Chapter 12: To the Land of the Dead
"Come and save us, Liu Xi, come on, I'm locked up in Fierce Ghost Village...... Come on!" I woke up in the call, "Is it another dream?" I looked around, Wen Lin and the white tiger didn't know where they went, this time I only heard Zhang Yi's voice calling me, I didn't see anything else, I stood up, walked to the courtyard, and saw Wen Lin kneeling on the ground, the white tiger was also lying on the side, and the ground in front of me was painted with a spell that I couldn't understand, I didn't dare to make a sound, and looked at them quietly.
Wen Lin took out the short knife pinned to his waist and cut it on his wrist, the short knife emitted a short faint light, he dripped the blood on the center of the spell on the ground, and suddenly the spell glowed, integrating Wen Lin into it, he raised his head and closed his eyes, tears crossed his face, and dripped onto the spell on the ground, the spell was like a fire being extinguished by water, the light that wrapped Wen Lin disappeared, and the spell on the ground also disappeared.
Wen Lin stood up and turned his head, "Are you awake?"
"Ah...... Yes, I just woke up and saw that you were busy, so I didn't bother you. Wen Lin suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he asked suddenly, but I quickly came back to my senses, "You...... Are you healed?"
"Nothing's wrong. Wen Lin squatted down and patted the white tiger's head, "I heard everything that Master said before leaving, so what do you want to do next?"
"Such a fierce white tiger is as well-behaved as a cat under his hands, if only my eyes could be so well-behaved. I thought to myself, "Oh yes, I have to go to Zhang Yi and Jairus." I suddenly remembered and said to him: "You communicate with the White Tiger, my divine beast Jairus and my friends were separated during the battle with the ghost soldiers in Lingxi, Jairus and White Tiger are both divine beasts, you see if the White Tiger can feel where Jairus is, I have to save them." ”
After Wen Lin heard this, he squatted in the ear of the white tiger and said something, and the white tiger stood up, and strange stripes appeared on his body, like a marquee in the city, which was lit up from beginning to end, over and over again.
"What is it doing......? Glow?"
"They all have this on their divine beasts, this is the sign of divine beasts, they can't usually see it, they can only see it when they send out their senses. After a while, the stripes on the white tiger's body disappeared, "He couldn't find it, the sense between the divine beasts is very strong, even if they are dead, they can sense the location of the corpse, but if they can't sense it like this, it can only mean that they went to two places." ”
"What two kinds of places?"
"A place with a lot of ghost spirit, that is, a place with a lot of ghost soldiers. Or just go to the land of the dead, where there are no ghost soldiers, to be exact, there is no life there. ”
"It's impossible for them to go to the land of the dead, have they been captured by the ghost soldiers?"
"No, although there are many ghost soldiers, Jairian and White Tiger are both respected as divine beasts, unless they die, it is still more than enough to deal with just a few ghost soldiers, unless they ......"
"Unless what?"
"Unless it doesn't resist. ”
"If they don't resist, will they still be black?"
"You're stupid! Of course not, at least the divine beasts won't, they were all cursed in the first place, and if they were in the company of the ghost world, they would die in an instant. Wen Lin took two steps forward, "It should be that I entered the land of the undead unintentionally, the entrance to the land of the undead is uncertain, and it will be refreshed every five hundred years, maybe it is right around them." ”
"Why is it spawning around them?"
"The entrance to the land of the dead will choose a place with strong ghost power, probably because the ghost power of Jairus is relatively strong. Wen Lin turned around, "Since you're going to find them, let's go to the Land of the Dead first." After that, Wen Lin stepped onto the white tiger and was about to leave, "What are you doing in a daze, come up! The white tiger is still no problem with the two of us." ”
"Oh...... Good. I quickly climbed onto the white tiger's back.
The white tiger ran out of the temple a few steps and flew into the air, "Does the white tiger know the way?" I asked Wen Lin.
"Of course, there is no place in these Three Realms that it can't go, otherwise how can it be called a divine beast?" Wen Lin turned his head, "Do you know what kind of place the Land of the Undead is?"
"No...... I don't know. "To be honest, I've really never heard of this place.
"You only know the Three Realms, right? Actually, Heaven and Earth are divided into Four Realms. ”
"The Four Realms?"
