Chapter 1 Great Changes at Sea
The noon sun hung in the clear blue sky like a fierce fireball, spewing flames. The scorching air fills every corner of the heavens and the earth, making it extremely unbearable. Only the occasional gentle breeze can make people feel the slightest coolness.
Zhao Rui stood on the top deck of the "Hailing" luxury cruise ship, leaning on the side of the ship, looking at the bikini girl who was playing in the pool, and was in a very good mood.
Fortunately, I didn't sell the tickets, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see the scenery. He smiled, a little gratifying.
Zhao Rui is a sophomore at a university in Dong'an, an ancient city in the west, with an ordinary appearance and an ordinary temperament, except that his eyes are sharper than ordinary people, and he basically can't find any memorable features on his face.
His parents died early, and he had no relatives and no reason, from childhood to adulthood, he had to earn his tuition and living expenses completely on his own, if it weren't for the fact that he happened to win the jackpot by participating in a prize program on a TV station and got the opportunity to go to sea on a luxury cruise ship for five days, he would never have been able to afford this fee.
Zhao Rui originally thought that it would be more practical if this award could be exchanged for money, but until the moment before he got on the boat, he couldn't transfer the ticket, so he had to get on the cruise ship with a sense of chagrin and enjoy this luxurious five-day trip by himself.
However, after two days of enjoying the "Hailing", that frustration was thrown out of the clouds by him.
"I'll go back in three days, time flies so fast!" Zhao Rui sighed unfinished, his ticket included room and board expenses, it was delicious to eat and drink on this boat, there was no need to worry about anything, how could there be such a good treatment after going back?
Just when he felt regretful, a middle-aged couple nearby walked past him while chatting casually.
"I've heard that there are a lot of ancient shipwrecks down there!" said the husband.
"Ah, aren't there a lot of treasures down there, if only we could fish them out, then we'd be really famous!" the fat, somewhat fat woman, with her eyes glowing, swept up and down the surface of the sea, as if there were countless treasures lying at the bottom of the sea, waiting for her to go down and salvage them.
Zhao Rui stood there, and couldn't help but smile when he heard this: Hearsay, it's actually serious, I still want to cultivate and become an immortal after reading the novel!
The husband continued: "It is said that two years ago a famous treasure hunting team came here to salvage it, and then suddenly disappeared in this vicinity, and I don't know what happened. ”
"Ah, is that happening?" the wife screamed, "doesn't that mean the sea is dangerous?"
"The Hailing is a five-star luxury cruise ship, and the routes have been carefully selected, how can it be possible to choose dangerous sea areas to sail?" the husband hurriedly comforted, "As for the disappeared expedition, it may be because of a storm or some other reason. This kind of thing doesn't happen on our ship, don't think too much about it......"
The two of them whispered and quieted down, and walked away.
Zhao Rui glanced at the backs of the two and shook his head, that woman is too sensitive, people can think of so many things when they say it casually.
The Hailing continued to sail on the sea, and at some point the sky became darker, and the thick black clouds were like galloping wild horses, from far and near, obscuring the sun, and the sea breeze gradually became fierce, with a low whistling sound, whistling by.
"The storm is coming, please all passengers go back to their rooms!
The ship's radio suddenly went off.
"Didn't you say the weather was fine these days?"
"Why is there a storm all of a sudden?"
"The weather on the sea is getting too fast!"
Visitors complained and left the deck, and the bikini girls who had been playing in the pool also came out of the pool, wiping their bodies with towels and walking to their rooms.
"It was a disappointing weather. ”
Zhao Rui muttered, followed behind everyone, and prepared to go back to his room.
At this moment, a huge lightning bolt tore through the dark clouds and smashed straight on the sea surface on the left side of the "Hailing" cruise ship, instantly stirring up monstrous waves, and then, one after another thunderbolts exploded in the ears, deafening!
The "Hailing" cruise ship was violently bumped, and the huge hull almost overturned!
The visitors, who did not have time to enter the room, screamed in horror and rolled on the deck.
Zhao Rui had just left the side of the ship two steps at this time, unprepared, a huge wave hit, where could he still stand, he directly overturned the side of the ship, screamed, and fell into the sea, and the turbulent sea water swallowed him almost instantly.
