The black water is sluggish, and everything is lonely. Located outside Cangliu City in the depths of the Chanying Sea, a solemn and solemn funeral is currently being held. Feng Weishu's teacher, the former high priest Suiya, died just a month ago
.At this time, the crystal coffin containing the body was carried on the shoulders by eight good-looking priests. Under the gaze of almost all the tribesmen, they slowly walked towards Ganyuan outside the city.
Ganyuan, which almost spans the entire seabed of Chanying, is a wide trench used by the Cangyu people to bury their dead throughout the ages. For more than ten thousand years, no one has dared to truly dive into the deep trench to explore what is underneath.
It looks like this. And this long and narrow area with no end as far as the eye can see has become a mysterious passage that can connect the worlds of death and life to their clan.
Perhaps because they had lost too much in the previous sufferings, I don’t know when the Cangyu people who gave up life on land began to believe that when people leave this world, they must wash away the filth on their bodies.
Only by clearing away the good and evil in the past and returning to their true form can they be reincarnated. So they threw the clean corpses into the abyss one after another, hoping that one day their loved ones could re-enter the reincarnation and return to themselves.
around.
Therefore, whenever someone in the clan dies, an assistant priest will be sent out to collect the body. The priests will take out all the internal organs of the deceased, clean the dirt, then sew them back into the abdomen, and then use a method called
The wide green seaweed covered her from head to toe in layers.
Qingmao only grows on the seabed near Ganyuan. It is cold in nature and extremely bitter in the mouth. Use it to wrap the deceased and the body will no longer be eaten by fish and shrimps in the sea.
At the moment, the ink-colored sea water is so calm that it seems that it is no longer flowing. It is late at night, and the moonlight casts countless sparkling light pillars from the calm sea surface, shining on Sui Ya's coffin, as if the gods in the sky are calling him.
The soul returns.
"...
The Gujiang River is cold and deep, and the cliff banks are covered with snow.
The boat is in the middle of the current, and it is suitable for that paradise.
The sun and the moon have their usual course, and the stars have their course.
In all seasons, stick to the old, and everyone will listen to it.
The clouds are clear and the Milky Way is brilliant.
The essence is not exhausted, and all spirits are here to bless you.
The harp and harp cannot sing, and the feathers and clothes cannot dance.
Promised Land, Promised Land, Rest in Peace?
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Walking in front of the coffin, Feng Weishu, who was clearing the way for the deceased, sang in a low voice, chanting the clan's long poem with no beginning or end. The clansmen around him gradually began to sing along with him. The singing was melodious, and he followed the coffin.
The current spread and even attracted a group of giant whales patrolling nearby.
However, just halfway through the funeral, a harsh voice suddenly sounded from the crowd, completely destroying the solemn atmosphere of the funeral and causing an uproar among the tribe:
"May I ask the great priest, since Master Suiya was in power, the Dharma Hall has told the clan that people have been sent to search for new black rose deposits. Now that he is no longer alive, why hasn't he found any new clues?"
The speaker's voice was not loud, but every word he spoke was enough for the tens of thousands of Cangyu people who came to attend the funeral to hear clearly.
It was seen that he was wearing a dark green coat, and a large cloak covered his head and face. As soon as he opened his mouth, the surrounding tribesmen retreated away one after another, making a gap in the crowd as if to avoid the plague. However, when he heard
The other party actually asked about Xuangui, which no one had mentioned for a long time. Some clan members suddenly nodded their heads and looked at the chief priest standing in front of the funeral procession with doubtful and expectant eyes.
"Searching for new mysterious gems is the legacy that Master spent his whole life but failed to realize. Since I took over as the chief priest, I have been looking for good strategies, but unfortunately I have gained little so far. But today I promise you that I will never continue
Let the Xuangui incident pose a threat to the survival and reproduction of our clan!"
Feng Weishu was a little annoyed, but it was not easy for him to get angry while the funeral was in progress, so he had to stop and deal with it. However, he did not foresee that the other party would become reluctant:
"Since you have gained so little for so many years, how can you make such a guarantee? We all know that if the mysterious gems are exhausted, the barrier of Cangliu City will no longer be sustainable. At that time, everyone in the city, including you and me, will
All clan members will be in danger!"
"It is absolutely impossible for this to happen. As the chief priest of the clan, can't I convince you with what I say?"
Feng Weishu didn't want to continue to quarrel with the other party, so he turned around and wanted to continue moving forward. Unexpectedly, the man pushed aside the crowd in front of him, swam straight to the spiritual road carrying the coffin, and stood with his arms crossed:
"Don't the chief priests know how to lie? In fact, the Dharma Hall and all previous chief priests have known for a long time that just because the Mysterious Gems are exhausted, it does not mean that there is only one way for our clan to die. It's just that you have been unwilling to try to find other methods.
He also deliberately hid this matter from his clan members!”
