at the same time.
Dingxianling underground palace, ninth floor.
At the same time as the rumbling and giant earthquake sounded outside, the black iron stone gate weighing more than 1,000 tons finally closed, blocking the dense group of corpses on the tomb road behind the door. Hearing the sound of "Qiang!", Yu Chi Rui stabbed his sword into the bronze ground, barely supporting his body in the violent vibration, and let out a breath of blood from exhaustion.
"What did you just say?" he finally had a chance to ask, "There are four coffins on this floor?"
Ying Kai slid along the boulder gate and sat on the ground, his robe was soaked in blood during the fight, torn to shreds by the group of corpses, and he was in a state of embarrassment. For a while he was speechless, and then he coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, and groped to light a fire.
"It's alright." Yu Chi Rui was about to stop him, but he waved his hand wearily, indicating that it was okay: "This fire will not disturb them. They will naturally disperse when they can't smell the breath of the living, and we will find another opportunity to kill them. go out."
The shaking gradually subsided, and the small space in the tomb passage was illuminated by the fire. Behind them was a black black iron stone gate blocking the group of corpses, and in front of them was another giant gate that was even more magnificent, made of pure gold and could not see the top, standing quietly in the darkness.
Ying Kai stared at the giant gate for a long time, holding the bright and cold Dingshanhai sword in one hand, and smiled bitterly for a while: "Do you know why I advocated for the construction of Dingxian Mausoleum, Changsheng?"
Yu Chi Rui didn't even think about it and said, "Yuanxuanmen's prestige will make the world worship."
Ying Kai shook his head: "No, the reason is behind that."
Yu Chi Rui followed his gaze, and there was a dark light on the golden gate reflected in his eyes.
"I don't know how many immortal cultivators in the world can build foundations, and those who can form elixir are extremely lucky. There are only a handful of people who can cross the Mahayana realm and rank as great masters. Even if they become great masters, they have almost always been No one can usher in the catastrophe and ascend smoothly."
"Therefore, no matter how many years they live, those senior monks who have not been able to ascend will eventually die like mortals."
"—The problem is that some seniors are not really dead." Ying Kai paused and said, "They are between the living and the dead."
Yu Chi Rui has already got the answer, looking at the giant stone gate where the screams of corpses are faintly heard: "Can you deceive corpses?"
"The exact description is 'corpse fright'." Ying Kai said, "Shuang Ce and I often traveled together when we were young, and found that some great families had 'corpse fright'. Entering the tomb, the corpse immediately slammed into the coffin, biting the blood relatives to death. However, because only grandmaster-level monks can shock corpses, this secret was able to be kept within a very small number of high-level families until 16 years ago. "
"That year of Shengxiantai?" Yuchi Rui asked with a frown.
Ying Kai said, "Yes. After the first heavy snowfall in the deep winter of that year, an abandoned giant mirror coffin was found in the depths of Mount Dai."
Yu Chi Rui's expression changed slightly.
"The mirror coffin was half a zhang high and weighed more than a thousand feet. It was covered with broken mirrors on all six sides. It was completely impossible to peep into it. No one knows where it came from, but it happened to appear in an inaccessible place. In the old forest in the deep mountains, the name of the coffin owner and an ancient seal are engraved in blood on the lid of the coffin.
Yuchi Rui asked suspiciously, "Qu?"
Ying Kai said, "Yes, but there are no families with the surname Qu at all. When I was secretly tracing the origin of the mirror coffin, the situation changed again."
"what?"
The light of Huozhezi reflected on Ying Kai's handsome face, and his expression was a little gloomy.
"On the seventh day after the appearance of the mirror coffin, a real person from the Immortal League Punishment Shu Palace passed away. When he was buried, the body was shocked, and more than ten people were killed and injured. After half a month, the children of the eldest grandson family died, and the first seven were not passed. The corpse was frightened in the middle of the night and was taken down by Changsun Chengfeng himself."
"Since then, if anyone in the Xuanmen sect dies, no matter how old or young, they will be shocked. Without exception, there will be heavy casualties."
The cemetery was quiet for a long time.
Yu Chi Rui's eyes were open, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he said firmly:
"I don't have one at home."
"..." Ying Kai said weakly, "Changsheng, that's because no one in your family died back then, okay?"
Yu Chi Rui nodded, and then repeated proudly: "My family doesn't have one."
Ying Kai put one hand on his forehead, took a long breath, and wisely decided not to bother with him.
"In short, the corpse-frightening disaster of each family has reached the point where it is difficult for me to cover up. If this kind of scandal spreads, not only will the inside of Xuanmen panic and chaos, but the common people will inevitably regard monks as floods and beasts, and seek immortals as demons and evil ways. ."
