Chapter 026 Living People in the Forbidden Land of the Living

Historical events are treacherous, and there is no point in looking at them as much as they are true or false. But when I heard this fact with my own ears, it was still difficult to accept it. No one would have thought that what really triggers human greed is not the infinite power, but the first step that human beings "willedly degenerate" to take. From then on, it is like a torrential flood that can no longer be contained.

"Although King Yu and I have different positions, I still decided that I would be the victim and protect this place for him," Ran Xu said.

"Scientists have long said that whether there has ever been a worldwide flood on the earth, the answer is no. Whether it is Noah's Ark or Dayu's flood control, they are just myths and legends. This dragon burial pit was actually the place where he buried the dragon. Those who stayed after treating the flood dragons, right?"

"We are just performing our mission. The reason why the secrets of this must be covered up forever is to prevent future generations of the entire continent from suffering like this again." Ran Xu touched his beard and said, "You are better than me. Think smart.”

Then, he looked at me and continued, "Do you really want to know the secret inside? Then bet your luck. If you have the ability to go in, I will send you out."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

"What do you mean?" I asked in surprise.

"It's very simple." Ran Xu said unhurriedly, "Behind you is the forbidden area for the living. Someone will tell you the secret you want there. If you can go in alive and get the secret you want, Then I promise to send you back."

"The Forbidden Land for the Living? Is there anyone else in the Forbidden Land for the Living?" Just when I was puzzled, suddenly, a silver light flashed across my sight, and I felt that my vision was blurred. I don't know when, Ran Xu's hand There is an extra sharp sword.

I took a deep breath and quickly took a few steps back.

There was a "swish" sound, and the sword flashed with a cold light, and Ran Xu threw it into the darkness. I was still hesitant, not sure what Ran Xu meant by this move. Then, I suddenly heard " "Crack" two slight sounds came from the top of the head, and then the sounds seemed to set off dominoes, and the sounds began to rise one after another.

I secretly screamed, "Not good."

I quickly raised my head and looked up. At this time, the light in the cave changed. The original luster on Ran Xu's body suddenly turned dark, and the surrounding area became dark. Although it was not so dark that objects could not be seen, the figures close at hand already looked hazy. Blurred.

At this time, I didn’t need to think too much to know what must be happening above me. Looking up, I saw a crystal vein seemed to extend from the mountain above, extending out countless expanding crystals, all at twisted angles. The halberds grow downward, clusters like sharp ice picks. Among these bizarre crystals, a huge black figure floats and squirms in the depths, making bursts of thunder-like movement, echoing repeatedly on the crystal wall, emitting The ominous sounds and the appearance of black shadows diluted most of the cold fluorescence, and the environment in the cave became darker and darker.

"F*ck!" I was unexpected. I didn't expect that Ran Xu would do this.

"You're just betting on your luck, sister, you're just trying to get me to do something." I cursed in my heart, but at this moment I didn't have much time to show off my words, so I quickly dodged.

The scene like black clouds looming over the city made this already very narrow space even more depressing. Listening to the rumbling sound above, an inexplicable sense of panic immediately appeared in my heart.

"What the hell is this? Could it...be an evil spirit sealed in a stone?" I recalled the last time I saw the ancestors of the Ran family in Danlu Mountain housing their souls in the spirit stone. The scene in "It's over" is quite similar to the scene before me. "It's over. If this is really like this, the evil spirit came out of the stone, I'm afraid it's really over this time."

I suddenly felt angry, thinking that this Ran Xu was indeed not a good bird, but I thought that my speculation was somewhat arbitrary. Although Ran Xu was the ancestor of the Ran family, he was not like his unscrupulous descendants. What kind of relationship is there? Although the various actions of Linqiong Taoist priests over thousands of years have some indirect connection with King Yu's treatment of Jiaolong, it is indeed inappropriate to conclude that Ran Xu is not a good person based on this. However, the anger in my heart could no longer be contained at this time. The situation was so pressing that I didn't even have time to think of a solution.

