Chapter 43: Star Soul Awakening (5)
Thousand return halls, hidden in the fairy scenery and beautiful scrolls, but at this time there is a shadow as black as ink hovering on it, the yin wind gusts, the wind is strong, there is a pair of unspeakable eyes hidden in the shadow, for some reason, he feels that those eyes are looking at him at this moment, more terrifying and powerful than the ink black unicorn that he disappeared before.
Subconsciously shook his throat, he quickly got up and stepped back, for fear of being contaminated with a trace of that terrible aura.
"This Thousand Returns Hall is too weird, it was originally a quiet place like an immortal family before, but now there are demons rampant, it's better to leave early!"
He remembered what the bell-ringer had told him before, and if he wanted to leave, he would return the way he came. He followed the bell-ringer's instructions and walked straight along the ridge, stepping out of this terrible place with one last foot.
The next moment, everything in front of him rotated, faintly giving him a faint sense of dizziness, but fortunately, in a blink of an eye, he regained a down-to-earth feeling.
At the same time that his figure disappeared, the bell ringer appeared on the Jie Zi Peak, looking at the time and space vortex at the end of the mountain road from a distance, and then turned his head to look at the Thousand Returns Hall occupied by the demonic spirit, and rang the bell again, and the far-reaching and long bell rang one after another, echoing in the Sumeru Mountain, welcoming the next destined person.
"How is it possible?!" As soon as his footsteps were steady, Murong Xiu exclaimed in horror.
Because, again, he heard the bell from afar, and as when he first came, he raised his head and looked at Jie Zifeng.
Then, as if with infinite magic, the bell drilled into his ears one by one, even if he didn't want to hear it.
The images around him slowly blurred, like memories that drilled into his body, into the depths of his soul with the sound of the bell.
"What's going on, what the hell is going on?" he panicked, and cold sweat couldn't stop dripping.
When the last bell fell, the scenery around him finally stopped, but for some reason, he only felt that everything here was not as peaceful and harmonious as when he first came, and it was full of danger and death.
Whew!~Whew!~
He gasped for air, wondering why this was the case. As a result, after thinking about it, there was only one reason he could think of, and that was that everything in the Star Illusory Sea had one characteristic, that is, eternity.
The same bells, the same number of bells, the same scenes, if his guess came true, then everything that happened to him would be repeated. Here, it is not only for him to go out, but also for him to walk in, to represent the place of the beginning.
Before the sound of the bell had dissipated, he couldn't help but shudder, and an even more terrible thought appeared in his mind.
"Perhaps, everything that happened before was an illusion, and the beginning of it all was the bell. ”
The bell is the source of everything, and from the moment he hears it, he has fallen into his own illusion. Or maybe that's not right, at least his realm is still maintained at the Seven-Rank Immortal Master, that is to say, there are both true and false in the previous illusions, which is very mysterious and wonderful.
Thinking of this, he said to himself again: "There is another possibility, that is, the current Mount Meru and Jie Zi Peak are simply another illusion formed by the illusory sea of stars. ”
In order to confirm this speculation, he suddenly looked in the direction of Jie Zifeng, and with a slight movement of his mind, an evil eye appeared above his head. He made up his mind, and since it was an illusion, then he would return the way to the other person, and use the illusion to control the illusion.
After making up his mind, he got up and flew to Jie Zifeng, and saw the bell ringer from a distance. He flew down, not as polite as when he first came, and opened his mouth to ask, "What is this?"
"Mount Meru, Meson Peak. The bell-ringer replied, with the same smile on his face as kind as the one he had seen earlier.
Sure enough!~ He secretly thought in his heart, now he can be sure that in addition to this is still the Meonzi Peak of Mount Meru, there is also this bell ringer who doesn't know him at all, and it can be seen from the other party's eyes that this bell ringer is extremely unfamiliar with him.
Seeing that he didn't speak, the bell ringer turned around and walked in the direction of the Thousand Returns Hall, "I am a usher, and I am also a messenger, please come with me!"
He who was following behind him couldn't help but sneer secretly when he heard it, and immediately asked: "You are the usherer and the messenger, so how many people have you received in the past ten thousand years?"
The bell ringer walked slowly, answering all questions, "In the past 10,000 years, I have received a total of 2,999 people, plus Xiaoyou, just 3,000 people. ”
Hearing this, Murong Xiu only felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth, and hurriedly asked again, "What is in the Thousand Returns Palace?"
