“I like it here, but I don’t belong here. I want to go back, like those souls trapped in the past, unable to let go of what’s gone. If I could go back to the past, I hope to go back to that summer, back to that scorching afternoon, lying on a bamboo chair, eating popsicles, listening to the cicadas, not having to think about anything. The world is me, and I am the world.”
The old boatman, as if struck by a thought, reminded him, "I've heard that there's a road in the underworld that leads to the other side, a road that can take us anywhere we want to go."
"the other side."
Qin Luo nodded slightly.
He had heard Jiang Qingxue mention it before.
Master Guichen also mentioned the other shore.
The old man rowing the boat moved very slowly, and the surrounding fog made it impossible to tell whether the boat was moving at all.
A ray of firelight pierced through the mist.
As the mist dissipated, Qin Luo looked up and saw a blood-red sun hanging high in the sky. It was two enormous trees intertwined, one red and one white, one yin and one yang. One tree was in full bloom as brilliant as flames, while the other withered like a dead tree in the depths of winter, a tapestry of life and death.
Qin Luo looked at the blood-red sun, and within the sun was a skeleton—a giant bird with three legs.
"A three-legged golden crow!"
Qin Luo murmured softly.
Those are mythical creatures.
The three-legged golden crow has been dead for many years, yet it still carries a terrifying aura, no less powerful than that emanating from the Great Xia Emperor.
The old man rowing the boat said softly, "That was the Great Emperor of the God Clan, the strongest being of the Golden Crow God Clan. He provoked the Dao Ancestor and was eventually hung here by the Dao Ancestor. He was stronger than me and was still able to leave behind a complete corpse in the hands of the Dao Ancestor."
"..."
Qin Luo's eyes were filled with awe.
Not far away, there was a dark whirlpool, a huge whirlpool with no bottom in sight. The old man rowing the boat said in a hoarse voice, "This is the passage to the underworld. You don't need to go through the Gate of Hell."
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