Seeing a holy monk misses life

Sensing the shift of Chu Zi's eyes, the wizard Bei Qi raised his head slightly.Following his movement, the lips covered by the black veil were also exposed.

Thin lips, light color, sharp and distinct lip line reveals an extremely cold coolness.

The aura emanating from Bei Qi's body is somewhat similar to that of Mo Sheng, but Mo Sheng's coldness contains a bit of awe-inspiring domineering and arrogance, while this wizard is more purely cold and secluded. cold.

The former is more bloody and ruthless, while the latter is more sinister.

When Chu Zi was staring at Bei Qi, Bei Qi's eyes under the black hat were also looking at Chu Zi.

Obviously his line of sight was blocked, but at this moment, it seemed that his eyes met Chu Zi's.Chu Zi saw that the corners of his lips rose slightly, forming an imperceptible arc.

In the next second, his thinned lips moved slightly, and he slowly spit out a few words: "Tang Sanzang, I have heard of you for a long time..." His voice was cold and hoarse, and gave off a very wet and sticky feeling.Especially when he was reciting Chu Zi's Dharma name, there was a bit of meaning in his lowered tone.

Chu Qi's expression remained unchanged, but Sun Wukong frowned.This wizard gave him a very uncomfortable feeling.It is obviously very evil, but it is not transformed by a monster, nor does it seem to be possessed by a monster.

Sun Wukong looked at it with Fire Eye Gold, but he could only see a mass of black paste-like things on the wizard's body, sticky, slippery and weird looking, a bit like semi-solidified water, and like Some kind of wriggling tentacles.

Sun Wukong couldn't tell what the lump was, but it just made him feel sticky and uncomfortable.

Chu Zi withdrew his gaze from looking at Bei Qi, turned back to Liu Yu, and said slowly, "How can this poor monk trust you?"

After the words fell, Chu Yu paused, and continued: "My big apprentice said that you wizards have evil spirits, how should this be explained?"

Before Liu Yu could answer, Bei Qi, who was sitting next to him, suddenly laughed: "It's just a monster, what does that mean?" The corners of his lips curled up, "I never take the initiative to harm others, but I'm just a Just an ordinary tribal wizard."

Monkey King said lukewarmly: "You don't look ordinary at all."

Bei Qi said: "Why, is it possible that the famous Monkey King would be afraid of what I would do to you four, master and apprentice?"

"Afraid?" Sun Wukong raised his eyebrows, and said bluntly, "I just find you a bit displeased."

When Bei Qi heard what Sun Wukong said, he was not angry. Instead, he said something vaguely: "Arrogant and conceited, it is exactly the same as the rumors."

Sun Wukong wanted to say something more when he heard the words, but after being patted lightly on the back of his hand by Chu Yu, he fell silent instantly.

Chu Zi looked at Liu Yu and said, "How can we help you?"

Letting them stay here for two more days obviously does not mean staying here and doing nothing in the literal sense.

Liu Yu said: "The holy monk should have seen it, people in our tribe are very good at using Gu insects."

Chu Yu nodded slightly. Among the people he saw at the bonfire meeting, at least three out of ten had containers containing Gu worms hanging from their waists.

"Holy Monk, have you heard of Gu Body Saint Child?"

"The poor monk once read the word holy boy in the book, but he didn't know what the meaning of this Gu body is?" Chu Wei frowned slightly, and speculated based on the literal meaning: "Could it be that he is using himself as a Gu?"

Liu Yu nodded, but then shook his head again.

Sun Wukong was a little puzzled: "You nodded and shook your head again, what do you mean?"

Liuyu sighed softly, lowered his eyes halfway, and revealed an indescribable complexity in his deep voice: "Poisonous insects need to be specially refined to become Gu insects, and although the Gu body holy boy is It is a Gu itself, but it does not need to go through any special refining."

Speaking of this, he raised his eyes again and looked at Chu Yu who was sitting opposite him: "The Gu body saint boy was born because of the curse."

Chu Qi was slightly stunned: "Curse?"