Nowadays, for many people in the clan, the bloody suppression of the rebel party in Cangliu City twenty years ago has long been forgotten. However, the words of the visitor still caused an explosion among the crowd.
Feng Weishu finally realized that the person who came was evil, waved his hand and shouted:
"I don't care who you are, but spreading rumors in public and deliberately disrupting Master's funeral is already a serious crime! Come here, take him down for careful interrogation in the future!"
However, before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard a dull loud noise coming from the depths of the trench, as if an ancient monster had just awakened and let out a low roar. The crowd gathered around the trench didn't know what was going on, but they just immediately
They looked left and right on the spot. Soon they saw a string of dense bubbles rising from the depths of the abyss, making the originally clear water instantly turbid, and even the seabed beneath their feet began to tremble violently.
The whales that were hovering around seemed to sense that something was about to happen, and turned around and left one after another. The look in Feng Weishu's eyes gradually became uneasy - because he suddenly realized that Cangliu had been shrouded in darkness since more than ten thousand years ago.
The barrier around the city was about to be broken down in an instant!
More than 10,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Cangyu people tried their best to move from land to the seabed of Chanying. However, when the people's bodies gradually adapted to life in the sea and the construction of Cangliu City was nearing completion, they discovered this
The city of hope that had determined the fate of the whole family was actually built on an undersea volcano.
However, the disaster on land had come, and those who survived no longer had enough ability to build another new city under the Chanying Sea. Therefore, the first chief priest of the clan activated a spell to temporarily seal the city.
The eruption of this undersea volcano. However, the power of the spell is limited after all. The subsequent great priests have to rely on the power of Xuangui to continuously strengthen this barrier, so that Cangliu City can survive to this day.
"Don't go back, Cangliu City can't be saved!"
Feng Weishu shouted loudly to the panicked crowd, but the tribesmen around him had already panicked, and they just swarmed towards the home that their ancestors had worked hard for generations. However, the fireflies in front of them were bright and majestic.
The underwater city that was built in 1960 was completely swallowed up by the red lava pouring out of the ground in just a short moment.
For a moment, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the color of the water and sky changed. When the cold sea current met the lava, it boiled instantly, setting off a stream of gray-white steam on the sea floor. The steam rolled with the ruined Cangliu City as the center, and rushed in all directions.
As you rush away, you will encounter schools of fish, shrimps, shells, seaweed, corals, etc., all of which will be cooked to maturity in an instant.
Cold water and boiling water continued to mix, making people's vision blurred. Seeing that the chaos that brought death was about to fall on tens of thousands of Cangyu people, the crowd became more and more chaotic.
We cried and prayed, huddled helplessly with strangers on the left and right, but no one could escape.
However, death did not come as expected, but was blocked by an invisible force just a few feet away from everyone. The boiling seawater roared past the head, carrying countless ruins and flesh and blood debris.
It settled down again on the other side of Ganyuan. The lava that erupted under Cangliu City and was as dazzling as the sun gradually cooled and turned into groups of dark and smooth round stones.
As the volcano gradually calmed down, the city's fluorescent lights no longer shone on the bottom of the sea, and the surroundings suddenly became much darker. Only then did people realize that they had escaped. A series of explosions erupted next to Ganyuan.
In the cheers of being reborn, Kun Jie among them finally turned down the gauze cloak on his head, revealing his thin face, but his eyes were always staring at the high priest in front of him unblinkingly.
Feng Weishu finally recognized the other person's face, and when he understood the cause of today's incident, he roared angrily:
"Kun Jie! You have been away on land for more than twenty years, and you are finally willing to show up today! My master and I were still strange before, why the mysterious gems in the city that should have been able to last for hundreds of years have collapsed in just a few years.
Exhausted! It turns out that all of this is you, and your rebels who have not been eradicated are secretly causing trouble! The barrier will be eliminated today, and it must be a gift from Bayer and others!"
"Grand Priest, don't spit blood. The barrier in Cangliu City is reinforced with the power of mysterious roses. To break the curse, you need to use a lot of mysterious roses. It's something that even you and Suiya can't find. We,
How can we easily obtain small fish and shrimps that cannot ride the big waves?"
Kun Jie smiled sarcastically, but he secretly acknowledged that this terrible disaster was caused by his own hands. The two of them faced off from a distance like two stone statues in the noisy crowd around them.
"Grand Priest, it is no longer a matter of a day or two that the city's treasures are about to be exhausted. However, the entire Dharma Hall has ignored this and even for the sake of the public of the Three-Silent Clan, twenty years ago, it did not hesitate to label those who seek the truth as traitors to the party.
For the crime of committing a bloodbath in Cangliu City. If you hadn’t delayed it so far and done nothing, how could what happened today have happened?!"
Having just witnessed the destruction of their homeland, after the brief ecstasy of surviving, the surrounding Cangyu people began to become desperate and angry. Kun Jie's accusations were even louder, making tens of thousands of people furious.
His eyes instantly focused on Feng Weishu.
