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Chapter 197 The last item for advancing to the third rank [Soul Crosser]

As time goes by, the villagers of Shengke Village are getting old.

The flesh and blood of their whole bodies cracked and fell off as if they had been air-dried, and screams could be heard in the village every day. When they got up, they saw the closest people lying beside them, turning into monsters, including themselves!
The old man seemed to be just the beginning of the curse, which spread to the whole village at an unexpected speed.

Everyone was going crazy, their flesh and blood fell off completely and turned into bones.

They couldn't accept that they had become like this, and began to try to end their lives in various ways.

However, even if the bones were dismantled into pieces, these bones seemed to have consciousness remaining, even if they were smashed into powder, they would still move!

Move with awareness!

and……

With unimaginable pain!

The pulverized bones, each piece carries a split consciousness, like countless swords piercing through the brain, dividing the brain into countless fragments, but it is not dead yet, and the nerves still send a piercing pain.

If you don't fight back, you will have to bear the pain of soul consciousness, as if being stuffed into a blender and constantly smashed!

The more villagers try this way, the more bones there are, scattered around.

In the end, they all failed, unable to die and bear terrible pain at the same time, and could only work hard to piece it back together.

But those bones could no longer be put back into human form, and turned into monsters with animal bones, like suture monsters.

The injuries suffered by the soul are like wounds that cannot heal. Once they move the strange-shaped bones on their bodies, they will feel the pain of broken souls. Every step they take is a torment.

This hellish scene shocked the hearts of all the villagers, and many of them went crazy, scrambling out like headless chickens.

The moment I left the Bone Village...

With a snap, the bones fell apart immediately.

Looks like it ended successfully...

But some villagers have witnessed the truth—even if the bones are broken, the head will still remain intact.

Although the body couldn't move, the skeleton was still able to make a sound, using the idioms of the living before, murmuring dreamlike words, indicating that the consciousness was not completely dead!

All the villagers were terrified.

They realize that leaving the village is not the way to end the curse, but to fall into an even more terrible curse.

But then more villagers couldn't help going crazy, lost their sober and rational consciousness, walked out in a daze, walked into the sea of ​​dead bodies, and with a bang, their bodies were shattered and turned into part of it.

To stop all this...

The villagers of Shengke Village adapted to the activities of the bones and built a thick wall around the village.

They are not to keep outsiders from coming in, but to prevent themselves from going out.

However, this is just the beginning of a 300-year curse.

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For a moment, Chen Ye seemed to see the shadow of the bloody countdown in Linjiang City from the residents of Shengke Village.

The power of will is very strong, even if it is weak, but the instinct of creatures often bursts out unexpected energy in times of despair.

I can't ask for death.

These villagers gradually got used to the activities of the bones, and became numb to the piercing pain.

Among them, the erhu old man was the most painful, and he regretted it very much.

Regret that he shouldn't have made a deal with the devil, which made the villagers end up like this.

Instead, the villagers began to comfort them, saying that if it weren't for the wine, they would have been unconscious and would have no hope.

Maybe... it will be more painful...

Time heals the pain of long years.

Although he lost his speaking organ, the old erhu man found that he could still play erhu.

But that suona, and the figure of that young man, did not know where to go.

The old man playing the erhu, the melodious sound of the music, like a galloping horse galloping on the free and vast grassland, makes people forget the worldly troubles and the pain on the body.

Gradually, the villagers discovered that music can stabilize their emotions. Although it may not make them happy, it can at least restrain their madness.

Shengke Village seems to have become a village of music.

Every villager is familiar with taking out raw materials from the previous wooden houses to make orchestral instruments.

Through playing music and dancing, to relieve the despair.

Over the course of the long years, the villagers' musical understanding has become stronger and stronger, and they can even communicate through musical instruments by simulating the pitch of previous speech.

In a brand new way, Shengshou Village gradually began to stabilize.

But they are still trying to find a way to break the curse.

Lifting the curse has become the motivation and hope for them to persist in maintaining rationality.

Some villagers speculated whether the curse could be removed by dispelling the wine of eternal life.

This guess immediately caused some villagers to organize to go up the mountain to find a way.

They found the wine of immortality located in the spring water on the top of the mountain, and suddenly a 'door' appeared.

But that 'door', as long as you go in, you can never come back.

The spring water turned into a pitch-black ink color, as if endowed with life, and began to flow with life, like tentacles...

These ignorant villagers rashly approached the top of the mountain. Suddenly, tentacles appeared from the 'door' and pulled them in!
The rest of the villagers backed away in fright...

