"Xia Qiu, wake up!"
A familiar voice came from my ears. Although it was not too loud, it seemed to break the long-lasting tranquility. Before that, all Xia Qiu's memories stayed at the moment when she fell into a pool of blood. Death was far less painful and not as scary as imagined. She kept looking at Ouyang Xiaoleng the second before she died, but she remembered I don't know what kind of expression I used to say goodbye to him.
But there was such a voice calling her name and making her wake up. She wanted to sleep for a while longer, immersed in the long-lasting darkness and silence without any worries or worries. She couldn't help but feel that she was flowing down a black river, and maybe she would reach the light soon. The other side.
"Xia Qiu... wake up quickly!"
But the voice refused to let her realize her wish. She had to open her eyes. It felt like she was in another world. She paused for a while before she knew how to breathe again. The appearance of the man in front of him gradually became clearer in his sight. He was dressed in white, and the two ribbons on the red hair ornament on his head hung down to his chest. Although his complexion had obviously improved a lot compared to the last time we met, his skin still remained. She was much paler than ordinary people, and her slender eyes were always so gentle when looking at her.
"Feather Crane Immortal..." She shouted out all at once.
"Shh!" Yuhe Sage put his finger on her lips and said, "Follow me!"
She nodded, took his extended hand and stood up, looking around to see where she was. She didn't know how she ended up in a dense forest. It was dusk at this time, and she followed the Yuhe Immortal. The trees and plants here grew very densely, and many places had to be turned sideways to walk through. He was walking in a hurry, as if he was leading her to avoid someone.
There was always the rustling of leaves behind her, as if something was chasing them. When she looked behind her, she seemed to see some white shadows flashing through the trees from time to time. Perhaps because she had just woken up, her body was not very strong yet. She was already exhausted after running for a while, and her steps became slower and slower. She saw those white shadows getting closer and closer to them.
Yuhe Immortal pulled her behind him and said, "Come up!"
She had no choice but to lie obediently on his back, and as soon as she hugged his neck, he suddenly took a few steps forward and jumped into the air through the obstacles of the dense forest. She flew higher and higher with him, and when she looked down, she realized how vast the dense forest was. It was impossible to see the end in all directions. Not far below them, the white shadows that had been chasing them also flew over. They were wearing white cloaks, their faces were covered, and they all held silver spears in their hands.
"Why are they chasing us?" Xia Qiu finally couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know either. I will explain other things to you after we get rid of them. Sit tight!" Yuhe Immortal ordered.
He sped up his flight speed, and huge white wings sprouted from his back, carrying her up and through the clouds, but the people in white cloaks still pursued them. In this way, they were chased all the way to a large lake. He brought her down and the white cloaks also landed opposite them. There were six people on the other side blocking their way with eager eyes.
"Who are you?" Immortal Yuhe shouted after putting down Xia Qiu, calling out his long dagger.
The six white cloaks did not answer, but directly attacked them. Yuhe Immortal pushed Xia Qiu back, first walked to one of the white cloaks at a very fast speed and inserted a dagger into his heart. A strange thing happened. The white cloak did not bleed but melted instantly. Disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Then he dodged the spear thrust by another white cloak, then turned around and swung the dagger in his hand towards him. The white cloak also turned into smoke and disappeared after being injured by him. The remaining four white cloaks thrust their spearheads at him almost at the same time. He jumped up, kicked two of them, and then moved around like a ball of white smoke to attack the two white cloaks with their daggers. Kill. Seeing that they were no match for him, the other two exchanged glances and disappeared.
Seeing that they finally gave up and continued to pester the two of them, Immortal Yu He breathed a sigh of relief. Then he held Xia Qiu's shoulders and looked around. Seeing that she still looked confused, he said, "It's better to get behind me." Come up, let’s go to a safe place first! I’m afraid they will send more people to look for us later!”
He took Xia Qiu into the air, crossed the lake and flew into a valley. After nightfall, he took her and landed on the platform of a tree house.
"Where is this?" Xia Qiu asked.
"This is my foothold in this world." Yuhe Immortal replied, hiding his wings behind him.
"Where are we? I remember that I should have been... dead." Xia Qiu had countless questions that he wanted to ask Immortal Yuhe, but he didn't know which one to ask first.
