Soul bound

The night pearl beside the cave is glowing faintly, and the snakes seem to be chasing after them with their spitting and crawling sounds.

The road in the cave twists and turns, with one bend and then another turn, just like a maze.

"There is a fork in the road ahead!" Jiang Jing suddenly shouted.

Lu Jiuyuan said: "Go to the right!"

His utterance was actually groundless, it was all judged by his intuition, if he was wrong... then he must be wrong.

The two of them got into the fork on the right without looking back.

While running, Lu Jiuyuan suddenly felt the spiritual power flow back, the blocked spiritual pulse was unbound, and all limbs and bones immediately relaxed.He stopped, turned around with his sword in his hand, Jiang Jing almost couldn't stop and bumped into his chest.

The body behind him was empty, not only the shadows of the snakes disappeared, but even Lu Cheng disappeared.

Lu Jiuyuan frowned, Jiang Jing also exclaimed in surprise, and then said hesitantly: "Did he not follow? Or went another way?"

Lu Jiuyuan knew that Lu Cheng would never make such a stupid mistake.But he did indeed disappear.If the problem didn't lie with him, it would be that the places they passed through when they escaped were weird.Maybe it's the technique of Qimen Dunjia, or maybe it's some other mechanism formation.All in all, this is not a place to stay for long.

Lu Jiuyuan stared at the pitch-black road that could barely see the way forward, thinking about it.

With the sword flower in his hand, he raised the sword and quickly drew a pattern on the mountain wall.The pattern is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a triangular shape protruding from the top, quite like a command arrow.

"Let's go first." Lu Jiuyuan said, "If Lu Cheng is just slow, he will keep up when he sees the mark."

Jiang Jing said, "Then I'll make a few more along the way."

After all, the two turned around and continued on their way.

The road ahead was the same as the one they had come down, only smoother.

Jiang Jing silently followed behind Lu Jiuyuan, stopping every time he walked a certain distance to write a similar pattern on the nearby stone wall.His imitation was octagonal enough for Ritsu to recognize it as a thing.

The two walked for a while, and finally were blocked by a stone gate.

Lu Jiuyuan stopped Jiang Jing from taking a few steps back, kicked up a small rock that fell next to him.The rock hit the ground in front of him and rolled on the ground for a while before he stopped in front of the door aggrieved.

He walked forward safely, rubbing the stone door with his spiritually charged fingers.A dragon and a phoenix are engraved on each of the two doors.The dragon is in the shape of a long chant, and the phoenix is ​​screaming with its neck raised, its tail feathers hanging on the dragon's tail.Lu Jiuyuan's fingers brushed across Long's eyelids, and the eyeballs covered by the eyelids turned slightly.As soon as he pressed the power with his hand, the longan immediately sank, and the dust on the roof of the cave poured down in an instant.If Lu Jiuyuan hadn't retreated quickly, I'm afraid he would have to teach him to eat a big mouthful alive.

But Jiang Jing couldn't dodge in time, but was choked by the dust and coughed again and again.

The stone gate slowly disappeared into the mountain wall, and the sounds between the movements were deafening.The gravel on the roof of the cave fell from time to time, almost forming a threshold.

The stone gate opened a wide gap, and Lu Jiuyuan stepped into another darkness.

With a flick of his hand, a cluster of flames lit up on the candlestick on the stone wall.The candlelight spread forward, illuminating the scene in front of me.

It was an underground palace. At a glance, it was as big as an ordinary courtyard.The underground palace was empty, except for a two-story triangular stone platform in the center.The edge of the stone platform is carved, and the workmanship is very exquisite.

Lu Jiuyuan turned his head, wanting to remind Jiang Jing to be more careful, but the stone door behind him closed quietly at some point, let alone Jiang Jing's trace.

Cheng, after Lu Cheng, another one disappeared.

"Jiang Jing?" He called out tentatively, "If you are behind the door, please agree."

There was silence.

He reached out and rubbed the door, but couldn't find any mechanism.The long sword clanged against the stone gate, but the latter remained still.

After several contests, Lu Jiuyuan put his sword back into its sheath, and began to look at the palace instead.

The way out has been sealed, but there must be some other way out in the underground palace—mostly near the most conspicuous stone platform.

