Yuan Xianger was standing in the boat, with the Milky Way flowing above her head, and the fish walking in the mirror under her feet, making her a little unclear whether she was on the water surface or the bottom.
In front of her was a palace made of jade and shells. The light here was very dim, and there were no guards. Yuan Xiang'er took advantage of the luminous light of Yingshi, and quietly touched the corner of the wall.
The ethereal singing came clearly from the interior of the building, and the strange and peculiar sound was even more touching and shaking people's minds in such a quiet and dim place.
This place seems to be unguarded, but in fact it has hidden a very powerful attack.
Yuan Xianger had to sit cross-legged in a corner and silently recited the meditation mantra twice to stabilize her mind, which had been affected by the singing.
"Axiang, where are you?" Du Shuo's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
Yuan Xiang'er opened her eyes.
I didn't expect everyone to come so quickly.
Because the situation was more complicated than she thought, before she was involved, she contacted everyone in her mind and asked them to come and help.
From Queqiu to Lianghe Town, it will take a long time to ride an ox cart, but if it is to fly and spread its wings, it can be reached in a short period of time.
"Is something disturbing your soul, Axiang, I noticed that my magic weapon has been hot." This is Hu Qing's voice. The pendant she gave to Yuan Xianger has the effect of calming the soul. in effect.
"Ah Xiang, I will find you soon, and then drink that stinky fish stew to relieve your anger." What Wu Yuan said made Yuan Xiang'er laugh.
Hu Sanlang: "Ah Xiang, don't be afraid, everyone is here. Even the beasts are here."
The cockroach who happened to be a guest at the house saw everyone suddenly running fast, so he followed along.
Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle, and there are not a few steps. she said so.
Everyone was chatting in her head so lively, that strange voice gradually could no longer affect Yuan Xianger's actions.
"I feel like I'm at the bottom of the water, and it's like I'm on the surface. There is a palace here, with walls made of jade and shells. There are people singing songs all the time." Yuan Xianger said what she had seen, and quietly went inside along the wall. touch.
After turning through a heavy door, the sight in front of him suddenly brightened.
It was an extremely luxurious hall, surrounded by silver candles and bright pearls. In those dazzling brilliance, almost every conceivable enjoyment in the world is piled up here. The long-haired carpets are scattered with all kinds of exotic treasures, and the long tables made of jade are placed with carefully cooked delicacies. There are even more handsome health servants serving wine and snacks. The coquettish dancer sings and dances...
Dozens of human souls are sitting or lying in this hall.
Some people, fascinated by the continuous music in the air, sit dazed and sluggish, unable to conceive the idea of escape. There are also some who are simply addicted to sensual dogs and horses, hugging left and right, feasting, and living a very extravagant life.
The servants who serve are all very handsome and beautiful, but if you look closely, their expressions are very strange and uncoordinated. Occasionally, there will be a gill opening and closing on both sides of the lower jaw, and strange skin flickering on the skin. scales. They are not human beings, just some little fish demons that can't be perfectly deformed.
Yuan Xianger was mixed in the crowd, moving slowly a little bit, trying not to attract attention. A little demon turned his eyes and met Yuan Xianger's. Yuan Xianger tightened her body and stood still. The little demon blinked and quickly looked away. He couldn't even distinguish Yuan Xianger from those living souls who only had spirit bodies.
In the crowd, Yuan Xianger saw Donger's mother, Lin, who was sitting silently on a soft chair by the window, with her drooping grubs, and the silver gauze pane set off her beautifully curved neck, sad. lonely again.
Yuan Xianger touched Lin's side and whispered, "Sister-in-law, I'm here to pick you up."
Lin Shi seemed to wake up suddenly from a dream. She looked at Yuan Xiang'er with a surprised expression, "Ah Xiang, how did you come in?"
She quickly lowered her head, covered her face with her hands, and said in a sad voice, "Thank you for taking such a risk to save me, but I don't want to go back. I really don't have the strength to go on like hell."
