Chapter 158: No Return (8) (1)
Yan Shixun realized something was wrong after leaving the car accident scene.
If the initial suspicion was due to the repetitive signs mentioned by the driver, now the suspicion has turned into certainty.
——There is something wrong with this road.
Yan Shixun has been paying attention to the changes in the surrounding scenery.
When he was in the car before, because of the reflection of the car window and the dark sky outside the car that concealed the details, the light and shadow inside and outside the car deceived his vision. In addition, because the vehicle was driving at such a high speed, the resolution was far greater than the range of human vision, and everything he saw became a granular mosaic, which greatly affected Yan Shixun's judgment of the outside world.
But now, when Yan Shixun looked directly at the surroundings of the road without any obstruction, he discovered——
He and Ye Li had already walked some distance away, but the surrounding environment had not changed.
The road keeps going forward, but the surrounding fields and forests remain unchanged, as if they were fixed in one place.
It was very dark, and Yan Shixun roughly identified the scenery and realized that he had seen this scenery before.
Just as the driver was stopped by a sudden car accident scene and the middle-aged man waved for help.
At that time, when Yan Shixun took Zhang Wubing away from the middle-aged man, he casually glanced at the surrounding scenery, and temporary memories were stored in his mind.
At this time, because the steep cliffs of the mountain were blurred in the darkness like a silent ghost, the similarities overlapped, which evoked Yan Shixun's memories.
Trapped in a maze?
Yan Shixun frowned.
No, it's more like the space is stuck at a node, while the road extends infinitely with no end.
The edge of the highway is surrounded by wire guardrails and anti-collision strips to prevent people from sneaking onto the highway and getting into danger, and also to protect the vehicles on the road so that they have emergency measures in case of emergencies.
Yan Shixun walked to the guardrail and looked down. His mind told him that there should be a farmland below. But all he saw was darkness.
It was like a bottomless abyss, dark and swallowing up all light, and nothing could be seen inside.
The evil creature silently looks up in the abyss, waiting for the flesh and blood of the living.
The audience squatting in front of Yan Shixun's split screen felt a chill unconsciously.
[Is it my illusion... Why do I feel that the place where Brother Yan is looking is pitch black and I can't see anything?]
[Fuck, my child is numb. It's cloudy outside and it's as dark as night. I don't dare to go to the bathroom after taking a nap, because I always feel like there's a ghost outside. After seeing this, I already feel like it's this dark outside the door.]
[Fuck, it gets dark early, and I’m watching the live broadcast in the dark now. I’m already scared. I don’t even dare to turn on the light to give myself courage… Mom!!! Please get off work and come back to save the child.]
[I was almost scared to death! Am I the only one who felt that someone was looking at me from below? I couldn’t see clearly, but my brain told me that there were eyes looking at me. My scalp was tingling.]
[If I were in Brother Yan’s position, I would… die on the spot! Cat paralysis.jpg]
Yan Shixun gazed calmly into the abyss below, with only a look of inquiry in his eyes.
Even though the information from the eyes and brain is confused because of the completely different differences, the ears can still hear the sound of branches shaking, and the nose can still smell the unique smell of farmland after the autumn harvest.
Such confusion made Yan Shixun wonder whether the world they were in now was no longer a normal one, but an independent space.
However, because the evil creature that created this space was not powerful enough or did not use the right method, it overlapped with the original real space, resulting in different perceptions from the body and soul.
In order to prove his guess, Yan Shixun took off his coat and threw it into Ye Li's arms, then he supported himself on the fence and prepared to jump down.
But Ye Li was quick to grab her wrist.
“What are you doing!”
Ye Li rarely showed anger, and asked sternly: "How dare you act so recklessly in your flesh? Do you know the height below?"
Yan Shixun raised his chin and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."
He chuckled, "Do you think I'm that little fool that Lu Xingxing is? I know what I'm doing."
"If my guess is correct..."
Yan Shixun lowered his eyes and stared solemnly into the abyss.
The cold wind carried the smell of blood, blowing in from outside the highway fence, almost chilling a person's blood.
Yan Shixun's hands, which were resting on the railing, also seemed to be covered by a hazy black air.
As if it would be enveloped by darkness in the next moment, the evil creature revealed its sharp and smelly teeth, and chewed and crushed the prey that was delivered to its door.
The audience who had the same perspective as Yan Shixun all shed tears.
