The leader of the Fourteen States of Yunzhong was calling him, wasn't he? Pei Yuzhi. How could there be such a coincidence in this world that there was another Pei Yuzhi, and he met him here.
Pei Jing withdrew his spiritual sense and groped forward in the darkness like a blind man. He was confused and felt that the voice was somewhat familiar. But he himself was a person with poor sense of direction and his intuition was not as good as a dog. In this situation, he could only rush around like a headless fly.
Separated by a wall.
The secret room was empty, but the walls were covered with calligraphy and paintings. Each painting was in blue and red, so vivid that it was a little weird.
The places where Yuanying cultivators go into seclusion are always somewhat unique. For example, this place has a hole on the top, which is used to attract lightning when they are transcending tribulations. But now, it allows the moonlight from the sky to flow down, illuminating the eerie white bones on the ground.
A coffin was lying on top of the bones, and a head was floating inside. It was an old man with gray hair, sunken cheeks, and eyes full of resentment. In front of the coffin stood a young man, with black hair and white clothes as white as snow.
The old man laughed, his fangs red. "You ignorant little bastard, I was only defeated by the demon that day, so you got the upper hand. Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving."
Chu Junyu: "How strange! Are you so sure that I am Pei Yuzhi?"
The old man's voice was sinister and filled with resentment: "Even if you turn into ashes, I will recognize you!"
Chu Junyu smiled and said, "You are much smarter than some people."
The old man just thought he was humiliating him, and his anger instantly turned into green smoke, which came out from his head. The pressure from the Yuanying elders came from all directions, spreading out like water. Suffocation, destruction, and resentment were like an invisible big hand, pinching a person's neck.
Chu Junyu remained unmoved, treating this pressure as nothing, and walked forward with his white clothes skimming the ground.
The old man suddenly withdrew his pressure, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it: "You..."
The young man who came over on the dry bones, with light eyes as cold as frost and snow, said softly: "The fourteen states of Yunzhong have all been possessed by demons because of you. As the head of the sect, your death is not a pity."
Chu Junyu stood in front of the coffin, his eyes reflecting the horrified and unbelievable expressions of the Fourteen States' leaders.
The head of the leader of the Fourteen States shattered in an instant, revealing a Nascent Soul with black energy inside. It had a hideous face and was about to escape.
Chu Junyu stretched out his hand and pinched it directly in his hand with his slender fingers.
The little Nascent Soul showed a look of extreme pain.
The young man lowered his head, his eyes slightly bloodshot, and his smile was evil and weird: "I am very curious about how Shu Yan turned you into this, and where does the world under the forest lead to."
The headmaster's eyes were bloodshot. His Nascent Soul was already fragile, and now he felt like he had fallen into a cold cellar. Looking at the smile on the white-clothed boy's lips, he felt like he had seen a demon. He said with difficulty: "You... You are not... You are not Pei Yuzhi!"
Chu Junyu crushed his Nascent Soul and lowered his eyes. The elegant and gentle boy had bloodthirsty eyes: "Yes, I am no longer Pei Yuzhi."
"ah!!"
At the moment when the Nascent Soul exploded, the leaders of the fourteen states let out a heart-wrenching roar!
The true essence was revealed, and power exploded from the sky above Wuwang Peak, and the whole mountain was shaking.
The earth shook and the mountain shook, startling everyone on the mountain.
"what happened?"
"Why is the ground moving?!"
Several disciples who went up the mountain to hunt demons were awakened and stared blankly at the center of the fluctuation, completely confused.
"Ah—" Someone was affected by the force and vomited, then fell to his knees.
Everyone's hearts instantly rose to their throats. They gathered together and helped the young man up: "Shuangcheng! How are you?"
The young man from Huanbei City covered his chest with his hands, looking as if he had seen a ghost, and pointed in a direction: "It happened in the north, in the Fourteen States of Yunzhong!!"
As soon as the words "Fourteen States in the Clouds" came out, everyone shuddered. They were all from the Clouds City. The hell on earth four hundred years ago had been passed down by word of mouth by countless people. Even if they had never experienced it, they were still afraid of such an era when man-eating demons were rampant.
What on earth...what happened.
And Wusheng, who was outside the mountain gate, was also stunned.
The eyes covered with white silk looked forward quietly. A thick blood color covered everything. The blood was not the most terrifying thing. The terrifying thing was another force, cold and dark, coming from the abyss.
He is sitting cross-legged with a compassionate and great light image behind him.
There were wronged souls kneeling on the ground beside them.
Wusheng frowned.
Pei Jing felt very uncomfortable being trapped in the secret passage.
He only heard one sentence clearly, and the old immortal began to release the pressure of the Nascent Soul. When the disaster hit him, it was like someone pinching his neck, excruciating pain, his five senses were stripped away alive, he could not see or hear anything, and he almost thought he was going to die.