Yuan Xianger thought for a while, "Of course everyone has the right to choose their own life. If you are sure you don't want to go back, I will naturally not force you."
"But, have you really thought about it?" Yuan Xiang'er looked at the weak woman, "Dong'er was still crying when I came."
"Dong'er." Lin's panicked eyes had almost nowhere to rest, she wiped away her tears, and finally stood up and bowed to Yuan Xianger, "I was confused for a while, Donger is still waiting for me, and then It's hard to leave her alone. Please take me back."
Here is talking quietly.
The silver gauze covering the window revealed a huge silhouette, something seemed to swim past the window, and a long black silhouette swayed and appeared on the window gauze. The people in the house turned a blind eye and didn't seem to notice that such a monster swam past their window and swam in from the front door with its tail hanging in the air.
It was a big fish suspended in the air.
Yuan Xianger casually pulled a Chinese robe and put it on her head, and lowered her body. Heiyu swam slowly over the heads of everyone, and extended a pale palm down. Yuan Xianger gently pulled Lin Shi who was beside him, Hei Yu's pale hand swept over Lin Shi's head, grabbed a man and flew out quickly.
After a moment of silence, the hall resumed the hustle and bustle again, continuing the enjoyment of the intoxicated.
Yuan Xianger was wearing a fancy dress draped over her head, watching the direction where the fish disappeared, and followed from a distance.
The fish went to a high platform.
Yuan Xiang'er followed behind, going up several layers of winding white jade steps. At the top of the steps was a terrace with jade piled up. There were people on the terrace, and there was a voice.
The demon's hearing is very keen, and Yuan Xiang'er did not dare to approach. She hid behind a pillar under the terrace, took off the ring on her hand, cast a spell to make the ring bigger, and the situation on the terrace appeared in the ring.
On the terrace, a middle-aged man in a white robe was suppressed by the magic circle and could not move in the magic circle.
The big black fish swayed in front of him, and threw the human soul in front of him,
"Eat it." The monster's unique voice sounded.
The man in white who was restricted from moving smiled bitterly: "Danluo, I am a human being. Even if you have a way to continue your cultivation by devouring the souls of your own kind, I will never do so. Why don't you understand it?"
Yuan Xiang'er opened her mouth wide in surprise. The more she looked at this middle-aged man, the more familiar she was, and only at this moment did she realize that he was what He Bo Subai looked like when he was middle-aged. It's just that he had just separated from He Bo not long ago, so how could he look so much younger from being old
The black fish circled around the pillar in the air, and suddenly turned into a human shape, dressed in black, with narrow red eyebrows.
He didn't want to talk too much, grabbing Su Bai's collar with one hand and lighting up the magic trick with the other, he would recklessly refine the poor human soul and force him to his friends.
"Aluo!" Su Bai stopped him,
"Subai, even you can't go too far." Hei Ye Danluo raised his eyebrows, his brows were as narrow as needles, and his body was full of demonic energy, "My clan's innate ability can refine life and soul for one's own use. How many human beings? The cultivator wants to break through the bottleneck and improve his cultivation. I am too lazy to answer me when I beg you so hard. Now, you are rejecting me!"
"Aluo, we are friends." Su Bai stared at the demon in front of him and said slowly and firmly, "After so many years, you should at least understand what a friend is. The most important thing between friends is mutual respect."
Danluo's eyebrows stood upright, and the demonic energy was soaring to the sky, and the turbulent aura that burst out made his long hair flutter, and his clothes were hunting.
The fragile human opposite him looked at him calmly and firmly, showing no weakness at all.
After a long stalemate, Danluo finally let go of the soul in his hands.
"In the past few years, the spiritual energy in the world has gradually disappeared, and the power of belief has gradually become scarce. Therefore, you cannot break through the cultivation base, and even the life essence is exhausted, and you have fallen into such a situation. If you knew this earlier, you should not listen to you. One, if there are several floods, those people in Lianghe Town may still hold you high on the altar."
He was angry at first, and the more he talked, the more lonely he became, showing a lonely look on his face.
