Artifact Smuggling Specialist

What is left is the position of Qian and Kun, that is, the front and back of Zuo Lan.

Right in front, the dry position, is the place where the old man is facing, with the lonely lamp burning; the position behind, the Kun position, is the way Zuo Lan and the others came, which is basically a tunnel.

The old man's question was really strange, Zuo Lan laughed: "I am Qian in the front, and Kun in the back. But the former has a light, and the latter has no way. Why should the senior embarrass the younger?"

In fact, whether it is embarrassing or not, in fact, there is no other way to say, it is just that this person is not embarrassing Zuo Lan now, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

What universe, heaven and earth, so mysterious, do you want to die?

"All roads and roads are all passages."

The old man just said this sentence, his voice was very small, and it was still full of the vicissitudes of life.

Zuo Lan was suddenly in a trance.

It's confusing when you hear it for the first time.

All roads are channels.

There are many explanations.

It's just that Zuo Lan has already figured out the most likely one.

Can every road lead to the highway?Zuo Lan didn't know.

"The position of Kun is the way to go back, but I, Zuo Lan, don't want to go back."

So his choice is - dry position, Tian Ye.

"A very courageous choice. This year, the Ninth Soul Academy is probably..."

What are you afraid of?

The back of the old man in front was still arched, but his head, which was raised slightly, had already been buried, as if he had turned his gaze to look at the ground in front of him.

"The incense burning ceremony is about to begin. There will be incense in the incense room. When you reappear, you will have already arrived at the first soul academy."

There are some mysterious and unpredictable meanings hidden in these words, Zuo Lan pondered for a while, but could only suppress the doubts in his heart.As the chief of the group of seven participating in the soul academy competition, Zuo Lan just gave everyone a comforting look, and then stood up. The position he was going to was different from others.

Everyone went to their own directions, but Xue Chongshi was different from the others. He stood for a long time, his gaze shifted from Zuo Lan's face to the old man's back, and then he turned his wrist. After all, he did nothing and turned around. left.

Zuo Lan watched him leave, and saw that everyone had disappeared into the darkness in different directions.He stood by himself, standing behind the old man.

"Has senior been here for a long time?"

Zuo Lan took a step forward.

The old man didn't respond, as if he had already expected Zuo Lan to ask such a question: "Over the years, other people have asked me this question, but I don't want to answer it."

"Actually, senior has already answered." What Zuo Lan wanted to know most was the identity of this person.From his point of view, although the old man was sitting here, looking like a mass of dead ashes, it was this lifeless silence that made people feel even more frightened.

There are always some people who have cultivated to the extreme in the world.

It's not that Zuo Lan has never seen the Soul Lord, even the Soul Emperor, but no one can give Zuo Lan such a feeling.

The old man in front of him was a mass of ashes.

"Go in quickly, it's almost time."

The old man didn't seem to want to talk to Zuo Lan anymore, so he just urged him lightly.

So Zuo Lan walked forward again. With his hands behind his back, he stepped out step by step. The sound of his footsteps was not deliberately suppressed, but it was not loud. It began to appear under the light.

As he walked, he passed by the old man, the air was flowing, but no dust was stirred up.

Zuo Lan walked all the way to the front of the light, but he heard something shouted from the mouth of the old man behind him. Before he could turn his head to look at the face of the old man, his eyes were blurred, and he suddenly entered a place that he had never touched before. world.

However, the time to cross the barrier is extremely short, and in the blink of an eye, he is already in a stone room.

It is a very ordinary stone room, but there are many ancient and mysterious patterns engraved on the surrounding walls. It seems that there are different emblems of the Nine Great Soul Academy, and a Soul Array is engraved on the entire ground, covering the entire ground.There seemed to be something under the hollowed-out floor, and it had already started to emerge when Zuo Lan stepped here.

There is an incense burner in the center of the soul array, which only reaches Zuo Lan's waist height, and there is a futon in front of the incense burner. Zuo Lan sits on it naturally, opens his knees, curls his hands naturally on top of his knees, and closes it. Eye.

From the bottom of the floor was lingering faint smoke, Zuo Lan suddenly knew that the incense room itself was an incense burner.

It turns out that the incense burning ceremony of the Nine Great Soul Academy is not as common as other ceremonies. No one in heaven and earth spiritual practice can put their body into the incense burner to burn incense, but Zuo Lan is in the incense burner at this moment.

This is a whimsical idea, but it embodies the desire of the predecessors to become one with the heaven, earth and gods.

The entire incense room is the incense burner, and the floor where Zuo Lan is sitting is the incense crumbs, which will also turn into incense ash after he leaves.The small incense cauldron behind it also raised a curl of green smoke.

The fragrance coming out from under the floor tiles touched Zuo Lan's robe and penetrated into the skin. In the transpiration state of being completely hypnotized, Keke's state of mind is extremely peaceful.

He seemed to hear the Sanskrit singing that he had heard in the secret realm of the Zuo family again, and it floated from far away in the sky, and disappeared in an instant.

