In the dark passage, Li Yan was "crawling" forward little by little in a strange posture, with one hand raised above his head and the other hand hanging down to his leg.
Li Yan didn't dare to go back out, and he couldn't do it. The entrance he just entered seemed to be sealed.
Li Yan kicked back a few times with his feet before, and the feeling coming from behind was the same as the wall beside him, which was not moving at all.
As for crawling forward in the passage, he could still go back and forth, but he would definitely not do that.
In the extremely dark and hot passage, the forward movement seems to be endless, and a person is crawling slowly. The space around him where he cannot move freely brings about psychological depression and eternal loneliness.
It's not that Li Yan doesn't want to use his spiritual power and move forward quickly. Going a little distance here requires a lot of physical energy. He can't waste his spiritual power when he can't determine the specific situation ahead.
In a dark and narrow space, a person will slowly lose his sense of time. You don't know how long it has passed. It may be just one day, but you think it is many days and nights.
In the end, even if it is only a moment, it will become as long as decades in your heart, and you will be so helpless and tormented.
In this kind of environment, the best thing to do is to calm down and then slowly find a way out.
It's a pity that the narrow dark passage where Li Yan is located will not let you calm down at all, because the temperature here can melt a mortal in an instant.
The suffocating heat is constantly coming from the passage. Even if the cultivator is resisting, the constant consumption of spiritual power and physical strength will make you more and more anxious and oppressive.
Here, you can't see a trace of light or hear a trace of outside sound. There is only your own heavy breathing and the fire-like turbidity that accompanies every breath you exhale.
Li Yan had been insisting on silently counting his heartbeats. He needed to roughly calculate how long he had spent here.
Two hours have passed, and the distance crawling forward is less than twenty feet, which is not much faster than a snail.
The black robe on his body was wet and dry, and then dry and wet again. Li Yan had to stop occasionally and use the "cloud and rain technique" so that he could catch some water droplets into his mouth. However, in this way, his spiritual energy was consumed faster.
Already.
Although the body was tightly confined in the dark passage, luckily the spiritual energy was not isolated, so the magic could still be performed.
Li Yan also wanted to try the "Earth Thorn Technique" on the passage wall, and then used his spiritual power to turn into a long rope and wrap it around the protruding earth thorn in front, and use the force to pull it forward quickly.
But it is a pity that even with his current cultivation level, after the magic formula is played out, apart from a rumbling sound, not even a small hole can be left on the wall of the passage.
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The bright fire unicorn looked at the black passage in front of it in disbelief. This was the fifteenth time it had tried to enter in the past three days, but every time it was pushed away by an irresistible force of repulsion. "It's been three days, why is that kid not dead yet? This is unreasonable!" The Bright Fire Kirin was a little anxious and going crazy.
There are two passages behind the red door. Although the dark passage is entered, no attack will occur.
But anyone who can come out of the black passage alive would rather enter the golden passage and continue to be killed than enter the dark passage for the second time, narrowly escaping death, and the most terrifying thing is to leave an eternal fearful experience to the living.
The hope in the black passage that makes you useless, and the loss of the Qi-nurturing and calming skills that you have practiced for decades or even hundreds of years will only make you despair in helplessness and lose your life in despair.
Although the constant fighting in the golden passage will make people feel extremely tired and weak, there will always be intermittent rests. The most important thing is that there is a wide space, so that the monks can know in their hearts that they are still alive, their bodies are free, and they feel
Viewing is free.
The bright fire unicorn guards the gate here. It can easily enter both passages. There is no special reason. It was the original refiner who allowed it to enter.
But there are still special circumstances. Only one living body can enter the passage at a time. As long as he is not dead, even the bright fire unicorn cannot enter.
Therefore, there are countless "fire eyes" on the mountain of "Fire Palace" for many people to enter at the same time.
"Damn human boy, I want to see how long you can hold on. When all the elixirs in your body are used up, I will see how you can survive." The bright fire unicorn looked at the dark passage and thought bitterly in his heart.
In its view, Li Yan who entered the passage must be the core disciple of that large sect. Otherwise, why would he be able to come here with such a low cultivation level.
Of course, he has a protective magic weapon similar to the light yellow folding fan. Any magic weapon requires the consumption of spiritual power, not to mention that the channel is not suitable for cultivation and recovery at all, so he can only use pills to replenish his spiritual power.
If you want to break through here, the cost is your life. After all, a monk's storage bag is limited, and it must not only contain elixirs.
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Li Yan felt extremely uncomfortable. He had maintained this weird posture for five days. His two arms, one up and one down, had a limited bending arc. He could only rely on his legs to be slightly bent and move forward a little bit.
With.
The speed was extremely slow, and he had to stop and rest from time to time. This seemingly effortless step on the ground was actually very exhausting.
In the past five days, he estimated that he might not be able to crawl 500 feet. At first, Li Yan was still thinking about his mistake and how to get out, and various thoughts came to him.
He doesn't regret his choice, nor does he resent the bright fire unicorn. He can survive to this day only by being careful.
Although sometimes I am too careful
, but Li Yan doesn't think he is a god. He is a human being after all, and he will make mistakes. It is impossible that he is the only smart person in the world and everyone else is stupid.
Every time you suffer, you gain wisdom. As long as you don't lose your life immediately, there is always a chance to make amends.
