Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

"Show your sword!" She has said it for the third time, but Zhuo Wangsun still didn't move, her eyes gradually narrowed: "Aren't we worthy to be your enemies?" Zhuo Wangsun shook his head. The woman suddenly smiled and said, "Master Huayin Pavilion, you really have a lot of airs." Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "Do you know who I am?" "Honorable Lord Shiva, omniscient..." The woman put her hands on her chest, bowed silently for a moment, and said, "A few years ago, the Prophet told us that you would come here. And I also know that here You have never been defeated before. But—" She paused, opened her eyes, and said to Zhuo Wangsun, "You will definitely lose this time."

Zhuo Wangsun smiled and said, "Is this what the prophet told you?" The woman shook her head and said, "That's what I said." Zhuo Wangsun laughed and said, "If that's the case, why don't you take action?" The woman also smiled, gently leaned her body on the golden pillar beside her, stretched her waist, and said: "If you are in a hurry to ask me to take action, I will not be in a hurry." She stared at Zhuo Wangsun, and said: "In front of the cup of joy, in the fragrance of the dust, even the gods will be intoxicated. I just don't believe that you will be an exception."

Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "Is there poison in the incense and wine?" The woman shook her head and said: "Although there are many strange poisons in the world, they have no effect on some people. Even if there are, it is inevitable that they will not be seen in advance. But there is one thing that is different." She smiled at him, and said: "It was born and grew together with human beings, and it is rooted in the depths of the human heart. It is always difficult to get rid of it. The more you try to get rid of it, the deeper you sink—that is desire." "Desire is a very strange thing, such as an aphrodisiac, which can seduce people's lust. After taking it, one can only rely on one's own will to restrain it, and it has nothing to do with the internal strength of cultivation. Although sometimes, people with high cultivation will also It will be stronger, but not absolute. Under this kind of temptation, there is not much difference between a top expert and an ordinary person. Therefore, in every generation, there are always some people who seem to be righteous and have a high status. The temptation of lust has ruined the fame of the whole life. Of course, this kind of temptation does not necessarily need drugs sometimes-feelings are a more secretive and effective poison. People are more sympathetic and respectful, but in fact, there is no distinction between lust and sexual desire. Desire is desire, and if it is wrong, it is wrong."

She looked up at the blue dome and said: "This palace is a palace of desires, and every magnificence is a kind of mirror, which can understand all people's desires - the most basic and the deepest. The white elephant's body Deodorant is not a kind of aphrodisiac, it is much more wonderful than aphrodisiac. Aphrodisiac can only arouse people's lust, but it can arouse all desires. Whatever you want in your heart, it will make this desire become stronger slowly, It's getting heavier and heavier until it makes you unable to think about anything else. And you, your greatest desire right now is to sleep peacefully... You've been following this all the way, you're tired, aren't you? Then why don't you sleep? Here's the warmest The quilt, the softest night breeze." She closed her eyes slightly, as if she was sniffing the warm fragrance, and her gentle voice seemed to guide his drowsiness.

However, the expression on Zhuo Wangsun's face did not change. After a long time, the woman sighed and said, "Why do you force yourself to wake up? It is a very painful thing to wake up." Zhuo Wangsun said lightly: "I'm afraid I will suffer even more pain when I fall asleep." The woman said sweetly: "If you don't want to sleep, you can chat with me again." She turned her gaze to the wine cabinet in the corner of the room: "And this wine of ten pools of acacia is a friend who brewed it for us with the fountain of memory. of." Zhuo Wangsun said: "Fountain of memory?"

The woman raised her eyebrows slightly, as if a little sad: "Everything in the world is born and carved with each other. Among the four holy springs, the elephant spring is the spring of forgetting, and the lion spring is the spring of memory. Through the spring of forgetting, you can reach the fifth. Holy spring, that is the fountain of eternal life..." Speaking of the Fountain of Eternal Life, she seemed to be touched in her heart. After a moment of silence, she continued: "The friend who brewed the wine for us once said to us with a smile, aren't you afraid of forgetting each other? I will never forget that friend... That friend is called Sanggoruo. I know he is dead, and you killed him. If he hadn't died, you wouldn't have come here. It's all preordained. We drank this wine for ten years, and every moment between us is clearly remembered. No one can be happier than us. But we still dare not drink the water of Xiangquan, because we don't know, it can be remembered The Lion Spring that remembers everything, or the Elephant Spring that forgets everything, which one is more powerful..."

She shook her head, seemed to be lost in memory, and said after a long time: "You have also drank this wine of memory, have you remembered a lot of things now? You want to sleep, and you keep remembering some painful things. It should feel amazing, right?" With a smile in her eyes, she stared at him. "This feeling will be so wonderful that it will make people go crazy, so I advise you to sleep." She sighed again: "We have lived here for ten years, and the reason why we haven't gone crazy is because our desires are very simple, and we Crazy obedience to lust. You are different, your desires are too many, too complicated, and you have to force yourself to fight against it... torture yourself, this is a stupid behavior. You are so smart, why don't you see it through?"

