Jiang Yan walked in front, and Zhou Wen followed behind, moving up step by step. After passing the Xianyuan Stone, it was another long and boring mountain climbing journey.
The two of them just drank some water and ate something occasionally, and basically never stopped. Even so, when they walked halfway up the mountain, it was already four days later.
In just four days, both of them lost weight several times, their eye sockets and cheeks were sunken, and they looked like skin and bones.
The two rather handsome young men looked hunched over now, like little old men.
It’s no wonder that they exhausted almost every step, their bodies were exhausted too much, and they couldn’t stop to rest and sleep. They were able to survive until now because of their extraordinary physique. If I am not exhausted on the road to immortality, I am afraid that I will not be able to endure it.
Looking up, there are still endless peaks and stone steps. Looking down, there are clouds and mist, and nothing can be seen. In this ghostly place where you can’t see the sky above and the ground below, the reason why they know this is halfway up the mountain, That's because the words "Ban Tian Ya" are engraved on a big rock next to it.
"After half-day cliff, there is still half way up, but it is more difficult than the previous road, can you still hold on? If you can't hold on, you can rest on the platform of half-day cliff for a day, and then turn around and go down the mountain , you will no longer be affected by the taboos of Qiuxian Mountain. But after reaching the platform of Bantianya, you can no longer climb the mountain." Jiang Yan said in front.
"I've already come here, so I have to go up and have a look. It's impossible to give up halfway. I can still persevere. Let's keep going." Zhou Wen said.
"After a long time on the cliff, keep walking forward, and you will see something. No matter what you see at that time, you must never speak or make a sound. Just keep your mouth shut and move forward, otherwise there will be Something bad happened." Jiang Yan said again.
"Can't speak, I remember." Zhou Wen nodded slightly, but he was also a little confused.
These taboos in Qiuxian Mountain are not written anywhere. Jiang Yan can know these taboos. Someone must have tried them. Otherwise, if it is true as Jiang Yan said, he will die if he takes a step back. Zhou Wen does not believe that Jiang Yan does not know. case, there will be no back off.
But Jiang Yan didn't say anything, so Zhou Wen didn't ask, and continued walking behind Jiang Yan.
The stone steps at the bottom of the mountain were very narrow, but after passing the cliff for a long time, those stone steps became much wider, and it was more than enough for two or three people to walk side by side.
But now the two of them can't talk, if they walk side by side, it will be even worse if they accidentally talk, so the two of them still walk in tandem, without making a sound, like two mutes.
Every time Zhou Wen took a step, he felt his legs trembling. No matter how strong the vitality art and vitality skills are in this ghost place, it is useless. Using external force to strengthen the body and strength will also increase the weird strength, which will still make the body in a state of limit.
As he walked, Zhou Wen's gaze swept across the stone steps in front of him inadvertently, his pupils shrank sharply, and he almost cried out.
If Jiang Yan hadn't reminded him in advance, he would have cried out, because there was a dead body lying in the stone path above, and the clothes and appearance of the dead body were exactly the same as Zhou Wen's.
Zhou Wen was suspicious, but he couldn't speak, so he could only continue walking, looking at the corpse on the side of the road. No matter how you looked at it, it was exactly the same as him, except that the corpse fell on the stone steps. I lost my breath.
"It must be the same as before, it's still an illusion." Zhou Wen stopped looking at the corpse and continued to walk up.
After exhausting himself, he walked another distance, turned around a mountain ridge, and saw another corpse appearing on the stone steps in front of him.
This time, I saw it more clearly. It was Zhou Wen’s corpse. What made Zhou Wen feel unbearable was that it looked so much like his corpse. It had no clothes to cover its body, its limbs were stretched, and it was nailed to the mountain by iron nails. On the wall, it looked extremely miserable.
"Everything is an illusion... everything is nothingness... I can bear it..." Zhou Wen secretly set fire to himself in his heart. Although he knew it was just an illusion, it was still a little annoying. The scars are exactly the same.
Going further up, Zhou Wen saw various ways of death, some were hanged to death, some were cut in half by a knife, and all kinds of death conditions were very miserable.
However, if you see this kind of thing too much, you won't feel much. Along the way, you have seen at least hundreds of thousands of various ways to die, and you are no longer surprised by it.
After walking for another seven or eight days, when the sun rose again, the two finally saw the top of the mountain. There was no building there, only a crooked-neck tree of unknown species growing on the top of the mountain, with its branches stretching out of the cliff. .
On one of the main branches of the crooked-neck tree, there was a big blue cocoon hanging. Looking carefully, the big cocoon didn't touch the branch, but was suspended there out of thin air.
Next to it, under the neck tree, lay a white strange beast. It was snow-white, with two horns on top of its head, and a vertical eye on its forehead, but the vertical eye was closed. It should be the white beast that Jiang Yan guessed. Ze.
Zhou Wen and Jiang Yan walked up to the top of the mountain, and Bai Ze must have spotted them, but he completely ignored them, still lying there resting, not paying attention to them at all, not even looking at them.
Zhou Wen heard from Jiang Yan that the white beast would not take the initiative to attack them, which was also one of the main bases for him to judge that the white beast was Bai Ze.
Bai Ze is an auspicious and kind auspicious beast. It knows the past and future of astronomy and geography. It is one of the ancient gods and beasts to exorcise evil spirits.
"Have you seen those strange corpses before?" Jiang Yan asked Zhou Wen.
"I see, all the corpses look like me." Zhou Wen replied.
"How many are there?" Jiang Yan asked again.
"I don't remember, there are so many, I didn't count them carefully, so there must be more than a thousand." Zhou Wen paused, looked at Jiang Yan and asked, "Why are you asking this? Aren't those illusions?"
Jiang Yan looked at Zhou Wen with a strange smile on his face: "More than a thousand, then you are really amazing."
"What do you mean?" Zhou Wen didn't understand what Jiang Yan meant.
Jiang Yan said with a smile: "It is said that the road from the mortal to the immortal is the process of getting out of the mortal. Every phantom of the corpse you see is the crime you have committed. Only by cutting off the sin you committed , Only then can you not be obliterated by the Heavenly Tribulation when you become an immortal. You have seen more than a thousand corpses, that is to say, you have committed thousands of capital crimes."