Chapter 025 Burial of the Dragon

Time passed by, and I didn't know if what the old man said was true, let alone what the so-called "haunted soul" was for. But when I calmed down and thought about it, it was definitely not that simple, at least what happened. The reason is definitely not simple.

So, I immediately calmed down and said, "Senior, what do you want to tell me, why don't you tell me directly!"

The old man with the gray beard sighed wistfully and said, "Her soul has been placed on you, and now you have two souls."

"What?" I said very confused.

"I don't know whether to congratulate you or comfort you. All the people who want to come here are doing it to realize their own selfish desires, but it is best for them to end up in a catastrophic end. But you are lucky. You got the ancient relics. You also received enlightenment from the evil mother. At that time, you could already go back. Now every step you take is a risk, because you are likely to get nothing."

"I'm not praying for anything, I just want to know-"

"Want to know the secret?" The gray-bearded old man interrupted, "The secret itself is just a person's selfish desire. You are no different from anyone else."

"If you are given a choice, keep moving forward. You can get the secret you want, but you will never be able to get out from here. Or, if you turn around and leave, I can give you true immortality."

"Senior, you may not have heard of the saying that people are born free, but they are always in chains. We should not be bound by our own imprisonment, so I can't answer this question for you, because I'm going back now, Maybe I still come back again and again, because there is what I want here, but I also know that compared to the secrets here, I have more important people and more important things to do."

"Interesting." The old man with the white beard smiled, and then his body disappeared into the darkness, leaving only one sentence, "Then just let everything happen and see if you have this opportunity."

Before I had time to ask, the man had disappeared.

Just walking in the direction of the sound, I vaguely seemed to see another world ahead. As I walked, I saw a bridge appearing in front of me, but the bridge naturally disappeared halfway to the end, and all that was left was the slowly flowing water.

I walked to the end of the bridge, and a stone step appeared, but there was nothing at the end of the stone step. It was empty. I stood at the end and looked at the undulating waves below. I became suspicious and said, "This stone step is so unreasonable." Yeah, there should be some connected buildings here, otherwise there’s no way to explain it.”

At this moment, a huge rumbling sound resounded throughout the underground space, and the gentle and slow flowing water began to roll. A large amount of jade-white liquid stirred up the stone bridge, and instantly dried up and hardened, turning into crystal clear liquid. Hard lump.

However, I didn’t have much time to think about these things at this time. The movement of the flowing water was getting louder and louder. In the empty space under the stone steps, the water surface suddenly broke and surged up, splitting into two countercurrents on both sides, with the middle A jade-white vortex formed.

"this......"

Just when I was at a loss, a flat, crystal-clear high platform slowly rose up and quickly passed the stone steps. After a bang, the crystal high platform stopped, and the crystal on it stopped. The stairs and the stone steps correspond perfectly.

"Is this...a crystal throne?"

I saw that the four pillars of the Crystal Throne were firmly grasped in the middle like dragon claws. There were many long crystal horns protruding from the body, corresponding to each other, all the way to the top center position behind the seat, a fist-sized one. The luminous pearls are embedded there, emitting a kind of gleaming light.

I was alone at this time, standing on the stone steps, staring at the throne in stunned silence. I saw a man sitting upright on it, wearing a black robe, and his face could not be seen.

"Senior?" I took a step back timidly.

"There are some things that you shouldn't know, so don't even think about spying on them, otherwise..." The black figure slowly stood up from his seat.

The hood retreated, revealing the old man's face I just saw. I asked warily, "Senior, who are you?"

"Who am I? Boy, what you ask is very strange." The old man closed his eyes and faced Lin Kun, suddenly laughed out loud and said, "In this world, I am a god and a devil."

I looked at him in shock, thinking of a possibility, which was the doubt that had been hidden in his heart before, and asked, "Are you the devil?"

"It's even scarier than that." The old man smiled mysteriously, "Do you want to see it?"

"Ah?" I was stunned after hearing this. Si Weiqi had already said that the legend of the devil was just a legend that could not withstand scrutiny, but now this old man said it was more terrifying than that. Isn't that true? ?

After saying that, the old man with the gray beard stood up slowly, stared at me coldly, and said, "Actually, my name is not unfamiliar. Haven't you been looking for me?"

The skin on his face gradually fell off as he spoke, revealing a new layer of fair skin. He was originally a little hunched, but now he stood up straight. A large amount of exposed skin began to crack and fall off, and the originally corroded skin A new layer was also started to be replaced. In just a few minutes, an old man turned into a young man with gloomy eyes in front of Lin Kun. And the young man's appearance - the most shocking thing - was so familiar, so incredible, exactly the same as the Linqiong Taoist priest Keke.

