Ice Fantasy Chapter 11: Snow Country (6)

Then I knelt down with all the families in the whole hall, and I heard all the worship and prayers to the king.

But when Wang was about to walk out of the hall, he stopped suddenly, in front of my little brother Chi Mo. My elder brother Chi Mo knelt on the ground, lowered his head and did not speak.

I saw Wang's face suddenly changed, and countless snowstorms suddenly surged in his eyes, and he turned his head to look at my father. I saw the terrified face of my father, and there was an ice-blue murderous look on Wang's face, and I felt a heavy pressure covering my body. Only then did I realize how insurmountable Wang's illusion is.

I heard the old voice of my father, and he said in a low voice: Wang, I know what to do. I watched the king leave the hall, the wind filled his phoenix robe, fluttering like a heron with wings spread. When he left the main hall, my little brother suddenly fell on the ground of the palace, his eyes were closed, his hair was scattered along the robe, and white crystal blood kept gushing from his mouth.

Father came over, picked him up, and left the hall. When he walked to the gate, he turned his head and said to me: Die Che, from now on, you are the king of the Wule clan, and you have the destiny of the entire family.

Father has already left, and everyone has left as well, only I am standing in the middle of the empty hall, not knowing where to go. I looked up at the high dome, tears streaming down my face.

From that day on, I never saw my little brother, Chi Mo again.

Since the day my little brother left me, I have had similar endless dreams. In the dream, there is Chi Mo's clean smile, he is standing on the high city wall in white clothes like snow, he is imposing, he is waiting for me to go home. Countless birds gather and disperse in the sky, like those ever-changing floating clouds, feathers fall, cherry blossoms bloom, and my brother's robe flutters in the wind. My brother is playing the piano, his fingers are dry and flexible, but his rhythm is cracked and bright, like the tearing morning sun. I always hear my brother talking to me about the hopelessness, the brokenness, the love that will do whatever it takes. At the end of the dream, the fluttering cherry blossoms always turn red in an instant, bright red like the light and color of the sun melting into the water and turning into a phantom. Then it all faded away, my brother's smile flickering in and out of the dissipating mist.

I always ask my father, where my elder brother Chi Mo has gone, is he okay, and why he hasn't come to see me.

My father and king are always silent, just looking at the sky and pointing at the figures of snowbirds flying across the sky, he said to me: Die Che, look at those birds, how free they are.

I will suddenly think of the past, when my little brother Chi Mo took me to the depths of the snow fog forest to see the birds passing through the shadows, and watched the shadows of the trees fall into his pupils and turn into a strange black. But for a moment of trance, more than a hundred years have passed.

The sound of thunder rolled across the sky, resounding through the entire Illusory Snow Empire like dense drumbeats.

My elder brother Chi Mo died at the age of 200, the year I became the king of the Wule clan at the age of 190.

I killed my brother, my beloved brother Chi Mo. The elder brother who has the fragrance of flowers blooming on his body, the elder brother who loves me the most, the elder brother who says "with Die Che, I will never be lonely".

One month after my brother Chi Mo disappeared, I had a dream. In the dream, Chi Mo was locked under the altar, dark and damp. He was nailed to a wall with his head bowed, his hair falling down to cover his handsome face. I couldn't see his face, but I knew my brother must be in pain.

I went to find my father, and my father told me about my brother. The father's narration was slow and psychedelic, like a vague but clear dream. When I woke up, I had already burst into tears.

My father told me that Chi Mo's queen mother is actually the woman he loves the most in his life. His mother's queen has fiery red pupils and long hair fluttering like flames, because she is a member of the Fire Clan. When her father married her, she still had the appearance of a woman from the Ice Race, but when she was 200 years old, her hair and eyes suddenly turned into flames that burned everything, and red became the fire that broke the sky.

Chi Mo's queen mother gave birth to Chi Mo for my father. When Chi Mo was born, his mother cut open his stomach with an ice sword, and then countless sparkling fire seeds rolled down to the ground. Chi Mo appeared in the flames with a serene expression and vivid eyes. Then the flames were extinguished slowly, and Chi Mo's hair and pupils turned as white as his father's, but his father knew that when Chi Mo was 200 years old, he would definitely return to his Fire Clan appearance. When the king passed by Chi Mo that day, he spotted Chi Mo. My elder brother turned out to be a descendant of the fire clan, so Wang asked my father to make Chi Mo disappear, and he used cruel punishment. So my elder brother had to be nailed to the wall by five ice swords for 14 days, and then he could die slowly after waiting for the blood to drain.

When I heard this, my tears kept flowing, and I thought of my little brother's thin body.

I finally saw my elder brother Chi Mo in the dark room under the altar. He was nailed to the thick basalt wall by several ice swords. Red blood flowed continuously along the ice swords that pierced his chest. Down, spread out on the icy ground. I saw that his hair and pupils had turned bright red like a flame.

