This place is just past the halfway point of the mountain. At a glance, it is full of strange rocks scattered high and low, turning into a dense stone forest. The jagged stone pillars are like sharp swords sticking straight into the sky, just like the uncanny workmanship of heaven and earth.
The autumn wind passed through this strange stone forest and made a strange whistling sound.
"Woooo..."
Hearing Su Ziqiu's weak whine behind him, Lin Yue sneered and without saying anything, he walked straight towards the stone forest with her on his back.
"When it's high, turn to the left; when it's low, turn to the right."
Lin Yue meditated on this trick in his mind, took another look at the patchwork, maze-like stone forest, and immediately chose one of the empty paths to walk.
Although he didn't know where this stone forest came from, it should have been artificially modified.
Because this stone forest is a confusing formation.
For mortals who can't fly or jump high, it's easy to get lost in this stone forest.
Fortunately, the five-ring-level secret that Lin Yue used to obtain the appearance of all living beings also contained the secret to entering the formation, otherwise it would be difficult for him to pass through this stone forest.
The trick is simple.
When it's high, turn to the left; when it's low, turn to the right.
Lin Yue observed the height of the strange rocks in front of him while walking quickly on the rugged hillside with Su Ziqiu on his back.
Whenever you encounter a very tall stone pillar, immediately change lanes to the left.
Whenever you encounter a shorter stone pillar, just change lanes to the right.
After bypassing more than ten stone pillars in this way, Lin Yue found that the front suddenly opened up. There were no strange rocks and rocks, but a huge mountain wall.
"It's out." Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
This was his third time here, and he was naturally very familiar with it. There was no hesitation in his steps, and he chose a shorter route based on experience.
If it were anyone else, even if they knew the trick, they would have to take a long detour and say less.
certainly.
If he could fly or jump extremely high, the blindness of this stone forest would be meaningless.
Such as those birds landing on strange rocks.
However, this stone forest is only the most peripheral means.
Even if a cultivator flew directly over the stone forest and discovered this mountain wall, he could not find the existence of the cave.
unless--
Lin Yue raised his head and looked at the top of the mountain wall, and soon found an oval-shaped boulder protruding from the cliff above.
He immediately carried Su Ziqiu on his back and walked towards the mountain wall directly below the huge rock.
After a while, when he was only four or five feet away from the mountain wall, Lin Yue stopped, raised his head and confirmed the position of the boulder above him. He moved half a step further to confirm that it was directly below, and then looked again. The mountain wall facing forward.
Su Ziqiu was tied on his back and looked at the mountain wall in confusion. She didn't understand what this man was going to do, but she couldn't ask with Wu Ma San in her mouth.
A touch of autumn wind blew by.
next moment--
She suddenly felt Lin Yue's hands grabbing the crooks of her legs. After ensuring that she would not fall, she found that he suddenly started running towards the hard mountain wall in front of him, sprinting away with all his strength. !
Su Ziqiu couldn't help but be stunned.
But she could do nothing but watch the gray-white mountain wall getting closer and closer to her.
The mountain wall was only four or five feet away from the two of them. Lin Yue was carrying her on his back. He had just picked up the speed and was already very close to the hard mountain wall!
Seeing that he was about to hit the mountain wall, Su Ziqiu subconsciously closed his eyes.
Although she knew in her heart that this cunning and cunning pariah could not crash into the wall for no reason and seek death, she still subconsciously hoped that this pariah would crash into the mountain wall and die.
However--
In an instant, as if passing through an invisible layer of cold air, a chill spread through the whole body, and then the surroundings became extremely quiet in an instant.
The whistling of the wind through the stone forest, the chirping of birds in the mountains... all the movement completely disappeared at this moment, and the dryness of the wild mountains also disappeared, and instead became a little cooler and moist.
Su Ziqiu couldn't help but open his eyes.
