Chapter 51: A Thousand Souls of Dreams
The towering ancient tree was even more terrifying than a python, and a scarlet giant mouth was split in the center of the tree, and several branches wrapped around Wan Ting and quickly pulled it in.
"Senior sister!" Yuan Qi shouted, fortunately their hands were still clasped tightly, and Yuan Qi tried hard to pull Wan Ting out.
"Ahh
Above the giant mouth, two cracks appeared, shooting out a ghostly light, like two eyes, staring at Yuan Qi, and countless branches quickly rolled towards him.
"Hold on to me, don't let go!" Yuan Qi used his skills, and the dustless sword on his back automatically went out of his body, striking out sword qi, splitting the branches, and finally slashing at the giant mouth with a sword.
The broken branches fell, but a blood-red branch erupted from the giant mouth, slamming into the sword.
"Watch the back!" Wan Ting's face changed drastically, as if she had seen something very terrifying.
Yuan Qi also felt strange, and when he looked back, he saw a huge snake head, red snake silk, swallowing and mouthing, spewing out a disgusting fishy smell, it was the python he saw just now.
I have to say that Yuan Qi's reaction was very sensitive, and he made a decision almost instantly, he was not resisting, and the whole person sank into the belly of the tree demon with Wan Ting.
The dryad's mouth gradually closed, the python seemed to be very unwilling, the huge snake head reached in, trying to snatch the food from its eyes, but what was ushered in was a branch like a sharp blade, the snake head was like a claw thorn, quickly retracted, and on the snake's face, blood flowed from several terrible wounds.
"Whoa~~Whoa~~" The python was furious, and the thick snake tail frantically whipped the dryad, making the original calm here become violent.
Not to be outdone, countless branches swept in, turned into sharp blades, and stabbed at the python.
In the belly of the Dryad, the entanglement of the outside world made it seem unpeaceful here, and the Dryad didn't have time to digest Yuan Qi and Wan Ting at all, but just trapped them in a hurry.
"Click~~~" Yuan Qi used all his strength to finally split the branches and get freed.
"Don't be afraid!" Yuan Qi noticed the tremor on Wan Ting's body, patted her shoulders, and comforted, "Trust me, I won't let you get hurt in any way!"
Wan Ting was silent, but seemed to have found a support and hugged Yuan Qi tightly.
Yuan Qi observed that there were countless corpses and bones piled up, and he couldn't tell whether it was a human or a beast. Raising his head, at the very top position above, a piece of green wood floated in the void, exuding a demonic aura.
"It seems that everything is something that this piece of green wood is doing!" Yuan Qi muttered to himself silently.
Wan Ting glanced at the corpses around her and said, "This tree demon is harmful enough!"
Yuan nodded: "There are clouds in the book, tree demons, absorbing the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon, after a hundred years of cultivation, it is really not easy, the essence of the wood it forms, the value is immeasurable, because it is good at hiding, some predecessors often use it to guard the cave mansion to prevent outsiders!"
"You mean, there's a cave-like place around here!" Wan Ting asked rhetorically.
"Very likely!" Yuan Qi thought and thought, and said, "You stay here first!
Yuan Qi leaped deeply, his right hand emitted spiritual light, and grabbed the piece of green wood, and suddenly, golden light appeared around the green wood, imprisoning Yuan Qi's palm, and the golden light spread along his arm, and suddenly it reached Yuan Qi's head.
"Ahh
"It's okay!" Wan Ting injected an aura into Yuan Qi's body and suppressed it.
Yuan Qi shook his head, stopped Wan Ting, sealed with both hands, and cast a blood cover, and at the same time burst out of a strong spiritual light, Yuan Qi did not step forward, but stood in place, with a strong suction in his body, pulling the piece of green wood.
"Ting, you stay away from me!" The golden light resurfaced, surging like an arc of lightning, making Yuan Qi feel the stinging pain again, he held his head in his left hand, and cast a spell with all his strength with his right hand.
"Or are we thinking of other ways?" Seeing that Yuan Qi was in pain, Wan Ting said worriedly.