Fortunately, the pressure dissipated quickly, but before he had time to rejoice, even worse misfortune came.
The ground began to shake, the sky spun, and the bricks of the wall made a crackling sound.
My head hurts.
Pei Jing couldn't find anything to hold on to.
Stumble forward.
I haven't felt this embarrassed in a long time.
It was pitch black and chaotic, with no direction to turn. He was injured internally, and his cultivation was suppressed by an unknown force, so he was powerless.
With my fingers touching the cold and rough wall, I slowly moved forward. Every step I took was like walking into the gate of hell.
I don’t know if it was the confusing effect of the blood mist or if he was unconscious after being injured.
Pei Jing's thoughts were in a mess, and he was thinking about all sorts of things.
I thought of the fear I felt when I first entered this world. I thought of the look on Master's face when I first saw him at the full moon banquet.
I thought of the hundreds of years of lonely and cold practice.
The road is dim and dark.
In the end, he overlapped with a road that had been suppressed deep in his soul a long, long time ago.
A camping trip and a car accident.
A human trafficker and a cave.
A road, a snake.
The school bus that took them to the mountains for a spring outing accidentally hit a tree on the side of the road, almost killing someone. The driver asked them to get off the bus and wait. There was an accident on the mountain road, and there were many onlookers, pointing and making noises.
He was waiting nearby with his schoolbag on his back, when he suddenly felt someone covering his mouth. He was dragged back and tried to struggle, but as soon as he opened his mouth, something sweet went into his mouth and he immediately lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he was stuffed into a cave. There was a big rock blocking the entrance of the cave. As a little kid, he certainly didn't have the strength to push it open.
He was holding his schoolbag, his mind was blank with fear, but he knew he couldn't stay here. He walked in another direction, the ground was getting wetter and wetter, bats were hanging upside down above his head. That was the first time he faced the fear of the unknown. The road was so long and narrow, and there were forks. It was like a fork in fate, one wrong step would lead to the abyss.
Will they sell my organs
Is there a ghost in this cave
What will be at the end of the road
I don’t know how long I walked.
He had reached the end.
At the end of the road is the exit.
The moonlight shone in, and a colorful snake was coiled at the entrance. It was very long and big, directly blocking the entrance of the cave.
Then he heard the sound of a police car.
Behind the scenes, someone was furiously trying to pry open the stone.
"Damn, my luck is so bad, get this guy out of here quickly."
The fear and trauma of childhood can be remembered for a long time. Even though he has now traveled to another time and space and become a monk who can move mountains and seas, he still remembers every detail of that night clearly. His shirt was soaked with sweat, and the traffickers found out that he had escaped and immediately ran over to him, cursing.
He gritted his teeth, held his schoolbag, and tried to step over the snake, but the snake woke him up and bit his calf fiercely. It was painful, but he didn't dare to stop, so he dragged the snake forward. The snake wrapped around his leg, causing him to fall and roll down the hillside.
The moment he rolled down the hill, he cried loudly.
He is afraid of snakes. When he sees a snake, his scalp goes numb and he feels suffocated.
I lied to others and said that I felt disgusted, but only I knew it was because I never wanted to recall how I felt that night again.
Pei Jing recalled calmly. The more he looked at this road, the more it looked like a nightmare from his childhood. There was no light, so he felt the same despair. Pei Jing thought: This old man from Yunzhong Fourteen States is really shady.
He was holding the Lingyun sword, just like himself that night, holding his schoolbag.
The Wuwang Peak was shaking violently.
The Nascent Soul cultivator exploded, and the energy of his true essence was enough to shatter the entire 14 states of Yunzhong. The palace collapsed, and the eaves sank, all at a speed faster than the speed of a thunderbolt. Only the palace where the head of the sect was located shook violently.
It stopped and was stabilized by someone using spiritual power.
The bones on the ground turned into ashes.
The hell that should have been reduced to ruins was preserved by his thought. Chu Junyu's trip was originally to take a trace of the true essence of the head of the Fourteen States as a key. Now he should leave, but he found that another person had entered this place. With a turn of his fingers, he collected the trace of red blood into the mustard seed.
He looked up, his eyes cold.
The spiritual consciousness is everywhere and sees everything clearly.
In fact, he could guess that Pei Jing would come, after all, he knew him so well—
Understand his almost ridiculous kindness and his foolish courage.
Chu Junyu lowered his head and said softly, "I really should teach you a lesson."
The poisonous fog in the secret passage was left by Shu Yan. The academy would create the most unforgettable illusions in the depths of people's hearts, painful, terrifying, disturbing people's memories, and corroding people's consciousness. If the mind is firm, it should not be affected, but just now he had a confrontation with the head of the fourteen states, and the pressure of the Nascent Soul should have hurt Pei Jing.
