mesbooks Chapter 278 Door Closed
Chapter 278 Door Closed
Hei Huomian keenly sensed that Bai Shuiru's spirit was about to collapse, so he hurriedly drove the flying beast closer and shouted:
"Shui Ru, you are not anything defined by others. You are yourself, a living person with vigorous and powerful vitality!"
"Shui Ru! Bai Shui Ru! Think about what you have been pursuing all along! Haven't you been looking for your meaning in this world, looking for proof that you truly exist?!"
"Be yourself! Do what you really want to do, follow your heart!"
"Your heart will tell you the right answer! No matter what choice you make, it will be the right one for you!"
Hei Huomian was distracted by this and was immediately found by Qi Tian, who attacked him by surprise. The armored scorpion tail wrapped around his throat, swept him up and slammed him to the ground.
Suddenly, there were bursts of thunder in the sky, and even Bai Shuiru, who was out of control, couldn't help but look up with tears in her eyes.
"Shui Ru! This is not what you should do! Stop it now!"
Bai Shuiru heard the call and subconsciously wanted to look back, but was attracted by the sudden loud noise behind him:
The mirage of the gate to the underworld was shaking violently, and then thousands of floating objects were sucked back into the gate by an unknown force.
At the same time, lightning fell from the sky like sharp arrows, densely like rain and bombarded Bai Shuiru.
Bai Shuiru was surprised to see a familiar figure while looking around in confusion, "Brother Min Ying?!"
Min Ying and the others saw the domineering power of the thunder coming again, so they stood in front of Bai Shuiru, raised the mortars on their shoulders, aimed and tried to take it head-on.
“Get out of the way!”
Just as Min Ying was about to pull the trigger, a figure flashed before his eyes, and then a bolt of lightning struck him.
Min Ying was surprised to only feel a sharp pain near his heart. He lowered his head to look and saw that Bai Shuiru had blocked most of the attack that could have completely destroyed his soul.
"Shui Ru!"
Bai Shuiru fell to her knees with severe injuries, raised her eyes to look at Min Ying with tears in guilt, the blood at the corners of her lips looked as if she had lip balm on, and her three points of weakness added seven points of courage and determination.
"Brother Min Ying, I'm so sorry! You died in your previous life because Mu Xian was deceived by Qi Tian. You can't deny that he was the cause. But in fact, in the final analysis, you came to the underworld to find me."
"I owe you, and I also owe Mu Xian, so I will bear all the consequences! I will definitely do my best to make it up to you!"
It turned out that Bai Shuiru seemed to be in a trance and speechless just now, but in fact he was flipping through the "Book of Life and Death" in the world of consciousness.
It turned out that when I sneaked into the human world and left my handwriting, the King Shunjing of that country admired my handwriting and tried every means to come to the underworld to find me and ask for advice.
Qi Tian, who had been tracking down my whereabouts in the underworld, happened to meet the prince and thus learned of my whereabouts.
Qi Tian was jealous of the attention and favor I received, so he deceived and instigated the then young boy Hei Huo Mian, making Hei Huo Mian think that I intended to escape from him and abandon his son, and deliberately delayed the handover of the guards of the ground/mansion, causing the prince to fail to return to life in time and eventually die young. "
After the prince was reincarnated, he still missed me and naturally felt sorry for causing his own death in vain.
That prince was the previous life of Min Ying’s brother.
Since we can find Brother Min Ying, we can also find the fathers!
The huge "Book of Life and Death" was suspended in the air, and under Bai Shuiru's mental power, it was slowly turned page by page. After an unknown amount of time, she finally turned to the page where Bai Yangxuan's record was.
Bai Shuiru was delighted, but was at a loss as to how to modify the records in the "Book of Life and Death" when she noticed that the period at the end of the entry flashed for a moment, and then disappeared in reverse order of the strokes as if it was being rewound.
So that's how it is!
Indeed, only I, the "holy object of heaven and earth", can change the "Book of Life and Death"!
Bai Shuiru immediately closed his eyes and stared, and the entry of Bai Yangxuan in the "Book of Life and Death" began to disappear from both ends in the reverse direction of the strokes due to his own thoughts, as if it was covered by a correction pen and gradually disappeared.
Bai Shuiru deleted the entry for Bai Yangxuan and continued to look through the records for Zhong Xichu, erasing them completely.
Hei Huomian was lying on his back on the broken walls on the ground, gasping for breath, his waist and abdomen pierced by sharp stones, and bright red blood was flowing quietly.
He couldn't fall down, he had to hold on, to protect Shuiru, his parents, Wanwan, and all the innocent people in this world and the underworld.