[Ahhhhhh!! Isn’t there really a bottomless abyss below? Brother Yan, please stop jumping! I feel like if I jump, I’ll be smashed to pieces.]
[I’m afraid of heights!!! I can’t do it anymore. I feel dizzy.]
[…I quietly retracted my feet outside the quilt. I always felt that there was a ghost under the bed, waiting for me to stick my feet out of the bed and eat me. Brother Yan is so awesome. I feel like Brother Yan is not even afraid of this.]
Ye Li refused to let go.
He was willing to give Yan Shixun the greatest respect and let Yan Shixun act according to his own wishes, because he knew that the one he cherished was a unique exorcist that had only been found for a thousand years, and he could not be measured by the standards of other exorcists and ordinary people.
However, there is a prerequisite, which is——
Yan Shixun will not be hurt.
But what Yan Shixun wants to do now is too risky.
Even though Ye Li knew what Yan Shixun was thinking and the situation below, he still didn't want Yan Shixun to have any chance of getting hurt.
Ye Li was very strong, and when he persisted, Yan Shixun couldn't shake him for a while.
He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and looked at Ye Li in surprise: "Aren't you injured? Why are you still so strong?"
Ye Li: "..."
His hands froze and he felt himself in a dilemma.
So, should he expose the truth that he still has strength left even after being injured by Yan Shixun, or should he allow Yan Shixun to do dangerous things?
Fortunately, the light was dim and Yan Shixun couldn't see Ye Li's expression clearly, so Ye Li was not exposed.
Yan Shixun said with a smile: "Okay, I promise you, I will be fine."
"This should be fine, right?" Yan Shixun felt helpless.
But humans are not plants or trees.
Yan Shixun noticed the concern of his companions for him.
What's more, Ye Li is not someone else. To him, Ye Li is the person with whom he has a causal relationship. He was injured because of his negligence and he needs to be responsible for it.
Therefore, Yan Shixun was willing to squeeze out some of his few emotions and give them to Ye Li, patiently explaining to him that he was safe and asking him not to worry.
Ye Li pursed his lips, and under Yan Shixun's insistence, he had to let go.
Yan Shixun nodded at him: "Trust me."
After saying that, he turned his gaze back to the abyss outside the road, his eyes sharp.
Then he loosened his hands and leaped into the darkness. His posture was as nimble as an eagle flying over a ravine, and his taut back muscles showed a sense of power.
The wind whistled past his ears, and the corners of Yan Shixun's black shirt fluttered up.
The cold wind blowing up from below hit Yan Shixun in his face, making it almost impossible for him to open his eyes. He half-closed his eyes due to a physiological reaction.
He could feel that he was falling faster than normal, and the closer he got to the bottom, the stronger the fishy smell became.
That was almost the worst smell Yan Shixun had ever smelled in his memory.
It was as if the blood and bones had been sealed in a dark and narrow place for a long time. The corpse had rotted and turned into corpse fluid, which was sticky and adhered to the stiff, pale skin. The smell of rust turned into a strong, pungent stench.
Then one day, the body bag was opened.
Then all the smells burst out in a rush, trying to escape from the small, enclosed space.
Under this bad smell, people can be reminded of all their bad memories from the past and their mood will fall to the bottom.
Yan Shixun quickly held his breath.
He felt that if he continued to breathe in this smell, his lungs and trachea would be filled with sticky, rotten blood, which would be uncomfortable.
But the smoke still caused some physiological tears to flow from the corners of his eyes.
It was just right. Yan Shixun blinked his eyes, and his tears moistened his eyeballs that were dry from the wind. It also allowed him to open his eyes a little and look down in the still howling wind.
It was pitch dark, and the thick darkness engulfed Yan Shixun's figure, making it impossible for him to tell where he was.
There is no end to the fall, and there is no darkness where the danger lies...
The unknown is the best soil for brewing fear. When you are alone, all the random thoughts take root in the fertile soil of fear and spread to every inch of your mind.
The audience who experienced the thrill of cliff jumping with Yan Shixun were scared and screamed. Many of them were so frightened that their brains went blank and they were so confused that they didn't know what to do.
[Oh my god! My idol jumped off a building!!! No, he jumped off a cliff!!! I mean, from the day I started chasing my idol, I never thought that this day would come! It’s so magical.]