"Aluo, the preciousness of life lies in its shortness. My aptitude is limited, my cultivation base is stagnant, and my lifespan is stopped here is the destiny, but I am worshipped as a river god and enjoy the fireworks of the world. After living for so many years, you have already stolen the luck of the world, you should be happy for me."
"Happy? I don't understand." Danluo, who has been wandering in the world for many years in the appearance of a human, still feels that he cannot understand the joys and sorrows of human beings, "I can't understand you when you're sad, and I can't understand when you're happy. Obviously you can live for a long time. In this world, happy and happy, why refuse?"
His face turned cold, he flicked his sleeves, turned into a black fish, and swam down from the high platform.
The icy cold tone echoed in the air,
"If you insist on doing this, then you can do it."
…
But a human being, the demons and human beings I have seen in my life are like crucian carp crossing the river, they are always going to die, and it is not uncommon for them to die.
The devil fish swam in the bizarre Crystal Palace and slowly turned over in mid-air,
After so many years, I'm tired of playing this game, and when he dies, I finally don't have to stick to this inexplicable agreement, I can open my stomach and have a good meal.
Yes, there is no need to be so irritable and nervous.
Eat all the souls that were caught so hard, and then send out a flood of water.
Aren't these my old favorite things
Haha, funny, that's what's funny.
…
After Hei Yu's figure was completely gone, Yuan Xiang'er quietly climbed onto the terrace.
"He Bo, is this what you said about Danluo? Why did he treat you like this, wait a minute, I'll untie the magic circle for you." Yuan Xianger lowered her head and pondered the magic circle. The embarrassing taboo was soon lifted.
"Thank you, you don't have to waste time for me, you are here to find your friend, right?" He Bo took out a small tube of thin fishing line and handed it to Yuan Xianger, "Injecting spiritual power into it, I can find you. Those who want to find can also find the exit to the labyrinth illusion, it is a gadget I made in the past, I will give it to you, it can be regarded as a memory,"
On the boat, Yuan Xianger met He Bo, an elderly man who was dying. When he saw him in the ring, he was probably in his 50s or 60s.
At this moment, when Yuan Xianger looked up, she seemed to think that he was a little younger again, becoming a suave and elegant middle-aged man with the eyebrows and eyes of the young man he saw in the dream.
The small tube of fishing line that He Bo took over was injected with spiritual power, and sure enough, a thin silver thread slipped out of the spiritual tube and swam in one direction far away.
Yuan Xianger thought for a while, "Then I'll go find my friend first, and we'll come to you together later, and I'll take you to escape."
…
When Yuan Xianger found Dahua, Dahua was digging in the delicious food on a table.
Because she was brought in with her body, she was isolated in a room alone.
When Yuan Xianger pulled her, she snorted, and reluctantly grabbed a roast pigeon and ran behind Yuan Xianger.
"Ah Xiang, why are you here! It's amazing, what the hell is this place, I can't find an exit at all."
She shook her head and sighed as she ran, "It's a pity, I haven't seen so much delicious food since I was a child. It's all wasted, and my heart hurts."
After being robbed and brought here, this woman with a wide heart and a fat body couldn't find a way out, so she first relaxed and had a big meal.
"Or you stay here and eat some more. I'll go back first." Yuan Xiang'er let go of her hands angrily.
"Don't tell me, don't tell me." Da Hua hurriedly grabbed Yuan Xiang'er and handed over the oily, fragrant roasted pigeon in her hands, "Ah Xiang risked such a risk to save me, how could I not know, come ,this is for you."
Yuan Xianger patted her hand away, "Keep it for yourself."
The two ran towards the original room together, where there were all living souls, and the bodies of those people were all still alive. As long as the souls were released, they could save their lives.
Now that the exit has been found, Yuan Xianger intends to fish these people out together.