In his consciousness, there is still no end ahead, and his clearly audible breathing sound can be heard in his ears. In the gap between breaths, Li Yan can also hear his own "dong dong" heartbeat, which is so loud that he even feels
It's all a bit jarring.
Of course, all of this is just a feeling. You can hear your heartbeat, but it's not that loud. It's just that there is no day or night here, and the heat and sweltering heat never stops. In addition to listening to your own heartbeat and breathing, you move forward a little bit.
Nothing else happens.
At this time, if someone could use great supernatural powers to open the passage, looking from above, Li Yan would be lying in a coffin, trying hard to move the coffin out little by little.
Li Yan felt that he was fortunate to have practiced the Guishui Sutra, which could still be used by him under the cycle of the Five Elements, so that he would not prematurely exhaust his spiritual power.
Li Yan's forward movements have become mechanical and numb. In the darkness, a single movement is repeated in a simple and boring way, and people's thinking can easily stagnate.
The stagnation of thinking means that he will slowly lose consciousness. Li Yan has had hallucinations several times. Sometimes he doesn't know whether he is crawling or has stopped.
Only when he realizes this will his mind suddenly wake up and he will know what state he is in.
But then in the boring crawl, you will slowly lose consciousness again, and many disturbing thoughts, strange and weird ideas will come to your mind, and even the thoughts of the previous moment have no connection with the thoughts of the next moment.
Sometimes he would wonder how far ahead there would be, and whether there would be any sudden changes here. Before he could imagine any changes, the scene of his father and mother sitting at the dining table eating and chatting might appear in the next moment.
And when he wanted to take a closer look at what his parents were talking about, the scene in Qingshan Pass City came to mind again. The flags in the wine shop were shaking, and how could Li Yu poke his head out of the building again...
Daqingshan, the Sprite Sect, Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, Zhao Min, Gong Chenying... and even Master Tianbei from the mountain behind Xiaozhu Peak... It's a mess, and I don't know what I'm thinking.
Suddenly, Li Yan was startled, and his eyes returned to the boundless darkness. This was when he briefly regained consciousness, and he was still crawling slowly... Soon, he would fall into chaos again.
among.
In this way, Li Yan gradually lost the concept of time. He didn't know the sun, the moon, or the length of time. He went back and forth between confusion and wakefulness, and his spirit began to fall into a fuzzy state. Finally, he was partially
It feels like I have forgotten where I am and why I am here again.
My heart becomes more and more turbulent. If I stay in the same position for a long time, my body will feel abnormally uncomfortable. Sometimes I will even give birth to something. The terrifying thought of cutting off these arms to free my body.
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The bright fire unicorn outside also gradually fell into a rage. It had been waiting outside for twenty days.
Now every half an hour it will hit the black passage, and then be thrown high back, fall to the ground outside the red door, and then get up again with red eyes.
After the ray of red fire was refined by it, what excited the bright fire unicorn was that its soul power had improved a little, which had caught up with the hard work in the past few months.
The soul and consciousness are equally difficult to cultivate, and the treasures of heaven and earth that can improve them are extremely rare. Even if they exist, they are usually only possessed by monks with great supernatural powers.
This kind of stimulation is huge, and the Bright Fire Kirin is even more eager to let Li Yan die immediately. Now it has regrets. It should have killed the boy desperately at the beginning, instead of suffering like this now.
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Li Yan didn't know that what he had experienced was the reason why many fake elixir monks came here. To be promoted to the fake elixir realm, most of the spiritual power had been condensed to the level required for elixir formation. What they lacked was the state of mind.
Realization, and breakthrough in the line between life and death.
The two passages in the "Fire Palace" have exactly these two functions. The dark passage refines the monk's state of mind and leads to nirvana and rebirth in the midst of inner demons. This has a similar effect to the "Wuxin Pill".
It's just that this kind of training is more domineering and thorough. You won't die after eating the "Wuxin Pill", but in the black passage of the "Fire Palace", it is extremely dangerous. Even death is light, and in pain
The struggle to survive is the psychological shadow of a lifetime.
Monk Yiming finally chose to enter here after swallowing the "Wuxin Pill" several times to no avail.
There is endless killing in the golden passage. You cannot stay where you are. Even if you kill all the powerful souls nearby, more powerful souls will still regenerate soon after. All the monks have to do is to keep moving forward and keep tearing apart.
Kill until you finish the golden passage.
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In the eternally silent world, depression and darkness always lingered around Li Yan. Finally one day, Li Yan stopped moving forward, and his consciousness became chaotic. Anyone who lives in the darkness for an unknown number of days will eventually have his psychological state completely destroyed.
Losing balance, Li Yan is a human being, and he is no exception.
Listening to his soft and heavy breathing in the darkness, unable to feel whether his arms were still feeling, Li Yan's eyes suddenly no longer seemed dark.
Pieces of crystal snowflakes bloomed in the sky, making the world bright. Among the snowflakes, many familiar faces appeared far and near. They seemed to be talking to themselves, with expressions ranging from anxious to helpless, but
Li Yan couldn't hear clearly, there was only a buzzing sound.
Suddenly, Li Yan had a moment of clarity. This was a dream, as messy as the many dreams he had during this period, but this time the dream was more real and very close.