Chapter 1 Return to Lake Village
I've been in a coma several times, but never before have I been so conscious as this one, watching the memories completely annihilate in my consciousness.
This memory is unusually messy, and the most impressive thing is nothing more than the pain when he used a secret method to split his soul, and the other is the silence that seems to be eternal in the years of self-sealing.
In my scattered memories, I saw what Master and they looked like when they were young, but there were no specific events.
I also felt all the joy and fatigue of calculating the opportunity brought by the grandchildren of the apprentices.
In the end, I saw that the most unshakable thing in the depths of that memory was what needed to be done in the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, a few secret techniques that remained in the depths of the memory to be passed on to us, which had almost become the will of the soul.
However, these have all dissipated, and once they were replayed in my coma, they completely became the memories of others reflected in my mind, and they were stripped away from my personal will, so that I would not confuse these memories as mine.
And the rest melted into my soul, and in the coma, I also felt a little stronger inexplicably.
"Master" I muttered in a low voice, as if this time was a farewell, a farewell after a short reunion with my ancestor, and the warmth and emotion in my heart inexplicably overflowed my entire body, releasing the power of the remnant soul to protect me, this is the warmth given by Shizu.
"Are you awake?" A voice sounded in my ears, my mind was recovering, after thinking about it carefully, I could hear that this voice was from Lu Shan, and I tried to open some heavy eyelids, and my eyes gradually froze, and I saw that it was not Lu Shan who was in front of me?
At this moment, Lu Shan sat on a stool next to my bed, holding a cigarette, his face looked a little melancholy, watching me wake up, this melancholy has more or less dissipated.
"Smoke or water?" Seeing that my gaze gradually returned to clarity, Lu Shan asked me.
"Water, then smoke." I replied very simply that people who have experienced life and death battles together always get along with each other more casually.
After drinking a big bowl of sugar water, Lu Shan lit a cigarette for me and stuffed it into my mouth, I took a deep puff of the cigarette and said very casually: "Why sugar water, it feels the same as a child drinking medicine and coaxing a bowl of sugar water." ”
"Sugar water helps you replenish your energy." Lu Shan exhaled a puff of smoke, which was also explained casually.
"Am I in a coma for a long time? What about them? "I spit out a smoke ring, and watched the smoke ring gradually get bigger and bigger in the air, and then fade away, I didn't ask where it was, because when I was sober, I knew that I was in Lake Village, because this is Uncle Zheng's home, and I stayed here for a few days before setting off for the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts.
"It won't be long, just two days. There's a lot of intermittent nonsense, but there's also a lot of useful stuff. Lu Shan said lightly.
Does that mean I'm still talking in my sleep? Also said useful dream words? I laughed when I heard this, and then asked Lu Shan, "What am I talking about?" Can there be anything more useful? ”
Lu Shan's expression became a little strange, and then he pondered for a while before he organized his language and said to me: "Well, you are probably talking as your ancestor, and you are talking about the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts plan or something. What is useful is one of the passages, you said that you go to Jiao Cheng Chan, there is no one in ten thousand, waiting for this opportunity, it is the same as betting on a hundred big people, if you want to find Penglai, you must make human efforts, this time Xiao Chengqian's soul is one of the opportunities. ”
Afraid that I don't understand, Lu Shan explained again: "We have analyzed, Lao Li Daochang should use the pure soul that has dispersed the will to replenish your soul, but this requires a process, in the process, he more or less came into contact with some of your memories and will. So with the residual power through you, that passage came out. And the other words should be nonsense in the process of dissipating the will, after all, those things in the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts feel like the most important thing in the remnant soul of Old Dao Chang Li. ”
"yes." I frowned slightly, Lu Shan's words were the same as what I felt in my coma, but I didn't know that the master had done such a thing for us when he had lost his will.
"What your master said still needs to be analyzed, you just woke up, don't think too much." Lu Shan extinguished the cigarette butt, stood up, and walked around the room randomly, I saw that his eyes were a little red, and he felt more irritable.
I remembered one thing, and I asked them. Lu Shan didn't answer me, thinking of this, I said, "Lu Shan, do you have anything to say to me alone?" ”
Lu Shan didn't speak, just waved some decorations on the opposite cabinet, it is said that some antiques collected by Uncle Zheng, not many treasures, but most of them are some small objects with a lot of thought, and it is not bad to play with them occasionally.
