Chapter 22 Stairs

Looking at the empty fourth floor, Li Chuyi was stunned for a moment.

He thought that there might be some powerful seals or powerful formations on the fourth floor, and he was even prepared to start a battle as soon as he got up. However, he never thought that there was nothing on the fourth floor!

Except for the faintly glowing roof and walls, which provided the only light for this empty environment, the fourth floor was empty.

"As you can see, there is nothing on the fourth floor." The Taoist glanced at Li Chuyi, lowered his head and stamped his feet lightly, and a burst of accumulated dust immediately flew up as the Taoist stepped on it.

"Except for this thick layer of dust," the Taoist priest added.

Li Chuyi looked at the dust that had accumulated on the ground for who knows how long, and was speechless. Along the way, the entire Wuyang Cemetery never felt like a tomb to Li Chuyi. Instead, it felt like an empty city that was empty and uninhabited but regularly cleaned. Everywhere was clean and spotless. Feel. Whether it was the flowers, plants and trees he encountered while walking on the first floor, or the magnificent grassland created by the illusion on the second floor, Li Chuyi felt that they were full of vitality, and the soil that raised them was also full of vitality.

But this fourth floor made Li Chuyi feel that it was a tomb for the first time, because although there was nothing on the fourth floor, it was this feeling of emptiness and the thick dust on the ground that made Li Chuyi feel... The unique feeling in the tomb - the air of death, the cold and silent air of death.

"After many years of investigation, I have determined that the "Ghost Scripture" is very likely to be hidden on the fifth floor of this library. I have been here several times before and tried various methods, but I have no clue." The Taoist priest stood aside. Said, "At first, I thought there was an illusory formation blocking the way to the fifth floor. Later, I thought it was the old monster Wuyang who had arranged some kind of space shifting method here, making it impossible for me to find the way. However, after trying After trying many methods, I found that it was not the case.”

Looking at the empty fourth floor, the Taoist priest said helplessly: "The results of my experiment tell me that this is the fourth floor, there is no illusion, and I have not been transferred by any spatial secrets. This is the fourth floor, an empty and empty fourth floor. "

Looking at the low roof above his head, Li Chuyi asked: "Then have you tried to penetrate the roof directly to the fifth floor?"

The Taoist priest didn't say anything, he just slapped his palm into the sky, and a golden light flew out from the Taoist priest's palm and hit the roof.

Boom~~~

After a loud noise, Li Chuyi found that except for the dust, the roof was undamaged.

Boom~Boom~Boom~Boom~~~~

The Taoist priest struck the surroundings with a few more palms, but apart from the smoke and dust flying in the sky, neither the roof nor the surrounding walls were damaged in the place where he was hit. Even if it weren't for the flying ash in the sky and the buzzing in his ears for a long time, With the sound of bombardment, Li Chuyi would even think that nothing happened.

Li Chuyi knew very well how powerful Taoist priests were. But knowing how powerful the Taoist priests were, Li Chuyi was very surprised at how strong this place was.

After fanning the flying ashes in front of his eyes, the Taoist priest turned to Li Chuyi and said: "Now, you are the last method I can think of. You have Yin and Yang Dao eyes, and you have talents that even I don't have as a teacher. I hope You can see what's going on here and find out the hidden secrets."

After looking at the Taoist priest who looked expectant, Li Chuyi said nothing.

Closing his eyes and holding Yuan Shouyi in his arms, Li Chuyi for the first time in his life seriously and fully mobilized what he had cultivated throughout his life. Feeling that the breath in his body was like a wild horse running wildly, Li Chuyi silently recited the mantra of clairvoyance, used his energy to his eyes, and slowly opened his eyes.

This time, it was no longer a beam of light, but two wisps of light that seemed to be substantial suddenly flashed out of his eyes. Li Chuyi's field of vision suddenly turned into black and white, and the objects in his field of vision seemed to become more colorful than before. Clear.

With his eyes widened, Li Chuyi walked forward slowly.

In the black and white vision, what Li Chuyi saw was no different from before. The thick dust on the ground turned gray-white, and the surrounding walls turned into bright white light, but nothing related to the monks that was surrounded by various colors appeared in the eyes. Just like Li Chuyi's first impression when he went upstairs, there was no formation, no illusion, nothing.

