This is the cage...
This is my cage.
Tell yourself when you smell it.
This is the cage that he formed when he was born and stripped of his spirit, and every dream of Huang Liang in the cage came from the memory of that spirit... and also his memory.
Now waking up from the dream, the phantom no longer exists.
He watched Songyun Mountain collapse into mud in the cage, watched the dust around him not dissipate like smoke, watched the lights on the mountainside fall into darkness, watched everything he indulged and missed turned into bubbles, never to be seen again.
He stood and watched.
Just like a person with a sharp cone in his hand piercing his heart over and over again, reminding himself to be awake and not sink. Because he still has something to do.
He went back and forth between life and death for twelve rounds, and traveled long distances for this—
His spiritual aspect is still in the center of the cage, and above it is the seal formation, and in the formation are the people he wants to stay behind.
When all the illusions shattered, the false smell of cold mountain wind and frost dissipated, and the smell of scorched vegetation and blood sharply broke everything and wrapped it up from behind.
He froze suddenly when he smelled it.
He turned around in panic and saw the scene that had appeared countless times in his dream...
It was a hundred miles of barren mountains and wild forests, and the grass and trees were withered and devastated, shrouding the dead silence of life after the charcoal. In that dead silence, the huge formation was running quietly, like a transparent cover, enclosing everything that was dreaded and shunned back then, and was imprisoned for a thousand years.
The "root" of all that is dust.
But I can't see him when I smell it.
A thousand years later, the seal formation is filled with more and more black mist than before. They are like countless intertwined giant snakes, and they are like tangled tree roots and vines. , hit the edge of the giant formation heavily.
Every time it hits, it will be pressed back by the golden formation that suddenly lights up.
Other than that, it's all black as far as the eye can see.
And the half-immortal body and the main body spirit that are not dusty are kept under the black sea, and he can't be seen at all when he smells it.
Are you still awake...
He wanted to ask when he heard it, but he couldn't speak at all.
This cage has his complete spiritual appearance, so as soon as he stepped in, he remembered too many things he had forgotten. He remembered that he once asked Chenbuo why he often leaned on the rocks and looked down the mountain.
The man said that he was watching the pine forest getting greener every year, the birds leaving their nests and returning to their nests, watching the people at the foot of the mountain busy in the daytime, and the smoke rising in the evening.
Because those things are alive.
"...You can see the dead grass and the dead branches for a long time." At that time, when I heard it, I would always refute a sentence or two. In fact, I didn't really like to tear down that person's stage, I just wanted to hear a few more words from that person.
If the dust is not there, he will always talk about more things as he wishes.
When I smelled it, I remembered that he pointed to a dead tree on the edge of the cliff and said that the reason why he was very interested in seeing it was because he could see the dead branches and grasses after a long time, and saw them slowly grow new green.
He was suspicious at the time when he smelled it.
Chen Xiao waved at him, called him to the front, pointed to a certain point on the dead branch and said: You have to be patient, get rid of distracting thoughts, it may take several hours at first to catch a glimpse. You come and try.
When he heard it, he stood suspiciously against the withered tree for a long time... until Chen Bu in the corner of the light turned his face away and smiled.
He was embarrassed for a long time because of this, and he froze people everywhere with a sullen face for several days. But in fact, in the dead of night, he quietly went to the place where the dust could not often lean, and stubbornly stood facing the dead tree again.
Then one day, he really saw the new buds of the dead tree in the place where the dust could not point.
After that, when I smelled it, I realized that Chen Buu was really looking at those.
All things have animism, and he loves all things that have life...
But there was nothing in the seal formation.
No pine forest birds, no sunset smoke, no living creatures. Only dead trees that never sprout and grasses that never turn green.
Therefore, he actually hopes that the dust under the Black Sea will never open his eyes.
He would rather the other party be asleep all the time.
And what he has to do is to let Chen not see these things again at the moment when he wakes up in liberation.
Wen Shi walked towards the big formation.
From the moment he took the first step, the silently-running seal formation made a sharp and piercing sound, as if a giant beast had awakened.
