"Have you ever heard the story of Nezha, who cuts off the flesh of his mother and takes out the bones of his father?"
"I've heard of it," Yin Xiu nodded. "Even if I haven't read much, I've heard of this story."
"It's good to hear it."
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker was very satisfied, "If this is the case, there is no need to explain too much what I am going to do next.
Nezha can be considered as dead if he carves out flesh to return to his mother and carves out his bones to return to his father. However, his master is indeed a very big man, a very big man.
So in the end, his bones were made into flesh, and he was resurrected from the dead. ”
"The place where Nezha is resurrected is in Kunlun?" Ma Xiaoyu asked.
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker shook his head, "It's said to be a legend, who knows? But it is indeed a feasible method."
"Then what you are saying is that I will soon have an extra lotus root on my arm?"
Yin Xiu looked at the empty left sleeve and couldn't help but feel a little funny.
"No, no, no," Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker still shook his head, "Lotus roots can only be used to stew pork ribs, not arms. As for your arms, I will give you stronger ones."
As he spoke, there was a snap, and as he snapped his fingers again, the scene in front of him changed again.
The three of them left Aomori at once and stood on a huge circular platform.
Yin Xiu looked around and realized that under their feet was flawless white jade, carved with patterns and auspicious animals.
The entire platform is carved from white jade. On the periphery of the small disc is a larger disc, engraved with flying gods and goddesses with flowing clothes.
"This is Bai Yujing." Master Bamboo Basket Soul Collection explained.
"I originally thought that Bai Yujing in the sky, Bai Yujing refers to the entire Kunlun." Ma Xiaoyu murmured.
"Of course you can think so," the priest smiled, "because apart from here, other places, such as Aomori and Yaochi, are actually not important places. Only here is the most important and critical place in Kunlun. ”
As soon as Master Bamboo Basket Soul Collection finished his words, someone from Gouchen Zu's land floated over from a distance.
At first they looked very far away, but in the blink of an eye they were in front of Yin Xiu and the others.
He looked at Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu, then at Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker, "Lost?"
"You know it too?"
Gou Chenzu, a man on the ground, chuckled and said: "There is nothing surprising. If it weren't for winning, how could they enter Bai Yujing?"
When he said this, the master of the Bamboo Basket Soul Collection reacted in embarrassment and turned around to explain to Yin Xiu and the others.
"In Kunlun, we will test the strength of every visitor. Although the strength is diverse, some are not good at fighting, and some are not good at magic.
However, those who can enter Kunlun will always have merit in some aspect, so the task of us, the priests, is to test the strength of you visitors to determine whether you are qualified to enter Bai Yujing. ”
"What about me?" Ma Xiaoyu suddenly asked.
"You don't appear to be testing me."
"That's because your opportunity has not come yet."
Gou Chenzu held his hands and said, "At the right time, the two priests who will guide you will also test you. As for why you can enter Bai Yujing now..."
He spread his hands and said, "Because you witnessed the test, you are also qualified."
"It is said that when one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven?"
"That's pretty much what it means."
When Ma Xiaoyu wanted to ask something more, Yin Xiu pulled her back and whispered: "Why are you asking him this if you have nothing to do? Now that we have come in, we can just pretend that nothing happened. If they don't do it later, What kind of trial do you arrange? ”
"Why, are you feeling distressed?"
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "Come if you want. You can pass with only one hand, but I can't?
I asked this just because I was afraid that something unexpected would happen later and they would not recognize the number. ”
Yin Xiu was speechless, "When did the immortal become so devalued in your eyes?"
"That's not good to say."
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "Don't you always say that? Immortals and goddesses are just a different place to make a living. They are no different from the societies on the street."
"When did I say that?" Yin Xiu's eyes widened.
"No matter when, you always say that."
"Huh? Am I such a bastard?"
"Did you just know?" Ma Xiaoyu rolled her eyes to the sky.
Hearing this, Yin Xiu couldn't help but feel guilty and quickly turned around.
Fortunately, the two immortals just stood in the distance, neither speaking nor curious about what they were talking about. They just stood.
On Kunlun, it seems that time does not exist.
