The endless starry sky looks very beautiful and shocking, but if it is the only one around for a long time, and apart from a few fellow travelers, you can only see it, no matter how beautiful it is, you will not be able to muster the energy to take a look.
.
Oh, yes, "starry sky", this is the word Yuan Hong told him. If Sirius leads the Ten Heavenly Lords to find the Twenty-Eight Constellations according to the plan, and let the Twenty-Eight Constellations find their own auxiliary stars, and the auxiliary stars of the auxiliary stars, it will eventually become
Such a look.
Dai Li looked a little anxious and turned around twice, then raised his head again and asked Yuan Hong: "Your Majesty, how long until we arrive?"
"Well, about two hours." Yuan Hong looked up, not knowing what he was looking at, and then replied.
"You said the same thing two hours ago."
"That's because we're about to arrive, so we're starting to slow down."
"Okay..." Because he didn't understand the principle at all, Dai Li was confused even if Yuan Hong gave an explanation, and the same was true for Jin Dasheng.
But Kong Xuan and Sirius over there seemed to understand a little bit, and were thinking deeply.
Yuan Hong still gave some explanations about why they were able to use such a strange way to go to the Western Taoist Temple, but Dai Li didn't understand it at all. The part he could barely understand was:
The actual distance between the human world and the heavenly world is actually quite far. Although the "barrier" between them has been pierced by the immortals, if anyone has not "located" on the other side, no matter how immortal, they will not be able to get through.
—Unless they "cross the void" directly like them.
Dai Li's first reaction was: "This sounds very dangerous! Is it too late to go back now?"
Of course, Yuan Hong ignored this stupid question.
But the "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss" they are going to this time is different from the nature of heaven. To put it bluntly, it is very similar to the "underworld" that governs the six realms of reincarnation, and belongs to the "afterlife world".
During the time of chaos, the human world was extremely flat, with the heaven above and the underworld below.
When the world was created, the human world was "shrunk" into a ball, the "heaven" was "squeezed" into a ball, and each was mixed and entangled, while the "underworld" was "torn" into pieces and disconnected from each other.
It sounds like the idle world of the human world turned into a big hand and pinched it in the heavenly world.
However, these are only conceptual actions, and even a saint would be hard-pressed to describe their specific images.
But it is precisely because they have the characteristic that "none of them belong to the human world" that Yuan Hong can go from Yunzhong City, a "heaven that does not belong to heaven", to the Pure Land of Paradise, which is "an underworld that does not belong to the underworld".
In response, Dai Li said: "I don't understand it at all. Your Majesty, you should just tell me what to do there, who to fight, and how to escape in the end."
Then, Yuan Hong, who took the trouble to explain, was beaten around with a stick for more than ten times.
During this process, it was also confirmed that although the white hollow barrel had disappeared, the limit of their freedom of movement was still the range framed by it, and there was a soft repulsive force at the original "barrel wall"
, making it impossible to approach forcefully.
After wandering around twice more, Dai Li, who was about to ask again how long it took to arrive, suddenly heard Sirius' rather confused voice: "Commander Yuan, is our destination 'that'?"
Which?
When Dai Li turned around to look, he didn't find anything at first. But as his fellow travelers turned their gazes to that direction, he finally noticed that there was a gap in the star. No, it should be said that there was a certain color matching the sky.
A dark "thing" was right in front of them, and the area it covered in the starry sky was getting wider and wider.
At the same time, the "star lines" on both sides of the "channel" also began to gradually shorten, which seemed to symbolize that Dai Li and others were indeed "slowing down" as Yuan Hong said.
In the end, most of the stars in front were completely obscured by the "black thing". From here, it looked like something had "swallowed" all the "starry sky" around it.
"Well..." Sirius touched his chin and said without any nervousness: "If father were here, he would probably name this thing [Swallowing Star]."
"Hehehe, although this name is very good, it is actually the human world, or 'Earth'," Yuan Hong took out his iron rod again and poked the "ground": "Now, hold on tight!"
"Where to grab——" "Bang!" Dai Li was about to ask something about this sentence, but as Yuan Hong suddenly broke the iron rod to the right, he was thrown flying up, and then he hit him head-on.
The previous "wall".
That resistance actually has a limit... Dai Li thought before passing out.
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"Well, Gu Gu..." When he regained consciousness again, Dai Li couldn't help but started complaining before he even opened his eyes: "How many times have you fainted along the way? No wonder Western religions don't help people."
"Probably two more times." Yuan Hong's voice came from not far away.
"Huh... okay." Dai Li was startled when he opened his eyes and tried to get up.
When he saw the starry sky at first glance, he thought he was still in the "passage", but the next moment he discovered that the starry sky was just the ground. It extended to an extremely far distance and formed the horizon with the pure white sky.
No, maybe it was the sea level. When Dai Li stood up, he noticed that the starry sky under his feet began to ripple with his movements, as if he was stepping in a shallow puddle and the water surface reflected the sky -
But the "sky" here is clearly a pure white soft light with nothing in it.
"This is the Pure Land of Bliss? It doesn't look very 'blissful'," Dai Li said to Yuan Hong while moving his hands and feet and looking around.
With a glance, Dai Li noticed that Jin Dasheng, Sirius and Kong Xuan had all woken up earlier than him and were observing their surroundings - of course, it might be because they were not knocked unconscious.
"This is just [Lingyun Ferry]," Yuan Hong set up a pergola and looked around: "Before entering the 'Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss', the things that a person cares about most in this world will appear here. You must truly let go of it completely before you can reach the other side.
, but I have already taken care of this for you before setting off, and all you have to do is find the exit..."
Next, Yuan Hong seemed to mutter a few words to himself in a low voice, but Dai Li's ears perked up and he heard clearly - "Strange, why isn't it a bridge? Is that thing just for bald men?"
Well...it's no use hearing it, I don't understand it at all.
"The exit is not necessarily an obvious door or hole. Apart from ourselves and this world, no matter how strange the things that appear are, they must be the exit." Yuan Hong said while looking around.
"...Then, does a little girl count?" Kong Xuan, who was a little further away, responded.
"What?" When Dai Lixun called out, he happened to see Kong Xuan move his body away, revealing the little girl who had been blocked by him just now.
It was a girl who seemed to be less than ten years old, wearing a black velvet hat, a black dress, black stockings and black boots.
She has short silver hair and is holding a red carp puppet in her hand. Her appearance cannot be judged because she also wears a dark mask that covers the upper half of her face.
"Tsk tsk tsk, as expected, I'm just saying, the old man who took the lead has clearly not yet become a saint. How can he create a pure land of bliss by himself?" Yuan Hong said in a tone of "I guessed it right": "Okay.
, our goal can be determined."
In the end, you dragged us in even before you were sure?
Before Dai Li could finish his slander, the little girl looked up at them, moved her lips slightly, and said a strange word with echoes:
【Approved】
The originally soft white light in the "sky" suddenly became bright and dazzling, completely suppressing the starry sky in the "water".
Is it over or not? Dai Li roared loudly before losing consciousness.
