Chapter 336: Dragon Falls (2)
In the dim world, deadly resentment surged forward. Although Luo Xuanyi swallowed it all, it also disrupted her perception. Luo Xuanyi couldn't tell how far away the shadow was, so she simply walked straight towards the dragon's fall.
The ground beneath my feet was soft and undulating, with bones sometimes jutting out and blood sometimes splattering. Once I got used to the feeling, I could move forward without any problems.
Luo Xuanyi stopped and stared at the white light and shadow faintly emerging from the heavy black fog in front of her. There was a bit of green fluttering in the shadow, which she would never forget.
The strange green heart and white flame, the corpse fire mentioned by Luo Jiming.
The green-hearted white flame floating in the air seemed to have caught Luo Xuanyi's breath and rushed towards her quickly, burning all the dead energy and resentment along the way with an unstoppable momentum.
Luo Xuanyi had already prepared the soul-reviving gold paper. She took out a piece with two fingers and threw it aside.
The golden paper of the living soul fell to the ground and was torn apart, and a light and shadow of the soul floated out. The face was dull and dazed, and before he could come to his senses, he saw a green heart and white flame rushing towards the living soul. The white flame was as bright as a huge open mouth, swallowing the living soul in one gulp.
Luo Xuanyi was in no hurry to leave. She first placed the Hundred Living Souls in her sleeves, ready to go, while observing the movements of the Green Heart and White Flame.
The flame itself was only the size of a fingernail. After swallowing the palm-sized living soul, it spun in place, staggering as if drunk, and for a moment, it made no move to pounce on Luo Xuanyi.
Luo Xuanyi calculated with her fingers and found that it took about a quarter of an hour for the green heart and white flame to be completely digested.
If you have a quarter of an hour to act, then the cost of a Living Soul is worth it.
After devouring the living soul, the green heart and white flame expanded, but only to the size of a pinky knuckle. It once again searched for prey and pounced on Luo Xuanyi.
This time, after Luo Xuanyi threw out the living soul, she passed by the green heart and white flame that was devouring the living soul, and continued to move towards the black shadow.
The closer they got to the shadow, the more green hearts and white flames appeared on the ground and in the air, and they varied in size. Luo Xuanyi didn't confront them head-on, but instead cast Living Souls one by one to lure them away.
Sometimes, they would deliberately throw a Living Soul between several Green Heart White Flames, to see if they would fight over it. Invariably, all the Green Heart White Flames would violently collide and fight over it. The splattered flames fell to the ground, then gradually revived in the blood and fought back. They didn't separate until the Living Soul was completely devoured.
Luo Xuanyi flicked her fingers to shake off the living soul and moved forward, while thinking about the essence of the green heart and white flame.
They appear to be intelligent, but in fact they act out of the desire to devour souls. Every time they swallow a living soul flame, they grow stronger. Their essence should be a kind of soul.
Luo Jiming's description of the green heart and white flame as corpse fire seemed to be correct, as it would always fall onto corpses or blood just as it was about to go out, and would reignite after a while.
Luo Xuanyi raised the tip of her boot, picked up a section of the arm, and held it in her hand for a closer look.
Just now, a green-hearted white flame landed on it, reignited, and left, but the skin of this arm did not leave any traces, and was still as smooth and soft as the arm of a living person.
She pried her hands apart and tore her arm apart. A rotting stench rushed towards her, and foul water dripped down, mixed with sticky black blood.
It was as if the life force had been drained away, and it finally returned to the state it should be after death.
“Chi!”
A green flame lit up from the dark blue bone marrow. Luo Xuanyi threw her arm on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, her arm was wrapped in a ball of white flame and burned to ashes.
A brand new white flame with a green heart rose from the place where the arm had disappeared without a trace. It was only half the size of a fingernail. The retracted white flame could not completely cover the green flame heart, so Luo Xuanyi heard a voice.
"I……"
"I……"
It was a low female voice, repeating itself over and over again as if stuck.
