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Chapter 197 The last item to advance to the third level [Soul Rider]

As time goes by, the villagers of Shenggu Village are getting older.

The flesh and blood on their bodies seemed to have dried, cracking and falling off. Every day they could hear screams in the village. When they got up, they saw the people closest to them lying next to them, turned into monsters, including themselves!

The old man seemed to be just the beginning of the curse, which spread to the entire village at an unexpected speed.

Everyone will go crazy, their flesh and blood will completely fall off and turn into skeletons.

They could not accept what they had become and began to try to end their lives in various ways.

However, even if the bones are broken into pieces, these bones seem to have consciousness remaining. Even if they are beaten into powder, they can still move!

Move with awareness!

and……

Accompanied by unimaginable pain!

The bones that were beaten into powder, each piece carried a split consciousness, like countless swords passing through the brain, dividing the brain into countless pieces, but he was not dead yet, and the nerves still sent a heart-wrenching pain.

If you don't fight back, you will have to bear the pain of constantly crushing your soul consciousness as if it was stuffed into a blender!

The more villagers try this method, the more bones will be scattered around.

In the end, they all failed. Unable to die and at the same time bear terrible pain, they could only work hard to piece it back together.

But those bones could no longer be put back into human form, and turned into monsters with animal bones, like stitch monsters.

The injuries suffered by their souls are like wounds that cannot be healed. Once they move the grotesque bones on their bodies, they will feel the pain of shattering their souls. Every step they take is a torment.

This hellish scene shocked the hearts of all the villagers. Many people went crazy and ran out like headless flies.

The moment I left the Skeleton Village...

With a snap, the bones immediately fell apart.

It looks like it ended successfully...

But some villagers witnessed the truth - even if the bones are broken, the head will still remain intact.

Although the body cannot move, the skeleton can still make sounds, using the idioms used by the living before, murmuring words as if in sleep, indicating that the consciousness is not completely dead!

All the villagers were frightened.

They realize that leaving the village is not the way to end the curse, but will lead to a more terrible curse.

But then more villagers couldn't help but went crazy, lost their clear and rational consciousness, walked out in a daze, and walked into the sea of ​​dead bodies. With a snap, their whole bodies shattered into pieces. part of there.

To stop this...

The villagers of Shenggu Village adapted to the movements of Baigu's body and built a thick wall around the village.

They are not to prevent outsiders from coming in, but to prevent themselves from getting out.

However, this is just the beginning of a three-hundred-year-old curse.

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For a moment, Chen Ye seemed to see the shadow of Linjiang City falling into a bloody countdown from the residents of Shenggui Village.

The power of will is very powerful. Even if it is weak, the instinct of living things will often burst out with unexpected energy in times of despair.

Seeking death but not getting it.

These villagers gradually adapted to the movement of the bones and became numb to the heartbreaking pain.

Among them, the old man Erhu was the most painful, and he was extremely regretful.

He regretted that he should not have made a deal with the devil, which caused the villagers to end up like this.

On the contrary, the villagers began to comfort them and said that if it weren't for the wine, they would have lost consciousness and there would be no hope.

Maybe... it will be more painful...

Time heals the pain of long years.

Although he lost his speaking organ, the old man Erhu found that he could still play the Erhu.

But the suona and the figure of the young man were nowhere to be found.

The old man Erhu plays the Erhu, and the melodious music sounds like a horse galloping across the free and vast grassland, making people forget the troubles of the world and the pain on their bodies.

Gradually, the villagers discovered that music can stabilize their emotions. Although it does not make them happy, it can at least restrain madness.

Skeleton Village seems to have become a music village.

Every villager is familiar with taking out raw materials from the former wooden houses to make orchestral instruments.

Play music and dance to relieve that despair.

Over the long years, the villagers' musical understanding has become stronger and stronger, and they can even communicate through musical instruments by simulating the tones of previous speech.

The Skeleton Village gradually began to stabilize in a new way.

But they are still trying to find a way to break the curse.

Lifting the curse has become their motivation and hope to stay rational.

Some villagers speculated whether the curse could be removed by removing the wine of eternal life.

This speculation immediately caused some villagers to organize and go up the mountain to find a solution.

They discovered that a 'door' suddenly appeared in the wine of eternal life located in the spring on the top of the mountain.

But once you enter that 'door', you can never come back.

The spring water turned into a dark ink color, as if it was given life, and began to flow with life, like tentacles...

These ignorant villagers rashly approached the top of the mountain. Suddenly, tentacles appeared from the 'door' and pulled them in!

