Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 345: Sky, emperor's court, foreign land, stranger

Ying Ying rode on Ling Xi, jumping back and forth in Su Yun and Wu Tong's spiritual realm. Su Yun ignored her and activated the Huang Zhong, slowly turning it to detach Wu Tong from the Ming Mirror.

They spread out their respective spiritual realms and breathed in the air within, walking towards the basin.

Ying Ying stopped jumping and came to the edge of their spiritual realms on Ling Xi, carefully sensing.

The basin was not large, only about ten miles in diameter. The ancient palaces were arranged in an orderly manner, resembling the layout of a celestial palace altar. The palaces surrounded the central altar, but it was more complex than the celestial palace altar they had seen under the Northern Crown Great Wall.

"Dilapidated buildings, ancient altars, the opening of the celestial scriptures, leading to the immortal realm, allowing mortals who go there to bathe in the Moon Pool."

Su Yun walked on the thick moon dust, puzzled. "So, who built the altar here? And who ordered them to go to the immortal realm?"

He looked at Wu Tong and continued to ask, "And what caused them to disappear from the palaces on the moon? Where did they go?"

His gaze was sharp, and since Wu Tong could understand the text here and called it celestial script, she must know more.

At this moment, Ying Ying quietly entered Wu Tong's spiritual realm on Ling Xi. Regardless of whether Wu Tong would answer Su Yun's questions, the spirits in Wu Tong's spiritual realm would voice their thoughts, and now was the moment to probe into the secrets of this human-demon.

Ying Ying relied on this to uncover many secrets of Su Yun, this infatuated young man.

However, to Ying Ying's disappointment, Wu Tong's cultivation in the demonic path was much higher than Su Yun's. Even though she came to Wu Tong's spiritual realm, Wu Tong did not reveal any inner thoughts.

Su Yun looked at Wu Tong and blinked.

Wu Tong smiled charmingly. "Awaken the spirits guarding this place, and you will know, won't you?"

She took a step forward, and suddenly, the stone kylin sculpture around the altar began to transform from stone to flesh!

The last time Su Yun came here with Ying Ying, he had seen the scales of the stone kylin begin to recover!

And outside these palaces, there were not only stone kylin sculptures but also sacred white elephants, warding off evil spirits, and brave troops!

Ying Ying had a strong perception of spirits and said that the spirits contained in these stone statues were almost as powerful as dragon spirits and human-demon spirits!

At this moment, when Wu Tong took that step, the stone kylin closest to them began to rapidly transform into flesh!

In an instant, the body of the stone kylin turned into flesh, with only the chest remaining petrified and not turning into flesh.

Suddenly, Ying Ying rode on a small white rhinoceros, leaped out of Su Yun and Wu Tong's spiritual realms, and plunged into the spiritual realm of the stone kylin.

The stone kylin stood up from the platform, in a panic, frantically scratching himself, speaking in incomprehensible language, as if trying to drive Ying Ying out of his body.

Su Yun saw his actions of scratching himself, which was completely different from a kylin. It looked somewhat human. He couldn't help but be stunned. "He is not a true kylin, but a spiritual body in the form of a kylin!"

After a powerful spiritualist dies, their spiritual body still has attachments and is unwilling to leave. They use temples to collect faith and forge a spiritual body to live on in another form.

Many ancient saints in the Yuan Dynasty used this method, such as the Emperor of Literature, the Eastern Master.

In the case of the rebellion of the Seven Noble Families, the Emperor of Literature's spiritual body was destroyed and had to be re-forged. However, the Eastern Master completely refined his spiritual body and became a god, leaving a mark on heaven and earth.

In the Western Continent, the Divine Emperor also used a similar method, but he used it for cultivation, not to forge a spiritual body to become a god.

The kylin that was gradually recovering in front of them was different from the Divine Emperor, the Eastern Master, and the Emperor of Literature.

"The spiritual body within this kylin was not in the form of a kylin during its lifetime. It is not a true kylin, but used the name of a false kylin to cultivate a spiritual body, attempting to achieve godhood!" Su Yun thought to himself.

On the platform, the kylin had snow-white eyebrows, long eyebrows hanging down, and dim eyes. Ying Ying rode on the white rhinoceros and kept colliding in his spiritual realm, gradually revealing his spiritual realm in front of Su Yun and Wu Tong.

It was a crumbling spiritual realm, with broken holes everywhere. An old and feeble spiritual body leaned on a crutch, tremblingly chasing after Ling Xi, trying to drive away Ying Ying and Ling Xi.

Ling Xi leaped, taking Ying Ying out of his spiritual realm, disappearing without a trace.

The spiritual body of the kylin immediately pulled out the crutch from the spiritual realm, stood up on its hind legs, and looked around with its long eyebrows covering its eyes. It uttered incomprehensible cries, but Su Yun understood a few words.

Guang Han.

Wu Tong had told him the pronunciation of Guang Han in celestial script.

The words spoken by the spiritual body of the kylin contained the words Guang Han.

The golden kylin stumbled, moving with difficulty, but still exuding an extremely powerful aura!

However, he was too old, and coupled with not truly refining his spiritual body, although his spiritual power was extremely strong, he was on the verge of collapse and annihilation.

Su Yun could even see the constant flow of spiritual power in his spiritual realm!

His spiritual body was disintegrating, but at a slow pace.

