Chapter 23: Disillusionment
Seeing Qiu Zhe stop, Christina breathed a sigh of relief, and lightly pressed twice on her throne, as if conjuring, and above the main hall in front of the throne, there was suddenly an extra mirror, like a monitor, showing a strange enclosed space. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The space was a void, only some transparent qi, and a girl was curled up in each bubble, and colorful points of light were constantly overflowing from the girl's body. All the points of light converge on the top floor of the space, forming a beam of light that spreads through the mirror to the entire hall.
Qiu Zhe's eyes saw clearly, the light overflowing from the girl's body was the purest spiritual power. The people who made this magic mirror castle in the first place had a clever mind, and they actually came up with this way, using the method of imprisoning the souls of the living, to collect the purest soul power to maintain the operation of the magic mirror.
Qiu Zhe suddenly remembered that when he was observing Lin Meiqi in the hospital, the other party's life was not extinguished. At that time, he still thought it was strange, but now it seems that the purpose of this magic mirror is not to take people's lives, but to turn people into slaves of the magic mirror, and be enslaved by the magic mirror for eternity.
As long as man is alive, there is a secret connection between the physical and the spiritual. Through this connection, even if the body and soul are separated, the soul can receive a constant supply from the body. This involves the most core secrets of life, and Qiu Zhe only vaguely knows some of them.
If it was in the Middle Ages, with the living and medical conditions at that time, the soul was out of the body, and the body might not live for a few days, and then the magic mirror would refine the victim's soul as nourishment for the magic mirror.
However, the conditions of modern society allow the victim to stay alive even if he is in a coma all the time, as long as the economic conditions allow.
Of course, Christina didn't know this, but Qiu Tingting did. However, this is undoubtedly a good thing for the magic mirror, which makes the life cycle of these souls longer, and avoids the danger of constantly hunting young girls.
However, danger still came, and no matter how careful Christina was, she was still discovered.
Looking at Qiu Zhe, who turned around and was about to rescue those souls, Christina's eyes were full of resentment, and the expression on her face became more and more hideous.
Qiu Zhe walked to the mirror and stretched out his right hand, and the essence and purity of Yuan Yang Qi continued to pour out from his palm. The seemingly solidified mirror surface gradually melted like ice cubes meeting flames under the action of the Yang True Qi.
He let out a long sigh and went around and around, taking a lot of detours, and this time he finally found it.
Qiu Zhe secretly made up his mind that when those girls were cured, he would close his doors and cultivate, and no longer care about these messy things outside.
The best way to keep your promises is to stop making promises.
The mirror surface gradually melted away like a thawing lake. Qiu Zhe tried to reach out, but actually went in. He was about to use the means of the heavenly ghost to capture and fish out the bubbles that bound the girl's soul, but the illusion suddenly disappeared.
The calm surface of the lake turned into a turbulent whirlpool in an instant, and an overwhelming suction force pulled him firmly, and he couldn't help but move closer to the center of the whirlpool.
This change caught him off guard, and before Qiu Zhe could react, half of his body was swept into the center of the whirlpool.
Realizing that he had fallen into a trap, he immediately gathered all his strength to get out of the whirlpool, but the suction of the whirlpool was so strong that he seemed to be stuck in the mud, and the more he struggled, the more he could not be free.
Some of the limbs trapped in the whirlpool seemed to be exposed in an ice cave, and they were frozen and stiffened in a moment. This so-called mirror is actually a portal, one end is connected to the castle in the fantasy world, and the other end leads directly to the underworld!
Unless a qi practitioner reaches the realm of the legendary qi cultivation god and can travel with the primordial spirit, once he enters the underworld and is eroded by the wind of the underworld, he will never be able to turn around.
Qiu Zhe was self-aware, and knew that he must not be swept into this whirlpool, otherwise he would definitely be doomed.
"Still fooled. He struggled to support himself, but a huge force came from behind. Qiu Zhe didn't have to look back to know that it was Christina who was doing the trick.
However, Qiu Zhe was helpless, and he could no longer stand on his feet due to the impact of this huge force, and most of his body was swallowed by the whirlpool.
"I have no choice but to fight. "If Qiu Zhe had known from the beginning that the illusion in this magic mirror was actually connected to the real Hades, he would never have taken any chances.
But at this point, useless emotions such as regret, he won't think about it at all. Only by moving forward is the way to live.
Qiu Zhe bit the tip of his tongue, sobered himself up with severe pain, stimulated the essence and blood of his whole body in an instant, and his right hand, which was still outside the whirlpool, hung high, and shouted with all his might:
"Thunder!"
The sinister smile on Christina's face was suddenly frozen, her eyes widened, revealing a look of disbelief, and the next moment, cracks gradually appeared on her body, from blurry to clear, like broken porcelain, "bang", turned into countless fragments, and disappeared into the void.
On the other side, with the power of thunder, Qiu Zhe finally split the mirror and got out of the whirlpool. The next moment, the whole castle began to shake, as if it had been hit by an earthquake, and the tall stone columns, dark corridors, well-defined reliefs, and ornate and intricate stained glass windows were all dismembered little by little.
