Chapter 257: Fate

In the beginning, it was just a snowy night that wasn't much different from usual, cold, scarcity, apathy, and endless wind and snow. The dark sky and the vast earth were decorated with a miserable white color by heavy snow, and there was no breath of life in sight for most of the time.

Even some of the most tenacious and resilient creatures that live on this snowy field of the far north do not appear on such a night, but huddle in their nests, waiting for a less cold moment at dawn.

This was a night when everyone slept peacefully and endured the cold night, but on this night, there were many, many people who did not fall asleep.

In the half-empty cave, until late at night, Gan Ze, Sun You, and Yongye still did not feel sleepy. The burning bonfire was already dim and about to go out, but it was always filled with new wood and burned brightly again. The three of them sat around the fire, and for most of the time did not speak, as if each had his own thoughts, and then, at some point, Ganze sighed softly, stood up and moved a little, bypassing the passage to the entrance of the cave. As he looked at the snowy night, he suddenly saw a pillar of light that split through the dark sky like a sharp sword.

Deep in the far far north, beneath the greater wind and snow, in the empty and lifeless snowfield wilderness, stands an ancient and sprawling temple. The halls and pavilions are stacked like forests, and even the wind and snow can't hide the ancient atmosphere in them. Most of the monks have already rested, and occasionally in some small courtyards can see some lonely and quiet figures, ** sitting in the snow with their eyes closed, letting the wind and snow rage on the body, that is the disciple of the "Wind and Snow Zen" of the Dragon Hall of the Penance Town. In one of the small meditation halls, a string of prayer beads gently coiled in the hands of the Venerable Master who was meditating cross-legged suddenly stopped, and then he opened his eyes and looked into the distance, and his gaze passed through this meditation hall, this high wall, and this temple, and saw the pillar of light that reached into the sky.

There was also a majestic peak, standing in an unknown spot in the snowfield, flanked by a dark bottomless abyss, and almost at the same time, the darkness stirred, and a huge unimaginable headless giant slowly rose from the bottomless abyss, and an old dragon left its lair and appeared on the giant's shoulder. They leaned on this huge mountain that seemed to connect the heavens and the earth, and looked coldly at the light that pierced the dark clouds in the distance, and watched the magnificent scene where the waves and clouds made the heavens and the earth shake and change color. The headless giant was silent, and the old dragon muttered, but it seemed to be a little helpless.

"It's time to come, you can't avoid it!"

It whispered in the dark.

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In fact, the dazzling, dazzling, and majestic giant pillar of sky-breaking light did not last very long, at most, it only shone in this dark world of wind and snow for less than ten breaths, and then quickly dimmed and then disappeared.

Darkness and wind and snow took over the cold world again, and the dark clouds in the sky regrouped, as if to prove that everything was the same as before, that nothing had happened. However, although the shocking pillar of light had disappeared, there still seemed to be a suffocating afterimage in the dark sky, as if it was just a moment of brilliance, which was enough to shatter the darkness and leave an indelible aura.

Above the snowy fields, everything is silent.

After the incomprehensible brilliance, the ensuing darkness seemed to be far better than before, and the glimmer of light, which could have been seen a little, disappeared now, and the sound of the wind also dimmed, except for the heavy snow that still fell silently.

It took a while for Zhong Qinglu to let her eyes readjust to the darkness, and slowly saw some blurred scenes around her, but at this moment, she always felt that her breath was trembling.

The light originally emanated from the stone.

She suddenly felt very scared, this harsh and cold snow, this group of hideous and terrifying ghost blood wolves, and the chilling feeling of walking on the edge of life and death, all of which she had never had in the safety and comfort of Jinhong Mountain.

It's like, another unknowable dark side of the world she knows about the past.

Maybe she had occasionally heard some elder friends talk about these things in the past, but when she was here for the first time, she still had a feeling of fear from the bottom of her heart.

For a moment, she suddenly thought of when she was a child, when she was a teenager, the stone, after the agreement with herself, was she going to that demon island to carry out such a life-and-death fight?

Her eyes gradually became clearer, she held her breath, and then saw the surrounding scene, centered on this small circle, all the snow within dozens of zhang nearby suddenly disappeared, like a tyrannical explosion, instantly melting everything, and the surrounding wolves, which were originally fierce, all fell to the ground at this moment, motionless, letting the snowflakes fall on their bodies.

Countless pairs of eyes burning with green flames had all been extinguished at this moment, and no ghostly aura seemed to be able to survive before that magnificent pillar of light. All the ghost blood wolves were a mess of flesh and blood, as if they had been burned by the most terrible hellfire, and they were completely shapeless, which made people feel chills in their hearts.

Zhong Qinglu turned her head slowly, and on the ground behind her, there was still a man lying there, and a little black pig was guarding beside him.

Her eyes were full of shock and disbelief, and she clearly remembered the unbelievable scene before.

When the stone passed out and fell on the snow, when the wolves around her roared and pounced to tear him apart, she was at a loss in the air, and when she suddenly realized that she must not leave such a person as Shi Shi and was going to fly away with him, she suddenly saw a golden light emanating from Shi's body, to be exact, from the position of his lower abdomen dantian.

The golden light instantly enveloped his whole body, and then pieces of golden armor with dragon patterns appeared around his body, as if wearing a golden armor, almost at the same time, an unimaginable violent distortion suddenly appeared on Shen Shi's face, as if at that moment, he was awakened by incomparably sharp pain.

And the wolves have pounced.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was in a desperate situation.

The darkness is gone.

There is no gap in this world for him to continue to live.

There seemed to be a roar around him, it was Xiao Hei who was still by his side who was furiously trying desperately to block the swarming wolves, because there was no way to retreat and it could no longer avoid the attack of the wolves with its agile body, and the blood quickly flowed from its body to reveal white bones.

Then the golden light scattered like shards.

The former dragon pattern armor seemed to burst out with the last dazzling brilliance in this world, and the splendor dissipated in an instant.

In the darkness, his face was cold, his heart was cold, and he felt that his body had been bitten by at least three wolf's mouths in this moment, countless ghostly fires shook in front of him, and a low and vicious roar was in his ears.

He raised his hand to shake off a wolf, and his palm was like a knife, and it plunged into his lower abdomen.

When unimaginable pain rushed over his skull and made him tremble, a figure suddenly passed through his mind. And the next moment, it was a blank, as if the blood in the whole body disappeared in an instant, converging somewhere.

Under that dark dungeon, the figure of a half-human, half-ghost......