"I don't know."
After knowing that I was a descendant of the Jiang family, the water qilin instantly changed from a powerful divine beast to a tame pet, and his voice was obviously lacking in confidence.I raised my eyebrows, looking at its nervous look, "Oh, I don't know, then you can take us in to have a look" "However, the rules of the dungeon are that you must win against me before you can enter the dungeon, and the soul is absolutely not allowed to enter the dungeon." ”The water unicorn replied sweating profusely.I deliberately straightened my face, "Shui Qilin, do you want to watch my soul unable to return to the origin, and watch the Jiang family's bloodline be cut off?"
The expression on its face changed, its eyes flickered, and it whispered "but" for a while, and finally gritted its teeth.With a heroic expression, "Okay, you break my tail in the direction of the sky, and the entrance to the underground palace will open." ”It leaps into the air.Jump on the stone platform and turn into a stone statue.I did as it said, and pushed the tail of the stone unicorn upward, and the marble slabs inlaid in the ground floated up from the ground to form a staircase.Spinning upwards, as if leading to the sky.However, this is the bottom of the sea, and beyond the barrier is the azure water, and the stone staircase floats in the sky.I don't know what the end of that ladder will be.The water qilin jumped off the stone platform, flicked its tail and walked over, it looked at the stone steps in the air that rotated up, with a thick melancholy in its eyes, "The top of this stone step is the underground palace, and the number of stone steps is determined by the distractions in people's hearts."
And when Jiang Taigong built the stone steps, he engraved a very strict talisman seal on it, which caused everyone who climbed the stone steps to be greatly tested. ”"What a test?"
I intuitively felt in my heart that this so-called test would never be simple.Shui Qilin shook his head, "I don't know about this, but no matter what kind of test it is, it is for people, and there will be vitality."
And what the soul will encounter when it walks on it, it is really unpredictable, it is very likely, it is very likely" It did not say the latter words, but I understood that there are other truths in life and death.It is quite possible that if the soul embarks on this path that does not belong to us, it means a dead end.However, I persevered all the way until now, and when I reached the entrance of the underground palace, I said that I was going to enter and break in, so I stepped on the first layer of floating stone steps without hesitation, and immediately felt a cold air rise from under my feet, instantly eroding my whole body.It was as if he was being tied to a thousand-pound weighing weight under his feet, and he couldn't lift it.With the strength of feeding, I finally lifted my other foot up the stairs and endured the chill of running between my internal organs.I looked up at the stone stairs that seemed to stretch to the horizon."
So that's the East China Sea Palace?"
At this time, the voice of a corpse monster suddenly came from the side.I turned my head to see him standing beside me, tilting his head and muttering to himself.Compared to my embarrassment, he didn't seem to feel any discomfort on the steps.But I didn't see any dungeon, I asked him."
Where do you see the dungeon?"
the corpse raised a finger and pointed to a spot in the sky from afar, his eyes showing fanaticism, "It's right there."
About a hundred flights of stairs above. ”With that, he lifted his feet and walked up the second staircase, where a gust of wind blew from nowhere.Standing on the second staircase, there were a few more blood marks on his body, and it seemed that there was a blade in the wind.But Xu Ze didn't care about such a small injury at all, he walked to the next step non-stop, and there were a few more blood marks on his body in an instant.The corpse monster pinched his hands, and the tentacles waving on his body wrapped his body in layers, and with the protection of the tentacles, the damage caused by the wind blade was reduced a lot.Xu Ze manipulated the corpse monster to climb the ladder.It's getting faster and faster.Watching him walk like a fly, and I couldn't even see where the dungeon was, I couldn't help but feel frustrated."
You'll get to the dungeon before him, I promise."
