Chapter Twenty-Three: Darkness

Just when the three of Jingmo had arrived at Mount Tai, in the mountains thousands of miles away, the black-clothed Dharma Protector and his party finally rushed to a mountain with Qiu Xin.

There is no grass on the rocks here, no matter day or night, the mountains are always filled with gray miasma, eerie and terrifying, and there are few living creatures in normal times, let alone people coming here. However, this group of people actually opened a mountain to dig rocks on the mountainside, and I don't know what the purpose is, they forcibly opened up a passage, which extended to the belly of the mountain.

Opening the stone door outside the cave, turning left and right along the passage, Qiu Xin was carried into a stone house and thrown on the cold ground.

"Look at the land first, and then I will go and ask the Lord to come up and see. At this time, it was the black-clothed Dharma Protector who spoke, and then turned to leave.

The black-clothed men nodded yes and stood respectfully aside, and then there was silence in the cave, only the footsteps of the black-clothed protector as they left dispersed farther and farther away.

The situation in the cave is complicated, the black-clothed protector has not returned for a long time, just when the subordinates are waiting impatiently, a figure appears at the end of the passage, the person is also dressed in black, silver iron armor covers his face, but he looks very thin, and the wide robe looks very dragging on the body, but the black-clothed subordinates saw that they all knelt on the ground and bowed their heads, not daring to look directly, and then said in unison, "See the Lord." ”

It turned out that this person was the lord in the mouth of the black-clothed protector, and I don't know why he grabbed Qiuxin here, and why he carved stones in this mountain to build this secret realm.

Hearing the respectful words of his black-clothed subordinates, his master did not pause at all, but said, "Get up, everyone has worked hard all the way." His voice did not distinguish between men and women, whether he was happy or angry, low and terrifying, but all his subordinates looked up and looked at each other, their eyes were both afraid and puzzled, the Lord had never been so kind, he was moody and decisive on weekdays, and he was decisive in killing, and today it was like this, so that they should not do anything for a while, even the black-clothed protector standing next to him was slightly surprised in his heart, but his face did not change, and said, "Not yet." ”

Only then did the black-clothed subordinate on the ground slowly get up and stand aside.

I saw the Lord walking into the house, glanced at Qiu Xin on the ground, and continued, "This is the person you said with the spirit of fire?"

"It was this person, that day in an inn in Huizhou, the fire toad was restless, and into this person's belly, there was no other utensils with fire spirit in the inn, in order to avoid being discovered by Mount Meru, his subordinates hurriedly came with him. The black-clothed Dharma Protector bowed down and said.

And his lord said, "Then why is he like this?"

Hearing this, the black-clothed Dharma Protector hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Please punish the Lord, I was careless for a while, but I didn't expect that fire toad to burrow into this person's body and devour this person's dantian, and now I am afraid that he is dead." ”

When the Lord heard this, his loose black clothes suddenly swelled, and with a wave of his hand, the black-clothed protector kneeling on the ground was knocked away and fell to the corner of the wall, followed by the sound of broken bones, and the ribs were broken for a few pieces.

Ignoring the severe pain in his body, the black-clothed protector got up and knelt aside, and said in a trembling voice, "Please calm the anger of the lord, and his subordinates are also careless." ”

"Hmph, you are careless, you also know that the fire toad likes human flesh and blood the most, but you let it drill into this person's body, and you will bring back a corpse for a moment of carelessness, what do you want. As he spoke, he squatted down, stretched out a miserable white hand, and put it on Qiu Xin's neck, and his dark eyes kept flashing on Qiu Xin's body.

Then he got up and said, "This person's heart is extremely strong, although the dantian is completely destroyed, there is no breath, but there is still a trace of the possibility of living, you first take him to the medicine room, carefully sew the dantian knife edge, and then give him the elixir and send him to the fire cave." ”

"Please think twice, he doesn't have a fire spirit weapon on his body, and it's really not worth exchanging a spirit pill for this person's life. The black-clothed subordinate next to him also quickly knelt down and said, "Please think twice, Lord." ”

The thin lord of this matter said, "Nie Heng, what this seat says is what it is, don't go quickly, if something goes wrong, this person is dead, and he can't get the rocket spirit weapon, take you and ask." With that, he left the stone house.

After seeing the Lord leave, the black-clothed Dharma Protector got up and said to the black-clothed men, "Why don't you go quickly, do you want to wait for the Lord to take your dog's life?" ”

A group of subordinates listened to the angry words of the Dharma Protector, stood up in panic, and left here one after another with Qiu Xin in their arms.

After everyone left, the man known as Nie Heng covered his chest, couldn't suppress the anger on his face, and said to himself, "How precious is the elixir, I, Nie Heng, have not been able to get one from birth to death for the Lord, but now I have to use it on a dying person, what a waste." After saying that, he sighed unwillingly.

