The burning feeling gradually gathered from her limbs to her forehead. It was difficult for Xiaolan to open her eyes, so she just swam upstream without hesitation.
There were crackling sounds of burning and running water in her ears. As she swam, Xiaolan heard a deafening crackling sound.
The sound came from below, and her ears were almost numb.
It was like the whole mountain and the whole world collapsed.
Xiaolan narrowed her eyes and looked down.
Among the fused water and fire was the huge floating stone lotus. The stamen that he had just escaped from was in the center of the stone lotus. The entire stone lotus, centered on the broken stamen in two, instantly shattered.
.
Countless stone lotus fragments were floating in the water and fire, and after a while, they disappeared without a trace under the burning flames.
The last dark gray stone lotus fragment disappeared at Xiaolan's feet.
In an instant, the pain all over her body disappeared, and the familiar air suddenly entered her nasal cavity.
Xiaolan didn't know what happened at all, but she instinctively took a deep breath.
Then, a ladle of water was poured on his face.
"Poof! - cough cough cough..."
Xiaolan suddenly sat up, covered her mouth and coughed.
"Xiaolan!" Qin Yin's voice rang in his ears, "You finally woke up!... Look, you should have listened to me and not let me splash water..."
Xiaolan blinked weakly, looked around, and looked at the people in front of her.
She lowered her head and looked at her hands.
In his own hand, he held the jade pendant.
They were still in the wooden house, and they were still lying in this place, as if nothing had changed.
Except...I feel like a drowned rat now.
Xiaolan blinked blankly again.
"Xiaolan..." Qin Yin gently held Xiaolan's shoulders, "Are you okay?"
"I...I seem..." Xiaolan said, her nose suddenly sore, "I'm still alive."
I'm alive.
Still alive.
I have never had such a profound understanding of these words.
It's great to be alive.
"Of course you are still alive," Qin Yin's voice was filled with tears, "you scared us to death, Xiaolan, I even fainted, you know?"
Xiaolan raised her head, and all the men squatted in front of her, all looking at her with concern.
"Fortunately, you're fine." Luo Jiutian was actually the one who looked the most excited. "If something happens to you, I will never forgive myself in this life. Xiaolan, I really didn't mean it. I don't know."
I will release his consciousness, I thought I would just use Panlongchi..."
"I know, Brother Jiutian, you are not wrong, you were trying to save me."
"You, you, you escaped with your life!" Qin Yin pointed at Luo Jiutian angrily, "If something happens to Xiaolan, I will definitely eat you alive!"
Xiaolan raised the corner of her mouth and smiled, then looked at the Taoist priest who was staring at her.
"it's over?"
"It seems...well, it's all over," Xiaolan licked her dry lips and nodded, "it disappeared."
"Is it a real fire lotus? Have you seen it?" The fool reached out and rubbed Xiaolan's head.
"I saw it..." Xiaolan paused for a while and sighed, "Actually, we have seen it a long time ago."
Several people looked at each other.
Afterwards, they all said in unison, "The crematorium."
"So that's it..." the fool muttered, "No wonder... that's the Fire Lotus. In fact, we knew from the beginning that the Fire Lotus is the name of the crematorium."
"Wait a minute, I still don't understand. Did something happen when I fainted?" Qin Yin made a pause gesture.
The Taoist priest and Xiaolan exchanged glances, then he turned to Qin Yin and said softly, word for word, "It's very simple. There has never been any god on this Fire Lotus Mountain. There is only an altar with spiritual consciousness here."
Qin Yin tilted his head, still not understanding.
The Taoist priest smiled slightly and spoke slowly.
"It should have started a long time ago. There was a village on Huolian Mountain called Huolian Village. The people in the village lived a farming life. Perhaps in a certain year when a famine came, the village was tortured unbearably by natural disasters, so it and many
Like the ignorant and closed-off mountain village tribes, they chose to offer sacrifices to seek blessing."
Qin Yin's face became a little ugly, and the others were not much better.
Xiaolan said, "It's a flood."
"Is this so?" the Taoist priest asked, "did you see it?"
Water, fire, rolling, drowning...
Xiaolan suppressed those terrible images and simply nodded, "I saw it, it was a flood, and those girls were thrown into the water. Sister Xiaoyin, they are the girls we saw."
"girl?"
“Remember that stone lotus we saw underwater?”
Qin Yin suddenly realized, "Those girls in the petals? Are they all sacrifices?"
"That's right," Xiaolan coughed lightly, "that stone lotus is the true form of the fire lotus."
Qin Yin was stunned for a long time.
"But that's not..."
"Yes, that's just a stone," Xiaolan continued, "The fire lotus is not a human in the first place, and has never become a human. It has been a part of the mountain from the beginning. The bodies of the girls followed the receding flood water.
After falling underground and staying in the cave, the stone felt their resentment, and the girls' hatred turned into its spiritual consciousness and became the original fire lotus."
"The original?"
"I think the fire lotus at that time was still just a vague prototype," Xiaolan said. "It really gained power and began to have desires with the birth of the crematorium."
"I'm a little confused too," the fool asked, "Which one is the fire lotus, the corpse cremator or the stone lotus?"
"They are all fire lotus," the Taoist priest said clearly. "The fire lotus is the evil in this mountain. The fire lotus is with the fire lotus mountain. It is on every thing that harbors resentment and on every inch of land on this mountain."
, every villager in the village is its eyes..."
They feared gods, so they offered sacrifices, and it was these sacrifices that created "gods".
Xiaolan said, "After the girls were thrown into the water, the floods receded and the villagers became more convinced of the existence of gods. So they built a large altar in the village specifically for sacrifices and burned the girls to death.
In the paddock outside the village, the girl's ashes are sprinkled into the cremator, and the sacrifice is completed."
Countless sorrows and cries.
The fire lotus becomes stronger little by little.
"What about the fire lotus thing?" Luo Jiutian asked, "I mean... lotus, it's..."
He pointed at Xiaolan's hand.
Xiaolan picked up the jade pendant. The green luster on the surface of the jade pendant had disappeared, and now it looked like an ordinary colored stone.
"I guess..." The Taoist priest glanced at the skeleton lying next to Xiaolan, "This matter must be related to the appearance of the prophet."