Half a day has passed, and it is already afternoon. The soft sunshine should be shining with heat, but it is covered by the thick clouds of birds that never leave the sky and cannot shine through.
The rain is still heavy, and the wind is howling! Waves sweep across the sky, earth and mountains.
Although the wind and rain were coming, it could not block the gaze of everyone in Hanshan City. They were wearing raincoats and bamboo hats, and they were looking at Su Ming on the iron chain that was swaying in the wind in the distance!
Although the wind is strong and the rain is falling, it cannot have any impact on what they want now. The people who rang more than twenty bells in Handan Mountain and the people who walked past five stone pillars that all collapsed walked on this first
The person in the sixth section of the chain, this person and this matter, it may be an exaggeration to say that you only see him once in a thousand years, but seeing him only once in hundreds of years is definitely not enough to describe him.
"The sixth section of the chain, look at his steps slowing down, this section of the chain must be a little strange!"
"It's a pity that no one who successfully broke through the Hanshan Chain told the secret of this chain. Most of those who didn't break through also died. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, they were taciturn... It makes people wonder why the Hanshan Chain is so difficult.
speculation."
"Hey, he stopped!"
Discussions broke out, and gazes penetrated the rain curtain and focused on Su Ming. Even Nan Tian, Xuan Lun, Ke Jiusi, and Leng Yin all looked at him with intense expressions.
On the swaying iron chain, Su Ming no longer walked forward, but sat cross-legged on the iron chain. His body seemed to be stuck to the chain, and it swayed as it swayed.
His breathing became rapid, and his eyes were shining brightly. What he was looking at was no longer the Puqiang Peak in the distance, but the iron chain under him. This iron chain had been washed in the rain and even rust could be seen in some places.
has existed, apparently as some of its rumors suggest, for many years.
"What brings me this pressure of the passage of time is not this world, nor the Puqiang in front of me, nor the stone pillars that I destroyed...but this iron chain!"
Facing the growing pressure of time, Su Ming clearly felt that his vitality seemed to be being sucked away bit by bit by the iron chain.
The speed of absorbing its vitality is not very fast, but as it moves forward, its speed becomes faster and faster.
At this moment, Su Ming can still resist. After all, he has 979 blood lines. When all the blood lines are moved, they will bring majestic energy and blood to the body. The circulation of this energy and blood is part of life.
, can make up for the current absorption.
But... Su Ming looked at the long chain in front of him.
"I have only reached the sixth section now, and there is still more to come... What kind of chain is this! Why does it have such amazing power... What's the use of absorbing life!" Su Ming sat cross-legged, and he
So he chose to sit here because there was a place on the chain in front of him that had a lot of rust, which looked the most obvious, and the water dripped on it and even brought some rust away.
The wind roared in his ears, and a large amount of rain came with it. Thunder roared in the sky, and lightning could be seen emerging from time to time. Below Su Ming, there was an abyss with no end. The rainwater fell into the abyss, and when he lowered his head,
Seeing this scene, it was like thousands of arrows were falling.
Su Mingping took a breath, raised his right hand, and pointed at the iron chain in front of him that had obvious rust! His fingers touched the rust of the iron chain.
At the moment of contact, Su Ming's face gradually turned pale, and his right hand quickly turned white and lost its color. This was not because the blood was sucked away, but because the blood was driven by the five internal organs.
The vitality generated by the peristalsis of the organs is slowly being sucked away.
Time gradually passed, and Su Ming had been sitting here for a long time. His right hand was always there, motionless as he allowed the life to be sucked away.
Slowly, everyone in Hanshan City also noticed that something was wrong, but they couldn't figure out the reason and started making various speculations.
"Could it be that he is exhausted? Even after burning a stick of incense, he still has no intention of getting up."
"It seems that the sixth section of this chain is the end of this person's life. He can hold it... and hold it..."
"It is already very good to be able to pass the sixth section. After all, this Hanshan Chain is no better than the ancient bell. Breaking this chain is a life-and-death danger. I predict that he is hesitating at this moment whether to continue..."
"But does he still have a way out? He destroyed all the stone pillars behind him. Even if he chooses to walk back, it will be difficult..."
The discussion spread in the wind and rain, and Su Ming's actions affected the eyes and minds of many people.
"Perhaps, from the moment he destroyed the first stone pillar, he never chose to give up..." Nan Tian murmured to himself as he looked at Su Ming on the chain.
After another moment, Su Ming's eyes suddenly flashed, and he slowly raised his right hand, staring at the chain, and his pupils gradually shrank.
"Sure enough, as I guessed, this iron chain absorbs life in order to repair itself." In Su Ming's eyes, the place where there was obvious rust before was actually restored at this moment, and only half of it was there.