“I…I don’t…”
The green heart and white flame shook violently and rushed towards Luo Xuanyi, but she deflected it with a snap of her fingers and focused on devouring the living soul.
The light of the white flame gradually enveloped the green heart, and the female voice weakened and disappeared.
Luo Xuanyi unconsciously covered her chest. Even though there was no heart underneath, she still felt a touch of pain.
It seems like a very familiar voice.
"Boom..."
A muffled thunder rumbled from the sky above the Dragon Falling Land. Luo Xuanyi looked up, but could not see any lightning.
The thunder from the sky was blocked outside the Dragon Falling Land, and only its sound could be heard but its shape could not be seen.
Luo Xuanyi suddenly realized that perhaps Jinglai and the so-called Mo Yi chose this location just to avoid being blocked by the heavenly thunder.
The inscribed restrictions that emerged from within her body drifted quietly. Luo Xuanyi lowered her hand and quickened her pace toward the shadow.
-
After trekking for an unknown amount of time in the Dragon Falling Land, Luo Xuanyi had already changed the hundred pieces of gold paper in her sleeves.
She intentionally guided the green heart white flame to revive from the flesh and blood, and then observed the new flames in the rotten flesh, but unfortunately all the flames were just repeating those one or two words.
Finally, she approached the shadow.
The black shadow looked blurry and unclear in size from a distance, but once you got closer, it stood like a mountain among the corpses, emitting a cold and sacred aura that dispelled the blood.
The bodies piled beneath it couldn't even see their wounds. Luo Xuanyi stepped on them without sinking into their abdomens. They leaned against the bottom of the shadows, eyes closed and smiling, like children who had finally found a home.
When it stopped in front of the black shadow, Luo Xuanyi realized that the black shadow was not actually a mountain, but a dragon scale.
The scales reflected a cold light, which fell into Luo Xuanyi's eyes, and a sentence suddenly emerged in her mind.
...is calling me.
Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but put her palm on the dragon scales. Her palm was cold, and then a burning sensation rose from her original ghost fire.
Clusters of dark blue flames ignited on the inscription that was wrapped with the original ghost fire. The inscription kept vibrating, and bursts of muffled thunder came from outside the Dragon Falling Land, but the sudden lightning strikes like a rainstorm only slightly disturbed the clouds.
Finally, the flame burned a gap in the inscription, and the cold air bursting out from the dragon scales immediately flowed into the original ghost fire through the gap.
Luo Xuanyi was shocked, her thoughts traveled through time and fell into distant memories.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa.”
The cool and gentle water flow lifted Luo Xuanyi. She woke up from her hazy dream and knew nothing for a moment. She just went with the flow.
Luo Xuanyi was born from the River of Samsara.
The souls that drifted by emitted a clear white light, some in human form, some in animal form. What did she look like?
Luo Xuanyi suddenly became curious and wanted to swim towards the shore, but the gurgling water of the Styx refused her any further, washing her away from the shore again and again.
This time, the emotion that emerged from her heart was displeasure at being disobeyed.
Luo Xuanyi gently pushed the Styx back, and the current obediently carried her to the grassy bank. She swam upstream, turned, and lowered her hand to smooth the water's surface like a mirror, carefully examining her own figure.
The upper body is white with a pair of arms, like a person in reincarnation; the lower body is a snake tail, and the pure black scales are floating with a faint cold white light.
She had long, slightly curly black hair draped over her body, two vertical golden pupils that showed no anger, and a small black mole under the corner of her left eye. Her mouth was open, revealing a row of fangs that could drip venom.
This is me.
Luo Xuanyi found it interesting and awkwardly touched herself in the mirror with her hands: her hair, eyes, teeth, arms, and scales.
"You are going against the flow of reincarnation, which goes against the laws of the world."
Suddenly, a light voice sounded behind me. When that voice sounded, the heaven and earth seemed to be singing in resonance.
Luo Xuanyi then looked towards the waters of the Styx. Sure enough, the Styx had reversed its course, reversing the cycle of reincarnation. Many people and animals were resurrected from the dead, while many lives that were originally to be born were reduced to empty shells.
