Chapter 88
"……What's the meaning?"
Gu Qingming's expression suddenly became serious, and even Chu Zhongyuan put away his usual smile and frowned.
Since "Gamu" was not a harmful mystery and it had some friendship with them before, Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan were still young at heart and felt that they could not just ignore it.
After all, they couldn't just watch a life, even a mysterious one, pass away right in front of them.
"Is there no other solution?"
Gu Qingming's deep brown eyes shone in the crystal, and in a trance, they were even as radiant as the crystal.
"...My time has come. This is the law of nature."
Wolf Shadow shook his head, revealing a tired yet peaceful expression.
He was already very old, and as a small highland wolf, it stood to reason that he could not live for more than four hundred years.
However, the stories and adventures that he experienced with the Cretaceous Fairy were so beautiful and intense that the aging Wolf King could not let go and had to force himself to continue to survive.
Even if it means that he would be shattered into a phantom and ghostly existence.
"Can--"
"I see."
Chu Zhongyuan wanted to say something, but looking at the other person's peaceful and quiet eyes, Gu Qingming seemed to read something important from them.
He closed his eyes, savoring the other person's gaze. When he opened them again, the person had already stopped Chu Zhongyuan from saying anything.
That is something far more important than a lifespan that has already reached the end of its years.
The wolf's tail had almost dissipated, and its entire body had become translucent, a sign that the mystery was about to disappear.
It is indeed a very old mystery, and the vicissitudes and compassion on its face almost overflow, which makes people sad.
But he really didn't care about the reality that he was dying, because he had more important things to do - the person he was waiting for had already arrived.
"Old Mystery always has many stories, and so do old wolves. Are you interested in listening to a story I tell you?"
The crystals spread out, outlining two chairs on the mirror-like shallow water surface.
Watching the two boys with familiar auras sitting down, Wolf Shadow shook its tail which had begun to dissipate, and began to narrate the origin of Snowland Holy Tomb XI.
In the very beginning, this was originally a sacrificial site left behind by a priest from an ancient plateau country.
The huge temple symbolizes the ancient civilization’s devout belief in the sacred mountain. In order to show their piety, they made the temple a secret place, independent from reality and illusion, becoming a pure land that will never grow old and stand tall in the face of time without falling.
This place is too pure and clean, so the tired guardian finally chose it as his burial place.
Four hundred years ago, the underworld collapsed, and the Gate of the Netherworld that sealed countless evil spirits was opened. Ghosts and monsters rushed out from the Nine Abyss. Even though the official supernatural organization at that time, which was the prototype of CPA, took action in time, countless evil spirits were scattered and fled, leaving many mysterious traces in the real world, including but not limited to secret realms.
The Immortal Lord Bai Ke, who was the master of Bai Ke Lan's supernatural power in his previous life, as the guardian of the Nine Nether Gate, finally chose to transform into the true form of Teng Snake, use himself as a seal, and re-seal the Nine Abyss behind the gate.
The Immortal King had a unique time when he was not bound by his duties and traveled with his friends. They climbed mountains, went into the deep sea, and witnessed the snow and desert. At the end of that journey, the Cretaceous Immortal King came to the purest and clearest place created by ancient civilization - the Secret Realm of the Snowy Holy Tomb X.
The true name of this secret place cannot be verified. Only the mirror-like surface of the sky, where the sea and the sky merge into one, is quietly suspended in this space. The thin crystals underwater are shining with dazzling colors, making people unable to take their eyes away.
The remaining consciousness of the Immortal King chose a secluded resting place for himself, which is the secret place of the Snowy Holy Temple, where he ended his wandering journey with his friends.
The weak heroic spirits disappeared here without leaving even a trace, and the overflowing resentful souls and evil spirits gradually disappeared after a hundred years of processing by the CPA. Over the long passage of time, they turned into yellowed files stored deep in the CPA archives department.
Everything has been obscured by the terrible and omnipotent existence of time. After scattered years, only the old wolf shadow remembers that history and stands here alone, waiting to fulfill the final promise.
"Before I fell asleep here and left, the two old friends gave me something..."
Wolf Shadow sighed, quickly struggled out of the nostalgia of the past, and started talking about business.
"I can feel that the seal of the underworld has become increasingly loose, and some treacherous people with ulterior motives are plotting to seize the so-called moment of vow-making at the Nine Abyss Gate."
Wolf Shadow shook his head, and a cold look appeared in his eyes, which had just been tired. His gaze was as sharp as the snow on the plateau in winter.
"The so-called moment of making wishes is not what Chief Ceobe claims. It can fulfill any wish made by anyone at that moment."
"That is not a gift from the Wheel of Fortune, but a curse. The Moment of Wishes appeared once four hundred years ago when the Nine Abysses Secret Realm was opened. If it is really a miracle that can fulfill wishes, then it will also fulfill the wishes of the monsters imprisoned in the depths of the Nine Abyss."
Wolf Shadow didn't explain it in detail, but the implication was obvious. As a mysterious person who had traveled with the Cretaceous Immortal King four hundred years ago, he knew very well that the so-called Moment of Making a Wish was simply a scam by Chief Ceobe.
