Dream Maker [Rebirth]

The variable came from a faint sound of water that was barely audible.

In the absolute darkness and silence of the black clouds, this sound appeared abrupt and clear, Ji Wuzhou stopped in an instant and looked down, and saw a little red star sinking slowly in the darkness at his feet.

That's Voling.

He immediately realized that it was probably Luci's hand bones that slipped from his waist while he was walking, and the finger bones without flesh and blood were too slender for Fu Ling to hold onto them at all, so he accidentally fell into the water.

He couldn't help being careless, but at this moment, he suddenly found that the black cloud around him seemed to have changed.

As if they were afraid of the red star, they quickly rolled and retreated to both sides. It took a while for the stone path where Ji Wuzhou was standing to be completely exposed on the surface of the pool, as if Fu Ling turned into a blade, and fell in the black clouds. A gap was opened.

At the same time, there was a strong vibration under Ji Wuzhou's feet, and then the water in the pool began to splash, and the water level slowly lowered amidst the rumbling sound, as if the bottom of the pool was suddenly pierced by something, and the water was being discharged little by little.

Ji Wuzhou stood there in amazement, staring blankly at the pool water that quickly disappeared like an ebb tide, watching the red light from Fu Ling move down with the water surface, until the mirror pool several feet deep was completely dried up, Fu Ling also It finally landed on the bottom of the pool, like a torch thrown into the abyss.

The mirror pool without water is like a huge stone flower. The rock pillars that go deep into the bottom of the pool under the spring sleep are like the heart of a flower, while the slender rocks that extend to the bottom under the three stone paths are like stamens.

What is even more bizarre is that there is a circular downward stone ladder around the pool wall. It is chiseled inside the pool wall, and its color blends with the pool wall. If the pool water is not empty at this moment, its existence may never be found on the shore. .

Rao Ji Wuzhou's curiosity has never been too strong, but the sudden change at this moment still makes him unable to turn a blind eye.

He hesitated for a moment between "Go down and have a look" and "Go on", and then his eyes fell on the Fu Ling at the bottom of the pool, and he immediately decided that he should go down no matter what, even if it was just to retrieve this relic .

He sent Lu Ci's skeleton to the side of the pool to lay it down, then turned back to the stone path, squatted down to support the protruding stone, jumped into the stone ladder embedded in the pool wall, and walked down it step by step.

When the black cloud receded before, it only vacated the area around Fu Ling, and did not dissipate completely. At this time, it was still pouring out from the rest of the pool bottom and rising into the sky, just like the black wall that originally surrounded it. Missing a half block.

Under the cover of incomplete black clouds, the whole stone staircase is sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and the darkest part can almost only be walked in the dark.Fortunately, there is no fork in the stone ladder, and the height of each step is roughly the same, so even if you close your eyes, you will not make a mistake and step into the air.

After going around and around, as the diameter of the pool wall shrinks, each circle of stone stairs is gradually shortened.

Finally, Ji Wuzhou stepped down the last step to reach the bottom of the pool, and after going half a circle through the black clouds, the piece of land where Fu Ling was located appeared in sight.

He went straight to Fu Lingbian and bent down to pick it up, but the moment he straightened up, he suddenly found a hidden stone door on the thick rock pillar in the middle of the pool bottom.

This rock pillar is the one that supports Chunmian. Looking from bottom to top at this time, it looks like a straight sea-fixing needle.

Ji Wuzhou held Fu Lingxing to the door, looked it up and down, and found that the stone door was tightly closed, as if it couldn't be opened at all.

His gaze moved to the sides, and soon he found a small groove on the rock wall on the left side of the stone gate.

——It was a circular groove the size of a copper coin, with a protrusion the size of an index finger in the center, as if it had been specially dug out for a certain object, waiting to be embedded in it.

Such a size and shape...

Ji Wuzhou subconsciously looked at Fu Ling in his hand, lifted it up in a strange way, pointed at the groove and gently pushed it in.

Strictly fit, seamless.

There was another vibration under his feet, this time, the source was the closed stone gate in front of him.

Amidst the loud rumbling noise, the stone door slowly opened upwards, revealing a deep and dark hole in a short while.

Ji Wuzhou tentatively took Fu Ling out of the groove, but the stone door did not close because of this. He waited for a while, and finally took a step while holding Fu Ling, and stepped into the entrance of the cave.

He couldn't see his fingers in the hole, making it almost impossible to move forward, but just when he was hesitating whether to go deeper, two flames suddenly shot up from the left and right sides, extending downward like a fire dragon.

The sudden flash of fire made him unable to help closing his eyes. When he opened them again, he realized that there was a wide stone step sloping downward under his feet, and he didn't know where the end was.

The flames in the light grooves on both sides of the stone steps were burning fiercely, illuminating the path under his feet extremely clearly. Ji Wuzhou walked down the stone steps without hesitation.

The stone steps are very long, even though Ji Wuzhou did not walk slowly, it took a lot of time until he saw the bottom of the steps from a distance, and finally raised his eyes to look in front of the stone steps.