She dipped her hand into the water, then pushed it in the original direction, and the cycle finally flowed normally.
Luo Xuanyi then turned around and saw Him.
He had the same golden eyes, and his limbs resembled a human. Every part of his body was shimmering with golden light, making it impossible to see him clearly. He looked at Luo Xuanyi, sitting leisurely on a beast.
The beast's four legs were covered in auspicious clouds, its sheep-like eyes shone with night light, and on each of its four corners hung a horn, a heavenly seal, a sword, and a medicine bag. Its skin was like a flowing spring, its shape and color changing, and its voice was like flattery, and it mooed softly at her.
Luo Xuanyi was attracted to Him, but there was not a trace of awe in her words.
"Who are you?"
When she asked this question, the answer naturally emerged from her heart. The person before her was the way of heaven in this world, the Lord of Heaven.
Everything in this world was born through His power, and the Styx where Luo Xuanyi was born is no exception.
However, Luo Xuanyi still held her head high, wanting Shi to answer the question.
Shi then laughed.
"I am Shi, the god of this world, also known as the Heavenly Dao." He patted the beast beneath his seat again, "This is the Afterlife."
Shi and Hou Ming, Luo Xuanyi bit the two names, and suddenly admiration and yearning rose from the bottom of her heart. This feeling seemed to take root in her blood, making her frown.
But her displeasure could not offset the affection she had for Shi in her bloodline, so Luo Xuanyi asked him again: "Who am I?"
Shi took out a scroll and spread it across his lap, then picked up a pen and began to sketch. The scroll and the ink seemed to possess a power that blocked Luo Xuanyi's gaze.
After a while, Shi put down his pen and sang casually.
"In the first year of the 326,122nd year of the first cycle, a being favored by the gods was born in the River of Samsara. He had a human body and a snake tail, and black hair like clothes. His name was Mo Yi, and he was in charge of the cycle of reincarnation."
As his voice chanted, Mo Yi suddenly felt a power rising from the Styx behind her, connecting to her heart. Her strength remained unchanged, but her authority fell into her hands, transforming into a short, ornate scepter.
From now on she will be Mo Yi, the master of reincarnation.
Accepting the authority of God means being God's favored one. But when Mo Yi's instinct drove her to bow to Shi, she defied her feelings for the first time.
"I was born into this world and will never be inferior to others."
Mo Yi announced to Shi who looked surprised.
"One day, I will take your place."
The thunder from the sky intensified its impact urgently, and the lightning flashed violently, shaking the restrictions of the Dragon Falling Land left and right, but it still could not break in.
The inscription wrapped around the soul let out a bursting wail, and a few pieces of broken gold fell into the original ghost fire, causing the flames to sway violently.
But most of the remaining inscriptions still persisted, sealing Luo Xuanyi's soul fire.
Luo Xuanyi opened her eyes, momentarily unable to distinguish reality from illusion, and could not help but hold onto the dragon scales. The cold aura from the dragon scales had completely dissipated, but the touch still made her feel at ease.
The fluctuations of emotions gradually calmed down. Luo Xuanyi calmly recalled everything that had just happened, and felt as if she had experienced it personally.
The person Mo Yi... Jing was talking about was probably Luo Xuanyi's previous life.
Coincidentally, Mo Yi governs reincarnation, while Jing Lai is the celestial beast that governs the laws of the afterlife, arguably holding half the authority over reincarnation. From this perspective, Jing Lai's "borrowing a bit of soul" might refer to borrowing authority.
But apart from this point, Luo Xuanyi is unable to analyze anything else for the time being.
The self-proclaimed Lord of Heaven, Shi, has no male or female characteristics, and his voice is so light that it seems to come from another world.
The beast under him was even more powerful than the mirror that Luo Xuanyi had seen.
Shi claimed that Mo Yi was born in the year 326,122 of the Initial Calendar, a name Luo Xuanyi had never heard of. As far as Luo Xuanyi knew, there were two calendars: the Ancient Calendar and the Post-Catastrophe Calendar, which followed the events of the Ghost Realm Gate's arrival. Any time before that was considered the Ancient Calendar.
