Strange Records of Xijing

The Shimen closed behind Pei Jingxing, then gradually rotated and shrunk, and finally disappeared into the void.

Pei Jingxing stepped on a piece of soft white cloud, and there were steps made of clouds on both sides, up and down on the left and right, without any indication marks.Bana's body had been turned into powder and dissipated, and half of Su Yan's soul in his body was gone.Pei Jingxing could only think on the bright side, hoping that Su Yan's two souls had merged.

He was not in a hurry to act, but carefully recalled every word Su Yan said in the past few days.Finally, he chose a direction and walked to the left.

The ladder is soft and not particularly stable.The weight of an adult man and a dragon-headed tiger-toothed gun was on it, making every step of the ladder wobbly.Pei Jingxing took every step very carefully, fearing that if he was careless, he would lose his balance and fall straight away.

Pei Jingxing would stop occasionally and raise his head to look as far as possible, but he couldn't see anything other than the endless ladder.

In fact, he was not sure whether this direction was right or not - Su Yan once told him that his soul was floating above and saw the stationary army on the ground.But what if the ladder is actually a blindfold?What if this cloud ladder actually has to go down first before it can go all the way up the cloud ladder to the sky?

But Pei Jingxing also knew that all of this was just his wild imagination, a kind of lack of self-confidence because of the unknown future, at least there was no evidence that could make him temporarily change his direction.

He smiled self-deprecatingly and continued to walk up.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Pei Jingxing came under a large sea of ​​clouds.The thick sea of ​​clouds blocked Pei Jingxing's sight, he couldn't see anything beyond, he could only see black phantoms flashing occasionally in the sea of ​​clouds.

Pei Jingxing didn't dare to take it too seriously, so he lifted the dragon's head and tiger's tooth spear and stabbed upwards.He felt the dragon head and tiger tooth spear in his hand being pulled by a suction force in the sea of ​​clouds.No, it should be said that there was something attracting the Dragon Head Tiger Tooth Spear to approach. Afterwards, the Earth Walking Yaksha perched in the gun body couldn't wait to run out, and even started running recklessly above the sea of ​​clouds.

There is only one thing that attracts a ground yaksha.

Pei Jingxing was worried that there was Su Yan's soul in it, so he immediately activated his power and forcibly summoned the earth-moving Yasha back into the dragon-headed tiger-tooth spear.He took a few more steps up, raised his hand to push aside the sea of ​​clouds, and walked up.

The ladder comes to an end here.

Pei Jingxing stood on the sea of ​​clouds, and with the golden light above his head, he saw translucent wandering souls all around him, lying on their backs or sides, as if they were swimming in the water.

These wandering souls were unaware of Pei Jingxing's arrival, only when they were about to bump into Pei Jingxing, they would change their direction slightly and swim past Pei Jingxing's body nimbly.

Pei Jingxing observed carefully, but did not find Su Yan among these wandering souls.And he also found that the expressions of these wandering spirits were dull, completely different from the ghosts he had seen before.Those ghosts in the past, whether they were in the Ghost City, or in the City of Moments, or the lonely wild ghosts that they encountered when handling cases with Su Yan on weekdays, at least they would make Pei Jingxing feel that this ghost used to exist as a human being. Pass.

But these wandering spirits are different, they are really lifeless and have no sense of existence.If it wasn't for the translucent body of these wandering souls, if it wasn't for the golden light shining, Pei Jingxing would almost have thought that there was nothing in this sea of ​​clouds.

It gave Pei Jingxing the feeling that when the world was born, these wandering souls were here, and they looked like this.Thousands of years have passed, and they are still the same.

Pei Jingxing tentatively walked a few steps on the sea of ​​clouds, and felt that his feet were very stable, but it was a little soft when he stepped on it, as if he was stepping on soft mud.

What's next?

Pei Jingxing continued to recall what Su Yan said.

He remembered that Su Yan said that he was floating in the air and could not move, but he could see the stationary army on the ground, which meant that Su Yan could not be in this sea of ​​clouds.

——To find the end of the sea of ​​clouds.

Pei Jingxing had an idea in his mind, but when he looked up, the rolling sea of ​​clouds stretched to the horizon.

Just when Pei Jingxing was wondering where to go, a long low growl sounded in his heart.

Yes, not in his ears, but in his heart.

Pei Jingxing turned around, followed the sound, and saw a figure floating in the distance.The shadow gradually approached, getting bigger and bigger, and when it was in front of Pei Jingxing, it turned into a huge weird fish.

The dark blue skin of this large fish reflected golden light, like a starry sky.The big fish opened its mouth and took a deep breath. Seeing this, Pei Jingxing immediately plunged the dragon's head and tiger's tooth spear into the sea of ​​clouds.Immediately afterwards, he felt a great suction force coming from in front of him, and countless wandering souls brushed past him and were sucked into the mouth by the big fish.The big fish closed its mouth and let out another low growl, and saw a puff of water vapor from the back of the big fish, straight into the sky.

After eating the piece of wandering soul, the big fish wagged its tail, twisted its body, and was about to leave.Pei Jingxing didn't hesitate anymore, he took a few steps to run up with the dragon head and tiger tooth gun, jumped up, and jumped onto the back of the big fish.

Big Fish didn't notice that there was an unexpected guest on his back, he swung his tail left and right, and left quickly.

