I have been bound in a forbidden place for five hundred years. Why are you crying when I am a casual

The deep sea remains unchanged.

But Gu Xiu, who had previously been completely indifferent and detached from the world, was now struggling and swimming forward with all his might.

Gu Xiu couldn't actually remember how he fell into the deep sea.

But he still remembers the paintings he saw while sinking in the deep sea, and the feeling of giving up everything. It was as if, in an instant, he had become an object that should not have any emotions or desires.

Yes.

Objects, not people!

He seemed to be incapable of having emotions; his appearance and his departure seemed to be solely for the purpose of fulfilling someone else's goals.

That's it.

That feeling of having no expectations, no curiosity, no pain, and no resentment was irresistible. In fact, if it weren't for Chu Xun's voice at the crucial moment that awakened him and made him have doubts and thoughts.

Him now.

It may have become an insignificant puddle of mud that has sunk into the deep sea.

Looking up at the gleaming sword in the sky above the deep sea, Gu Xiu felt a deep sense of confusion.

What exactly happened to me just now?

Why would such a vast ocean appear in one's heart?

more importantly……

"Where did that voice come from?"

Gu Xiu murmured, his expression somewhat unpleasant.

He believed he had absolute control over his body. Even when Chu Xun thought he had control over the body, everything was still under Gu Xiu's control. However, the power brought by that voice made Gu Xiu feel that he could not resist it.

When Chu Xun seized control of the body before, it had some effect on Gu Xiu, but the effect was not that great. It wasn't until the Hongmeng Eye brought the divine guidance that the voice appeared again, and the power within it was greater than before, which actually caused Gu Xiu to lose his mind and almost lose consciousness.

This is beyond our control.

and……

As he ascended into the deep sea, Gu Xiu could still vaguely make out some images from the previous painting. Although they were very blurry, he could still make out some things.

How many secrets am I hiding?

"And this so-called background..."

Gu Xiu murmured, looking at the painting of himself as a child, protected by a celestial crane on a cliff. He was not looking at the celestial crane in the sky, nor at his grandmaster Guan Huaiyi who was approaching in the distance, nor even at himself.

in contrast.

What he was looking at was the patch of mud where he was lying.

For some reason, looking at that patch of mud, Gu Xiu felt a sense of familiarity, though he couldn't pinpoint where it came from.

But the sense of familiarity is undeniably real.

After swimming a little further upstream, he could vaguely see the scenery outside, especially the old sword saint's heart sword, which was very clear. Gu Xiu then pushed off with all his might, and with a crisp splash, he successfully broke free from the deep sea that had almost caused him to lose consciousness.

But when Gu Xiu climbed ashore and took a look, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

This is not the deep sea at all, but a lake. Moreover, Gu Xiu is very familiar with this lake; it is the same lake in his sea of ​​consciousness!

Look up.

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment, and found that his seventh soul lamp had been completely lit. Gu Xiu tried to find Chu Xun again, but found that he seemed to have vanished into thin air. No matter how Gu Xiu searched, he could not find any trace of him.

Then he went to the tower gate.

He discovered that the tower gate, which he had previously tried so hard to close, had now been closed again, leaving only a tiny crack through which an aura of something other than human nature was still continuously emanating.

However, this time, whether it was because the doors were closed more often or for some other reason, this force seemed less domineering to Gu Xiu, and he could even mobilize it to a certain extent.

Although it was very difficult, it did indeed become a force that could be controlled.

"Have they all reached the Refinement of Void Realm?"

Gu Xiu's consciousness returned to his physical body, and he checked the situation outside. He saw that Ye Wentian and Lü Dongshan were still undergoing tribulation, and that the group of Supreme Immortal Puppets were suppressed and could not make any progress. Gu Xiu was not in a hurry and began to observe his own body again.

The previous experience of falling into the deep sea made Gu Xiu dare not be careless in the slightest.

This is a potential problem.

He began to examine himself.

Just a pity.

Chu Xun was still nowhere to be seen, and the mysterious voice was also nowhere to be found. Gu Xiu even suspected that it might be hiding in the tower, so he opened the tower door a little more and looked inside, but still found no clues.

finally.

Gu Xiu turned his gaze to the deep sea where he had inexplicably fallen.

