Chapter 109 Dreams and Dreams
Changfeng Temple on Lubo Mountain.
The young man in a white Taoist robe was tied to a wheelchair with pitch-black ropes. He tilted his head back, with veins bulging on his neck. The whites of his eyes were completely eroded by the dark black, while his pupils were bloodshot, like two dancing flames.
Seeing this, Long Zhu held Bai Heye's wrist and said, "I'll watch him and take back the shadow."
The Taoist priest in charge nodded, and in the blink of an eye, the bundle of black "rope" condensed into a halo and returned to his feet.
Not far away, Bai Jingze hurried over. He casually set up a Taoist spiritual power barrier ten feet away to protect the Taoist temple and the area where tourists were wandering.
"What's going on?! Is the restriction going off again?"
The Taoist priest in charge of the academy shook his head: "Perhaps he has been possessed by a nightmare."
Bai Jingze was stunned for a moment, then reacted after a while: "Old Meng has dealt with this kind of thing before, should I ask him to come?"
"It's too late," Long Zhu raised his head. "That thing has started to eat him."
Several fine black lines stretched from the young man's neck, like countless tiny venomous snakes slithering beneath his skin, sometimes tangled in a mass, sometimes dispersed and drifting. Occasionally, the skin would be lifted into strange curves, then quickly flattened, as if something beneath the skin was testing the boundaries of this body.
Bai He's eyes also revealed a bit of confusion, which calmed down a little, but in a moment he returned to the chaotic state of black essence and red pupils.
Long Zhu clasped his ten fingers together and suppressed the other party's restless spiritual power.
The abbot frowned and said, "It's my fault for not thinking of this before. I just assumed he slept too long, and his spiritual energy was restless... But in reality, during the time he slept in the coffin, his spiritual consciousness was able to freely travel with the heavens, earth, mountains, and rivers. If he were to be contaminated by something like a nightmare, he might bring the 'seed' back to his body."
Bai He had not completely gotten rid of his childhood demons, and was easily taken advantage of at this moment. If he did not find a way to dig out the seeds planted by the nightmare ghost, he himself would become a breeding ground for nightmares.
"I'll try." Long Zhu raised her hand, and without waiting for everyone's reaction, she quickly tapped the other party's Zanzhu, Tianmu and Baihui acupoints, gently injecting her own spiritual power. Then she gently closed her eyes, pinched a seal with her left hand, and her spiritual consciousness quickly followed the three points of starlight to peek into Bai Heye's inner thoughts and veins.
The starlight flowed upstream along the wandering black veins. Wherever it passed, black fog surged. The seeds of the nightmare ghost and the white crane's own consciousness were engaged in a stalemate struggle. Both sides tore and bit each other, as if they wanted to devour each other.
The seed penetrated into the blood vessels, and every time he swallowed a mouthful of Bai Heye's spiritual energy, his body grew an inch smaller, and finally turned into a small black insect.
Long Zhu controlled the starlight to catch up with one of them and crushed it into powder. Then he caught up with the others. Unexpectedly, he came to a place similar to a maze corridor. After turning around several times, he suddenly found that the fleeing insects returned like a tide, as if there was a flood and beast ahead.
She was shocked and wondered what was going on.
Bai Jingze noticed that her expression was not right and asked worriedly, "Is that nightmare ghost difficult to deal with?"
Long Zhu shook his head in shock: "No."
After saying that, she closed her eyes again, pulled down the man's collar, pressed on the Tanzhong point, and stepped into the inner meridians again.
The black bugs that were rampant just now were now retreating in groups. Long Zhu went forward against the flow of bugs, but in a moment, a wall appeared in front of him, blocking his way.
She stepped back in confusion and suddenly realized that this was not a wall, but part of a huge object!
A crack spanning a thousand miles appeared, and the next second, it broke open unexpectedly!
——Those are its eyes.
Blood-red and round like the scorching sun in the sky, it looked down at the nightmare insects that were fleeing like ants.
Seeing such a shocking scene, Long Zhu was speechless for a long time. After a long while, a soft sigh came out of his throat.
Is this his own inner demon?
Long Zhu opened his eyes for the second time.
The Taoist priest standing by also noticed something was wrong and asked, "Is this really that difficult?"
"There are more nightmare bugs than I thought, not just one or two," Long Zhu mused, pinching his chin. "But it's nothing to me. I was planning to make a hole inside and drive the bugs out."
"But I've changed my mind now."
Bai Jingze asked nervously, "So?"