The speed of the formation of prints suddenly accelerated, turning out of the vortex that went straight to the sky, and the turbulent wind whistled along the vortex, like a raging wave in the deep sea.
A hundred miles of grass and trees were uprooted, interspersed in the wind vortex, and torn into countless thorns and debris.
The black fog in the giant formation suddenly became crazy. They seemed to have sniffed out a chance to escape, or sniffed the breath of intruding creatures. They danced wildly and smashed into the seal. Earthshaking.
The ground around the giant formation crackled, as if something was about to burst out of the ground.
The crackling sound came one after another, ringing around the giant array.
The next moment, the sand exploded, and flying stones filled the sky.
Twelve giant puppets emerged from the bottom of the seal formation. Each one was like a mountain like a sea. There were no chains on their bodies. Under the scales, there was a flame that was scorching hot, as if the sea of fire had been burning from the formation to the sky. .
They roared and came when they heard it.
***
When Xia Qiao rushed back to Songyun Mountain, two figures were hurriedly descending from the top of the mountain, full of depression.
"Zhou Xu!" Xia Qiao saw the one walking in front from a distance.
And when he called out his name, the other party had already arrived in front of him, and the wind brought Xia Qiao's face.
Xia Qiao was shocked before reacting. Zhou Xu would never have the ability to be in front of him in an instant, and now the person who frowned with a scowl was Bu Ning.
And it was the first time he saw Bu Ning showing this look.
He could feel that this gentle and gentle man was anxious and angry.
Bu Ning glanced at the empty mountain road behind him, "Just you? What about others?"
"Xiao Xia!" Zhang Biling followed closely behind, hurried over, full of fear, "Where have you been, Xiao Xia? Where are you and Patriarch Wen Shi?"
When she asked, she saw Xia Qiao's red and swollen eyes, and suddenly took a breath. She moved her lips, but her voice was very soft: "He..."
"He's in the cage." When Xia Qiao saw them, his eyes were red again, and his hands were clenched tightly by his side. He screamed before, so his voice was hoarse and inaudible: "My brother is in the cage, I led the way. I thought he was going to take me in with me, but he pushed me out."
The blood on Bu Ning's face faded.
His lips moved, trying to say "absurd," but he couldn't make a sound.
"How did he..."
Why can't you give me some more time, let me think of a solution.
Bu Ning couldn't say this. Because he actually knows better than anyone else that he won't wait any longer when he smells it. He had seen the hysteria under the seal when Wen Shi was in that year, and he knew that Wen Shi couldn't bear it a second time.
So no waiting...
He knew that as long as Wen Shi woke up, he would definitely go there, and no one could stop him.
But he still wanted to give it a try, because as an older brother, he was really distressed and worried.
Bu Ning closed his eyes and sighed, grabbed Xia Qiao and asked, "Where is the cage, can I still..."
Halfway through his speech, he suddenly remembered that he was no longer the same as he used to be, and that he was still occupying the body of "other people". Even if it is another self, it is after reincarnation and is an independent person. He couldn't just ignore it and make his own decisions.
At the moment when he froze, he suddenly heard Zhou Xu's voice, he didn't switch control, but in his consciousness, he said in a voice that only he could hear: "Go, what are you doing so much? I'm in a hurry too. I want to go too."
It's not simply opening the door to save people, the danger is unpredictable. He said to Zhou Xu in his consciousness.
"I know, I'm not really stupid." Zhou Xu said, "Even if I go through reincarnation, we still have something in common, right? What you want to do is what I want to do, No problem. Just leave me a breath."
After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for Bu Ning to respond, he took up his body and said to Xia Qiao: "Can you take another circuit? We have to go."
Xiaqiao: "Yes."
"Let's go then—" Zhou Xu hadn't finished speaking.
Xia Qiao said hoarsely, "But I can't get into the cage."
"What's the meaning?"
"Why can't you enter the cage? Didn't you say that only you can find that place?" Zhang Biling asked quickly.
"When my brother pushed me out, he sealed the cage." Xia Qiao said.
