Chapter 136: Breaking
To some extent, Shatu is me, and I am Shatu. Although I was puzzled as to why Shatu reacted so violently, I would not dodge or avoid Shatu’s actions.
Facing its tiger paws pouncing on the agarwood beads, I did not dodge, but just watched helplessly as the huge tiger paws pounced on me…
In fact, I was wrong. It wasn’t going to slap the agarwood beads, but my palm. My palm was a little sore from the huge paw, although the guy had deliberately retracted his claws.
The agarwood beads flew into the air, and at this moment, all the souls gathered around the agarwood beads. I looked at these guys, and they actually had a human-like solemn expression on their faces. It looked like they were practicing martial arts…
But I knew in my heart that these were all demon spirits, and that their movements were actually mobilizing their spiritual power!
The agarwood beads were hovering in the air, perhaps because the effect of the soul power of the stupid tiger and the others had not fallen. In the middle of the beads, the blue flame was getting brighter and brighter, because the substance that wrapped it, which was vaguely similar to a ball of gas, was slowly thinning, and even had obvious cracks.
“Brother… brother…” I felt a voice calling me, clear and full of innocence. My first thought was that it was Huigen, but Huigen’s Shaanxi accent was too obvious when she was a child. It couldn’t be Huigen. The next moment, I saw Shahu suddenly looking at me with a strange expression. Only then did I realize that the call came from Shahu.
I never thought that Shatu could convey its will so clearly. Its communication with me has always been in emotional fragments, each of us interpreting the meaning. It’s a bit complicated to talk about, but now it can communicate like this?
I was full of surprise, but also a little amused. I never thought that Shatu’s voice would be the expression of a young boy, and that it would clearly call me brother.
As if sensing my amusement, the physical form of Shatu roared in dissatisfaction, and then the voice was no longer so soft and tender, but rather had the sound of a child throwing a tantrum, transmitting to me: “Use your spiritual power to break open the bead and you can get out. Our senses are more accurate than yours.”
The words were still a bit simple, and the meaning was not clear enough, but I finally understood what it meant. It turned out that it had been more awake than me since it entered here (although I was already the most awake one), had seen through everything here, and had also felt that the bead was the opportunity to break through this “dream world,” so it did so.
“Let’s quickly mobilize our spiritual power to help them,” I suddenly shouted.
“It asked me to help with my spiritual power. Should I help?” At the same time, Chengxin also asked a question.
It seems that the cute little fox is more articulate than the stupid tiger. It hasn’t been long, and he can already communicate with Chengxin to this extent.
“It’s your soul mate, why not help?” I glared at Cheng Xin Ge, then sat cross-legged and mobilized my soul power. This is the basic skill of every Taoist, and there is no exception to any school.
“Soul union?” Cheng Xin Ge slapped his head in annoyance and then looked at me helplessly and said, “If you weren’t my senior brother, I really…” He was going to say that he really thought I was crazy or didn’t believe me, but he still did it.
“You do the same. The goal of the soul power is that bead. No matter what method you use, whether it’s crushing or squeezing, the goal is the same: to break it open.” I said loudly, then closed my eyes and began to mobilize my soul power.
I didn’t need to see how they did it, because I knew they would do it, because we were brother and sister, brother and sister of the old Li school.
As soon as the spiritual power touched it, I realized that the outside layer of the agarwood beads was wrapped in an unknown force that was very strong but not aggressive. I couldn’t say what this force was, and I could only rely on the spiritual power to collide with it again and again to wear it down.
Although it is so powerful, the soul power that we have united with the soul of the union is not to be underestimated. After we joined, I felt that it was only a moment before that layer of power was completely worn away. Because it was so fast, I didn’t even have time to gather my soul power, and I accidentally touched the blue flame…
Boom! The moment I touched it, I felt my ears ringing, and a power so strong that I could only tremble was instantly engulfing me. At that moment, I felt invincible, and the heat of the burning soul was alive…
Fortunately, this power was not hostile to me, and it only gently pushed me away. I then opened my eyes and found that I had already been sweating profusely…
“The bead broke,” Cheng Qing said softly in my ear, his eyes a little confused. Then he saw my face and couldn’t help but ask me, “Chengyi, what are you doing…?”