"This land of the dead is the Fourth Realm. It's just that many people don't want to admit it, but if they start a war, it will be even more terrifying than the ghost world. ”
"Why? There are three kinds of people, gods and ghosts, what do they belong to?"
"They are the Demon Realm. In the past, ghosts and demons both belonged to the ghost world, but because the ruler of the ghost world was a ghost, he always oppressed the demon, and finally one day a demon king appeared in the demon world, which did not succumb to the oppressive rule of the ghost world, led the demon soldiers to revolt, fought with the ghost world, and separated from the ghost world, but because it was only divided into three realms in ancient times, they were not recognized by the three realms, so they chose the corner of the end of the sky as a hiding place, and claimed to be the land of the undead. ”
"Why is it said that the demon world is more terrifying than the ghost world to start a war?"
"The demon world is not as strong as the ghost world, but after escaping to the land of the undead at that time, I don't know where the divine help was, and I actually resisted the pursuit of the ghost world three times, but the people of the three realms knew that there were few demon soldiers left who had been killed in the uprising at that time, and it turned out that so many demon soldiers had never been beaten, but when they arrived in the land of the undead, they resisted a more fierce pursuit. So later, people no longer dared to ask about the demon world. At that time, most of the ghost soldiers who were chasing the demon world were buried in the land of the undead, and a few lucky ghost soldiers only escaped with the crippled soul, but they were wiped out as soon as they returned to the ghost world, and it is said that it was a warning from the demon world to the ghost world. ”
"The demon world is so powerful, why haven't you thought about revenge?"
"The demon world advocates peace, and the ghost world advocates war. Maybe it's the Demon King's decision, or maybe someone else. ”
The white tiger led us for a long time, and suddenly stopped in the air, "What's wrong?
"No, there seems to be something up ahead. Wen Lin gently patted the white tiger's head, "Let's go, go down and have a look." With that, the white tiger bowed and swooped down.
The clouds were thick below us, and the white tiger led us through the layers of black miasma, "Huh, such a strong ghostly aura?" Wen Lin muttered to himself.
"Are the ghost soldiers chasing and killing again?" I felt a little weak, and the scene of the Broken Cliff seemed to come into view again.
"No, there's something really going on down there. The corners of Wen Lin's mouth curled slightly, "White Tiger, slow down, don't alarm them." ”
The white tiger slowed down, and gradually heard some strange music, like a gong, and a little muffled, and closer, "It's a human voice!" I couldn't help but shout.
"Shhhhh "The white tiger is getting closer and closer to the edge of the black miasma, and the eyes are getting brighter and brighter, like torches, flickering with the wind blowing.
When I finally passed through the dark clouds, I saw a line of people carrying coffins. "The Eastern Xia is destroyed, the slaves are dead, the nine dragons are saved, and the ghost king is sacrificed. They repeated the phrase as they walked.
The coffin was not like an ordinary coffin, but an octagonal shape, with something carved on each corner. "What's that?" I asked Wen Lin.
"Kowloon carries the coffin. You see there's a dragon on every horn. ”
"There are only eight dragons. ”
"There's a dragon around them. That dragon is called the Ancestral Dragon. Do you see? There were ten people carrying the coffin, eight people carrying eight horns, and two people carrying torches in front of them. Eight people carried eight dragons, and the ancestral dragon outside had a special identity, so two people carried it in front of him and one in the back. ”
"Where's the dragon? I can't see it. I rubbed my eyes, and the two torches were unusually bright, and my eyes were a little sore.
"Look. Wen Lin waved his hand, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the two torches were blown out by the wind. The sudden darkness made light and shadow appear in front of my eyes. "Look at those people again. ”
The ten people just now all fell to the ground at some point, and there was a dragon coiled in the corner of the coffin next to each of them, it was not a dragon I had seen, they only had a dragon head, and the dragon's eyes were closed. But their bodies are snake bodies, and they have no claws. Among them was a giant dragon that crossed the head and tail of the coffin, the dragon's head pressed against the person walking in front, and its body wrapped around the coffin, and the dragon's tail pressed against the person at the back.
"These coffin bearers are all dead people, but some of them have been injected with ghost power to manipulate them, and they are carried to one place by the guidance of this torch. In fact, the one lying in this coffin is a living person. ”
"Huh?" I couldn't believe it.
