Yin Xiu pointed to the strange statues, various sculptures, and murals.
Somehow, Zhuowu was a little surprised.
"what happened?"
"It's nothing," Zhuowu smiled, "I just didn't expect the number to be so large."
"You usually don't pay attention?" Yin Xiu asked.
"I usually don't have that kind of free time. Although the search for Kunlun cannot be completed overnight, I am used to hard work."
"So-called hard work, right?"
Yin Xiu responded casually and signaled Zhuowu to continue moving forward.
"You are always so anxious." Zhuowu sighed.
"Why not?"
Yin Xiu rolled her eyes, "I told you, I'm not familiar with you, so there's nothing to talk about.
Please hurry up and take me to see my mother. If we have anything to do, we can just talk about it.
Or is there anything else you need to explain to me? "
Zhuowu shook his head, "Just like you said, Mr. Yin Xiu, the two of us really have nothing to talk about."
"Then let's go." Yin Xiu raised his hand.
So the two of them walked through the tunnel that seemed to be a museum of ancestors. After they walked for an unknown amount of time, when Yin Xiu raised the water bag for the third time, the place where he met his mother finally appeared.
It was a huge arched space like a dome-shaped gymnasium. The rock wall was as smooth as an eggshell, with nothing attached to it.
Even the original strange works of art have disappeared. This place seems to be a natural cave wall, and all artificially shaped things no longer exist here.
At this time, the relaxed look on Zhuowu's face disappeared. He became pious and slightly nervous.
After a pause, he took a deep breath and took out an octagonal bell stained with patina from his pocket.
"After I ring the bell, my mother will come. During this period, you have to lower your head and recite your name silently in your heart. Only in this way can my mother sense you and come to you."
"This sounds like a terrible thing." Yin Xiu grinned.
"Is it scary?"
Zhuowu looked at him expressionlessly, "You better not be really scared. Some people will be frightened out of their minds when they meet their mother."
"Why, is my mother really that scary? Is it because she looks disgusting, or is she?"
"rude!"
Zhuowu was obviously a little angry, "Who do you think my mother is? Does she only rely on bluff or fear to rule the world? If this is the case, wouldn't it also insult Emperor Taizong's wisdom and courage? The reason why people feel scared and even lose their minds in front of the old mother is not because the old mother is terrible, but because she is great.
It's like a small insect in the water. When we looked at the water from the shore, it thought it was being targeted by a giant and was immediately frightened.
In fact, we didn't notice the bug, and we wouldn't put our hands into the water, but the bug was just so self-righteous that we were scared crazy. "
"Do you think the Queen Mother is the one staring at the water?"
"No, she was just passing by."
After saying that, Zhuowu began to back away, "I wish you good luck, Mr. Yin Xiu."
"Thank you."
Ding dong, ding dong...
Zhuowu turned around, and with every step he took, the octagonal bell in his hand shook and made a crisp sound.
In this cave, there were echoes again, and for a while, there seemed to be countless bells ringing here.
Yin Xiu did as Zhuowu said, lowered his head and recited his name silently.
It's not because he believes in his mother, but because Zhuowu said that only in this way will his mother show up.
Then Yin Xiu did as he was told, there was no point in getting entangled in such a place and wasting the opportunity.
After he recited it several times, the faint sound of water drops suddenly sounded in the giant egg.
It seemed like it was raining in this airtight dome, or there was a leak somewhere. Water was dripping in a certain corner, but after hearing it several times, Yin Xiu couldn't sense the specific location.
At the same time, in his heart, a certain uneasy feeling became stronger and stronger, and even his heart tightened.
Yin Xiu's hand gently pinched a piece of talisman paper in his pocket, and the Qingxin Curse was released, and Yin Xiu's mood quickly calmed down.
Even when she first faced the vixen, Yin Xiu had never felt such a throb, so naturally it couldn't be a psychological effect.
But the unparalleled sense of oppression brought by his old mother is gradually eroding him.
From this, some clues about the old mother's power finally came out.
