Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 714 Flood disaster

  The scorching sensation gradually gathered from the limbs to her forehead. Xiaolan had difficulty opening her eyes, but she just went upstream without hesitation.

  The sound of crackling burning and running water beside her ears, swimming, Xiaolan heard a deafening cracking sound.

  The sound came from below, and her ears were almost numb.

  It's almost like the whole mountain, the whole world, all collapsed.

   Xiaolan narrowed his eyes and looked down.

In the fusion of fire and water, is the huge floating stone lotus. The stamen that I just got out of is in the center of the stone lotus. The whole stone lotus is centered on the broken flower stamen, and it shatters instantly. .

  Countless stone lotus fragments drifted in the water and fire, and after a while, disappeared without a trace under the burning of the flame.

  The last piece of dark gray stone lotus fragment disappeared at Xiaolan's feet.

  In an instant, the pain all over her body disappeared, and the familiar air slammed into her nasal cavity.

   Xiaolan didn't even know what happened, but she instinctively took a deep breath.

   Then, a scoop of water was poured on his face.

   "Puff!—cough cough cough..."

   Xiaolan sat up all of a sudden, covering her mouth and coughing.

  "Xiaolan!" Qin Yin's voice sounded in her ears, "You finally woke up!...Look, you should have listened to me long ago, and don't let me splash water..."

   Xiaolan blinked weakly, looked around, and looked at the person in front of her.

  She lowered her head and looked at her hand.

  He held the jade pendant in his hand.

  They are still in the wooden house, they are still lying in this place, as if nothing has changed.

  Except...I'm like a drunkard now.

  Xiaolan blinked again blankly.

  "Xiaolan..." Qin Yin gently held Xiaolan's shoulder, "Are you okay?"

   "I... I seem to..." Xiaolan said, her nose sour suddenly, "I'm still alive."

I am still alive.

   is still alive.

  I have never had such a profound experience of these words.

  It’s so nice, still alive.

   "Of course you are still alive," Qin Yin's voice was crying, "You scared us to death, Xiaolan, I was scared, you know?"

   Xiaolan raised his head, and the men squatted in front of him, all looking at him with concern.

"Fortunately, you are okay," Luo Jiutian was the one who seemed the most excited, "If something happens to you, I will never forgive myself in this life, Xiaolan, I really didn't mean it, I don't know. I will release his consciousness, I thought it was just using Panlong Pond..."

   "I know, Brother Jiutian, you are not wrong, you are to save me."

   "You, you, you escaped!" Qin Yin pointed at Luo Jiutian angrily, "If something happens to Xiaolan, I will eat you alive!"

   Xiaolan lifted the corner of her mouth and smiled, looking at the Taoist master who was staring at her.

"ended?"

   "It seems... well, it's over," Xiaolan licked her dry lips and nodded, "It's gone."

   "Is it the real fire lotus? Have you seen it?" The fool reached out and rubbed Xiaolan's head.

   "I saw..." Xiaolan paused for a while and sighed, "In fact, we have seen it a long time ago."

  Several people looked at each other.

After   , they said in unison, "The crematorium."

   "So..." the fool murmured, "No wonder...that is the fire lotus. In fact, we knew from the beginning that fire lotus was the name of the crematorium."

   "Wait a minute, I still don't understand, did something happen when I fainted?" Qin Yin gave a pause.

  Dao Master and Xiao Lan exchanged glances, then he turned to Qin Yin and said gently, "It's very simple, there has never been any **** on this fire lotus mountain. There is only one altar with spiritual consciousness here."

  Qin Yin tilted his head and still didn't understand.

  Dao Chang smiled slightly and began to speak slowly.

"Things should have started a long time ago. There is a village on Huolian Mountain called Huolian Village. The people in the village lead a farming life. Perhaps in a certain year when the famine came, the village was tortured unbearably by natural disasters. Like the ignorant and closed mountain village tribes, they chose to offer sacrifices for blessing."

  Qin Yin's face became a little ugly, and the others were not much better.

  Xiaolan said, "It's a flood."

   "Is that so?" The Taoist asked, "Did you see it?"

  Water, fire, rolling, flooding...

   Xiaolan suppressed the terrible images and simply nodded, “I saw it. It was a flood. Those girls were thrown into the water. Sister Xiaoyin is the girls we saw.”

"girl?"

  "Remember the stone lotus we saw underwater?"

  Qin Yin suddenly realized, "Those girls in the petals? Are they all sacrifices?"

   "Yes," Xiao Lan coughed lightly, "That stone lotus is the real body of the fire lotus."

  Qin Yin was stunned for a while.

   "But that's not a..."

"Yes, it's just a stone," Xiaolan continued. "The fire lotus was originally not a human, and it never became a human. It was a part of this mountain from the beginning. The girls' bodies followed the receding flood water into it. Going underground, staying in that cave, the stone felt their resentment, and the girls' hatred turned into its spiritual consciousness, becoming the original fire lotus."

"initial?"

   "I think the fire lotus at that time should be just a hazy prototype," Xiaolan said, "It really has power, and it really started to have desires. It began with the birth of the crematorium."

   "I don't understand," the fool asked. "Which one is the fire lotus, the crematorium or the stone lotus?"

"They are all fire lotus," said the Taoist chief. "The fire lotus is the evil in this mountain. The fire lotus is with the fire lotus mountain. It is on every thing that bears resentment, every inch of land on this mountain. Every villager in the village is its eye..."

  They feared God, so they offered sacrifices, and it was these sacrifices that created the "God".

Xiaolan said, “After the girls were thrown into the water, Hong Guoguo retreated. The villagers believed in the existence of gods even more. So they built a large altar in the village for sacrifices. They burned the girl to death. On the paddock outside the village, sprinkle the girl’s ashes into the crematorium, and the sacrifice is complete."

  Countless sad and crying.

  Fire lotus becomes stronger a little bit.

   "What's the matter with the fire lotus?" Luo Jiutian asked, "I mean...Lian, that's..."

  He pointed to Xiaolan's hand.

   Xiaolan picked up the jade pendant, the turquoise luster on the surface of the jade pendant had disappeared, and now it looked like an ordinary colored stone.

   "I guess..." The Taoist chief glanced at the skeleton lying beside Xiaolan, "This matter should have something to do with the appearance of the prophet."

  (End of this chapter)