Chapter 54: Tower Prison
Su Ji felt like he was falling into the abyss, the roaring air flow pressing against him, and the howling wind blowing him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There is no despair in the world that can surpass what he feels at this moment. It was a pain that could not be described in words, so depressing, so profound, so complex, so heavy......
After some time, he woke up from a strange darkness.
A pair of hollow eyes lost their original agility and dexterity, like a dead man, only the faint rise and fall of his chest emphasized again and again that he was the only living life in this darkness.
Darkness and silence are the final destination of a life. However, for Suji, now is not the end of the day.
People are always going to die, so why rush for a while?
At least for now, Su Ji still has a lot of reasons to live.
The sorrow of the flower leaving like a wolf has receded like a tide, and there is only unforgettable hatred stranded in his heart. For the first time, he felt such a strong hatred.
Revenge is required!
Gotta live!
Hatred gives him strength and gives him the courage to live.
Angry nails scratched at the ground, making a screeching grinding sound. With trembling arms supporting his body, he slowly sat up. Su Ji felt the hardness and coldness of the stone ground coming from the palm pressed on the ground. Even though he couldn't see anything, he turned his head to look, and the headache was terrible, as if it were about to crack.
"You...... You're finally awake!Stinky drunkard!Dead drunkard!Rotten drunkard!"
There was a complaining and excited voice in his ears, and there was a subtle joy in his tone.
Su Ji lowered his head and coughed a few times, and found that his arms were glowing. His eyes were accustomed to darkness, and even the faint light would make him feel harsh. He closed his eyes slightly, took out the glowing thing and saw that it was a bag containing the Pure World Lotus Seed.
A faint light that illuminates a small patch of darkness in front of you. It is surrounded by hard stone walls covered with moss. Here is a large empty octagonal enclosed stone chamber with not even a single window, only two spiral stone steps, one leading to the top and one to the bottom.
"Where is this?" asked Su Ji.
"I don't know. I just know that I can't use mana here, and just letting these lotus seeds light up is already my limit now. ”
Kitsune's voice was weak and weak, and there was fear in her tone that she had never seen before.
At this moment, Su Ji heard a faint voice nearby:
"Gollum!
Su Ji looked around for the source of the sound, only to hear a "click". A worm the size of an orange petal fell from the roof of the shed, which was very similar in appearance to the Immortal Gu, but the color was black, and it was several times larger.
"Shhh
Suddenly, there was a worm chirp, and the black worm rushed over!
Su Ji felt that his arm was bitten hard, but he didn't see that the insect had a mouth, but a piece of the skin and flesh on his arm was really gnawed off!
He had just ripped the worm off and slammed it to the ground, when he heard another click!
Su Ji swallowed a mouthful of saliva, slowly raised his head, and suddenly felt terrified! I saw a large area of dense black insects gathering on the roof of the shed, crackling and falling down like rain!
The fox screamed, "What are you waiting for?
The moment Su Ji hurriedly got up, two lotus seeds were scattered. The glowing beads rolled in one direction, and a wave of black bugs that had just fallen from the roof of the shed immediately gathered over. The lotus seed light source was instantly crawling with black insects of all sizes.
Su Ji rolled his eyes, took out a small handful of lotus seeds and put them on the ground, kicked them into the distance, and another wave of black insects was immediately led over.
Sure enough, the bugs were attracted to the light, and they seemed to be particularly interested in the light.
When he opened the bag again, Su Ji found that there was only one lotus seed left in it, and he couldn't help but shake his head, knowing that he couldn't throw it away again, otherwise there would be only darkness left in front of him.
At this moment, he heard more grunts, and when he turned his head, his face turned pale instantly, and he saw that black pressure Gu worms were surging up the steps below. A large number of black Gu worms swarmed up, all attracted by the light in his hand, making a "hissing" sound.
Su Ji pulled his legs and ran to the upper steps, and just after running two steps, suddenly a scrawny man pounced on him. A stained face hit Su Ji's nose, and a sour smell hit her face.
The man was knocked to the ground by Su Ji, who was gaining momentum! Su Ji just wanted to reach out and pull him up, but suddenly felt that he was being dragged by another big hand first, and when he looked back, he saw that he was dragged by a white-robed Taoist with a long beard, and his narrow eyes flashed.
"You can't save him. ”
After the white-robed Taoist finished speaking, Su Ji listened to the faint sound of silkworms eating mulberry leaves, and turned his head to see a large number of black Gu worms burrowing into the person's eyes, ears, mouth, and other seven orifices.
"Why me, why me!
The man let out a scream, and the whole person rolled on the ground, and in the process of rolling and struggling, his whole body was like being eaten by insects, and it turned into a pile of white bones in an instant. What's even more terrifying is that the white bones are still trembling, and the bones make a clicking sound, and they pounce on Su Ji, as if they want to ask for his life!
The white-robed Taoist didn't look at it, and shook out with a palm. The skeleton made a clicking sound, and the white bones instantly condensed into jade bones, scattering into glowing red broken bones. The black Gu worms swarmed up, and in an instant, they gnawed cleanly, and there was not even a single bone left.
"Follow me!" After the white-robed Taoist said this, he turned around and left.
Su Ji gasped and slowly followed his footsteps.
After the white-robed Taoist brought Su Ji to the upper level, he sealed the way up with an enchantment. Su Ji couldn't help but wonder when he watched his spell casting.
Who is this white-robed Taoist?
Even fox can't use mana here, but he can.
Su Ji glanced around and found that the layout of this floor was similar to that of the lower floor, except that there were eighteen more people meditating cross-legged on the ground. After the white-robed Taoist sat cross-legged on the ground, his face was very ugly, and he muttered a series of unintelligible words in his mouth, as if he was reciting some incantation.