"In this coffin is a terrible man. At the beginning, the coffin of the corpse of Jiulong was carried by the King of Wannu of Eastern Xia, and later it was handed down and became a sacrificial way of carrying the coffin of the dead and sacrificing the living, and the people in the coffin could not die until the time of the sacrifice. Therefore, the person lying in this coffin must be a person with a certain amount of ghost power, otherwise under the oppression of the evil spirit of this Nine Dragons, ordinary people will not be able to live. ”
As soon as I wanted to speak, I saw two people in front of me and one behind me suddenly stand up like zombies, holding extinguished torches in their hands, the ancestral dragon wrapped around the outside opened his eyes slightly, and the torches were instantly lit again, and the eight people who fell to the ground also stood up and lifted the coffin again, and the nine dragons disappeared.
"The Eastern Xia is destroyed, the slaves are dead, the nine dragons are saved, and the ghost king is sacrificed. They began to repeat the phrase again and continued on their way.
"Sacrifice to the Ghost King?"
"I guess so. Wen Lin patted the white tiger's head, and the white tiger turned his head and flew upwards again.
"Aren't we going to stop them, are we going to make Li-Li stronger?" I was a little angry.
"We can't stop it, the Nine Dragons carrying the coffins are all cursed viciously, do you know why the Nine Dragons have their eyes closed? It's just the two of us, not enough for the Nine Dragons to stuff their teeth. Wen Lin said very flatly.
"Shall we sit idly by, then?"
"It's not that I'm sitting on the sidelines, it's just that it's not time yet, just wait, the debts owed will be paid back." Wen Lin lay quietly on the back of the white tiger, "In another day, we will be in the land of the undead, you can rest well." "Anyway, they didn't pay attention to me.
"Is this white tiger flying as high as an airplane? It's the first time I've floated in the air like this, will my eyes fly? Strange, why don't you feel cold when you fly so high?" I thought crankily, without a trace of sleepiness. "Mask, mask, are you there?" I called out to myself the mask.
"What's wrong?" a familiar voice sounded in his ears.
"I knew you could hear you, we were telepathic, right?" I said to my mind and to the mask.
"No, it's just that I'm inside you, and I know whatever you want. ”
"Actually, I don't understand one thing, why come to this world, the people I meet know more than me, but I don't know anything, if I was a person in this world in my previous life, why don't I have any memory left?"
"This ...... I don't know, maybe your memories have been lost somewhere, right?"
"Where do I lose it? Will I lose the things in my head?"
"Yes, like you've forgotten something after a long time. The mask paused, "It will remember, at least, the important things will not be forgotten." ”
"You say, after all this time, how is that girl now? I want to save her, but I can't do it. ”
"She'll be fine, but Like is using her as bait to lure you in. ”
"Lead me to the bait? Relying on the ability to leave, he can easily solve me. ”
"No, he wouldn't dare, at least not right now. Lingzun has been blessed by Ying Long, you all have the potential power of Ying Long in your body, and if you kill you, he will be cursed, and he will be severely injured at least and die violently. But because Li is very strong, so killing your father and the first eight lives, are only a big injury, and did not die violently, after more than a thousand years, the consumption of Li is not as strong as it was at that time, and you have accumulated more than a thousand years of life and life, you are already the most powerful, but despite this, the power of Li should not be underestimated. ”
"If I fail and die in this world, will I ever return to my original world?"
"Do you remember what I told you? What is the world you see, that is the world you exist, and if you fail and die in this world, I don't know if you will go back to your old life. ”
"So, probably not. I looked up at the stars in the sky, "So, even if it's for your own survival, you can't lose this war, right?" Mask didn't answer me again, "It's the first time I've looked at the stars so closely, in the past, the sky was lit up by the neon lights of the city at night, and I couldn't see the stars at all, but since I came to this strange place, I saw some terrible things, and it turned out that there were still stars when I looked up." Masks, you know? When I was a kid, my family told me that the stars represent hope, so if there's hope, we're not going to lose, right?"
The white tiger flew very steadily in the air, and Wen Lin had fallen asleep on the white tiger, "I don't know what will happen next, but it won't all be bad, the old man said, 'Everything will be fine.'" 'Everything will be fine. "I also lay on the white tiger, facing the wind and quietly looking ahead.