The remaining villagers were so frightened that they backed away...

It didn't take long.

A skeleton was spit out from the 'door', as if it had been chewed up by some creature and then spit out into the sea of ​​dead bodies.

They saw that the white bones had lost their bodies, leaving only their heads, but they still retained consciousness.

There is no essential difference between the result of approaching the top of the mountain and jumping directly into the sea of ​​dead bodies.

This attempt ended in failure with the loss of several villagers.

The villagers had no choice but to build a circle of iron railings around the top of the mountain to prevent anyone from approaching.

From now on...

The top of the mountain has become a restricted area just like the outside of Skeleton Village.

The villagers were desperate. They could not find a way to break the curse and could only wait and wait for a miracle.

One day, a ghost ship sailed out of the fog at the edge of the ocean where bones were tumbling.

The group of Poseidon's descendants who came from the ship turned out to be their kind!

This island was originally the ancestral land of the descendants of Poseidon, but in order to meet the living conditions required by the growing population, a group of tribesmen chose to move to other sea areas to seek broader development space.

The Poseidon Clan has the tradition of offering sacrifices to the Dragon God every five years.

They came back this time because of a disaster in the outside world, and they wanted to pray for good weather through the dragon god's sacrifice.

But I didn't expect that when I arrived here, it would be like this.

When the villagers saw the ghost ship and similar figures, they suddenly seemed to see hope!

They chose one of the mountain paths and opened the entrance to a dark door to receive visitors.

A witch came over and wanted to investigate the situation here.

But the miko came in front, seemed to be aware of a certain crisis, turned around and wanted to leave!

When she stepped out of the village...just like the villagers in the Skeleton Village, she turned into skeletons and fell to the ground, leaving only a skull. The bigger skull was located where the dark gate was. .

The other Poseidons were immediately frightened. They ignored the villagers' calls and requests and quickly boarded the ghost ship.

Only the villagers behind were left shouting loudly, asking those tribesmen to find a way to lift the curse.

However, they have no speaking organs. They only use orchestral instruments to emit high-pitched and sharp tones, but to normal people, they sound more like ghosts crying and wolves howling in the abyss!

How could other beings except the villagers of Shengke Village understand this method of communication?

Immediately afterwards.

The ghost ship left in the distance.

Before leaving, it seemed that a certain descendant of Poseidon could still be seen, leaving a plaque at the door.

That plaque is located right at the entrance to the trestle.

Five, ten, twenty years have passed...

The villagers of Shengke Village still haven't waited for salvation to come, and they are almost desperate.

at this time.

The figure of a young man appeared at the door.

He held a suona in his hand.

The villagers of Shengke Village were collectively shocked. They came to the door and told the young man not to come in.

The giant skeleton that the miko turned into at the door has become a profound lesson.

Don't make the same mistakes again...

The young man did not go in. After so many years, his figure did not seem to have changed at all.

He said helplessly: "I have the only way to save my master..."

"The way is..."

"Ensemble this piece of music."

The two figures seemed to overlap, miraculously reunited after a long time, and they performed together after a long absence.

It was as if the music from another world spanned the past, present and future, echoing to the bottom of this dim sky. The ancient and lonely stone monument witnessed everything.

suddenly.

A golden light enveloped this place, echoing here as if it had the artistic conception of a soul transcending the sea of ​​suffering.

Chen Ye heard that this was [Heavenly Ritual and Music]!

Moreover, it was adapted from the final chapter of Soul Crossing, and I am so familiar with it that I can no longer be familiar with it!

At this moment, the golden light suddenly erupted and enveloped the old man Erhu.

The shadow of the old man Erhu seemed to have obtained a transcendent sublimation in the golden light, following the young man's side, floating next to the 'door'.

The young man stopped at the entrance of the 'door', looked at the villagers below who also expressed the desire for redemption, and sighed:

"The current Suona can only allow Master to be redeemed. You need to wait."

"but……"

"If the same music, or the suona in my hand, appears again, that's when you will be liberated."

As soon as the words fell, the two figures disappeared into the gray mist.

Only the bones of the old man Erhu were left on the ground.

However, the skeleton was scattered on the ground, unconscious.

All the skeletal creatures gathered around and looked at the bones that had returned to the ruins on the ground. Their empty eyes seemed to reflect dark torches, as if they were seeing the most precious treasure in the world!

The curse, indeed, is lifted!

Although there is only an old man with erhu...

But at this moment...

The villagers of Shengke Village saw the light of redemption, like the fire of the long night lighting up the dark sky!

