Chapter 42 Chapter Five: Frost and Snow at the End of the World

Lianhua was startled, and Chongxuan's eyes shone brightly: "Speak." The woman raised her eyebrows, handed over the wine cup in her hand, and smiled angrily: "Why don't you trust me? This is pure blood, without any impurities. I won't be so stupid as to poison you. Besides, I drank the blood myself. Lianhua frowned and said, "Anyone who believes in you is an idiot!" The woman sighed slightly, tied her seal on her chest, and said, "I swore an oath before Lord Shiva that I would never tell a single lie in my life. I have also told you the secret of the holy lake for several days, but you always keep I am an enemy. If that is the case, why would I bother to tell the whereabouts of Jiuling boy?"

Lianhua snorted coldly: "If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!" The woman smiled faintly at Lianhua: "I know that the little girls nowadays are getting more and more powerful, and they can kill people without blinking an eye, but I'm afraid that you won't even have the strength to kill with a knife now. Even if you If you kill me, I won't tell you where he is—I said I don't lie." She turned to Chongxuan and said with a smile: "Maybe after you and I trust each other, I will tell you more secrets , For example—the method of cracking the Ruyi Golden Building, the specific location of the Tianluo Treasure House, the usage of the Tianluo Ten Treasures..."

"Enough." Chongxuan took the wine cup casually, without looking at it, and drank it down in one gulp. The woman took the empty cup again, stretched out a finger, stroked gently at the bottom of the cup, and then slowly slid the red fingertip across her lips.She licked her lips, the tip of her tongue was extremely red and thin, which gave people the illusion of a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.She seemed to be intoxicated by the incomparably sweet taste of the holy elephant's blood again, and it took a long time before she opened her eyes, and said: "The Jiuling boy has fled to Le Shenglun Palace."

Chongxuan said: "Where is Le Shenglun Palace?" The woman said: "The Le Shenglun Palace is the residence of the Great God Shiva. It is blocked by many barriers. It is impossible for human beings to look for it, let alone look for it. The gods only leave the Le Shenglun Palace for one day every ten years. At this time, the barrier disappears, and the reflection of Le Shenglun Palace will appear in the middle of the holy lake..." Chongxuan said: "Who is the owner of Le Shenglun Palace now?" The woman said: "It is the incarnation of Lord Shiva in the world, the owner of all the power in the world, and the leader of the mandala!"

Lianhua's face couldn't help but change when the words of the mandala leader were mentioned.The woman smiled and said to Chongxuan: "If you have any questions, I will answer you. You must know that in this world, there are very few people who only tell the truth." Chong Xuan said lightly: "I'm done asking." The woman smiled and said: "Then I won't accompany you any longer. If I continue talking, my darling will be unhappy." As she spoke, she turned and rushed towards her lover who had been sitting quietly on the mattress.The man whispered a few words, as if to blame, but the woman burst into a coquettish laugh, and fell down on the pile of leather mattresses together.

The leopard skin slowly slipped off her slightly dark skin, and their naked bodies were entangled again under the dim firelight.The leather mattress billowed, thick blood spread out, and the mandalas on the heads of the two men looked more ferocious, and the dilapidated Shiva Temple seemed to be a vivid scene of joy. Lianhua couldn't stand it any longer, so Chongxuan turned and left. However, his heart suddenly moved for no reason.That warm and ambiguous aroma is like a drop of ink dripping into clear water, spreading quickly and everywhere.The flames swayed endlessly, like elves dancing to a mysterious rhythm.The color of the surrounding mandalas gradually changed from bright red to dark, overwhelmingly overwhelming...

The bright moon is cold, shining down on the vast snowfield. Chongxuan opened his eyes, and the cold light flashed back, piercing his eyes sorely.He didn't blink, however.His gaze was like a knife's edge, flashing across the surroundings. The surrounding area was completely empty.The Ice City, the Shiva Temple, a pair of lovers, the green donkey, and the lotus flower all disappeared without a trace in an instant.The snow fell silently on the ground, the snow was as smooth as a mirror, not even a piece of ice was left, only his own shadow was reflected on the ice surface alone.Could it be that this city of ice and snow is just like the legendary city of fox demons, no matter how crowded it is, it will scatter into a wisp of dust in the early morning of the next day, and when you look for it again, only the ghosts of the autumn grave will sing?Or was it all a fantasy that never really happened?