"Did you see anything?" the Taoist priest asked eagerly.

Li Chuyi shook his head silently.

Seeing this, the Taoist priest was silent for a long time, shook his head and sighed, and said slightly bitterly: "Hey, fate shouldn't be there, what a chance!"

Li Chuyi looked at the Taoist priest and felt very uncomfortable. I had just found out that I was extremely talented, and I was so excited that I felt like I could do anything. It didn't take long before he encountered this situation, and it was like a basin of cold water being poured on his head.

Li Chuyi knew that it was not that his talent was not good, but that his cultivation level was too low. Although this was a very helpless and helpless matter, it was rare for a Taoist priest to ask for anything from him, but he couldn't help him. Li Chuyi still felt really sorry for the Taoist priest.

In this way, the master and the disciple each thought about their own thoughts and fell silent. The empty dead building returned to dead silence for a while, and only occasionally could the inaudible breathing of the master and the apprentice be heard.

After an unknown amount of time passed, the Taoist priest straightened his waist and said in a loud voice, "That's all. What I have gained is my luck, and what I have lost is my fate. It is not my own chance. I cannot force it!"

Hearing the Taoist priest's voice, Li Chuyi came to his senses, bowed and said to the Taoist priest: "Master, I'm sorry, the disciple is incompetent and cannot help the master."

"It has nothing to do with you!" The Taoist priest laughed, "I brought you here just in case, just to give it a try. It's good that you can see through it, but it's reasonable that you can't see through it, so don't I feel guilty. Besides, if you, a little brat who has only been practicing Taoism for ten years, can figure out what I can’t understand, then how can I be such a fool?”

Li Chuyi smiled slightly when he heard this, and his guilt suddenly faded a lot.

"Master, what should we do now?" Li Chuyi raised his head and asked.

"What else can we do? Let's go! Is it possible that we are here to eat ashes?!"

After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he turned towards the stairs and was about to leave. When Li Chu saw this, he quickly followed.

The moment the Taoist priest came downstairs, Li Chuyi seemed to see something, and he was stunned and froze there. The Taoist priest walking in front felt that Li Chuyi had stopped, so he also stopped and turned to look at Li Chuyi strangely.

Li Chu had been staring at the entrance of the stairs for a long time, and suddenly he rushed to the entrance of the stairs with a few steps. He raised his feet and kept kicking up the dust on the ground around the entrance of the stairs. Suddenly, a dust mist filled the air.

Seeing Li Chuyi's strange behavior, the Taoist priest thought for a moment and realized that Li Chuyi must have discovered something. He rushed back to the fourth floor in a few steps, stopped Li Chuyi who was kicking non-stop, and said, "I'll do it."

After saying that, the Taoist priest waved his sleeves, and a strong wind suddenly swept across. The entire ground around the stairway became clean, and dust flew all over the sky, faintly covering the stairway.

"Master, look, look!" Li Chuyi suddenly grabbed the Taoist priest excitedly and pointed at the stairs and kept shouting.

The Taoist priest heard the sound and looked around, but saw nothing but dust all over the sky. After a while, he asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Look at the dust!" Li Chuyi looked excited, "Look at the dust, although it is flying all over the sky and gradually falling, it has all landed on the ground on the fourth floor, and the stairs leading to the fourth floor are still a piece of dust. Isn’t it strange that it is spotless?”

The Taoist priest was stunned when he heard this and turned to look again.

Li Chuyi ignored the Taoist priest, stared at the stairs with gleaming eyes, and continued: "In addition to being invulnerable to water and fire, this fourth floor is completely empty, and there is not even a little strange place. No. The only strange thing is the dust on the ground. I can’t say that everything we walked along was spotless, but at least it was clean, but it was so thick here. Isn't it strange that the dust only fell here, but it didn't fall at all on such a large stairway? Isn't it strange that the dust on it disappeared when it fell? "

Seeing the Taoist priest's thoughtful expression, Li Chuyi continued: "When Master walked downstairs just now, he stirred up a cloud of flying ash. I found that the ash disappeared when it flew there. At first I thought it was to remove Dust spells or similar dust removal methods, but these methods all isolate or disperse dust, rather than making them disappear. But the dust here has disappeared, which can only mean one thing!"

Li Chuyi looked into the Taoist priest's eyes and said word by word: "There is a problem here!"