[I burst into tears right there. What should I do with Brother Yan? Will he die? Woohoo, someone please save Brother Yan.]
[Even if Brother Yan is powerful, he can’t jump off a cliff and bounce back, right?]
[What the hell, what the hell, what the hell!!! If I had known it was so horrible, I would have gone to turn on the light no matter what. Now I am curled up in my bed begging someone to come home from work early to save my life. ]
[I cried. Next time I will never watch live broadcasts when I am alone at home. I have been holding my pee for an hour and I dare not leave the room.]
[No! ! Brother Yan, I’m so scared, I don’t dare to look at it.]
Yan Shixun was only dazzled by the darkness at first, but he quickly regained his composure. He tried to open his eyes in the strong wind and scanned the situation in the darkness.
The abyss is bottomless.
It's like the painful despair a person feels before dying, with no end in sight.
But suddenly, Yan Shixun caught a glimpse of red.
"Tick-tock. Tick-tock..."
The blood dripped down the young man's fingers, and it was extremely clear in the quiet and silent space.
One sound, one sound.
It is the sound of approaching death.
The blood seemed to have no end.
The young man stood with his head down, his black hair covering his entire face, making it difficult to see his features. At his feet, blood had already formed into a pool.
He stood in the middle of a pool of blood. The blood-red surface of the pool was like a mirror, reflecting the young man's face.
Yan Shixun couldn't see clearly due to the darkness, but he could still see that the reflected face had no facial features.
Where the facial features should have been, there were only blood holes of varying sizes, staring at Yan Shixun through the pool of blood.
While Yan Shixun was looking at the young man, the young man was also looking at Yan Shixun, feeling dissatisfied with this stranger who was harassing him.
He slowly raised his head, his black hair stuck to his face by the sticky blood, but as he moved, his face was vaguely revealed through the gaps between his hair.
Only then did Yan Shixun see clearly—
It's not that there are no facial features, but that all the facial features have been cut off!
Eyes, nose, mouth...
The most basic features of a person's face were all gone. The young man lost all his skin and flesh, and his bones and blood vessels were exposed, densely covering the bones and outlining the outline of the skull.
But the bones that should have been pale white were now covered in blood, and at first glance, they looked like a bright red hole.
At the moment when the young man looked at Yan Shixun with only bloody holes in his eyes, the pool of blood at his feet was instantly filled with faces of all sizes that looked like his.
Their faces are crowded together, and each of the thousands of faces has a different expression.
Some of them opened their jaws wide, as if they were silently wailing. Some of them clenched their teeth, but tears and blood flowed from their eye sockets, crying with resentment. Some of them had tense blood vessels and ferocious muscles, silently screaming and accusing...
Thousands of pairs of bloody holes stared at Yan Shixun, wailing their pain to him.
But the next moment, the bloody skull faces in the blood pool seemed to be caught by something and were dragged one by one into the bottom of the blood pool.
They seemed to want to struggle, and the blood pool rippled. Skull faces floated out from under the blood pool, trying desperately to move upwards. However, they were immediately pulled down into the blood pool with greater force, and then disappeared.
Only a few ripples of blood remained, proving that they had once been here.
Even Yan Shixun couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly and his heart skipped a beat at this moment.
This is... the scene of hell.
But the young man kept looking up at Yan Shixun, as if he had no idea what was happening under his feet.
Yan Shixun did not avoid the young man's terrifying gaze, but looked at him calmly.
As if realizing that the person coming was not the same as he had imagined, the young man's original breath of resentment and despair stopped.
He was stunned for a long time.
Then, as if testing someone, the young man slowly raised his hand and pointed at Yan Shixun.
His sleeves slid down, revealing knife wounds of varying depths and flesh missing from the overlapping scratches.
Yan Shixun didn't expect that this young man, whose appearance could no longer be seen, would suddenly do such a thing, so he was slightly stunned, and then wanted to raise his hand towards the young man, wanting to hold his outstretched hand.
But darkness looms.
Yan Shixun only felt that his vision suddenly turned blood red, and a fishy smell lingered around his nose.
The next second, he lost consciousness.
In Yan Shixun's split screen, most of the audience could only see darkness, and only a small number of viewers noticed something was wrong as they watched.
[Am I dazzled? Is there something down there?]
[What? Brother, your eyesight is so good, why can't I see anything? I tried hard to see, really.]
[I thought I was the only one there... I saw it too! It looked like a person, a vague human shape, but not quite.]
