Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 60
Su Ji followed Uncle Jingming up the stone steps leading to the second floor, and at the end was a stone door.

Even though the door was covered with slippery moss, Uncle Jingming put his face on it, closed his eyes and listened for a long time.

"What did you hear?" Su Ji asked.

Uncle Jingming just shook his head.

After a long silence, he suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had finally made up his mind, he spat on each of his hands, firmly grasped the stone door and pushed hard.Ordinary people would never be able to push away such a big rock, but Uncle Jingming seems to have retained a little bit of cultivation, so his strength is much stronger than ordinary people.

The stone door was wide open, and Su Ji was about to go up when suddenly his arm was firmly held by Uncle Jingming!
"Don't worry! Although I am older than you, I was younger than you when I entered the tower. Before fetching water, I will tell you three pieces of advice. Just remember, at least you can guarantee to live to my current age."

"What three pieces of advice?"

"First, no matter what you see or hear on the upper floor, don't imagine that you can escape from here. Just having this idea can kill you. The fastest death here is often those delusions Those who go out; second, there is only one way to get water from the top of the tower. It was tried by the predecessors with their lives, and you must not find another way. Strange shortcuts will only kill you; third, never approach the top of the tower Don't even look at the golden gate, otherwise you won't even have a chance to regret it... Remember?"

After hearing this, Su Ji was thoughtful, and after a long silence, he replied:

"Remember, remember, I have always had a good memory."

Uncle Jingming glanced at Su Ji, with suspicion in his eyes, and said:

"You'd better remember it. It's complicated and dangerous, with hidden secrets. If you don't pay attention, you will lose your mind. I will only take you through it once. How much you can remember depends on your luck."

After all, the two of them walked through the stone gate and the stone ladder to the second floor.

Su Ji found that this layer was completely different from the lower two layers, and there were many strange-shaped stones, which looked like dried dead coral.

"Coral is poisonous!" Uncle Jingming reminded loudly: "If you don't want to die, don't touch it!"

Su Ji slowly retracted the hand he had just extended.He scanned his surroundings, feeling as if he had entered a magical sea.The colorful corals in front are layered and criss-crossed in various poses, some are like a blooming Bana flower; some are like a cluster of dancing flames;

These corals glow faintly, flickering on and off, and constantly changing colors, giving people a dreamlike feeling.

Uncle Jingming walked forward step by step carefully, his slumped shadow was reflected on the ground, which was incompatible with the colorful coral bushes around him.He looked very nervous when he was walking, and he was muttering as he walked, as if to help him recall the correct route.

Su Ji followed him around many turns, turned around many times, and finally stopped under a huge piece of coral.This coral is off-white in color and shaped like a branching staghorn.There are large gaps on both sides of the staghorn coral, which can accommodate six or seven people to pass through.

Su Ji's nose smelled a strong smell of blood, mixed with a pungent smell, which seemed to come from behind the staghorn coral.The light there shines through the gaps on both sides to form four black shadows all around.

Those were four huge figures. When the four people inside were walking around, the four shadows would also be walking around outside.

Uncle Jingming didn't go in through the gaps on both sides of the staghorn coral, but stopped and hit the coral with a bone, neither fast nor slow.Su Ji felt that the action was like knocking on the door very politely, as if that piece of staghorn coral completely separated the two worlds.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

There was no response for a while, so Uncle Jingming had to put his mouth close to the staghorn coral, and shouted inside:
"Poverty Dao came to greet the four immortals!"

Uncle Jingming exhausted all his strength and shouted from the depths of his body, sweating all over his body.After a while, human voices began to be heard from the staghorn coral. The voice was far away, and the content could not be heard clearly.

"I don't seem to be alone today."

Suddenly, a deep voice came from the inside of the staghorn coral.Su Ji was slightly taken aback, the voice was very close, as if the speaker had been behind the staghorn coral just now, and seemed to float over suddenly, because no footsteps were heard at all.

"Hey, is it a girl?"

An obscene voice came from inside. The voice was not from the same person, but it also suddenly came from nearby.Su Ji felt unbelievable, so he couldn't help but glanced at Uncle Jingming, only to see that his expression was more nervous than before, and he seemed to be particularly concerned about the people behind the staghorn coral.

"It's not a girl, it's just a little Taoist priest of the Xuanqing realm." Uncle Jingming replied respectfully.

Su Ji suddenly glanced at Uncle Jingming again, knowing in his heart that he had lied on purpose, and couldn't help being secretly grateful.If he said that he had no cultivation at all, it would definitely attract the attention of these four people and cause unpredictable troubles.

After Uncle Jingming finished speaking, it seemed that another person came towards the coral.This person is different from the two people who spoke just now. Instead of appearing suddenly, a heavy footstep can be heard slowly approaching.Su Ji really wanted to see what kind of person this was.He held his breath and waited for the man to come out from the gap on both sides of the coral, but the result was not as expected, and the footsteps suddenly stopped behind the coral.

Immediately afterwards, a pile of human skulls was thrown from the gap on both sides of the coral.The number of these skulls is more than the combined number of skulls of all the lower classes.