From the time they boarded Kunlun to the present, Yin Xiu didn't know whether it was a few days or a few hours. They just followed the guidance of the guiding priest and appeared here and there, without any sense of the timeline. the passage or change of.
Probably for this reason, when he and Ma Xiaoyu were whispering to each other, the two priests just watched, without urging, or even waiting.
"Your Excellency, Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker, I have no problem here." Yin Xiu spread his hands.
"Okay, then come over."
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Collection waved at him and guided Yin Xiu to the center of the disc.
Ma Xiaoyu was asked to stand on the periphery of the disk and not come closer.
"Yin Xiu, do you know what Bai Yujing represents?"
"Well, the center of Kunlun?" Yin Xiu repeated.
"It's more than just that. It is not only the center of Kunlun, but also the end of all wishes and cause and effect. Therefore, in Bai Yujing, all wishes will be fulfilled and all cause and effect will be fulfilled."
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker and Master Gouchen Zu reached out their hands at the same time and touched the top of Yin Xiu's head.
"Just like this..."
A gentle white light glowed on the bodies of the three people, and gradually their bodies began to decompose, turning into dots of white light, like glowing bugs flying out of the haystack, or like snowflakes flying in the sky.
When Ma Xiaoyu was almost stunned, a voice sounded. It was the voice of Master Bamboo Basket Soul Collection. Compared with the gentle and leisurely tone before, there was a hint of seriousness in his tone now.
"Yin Xiu, we have several plans that can help you and are effective.
If you swim against the long river of time, cut off one of the claws of the Northern Dragon and put it on you, this arm will be extremely ferocious, invulnerable to swords and guns, and invulnerable to water and fire.
Take a drop of the essence of Aomori, nurture it for thousands of years in a wild world, grow for thousands of years, bloom for thousands of years, and finally bear fruit. When the time comes, your arm will be the purest thing in the world, invulnerable to all laws and immortal.
Take the soul of thousands of swords in the endless world and reforge steel and iron bones for you. From now on, you have no sword in your hand, but a sword in your heart. One sword can move mountains, one sword can level seas, kill dragons where there are dragons, and calm storms where there are storms. .
But in the end, we decided to try this on you first. ”
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker appeared, as if illuminated by the warm sunlight, holding a round, pure and flawless jade in his hand.
Next to him was Gou Chenzu, a man with a focused look on his face.
The other end of the jade jade faced Yin Xiu, who also had a vague figure.
At this moment, Yin Xiu only felt that there was some kind of connection, and some impulse was driving her. He stretched out his hand and gently broke off the white jade. A crack immediately appeared on the jade. Yin Xiu broke off a piece and held it in his hand.
The two leading priests immediately stared at each other with their eyes widened.
After a long time, which seemed to be just a moment, Master Bamboo Basket Soul Collection said: "Yin Xiu, we have decided to give you part of Bai Yujing."
"Kunlun, Bai Yujing, the starting point and end point of all cause and effect, the source and end of the long river of time, everything, now you are related to it."
Yin Xiu heard it vaguely, only feeling that he had established a connection with some kind of existence, some kind of world.
Then he looked at his left hand.
There, the white light condensed, as if the moonlight had finally materialized, gathering and condensing, and finally turned into limbs that looked like white jade.
Immediately afterwards, on that section of white jade, the meridians, bones, flesh and blood, and skin began to appear, connected together, and emitted wisps of light that people could not take away.
After an unknown amount of time, Yin Xiu subconsciously moved his fingers. This sense of connection between flesh and blood was familiar yet unfamiliar. For a moment, Yin Xiu felt like he was in some kind of dream.
Kunlun itself may be a beautiful, mysterious, and even confusing dream.
Until Ma Xiaoyu gently held his left hand, which was warm and soft.
Yin Xiu came back to her senses, but her eyes were still a little confused, which overshadowed the joy and surprise that the limbs should have been reborn.
"Okay!"
With a snap of his fingers, the white light disappeared, and the two leading priests stood aside with hands tied.
"Is this good?"
Although the arm has indeed grown, Yin Xiu is still a little confused.