He was speechless as long as he thought of that scene. He choked, his eyes turned red again, and then he said, "He didn't plan to let others in, and he didn't give others a chance to save him. He told me..."
"What?" Zhou Xu asked in a daze.
"He said if it didn't work out, he wouldn't come out."
"… "
Even Zhang Biling turned bloodless.
The deadly silence on the mountain road lasted for a few seconds, and Bu Ning's sigh-like voice sounded: "It's his character..."
"Is it really impossible to get out?" Zhang Biling said softly.
In fact, she knew it was a silly question, but she couldn't help but ask.
"The cage was formed by him peeling off his spiritual form. He himself is the cage owner. Once he enters the cage, he will be unique with the consciousness in the cage. You have all seen what the cage owner looks like. No one else enters the cage and wakes up. He may sink into it and forget about the outside world." Bu Ning said in a deep voice.
It was because they had seen it that they knew how terrible and sad it was.
"If..." Bu Ning's voice squeaked abruptly, "If he breaks through the illusion and wakes up by himself. How can he save the master? Where can he find the solution?"
"There are so many karmic relationships in the seal formation that our brothers and sisters will never see it in their entire lives. How can he resolve it? Even if he has a way to transfer or dissolve, what about the divine scourge on the master?"
"Why is there still divine condemnation?! Isn't the divine condemnation gone?" Xia Qiao was stunned: "When Zhang Daiyue's cage was scattered, didn't they all say that retribution would come to him?"
He looked at Zhang Biling, hoping that she would nod her head.
But Bu Ning said: "She is from Liuzhuang, and she can only ask for Liuzhuang's debt. It's different."
"Where's the grandfather!" At that moment, Xia Qiao looked like his brother. He seemed to be asking for a fair deal for Wen Shi, "Who will pay back what the ancestors suffered?!"
He widened his eyes, and the tears that had accumulated for too long ran down the corners of his eyes: "It doesn't make sense, why?! Isn't what Zhang Daiyue did equivalent to changing his life?"
"Yes!" Xia Qiao seemed to have suddenly caught the loophole of God, "He is obviously changing his life, why doesn't he owe his ancestors? Just like those people in Liuzhuang, he should also owe his ancestors a life. !"
Bu Ning was silent for a long time, and finally said softly: "Because the master is not dead, changing lives will not be cause and effect."
"what?"
"Because the scourge can only be repaid when one lifetime ends, and one lifetime counts as one lifetime. And the master is locked in the formation, neither life nor death."
That's what it means to never enter reincarnation and never be liberated...
Thousands of years can only slowly fade his divine condemnation a little. If he didn't pay it back in one day, the cause and effect would be stuck at the final critical point, and it would not be possible for a day.
Xia Qiao was stunned.
In the end, it was Zhou Xu who took the initiative to speak first. He grasped the meaning of Bu Ning's words: "You said that there is only one way to repay the wrath, and that is death, right?"
Without waiting for Bu Ning, Zhang Biling nodded lightly and said, "Yes, no one can change it."
Zhou Xu turned to Xiaqiao: "Then when your brother enters the cage to save people, he must first dispel those black mists, and then eliminate the scourge. There is only one way to eliminate the scourge, so isn't he..."
He couldn't say the last words.
Not to mention Xia Qiao, even he couldn't bear the result.
"It shouldn't be like this... What kind of solution is this?" Zhou Xu whispered, "Isn't this just one life for another life? People die like lights go out, he returned the punishment for the ancestors and entered the reincarnation, and he will be another in his next life. People. It has nothing to do with us, and it has nothing to do with the ancestors, what is the difference between such results?"
In fact, Bu Ning thought so too. He knew that his junior brother was crazy and would bet on anything. But…
One life for another, the two are irrelevant after entering the reincarnation, and there will be no involvement in the future. In the next life, he will not remember that he once had a family called Song Yunshan, he once met such a brilliant person, and he even risked his life to keep that person.
How does this result differ from a thousand years ago? Is it really worth taking your life to gamble
But he heard Xia Qiao say, "There is a difference."
He looked up and saw Xia Qiao closed his eyes and blinked his tears: "Is there a relative of my brother?"