"Is it an illusion?"
I reached out and touched my face in disbelief. Unexpectedly, I discovered that my face was really skin and bones, and the skin was shriveled and extremely rough.
This time, my heart suddenly clicked.
Could it be because I was cursed in that underground palace before? That's why it turned into this mummy?
But that seems impossible, right? With my current level of cultivation, I should be able to sense it even if I am cursed.
Besides, there shouldn't be any curse in this world that can turn a person from a living person directly into a mummy in such a short period of time, right?
Besides, even if I become a mummy, I won’t have such a worn-out Taoist robe on me. This is obviously not right.
I looked at the withered old Taoist not far away, and found that he was also looking at me, and there was some confusion and disbelief in his eyes.
"you know me?"
I asked him quickly.
"Senior...could he be one of my predecessors in Wuji Guan?"
The dry old man looked at me with a look of disbelief on his face and asked.
"Are you Taoist Yunxu?"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately guessed the identity of the other party.
"It's Pindao."
Taoist Yunxu nodded quickly, looked at me warily and asked, "Is the senior really my ancestor of Wuji Guan?"
"I'm Li Shiyi, Taoist Master? What's going on here? Why have you become such a human being and a ghost?"
I looked at the other person very puzzledly and asked.
"Isn't this a long story?"
Taoist Yunxu sighed and said: "My Wuji Temple originally had an ancestral teaching. If the world encounters a catastrophe in the future and people in the Taoist sect are unable to stop it, they can enter the Sanqing Temple and ask the gods to come out of the mountain to resist the catastrophe. Now. Now. It just so happened that in troubled times, catastrophe was imminent, and we cultivators were unable to recover, so Pindao thought of going back to Kunlun Mountain and asking for the so-called Sanqing Divine Order to face the catastrophe that would destroy the world in the near future. But who could As soon as we entered the underground palace, we fell into a formation. I managed to escape, only to find myself like this."
Having said this, Taoist Yunxu spread his hands helplessly.
"Did you also escape from the underground palace formation?"
When I heard this, I suddenly seemed to realize something.
"yes?"
Taoist Yunxu nodded and said: "At that time, all the Taoist ancestors in the coffins above my head crawled out. It felt like they had faked their corpses, and it was extremely weird. It took me a lot of effort to escape from the underground palace. The two children, Xiao Zhe and Xinyue, are also missing. If I hadn't seen you just now, I wouldn't have realized that I had become such a human being and a ghost."
"Then the problem should lie in that underground palace."
I frowned and pondered for a moment, then made a decisive decision: "Aisle Chief, let's go back and find out."
"Are you going back now? I haven't found Xiao Zhe and the others yet, and the girl just now seems to be a disciple of Longhu Mountain. She was scared by us and ran away. Will something happen?"
Taoist Yunxu said slightly worriedly.
"Don't worry about that for now."
I shook my head and said solemnly: "I always feel that this matter is not that simple. Even if we find them now, I'm afraid we will only scare them away. Maybe there are others who have become us." It looks like this, so it’s best to go back and find out what’s so magical about the underground palace first.”
"That's okay too."
Upon hearing this, Taoist Yunxu seemed to realize that this matter could not be delayed, so he nodded and agreed.
Then Taoist Yunxu and I retraced our steps and walked along the passage toward the previous underground palace.
After walking like this for a while, the space in front suddenly became wider.
I looked carefully and determined that this was the vast underground palace from before.
The runes above the head and on the ground remained unchanged, but most of the coffins hanging on the top of the underground palace had been opened at this time, and the broken coffin lids fell to the ground in pieces.
Some of them have even been completely smashed into pieces, leaving only some gravel scattered on the ground.
Judging from this situation, the things that happened before were obviously real and not hallucinations.
All the old Taoists in the coffins did crawl out, but now they are nowhere to be found.
Taoist Yunxu and I were carefully searching the underground palace, when suddenly there was the sound of slight footsteps not far ahead.
I quickly went up to take a look and found that it was Zhang Yichen walking over from the other side of the underground palace.
The other party obviously saw the existence of Taoist Yunxu and me at this time, and immediately looked at us with a vigilant expression, as if the situation was not going well and he would take action at any time.
"Senior Brother Zhang, don't do anything. It's me, my teacher Li Shiyi, and this is Taoist Yunxu."
I said and pointed to the withered old Taoist next to me.
Zhang Yichen frowned and looked at us without saying a word, and still maintained sufficient vigilance.
Obviously, he would not believe for a moment that two old Taoists like us, who were like mummies, could actually be one of our own.
In fact, this is understandable. After all, Taoist Yunxu and I are like this now, looking at people who are neither humans nor ghosts, who would believe it?
Besides, in this extremely weird underground palace, Zhang Yichen might have been attacked by this mummy-like old Taoist just now. It is only natural that he should be vigilant enough!
"Senior Brother Zhang, I know this is hard to believe, but I am really Li Shiyi, and this person next to me is Taoist Yunxu. If you don't believe it, I can tell you now where we met, and how you later became Being a puppet of heaven, and falling into the devil's way."
I hurriedly spoke, the purpose was simply to make Zhang Yichen believe in us first.
I think as long as I tell something that only we know, he will definitely believe it.
But after I said this, the expression on Zhang Yichen's face remained unchanged. He just frowned and looked at me with a look that I could barely understand.
I wanted to say something more, but at this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the darkness ahead.
Immediately afterwards, a slender figure walked out of the darkness, and soon came to Zhang Yichen.
When I looked at that person, my eyes suddenly widened and my expression changed drastically.
Because the person who came out of the darkness was none other than myself.
Or to be precise, it was just my body, but the soul attached to it was no longer me.
