As Li Xiuyuan waved his hand, he took out another talisman and folded it into a paper sword.
Take a step forward and walk in front of Old Man Zhang. From now on, he cannot let the old man explore in front.
He said calmly: "Senior, we are already here, there is no need to be impatient... We have to be more careful."
After passing through the blurry passage in front of me, even if I reach the Nine Netherworld, I will probably call King Qin Guang over for a bottle of wine. What's there to be afraid of?
What he was afraid of was not the evil ghosts under the Nine Netherworld, but that he didn't want to break into the abyss of the Demon Realm that he had never been to before, the territory that belonged to the Jun family.
Holding the luminous pearl in his hand, Old Man Zhang looked at the vast mist in front of him. Suddenly there was a clicking sound under his feet, and he screamed in fright: "There is a ghost!"
Li Xiuyuan looked back and saw that Old Man Zhang had broken a bone under his feet. He had to smile bitterly and said: "There are bones all around, why don't you go back, senior!"
"Forget it, let's move on!"
At this time, Old Man Zhang could neither advance nor retreat, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward with Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan looked around and saw that there were endless dead bones scattered everywhere, which gave him the same feeling as the Wangxiang Tower he saw on the Wangchuan River.
Old man Zhang, who was following him, could not help but shudder.
He recited a few Buddhist scriptures in a low voice, then looked around and said coldly: "Either you go to reincarnation, or I will make you disappear with a rune."
"Woo!" A voice sounded around the two of them...
“In the past that is unspeakably long and unspeakable of tribulations ago…”
Li Xiuyuan kept chanting sutras in his mouth. Old man Zhang was speechless and could not speak.
I saw phosphorus fire rising around me like fireflies on a summer night, slowly flying into the air.
Finally, the whining sounds around me gradually disappeared.
Old Man Zhang murmured to himself: "Is it possible that you are still a little monk?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed softly, thinking that he really shouldn't take the old man into this passage. After all, the dangers here are much more dangerous than the previous section of the road.
Amidst the faint evil aura, the white bones on the ground also exuded a faint demonic power. They were obviously the bones of ancient gods and demons.
Old Man Zhang couldn't help shouting: "I said, where did you get so many bones?"
The old man felt furious. Although the sky was full of phosphorus fire, he was obviously saved by the young man in front of him and entered reincarnation.
But there were still many skeletons roaring, obviously unwilling to go to reincarnation, and wanted to drag the two of them into the endless abyss.
Li Xiuyuan held the flower in one hand, and a faint water-like power turned into sword lights, slashing at the skeletons running towards the two of them from a distance.
While Old Man Zhang was stunned, Li Xiuyuan in front of him shone with a faint golden light.
Like a god and Buddha appearing behind the young man, watching the world quietly, the skeletons all around let out a whimpering cry and dispersed one after another.
Old Man Zhang glanced at the scattered skeletons, then at the young man who looked like a god and Buddha, and couldn't help but sigh.
It turned out that I had underestimated the guy in front of me.
How could a young man who practiced both Buddhism and Taoism be afraid of the demons and evil spirits in this cave?
Thinking of this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and just followed Li Xiuyuan silently, thinking about what would happen next.
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However, what Old Man Zhang didn't know was that Li Xiuyuan was startled when he looked forward from the fog in the skull.
Suddenly, Li Xiuyuan, who raised his head and looked forward, was slightly startled. He had the illusion that he had returned to the place where he and Long Qingyun had been.
A place called the God Burial Ground.
A high cliff appeared in the thick fog, and a fluorescent lantern hung at the intersection at the foot of the mountain, shining with a strange light.
Sitting on the stone steps on the mountain path was a skeleton wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat on his head. Even though he was holding a lantern in his hand, his face could not be seen clearly.
Old man Zhang stared blankly at the scene in front of him and stopped immediately.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, but walked down the cliff step by step, and saluted the skeleton sitting on the stone steps.
He took out a piece of talisman paper and a scroll of Buddhist scriptures, put them in his hands, and handed them to the skeleton.
The skeleton reached out to take the Buddhist scripture. Under Old Man Zhang's silent gaze, the Buddhist scripture in the skeleton's hand suddenly ignited without any fire.
A faint golden light rose from the flames and gradually disappeared in front of the two people.
Li Xiuyuan was startled for a moment, then bowed and saluted, and asked in a solemn voice: "Where do the stone steps in this mountain lead to?"
The skeleton replied angrily: "I don't know."
He smiled, pressed his hat, pointed at the cliff behind him and said, "What, do you want to go up and try?"
Li Xiuyuan looked around and found that there was no way out except this stone step, so he had to say: "I have been here, so I have to go up and try."
The skeleton made a hoarse voice, looked at the Buddhist scriptures that gradually disappeared in his hands, sighed, and said: "It's still a little short of it, it seems that we still have to practice for hundreds of years...
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Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Are you staying here and asking for money from people who come and go? Or..."
"Humans, demons, demons."
The skeleton with a bamboo hat on its head replied: "The road above may lead to three places: Taoyuan, Demon Realm, and Demon Realm, and I am waiting here to wait for a ray of life..."
After saying that, he stretched out his palm and Old Man Zhang was dumbfounded. He saw that the skeleton in front of him suddenly had its limbs no longer filled with white bones, and gradually regained the strength of flesh and blood.
But once the power of flesh and blood reaches the chest, it becomes difficult to move upward, as if it is stuck.
Old man Zhang looked solemn. He had never heard of such a thing. Only Li Xiuyuan looked at the skeleton in front of him and sighed quietly.
Then he whispered to the skeleton for a long time.