Only then did he realize that he was already in a slightly dark cave. There was deep darkness in the depths of the cave in front of him, and behind him was the entrance to the cave where light came from.
Phantom array?
She suddenly understood why the cave could no longer be seen from the outside. It turned out to be hidden by a layer of illusory formation barrier?
It seems that Lin Yue's strange behavior of leading her to sprint and run just now is the secret method to enter the illusion array?
At this moment, Su Ziqiu noticed that Lin Yue suddenly let go of her legs.
Immediately, he untied the slipknot of the rope that bound her.
She was so weak that she couldn't hold on with her hands. If the rope hadn't tied her body, it would have been very difficult for Lin Yue to carry her up the mountain.
At this time, after Lin Yue let go of the rope and his hands, Su Ziqiu suddenly let out a scream and fell to the ground.
The hard rocky ground was somewhat uneven, and her back immediately hurt as she fell.
Lin Yue then slowly turned around and looked at Su Ziqiu.
This place was very close to the entrance of the cave, and the skylight from the outside fell on his face, clearly illuminating the mockery on the corners of his lips.
That means unbridled.
Su Ziqiu panicked in her heart and shrank back subconsciously, but her body was already weak, and the fall just now made it difficult for her to even move.
"Your Highness."
Lin Yue knelt down in front of her, helped her lean against the stone wall, then stretched out his hand to pinch her cheek, and gently took out the Wu Ma San from her mouth.
He then said softly: "I have really wronged you these past few months, haha... How does it feel to become a woman? Even Tiankui is exactly the same as a woman, how does it feel?"
"You..." Su Ziqiu's words were stiff, and he spoke with difficulty: "How... did you do it..."
"hehe……"
Lin Yue sneered, took out a small knife from the package at his waist, and lightly cut the tip of his index finger.
Immediately, he slowly wiped a drop of blood that had just emerged from the wound on her forehead.
Su Ziqiu was slightly startled, only feeling a touch of warmth coming from his forehead.
But in just an instant, that trace of warmth turned into a strong burning sensation, followed by a rolling flow of heat, flowing continuously to all parts of the body!
In this blazing heat, she felt as if all the flesh and bones in her body were melting, causing her consciousness to become hazy.
Lin Yue narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Ziqiu.
At this moment, in his eyes, the trace of blood on Su Ziqiu's forehead was slowly disappearing, or in other words, being absorbed.
And her body was also undergoing strange changes that were visible to the naked eye.
After the trace of blood completely disappeared, Lin Yue discovered that Su Ziqiu's face seemed to be molting, and a layer of horny skin began to slowly separate from her face.
Moreover, there is a small piece of reddish white horny skin on the forehead that has become raised.
Lin Yue looked at her expressionlessly, stretched out his hand to grab the small piece of dough on his forehead, and slowly tore it open.
Starting from the forehead, it was like peeling off a human skin mask, and gradually peeled off the eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, and even the chin.
In a few breaths, a complete translucent mask was torn off from her face.
And she, or rather he——
She has gone from a skinny, sickly beauty to a pale, almost skinny young man!
Not only the face, but also the body has completely changed. From the petite figure of more than six feet before, it has become the figure of a man over seven feet. Including the original bulge on the woman's chest, it has also completely flattened.
The only thing that didn't change was that he was still skinny.
"Hey...Long time no see."
Lin Yue casually put the face into his arms, squatted in front of the young man, with a cold smile on his lips, "Young Master Xia Lie, His Highness Xia Honglie, I haven't seen your face for a long time. I still want to see you." It’s really…”
"Snapped!!"
Xia Honglie felt his eyes go dark, his cheeks suddenly lost consciousness, stars were appearing in front of his eyes, his ears were buzzing, and his upper body fell to the ground involuntarily.
After a while, a bright red slap mark slowly appeared on his pale cheek, and a trace of bright red blood flowed from the corner of his lips.
"...My hands are really itchy."
