"This is not learned from the mineral illustrations, but is a bit like the Yellow Springstone in folk legends."
Legend has it that on both sides of the Styx River, one side is the human world, and the other side is the Netherworld. There is a kind of flower blooming on both sides of the Styx River, which is basically known to everyone - the other side of the flower.
But no one knows whether the two sides of the Styx River are open or not.
Because no one has seen the River Styx that divides the two realms with his own eyes, and he does not know what kind of flowers are blooming on both sides of the river.
But there is a legend that is related to this kind of yakus stone.
I don’t know how many years ago, there was a very loving couple. They respect each other and love each other. Although life is bitter, it is very sweet.
But one day, in a dream, the man actually came to the rumored Netherworld. On both sides of the Styx River, no, to be precise, Manzhu Shahua, which was as bright as blood, grew on the side of the man.
But the even more wonderful thing is that the land on both sides of the Styx River is not the black soil like the common sense of the world, but a transparent crystal like crystal.
The man stayed in that wonderful place for three days, and during this period he found that this crystal would emit a strong orange-yellow light every six in the morning, illuminating the underworld on this side.
And the other side of the shore that grows from this crystal crack will emit a brilliant colorful light at six o'clock every night! The man was stunned by this wonder scene and saw this beautiful scenery that was the most beautiful scene in the world.
He actually forgot the passage of time and stared blankly at the other side of the shore that danced with the wind for three days.
Every night from 6:00 to 6:00 in the morning, the twelve hours are the time for this colorful red spider lily to appear. The man wanted to continue observing, but at some point he was surprised to see his wife.
He wanted to call her affectionately and share this beautiful scenery with her, but her wife did not respond to him, but simply walked towards the bank of the underworld.
The man naturally felt strange and followed quickly, but only saw his wife sinking into the water of the Styx, and then disappeared again.
The man was extremely anxious, and at this moment he discovered an old man on the edge of the Styx, with rough palms, rough skin like the bark of an old tree, and his turbid eyes that were almost unable to open his eyes. But the man's slightest slightest
He didn't dare to be careless, he knew that this was the ferryman by the Styx River, and the legendary guardian who always guarded this pure land.
The man stepped forward to ask, but to his surprise, the old man actually agreed to take him across the Styx.
He naturally asked curiously why this was, and the old man just smiled slightly:
"This ship is for living people. You are a mortal and will not destroy this pure land, but remember not to step onto the land of the underworld, otherwise you will never come back."
The man naturally nodded tactfully.
But what he was more worried about now was his wife. His wife who had already arrived in the underworld should have left him. He felt an unprecedented fear, but a little more confused.
The River Styx cannot actually be called a river because it is almost boundless, so it may be more appropriate to call it the Sea of Nether.
I don’t know how long it took, the man arrived at the other side of the underworld.
Silence, dead silence. There is no crystalline land here, some are just endless black soil, and the dark red shore flowers.
When the man looked at the distant city, he naturally had a sense of vicissitudes in his heart. In this legendary place, he didn't expect that he would come here.
Seeing that the wife in front of him was smiling at him, the man stepped onto the land of the underworld without hesitation, sharing life and death. This is the oath they had already made.
The ferryman didn't seem to be much surprised. He seemed to have expected all this. Looking at the two embracing each other, the old man also smiled:
"From now on, you will be eternal..."
The two bowed to the old man, then disappeared from the old man's sight and headed to the distant city of the underworld.
Then the old man's voice was drowned in the breeze:
"The flowers on the other side bloom for twelve years, twelve years, and seventy-two years of waiting, you are still young, but she has long since disappeared from the loess..."
And just where the man was originally, I saw the man who looked like a "sleeping beauty". He maintained his youthful appearance and stopped breathing the moment he stepped onto the underworld...
The strange crystalline substance was later called the Yellow Springstone...
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"How did this story be recorded?"
The first thing Ji Dao needs to do is naturally to confirm the authenticity of this matter. Since the man and his wife have already stepped into the underworld, who can record this matter?
"It was found in his relics after the man died. When people changed him into a shroud, they found that such words were recorded in his original robe."
Ji Dao nodded. The kind of yellow spring stone described in the legend is indeed similar to the stone in their hands. If it is really an yellow spring stone, then the function of these stones will be very obvious.
On one side of the Styx is the underworld, and on the other side is the human world. This kind of Yellow Spring Stone is probably a symbol of the human world. With the light shining from this stone, the ghosts outside can naturally not enter these residences.
It's right.
Since that's the case, then this is the intersection of yin and yang. The morning is the time for living people and the evening is the time for ghosts. The residents here are really going to live.
Maybe I'll get used to it after getting along for a long time.
"The other shore flowers bloom once every twelve years, and once every twelve years..."
Ji Dao repeatedly said this sentence. Is the speed of time passing in the underworld different from that here? No. The place where the man is located should be still in the human world, and the passage of time should be the same.
So the only explanation is the colorful light, is it an illusion?
In the cognition of Jidao, only illusions can change people's concept of time, and the colorful light may be the source of psychedelics.
It seems that Manzhushahua in the underworld must be very different from the human world. Jidao has seen Manzhushahua, plants growing beside the cemetery, but there are colorful and completely dark ones, which he has never heard of.
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"Qianxuan, what does this mineral mean?"
Ji Dao is thinking about this question now. According to legend, only this kind of crystal is present on the banks of the Styx, why does it appear here?
“It may have something to do with the reason it appears.”
Ji Dao nodded, what Qian Xuan said was exactly what he was thinking.