"A small world? Haha... I say, senior, have you been corrupted by modern novels?" I shrugged my shoulders, trying my best not to laugh out loud, but I could barely hold it in.
When I have nothing to do, I like to flip through transmigration and cultivation novels. Small worlds, inner worlds, three realms, anyway, there are all sorts of realms. Was I poisoned back then? It seems even ancient seniors make mistakes!
"Is it funny?" The black-robed senior spoke very slowly, but every word was said very seriously. I was so scared that I couldn't help but hug the back of my head, just in case I got hit. Sudan Novel Network
The imagined "sneak attack" did not happen. The black-robed senior turned and looked to the west. I couldn't see his face clearly, but I felt that he was very unwilling at the moment, and seemed to carry a hidden grief.
For a moment, the entire small valley fell into silence. Apart from the mountain wind blowing a few leaves around, as if butterflies were dancing, it was eerily quiet. Even the sun quietly hid behind the clouds, as if unwilling to hear what came next.
"It might be difficult for you to accept these things now. However, my time is running out. If I don't say it now, I'm afraid I won't have another chance to say it later."
A big question mark arose in my heart. The black-robed senior was clearly not a living person, but a ghost. However, this did not prevent him from standing in the sunlight openly. This proved that his strength had reached an unknown level. Perhaps only the Great Emperor of Fengdu in Fengdu City could reach this level.
After all, I had lived for eighteen years and had never seen any ghost dare to stand in the sunlight. Even the big black dog that had been chasing me relentlessly just now ran away at the mere sight of sunlight, otherwise, it would have turned into ashes in an instant.
"This world is not only the human world, but also the underworld, the immortal world, the divine world, the demon world... and other worlds of varying sizes. However, the immortal world, the divine world, etc., are generally inaccessible to ordinary people. The only one that the human world can access is the Yin world, which is the underworld."
I was dizzy by his words because these things were only seen in novels. Although I was a Yin diviner and could see ghosts, monsters, and other strange things, I believed they were another kind of spiritual entity living in the human world in some unknown way. Even Ox-Head and Horse-Face were always thought to be hiding in some corner underground, otherwise, how could they be called the Underworld?
Now, after hearing what the black-robed senior said, I felt that I was really terribly wrong. I just didn't understand why the black-robed senior wanted to tell me this? Was it because of the semi-Yin world?
"That's right, it's because of the semi-Yin world. It is because of its existence that I can come out of your Sea of Consciousness. Otherwise, I would never see the sun in my life, and I would die with you when you grow old." The black-robed senior suddenly turned around. His face was still hazy, but I could feel him looking at me with a scorching "gaze." It was very strange and made me feel a chill.
"Then... then senior, you are free now. The new era's human world will definitely give you a different feeling. You are now free to fly like a bird in the sky and swim like a fish in the sea. You can go wherever you want..."
"Yes! How important freedom is to a person, yet I cannot leave."
"Cannot leave? Why?" I scratched my head, puzzled. In my memory, he was the only ghost standing in the sunlight. Someone who was not afraid of the sun, was there anywhere in this world he couldn't go?
Even if he went to the Underworld to snatch the King of Hell's hat, I guessed the King of Hell would proactively hand over the hat with an eager smile, saying, "Do you want me to help you put it on?"
"Bullying the King of Hell is one thing, but he's just a minor deity. If I were to bully someone, it would be that kid from Fengdu. Bullying a small fry, that's really not my style?"
"Senior, can we have some privacy between us? Can you stop knowing what I'm thinking? If you do, you'll have no friends, you'll be lonely forever. Even your lover, friends, disciples, would anyone be willing to get close to you?"
I said this quickly and urgently, without thinking at all. I even regretted it as soon as the words left my mouth, and it was a worse color than having my intestines turn green; it was so black that it could shine.
A powerful being like the black-robed senior, who was beyond life and death, but before that? He also had friends, lovers, and relatives. But no matter if it were relatives, lovers, or friends, no one would be willing to face a friend who could "tolerate" knowing their thoughts appearing before them.
Humans are individuals, not rooted strawberries, nor independent banyan trees for a family. Contact, love, etc., are all based on the interaction between two individuals. But when your true feelings are already known by someone else, and you are played with in their palm, let alone ordinary people, I guess even a great power that traverses the three realms and the heavens and earth would not be able to accept this outcome.
"You also think I was wrong?" The black-robed senior did not get angry but asked seriously.
"Senior, what can I say? We've only interacted three times, but you know exactly what I'm thinking every time. If we were enemies, I would have nothing to say. But we are friends, close comrades, comrades who talk about everything, even lovers who are intimate and inseparable. We can talk about anything in the heavens and the earth, but when you realize that any emotion I express is naked before you, that everything that happened before me, don't you find it terrifying?"
As soon as I said this, the sunlight, which was already obscured by dark clouds, became dim again. However, the dim heaven and earth were centered around Beishan Mining Town.
"Ice layer? This is going to be a disaster..."
A visible ice layer, centered on the black-robed senior, was rapidly devouring everything around it. This icy aura was even more terrifying than when Bingfeng had frozen me before, because it did not simply freeze, solidify, or congeal the substances it devoured, but rather devoured them bit by bit at the speed of ants gnawing.
The soil on the ground, the surrounding air, and the water molecules after being frozen, all turned into water droplets, which, before your eyes, turned into powder bit by bit, and then became a part of his body.
Run!
There was only one thought in my mind: "Run!" Why did my words make him so furious, and his rage had increased by who knows how many times compared to before?
I previously thought that Bingfeng was caused by Wu Gege's interference, but now it seems I was wrong, and terribly wrong. No wonder the first thing the black-robed senior said to me when we met was, "You idiot, you messed up a perfectly good thing." It turns out that the culprit was not Wu Gege, but the black-robed senior who had been hidden in my Sea of Consciousness?
But how did he appear in my Sea of Consciousness? Was he a parasite in my Sea of Consciousness since birth?
"Calling you a pig is truly an insult to a pig's intelligence..."
"Wu Gege? You..."
"Don't say anything. Hurry and escape from here. Absolutely do not touch that black ice. Running is your direction now. Become a running youth!"
Listening to the encouraging voice in my ear, I always felt it was a mockery, even a contempt, but I had no way to refute or confirm it at the moment, because during this conversation, the speed at which the ice layer devoured had changed from the speed of a snail climbing a mountain to that of an ant going down a mountain, and it seemed to be getting faster and faster.
It's over, I've caused a terrible disaster this time...