16. Xanadu: Ancestral Cave
The cave is as black as ink.
But for Tenshu, this darkness was as if it did not exist, because he found that he could see everything in front of him.
He closed his eyes slightly, sighed, and then opened them again, his steps more determined.
After walking for a long time, I must have entered a deep place, but I still didn't find anything unusual. Just as his spirit was relaxed, he suddenly stepped on the air, and his whole body was like a stone that had been thrown out, in a complete free fall, falling straight down.
Tianshu fluttered to grab something, but in the end, he found that he seemed to be falling into another dimension.
Just as he was shocked, a huge wave of heat rushed up from below, and all the hairs quickly bent down the moment they touched it. The further down the road you go, the worse it gets.
Tianshu began to inhale little by little, and the hot air here made every breath he took a burning pain.
Finally, a red light appeared below. However, this does not give people any hope, on the contrary, it is full of despair.
Below is a sea of magma!!
Tianshu struggled desperately to stop the falling form, although he had tried countless times, but at this moment, the instinct for survival made him try to grasp any straw, even if it was just an illusion.
But hallucinations are just hallucinations after all. Compared to the magma sea, the ant-like figure fell straight in, and the little magma waves stirred up were negligible.
Clothes and hair instantly burned and turned to ashes. There was a huge pain, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was from the inside to the outside or from the outside to the outside. Every muscle in the body disappeared in an instant, and it was tightly integrated with the magma that could not distinguish you from me, followed by bones, bone marrow.
"Is it just dead?"
Tianshu smiled bitterly, closed his eyes quietly, and waited for the final demise.
The pictures of life appear in front of me like going back in time:
It turns out that when I was a child, every day was not so fat, and it would sleep next to it no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter. and Tianshu when he was a child, he would put his head directly on his body, and one hand and one foot would be put up. It feels so warm and reassuring. Saliva flowed down his mouth, and before he knew it, he drew a wet map on his stomach.
A little girl crept up to him, looked at Xiao Tianshu who was sleeping with her mouth open, and then took out a dog's tail grass with mud stuck to the top from behind her, and gently teased him in his nose with the clean part a few times. When Xiao Tianshu gradually reacted, a second before a sneeze was about to erupt, she suddenly shoved the whole dog tail grass into his mouth. Then he jumped to the side, hugged his stomach and laughed at Xiao Tianshu's bitter face.
It turns out that Qing'er was so naughty when she was a child.
At this time, the figures of a man and a woman quietly appeared. They seemed to be reprimanding Xiao Qing'er and making Xiao Qing'er a handful of snot and tears. Xiao Tianshu really couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to block Xiao Qing'er behind him, arguing with the two adults about something. Finally, the man shook his head, smiled helplessly, and left. The woman squatted down, gently touched his face, wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth and the remaining mud with a handkerchief, and her eyes were infinitely tender.
In fact, love has always been there, it has never changed, it has become just his own mentality.
Suddenly, Tian Nian's steps to walk out suddenly stopped, turned around and ran wildly in this direction, every day "poof" bounced up, and also rushed in his direction, Murong Yan and Qing'er's eyes became anxious.
Xiao Tianshu looked down at him and found himself standing in the sea of magma, starting with his feet and slowly melting.
He looked up, and the familiar figures were desperately lunging towards him. He shook his head frantically and shouted frantically, "Don't come! Don't ......come!"
Tianshu opened his eyes suddenly. The surroundings have returned to darkness, and the once red magma world has disappeared without a trace.
"Am I dead?" he tried to touch his face with his hand. However, he found that the hand did not seem to be his own at all, and it was not just the hand, but the whole body.
Tianshu tried a little more and gave up. So tired, it was a feeling of exhaustion from the depths of his soul, like a huge bottomless abyss, swallowing him whole.
Close your eyes again. Now he no matter where he is, whether it is real or illusory, all he wants is to sleep deeply......
A kind of icy cold, bone-chilling cold, woke Tianshu from a deep sleep for an unknown amount of time.
When he opened his eyes again, the color around him had changed from pitch black to snow-white—the true whiteness of heaven and earth.
It's a frozen world, and it seems like even the sky is covered with a thick layer of ice.
Looking back, Tianshu found himself standing upright. The hair and clothes that had been burned to ashes were undamaged, and they were covered with a thick layer of snow.
If you want to try shaking your head, you can shake the snowflakes off your hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. But it was tragic to find that he still did not have the initiative to regain his body.
But why should the inheritance of pain be 100 percent, or even 1,000 percent?
What kind of icy world is this!