"I just want to draw out all these guardian golden lights, so that there will definitely be nothing to resist around that green wood!" Yuan Qi's eyes flashed with fine light, and he waved his right hand full of blood, and a palm print broke through the golden light, and grabbed the piece of green wood with one hand.
"Whew!" There seemed to be an earthquake here, countless branches fell, without the support of Aoki, the dryad collapsed all of a sudden, and the outside world, the branches that had been entangled in the python, suddenly retreated, and the python broke free, and the huge snake eyes emitted a ferocious light, launching a clever attack on the dryad.
On the ground, a cloud of blood oozed from the roots of the tree, and it was hard to imagine that the dryad actually flowed red blood.
The fury outside drove the dryad to begin to disintegrate inside, and on the ground, blood and water spurted out like a spring, and countless branches were interspersed, but fortunately, Yuan Qi and Wan Ting were standing in the void, waving two swords in their hands, quickly dodging these attacks.
Yuan Qi resisted while looking for the flaws around him, and the whipping of the giant snake had already made this place full of holes.
"There!" Yuan Qi pointed in one direction, grabbed Wan Ting, and flew quickly. There was a small gap there, flashing a dim light, as a sword qi fell, the gap became even larger, and a thick snake tail swayed from there, looking very violent.
"Tear~" Both of them gasped, and Yuan Qi pulled Wan Ting to hide quickly.
The python had apparently developed as well, and its scarlet eyes, through the gap, were looking inside.
It didn't take long for the snake's eyes to move away, and after a short period of calm, it ushered in a shock again, as if it would not give up on the destruction of the dryad in front of him.
"If this continues, we will be discovered sooner or later!" Wan Ting said anxiously.
"Senior sister, can you still resist the sword?" Yuan Qi suddenly asked.
"Reluctantly!" Wan Ting responded.
"Let's find a gap later, let's rush out together, and run as far as we can!" Yuan Qi proposed.
"Okay!" Wan Ting clenched the Qingying Sword, and there was only this way at the moment.
As the gap grew bigger and bigger, the two of them began to become difficult to hide, and when the snake eyes looked at it again, Yuan Qi whispered, "Go!"
Two rays of light flickered, and the two of them stepped on the fairy sword along the edge, almost rushing out under the python's eyes.
"Roar!" After a brief pause, the python let out an angry roar, and actually abandoned the dryad and chased after them, which was no slower than Yuan Qi.
"Damn, what is this snake demon for, so entangled, looking at its appearance, it seems that it is not just for eating us!" Yuan Qi guessed, "Is it for that piece of green wood?"
"Look ahead!" Wan Ting pointed in one direction, and Qiankun hovered in the air, and a hole loomed below it.
"Let's go!" Yuan Qi did not hesitate, turned into a stream of blue light, and disappeared into the cave.
At the entrance of the cave, the python stopped instantly, and a sense of fear appeared on the face of the huge snake, and it lingered around for a long time before slowly leaving.
"What kind of place is this!" After a short break, Wan Ting stared curiously at the surroundings, which was a tunnel that spread into the depths.
"It's hard to say!" Yuan Qi shook his head, stared at the stone wall carefully, and said, "These patterns are very ancient!"
Wan Ting looked at it, the patterns on the stone wall extended straight inside, there were breeding, chrysanthemum picking, children's play, and women's weaving......
"These patterns describe the most simple life, and it stands to reason that no one who can come here will be mortals, so why should we pay special attention to these worldly families!" Yuan Qi wondered.
"Eh!" Wan Ting muttered, suddenly remembered just now, lowered her head and said, "Thank you so much just now!"
Yuan Qi responded seriously: "It's okay, it's what I should do!"
"Really?" Wan Ting asked rhetorically, Xue Liang's gaze stared at Yuan Qi.
"Of course!" Yuan Qi pointed to his head and said, "You just asked me about my childhood, in fact, I only have vague fragments, and my head hurts when I think about it, but I always feel as if I have seen you!"
"Do you remember what the place is?" Wan Ting asked.
Yuan Qi shook his head: "I only remember that it was very dark there, there were many children, and I was one of them, they took a lot of them, but they never came back, and in the end I was also taken away, and after that, I don't remember anything after that, but I am sure that I saw you at that time!"
