Day and night tour

Chapter 95 The First Mask

Zhan Xiao Youshen was originally the helper Zhou Lingyi invited to deal with the white walkers, but now he is hindering her revenge.

"Ajin, why didn't you come earlier?" Zhou Lingyi did not stop his hands.

"I have rushed here as fast as I can."

"If you had come earlier, my brother would not have died." Zhou Lingyi stared at the sky.

"The man who died was your brother?"

Ah Jin sighed, and the red lantern flew away, leaving behind only a few words: "Zhou Lingyi tried to capture the alien ghost Ren Ao, but Ren Ao resisted. When I arrived, I had no choice but to kill him."

With just one sentence, he took the blame for breaking the rules of the Parade of Gods.

Zhou Lingyi continued to strangle Man-tsun, squeezing his flesh, blood, tendons and bones into juice! Even his soul was crushed into ashes.

Yuan Buyu also joined in without Zhou Xuan's knowledge. He knocked on the wooden stick to wake up the turtle and in his dream he saw the ancestor Bifang. The god descended from the sky and crushed the turtle's shell into bone powder with one foot!
"You rotten turtle, even if you die a thousand times, you still can't be as good as one finger of my disciple!" Yuan Buyu ended the dream, stomped on the turtle's head with one foot, and carried Zhou Xuan down the mountain.

……

"Mr. Yuan, let me carry you on my back."

Before going down the mountain, Zhou Lingyi said to Yuan Buyu.

Yuan Buyu was reluctant to let go. He wanted to carry his apprentice back to Zhou's class, but then he thought that his sister was his closest relative, so he decided to let Zhou Lingyi take him on the final journey back to the class.

Zhou Lingyi carried Zhou Xuan's body on his back and walked down the mountain with empty eyes.

As she walked, Zhou Lingyi seemed to recall the time when she took her brother to the fair as a child.

After returning from the market, his younger brother had a high fever, and it was Zhou Lingyi who carried him back home.

The younger brother was young and afraid of death, so he lay on her back and asked weakly, "Sister, will I die?"

"How could you die? You'll live to be at least a hundred years old."

Zhou Lingyi was a little dazed for a moment, and said to Zhou Xuan on his back: "Brother, did you fall asleep on my back? You must not be dead, you will live at least a hundred years..."

As she spoke, Zhou Lingyi felt a layer of mist in the air.

……

After returning to the Zhou family, Zhou Lingyi said to Yuan Buyu who was secretly wiping away tears: "Mr. Yuan, you should go back and have a rest. I will take care of my brother's funeral."

"Come along, I also want to spend more time with him." Yuan Buyu followed.

Zhou Lingyi stopped trying to persuade him. She went to Yu Zhengyuan's house without telling Zhou Xuan and knocked on the door.

Xu Li opened the door. She hadn't slept for too long. She yawned and asked Zhou Lingyi, "Boss, what's wrong?"

"Sister-in-law, my brother is dead, please light the lamp."

Xu Li felt that what she heard was unreal. She had met Zhou Xuan in the evening, so why was he... now... But she also felt that what she heard was absolutely true. With Zhou Lingyi's feelings for Zhou Xuan, how could she joke about her brother's death?

After a lot of inner struggle, Xu Li let out an "ah" and felt his mind go blank. He said, "I... go to Luoying Hall... go to Jingyu Hall... Oh, oh, I remember now. I'll go home and get ready."

The impact of Zhou Xuan's death was so great that Xu Li was at a loss and didn't know what to do.

When she returned to the room, Yu Zhengyuan asked Xu Li in the bedroom: "Who's here?"

"what?!"

"Who's coming to see us?"

"Then who."

"Why can't you explain yourself clearly? Who is here? Can you tell me?" Yu Zhengyuan sat up.

This scolding, which was not really a scolding, woke Xu Li up. Her eyes suddenly turned red and she said, "Old Yu, Xuanzi... is dead! The class owner asked me to light the lamp!"

Yu Zhengyuan was stunned for a moment. He paced the room several times, then pulled out a chair, lit a cigarette, and began to write at his desk.

Xu Li, who had already found the white lantern in the cabinet, said to Yu Zhengyuan: "Old Yu, go see Xuanzi..."

"I have to write an inscription and a eulogy for Xuanzi now. I have to finish them first. Otherwise, I am afraid that if I see him first, I will be so sad that I won't be able to write anything..."

Yu Zhengyuan said to Xu Li, "Go and light the lamps first. Make sure every household is informed. No one should be left out."

"Yes, I know." Xu Li went out with a lantern. As soon as she reached the door and saw the ancestral tree, she remembered the scene of her looking for Zhou Xuan to help write the epitaph under the tree.

For a time, the sadness accumulated and became more intense.

Xu Li carefully placed the white lantern on the flower bed, covered her face and burst into tears.

……

Zhou Xuan’s consciousness entered the secret realm.

The second stick of incense in the distance was already very bright, and the "Bifang" mask next to the fire was also shaking slightly.

"Master, death will bring you true power. You are only one step away from complete death!"

"Let my bone pole penetrate your chest and pierce your soul. At that moment, your ascension ceremony to death will be truly completed!"

"As your loyal slave, devour me as much as you want. I will offer you the darkness of the underworld and the rebirth after death!"

"Master, open your arms and prepare to embrace new life."

Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and spread his arms like a standing cross.

A sinister smile suddenly appeared on the boatman's face. He raised the bone pole high with both hands and stabbed it towards Zhou Xuan's chest!
When the tip of the pole was only three inches away from his chest, it suddenly stopped and the bone pole was grasped by Zhou Xuan's hands.