"Therefore, after having a secret discussion with the eldest grandson of Juzong, Chengfeng, I suggested that the bodies of all the ancestors and seniors should be relocated to Mount Dai, and the Dingxian Mausoleum should be built, and then the Dingxian Mausoleum should be built, and then the immortal mausoleum should be built with strict laws, strictly prohibiting the living people from entering the mausoleum. If someone must go to the tomb, it is best to have one person or two at most to avoid the risk of group corpses being startled."
"On the ninth floor, the deepest part of the mausoleum, I poured this heavy gate of pure gold, and personally sent four coffins into it."
"Is the mirror coffin inside?" Yu Chi Rui asked immediately.
"Yes, the first one is the mirror coffin with the extreme evil." Ying Kai said slowly: "The copper water is cast, the gold is sealed, and I will personally worship and send it to the door. The horror of corpses came to an abrupt end."
Yu Chi Rui nodded thoughtfully and asked, "What about the other three?"
Ying Kai asked back, "Have you heard the story of 'Ghost Prince's Welcome' when you were a child?"
Of course I heard it. The ghost prince welcomes his relatives is one of the enlightenment stories of the Taoist scriptures.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the ghost wall was powerful, and the ghost king was disrespectful to the gods and did many evils. One of the gods in the east was enraged because of this. In order to take revenge, Prince Guiyuan cast spells and set off countless wars in the world. In a short time, blood was shed, thousands of miles of earth were scorched, and even the gods were alarmed.
This eastern god is said to be very merciful, pity the world's suffering from war and chaos, so he strikes again, and the battle between gods, humans, and ghosts is gradually tilted. At this time, a great master was defeated by soldiers on the battlefield and flew to the ground. Legend has it that she was a beautiful woman who matched Prince Guiyuan very well. So the prince of ghosts sent a large number of priceless betrothal gifts, and the welcoming team of beasts and monsters went straight from Huangquan to the blue sky, beating gongs and drums to take the bride back to the Jiuzhong underground.
The legendary ending is that the two have since then been deeply in love and harmonious. And since then, the ghost prince has lived in the depths of Huangquan forever, and no one has ever seen him again.
Of course, this is just an absurd story. The so-called "Ghost Prince" may refer to a ghost judge, and Xuanmen has never recorded any "God of the East", and he has never heard of Guiyuan beating gongs and drums to marry a prince concubine.
Yuchi Ruihu asked, "So what?"
"There is a bronze coffin in the secret room of Punishment Palace, which has been kept secret by all the leaders of the alliance for generations. No one knows what is inside, but there are legends that it is the remains of the Guiyuan Crown Princess when the soldiers relieved Feixian." Ying Kai said slowly: "Be careful, I was also sealed by my molten gold water and buried in the ground."
"… "
Yu Chi Rui had a sense of absurdity that his childhood bedtime stories were intertwined with reality. After a while, he said with a shocked expression, "No way?"
Ying Kai laughed dumbly.
"Where's the third one?" Yu Chi Rui couldn't help but ask again.
At this time, even if Ying Kai said that the third one was Prince Guiyuan in myths and legends, he would not be surprised. Who knew that as soon as he finished speaking on this question, Ying Kai's smile gradually disappeared, and after a long time he raised his bloodshot eyes and said calmly, "No."
"It's Gong Zhengyu."
In an instant, all Yu Chi Rui's words were stuck in his throat.
"How can you put Gong Wei there!" He suddenly stood up and said, "Gong Wei can't be—"
"He will." Ying Kai's tone was tired but steady: "As a great master, he died with resentment, and he did not rot after death, and he already had all the conditions for shocking a corpse. The evil-looking mirror coffin appeared in the same year after his death, and even I can't guarantee that this matter has absolutely nothing to do with him, do you understand?"
"I concealed the existence of the mirror coffin because I was afraid that the Xuanmen Baijia would think that Gong Zhengyu's grievance was at fault, and that he would be implicated in his reputation. After the Dingxian Mausoleum was built, I buried his remains in a golden coffin, and his body was still there at that time. Not rotted, the wound still oozes blood, and the face is lifelike."
Ying Kai looked at the giant gate deep in the ground, and said softly, "Changsheng, if there is one person in this world who will definitely be shocked, then this person is probably Gong Zhengyu. I just wonder why he hasn't had one for so many years. shock."
Yu Chi Rui fell silent for a long time, and said abruptly for a long time, "He liked liveliness very much during his lifetime."