"Damn! I'm so unlucky!"
He couldn't help but curse, and the sea water took the opportunity to pour into his mouth. He grunted a few times, and began to sink down, his consciousness blurring.
Just before he was completely unconscious, a whirlpool suddenly appeared at his feet and sucked him into the bottom of the sea.
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I don't know how long it took, Zhao Rui slowly woke up from the coma, half-asleep, he felt like something was blocked in his trachea, it was extremely difficult to breathe, his stomach was heavy, as if he was full of seawater, and his mouth was salty and astringent.
He coughed violently a few times, and then he coughed up some of the seawater, and then he felt that his breathing was much easier, and his mind gradually became clearer.
He felt as if he was lying on all fours on a stone slab, cold and cold.
Zhao Rui shook his head slightly, confused, he didn't know where he was, he remembered that before he fell unconscious, he seemed to be sucked to the bottom of the sea by a whirlpool. However, this little doubt is quickly replaced by the great joy of survival.
"I'm alive! I'm glad I survived in such a terrible situation!"
He chuckled with difficulty, rolled over, supported himself on his almost stiff limbs, and slowly rose from the ground, ready to take a closer look at his surroundings before deciding what to do next.
However, he was stunned by the sight.
The dark waters suspended thousands of meters above him, as if an invisible wall blocked it out, and in the water, swarms of sea creatures that had been heard of or never heard of swam back and forth.
The wreckage of countless ships was scattered in the mud and sand of the seabed, and the broken keels stretched haphazardly, and a few rags hung on them, gently drifting with the current.
"I ...... Where the hell is it?"
Zhao Rui took a few deep breaths, calmed his violently beating heart, and slowly turned around, and a huge hall with a simple shape and magnificent momentum, as if it had only stood here since ancient times, suddenly entered his eyes.
The temple is made of astonishingly large stone blocks that rise hundreds of meters high, and the top of the temple can only be seen if you look up.
A golden glow covered the temple-like building. The light is like water, flowing gently and making people dizzy. The milky white clouds swirled around the hall, setting it off like a heavenly palace.
A stone staircase hundreds of meters long, shining with silver light, extends from the gate of the hall to his feet, on both sides of the stone steps, the stone statues of strange beasts of about ten meters are neatly arranged, and the momentum is so impressive that people dare not look at it for a long time.
Zhao Rui stood on the wide stone steps, standing in front of this sacred and solemn giant hall, and suddenly felt that he was incomparably small, like a speck of dust.
It didn't take long for him to come back from his shock. But his heart was still beating hard, and all that appeared in front of him made him feel mysterious and confused.
He didn't know where he was, who built the building in front of him, the only thing he knew for sure was that he was at the bottom of the sea, so deep that even the most advanced submersibles in the world couldn't reach it!
"It's a miracle that I can enter this underwater temple alive!"
Zhao Rui muttered, feeling that he couldn't find any other words except for luck.
But he soon discovered a new problem: how should he leave?
Zhao Rui would not be so stupid as to want to swim through that invisible barrier and out of the deep sea. Not to mention the ferocious sea monsters outside, even the huge pressure generated by the deep sea was enough to crush him within a second of stepping out of the barrier!
The only hope now is that there is a way out of that mysterious temple.
However, even if there was no passage in the temple, he still had to go in and have a look.
What is placed in this building that stands in the deep sea and keeps hundreds of millions of tons of seawater out, and will there be a shocking treasure?
His heart suddenly burned.
Without much thought, Zhao Rui walked down the stone steps towards the gate of the mysterious hall.
The stone steps are high and steep, and although Zhao Rui's body is strong, because he has just woken up from a coma, his strength has not recovered, and this section of the road is also extremely difficult.
Finally came to the gate of the hall, Zhao Rui suddenly found that this gate was tall and heavy, and if it wasn't for the strength of a thousand jun, it would be almost impossible to push it open!
With a sense of luck, he tried to push the door with his hand, and unexpectedly, in the sound of thunder, the huge door slowly opened to both sides.
Zhao Rui was excited in his heart, and was about to walk in, when a surging cold suddenly rushed out of the door, almost freezing him!
"Damn, is this leading to the North Pole, how can it be so cold!"