After all, as Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker said before, the first three types of arms are more domineering and stronger than the last, but there seems to be nothing strange about this arm made of part of Bai Yujing.
"Well, it's ready."
Seemingly sensing his doubts, Master Zhulan Soul Collection said calmly: "Bai Yujing's power is not generally strong or weak. It can interrupt something or destroy something. Its greatest power is It lies in being able to create so-called miracles.”
"Create a miracle?"
"That's right, it's like realizing your wish. This is the magic of Bai Yujing."
"But..."
Yin Xiu touched her chin with her newborn fingers, "Why do you give me such a good thing? A piece of Bai Yujing? I guess no visitor has ever gotten it before."
"No one, but someone approached.
Probably a long time ago, there was a poet who loved drinking and dancing with swords. He wrote good poems.
He had a chance to get a piece of Bai Yujing like you, but he drank too much and mistook the moon by the lake for Bai Yujing, and finally fell into the water and drowned.
Later, there was another Taoist priest who saw Bai Yujing exactly and touched it.
But somehow, in the end, the Taoist priest changed his mind and no longer stayed in Kunlun, nor did he plan to take away a piece of Bai Yujing. Instead, he turned around and returned to the ground.
So, Yin Xiu, you are the only one who has obtained the fragment of Bai Yujing. ”
"So, Your Excellencies, what exactly is this so-called miraculous power?"
"Can't tell."
"The way is unclear."
"I don't know."
"No feeling."
The two leading priests said a series of words, as if they were answering or playing some kind of riddle, but in the end they still did not answer Yin Xiu's question.
"Since you think you can't explain this ability to create miracles, then I have another question."
Yin Xiu raised her head and looked at the two immortals floating in the sky, "It's still the question just now, why me?
From beginning to end, I never pursued Kunlun, or even made any efforts to find out the truth.
Even as you said, because I don't believe in the existence of Kunlun, I was able to enter Kunlun and become a visitor here.
But why was it me who gained Bai Yujing’s power? ”
"Because you are outside cause and effect. It is precisely because you, or the two of you, don't care, or even think about the existence of Kunlun, that you have opened up a new path outside all cause and effect.
And what Kunlun needs is people like you, Yin Xiu.
In the long river of time, Kunlun exists and is waiting for your arrival.
Unlike other causes and effects, this is not destined, but a kind of accident and coincidence.
We don’t know if you will come, we don’t know when you will come, we don’t even know if someone like you will show up.
But Yin Xiu, after breaking through all the laws of cause and effect, getting rid of the constraints of time, and the connection of thousands of worlds, you unexpectedly appeared, beyond all expectations.
You are the sixty-fifth hexagram outside the sixty-four hexagrams, the number that does not exist. ”
Yin Xiu's eyes widened, "You mean, [Nothingness]?"
"It should be said that it is both [nothingness] and [miracle]."
The eyes of Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker and Master Gouchen Ancestor both had sparkling eyes.
The two immortals who had been on Kunlun for a long time actually showed expressions that would surprise anyone who saw them.
The two of them were deeply moved.
"So, what does Kunlun need me to do for it? So that it gives me this power?"
Yin Xiu knew very well that even if it was agreed, this would be a reward.
But repairing the arm is a reward, but giving this power is more than just a reward.
After a pause, he continued: "For example, you want me to guard the Tianmen, or to reach a certain timeline, to correct a certain fact in the long river of time, or to find and kill someone?"
"No, you don't have to think about anything, Yin Xiu."
Master Bamboo Basket Soul Picker adjusted the rimless glasses on his nose and said with a smile: "The most important thing is not what you do for Kunlun, but what you want to do with Kunlun's power."
"I'm a little confused when you say that, Your Excellency."
"What we mean is, Yin Xiu, just do whatever you want to do. During this period, you have created a miracle, and Kunlun will benefit from it."
"I, what do I want to do?"
"That depends on you Yin Xiu. What do you want to do most at the moment? Obey your own heart and follow your instinct."
"Is that so?"
Yin Xiu turned her head and looked at Ma Xiaoyu.
"What do you want to do!?"
Ma Xiaoyu clasped her hands on her chest and took a step back. (End of chapter)