Chapter 17: Sleep
It's a sky full of haze.
The sky is eternally grey, with no sunlight or clouds in sight. The land is full of corruption, withered trees, barren land, there is no life.
The ground is a thick mist that can never be dispersed, and these mist come from the Yellow Spring in the distance, the Yellow Spring that pours down like a heavenly river.
It transpires and drifts across the earth, bringing darkness and desolation to the whole world.
This is the underworld.
In the land of the underworld, there will always be only ghosts.
All kinds of ghosts.
The most primitive fog ghosts condensed with mist, resentful spirits formed by condensation and accumulation of resentment, fierce spirits that do not dissipate after death, and all kinds of zombies that retain their entities, as well as all kinds of strange existences that are difficult to classify, are filled in this world, forming a vast and huge world of ghosts.
The underworld is beyond imagination, and even better than the flood wilderness, second only to Hongmeng.
As the guiding realm of the starry world, it corresponds to countless worlds in the underworld. Because of these connections, the underworld is full of mysteries, and there are countless strange places, far from what people can imagine.
Yanshui River is such a strange place in the underworld.
This is a long river of pitch black, without a source, existing with the underworld, born with the filthy earth. The river never flows, but there is always a rumbling sound. The river is filled with a black mist that never dissipates, and the river is filled with all kinds of ghosts.
Below the Yanshui River, the black river water rolled, and under the waves of mysterious power, the vortex rolled out one after another.
Occasionally, black ghosts can be seen hovering from the whirlpool, crawling out of the whirlpool and swimming to the surface of the water with a terrible cry.
A Yanshui ghost creature was born.
Not every ghost thing necessarily appears in the Yellow Spring, the Yellow Spring supports the entire underworld, but the underworld corresponds to the Star Luo Wan Realm. In this world, there are too many subversive and unconventional, even self-contradictory existences, incomprehensible, elusive, the living are not approached, and the dead cannot sleep.
It continued to sink downward, gradually reaching the deepest and darkest bottom of the river.
With a strong corrosive undercurrent, this place has become a forbidden area for life, and even ghosts do not want to enter, only a few kinds of ghosts such as rotten bone fish and ghost crabs can exist here.
But it is in such a place that a huge human body as a mountain exists tenaciously.
He settled in the deepest part of the river's bottom, and the rotten sand covered his body.
The undercurrent is surging on it, and it can't scrape away the hard flesh and blood, and the sharp teeth of the rotten bone fish can't bite through the hard shell, and even the soul of the ghost crab can't store on it.
At this moment, the corpse lay quietly at the bottom of the river, motionless, as if dead.
In the chest of the corpse, there was a terrifying hole, piercing him entirely, and the huge energy still stayed on it, and even any ghost that dared to approach it would be directly torn to pieces.
A ghost crab is here.
The energy vortex at the entrance of the cave not only attracted the ghost crab, but also made it feel terrified, and it could only linger on the edge of the energy vortex.
Suddenly, a transparent claw reached out from the hole and grabbed the ghost crab. The ghost crab's mist-like body began to change, trying to escape the transparent claws, and at the same time, the black mist stabbed down, making a sharp screeching sound.
The transparent claws retracted unaffected, pulling back to the hole in his chest.
Under the impact of majestic energy, the ghost crab was instantly washed into nothing, leaving only a trace of the most quintessential soul energy, which was guided into the cave.
In the depths of the cave was a heart that had been torn apart, and beside this heart sat a transparent ghost.
It sat on the edge of the heart, carefully guiding the soul energy in, and then there was a little healing at the crack of the broken heart, which was difficult to see with the naked eye.
Then the heart thumped.
Although it was just a beat, it exuded surging life energy, and within dozens of zhang nearby, all the rotten bone fish and soul crabs that passed by were all shocked. It's a pity that this kind of death will not bring any good to the physical body, so the heart let out a long sigh.
The transparent ghost thing gently stroked his heart, as if to say, don't worry, don't worry.
This corpse is naturally the Tang Zheng deity, and as for the transparent ghost, it is Xiao San.
Tang Zheng's deity is indeed dead.
Life is gone, life is gone.
On that day, the palm of the Flood Desolate Continent from the Great Luo Jin Immortal was terrifying and unparalleled, even the powerful body of the Tang Tribulation Lord, who claimed to be immortal and immortal, could not resist and died on the spot.
But the dead soul is still there!
Because of the existence of the doppelganger, the soul of the Tang Tribulation deity has something to go, and there will be no such thing as a person dying and the lights going out.
It's just that Tang Zheng didn't take back the remnant soul on the deity.
On the contrary, he left his spirit there.
The dead are not allowed to send souls, and even if they do, they are just walking dead.
But Tang Zheng did not use this method.
The moment the deity died, Tang Zheng used Creation Infinity on his deity.
To be exact, he used it on a broken piece of the heart of the deity.
The moment he used Creation Infinity, Tang Zheng's body already had a new life.