Uncle Jingming couldn't help frowning, and whispered into the wall:

"Today's... seems to be more than ever..."

This implied that if there were too many bones, the monks at the lower level would not be able to drink enough water. However, the person who made the footsteps ignored Uncle Jingming's words and walked away.

Uncle Jingming shook his head helplessly, and gestured to Su Ji, motioning for him to help put the bones on.

Just as Su Ji picked up a bone, he suddenly heard a woman's voice:

"You came……"

The voice was cold and ethereal, and a feeling of déjà vu surged up like a tide, quietly bringing Su Ji back to that nightmare.

There is no doubt that it was the voice of the woman in the dream.Su Ji's body shook, and he subconsciously looked at Uncle Jingming, only to see that he was expressionless and straightening his skull, as if he hadn't heard the voice.

While Su Ji was helping with the skulls, he looked around from time to time, waiting for the woman's voice to come out again.But until Su Ji left this place, the woman's voice did not come out again.

After a while, Uncle Jingming and Su Ji each carried a bunch of white human skulls to the top floor of Linglong Tower Prison.

Su Ji gradually broke away from the guidance of Uncle Jingming, and his attention was all attracted by a closed door.Although it lost its bright golden luster, Su Ji could still tell that this was a golden gate made of expensive pure gold.

The door didn't even have a handle, and it looked like a large, heavy plate of gold set directly into the solid stone wall.There is a small thumb-wide slit in the top of the door through which the light shines, the light source should be inside the door.It was an ancient and sad light, completely different from the colorful light of the lower layer.

What made Su Ji most curious was that there was a half-foot-wide ditch under the Golden Gate.

This ditch crosses from under the door and extends to a place far outside the door, bubbling away into the distance.The limbs of animals floated on the water, turning the part touching the rocky ground into a terrible dark red.

Could this be the golden gate that Uncle Jingming said must not be approached?
Su Ji yelled a few times towards the gap under the door, but heard a small response, which seemed to be a human voice.

There are living people living in the Golden Gate!

Because of the echo, Su Ji couldn't hear what the man was saying at all.He knelt down on the ground, trying to see what was inside through the gap under the copper door.His nose picked up the rotten stench from the gutter, making him sick.

The moment he looked inside, he suddenly saw a bloodshot eye looking at him from inside!
Su Ji couldn't help yelling "Ah!"
The uncle glanced back at Su Ji, and asked mockingly:

"See what?"

Seeing his playful expression, Su Ji obviously asked the question knowingly.He didn't answer, but remained silent for a long time with lingering fear.

Uncle Jingming shook his head and said: "I told you not to look around! There is a monster living in the Golden Gate, and many people have been swallowed by it! It stands to reason that your eyes should be gouged by it now. But I don't know it Why let you go, maybe it is in a good mood today."

Su Ji snorted, and said disapprovingly: "What monster? It's obviously a person!"

He wanted to ask who was inside, but seeing that Uncle Jingming had gone far away, he swallowed the words again.

Along the way, Su Ji couldn't figure out many things.He knew that if he continued to think about it, he would encounter unknown dangers, but deep down in his heart, he still couldn't help being curious about the people in the golden gate.

Who is he?What does it look like?Why are you locked in there?What happened to him?
Of course, people who are reduced to this kind of place will definitely not have any good encounters.

Before leaving, Su Ji couldn't help but glance back at the Golden Gate.The ditch protruding from the door was still flowing slowly.

Su Ji followed Uncle Jingming to the right below the spire of the tower prison, and saw human skulls tied upside down with cloth strips hanging upside down, and each skull was filled with seeping rainwater.

Su Ji casually tore off a skull filled with rainwater, observed the water level inside, and suddenly remembered that when the Jingshi lotus seeds fell on the ground, they would roll in one direction.This shows that the Linglong Tower Prison is not standing upright, but standing obliquely in a certain place,
"Why is this prison tower slanted?" Su Ji asked curiously, "If it wasn't slanted, at least half of the water could be filled in this bone."

While carefully collecting the skulls filled with water, Uncle Jingming explained:
"About the inclination of the Linglong Pagoda Prison, there are two different theories: one says that the Linglong Pagoda Prison was built by the ancestors of the Jiejiao, and it tilted because one side of the pagoda sank into the ground due to a ground subsidence. The other says that The Linglong Pagoda is a magic weapon of the heavens, which suppresses a fairy who violated the rules of heaven. After the fairy escaped, the pagoda fell from the sky and was inserted obliquely on an island. The pagoda lost most of its mana and maintained its huge shape The ancestors of Jujiao built it and turned it into the most terrifying prison in the world."

Is there a fairy suppressed in the Linglong Pagoda?
Could it be the person from the Golden Gate?
When Su Ji was thinking, an excited voice suddenly came from his ear.

"It really is here..." Hu Si's voice trembled a little, "Finally... found it..."

Su Ji went to a distance and asked her in a low voice: "What did you find?"

Hu Si's tone became more and more excited, and she choked up and said, "My father is locked in this Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda."

(End of this chapter)