His consciousness was withdrawn from his body again, feeling the pain of being cut apart, but he walked away in a blink of an eye.Zuo Lan saw the previous scenes like a revolving lantern again.

Until he saw a huge fan-shaped square, at the narrowest end of the fan, countless people with the emblem of the First Soul Academy stood below, chanting something, most of the seven people standing on the stage were very unfamiliar .

There were seven people, but Zuo Lan always felt that there were only six.

Because one of them is too inconspicuous, like a speck of dust, it feels like it can be easily ignored by others.

However, this is only Zuo Lan's consciousness after all.

In this fan-shaped square, Zuo Lan saw the incense burning ceremony.The incense ceremony of the First Soul Academy is no different from that of the Ninth Soul Academy.

It's just that the color of that door is different, Zuo Lan felt that he could see clearly, but he didn't know why it suddenly became cold.

Consciousness is fuzzy, but I feel a cold gaze from that stage, I become a transparent body, floating in mid-air, there is an illusion of a god, but when this gaze turns , Zuo Lan actually felt cold.

There was only that gaze, which was clear but dead silent. It was a kind of silence that was extremely calm, and even everything was not in the bottom of my heart.

There seemed to be a lamp in Zuo Lan's heart, but when he met this gaze, the lamp suddenly went out.

ash.

For the first time, Zuo Lan felt that a person's gaze could be described as ashes.

It's not just ashes anymore, it can even be said to be cold ash.

Everything went away in an instant, and his soul returned to his body, but Zuo Lan suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and his entire temple throbbed, excruciatingly painful.

His face turned pale for a moment, but he had no time to take care of his own injury. The injury must be in the consciousness. With Zuo Lan's peak strength as a soul master, someone else was injured at this moment, and he suffered a dark loss. I can't feel it.

Who is the owner of that gaze?

Zuo Lan wasn't sure who Tian Jia was. There were many masters in the First Soul Academy, and the owner of this gaze was not necessarily Tian Jia who he regarded as the biggest threat.

His state of dissociating consciousness and wandering thousands of miles is still only found in the secret realm, but when he extends his consciousness, others can even discover it, and even get injured immediately in this confrontation of consciousness, which is not enough at all. One grade down.

If this gaze came from Tianjia, Zuo Lan thought - the outcome of this big competition is almost a foregone conclusion.

All kinds of complicated thoughts swirled in his mind, and they couldn't leave. The more Zuo Lan thought about it, the more confused he became.

"Pfft" spit out another mouthful of blood, Zuo Lan's face became even paler, but under the gaze of the mysterious man, he was already close to a state of madness.

His eyes were faintly red, he squeezed his fingers tightly, but forced himself not to think so much, otherwise it would lead to a catastrophe.

At this time, surrounded by the strange fragrance, Zuo Lan could smell the fragrance on his clothes, but he remembered some words he had seen in the Buddhist temple a long time ago...

if i smell...

I will cause them to enter the Nirvana without residue and save them. In this way, countless and boundless sentient beings will be saved, but there will be no sentient beings who will be saved.Why, Subhuti.If a bodhisattva has the appearance of self, the appearance of people, the appearance of sentient beings, and the appearance of life...

Zuo Lan suddenly fell into an ethereal state.

All roads are channels.

After all...

Road.

This way is not the other way, this way is also the other way, and all ways are connected to each other.Nothing is impossible, nothing is impossible.It is not suffering from ignorance, but the heart of ignorance.

The Tao is the Tao, and the non-Tao is the Tao, both are Tao.

Your way is my way, the same way and different ways, in the end——

Different paths lead to the same goal!

Where is the Tao, his Tao?

The strange fragrance finally began to gradually fade away. When Zuo Lan opened his eyes, the blood red in his eyes finally faded slowly, but his expression was a little tired after all. He looked at the incense room, and it seemed that the fragrance was exhausted.

At the No. [-] Soul Academy, Chongli walked in slowly, waving his fan, with the corner of his mouth curled up, but looked at the person who was walking at the end, "Tianjia, you looked wrong just now."

A person who has no sense of existence can be equated to a speck of dust at any time. He will not remember his face at first glance, and he will even forget his face when he turns his face.

You won't remember what he looks like, only his name.

It is a face that will never be remembered;

It's a name that will never be forgotten.

Tianjia.

Chongli didn't get an answer, he pushed the door open.

At the same moment, Zuo Lan also pushed open the door. He had already come out of the incense room with Xue Chongshi and others. His body was stained with the burning soul incense of the Ninth Soul Academy, which was a unique imprint.

It seems to go out from the passageway when it came, but the mysterious old man is no longer in the lobby.

Dry.

Standing at the end of the exit of the corridor, Zuo Lan glanced back.

After entering the position of Qian, he went back this way again at this moment, and came out of the position of Kun.

The world is so strange, he suddenly began to think, if he chose the position of Kun, what would it be?

With such thoughts in his mind, he pushed open the door.

Outside the door, there is already the first soul courtyard.

The strong light stimulated their eyes, a snow-white light. "Soul Academy competition, seven contestants from the Ninth Soul Academy came to the scene one by one"