"Your mother said before she died that if you were about to die, you would be able to see the peach blossom forest, right?" Chen Changan half-smiled, taking a step closer to Baku, with a frightening luster in his eyes.
Baku smiled and said, "Island Master Chen, can you explain a little more clearly?"
Chen Changan took another half step closer, holding a hatchet in his hand, and said with an innocent smile:
"Brother Baku, have you heard of the supernatural version of Peach Blossom Spring?"
"No, no."
Baku replied slowly.
Chen Changan smiled all over his face, "In the Taiyuan Dynasty of Jin Dynasty, Wuling people were fishing... The protagonist of Huayuan Ji is a fisherman who has been passed down from generation to generation. There is one thing that makes people feel very strange. If they were fishing at sea, maybe It is normal to encounter unpredictable situations such as storms and get lost, but it is a river, and every river channel is fixed. Why do you get lost when you go along the river?"
"ah?"
Baku didn't understand what Chen Changan wanted to express.
Chen Changan's eyes became colder as he continued to tell the story of Peach Blossom Spring:
"After the fisherman arrived at the source, he saw the cave. 'It was extremely narrow at first, and then he could reach people. After walking for dozens of steps, it suddenly became clear, the land was flat, and the houses looked like it.' The description of this scene is very paradoxical. It is not so much a cave. Rather - this is an ancient tomb passage design!
Have you ever seen any mountain village that is built as neatly as a city? Aren't houses scattered along the divisions of the fields?
There has been only one possibility in the past dynasties for such things to be neat and tidy - that is the family ancestral tomb! The construction of tombs often pays more attention to rules than living people!
It is often after death that a family can become tidy! "
Baku was gradually attracted by this story and said in surprise:
"Sounds very reasonable!"
Chen Changan laughed, "Then I'll continue."
"After the fisherman entered the village, he described the place as 'the streets are full of traffic, and the chickens and dogs hear each other'. What does the streets mean? The streets are the path leading to the tomb. So, after the fisherman encountered the Peach Blossom Spring, the real situation is:
The reason why He got lost was not because of anything else—it was because of some special situation!
Only under such special circumstances can an experienced fishing expert mistakenly enter the depths of the peach forest and walk into a narrow tomb passage. The tomb passage is narrow at first and then widens. After walking for dozens of steps, he walked into the depths of the tomb passage and saw Those neat tombs! "
Baku felt a little cold for no reason and his teeth chattered, so he tried to refute:
"It is clearly recorded in the article that they have yellow hair, are content, and the men and women are dressed like outsiders... is this obviously talking about a living person?"
Chen Changan patted Baku on the shoulder and whispered in his ear:
"Guess, what thing looks exactly like a living person? And what special circumstances can make an experienced fishing expert get lost in a fixed river channel?"
Baku was so frightened that his spine trembled, and he uttered four words:
"ghost!"
"Ghost hits the wall!"
Chen Changan put his hands behind his back, smiled slightly and said:
"Actually, there are two obvious evidences. First, peach trees have the ability to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts. This kind of folklore has been popular as early as the Han Dynasty. There is a village hidden among the peach trees. Tao Yuanming wants to express The meaning is already obvious - secondly, if he really wanted to describe a paradise, why not use chrysanthemums? In ancient times, chrysanthemums were also the hermits of flowers. This is the paradise that best suits Tao Yuanming's taste! "
"So, Peach Blossom Spring is an... afterlife created by Tao Yuanming!"
After Chen Changan finished telling this story, he looked at Baku with a smile:
"Brother Baku, come here, I have something I want to tell you privately~"
"There's no one else here, no need to get so close..."
Baku was stared at so hard that he took a half step back in fear.
tread!
Chen Changan took a few steps forward in an instant, kicked him to the ground, and clasped both of Baku's hands behind his back, strangling the tiger's mouth, preventing him from releasing the bloodline spell.
In the age of bloodline magic, the palm of your hand is the spell-casting tool for most mages!
Choking the tiger's mouth and blocking the spiritual power is equivalent to destroying half of the mage's life!
Just as Bagu was about to ask, Chen Changan's eyes flashed with a fierce look, and he grabbed his throat with his other hand.
"no, do not want!"
Baku's breathing became faster and faster, his mouth and nose opened to the maximum, but he couldn't get even a trace of oxygen into his lungs, and his whole face turned red!
gradually.
Baku felt that his life was passing away little by little, as if he saw a god of death wielding a scythe, walking toward him with a grin.
Looking carefully, the face of the god of death is exactly the same as Chen Changan!
"I really trusted the wrong person..."
On the verge of death, Baku's consciousness gradually blurred, but he also smelled a faint aroma of peach blossoms!
"That's true~"
Chen Changan smiled and let go of his hand. Ba Gu lay on the ground weakly, raised his head, and roared:
"Asshole, are you going to kill me?"
“Brother Baku, look—”
Chen Changan stretched out his finger and pointed at the source of the river - a river bay that they both ignored.
Baku turned his head blankly and couldn't help but widen his eyes:
"this……"
The reflections of peach trees gradually appeared on the water surface of the river flowing back into the bay, and the fragrance of peach blossoms filled their breaths.
What is surprising is that,
There are still no peach trees on both sides of the river.
Only then did Baku realize.
The Peach Blossom Spring is not on the land, not in the mountains and forests, and not by the river, but hidden under the water that no one pays attention to!
Only when the descendants of the sea elves are about to die can the true face of the Peach Blossom Land be revealed!
"Let's go. Maybe there are many secrets of the sea elves hidden here?"
Chen Changan pulled Baku up from the ground and jumped into the water reflecting the peach trees together.
~~~~↓Chen Changan-Baguk↓~~~~
In a flash.
Chen Changan seemed to feel the dizziness of traveling through another dimension again. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in an endless sea.
Baku swam happily in the sea and shouted happily. After living in the river for many years, he had never seen the existence of the sea. He shouted happily:
"The sea is the paradise of our sea elves clan!"
But just after swimming a few hundred meters forward, Baku hit the air with a bang.
Or rather, a wall of air.
Chen Changan squinted his eyes slightly and carefully looked at this unknown space, and soon discovered that the total area here was extremely small.
Kilometers in radius, several square kilometers at most.
Chen Changan looked up at the sky. The appearance of the sun, moon and stars was almost exactly the same as that of Dongsang's world.
That is to say.
Just like the secret realm of the lake is attached to the deep sea world, this "Utopia" is a lower plane attached to the Dongsang world!