"Lu Shan." I screamed, and looked at him, as if he was so focused on these objects that he didn't seem to be listening to me.
"Hmm." Lu Shan answered, casually put these small objects on the cabinet, then put his hands in his pockets, turned to me and said, "Chengyi, it's very lively outside." ”
"What's going on?" The cigarette in my hand was also smoked, and I casually snuffed out the cigarette and threw it in the ashtray that Lu Shan had just placed at my bedside.
"When we went to the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, the situation was unclear at the time, didn't we ask Monsoon to inform many people, and there was a three-day appointment? After you fell unconscious, we waited for dawn to take you away, and we met those people halfway through. A lot of people came. Lu Shan said lightly.
"Did a lot of people come? That's not the point, the point is what are you upset? "I asked seriously, and the situation on the monsoon's side can be understood after a little speculation, saying that it is three days, but out of worry, the monsoon should divide the troops into two routes, all the way to repair the outer array, waiting for us, all the way to find reinforcements.
"I received an order from Jiang Yi, let's wait where we are, he will come here." When Lu Shan said this, his brows immediately furrowed, and he touched another cigarette in irritability.
Jiang Yi? Coming in? How did Jiang Yi know?
I was about to speak, when a loud voice came to my ears: "I heard a voice talking in the house, it must be that the little brother Chengyi is awake, I'll go and see." ”
This voice is Uncle Zheng's, he is still so full of energy, before the person arrives, the voice comes first, and his sudden arrival makes it difficult for me to continue to talk with Lu Shan.
Lu Shan's expression returned to normal, and I also made a calm expression, it just so happened that I also wanted to ask Uncle Zheng about the situation in Lake Village, it was okay for him to come.
The door opened, and Uncle Zheng walked into the room, looking still in good spirits, but I saw a trace of defeat in Uncle Zheng's eyes, as for why, I still don't understand it for the time being.
"Chengyi, it's been two days, you're awake." Lu Shan brought a stool and asked Uncle Zheng to sit down next to my bed.
"Uncle Fei, you're worried about me, aren't you awake?" I casually said politely.
"You're welcome, speaking of which, you young people are really the front waves of the Yangtze River, not only the great benefactors of the Lake Village, but also the crisis of the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, we should thank you! Are you still polite to me? Uncle Zheng smiled heartily and happily, although he said it politely, but it was very sincere.
I also smiled, I didn't know how to answer, in fact, where is just our credit? If you think about it carefully, the ferryman, Master Hongnin, hundreds of Buddhas and Daoists, as well as the soul power and telekinesis that have been sealed in the boundary monument for generations, are not the whole thing that we have done alone.
It's just that this matter involves too much, I don't answer, it's inconvenient for me to say it clearly, and I don't know if Brother Chengqing explained the situation or not, it seems that it should be hidden some.
Thinking of this, I diverted the topic and asked Uncle Zheng: "What about Lake Village?" After being besieged for so many days, how is it going? ”
Speaking of this, Uncle Zheng's face became a little heavier, and he said: "There must be sacrifices, but fortunately, at the most critical time, a few of us old immortals used secret techniques to save most of them." Lake Village is still there, it is a blessing in misfortune, although the crisis of the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts has been lifted, but my Lake Village lineage still has to be guarded for generations to prevent the formation from being destroyed. ”
Uncle Zheng said with extraordinary emotion, I remembered the trace of defeat in Uncle Zheng's eyes, and couldn't help but be a little worried about this straightforward old man, and couldn't help asking: "Uncle, your body?" ”
"My body is not in the way, anyway, I have lived a lot of years, and we cultivators are talking about merit! I am very happy to be able to accumulate a lot of merit at this age. "Uncle Zheng didn't say anything explicitly, but I have already guessed that Uncle Zheng's so-called secret technique must have touched his origin before it would show a trace of defeat.
The situation is actually very unoptimistic.
But since Uncle Zheng doesn't want to say more, I don't want to ask more, I just admire this old man from the bottom of my heart.
The conversation fell silent for a while, and Uncle Zheng stood up as if he remembered something, and said, "Since you are awake, I will inform them and prepare for the banquet, many people are ready to see you, you should hurry up and clean up." ”
"I'll help." Lu Shan, who had been silent, suddenly said that.