[Where? Where? I only saw a patch of red, but it was weird. My partner said he only saw black and asked if the show forgot to turn on the lights.]
[What the hell is that? ? Blood? Why are there so many faces? ! ! !]
[It’s all eyes! It’s all eyes! Mom, I don’t want to play anymore, fuck!!! I want to go home.]
The comments on the screen became extremely polarized. Some people were wailing miserably, saying that they saw ghosts and densely packed eyes, but others were looking at the comments, full of confusion, looking at the black screen, not knowing what was going on at all.
The head of the public opinion group, who had been following the live broadcast, quickly reported the matter to the official person in charge, who was at the scene of the car accident at the time, repeatedly checking the surveillance footage.
The official person in charge who received the call gradually became serious, and quickly called Taoist Ma next to him to come over and let him see this bizarre thing.
As soon as Taoist Master Ma saw it, his face darkened, and he couldn't help but shout, "Blessings and blessings to the Heavenly Master!"
After hearing the tone, the official person in charge seriously suspected that what Master Ma originally meant was "Fuck!".
"What's wrong? Did you see anything?"
The official person in charge couldn't help but ask: "I just called Mr. Yan and sent a message, but there was no reply. I thought Mr. Yan didn't check his phone again. Unexpectedly, the people in the public opinion group just told me that something happened."
"Master Ma, can you tell where this is? Let's go check out Mr. Yan."
The official responsible person was looking through the videos and screenshots sent by the head of the public opinion team with a headache, wondering how could he not have watched it carefully and let the sky burst? Such a big thing actually happened.
Judging from the video and screenshots, the program crew's vehicle had a serious car accident and the crew was scattered. Some guests' split screens are still pitch black and it is unknown what is going on.
Judging from the split screens of several people who have already come online, I'm afraid it's not just a simple car accident.
Instead, it is related to ghosts again.
Official person in charge: The production team probably saw that my workload was too light, so they came to help me reach my KPI:)
Taoist Priest Tajima held the tablet and looked at it for a long time, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
“This ghostly aura…”
Taoist Priest Ma hissed and gasped several times: "Is it possible that they went to the underworld? I have never seen such a scene before."
"But the barrage is quite normal."
Compared with what happened in front of the camera, the audience and public opinion were nothing. Taoist Ma didn't care at all: "Some people are born with spirituality, or their ancestors have done yin and yang things, so they have the talent in their blood and can see it naturally."
"It's normal for others not to see it. After all, everyone's sensitivity to ghosts is different."
Taoist Priest Ma said: "Some pilgrims who come to Haiyun Temple have said that when they are at home, they can always hear voices that their family members cannot hear, or they can hear crying and asking for directions on the street outside in the middle of the night. In fact, this is because compared with other people, their innate spirituality has not declined, so their inspiration is more acute than others and they can sense ghosts."
"Some people can hear knocks on the door, but when they open it, they find no one outside, and their family members don't know either. In fact, this is the work of a ghost. If the door is opened, it is equivalent to the owner's consent to the ghost's visit. In this way, the guardian deity will not exorcise the ghost."
Taoist Priest Ma said, "I just solved a case like this a few days ago. A ghost took advantage of a loophole and entered the house, but everyone except the hostess said there was no ghost."
Taoist Priest Ma scanned the comments and handed the tablet back to the official person in charge: "Don't worry about it. According to experience, they will realize that they are dazzled. If you are worried, let the public opinion team guide them."
The official person in charge nodded, hid from Master Ma, and tried to stare at the tablet for a long time, but finally gave up after looking at the darkness.
How come he can't see anything? Is he old and therefore spiritual?
The official in charge sighed unwillingly, but immediately threw himself into his busy work again.
Since the show started, his work has been quite fulfilling...
With the intervention of the public opinion group, many arguments such as "The optical elements of the camera lens automatically fill in the light in dark conditions, so ghosting occurs", "Visual deception", and "Reflection" soon appeared, slowly guiding the direction of comments.
After the initial fear passed, the audience slowly came to their senses.
[I don’t feel involved at all! Bad review! Is it because I didn’t spend any money that I don’t deserve it? Why can you all see it but I can’t!]
[I spent money! I am a distinguished VIP customer, I strongly request that you let me see it!]
