Chapter 2664
Tears of Despair
Chapter 2664 Tears of Despair
Chen Mo didn't care what kind of mood the snake would be in after waking up. Moreover, although he had not taken the snake as his own, he was not worried that the snake would betray him. Because he had many ways to deal with the snake and make this guy, both physically and mentally, not go against his wishes.
He withdrew his consciousness, collected all the array plates and array bases in the cave hall, and then prepared to go forward to explore a place.
When he was collecting the moss, he found that there was a place blocked by a rock, which seemed to be a bit wrong. But he didn't look closely while collecting the moss, thinking that he would check it later.
Unexpectedly, he felt a vibration in the soul jar, and then took it out. After opening it, he released Lan Caijie.
"Why don't you stay inside? Why do you want to run out?" Looking at Lan Caijie's crumbling soul, which looked so weak that it seemed like a gust of wind could blow it away, Chen Mo frowned and asked helplessly.
You know, it is really not easy to get a spirit body. Therefore, he still cherishes Lan Caijie's soul very much. He thinks that he can use it when the time comes. However, Lan Caijie's soul body is on the verge of collapse. If it is not well maintained, it will eventually become nothingness and nothing will exist.
Lan Caijie did not answer, but looked at everything around the cave hall. She seemed to remember something and turned around to pay attention to everything.
When Chen Mo saw Lan Caijie's actions, he instantly remembered that this was once the place where this woman had bad luck, and it was also the place where she got the opportunity to practice Taoism. Anyway, he had many meetings here.
So thinking of this, he didn't say anything else, but used his spiritual sense to observe Lan Caijie's soul. Once there was a risk of it dissipating, he would immediately put it back into the soul jar.
Fortunately, although Lan Caijie's soul looked shaky and about to collapse, it did not have the slightest problem of dissipating. Chen Mo had previously put it in a soul jar and nurtured it for a while, which had eased the collapse of its soul. As long as the soul was not consumed for the time being, it would not collapse.
Of course, Lan Caijie's soul body cannot stay outside for long in this state, and it will collapse after a long time.
If the soul is not in the body but in the outside world, even if it does not move, it will consume soul power. There is no way to avoid this. After all, if the soul has no carrier, then its soul power will naturally be consumed when it exists in the outside world, just like a person who will consume energy by sitting there.
"It was here that my sister Lan Caiyue was attacked by the centipede and passed out from the poison. It was because of this poisoning that a series of events happened afterwards." Lan Caijie said with some emotion: "It has been so many years, and I didn't expect to see this place again. I still feel a little uncomfortable."
In fact, during the years when the two sisters were injured and rescued, and then saved their lives underground, although on the surface the two sisters seemed to have relationship problems, did not talk to each other, and blamed each other, in fact, the relationship between them was very deep.
The reason why the two of them didn't want to meet and got angry when they met was mainly because they didn't want the other to worry about themselves after they were injured. The two of them cared about each other and wanted to die in the place of the other.
In the end, neither of them was able to escape the shackles of fate, and one died and the other became a spirit.
In fact, the experience of the two sisters was not bad for more than a thousand years ago. Although there were twists and turns and setbacks, they finally got the opportunity to become cultivators and lived for nearly a thousand years, which was considered very lucky.
Although this kind of good luck may not be what the two sisters want, but compared to others, it is much better, even compared to the eldest daughter, the two sisters are relatively lucky.
Looking at everything in front of him, remembering the scene of dealing with the flying centipede, and recalling various experiences, tears flowed unconsciously, wetting the clothes that the spirit body had turned into.
Chen Mo watched, with no other thoughts in his mind. He had only one thought in his mind: he had never thought that spirits could shed tears, and it was so real. It was really eye-opening. He had never encountered a situation where a spirit cried before, and he had never thought about what the tears shed when a spirit cried would be.
Now, he understood that a spirit body was still a spirit body, and tears and other things were actually transformed from soul power. Every tear was actually a trace of soul power, and after it finally wet the collar of his clothes, it would turn into soul power again and be absorbed into his body.
Chen Mo remained silent. Lan Caijie also cried for a long time before finally stopping. She turned around, bowed to him and said, "Thank you!"
"It's nothing. Anyone would do the same." Chen Mo knew that Lan Caijie was thanking him for not putting her into the soul jar, but letting her reminisce about the old times. This was already very generous to a spirit whose life and death he could decide at will.
That's why Lan Caijie said thank you.
"Wait, can you let me see the eldest lady's grave? I want to say goodbye to her too." Lan Caijie said. "Okay, but I don't know where the grave you mentioned is. I need you to show me the way." Chen Mo nodded. The beauty of adulthood is what one wishes for. As long as he does a good job as a spirit in the future, he will naturally be willing to do it. It's a matter of convenience.