The Taoist priest had already understood this. Looking at Li Chuyi's chubby face that was stained by the flying ash, he smiled happily and praised: "Not bad! You did a great job this time! Even the teacher didn't notice that you did it this time Very beautiful!”

After speaking, regardless of Li Chuyi's objection, he reached out and pinched Li Chuyi's chubby face, and then wiped the dust on his face. As a result, the horizontal and vertical lines became even dirtier. The Taoist priest was even more excited when he saw this. I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After laughing, the Taoist priest turned his head and looked at the stairs again, with a thoughtful look on his face. When Li Chu saw the Taoist priest thinking, he didn't dare to disturb him. He stared at his twinkling Yin-Yang Taoist eyes and stared straight at the stairs.

Suddenly, the Taoist priest seemed to have thought of something, and grabbed a handful of accumulated dust. Watching the handful of dust slowly slipping from his fingers, the Taoist priest's face turned stern and he murmured: "Sure enough!"

Li Chuyi asked strangely: "Master, what's the matter? Is there something wrong with this ashes?"

The Taoist priest nodded when he heard this and said: "This is not ordinary dust, this is the ashes of corpses that have been sacrificed!"

Li Chuyi was stunned and instantly felt nauseated. Yes, it was filled with smoke just now. He seemed to have eaten a lot, and now it was all over his face and body. Now that he heard that it was corpse ashes, Li Chu felt acid reflux in his stomach and almost vomited it out.

The Taoist priest ignored Li Chuyi, who was retching next to him. His eyes were slightly closed, his hands were clasped on both sides of his body, and he was silent for half a minute. Suddenly he shouted in a low voice: "Gather the sand to form a tower!"

Following the Taoist priest's shout, it was as if a strong wind swept across them, and the corpse ashes on the entire fourth floor were immediately swept up into the sky, swirling towards the Taoist priest's head.

When Li Chu saw this, he quickly covered his mouth and nose and held his breath, for fear of swallowing a few more mouthfuls of this disgusting thing.

When the corpse ashes all over the sky gathered into a big ball above the Taoist priest's head, the Taoist priest clasped his hands together, performed several spells in an instant, and pointed in the direction of the stairs.

"disease!"

Then he saw the corpse ash ball changing in response, turning into a river of sand, flying towards the staircase, where it flew and circled, gradually forming a spiral staircase similar to the one when it came up.

When the last wisp of corpse ashes fell on the piled stairs, the Taoist priest put away his magic skills and murmured: "It's done!"

Looking at the staircase made of corpse ashes, although Li Chuyi was still disgusted, he could not hide his excitement.

"Let's go up quickly!" Li Chuyi said excitedly.

The Taoist smiled and said, "Go up and try."

Although Li Chuyi felt strange, he still walked up.

When Li Chuyi stepped on the first step of the stairs, the stairs made of corpse ashes suddenly scattered and turned into flying ashes again. Li Chuyi missed a step and almost fell. When Li Chuyi stepped back, the flying ashes in the sky gathered into stairs again and appeared there, as if they had never changed.

"Why is this?" Li Chuyi asked puzzledly.

The Taoist smiled and said, "Because, this staircase is not for people to walk on."

"Not for people to walk on?"

"That's right!" The Taoist nodded, "To be precise, this staircase is not for living things to walk on. This staircase is for ghosts to walk on."

Li Chuyi's eyes widened and he asked stupidly, "What do you mean? Could it be that Wuyang Old Monster is not a demon cultivator but a ghost cultivator?"

The Taoist nodded, shook his head, and said, "Yes and no."

Seeing Li Chuyi looking at him with a puzzled look, the Taoist smiled and explained, "Wuyang Old Monster is indeed a demon cultivator, but he has five souls. I thought his five souls were cultivated according to the five elements, and the various signs he left behind also proved that this should be the case, but it seems that this is not the case today. At least one of the five soul powers of Wuyang Old Monster is cultivating dead souls!"

"Dead souls?" Li Chuyi scratched his head, "Is it the same as ghost cultivation?"