"Although the demon is terrifying, his life here is really too comfortable. When I came here, I saw that those are people from Lianghe Town, men who can't usually marry wives, and seven or eight beauties will accompany them. The poor man who can't get enough to eat on weekdays is here every day with delicacies from the mountains and the sea. The housewife who has been humiliated on weekdays, here a dozen handsome men bring you tea and water. Axiang, do you think there will be someone who will not Would like to go back with us."
"If you don't want to go back, just stay, and you can keep it for the demons as snacks. Who cares."
But when they got there, Yuan Xiang'er didn't say a word, she sacrificed an exquisite golden ball, packed all the souls of a yard into the ball, and ran away.
Immediately behind them, countless large and small aquatic monsters caught up. Some of those little demons were still holding a plate in their hands, and some still had a pipa under their elbows, showing the appearance of small fish and shrimp, chasing them all the way.
Yuan Xiang'er dragged Da Hua and ran all the way, both of them had a divine talisman on their legs to speed up their escape. She didn't want to be in the water with the fish demon on the front bar.
But soon, layers of water ripples appeared behind him, and the giant black fish appeared in the water waves. He seemed to be swimming very slowly, but in fact, he was approaching with a tail swing.
"Human warlock, interesting." With a frivolous low voice, he sounded in the air, "Let me see what kind of person dares to take food from my mouth."
The thin fishing line lit up a ray of light on the ground, indicating the direction of escape for the fleeing humans, and the exit was near the terrace where He Bo was located. Yuan Xianger ran wildly along Yingguang's instructions.
She rushed to the terrace and was about to call Hebo's name.
But on the magic circle, the controlled figure disappeared. If you look closely, it's not gone, but smaller.
The body of an adult man sitting here was reduced to an eight or nine-year-old child.
He sat upright with a childish face, and his overly large robe was slouched on the array.
"What's going on?" Yuan Xiang'er was taken aback.
"It's nothing to be surprised by, what kind of way is born, what kind of way is returned to nature, this is the way I cultivate." The young Su Bai said in a childish voice, "Let's go. , I'll stop him for you."
"But you..."
Yuan Xianger couldn't bear it. Although she and the old man had little contact with each other, they had a deep understanding of each other. Moreover, he has been looking for his elders for his master since he was young.
It was too late to talk and talk about Master's past, and he was going to say goodbye here again.
"Don't grieve for me. Death is just the beginning of another form of life." The young boy reached out and nudged them.
Yuan Xianger gritted her teeth and pulled out her feet to leave.
A thick black mist permeated from under the terrace, and the huge black fish with blood-red eyes swayed its long body and appeared in the thick fog.
He chased after the girl holding the golden bell all the way, but suddenly stopped in the middle of the road.
In front of him was a young man who was only eight or nine years old, but his immature face had facial features and expressions that he was very familiar with.
The menacing big fish came to a standstill.
"Is it the last?" The monster said in a low voice.
"Well," the six- or seven-year-old boy smiled, "Aluo, I have to say goodbye to you."
The big fish turned into a human, looked down at the boy in front of him, and was silent.
"Aluo, the day when my hometown was ravaged by enemies and my family died in front of me, I should have already died." The five- or six-year-old boy raised his head and looked at his tall friend, "Yes You fished me out of such a desperate world and stayed by my side every day to accompany me through the most difficult time."
"Although I lost everything, I still have a friend. This was the only reason for me to live at that time." The four-year-old boy said immaturely.
"I have always wanted to thank you. Although you are not of the same kind as me, you are not as indifferent as you think." The three-year-old child said with a smile.
"Thank you, Aluo, if you have a confidant in your life, what can you ask for?"
"Aluo..."
On the mottled array, only a pile of clothes was left, and there was no trace of that person.
The tall and long-legged monster stood in front of the pile of clothes, looking down at the ground,
It's just a human being, there are so many human beings in this world, and it is not surprising to die.
A drop of water from nowhere hits the complex ground of the magic circle.
Danluo touched his cheek with one finger and found that the fingertips were wet.
"Why are you crying? I really don't understand why humans cry?"
"Try to perceive the world with a human body, maybe this will breed true human emotion."
That's what sadness feels like.