The young man in brown clothes held the Lingyun sword in his hand and walked forward in the darkness with a look of compassion and sadness, and a hint of depression.
He took in every subtle detail of Pei Jing's expression.
The scarlet in Chu Junyu's eyes slowly faded away, and his pupils became as light as glass, clearly reflecting myriad images of the world.
... ... He might know what Pei Jing saw.
The boy smiled and said, "Why not make it more realistic?"
He pointed his finger, and instantly, the entire layout of the corridor changed.
The brick wall turned into a mountain wall, covered with moss. A row of bats hung upside down, and the mountain road underfoot was muddy.
The red mist dissipated, but a deeper spiritual consciousness covered it, suppressing Pei Jing's cultivation.
There is moonlight shining into the illusion, dim and desolate, illuminating the front.
"What am I thinking? There are no poisonous snakes in front and human traffickers behind. It's nothing like the road I took when I was a kid. Besides, even if there were, they can't beat me now."
Pei Jing lowered his head and talked to himself, shaking his head, but the fear in his mind still lingered. "What am I afraid of?"
He himself didn't know what he was afraid of. But since there was no root of fear... then he should defeat it.
When he came to Wuwang Peak, he never thought that he would end up here.
"... There's nothing to be afraid of."
As soon as he finished speaking to himself, he suddenly found that the scene around him was changing constantly. Pei Jing looked up suddenly, but bumped into something unknown. Soon, a group of bats fluttered their wings and ran away.
Pei Jing's wide eyes reflected the scene in front of him, a mountain road that twisted into darkness under the dim moonlight, so familiar that it made his scalp tingle.
He looked back and saw the entrance of the cave blocked by a huge rock, with a dim white light shining in from the gap.
Time and space are confused, and memories overlap.
Pei Jing's whole body, even his blood, was cold.
He had entered many illusions in his life and knew that they were all designed to explore people's hearts and create the most primitive fears - but this time, his own memory was not so clear!
Cursing silently, Pei Jing walked forward. The more he walked, the more familiar it became. He remembered that he heard the sound of flowing water halfway through the journey, which scared him to death. He heard it again this time. The sound of flowing water, when escaping in the middle of the night, aroused a tremor in one's body.
Pei Jing was really angry. He stopped and said with a smile: "Okay, another human trafficker will come."
Then he actually heard the voices of several men talking outside the rock.
"Hurry up, the police are coming! This is sick, lock the person in the cave."
"There's nothing I can do about it. There's nowhere else to put it."
"Help me hold the stick and pry it open. Why is there no strength? Push it over there."
Pei Jing: “…”
He was about to continue to speak harshly, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, like a knife stabbing him. He covered his head, his mind was surging, and he half-crouched in pain. His rationality was also stripped away, and the appearance of pretending to be calm was torn apart, returning to the initial fear and panic. In fact, he had never let go of this nightmare.
"Run away? I actually let that little bastard run away! Go chase him now!"
They are chasing us.
Two different times and spaces, different ages, but the same action was performed subconsciously.
He had been famous for many years, but at the beginning, he was also so embarrassed and reckless when facing life and death. The other side of the cave was the only way out.
When I ran, my mind was filled with all kinds of confused images, my consciousness was shattered, and I felt pain and despair.
Halfway through his run, he almost fell, just like when he was a kid. So familiar. So real. So real that it seemed as if the hundreds of years had been just a dream that had passed by in a flash while he was escaping. Now was the present moment.
Holding on to the wall of the cave, he looked forward and saw the exit right in front of him.
At the entrance of the cave, a poisonous snake was coiled.
Pei Jingzhen was angry, anxious and furious.
My mind was manipulated and twisted by a force, and it was twisted to the point where I was only a child. I stared blankly at the poisonous snake in front of me, and tears slowly flowed down my cheeks.
Everything was the same as before. He ran over and stepped on the venomous snake, which bit its teeth into his flesh.
After tumbling down and out of the cave, he saw the bright stars in the sky.
The nightmare of that year was replayed.
... ... Entering Wuwang Peak today will be the most regrettable thing he will do in his life.
The police should be the ones he saw when he rolled down the hill. But here, the illusion disappeared, and he still saw a blood-red fog. Pei Jing's blood was still cold, but the pain in his head slowly disappeared. He lowered his head and stared at his calf blankly. There was no coiled snake.
A fantasy within a fantasy
Pei Jing's legs are still weak and he can't stand up at all.
After stopping for a long time, he stood up with the help of the wall, gritted his teeth, and continued walking forward. He was in a very bad mood.