Liuyu said: "It has been more than 500 years since the establishment of the Suige tribe. During these hundreds of years, the tribe has been subject to a curse. No one knows why the curse came from, only that the Gu body saint boy is the derivative of this curse. It is also the only breakthrough to resolve this curse."

Speaking of this, as if thinking of something, Liu Yu paused for a moment, and then continued: "Every Gu body saint child is born in the form of a baby. Before awakening, they are no different from other people. .”

Chu Zi repeated these two words: "Awakening?"

Liu Yu said: "Yes, but this awakening is relative to other people in the tribe. For the Gu body saint child, the so-called awakening is actually a choice made after knowing his identity." His tone became low: "A choice between life and death."

"Life is to sever the connection between oneself and the tribe, and to take care of oneself alone. And death is to use one's own demise to break the curse and make others better." Liu Yu looked at Chu Zi and said, "The latter is like your Buddhist disciples." It's like sacrificing oneself to cross others."

Sun Wukong said mockingly: "According to what you say, the Gu Body Saint Child was born to fulfill the lives of others? The selected Gu Body Saint Child is really miserable."

Liu Yu didn't speak.

Chu Zi pinpointed the key point: "What exactly is the curse that your tribe needs to break? What do you mean by helping others?"

Hearing the words, Liu Yu didn't answer immediately, but stood up and walked to the window.The bright moonlight outside the window was beautiful and quiet, and it was impossible to see that the sky not long ago was as scarlet as blood.

He suppressed the sigh in his heart and asked, "Holy Monk, what do you think is the most indispensable thing for a tribe or a country?"

Chu Zi thought for a moment, then replied, "Human."

Liu Yu smiled, "The holy monk really has a heart of wisdom." He turned around to look at Chu Yu, and slowly began to speak: "The awakening age of each gu body saint child is different, the earliest awakened gu body The saint child is at the age of six, and the latest awakened saint child is when he reaches the age of 50."

"Every age at which a Gu body saint child awakens is a catastrophe for some people in the tribe, a screening related to death."

Sun Wukong was confused: "What do you mean?"

Liu Yu explained: "If the gu body saint boy awakened at the age of ten and chose to be alone, then only half of the people who were born in the tribe and under the age of ten would live to be ten years old. The next half will die along with the awakened Gu Body Saint Child."

"Wait," Sun Wukong interrupted Liuyu: "Since the gu body saint children have chosen to sacrifice themselves, why are they still dying?"

Liu Yu sighed softly: "Because that is just a choice, and the choice does not represent the final result."

He continued: "If the gu body saint boy awakened at the age of 30 and made the choice to let himself be born, then among those people in the tribe who have not yet reached the age of 30, only half of them Survive at the age of 30."

Chu Zi pursed her lips slightly: "If this is the case, there is a situation that even if someone is lucky enough to be part of the surviving people at the age of ten, they may eventually be selected in the selection at the age of 30." die."

Liu Yu nodded: "The holy monk is right." He clenched his hand hanging by his side for a moment: "After each Gu body saint child dies, the next Gu body saint child will be in a tribe in the tribe." born in the womb of a woman."

Hearing Liu Yu talk about this, Chu Zi probably understood why this tribe had a custom of walking marriage similar to that of the Mosao clan.Because the Gu Body Saint Child was randomly conceived in a woman's belly, so there is no such thing as a father.

However, because of the custom of walking marriage in the Mosao clan, most of the children born to women do not know who their father is.In the entire tribe, only a small number of people will choose to marry.

Liu Yu continued: "Therefore, if there is no Gu body saint boy who is willing to make the choice of sacrificing himself and crossing others between life and death, and the cycle continues, there will be fewer and fewer people in the Sui Ge tribe. Ultimately, it's headed for extinction."

Sun Wukong couldn't hold back and said: "It's been hundreds of years, and there hasn't been a Gu body saint boy who chooses to sacrifice himself to save others?" Not to mention the reincarnation of dozens of Gu body saint children, there are at least a dozen.