There are paintings on the stone walls of the underground palace, but they seem to be covered with a layer of white gauze, so they can't be seen clearly.Lv Jiuyuan didn't pay much attention, walked straight to the edge of the stone platform, caressed the protruding pattern with his tentacles, and carefully looked at the complicated patterns on it.

It looks like auspicious clouds and flocks of white cranes.I don't know what kind of skilled craftsman was found to create such a stone platform.

The stone platform is hollow and filled with water.The water came from nowhere, but it was very clear, and a stone sculpture of a toad at the bottom was clearly visible.

Lu Jiuyuan jumped onto the first stone platform and looked inside.

A dizzy ripple appeared on the surface of the water, and there seemed to be a slight flicker in a trance, which dazzled his eyes.

Although he closed his eyes, the muscles all over his body were tense and did not relax at all.

When the burst of light dissipated and he opened his eyes again, the scene in the water changed.

It is a forest.

There are two people standing in the forest.

For a moment, Lu Jiuyuan seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.

He has not recalled the scene at that time for a long time, and all the scenes of that day seem to be buried deep in his memory.He wasn't escaping, but he never expected to see such a past in this kind of place——

Lu Chilin took out the bottle of antidote from his sleeve.

But he couldn't stop it, he reached out and disrupted the scene in the water, but in the next second it revived and resurfaced again.

He watched himself sacrifice Shen Bi without hesitation, piercing through Lu Chilin's chest.

He watched the devilish energy burst out of his body, closed his eyes and fell into the dirty mud.

Can't get away.

The scene at that time replayed before his eyes over and over again.

But he couldn't retreat, as if imprisoned by ropes and chains, he couldn't break through the maze, and couldn't escape the control.

It seems to be intentional, to force him until he goes crazy, otherwise he will never give up.

Lv Jiuyuan didn't know how many times he watched it, his hands and feet were so numb that he couldn't feel it, he stood still like a statue, he didn't know the time.

Scales wrapped around his body like snake scales, and the eerie coolness gradually spread upward from the soles of his feet. The nauseating coldness pressed against his chest and abdomen, wrapped around his hands, and strangled his throat...

Lu Jiuyuan wanted to open his mouth, but when all the voices reached his mouth, he couldn't come out.Spiritual energy flowed all over his body, but he couldn't break through the entanglement of this coolness.

He heard a voice.

A haunting, haunting voice.

Cold, just like back then.

"Lv Jiuyuan." He said, "I hate it so much."

Chi Lin...

A hand appeared in sight, clasping his neck from behind.

The owner of that hand pressed against his ear, and the cold breath hit his cheek.

"I regret it. If only I had killed you."

Lv Jiuyuan wanted to turn his head to look at his face, but his limbs seemed to be stiff.

is fake.

he told himself so.

"Actually, I lied to you... That bottle is not an antidote, and I have never been in love with you..."

is fake.

"Everything is...I discussed it with Lou Yunshen..."

fake.

The tension on his neck became tighter, his breathing became short of breath, and he was almost out of breath several times.

With Lu Chilin's temperament, how could he go so far as to deceive him...

At the moment when the consciousness was about to fall into the abyss, a cold sound of cold iron came from the ancient direction.Like the clank of a long sword, it broke the restriction around him.Lu Jiuyuan felt a very familiar feeling, which taught him to gain a moment of clarity.

It's Shen Bi.

In an instant, the ground under his feet began to tremble, and roaring sounds rolled from all directions.

Although the long sword does not have the human form like Lu Chilin, but a hundred years of time and decades of companionship have given it a touch of wisdom.

The next moment, the spiritual power rushed through all the spiritual veins, and Lu Jiuyuan immediately murmured the Qingxin Jue.

The stone platform disappeared, replaced by a bridge.The bottom of the flowing water under the bridge can't be seen, but it is so red that it is scary.Countless dogs stretched out from the water, stubbornly pulling on his ankles.

"It's so painful..." "Come down..." "It hurts..."

The sharp voice seemed to pierce his ears, Lu Jiuyuan frowned, and the sword in his hand flashed.

"The fighters are all arrayed in front—"

As the nine-character mantra fell, sword intent shot out from between his brows, and the hands under his feet turned into bones, all submerged under the river of blood.The sword intent swept across the surrounding scene, and a hole was opened in the void, and everything before became false.

He stood in the middle of the chain bridge, with two legs wrapped around his legs and one wrapped around his chest, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth——

I'm afraid that if he falls short, he will become the ration that all the snakes dream of.