Long Zhu smiled, revealing a cunning look: "I think he can digest it himself."
Bai Jingze widened his eyes, and before he could ask what was going on, he saw Long Zhu quickly close his eyes and hit his forehead against the other person's eyebrows. In an instant, an extremely bright flash of light disappeared in a flash.
In the inner scene, the huge monster obviously noticed the falling meteor. It couldn't help but roar, and countless eyes opened, and opened its mouth to swallow all the spiritual energy around it. The meteor always escaped from the huge mouth of the abyss extremely quickly and luckily, dragging out a long tail of light, tying up all the fleeing nightmare insects together and throwing them to the small hill behind it.
The inner demon was like a ball of sticky liquid, slowly enveloping the stream of insects and condensing into amber-like crystals.
Long Zhu was planning to take advantage of the situation to leave, but unexpectedly bumped into the amber and was swallowed by the inner demon. After passing through layers of hard soil, a faint white light appeared in front of her eyes.
Time seemed to stand still.
There is no distinction between heaven and earth, it is a heart-pounding nothingness.
And in this void, a withered old tree stood abruptly.
The trunk was a sickly grey-black colour, the bark was cracked and peeling, revealing the dry wood inside. There was not a single leaf, and the branches were twisted and stretched upwards, as if seeking a place to take root, but there was none.
Under the rotten tree, a boy was squatting at the roots, covering his face.
Long Zhu revealed his figure and walked out from behind the tree.
She looked around but to no avail, then lowered her head and casually asked, "What are you doing?"
The boy still covered his face with his hands, his childish voice leaking out from between his fingers: "I'm counting down."
Long Zhu asked: "Countdown to what?"
The boy said, "I made a mistake, and my mother told me to count down to 100, and then she would forgive me."
Long Zhu was silent for a moment: "So how many did you count?"
The boy said, "Ninety-nine."
Long Zhu: "Isn't that still ninety-eight strokes short?"
Boy: “Yeah!”
Long Zhu sighed and sat down beside him: "Then you continue."
Boy: "99, 98, 97... 86 - oops, I counted wrong, let's start over."
He started over again.
Long Zhu rested her chin on one hand, her elbow resting on the bend of her knee. She patiently watched as the other person counted again to the point where he had made a mistake. Just as the same mistake was about to occur again, she spoke first, "It's 85."
The boy didn't even blink, saying matter-of-factly, "You can't help me cheat. You have to start over again."
Long Zhu saw through the other person's thoughts: "You don't even intend to finish counting?"
The boy was stunned for a moment, still covering his face with his hands, and said nothing.
"Coward, are you afraid that you won't be forgiven when you count to 1?"
The boy spoke weakly after a while: "Could you please not be so blunt?"
Long Zhu: "How about this, I'll be by your side while you count carefully. If you're not forgiven after this, I can still help you before you go to hell."
The boy was stunned for a moment, his index and middle fingers slightly apart, revealing one eye: "Why are you helping me?"
Long Zhu's expression was indifferent: "I'm not here to help you. I'm the judge from the underworld. Let's get started. I'll only give you five minutes."
She produced a stopwatch from somewhere.
The boy gritted his teeth and began to count down. After a few minutes, he stumbled over the words: "...3, 2, 1."
The chronograph's second hand stopped moving.
Long Zhu: "Yeah, three minutes and twelve seconds."
The boy asked anxiously, "What does this mean?"
Long Zhu put the stopwatch back into his pocket: "That means you counted down three minutes and twelve seconds."
The boy choked: "I mean what will be my result - aren't you the judge?"
Long Zhu was surprised: "The countdown is complete, this is the result, what else do you want?"
Boy: “But nothing happened.”
Long Zhu: "Well, it means that not everything will have a result."
The boy's hand slid down his face a little more: "Am I forgiven then?"
Long Zhu raised his chin and said, "Look up."
The boy looked up and saw that the dry branches suddenly trembled.
A tender green bud quietly emerged. Although it was quiet, I always felt like there was a sound in my ears, a sound of vitality emerging from the silence.
He stared at the insignificant green, so stunned that he even forgot to cover his face with his hands.
In a place where he couldn't see, Long Zhu made a hand seal with his hands behind his back, and the light condensed from spiritual power silently overflowed from his fingertips, floated lightly into the wind, and sank into the rotten branches. In a moment, it turned into a new green flower that bloomed.
The boy moved his mouth, but his voice was very low and no one knew what he said.