Yes, he must get up! Keep fighting!
At this moment, Hei Huomian used "Swallowing the Yellow Spring" to support himself against the ground, stood up, and was about to ride on the flying beast to fight Qi Tian again. However, as he took a step, he suddenly felt his calf tripped by something.
Hei Huomian looked back and down, only to see a blurry little figure that just stubbornly hugged his calves and kept stroking them with its little face like a kitten or a puppy.
Qi Tian landed nearby steadily. After seeing the situation that Hei Huo Mian was in, he couldn't help but sneer:
"I really should let Shuiru see clearly what evil you, a man who claims to be a gentleman, have done to deserve revenge from an infant spirit!"
"If there is one, there will be two. So how many daughters of good families have you ruined?" Qi Tianbian said, stabbing Hei Huomian with the scorpion tail on his armor, piercing him to a bloody mess.
How many sins have I committed?
Hei Huomian lay motionless as if he was unconscious, his eyes were blank, and the only remaining consciousness was to search in his memory for the fact that he had deliberately concealed and forgotten.
The "defensive reinforced concrete bunker" that sealed the past was hit by a powerful "nuclear bomb" and collapsed, and it was no longer possible to cover up the "evil"...
"Mommy, grape juice is delicious! Mommy, drink it! Little brother wants to drink it too!" A baby boy happily ran towards a graceful young pregnant woman with a full bowl of grape juice.
"Mmm, sour and sweet, delicious! My brother thinks it's delicious too~!" Jing Youxi gently stroked the bulging belly, slightly bent over, supported his knees with both hands, and kissed the top of the child's head, "Mianmian, you are so good! Mianmian, look, daddy is here."
"Daddy, Mommy likes grape juice too! Daddy drinks it too!"
The child ran out happily with the bowl in his hand, but he didn't notice that the juice splashed out of the bowl and onto the ground. The child slipped and the juice fell, and the bowl flew out of his hand.
After a crisp "clang" sound, the glass high-foot bowl shattered to the ground.
Jing Youxi, who was also walking, saw the water on the ground and hurriedly reached out to support his son, but he slipped in his haste and fell heavily to the ground, crying out in pain:
"Ah~!"
"Xixi!! How do you feel?! Call a doctor! Call a doctor!"
The purple-red grape juice that spread on the ground, after mixing with the gurgling crimson mucus, spread out on the amber wooden floor.
It was me, I was jealous of my unborn brother, jealous that he took away the attention and love from my parents, which I rarely got in the first place!
It was me who caused my mother to slip and sent my brother away!
It's me, it's me!!
Hei Huomian dropped the "Tun Huangquan" in his hand, grabbed his hair, curled up into a ball, and cried softly.
“Mianmian! That was an illusion, an illusion created by Qitian!” Heihuowan came and shouted to Heihuowian while fighting with Qitian:
"Mom and Dad have always said that it was an accident and had nothing to do with you!"
"Mianmian, Dad and Mom have never blamed you for this!"
"Mengmeng, do you remember? I was there at that time," there was a gentle and familiar comfort, and the touch of body temperature gently touched Hei Huomian's cheek and chest, "It was an accident! It was an accident."
Hei Huomian gradually adjusted his breathing and stopped sobbing, "Is it really... an accident?"
"Yes, you remember. I was in your chest pocket at that time." Bai Shuiru counseled softly.
However, Hei Huo Mian recognized her voice, but he couldn't help but have some doubts:
"Or are you just... comforting me?"
"elder brother."
Who is calling me? Blackfire looked around in confusion while panting:
Wanwan?
"Brother, I am the younger brother whom you and I have never met. Even so, I have always been proud of you, Brother Mianmian."
"You are my brother, the one I killed with my own hands!" With a plop, Hei Huomian knelt down in front of the infant spirit, "I dare not ask for your forgiveness..."
"Brother, my death has nothing to do with you. It is my destiny. I have to rely on your careless mistake to end my misfortune." The baby held Hei Huomian's face, kissed his forehead, and repeated like a blessing:
"I am not happy about longevity, nor sad about death; I am not proud of success, nor ugly of poverty."
I am not happy about longevity, nor sad about death, nor proud of success, nor ugly of poverty...
Hei Huomian closed his eyes and silently recited:
...To preserve one's form and exhaust one's life, to establish virtue and clarify the Way, is this not a person of kingly virtue? How magnanimous! Suddenly appearing, moving with great energy, and all things following it! This is a person of kingly virtue.
