Chapter 493: Mirage in the Dark World
Generally speaking, the abyss has no terrain, only endless swamps.
Hua Yang and the other person flew on the Golden Crow for a long time but still couldn't find any water source.
Xing Lie frowned.
Although the poison from my mother would not take effect for a while, it was poison and would definitely be harmful if it stayed in my body. I could not delay any longer.
But since the plant is related to the water source in the dead land, we must find the water source. Presumably, the plant is in that water source.
"Have you ever seen any source of water in this abyss?"
"Water? Are you kidding? There's nothing but swamps here, and everything is rotten and corrupted by death. Where's the water?"
“…”
"Why are you looking for that plant?"
"Cure my mother's poison."
"...Then why don't we look for more? The abyss is so big, maybe there are water sources somewhere. Oh, by the way, if you insist on talking about water sources, swamps can actually be considered water sources, right?
It’s just that this swamp is corrupted by the dead air and doesn’t look like a normal swamp at all.”
Xing Lie sighed, "After you were reborn, where did you usually go?"
"I haven't been to other places in the north of the abyss. But the swamps here all look the same, so I don't think there will be much difference."
"Jinwu, fly south first, and we will search in the direction you haven't been to. Uncle Yan's deduction won't be wrong, the plant that can detoxify must be there."
The Golden Crow was flying low in the abyss. Xing Lie was paying close attention to the things below. Hua Yang, on the other hand, was immersed in a hazy memory after Xing Lie mentioned the word "Uncle Yan".
"Uncle Yan, is it... Yan Chongshan?"
"Um……"
"Are they okay?"
"They have never returned to the Ancient Universe Kingdom. They should still be on Earth."
"Dian Dian, my parents, and Xiao Yue...are they all okay?"
Xing Lie's eyes flickered as he observed the people below. "Dian Dian is living a good life in my Xing family's ancestral land. She works very hard and her strength is increasing very fast."
"you……"
"I haven't been to Earth since I woke up."
The question Hua Yang originally wanted to ask, "Are you okay?" was squeezed back by Xing Lie's words. She didn't know what kind of mood she should use to ask or care about the man in front of her.
But in Xing Lie's eyes, her struggle was interpreted as something else.
"Homesick?"
Hua Yang didn't say anything.
"If you miss home, I will go back with you after I have dealt with my mother's affairs."
After Xing Lie finished speaking, he was stunned.
When he woke up, he had no memory of the relationship with Hua Yang. He remembered everything that happened between them, but he could not remember what she looked like or his feelings for her.
This lack was caused by his missing soul consciousness. But for some reason, when he got close to her, he still felt a throbbing in the depths of his soul, so that when he said this sentence, he felt inexplicably happy.
Even within the incomplete soul, a vague shadow gradually became clearer.
"No, wait until you find the antidote and we'll go our separate ways. I can go back by myself."
Hearing this, Xing Lie frowned slightly, and a strange irritation came from his heart. "You clearly recognized me, why are you like this?"
"I said before, my soul is incomplete and my consciousness is broken. I don't remember some of our pasts."
Xing Lie's expression changed from slightly cold to gradually indifferent. "How to recover?"
"Either I find my original body and merge it with my soul. Or I devour other broken souls to repair my own soul. However, both methods take a long time, so in the past five years, I have only recovered to the half-human, half-ghost appearance you saw before.
Ugly, isn't it?
Xing Lie was slightly stunned but didn't say anything. Even when she turned into a skeleton after he absorbed her vitality, he just thought she was weak and pitiful.
As for beauty and ugliness?
When she overlapped with the vague figure in his memory, beauty and ugliness seemed to have no meaning to him.
"It's quite weird. Besides, I can crush a weak one to death with just one hand."
Hua Yang immediately came out of her previous melancholy mood after hearing Xing Lie's words.
"Oh, really? Then I really want to thank you for showing mercy and not squeezing me to death."
"..." It was strange. He was not the type to tolerate anyone's sarcasm towards him. But the woman in front of him, when she was talking back to him, didn't seem that annoying. It even made him not pay attention to the situation below for a moment.
"Master, look, is that a water source?"
The strange atmosphere between the two was interrupted by Jinwu's voice, and they all looked down.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have thought that there would be such a pure land in this abyss filled with death."
The two were carried by the Golden Crow and quickly descended closer, but just as they were about to land, the scene before them was like smoke in the wind, disappearing into thin air.
It was a deep blue lake in the darkness, surrounded by trees, covered with grass, and dotted with flowers. Except for being a little quiet, it was a wonder in this abyss, and even in the entire dead land.
Because they have color.
After being in the dead place for a long time, I can't see any other colors except black. When I first saw these colors, the vitality was more vibrant than the forest outside.
"Why did it disappear? Was it an illusion or the environment?" Hua Yang frowned.
"It's a mirage."
