here, but he couldn't tell whether it was in or out, there was no law at all.
"Come to me. The other party's angry emotions seemed to gradually calm down.
The bright weathered white bones came into view again, and Jiang Feng kept a distance of about fifty steps from it before stopping. The illumination range of the Soul Fire Palace Lamp seemed to be reduced to eight steps, and the closer it was to this mysterious place, the more limited the light became. Then, he suddenly thought, Fang was next to the corpses of the suspected members of the Spirit Cage Chamber of Commerce, and the light of about five steps was not closer to the weathered white bones?
Ten steps closer, the light was reduced to seven, verifying his guess, he knew that he couldn't get any closer, otherwise his life might be in danger, after thinking about it, the shadow separated from his body, and gradually leaned towards the light, he wanted to use this method to determine a safe distance.
"Afterimage, do you want me to miss some old feelings by letting me put this remnant that has lost my mind?" the mysterious being seemed to be able to easily spot the shadow, "There is no need for this, as long as you are willing to inherit my mantle, I will forgive you." ”
"How to inherit?"
"Come on. ”
"Tell me about the afterimage. ”
"You come over first. ”
"Tell me the story of the afterimage first. ”
The sound paused for a moment, until the light seemed to be about to go out.
"Shadow is my brother, you can call me 'heart', we are all one of the nine doppelgangers refined by the True Spirit Sage during his lifetime, the Sage fell here, but we remained in the heavens and the earth, until one day, the 'Shadow' disappeared first, and I don't know what happened, then 'Cloud', then 'Dragon', until the recent 'Eclipse', only I am left here, I am here alone, guarding the remains of the True Spirit Sage, hoping that someone can inherit his mantle. ”
"What's the use of inheriting the mantle?"
"Don't you crave this power to become strong again?"
"I long, but I don't like to borrow other people's power, will I be controlled by you?"
"Control? No, although I am a Sage refining it with my own heart, my own mind is very simple and will not hinder you. ”
"I don't believe it. And according to what you said, the nine doppelgangers of the True Spirit Sage, only you are left, so where are the remaining ones, it seems that they were not all listed just now, why do you say that you are the only one left to guard?"
The voice was silent again for a long time.
"I can't explain, maybe this is the arrangement of the Sage, as long as you fuse with me, you can get half of the Sage's strength, come here, the Sage still has a magic weapon." Look!"
A blue light pierced through the weathered white bones, suspended in mid-air, and bloomed with a blue and flawless light, it was a ring, but it was much larger than the regular size.
"The name of this ring is 'Swallowing the Sea', when the True Spirit Sage was still a teenager, he obtained this treasure, and since then he has begun to overcome all the thorns and thorns all the way to the peak of the avenue, and it can easily swallow the magic weapon of the monk. ”
"Oh?" sounded fascinating, but the Exquisite Treasure Light really told himself that this magic weapon did not exist at all, and there was only another deep and thick darkness there.
"Yes, how much do you know about 'Shadow'?"
"Shadow used to be one of us. As for its abilities, you will know it after you and I fuse. ”
"Is there really no other clone here besides you?" Jiang Feng remembered the ubiquitous cold here, even if he was near the white bones, he could feel the biting cold.
"No, don't worry, and I'm the strongest, as long as you have me, sooner or later you can find other clones and become the same existence as a true spirit saint. ”
It's just nonsense.
Jiang Feng said in his heart, he remembered that this mysterious existence had mentioned a clone named "Frost" before, as the name suggests, presumably "Frost" is also here, as for the ubiquitous illusion, at least there is "Illusion", this is still his own simple speculation, and this cave, I don't know how deep it is, whether there are other sage clones in it, it is not yet known.
The black shadow was imprisoned again when it was ten steps away from the remains, as before, and as long as Jiang Feng moved forward again, the black shadow would get out of trouble again, just like a whirlpool attracting the ships that entered it to go deeper, this mysterious remains, step by step, pulled Jiang Feng closer to the front, until it was only ten steps away, and at this time, there were only two steps left in the light range of the Soul Fire Palace Lamp.
"Okay, come here, I can release the remaining spiritual power and merge with you. ”
"What about the magic weapon?" Jiang Feng knew that this must be a trap, but he had already expected that the other party did not have the ability to directly kill him, and there must be some tricks in this that he didn't know.
"After the fusion, the magic weapon is naturally yours. ”
"Don't I need a sacrifice?"
"No, with me, everything is easy. ”
"Good. ”
Jiang Feng didn't walk forward, but sat down, although the ground was cold and biting, but the feeling of touching the ground gave him a sense of security, with the light of the Soul Fire Palace Lamp being limited to two steps, he took out a few spirit stones and carefully arranged the magic circle.
"What are you going to do? Come here, I don't have much spiritual power left, and if it's too late, I'm afraid I won't be able to inherit the mantle of the Sage, this kind of opportunity doesn't happen every day!"
"I'll be right now, wait for me, I need to pray earnestly and thank God for the gift. ”
Jiang Feng casually recited a nonsense, with an inferior first-order magic weapon in his hand, and faintly recited the already familiar mantra in his heart, tore up a small piece of clothing, and said in a low voice:
"The position of the owner of this shirt!"