Although Sun Wukong thought about it, if he was living well and suddenly awakened one day, knowing that he was actually a Gu body saint child, and his life or death would affect other people in the clan, he would never choose Sacrifice yourself to benefit others.

Other people's lives are fate, so is his life.Furthermore, life is not measured by status and quantity.In his eyes, the way he was destined to be born is simply bullshit.

I control my own life.

But Sun Wukong also knows that he will make such a choice because of his own personality, and he does not have as many complicated emotional fetters as ordinary people.

But he didn't, and mortals did.

It was precisely because of this that Sun Wukong was a little surprised. For hundreds of years, this Suige tribe hadn't had a Gu body sage boy make the choice to sacrifice himself to save others.

Not only Monkey King was a little surprised, but even Chu Zi was somewhat surprised.If the gu body saint child is still young when he awakens, it is reasonable to be afraid of death.However, some Gu body saint children who awakened at a certain age have lovers and children, and they have lived for most of their lives so that their relatives of the younger generation can live in peace. There is a high probability that you will choose to sacrifice yourself.

However, looking at it now, none of the Gu body saint children made such a choice.This is too strange, unless the gu body saint child will be tempted by some kind of temptation when he chooses life or death.Or this self-sacrifice is not just a simple death.

Thinking of this, Chu Zi also asked his own doubts.

Liu Yu clenched his hand again for a few minutes, and after a few seconds, he said: "The death chosen by the Gu Body Saint Child is to die after undergoing eighteen kinds of torture, which means that he has gone through ten tortures for the tribe. Eight layers of hell."

Hearing this, Chu Qi couldn't help frowning.There are eighteen floors in hell, and each floor has harsh criminal laws.Eighteen kinds of tortures, such as pulling out tongues, copper pillars, mountains of knives, frying pans, daggers, and sea of ​​fire, not to mention ordinary mortals, even gods with mana or spirits with demon power, would not be able to endure these ten tortures. After eight kinds, he was still safe and sound.

This is really cruel.

For the gu body saint child who has not committed a heinous crime, it is undoubtedly a kind of mental and physical torture.

Chu Yu said: "How do you judge whether the Gu Body Saint Child is awakened?" Even though he asked this, Chu Yu already had a vague guess in his heart.

He thought of the sudden change in the sky during the bonfire meeting, and the complicated expressions on the faces of those men and women when they saw A Bian lying on the ground and twitching: "Is it related to the layer of red mist that suddenly rushed in?"

"Yes," Liu Yu nodded lightly: "The guardian of the Gu Body Holy Child convulsed greatly, his body was invaded by black air, and the clouds in the sky were covered with red mist, turning blood red. The two happened one after another. Come, it means that this Gu Body Saint Child is about to awaken."

"According to your description, it doesn't make sense that A Bian is the guardian of this Gu Body Saint Child," Sun Wukong thought, "If this is the case, then this Gu Body Saint Child is very important. may be……"

Liu Yu glanced at Monkey King who was about to give the answer, and then looked at Chu Zi: "The holy monk should have guessed it."

Chu Zi said: "It's Hengyue."

Liu Yu's brows were filled with heavy worry: "When every Gu body saint child is born, there will be a red birthmark in the shape of a silver hook on his body. And Ayue's birthmark is on the back of his neck. .”

Chu Zi recalled: "I remember that young man said that after he was abandoned by his biological parents, you brought him back to the tribe." Leng Se: "According to what you just said, are those memories of his childhood all fake?"

"It's not fake," Liu Yu shook his head and denied. He didn't know what he thought of, and his expression was a little sad: "Ah Yu was indeed picked up outside the tribe. Ah Yue's grandmother, Ling Yan, was the last Gu Body Saint Child , but it is a coincidence that after her demise, the next gu body saint child was born in the belly of her adopted daughter——Lingjia."

"Lingjia is a woman with a very cheerful personality. She is of the blood of the Nanman clan. When she was seriously injured, Lingyan picked her up and brought her back to the Suige tribe. Never betraying the oath of the tribe, I chose to become a member of the Suige tribe."