"How is this possible! A mirage is a phenomenon of light refraction. There is no light here, only darkness. How can a mirage appear?"
"Light only exists in the human world. This is a dead place, and darkness is the light that the human world relies on for survival.
Light brings vitality to humans, while darkness brings death to the soul. These are two worlds with completely contradictory laws. Mirages can appear in places with light, and they can also appear in dark places.
Now that we have this vision, I think we are in the right direction. Let’s go and continue to fly forward.”
As soon as Xing Lie finished speaking, the Golden Crow flapped its wings and flew away obediently. This order gave Hua Yang a sudden illusion.
It seemed like they had ridden on the Golden Crow like this before. She didn't need to say anything. The Golden Crow, who knew them well, seemed to understand the tacit understanding between them better than the two parties involved.
"Master, there is another one ahead."
"Let's go down and take a look."
However, this time it was still a mirage.
This happened more than a dozen times. The two men and the bird didn't know how long or how far they had flown, but the abyss was still as dark and gloomy as ever, and they didn't know where they had actually reached.
"Master, there it is again!"
Hua Yang lay on her back in the soft feathers of Jinwu, and said "hmm". The mirages that appeared one after another made her lose interest.
This happens every ten minutes or so when flying, and it's always a fake, which makes Hua Yang lose his patience.
"Let's see in the afternoon." Xing Lie gave the order and flew down again.
This time it was still a mirage.
But this time, when they took off again and encountered the same mirage again not long after, the time was much shorter.
From that time on, the intervals between each mirage they encountered changed from more than ten minutes at first to only two or three minutes at last.
Finally, the darkness before my eyes gradually faded and became thinner.
Even Hua Yang stood up from the Golden Crow's back out of curiosity.
"This is the first time I've seen this colorful black!"
"These are just the colors created by the intersection of the mirage and the real environment."
"Aren't these mirages then?"
"It's still the same, but look there!" Xing Lie pointed to the direction where the color of the green plants in the lake ahead was getting darker and darker.
"Is there another mirage there?"
"No, that should be a real place." Xing Lie frowned as he spoke. It was really strange that such a vibrant wonder could appear in the darkness. "You can get off the Golden Crow in a while. I'll go explore the way first."
Hua Yang didn't say anything. When they arrived at this scene where it was impossible to tell the difference between reality and illusion, Xing Lie just took a step and disappeared.
Hua Yang was startled and quickly jumped off the Golden Crow's back and stepped towards the place where Xing Lie had just disappeared.
The scene before his eyes changed from a mirage to black and then back again. When the scene stopped changing, what appeared was Xing Lie fighting with a giant yellow tiger with long fangs.
This giant yellow tiger has the black spots of the king of the jungle all over its body, and its two huge eyes contain extraordinary wisdom.
"Why are you here too? Go back now."
In just a few moments, two bloodstains appeared on Xing Lie's body. The smell of blood made the giant tiger even more bloodthirsty and excited.
"Quickly retreat, let's leave first."
The huge figure of the Golden Crow appeared behind Hua Yang. Hua Yang jumped up and climbed onto the Golden Crow's back. When the Golden Crow flew low over Xing Lie, Hua Yang slid onto the Golden Crow's giant claws.
Just at this moment, a bolt of lightning happened to be released from the giant yellow tiger, paralyzing it briefly. Without thinking, he took two steps back and jumped up, grabbing Hua Yang's hand that had just been extended.
"roar!"
After the two of them sat firmly, a burst of true solar fire spurted out from the Golden Crow, actually burning the forest below.
The giant yellow tiger was stunned, and suddenly his eyes showed panic. He found a bush that had not been burned yet, rushed into it, and then chose a way to escape.
The Golden Crow retracted part of the flame, while the other part went in one direction to crush the delicate plants.
Fortunately, there is a spacious lake ahead.
The Sun's True Fire stopped spreading beside the lake, allowing the Golden Crow to take the flame back.
The Sun's True Fire cannot be extinguished when it meets water, and ordinary water sources will be burned by it and evaporated. But this lake can stop the burning trend of the Sun's True Fire, which shows that it is not an ordinary water source.
"Xing Lie, look, is that the plant by the lake the one you mentioned? It has thin stems and leaves, and it's standing upright when the buds haven't opened yet."
"Yes, it is indeed this plant. However, the flowers of these plants have not bloomed yet, so they cannot be used as medicine to cure the poison my mother was poisoned with."
Hua Yang carefully looked at the plants around the lake. Indeed, there were many plants around the lake, and there were also many plants that Xing Lie needed.
But none of them bloomed.
To be used as medicine, the plant must be in bloom.
"Store it with the soil. Take it home and take care of it first."
Xing Lie nodded, "This is the only way."
Thanks to Xiaoya for the monthly ticket, haha, Xiaowan.wan. Don't worry, I'll try my best.
(End of this chapter)
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