The spirit stone bloomed with various colors of light, and gradually gathered scattered pictures in the air, and finally intertwined into a picture:
On the top of a mountain cliff, there was a man with a silver and white hood, he had a dagger hanging from his waist, and a blue Yan sword on his lap, his eyes were deep, and his black eyes were full of fear of the unknown, confusion and even doubt, this person was Jiang Feng himself, and he was sitting next to the cliff that he didn't know how deep it was, only five steps away from falling.
There were no remains of the Sage here, let alone any magic weapons, only bare stone walls and messy footprints where they could not be found.
"Well, are you still some kind of sage?"
"I don't think you have the means to do this, but you don't want to get out of here. The voice was intermittent, as if it was getting farther and farther away from him, and the light that had been promoted by two steps suddenly lengthened, illuminating the cliff in front of him, not only that, but the real feeling also returned again, Jiang Feng even smelled the stench wafting from the bottom of the cliff.
The guy who called himself the Sage seemed to run away.
Jiang Feng got up and kicked the magic weapon that had been turned into waste into a cliff, and after a long time, he heard a slight muffled sound, it seemed that there was not a bare stone underneath, but something slightly soft, for example, the corpse of a member of the Spirit Cage Chamber of Commerce, the stench that diffused in the air was mostly caused by the corpse's decay.
The messy and abrupt footprints here show that more than one person has been looking forward to various adventures from here, embracing the "dream" and falling happily.
After the guy who claimed to be a saint ran away, coupled with the indication of the size of the lights of the Soul Fire Palace, Jiang Feng walked along the possible path, through the reconnaissance of the shadow, towards a deeper cave, but it was also more likely to be the direction of the exit, the voice of the self-proclaimed saint did not appear again, I don't know if he gave up, or lost interest.
From ten steps to fifteen steps, and then to twenty steps, the darkness and biting cold in the cave are gradually receding like a tide, and the sound of ding dong is getting closer and closer, Jiang Feng knows that it is where the underground dark river gathers water sources, and in the entire field of vision, real existences appear one after another, drooping stalactites, whimpering springs, and occasionally found underground beetles, once the signs of life appear, it means that this is very close to the ground, but Jiang Feng clearly knows that this is not the place where he came.
A natural light projected from a narrow gap not far away, the light was warm and weak, it seemed to come from a trace of residual sun, estimating the time when he came, just right, Jiang Feng released Jiang Chengzi, together with the shadow, reconnoitred left and right, and confirmed that nothing followed him, before rubbing the gap and barely drilling out of the cave.
There was an unnamed place here, and when I looked back, the narrow gap was hidden between the scattered vines and wild grass, and if I didn't look closely, I couldn't find any trace at all. At the foot of the mountain in front of you is a town about the same size as Fuyuan Town, from here, you can see the curling smoke coming out of it.
Where is this?
A strange feeling, spontaneously born from the bottom of his heart, this feeling of déjà vu has never existed, but it is real, he couldn't help but look for the way down the mountain, but found that this is a wild cliff, there is no way to come up, fortunately, the distance is not far, Jiang Feng did not sacrifice the flying boat, Jiang Chengzi will know, directly turned into the original form, carrying Jiang Feng down the wind, and fell to the ground in a moment, only then did he see the appearance of this town clearly.
There are a few old elm trees at the entrance of the town, at this time, the young buds are spitting green, a few children are climbing and playing on it, and there are a few old idlers, chatting under the trees, Jiang Feng stepped forward, and was about to touch the old tree trunk that seemed to be somewhat familiar, but found that his hand had invisibly penetrated the tree trunk, and several children and old people disappeared suddenly.
Looking into the distance again, the smoke that had risen and the birds flying under the eaves were also frozen in an instant, no longer the slightest bit of life, no longer the slightest bit of brilliance, just like a static picture, the figures who were originally in the field of vision walking towards the entrance of the village were also like the laughter that suddenly stopped, and they were instantly frozen in place.
Jiang Feng couldn't help but run, he found that he could easily penetrate houses, rows of fences, through everyone, every living being, but he couldn't really touch anything, as if they didn't exist in the first place. Looking around, Jiang Chengzi and the shadow were gone, and only saw an ancient well with a lot of heavy iron chains. He was a little flustered, and ran to the road he had come, to the old tree he had seen when he came outside the town, but he tripped over a stone tablet.
This was the first place he could touch.
He stood up, his robe unexpectedly unstained with any dust, and looked at the half-man-high blue-gray stone tablet, on which were written three large characters crookedly:
"Great Wilderness Town"
He had never heard of this name, but it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, shattering a cloud of memories in his mind that he didn't know how long it had been accumulating, and the picture that had just emerged was like a handful of dry sand, just trying to grasp it, but it fell between his fingers, leaving no trace.
There's weirdness here!
He hurriedly sacrificed the flying boat, flew towards the cliff where he came, pierced through the layers of white mist, and fell again, only to find that Jiang Chengzi and the shadow were here.
"Master, where have you been?" Jiang Chengzi asked.
Jiang Feng looked back, only to see the curling smoke under the cliff fluttering again, together with the ancient town called "Great Wilderness", alive again.