Chapter 197 The Last Thing to Advance to the Third Level [Soul Crosser]

Chapter 197 The last item to advance to the third level [Soul Crosser]

As time goes by, the villagers of Shenghai Village are getting older.

The flesh and blood on their bodies are cracked and falling off as if dried by the wind. Screams can be heard in the village every day. When they get up, they see the closest person lying next to them, turned into a monster, including themselves!

The old man seemed to be just the beginning of the curse, which spread to the entire village at an unexpected speed.

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

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

However, even if the bones were broken into pieces, these bones seemed to have consciousness left, and even if they were beaten into powder, they would still move!

Move with consciousness!

And...

Accompanied by unimaginable pain!

Each piece of the powdered bones carried a cracked consciousness, as if countless swords had pierced through the brain, dividing the brain into countless pieces, but they were not dead yet, and the nerves still felt a piercing pain.

If they don't put it back together, they will have to endure the pain of their soul consciousness, as if they were stuffed into a blender and constantly broken!

The more villagers tried this method, the more bones were scattered around.

In the end, they all failed. They couldn't die and had to endure terrible pain. They could only try their best to put it back together.

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

The damage to the soul was like an unhealable wound. Once they moved the strange bones on their bodies, they would feel the pain of soul shattering. Every step was a torment.

This hellish scene impacted the hearts of all the villagers. Many people went crazy and rushed out like headless flies.

The moment they left Shenghai Village...

With a snap, the bones immediately fell apart.

It seemed to have ended successfully...

But some villagers witnessed the truth - even if the bones were broken, the head would still remain intact.

Although the body could not move, the skeleton could still make sounds, mumbling words like a dream in the language used by the living, indicating that the consciousness was not completely dead!

All the villagers were terrified.

They realized that leaving the village was not the way to end the curse, but would fall into a more terrible curse.

But then more villagers couldn't help but go crazy, lost their clear and rational consciousness, walked out in a daze, walked into the ocean of dead bodies, and with a snap, their bodies shattered and became part of it.

In order to stop all this...

The villagers of Shenghai Village adapted to the activities of the skeleton body and built a thick wall around the village.

They did not do it to stop outsiders from coming in, but to prevent themselves from going out.

However, this was just the beginning of a three-hundred-year curse.

…………

For a moment, Chen Ye seemed to see the shadow of Linjiang City after it fell into a bloody countdown from the residents of Shenghai Village.

The power of will is very strong. Even if it is weak, the instinct of living things often bursts out unexpected energy when they are desperate.

Wanting death but not getting it.

These villagers gradually adapted to the movement of bones and became numb to the piercing pain.

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

He regretted that he should not have made a deal with the devil, which led to the villagers' end.

Instead, the villagers began to comfort them and said that if it were not for the wine, they would have lost consciousness and would no longer have hope.

Perhaps... it would be more painful...

Time healed the pain of the long years.

Although he had no organs to speak, the old man Erhu found that he could still play the erhu.

But the suona and the figure of the young man were nowhere to be found.

The old man Erhu played the erhu, and the melodious music sounded like a horse galloping on the free and vast grassland, making people forget the worldly troubles and the pain in their bodies.

Gradually, the villagers found that music could stabilize emotions. Although it did not make them happy, it could at least restrain madness.

Shenghai Village seemed to have become a village of music.

Each villager was familiar with taking out the original materials from the previous wooden house and making orchestral instruments.

Through playing music and dancing, they could relieve their despair.

Over the long years, the villagers' understanding of music became stronger and stronger, and they could even simulate the tones of previous conversations through musical instruments to communicate.

Shenghai Village gradually began to stabilize in a new way.

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

Lifting the curse became their motivation and hope to stay rational.

Some villagers speculated whether the curse could be eliminated by lifting the wine of immortality.

This speculation immediately led some villagers to organize to go up the mountain to find a way.

They found that the wine of immortality at the top of the mountain suddenly had a "door".

But once you enter that "door", you can never come back.

The spring water turned into a dark black ink color, as if it was given life, and began to flow with life, like tentacles...

These ignorant villagers rashly approached the top of the mountain, and suddenly, tentacles appeared from the "door" and pulled them in!

The remaining villagers retreated in fear...

It didn't take long.

A skeleton vomited out from the ‘gate’, as if it had been chewed up by some creature and then vomited into the Sea of ​​Dead Bones.

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

The result of approaching the top of the mountain... was essentially no different from jumping directly into the Sea of ​​Dead Bones.

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.

From then on...

The top of the mountain became a restricted area, just like the outside of the village of living bones.

The villagers were desperate. They could not find a way to break the curse. They could only wait and wait for a miracle to appear.

One day, a ghost ship came from the fog at the border of the ocean where bones were surging.

The group of descendants of the sea god who came from the ship turned out to be their kind!

This island was originally the ancestral land of the descendants of the sea god, but a group of tribesmen chose to migrate to other sea areas to seek a broader development space in order to meet the living conditions required by the growing population.

The Sea Gods have 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 pray for good weather and good harvests through offering sacrifices to the Dragon God.

But they didn't expect to arrive here, it was such a scene.

The villagers saw the ghost ship and the figures of their kind, and they seemed to see hope!

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

A witch came over and wanted to explore the situation here.

But the witch came in, seemed to realize a certain crisis, and turned around and wanted to leave!

When she stepped out of the village... she turned into a skeleton like the villagers of Shenghai Village and fell to the ground, leaving only a skull, and a larger skull, located at the original location of the dark gate.

The other Sea Gods were immediately frightened. They ignored the villagers' shouts and requests and quickly boarded the ghost ship.