Yuan Qi frowned and said again: "There is a mysterious power in my body, every time I have an attack, I will remember some forgotten fragments, so I guess this power must be related to what happened when I was a child!"
Wan Ting's tears flickered, thinking of Yuan Qi's words in his sleep on the immortal boat, she was even more sure in her heart, and shouted in a low voice: "Brother!"
"Okay, don't cry!" Yuan Qi stopped, gently wiped away her tears, and said, "I don't know if I'm your brother, if so, it's better, if not..."
Yuan Qi paused, his heart suddenly became inexplicably nervous, his face turned red, his eyes slowly moved away, and he said in an almost mosquito-like voice: "My mind, you should understand!"
Wan Ting was silent, looking at the man in front of her carefully, not knowing what she was thinking.
The passage was very long, and they were speechless all the way, and after a long time, they finally came to the end, and saw a ball of blue light, and the two glanced at each other and quickly followed.
In front of it was a cold pool, on which a white-clothed figure stood quietly, as if it had been a long time.
"It's him!" Yuan Qi quickly chased after him and shouted, "Senior, please stay!"
However, the man in white didn't seem to notice, and his body quickly sank into the cold pool.
"It's a pity!" Yuan Qi sighed repeatedly, circling around the cold pool, and the edge of the pool was carved with four big characters, "Blue water and cold pool!"
"Could it be that there is a secret at the bottom of this cold pool?" Yuan Qi thought about it, raised his head, and above the cold pool, it was the Qiankun diagram that had not been seen for a long time circling, and the seals were wrapped around the cold pool.
"I understand!" Yuan Qi said, "Do you remember the altar when we came, this should be the altar on top, it's hateful, after going around for so long, in the end it's still standing still!"
"Can we still go up!" Wan Ting asked.
"It shouldn't work, this Qiankun Array is very powerful, even stronger than the Penglai Array, with our strength, it is impossible to break through!" Yuan Qi opened his mouth, his hand subconsciously slapped the cold pool, splashing the water, he didn't pay attention at all, along his fingers, there was a stream of blood flowing down the cold pool.
On the surface of the pool, the blisters bulged, Yuan Qi sensed the danger, pulled Wan Ting, and quickly retreated to the side.
"Bang~~" The water splashed, and a huge snake head emerged, and the green eyes stared at Yuan Qi, wanting to poke out his head, rushing over, and tearing him apart. However, the Qiankun above issued a ray of light, imprisoning it to death, unable to move forward in the slightest.
"The head has horns, and the back has scales, this should be the legendary dragon snake!" Yuan Qi recognized the name of the monster and exclaimed, "No wonder that python didn't dare to chase after it!"
For some reason, the dragon snake was very angry, and a strong aura appeared at the position of the two horns above its head, resisting the seal, and gradually there was a tendency to rush out.
"This seal is strange, it shouldn't be aimed at the dragon snake!" Yuan Qi judged, if it goes on like this, this dragon snake can break through sooner or later.
"Come and see here!" Wan Ting pointed in one direction and said, "This seems to be a guqin!"
Yuan Qi stepped forward, and there were a few strings hanging on the piano base, but only the body was missing.
"No!" Yuan Qi couldn't believe it, he took out Aoki, carefully compared, and found that Aoki was the missing body, "It's so coincidental, it seems to have been calculated!"
"It should be luck, there's a melody here, but it seems to be incomplete!" Wan Ting could vaguely make out a few syllables.
Yuan Qi hesitated, or put the body of the piano back, the guqin streamer floated, the cave was gradually dyed with a layer of green, and the surrounding grass and trees quickly grew, a fresh breath spread, the dragon and snake suddenly became quiet, huge eyes staring at the mysterious guqin, as if they had heard the sound of this qin.
"Try it!" Yuan Qi said.
Wan Ting sat cross-legged, gently popped up a syllable, suddenly, the surrounding grass and trees moved with the sound, a scene of the beginning of all things, fascinating, the dragon snake eyes narrowed, slowly crawling on the edge of the pool, it seemed that he had not heard the music for a long time, and he had a look of enjoyment.