I walked to his feet, and he leaned down to look at me from above. I saw his face covered by his hair. There was no pain or resentment in his expression, but he was still calm and full of gratitude.

He said to me: Die Che, you already know everything, right? I looked at Chi Mo's red pupils, nodded, and said: Got it, little brother. He said: Die Che, don't be sad, I never hated my father, I like you even more. I have been able to come to this world once, I already feel very lucky. Please take care of my father and everyone in the Wule clan on my behalf.

When I went, the third ice sword pierced through his chest, and I heard the sound of **** flesh, muffled like viscous magma gurgling.

I saw my brother's frowning eyebrows, and my heart was pierced. Chi Mo looked at me, he said: Die Che, don't be sad, there are still two ice swords. Then I can go to sleep.

I said: Brother, why did the king treat you so cruelly? I won't allow it. Then I walked over, summoned the ice sword in my hand, and pierced his throat with a sword.

My elder brother Chi Mo lowered his head, his hair covered my face, his tears dripped on my eyes, and I heard the muffled voice in his throat. He said: Die Che, why are you so stupid, breaking the law for me?

I said: brother, how can I see you so sad. Chi Mo's blood flowed down the ice sword in my hand, and gradually stained my entire Wule clan illusion robe.

Because I killed Chi Mo, whom the king asked to be tortured to death, the king was furious with me. When my father looked at me, there was only sadness and pity in his eyes. I walked over and hugged him, and for a moment the old wrinkles spread on his face like fast-growing vines.

He said: What do you do? I said: Father, I am no longer ready to be the king of the Wule clan. I will leave this palace, find a random place, live in seclusion, and spend the rest of my life. My father did not speak, I only heard the birds chirping through the sky, I raised my head, and thought of those falling gray feathers and the eyes of my brother Chi Mo in a trance.

When I was about to leave the palace, I met a woman at the foot of the tall city wall, and she told me her name was Yuan Ji. She asked me if I would like to see if my feelings for my brother Chi Mo could move the legendary Wall of Sighs. I looked back at my family's palace and thought it was so small, like a crystal garden.

Yuan Ji said: Yes, it is a crystal garden. I turned my head suddenly, and I asked her: How do you know what I'm thinking? Yuan Ji didn't answer me, she said: I know you are the musician with the best spiritual power, would you like to take a look at the wall of sighs in the myth of the Wule clan? I lowered my head and thought about it, and found that there was nothing worthy of my nostalgia in Renxue City, so I nodded.

The moment I nodded, I saw countless flowers blooming in the air around me, the spirits of countless flowers. It wasn't a hallucination, because I saw Yuan Ji's flexion and extension of her fingers and the illusion she used.

When I left Renxue City, countless pictures suddenly appeared in my mind: I saw my brother standing in the middle of the snow and leaning down to smile at me; His eyes were like the diffused night, the massive disillusionment in his eyes; I saw Chi Mo standing at the gate of the city waiting for my return, his eyes twinkled like stars, and the color of the flower soul on his clothes flowed; I saw that When my little brother sat on the highest city wall and played the piano waiting for me to come home, the wind blew his hair and flew towards the north, his illusion robe was always clean and flowing; I saw my star-eyed and sword-browed brother was nailed On the wall, his tears fell and soaked my face and also soaked his blue illusion robe, and large water stains bloomed on the robe like lotus flowers... There was dense thunder from behind, Vigorously like the collapse of a city. I raised my head, surrounded by the fragrance of flowers in full bloom. The spirit of flowers. Little brother, little brother, my favorite Chi Mo, finally disappeared before my eyes. Brother, please forgive me, I have to leave, leave this troubled palace, leave this phantom city where I buried my green years. Maybe at the end of the day, I will see your ghost again. At that time, please smile at me, smile like tearing the sun, so that I can laugh and shed my tears, and then let me hear you sing freely .

Because Xing Gui has been sleeping and not waking up, we have been unable to go on the road. Because the front is the territory of the Northern Dharma Protector Xing Zhou, if there is no Xing Gui, every step we take will be an unpredictable purgatory.

Zongtian Xuanwu Temple is located at the highest point of a snow mountain, even standing in the territory of the Southern Guardian, it can still be seen. The magnificent white palace stretches out into the blue sky like the sharpest three-thorn sword.

During the nights when the stars were asleep, we could all see the stars on the spire of Zongtian Temple changing their positions in the sky according to strange trajectories. Occasionally, the entire temple would emit dazzling white light, and those white lights would be reflected on the pitch-black sky, projecting into a huge six-pointed star, like the traces between the eyebrows of Xingjiu's star track.

After Xing Gui was in a coma for three days, she suddenly woke up, but fell asleep again in an instant. The moment she woke up, white blood kept gushing out of her mouth. She grabbed Huang Tuo's robe and said in pain: Take me...back to Potian...the temple...take me back and beg you...then She fell into a deep sleep and never woke up again. Her face took on a deathly whiteness.

