After Bai Liming returned to his residence, he was still at a loss. He didn't expect that there would be a near miss today, and that such a great opportunity would fall on him. He couldn't laugh or cry for a while.
However, he did feel the influence of the power of the soul, and always felt that he had forgotten what happened in Kaiyang Cauldron.
Just like a speck of dust falling on a bright mirror, it is always obscured. After calming down, Bai Liming began to practice the Concentration and Meditation Technique...
In the following days, Bai Liming practiced step by step. As time passed, the day of visiting relatives was approaching.
Thinking of seeing his parents and younger brother tomorrow, he couldn't help but feel excited. After gathering his thoughts, Bai Liming sat cross-legged on the bed and continued to practice the Concentration and Calming Heart Technique.
The spiritual energy flows slowly through the meridians like flowing water under the guidance of the magic formula, and finally converges at the Niwan Palace, forming a whirlpool of water that washes away the power of the soul wrapped around the soul.
Bailiming slowly fell into trance, seemingly falling into a deep sleep.
"Help me, help me..."
Baili Ming's ears were filled with numerous calls for help, layer upon layer, sometimes far and sometimes near. He opened his eyes in confusion and looked around at the gray surroundings, as if he was in the deep sea.
The seawater wraps you around like solid ice, cold, oppressive, and suffocating. Suddenly the waves move, revealing countless shadowy figures, and their faces are blurred, as if covered with a thick layer of gray cotton, sluggish and helpless.
Muddled and confused.
"Is this? Returning to Kaiyang Cauldron again?" He struggled to stop his falling figure, but to no avail.
There was deathly silence around him, and his body sank slowly. The dark and deep seabed was like the mouth of a gluttonous beast, seeming to swallow him up.
Suddenly, the noisy and chaotic cry for help rang in my ears again: "Help me, help me..."
These sounds may be weeping or complaining, or sad and desolate, or gloomy and cold, or lonely and resentful... They disturb people's moods, gradually making their souls sway and make them uneasy.
Bailiming covered his ears with both hands again, but found that his body seemed to have lost consciousness and he could no longer control it. He struggled and shouted angrily: "Shut up!"
After yelling, Bai Liming was confused: "I know that yelling is in vain, but why can't I control my behavior?"
The experience of the scene before me is like a replay of that day. It cannot be changed and can only be played out according to the script that has been written until the end.
The world was silent. After a while, the scenes around Baili Ming dispersed like mist blown by the wind, and the figures gradually became clear. Each figure turned their head or stretched their neck, staring at Baili Ming.
The facial features of those figures were still blurry, but their bodies varied in height, fat and thin. They raised their arms at the same time and staggered toward Bai Liming, murmuring in unison: "Stay, stay..."
Although he had experienced this once, Bai Liming was frightened when he saw this scene again, but he also knew that there was nothing he could do. At this time, his mind was swaying, as if he was about to faint again...
Bai Liming couldn't help but laugh at himself: "It's finally over. Am I reliving an old dream? Or is it a nightmare?"
At this moment, the vision suddenly changed!
In an instant, Baili Ming's entire body lit up with misty starlight, blocking the life-threatening arms from his body.
After touching the starlight, each figure seemed to have touched a scorching flame, and they let out painful groans and screams, and scattered away one after another.
The boulder in Bai Liming's heart fell, and he took a long breath. As a bystander, he continued to fall slowly and uncontrollably towards the abyss below...
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Liming felt that he had stopped falling, and when he looked around, it was still gray.
Suddenly, clouds and mist rolled in front of my eyes, and four huge stone pillars as tall as a hundred-foot mountain peak appeared in front of me. One stone pillar was engraved with the sun, moon and stars, and the sky was illuminated.
Another stone pillar is engraved with rivers and mountains, mountains and rivers are far and wide. Another stone pillar is engraved with birds, beasts, insects and fish, all things are alive. The last stone pillar is engraved with the Seven Ancestors of Taoist Sect, Immortals are romantic.
Four black iron ropes as thick as a large vat stretched out from the stone pillar, tightly binding a black python nearly a hundred feet long. Purple lightning currents circulated on the surface of the iron ropes from time to time, sparking bursts of electric light on the black scales.
But the giant python was as stiff and motionless as a dead thing. The spiritual species as big as a date stone stood still in front of the giant python as big as a hill, appearing insignificant.
Suddenly the spiritual starlight flickered, and a figure flashed out of the light curtain.
The figure was shrouded in a blue cloak, and his figure was blurry. He gently raised his arm and waved, and the four giant pillars were shrouded in thick mist.
A slightly old voice, neither light nor heavy, sounded: "Jiuyin, you haven't woken up yet!"
…
A huge blood-colored vertical eye stared closely at the person in front of him, and his violent and fierce eyes gradually turned into surprise.
The Nine-Yin Giant Python made a weird sound, with a hint of sadness and pity in its voice: "You are finally here, Patriarch..."
"I have been in this universe and all things array for ten thousand years. If you don't come, I will die of boredom. Wuwuwu..."
"That damn Taoist sect refined my body into a palace-protecting beast that looked like a walking corpse. They asked me to be their guard dog, but they trapped my soul in this ten thousand or ten thousand years."
"Even if you let me out for some fresh air once in a while, and give me some flesh and blood once in a while, that's fine. In these ten thousand years of darkness, of these ten thousand years of deathly silence, Grandmaster, you don't know how much I have suffered..."
Listening to Jiuyin's long words and pouring out the bitter water over and over, the figure did not respond.
After a moment of silence, he said mechanically: "Jiuyin, I know you must be complaining here, but this is just a magic manifestation, and I can't hear it."
Hearing this, Jiuyin looked embarrassed.
