bookcurios Chapter 238 Gate of Destiny
Chapter 238 Gate of Destiny
Maybe there were too many things in her mind, Hong Yan finally found the right path and dived into the sea of consciousness. The moment he entered, Li Xiaoxiao's mouth suddenly expanded to the size of a door and swallowed him in one gulp.
After swallowing the red smoke, Li Xiaoxiao opened her eyes and saw that everyone was sitting opposite her to meditate, except Rong Qi who was standing beside her with old man Lingxu on his back. She immediately understood and felt grateful to him again.
No matter what, this person can be dealt with.
Rongqi is a typical example of someone who repays a drop of kindness with a spring of gratitude. He is a person who can empathize with others.
Before Li Xiaoxiao stood up, he felt an extremely hot energy running rampant in his body like a wild horse.
This powerful and violent force caught her off guard and her body began to tremble involuntarily.
She was horrified and quickly concentrated her mind, mobilizing all the spiritual power in her body to try to suppress this blazing energy.
However, that energy was extremely ferocious, like an enraged beast, and was completely out of control.
Although Li Xiaoxiao tried her best, this force still traveled wildly through her meridians and acupoints, causing severe pain wherever it went.
Beads of sweat the size of beans kept oozing out of her forehead, soon soaking her hair and clothes.
Li Xiaoxiao clenched her teeth, clenched her hands into fists, and dug her nails deeply into her palms, trying hard not to cry out in pain.
Rong Qi observed Li Xiaoxiao's condition at the first moment. She was as pale as paper, her lips had lost their color, and she looked extremely painful, with blue veins bulging out under her fair skin.
Some people also noticed that Li Xiaoxiao was different: "What's wrong with her?"
“It’s a bit like being possessed.”
"Hiss~ What is the origin of this cut body? It became like this just by touching it!"
Rong Qi was in no mood to deal with these people's gossips, and worry was evident in his eyes.
After a while, the energy gradually subsided, and at the same time, a new memory emerged in Li Xiaoxiao's mind.
In my mind is a little boy in red clothes and a black cat, their daily lives are constantly evolving and they are gradually growing up.
The boy said, "Lenghei, why are we here?"
The black cat raised one of its front legs and licked it with its red tongue. It then answered with its belly: "Isn't it good for us to be alone here?"
The boy shook his head: "It's not bad, it's just too boring."
"Then why don't we just let others in?" The black cat replied indifferently.
"Yes! If we can't get out, we'll just let someone else in. Leng Hei, how come you are so smart!" As he said that, he picked up the black cat and turned it around a few times.
Leng Hei was a little dizzy: "Then how do we let others in?"
"Yes, then how do we let others in?" The boy looked a little distressed.
In this way, they tried again and again, and his appearance as a teenager turned into a grandfather with a white beard.
“Hahahahaha… Leng Hei, I finally did it. I know how to let them in.”
So he opened the door of destiny, and finally someone walked in.
The first person who came in was a little girl. She just kept crying and said she wanted to go home.
But after a lot of effort, someone finally came in. Red Robe was reluctant to let the girl go, so he transformed himself into a boy about her age.
The girl saw him and asked, "Were you also thrown here by Daddy?"
It turned out that the girl was abandoned in the mountains by her parents. She had been looking for a way home, and somehow she entered the door of destiny.
The boy nodded stiffly.
"What's your name?" the girl asked.
The boy replied without thinking: "My name is Shantu."
"Santu? What a strange name. My name is Xiaohua. You can just call me Huahua from now on."
"Okay, Huahua." The boy was very happy as it was the first time he talked so much to someone.
Huahua took Shantu's hand and started looking for the way home.
That was the first time that Shantu felt the temperature of a human being. It was so warm that he couldn't help but want to get closer.
But before two days had passed, Huahua was almost dying, because she couldn't eat the food evolved here. No matter how much delicacies she ate, it was like eating air.
Looking at the dying Huahua, Shantu shed tears for the first time and was at a loss.
Seeing this, Huahua weakly raised her hand to wipe his tears: "Don't cry, we will be home soon."
When Shantu heard this, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and cried even more.
Huahua looked at the sky in a trance and said, "I have to go home as soon as possible. There is still a lot of work to do at home. My little brother is about to be born, and I have to wash his diapers, otherwise grandma will beat me again.
"Santu, are you a fairy boy?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because you can conjure up so many delicious things, the most delicious things I have ever eaten in my life. My grandma wouldn't even give my mother and me an egg to eat.