Originally, his body should not be completely numb in a few minutes in the extremely cold temperature, but why did he always feel the stinging pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
", what the hell is this place!"
Because the mouth cannot move, the voice can only come out of the throat indistinctly.
It was a lava sea just now, but now it's an icy world. This extreme transformation, even if it is Tianshu, throws away all cultivation.
As if in response to Tianshu, a sudden wind rose. The wind was mixed with countless pieces of ice, like knives, leaving deep or shallow wounds on Tianshu's bare skin, the wounds would bleed, and the blood was quickly coagulated by the cold into a blood scab, and then some of the blood scabs were cut again, and some were lifted up hard, and the blood would flow out again, and then the above process was repeated.
Soon, there was a blood-colored ice sculpture in this white world.
If it is possible to form a whole layer of ice in the outer layer, this may be much more comfortable for Tianshu. At least the ice can be protected from wind and insulated.
However, the ideal is always too beautiful, which highlights the sadness of reality even more. The blood ice on the wound had no chance to expand its territory at all. Because there's also the bigger crushed ice.
Why is there an ice cube the size of an egg in the wind?! Tianshu even looked around suspiciously to see if someone was throwing him.
If the small broken ice is like a knife, cutting Tianshu to blood, then these big broken ice are cannonballs. One by one, they bombarded their bodies one by one, not only blasting the blood ice on the surface of their bodies into ice crystal powder, but even allowing Tianshu to clearly hear that the bones on his body were smashed one by one.
There were already two thick blood ice picks hanging from the corners of his mouth.
At this time, there was a loud "boom" sound from the sky in the distance, and it was already resounding in the sky after a while.
Tianshu's eyes were the only thing he could move now, but it didn't move, and the attraction from the horizon was so great. His pupils shrank, and it seemed that countless horses were galloping towards him, and the splashes of ice and snow dust swept the heavens and the earth!
Why is there an avalanche here, but it is such an overwhelming avalanche! Such a large-scale avalanche will even be washed away by the Jiutian Mountain!
But now the most important and deadly problem comes from the Tenshu itself - unable to move!
The loud "boom" alone had already oppressed him into an ant.
An avalanche is in the blink of an eye. Compared with the shock when the immeasurable force hit the chest, the bones of the whole body were completely broken, and the absolute pain when the internal organs were stabbed in a mess, Tianshu remembered the former even more, probably because he had been in pain in the magma sea, resulting in a little resistance to pain.
The body was swallowed up by the white waves, and then rolled between heaven and earth like a speck of dust. The huge squeeze has completely deformed this body, and it is miserable!
The world in front of me is no longer distinguishable whether it is black or white. The sensation in his body was completely blurred, and Tianshu couldn't tell whether it was an avalanche rolling with his body, or whether this crazy avalanche was his body!
Tianshu closed his eyes, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Since you can't grasp it, let it be.
"Boom!"
A loud thunderclap was like a red-hot iron whip, slamming heavily on Tianshu's soul, causing him to wake up in shock.
"I'm X!"
For the first time in his life, Tianshu scolded so sincerely and from the bottom of his heart!
The world has changed again!
It was a terribly dry earth, with cracked lines stretching all the way to the horizon.
But his body was still in this damn state - still motionless!
After the last two "tragic encounters" (if this can only be called tragic), Tianshu has completely killed all the unrealistic illusions that are so good.
"What's more, give me all at once!"
Since the mouth could not be opened, the words that came out of the throat were very vague.
But heaven and earth heard!
The earth began to tremble, and from the horizon, a black line rushed towards it like an arrow shot by death.
The earth is torn apart!
The black line quickly reached the foot. Tianshu's swaying body fell to the ground without any resistance.
It's really a person who drinks cold water on his back, and there are so many directions and so many postures that can be poured, but he chose a face-down front to pounce. But fortunately, the width of the crack in front of his eyes was enough for his handsome appearance to be preserved.
After falling to the ground, it was only ten breaths, and after a certain point was ruthlessly cracked, the body was no different from those small stones that rolled down, and for this bottomless mouth, it was only a little bit small.
Tianshu was extremely depressed. At the beginning of the fall, he saw several convex stones, and by grasping any of them, he believed he could stop himself. It's a pity that wishful thinking is always good, but the body is always like a mess of mud. Soon, he gave up on this futile struggle. Moreover, the light could no longer reach the place, and the eyes were black again.
However, there was one thing that surprised Tianshu, even a little surprised, because until now, he had not felt any pain. Just when he was secretly rejoicing, it seemed that one of his mortal enemies had caught this weak thought, and everything took a turn for the worse.