With just one glance, he stopped and froze in place.

——At the end of the stairs is a spacious circular secret room with a high dome and bright lights. Although it is not magnificent, it gives people a sense of simplicity and solemnity for no reason.

There is a high platform in the middle of the secret room, on which several utensils are placed upright, with aura floating on it, like treasures in the fairy world.

That should be the most eye-catching place, but at this moment Ji Wuzhou has no time to take it into consideration.

Because not far behind the high platform, there is a half circle of murals on the wall of the secret room that are also glowing with aura.

And the mural was actually moving.

Ji Wuzhou quickly walked up the stone steps, and went straight to the mural. It was only when he got close that he realized that the mural was not a complete one, but composed of five different paintings.

The first one is Xihezhou in the East China Sea.

The scene in the painting is exactly the same as the current situation in the secret realm. Black clouds poured into the sky from the middle of the secret realm, filling the air with dense black clouds, and falling snow all over the sky.

The second picture is Black Rock Mountain in the South China Sea.

Amidst cloudy clouds and flying snow, the color of the sky and earth in the South China Sea changed, and a huge black rock mountain slowly emerged from the water, like a sea beast that had been hiding for thousands of years finally emerged.

The third piece, the continent on earth.

After the heavy snowfall, the people of the world walked around every corner of the mainland as usual, but at this time, each of them seemed to be covered with a layer of faint black mist, which lingered like a shadow and lingered.

Some people's life is exhausted and the lights are extinguished, but they are quickly revived, and the original light black mist around them becomes thicker, which changes people's hearts and minds, becoming cruel, cruel and bloodthirsty.

With the passage of time, there are more and more such people, causing killings everywhere in the human world, and the ground is covered with blood.

In the fourth picture, the master is approaching the immortal.

Wearing gauze clothes and holding a magic staff in his hand, he took a spiritual weapon and took a boat to the human continent. He walked around the world, and with the power of the four-dimensional spiritual weapon, he took back the black mist that shrouded the world's bodies little by little, and brought back the black mist that had been completely wiped out. The people controlled by the black air were taken to Heiyan Mountain in the South China Sea and imprisoned.

In the fifth picture, the Human Continent reappears.

All the black mist from the world has been taken back, Que Jinxian went to the South China Sea, took the people imprisoned in the Black Rock Mountain to the secret place of hidden spirits and pushed them into the mirror pool, and then suppressed all the black mist recovered from the human continent with the Quartet spiritual weapon.

After watching these pictures with Ji Wuzhou's eyes, Lu Ci, who was watching the memories, couldn't help but feel a little dazed: "Is this...a prophecy?"

If this was a prophecy, it would be too inaccurate, because the person who brought the spirit weapon out of the secret realm was not the master at all, but Ji Wuzhou.

Ji Wuzhou answered from the side: "I also thought it was a prophecy, but soon found out that it was not."

While speaking, the aura floating on the mural in the memory picture suddenly trembled, rushing towards Ji Wuzhou who was standing at the end of the mural like a light cloud, and injected all of it into his body in an instant.

At this moment, the images that Ji Wuzhou had just seen were connected together in his mind, and the cause and effect suddenly appeared, making him wake up like a dream—this is not a prophecy, but history.

This change that only occurred in the brain, Lu Ci, who was watching the memory, couldn't know it. All he could see was that the aura entered Ji Wuzhou's body and disappeared, that's all.

Therefore, Ji Wuzhou had no choice but to explain from the side: "This is a memory left by Master here, which happened 8000 years ago."

"8000 years ago?!" Lu Ci said in shock.

Ji Wuzhou nodded. At the beginning, when he learned about this matter, he was as unbelievable as Lu Ci, but now he has accepted it calmly. He said: "There was such a collapse of spiritual energy in the secret realm 8000 years ago, or , It happens once every 8000 years, but in fact what disintegrates in the world is not spiritual energy at all, but evil energy."

Spiritual energy and evil energy have coexisted in the world since the beginning of heaven and earth. Spiritual energy causes all things to grow, and evil energy causes all things to perish.

When the human world first took shape, spiritual energy and evil energy were equally abundant. Human ancestors could use spiritual energy to go to the sky and enter the sea to enjoy themselves in the world, but it was difficult to resist the deadly attack of evil energy, just like being in an extremely extreme world of water and fire.

The ancestors tried to find a balance so that future generations could reproduce stably for a long time without being hurt by evil spirits.

Therefore, they gathered most of the spiritual energy in the world and created the Quartet Spirit Artifact, which was used to fight against the evil spirit, and finally suppressed the evil spirit at the bottom of Xihe Continent in the East China Sea, which is far away from the human continent.

Since then, there is no longer any evil spirit raging in the world, but the spiritual energy has also become extremely thin, and it is no longer possible to reproduce the happy scene of going to the sky and entering the sea.