Ying Kai said, "I know."
Before his death, Gong Wei not only liked to watch the fun, but also liked to create it. Such a lively and active person was finally buried alone in the deepest and darkest underground, suppressed and sealed to death, without seeing the light of day, what would he think
Will you be disappointed
Or resentment
"On the fact that Gong Zhengyu was reburied in the deepest part of Dingling, only a few people in the entire Immortal League knew about me, Xu Shuangce, and Changsun Chengfeng. After sending these three most dangerous coffins in, I originally planned to seal the giant gate. After death, I will never let any living person set foot in the back half of this door again..." Ying Kai took a deep breath and said, "Who would have guessed that the fourth coffin will be ushered in at this time."
Yu Chi Rui frowned and asked, "Who?"
"..." Ying Kai moved his eyes away, and a pulsating flame was reflected in his eyes. After a while, he said in a low voice:
"Xu Shuangce."
Yu Chi Rui was stunned for a while, and his first reaction was that he heard it wrong: "Who?!"
"Sixteen years ago on the Ascension Stage, Gong Wei said sorry to Xu Shuangce before he died. He said, you will never be able to ascend, and your cultivation in this life will end here." Ying Kai fixedly looked at Zhu Zhu. In the endless darkness behind the fire, he said softly: "In the following years, I have been immersed in emotions intertwined with self-blame, guilt, remorse and pain, and I did not have the energy to think carefully about the meaning behind this sentence... Until late one night , Xu Shuangce suddenly came with an empty coffin stepping on the moon in the main hall of Punishment Shu Palace."
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"...I have been practicing alone recently, and I have no progress. I just feel tired. Sometimes I dream in the middle of the night and think of the words left by Gong Zhengyu on the Ascension Stage that year, as if there is a certain number somewhere..."
A crescent moon is reflected in front of the main hall, and the courtyard is like water and empty. Ying Kai's hands trembled slightly, but Xu Shuangce's expression and voice were extremely dull, as if he was talking about something unrelated to others.
"I won't be able to ascend in this life, and one day I will die in Huangquan. At that time, my heart will be unwilling, and I will not let go of my obsession. Once the corpse is transformed, it will be left for a hundred years. So you first send this empty coffin to the ninth floor of Dingling, When the deadline is approaching in the future, I will enter the mausoleum by myself to seal the door of the tomb and lie down in the coffin. Maybe that day will not be too far away..."
Ying Kai's throat seemed to be blocked by something sour, and he trembled after a long time: "I'm sorry, but it's all my fault. If I had discovered earlier that the friction between you was irreconcilable, if I had sensed the unhappiness and killing intent in Zheng Yu's heart earlier, if I can get rid of him and stop him sooner..."
Unexpectedly, Xu Shuangce smiled, although very briefly: "No."
"Your biggest mental obstacle is to be hard on yourself and take on too many responsibilities for yourself." He suddenly asked: "I still remember that year I once said that I regretted entering that peach forest with you. Wouldn't it be good if you haven't met Gong Zhengyu?"
Ying Kai looked at him, unable to say a word.
Of course he remembered, he still remembered the blood that Xu Shuangce excites from his heart.
"I don't regret it now." Xu Shuangce said softly, "I just feel that my fate should be like this."
…
Born to be enemies, die in the same burial.
Ying Kai took a long breath.
"When the door of the tomb was finally closed, there were four coffins buried inside. For more than ten years after that, although there were occasional living people entering the mausoleum to worship and worship, the thousands of coffins in Dingxian Mausoleum never changed. Baijia has never had a corpse-horrifying scandal again."
The shrieks of the corpses outside the giant gate of black iron have gone away, and they gradually disappeared in the depths of the ancient silent tomb with heavy footsteps. In the narrow tomb passage, only a bean spark was burning, and it swayed suddenly with Ying Kai's sigh, and the projections on the surrounding walls also swayed slightly.
"Until last night, I found that the haunting piece of the thousand-degree mirror world was a replica. I couldn't explain it all... I had to open the door of the mausoleum myself."
Yuchi Rui was silent for a long time before asking, "Do you want to see if this has anything to do with Gong Wei?"
"The person in the world who is most proficient in illusion is Gong Zhengyu, and the person who is most familiar with the world of thousand-degree mirrors is also Gong Zhengyu. I must come and see for myself whether his soul is still in peace." Ying Kai's voice was astringent, and he took a deep breath. The tone was suppressed: "If it really has something to do with him, at least when the next lens comes into existence, I can personally rush to... handle it."