Moreover, the ancient calendar is only 20,000 years old, and the post-catastrophe calendar is nearly 10,000 years old, which adds up to only about 30,000 years. However, the initial calendar mentioned by Shikou is more than 320,000 years old.
If the history is really that long, there should be oral traditions, written words, paintings and other things passed down. But if you think about it carefully, the stories about the most ancient times that are told now are all blurred in time.
Did someone erase it on purpose?
And it erases quite easily.
Luo Xuanyi's almost intuitive judgment was that Tiandao Shi was definitely not the current Tiandao beast, and the beast that erased all history was the one that replaced Shi.
She exhaled, took a few steps back, and looked around. She already knew what she had to do: to find the remains of the legendary dragon to retrieve her memories of her past life.
This evil dragon might be Mo Yi.
Looking around, Luo Xuanyi first noticed the abnormality of the green heart and white flame.
They were floating, and when they saw Luo Xuanyi moving away from the dragon scales, they didn't rush up at first, but hesitated and wandered around.
But the instinct to obtain souls still urged Green Heart White Flame to return, but Luo Xuanyi casually dismissed it with a living soul.
Unable to find the next piece of debris standing on the ground, Luo Xuanyi simply took to the air to search. Although this attracted many green-hearted white flames hanging high in the sky to chase after them, she finally found the next piece of debris.
This time it was a dragon's claw.
Luo Xuanyi gently placed her hand on the smooth nail surface and closed her eyes.
Mo Yi is born with ambition. She does not allow anyone to stand above her, not even Shi.
She wanted to challenge Shi, but Shi shook his head and refused.
He said, "You haven't understood the world I built yet, I can't hand the world over to you," and then drove away with his life.
Mo Yi felt that what he said made sense, so now in order to understand this world, she sat on the bank of the Styx, looking down at the past life memories of the souls passing by her.
As he walked the world, his followers, his animals, and all kinds of natural creatures were born in his footsteps.
The lives of those favored by the gods, divine beasts and spiritual creatures always fascinate her.
She saw the mythical golden-winged roc roaming between heaven and earth, finally defeating its mortal enemy and dying gloriously; she saw beasts with ambitions similar to hers attack and kill Shi; she saw the gods' followers approach Shi, sword in one hand and flowers in the other, then kneel on one knee...
Either it is magnificent or it is plain and long.
Apart from these natural prodigies, there is only one exception in this world, and that is the human race.
Mo Yi always frowned when he looked at them.
How weak the human race is, she sighed.
Shi Mingming created them in his own image and gave them intelligence but did not open the ladder to heaven. No matter how hard these humans struggled, they could not practice and turned to dust after a hundred years.
He just treats humans as toys to relieve his loneliness.
Mo Yi was not interested in this race that was weak from its origin. She spent a long time, which was relatively long compared to the human race, to read through the memories of all races, but to her, it was just like a yawn.
After understanding the world, Mo Yi tried to find Shi's weaknesses from these memories.
She carefully looked at all the images related to Shi, and finally came to the conclusion that Shi had no weaknesses in his heart and he didn't care about the world at all.
To Him, this world is a mission, and He is just trying to dispel loneliness and entertain Himself.
Mo Yi realized that although there were differences in power, in essence, whether it was the gods’ favored ones, divine beasts, spiritual creatures or humans, they were actually the same to Shi.
That won't work.
Mo Yi threw the power of reincarnation into the River Styx without any regrets, then turned around and wandered around looking for Shi's trace.
After this, before she assassinated Shi for the first time, Shi asked her, "Why do you want to give up the authority of reincarnation?"
Mo Yi replied, "I do not need your charity or your gifts. Everything in the world will be plundered by me for myself."
-
The third assassination attempt failed and Mo Yi was killed again. However, even though she did not have the power of reincarnation, she was still a person favored by God born in reincarnation, and the Styx gave birth to her again.