Fortunately, such a thin aura is enough to support the reproduction and growth of all things. Human beings, together with other creatures, have continued from generation to generation.

However, suppressing evil spirits is not a once-and-for-all task. The spiritual energy gathered in the four squares will leak out a little bit over time, until its power is weaker than the evil spirits, so that the suppression is loosened, and the evil spirits will break through the boundary and return to the human continent.

Such loosening occurs every 8000 years.

At that time, the evil spirit scattered to the world will turn into heavy snow and descend on the world, turning into something similar to Shouyuan and invading the spiritual gate of the world.

That is the black and red aura that Lu Ci had seen in the two fairy palaces and Master Tong's body, which is also the "evil longevity" written in the ledger of Bingqiao Xiaoge.

After Xie Shou enters the spirit gate, it will lurk at the end of the normal lifespan. It will not affect people at first, but when the normal lifespan is exhausted, the person who should have died will "return to life" due to the existence of Xie Shou, and then Being completely controlled by Xie Shou, he became hostile to everything, tyrannical and bloodthirsty.

If there are only one or two such people, there is nothing to be afraid of, but when almost everyone in the world is contaminated by evil life, one day it will break out into a large-scale mutual killing, causing the loss of life and even the death of the world.

At that time, someone needs to move around the world with the four-dimensional spiritual weapon, take out the evil longevity lurking in the spiritual gate of the world, and then replenish the missing power of the spiritual weapon with spiritual energy, and finally suppress all the evil energy back to Xihe Continent .

Such a person is called a "spirit guard", that is, the master of the secret realm, and Master Que Jinxian is the most recent one.

It is not easy to take back the evil life, because all the spiritual gates must be opened by the owner voluntarily. The difficulty can be seen, so the evil energy that breaks out every 8000 years often requires the spirit guards to spend years or even decades. years to deal with.

But that's not the hardest part.

Ordinary people may be able to voluntarily open the spiritual door by persuasion or coercion, but for those whose righteous life has expired and are completely controlled by the evil life, once the evil life is exhausted, they will die immediately. It is absolutely impossible to take the initiative to open the spiritual door.

Fortunately, the ancestors had already made preparations for this - the Black Rock Mountain in the South China Sea and the Jingchi Lake in Xihezhou were the assistance left by the ancestors to the spirit guards.

Every 8000 years, when the spirit weapon is loosened, Heiyan Mountain will emerge from the sea and be used to imprison people who have been completely controlled by evil longevity, and the water in the mirror pool will become water for washing evil spirits, and it will be used to detain their evil longevity. Forcibly stripped.

Until the Quartet Spirit Artifact returns and the evil energy is withdrawn and suppressed again, the Black Rock Mountain will sink to the bottom of the sea again, and the mirror pool water will return to normal clear water.

The content of the mural in front of me is the scene of the last time the spiritual weapon was loosened 8000 years ago. Master Que Jinxian attached his memory at that time to it, as if telling that period of history, and as if guiding future generations to deal with evil spirits next attack.

There's always something awe-inspiring about an ancient and mysterious story, especially when it's more than just a "story."

After listening to Ji Wuzhou's narration, Lu Ci suddenly had a feeling that the world is big but I am as small as dust. No matter how wild his thoughts were, he would never have thought that there could be something behind this snowstorm in June. The creation of such a grand and bizarre ancient secret history is related to the ancestors of mankind and the rise and extinction of living beings.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little lucky.

Fortunately, Ji Wuzhou arrived at this secret room by mistake ten years ago. Fortunately, he saw this history and brought out a spiritual weapon. Doomed.

At the same time, this period of history also explained a lot of confusion for Lu Ci.

First, when he woke up on the Xuanjingtai, Zhongli Bufu had told him that after the heavy snowfall, disasters frequently occurred in the human world. At that time, he thought it was very strange-if the heavy snow was really caused by the collapse of spirit energy, then it brought What comes to the world should be good luck and peace, not bad luck.Now that I know that those are not spiritual energy but evil energy, it makes sense that disasters happen frequently.

Second, the reason why Zhongli Bufu can become one of the four great celestial masters without a spiritual weapon is because Ji Wuzhou told him that the Black Rock Mountain in the South China Sea was about to surface when they met ten years ago.At that time, Lu Ci was very curious about why Ji Wuzhou could predict this matter, and now he finally has an explanation.

Lu Ci's thoughts turned back and forth, but the memory picture in front of him was still going on.

After reading the memories left by Master, Ji Wuzhou in front of the mural finally learned the whole story of the heavy snowfall.

He did not continue to stay in front of the mural, but turned decisively and walked to the high platform in the middle of the secret room.

As he climbed up the steps, the radiant square spiritual weapon on the top of the platform gradually revealed its true appearance.

Wanling Staff.

Illusion Gu gauze.

Tianhe Feather Fan.

There was also the rumored "killer weapon" that made the other three celestial masters fear Ji Wuzhou, and it was extremely mysterious in the rumors—the fourth spiritual weapon.