pumice!
The pumice stone I encountered in the endless abyss when I came out of the sea of suffering was made of exactly the same material and had the same texture and stone carvings. It was just a medium size, just enough for a person to lie down on it.
This kind of pumice stone gave him the feeling of... a coffin, a coffin that had been used to fake death and live for eternity.
It's just that it's here now, and there's no one in it.
Now there are four or five middle-aged men sitting cross-legged in the small courtyard playing Hu cards. Hu cards are a kind of playing cards carved from animal bones. They are a folk game and were played by old people in the Western Qin Dynasty. The origin is unknown. It is said that they were discovered. The age of this kind of card can be pushed up endlessly.
Pumice was sat down by these men, and it didn't matter.
Xin Zhuo subconsciously entered the yard and looked at the cards. He couldn't understand and just looked at them. The people here seemed to be very friendly to "Axu's family" and were willing to say hello to him. After chatting with a bearded man for a while, Finally, he casually pointed at the pumice stone and asked: "This stone is very interesting, the pattern is very beautiful!"
"Isn't this a coffin?" A group of people looked at him in surprise.
Xin Zhuo: "?"
Okay, let’s just say it.
The bearded man said: "This is called the Ninth World Coffin. It is divided into nine grades. Each grade has a price. It is only made once every many years. If someone orders it, we will sell it. In the future, if someone orders it, I will teach you!"
"Yeah, okay." Xin Zhuo nodded numbly.
Are those pumice stones made by people here?
After watching for a while, he walked out of the yard pretending to be casual, and then went to the next yard. As expected, there were some strange innate spiritual creatures in each yard.
Moreover, he found that the people in the village were not engaged in production, but in playing. At best, they raised some small animals or poultry, and they didn't seem to eat much.
After walking around in a long circle, I unknowingly arrived in front of a strange building. The bricks and tiles were dark brown, and the overall shape was an unequal oval, like a... shit.
He took a few steps back and looked again, feeling like a ball of fire again.
This place is directly south of the village. If you look at it according to the Bagua diagram, it is located in the Li hexagram of the central axis. The thirty-third hexagram of the sixty-four innate hexagrams is the sign of Li fire!
The door of the building was closed but unlocked. Xin Zhuo thought for a while, walked to the door, opened the door, and felt a smell of decay.
Opposite is a statue of a god. It is not clear which god it is from this world. It is dressed in Taoist robes and has a solemn expression.
There is a couplet on both sides of the statue:
"The supreme being who has lived for ten thousand years will eventually become a withered bone!"
"Practice for a hundred lifetimes, but all your efforts will be in vain!"
These sixteen words don't have much meaning, but if you look at them carefully, you can't help but give people a sense of loneliness and frustration, as if everything is empty and everything is empty.
Xin Zhuo felt his scalp numb inexplicably. He looked down along the statue and saw a bunch of tablets. Looking carefully at the names of the tablets, he felt a chill from the soles of his feet to the sky.
There are a bunch of Jiang families, mixed with Zhang families and Lu families, one of them is "Lu Yu'er's position!"
Lu Yu'er is the girl in red in front.
Is she dead?
"Ahem..."
At this time, a coughing sound suddenly came from behind.
Xin Zhuo turned around and saw a gray-haired old man with age spots on his face. He couldn't tell how old he was. He stared at him with a pair of cloudy old eyes: "Axu family, what are you doing here at the longevity temple? "
Xin Zhuo smiled: "I walked around casually and ended up here without knowing it. Don't blame me!"
The old man nodded, hunched over and walked to the tablet, gently wiped the tablet, and said in a vicissitudes of voice: "People are going to die anyway. Put the tablet in advance to save trouble later!"
Xin Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief: "It makes sense!"
After thinking for a while, he asked again: "Do you all know Jiang Taixu?"
Considering his age, this old man would not talk nonsense.
"I forgot, I think we know each other." The old man said without turning around.
Xin Zhuo was silent for a while, then walked out of the longevity temple.
The snow has melted and the air is a bit chilly.
This village was very different from the one he had imagined when he came here, which was serene, peaceful, and simple. It was more like a place that was full of weirdness and lifeless.
"Then who..."
Jiang Dagou came from a distance with blue eyes and staggering steps. He looked pitiful and asked, "Did you see Lu Yu'er again today?"
Xin Zhuo nodded.
Jiang Dagou asked: "Did you talk to her?"
Xin Zhuo still nodded.
Jiang Dagou said mysteriously: "You are finished, Lu Yu'er will peek at you every day!"
"I don't think I have anything to lose. If she wants to see it, just watch it!" Xin Zhuo said.