Sun Wukong listened carefully: "What happened later?" He guessed: "It couldn't be that after Lingjia found out that her child was a sage boy, she wanted to take her child away from the Suige tribe, but in the end she broke her oath so Did you encounter some accidents just after you left the tribe?"

Liu Yu replied: "It's about the same as what you guessed." He went back to the stool and sat down, his voice actually sighed: "Sworn vows but betrayed the Sui Ge tribe, the Soul Transformation Gu worm will make her body Turning to ashes within half an hour of stepping out of the tribe is uncontrollable."

"By the time we found Lingjia, her body had completely dissipated, and only Ayue and a bone flute remained on the ground, which she protected with Gu insects."

A trace of thought flashed across Chu Zi's eyes: "Will the maintenance of the Gu technique decrease with the demise of the Gu master?"

"No." Liu Yu was a little surprised: "Why did the holy monk suddenly ask such a question?"

"It's nothing." Chu Yu didn't intend to continue to delve into this, but asked the most crucial point: "When the sleepy guardian of the holy child wakes up, is it the time for the awakening of the gu body holy child?"

Liu Yu nodded, and gave Chu Yu a very affirmative answer: "Bian will wake up at the end of tomorrow at the latest, and Ah Yue..." Liu Yu's eyes darkened.

Sun Wukong looked at Liuyu and said, "Although you have told us the general situation, what does all of this have to do with my master?" At the meeting, he said lukewarmly: "Is it because of the hexagrams you wizards made?"

Liu Yu was not surprised that Sun Wukong would have such a reaction. He winked at Bei Qi, then smiled gently at Chu Zi and said, "Holy Monk, please look at one thing first."

After Liu Yu's voice fell, Bei Qi took out a bronze mirror with a strange shape from his robe.He put the bronze mirror on the table, then scratched his finger, and with his bloody fingertips, he drew a pattern similar to an Eight Diagrams array on the bronze mirror.

Soon, a cloud of dark purple mist filled the bronze mirror.

Two seconds later, the mist dissipated.

Two people appeared in the bronze mirror, one was dressed in red and the other was plain and white socks. They were Xie Hengyue and Chu Yu.In the picture, in front of the boy in red and the monk in white, there are two doors that seem to be condensed by halos, one door is black, and the other door is white.

The picture is very short, but after a while, the bronze mirror returns to its original appearance.

Sun Wukong frowned: "What was that just now?"

Bei Qi said: "It will happen at a certain moment tomorrow."

Chu Zi looked at Liu Yu: "Are those two gates the choice between life and death?"For the Gu Body Saint Child, the two choices are all in one thought.

Liu Yu lowered his eyes and let out a low "Mmm", he didn't know what he thought of, a touch of complicated emotions flashed across his handsome face: "That black door is the gateway to the Gu body saint child. The gate of death to the eighteenth hell."

Chu Zi remembered that in the short scene just now, there were no other people around him and Xie Hengyue except the two of them, and there were no flowers, trees or buildings, but a piece of whiteness without boundaries, as if in a Some kind of special dream or consciousness space.

Bei Qi seemed to sense what Chu Zi was thinking,

The corners of his lips twitched for a moment, and then he added a few words to what he said just now and said it again: "To be precise, it is what will happen at a certain moment tomorrow in the choice realm of the Gu Body Saint Child .”

"A realm of choice?" Sun Wukong's brows furrowed even tighter.

Liu Yu thought for a while, looked at Sun Wukong and said, "The Realm of Choice can be understood as a real dream connected with the present world." After finishing speaking, he looked at Chu Zi again: "What did you encounter in the Realm of Choice? There will be corresponding damage."

"If the Gu Body Holy Child chooses to push the black door of death in the realm of choice, he will experience [-] kinds of torture inside, and all the pain will be connected with the present world. Die in the realm of choice, That is to dissipate in this world."

Because there was such a vague guess, Chu Yu was not too surprised when he heard Liu Yu's words.However, Chu's mood is relatively calm, but Sun Wukong can't be as calm as Chu's.

