Broken mirror to practice Taoism

"Master, these two sides are obviously at the same height, why is there such a difference in temperature here?" Ergou asked, trembling, looking at the ice on the surrounding cliffs.

"The boundaries are different." Xue Yuandao replied, "This side is already close to the underworld."

Ergou was stunned, "Ah? Master, are we going to the underworld?"

Most people in the mortal world don't have a good impression of the underworld. Blooming flowers on the other shore, ghosts of Yama, and eighteen levels of hell, no matter which one they are, they all carry deep sadness and resentment.

"Are you afraid?" Sensing Ergou's slowness, Xue Yuandao stopped and turned his head to ask.

Ergou shook his head, "It's not that I'm afraid, but everyone says that only dead people go there."

"The underworld is actually not as mortals say." Xue Yuandao continued to step forward, walking in front and said, "It is indeed a place where people go after death, but for cultivators or gods, that It's just a region."

"Oh." Ergou listened to Xue Yuandao and didn't ask any more questions.

As they walked forward, it became colder. The further they went, the sun above their heads gradually disappeared, and the day was replaced by night. The bright lights are guiding the two forward.At this time, Xue Yuandao suddenly took off Nothingness from his waist and held it in his hand.Ergou followed closely behind, also holding the real shadow in his hand.

After getting the real image, it was the first time he actually used it.

The right hand, which had been cut bloody by the sword energy, has completely recovered, and there are only a few shallow scars left, which cannot be seen without careful inspection.The feeling of holding the real shadow in the hand is completely different from nothingness, as if there is a huge wave roaring from the position where the hand and the sword meet, which makes Er Gou's originally calm heart feel an indescribable sense of joy.

"Master, can a sword influence people's hearts?" Er Gou asked Xue Yuandao, holding a real shadow in his hand.

"Yes." Xue Yuandao replied, "Ancient magical weapons always have their own spirituality. If they encounter a monk with a weak mind, they will manipulate the monk's will."

When Xue Yuandao said this, he suddenly stopped, "Do you feel something wrong?"

"I don't have a particularly big feeling, I just feel very excited."

Hearing what Ergou said, Xue Yuandao suddenly stretched out his hand to snatch the sword from Ergou's hand, "Don't use it for now, after you get out from here, I will teach you how to control it with your mind before using it."

"Oh." Ergou nodded obediently.

After Xue Yuandao took the real shadow, he carried the real shadow behind his back. The blood-red sword back looked very abrupt on Xue Yuandao's body. Er Gou looked at Xue Yuandao's back from behind, and couldn't help laughing.The two of them walked along the road with the faint blue light, except for the thick ice on both sides, there was nothing special.

There are rocks and ice all the way here, and it is impossible to tell the direction at all, but when Xue Yuandao came to a place, he suddenly stopped and guarded Ergou behind him.Er Gou stopped and looked in the direction in front of him, obviously there was nothing, but Xue Yuandao looked very nervous.

Suddenly there was a violent vibration under the feet of the two of them. Er Gou barely supported his body so as not to fall under the vibration. Xue Yuandao had already expected the occurrence and end of this vibration. The road began to crack from the middle, and there was cold air constantly emerging from the ground.

The place that had formed ice was instantly turned into powder after being attacked by the cold air, and it was scattered in every corner of the surrounding area with the wind blowing up from the ground.Xue Yuandao took advantage of this time, the emptiness in his hand had become invisible, Er Gou could only feel the flow of aura in the air, and then heard a loud noise from the cracked ground in front of him.

"You don't move here." Xue Yuandao told Ergou, and in an instant, nothingness appeared in Xue Yuandao's hands, and there seemed to be water flowing on the crystal blue sword body.

It was probably at the alchemy stage, even if he couldn't see with his eyes, Ergou could still feel the flow of aura around Xue Yuandao.Along with Xue Yuandao's nothingness movements, the aura around him gradually gathered.Er Gou couldn't help closing his eyes, and a huge bird suddenly appeared in a dark world. The shape of this bird was similar to that of a phoenix, but it was crystal blue all over, the same color as the nothingness in Xue Yuandao's hand.

He couldn't see anything in front of him except the bird, but Ergou could clearly feel that there was a monster below. It was struggling constantly, and it was almost coming up.

"Here we come!" Ergou opened his eyes and said to Xue Yuandao.

Xue Yuandao was not surprised by Ergou's shout, he immediately pointed the void in his hand at the crack in the ground, and the condensed huge aura formed a vortex in the air.A huge claw suddenly appeared in the crack, and this claw alone was bigger than Xue Yuandao alone.

The surrounding ground trembled violently again, starting from that crack, extending infinitely around.Xue Yuandao stood on the spot without retreating, and Ergou naturally followed Xue Yuandao.

