Chapter 63: The Chessboard of Destiny
The Tianshi Mansion calculated for a hundred years, but missed Zhang Zhiyuan. The Yin Si came just right, but he didn't expect to run into the Kunlun Fairy.
I don’t know how many people have been plotting in my heart for more than a hundred years. However, all this is like being destined from the beginning, starting with Taoist Xie Liuyun and ending with himself.
I got on the black-sailed boat of Kunlun Fairy and rowed to the center of Jiulong Cave.
"Xie Lan, I came down the mountain this time and my master explained something." Fairy Kunlun said.
"Please say fairy."
"If you have the chance to see the mirror image left by Xie Liuyun below, remember to ask my master a question and why Xie Liuyun didn't go to Kunlun again."
"Okay." I nodded and agreed.
Turning his head, I looked at Zhang Zhiyuan again, and I felt that he must have something to say to me.
"Xie Lan, I have nothing to ask you. After I wait, I will naturally understand everything." Zhang Zhiyuan said with a smile.
At this point, I will never ask anything again.
Standing at the bow of the boat, holding the water-dividing sword with both hands, got up and jumped straight into the water.
The water-dividing sword split into water and immediately formed a barrier like a light shield around me. I slowly fell down like a falling sky.
It was pitch black under the water, but fortunately the water-dividing sword had its own fluorescence.
As I dived along the way, I saw various remains of corpses and bones, rotten wood and leaves in the water, but I didn’t encounter any living creature. Although the resentment of the 100-year-old Nine Dragon Cave was taken away by all the nine dragon corpses, what was left was still endless desire to die. I don’t know how many years it will take to restore vitality here.
I kept falling, I couldn't remember the time, nor how deep I dived. I saw the half of Funiu Mountain lying in the Yellow River, sliding down along its mountain.
Finally, a black hole that seemed to be able to swallow all the light was found at the foot of the mountain. The black hole was less than one meter in radius, and it opened its mouth quietly like a nightmare beast.
I know this is the entrance to there, and the soul-suppressing coffin must be hidden here.
Even though I am brave, I am still full of fear and tension when facing this black hole. People have an instinctive fear when facing unknown things, not to mention that there is nothing [updated quickly] in it, and even the Dividing Sword cannot shine in a flash.
I took a deep breath, adjusted the direction of the water-dividing sword, and fell into the black hole bit by bit. It was pitch black in front of me, and I didn't know where to fall.
I am a little familiar with this scene. I remember that when I was a child, I often had such nightmares. In my dreams, I kept falling and falling, and it seemed that I could never reach the end. Every time I was scared to death in a cold sweat.
The endless darkness and endless fall made my spirit dazed. I began to feel fear and felt extremely unruly. Falling fall is one of the ten common nightmares of human beings, but now I can't tell whether it is a dream or reality at all.
I could only hold the hilt of the Dividing Sword tightly, just like a drowning man grabbing a straw.
I don’t know how long it took, but I saw a light shining below. The long-term darkness made my eyes very sensitive to light, and my eyes stinged slightly. I stopped diving and waited until my eyes were completely adapting before continuing to get closer to the place where the light was radiated.
The light comes from a beautiful bead, a snow-white and bright bead, as big as a fist, embedded in the center of a coffin.
Liu Hechou once told me about the four treasures in the water, including the moon pearls of the old clam in the West Sea.
Although I have never seen the real moon pearl look like, I know that this one must be that moon pearl, with light flowing, with a faint layer of cold mist.
Under the illumination of the moon pearl, I began to carefully examine the soul-suppressing coffin that was said to be from hell.
The soul-suppressing coffin is more than five times larger than the coffin seen in the world, with carved patterns all over the body.
The front carves the flavors of birth, old age, sickness, death, life, life, blood sea, water, water, water, water, water, and water, on the right carves the palace of the Lingxiao. The head of the coffin is carved with blue falls, and the tail of the coffin is carved with yellow springs.
A coffin carves a mirror image of the Three Realms, with profound meanings. As the saying goes, everything is empty when you die. Who is willing to die from ancient times to the present?
It is because the body is dead and the soul is in ease, and there is a soul-suppressing coffin.
With the help of the water-dividing sword, I wandered around the soul-suppressing coffin until I could no longer see any mystery, so I began to try to open the coffin.
What disappointed me was that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find a way to open this coffin.