The next second, green buds emerged one after another, scattered along the dead branches, like sparks that suddenly lit up in the dark night, setting the whole field on fire in an instant.
Between the pure white sky and earth, there is a prosperous and verdant tree, standing tall like a canopy, blocking out the sky and the sun.
The boy sat down under the tree again, leaned his head against the trunk, and gently closed his eyes.
I feel like I have never been as peaceful as I am now.
The space began to gradually become transparent, dissolving, collapsing, until it became a point.
…
When Long Zhu opened his eyes again, a familiar face that he had not seen for a long time came into view.
Bai He also grabbed her wrist, his eyes clear, as if he had completely recovered to normal, and was staring at her without blinking.
Bai Jingze finally couldn't help himself and stepped forward to hold his cousin's shoulders, looking him up and down: "He Ye, are you okay? Are you feeling better?"
"I'm fine," Bai He's voice was a little hoarse, but his tone was the same as the old Bai Guanzhu. He let go of Long Zhu's wrist and smiled, "Thank you."
"What happened just now?" Bai Jingze looked puzzled. "You all had your eyes closed and didn't respond. I didn't dare to wake you up easily."
Bai He also quickly glanced at Long Zhu and answered uncertainly: "Hmm... It seems like I had a dream. After waking up, I felt a lot lighter."
Bai Jingze hurriedly asked, "What about the nightmare insect?"
Bai He also subconsciously put his hand on his heart, then realized something, lowered his head to take a look, and slowly straightened his messy collar and covered his clothes tightly.
He said seriously, "I must have eaten it."
The Taoist priest in charge of the academy was very surprised: "Is this thing really edible?"
Bai Jingze frowned: "Will there be any sequelae?"
Seeing how nervous they were, Long Zhu couldn't help but find it amusing. Adding fuel to the fire, he said, "Maybe you'll lose your appetite for the next few days?"
Bai He also smiled helplessly: "It's okay, after all, I didn't eat it with my mouth."
Long Zhu looked at him for a few times, and suddenly said, "Try using the Heaven and Earth Forming Technique."
Bai He was also stunned for a moment, but did not ask her why. He closed his eyes and opened them again, and turned into a black spirit with red pupils.
Long Zhu raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Take two steps."
Bai Jingze couldn't help but interrupt: "This——"
The Taoist priest in charge of the academy reached out and gently tugged at the other person's sleeve. Bai Jing remained silent and took back the step he had taken.
Bai He also lowered his head to look at his feet - the dark restrictions were still coiled on his calves, and the feet below his ankles were still as black as if they were dipped in ink.
His heartbeat quickened, and he placed his hands on the armrests, feeling a long-lost sense of uneasiness and urgency.
The soles of his feet touched the ground but were not swallowed by the earth.
At that time, a breeze blew by, and the tender green grass leaves gently scratched the back of my feet, which gave me a kind of intriguing itch.
Bai He also stood up and took the second step. He was still a little unfamiliar with standing as he hadn't done so for a long time. He staggered forward quickly, and before anyone beside him could lend a hand, he quickly adjusted his center of gravity, lowered his shoulders, stretched his spine, and slowed down his pace, like a green pine tree.
Long Zhu walked up to him and found that he had to raise his head slightly to see his face and eyebrows clearly, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
"Don't take back the shape bestowed by heaven and earth. Maintain this state."
Bai He also looked at his feet in disbelief: "I..."
Before he finished speaking, the ink in his eyes dissipated, and his pupils returned to black, but his feet sank into the soil unexpectedly. Long Zhu was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and in the blink of an eye he grabbed the other person's waist and lifted him up.
She showed an expected expression and complained, "We were told to maintain the state of being shaped by heaven and earth. You swallowed the nightmare insect, and only in that state can you 'enter the nightmare' and temporarily disrupt the restrictions."
Bai He also knew he was in the wrong: "I know, I'm sorry."
Long Zhu breathed a sigh of relief: "Next time you..."
Before he could finish his words of advice, the world started spinning before his eyes, and in a daze he suddenly found himself in an embrace that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
This time, a puzzled expression crossed her face, as if she hadn't reacted.
Long Zhu was caught off guard and picked up by the young man. Like an untamed wild cat, she was in a state of stress. She looked up with a dull expression. The long-haired young man with black essence and red eyes was looking down at her with a smile on his lips. His arms were holding her back and knees steadily. His movements were smooth and effortless, without any shaking.
"Isn't that right?"
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