This is the Soul Lake that appeared when Gu Xiu advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and opened the Immortal Palace of Consciousness. It contains the purest divine soul power in Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness, but Gu Xiu himself has never been able to use this power, as if it were just decoration.

After gazing intently for a moment, Gu Xiu flipped his hand over.

Two flames appeared in his palms.

One was the inextinguishable soul fire given to him by Nian Chaoxi, and the other was the Buddhist karmic fire that Chu Xun had previously helped him obtain from Zen Master Wugou.

Holding the two balls of divine fire in his hands, Gu Xiu's expression turned somewhat murderous.

He could sense that this lake, which he had always regarded as a scenic spot, was not simple. If the palaces and courtyards in his sea of ​​consciousness were all within his control, then this bottomless lake was something that Gu Xiu could not control at all.

If Gu Xiu were to ask where the owner of that voice could be hiding, the only place he could guess was this Soul Lake.

This is the only place he cannot fully explore.

"No matter who you are, no matter what you want to do, if you want to kill me, then I will not be polite."

"Give me……"

"burn!"

With a soft shout, Gu Xiu threw the ball of Buddhist karmic fire in his hand into the lake.

This is a Buddhist karmic fire personally refined by Zen Master Wugou. It is not an ordinary flame and has an extremely strong effect on the power of the soul. The moment it touches the Soul Lake, the flame spreads instantly and ignites the entire lake surface in the blink of an eye.

As the raging flames burned, a large amount of pure divine soul power began to rise, transforming into wisps of pure soul mist that permeated Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness.

This was, after all, his own Sea of ​​Consciousness Immortal Palace.

Almost the instant the flame was lit, Gu Xiu felt a wave of weakness wash over him, as if his strength was rapidly draining away. In just a moment, he felt utterly exhausted and even had the urge to faint.

But Gu Xiu ignored all of that and just kept staring intently at the lake.

He is waiting!

Sure enough, just when Gu Xiu was starting to doubt whether he had guessed wrong, the seemingly calm Soul Lake, which had been passively burning, suddenly...

Suddenly, waves surged up.

As the waves rolled and crashed against the Buddhist karmic fire spreading across the water, they actually extinguished some of it.

"You were hiding inside after all!"

Gu Xiu snorted coldly, glancing at Nian Chaoxi's undying soul fire. He immediately gritted his teeth, preparing to put the fire into the soul lake as well.

But at this moment.

A sword light swept over and blocked Gu Xiu's path.

"Senior?" Gu Xiu was surprised, recognizing that it was the Sword Saint who had intervened.

Within the sword light, the voice of the old sword saint came: "Your ability to quickly identify the problem and act immediately is indeed remarkable, but you are not yet able to affect what lies beneath this lake. If this Undying Soul Fire is thrown down, it may not only fail to harm what is inside, but may even grant it the power of immortality."

"Senior knows the secret of my Soul Lake?" Gu Xiu asked in surprise.

The old swordsman chuckled and asked, "I told you this five hundred years ago, have you forgotten?"

Five hundred years ago...

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something: "When I came to the Sword Sect five hundred years ago, you said that my sea of ​​consciousness was not clean, and told me to be careful..."

"It seems you still remember."

Upon receiving the Sword Saint's accurate answer, Gu Xiu couldn't help but widen his eyes. When the Sword Saint said this back then, Gu Xiu thought he was referring to his sea of ​​consciousness not being pure enough, and he didn't take it to heart. But he never expected that the Sword Saint had already noticed something wrong with his sea of ​​consciousness five hundred years ago.

Can……

Gu Xiu was somewhat puzzled: "This junior doesn't understand. This sea of ​​consciousness was re-established after I rebuilt it, and it's completely different from what it was five hundred years ago. Could it be that the things inside have always existed there?"

“Five hundred years have passed, and I thought this thing would disappear, but now it seems that it has been with you all along, and it has grown quite a bit stronger now,” the old sword saint replied.

"What is this?" Gu Xiu asked.

"A bunch of keys."

"key?"

"Yes, a key that doesn't belong to you, but can awaken your instincts."

"What does it mean?"

"I don't know the specifics, but I guess it might be related to your background."

"life experience……"

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason you almost lost consciousness just now was because someone was awakened and used this key to try to activate your instincts. And once the key is successfully opened, you... will probably no longer be you."