Dream Maker [Rebirth]

The candles in the room were crackling, Lu Cixing went to the bedside and bent over to pat the soft bedding, just about to ask Ji Wuzhou whether he was sleeping in or out, but when he turned around, he saw Ji Wuzhou pull out the Wanling staff from his waist .

He casually twirled the staff in a circle, and stretched it to the size when he cast the spell to create a dream, then stood between the two of them holding it, and raised his chin to signal Lu Ci to grab it.

Lu Ci took two steps closer, wondering, "What are you doing?"

Ji Wuzhou said: "Don't you want to know how I got the spiritual weapon back then?"

Lu Ci was taken aback, but then he came to his senses and said in surprise, "You want me to explore your memories?"

Ji Wuzhou said: "Instead of letting me tell you, why don't you go and see for yourself."

Lu Ci was a little surprised, not only because of Ji Wuzhou's actions, but also because of the current timing.

He was certainly curious about how Ji Wuzhou obtained the spirit weapon, but after confirming that Ji Wuzhou had nothing to do with the secret realm Gu trouble, his curiosity became less urgent.After all, in his opinion, finding the culprit of the disaster in the secret realm is the top priority. As for the reason why Ji Wuzhou got the spiritual weapon, he can ask later, and he is not in a hurry.

Right now they are about to trace the clues, but Ji Wuzhou chooses to take the initiative to mention this matter tonight, and intends to let him see it with his own eyes, as if he can't wait to tell him about the past. Some unexpected.

Ji Wuzhou seemed to see his doubts, and said: "It's not that I'm eager to prove my innocence, it's just that the clues to be investigated tomorrow are somewhat related to my experiences back then, and verbal explanations are quite complicated, so it's more convenient than direct memory exploration."

After that, he paused for a moment, and said again: "Besides, there are a few things that I experienced back then that puzzled me for a long time, and I want you to see if you can answer them."

Lu Ci didn't expect there to be such a reason, so he stopped delaying any longer, raised his hand to hold the staff and said, "What should I do? Or is it the same as last time?"

Ji Wuzhou said: "It's almost the same, but last time I was in charge of exploring memory, and this time it's my memory, so it's up to you to take the lead. But you don't have to worry, you just need to concentrate on manipulating the staff That’s it, I’m still with you after the memory is recorded, you can ask me anytime if you have any questions.”

Luci nodded, as he said, he concentrated all his energy on the staff in his hand, and calmed down to perceive its inside.

He didn't get the Dharma door at first, but Ji Wuzhou didn't urge him, he knew that it would not be difficult to get through this way with Luci's comprehension, so he just waited quietly.

Sure enough, after only a moment, Lu Ci felt as if he was connected to the power of the staff, and with only a slight movement of his mind, he felt a wave of spiritual energy slowly overflowing from the staff and spreading to the surroundings.

The silver bell rang slightly, and the tip of the staff began to rotate slightly.

He hastened to focus on one point again, and drew this aura to Ji Wuzhou.

The thread of memory was slowly drawn out by the ripples of the bell, spiraled and spread out, forming a net on the surrounding walls.

All the surrounding furnishings began to fluctuate like Master Tong's bedroom, distorting and changing into completely different scenes in the blink of an eye.

……

Boundless sea, overcast clouds, and snow all over the sky.

The howling wind set off monstrous waves, and the sound of the waves was deafening.

In the midst of the tumbling waves, a small boat was like a dead leaf strayed into the vortex. It was pushed to the highest point by the waves and then fell hard into the trough. swallowed by the deep sea.

However, in such a small boat whose life is hanging by a thread, there is a tall and straight figure standing steadily on the bow.

Ji Wuzhou was facing the direction of the huge waves, and his whole body was already drenched, but his straight shoulders did not bend at all, and stood still against the wind and snow waves, as if he was proud and fearless in the world.

This is the East China Sea ten years ago.

It is Ji Wuzhou's memory before arriving at the secret realm after going out to sea.

Although it is just a bystander, the scenes that are too real and the loud noise of the waves make people feel like they are there.

Knowing that everything in front of him is just a piece of the past, the boat that Ji Wuzhou is in will not capsize, but Lu Ci's heart can't help but hang high, holding his breath in shock, for fear that it will be caught by the huge waves in the blink of an eye. Overturned.