"Xiaoyou actually knows about the Thousand Returns Palace?" The bell ringer's tone fluctuated greatly, his footsteps stopped, and he turned his head, and his kind smile was replaced by a gloomy sneer, "In this case, the door of the Thousand Returns Hall has been opened, so please ask Xiaoyou to find the answer by himself!"
For some reason, the more he looked at the bell ringer, the more eerie he felt, and even the sneer had a hint of conspiracy.
"Hmph!~"
He snorted coldly, he would no longer believe the nonsense of the bell ringer, and now he was sure that the bell ringer was not the messenger of the Thousand Returns Temple, but the messenger of the Star Illusory Sea.
In this way, he was no longer polite, and urged the evil eye to shoot a beam of light at the bell ringer, who turned into nothingness in an instant. After he has determined that everything here is an illusion, only in his heart he always believes that he is the only real individual, then everything he sees and hears is illusory.
Raising his hand, Luo Hou's Eye Sword was in his hand, and under the urging of the immortal power, it emitted a dazzling light, and he waved his hand to slash down at the void in front of him, and everything around him changed at this moment.
The majestic peaks of the mountains that were originally full of life disappeared, and Mount Meru and Jie Zi Peak were all covered with an illusory gray-white, lifeless, and lifeless. The breeze caressed, and a biting chill drilled straight into his body, and it was frighteningly cold.
"Thousand Returns to the Temple!
He flew with his sword and landed straight in front of the gate of the Thousand Returns Hall, which, as the bell-ringer had said, was open, and looked inside into chaos, full of fear and mystery. On the door, the three big characters of the Thousand Returns Hall seem to have lost their luster, gray and heavy, and on the stone pillars on both sides of the door, he clearly remembered that it should be written, 'Thousands of times to reincarnate and turn to a hundred lifetimes, and the dream of the soul returns to today's fruit', but now it has become 'A thousand times and hundreds of times to turn the cause of the world, and the dream returns to the soul to the fruit'.
Although the provenance is not big, it still gives him a feeling of retribution in the dark, and as for what it means, it is not a question that he needs to consider now.
The wind struck at this time, the same cold and piercing, accompanied by a low whimper, the yin wind gusted, and the black mist that could not be seen at a glance instantly enveloped the Thousand Hui Palace, like an abyss demon dragon hovering over it, staring at him all the time.
It felt like being stared at by countless pairs of eyes, and I felt so uncomfortable.
"I want to see what indescribable mysteries are hidden in this thousand halls. ”
After making up his mind, Murong Xiu resolutely walked towards the gate of the Thousand Returns Hall. The closer he got to the door, the stronger the wind became, cutting his skin little by little like a knife.
Walking to the door, he looked at the chaos in front of him, and couldn't help but hesitate, because for some reason, he always had a feeling of horror, as if he would fall into the abyss of no return.
The threshold was so high, as long as he raised his leg slightly, he could step over, Mai was a step, but he finally stopped at the last moment.
“...... Xiaoyou must not enter the Thousand Returns Hall again, if you want to go, you can go back the same way, remember!
At that moment, the last words of the first bell ringer and his last words came to his ears, and his heart could not help but be lifted.
In the Illusory Sea of Stars, everything that happens is both true and false, and some things and things can even reach the level of being false.
"This illusion is terrifyingly strong!"
At this moment, he figured out a lot of things, and he also figured out a lot of things that puzzled him before. As long as he understands the truth, he will naturally think of a way to deal with it.
The so-called end of the road is all vain, as if subconsciously controlling him to stop, so that step by step he falls into the deep illusion that the sea of stars has long prepared.
"Even at the end of the day, I'm going to forge a new path!"
The Mixed Yuan True Qi spread throughout his body, and in a deep low roar, he suddenly stepped down, and the Blood Qilin Star Soul instantly transformed, stepping on the Void Blood Flame and rushing into the Thousand Returns Palace. As a result, the surrounding space was violently shaken.
This is not enough!~ In the next moment, he urged Jian Gang to the greatest extent, turned into a sword, and completely destroyed the Qianhui Hall with the power of shaking the heavens and the earth. The black shadow that had hovered above the Thousand Returns Hall before looked terrifying, but in fact it was vulnerable, and it turned into nothingness and dissipated in an instant, and even the cold yin wind stopped here.
Everything returned to chaos, what Sumeru Mountain, what Jie Zi Peak, what Thousand Returns Hall, all disappeared.
