seventy one, the world in the mirror
A green beetle climbed onto a human-shaped ice sculpture and creaked in the shell of the ice sculpture. The ice sculpture was so ingenious that even the human expression and hair were carved clearly. It was black inside, as if a corpse was frozen inside. Looking around thousands of miles, there was a flat ice field, with countless ice sculptures standing in the air, allowing frost and snow to fall.
Ling Xi reached out to break the ice sculpture, put a piece of ice in his mouth, and let it turn into water and slide into his throat. The ice sculpture was broken, and the black smoke and dust that emerged from the gap escaped. The black inside the ice sculpture disappeared and turned into a transparent color.
This ice water contains special spiritual energy. If it weren't for this spiritual energy, Ling Xi would not have been able to walk this path.
"It's not over yet..." Xiaoling's soul followed Ling Xi, looking around and said: "This place is not like the Dead Realm, it's not that cold."
Ling Xi looked up at the miserable white sky, and cherry-sized snowflakes fell, spread on the ground, melting and evaporating strangely.
"Will this be like Hongjing's inner space, a world owned by the Eight Wheel Realm?"
Xiaoling neither denies nor wants to be sure: "Maybe. I have never heard of spiritual weapons having internal space. They have no intelligence, so what's the use of this space?"
Ling Xi set his eyes on a human-shaped ice sculpture, looked carefully for a long time and asked: "These polished ice sculptures will definitely not be produced for no reason. The Eight Wheel Realm is a magical artifact to suppress the deceased world. Perhaps the things in these ice sculptures are the dead souls trapped inside."
Xiaoling quickly stopped Ling Xi's words, approached his body and said to him: "Stop talking, I feel like you are cursing me."
Ling Xi smiled bitterly. He forgot that Xiao Ling had no Dharma body, but only relied on his sea of consciousness to avoid entering the dead realm. Ling Xi broke a piece of ice sculpture and tried to hold the black smoke that gushed out in his hand. As he expected, the black smoke passed through Ling Xi's palm and fled to the distance.
"See it. They have no entity, just like you." Ling Xi took back his hand. As soon as he finished speaking, a mummy crawled out of the ground with trembling. The mummy was covered with frozen soil, as if he had been in the ground for countless years. The clothes he wore were in were like a style that Ling Xi had never seen before.
The mummy stretched out her palm and aimed at the black smoke escaping in the air. The black smoke immediately let out a human-like howl and was sucked into the palm of the mummy. The mummy then opened her mouth and vomited it into the open space. The black smoke was blown in the air, and a struggle-like ice sculpture quickly formed to freeze the black smoke inside.
Ling Xi was surprised to see this. He didn't expect that there were other moving things besides him and Xiaoling.
The mummy eyes glanced at Ling Xi, and directly passed Ling Xi, fixed her eyes on Xiao Ling, turned her head like a mocking person, and walked towards the other side.
"Ah!" Xiao Ling screamed in horror from behind Ling Xi. Ling Xi turned around and found that a corner of Xiao Ling's body also began to turn black and there was a change.
"Wait! Don't leave!" Ling Xi wanted to stop the mummy, but the mummy ignored him and escaped into the ground little by little.
Ling Xi took a deep breath and said in panic: "It should be fine if you enter my body."
Xiao Ling walked around Lingxi twice and said helplessly: "I can't get in. Is there anything in this space that restricts my body."
Ling Xi's eyes were solemn when he heard this. When Xiao Ling was like the black smoke and dust, he probably wouldn't be able to escape the fate of becoming an ice sculpture in the thousands of miles of ice fields.
"There is a figure." Xiaoling calmed down and unexpectedly surprised Ling Xi. Her tone turned dull and looked into the distance: "I will try my best to send you away from this, before I become an ice sculpture."
"Don't joke, let's go together." Ling Xi said with a serious expression, without any room for Xiaoling to refute.
"I have lived long enough. From childhood to adulthood, you have been your only friend. I am satisfied to know you."
"Then let me live, don't say stupid things. There are still people who care about you." Ling Xi walked towards the figure angrily and threw this sentence at Xiaoling.
When Xiaoling heard his words, her body trembled slightly, biting her lower lip without saying a word.
When Ling Xi approached, she found that it was an old man wearing a thick cotton jacket and a chaotic beard. The old man leaned on a crutch and his eyes could penetrate the heart. He also saw Ling Xi, turned around and walked slowly in one direction.
Ling Xi followed him and said, "Hello, who are you?" The old man refused to talk along the way, ignoring Ling Xi and walking silently. Ling Xi was not discouraged. He saw a wooden house in the distance, and wisps of smoke came out of the wooden roof. It seemed that the old man's destination was there.
As expected, the old man came to the wooden house, pushed open the wooden door and turned around and said the first sentence: "Come in."
Ling Xi was shocked and couldn't help but take a step back. The old man clearly didn't open his mouth, but his voice rang out from Ling Xi's mind, and the echo was deafening.
Moreover, this pronunciation is particularly familiar, exactly the same as the words of the priest whom Ling Xi returned to the last time he possessed thousands of years ago.