Ran Xu did it as soon as he said it. I was shocked like chaff and my face was at a loss. But I also knew very well that Ran Xu’s move was intended to test me. If he revealed the truth and killed himself, there would be no need to waste this effort. , much easier than crushing an ant to death. Thinking of this, I looked up at the situation above again. The black figure became clearer in the crystal. The shadow was shaking slightly, and the muffled thunder in the air became more harsh. It really seemed like something trapped in a stone. The demon inside seemed to be struggling to crawl out.

Ran Xu said in the dark shadow, "Boy, remember that if you are destined to enter the forbidden land of the living alive, it means that you have gained true eternal life, and your life will be for this place and here." It exists as a secret, how far you can go depends on your destiny!"

"Damn it!" I gritted my teeth. "That's a lot of nonsense. Historical experience has told us time and time again that whoever dares to cut himself off from the people will die."

I just felt like I was holding a bad breath in my heart. I came here to seek a secret, but ended up getting deeper and deeper into a series of strange events. The people I met were either angry or strange, and everyone was normal. It was too late to explore what the thing that broke out of the shell was, but once the thing above really broke out of the crystal, I knew that I would never be able to deal with it.

Just as I was dodging left and right, looking for a chance to escape, suddenly a gap opened in the ground, and the gap immediately turned into a deep ravine, and the place where I stood turned into a stone beam no more than ten feet tall. , the entire stone beam hung alone in the air, and next to it was an abyss. Looking down, I was so shocked that I broke into a cold sweat.

I was still watching this incredible scene with astonishment, and then something even weirder happened. I saw a burst of white smoke starting to rise from under the stone beam, with a hazy fluorescence. The white smoke, second only to the crystal dust, is gradually lowering its height. It seems that as the black figure above the head becomes larger, the stone smoke becomes thinner. I didn't notice when this change happened, but the current thickness of the Cloud Lake is half a meter lower than before, and it is still decreasing and becoming gradually thinner.

"Damn it, how do you get into the forbidden area? What if I really die?" At this time, the clouds continued to drop a very thin layer. When I saw what was under the clouds, I couldn't help but feel my heart beating wildly. , I saw a dry and black arm, looming out from the clouds. The half of the arm exposed from the clouds had completely lost its moisture, leaving only the shriveled skin wrapping the skeleton, and the skin appeared black. Purple.

"What?!" I subconsciously reached out to touch the throwing knife, and then I remembered that I only had a short knife left.

"I'm really afraid of what will happen!" I held the knife in my hand and looked at the withered arm warily.

However, I immediately saw more and more shocking things revealed under the clouds and mist. In some places, heads were exposed, and in other places, arms and legs popped out. Without exception, they were naked, withered, black and purple, and densely packed. Can't count how many there are.

However, if you take a closer look, these mummies look vaguely familiar, and they are quite similar to the evil mother (note 1). They all have characteristics that are not human, such as thorny skin-like scales. The white stone smoke became thicker as it went down, and its thinning began to slow down.

The sudden increase in speed does not mean a good sign. I immediately became alert. At this moment, the stone beam under my feet suddenly trembled, and the entire stone beam seemed to be broken. I had no time to control my balance and jumped from the stone beam. Jumped up and down.

As soon as I got off the ground, I realized that the clouds were filled with mummies. Every time I stepped on them, the corpses that had been elevated below were trampled and slid downwards. I didn't even bother to look at those mummies, for fear that I would also fall from here. Bodies were piled up on top of the mountain and rolling down. Stepping on a large number of mummies exposed in the clouds, I would feel nervous even if I was sleeping, and I didn’t pay attention to the situation under my feet. I stepped on the skull of a mummy and actually stepped on the head. The skull of the mummy was dry and hard. It was very slippery. As soon as my foot slipped on it, I suddenly lost my center of gravity and fell on the spot, falling on a mummy.

"I'm sorry, ancestor, I didn't mean to do it. You have a lot of knowledge, don't be like me!" I was startled and secretly cursed my bad luck, but I still didn't stop and stood up immediately.

As I climbed, I looked for the entrance to the so-called forbidden area for the living, but I couldn't find anything suspicious. I couldn't help cursing in my heart. However, at this time, the sound of crystals growing and falling rocks above my head had gradually faded. It was like a spell that was urging me to die. I knew that I didn't have much time left for me. The test set by Ran Xu was actually making me race against death.