[But didn’t a big guy in the comment section just now explain the relationship between retinal imaging and light? He said that it’s possible that there is something red around us, and after looking at it for a long time, we suddenly look at something black, and the image left on the retina overlaps with what we see now, so we think it’s a ghost.]
[I see! I was wondering, what ghosts? There is a graveyard behind my house. If there are ghosts, why haven’t I seen any? Let them come to me, idiot.]
[? ? ? Be careful with what you say! Didn’t Brother Yan warn you before? Stay away from it.]
[Okay, this theory convinces me. I do have a cutout of Annan wearing a red suit on my desk.]
[Plus one, I am wearing red clothes. Maybe the black screen is reflecting light, I am seeing myself... Oh, I am scaring myself.]
[I was like that before. I walked past the mirror on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night and thought there was a ghost next to me. I was so scared that I howled. But in the end, I realized it was actually me.]
[I said I didn’t see anything, so you guys are dazzled.]
The split-screen shot was pitch black.
The audience members who were chatting did not notice that in the deep darkness, Yan Shixun was no longer visible...
Ye Li stared at Yan Shixun's back until he was swallowed by the darkness and could no longer be seen.
He still had Yan Shixun's coat on his arm, which still had some warmth left from it. But as Yan Shixun left, that warmth quickly faded away in the cold wind.
Ye Li's pale thin lips were pursed into a line, his eyes were gloomy and dangerous, and his gaze into the darkness became sharper as time passed.
Just when Ye Li's patience was about to run out, a sound finally came from the dead silent road.
“Click!”
There was a very slight sound of metal collision, as if someone had gripped the metal railing tightly, causing the metal to make a sound of being unable to bear the weight.
That sound...came from behind.
Ye Li's eyes lit up and he immediately turned around to look.
A slender hand grasped the metal fence at the edge of the road, using it as a foothold to support his body.
Yan Shixun's figure was falling outside the fence.
Ye Li didn't consider why Yan Shixun clearly jumped off the fence on this side but came up from the other side.
He took a big step forward, bent down and grabbed Yan Shixun's thin waist, exerted force under his palm, and lifted Yan Shixun up from below with one hand.
Amazing arm strength.
Yan Shixun noticed this point of Ye Li and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief only after he got out of Ye Li's arms and stood on the road again.
"Okay, I have to admit that the situation down there is much more dangerous than I expected."
Yan Shixun took a breath and admitted to Ye Li: "Although the overall situation is similar to what I guessed, I didn't expect that there was a large amount of Yin energy gathered below."
“To that extent…”
Yan Shixun recalled the chilling and gloomy scene he had just faced, and his brows darkened: "It almost made me think that I was in the underworld."
That is not the negative energy that should appear in the human world.
Yan Shixun traveled all over the country with Li Chengyun. He saw ghosts crying at funerals, monsters worshiping the moon, and also passed by a place that was said to be the ruins of Fengdu.
But he had never seen such a strong yin energy.
Hundreds of wailing faces in the blood pool, endless darkness, and a strong smell of blood...
Even at the end, Yan Shixun could feel that something suddenly appeared in the abyss, blocking everything he had seen, including the young man, in darkness.
A cold voice rang out hoarsely.
Keep away strangers!
If Yan Shixun had not remained on guard the entire time, he would have bitten his finger when the unusual cold breath attacked him, which not only kept himself awake, but also released the power in his blood to force back the thing hidden in the darkness.
I'm afraid he will never come back from this trip.
However, after getting rid of the eerie ghostly aura, everything turned out to be the same as Yan Shixun had guessed before.
Because the scenery outside the road is still, there is no possibility of escape anywhere except the road.
Yan Shixun took advantage of this and found out the situation outside the highway.
It's like a Möbius strip, an eternal cycle, with no front or back, so there is no end.
Outside the road, jump down from the left and you will come up from the left.
And all the people walking on the road were like insects placed on the edge of a flowerpot, walking in circles, thinking they could find the exit.
Little do we know that this road will never end.
Never find the exit.
——Just like there is no end to despair.
Yan Shixun remembered the young man he saw in the blood pool in the abyss, and his face covered with blood, tears and despair.
Since he was the young man seen in the abyss, does that mean that the abnormality on the road is related to the young man?
What happened to the young man to cause the ghost energy to be so strange? Was it related to the wounds on his face and body? Why was he so desperate?
