The wind blows overhead, whistling and echoing.
Baili Shu held the golden crow longbow and walked down the dark stone steps step by step. The golden crow emitted a bright golden light in the darkness, illuminating his surroundings. He was walking down, in the depths of Difen Ancient Battlefield, there was a buried underground tower, an upside-down black tower very similar to Qingming Tower.
This pagoda is like a mirror image of the Qingming Pagoda in this world. Hezhou searched for "Zhou Tianming is on the top, and the earth is engraved on the bottom" in the Qingming Pagoda, but he couldn't find it because the entire Qingming Pagoda in the city of Bingzhou It is the so-called "Zhou Tian", and the so-called "Earth Phase" is in this weird world of wild beast remains.
This is also the reason why there will be a large-scale ghost world in Bingzhou City.
The world where Bingzhou City is located is the world of "Zhou Tian", which is the Yang in Tai Chi. The ancient battlefield connected by the Qingming Pagoda is the world of "earth", which symbolizes the yin in Tai Chi. In this world, there is a Qingming Pagoda that is exactly the same as the ground of Bingzhou. The two Qingming Pagodas, one upright and the other down, constitute a complete "world".
The bones of wild beasts correspond to the "death" of the 170,000 people in Bingzhou City. The entire Bingzhou City has been a huge layout from the beginning. Yin and Yang match each other, life and death correspond, the past and the present call each other.
But after the mutation, the boundary between the Qingming Pagoda and the space corresponding to it became blurred, the boundary between Yin and Yang and life and death in Bingzhou City became confused, and the five elements no longer flowed according to the law, so disaster befalls this place. Above the city.
But now Bailishu found the fallen pagoda hidden deep underground opposite Qingming Pagoda in the depths of Difen Ancient Battlefield.
Perhaps it should be said that Qingming Pagoda is commensurate with it.
Because this pagoda buried deep in the ground is older and longer than Qingming Pagoda. The Qingming Pagoda should have been built in imitation of it. As the prototype of the Qingming Pagoda, this black pagoda is completely in the style of the Chaos Era, huge, rough, majestic, and imposing.
This is a mysterious ancient tower that was built in the era of chaos, and it is not known when it was discovered.
The Qingming Pagoda built on the ground is a pagoda reaching the sky. In contrast to it, this fallen pagoda buried deep in the ground should be a pagoda connecting to the underworld.
Bailishu stood on the stone steps, put a few bright arrows on the bow, and the long arrows came out from the string, and shot towards the bottom of the tower that was continuously extending downward. Vaguely photographed the situation underground. Layer after layer of stone steps spiral down, and behind the circular corridor are closed tower rooms.
The light of the fire kept going down, as if it was about to fall into the darkness of Huangquan.
Until the fire was extinguished, it was not possible to see what was at the bottom.
Baili Shu lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, put away his longbow, took out the torch and lit it. He didn't continue to go down, but took a few steps towards the tower room next to him, and the firelight illuminated the things in the stone room.
Like the Qingming Pagoda, there are statues of alien beasts in the stone room, but those statues of alien beasts are no longer made of jade, but made of bronze. The alien beasts are tall and hideous, with flickering lights According to it, it looks like countless evil spirits lurking in the dead stone rooms.
"Sure enough..."
Baili Shu said softly, looking at a statue of a ghost.
He didn't look at the statues any more, turned around and walked straight down the winding stone steps. The light of the torch was blown by the air circulating in the tower and turned on and off. in the light.
The stone steps keep going down, as if walking down the stone steps can lead you to the depths of hell.
Hell... No matter when, this is not a good word. How is it described in the ancient folk legends? In the 18th floor of hell, all those who have committed crimes are imprisoned.
if…
Baili Shu raised his head, looking at the dim, blood-colored light of the death sun falling from above. That ray does not give people a bright sense of security, but instead becomes more oppressive and heavy, like the blood in the depths of hell.
The wind blew up from the floor of the fallen tower, and Bailishu's robe sleeves rattled violently. He stood in the middle floor of the fallen tower with no connection to the sky, no connection to the ground, and a place where there was no one else but him, with an almost desolate look on his face.
—If there is such a thing as hell, then people like him, like the person who found him at the beginning, people with blood on their hands, will definitely go to hell, right
Bailishu thought of that day again.
Holding a torch alone, he walked into the secret dungeon of the Baili family. The lights in the deepest part of the dungeon were dim and burning like will-o'-the-wisps. cold wind. In the deepest part of the dungeon is a closed, unlocked cell.
No guards, no chains.
He opened the door and walked in.
An ordinary paper lamp was lit in the cell, and an old man sat behind the lamp, with gray hair and dying of old age. In the light of the fire, this man who once seemed to be omnipotent is really old. Bailishu stared at that person, and remembered that snowy night when an old man in a black robe walked out slowly in the wind and snow, and knelt down on one knee in front of him.
The snow fell on the head of the old man in black robe, making him look like his hair turned white instantly.
"Finally found you."
The old man said with a hoarse voice, as if he had passed through a desert full of yellow sand, and a deep sea with waves, before finally stepping out of the snow and kneeling in front of him.
"who I am?"
he asks.
"Your surname is Baili, but your single name is Shu."
The old man in black robe replied.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, the old man sitting cross-legged opened his eyes. After seeing him, he got up and knelt down on one knee towards him as before. Bailishu looked at his white hair without Xueluo, and suddenly he didn't want to ask the questions that had been lingering in his mind for a long time. He knew this person too well.
Can't get an answer.
"You're old, if you were the old you, I wouldn't let the guard go." In the end, Bailishu sighed and said softly.
"People will always grow old, and my son is no longer the child who stood in the snow and didn't know where to go." The old man sighed, and looked up at the young man who had completely mastered the Baili family. What should be soaring is replaced by a faint, lingering exhaustion.
So the old man was silent for a long time.
"It's very hard for you to deal with all kinds of affairs every day. Since you have already made a prison for me, you will not add more troubles to you. This is the only thing that this old man can do for you now."
"It's a great honor for me to be able to come and die for me."
the old man said softly.
He lowered his head, and black blood flowed out slowly from his seven orifices.
Baili Shu looked at him quietly and didn't speak any more.
He came here to end the life of the person who brought him back to the Baili family with his own hands. This was a matter that was decided from the beginning, but when he really witnessed the death of this person, he suddenly felt extremely sad. desolate.
"I've given you the hundred miles."
Before he died, the old man no longer used his honorific title, as if he was relieved.
"Take them..."
"I will."