“It’s nothing, I’m just tired.” I didn’t know how to describe the feeling at that moment, so I just said that. Fortunately, Chengxin didn’t care, and looking at the blue flame in the air that had broken free of its “restraints” and was completely released, he said in a confused voice, “I feel like I’m trying to remember something?”
“You will remember.” I patted Chengqing’s shoulder, but I saw the blue flame rising straight up, as if it had touched the sky of the bamboo hut where we were. Then, a shocking scene occurred…
The blue flame, no, the sky where we were actually burning up. The small, weak blue flame seemed to be like a spark meeting a piece of paper, and it began to grow and become stronger.
We watched in a daze, feeling a strange sense of disorientation. To describe it, it was as if we were in an ink painting, and the ink painting was burning.
Soon, a huge hole was burned in the sky, and the blue flames became even more powerful. We looked beyond the burnt sky and saw a deep blackness. For a moment, we couldn’t tell where we were.
“Chengyi, what should we do?” Chengzhen suddenly grabbed my arm. Looking at the spread of the fire, the blue flames fell one by one, and soon began to burn around the bamboo forest. Anyone would be worried.
I was unusually calm, and I thought of my experience with the blue fire. I whispered to Chengzhen, “Don’t do anything. Wait. It won’t hurt us. Trust me!”
In fact, because they were still not awake, I couldn’t tell them about my greater anxiety, which was that I was extremely worried about Huigen’s situation. It was as if every second I could stand here peacefully was a sin, a sin that I had committed regardless of Huigen’s situation. Although I was truly powerless now, I was very uneasy, always afraid that every second that passed was a second that Huigen was killed.
The flames spread quickly, and the blue light reflected on our faces made us feel strangely unheated. My fellow students had already fallen into a state of confusion and pain at some point. I didn’t speak up because I knew that as soon as the dream here was broken, their memories would naturally come back.
I forced myself to wait calmly, and even opened my third eye to distract myself from my anxiety and control my behavior. I wanted to see what the essence of the flame was.
But I didn’t expect that this was just a random action, and it allowed me to see an amazing scene. In my heavenly eye, we were wrapped in a layer of soul power that was like mist, and we couldn’t break free. In fact, there was no blue flame at all, but a blue, pure soul power that was constantly dissolving the layer of mist that wrapped us, allowing us to break free.
Because these two spiritual forces were too strong, my heavenly eye only had a glimpse of it for a moment, and was forcibly terminated. After all, the heavenly eye is also supported by spiritual power! I naturally knew in my heart that if I hadn’t broken the bead and released the blue flame, it would have been difficult for me to use my heavenly eye to see the truth here.
After I withdrew my heavenly vision, I was still in shock. The blue flame in my agarwood bead was actually a pure soul power. I once said that only the purest souls are blue, and it turned out to be… a soul power compressed into a flame! Because it was too powerful, it manifested itself in the form of an active, fierce flame.
“I remember it all now,” a voice came from behind me. It was Chengqing’s voice.
I turned around and saw Chengqing with a look of pain on his face. He looked at me and said, “I really want to say something weak. Wouldn’t it be great if everything in my dream was real? My master is not dead, and my uncles have not disappeared. They are old, and they are happily traveling around! We younger generations are practicing in the bamboo forest cottage, refining our own skills. This is a great day.”
I didn’t respond. I understood his pain very well. It was the same as when I dreamt of my master, I was always so happy. When I woke up and realized it was a dream, the feeling of loss mixed with pain was indescribable.
Sometimes it is not that I don’t feel pain, it is not that I don’t want to express myself strongly, but when you are used to this kind of pain, it becomes ordinary! Then you light a spark of hope, just hoping that this ordinary will not make you numb and give up, and in the end you accept the existence of this pain and lose the courage to pursue.
“Hui Gen, I’m worried.” The blue flame was already approaching us, and I finally said what I was most worried about.
Chengqing suddenly appeared with three coins in his hand. He said calmly, “Hui Gen is someone who is closely related to me, but I can still calculate his life and death. He is alive.”
My heart was somewhat relieved.
At this point, the blue fire had already engulfed most of the existence here, and this fake bamboo forest hut was about to disappear. The flames pierced through us, but did not harm us.
Outside? What will the real temple look like? What will we see?