Yuan Qi closed his eyes and quietly felt, the notes, like a dream, like a fantasy, full of floating colors, I have never heard such a beautiful tune, like a dream, can pull a person from the abyss into the heaven-like feeling, open his eyes, Hayaki stirred with the notes, like a dance, for the perfect melody, add a little rhyme.
It's strange to say, it's obviously an incomplete tune, but Wan Ting is tasteless and complicated, as if she already knew this tune, and actually popped up a complete track.
After a long time, the light of the song is gone, the notes are scattered, and the surrounding grass and trees are still the same, and the meaning is still unfinished. The dragon snake opened its eyes and stared at Wan Ting with an obsessive expression, spitting snake silk in its mouth, as if it was currying favor with her, and wanted to relive this dreamy voice again.
Wan Ting's eyes were confused, silent, and said slowly: "When I was a child, my father often played this song for me, and over time, I was a little bit of a second!"
"Your father?" Yuan Qi was surprised.
"Hmm!" Wan Ting nodded, recalled, and looked at Yuan Qi, "It's strange, my father never mentioned the origin of this piece to me, whenever I am alone, I can always see my father playing this piece silently alone! He said that this is a kind of sustenance! I didn't understand it when I was a child, but now I seem to understand a little!"
"Did he tell you what the name of this song was?" asked Yuan Qi.
Wan Ting recalled, and slowly spit out four words: "Dream Thousand Souls!"
"Let's play it again!" Yuan Qi also said unsatisfied.
Wan Ting nodded, the beautiful sound of the piano came again, and the surrounding grass and trees jumped again.
Yuan Qi closed his eyes, he was a little confused, he sensed carefully, for some reason, the second time he listened to this wonderful voice, it still gave people a feeling of intoxication, the more he wanted to deliberately stay awake, but the more he had a feeling of forgetting himself, as if his body dissolved between heaven and earth, dissipated away, this is a dangerous feeling, although it is wonderful but contains a trace of demonism.
At the end of the song, Wan Ting pondered and said: "A good song with a good qin, it should be the blessing of this guqin that has this effect! It's a pity that this guqin can't be moved!"
"Silk ~~" The dragon snake swallowed the snake silk, slowly moved its huge head, leaned on the edge of the cold pool, between the two horns, forming a strong aura, gently signaling the two.
Yuan Qi was frightened, and approached step by step, and the giant snake actually lowered his head and motioned for him to stand in the spiritual light above his head.
"It wants to take us away!" Yuan Qi turned around and said, "Take that piece of green wood with you!"
"Roar!" the dragon snake roared, the giant revelation shaking violently.
"Brother Snake, I'm kidding!" Yuan Qi smiled dryly, "There's Brother Snake!"
Wan Ting slowly moved and came to the two horns of the dragon snake, and a strong aura enveloped the two of them, almost instantly healing half of their injuries. With a low roar, he slowly dived into the cold pool.
The top of the dragon snake's head was warm, and the two of them were wrapped in spiritual light, moving forward in the water.
The bottom of the cold pool was green, it was very quiet here, and a burst of shuttle really opened their eyes. Suddenly, the water in front of me turned pitch black, and corpses floated one by one, exuding the smell of decay. In a trance, you can see a pitch-black cave standing there.
The dragon snake seemed to be very taboo, and avoided it with a look of disgust, and its whole body rose rapidly, gradually surfacing and coming to a cold secret room.
"Roar!" the dragon snake let out a low roar again, as if it was afraid of the cold here, and almost at the moment of arriving here, its whole body quickly dived to the bottom of the water and left.
"Brother Snake!" Yuan Qi shouted, how could they go back like this.
Wan Ting looked back and looked around at everything here.
This is a dungeon, filled with a cold air, the cold pool occupies one side, the remaining three directions, the three stone doors exude a quaint atmosphere, the central stone platform is very large, three mysterious stones flashing with different lights, placed there, in a triangular trend.
The most mysterious thing is that behind the cold pool, on a towering willow tree, a huge ice block hangs, and inside the ice block, a skinny monkey is frozen there with its eyes closed.
On the wall, there is an unforgettable verse inscribed: "The willow leaves are like smoke and light poems, and the desolate dreams are like ghosts and ghosts!"