"Time is running out, I tell you to listen, I know your pain, so you don't need to be nagging. This time I took the risk, I will send you a spell to help you get out of trouble, but the time has not come yet, and you need to wait a few more years for the spell to be activated. During this time
Don’t act rashly.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the figure turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the bloody vertical pupils.
Jiuyin slowly closed his eyes, the vast mist dissipated, and the four huge stone pillars of the Universe All Formation were revealed again.
The spiritual seed slowly rose to the surface, and the soul surrounding Baili Ming began to leave...
Bai Liming woke up from his dream. The clothes on his back were wet with cold sweat. His thoughts were churning in his heart and he was uneasy.
"What was just a dream? Or was it a real experience in Kaiyang Cauldron?"
"Who is using me? It is said that in this incident, the people who pushed him to contact Kaiyang Ding are suspected."
"Is it Bian Wentao?"
"Well, the suspicion is high."
"He first asked Bian Zhangji to hurt himself, then used this as an excuse to ask Xingjun to use the Kaiyang Cauldron to treat him, and then quietly performed some manipulations on the way to Xingjun's mansion."
"That should be the case. Otherwise, if I don't have any deep grudge against Bian Zhangji, why would he use a crossbow arrow with magic patterns to harm him?"
"Also, who is the old man shrouded in black robes in the dream?"
"Jiuyin calls him the Patriarch. Could it be that he is the current Daoist Patriarch? Then why did he save Jiuyin?"
"Even if he wants to be rescued, given his identity and status, does he still need to be so sneaky and deliberate?"
After thinking about it over and over again, I still don't have any clue.
"Why don't you ask Mr. Yuan tomorrow? Oh, I'm really confused. Tomorrow is a family visit day, and I have to meet my parents and younger brother. Then I'll go there later."
After a sleepless night, when the sky was bright, Bai Liming held his tired body and saw his parents and younger brother with two big dark circles under his eyes.
Mother Li was very observant. When she saw her baby son's haggard expression, she held Bai Liming in her arms with pity and scolded softly: "I know you practice diligently, but you must also pay attention to your health. You look so haggard."
What's going on?"
Father Baili Xing also asked with concern whether he had encountered any obstacles in his practice recently. He should pay attention to being relaxed and moderate, and not blindly greedy for merit and rush into such things.
Bai Liming waved his hand and said with a smile: "My child is fine. It's just that I encountered a strange thing last night. I was thinking too much and had no sleep all night. It's not a problem."
"What makes you so anxious?" Dad asked with concern.
Bailiming entered the Kaiyang Cauldron for treatment due to his injuries, and then met Elder Tian. The dust-laden memories replayed in yesterday's dream, and he recounted them one by one.
Hearing this, mother Li asked with concern: "Ming'er, how did you get injured? Is it serious?"
Bai Liming did not tell the truth, but said that he was accidentally injured during his cultivation, which was not a serious problem, and that he was a blessing in disguise and was promoted to the realm of foundation building. He said it briefly and vaguely.
After hearing this, his father and mother looked at the healthy Baili Ming and had no doubts. However, regarding the dream, his father Baili Xing frowned and fell into deep thought.
At this moment, the tea cup on the table suddenly trembled a few times, and the tea inside seemed to be dipped with a finger. Several words "water" appeared on the table: "Brother, please connect with me quickly. I have something to tell you."
you say."
When Bailiming saw this, he looked at his brother on the bed in surprise. At this time, Bailiming slapped his forehead and said, "Before I have time to tell you, Ping'er can now use the starlight to perceive the outside world.
He can hear, see, and control objects, but he is no different from ordinary people except that he cannot control his body."
"This matter involves Xingguang's secret. I was worried that it would be leaked, so I didn't dare to write you an explanation. I thought this meeting would give you a surprise."
Bailiming was also overjoyed when he heard this, and thinking of his brother's message just now, he quickly connected with him.
As soon as he appeared in the illusionary space, a figure flew into his arms like lightning. However, when Bai Liping saw him appearing, he rushed over impatiently.
Bai Liming rubbed his younger brother's head, and then asked with concern what his younger brother had done and learned in the past six months. Bai Liping's voice was childish, but he answered truthfully and honestly.
Later, Bai Liming asked: "You said you had something to tell me just now. What are you so anxious about?"
Bailiping hurriedly replied: "Brother, I have wanted to tell you for a long time. I originally wanted to ask dad to send you a letter to tell you, but I couldn't explain clearly in the letter, and I was also worried about being monitored, so I kept waiting.
This half year."
"I feel as if there is a little mouse in my heart, and I feel as uncomfortable as a hundred claws scratching my heart."
Bai Liming smiled and said: "It seems that you have been quite diligent in the past six months. I have read a lot of books and can quote scriptures when speaking. Tell me, what is it?"
Bailiping told Bailiming that he found someone spying on him in the inn that night, so he used a small Ruyi star to attract Jiuyin and started a fight.
Bai Liming's heart was filled with ups and downs when he heard this. Before his brother finished speaking, he asked, "What do those people look like? Have you ever seen them?"
Bailiping said with a lonely look: "Don't mention it. I told my father about this. He asked me to try to draw the appearance of a few people. But compared with your brother, my painting skills are just a fool's errand. Add to that
Above, I used the Ruyi Little Star to draw with a pen, and I couldn’t even express what I saw in my heart, it was just beginning to take on a human form.”
Then someone said slyly: "But in the soul space, there is no need to go to such trouble. I can directly transform the figures of several people."
As he spoke, his thoughts moved, and the figures of several people who appeared that night emerged one by one.
"Zhu Changyou? Yuan Jinsheng!"
After seeing the faces of several people, Bai Liming was horrified and murmured: "How could this be?"