Chongxuan withdrew his gaze from the snowy field, and slowly raised his sleeve to look, the sword was still there. He picked up a handful of fallen snow, sniffed the breath carefully, and stood up with the help of the snow.His movements are slow.The remaining power of the Holy Elephant's blood is still scattered in every corner of his body.The scars on his body were like burning pain.However, he still walked firmly in the same direction. The moonlight is like water, but it is condensed into pieces of falling snow by the cold air all over the sky.Two rows of deep footprints fell on the white ground.His purpose is the lake of death that he passed by when he came.

The snow is as big as a mat.The lakeside of the Holy Moon is still frozen and silent.The snowflakes that came from not far away were swallowed up by the icy lake waves.Under the moonlight, the lake was swaying endlessly, shrouded in a faint blue light.Against the boundless and endless snowfields around, it is as holy as the crescent-shaped jewel on the crown of the great god. Chong Xuan stood on the ice rock by the lake.The lake water under his feet was pushed away layer by layer, revealing a strange color.The unfathomable lake seems to contain endless images.Perhaps, as the legend says, this lake is the home of the dead.Here, all sins will be washed away.

But only through death is life possible. Chongxuan finally figured out the meaning of what the woman in the temple said, a sneer appeared on his face.His blood-red figure suddenly jumped up and plunged into the waves of the lake. Youlan Hubo opened a huge silver flower, and quickly closed it again. The moonlight, according to the reflection of the surrounding snow peaks, embroiders beautiful patterns on the gradually calming lake. The surface of the lake is vast, but the waves of the lake move slowly under a magical rhythm, forming a slow-moving eddy under the water, rolling away to the depths of the lake.The bottom of the lake is unfathomable.