When Hei Huomian opened his eyes again, he saw that the little figure had crawled back to the gate of the underworld.
"'Suddenly he appeared, moved violently, and all things followed him! Is this what is called a man of kingly virtue?'" Qitian shouted angrily:
"It has been said since ancient times that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit! Today, I will see who is the king and who is the bandit?!"
Qitian's body suddenly grew longer and reached the troposphere. The scorpion tail behind him swung and swept, and mountains collapsed and rivers dried up wherever it passed.
Hei Huomian also activated the Law of Heaven and Earth, reaching as high as the sun and the moon, as strong as a mountain, and wielding the equally enlarged "Swallowing Yellow Spring" to fight.
The creatures dodging at the two men's feet, which were as huge as pillars of heaven, ran and dodged with all their might, but they could not escape the fate of being crushed into ashes.
At the same time as the sky and the earth were shaking, Bai Shuiru suddenly pulled out the thunder arrow that pierced his shoulder blade, and looked up at the gate of the underworld that was still pulling in the ghost army.
I opened the door to the underworld, tampered with the records of the deceased in the Book of Life and Death, and disturbed the way of heaven. This is why I was struck by lightning!
Bai Shuiru suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, her legs went limp and she fell to the ground, but a pair of broad hands supported her in time.
"child!"
"It's not too late to close the gate to the underworld before the Wangxiang Terrace completely turns over!"
Bai Shuiru looked up and couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise:
"Dad, dads, you're back! I brought you back!" Her eyes were blurred by the images of Zhong Xichu and Bai Yangxuan in front of her because of the tears. She quickly stretched out her arms and jumped up, climbing to the necks of the two men at the same time, muttering:
"Dad, Dad, I am sorry for you. I brought you back. You can be fine from now on."
"Silly child. We are glad to see you again too." With tears in her eyes, "Shui Ru, we shouldn't have been here."
"You should close the door."
"No, even if your life span has ended according to trajectory, I have the ability to bring you back and live a good life with me!" The little girl stubbornly increased the strength of her embrace around the two fathers' necks to prove that her decision was not in vain.
"My child, life is like the weather, rain, wind, rain, sunshine, rainbows, good and bad, all have passed, we are just going to the place where we should belong."
"Perhaps the future is actually the past, and perhaps the present is actually the future. Perhaps we will meet again in another identity, or perhaps not; or perhaps in another space, the same you and I will have different experiences and a different father-daughter relationship. So this is an end, but also a beginning, and this is the most wonderful thing about this world."
"Wuwuwu~~!" Bai Shuiru stomped her feet vigorously, not bothering to wipe away her tears as she hugged her two fathers, "I don't want it, I don't want it! I want to be with you!!"
"Child, there are many people like you who want to be with the people who are important to them." Bai Yangxuan waved his hand, and a thin mist gathered. When it dispersed, the scene of the human world was revealed:
The remaining ghost troops in the human world are still unwilling to accept failure and continue to "harvest" the lives of innocent people in order to gather more troops and turn the tide. Both the human army fighting against the ghost army and the civilians protecting their families fall one after another. There are also women and children who are unwilling to see their relatives and loved ones' souls forcibly taken away by the ghost army and rise up to resist, but it is difficult to change their fate.
Looking back at the Xiangtai, there were also some underworld soldiers who were killed in the confrontation with the ghost army, without any chance of reincarnation.
"My child, it's not that you are not sincerely cared for and valued, it's just that some sophistry is like a miasma blocking your eyes, which makes you temporarily."
Yes, I remember!
At that time, I could indeed feel the newly born Muxian opening her eyes and smiling to greet me. I was holding the pen tightly in both hands, babbling, and my eyes were full of joy and peace of mind of reunion.
The Diamond Sutra says:
“There is no self, no person, no sentient being, no life.”
"All appearances are false. If you see that all appearances are not appearances, then you see the Tathagata."
Also, "I am originally formless, but I take shape according to the things I am. I originally have no form, but I also have thousands of forms." Along the way, everyone I see and meet is my true self.
Regardless of whether it was done intentionally or not, I did it and I will never shirk my responsibility.
Since only I can open the door, then I am also the only one who has the ability to close it.
"The way of heaven is clear, but what can we do about it? The netherworld has boundaries, and the nine springs cannot see it. Close!"
As Bai Shuiru repeatedly chanted the spell, the mirage of the gate to the underworld slowly closed, and all the floating objects that had previously left the gate but had not yet dispersed were recalled by an invisible powerful force.
However, as the door to the underworld was slowly closed to a crack, it became difficult to close it any further.