"Don't listen to his nonsense! Today's changes were all carefully planned by these rebels. We must capture this traitorous chief as soon as possible!"
The chief priest shouted angrily and ordered. However, under the influence of Kun Jie, even the most pious aide was no longer willing to listen to his orders. Instead, he surrounded Feng Weishu.
After all, emotions that have been suppressed for a long time always need to find a reason to vent them out. The chief priest, who is already responsible for the safety of Cangliu City, is now the most suitable target for questioning.
"I didn't expect that Feng Weishu, who used to be aloof and absolutely supported by his tribe, would be here today!"
The cheek slits behind Kunjie's ears flapped violently, and he quickly walked to the opponent who had become a prisoner. He leaned to one side and whispered softly, with a playful smile on his face:
"I know that you and the great priests of all generations have been hiding the truth from the people in order to force them to a dead end and have to obey your orders. Now I am the same. It's just that I am more ruthless than you.
Naturally, it’s even more amazing!”
But except for the two people who were very close to each other, the rest of the tribe had no way of knowing about the current conversation.
"What exactly do you want to do!"
Feng Weishu roared, and just as he was about to explode, he was held down by the two acolytes who rushed forward, and could no longer break free.
"Today, this old guy Sui Ya finally died. Shouldn't I, the apprentice, come back to celebrate? Back then, whether it was my practice of spells or my reputation in the city, I was not hundreds of times better than you in any aspect?
But he still refused to betroth Coral to me, and instead fell in love with you, a wild boy who came out of nowhere!"
Kun Jie laughed wildly. However, there was no joy of revenge, but the endless sadness of lamenting the wasted years and bad luck could not be heard in the laughter.
"Do you know that the reason why Master chose me with mediocre qualifications back then was because I was much more obedient than you and would obey any of his arrangements!"
"But the person Coral loved back then was clearly me, it was me!"
"If you really love her, you should share Master's worries like me, instead of having a secret meeting with Hualou, which not only ruins her reputation and loses Master's face, but also ends up being kicked out of the Dharma Hall.
You’ve misled yourself and others!”
Feng Weishu's voice suddenly became hoarse when he heard the other party mentioning his married wife. Since he came to Sui Ya's door, his love for this woman who shines like a pearl is no less than Kun Jie's.
It's just that he rarely shows it in front of others.
"Hahahaha, you look more and more like that old guy! But now you still lose to me, and I am the final winner! Although you married Coral back then, you couldn't give her happiness at all! She cried blindly.
Where were you when I opened my eyes? Where were you when I took her ashore a month ago!"
Kun Jie seemed to be a little crazy. However, his question immediately made Feng Weishu suddenly startled: "What did you say? How could you take the coral ashore without authorization?!"
"Shut up! You don't need to ask what I do!" Kun Jie shouted angrily.
Feng Weishu's eyes were full of sorrow and anger: "Of course I have to ask! Did you know that Hualu had been seriously ill before, and her body could no longer adapt to the strong medicinal properties of Lu Hui Dan. Going to land rashly would kill her!"
"You - you are talking nonsense! You just said that to make me feel uneasy! If Coral could not land, why didn't she tell me personally, and why did she still leave with me without hesitation? Because she knew that here
Only I in the world have the ability to bring her, our daughter, a new life!"
Kun Jie shook his head vigorously, as if he wanted to throw the words out of his ears, but he accidentally stabbed the chief priest's sore spot:
"Yue'er is my flesh and blood!"
Kun Jie suddenly remembered something, continued to stare at the other party fiercely, and said with a smile: "Actually, you have some feelings in your heart, right? Back then, Hualu married you in a hurry, but it was just because she was already pregnant with my child!"
Feng Weishu's defense line was completely defeated. The high priest, who had always been indifferent to emotions and anger, now raised his neck and roared to the sky like a furious killer whale:
"Just for revenge, you did not hesitate to destroy Cangliu City and harm Coral. Isn't this result not enough for you? Master really did not misjudge the person back then. Even after so many years, you are still
Such madness! Have you never thought that if you personally destroyed Cangliu City and the Dharma Hall today, how will your tribe deal with it in the future?"
"How to deal with yourself? Cangliu City is the Dharma Hall, which has been rotten to the core by you evil people. Now that I have destroyed it, the people who have no way out will follow me to find the Holy City without hesitation! There, I will
Use the ultimate power left by our ancestors to return everything in the world to chaos, and rebuild a brand new home for our people on the ruins!"
"You - you are crazy! Haven't you seen from the book how terrifying the power hidden by the ancestors in the Holy City is! If you do this, you will not only destroy everything in this world, but also kill us.
Everybody!”
Feng Weishu's expression gradually changed from helpless and angry to shock and fear. He looked at the man laughing wildly in front of him, as if he were looking at a madman who had completely lost his mind. However, the tens of thousands of people in front of Ganyuan
Everyone, no one is willing to listen to what the former high priest said. Even if they heard it, they would never believe it again.