It wasn't until there was a burst of warmth from the back of his hand that Lu Ci suddenly came back to his senses, only then did he remember that Ji Wuzhou was standing beside him holding the magic staff with him.

At this time, Ji Wuzhou's palm moved down a few points, and he clasped Lu Ci's stiff back and patted it twice, as if to remind him not to take it seriously.

Lu Ci exhaled lightly, and his hanging heart slowly fell back. After calming down, he said: "Actually, I have always been curious, why did you suddenly decide to go to sea?"

Ji Wuzhou was quiet for a moment, then said: "If I say it's because of intuition, would you believe me?"

Lu Ci thought for a while and guessed: "Because Feixue in June is too weird, do you feel that something might happen in the secret realm?"

Ji Wuzhou was silent for a moment, as if he was considering whether this statement was appropriate, and then agreed: "It can be understood in this way."

Lu Ci nodded and didn't ask any further questions. He felt that the reason was really reasonable, because if he was the one who lived on the coast back then, he might have made a lot of speculations because of a sudden and strange heavy snowfall.

Turning his eyes back to the sea in front of him, Lu Ci was surprised to find that behind the tumbling waves in the distance, there was a black spot that appeared and disappeared.

The black spot was sometimes covered by the waves, and sometimes it was extremely clear. Although it was still in the distance, Lu Ci recognized at a glance that it was the hidden realm.

Ji Wuzhou on the small boat obviously also saw that place, his figure was no longer as motionless as before, but he took every opportunity to be pushed to the highest point by the huge waves to look there.

Under the cloudy sky, Xihezhou is like a deep spring, with a steady stream of black clouds rising from the mouth of the spring, as if all the dark clouds in the sky are gushing out from that point to reach the sky, and then spread and spread to cover the sky.

From a distance, the outline of those black clouds looks like a huge upside-down suona, and the towering black air forms a rare spectacle like a dragon absorbing water.

Lu Ci probably guessed in his heart that it was the so-called "disintegration of the spiritual energy in the secret realm", but the gloomy black cloud made it impossible to connect it with the "spiritual energy", instead it seemed to be witnessing a raging evil spirit.

It wasn't until this time that Lu Ci discovered another strange thing in this memory - the waves had been rushing towards the opposite direction of the ship under the push of the strong wind, but Xihezhou in the distance gradually changed in sight. big.

He couldn't help asking: "You've been going against the wind, and you don't even use the oars, how can you keep going?"

Ji Wuzhou said: "When I first went out to sea, I didn't have much hope, I just wanted to try to see if I could find the secret place. After I paddled into the deep sea with my oars, I realized that the wind and waves couldn't stop the boat from moving forward at all. A suction force pulled the boat to the opposite side of the waves. Later, when I saw Xihezhou, I had a guess—the secret realm was like a huge magnet, constantly attracting driftwood from the East China Sea to it—maybe The reason why all the wooden basins that flow down from any river in the human continent will eventually reach Xihezhou."

Lu Ci pondered for a moment, and then said: "But aren't the so-called 'uncontaminated' babies and books and papers that have been able to successfully reach the secret realm all the time? If all things like boats and wooden basins are attracted to them, the East China Sea There are so many fishermen and fishermen, why have we never seen them before?"

"I've thought about this question too," Ji Wuzhou said, "I think the most likely reason is - I'm a person who came out of the secret realm, so the secret realm may be different from ordinary people."

Lu Ci was startled, and retorted subconsciously: "But Master clearly said—"

The voice stopped abruptly here, because he suddenly found that the reason he wanted to say seemed unfounded.

The master said that the disciples of Lizhou are not allowed to return for life.

Back then, almost everyone in the same sect took it for granted as "you can't return to the secret realm after leaving the continent", but thinking about it at this moment, this sentence seems to be more like a teacher's training, like the elders of ordinary people's family admonishing Children "not near the pond" does not mean that children cannot approach, but do not approach.

It's just that the place that Master said "can't return to" is a secret place of hidden spirits that has been hard to find in countless human rumors since ancient times, so it is natural to misunderstand it as "cannot return".