When we brought Xing Gui back to the ruined Heaven-breaking Temple, Xing Gui began to wake up, weak as if his spiritual power was about to dissipate. Huang Tuo kept her in the white protective barrier, and Xing Gui got better day by day.

In this way, we stayed in Potian Temple for nearly half a month, and Xing Gui could finally stand up.

Xinggui told me that astrologers are different from other races. They have the most peculiar bond with each other, that is, astrologers with strong spiritual power can easily suppress astrologers with weak spiritual power, and even easily To control and kill the party with weak spiritual power. That's what the astrology family has been handing down since the oldest ice age. No one can escape this restriction, so it's the saddest thing for a member of the astrology family to have weak spiritual power. That is to say, once entering the control area of ​​the Zongtian Temple, if Xing Zhou, the guardian of the north, is willing, Xing Gui's ability cannot be used at all, and even Xing Zhou can easily kill Xing Gui. Moreover, Zongtian Temple is on the highest snow mountain, so Xingzhou's control area is larger than that of any guardian.

I asked Xing Gui: Is Xing Zhou's spiritual power really that powerful? Xing Gui turned around, and she said: Wang, her power is not at the same level as the power we have seen before. Wang, you know what a good astrologer my mother-in-law is. The dream she gave you before was so realistic that even my brother couldn’t create it. The astrological rod is a vertical star rod. You can see the stars on her temple, they are constantly changing positions, and the star day can even manipulate the trajectory of the stars to some extent. This is beyond the reach of a simple astrologer. The distance between her and us is like an insurmountable moat.

I bowed my head and said nothing. Huang Tuo walked over, he hugged Xing Gui like his own little daughter, he smiled and said to Xing Gui: Then you will stay in my protective barrier forever when you are in the domain of the northern Dharma protector, don't come out, I will It can guarantee that you will not be killed by Xing Zhou. His smile was calm and firm, and I suddenly thought of my father, when the Fire Clan attacked Renxue City, he had the same expression, as firm as the most solid ice jade.

Moon God said: Huang Tuo, what should you do? You don’t know any black magic, what should you do if someone attacks you?

Huang Tuo smiled and said: It doesn't matter. Pian Feng said: It doesn't matter, I will stand by Huang Tuo's side and protect him all the time. And there is also Liao Chan, I don't think anyone is a match for me and Liao Chan except for the Northern Protector. For the next three days, Xinggui stood on the highest hillside every night for astrology. I saw her constantly raising the falling star stick to the sky. There is always a strong wind. Xinggui's hair and astrology robe are always flying upwards, and I can faintly feel the shaking of the earth.

This is the first time I have seen such a long and intense astrological ceremony, each of us stood below the hillside without speaking. At the end of the third day of star trail astrology, the beams of light condensed by the stars in the sky suddenly shattered like glass and scattered at the foot of the star trail. I saw the figure of Xinggui on the top of the mountain fall straight backwards, his robes fluttering. It's just that before Xing Gui's body touched the ground, Huang Tuo had already stepped up and hugged Xing Gui, and immediately put her into the protective barrier that had been summoned a long time ago. In that transparent ball of light, I saw white blood continuously flowing out from the corner of Xing Gui's mouth, just like when she was unconscious in the Northern Territory.

During those three days, Xing Gui found out the detailed route to enter Zongtian Xuanwu Temple, including where to stop and where to walk overnight. Xing Gui's spiritual power was overdrawn to the point of being exhausted, Huang Tuo opened the barrier for recovering spiritual power, put Xing Gui inside, and took her off. Because as soon as he entered the domain of the Northern Dharma Protector, Xing Gui had to stay in Huang Tuo's barrier all the time, otherwise he would be easily killed by Xing Zhou.

The route chosen by the star track is complicated and tortuous, passing through forests, lakes, swamps, and stone forests. Because of the precision of the star track astrology, we always pass by those astrologers in the northern realm, and there is no direct conflict. Along the way, Xing Gui was using spiritual power to suppress the other astrologers except Xing Zhou, lest we consume a lot of combat power before seeing Xing Zhou.

After ten days of walking, we stood on the top of the snow mountain. The Zongtian Xuanwu Temple stood in front of us. The palace was so high that it almost reached the sky. The star track tells us the distribution of the Zongtian Temple in the protective barrier. It arranges the palace according to the position of the hexagram. There is a very tall tower on each corner of the hexagram, which is the most favorable position for astrology. The center of the city is the main hall of Xing Zhou. And the center of the hall is Xing Zhou's Longitudinal Star Throne. That throne is made of basalt from the Xing Xingtai of Huanxue Mountain. It is endowed with infinite spiritual power by Xing Zhou, which complements and complements her spiritual power. .