It didn't take long.

A skeleton spit out from the 'door', as if it had been chewed by some kind of creature, and then spit it out into the sea of ​​dead bodies.

They saw that the bone had lost its body, only its head remained, but it still retained consciousness.

The result of approaching the top of the mountain... is not fundamentally different from jumping directly into the sea of ​​dead bodies.

This attempt ended in failure with the loss of several villagers.

The villagers had no choice but to build a circle of iron railings around the top of the mountain to prohibit approaching.

Since then...

The top of the mountain, like the outside of Shengke Village, has become a restricted area.

The villagers are desperate, they can't find a way to break the curse, they can only wait, wait, wait for a miracle to appear.

One day, a ghost ship sailed from the mist at the boundary of the sea where the bones were churning.

The group of descendants of the Sea God who came from the ship turned out to be their own kind!
This island was originally the ancestral land of the descendants of the Sea God, but in order to meet the living conditions required by the growing population, a group of people chose to move to other sea areas to seek a broader space for development.

The Sea God Clan has a tradition of offering sacrifices to the Dragon God every five years.

They came back this time because of a disaster in the outside world, and they wanted to make sacrifices to the Dragon God to get good weather.

But I didn't expect to arrive here, it turned out to be like this.

When the villagers saw the ghost ship and the figure of the same kind, they suddenly seemed to see hope!

They chose one of the mountain paths and opened up a dark gate to receive visitors.

A witch came over, wanting to investigate the situation here.

But the witch came in, as if aware of a certain crisis, she turned around and wanted to leave!

When she stepped out of the village... just like the villagers of Shengke Village, she turned into bones and fell to the ground, leaving only a skull, a bigger skull, at the place where the dark gate was originally .

The other Sea Gods were frightened immediately. They ignored the shouts and pleas of the villagers, and quickly boarded the ghost ship.

Only the villagers in the rear shouted loudly, asking those tribesmen to think of a way to lift the curse.

However, they don't have speaking organs, they just use orchestral instruments to make high-pitched and sharp tones, but to normal people, it's more like howling ghosts and wolves in the abyss!
This way of communication, apart from the villagers of Shengke Village, how could other existences understand it?

Followed by.

The ghost ship is far away.

Before he left, he seemed to be able to see a certain heir of the Sea God who left a plaque at the door.

That plaque happens to be at the entrance to the trestle bridge.

Five years, ten years, 20 years have passed...

The villagers of Shengshou Village still haven't waited for the arrival of salvation, and they are almost desperate.

at this time.

A young figure appeared at the door.

He holds a suona in his hand.

The villagers of Shengke Village were collectively shocked, and they came to the door and told the boy not to come in.

At the door, the huge skeleton that the witch turned into has become a profound lesson.

Can't repeat the same mistakes...

The boy didn't go in, and his figure didn't seem to have changed after so many years.

He said helplessly: "I have only one way to save my master..."

"The way is..."

"Play this sheet music together."

The figures of the two seemed to overlap, and after a long time, they reunited like a miracle, and performed a long-lost ensemble.

It seems that the music from another world spans the past, present and future, and echoes under the dark sky. That ancient and lonely stone tablet has witnessed everything.

suddenly.

A golden light shrouded this place, echoing here as if carrying the artistic conception of the soul transcending the sea of ​​suffering.

Chen Ye recognized that this was [Heavenly Rites and Music]!
Moreover, it was adapted from the final chapter of Crossing the Soul, and I am so familiar with it that I can't be more familiar with it!
At this moment, the golden glow suddenly erupted, covering the old man's body.

The phantom of the old man on the erhu seems to have gained a transcendent sublimation in the golden glow, following the young man, floating beside the 'door'.

The boy stopped at the entrance of the 'gate', looked at the villagers below who also showed the desire for salvation, and sighed:
"The current Suona can only allow Master to be redeemed. You need to wait."

"but……"

"If the same music, or this suona in my hand, reappears, it will be the time for you to be liberated."

As soon as the words fell, the figures of the two disappeared in the gray mist.

Only the bones of the old man Erhu remained on the ground.

However, the skeleton was scattered on the ground and had lost consciousness.

All the bone creatures gathered around, looking at the bones that had returned to the dust on the ground, in their empty eyes, it seemed as if a gloomy torch was reflected, as if they saw the most precious treasure in the world!
Curse, truly, delivered!
Although there are only old erhu...

But at this moment...