"Can I make you a wish?"
“You say.” Shantu felt extremely uncomfortable.
"Can you take me home?"
"Where is your home?" Shantu asked.
"Hetong Village, Jingui's home." After saying this, Huahua's dry and flaky white lips cracked and bled a little.
Leng Hei jumped out from the bushes nearby: "Send her out, or she will die."
"What is death?"
"Death... means disappearance. When the time comes, she will decay and become nutrients for the earth, nourishing the plants."
"You won't talk anymore?"
"will not."
"Will it not be warm?"
"will not."
"Okay then..." So Shantu sent Huahua out, although he was very reluctant.
The moment it was sent out, Huahua died.
She turned into a grown skeleton and appeared out of nowhere at the scene of her brother's wedding, and accepted her brother's greeting.
This scared everyone present.
Her mother seemed to sense something and suddenly asked Bai Gu: "Is it my Huahua?"
Huahua's soul left her body, and she didn't understand what was happening. She just saw her mother, who was older than her grandmother, replying, "Mom, it's me. I'm back."
"Wuwuwu... My son! My sweetheart! Wuwuwu..."
When Huahua’s grandmother heard this, she was frightened to death on the spot.
Her father was so scared that he wet his pants on the spot. Only her mother carefully held her bones and held them against her chest, and her tears fell between her bones like they were free.
"Mom, don't cry, I'm going to set off." As she said this, she took her grandmother's soul, which had just come out, away with her.
When she arrived in the underworld, Huahua heard the judge tell her grandmother to go to the tongue-pulling hell first, then to the oil pan, and finally to the animal realm to become a hen.
The hen later returned to the Jin family and continued to lay eggs for them to eat, which were eventually stewed into old hen soup.
Huahua was reborn as a human being. In this life, she was the daughter of a wealthy family. She had food and drink and lived a comfortable old age.
Shan Tu was very sad watching all this, he asked Leng Hei: "Am I worthy of being alone?"
"Maybe."
"Then what is the meaning of my existence?"
"Protect!"
"Protect what?"
"Guard this place."
"What's worth protecting here? Whoever wants it can take it!" Shan Tu said angrily, and didn't speak to Leng Hei for a long time.
After a while, someone walked into the door of destiny again, this time it was a poor scholar.
This scholar was called Liu Yi. He was well-read and talented, but due to his poor family background he was unable to further realize his ambitions.
After overcoming many difficulties, he finally got the qualification to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination. In order to change his fate, his mother decided to sell all her property to raise enough money.
"Son! You must take good care of yourself."
"Mother, I will. Just wait for me to return home."
"Okay, okay, my son will definitely be the top scorer in high school!"
After hugging each other, they parted ways, leaving behind a lonely old mother and a thatched hut that could barely keep out the wind and rain.
However, fate played a joke on him.
On the way to Beijing, the ship he was on encountered a rare storm.
Amid the strong wind and huge waves, the ship was broken into pieces and Liu Yi fell into the raging sea.
When he woke up again, he found himself drifting to an island.
The island has huge plants that block out the sun, and wild beasts roam through the woods.
Liu Yi was shocked and frightened and couldn't help but sigh, could this be the legendary fairy mountain overseas?
He explored around, trying to find a way back home.
Deep inside the island, he discovered an ancient temple.
There is a mysterious statue enshrined in the temple, and a tattered book is placed in front of the statue.
Liu Yi opened the book curiously, only to find that the book contained all kinds of strange knowledge and spells that he had never seen before.
He was immersed in the world of books and gradually forgot the passage of time.
He relied on wild fruits and bird eggs on the island for food and drink. Fortunately, he had been self-reliant since he was a child, and making fire and climbing trees were no problem for him.
After an unknown amount of time, he found that he could actually understand and cast some simple spells in the book.
However, he could never forget his original intention - to return to his hometown, take the imperial examination and realize his ambitions.
So he began to look for the way home again, and this time he stepped into the Gate of Steins.
He saw a young man with a confused look on his face.
Liu Yi was very excited as he hadn't seen humans for a long time. He hurriedly ran up to the boy, grabbed his hand and asked, "Is there a village here?"
The boy looked annoyed: "No, I'm the only one here."
Liu Yi suddenly felt pity and sighed, "You and I are both pitiful people, let me accompany you for the rest of your life!
"My name is Liu Yi, what's your name?"
"Shantu."
