Chapter 20: Illusion
Overlooking the paradise, it is another scene. It didn't feel like it was sealed, but it fell asleep peacefully. The surrounding mountains are close to the sky, like a group of guards, protecting the peach source.
Just about to walk to the gate of the castle, Wu Po raised her crutches and knocked the ground, everyone only felt a shock, but there was no other major problem. Then, I could feel a light breeze blowing, and something that I didn't know if it was dew or raindrops hitting my face, and the original space-time tunnel disappeared.
"Come in, everyone!" said Wu Po, who had arrived at the gate of the castle, and turned back to greet everyone. At this time, Wu Po's expression was not as calm as before, she seemed to be a little anxious, even a little panicked, and her hand holding the cane was trembling. The figure is not as tall as before, and it seems to be much older all of a sudden. The attentive Ye You also noticed that her originally smooth and white face was also abnormal, and her chin was raised with a conspicuous line.
"Wu Po, what's wrong with your face?"
Everyone followed the voice of Ju Duo'er and looked at Wu Po's face, and they were really taken aback.
Wu Po did not answer her, but still hurriedly led everyone to the castle. They walked through door after door, and turned an unknown number of corners before they reached their destination. Because it was in mid-air, the sun was shining in the west and the moon was shrouded in the east, and the castle was not very dark.
They walked into a large room, surrounded by empty objects, and the walls were full of portraits of Nuwa Niangniang, lifelike and very realistic.
They hadn't figured out why Wu Po had brought them here, but they saw Wu Po gently tugging at her clothes, exposing her neck and shoulders.
"Don't you want to know what's wrong with my face?" said Wu Po, pointing to her neck and then to her shoulder, "and here!"
"What's that?" asked Yuan Wu in surprise.
"It's a wrinkle!" explained Wu Po, gently pulling her clothes back, "Of course, this one is not the same as your mortal wrinkles, because I am not mortal. You may be curious, since I am not a mortal, why do I have mortal wrinkles, aren't immortals not old? Yes, if I live here all the time, even if I pass away, my appearance is unlikely to change, at least my face will not age, but as long as I leave Taoyuan and stay in the world for a day, I will have one more line and my life span will be one year less!"
Hearing Wu Po say this, Ju Duoer couldn't help but feel a little guilty. When she was in the Peach Blossom Cave just now, she felt that it was because of her carelessness that she almost fell into the abyss, and Yan Yi also used a spell to save her and summoned the big demon Rong Kun. She probably understood that the stripe on Wu Po's chin was generated when she had just left Taoyuan and went to fight with Rong Kun in the Peach Blossom Cave.
Although the Peach Blossom Cave is part of the Peach Spring, it is not protected by immortal barriers, and it is no different from the outside world. Therefore, the battle just now can make Wu Po suffer a lot.
"Then why do you want to go out?" asked Ju Duo'er, who seemed to feel a little redundant just after asking. There must be something going on, so I have to go out, and it is difficult to go out to play.
Wu Po just smiled and didn't answer.
When everyone walked to the center of the lobby, Wu Po suddenly stopped.
"Everybody, get out of the way!" said Wu Po, and then threw her cane aside, raising her hands as some patterns appeared in the middle of the ground. As the movements of her hands changed, the patterns on the ground became clearer and clearer. After Wu Po stopped, everyone found out that it was a gossip map.
After a while, the light on the Bagua map was sorted for a while, and then flew towards the surrounding walls one after another.
Then, many identical stone gates appeared on the walls, and Wu Po led them into one. When they entered, all the stone doors closed automatically.
Entering the stone gate, everything has just begun.
It was a labyrinth for them, there were four paths in front of them, and they didn't have time to take any of them, but Wu Po had led them to the rightmost path.
After walking for a long time, it was as if I had walked into a misty forest, in which there were countless small stone paths that stretched into the distance, and there was no end to them, and on both sides were green and blackened trees, and the clouds were misty, and the path was faint and bottomless.
The scenery along the way, there is no difference, I don't know how long I walked, and it is not clear whether the east and west are in front of me.
After a while, they walked out of the misty forest, but what they saw in front of them was still a maze, large and small multicolored pools, under the illumination of the sun, glowing in a circle of light, stretching out to the sky one after another.
As soon as Wu Po's crutches were stretched, a winding white path appeared on the top of the pool. So they walked down the white path.
Walk up the side of the stream, and after a while, you will see a huge waterfall flowing straight down from a place about ten feet high, the water splashes everywhere, and the water drops on your body, only to feel the cold.
Although the atmosphere is weird, but here is really much more beautiful than the peach source, the stream water pours down, the red sycamores on both sides, the yellow ginkgo biloba, compete with each other, the water is extremely clear, there are no fish in the bottom view, and the stones are smooth and come into view through the deep and shallow water layer.
The most pleasant thing is the sound of birdsong that flickers far and near, one after another, from time to time stirring the heartstrings of uneasiness.
Ju Duo'er stared blankly at everything around her, covering her lips with her slender four fingers, just afraid that she would make any noise and disturb all this.
It's just that no matter how much she wants to protect this quiet picture, how she sighs at this beauty in her heart, except for them, all this seems to be just passers-by.
No one saw what Wu Po did, everything in front of him suddenly changed, as if it was covered by dark clouds, the sky suddenly darkened, and then looked closely, what trees, grass, birds, everything was gone, some were cold, smooth walls.
While everyone was amazed at how all this happened, Wu Po took out a strange box from the wall behind her, the size of a palm, green and turquoise, which looked very dazzling in the dark space.
"Take it!" Wu Po handed the box to Yan Yi, her expression was very serious, and the wrinkles on her chin became more and more conspicuous, "The thing is handed over to you, you must take it back to Tianyun Mountain safely, the life of the Taoyuan clan, no, everyone's life is in your hands!"
When Yan Yi was ordered by the master, he only felt that the task was heavy, but now, Wu Po's words and deeds are like Mount Tai pressing down, making him almost a little out of breath.
Despite this, he still showed a sense of mission as a disciple of Tianyun Mountain, "I will definitely send it back to Tianyun Mountain safely!"