The villagers of Shengshou Village saw the light of salvation, lighting up the dark and lightless sky like a long night of fire!
The little old man engraved this prophecy on a stone tablet and made a similar erhu to remember these past events, commemorate his friend, and remember this hopeful prophecy...

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The picture melted like water and gradually dissipated.

Chen Ye's consciousness returned to the living skeleton village at this moment.

At this time, the light of the stele returned to calm, and the words on it had long been obliterated.

After such a long time, the villagers of Shengshou Village have almost forgotten their hope, living like walking corpses.

Only the stele remembers everything.

But the prophecy engraved on it was also obliterated by the wind and sand. Only the little old man made the same erhu... After countless years, the accumulated playing skills awakened the dusty past.

this moment.

Chen Ye finally knew what happened in Shengke Village!
"It turns out that the old man Erhu is not the heir of the Sea God, but a rescued survivor."

"Curse... the wine of eternal life... This should be a characteristic related to the [undead], but the price of eternal life is often more terrible than death."

"It turns out that the skeleton at the door was transformed by a witch who accidentally got involved here. No wonder the lineage of the priestess who is the descendant of the sea god has been broken. I am afraid that he also saw the curse of the witch, so he deliberately concealed the past and never returned to the ancestral land. Dragon God Festival."

"The plaque at the door [Strange Do Not Enter] was originally left by Agaka's ancestors, but none of their descendants knew about it..."

Chen Ye couldn't help being speechless. When they came in, the group of descendants of the sea god were stunned by the plaque for a moment, but it turned out that they were the ones who left it behind.

But soon, he frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

There are many doubts about the memory picture.

For example, at the beginning, the world looked normal, but after a few screen jumps, it suddenly turned into an apocalyptic appearance.

What happened in between?
And, what ability does the Erhu old man have, and why can he bring the wine of eternal life from the gray fog?
Who is that mysterious boy holding a suona?

The black sun that caused the death of Shengshou Village... It seems to be somewhat similar to the black sun that caused the island country to fall. Is there any relationship between the two?
In the end, the old erhu man managed to go to the spiritual world by playing [Heaven Rituals and Music], but his physical body has turned into an unconscious wreck... As for where he went?And what happened next?Why did that suona become my first characteristic item...

There are so many questions, it seems like a huge web of fate, connecting 300 years ago and 300 years later.

Chen Ye couldn't help but start to doubt that he was able to obtain Suona at the beginning. After a series of events, he unlocked the [Soul Crossing Man] sequence, what kind of fate did he have to bear behind it?
That fate is related to the golden star in the halo of luck.

"Destiny?"

Chen Ye murmured, his pupils seemed to reflect flames, trying to solve the mystery.

My destiny... what is it?
He took a deep breath and refocused his attention on the nearest problem.

now……

I am afraid that I have also fallen into the curse of [Living Skeleton Village]. As a living person, if you leave directly from that gate, you will turn into a skeleton.

Since the rule of [Do not enter the living] can work on witches, it can naturally affect him as well.

Of course, he can rely on the way of walking in the spirit world, without going through the dark gate, and leave [Skeleton Village].

But whether the curse will be triggered is still a question...

What's more, walking in the gray fog requires a lot of spiritual power, and at my current stage, it is difficult to meet this requirement.

The only way left is to lift the curse!
At this moment, the little old man seemed to think of something, and said:

"I remember that old friend said that he left something on this stone tablet. If the erhu and suona start to play together again, that thing will return to the world. Maybe it can help you..."

Holding the erhu in his hand, he looked at the suona in Chen Ye's hand, and said a little uncertainly:
"But I don't know if the erhu in my hand will work... Maybe I can try it."

"it is good."

Chen Ye nodded.

Immediately afterwards, he put the suona to his mouth and played it together with the little old man.

The piece played is the simplest "Lullaby".

Although the little old man's playing skills are not as good as the old man's erhu, he unexpectedly matches the suona quite well.

I don't know if it's the music skills, they all come from the same master...

With the tacit understanding of suona and erhu, the more and more cooperation, the sound of the music gradually becomes one.

During the performance, a ray of light suddenly burst out from the stele.

The light became brighter and brighter, and gradually turned into golden light, connecting to the suona in Chen Ye's hand.

The golden stars are getting brighter and brighter!
At this moment, an object was slowly condensed from above the stone tablet in the golden light!

Chen Ye saw a golden light splitting out from this object, connecting to the suona in his hand and the deepest golden star.

He realized something immediately.

"Is this the last item to advance to rank three [Soul Crossing Man]?"

(End of this chapter)