Only the villagers behind were left shouting loudly, asking the tribesmen to think of a way to lift the curse.

However, they have no organs for speaking, but only use orchestral instruments to make high-pitched and sharp tones, but to normal people, it sounds more like the howling of ghosts in the abyss!

How could other beings understand this way of communication except the villagers of Shenghai Village?

Then.

The ghost ship left far away.

Before leaving, it seemed that a descendant of the sea god left a plaque at the door.

The plaque happened to be located at the entrance of the pier.

Five years, ten years, twenty years passed...

The villagers of Shenghai Village still did not wait for the arrival of salvation, and they were about to despair.

At this time.

The figure of a young man appeared at the door.

He held a suona in his hand.

The villagers of Shenghai Village were collectively shocked and came to the door, asking the young man not to come in.

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

Don't repeat the same mistakes...

The young man did not go in. After so many years, his figure did not seem to have changed at all.

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

"The way is..."

"Play this music together."

The two figures seemed to overlap. After a long time, they met again like a miracle and played together after a long absence.

It seemed that the music came from another world, as if it had crossed the past, present and future, and echoed under this dim sky. The ancient and lonely stone tablet witnessed everything.

Suddenly.

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

Chen Ye heard that this was [Heavenly Ritual Music]!

And it was adapted from the final chapter of Soul Crossing, and he was so familiar with it that he couldn't be more familiar with it!

At this moment, the golden light suddenly burst out and enveloped the old man playing the erhu.

The phantom of the old man playing the erhu seemed to have achieved transcendent sublimation in the golden light, following the boy and floating beside the 'door'.

The young man stopped at the entrance of the ‘door’, looking at the villagers below who also showed their desire for salvation, and sighed:

“The current suona can only redeem the master, you need to wait.”

“But…”

“If the same music, or the suona in my hand, appears again, that is when you will be liberated.”

As soon as the voice fell, the figures of the two disappeared in the gray fog.

Only the bones of the old man Erhu were left on the ground.

However, the bones were scattered on the ground and had lost consciousness.

All the white bone creatures gathered around, looking at the bones on the ground that returned to the dust, and their empty eyes seemed to reflect the dark torch, as if they saw the most precious treasure in the world!

The curse, really, was freed!

Although there was only the old man Erhu...

But at this moment...

The villagers of Shenghai Village saw the light of salvation, just like the fire of the long night lighting up the dark and lightless sky!

The short old man carved this prophecy on the stone tablet and made a similar erhu to remember these past events, to commemorate his friend, and to remember this prophecy that still held hope...

The picture melted away like water and gradually dissipated.

Chen Ye's consciousness returned to Shenghai Village at this moment.

At this time, the light of the stone tablet returned to calm again, and the words on it had long been erased.

After such a long time, the villagers of Shengke Village have almost forgotten hope and are living like zombies.

Only the stone tablet remembers everything.

But the prophecies engraved on it were also wiped away by the wind and sand, leaving only the identical erhu in the hands of the short old man... 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 Poseidon, but a rescued person in distress."

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

"It turns out that the skeleton at the door was transformed by a witch who accidentally got involved here. No wonder the witch inheritance of Poseidon's descendants has been discontinued. I am afraid that he also saw the witch's curse, so he deliberately concealed that past event and never returned to his ancestral home. Dragon God Festival."

"The plaque at the door saying "No strangers allowed" turned out to be left by Ajiaka's ancestors, but none of their descendants knew about it..."

Chen Ye couldn't help but feel speechless. When they came in, the group of Poseidon descendants were shocked by the plaque for a moment, but it turned out that it was left behind by themselves.

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 still looked normal, but after the screen jumped a few times, it suddenly turned into a doomsday look.

What happened in the middle?

And, what ability does the old man Erhu have, and why can he bring the wine of eternal life from the gray mist?

Who is that mysterious boy holding a suona?

The black sun that caused the Skeleton Village to fall into doom... 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 man Erhu successfully went to the spiritual world by playing [Heavenly Ritual Music], but his body had turned into an unconscious wreckage... As for where he went? And what happened next? Why did that suona become his first characteristic item...

There are so many questions, as if they were a giant web of fate, connecting three hundred years ago and three hundred years later.

Chen Ye couldn't help but start to doubt that he could obtain the Suona in the first place. After a series of events, he unlocked the [Soul Crosser] sequence. What kind of fate would he have to bear behind it?

That destiny is related to the golden stars in the halo of luck.

"Destiny?"

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

My destiny...what exactly is it?

He took a deep breath and refocused on the latest problem.

now……

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

Since the rule of "Keep out the living" can affect the miko, it can also affect me.

Of course, he could rely on walking in the spirit world and leave [Skeleton Village] without passing through the dark gate.

But whether it will trigger the curse is still a question...

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

The only way left is to lift the curse!

At this moment, the short old man seemed to remember 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, and it may be helpful to you..."

He held the erhu in his hand, 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 give it a try."

"good."

Chen Ye nodded.

Then, he put the suona to his mouth and played in harmony with the short old man.

The piece played is the simplest "Lullaby".

Although the short old man's playing skills are not as good as those of the old man on the erhu, he unexpectedly matches up well with the suona.

I don’t know if the musical skills all come from the same master...

With the tacit understanding of suona and erhu, they become more and more coordinated, and the music gradually becomes one.

During the performance, the stone tablet suddenly burst into light.

The light became brighter and brighter, gradually turning 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 slowly condensed from the top of the stone tablet in the golden light!

Chen Ye saw a golden light that separated from such an item and connected to the suona in his hand and the deepest golden star.

He realized something immediately.

"Is this the last item to advance to the third level [Soul Crosser]?"