Zhuo Wangsun still did not move.However, he already felt that his mind was messed up.Countless trifles flooded my mind like dross, but my heart was already overwhelmed. It was the first time in his life that he felt tired. It turned out to be so strong that he could no longer concentrate even a little bit of energy, and even the most natural thing of controlling the movement of Qi channels in his body became extremely difficult. "When a person's thoughts can no longer be condensed, his internal strength and sword skills will not be able to function, and he will become a castle in the air. Presumably the master of the pavilion must understand this truth, but this is the first time he has experienced it himself?" She smiled more and more. The thicker it is, it's like whispering to a lover, but where is there any sign of hostility?However, her long sleeves were slightly withdrawn, and a crimson scimitar was quietly held in her hand.

Suddenly, her lover said angrily, "How long are you going to talk to him?" The woman frowned, looked back at him, and said: "I'm waiting for the wine of memory in his body to burst, why, you can't wait?" The man snorted heavily: "Since he came in, you've been rambling on until now? Do you want to kill him, or do you want to chat with someone?" The woman flicked her sleeves, and the scimitar was in her hand. She sneered and said, "Kill him? His martial arts are superior to you and me, don't you understand? I could have shot him when he was upset, but you Interrupt, what do you mean?"

The man said: "Why do you have to wait until now to make a move? Could it be that you are reluctant." The woman raised her eyebrows, and her face was full of anger: "What did you say? You have been facing you day and night for more than ten years, and you still doubt me? Did you get bored in the ground?" The man sneered and said, "Since you have planned it long ago, and now the time is ripe, why don't you do it?" The woman turned around, took two steps forward, then stopped suddenly, turned her head and said, "Are you so eager for me to do it?" She snorted a few times, and said, "I think you can't wait, and want to use his hands to kill you." I, and then I can enter the river of eternal life alone."

