Before Ye Sisi could have any more time to process this, and before she could have another chance to touch the skeleton, the scene switched automatically.
She played different roles again and again in this brutal war that had lasted for ten thousand years, experiencing the baptism of slaughter time and time again.
Death and bloodshed numbed her mind and body, and at one moment she even had a kind of indifference that seemed to have seen through life and death.
But when she came to her senses, she still felt sorry for these predecessors who were willing to die, whether they were human or demon.
They sacrificed so much, yet in this protected homeland of Cangjing, no one knows them, no one remembers them. Ten thousand years have passed, and how many beings from the higher planes still remember their sacrifices?
If she hadn't stumbled upon the hidden head and the chubby boy by chance, and gotten to know the national treasure, she wouldn't have known all this.
If she hadn't personally witnessed Xia Changsheng and Zheng Xiangyi waiting for ten thousand years in the forbidden land of the Yellow Springs, she wouldn't have known that those feared and dreaded evil spirits were predecessors who had sacrificed themselves for this world.
If it weren't for the chance encounter that led her here and through all of this, she wouldn't have known the cruelty of that war, nor the ruthlessness of those predecessors.
How many people could have personally witnessed and experienced all of this like she did?
When she returned from the Forbidden Land of the Underworld, she told the Alliance the truth and built temples for these predecessors, whose names she knew or did not know, within the sphere of influence of the Heavenly Spirit Sect.
The alliance also notified various sects to build temples for these ancestors in various places, but very few people went to worship. So many years have passed, and without deep-seated pain, how could the base instincts of humanity waste time on a memorial that is meaningless to them?
Ye Sisi let out a long sigh; her face had lost all color.
Even if all of that is just someone else's memory, even a ruthless demon cannot withstand a prolonged war.
Ye Sisi's mind was filled with images of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, of heroes she didn't know who resolutely went to their deaths, and of demonic cultivators and demonic beasts wantonly devouring and biting each other.
Fragmented memories and various wails and howls paint a vivid picture of a living hell.
After experiencing this, Ye Sisi understood why the predecessors in the Forbidden Land of the Underworld became like that, and why they suffered karmic retribution.
First, there is the incompleteness of the natural order, and second, there are the countless ordinary people affected by the war.
Although Ye Sisi didn't know the exact location of that battlefield, it was definitely part of a higher plane. During her possession, she witnessed countless ordinary people who couldn't evacuate in time being annihilated by the waves of battle.
Even if a cultivator kills an ordinary person, they will be targeted by heavenly tribulation, let alone if it directly affects people on an entire continent or even more continents. Even if it is out of necessity, the rules are the rules.
After a while, she felt her throat was dry and her head was spinning. Scattered limbs and the spray of brain matter and blood kept assaulting her mind.
He took the Qiankun Bottle from his waist, intending to drink some spiritual dew to soothe his throat, but he vomited it up as soon as he drank it, and once he started vomiting, it just wouldn't stop.
Even after vomiting up all the bile, the nausea didn't subside much.
Su Jiuli and the others were also dragged into the war scene and haven't come to their senses yet.
She was a little confused. Her two senior brothers hadn't touched the skeletons, so why were they pulled in as well?
Moreover, their faces were all deathly pale, clearly indicating they weren't feeling well either. She shook her head, feeling that she wasn't much better off than them.
Wait, something's not right. What's with this light? Where is it coming from?
She belatedly realized that apart from the stone platform at the beginning, the entire space was pitch black.
They could see things clearly for two reasons: firstly, as cultivators, their eyesight was naturally better than that of ordinary people; secondly, they had already adapted to the darkness here. But no matter what, they shouldn't be able to see so clearly.
But she was certain that before she was engrossed in the war images, everything around her was dark and there was no light source.
Stiffly turning her head towards the source of the light, she was already mentally prepared, because the light was eerie green, which meant it could only be the army of skeletons she had seen before.
Although she knew that the mountain of bones in front of her was filled with human and demon ancestors who had died in battle, she was still a little apprehensive about facing such a terrifying army of skeletons.
Turning their heads, they saw that the skeleton army that had previously surrounded the stone platform where they were standing was indeed the same one.
There were too many of them for her to count, and as for their appearances, well, you know, she couldn't tell if they were from the same group.
Looking into the eyes adorned with clusters of eerie green flames, Ye Sisi secretly swallowed, her already drowsy mind becoming even more flustered.
This time, however, the skeleton army did not stand still as before. Instead, they made way for Ye Sisi after meeting her gaze, their meaning quite obvious.
Ye Sisi panicked even more, her head spun around, and she started vomiting again.
After finally feeling a little better, she leaned on Su Jiuli's shoulder to stand up and tentatively communicated with the skeletons, "Do you need something from me?"
The skeletons didn't speak, so they probably couldn't speak.
The only saving grace was that Ye Sisi didn't sense any malice from them.
It's also her fault for vomiting until she fainted. If the other party had any malicious intent, they would have been dead long ago in their half-dead state, so she didn't need to be too nervous.
After calming herself down, Ye Sisi looked up again at the passage cleared by the skeleton army, pointed to Su Jiuli and the others who were still in a daze, and asked, "Can I wait for them to come with me?"
All the skeletons shook their heads at once. Ye Sisi hesitated for a moment; she was still a little uneasy.
So she said, "Can I wait until my senior brother wakes up before I leave with you?"
The skeletons continued to shake their heads, their attitude unyielding.
Ye Sisi didn't dare to push her luck too much. If she angered the other party, given that she currently lacked spiritual energy and the other party was excessively strong, she feared she would also become a member of this Bone Mountain.
So he rummaged through his backpack, took out paper and pen, left a note for the two of them, and then shakily walked towards the passage that led to an unknown destination after stuffing the note into Su Jiuli's palm.
Her legs went weak not from fear, she swore, it was because the lingering effects of the war had left her with psychological trauma.
The skeletons didn't mind that she walked slowly, so they accompanied her as she strolled along.
Ye Sisi glanced at the neatly arranged skeletons on both sides, then at her own red dress and suddenly smiled, lamenting that it was a pity the one beside her wasn't a vengeful ghost.
Otherwise, a red-clad figure paired with a vengeful ghost would truly create an eerie atmosphere.
The skeletons couldn't understand why the girl, who had just been looking miserable, had suddenly burst into laughter. They just felt a cool breeze brush against their bodies, and realized they had really seen a ghost.
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