Li Xiuyuan then asked: "Why don't you want to step into reincarnation and rebuild your life? Wouldn't that be better?"
The skeleton retracted its arms, and the flesh and blood on its body disappeared instantly, returning to the appearance of bones.
He sighed faintly: "I want to keep the memory of this life. If I am reincarnated, I will forget all the experiences of this life. I am not willing to..."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and asked, "If you leave, who will guard the intersection for you?"
"hey-hey……"
The skeleton smiled coldly and replied: "There is no one guarding the road in this place. I just don't want to be reincarnated here and beg for life from the guys who come and go."
Li Xiuyuan sighed in his heart, wondering what kind of love could make this guy stay here for thousands of years and refuse to reincarnate?
At that moment, he couldn't help but murmur to himself: "Three lives are fixed on the stone of three lives, and three lives are promised in front of the temple of three lives. If the three lives are not what you want, I hope I won't see you in the next life. Why do you have to do it for a relationship?"
Persistence? "
Marrow was shocked when he heard this, and shouted sharply: "How do you know my past, and who are you?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied quietly: "Except for unhappy love, there is nothing in this world that is worth making a dead person wait here for thousands of years..."
The skeleton sighed quietly and remained silent.
After thinking about it, Li Xiuyuan continued to ask: "If I help you replenish your vitality, what kind of reward will you give me?"
Without waiting for Marrow's reply, he continued: "I am the last person you will wait for here. When I leave, I will destroy this place to prevent the demon from harming anyone."
When Marrow heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle: "With your ability, how could you possibly destroy this place?"
"You can try. I told you that this place will collapse and become a forbidden area where adult demons cannot pass. If you don't believe it, you can see it."
After speaking, Li Xiuyuan pointed at Old Man Zhang behind him and said, "This senior said that a monster with a scorpion body and a human head came out of here a few days ago..."
The skeleton replied calmly after hearing this: "That guy went back from here not long ago. As for where he went, I don't know. Are you going to hunt him down?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan looked at the proud guy in front of him and couldn't help but smile bitterly, imagining his stunning talent and grace thousands of years ago.
I know in my heart that you were as magnificent as you were back then, but you still have the moment of death.
Even if you insist on guarding here with an immortal soul, don't you know that I came here to destroy this place and prevent people from the three realms of humans, demons, and monsters from breaking into the Peach Blossom Spring again.
Thinking of this, he reiterated: "Why should I help you? What can I do if I help you?"
benefit? "
The skeleton shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "I don't have any treasures on me. Even the magic medicine of the year was taken by me. If you want to help, you can help me."
Li Xiuyuan sighed, thinking about it.
If I had been sitting here for a thousand years, I would have eaten up all the treasures in my body just like this guy.
Old man Zhang behind him asked unwillingly: "Let me tell you, where will the road on these stone steps take us?"
The skeleton spread his hands: "You guess, I don't know. It all depends on luck."
Li Xiuyuan sighed, looked at Old Man Zhang behind him and said, "Senior, just wait for me here. I'll go to the mountain to have a look. If it doesn't work, I'll come back."
Old Man Zhang looked around and saw that they were already far away from the entrance of the cave where the two people came in. He was afraid that he would not be able to return to the village by himself.
Moreover, Li Xiuyuan clearly wanted to go to the cliff to have a look.
What kind of world is up there and what kind of dangers there will be, he probably can't predict it, let alone fight against unknown dangers.
Frowning slightly, he had lived in Peach Blossom Spring for so many years, and this was the first time he encountered such weird things and saw such weird skeletons.
But in the blink of an eye, Li Xiuyuan's friend was still in Nirvana in the Taoist temple, and most likely would not leave the Peach Blossom Spring alone.
He didn't know where he was and couldn't turn back. He could either go on an adventure with him or wait here.
After thinking for a while, he looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "I said, if you don't come back, I might go back to the village alone?"
Li Xiuyuan pointed at the skeleton in front of him and said: "This guy is here to accompany you. Without my help, he will never be able to recover. You can wait for me."
return. "
When Skull heard what Li Xiuyuan said, he trembled and nodded to Old Man Zhang.
He waved his hand and smiled with Li Xiuyuan: "This old man is here, I can protect him from the evil spirit, wait until you come back."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and nodded, and said seriously: "I am the only one in the world who can help you, unless you want to fall into this dark place forever."
The skeleton raised two skeletal fingers: "Deal."
Li Xiuyuan took out a piece of talisman paper, handed it to old man Zhang behind him, and whispered to the old man softly.
Then he nodded quickly and replied with his whole body trembling: "Okay, I'll wait for you here."
Li Xiuyuan then continued to the skeleton: "I just went up to see three different intersections. I will not leave here. I will come back."
"I am waiting for you."
The skeleton chuckled and said, "If you help me regain my life, I owe you a favor. I promise you three lives, and I will repay you."
Li Xiuyuan waved his hand: "No, I promised to help you not just to make you remember me."
After saying that, he nodded to the old man behind him and walked up the stone steps. He didn't go far. When he turned back, the skeleton and the old man had disappeared into the mist.
Only the lanterns hanging on the roadside emitted a faint fluorescent light in the fog.
I sighed silently in my heart, thinking that I still didn't know whether there would be trouble in the three previous worlds, whether I could go there, or whether I could come back, so I rushed forward regardless.
I changed my mind for a moment, but wondered if it was possible that the three different worlds mentioned by the skeleton were the three kingdoms of the Shura Heaven Realm?
It makes no sense, Huatianyu is not what he wants either
The monster in the portrait is not the devil in his eyes.
How come heaven, earth and man can talk about it?