His brows frowned more deeply: "Why is Master in the choice realm of Gu Body Saint Child?"

Hearing this, Bei Qi glanced at Chu Zi with a half-smile: "What you see is what I see." He took the bronze mirror back as he spoke, "I don't know exactly why this is so. gone."

After pondering for a few seconds, Chu Qi asked, "Shouldn't others be able to enter the choice realm of the Gu Body Saint Child at will?"

Liu Yu's lips twitched slightly, as if he was about to say something, but he had some concerns, and his expression showed a bit of entanglement.

Seeing this, Monkey King said coldly: "You want my master to help resolve the curse, but you can't even do the most basic honesty?"

"It's not that I'm not being honest." Liu Yu replied, "Because I'm only guessing, so I'm a little hesitant to tell that guess."

Chu Zi looked at Liu Yu with a warm voice: "But it's okay to say."

Only then did Liu Yu express his guess: "I think it might be because of twin love Gu."

Twin Love Gu is a very difficult Gu to refine, and no one has actually refined it for hundreds of years.The mother Gu of Twin Love Gu is red, also known as Chishui; the child Gu is black, also known as Mohei.

A person with a child Gu in his body may deeply fall in love with a person with a mother Gu in his body, and can enter the dream of the mother Gu through the effect of Twin Love Gu.

Sun Wukong was startled: "According to your guess, master will fall in love with love Gu and may fall in love with that Xie Hengyue?!"

Liuyu was a little embarrassed: "It's only possible." After he answered Monkey King, he looked at Chu Zi, and his tone was very firm: "Furthermore, the holy monk has a noble character and is deeply influenced by Buddhism and Zen. I don't think the holy monk will Falling in love with Ayue because of love."

Hearing Liuyu praise his master Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong's mood improved a lot in an instant, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said with a bit of complacency: "My master is naturally the best in everything."

An outsider like Liu Yu is so sure that the master will not be affected. As an apprentice, Sun Wukong, of course, absolutely believes in Tang Sanzang.

"But you are really full of evil spirits everywhere here." Sun Wukong looked at the wizard Bei Qi: "Why do you have such a heavy evil spirit?"

Bei Qi said casually: "I have integrated myself with the refined Gu worm."

Sun Wukong continued to ask: "What kind of Gu worm? What do you look like?"

But this time, Bei Qi didn't answer immediately, but turned his head to Chu Zi.It was probably because the monk in white was too calm, or maybe he didn't want to leave only himself, who couldn't even see his appearance, in this person's eyes.

So for the first time, Bei Qi asked: "What kind of Gu does the holy monk think?" After finishing speaking, he continued in a cold and hoarse voice: "Will the holy monk want to know what I look like?"

Chu Zi pursed her lips slightly, thought for a while, and then said, "If you are willing to take off your coat and hat."

Hearing this, Bei Qi took off the black hat that covered his face.

His long silver hair fell down, and Chu Zi could see Bei Qi's appearance clearly.

He had red eyes, pale skin, and a very visible scar from the left brow bone to the end of his left eye.However, this scar is not ugly and hideous, but because the oil paint from his tribe has been embellished on it, it reveals a strange and evil broken beauty.

He propped his chin with one hand, and stared into Chu Zi's eyes with blood-red eyes.

It was at this time that Chu Wei suddenly felt a wet|slippery|thick soft object slowly wrapping around his ankle.It's a bit like the tentacles of an octopus, with large and small suction cups attached to the soft body, and you can feel the wet | sticky cold through the fabric.

Chu Zi frowned slightly.

And Bei Qi hooked the corners of his lips.

In the next second, another wet|slippery tentacle|hand slid towards Chu Yu's side, almost reaching Chu Yu's waist.

As for why it is almost, because at this moment, Sun Wukong's golden cudgel directly hit Beiqi's forehead.As long as he moved forward a little bit, the Dinghaishen needle could shatter Bei Qi's skull to pieces.