However, she was already in front of her, and she only discovered the clues at this time. Was it too late?
Shake your head to clear away the distracting thoughts in your mind.
This self-doubt just now may also be part of my mother's strength.
After holding another Qingxin Charm in her pocket, Yin Xiu waited silently.
At this time, the sound of water drops suddenly disappeared. Yin Xiu lowered his head, only to feel that a certain figure had come to him unknowingly, staring at his head, as if standing or floating.
Yin Xiu looked at the ground. There was no shadow or so-called feet.
At this moment, a sharp, hoarse voice suddenly hit Yin Xiu's head, causing his pupils to shrink suddenly.
"What's your name?"
"Facial appearance!"
Yin Xiu raised his head suddenly. Both the previous sense of oppression and the owner of the voice had disappeared.
He only felt a lightness on his shoulders, and the feeling of being watched all the time suddenly dissipated.
Then, a burst of laughter like silver bells rang in the space, as if it was far away in the sky, but also close in front of the ears.
You can't tell the volume or the texture of the sound. Everything is blurry and hazy, like someone is wearing a veil and hiding behind the screen. When you squint your eyes to see clearly, that person He picked up Pipa again to cover his face.
Just when Yin Xiu was confused, the voice spoke.
"Yin Xiu, you are a very interesting person, or you have always been so interesting. No matter in your previous life or this life, you have not changed much."
Yin Xiu's heart tightened involuntarily, "Do you know my past life?"
"Of course, because in your previous life, you were a fellow practitioner like me in a Taoist temple in Jiaozhi."
"Oh?"
Yin Xiu's surprise was written on her face, "You mean I practiced in a Taoist temple with you in my previous life?"
"Yes, that's Yin Xiu, no, it's Chi Yangzi."
"Chiyangzi?" "Chiyangzi, is your Taoist nickname and your name..."
"The white jade capital in the sky, the twelfth floor and five cities, the immortals caress my top, and the hair grows."
The scenery around Yin Xiu changed rapidly. What was originally a lifeless cave suddenly became filled with the fragrance of birds and flowers, surrounded by various unrecognizable flowers and green trees, and the noisy chirping of cicadas was endless.
Yin Xiu looked around in surprise, and his eyes were quickly attracted to the other side.
There, there is a wooden house. The shape of the cornices and corridor corners is obviously a Taoist temple.
As Yin Xiu approached, he saw the entire Taoist temple. There was a plaque hanging on the wooden porch with the words "Shengyun Temple" written on it.
"Shengyun Temple?"
Yin Xiu read out those three words, carefully reached out her hand, and pushed open the door that seemed to be tightly closed.
This time, the scenery in front of her changed rapidly again. At some point, Yin Xiu moved to the backyard of the Taoist temple.
Here, there are two lotus platforms facing each other. Yin Xiu is sitting on one of the lotus platforms, and there are people sitting on the other lotus platform.
I don't know whether the man was wearing a monk's robe or a monk's robe. He was dressed like a scholar and a craftsman, not like a man or a woman. His face was blurry and his figure was hazy.
Seeing Yin Xiu looking at him, the man also came closer, and the faint fragrance of flowers wafted out from his body.
"Chiyangzi, you seem to have been asleep for a long time."
"Oh? How long?" Yin Xiu asked.
"Two Jiazi, you probably slept for two Jiuzi's time."
The man caressed Yin Xiu's forehead and adjusted his hair crown and clothes, "It seems like you have had a lot of dreams."
"Not only were there many dreams, they were also very long and continuous. I always felt that it was really a very strange dream. In the dream, I seemed to have become someone else."
Yin Xiu touched the goatee that hung down to his chest.
"Oh? You became someone else? Is this a dream from the future or a dream from the past?"
"I can't tell. I really can't tell. It seems like something that really happened, and it also seems like an illusion set by some extraterrestrial demon for me. Maybe my Taoist heart has been dusted, so I responded to the disaster."
"Maybe this is just a test given to you by the Dao? Maybe this is also a sign that you will be enlightened."
