Chapter 193: Fire-related insanity
Chapter 193: Fire-related insanity
With such doubts, Ning Zhe opened the almanac again and took his own life.
From Xi on the -3rd floor, fell to Yi on the -4th floor.
The "Tao Te Ching" says: "That which you cannot hear is called Xi; that which you cannot see is called Yi."
The world of Yi is pitch black. Falling here means that one's vision is completely deprived. One can see nothing, hear nothing, and only boundless desolation permeates the heart.
However, even in such desolation, Ning Zhe could still feel the warmth of the flames and the restlessness that the fire brought to him.
"The fire in the ginkgo tree is still interfering with my emotions, trying to make me lose my mind, and the interference becomes greater as I go deeper into the level." Ning Zhe felt the hot air in the darkness and already had some guesses in his mind.
The real body of the 'Fire Seed' was hidden by the Yin family in the deepest part of the Seventh World, which is the 'Micro' realm.
But it is more like imprisonment than hiding.
Can fire kill an ascender? Yes. Even Ning Zhe himself almost melted in the fire.
But fire is uncontrollable. The wildly burning flames will indiscriminately affect everything around them, turning everyone who gets close to them into moths chasing the fire, and they will fly into the fire and be burned.
Such indiscriminate killing rules are impossible to control, and there is no way to control them. Even the ancestors of the Yin family could only imprison them to prevent the fire from spreading out of control.
If the seven-layer world of [Ren Gui Xi Yi Wei] is the prison that imprisons fire, then the land god sitting under the tree is the warden guarding this prison.
"But even if you let a ghost be the warden of the fire, he will be burned by the fire."
Ning Zhe whispered to himself in the dark world:
"The burn marks on the land god's body are evidence of this."
The ancestors of the Yin family imprisoned the fire in the deepest part of the seven worlds, but the flames were still burning, from the deepest part of hell, burning to the human world layer by layer.
"The last time I came here, I also went deep into the 'Xi' level, but the land god I saw at that time didn't have any obvious scars on his body. He should not have been burned by the fire at that time, or the burns were not obvious."
"But within a short time after I took Yin Lishang away from Yanglao Village, the fire spread throughout the entire village, and the land god was burned beyond recognition..."
why?
Because the God of Plague...is gone.
It is known that the rules of the God of Plague can keep sick and injured people in a strange state where they cannot recover but will not die, allowing them to exist forever in this strange half-dead state, just like the emaciated and long-lived old men in Yanglao Village.
Everyone must abide by the rules, whether they are humans, ghosts or gods.
The land god, who is the warden, is constantly burned by the flames in the deepest part of the prison, but the existence of the plague god prevents his burns from getting worse, thus maintaining the stability of the Yanglao Village prison.
God of land, god of plague, and fire.
The three formed a delicate balance here, and the lack of any one of them would lead to the collapse of the entire structure. Until Ning Zhe took the Plague God away.
"No wonder Ji Taixun's mother asked him to come here with the letter to look for 'that thing'."
Ning Zhe suppressed the restlessness in his heart and slowly exhaled.
The Yin family was wiped out many years ago, and the few remaining survivors were forced to change their names to avoid being hunted down by other ascenders. It was not until Ji Bochang's death that Ji Wuxie, who tried to go to Juxian Garden to retrieve the Yin family's inheritance, was exposed to Lan Shiwen.
What the people of aristocratic families care about most is the inheritance of incense and blood ties, but the ascenders represented by Lan Shiwen are pushing them into a desperate situation.
"If my family is extinct, what's the point of staying in this world?"
Perhaps this was the mentality of Ji Taiyu's mother when she wrote to her son and asked him to go to Yanglao Village. Since the outsiders who were promoted were determined to do things to the extreme, the Yin family had no other choice. Now that the last bloodline of the Yin family was about to be cut off, they had no choice but to open the prison, release the fire, and go to hell together.
Without our world, there is no meaning of existence.
Now, the prison gate has been opened, the warden's body is covered with wounds and flames are burning.
"What a pity. The Snake God's death taboo can only last for one day. I'm not sure if the almanac will show 'Do not do anything else' tomorrow..."
Ning Zhe sighed, it was really a pity.
If he had enough time, he would actually like to study the relationship between fire and the land god. There are many things he can learn from the Yin family's way of imprisoning ghosts.
You can't go any deeper, otherwise there will be the risk of losing your mind. This fire burns people, and those who get close to it will become crazy, so you must stay away from it.
"It's time to invite the God of Plague back."
Ning Zhe took out a copper coin in the darkness, and the facial features quietly changed into those of another person.
Ding--
It was the sound of coins falling to the ground.
“Please ask the God of Wealth to show up.”
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“Please ask the God of Wealth to show up.”
A young man in uniform threw a copper coin and pulled a body out of a car stuck on the highway.
This driver was very unlucky. When he rear-ended the car in front of him, the airbag did not deploy, and he was fatally injured on his own steering wheel.
The driver was very lucky. Lan Shiwen was now eager to know what had happened in Yanglao Village. He was even willing to spend money to buy the lives of the mortals who had died, just to find out what they had seen before they died.
The driver, who had a concussion, woke up slowly, but was still in a daze. The uniformed man lifted his shoulders and carried the driver, whose head was covered in blood, to Lan Shiwen, who was standing by the rice field.
"The driver died quite late, so he must have seen something." The man in uniform shook the driver who collapsed on him and said, "Are you okay? We have something to ask you."
"Am I... am I still alive?" The driver's mind was still a little confused.
"Yes, you are alive." Lan Shiwen came to him, opened a bottle of mineral water and poured it on his face to wash away the blood that covered his eyes: "We are rescuers. You are safe now, but I want to ask you a few questions. Please answer truthfully."
"Okay, okay comrade, go ahead and ask." The driver said dazedly.
"What were you doing in the first few minutes before you passed out?"
"I... I was driving normally on the highway. The speed limit was 120 mph, and I was driving 100 mph. Then... when I got to this area, I saw a traffic jam ahead, and the rice fields on the side of the road seemed to be on fire, so I slowed down...
But as soon as I slowed down, the car behind me hit the back of my car.
This would not have been a big deal, because the car behind me also saw the traffic jam ahead and was already slowing down when he hit me. All he wanted at the time was to claim insurance.
But suddenly, the driver in the car behind me went crazy and suddenly stepped on the accelerator, pushing me forward. I immediately got angry and didn't know what was wrong with him, so I stuck my head out of the window and looked back, and I saw...
I saw a white snake with a human head hanging on his car window, twisting its body and crawling inside..."
(End of this chapter)