"This is too abominable..."
Gu Qingming recalled the conversations he had heard between some members of Ceope.
"Then I'll entrust my wish to you. Don't forget to make a wish for me when the time comes. My daughter's illness is really..."
"I don't want to see my son continue to be disabled like this..."
"Who says it's not?"
How many of those Ceopes who were deceived by this lie and led astray, are trying to create a miracle just for the softest part of their hearts?
After all, the darkest people are only a minority. Most people are in the large gray intersection area between black and white. They only need a slight push from Ceobe's boss to fall into the abyss and slide into the bottom of the sea.
"I can't figure out Ceob's boss either. He is very dangerous and will be the biggest obstacle in your future."
The wolf looked serious, and a crystal bell appeared next to its tail, hanging quietly in the air, shaking and making a clear and pleasant distant sound.
"This is a relic of an ancient civilization. It was once used as a water talisman, one of the five talismans in the underworld."
Wolf Shadow smiled bitterly: "Ha, maybe it would be more appropriate to call it a snow talisman?"
"I want to entrust it to you now. Before I met Bai Kelan and the new owner of the Nine Nether Mirror, I did not agree to the CPA's frequent negotiations, because I once promised Bai Ke Xianjun that I would definitely hand it over to you and contribute to preventing the disaster in the underworld."
Wolf Shadow straightened the snow bell and said, "It doesn't matter. The concealment here is pretty good. Ceope's boss won't find this place so quickly. You can think about it carefully."
Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan fell into rare silence.
The heaviness behind one of the five great talismans was too vivid. Even though they had only been in the world of superpowers for a little over a year, they could still feel the pressure.
The young people often dream of saving the world. Now that the opportunity has almost become a reality, it is difficult for them to make up their minds as in the dream.
After all, Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan are essentially just two ordinary people who want to live a simple and happy life with their good friends, family... and now maybe a special guy they like.
They never had any big ambitions, they just felt that as long as they could walk their own path in the ups and downs of this world, that was enough.
But... the wheel of fate has already been determined. Bai Ke Lan and Jiuyou Mirror have chosen them. The secret realm of Jiuyou in the underworld is lurking with a huge crisis, which is beyond human control.
What's more, CPA must take back the holy object before Ceobe. Although Boss Cao did not say it explicitly, the two teenagers more or less knew that their teacher had been troubled countless times because of this.
The stairs are filled with the bones of our ancestors, and we should fight back with our lives.
The CPA's admonition passed by their ears, and the two boys looked at each other with complicated expressions, and held the snow bell floating in the air together.
The most urgent task is to recover the water talisman.
The surface of the snow bell floating in the air flashed with green and dark blue light, and then it fell from the sky, as if it had turned into a simple ordinary crystal bell.
"Oh, you are indeed the one that the Immortal Lord asked me to wait for. I didn't expect that the seal between the Immortal Lord and Jiuyou Lord could be opened by you so easily."
Wolf Shadow shook his fluffy tail, and Gu Qingming noticed that his tail became more transparent.
"I've wanted to ask this for a long time. If the white cret mist comes from the White Cretaceous Immortal Lord, then what about me? Why can I also see those vague memories of my past life? Could it be that the blue Nine Nether Lord in the memory is me?"
Chu Zhongyuan raised his hand and asked a question as if he was asking the teacher a question in class.
"Yes, you are Lord Jiuyou, the traitor who escaped from the Jiuyuan Secret Realm."
Wolf Shadow shrugged and complained.
"……ah?"
Chu Zhongyuan pointed at himself and stood stiffly. He originally just wanted to know who the previous owner of his superpower was, but he didn't expect to get such a negative evaluation. He looked at Xiao Ming with a wronged look, afraid to see disgust and fear in the other's eyes.
"Don't worry, you just inherited his supernatural powers, you are not his reincarnation. I know you can't be a bad person."
Student Xiao Ming received the instructions and stroked the cow cat's fur very comfortably. Chu Zhongyuan narrowed his eyes, and the shoulder-length black hair sideburns swayed like cat ears.
Gu Qingming laughed secretly in his heart with no sense of crisis: After all, how could the cow cat, one of the prototypes of Black Cat Sheriff, be a bad guy?
Wolf Shadow couldn't help but laugh.
"I'm sorry, just think of it as a joke from an old man before he dies."
With an attitude of responsibility towards the young people, Wolf Shadow did not act like a riddler at all. Instead, he tried his best to tell them everything he knew.
"Jiuyou Jun, I am the good friend who traveled around the world with Baike Xianjun back then... Those three years were truly wonderful... Forget it, I won't talk nonsense any more, let's get back to the point, Jiuyou Jun... He is not a righteous immortal like Baike Xianjun, but a strange evil ghost in the most evil place, Jiuyuan."
Chu Zhongyuan: "...It's over. Zheng Qiuji was right to scold me. I am really not a human being."
Gu Qingming: "The Word Spirit-type psychic is so terrifying!"
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