On the vast scorched earth, the cracked earth was scorched with ravines, and strong winds swept across, blowing up the sky full of sand and dust, and raising a sky-covering storm.
After the storm dissipated, the sand and dust that originally lived on the earth flew for thousands of miles, and finally slowly fell to another unfamiliar area.
There were clearly dark clouds in the sky that were so thick that they could not be dispersed, and lightning and thunder were also rushing among the clouds, but there was never a drop of rain falling, only vast amounts of smoke and sand falling like raindrops.
I don’t know if this world was like this at the beginning, or if it has gradually lost traces of life over millions of years of evolution.
The land without shore is just like the boundless sea of suffering, which is difficult for gods and Buddhas to cross.
Two figures walked up the distant sand dunes, crossed the barren hillside, waded through the flowing rock formations, and continued walking into the distance.
"Master, why can't we walk with swords instead of walking all the way like this?"
Qingya, who was eager to return home, was very curious about this.
"Then, just try flying up with your sword."
Before Qingya could agree, Liu Bailu waved his hand at Qingya's feet and popped up a cyclone, carrying him straight into the air.
Then only a few bangs were heard, and the Qingya in mid-air was like a pinball, colliding back and forth on the invisible air walls above it, until after a cup of tea, it tremblingly fell to the ground again. .
Holding his dizzy forehead, Qing Ya still had stars spinning in his eyes. Fortunately, his physique was far stronger than that of ordinary people, so he would not be bruised and bruised.
"Master, you told me there were so many walls above."
Liu Bailu couldn't help laughing when he saw the green cliff in front of him, with his steps swaying. "As the saying goes, what you see on paper is only shallow, but you have to practice it. If you don't experience it yourself, how will you know whether you can fly or not?" Woolen cloth?"
Of course Qingya would not believe her words. In his own opinion, she was doing this just to have fun with herself. In the eyes of outsiders, his master, the goddess of light from Tianyun, is as untouchable as the ice and snow on the mountains and the stars in the sky.
But after getting along with him for many years, Qingya gradually discovered that his master had always been highly enthusiastic about every detail in life.
During the years of pure cultivation in the mountains, she would walk down the fairy mountain to learn cooking skills in the prosperity of the human world, even if she only had three meals a day.
In her wardrobe, there are countless colorful feather coats and flowing fairy skirts. Even if they are the moonlight in the sky, she can take them off and decorate them on the corners of her clothes.
But it is precisely because of this that Qing Ya feels that the woman he spends day and night with is always so real and charming. Even if she occasionally teases him, Qing Ya enjoys it.
The two of them were in the Netherworld, but they didn't have any vigilance at all. In her hands, there was a coldness and tenderness like moonlight, which made Qingya extremely nostalgic.
The year-round storm roared past the two of them, but could not even move their clothes. Not knowing how far they had gone, Qingya finally saw traces of the existence of life.
What lay in front of the two people seemed to be a seabed that had dried up for countless years. Even after enduring the erosion of the years and being buried by wind and sand, it still retained its original broad scale. This shows that the original infinity The shore boundary also had a flourishing life.
What kind of changes made this world so desolate?
No, life seems to have not completely disappeared from this world.
In the continental shelf buried by the sand, there were several linear traces swimming rapidly. At first, Qingya thought it was just the displacement of sand and soil caused by the sinking of quicksand, but when a white-bone creature that looked like a fish but not a fish jumped up from the sand and appeared again When it fell, Qingya had to update his understanding of the world again.
Qingya saw that it was a slender fish creature with a hard skull and wide double fins. Judging from the intact sharp tooth-like bones in its mouth, it was also a fast-moving hunter. .
But now, the flesh and blood on its body has long been turned into dust, and most of the remaining bones have been petrified. However, the two clusters of soul fire burning in its eyes have been bright for a long time, driving it to "survive" in the world. .
The appearance of this fish bone seemed to be a signal. After that, waves appeared in the vast sand like a crucian carp crossing a river.
The huge sea beast jumped out of the sand, hit the ground with its huge body like a hill, raising high waves of sand, and then burrowed under the surface again, leaving only its tail like a high wall to roll up thousands of piles of sand. , until completely submerged under the sea of sand.
After the huge sea beast rolled over, countless small fishes scattered in groups in the surrounding sand. Even if they lost their bodies, they still followed the instincts and habits of creatures to avoid predators.