Qiu Zhe's face was pale, blood was constantly oozing from his nose, mouth and even ears, he supported the ground with his hands, the whole person was half-kneeling, gasping for breath, but a pair of eyes were looking around in the mess around him.
The whirlpool above the main hall disappeared and turned into the original illusion, and when the entire castle collapsed, the mirror that manifested the illusion could not support it, and it shattered with a bang. Immediately, several clouds of colorful light overflowed from the shattered mirror.
Qiu Zhe endured the severe pain, put the halo into the soul nourishing bead one by one, and counted it until the eighth, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he couldn't support it anymore, and the whole person fell to the ground softly, letting the surrounding sky fall apart, and quietly closed his eyes.
When everything was calm, he opened his eyes, and the situation around him suddenly changed, and he returned to the real woods. Qiu Tingting was lying on the side, her eyes were blank, just staring at the sky blankly.
Qiu Zhe didn't care about her, and when he touched his body, those soul beads were still there, and he finally let go of his worries completely.
At the most critical moment, Qiu Zhe fought hard to corrupt the qi and blood of his whole body, and used the forbidden secret technique in the Dao Sect to cast the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Righteous Law in an instant, summon the authentic Taoist Divine Thunder, and finally get out of trouble.
All the magic powers of the Daomen are supernatural, with the thunder law as the highest secret. The practice of Inner Dan is to pursue "refining into Dan internally and using it externally to become thunder".
However, the cultivation of the Thunder Method is difficult, even if it is the lowest-level Five Thunder Evil Method, it is necessary for the cultivator to refine the Kung Fu Greatly, drive away the impurities of the whole body to reach the so-called "innocence" realm, and the Five Thunder Righteous Law is even more indispensable for refining Qi and transforming the Divine Cultivation.
In terms of the Dao Realm alone, Qiu Zhe is now barely able to cultivate the Five Thunder Evil Methods, but if he wants to do it at will, he is still too far behind.
If he wants to use the thunder method on weekdays, he is prepared in advance, collecting the essence of the five elements and refining it into thunder, and then making it into a charm, and using rune paper to load the power of thunder.
But this time it came in a hurry, and there was no preparation in a hurry. In desperation, he had no choice but to fight for serious injuries and perform a secret technique called "Broken Jade Gong".
"Rather for the broken jade, not for the whole tile", this broken jade is a secret inheritance in the Taoist gate, used in the last resort, with others to die together. Performing this technique can stimulate the essence and blood of the whole body, and forcibly improve the cultivation of the Dao in an instant, so as to exert the supernatural means that the original Dao Xing is not enough to cast.
Such a spell is called "Broken Jade" in the Daomen, and it is called "Heavenly Demon Disintegration" in the side door, and the principle is similar in the inside, all of which are means of hurting others and hurting oneself first, and the jade is burned.
With Qiu Zhe's current Taoism, he can only barely perform the Five Thunder Rectification Method once when he uses the Jade Shattering Skill, but this time is enough.
Thunder is the command of the heavens, the cardinal in charge of all things, and everything in the Three Realms and Nine Lands belongs to the thunder. The thunder is out, all evils are easy to dispel, and there is no need to worry about the illusion.
It's just that Qiu Zhe himself was also extremely injured, not only because of the consequences of forcibly performing the Jade Shattering Skill, but also in the illusion, half of his body was swept into the underworld, and was eroded by the Yin World Gang Wind, which made his injuries even worse.
If he encounters an opponent at this moment, even if he is an ordinary person, he can easily take his life.
Fortunately, Qiu Zhe's luck was not bad, he lay in the woods for nearly half an hour, and Cui Peng finally arrived. And the one who came with him was the captain Guan Linfeng who had only met him yesterday.
"Xiaoqiu, you don't matter, right?" Seeing Qiu Zhe's miserable appearance with blood on his face, Cui Peng was startled.
"I can't die," Qiu Zhe gasped and took out the soul nourishing bead from his arms: "You know how to use it." ”
The man brought by Guan Linfeng had sealed off the entire woods, and he himself was facing a mirror covered with fine lines, his brow furrowed.
"The management office, the scene has been searched, and nothing else has been found. ”
Hearing his subordinate's report, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he hesitated for a long time before giving the order:
"Bring all the people back and notify the emergency team to be on standby. ”
Lying on a stretcher and being carried into an ambulance was the first time in Qiu Zhe's life. At this moment, his whole body was corrupted by qi and blood, and the fatigue he had not felt for a long time came to him, making him want to fall asleep several times, but he was supported by the will of perennial penance.
At the same time, in another car, Guan Linfeng looked at Cui Peng opposite, finally stretched his brows, pointed at him with his finger and said:
"You're going to find something for me, kid. ”
"Hey, don't say that, as soon as you heard that there was a clue about the lost property at the fair, you hurriedly brought someone over. Cui Peng looked lazy.
Guan Linfeng was about to speak, when he suddenly smiled: "Forget it, although you were cheated this time and didn't find any clues about Ali Pasha, it wasn't all for nothing." ”
Through the window, his eyes cast to the ambulance behind him, his eyes full of meaning.