Chongxuan used the technique of tortoise breath to condense the whole body's energy channels into essence.His body was like a meteor falling towards the bottom of the lake, about half an hour had passed, but he still didn't know where the bottom of the lake was.He raised his head suddenly, and found that the surrounding blue waves flowed like a circle of slanted ice walls. The ice wall is already moving at an extremely slow speed, like the bottom of the unknowable lake is spinning, as if somewhere at the bottom of the lake, there is a huge cave, attracting the vortex, and slowly pouring into it.Swarms of fish swimming in the ice wall, like insects and beasts condensed in amber, followed the rotation of the lake water and sneaked into the dark depths.Some have small bodies, like golden fireflies, slowly sinking and floating in the semi-condensed water; An ancient monster that escaped from Yu Ding.Some have two heads and nine legs, strange shapes, and black bodies, like the legendary underwater ghosts, moving slowly. People can't help but think of a legend that at the junction of the world and hell, there is a steep slope that seems to be more leaky - Huangquan Biliang slope.After death, the dead souls came from all directions, and walked down the slope step by step in a long line.And the end of the slope is a huge and dark entrance to hell. This holy lake is the lake of death, and all the souls of the dead will enter another world through it.Perhaps, the legendary Huangquan Biliangpo is located here.And this slowly rotating lake wave is about to bring him and these swimming fish and undead to the depths of hell. Chongxuan didn't look any more, accelerated his fall, and headed for the dark entrance. The lake water seemed to be blocked by some invisible barrier and disappeared under the feet.In front of him is an endless tunnel, stretching to an unknown place.The tunnel is made of a strange blue boulder, and the whole body is shrouded in a layer of mottled light. The light and shadow fluctuate. Although it is unfathomable, it does not appear dark at all.It seems that as long as anything enters it, it will be fully displayed by the faint blue divine light, and there is no way to escape. Chong Xuan went straight in.The stone wall of the tunnel is extremely thick, but it is translucent. Through the faint blue light, countless creatures can still be seen slowly swimming towards the huge cave behind with the water waves.Those creatures are all grotesque in shape, as if they come from different time and space. People can't help but have an illusion that the time traveling in this tunnel is the birth of the world. the entire history of After walking for an unknown amount of time, a gloomy white light suddenly appeared before his eyes.The tunnel expanded, as if entering a vast underground palace.In front of him stood a stone wall several feet high.The texture of the stone wall is quite different from the blue light stone in the tunnel. There are azure brilliance, and the sun disc spreads out, illuminating the surrounding area brightly.It seems to be the first ray of sunlight at dawn, projecting the vibrant vitality on the world.It also relieved the heavy dead air around him. Could it be that this is the junction of the lake of life and death?After passing this stone wall, the warm lake waves of the Holy Lake of Life will surge in like the rising sun?And the real location of the Tianluo Treasury that the woman in the Shiva Temple said is also hidden behind this stone wall? Chongxuan's colorful pupils gradually shrank, and he could already see that behind the shining stone wall was a statue of a god carved in relief.The idol sits with four arms in all directions, with one hand forming a mudra, and the other three holding a sword, a dust whisk, and a rosary. One of them bows its head slightly, as if thinking about all the troubles for the world, and caring for all sentient beings. This is exactly the Dharma image of Brahma! In the legend, it stands side by side with the evil god Shiva and is a great god who holds the power of all life in the world.This world was created while he was meditating. The so-called holy lakes are twins, one is the lake of life, shaped like the morning sun; the other is the lake of death, shaped like a crescent moon.Could it be that this sacred mountain and holy lake were originally the residences of the two gods who govern life and death?Since twins face each other in the lake of life and death, if there is a Le Shenglun Palace where Shiva lives in the Gang Rinpoche Peak and on the bank of the holy lake, whether it is next to the Le Shenglun Palace or not, there will be twins standing like a shadow. The majestic temple where Brahma lives? Legends are always magical and beautiful, but Chongxuan no longer thinks about them.All he has to do is to break through the barrier of this stone wall and go to the holy lake of life where the treasure of Tianluo is hidden. However, the stone wall is several feet thick, and it cannot be destroyed by manpower. Brahma still bowed his head in thought.His eyes are full of great thinking and great compassion for the suffering of the world, but he will never take action to save any individual suffering. Because what he wants to save is the whole world. Chongxuan looked up at the statue.Brahma's gaze looked down, against the background of the faint blue light all around, it was full of desire to move, but his pupils turned out to be black on the outside and white on the inside, like a pair of misplaced sun and moon, hanging high above the bright sky. Chongxuan's gaze sharpened, and he saw his figure jumping up in the air, the green sword came out like lightning, and pierced straight into Brahma's eyes.There was only a soft clang, as if it came from a very far away, and the green sword had already sunk into Brahma's eyes.A few pieces of debris fell quietly.The red robe on Chongxuan's body was billowing endlessly, suddenly his wrist sank, and the green sword had already been pulled out, and his body was like a ball of blood blooming, gently floating on the ground. A wisp of warm liquid dripped from Brahma's eyes. The green sword is only three feet long, so it is impossible to penetrate the stone wall that is several feet thick.However, this thorn