The big fish carried Pei Jingxing away from this sea of ​​clouds, and only then did Pei Jingxing get a glimpse of the whole picture of the "ancient battlefield".

There is more than one sea of ​​clouds in the sky, between the sea of ​​clouds is the dark green night sky, Pei Jingxing looked around, but he didn't see half a wandering soul.

Just when he thought he was wrong in his judgment, another big fish came from a distance and swam past Pei Jingxing's head.Pei Jingxing looked up and found that there were many wandering spirits clinging to the belly of the big fish.The backs of these wandering spirits were pressed against the belly of the big fish, and their heads were facing down, as if they were looking at Pei Jingxing, but they seemed to be looking at nothing.

Isn't this the state Su Yan described!

Pei Jingxing hurriedly observed carefully, but the big fish swam too fast, he had no time to see the faces of all the wandering souls clearly.

The big fish under him didn't know the anxiety in Pei Jingxing's heart, and swam unsteadily into the new sea of ​​clouds, followed the same pattern, instinctively opened its mouth, sucked in the wandering souls in this sea of ​​clouds, and then sucked it in from a hole in its back. Jets of water sprayed out.

The last time Pei Jingxing stood in the sea of ​​clouds, he was still far away from the water column, so he only saw the shape of the water column.But this time Pei Jingxing stood on the back of the big fish, and heard countless wailing sounds from the water column.He took a closer look, and suddenly, a hand came out of the water column and firmly grasped Pei Jingxing's arm.The water column swirled along the edge of the arm, and then condensed into a complete hand, a shoulder, a head, and finally a complete person emerged from the water column.

is a stranger.

Pei Jingxing pulled his arm back vigorously, and the dragon-headed tiger-toothed spear shot out fiercely, hitting the opponent's chest directly.

The man let go of his hand quickly, and actually lay down on the ground, grabbing the big fish's body with both hands, avoiding Pei Jingxing's blow.

Just when Pei Jingxing shot for the second time, the man shouted to stop him: "Don't hit! Don't hit! I can help you!"

Pei Jingxing stopped the attack, but still pointed the tip of the gun at this strange man, and asked, "What can you help me?"

The weirdo said, "I know you're here to find someone, right?"

Of course Pei Jingxing couldn't completely trust a stranger, he shook his head tentatively and said, "No."

The weird man chuckled, "I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Cui, and my name is Cui Ke. You may have heard of me."

Pei Jingxing handed the dragon head and tiger tooth spear an inch forward: "I've never heard of it."

"Impossible," Cui Ke was very surprised. "I did so many things back then. Warlocks, Taoists, monks, but anyone who has anything to do with it, how could it be possible that they haven't heard of my name."

Pei Jingxing moved the dragon head and tiger tooth gun an inch further: "I've never heard of it."

"All right, all right," this Cui Ke said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. You saved me, and I have to repay you."

Seeing that Pei Jingxing really didn't understand this, he simply continued to lie on the fish's back, and explained kindly: "This place is called the 'Ancient Battlefield', and it is the site where two of the most powerful tribes at that time fought in ancient times. Here, it is the one below. People, have you seen it?"

Pei Jingxing did not turn his head, but still looked at Cui Ke warily.

Cui Ke didn't care either. If it was him, he would not be able to put down his guard so easily if he suddenly met a living person in such a place.So, he continued: "This place later became the so-called 'ghosts'. The wandering spirits you see are the so-called things after the ghosts have disappeared. They are no longer allowed in the underworld, so they can only be attracted by the 'ancient battlefield' , came here, lost the five senses and thoughts, and wandered here numbly."

"What about you?" Pei Jingxing grasped the information revealed in his words and asked, "Are you also a wandering soul? Why haven't you lost your five senses and thoughts?"

Cui Ke replied: "I'm different from them. I came here on my own initiative. Hey, I'm the same as you in this regard. But I'm not as lucky as you. I don't know how long it took me to come here, anyway. It’s been a long time, but I haven’t found what I want. This place is very evil. Any creature, even a soul, who stays here for a long time will gradually lose the five senses, and then thoughts. After I lost my senses of smell, hearing, touch and taste, I can only watch myself being sucked into the stomach by the big fish, and squeezed together with those wandering souls. This is not today, good luck, when I was sprayed out by the big fish, I just felt the popularity of you, so I will borrow your The popularity recondenses the soul."

Pei Jingxing quickly turned his eyes and glanced at himself.

Cui Ke smiled and comforted, "Don't worry, you are still a human being. But this place blurs the boundaries of things, and people and souls are almost the same."

Speaking of this, Cui Ke was a little tired on the ground, and asked Pei Jingxing pitifully: "Hero, can I get up now?"

Pei Jingxing put away his gun and used actions to represent words.

After Cui Ke got up, he kept a good distance from Pei Jingxing, and continued: "You have never heard my name, which means you are just an ordinary person. Ordinary people can come to this ghost place, or they are deceived, Come in as a bait. Or, you are looking for something here, and you came here after looking for it for a long time. There is nothing else in this place, but there are a lot of wandering spirits. If you want my help, then Just say it."

Pei Jingxing had no other better way at this time, he could only put his guard at ease for the time being, and stated his purpose: "I'm here to find someone, my lover."