The man also said angrily, "Why should I kill you?" The woman chuckled lightly and said, "Who knows..." Her voice suddenly turned sharp: "Who knows that you and I have been facing each other day and night in the past ten years, in order to accompany me, or to wait for the opening of the fifth holy spring, the River of Eternal Life!" The man said: "Eternal life! You are the one who never forgets eternal life. What is the meaning of eternal life?" The woman sneered and said, "It's meaningless? I think you think it's meaningless to live forever with me, why don't you just take this opportunity to kill me?" The man shouted: "Nonsense!" The woman said: "In the past ten years, you have been tired of me! You have said again and again, what will happen if we go back outside, I know, you are already tired of me!" The man was speechless for a while, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "Sure enough, there is no kind of love that lasts forever, and we are not out of luck! Since you think so, why don't you make the first move!" His body jumped up suddenly, and a sharp light flashed across the sky, Double fists hit Zhuo Wangsun.The wind of the fist was fierce, before it touched his body, it already made his green shirt rattle. Zhuo Wangsun was disturbed in his heart, he almost threw out his palm to meet the attack.And when the true energy in his whole body circulated to his chest, his mind suddenly dissipated, and the true energy also stagnated, and he couldn't lift it up again. The opponent's extremely fierce energy has already blatantly attacked his chest! Zhuo Wangsun's mind was in such a mess, as if there were thousands of thoughts restraining, tearing and shouting at each other, and he couldn't cope with it for a while. There was a loud bang.The zhenqi in his bodyguard instinctively bounced back, colliding with the man's fist wind.The surrounding curtains and hanging flowers were torn to pieces. Zhuo Wangsun's chest froze, and the severe pain made him wake up a little bit. The opponent's strength was still coming, so he used his strength to jump back to dissipate the strength.This leap was four feet long, and he floated down lightly in the air, without getting dusty, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all. Only he himself knew that although this simple blow failed to injure him, it had exhausted him physically and mentally. Although the opponent's martial arts are very high, but also with an indescribable weirdness.But compared to the opponents he has encountered in his life, he is still a lot worse. It's just that the internal energy in his body is obviously far stronger than the opponents, but he can't gather his strength. Leaning against the pillar behind him, he no longer tried to concentrate his thoughts, but let his instinct formed over the years of practice slowly adjust his inner breath, but the tiredness still came like a tide, unstoppable. The man chased him for a few steps, then suddenly rushed forward, with both fists out together. Zhuo Wangsun frowned, and his body moved to the side. The man punched the gold pillar, and gold powder flew all over the sky.The pillar was extremely hard, and the man's palm was also broken, and blood dripped down.But he didn't care, and rushed forward again. Zhuo Wangsun only dodged but did not attack, and gradually retreated.The fragrance in the hall was getting stronger and stronger, and his movement gradually slowed down.The man was advancing step by step, his fists were fierce, although there may not be many pleasing changes, but they are simple and practical, and every move is aimed at the key. Zhuo Wangsun was still retreating.He was extremely upset in his heart, and really wanted to kill this person with one blow, but the true energy in his body could not be gathered no matter what, he tried his best to restrain his anger, because at this time, the more emotions, the more poisoned he would be. deeper. Suddenly, a reddish light came silently from behind him. With a thought in his mind, he turned slightly, a crimson scimitar slid past him like a rainbow, and a long cut was cut at the corner of his clothes. The woman held a knife, looked at him with a smile, and said: "How long can you hide? Because of you, our husband and wife for ten years have fallen out of harmony, so it's better for you to die, but I will definitely be very light, light It doesn't hurt even to die." Before the words fell, the two suddenly attacked. A round of crimson moon was formed by the light of the knife, and then gradually lengthened, softened, and danced erratically, like a colored ball in the hands of a celestial witch, rolling towards his throat.On the other side, the fist wind was hunting, and the momentum was as if it had opened up the world, covering the big acupoints all over his body. This two kinds of martial arts, the rigid and the soft, just matched seamlessly, and the power was more than doubled immediately.It seems that they have been underground for ten years, not just indulging in lust. The two forces were entangled and intertwined, attacking Zhuo Wangsun.When Fang was about to touch his body, Zhuo Wangsun jumped up suddenly, then turned back in the air at an incredible angle, and swept away gently. Zhuo Wangsun fell beside the wine cabinet, and his hands were sweating.However, the chasing power behind him had no time to retreat, and with a loud bang, all of them hit a crystal wine jar. The shape of the wine jar is round, which can evenly distribute the huge force, and the crystal is extremely hard, so it didn't shatter for a while, but shook a few times, and fell backwards.This time, there was a reaction, and the ten crystal wine jars leaned on each other, and they all fell down one after another! With a crisp bang, ten altars of fine wine poured out.The fragrance was strong, and ten streams of different colors slowly converged, and then merged into a huge stream of indescribable color, flowing towards the center of the hall.In an instant, the entire carpet has been soaked. There was silence in the hall, and the aroma of the wine and the white elephant's body suddenly became much stronger, and they came over heavily.A trace of uneasiness rose faintly in everyone's heart. Suddenly, a strange rhythm came through the air. This rhythm followed one after another, starting very slowly and weakly, and then gradually getting faster and stronger, which was extremely ear-piercing in the empty hall. The man murmured: "What?" There was a trace of panic on his face, as if he had already foreseen the coming danger. Everyone was speechless for a while. The woman trembled suddenly: "This... this is the heartbeat of that white elephant... it, it is about to wake up!" The man said in amazement: "Impossible! It has been sleeping for at least ten years, and it has forgotten everything!" The woman closed her eyes in pain, shook her head and said, "It remembers. Didn't you see that the ground is full of wine of memory? Mahakaya, once the mount of the emperor Indra, a great war elephant, Its power is enough to destroy the entire underground palace..." The man grabbed her by the shoulder and cut it off: "Nonsense! Even if it wakes up, we are the guardians of the elephant spring. There is a seal made by the great god here. Mahakaya will not harm us, it will only kill us. Alien invaders!" The woman shook her head and smiled wryly: "You forgot, what was the original seal?" The man was startled. The woman laughed twice, but couldn't laugh anymore. Looking at the top of the hall, she said to herself: "The reason why we ask to protect the Holy Elephant Spring is a little selfish. The Holy Elephant Spring is the River of Forgetting, but the Forgetting Behind the river, there is the fifth holy spring, which is the fountain of eternal life. As long as you immerse your body in it, you can live forever. We agreed at the beginning to stay by the holy elephant spring, waiting for a coincidence, the idol revives, and the river of forgetfulness opens. Then we entered it together to look for the fountain of eternal life. In this way, we can be together forever... Over the past ten years, we have thought many times to remove the idol and open the entrance of the holy spring, but we dare not, we are afraid of Wangchuan Too much power will make us forget everything until we find the fountain of eternal life. For this reason, we drank the wine of memory for ten years, but we still dare not. Because of the power of memory or forgetting, who is greater , no one knows." The man shook her shoulder vigorously: "What are you talking about?" The woman ignored him and continued: "The Great God knows our purpose. He said that to guard the fountain of eternal life, we must use eternal things to sacrifice to God. But we are mortals, so how can there be any eternal things? Later, we Tell God that the love between us is eternal, and it will not change for a thousand years or even ten thousand years. It doesn’t matter whether there is a fountain of eternal life or not... Later, God accepted the sacrifice and formed a seal, allowing us to guard it. Beside the idol. If our sacrifice is false, then this seal will disappear, and we will die at the feet of the animal we guard...Ten years, only ten years have passed, tell me, our love is still Is it eternal? Is there really eternal love in the world?" She looked at him with unusually bright eyes, so bright that it made people's hearts tingle.The man was speechless for a moment. The ground trembled suddenly, and the two could barely stand. The pile of flesh-white mountains actually squirmed.