The surrounding ice and land were all blasted apart, and the air fused together, and they couldn't tell each other apart for a moment.Xue Yuandao stood in mid-air, and there was an endless darkness under her feet. Ergou and Xue Yuandao stood side by side above the darkness. She could feel the aura flowing around her body, which was driven by Xue Yuandao's thoughts.

After the ground finally shattered, the monster underground finally revealed its full appearance.Xue Yuandao and Ergou looked very small in front of it. The two bat-like wings were more than ten meters long when fully spread out. Their skinny appearance formed a sharp contrast with the claws.And the most prominent thing about this monster is probably its eyes.

"Master, what kind of monster is this?" Er Gou looked at the giant beast in front of him, and asked Xue Yuandao without feeling scared at all.

Xue Yuandao was like when he met "Rose" at the bottom of the sea. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Aren't you old?"

"puff--"

This time Ergou really couldn't hold back and just laughed out loud.Xue Yuandao himself didn't realize that it was really hard for Ergou not to laugh when he said such a thing in a serious manner.

"Master, who did you listen to these messy names?"

Xue Yuandao looked at Ergou who was smiling in front of him, and wanted to blurt out two words, but he still held it in his heart, "Taoist Ling Xiang."

"Who is that?" Ergou looked at Xue Yuandao with a puzzled expression on his face. This dao name was very similar to that of his master, but he had never heard it mentioned by his master.But even if he hadn't heard his master mention it, Ergou felt that the name was very familiar.

"Let's knock down this 'old immortal' first." Xue Yuandao took nothingness and charged towards the monster in front of him.

Er Gou finally stopped laughing, and rushed up with Xue Yuandao.

Although his real shadow was on Xue Yuandao, Ergou used his mind to drive the aura to form a huge sword in the air very familiarly.Although the figures of Xue Yuandao and Ergou seemed insignificant in front of this giant beast, the aura they manipulated with their thoughts was enough to subdue this monster.

Xue Yuandao moved very quickly in the dark, and the monster looked like an insignificant bug in front of him.But in an instant, the monster's body was slowly covered with wounds torn apart by nothingness, and blue liquid flowed out from the wound, and as soon as the blue liquid left the monster's body, it turned into ice crystals. It turned into a faint blue light.

"Master, did the lamp come from this 'Old Immortal'?"

The stabbed monster roared in pain, and the surrounding aura was disrupted by the violent roar, Xue Yuandao had no choice but to retreat temporarily.After finally seeing Xue Yuandao, Ergou rushed up and asked.

"Well." Xue Yuandao stood up straight, looked at the dying monster in front of him and said, "This is a domesticated pet in the underworld, and the blood it leaves is specially used to guide the soul, but as long as someone wants to enter the underworld with a physical body, he can will be torn apart by it."

"But..." It didn't feel that great.

Before Ergou could finish speaking, Xue Yuandao disappeared in front of him again.The blue lights around were getting brighter and brighter, but even so, Er Gou couldn't see Xue Yuandao's figure with his eyes.He could only feel a stream of aura gathering around him, and then a few long and thin scars appeared on the monster's body.

last blow!

The monster's head was suddenly crossed by a ray of light from a distance, the head was separated from the body, and a large amount of blue light sprayed from its neck illuminated the entire underworld.Xue Yuandao stood on top of the monster, holding nothingness behind his back, he turned his head to look at Ergou, the expression on his face instantly changed, "Ergou, get out of here!"

Frightened by Xue Yuandao's exclamation, Er Gou turned his head, and Er Gou immediately saw a monster that was exactly the same as the fallen monster appearing behind him.Er Gou immediately drives the aura around him with his thoughts to form a sharp sword that wants to penetrate the monster's body from top to bottom. Whichever sword reaches the skin of the monster, it can no longer stab down. .

And the monster rammed straight towards Ergou, Ergou was hit directly from the air into the ground by the violent impact, during which time rocks were constantly being knocked away from behind him, and he could feel his spine breaking apart There was severe pain, and then he lost consciousness.

When he woke up again, Ergou was in a ruined temple surrounded by night.He moved his body, and there were bursts of sharp pain from behind. Ergou felt that he was going to faint again, but he still maintained a clear consciousness.

"Where is this place?"

"This is the underworld." A skeleton suddenly appeared in front of Ergou and said to Ergou.

Ergou stared at the skeleton for a long time before slowly asking, "Who is it?"

"Human, are you not afraid of me?"

"Why are you afraid? I also have these bones on my body." Ergou asked suspiciously.

"You are so interesting." A man's voice came from the place where the pile of bones and teeth said to Ergou, "Why did you come to the underworld?"

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