Yan Shixun remembered that when he was in the abyss, he saw the wounds on the young man's body, with the skin and flesh rolled up and the bones visible.
That was definitely not an injury that the young man could have caused himself.
This made Yan Shixun start to wonder whether the young man had experienced something extremely tragic and then died in despair, which was why his resentment after death covered the sky and attracted the ghost spirit.
Yan Shixun was very clear that the young man he saw was not a human.
It is the soul of the dead.
But at the same time, he also clearly saw the abnormality under the young man's feet.
The crisis raging in the blood pool.
When Yan Shixun frowned and thought, Ye Li suddenly raised his hand, and with his slightly cool palm he gently wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of his eyes.
Feeling the coolness on his cheek, Yan Shixun came back to his senses and looked at Ye Li with a questioning look.
"You've cried." Ye Li frowned: "Are you hurt? Can I..."
"It's okay." Yan Shixun felt a little embarrassed for a rare moment.
Those were clearly physiological tears, so why did Ye Li say such a normal thing as if he were an adult crying?
It seems so embarrassing...
"Haven't you heard of crying in the wind?" Yan Shixun pointed outside the road: "The wind down there is too strong, it's blowing."
Audience in front of the split screen: [Although I know that Brother Yan is definitely not the type to cry, but after Brother Yan explained it this way, it seems a little strange? It's like the excuse of "sand in the eye"...]
[Let’s bet, this long-haired cool guy will definitely not believe what Brother Yan said. If he does, I will wash my hair upside down.]
But the next second, Ye Li in the camera nodded calmly.
"Yeah, the wind is very strong." Ye Li shook out the coat in his hand and put it on Yan Shixun's shoulders: "The wind is strong, don't get sick."
The temperature in the mountains in late autumn was almost zero degrees. Yan Shixun had just experienced a strong wind that took away his body temperature. The eerie ghost energy also invaded his body meridians, causing the yang energy in his body to drop sharply, and his temperature also dropped.
Yan Shixun's body temperature was almost as cold as Yeli's.
In fact, if it wasn't Yan Shixun who jumped off the road, the evil spirit in his bones would have made him have evil spirits roaming in his meridians all the time, and he had become accustomed to coexisting with evil spirits. If it was anyone else, they would have died in such a thick evil spirit.
That is far beyond the limit that the human body can bear.
So Yan Shixun did not refuse and allowed Ye Li to get closer to him.
When Ye Li put his coat on him, his long arms went around his head, so that at first glance their posture now looked like he was being held in Ye Li's arms.
This made Yan Shixun feel a little awkward.
He wanted to ask Ye Li to stay away, but when he looked up, he saw that Ye Li looked natural, as if he was overthinking it.
Yan Shixun:? I always feel like something is wrong, but I have no evidence.
And the barrage: [……]
[Hugging each other! Hugging each other! Screaming ahhhhh!!! Tell me! What is the relationship between you and my brother Yan? Woohoo!]
[Oh my goodness, is this what you mean by "I believe everything you say"?]
[Where’s the guy in front who wants to wash his hair upside down? Come out! I’ll show you something good, hahaha.]
But the one who posted that he wanted to wash his hair upside down quickly and quietly curled up in his bed in the dormitory and pretended to be dead.
He felt that the atmosphere in the dormitory was too weird tonight, so he decided to stay in bed to be safe.
He was going to become a god, but for some reason, he seemed to be crazy tonight... It scared him just by looking at him.
The roommate sighed, stretched his head to look at the still empty bed opposite him, and felt a little scared because of the emptiness in his heart.
Yan Shixun didn't know the topic of the barrage. He was still discussing the situation under the road with Ye Li.
"The King of Hell is dead."
Unexpectedly, Ye Li said in a low and calm voice: "A hundred years ago, the gods died."
After all, there are only a few people like the mountain god of Wild Wolf Peak who escaped disaster by relying on the devout faith of their people.
——Although the mountain god escaped the natural disaster, she eventually died at the hands of the people she protected.
Yan Shixun paused and looked at Ye Li in surprise: "What?"
"If you say that it's like the underworld, then that's possible."
Ye Li and Yan Shixun looked at each other and told the truth of heaven and earth without any concealment: "Because the underworld has long lost its supervisor."
"After the death of the King of Hell, his remaining strength barely supported the underworld, allowing the reincarnation cycle to function normally for the time being. However, his strength will eventually be exhausted. By then, the underworld will collapse, the evil spirits will escape, and the world will be filled with corpses, just like purgatory."