Jiang Dagou's eyes widened: "Zhang Fathu doesn't want to!"
"Who is Zhang Fathu?" Xin Zhuo was surprised.
"I!"
An angry roar came from behind. It was a fat man, two heads taller than Xin Zhuo and Jiang Dagou. He arrived before he could reach his big belly. He looked down at Jiang Dagou: "Yes, I don't want to!"
Jiang Dagou was startled for a moment and pointed at Xin Zhuo: "Lu Yu'er is looking at him, not me. What are you looking at me for?"
The fat man said angrily: "I'm not familiar with him. I couldn't beat Ah Xu back then. Anyway, I'm going to beat everyone. I'll beat you to vent my anger."
"You are right!"
Jiang Dagou lay down freely and hugged his head.
The fat man's fist as big as a sandbag made a violent storm.
Xin Zhuo rubbed his eyebrows. No one here seemed normal.
It wasn't until the two of them finished that they took out two cups from their arms, filled them with water from the Moon Watching Well, and said frankly: "I'll treat you two to a drink of water, the sweet water brought from outside!"
"you……"
Unexpectedly, the two of them looked like they had seen a ghost, and yelled angrily: "People in Changshou Village don't drink water, are you crazy?"
Sayazi ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
People in Changshou Village don’t drink water?
Xin Zhuo stayed where he was.
…
Seventeen days.
Life in Changshou Village was extremely boring. The whole seventeen days felt like seventeen days had passed to Xin Zhuo.
But these days, with his ability to socialize outside, he has become very familiar with the villagers very easily. He can clearly understand the nature of each household and the number of people in it.
After inquiring, every household has some strange innate spiritual objects with different shapes and cannot tell what they do. It gives him a feeling that... these things are very useful, but you can't find the secret.
It is very regrettable that the people in the village do not drink water, absolutely do not drink water, and the food they eat is only dry grains. It seems that drinking even a little water will kill them, which makes it impossible to implement his plan to worship the spirits. , he couldn't tell whether these people were masters of disguise or neurotic fantasy people.
After walking out of the room, the yard was clean and spotless. Nuying and Jiang Zichong were playing games. When Xin Zhuo came out, she obediently called "Uncle/Uncle" and continued playing.
In the main room, my wife Ji Jiuwei, Xiong Zhao, Yam and Bai Xuanji were still staring at the Shennong Ding, "thinking about it", and seemed to have figured out some clues.
Aunt Hei, Aunt Bai and Chanyi couldn't stay idle. They quietly left the village a few days ago, saying they were doing some shopping to get information. However, they never came back for more than ten days.
On the other hand, the old lady took Li Yun to do housework every day, which was very hard.
Xin Zhuo held a pile of carved stone tablets in his arms and walked to the corner of the yard. These stone tablets were the formation stakes of the Little Seven-Star Killing Formation. He had been studying them for many days. Using the Shennong Xiantian Cauldron as the eye of the formation, he placed them around the yard. Set up the formation.
Go to the direction of stem position A7 and insert the stone tablet into the pre-drilled hole in the ground.
Then walk out the door.
Opposite, the girl in red, Lu Yu'er, secretly watched him from behind a big tree. This "peeping" had lasted for seventeen days.
Farther away, Zhang Panghu was peeking at Lu Yu'er, which lasted for seventeen days.
Xin Zhuo smiled at the two of them and looked at the formation in the entire yard. He felt confused when he looked at it, because the formation worked, but its effect was very small, but there were countless "formation masters" like him in the village. "The ripples visible to the naked eye are like the word "forbidden" one by one, just like the forbidden word when Zhe Feiyan forcibly opened the Five Elements True Qi.
Is this... an ancient prohibition?
Is Changshou Village itself a large formation?
While I was stunned, the ground suddenly made a noise, a buzzing sound, and a rapid tremor, like a village, no! The whole world was shaking.
His expression couldn't help but change, and he subconsciously looked around.
Then Lu Yuer and Zhang Panghu exclaimed: "Here we come! Ten thousand or one hundred thousand times stronger than before!"
He disappeared in an instant.
The ground continued to shake, as if the sky was falling apart, and in the blue sky, the sunlight disappeared, and a blood-red color appeared, just like the sky trapped in a sea of suffering.
The light was dim, and it was hard not to feel a sense of uneasiness.
Jiang Zichong, who was playing in the yard, cried out in fear and was hugged tightly by Jiang Nuying.
My wife, Ji Jiuwei, and Xiong Zhang's group of people ran out, their faces turning pale.
The prosperous age of martial arts is coming!
It’s such a strange and inexplicable arrival!