Liu Yi touched Shantu's head, took out some fruit from a simple backpack and handed it to him.
Shantu took it and started eating in silence.
So this is what it smells like outside, so sweet. Does he really want to go out?
After eating, Shantu asked Liu Yi some questions, such as why he was here.
After hearing Liu Yi's answer, Shan Tu stared into his eyes and asked, "Do you want to go home?"
"I do! Of course I do. I have an old mother waiting for me at home." Thinking of this, Liu Yi couldn't help but burst into tears. The image of his mother leaning against the door with tears in her eyes appeared in his mind.
"Then let me take you back!" said Shantu.
"What!" Liu Yi thought he had heard it wrong.
“You picture in your mind what your home will look like.”
When Liu Yi heard this, everything about his hometown automatically emerged in his mind.
The next moment he appeared in front of the dilapidated thatched hut, and Liu Yi couldn't believe his eyes.
But he still couldn't wait to go in and out of the thatched hut. There was an old lady with white hair and a hunched body cooking in the thatched hut. Liu Yi recognized her as his old mother at a glance!
"Mom!" Liu Yi called softly.
When Aunt Liu heard the call, her body shook violently and the shovel fell into the pot. She turned around tremblingly and saw a middle-aged man with an untidy beard and tattered clothes. But from his tearful eyes, she knew that this was her son.
Her daughter finally came back.
The mother and son hugged each other and cried bitterly.
That night, Aunt Liu fell into a deep sleep.
Liu Yi was extremely sad. He bowed three times in one direction to thank Shan Tu for sending him back.
If it weren't for Shantu, he wouldn't even be able to see his mother for the last time.
The villagers were shocked by Liu Yi's sudden return, after all, he had disappeared for 20 years.
After his mother was buried, Liu Yi was filled with emotion and decided to use his abilities to do something for everyone.
He began to travel around, using his magic to help those in need and passing on his magic to those who were destined to receive it.
As time went by, Liu Yi's story spread throughout the world and became a legend.
Moreover, there is a god on the fairy island, who looks like a young man and his name is Shantu. His name is widely known and many places offer incense to him.
As more and more people came to worship him, Shantu could actually see the outside world through those body sculptures, and his body remained in the appearance of a teenager and would never change.
Leng Hei was a little surprised when he saw Shan Tu sending Liu Yi away. "Why did you send him away?"
"If we don't send him away, he will die anyway." Shantu thought of Xiaohua.
Heileng shook his head and said, "He has spiritual energy in his body, so it's possible that he can survive here."
Shantu's eyes suddenly lit up, "Yes, yes, yes!"
But this time he waited for a long time before he finally saw a cultivator, and he was a demon cultivator at that.
The simple-minded Shan Tu told all the secrets to the demon cultivator, but he didn't expect that the demon cultivator would find his weakness and swallow him. From then on, this place began to change.
The Demonic Cultivation Sutra uses the power of the Mountain Map to open the Gate of Destiny on a large scale, lure those cultivators in, and then devour them to increase their cultivation.
Li Xiaoxiao felt mixed emotions when she saw this.
After a long time, she slowly opened her eyes, her eyes full of complicated emotions. Now she had swallowed up Shantu and Moxiu, so this world was hers.
Rong Qi hurried forward and asked, "How do you feel? Are you okay?"
Li Xiaoxiao shook her head gently, indicating that it was nothing serious, and looked at Rongqi with a grateful smile.
Then she stood up and looked around at the world that now belonged to her.
She knew very well that this world was filled with many stories, joys and sorrows, and a sense of responsibility welled up in her heart.
"What should we do next?" Rong Qi asked directly. He just had a hunch that he could get out by following her.
As Li Xiaoxiao woke up, those who were still pretending to practice also slowly stood up, a little embarrassed and not daring to look at her.
Li Xiaoxiao glanced at them coldly, then tore a hole in the air with his hand. Everyone looked and saw the auction hall outside.
So after bowing to Li Xiaoxiao, they jumped in and left.
Finally, only Rong Qi was left. Li Xiaoxiao asked in confusion, "What? Why aren't you leaving?"
Rong Qi weighed the old man Lingxu behind him and asked, "Do we look familiar to each other?"
Li Xiaoxiao curled her lips and smiled, changes began to appear on her face, and soon her true appearance was revealed.
"It's you! No wonder I feel familiar with you."
Li Xiaoxiao patted him on the shoulder and sent him out.