"Almost the same, but there are still some differences." The Taoist explained, "Ghost cultivation is a physical body. They are dead, but their souls are still lingering, and finally they condense their soul bodies and cultivate their ghost bodies. As for the dead souls, they are indeed living people who cultivate ghost ways, and they sacrifice their living souls to become dead souls, in order to master both life and death at the same time and achieve enlightenment. Their bodies are not destroyed, but their souls are dead. These people can no longer be considered human beings, but they can't be considered ghosts either. We generally call them living dead people. "

Li Chuyi was stunned when he heard it, and after a long time he said, "Oh my god, living dead people? It sounds amazing! You can also practice like this? ! Aren't these people unkillable?"

The Taoist laughed and said, "It's amazing. If you practice to a high level, you can almost be immortal. However, with such a heaven-defying practice method, how can the stingy God forgive you? Not to mention that the ordinary three disasters, nine tribulations, and eighteen difficulties are a hundred times more powerful than ordinary cultivators, and even ghost cultivators, even in ordinary times, if you are discovered by the Heavenly Dao, you will be given a taste of thunder tribulations at any time. To put it simply, you will be struck by thunder at any time. "

Li Chuyi couldn't close his mouth. Although he had never experienced the power of thunder tribulation, he had heard a lot about it. Except for old monsters like Taoist priests, which other cultivators would not be terrified by the mention of thunder tribulation, as if their parents had died in three lifetimes? This living dead man not only has to go through the tribulation that ordinary cultivators have to go through, but if the heavens don't like you, they can give you a few more at any time. Li Chuyi couldn't imagine how crazy someone would be to practice this kind of Taoism.

After being stunned for a long time, Li Chuyi asked: "Master, is there really anyone who practices this way? Has anyone succeeded?"

The Taoist pondered for a long time and said: "There are indeed people who practice this way, but it is unknown whether anyone has succeeded. It is just that legend has it that if the person who practices this way does not die and finally achieves the right result and ascends to heaven, then the power of the person who practices this way is several times or even hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary cultivators. Even in the legendary fairyland, no one dares to mess with him. But these are all legends, and I don't know whether it is true or not."

"Then this old monster Wuyang has cultivated the dead soul, so isn't he also a living dead person? No, is he a living dead demon?" Li Chuyi asked again.

The Taoist shook his head and said, "Although this Wuyang old monster cultivated the dead soul, it can't be considered as cultivating the way of life and death. Strictly speaking, he took advantage of it. He has five souls and cultivated five spirits. I guess he only sacrificed one of them to become a dead soul, and the other four spirits are the normal way of cultivating the five elements. Usually, these four normal spirits cover up the dead soul to confuse the way of heaven. Therefore, although Wuyang old monster has profound magic power and a fierce reputation, no one has ever heard that he is a person with many thunder tribulations. It is estimated that he has reached that last step and is ready to ascend to heaven, so he can no longer conceal it. He was stopped, and was discovered by the Heavenly Dao, so he died on that last step. "

Speaking of this, the Taoist sighed and said with emotion: "But even so, this Wuyang old monster is also a man of great perseverance. With five souls, he did not follow the ordinary five elements, but wanted to connect yin and yang, and sacrifice a primordial spirit to become a dead soul, and deceived the Heavenly Dao for so long, which is really powerful. It's a pity that he died in the end. If he didn't die and succeeded, his future achievements would be unimaginable. "

After the Taoist finished speaking, he was amazed, his eyes were erratic, and he was fascinated.

Li Chuyi was also listening to him with fascination and blood boiling. But although he felt that the Wuyang old monster was very powerful, Li Chuyi still felt that he was stupid.

Damn, five primordial spirits, such good talent conditions, he would be more powerful than others if he took the right path, but he had to cultivate dead souls and take the path of life and death. Isn't this looking for death?

If it were me, it would be impossible for me to seek death. Just kidding, he was just an ordinary little boy who wanted to live a comfortable life. He practiced Taoism because the Taoist priest had told him to do so since he was a child. He himself didn't know whether his practice was right, why he practiced Taoism, and how far he could go. Anyway, experience told him that it was right to listen to the Taoist priest.

If I could have the opportunity like Wuyang Laoguai, it would be obvious that I could achieve the right result and become an immortal. I would not seek death for the sake of being higher, faster and stronger.

Come to think of it, the Taoist's previous teachings were absolutely right.

Don't show off, be low-key.

Live is the hard truth!

Li Chuyi felt that he had found the Taoist's heart.