Lin Yue flicked his wrist with a smile and said in a relaxed mood: "Your Highness, you turned into a humble Jing before. I really couldn't bear to do it, and I didn't dare to let you change back in Qingdu. Now you are finally a little out of control." Get a little angry."
Xia Honglie spat out a mouthful of blood and lay on the ground, staring at him. He said vaguely, "I know you hate me to the core. You can kill me or chop me into pieces."
"Yeah?"
Lin Yue sneered, "His Highness is now being treated like a mermaid. He obviously wants to live, but he still has some backbone to say such things."
He casually grabbed Xia Honglie's collar, pulled him up from the ground, leaned against the stone wall again, and then said: "Although it doesn't make any sense anymore, I still want to ask you a question. I hope you can Answer me truthfully."
Xia Honglie licked the blood on the corner of his lips and then sneered: "I know what question you want to ask... Do you want to know the reason why I killed Su Ziqiu?"
"I advise you not to provoke me."
Lin Yue looked at him with a cold smile, "Otherwise I will rack my brains and come up with many dehumanizing ways for you to try."
Xia Honglie was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "If you want to know anything, just ask."
"Then let's talk about it." Lin Yue narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Why? Why was Su Ziqiu killed that day?"
He never asked.
Because he didn't want to hear those cruel answers when the other party was still like Su Ziqiu.
The world was cruel enough to her.
She had no father or mother, was frail since she was a child, had few friends, and was destined to have a short life. That day, she rarely mustered up the courage to come to the Taoist Temple to deliver food to him. The way she watched him eating seemed to be better than her own delicacies. be happy.
She just wanted to try a little bit of the simplest happiness.
But what did she do wrong to be deprived of even the simplest happiness?
Maybe it’s really the hemp rope that only picks out the thinnest places to break, and misfortunes tend to seek out the miserable?
He just wanted to hear the truest answer from Xia Honglie when he was Xia Honglie.
"Why?"
Xia Honglie looked at him weakly and said, "Does a smart person like you really need the answer to this kind of question?"
Lin Yue was silent for a while and said calmly: "I don't need those essential and philosophical answers. I just want to understand the thoughts of people like you and avoid them in the future."
Xia Honglie smiled, with ridicule and self-mockery in his smile, as if he was answering and repeating someone else's answer:
"She didn't do anything wrong, it's just that I couldn't stand it, so I just killed her... It's that simple. If I kill her, what does it have to do with how miserable her life is?"
Lin Yue narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Is it just because I can't stand it?"
"Yes, I can't stand it, that's all."
Xia Honglie smiled a little crazy, "There is nothing to be ashamed of saying it in front of you. I have been bullied by others, and only she comforted me and stayed with me time and time again. She made me feel that life is still meaningful, but she still He betrayed me so easily and watched me being played like a dog, hahaha... That must be fun..."
His self-mockery was like the barking of a mad, corrupt dog.
Lin Yue looked at him expressionlessly and said indifferently: "I'm not interested in your past. If I seek revenge from you, what does it have to do with how miserable you lived in the past?"
"Well said, that's it, haha..."
Xia Honglie laughed so hard that he couldn't help coughing violently.
After coughing for a while, he continued: "That day I saw you and Su Ziqiu sitting in love at the door of the Taoist temple. Looking at Su Ziqiu's expression, I immediately thought of her, so I killed her, it's that simple. "
"Is it that simple?" Lin Yue repeated expressionlessly.
"Yes, it's that simple!"
Xia Honglie laughed and said: "Baili Fengzhi told me that she came here at the behest of my mother, saying that I am the son of the God Emperor, and that the most noble blood in the world flows in my body. No one can bully me." Me, so I understand, I can kill whoever I want, what does other people’s experiences have to do with me?”
He looked at Lin Yue with an evil smile, "You want to avoid it? There are many people who are more noble than you in this world. In the eyes of some people, you are just an animal that can be slaughtered at will. This is the most common perception. How can you avoid?"