He cursed and kept jumping back and forth, and after a while, he relieved himself, and when the chill was gone, and his body was hot, he walked inside.
The space in this mysterious hall is huge, and the empty space cannot be seen at a glance, and the music like heaven is constantly swirling in the main hall, which is wonderful, low, and full of sorrow, which makes people's hearts heavy.
A golden glow fell from above, dyeing the surroundings the same color. A white marble avenue leads to the depths of the main hall, where semicircular objects are neatly arranged!
Zhao Rui's eyes widened, wanting to carefully see the situation in front of him clearly, but unfortunately, he was too far away to see more clearly.
Walking along the white marble avenue to the depths of the main hall, the cold air around him gradually worsened, and the clothes soaked in the sea water on his body were frozen hard, as if he was wearing an ice coat on his body.
It took nearly an hour to run away, and Zhao Rui finally came to the depths of the hall and found the source of the cold.
What appeared in front of him was a huge group of tombs with no edge in sight!
The tombs are made of semi-circular blocks of ice and vary in size, some tens of meters high, and the most Xiaoice tombs are several meters high.
What's even more peculiar is that these giant immortal tombs are crystal clear, and the colorful streamers flow on the ice, which is extremely dazzling, not only that, but these immortal tombs are also extremely hard, no matter what method is used, they can't leave even a trace on the ice.
In these ice tombs, some of the frozen creatures are fairy bones, with fluttering clothes, like immortals, others are hideous, demonic, like demons, and some of the frozen creatures in the tombs have handsome faces, sacred and majestic faces, and white wings on their backs, like angels in the West!
In front of each giant immortal tomb, an obelisk carved from ice is erected, and the tombstone is engraved with extremely ancient prehistoric characters.
"What does the words on it mean?"
Zhao Rui frowned and stopped in front of a tombstone.
The owner of this tombstone is an old man frozen in the tomb, wearing a Taoist robe, with silver hair, kind eyebrows and eyes, holding a fan in his left hand and a gold steel cut in his right hand.
Zhao Rui was about to ponder the meaning of the inscription carefully, when suddenly, the words on the tombstone shone with a silver brilliance, shooting straight into the center of his eyebrows.
Zhao Rui only felt a bang in his head, making him almost faint, but at this moment, he seemed to have been enlightened, and he fully understood the meaning expressed by these ancient words!
The text on the tombstone is a summary of the life of the tomb owner, recording the past deeds of the owner of this immortal tomb.
Although Zhao Rui had been shocked and almost numb since he came to this deep-sea cemetery, the name still made him feel like a thunderstorm roaring in his ears.
He turned out to be the supreme god of Taoism, ruling the heavens, leading all saints, practicing the way of heaven, spreading the virtues of the heavens, and the Taishang Laojun who controls the three realms, the ten directions, the four beings, and the six realms!
Zhao Rui hurriedly turned his head to look at the other tombstone.
The owner of this ice tomb is actually the king of destruction who blew the horn of doom in Western legends, let the meteor fall to the ground, and opened the gates of hell - Abaddon!
"How can an immortal demon die, and it's still frozen in this tomb?"
Zhao Rui exclaimed in a low voice, although he had experienced a lot of storms and had always been calm, but at this time, his mind was also confused.
He had never believed in ghosts and gods, and he did not want to believe in the authenticity of the words recorded on this tombstone, but this cemetery in the deep sea, this majestic temple that could keep hundreds of millions of tons of sea water out, made him unable to make any explanation with scientific common sense!
Zhao Rui wandered in confusion in this huge group of tombs, and the obelisk tombstones flashed in front of his eyes, and the names that he had only heard in mythological stories kept jumping into his eyes.
"The Tomb of the Great Demon God of the East!"
"The tomb of Michael the Archangel of the Western Celestial Realm!"
"The tomb of Zhang Daoling, the first heavenly master in the East!"
"The tomb of Billy, one of the seventy-two demon kings of the West!"
“......”
“......”
“......”
The more Zhao Rui looked at it, the more frightened he became, if the introduction on the tombstone was true, then ...... What kind of great changes have taken place that have made these immortals, gods and demons that only exist in the ancient legends of the East and the West sleep in this endless immortal tomb?