Chapter 2: Gathering Souls
Silent.
Heaven and earth seem to be in chaos, and everything is invisible.
It's so cold! Where am I?
I don't know how long it took, such a thought came out of Deng An's consciousness.
Deng An felt very tired and wanted to relax completely. However, whenever he is about to fall into a coma, he is awakened by the scene of his father killing himself.
I want revenge! Let them never be reborn! Am I not dead? Deng An cursed again and again, only to remember that he had been killed by the man in black, he subconsciously wanted to move his hands and feet, but he was horrified to find that he had no physical sense.
"That's what it feels like to be dead?"
Deng An knew that no one would answer him, so he still asked a rhetorical question.
Gradually, Deng An remembered everything in his life, the lights were bright, the world was prosperous, everything was like a cloud of smoke, and the only thing left was endless hatred.
Deng Anbei came from it and wanted to cry happily, but he couldn't express it, because he found that he couldn't even "cry".
Deng An clearly felt that his "body" was wrapped in a mysterious aura, which was very cold and was constantly being absorbed by himself.
After some more time, Deng Anmo vaguely "saw" that he was in a dark place, surrounded by black gas, and in the distance was a cascading dense forest.
When this "vision" gradually became clear, he saw himself.
Deng An was finally convinced that he was dead, and next to the white bones below, there was a decayed robe, and there were jade pendants and other things scattered next to the robe, which he wore with him.
"People often say that people become ghosts when they die, and I didn't believe it at first, thinking it was just a lie, but now it seems to be true!"
Deng An soon realized that he was experiencing a rebirth in another sense, and after a few days after the appearance of vision, he was gradually able to "hear" sounds.
With the advent of hearing, Deng An encountered some minor troubles.
On the outside of the black gas, there is a place where wild beasts accumulate. Every night, those jackals and wild dogs bark wildly, which makes people upset. As for why he was left alone here, Deng An already had a rough guess, which must have something to do with these neighbors.
If autumn is described, in addition to the word autumn high and cool, there is also autumn rain, and a few days after Deng An gained normal hearing, the sky began to drizzle.
Deng An "looked" at the sky, stunned. He remembered that last autumn, in Ximei Mountain, the capital, in order to escape the rain, he met a gentle girl. The two hit it off at first sight and chatted until the evening, until each family sent someone to urge, and then they were reluctant to part.
"Crack!" a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, leaving a dazzling glow. There are few thunderstorms in autumn, so this thunder and lightning is exceptionally bright and loud.
For thunder and lightning, Deng An had a fear from the depths of his soul. He looked at the mountain peaks where the lightning dissipated, and a cloud of rain and mist swayed with gusts of wind. Hey, why did the mountain change its position? After Deng An compared it with several other references again, he believed that it was not his "dazzle".
Suddenly, Deng An remembered if he had missed something just now.
"By the way, I shifted my position when Ray Wei came. ”
This thought made Deng An a little ecstatic, always confined in the same place, although he could see and hear, but after staying for a long time, it was just as boring.
Thinking back to the situation when the thunder and lightning occurred, Deng Anxin moved, and sure enough, he moved a few steps towards the periphery of the black gas. Surprisingly, such a "walk" came naturally and was extremely easy. He moved excitedly until he reached the edge of the black gas.
At this time, Deng An found that his body was only a cloud of light black gas. Because he was in the black qi before, he could not find out until now, and Deng An also understood why he couldn't drive his hands and feet.
"I thought that the evil ghosts were all vicious-looking, with fangs and bloody mouths, hands and feet, but it turned out to be just a mass of gas, no wonder I had never seen it before, these black gases should be what people often call yin qi. It took Deng An a long time to gradually adapt to the current state, and because he was worried about revenge, he slowly moved towards the black qi.
The area where Deng An is shrouded in yin qi is not large, about more than 100 zhang, and the location is in the shade of the mountain peak, and the surrounding ancient trees are towering, which looks very gloomy. After all, Deng An had experience as a person, and judging from the intensity and slope of the light in the distance, it was a morning.
At the edge, Deng An became extremely cautious, and his intuition told him that it was very dangerous outside of Yin Qi. He carefully removed a little bit of the yin qi that made up the "body". In an instant, a burning sensation pierced his soul, causing a void in his consciousness.
Deng An instinctively retracted, not daring to taste contact with the outside world again, once he entered the black shroud range, he felt a trace of black gas again, which was gradually absorbed by the "body", and the fatigue caused by the burning just now was swept away.