just triggered the hub of a certain mechanism.The water of the lake did not gushes, but flowed down the handsome face of the idol, just like the tears of a great god caring for the joys and sorrows of the world. Drop by drop, the sound resounded in the silent underground palace like a leak.Suddenly, a very light cracking sound came from the other side of the stone wall.A slight crack suddenly appeared on Brahma's majestic face, from the center of the brow to the jaw.Immediately, the crackling sound became more intense, and the cracks spread rapidly like a net, covering the whole body, and then the cracking sound suddenly turned into a huge roar, and the statue, together with the huge stone wall, was split in two! The deep water at the bottom of the lake broke away from the shackles of the stone wall, turned the heavy pressure into a raging volume that could change the color of the world, and roared towards Chongxuan!The red robe on Chong Xuan's body was shining brightly like the scorching sun. Without dodging or avoiding, he slowly raised the green sword in front of his eyes, facing the raging waves like a raging dragon, he leaped towards the center of the torrent! The sky and the earth roared, and the water at the bottom of the lake, which had been silent for thousands of years, suddenly shook huge waves, aroused a thick water column, and rushed towards the lake. collapsed.Surrounded by surges of water, snow-white water lilies rolled up in the deep lake bottom, and the fishes that were moving slowly were instantly torn and swallowed by the beautiful and unusually beautiful water lilies. For a moment, the flesh and blood in the water was messy, the roar of the beast shook the ground, and a mass of blood spread rapidly, staining the entire bottom of the lake red.But Chongxuan's figure turned into a huge red cloud, wrapped in a layer of blue sword light, passing through the side of the water column at an unimaginable speed. The warm waves of the Holy Lake of the Sun gradually calmed down behind him. Chongxuan opened his eyes, and across the clear water waves, there stood a huge ruin of a palace in front of him! The palace seems to have been sleeping quietly at the bottom of the lake for thousands of years.Clumps of lush green algae are wrapped around the gorgeous stone pillars of the past, just like the unkempt and strange long hair of an underwater witch.There are long steps in front of the palace, with hundreds of poles, extending straight up, as if reaching directly to the pole of the sky, majestic and majestic.Today, the white stone steps have been covered with moss marks of the years, but clusters of blooming corals are strange and beautiful, covering the entire steps.Re-dye the desolate palace with gorgeous colors. Chongxuan still used the technique of turtle's breath, stepped on the coral, and slowly swam up the stone steps.The palace wall was originally pure white, but it was also dyed blue by the Cangtai underwater.A wall is green, but there is no door on the wall. Where there should be a door on the palace wall, a pair of giant hands are carved out of huge stones.In his hand, he held a stone sword that was as tall as a man.The whole body of the stone sword is crystal clear, without decoration, only the halo of clouds and clouds surrounds it.Even after sleeping underwater for thousands of years, it is still dazzling. Chongxuan's eyes stayed on the stone sword for a long time before moving to the top of the palace wall.Here are five huge head portraits.These five head portraits have five colors of red, black, blue, white and purple, and they are all carved from natural gemstones.The god statues have different expressions, the algae shadows on them, and the lake waves are gloomy, making the five heads a bit strange in their gorgeousness.The expressions of the gods may be happy or angry, but each of them is frowning faintly, as if they are always thinking about the profound meaning of this universe. Chong Xuan had just met four of these five faces.It is the treasure of Brahma. Five variegated lights slowly penetrated from the imprint between the eyebrows of the statue, like five huge arms, touching every inch of land at the bottom of the lake, and even every speck of dust on the land.Under the cover of deep water and algal moss, it has been silent for thousands of years.However, one can imagine how majestic and majestic this Brahma Temple was before it sank to the bottom of the lake, like a paradise. Even now, anyone standing under these five dim lights, looking up at the face of God that can only be seen when looking up, can only feel the boundless power of God and the fragility of life, and can't help but feel Trembling before the power of the god, he begged God for forgiveness. Chongxuan's eyes wandered over Brahma's five heads.Among these five heads, there must be the portal of the shrine.Although he didn't understand the various legends among the gods, he also keenly felt one thing: The Brahma statue just now had only four heads.Brahma, the god of life, is surrounded by walls, which has been widely spread common sense.So why does Brahma here have five heads? And in the stone arm on the wall of the temple, there is a stone sword overflowing with brilliance.The purpose of the sword is to kill people and cut off other people's heads. ——Is it all a coincidence? Or is the way to open the temple door, is to pull out the long sword from the stone wall and cut off the extra head of Brahma? However, no matter how clever the turtle's breath technique is, it cannot stay underwater for more than an hour.Every minute is extremely precious, not to mention what kind of danger lies ahead, which is still unknown.Therefore, Chong Xuan had no time to think about it. He didn't believe in the gods and demons in those absurd legends, and of course he didn't believe in the seemingly omnipotent artifacts in the hands of the gods and demons.Even Tianluo Treasure, in his eyes, is just a tool that can be used.Tools are only a means of self-improvement, and can never replace self—just as no artifact, no matter what kind of artifact, can replace the green sword in his hand. He didn't pull out the stone sword in the god's arm, but jumped up, swung the green sword in his hand, and chopped off the head in Brahma!