No one would have thought that Gong Wei was still lying in Dingxian Mausoleum, but thousands of coffins that had not moved for so many years were stunned.
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"They're gone." Yuchi Rui looked at Xuantie Shimen, his ears moved sharply: "Let's go."
Both of them were great masters who stood at the peak of the world. Although they fought all night and suffered heavy losses, they at least regained their vitality after this rest. Ying Kai stood up with the support of the Dingshanhaijian, just as he was about to turn around and walk out, he hesitated again: "Are you injured?"
Yu Chi Rui: "It's okay."
"Then you're breathing so hard?"
Yu Chi Rui: "No."
The two suddenly froze at the same time.
The gasp came from the darkness where the five fingers could not be seen. The sound was clearer than the sound, and the sound was heavier than the sound, as if it was close to the ear. Ying Kai suddenly looked at Yu Chi Rui, both of them saw their pale faces in each other's eyes, and then slowly turned to the huge golden tomb gate behind them.
Tremors rose from the soles of my feet, but not because of fear, but because the ground was shaking.
The vibration became bigger and bigger and more violent, and the gravel and dust rustled from the left and right tomb passages, and then the solid stone wall beside the giant gate suddenly burst out with a crisp sound:
Click!
Like a silent alarm in the sky, Ying Kai's face changed suddenly, only in time to fly away and push Yu Chi Rui away: "Chang Sheng, move away—"
Before he finished speaking, the whole door of the golden tomb exploded, and the door of the thousand tombs roared, knocking Ying Kai into the air.
Immediately afterwards, he flew out and smashed the tomb passage, and the gold nuggets and rubble fell down like hail!
Yu Chi Rui: "Ying Kai!"
But the quake drowned out the roar.
Ying Kai was heavily pressed under the thousand-ton giant gate, and instantly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and a bloody heat flow quickly filled his ears. After several seconds, he felt something loose in his consciousness in the violent shock.
That is the Mahayana seal.
The protective formation shrouded within a thousand miles of Mount Dai suddenly cracked at this moment.
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The light curtain shattered into thousands of pieces, gathered into a torrent and rushed into the sky, and then even the last ray of light disappeared without a trace. Everyone gathered at the foot of the mountain raised their heads in unison, Yuchixiao's footsteps froze, the eldest grandson Chengyang half-opened his mouth and was speechless, and the horror spread through the crowd like countless poisonous snakes.
The corpse air was soaring to the sky above Mount Dai, and the sky was dark, reflecting Gong Wei's shocked eyes.
The next moment, the corpse aura that was so thick as to be substantial spreads explosively, sweeping over with lightning speed!
The monks at the foot of the mountain didn't even have time to hide, so they were shrouded in darkness one after another, and then their shouts and exclamations were swallowed up by the thick ink-like mist. Changsun Chengfeng pulled Bai Xie by his side like lightning, and at the same time turned his head and shouted, "Don't move! Don't run!"
Yuchixiao's first reaction was to reach out to grab Gong Wei, but then he felt that the slender, cold hand slipped the moment he touched it and disappeared without a trace.
"Xiang Xiaoyuan?" Yuchixiao said stunned, groping around but only came across the greasy and wet corpse aura: "Where are you going?! Come back!"
In the darkness where the five fingers could not be seen in front of him, Gong Wei stood quietly on the top of the cliff, looking up in the direction of Dingxian Mausoleum in the distance, his face pale and dignified.
Immediately, his sleeves fluttered, and he flew towards the mountain stream.
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"Cough cough..." Deep in the tomb, Yu Chi Rui tried his best to stab his sword into the ground to stabilize his body, and said hoarsely in the violently shaking tomb passage, "Ying Kai? How are you, Ying—"
His voice stopped suddenly.
The sound of metal rubbing came from the depths of the darkness, as if something dangerous was slowly sliding away, and then stopped abruptly after a sharp screeching sound.
Yu Chi Rui's pupils trembled, he already realized what it was—
coffin lid.
"... Go back." He murmured in disbelief, "Go back to that world, you obviously already..."
But unfortunately it's too late.
The tomb passage was in ruins, and the candles on the remaining walls on both sides suddenly ignited one after another, reflecting the huge cavity on the ninth floor of the underground palace. On the bronze ground in front, there was a circular array with a diameter of several meters and intricate carvings. Four huge and heavy golden coffins were placed in a ring, and one of the coffin lids was wide open.
The halo was cold and green, and a stiff back sat up and slowly turned his face.
Yuchi Rui's ears were full of hurried breaths that he couldn't control. He subconsciously stepped back and finally called out the name with difficulty:
"... Gong Wei."