Darkness, except for darkness or darkness, the whole person's soul will be swallowed by this endless darkness, Qiu Xin is like a ghost at this time, wandering in it, leaning on the cold stone wall and drifting forward, unable to find the slightest light, unable to see the fixed hope, light and silent, as if a gust of wind can blow it away, unconsciously walking forward.

In this way, I don't know how long, how many hours, how many days and nights, how many months or years, maybe because he was tired of walking, maybe he was tired of walking like this, he suddenly stopped, leaned against the smooth and cold stone wall, and let out a whimpering sound in his mouth, and drifted in this empty passage.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up green, and he realized what was going on around him, and asked, "Where am I? Am I dead?"

There was no response, only his own words kept going into the distance, and he looked down at his body, only a thin layer of mist, and thought to himself, is this a ghost? Is this the underworld? Then there was a long silence.

He only remembered that he was released from the bag before he died, and he took one last look at the sun, and then he didn't know anything, he wanted to reach out and cover his head, but he couldn't tell where the hand was and where the head was, he wanted to make a little sound, but it was just a whining sound, he wanted to slap the walls around him, but his body was scattered at the touch, and he continued to walk forward, only to see two faint green lights floating in the air.

As dark as ever, there is no end to this path, and there are no other creatures.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the silent space, and there was an unbearable burning sensation throughout the passage, as familiar and beautiful as the pain of fire poison that he had suffered when he was a child, and then a faint golden light pierced the wall, like a broken mirror, shattered, and shook, and then the golden light surrounded itself in an instant, wanting to burn itself.

Suddenly, a touch of green rose from the golden light, although it was insignificant compared to the overwhelming golden light, but those dazzling golden lights met the green light and opened as soon as they met the green light, allowing the green to float straight towards them, and then enveloping their formless mist body, like a cocoon around themselves.

But after all, this green could not withstand the golden light, and it became fainter and fainter under the scorching golden light, and finally disappeared completely, and the golden fire swarmed up, and swallowed itself in this way, and there was nothing left, and then everything disappeared.

"Lord, he breathed again. The person who spoke was the person who had been sacrificed in the secret cave that day, and at this time, it seemed that the wound he had suffered that day had healed, and he was speaking to the thin man beside him.

The thin man didn't reply, just looked at Qiu Xin quietly, since he took the elixir for three days, he has been roasting in this fire cave, and there is no sign of survival, I don't know if it is because Qiu Xin has matured since he was a child and the body is different from ordinary people, or this elixir is indeed amazing, the abdominal wound actually began to heal slowly, and the dantian wound also began to improve.

"Sir, hard work, please go back to your room to rest. I don't know how long it took, but the thin man finally spoke.

"Where is the duty of the subordinates, how dare you say that the word is good and bitter, and ask the Lord to take him down after nine hours, and the subordinates will retire. He bowed and retreated, and just as he was about to walk out of the door, the thin man continued, "Sir, please hurry up on that matter." ”

Hearing this, he glanced up at Qiu Xin, then at the masked man, and said, "As long as there is a fire artifact, everything is available." ”

"That's very good. With that, the masked man turned his back, and the gentleman left.

The masked man just kept standing, waiting for Qiu Xin to wake up.

After everything was swallowed up by the golden light, Qiu Xin thought that he was really dead, and at this time he felt a sense of warmth, and opened his eyes hard, and there was a raging fire, whistling around him, but he was separated by a layer of invisible force, and he did not burn himself, and he was lying on the shelf woven of iron chains.

As soon as he was about to turn his head to look around, a familiar pain came from his body, and ** came out of his mouth.

I don't know what happened, his abdomen seemed to be cracked, he hurriedly looked inside the dantian, and found that it had long been damaged, and the fire toad was gone, the clothes on his body had long been gone, his skin was burnt black, and his black hair had withered down.

The thin man who had been standing heard ** walk next to Qiu Xin, raised his hands, gathered his strength, lifted Qiu Xin out of the fire, placed it firmly on the ground, and then said, "You are awake." ”

Qiu Xin saw that this person was wearing a silver mask, shining in the light of the fire, and a pair of miserable white hands like dead corpses, and there was no impression in his mind, so he asked, "Who are you? I haven't seen you, what are you doing with me?"

When the man heard this, he let out a cold laugh and said, "You only need to tell me where the fire spirit weapon is, so that you can save your life and ask what nonsense to do." Then he looked at Qiu Xin condescendingly.

The blazing fire illuminated the entire stone chamber as if it were day, and the autumn heart that was placed on the ground was surrounded by a sense of cold, and the heart turned for thousands of years, staring at the man's dark eyes, as if it could devour itself, like the dark passage, gloomy and desperate.

The two faced each other silently.