Chapter 444 The Third Death
“I once read a sentence in a book,” Gu Xu said to the snow girl beside him while walking on the bluestone streets in the city, “A person’s life, We have to die three times in total.
“The first death is when our heart stops and our breath dies. This is death in the physiological sense.
“The second death is when we are buried. People wear white clothes to attend our funeral. They officially declare that we no longer exist in the world, and all our social relationships disappear.
“The third death is when the last person in the world remembers us and completely forgets us, so we truly die and have nothing to do with this world.
"This is really interesting to say. I have experienced the third death before I have experienced the first death. Now it looks like I have never existed in this world at all."
Snow Girl Face Listening to him expressionlessly, nodding slightly from time to time.
At this time, the two of them were in Liangzhou Mansion.
This is the northwest gateway to the Daqi Dynasty. Exiting Liangzhou is the territory of the barbarian people outside the Great Wall.
Gu Xu never thought that after being wanted by the court, he would one day be able to walk on the street arrogantly and unabashedly.
A thief named "Li Batian" replaced him and became the protagonist on the wanted order - in every portrait, this middle-aged man with a beard silently examines the passers-by with a sharp look.
As for the snow girl, she still wears a veil and has her long snow-colored hair tied up high and hidden in a wide-brimmed hat.
She was born with fairy beauty and peerless independence. Now that her black hair has turned to silver, her face is even more stunning and unstoppable.
If he appeared on the street, he would definitely be a pedestrian stroking his mustache, and a young man taking off his hat and wearing a kowtow.
Even if he becomes a passerby forgotten by the world, Gu Xu does not want to attract too much unnecessary attention.
"But I still remember you." After Gu Xu finished speaking, Xue Nu looked at him and said seriously.
Gu Xu smiled lightly.
To be honest, he didn't know why the snow girl still didn't forget him after the whole world cut off the causal connection with him.
Based on his shallow knowledge of cause and effect, he guessed that it might be because he had been spending so much time with the snow girl in recent days that the side effects of the mask were difficult to take effect.
It may also be because he and Snow Girl have already established a soul-level connection through the Jinghong Brush - this kind of causal connection based on the famous weapon of the wilderness is difficult to easily erase.
Of course, it might also be because the snow girl recognized him neither by his appearance nor his name, but by his smell and intuition.
She treats the whole world with indifference and alienation. Only Gu Xu is the only special existence in her eyes.
She is like a balloon string.
When Gu Xu was about to drift away from this world, she served as the only fetter, tying him tightly to the earth.
However, at the same time, Gu Xu was also filled with confusion.
He felt that this kind of spell that could completely erase a person from history was really amazing - this was something that even a strong saint could hardly do.
It should not be just a side effect of a mask at all.
If we use a painting as an analogy -
The function of the mask itself to hide the whereabouts is just a child's random graffiti; but this "side effect" is a work handed down from generation to generation by famous masters.
When Luo Chuan handed this mask to him, he didn't think too much about it because he was in a hurry to escape. But now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
In addition, he knew that Luo Chuan was not good at the art of cause and effect - of course, it might be that Luo Chuan had been concealing his attainments in the art of cause and effect from the outside.
"Could it be that Luo Sishou wants to help me break through to the fifth realm in this way?" Gu Xu guessed with a frown.
To practice the fifth realm, called "Meng Po Pavilion", requires monks to cut off the fetters of the world and move towards the extraordinary realm.
In order to break through this critical realm, our ancestors came up with a variety of methods - such as the masochistic retreat of Lingshan Temple, such as the Jiange sword traveling around the world, and the most popular method used in the Daqi Dynasty. Extensive "cutting off seven emotions".
However, when Gu Xu was thinking about how he should use to break through the situation, the side effects of the mask took effect.
He no longer needs to think hard about how to escape from the world of mortals.
He has cut off the causal connection with the world.
His true energy aura skyrocketed - he was about to rush straight into the boundary of the fifth realm at a speed of 100 meters.
He planned to find a safe place to break through the fifth realm after leaving Liangzhou and the border of Daqi.
Although he is now forgotten by the world, he cannot guarantee that a strong man like Emperor Tianxing will also be affected by the side effects of the mask.
Strength can never be too much.
…………
In fact, in the corner that Gu Xu couldn’t see, there was another person—a ghost to be precise, who had not been tampered with by the mask or affected his cognition. .
“It’s amazing!”
At the same time, in the shadow under the eaves on the other side of the street, the old man with white beard in dark blue robe looked at Gu Xu and Xue Nu walking further and further away, and sighed.
“Tell me, if we were to cast this spell that cuts off cause and effect, would we be able to achieve the same effect?” The thin storyteller beside him pondered for a moment and then asked.
“It’s difficult,” the old white-bearded Taoist thought for a moment and said, “The way we hide is to use the law of cause and effect to erase our names, so that the world will forget us unconsciously.
“But our magic cannot change the objective facts. For example, when people turn to the information about us, they will still recall our existence.
“Gu Xu is different this time.
"The spell on the mask not only modifies people's memories, but also changes objective things - I can't do it, changing thousands of portraits on wanted posters to one person overnight."
“I didn’t expect Luochuan to have such an ability!” The middle-aged man who performed the rat trick said sincerely, “If he really did all this, then his strength should be far beyond the seventh realm, and it’s not like As known to the outside world, he knows nothing about cause and effect——"
"——It may not be Luo Chuan who did it," the white-bearded old man interrupted him, "Maybe it was someone we don't know. The strong man attached the magic to the mask and handed it to Gu Xu through Luo Chuan. "Then what is the purpose of this strong man?" The middle-aged man frowned, "If he is just. If you want to help Gu Xu escape, there is no need to go through so much trouble.”
“I can’t figure it out either,” the white-bearded old man shook his head gently, “But now, we don’t need to consider that mysterious force. If you don’t care, you should mind your own business first!”
As he spoke, he took out the simple wooden hairpin from his sleeve again.
(End of this chapter)