Not only that, in addition to large and small fish-bone creatures, aquatic plants that have been turned into dead branches by the weather are still growing on the rocks, fluttering in the wind with the help of the rolling sand waves. And those sea creatures without bones still retain their former forms, swimming freely in the sand sea.
Qingya even saw a giant jellyfish with a length of several hundred feet. It circled around in the sea of sand like a road winding through the mountains. With the tens of thousands of jellyfish all over its body, A small tentacle swam slowly. Even though its body had been weathered, its once amazing appearance could still be vaguely recognized.
For a moment, the desolate world that appeared in front of Qingya suddenly became lively.
"This is a creature called siphonophore. Strictly speaking, its existence is between a single creature and a group of creatures. The form you see now is composed of tens of thousands of tiny tribes gathered together. It looks like it comes out, but each of their tribes perform their own duties and work together to drive the same body."
Liu Bailu patiently explained to Qingya the mysteries of the creatures in front of him. At the same time, he slowly raised his right hand. As if receiving some kind of summons, the giant jellyfish in the sand sea raised its intricate head and swam towards the two of them.
"Creatures like this usually only live in the deep sea and make a living by capturing microorganisms. The fact that it appears here shows that this was not an ordinary sea area. What happened to change the environment here?"
Soon, the jellyfish's head came to the two of them, but its extremely long body barely moved. Qingya was finally able to carefully observe its composition.
It was an individual composed of groups of dry fungi cysts intertwined together, with dense tiny tentacles waving around, which did look a bit uncomfortable.
It came in front of the two of them, but as if it was afraid of something, it lowered its head very low and bowed respectfully in front of Liu Bailu.
"The memories sleeping in time show the most authentic past in front of me."
Like a goddess in charge of all things, Liu Bailu's words were filled with unbreakable magic, as if everything in front of her was as humble as dust.
To this day, Qingya has long realized that the power of her master is far beyond what can be measured by an out-of-body state. Qingya even feels that as long as she is willing, everything in the world is nothing to her. cannot.
After giving the order, the extremely long body of the siphonophore began to surge, and it coiled itself up in circles. Then, the dead creatures rekindled the blue flames, and those that had long been forgotten were The stories in time also resurfaced in the flames.
There was once a shoreless land with lush rainforests and vast seas. There was a normal water cycle between the ocean and the land. There were also wind, rain, and snow in the sky. Birds spread their wings, beasts galloped, and all kinds of frost sky competed for freedom.
About four thousand years ago, a dazzling fire fell from the sky. From then on, endless drought began to spread from the deepest part of the land. The trees turned into charcoal, the earth turned into scorched earth, and even the oceans became scorched. Being evaporated, all the wailing and migration are in vain. Life seems so small in front of the power that subverts nature. Everything in the world died in this disaster that covered the entire world.
But this world continues in another way. A magical power turns death into the form of life. From then on, no matter how time goes by, they will always "survive" in the form of death, but no new life will be born here.
It seems that the key to unlocking the reason why this world has become so desolate lies in that huge cluster of fire falling from the sky.
In just a short moment, Qingya witnessed the decline of a world with his own eyes. Everything in this world is by no means accidental. This is a gap outside the human world. Will such a disaster one day spread to the human world?
As if seeing Qing Ya's worry, Liu Bailu waved the giant jellyfish away, then took Qing Ya's right hand again and walked all the way north.
"Although this place is only separated by a wall from the human world, the drought here will never threaten our world, because the source of all this comes from the human world."
With Qingya full of doubts, the two of them went all the way north. After trekking for an unknown amount of time, they finally stopped at the bank of a large lake called Chishui North.
It was here that Qingya saw perhaps the only source of water in the world.
The area of the lake is not large, at most it is comparable to the lake that Qingya frequented among the bamboo sea on Yaoguang Peak. The water of the lake is crystal clear, and you can clearly see the pebbles scattered all over the bottom of the lake. There are no fish or shrimps in the water, and not even a single aquatic plant can survive.
And by the lake, Qingya finally met the first person after coming to this world.
There was a person in green clothes, looking like a swaying bamboo leaf, sitting alone by the lake. Judging from the slender figure, she should be a woman.
She turned her back to Qingya and the two of them, and took off her mist-like clothes. Her black hair hung down to the ground along her beautiful back, and fell into the lake, spreading like algae in the lake.
But on her smooth and jade-like back, there were ferocious flame marks intertwined on her beautiful body, which were particularly eye-catching.
She didn't seem to notice anyone coming, and she still soaked her legs in the lake water and swayed back and forth, humming ancient songs softly.