Mo Yi swam out of the Styx carelessly, her long hair dripping with water. The water from the Styx fell onto the ground, forming another small tributary, quietly flowing into the world. She was too lazy to stop it, only thinking about what to do next time.
In three assassination attempts, Shi was killed with one blow and in ten rounds respectively. By the third time, Mo Yi almost cut off both of Shi's legs.
But when Shi's blood splashed on her body, the golden spiritual power burned her heart, and her blood suddenly burst into pain, as if she felt the same pain as Shi.
At this moment, Maki drew the sword hanging from his hind horn and killed her. This was the first time he had used a weapon.
Mo Yi knew that what she lacked right now wasn't strength. She looked down at her arms, her golden pupils flickering as she saw the golden plasma flowing through them.
She is Shi's follower, Shi's blood flows in her body. As long as she has this blood in her body, she will never be able to kill Shi and become the true Heavenly Dao.
Mo Yi casually pushed aside the long hair on his forehead and looked up at the gate in the sky. That was where Shi came from.
Perhaps there is an answer about Shimizu there.
"Do you want to go inside?"
Its voice is like the mooing of a cow, humble to the extreme.
Mo Yi didn't even look at the beast behind him and let it kneel down to him with its front legs bent.
"You also came from behind that door."
"Yes, Master Mo Yi." Hou Ming didn't care about her attitude at all, and moved forward respectfully and flatteringly. "I and Shi are both from the rear sect, but I am moved by your attitude of resistance."
"Shi doesn't care about this world at all. He's not worthy of being the master of the Way of Heaven or this world. He's just an ordinary person who has been granted authority."
Hou Ming knelt down in front of Mo Yi without any dignity and put his head on the ground.
"I want to help you."
Mo Yi finally turned his golden pupils and looked down at it.
"Don't you have the dignity of a divine beast?"
The queen replied meekly, as if she didn't hear the contempt in her words: "In front of you, I only offer my worship."
"Sweet words, treacherous heart, betraying the enemy behind his back."
The black-clothed snake's tail swept across, cutting the life in half, and blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
She leaned over coldly, looked at Hou Ming who was unable to struggle, and began to speak.
"I will not associate with such a villain."
Lightning burst out from Hou Ming's flesh and blood, and thunderclouds quickly gathered in the sky. The thunder was about to strike, but even Mo Yi didn't dare to concentrate. The lightning protected Hou Ming and quickly escaped from this place.
Luo Xuanyi suddenly opened her eyes. She was very familiar with the breath of thunder.
Thunder from the sky.
The heavenly beast of today is the future life.
The dark history that the beast has hidden for many years can no longer be concealed hh
Let’s talk about the concept of reincarnation in this work. The souls are the same but the experiences are different. Even if they are related in past and future lives, they are not the same person. Jimo Yi and Luo Xuanyi are not the same.
In fact, Mo Yi has a rather arrogant and straightforward queen personality. Because of her natural talent, many of her emotions are pure and can be expressed directly.
In the more straightforward first draft, she said to Shi, "I want to be the Heavenly Dao, so you must be my Favored One."
Sister Yi is a calm, gentle woman with a hidden warmth. She doesn't understand many emotions, but she feigns empathy based on the people she observes. Sometimes, she's driven by a deep desire to see someone beyond her own emotions. This doesn't necessarily involve people or things, but she can't help but feign calm observation.
For example, when you see the turnip flower collapse, Luo Jiming crying, Green Heart and White Flame fighting for the living soul, etc.
What they both had in common was a dislike for being controlled and a strong sense of ambition, but even that ambition had its differences. Mo Yi's ambition was more restrained; she consciously cared about a world that was intact, while Sister Yi didn't.
Bo Huixiao can barely be considered half a reincarnation, but she is a pure research enthusiast. The fundamental purpose of participating in the plan is to see the Heavenly Beast and use it for experiments.
The biggest regret before her death was that she could not see the process of Yu Lu using her body to refine the Daozhi. She was very curious.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