The soul-suppressing coffin was integrated, without a trace. I tried to carve it with the water-dividing sword, but it was invulnerable to the sword and no trace was left.
When the Yin Si killed the Demonic Patriarch, he must have thought that future generations would open the coffin. They should have put some kind of restriction on it, otherwise anyone could release the remaining soul of the Demonic Patriarch.
But if this is the case, how did Xie Liuyun open it?
How did those people in the Demonic Dao leave behind the magical powers of the Demonic Dao ancestor in the coffin?
Later I learned that the coffin was made of Geng metal, and the five elements of the generation and restraint metal sink into water. As long as it is in the water, the coffin cannot be opened. Not only that, to open the soul-suppressing coffin, it is also necessary to open the soul-suppressing coffin, a person who can see through the heavenly way of exploring the entrance to life and death.
Not to mention Xie Liuyun's era, looking at how many people condensed their souls in the entire Dharma-Ending Age, there is no need to say that the Taoist masters who have seen through the entrance halls of life and death. I'm afraid that Zhang Zhiyuan would not be able to open this coffin at that time, otherwise he would not have said that if he had Xie Liuyun's ability, he would have been the one who would be the one who would be in the Jiulong Cave.
I also thought in advance whether the soul-suppressing coffin could not be opened, but when I really faced this situation, I still felt powerless. If the coffin could not be opened, I couldn't get in. Even though I knew that my life experience was inside, I had no choice.
This feeling is like asking you how much sorrow you can have, just like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel.
It should have been a long time since I went into the water. Although it does not consume physical strength, the confined space underwater consumes a lot of mental power. If I were outside, I could slowly think of ways. I wouldn't want to stay in this dark bottomless cave for a moment.
I thought hard about how to open the coffin, and as I thought about it, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Soul-Suppressing Coffin, Soul-Suppressing Coffin, can only souls enter, and the living are not destined to be?
Thinking of this, I began to sit cross-legged on the ground, trying to leave my soul.
It is not only a practitioner who can leave the body, but it is also possible for ordinary people to do it, but it is easier for practitioners to do it because their minds are free of distractions and clear minds.
When people are half asleep or trance, they sometimes feel that they are flying up and even see their existence. At this time, the human soul has already left the body.
As the old saying goes, don't sleep with flowers, people's faces, because they are afraid that the soul that flies out of the body will not find its own body and cannot come back.
At the moment, I relax my consciousness and keep my spirit in a state of half-sleeping and half-awake.
I don’t know how long it took, but gradually I felt myself flying.
The soul flew out of the body, as light as a feather. I saw myself in the light shield of the water-dividing sword, with a vicissitudes of face and sighing, and I don’t know how long it took to take care of it.
His appearance can only be considered to be of medium or high quality, and his physique cannot be considered strong, but I like it no matter how I look at it.
Because I know that this ordinary man is me, Xie Lan, the unique me. No matter how good or powerful the Demonic Patriarch or Xie Liuyun is, it is not me after all.
When my soul flew directly above the coffin, something strange finally happened.
I felt a mysterious traction force tearing my soul and trying to pull me into the soul-suppressing coffin. As soon as this feeling arises, the next moment I feel a trance in my consciousness and fall into a coma.
When I woke up, I found myself in a mysterious space. There were no sun, moon, stars, and no things growing. The ground was covered with bones and the earth was filled with death.
There was no boundary around me, only a high platform made of white bones was directly in front of me, and there were two people sitting upright on it.
The two of them, one black and one white, seemed to be playing chess.
Behind them each was a soul-summoning banner. The soul-summoning banner behind the man in black was written with the word "Dao Dao", and the soul-summoning banner behind the man in white was written with the word "Dao Dao".
I stepped up to the platform. After I went up, I saw that the man in white was Xie Liuyun who I had seen in the portrait. The man in black was blurred and could not see clearly no matter how hard I tried.
They were indeed playing chess, but the chessboard was engraved on a coffin, and the Chu River and Han boundaries were clearly divided.
"You are here." Xie Liuyun opened her mouth lightly, but her eyes didn't look at me, and she still stared at the chessboard.
"I'm here." I thought about it and said these three words, because I really don't know what to say.
"Watch it from the side first and wait until we finish the bet." Xie Liuyun said.
"What are you betting on?" I asked.
Chapter completed!