, the color has returned to normal!
"The Hanshan Chain was built by the ancestor of Hanshan back then... As a person from outside the land, he came to the barbarian tribe, so we can understand his actions of supporting the Hanshan tribe, and this can give him a place to live.
But, why did he create this Hanshan Chain! What is his real purpose... Did he personally forge this Hanshan Chain, or did he find it among the barbarians, or... he brought it
"Things..." Su Ming had met Handong, and it could even be said that Handong's death was directly related to him. It is no exaggeration to say that Handong died in his hands.
Because of this, Su Ming came up with this series of thoughts, some speculations that outsiders rarely think about.
When Su Ming paused, he was not only paying attention to the people in Hanshan City and Nantian, but also to three other departments.
On the Yanchibu mountain peak, the old woman looked into the distance and frowned.
"This person can compete with Sima Xin to fight for the Hanshan Bell. If you say he can only get to the sixth stage, I don't believe it." Yan Luan stood aside and spoke softly.
"He was thinking about this iron chain, just like we also thought about this problem back then." The old woman was silent for a moment and said slowly.
At the top of the mountain in the eastern part of An, when Mangong and others were sitting cross-legged and puzzled by Su Ming's actions, Han Cangzi's figure appeared from the mountain steps next to her and walked up. She ignored anyone, but
Standing on the edge of this mountain, looking at the Hanshan chain in the distance, I looked calm.
On Puqiang Peak, there was still a dead silence. Everyone's eyes were focused on Su Ming, who was sitting cross-legged in the distance. There was gloominess and doubt in those eyes.
"What is he doing?" This is the thought of almost everyone here.
"Hanshan Chain, what on earth is..." Su Ming lowered his head and glanced at the abyss below. The abyss was pitch black and looked like the mouth of a beast, waiting for people to fall down and devour him. At the end of the abyss, Su Ming
He knew where it was, but because he knew it, he had questions about the chain.
After a long time, Su Ming slowly stood up, raised his right foot sharply, took a step forward, and walked step by step towards the sixth stone pillar in front of him.
The moment he stood up and walked out, there was an uproar in Hanshan City. Those people who had been looking at Su Ming suddenly started talking when they saw Su Ming finally walking out.
"He's standing up!"
"After waiting for so long, I finally started walking, but I'm curious, why did he stop just now?"
Su Ming took a deep breath and walked step by step. His steps became much slower. Every step he took, although he was still stepping on the iron chain, every time he came into contact with the iron chain, the vitality in his body was sucked.
Along with the discomfort, weakness began.
In his feeling, this is no longer walking the Hanshan Chain, but walking a person's life and years. Every step is like a period of life. It is difficult for others to understand this feeling. Only as the years go by, will it sometimes occur.
Somewhat sad.
But this Hanshan chain has shortened the process of these years, making the sorrow come earlier.
At dusk, the clouds were still there, but the rain was much less. The storm was no longer violent, but gentle. In one afternoon, Su Ming finally reached the end of the sixth chain. He was ten feet away in front of him.
, which is the sixth stone pillar.
At this moment, Su Ming's face was already pale. Although he had been circulating Qi and blood to stimulate vitality, as he walked along, the absorption of vitality had become stronger and stronger. At this moment, he could no longer reach balance. He could feel that this
The iron chain seemed to be roaring with excitement, constantly absorbing its own vitality to strengthen itself.
It took Su Ming as long as a stick of incense to cross the distance of ten feet. When he stepped on the sixth stone pillar, he took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged, and looked at
The seventh, eighth, and ninth sections of the chain were ahead. Looking at the Puqiang Peak connected to the ninth section of the chain, this road seemed very close, but Su Ming felt that it was very far away.
He could imagine that the difficulty of the next three sections would be far greater than the previous ones.
"I'm a little familiar with this iron chain..." Su Ming murmured with his eyes closed. He always suppressed this feeling in his heart, until all kinds of questions and speculations appeared one after another, until I thought of Handong, and it came to Su Ming's mind again and again.
mind.
The moment Su Ming stepped onto the sixth stone pillar, the crowd in Hanshan City stirred up a huge wave.
"The sixth stone pillar is the beginning of the seventh chain!"
"Can he finish the seventh section of the chain..."
"I don't think so. He has already staggered on the sixth section of the chain. I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to leave home on this seventh section of the chain..."
"As far as I know, some previous climbers of the Hanshan Chain failed on this seventh section..." This section seems to be very different from the previous ones!"
When the discussion arose, Su Ming sat cross-legged and remained motionless until, for a long time, when the sky completely darkened and the bright moon appeared in the clouds, he suddenly opened his eyes.
, January night is here..." Su Ming murmured. (To be continued.