"Smack!"
The body stopped, or rather, it should have landed. Although I don't know if there is in the end.
Immediately afterwards, a sharp pain rushed to his head, and this painful feeling was still relatively familiar to Tianshu, because in the ice and snow world in front of him, this was the kind of pain he felt when he was just caught in an avalanche. He knew that the bones in his body should be almost broken.
"Ahem. The heavy blow to the chest made people cough twice unconsciously.
God knows which perverted immortal Tianshu has offended, and he has condemned coughing in this case as a felony.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Countless noises came from above.
Then, first, small pebbles like raindrops "crackled" on the body, gently hitting the broken bones, and the slight pain rippled in the body like water waves. The pain began to feel numb, which even made Tianshu have an illusion of "comfort".
But he didn't know that this was just the last sumptuous meal before the execution.
The pebble, which was the size of a grain of rice, has unconsciously turned into a small stone the size of an egg, and after a while, it has grown into a large stone the size of an ostrich egg. In the end, the size of the stone no longer matters, because Tianshu has been buried deep at the bottom.
Tianshu didn't know if he still existed. Just a few minutes ago, that numb "comfort" was suddenly swept away, because a large stone hit his leg, and he heard the "click" very clearly. If his leg bone had only broken into two segments, congratulations, it's at least three by now. And, this is just the beginning. More and more and bigger stones smashed into his body, bones were smashed, muscles were smashed, and he instantly thought of a word - "crushed bones", if he felt that it was not enough to be vivid, he could change the word and call it - "meat sauce".
After the first two baptisms, Tianshu's tolerance for pain has increased a lot. But is this a good thing? Of course not, it means that he will face the pain for a longer time.
The pain that penetrates deep into the bone marrow can no longer be expressed in words. Tianshu is just wondering, why is it that it is already a pile of meat puree, and it still feels pain?
But luckily, the pain doesn't go on and on like last time, until you faint and you don't feel anything anymore. Because when the stone buries you and rises higher and higher to a certain level, the body becomes a relatively protected being, and the pain gradually fades, although the "gradually" here is really, really slowly.
Pain stretches time infinitely, and it also fades feelings infinitely, faded to nothingness, faded to chaos.
It may have been a long, long time, or it may have been just a moment and a half, and in this boundless darkness, a sense of squeeze from all around—a real squeeze.
Tianshu was amazed to find that he could feel that his body was reorganizing! Although he still couldn't take control of his body, this feeling was so real.
If there was light now, it would be very clear that there were countless small earth-colored and golden clusters of light rushing madly towards the sky like ants that had found food. It was no longer clear whether it was the small light group that was wantonly encroaching on Tianshu's body, or whether Tianshu's body was greedily devouring them like a bottomless pit. However, whether intentionally or unintentionally, this feeling is difficult for Tianshu to bear, and you can imagine what it feels like when a grenade bursts in a rubber water pipe, and those light clusters do the work of the grenade in Tianshu's body.
Time passed as if standing still. Tianshu felt more and more clearly that his body already had a real sense of existence. But this made him not even the slightest bit happy, because in the experience of the previous times, wholeness often represented the beginning of fragmentation.
"If there's anything else, just hurry up. ”
Tianshu muttered in his heart, this endless painful torture had made him give up any superfluous attempts, showing a kind of temperament that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water.
However, even though that being said, when the real pain came again, the soul could not help but tremble.
It seemed that a very thick needle pierced his spine brutally, and then a powerful suction force followed, pumping up the bone marrow of his whole body along with the flesh and blood, and sucking it away hard!
What Tianshu didn't know was that just above his head, a vast forest grew. In the center of the woods, there stood a towering tree, and it was this towering tree that sucked his essence blood with impunity, and then nourished the entire forest.
Alive, now only this intense pain can prove. The body has completely dried up, and when buried in the soil, it looks like a dry corpse that has died for an unknown number of years.
On the ground, the vicissitudes of life, the towering giant trees fell to the ground, and finally returned to the earth. The woods had long since lost their original lushness, and only a dry color was left all over the ground.
The dried corpse appeared, as if collecting a debt, with the help of the soil, frantically absorbing the essence of the forest.
Perception became sensitive again, and it was obvious that the blood vessels beneath the skin were starting to beat. And this time, not only is there no longer that terrible pain, on the contrary, it is a cool comfort. For Tianshu, having been in hell for so long was enough to take him to heaven.
The nerves that had been tense for too long finally could no longer resist the invasion of exhaustion, and it seemed that for the first time in thousands of years, I closed my eyes with peace of mind.