"Let me think about how to explain it to you." Immortal Yuhe paused for a few seconds, and then continued, "The world we are in now is called the realm of soul separation. It can be regarded as a gap between the present world and the underworld. "
"The realm of soul separation, is this place the same as every time I enter the soul separation state?" Xia Qiu still couldn't quite understand what he said.
"Compared with the space you were in before when you entered the state of soul separation, this place is closer to the place where your soul should eventually go, whether it's called Huangquan, heaven, or the boundless heaven where demons go. This place is very close to those places." Yuhe Immortal said as he led Xia Qiu into the tree house.
He waved his hand, and an oval lamp standing on the ground of the tree house lit up. Warm light illuminates the entire treehouse. The tree house is much more spacious than Xia Qiu imagined. The rattan furniture and lamps are quite unique, and the low couch is covered with a whole piece of tiger skin. He asked her to sit down, then went out and took off the bamboo tube that collected dew from the platform, brought it in, poured a glass for her and said, "Drink a glass of water! It is relatively simple here, and there is nothing to eat or drink."
Xia Qiu took it and took a sip. The sweet dew flowed down her throat and entered her body, as if all her senses were reawakened. Before, she felt like she was in a dream. Although everything was clear but not real enough, now she felt that this place was much more real than any place she had visited when her soul left.
After taking another sip of the dew, she said to Yuhe Sage: "This place seems to be different from the feeling I get every time I leave, but I can't say why."
"Well, when you drink the water of this world or eat the food of this world, you will be truly accepted by this world, and then you will feel that everything around you is very real, and it is different from the real world. What's the difference?" Yuhe Immortal nodded and replied.
"Why did I come here?" Xia Qiu then asked.
"This is not a place that ordinary people with the ability to escape from the soul can come here. I think the reason why you can come here is because you have experienced a state of near death, or you have died before, but were raped by someone in some way. The method is resurrected," Yuhe Sage explained.
"Resurrection? Doesn't that violate the laws of the three realms?" Xia Qiu remembered that Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others once said that resurrection from the dead was not allowed by the gods.
"Some people don't care about the laws of the three realms, such as Qingyun..." Yuhe Immortal replied. He stretched out a hand toward her face, as if he wanted to touch her but took it back.
"Well, when I was in Chi Le Palace in the underground city, the last people with me were Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qingyun. Also, how did you get here?" Xia Qiu asked in confusion.
"Do you remember that when you were still on Changsheng Island, I started to fall into a deep sleep from time to time and couldn't wake up for a long time. That period was the first time I came here, and then I was able to come and go freely. Later, I found something that aroused my interest here, so I often came here to look for clues. This time, it was not me who came here on my own initiative. I heard your call in a state of separation. Although it was very weak, I It’s better to look for your voice and find the dense forest.”
"Is this the place where I woke up just now?" Xia Qiu asked with his eyes widened.
"That's right, you were still in a coma when I came. You were tied up by those in white cloaks and you didn't know where you were being taken. I took you out when they weren't paying attention. You should be aware of what happened next. knew."
"But in the past, I could return to my body when my soul was separated, but this time I couldn't go back at all." Xia Qiu tried to wake up from the soul-detached state again, but still failed.
"According to common sense, since you can enter this world, you should be able to go back. There is only one possibility, that is, your body is being occupied by other souls, so your own soul cannot go back to the place that originally belonged to you. It’s like you’ve been evicted.”
"If it was really Qingyun who took me away from the underground city, then he must have done something. What if he put other souls into my body?" Xia Qiu thought more and more. It was so scary that I couldn't help but panic.
"Don't worry. No matter how powerful it is, it will take at least seven, seven and forty-nine days for a soul to occupy a body that does not belong to it. After that, I will ask the crane to send a letter to Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others, telling them that you Here, as long as you can find out where Qingyun has taken you within forty-nine days, then you will have a chance to regain your body." Yuhe Sage said to her with confidence.
"You said before that something in this world aroused your interest, what exactly is it?" Xia Qiu asked.
"Do you remember the things about my past that you helped me retrieve from the manager of the underground database of Ouyang Ancient House? Later, my memory recovered a little, and I also remembered many experiences in the God Realm. That led me to leave the God Realm. The fallen Heihe is likely to be able to enter the state of soul separation, and my intuition tells me that there is some connection between him and Qingyun, which is why I come here often. Also, I doubt those who captured him before The people who live with you are Heihe's men." After saying this, Immortal Yuhe saw that the cup in Xia Qiu's hand was empty, so he refilled her cup.