The water unicorn affectionately wrapped his tail around my thigh, raised his head, and said with round eyes.I didn't expect this powerful divine beast to comfort people.I smiled at it and mustered up my confidence to step down the stairs.This time, a hot sensation came out of the soles of my feet.And one of my legs was still on the first staircase, so at this time, my body was cold and hot, and the combination of fire and water was overwhelming.At this time, the few drops of blood floating beside me before also surrounded me, and a faint golden glow emitted around the blood, and I felt much more relaxed under such a golden glow.Probably this is the effect of inheritance, I thought to myself.The water unicorn said that the number of stairs is determined according to the number of distracting thoughts in a person's heart, and I don't have too much obsession in my heart, so I will have distracting thoughts instead, and there are countless stairs waiting for me to climb.It is called cleansing people's hearts.But Xu Ze is different, his only belief for thousands of years is immortality, and for this belief, he does not hesitate to let his descendants bury themselves in the place where the corpse is raised.Cultivate into a thousand-year-old corpse king.So under the influence of firm beliefs, Xu Ze became a person with no distractions, and climbed this stone step wholeheartedly.Listening to its explanation, I felt that 10,000 grass and mud horses were galloping through my heart.I have no desires and no desires, but I have become too many distractions, I really don't know if my ancestors were old and confused when they built the stone road.Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished complaining in my heart, my back suddenly became heavy.It was as if something was pressing on my back.I gritted my teeth and asked for help from the water unicorn, and he reluctantly told me that I had nothing on my back.I closed my eyes in reluctance and resigned myself to my fate, wondering why I was not tested the same as the corpse monster.For example, I was attacked by both cold and blazing heat, while the corpse monster controlled by Xu Ze was directly attacked by the wind blade.Perhaps the test is set according to what everyone fears the most, and the most unbearable thing for the soul is nothing more than the heat and cold.As for the felt weight on the feet and back.Most of the time it was to prevent the soul from floating up directly, so the weight was used to nail the soul to the ladder.Walking on this boundless staircase, I was so uncomfortable that I almost wanted to give up.Most of the time, the body is half cold and half hot, and the weight felt by the body is getting heavier and heavier.My back was crushed to the point where it was almost 90 degrees.In order to reduce the burden on my knees, I walked in a zigzag shape on the stairs, but luckily the stone stairs were spacious enough.Although the speed was as slow as a snail, he was able to climb up smoothly without falling down due to the heavy burden on his body, causing him to start from scratch.The water unicorn walked beside me, and whenever I was unsteady on my feet and lost my balance, it would gently support me so that I would not fall.The long staircase seems to have no end and looks hopeless.I gritted my teeth and persevered, sweat dripping down my hair.With such a high-intensity climb, my belief became stronger and stronger.The other obsessions in my heart gradually faded away, and only the goal of climbing remained."
The dungeon is in front" At this time, the water unicorn beside him suddenly cheered.I hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, I saw a beautiful palace in front of me.The water qilin jumped up in three steps and two steps, then turned to look at me, patiently waiting for me to climb up step by step.When I finally reached the door of the palace, I found that the door was locked."
East Sea Palace, a hall."
I muttered to myself the ancient characters on the plaque, the font that was even more difficult to read than the small seal, it seemed to be an inscription from the Western Zhou Dynasty, which I had never seen in my life.But for some reason, when I saw the words, the meaning of the words naturally came to mind.It was as if I had been born to know them, and there was an innate sense of intimacy.What does the first hall of the underground palace mean Is there still the door of the second hall, the third hall, the fourth hall and the first hall closed tightly, what will be there in it Is there any immortal medicine I stepped forward and knocked on the door of the hall, but no one responded.I don't know where the corpse monsters went."
Let me try."
The water qilin shook his tail, walked to the stone lion in front of the main hall, straightened up, and twisted the stone lion's head with his paws.With a "click", the sound of the mechanism being reset came, and the door of the main hall opened.This place is no longer on the stone staircase, so all the negative effects that shroud my body have disappeared, and I looked at the darkness inside the temple gate, hesitated for a moment, and walked in."
It's so dark, I can't see anything."
As soon as he entered the hall, the door of the hall behind him creaked and closed, and nothing could be seen in the already dark hall.Strangely, as soon as I finished saying that, the candles in the temple lit like voice-activated lights.