Ye Li calmly described the cruel scene without wavering: "Until now, no living person has discovered the abnormality of the underworld because of the existence of Fengdu."
Although the underworld and Fengdu are two completely different systems, their responsibilities are ultimately related to the dead souls and evil spirits.
Because of the overlapping functions, Fengdu did not let the earth collapse after abnormalities occurred in the underworld. Therefore, few people in the world noticed that something was wrong with the underworld.
Ye Li patiently explained to Yan Shixun: "It's like a robot in the human world. It's programmed to do the same work over and over again. When the battery runs out, it will stop."
Yan Shixun keenly grasped one thing: "There is no supervisor, which means that even if there is an error in the robot program, it will not be punished or corrected, but will continue."
Ye Li nodded and gave an affirmative answer.
But Ye Li's words suddenly reminded Yan Shixun of something.
——Li Chengyun lived to be sixty-three years old.
The way of heaven is unpredictable, and there are sixty-four hexagrams.
After the last hexagram, the eight hexagrams are complete.
And Li Chengyun died at the age of sixty-three.
Number sixty-four is a place that heaven and earth do not allow him to set foot in.
In that year, Li Chengyun went to a place.
——The old site of Fengdu.
Yan Shixun remembered it very clearly. That year, he was still a student at Binhai University.
After learning about his family's situation, the counselor knew that Li Chengyun was a folk person, so he couldn't help but tactfully suggest to Li Chengyun that children's studies are more important and he should not always let the children participate in those folk activities.
Li Chengyun understood the counselor's implied meaning and knew that she was worried that Yan Shixun would become a "superstitious" person, so he happily agreed.
Then, he rejected Yan Shixun's proposal to go to Fengdu with him.
When school started after the Spring Festival that year, Yan Shixun's handsome face was stretched long as he carried his suitcase to school.
Li Chengyun saw that he was unhappy, so he coaxed him and said that he would definitely take him next time.
result……
What Yan Shixun was waiting for was the news of Li Chengyun's death.
Therefore, the matter of the old site of Fengdu has always been in Yan Shixun's mind. Over the years, he has traveled all over the country searching for it, wanting to know where the old site of Fengdu was that Li Chengyun had calculated and visited.
What happened again.
At this moment, what Ye Li said evoked Yan Shixun's memories.
He was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I understand."
Yan Shixun suddenly had an epiphany and figured out why Li Chengyun was looking for the old site of Fengdu back then.
——Because Li Chengyun calculated the fall of the underworld.
Even in Haiyun Temple where there are so many geniuses, Li Chengyun can be regarded as an absolutely rare genius. His fellow disciples often sigh that with Li Chengyun around, all other practitioners are eclipsed.
It’s as if... Li Chengyun and the Tao are one.
Therefore, Yan Shixun was not surprised that Li Chengyun was able to figure it out.
The Taoists who came out of Haiyun Temple have always shouldered the responsibility of protecting their country and the world. Countless of them have died for Taoism, and there has never been anyone who was afraid of death and pursued wealth and fame.
It is also common sense that Li Chengyun would go forward to seek for something even though he knew it was dangerous.
But, Heaven and Earth are not kind.
It will not favor Li Chengyun just because of his talent.
It has its own chess game, and that is a secret that no one can fathom.
Peeper...dies.
With the mutual evidence from Li Chengyun and Ye Li, Yan Shixun not only understood the reason why Li Chengyun made his choice back then, but also believed what Ye Li said.
Although he was a little puzzled as to why Ye Li knew such things, even the founder of the sect had exceeded the limits allowed by the Great Dao, but Ye Li seemed to know this very well, even as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
This made Yan Shixun a little suspicious.
But before Yan Shixun could come to his senses, he heard screams coming from behind him.
He paused and looked at the road behind him with an inquiring look.
Soon, a staggering and embarrassed figure appeared behind them.
Yan Shixun narrowed his eyes and saw the man's face clearly.
It was the middle-aged man who had stopped a car for help.
But at this moment, the middle-aged man had completely lost the arrogance and self-righteousness he had when facing Zhang Wubing. Instead, he was terrified and ran desperately on the road as if he was being chased by a wild beast.
After seeing the two blurry silhouettes in front of him, the middle-aged man's eyes, which were originally wide open,
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