Su Ji was about to lean over to ask a question, when he suddenly felt someone shushing behind him, and when he looked back, he saw an unkempt middle-aged uncle shaking his hand and making a gesture to him not to ask.
"Young people, if you want to live more here, you have to ask less. ”
As soon as the middle-aged uncle spoke, the pungent bad breath made Su Ji dizzy and almost fainted.
Su Ji covered his nose, nodded in greeting, and only heard him start to report to his home:
"The poor road law is pure and bright, the window is bright and clean, clean and bright, you will call me in the future, brother Jing. ”
"Brother Jing......"
Uncle Jingming opened his mouth, just waiting for the answer after the call. However, Su Ji couldn't call out the remaining word "brother", so he had to smile awkwardly. He thought to himself that it was dark here, the people here were dirtier than the other, and the word "pure and bright" was too undesirable, and it was almost the same to say "netherworld".
Su Ji asked, "What kind of place is this? Eighteen Layers of Hell?"
Uncle Jingming shook his head and sighed, "The ghosts of hell also have reincarnation. This is the Linglong Tower Prison, and there is no chance to hold pigs and dogs, as long as you come in, no one can get out, even if you are a fairy. ”
As he spoke, he grabbed an eight-legged worm from his messy hair, stuffed it in his mouth and chewed it without even looking at it, the juice overflowed between his teeth, and he made a clicking sound from time to time, which made Su Ji instantly get goosebumps.
Uncle Jingming chewed with a taste and said:
"You're in luck, young man. There are seven floors in the Linglong Tower, if the top floor is the first floor, then the floor you are on is the fourth floor of the Tower, which is the middle layer, and the lower you go, the more hellish it is. If you are directly sent to the bottom by the Linglong Blood Array, it will be really harder than death. ”
After Uncle Jingming finished speaking, he grunted and swallowed the chewed worm.
Su Ji's eyebrows tightened, and he asked rhetorically, "How do you know?
"Only the ghosts in that kind of place are willing to go down! I listened to him......" Uncle Jingming pointed to the white-robed Taoist and said, "The Taoist friend who saved you just now, named Bai Sleeve, was originally a loose cultivator of the sect, and he cultivated as high as the Xuanqing Three Realms before entering the tower. However, he was not as lucky as you, I heard that he and eight Taoist friends fell into the Linglong Blood Array together, and were teleported to the sixth layer of the Tower Prison, and he was the only one who escaped in the end. ”
Xuanqing Three Realms?
Su Ji looked at the white-robed Taoist. It turned out that this person's previous strength was above the four major priests, and he could even compete with Jiang Xuan, who had not yet recovered his cultivation, no wonder he was still able to use mana here.
He looked at the eighteen monks around him who were meditating in silence and asked:
"Why are these people sitting still?"
"They are afraid that their cultivation will be exhausted. The more active you are here, the faster your cultivation will dissipate, and the faster your lifespan will shorten. ”
"What's the difference between that and death...... Su Ji made a conclusion in a low voice, and asked Uncle Jingming: "Then why are you the only one who doesn't meditate?
"Before I entered the tower, it was the second realm of Xuanqing, and now that my cultivation is almost scattered, there is no need to meditate. Now among the living people in the upper three layers, there is no one who is lower than my cultivation. ”
Su Ji pointed at himself and added, "You seem to have forgotten to count me." ”
"By the way, I just wanted to ask! What kind of cultivation are you? I can't feel the Xuanqing Qi in you at all. Could it be that you can hide your breath, have broken through the refining of qi and the transformation of gods, and reached the realm of refining gods and returning to the void?"
Su Ji shook his head and said, "I didn't cultivate. ”
"Didn't cultivate?" Uncle Jingming suddenly widened his eyes as if he saw the river flowing backwards, and said in astonishment: "This is absolutely impossible! Only a monk who contains the aura of Xuanqing can be brewed into exquisite blood." Ordinary mortals don't even have the qualifications to be locked in. ”
When he heard "Linglong Blood Brewing", Su Ji's face changed slightly, and he remembered that Jiang Xuan had also mentioned this name.
"What is Exquisite Blood?"
Uncle Jingming pointed to the stairs below and said, "You've seen those black bugs just now." They are called nibbying Gu, and they belong to the same kind of insect as the Immortal Gu. The Immortal Gu is a female worm, and the Encroaching Gu is a male worm. It was the most ferocious of the three corpse Gus, and the one you just saw was just the smallest. Those of us who are imprisoned in the tower will be turned into food for them sooner or later, whether we live or die. Every year, the Jiang family would use the light to nibble at the bottom of the tower to climb out of a small hole, and then brew them into exquisite blood brew for their own recovery. ”
Before he finished listening, Su Ji's stomach had already begun to be nauseous, and it turned out that the red liquid he drank before was the wine made from these man-eating Gu worms. He now understands that the darkness that Li Hongjun's prophecy mentioned in the eternal unestabulation refers to this place called Linglong Pagoda Prison. It is equivalent to a large wine cellar, and the monks imprisoned in it are the raw materials for sake brewing.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh at the irony of fate, could it be that after drinking wine all his life, he would turn into a jar of wine and become a bubble of urine for others?
Uncle Jingming pondered for a while, leaned over to Su Ji and asked:
"If you're mortal, have you offended some big guy, or something else?"
"The one I offended? That's a long story, but I'll talk about it slowly. As for the specialties......" Su Ji pondered for a while and replied: "I only have two specialties: one is two legs, the other is the third leg, and I really can't find any other specialties." ”
"Long legs? Wow!" The uncle patted his thigh and sighed excitedly: "It seems that my hard life has finally come to an end! From tomorrow onwards, my errand will be handed over to you!"
After that, Uncle Jingming showed a weird smile.
Su Ji suddenly had a sense of foreboding.