This life is fragile, unconscious, and devoid of any fighting power.
But at the same time it is also a seed.
Seeds of life!
Yes, Tang Zheng himself is indeed dead, but Tang Zheng has left himself a seed of life.
At the moment of the existence of the seed of life, the consciousness of the Buddha-figure has already entered this newborn life, and for the first time it falls into a deep sleep like suspended animation.
Tang Zheng called this fetal breath.
A new life must go through the hidden phase in its development.
At the same time, he used the secret method of Daozang Locking Yuan to lock all the essence energy of the physical body and prevent it from leaking.
In this way, the seed of life can be conceived and grown in the body of the deity, using the body as the soil, quickly absorbing and expanding, and reforming into a complete deity.
This was originally a good plan, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the Emperor of the Underworld, and he actually pulled the deity into the underworld, who made Tang Zheng unwilling to hand over the soul of the Five Elements Clan to the underworld.
This can't be blamed for Tang Tribulation's stinginess, the Five Elements Clan is a race created by Tang Tribulation, belonging to the Huangting World, not in the system of the Star Luo Thousand Realms. As an independent system, it has great reference, reference and research significance for Tang Tribulation, and is an important basis for Tang Tribulation to take a further step forward in the future.
But if the soul of the Five Elements Clan enters the underworld and enters reincarnation, it means that it will be integrated into the Star Luo Great Thousand Realm, and it will lose this independence.
In the future, in order to gain greater power, the Huang Ting World will integrate sooner or later, but not now, so Tang Zheng can't let the underworld take away these remnant souls no matter what. At the cost of losing the deity.
Fortunately, what the underworld needs is always the soul rather than the body, and the Hades Emperor is a virtual god, and he is not very interested in the body itself, and it is completely out of revenge that he pulls the deity into the underworld, so he doesn't pay attention to it after pulling into the underworld.
The land of the dead in the underworld is heavy and hard to find. Fortunately, the seed of life is conceived and grown on the soil of the body, and there is little demand from the outside world for the time being, so the problem is not big.
The real trouble is that the consciousness of the deity falls into a deep sleep with the seed of life, and it cannot resonate with the consciousness of Tang Tribulation, so Tang Tribulation also does not know the situation of the deity.
All he knows about the deity can only be through the mistress.
Without consciousness dominating, the seed of life will grow very slowly by instinct alone. The worst thing is that although the Hades Emperor is not interested in the physical body, not every ghost in the underworld is not interested in the physical body.
Most of the ghosts that have a physical body are interested in this physical body of the deity.
Therefore, Tang Zheng had to recover faster to deal with possible threats.
During this time, Xiao San kept capturing the ghosts and ghosts and feeding Tang Zheng's ontological consciousness, just to let the consciousness of the deity wake up quickly, so that he could effectively manipulate this body.
At this moment, after that sigh, a voice suddenly sounded in Xiao San's consciousness: "San'er." ”
"Squeak!" Hearing this, Xiao San let out an excited cry like a mouse.
The consciousness of the deity has finally truly awakened.
The deity has said, "How are we doing now?"
The junior danced and shouted.
Through the transmission of consciousness, the Buddha-figure has understood what the junior is saying.
He felt himself for a moment, and found that his current life form was still only the most primitive life seed form, residing on the barely repaired heart of the monument, and was in a strange state of being a human and not a human, a ghost and not a ghost. Even his own consciousness can only barely exist, and if he thinks about it for a long time, he will feel tired. As for establishing contact with the doppelganger Tang Tribulation, let alone it, fortunately, the doppelganger can at least feel the deity wake up.
Knowing this, the deity said, "I can't wake up for too long now, and I'll soon fall into a deep sleep." It is imperative that I continue to collect ghost food for me so that I can stay awake for more time. ”
"Don't worry, father, I'll catch more ghost crabs for you. Xiao San replied.
The deity has said, "That's not enough...... Need for a stronger ......"
Xiao San's face immediately showed embarrassment: "But I am a ghost hunter, and I can't openly appear in the underworld." ”
"Then let them come. Tang Zhengdao.
"How did you get here?"
"Fishing...... ...... with my flesh," the deity's voice lowered.
It's just that after a while, the Buddha-figure consciousness has gradually become difficult to support, and it is about to fall into a deep sleep again.
"Your flesh and blood?" Xiao San was stunned.
yes, why didn't you think of it?
The flesh and blood of the deity is still very tempting for some specific ghost things, and in some respects it is tantamount to a genius treasure, and it will definitely be able to catch ghost things.
"But if it's too powerful......" Xiao San was a little worried.
It is not afraid of ghosts that are too powerful, but once it fights, it will inevitably be exposed, and the risk will increase.
"Unsuitable target...... Just give up...... Bait can be discarded. The deity continued.
"But that would be a waste of your flesh. ”
"When it's time to waste, let's waste it. What you lose now, you will always get back later......" The deity's voice became deeper and lower, and by the end it was completely inaudible.
He fell into a deep sleep again.