Previously, he also showed signs of dissipation, but because he was in a petrified state, the speed of dissipation was much slower and difficult to perceive. But now that Su Yun was awake, the speed had greatly increased, and he could even perceive the disintegration of the spiritual body!

"Most of the spiritual bodies in Tian Shi Yuan have not reached the brink of collapse and dissipation, indicating that this kylin's spiritual body has guarded this place for a longer time than the history of Tian Shi Yuan!"Su Yun's heart trembled slightly, "Especially considering he's in a petrified state, which prolongs the lifespan of his spirit."

Suddenly, Wu Tong spoke. However, the language she used was not the Yuan Shuo language, but another obscure and difficult language, similar to the so-called fairy language Su Yun heard on the Candling Dragon's carriage that day.

Wu Tong's tone was inquisitive. The golden Kylin calmed down, leaning on his cane, he staggered forward to Wu Tong's side.

His body was tall and burly, even when hunched over, he was about five to six zhang tall (16.5 to 19.8 meters). He lifted his other claw, brushed aside the eyebrows that obscured his eyes, and looked closely at Wu Tong. After a long while, he uttered a sentence in the fairy language.

Su Yun, anxious, asked, "What is he saying?"

Wu Tong didn't answer, but continued to speak in the obscure language. The golden Kylin responded, and the two conversed back and forth.

The golden Kylin became increasingly silent and desolate, his voice growing more bitter.

At this moment, Ying Ying, riding on a small white rhinoceros, ran out from nowhere and entered Su Yun's spiritual realm, shaking her head, "Master Su, most of the other golden bodies can't wake up."

Su Yun stepped towards the Broad Cold Palace, his feet stepping on broken tiles and bricks, collapsed corners, and statues and pillars crushed under the walls.

"The statues here, including the coiling dragons on the ornamental columns, total ninety-six, corresponding to ninety-six gods and demons."

Ying Ying quickly said, "Just now, I and the little white rhinoceros tried to enter the spiritual realms of some sleeping spirits. Those spiritual realms are like worlds made of sand, collapsing everywhere. There are spirits inside, but they are all incomplete. Some have lost their legs, some have large holes in their bodies, and some have lost their heads. Their spirits are also fading away like dust, unable to wake up. I think, they have been completely forgotten by their clans."

"Completely forgotten?" Su Yun's heart was suddenly struck by a profound sense of desolation.

When spirits are completely forgotten, they cannot wake up, they can only let themselves slowly dissipate. This feeling of slowly dying in emptiness, filled with loneliness and helplessness.

Where did their clans go?

Su Yun looked back at Wu Tong, silently asking in his heart, "Wu Tong, are you one of their clans? Where did you come from, and why did you have to come to our world? What is your relationship with these golden bodies?"

Wu Tong was still talking to the old golden body and didn't look this way.

Su Yun walked through the Broad Cold Palace, asking, "Ying Ying, are there no other people here besides the golden bodies?"

Ying Ying shook her head, "Little White can enter anyone's spiritual realm. If there were other people, Little White would definitely take me there."

The palace was filled with large and small statues. Some statues were already broken, some seemed to sense the intrusion of living beings and were trying to revive, but they could never turn into flesh and blood.

Su Yun came to the side of the altar, carefully examining the layout of the altar, the Broad Cold Palace, and these statues.

"These golden bodies must have stood around the palace and altar at some point in prehistoric times. People worshipped and sacrificed to them here, treating them like gods." Su Yun stood on the altar, silently saying to himself.

This altar is actually a huge fairy charm!

He looked around and whispered, "And on the day of the winter solstice, they would open the fairy charm and send the chosen people to the fairy world, allowing these people to pick laurels in the moon palace and bathe in the moon pool. At that time, the moon must have been very prosperous, right? Was that era the era of the Ashen Beasts?"

Su Yun thought about the language of the Ashen God King, compared it with the language of Wu Tong and the golden Kylin, and shook his head.

The Ashen language and the fairy language spoken by Wu Tong are completely different!

"That is to say, the civilization on this moon might be even older than the era of the Ashen Beasts!"

He turned around and looked at Wu Tong, who was still talking to the golden Kylin. This human demon had crossed the stars from the Big Horn Star to come here. What was her purpose? It couldn't just be to fight the True Dragon, could it?

"Master Su, the Big Horn Star is called Tian Dong, it's the imperial court of the Heavenly King." Ying Ying sat behind the horn of the spiritual rhinoceros, hugging the horn.

"The imperial court of the Heavenly King?"

Su Yun was greatly shocked, looking at Wu Tong, he murmured, "How could someone from there become a human demon?"

Ying Ying was also puzzled. The white rhinoceros looked up at the question mark floating above its head, its mind completely blank.

At this moment, Wu Tong walked over and said, "Junior Brother, that golden body said that tomorrow, they will use their last strength to open the fairy charm and send us to the Broad Cold Mountain in the fairy world. However, we must return before they completely dissipate."

"What if we can't come back?" Ying Ying asked.

Wu Tong said indifferently, "It's just a bath, we can come back."

Su Yun noticed that when this human demon talked about the dissipation of these golden bodies, her mentality surprisingly showed ripples, as if sadness had swept over her Dao heart.

——This is a fairy charm, no, it's a ticket! It's love! It's your love for the human demon lady!!