Ji Wuzhou saw him half-spoken and pondered for a long time, and said, "Do you want to say that Master said that once you leave the secret realm, you will never return?"

Lu Ci nodded, and said frankly: "But I suddenly discovered that this sentence is ambiguous. The so-called 'must' does not necessarily mean 'can't', maybe it's just 'don't'."

Unexpectedly, Ji Wuzhou shook his head when he heard the words: "I don't think so."

Lu Ci was a little dazed: "What do you mean?"

"Perhaps what he originally meant was 'I can't return after leaving the island', but he also said another sentence," Ji Wuzhou said, "He said that the fact that the Sifang spiritual weapon is hidden in the secret realm is just a legend fabricated by the world. There is no spiritual weapon in the secret realm at all."

These two sentences sounded irrelevant at first glance, but Luci instantly understood what he meant—Master said that there is no spiritual weapon in the secret realm, but the spiritual weapon is indeed in the secret realm, so he said that he could not return after leaving the island, could it be Are you really not going back?

Lu Ci said: "Do you think...these two are Master's deliberate lies?"

Ji Wuzhou said: "Yes, it's because he said this that all the disciples believe it so deeply that no one has tried to return after leaving the island for so many years, so naturally there is no way to verify whether it is true or not."

Lu Ci was silent for a while, for some reason, he suddenly felt that Ji Wuzhou's attitude towards his master was a bit weird, it was not obvious, but there seemed to be a hint of distrust in his words.

He wasn't sure if it was his own illusion, if not, where did this suspicion come from, and why did it arise?

At this time, the boat in the memory picture was approaching the shore of the continent, and the whole picture of Xihezhou was fully displayed.

Seen from such a close distance, the sky pillars formed by the black clouds are even bigger and frightening, and their source is already clearly discernible, which is actually the place where Chunmian is located in the middle of the secret realm.

The boat touched the rocks on the shore, Ji Wuzhou jumped off the bow, dragged the boat ashore, then turned around and raised his eyes to look around, couldn't help frowning slightly.

In the sky filled with snow, the entire shore of Xihezhou was dead silent, only the loud sound of waves crashing against the rocks could be heard behind him. Compared with the two, the secret place was even more eerie and strange.As far as the eye can see, there is no one there, but if you look closely, you can find a few motionless cranes half-hidden by weeds on the grass.

After staying in place for a while, he walked directly to the nearest spirit crane.

When he got closer, he squatted down and brushed away the knee-high weeds, and after seeing the whole picture of the crane clearly, even though he was as calm as he was, he couldn't help but gasped.

——That is not a crane at all, not even a crane carcass, at best it can only be regarded as a crane bone wrapped in crane feathers, with no skin and flesh, so clean that not even a trace of blood can be seen.

Ji Wuzhou withdrew his hand, got up and went to check several other places, and found that all the spirit cranes died in the same way, as if their flesh and blood had been stripped dry by something in a very short period of time, but the skeleton and crane feathers were all intact. Still in good condition, even tidy.

When he stood up again, Ji Wuzhou's expression was already very dignified. He frowned deeply as he looked at the surrounding dense forest that looked unusually dark due to the dark sky. His brows were half worried and half surprised, as if he had just intuited it before. This ominous premonition is being fulfilled little by little.

But he didn't hesitate for too long, and after standing still for a while, he quickly walked towards the dense forest with firm steps.

At this time, the dense forest has not yet been covered by thick fog, but the dark sky and dense canopy still fill it with a chill.

Ji Wuzhou's footsteps were not fast or slow, walking forward while pacing around, as if vigilant and searching, until he passed through the forest and reached the place where he used to live and studied, he stopped again and waited and watched.

—nobody, not a single one.

All the way from Zhou'an to here, he was actually trying to find even a single figure, but even though he had reached the most bustling and noisy continuous room in the past, he still failed to find any disciples of the secret realm.

He walked forward slowly, walked outside a room and stood still. He raised his hand as if he wanted to knock on the door, but he stopped at the moment he was about to touch the door panel, as if he realized that his behavior was deceiving himself, so he changed his hand. Using fingers as palms, he directly pushed the door open.