In the dark room, Chu Junyu waved his sleeves, and all the lights came on, and the murals embedded in the wall also faded. He went out, the texture on his snow-white sleeves was icy blue, and his temperament was as cold as a piece of ice.
Pei Jing was not worried about not being able to get out, after all, he hadn't used the life-saving magic weapon left by his master yet. After what happened just now, his mind was in a daze, and his thoughts were all over the place. He shook his head to calm himself down, but his hands were still shaking as he supported the wall.
Just when he thought he was going to fall.
A cold hand grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
The young man's voice came from behind, cold and teasing. "If you knew you would end up like this, would you still come in?"
Pei Jing looked back blankly.
At some point, the mermaid candles on both ends of the wall were lit. When he turned around, he saw the boy's delicate and elegant face.
The words were still so annoying, but at this moment, Pei Jing felt that he was a light, dispelling all the distorted time and space in the illusion, telling him that this was real. It was like meeting an old friend in a foreign land, and a deep sense of intimacy surged from his heart, so warm that Pei Jing almost burst into tears.
In his excitement, he reached out and hugged the young man standing in front of him without saying anything, crying out with true emotion: "Chu Junyu!"
Chu Junyu, who was suddenly hugged, said: "..."
Has his former glory really gone to waste
When Pei Jinghua was with Zhang Yiming, he had defined himself as a shameless person. Now he was even more free of burden, and cried: "I'm so happy to see you here! I almost thought I had to die here, there's a ghost in this house!"
Chu Junyu pushed him away with disdain: "Are you still afraid of ghosts?"
Pei Jing was just exaggeratedly excited. He was really overwhelmed by the illusion just now. Now he could only rely on Chu Junyu to find some sense of reality.
He let go of her hand obediently and told the truth: "It's something scarier than a ghost. The owner of this place can sense people's consciousness and create illusions. It's so scary that nothing can be hidden from him. He even knew about my bed-wetting when I was a child."
Chu Junyu: "... You didn't."
Pei Jing: "Thank you, but we don't have to worry about face issues between you and me."
Chu Junyu: "..."
Really need to learn a lesson.
Pei Jing wanted to get up, but after being surprised and happy, he sprained his ankle. He couldn't be happy anymore, so he squatted down with a sad face.
Although Chu Junyu didn't understand why he was pretending to be crazy, when he saw the genuine sorrow on the boy's face, he lowered his eyes and stretched out his hand: "Hold me."
Pei Jing sighed, leaned on Chu Junyu without any hesitation, and sighed: "We are indeed brothers who have shared life and death together."
Chu Junyu tilted his head, his eyes cold and aggressive: "Did you hear what I just said?"
"What?"
Chu Junyu: "Do you regret coming here?"
Pei Jing raised the corner of his lip where he couldn't see and smiled: "I regret it a little, but not really."
Chu Junyu also smiled when he heard this, with a hint of red in his eyes: "Okay."
The two young men supported each other and walked out of the secret passage.
"How did you get in? Before or after me?"
Chu Junyu did not hide it: "Before you."
Pei Jing said: "Have you been investigating the Fourteen States of Yunzhong these days?"
"Um."
"I came here just to get scared and didn't see anything. What about you? Have you found out anything?"
Chu Junyu paused for a moment and said slowly, "Let's talk about it when we get back."
With someone by my side, this road actually comes to an end very quickly.
Pei Jing said: "I will close my eyes first, and you tell me where the end is, and then I will open my eyes."
Chu Junyu lowered his eyes, and he understood what Pei Jing wanted, but he was too lazy to hide it from the beginning to the end.
"It can't be a snake."
Pei Jing thought, he was wrong after all. As early as when he saw hell in Chu Junyu's eyes, he knew that he was not a simple person. But subconsciously he thought that he became like this because of his miserable childhood - so he wanted to get close to him, enlighten him, and even... ... protect him. However, it seemed that the person who needed protection was not him.
He tilted his head in the darkness and looked at the boy's handsome and cold profile.
Thinking about the one year of living together, thinking about his indulgence and help to me many times, and then thinking about the oath witnessed by the stars.
Pei Jing suddenly leaned over and whispered, "Are you not willing to treat me as a brother?"
Chu Junyu gave him a cold look, his meaning was very clear.
Pei Jing continued: "It's okay if we don't become brothers. We can develop some other relationships."
His voice got lower and lower, and he struggled for a moment: "Like a father-son relationship?" Let me repay your affection with my father's love or something like that...
Author's words: Pei Jing already knew that Chu's identity was wrong, and then he found that Chu's attitude towards him was wrong. In the next chapter, Sister Yu Qinglian will assist hahahaha~
I'm going to be blacklisted again. I'm tired. I'm sorry to the editor. I want to atone for my hard work. I've decided to update daily from now on. See you at 11pm every night. That's it.