Bite!~
There was a crunch in the darkness, as if something had been left behind. Murong Xiu looked down, and a bead as bright as a star rolled to the ground and stopped at his feet, shining brightly.
"Investigate the falsehood, know the truth, Sumeru Jiezi, so it is!" he leaned over to pick up the beads, muttering to himself.
Although he couldn't verify his guess, it was certain that the world he had just experienced might have something to do with this bead the size of a dragon's eye.
Because according to Buddhism, a piece of sand is a realm, and this bead is so big, I don't know how many worlds will be hidden, or how many mustard peaks in Mount Meru.
While!~~~
The melodious sound of the bell came from a distance, and in the blink of an eye, the place where he stood was the place where he entered Mount Meru, and the mustard mountain still stood there.
The sound of the bell is pure and crisp, as if it has the miraculous power to cleanse the soul, so that his heart slowly calms down, quietly enjoying this hard-won peace.
"The sea reaches the boundless sky as the shore, and the mountain climbs to the top, I am the peak! Congratulations to Xiaoyou for opening the way forward, if there is a fate, we will see you again in the world!" On the mustard seed peak, the bell ringer stood with a smile and beckoned to Murong Xiu from afar.
Murong Xiu hurriedly leaned over and bowed, "Thank you seniors for your advice!"
If it weren't for the last point of the bell ringer, he would never have passed the test so easily, he didn't know what secrets were in the Thousand Returns Palace, and he didn't want to know, he only knew that when he was about to enter the gate of the Thousand Returns Hall for the second time, the bell ringer's point was ringing in his ears.
If he really walked in at that time, maybe something mysterious would happen, he might go through the experience of a thousand lifetimes again, or he might really fall into an illusion and couldn't extricate himself, so he would experience the same thing again and again, and he didn't know what year and month he would be able to get out.
The bell-ringer on Mustard Peak didn't say anything more, he knew it was time for him to get out of here, so he put the bead away and turned away.
Re-entering the Illusory Sea of Stars, because he had broken the illusion before, the surroundings were pitch black, he chuckled and waved his hand, and with a slight movement of his mind, the stars appeared in the sky, and slowly moved according to a certain trajectory under his mind.
Compared with the sea of stars when it first came, the sea of stars at this time is no longer a dead silence, full of endless vitality.
This is the Illusory Sea of Stars, and the place where he stands is completely under his control, and it is very pleasant to walk among the stars.
Not long after, a chaotic black hole appeared in his sight, which was the way out of the endless sea of stars, and it was also the door for him to get out of the sea of stars. He didn't know why he could find it here, it was all based on his feelings, it was very mysterious.
Unknown, the Great Hall of the Kirin
Yi Yungeng, who was always paying attention to Murong Xiu's every move, immediately informed the young master of Qilin of the news that Murong Xiu had walked out of the Star Illusion Sea, and when the latter heard it, he was overjoyed.
"Welcome him back to the clan!"
With just these four words, I don't know how many complex emotions are hidden, and Yi Yungeng's heart is stirring when I hear it.
Ningzhou, the stars are illusory, Murong Xiu is almost intoxicated by the warm sunshine, no matter what, everything in the stars is fake, even if there is sunshine, it is far from being as real and warm as it is now.
This trip to the Star Fantasy Sea made him feel like he was going to have the rest of his life, and now he was really a little scared. It can be said that the illusions in the sea of stars are linked one by one, one illusion after another, and even if you take one step behind, you may fall into a place of no return.
Fortunately, in the end, he still managed to break out, not only did he rise to the third level in a row, but he also got an unknown bead, and he didn't know what it was for.
After reminiscing for a while, he turned his head to look at the sea of stars, which was no longer as attractive as before, but more like a child's toy, and after playing for a long time, he naturally lost interest.
"I feel like I haven't eaten for a long time, let's get some game to comfort the Five Organs Temple!" He was right, because there was no concept of time in the Star Illusion Sea, and he didn't know how long he had been in it, it could be a moment, or it could be a few days or even years, plus the thousands of times in the Thousand Returns Palace, he only felt that time had passed extraordinarily long, even if someone said now that he had been in it for a hundred years, he would not doubt it.
In the dark, the hearts of the two of them had already blossomed, until they found that Murong Xiu had walked out of the Star Illusion Sea, and they still couldn't believe their eyes.
"Do you remember how long it took the young master back then?" Zhao asked.
"If I'm not mistaken, it should have been seven months and ten days. Shisha said after a little recollection.