"After going out from here, go west all the way. About a hundred miles away, there is an oasis and a lake. Right by the lake, under a tree, she is there." When talking about the young lady, Lan Caijie was also a little emotional, which showed that she was still full of feelings for that woman.
"Oh?" Chen Mo heard what she said and immediately said, "Go out from here. Is there a road leading to the outside?"
"Yes, it's right there. There is a place blocked by a rock. Push the rock away and there will be a passage leading to the ground. This passage was discovered by that cultivator in the past. In fact, the passage was dug out by that strange beast. It was the passage for the flying centipede to go out and look for food before it turned into a strange beast. It was this passage that attracted the attention of that cultivator." Lan Caijie said.
I was wondering what was behind this rock, and I wanted to take a look later, but I didn't expect it to be a passage. However, this rock is not something that ordinary people can move. After all, it is about two meters high, nearly three meters wide, and nearly fifty centimeters thick. If it is an ordinary person, don't think about moving it.
Chen Mo immediately stepped forward and pushed the rock away, revealing a cave entrance that was about two meters wide and one meter high.
"The size of this hole seems to be smaller than the body of the strange beast." Chen Mo said after taking a look.
"This is because part of this passage was dug out by my sister and I. So it's much smaller. According to the records of that cultivator, this cave hall should have been very large, but after his battle with the alien beast, more than half of it collapsed, so part of the original passage was buried." Lan Caijie pointed around and said again: "Later, my sister and I dug in here and fought with the alien beast again, which collapsed part of it! In the end, it was me fighting with the alien beast that collapsed part of it again, and this cave hall finally became this small."
Chen Mo was relieved immediately. He had been wondering why this place was so small, only a few hundred square meters. And that centipede was very huge at first, with a body length of dozens of meters. How could it be so small? That centipede definitely would not live in such a cave hall.
"Actually, this should be a cemetery. We don't know who the buried person is, but it was occupied by the centipede and used as its nest." Lan Caijie said.
"Oh? So that's how it is. Then that bronze gate is also a part of the original tomb?" Chen Mo said, pointing to the closed gate.
"Yes, the entire underground city and the passages are actually part of the original tombs. Although I don't know who it belongs to, it was quite large before. I finally discovered it, and then expanded it into an underground city, and added some formations." Lan Caijie said.
So that's it, Chen Mo suddenly understood. He said that there was such a huge relic under the ancient city of Xiye. It turned out to be an underground tomb, but no one knew who it belonged to. Finally, it fell into the hands of Lan Caijie, who expanded it again.
Then, Chen Mo put Lan Caijie into the soul jar. Lan Caijie's soul was very unstable now. Once it collapsed, it would dissipate between heaven and earth. So it was better to put it in the soul jar first, so that it could be nurtured and the soul would gradually recover. It would not be too late to come out when we reached the oasis.
Enter the cave, block the rock again with your backhand, then turn around and move forward along the cave.
It was about a hundred meters away, only two meters wide and less than three meters high, but after walking a hundred meters, the cave was more than five meters wide and nearly five meters high, very spacious. And the surroundings seemed to be dug by humans, and traces of digging could be found on the cave walls.
It seems that this should be the passage to the original ancient tomb.
The passage should be diagonally upward, about a kilometer away. Such a huge project was unimaginable in ancient times. But Chen Mo was not an archaeologist, so he was not curious about it. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, he found that it was blocked by a thousand-jin stone. Obviously, the exit of the ancient tomb should be behind this thousand-jin stone.
Of course, Chen Mo didn’t need to think about getting out, because the thousand-jin stone was impassable, but on the wall of the cave, there was a huge hole, through which light faintly penetrated.
This is a cave about two meters in diameter. After entering, it is a bit winding, but after walking for a few dozen meters, you will arrive at the cave entrance.
It’s bright outside!
After walking out, I found myself in the middle of a cliff. Although it was not high, it was more than a hundred meters away from the bottom of the cliff. The surrounding area was all rock, and this area was a cliff of nearly 90 degrees.
"Huh!" Chen Mo felt the warmth of the sun shining on his body and felt very comfortable. After staying underground for a long time, he felt the sun's light was also very kind.
It was almost noon outside, and I took out my phone to check, but there was no signal. I stepped off the cliff and looked around in the air, only to find that there was a Gobi Desert in the distance, with no human habitation at all. The surrounding mountains, large and small, formed a bare hilly area with almost no plants, except for some Gobi Desert-specific plants such as Achnatherum splendens. There was nothing else.