I was so shocked that I could hardly speak. I had never seen such a magical thing. "What, Keke? Are you Keke? No, you are a Linqiong Taoist priest? Five thousand years, you have lived five thousand years." Years have passed, are you... Ran... Ran Xu?!"

Rejuvenation, originally just a luxury dream of human beings, happened right in front of me. I felt like I must be dreaming and haven't woken up yet.

"Ran Xu? I can't even remember this name." The old guy, who had transformed into a young man, seemed to be full of power and said with his shirtless body, "Yes, I am the high priest, Ran Xu!"

"But..." Suddenly my face froze, as if I had thought of something, "You are King Yu's most effective assistant, and you control the power of sacrifices and all witchcraft in the Xia Dynasty, so, you He is the first person in the world to achieve eternal life, right?"

"Hahaha, hahaha." As soon as I finished speaking, I heard Ran Xu's maniacal laughter.

The smile was distorted and the voice was desolate.

Ran Xu retracted his hand and dropped it to his side, murmuring, "I have a story, do you want to hear it? It's a very old story."

He didn't listen to my answer and asked instead, "Do you know the origin of this place?"

Then, he pointed to his feet.

"The Dragon Burial Pit." I replied.

He shook his head and said, "It seems that you still don't know that the ultimate secret hidden under the Dragon Burial Pit is actually the word Burial of the Dragon."

"Bury the dragon?" I asked subconsciously, "How do you say this?"

"As the name suggests, it means killing the dragon and then burying it." Ran Xu said unhurriedly, "I believe you must know that King Yu locked up the dragon. Unfortunately, these are just legends fabricated by later generations. What you want to know In the end, it’s actually the truth behind it.”

"the truth?"

"That's right." Ran Xu nodded, turned his eyes to me again, and said, "Do you know the story of Xu's mother stepping on the dragon's footprints and giving birth to Fuxi and Nuwa? But have you ever thought about where the dragon went? ? When Dayu controlled the floods, he did not really control the floods, but the flood dragons."

"What?" I couldn't turn my head.

Ran Xu closed his eyes and recalled, "I was involved in the cause and effect of the whole thing. However, none of us thought that through the ages, our people still have not escaped the curse of fate."

I don’t know why, it’s like something is stimulating my brain. Many things that I can’t understand are gradually spliced together in Ran Xu’s words, and he asks, "So, in fact, from the beginning, this was all false? Is it you? , you directed and acted in a play, and this play is still being performed over and over again to this day?"

Ran Xu suddenly smiled and said, "You are only half right. Eternal life means salvation. We close one door and open another. The reason is that the other door has never been opened. It’s because we still can’t see what’s behind eternal life. Otherwise, how could I have spent such a long time in a void space?”

His smile disappeared and he said in a cold tone, "However, since you are already here, there is no room for retreat. Do you want the truth or eternal life?"

I closed my eyes. The severe pain in my head made it difficult for him to open his eyes. He had to close his eyes and continued, "Everything is actually a lie, right? Mother Xu stepped on the dragon's footprints and gave birth to Fuxi and Nuwa. , so where did the dragon go? Maybe you have given me the answer."

Ran Xu smiled and said, "You are indeed very smart. Even if you are not wise, I still admit that you are smart enough. No wonder my descendants were defeated by you in the end."

"Can you tell me the truth now?"

"The truth?" Ran Xu shook his head, "There is no real truth in this world, and there is no absolute falsehood. True and false are relative. In fact, you have already guessed that what King Yu was dealing with was not floods at all, but It’s to cure dragons, the secret of the contract between gods and ghosts turns out to be a bloody massacre, a war full of selfish desires just because humans covet the power of the dragon clan.”

"If the floods at that time were really serious enough to destroy mankind, it would not have been possible to control them so easily in the era at that time, and it would have taken such a long time. What should have been washed away would have been washed away long ago, and what should have been receded by the floods would have been long ago. Well, why is it necessary for King Yu to control floods? As you said, he was treating floods. If the floods at that time were actually floods, then something would be clear."

"It's a pity that the power of dragons cannot be possessed by humans at all, and the uncontrollable consequences of human greed have directly contributed to our determination to seal this power." Ran Xu said with a smile, "We did one thing wrong , and future generations will fall deeper and deeper into this mistake. In the final analysis, it is all retribution."