The man patted Yin Xiu on the back and comforted him.
"What kind of dream is that that makes you so nervous and at a loss?"
"Nervous, at a loss?"
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "Fellow Taoist, you misunderstood, I was just confused. I suddenly felt that some obvious essence and opportunity passed quickly in front of me, like water in the palm of my hand. "
Taking a deep breath, he continued: "In the dream, I was no longer Chi Yangzi, nor was I a monk.
I became a young man named Yin Xiu, fighting and organizing some strange things in a strange era and a completely strange world.
Although at a glance, they are all meaningless, shallow, ignorant, and even somewhat ignorant work.
But I always feel that maybe there is some truth hidden in it, but we don’t know it, and we always think that we are superior, omniscient and omnipotent. "
"Oh? What exactly are you fighting against, Chi Yangzi?"
"Lies, all kinds of lies and conspiracies, in the dream, I was fighting these things."
"So what are your results? Are you satisfied?"
"satisfied?"
Yin Xiu shook her head, "I don't know. In fact, I still feel like I haven't woken up yet. I'm always in a daze, and everything I see is hazy.
I seem to be a little confused. Who am I, Chi Yangzi or Yin Xiu, or an extraterrestrial demon who has stolen the body of a monk? "
The man didn't seem to think there was anything strange about this. He seemed to have seen many such weird and bizarre scenes.
So the man just threw the question back softly, "Who do you think you should be?"
"Me, you ask me?"
Yin Xiu touched the crown on her head.
After a pause, he said: "Intellectually, I think I should be Chiyangzi, but emotionally, I would rather be Yinxiu."
"Why? It's just a dream, right?"
The man finally no longer just watched, but his tone was filled with tension and concern.
"I know, I know it's just a dream. Yin Xiu is a person who doesn't exist. It's also a false world.
But I always feel that maybe there is something real there, some kind of life that I urgently need and want, rather than fate. "
"Why, the life in the Taoist temple has made you feel tired? You have been sitting on this lotus platform for the past few years, meditating on it every day, like a pine tree on the top of a mountain. Neither your heart nor your body has left it. But now, You seem to have developed some kind of boredom? You no longer want to seek immortality, do you want to be an ordinary person?To be an ordinary person who falls into the world of mortals? "
"not like this."
He smiled, "Maybe what makes me tired is not a certain way of life, but lies, endless lies."
"what you mean?"
"I mean, just like now, the question of whether I am Yin Xiu or Chi Yangzi."
"But you are indeed Chiyangzi. Chiyangzi has practiced for six years at Shengyun Temple in Jiaozhi."
"I've said it all, a lie is a lie, no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still the same."
As he said this, the monk who originally had a goatee, a crown, and an air of immortality gradually disappeared with the wind.
Not only him dressed like that, but also the lotus platform under him, including the entire Shengyun Temple, were dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into wisps of light smoke and disappearing away.
Finally, when everything disappeared, Yin Xiu appeared again wearing a long windbreaker, leather boots, and leather technician gloves.
In other words, he has always been standing here and has not left or moved a step.
For an unknown amount of time, he had been in this arched cave without moving an inch.
Yin Xiu raised his head and faced the darkness in front of him with a proud smile.
"Mom, you seem to be underestimating me. You confuse me with those Qigong practitioners, believers, and poor lost souls.
Your illusions may work for them, but they don't work for me.
And you have used illusions on me many times, and never succeeded, but you have been using it persistently. I don’t know whether you are too perseverant, or you are looking down on me? "
"Yin Xiu, do you think there is any difference between you and the wretches you talk about one after another? They are all the same!"
The sound in the darkness became harsh again, like the tip of a knife scraping against the glass, making one's eardrums vibrate.
"In other words, they are much happier than you, because they can sleep peacefully in their dreams, but you, although you are awake, are destined to suffer even more because of your sobriety that you are proud of!"
Green light lit up, and at a short distance in front of Yin Xiu, murderous intent suddenly dropped! (End of chapter)