The little old man carved this prophecy on a stone tablet and made a similar erhu to remember these past events, commemorate his friend, and remember this prophecy that still held hope...

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The picture melted like water and gradually dispersed.

Chen Ye's consciousness returned to the Skeleton Village at this moment.

At this time, the light of the stone tablet returned to calmness, and the words on it had long been obliterated.

After such a long time, the villagers of Shengke Village have almost forgotten hope and are living like zombies.

Only the stone tablet remembers everything.

But the prophecies engraved on it were also wiped away by the wind and sand, leaving only the identical erhu in the hands of the short old man... After countless years, the accumulated playing skills awakened the dusty past.

this moment.

Chen Ye finally knew what happened in Shengke Village!

"It turns out that the old man Erhu is not a descendant of Poseidon, but a rescued person in distress."

"Curse...the wine of eternal life...this should be a characteristic related to the [immortal], but the price of eternal life is often more terrifying than death."

"It turns out that the skeleton at the door was transformed by a miko who accidentally got involved here. No wonder the miko inheritance of Poseidon's descendants has been discontinued. I am afraid that he also saw the miko's curse, so he deliberately concealed that past event and never returned to his ancestral land to conduct Dragon God Festival.”

"The plaque at the door saying "No strangers allowed" turned out to be left by Ajiaka's ancestors, but none of their descendants knew about it..."

Chen Ye couldn't help but feel speechless. When they came in, the group of Poseidon descendants were shocked by the plaque for a moment, but it turned out that it was left behind by themselves.

But soon, he frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

There are many doubts about the memory picture.

For example, at the beginning, the world still looked normal, but after the screen jumped a few times, it suddenly turned into a doomsday look.

What happened in between?

And, what is the ability of the old man Erhu, and why can he bring the wine of eternal life from the gray mist?

Who is that mysterious young man holding a suona?

The black sun that caused the Skeleton Village to fall into doom... seems to be somewhat similar to the black sun that caused the island country to fall. Is there any relationship between the two?

In the end, the old man Erhu successfully went to the spiritual world by playing [Heavenly Ritual Music], but his body had turned into an unconscious wreckage... As for where he went? And what happened next? Why did that suona become his first characteristic item...

There are so many questions, as if they are a giant web of fate, connecting three hundred years ago and three hundred years later.

Chen Ye couldn't help but start to doubt that he could obtain the Suona in the first place. After a series of events, he unlocked the [Soul Crosser] sequence. What kind of fate would he have to bear behind it?

That destiny is related to the golden stars in the halo of luck.

"Destiny?"

Chen Ye murmured, his pupils seemed to reflect flames, trying to solve this mystery.

My destiny...what exactly is it?

He took a deep breath and refocused on the latest problem.

now……

I am afraid that I have also fallen into the curse of [Skeleton Village]. As a living person, if I leave directly from that gate, I will turn into a skeleton.

Since the rule of "Keep out the living" can affect the miko, it can also affect me.

Of course, he could rely on walking in the spirit world and leave [Skeleton Village] without passing through the dark gate.

But whether it will trigger the curse is still a question...

What's more, walking in the gray fog requires a lot of spiritual energy. At my current stage, it is difficult to meet this requirement.

The only way left is to lift the curse!

At this moment, the short old man seemed to remember something and said:

"I remember that old friend said that he left something on this stone tablet. If the erhu and suona start to play together again, that thing will return to the world, and it may be helpful to you..."

He held the erhu in his hand, looked at the suona in Chen Ye's hand, and said a little uncertainly:

"But I don't know if the erhu in my hand will work... maybe I can give it a try."

"good."

Chen Ye nodded.

Immediately afterwards, he put the suona to his mouth and played in harmony with the short old man.

The piece played is the simplest "Lullaby".

Although the short old man's playing skills are not as good as those of the old man on the erhu, he unexpectedly matches up well with the suona.

I don’t know if the musical skills all come from the same master...

With the tacit understanding of suona and erhu, they become more and more coordinated, and the music gradually becomes one.

During the performance, the stone tablet suddenly burst into light.

The light became brighter and brighter, gradually turning into golden light, connecting to the suona in Chen Ye's hand.

The golden stars are getting brighter and brighter!

At this moment, an object slowly condensed from the top of the stone tablet in the golden light!

Chen Ye saw a golden light that separated from such an item and connected to the suona in his hand and the deepest golden star.

He realized something immediately.

"Is this the last item to advance to the third level [Soul Crosser]?"