"Master, what are you doing...?" "Do you know what those words you just said sounded like? They sounded like what I said when I was contaminating the White Walkers. They were fake and insincere, but very inflammatory."

Zhou Xuan secretly exerted force to control the bone pole in his hand.
The boatman smiled and said, "I am sincere and I will not deceive you, because I am your hidden consciousness."

"You are indeed my subconscious, but you are just like me. You can think, deceive, and have desires. I think my subconscious should have developed the same intelligence as mine."

Zhou Xuan pulled up the oar and stabbed it into the boatman's chest!
tom!
The boatman was nailed to the boat, and countless black air poured out from his chest and penetrated into Zhou Xuan's body.

"When did you start to doubt me?" The boatman knew that he was doomed to fail.

He has been deceiving Zhou Xuan because he wants to gain control of this body.

If Zhou Xuan had really been careless just now and let the boatman's bone pole pierce him... then the owner of the body from now on would not be Zhou Xuan, but the boatman.

"I have always doubted you. I doubted the way you spoke. I doubted why you appeared in my secret realm. I doubted why you knew in advance that you were going to die."

"Then I felt that you were more perceptive than me and could think, but I never said it out loud."

“Hehe…hehe…you are smarter than me, but surviving may not be a good thing!

When you and I completely merged into a new soul, the ritual of rebirth towards death was also mostly completed, but - do you think you have gained more powerful power?

You just officially become the food of the god in the secret realm! Hahahaha!"

The boatman sneered and turned his entire body into black gas for Zhou Xuan to devour.

The second candle in the distance flew to Zhou Xuan's shoulder and stopped, and the Bifang mask was tied to Zhou Xuan's lower back!

At this moment! The fog in the sky suddenly disappeared.

The sky is green, there is no moon, no stars, it is just a vast grassland.

Heaven and earth were turned upside down.

Zhou Lingyi once said that Nuo God is an upside-down god!

The ship is not sailing on black water, it is sailing through the starry sky in the darkness of the night.

As for this piece of grass, it looked very familiar to Zhou Xuan. Where had he seen it before?
Zhou Xuan was thinking, when suddenly, a projection image appeared on the water in the distance.

The first picture - Zhou Xuan is walking outside Muhun City.

The second scene - when Zhou Xuan's finger was pierced by the needle of the record player in Luoying Hall, the wooden sign of Fang Xiangshi on the wall buzzed.

Fang Xiangshi is the Nuo god that has been worshipped by the Zhou family for more than two thousand years!

The third picture - when Zhou Xuan was bewitched by the stone Buddha in the temple, he relaxed his body and mind and entered a secret realm. In that secret realm was a green grassland, and the grassland was the "sky" of Zhou Xuan's current divine secret realm.

“It turns out that I was chosen by the Zhou Clan’s Nuo God when I was in Muhun City!

I thought I was a storyteller, but in fact I was already a "Nuo".

Zhou Xuan recalled the strange things that happened after he visited the incense hall, and he had the answers.

"When I lit the incense and entered the divine enlightenment, why was I able to see and destroy the fire dragon that the storyteller god tested me with? Because my secret realm had already been opened, and the Nuo god existed. It was the Nuo god who took action."

"Why can I, Yi Cun Xiang, master a level of skills?"

Zhou Xuan remembered what his sister once said: "For Da Nuo, a mask is a god. The higher the level of Da Nuo, the more masks he can wear and the more gods he can invite. The other gods are borrowing the power of gods, but Da Nuo is the god himself!"

Zhou Xuan said to himself, "It turns out that accumulating a stick of incense is actually creating a mask of a god. When I put on the mask, I can use all the methods that the god has."

"My first Nuo mask was... the storyteller Bifang."

"I am the first Da Nuo in the Zhou Clan in a hundred years."

The Da Nuo only has a secret realm, and people do not light incense by themselves. One has to light incense in the hall whose god one wants to transform the first mask into.

Zhou Xuan's light and dark consciousness were still merging, and the fusion process in the secret realm gave him a lot of insights.

"The emergence of Living Towards Death has something to do with the fact that I am a dead person."

Zhou Xuan looked at the green sky.

He is a person who was reborn through the summoning of souls. His soul and body are not truly compatible, and they need to be integrated again to eliminate all the remaining incompatibilities and achieve true unity of spirit and body.

However, his consciousness, because light and darkness each have their own soul, is incompatible and needs to be reintegrated.

Therefore, two deaths are required to be reborn, one is the death of the physical body, and the other is the death of the subconscious.

"So, my new life will probably take two days. After my consciousness is integrated, I will have to complete the integration of my body and soul again before my body and soul can become one."

"The first stick of incense is for repairing the mask of the storyteller Bifang. The second stick of incense is about how to repair it and which hall's mask should be repaired!"

Zhou Xuan looked down at the black water's Feiyue, deep in thought.

……

In Luoying Hall, Zhou Xuan's body was temporarily stored. The tip of his index finger trembled, but it was just a tremble and then it became motionless.

……

The diary in Zhou Xuan's bedroom opened automatically, and the words in the diary slowly disappeared.

The progress of disappearance is almost the same as the progress of Zhou Xuan's dual consciousness fusion.

ps: Almost 4 words have been updated. The foreshadowing of Fang Xiangshi’s wooden sign is at the end of Chapter 29, and the foreshadowing of the secret realm’s first appearance is in Chapter . It’s a bit long ago, and I’m afraid my good brothers have forgotten it.

(End of this chapter)