Lin Yue looked at Xia Honglie expressionlessly and said nothing.
After a long while, he said quietly: "I understand, you can be quiet for a while."
After saying that, he took out a water bag from the package around his waist, pinched Xia Honglie's cheek, forced him to open his mouth and drank a large mouthful of soul-trapping water.
"You...won't kill me?"
Xia Honglie frowned and looked at him, then lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
Lin Yue glanced at him indifferently.
If possible, he really wanted to kill Xia Honglie immediately.
but……
He didn't want to lose his life for this kind of person.
Although it was said in the five-ring-level secret that this illusory formation barrier can isolate the breath, there are no more than a hundred practitioners in the world who can see through this barrier.
But you don't need to think about it to know that it will definitely not be able to stop the resonance caused by the death of the prince in the world.
Once the body dies, the miraculous bloodline can resonate with the whole world in Dayong. What incredible power is this?
Moreover, the resentment of the soul will be engraved on him, which makes it even more difficult to solve.
"Let's see how much help this cave can bring to me."
Lin Yue took a deep breath, turned his head and glanced at the darkness deep in the cave, then took out a dark red heavy wooden box from the package and opened it gently.
The moment the wooden box was opened, bright and soft light poured out like water, completely dispelling the slight darkness around it.
Long pearl.
This is a gadget refined by practitioners.
Although it is not a treasure, it is still a rare treasure for mortals. He found it last month through a one-ring secret.
Under the soft and clear light, Lin Yue held the long pearl in his hand and walked towards the depths of the dark and deep cave.
Footsteps echoed.
The darkness gradually receded.
After a while, he came to the deepest part of the cave.
The depth of the cave is not as wide as the entrance, but rather narrow and cramped, only about ten feet wide, and the height of the cave is less than one foot.
And here, two corpses were lying.
Two corpses, one on the left and one on the right, sat facing each other with their backs against the stone wall.
It was too dark last time, so Lin Yue didn't look carefully. Now after careful observation, he suddenly made a discovery.
The corpse on the left is wearing a white robe embroidered with golden cloud patterns, and only a skeleton remains. Judging from the large pelvis and slender skeleton, it may be that she was a woman during her lifetime.
The female skeleton was holding a rusty iron sword in its hand, and the blade penetrated the chest of the opposite corpse, nailing it to the wall.
It was like her last sword, and she and the other party died together here.
The corpse sitting opposite her looked extremely strange and terrifying.
Although it is not a skeleton, it is just wrapped in a layer of wrinkled skin. It seems that it has lost its flesh and blood, leaving only a layer of skin. It looks extremely scary and ugly, and it is impossible to even recognize its appearance in life.
Only barely recognizable as male.
The two corpses just sat facing each other quietly, as if they had been looking at each other for an unknown amount of time.
Let the years corrode and decay.
No matter how colorful it was during life, it will be nothing more than a skin and a withered bone after death.
Lin Yue looked at the male body in silence, and slowly took out the peeled piece of Xia Honglie's face from his arms.
After a long while, he said softly: "I don't know you, but no matter what, it was the treasure you left behind that saved me. If there is a chance, I will bury you again."
When he first came to this cave, he discovered this strange peeling skin from the face of the corpse, and identified its owner with blood, so he obtained this rare treasure.
Its name is——
The appearance of all beings.
This weird dough is indestructible to fire, water, and swords.
And its most bizarre ability is to allow one person to perfectly disguise himself as another person.
As long as a small part of the opponent's body, such as blood, hair, etc., can be obtained, this rare treasure "all living beings" can be decomposed and analyzed, and after wearing the "all living beings", it can be perfectly disguised.
No matter the appearance, flesh, bone shape, life breath... they are completely the same.
This is the wonderful function of sentient beings.
An unprovoked human face turns out to be the appearance of all living beings in the world.