People will feel desperate when they have no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. Maybe there are people in the world who can look at death calmly and calmly, but that can only be done after making full preparations and eliminating regrets. Suddenly. At this time, the white stone smoke around him has become extremely thin, and the rest is like clouds floating away. The crystal veins around him are fluorescent, and the terrain is almost completely symmetrical with the top of his head, as if it is reflected in a mirror.

"Oh my God!" I looked up. The world was really upside down. The wind and clouds were changing color. The huge dark shadow was twisting and stretching. It was stretched out. It could no longer be seen as a human shape, just like a broken face. The black wind horse flag rotates slowly in the crystal, and the waves are pulsating.

Not only did I feel a chill in my heart, but I thought that I was powerless and died with hatred. Although I felt uncomfortable in every way, I still advised myself to fight to death, which was better than to live in a miserable state. Just when I was about to die, an impulse suddenly arose in my heart, and I thought to myself, "Ran Xu is trying me. There is no reason to want me to die like this. If this entrance does not exist, then the forbidden area for the living will be." What is it? I may have been deceived by my fixed thinking. Life and death are just a matter of thought. If a place cannot be entered by the living, isn't that the place where the dead should go? The world is upside down, life and death are reincarnated, and life is not life. , death is not death..."

"That's right, it must be like this. There's really no way out!" At this point, I can't think too much about it. Although I have no time to stand up, thinking about this and dying generously makes me feel much more calm. .

Not long after, a huge black mist suddenly emerged from the gap between the two crystal ores above the head, and a huge dragon emerged from the black mist. It opened its bloody mouth and stared at greedy blood-red eyes. I inhaled hard and swallowed the smelly air, sucking me directly into my belly.

Note:

1. Evil Mother, "Evil Mother" is a mysterious existence. The "evil mothers" of the past generations have been reincarnated. They were the sacrificers of the so-called demon kingdom during their lifetime. They have a magical ability that can make the spiritual power transcend the physical body, and then enable the soul to attain enlightenment. The origin of the artistic image of "Evil Mother" can be traced back to the Devil Mother in Indian Buddhism. "Zengyi Agama Sutra (22)" says, "'The kings of gods who descended from ghosts, and the descendants of ghosts and their mothers, are just like the ghosts that eat people.' They were evil gods at first, and later returned to the Buddha as a protector." What is recorded here The story is: The ghost mother's real name is Hari Emperor, one of the twenty protectors of the law. She was originally a terrifying ghost who specialized in eating children. She had five hundred children of her own. In order to raise these children, she stole human children and killed them for food. The Buddha couldn't bear it and used his magical power to hide one of the children of the evil mother. The evil mother searched anxiously but couldn't find her. At this time, the Buddha appeared in front of the evil mother with the child in his arms and freed her, "You have lost a child and that's it." Heartache, and you have eaten so many children, the parents who lost their children are also heartbroken." After listening to the Buddha's teachings, Guizi Mu finally realized her full enlightenment and threw herself under the Buddha's throne.

In the 1990s, when the Cultural Relics Management Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region was sorting out Norbulingka cultural relics, they discovered two "Tibet Demon Suppression Pictures", which were exactly the same. The picture is extremely cleverly conceived, depicting Tibet as a lying figure of an evil mother. According to Tibetan legend, the entire terrain of Tibet resembles the evil mother. In order to prevent witches from doing evil, Princess Wencheng built many temples based on Feng Shui theory to restrain witches and prevent witches from doing evil. On the picture, the female demon is lying on her back with her head east and feet west, and her heart is in Lhasa, the central capital of Tibet. The Potala Palace suppresses the female demon's heart and bones; Wotang Lake is filled up, and the Jokhang Temple is built on it to enshrine the statue of the god and suppress it. Live in the heart of the female devil. The Twelve Temples for Suppressing Demons, known as the Twelve Temples in the world, were built to suppress the joints of the limbs of the female demon. It is said that these are the twelve nails to subdue the female demon.