Deng Anxin was overjoyed, and desperately stretched the yin qi that made up the "body", so that it could inhale more black qi into his body. This constant absorption is extremely draining, and when a new day comes, he gives up active absorption and wanders around in the yin qi.
For the chill in his soul, Deng An has gradually adapted. As he approached a rock, he suddenly felt that the chill here seemed to be a little thicker. After some inspection, Deng An was surprised to find that under a boulder, there was a half-meter-long crack, from which bursts of yin qi were constantly coming out, and the purity of the essence was very high.
Deng An floated over curiously, the fissure was irregularly shaped, not like it was caused by man, but like it was formed by an earthquake. He didn't notice anything but the cold.
Deng An hesitated and drove his "body" towards the rift. Sure enough, his "body" was not hindered in any way, and he drilled into it effortlessly. "Legend has it that immortals can fly to the sky, but that's not the case!"
At this time, Deng An was a little proud.
dived for nearly half an hour, during which the cracks in the mountains and rocks were large and small, but they couldn't cause any trouble to Deng An. According to the descent speed, Deng An roughly calculated that it was already two or three hundred meters underground. After drilling down for nearly 100 meters, he suddenly found himself in a large underground space. The yin qi here is much thicker, and every trace of absorption is better than being on the ground for more than half an hour.
Deng Anxin became more and more suspicious, and wandered around to check.
Deng An came to this conclusion. The place where he was was surrounded by smooth stone walls, like artificial corridors, and the crack was on a stone wall.
Deng An followed the road, floated forward more than ten meters, and affirmed his conclusion, on the stone walls on the left and right, there were many traces left by artificiality, and he even found carvings of flowers, birds, insects and fish and blurred words.
Soon, Deng An became suspicious, and faintly, from the direction of the depths of the corridor, there was a palpitating aura. It's a powerful sense of oppression, and it also contains a desire rather than a fear of danger.
Deng An immediately floated forward, but immediately felt that something was wrong. It is extremely impolite to rush into the tombs of the deceased and disturb their rest. What's more, he went in like this, and he was somewhat suspected of robbing the tomb.
Deng An planned to return along the way he came, but the moment he saw the rift, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he was not a living person, and it should be normal for the dead to run through the door. Besides, what was it that was so appealing, he wanted to find out.
As he moved forward, Deng An became more and more sure that this was definitely a tomb. Moreover, the deceased must have been a wealthy and noble person during his lifetime, and the stone walls, the top of the tomb, those exquisite stone carvings, and the construction of the tomb that were quite particular were not something that ordinary people could enjoy.
"Probably an ancient emperor!"
Deng An has read history books since he was a child, so he naturally knows it very well. In history, Nanyuan City existed as the capital most of the time, and when the Ju Kingdom was established two hundred years ago, Gaozu moved the capital to his hometown Changju City in order to condense the so-called dragon qi at the suggestion of the minister.
Thinking of this, Deng An was a little uneasy. He had never made a pilgrimage to the emperor, but he did not expect that after his death, he would come to the mausoleum of what was likely to be the emperor. It's just that I don't know if the people buried here will exist in the form of a cloud of yin qi like themselves.
"By the way, I've been on it for so long, and I haven't seen any ghosts come out. Presumably, the owner of this tomb has long since disappeared. ”
Soon, Deng An came to the door of a stone chamber. Seeing the pattern engraved on the door, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. The carvings on it are all auspicious beasts such as white cranes, and there is no dragon and phoenix pattern symbolizing the identity of the emperor.
"It doesn't matter if he is an emperor or not, everyone is dead, what else is there to see, at most, like me, it is the yin qi that can change freely. ”
Deng An muttered a few words to himself and slipped through the crack in the door.
In terms of momentum, this tomb is comparable to the tomb of the emperor's tomb, at least seventeen or eighteen times the living room of ordinary people, but it is only large. Since the burial chamber was carved into the rock, it was relatively well sealed, and through a few glowing stones embedded in the ceiling, he could clearly "see" that there was only a thin layer of dust on the ground.
Since regaining his vision, Deng An has found that his vision is different from that of his life, in the dark, it is much stronger than his life's vision, and it can see farther places.
Deng An's attention was soon placed in the middle of the tomb. Because there are very few items in the stone chamber, except for some rotten wood and dry bones in the center, there are basically no furnishings. What's more, the source of your own intense desire is in the things that are scattered.
Deng An didn't feel the existence of the same body as himself, so he put his mind at ease and slowly floated over. The closer he got to the middle of the tomb, the stronger the longing from the depths of his soul became, and he even trembled unconsciously. If someone is in the tomb, they will find that the yin qi formed by Deng An is boiling like boiling water.