"Yes." Ling Xi didn't know what the old man was from. He could live in such a place safely and safely, and could speak the language tens of years ago, so he couldn't help but make Ling Xi cautious.
Xiaoling followed quietly. The old man looked at the two of them in surprise and entered the room.
A flame was lit in the center of the house, becoming the only warmth in the ice field. Ling Xiha exhaled the cold air, sat on the cushion, rubbed his hands to keep warm.
"What is her relationship with you?" the old man took the lead in asking.
"She has no Dharma body and lives in my sea of consciousness. We were sucked in by the Eight Wheels Realm. She is being assimilated. Is there any way for you to help us?"
The old man laughed happily: "It's been so many years, and someone has finally come to replace me."
Ling Xi was puzzled, but he didn't speak.
"Hey, it's rare for you to be together." The old man sighed again: "Usually, the souls entering the body will slowly devour the host's body, control it for itself, and squeeze out the original host's soul."
"I can't do that kind of devouring thing, and he is my friend." Xiao Ling could understand this language and explained.
"Do you have the ability to save her?" Ling Xi asked again.
The old man glanced at the little spirit's body that gradually turned into black and said, "This is the consciousness of the eight-wheel realm that is taking effect. All the souls that have lost their bodies will be devoured by it in the body, and the creatures will be devoured from the outside."
A doubt flashed in Ling Xi's eyes: "Then why I wasn't swallowed by the Eight Wheel Realm, but instead sucked into it."
The old man sneered and said, "Because you are almost a dead person. Boy, you should have practiced the evil skill that reduces your lifespan. I think you are young, but your body is already in a state of old age, and you are thirty years older than your actual age. You are just a state of hard work and your lifespan is at most over one hundred years. But you don't know how many serious injuries your body has suffered, and your lifespan may be shorter than ordinary people. In addition, the constant backlash of evil skill, your lifespan is only a few years."
Ling Xi touched his face. Indeed, it was not like he had aged for many years when he activated the forbidden technique, but this did not mean that aging was fake.
"The Eight Wheel Realm determines that you are a dead person. I waited to devour your dead soul before I was swallowed up with her." The old man pointed at Xiaoling and sneered: "As far as I know, no soul that has entered here can go out."
Xiao Ling asked without fear: "Seriously? Didn't a soul come out when the Heaven and Earth Lord split the Eight Wheel Realm?"
The old man looked up, and he obviously hadn't lived that long time. He asked Xiaoling: "Girl, you can speak divine words and your identity was extraordinary in life, so why bother to argue with me?"
"Senior, since you have a way to avoid being invaded by the Eight Wheels Realm, you might as well tell us." Ling Xi asked the old man. Although he didn't know the old man's identity, his words just now revealed that he definitely did not belong to the Eight Wheels Realm, but was later swallowed up by the Eight Wheels Realm.
And he was unscathed, so how could he have no way to avoid devouring?
"It's okay to tell you." The old man hadn't spoken for a long time and was so happy to find someone to chat: "You have to tell me first why you can understand our words. The divine words are not something that ordinary people can learn."
Ling Xi was stunned. He could understand naturally. He had never delved into why. He didn't know what divine words the two talked about.
"Don't you know?" The old man looked at Xiaoling: "Did you teach him?"
"How could I have this ability? It's just that he has good talent." Xiao Ling knew it was because of the mysterious book in Ling Xi's mind, but she didn't trust the old man, so how could she tell him?
Ling Xi was not stupid either. He knew that he would be able to keep asking questions. He stood up and asked, "Senior, if you don't tell us, we can only find it ourselves."
"Oh?" the old man raised his eyebrows and said, "The boy has a bad temper. Sit down and I'll tell you."
Cough cough. The old man cleared his throat and told Ling Xi about his affairs.
I was a casual cultivator in Kunling Realm eight thousand years ago. In order to seize the fragments of the Eight Wheel Realm, I was plotted to die and swallowed into the Eight Wheel Realm. After all, Kunling Realm is also the top in the Heavenly Realm, so I naturally have many methods and tried hard to resist the swallowing of the Eight Wheel Realm. By chance, I ate Piaoxue in the Eight Wheel Realm and found that the power of the swallowing has weakened by a little.
It turns out that the snowflakes in the Eight Wheel Realm can reshape the soul's body and no longer be affected by the swallowing of the Eight Wheel Realm. It took me a full six thousand years to reshape this body.
However, except for the ice containing spiritual energy, this space has nothing with spiritual energy. Even though I spent two thousand years, I still couldn't practice.
"No, you can't practice. How did you live for these two thousand years?" Xiao Ling interrupted when he noticed the contradiction in his words.
"Because there is no time here." The old man smiled meaningfully: "The eight-wheel realm does not require time. What it needs to do is to trap the creatures inside forever."
"I have confidence to go out." Ling Xi's words were full of firmness: "Since we can come in, we can go out. At worst, I can walk through the space of the Eight Wheels Realm. Xiao Ling, come out with me and help you reshape your body." As soon as he took a step, the world in front of him suddenly turned black, his heart twitched like a pain, and he fell down without any sense of consciousness.
"Ling Xi!" Xiaoling exclaimed, and the old man hurried forward to support him.
Chapter completed!