"I once read a sentence in a book," Gu Xu said to the snow girl beside him while walking on the bluestone streets of the city, "A person has to die three times in his life.
< p>"The first death is when our heart stops and our breath dies. This is death in the physical sense."The second death is when we are buried. People wear white clothes to attend At our funeral, they officially announced that we no longer existed in the world, and all our social relationships disappeared.
"The third death is the last person in the world who remembers us, completely. The earth forgets us, so we really die and have no connection with this world.
"This is really interesting to say. I have not experienced the first death, but I have experienced the third death. Now it seems. , It’s like I never existed in this world.”
The snow girl listened to him expressionlessly, nodding slightly from time to time.
At this time, the two of them were in Liangzhou Mansion.
This is the northwest gateway to the Daqi Dynasty. Exiting Liangzhou is the territory of the barbarian people beyond the Great Wall.
Gu Xu never thought that after being wanted by the court, he would one day be able to walk on the street arrogantly and unabashedly.
A thief named "Li Batian" replaced him and became the protagonist on the wanted poster. In every portrait, this middle-aged man with a beard silently examines the passers-by with a sharp look. .
As for the snow girl, she still wore a veil and had her long snow-colored hair tied up high and hidden in a wide-brimmed hat.
She was born with fairy beauty and peerless independence. Now that her black hair has turned to silver, her face is even more stunning and unstoppable.
If he appeared on the street, he would definitely be a pedestrian stroking his mustache, and a young man taking off his hat and wearing a kowtow.
Even if he becomes a passerby forgotten by the world, Gu Xu does not want to attract too much unnecessary attention.
"But I still remember you." After Gu Xu finished speaking, Xue Nu looked at him and said seriously.
Gu Xu smiled lightly.
To be honest, he didn't know why the snow girl still didn't forget him after the whole world cut off the causal connection with him.
Based on his shallow understanding of cause and effect, he guessed that it might be because he had been spending so much time with the snow girl in recent days that the side effects of the mask were difficult to take effect.
It may also be because he and Xue Nu have established a soul-level connection through the Jinghong Brush. This kind of causal connection based on the Great Wilderness's famous weapon is difficult to erase easily.
Of course, it may also be because the snow girl recognized him neither by his appearance nor his name, but by smell and intuition.
She treats the whole world with indifference and alienation. Only Gu Xu is the only special existence in her eyes.
She is like a balloon string.
When Gu Xu was about to drift away from this world, she, as the only fetter, held him tightly.Tethered to the earth.
However, at the same time, Gu Xu was also filled with confusion.
He felt that this kind of spell that could completely erase a person from history was so amazing. It was something that even a strong saint could hardly do.
It should not be just a side effect of a mask at all.
If we use a painting as an analogy
The function of the mask itself to hide the whereabouts is just a child's random doodle; but this "side effect" is a work handed down from generation to generation by famous masters.
When Luo Chuan handed this mask to him, he didn't think too much about it because he was in a hurry to escape.
But now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
In addition, he knew that Luo Chuan was not good at cause and effect. Of course, it was also possible that Luo Chuan had been concealing his attainments in cause and effect.
"Could it be that Luo Sishou wants to help me break through to the fifth realm in this way?" Gu Xu guessed with a frown.
Practice in the fifth realm, called "Meng Poting", requires monks to cut off the fetters of the world and move towards the transcendent realm.
In order to break through this critical realm, the ancestors came up with various methods, such as the masochistic retreat of Lingshan Temple
, such as traveling around the world with a sword in the Jiangge, and others "Severing Seven Emotions" was the most widely used technique in the Daqi Dynasty.
However, when Gu Xu was thinking about how to break through the situation, the side effects of the mask took effect.
He no longer needs to think hard about how to escape from the world of mortals.
He has cut off the causal connection with the world.
His true energy aura surged and he was about to rush straight into the boundary of the fifth realm at a speed of 100 meters.
He planned to find a safe place to break through the fifth realm after leaving Liangzhou and the border of Daqi.
Although he is now forgotten by the world, he cannot guarantee that a strong man like Emperor Tianxing will also be affected by the side effects of the mask.
You can never have too much strength.
In fact, in the corner that Gu Xu couldn't see, there was another person who was a ghost to be precise, and his memory was not tampered with by the mask or his cognition was affected.
"It's amazing"
At the same time, in the shadows under the eaves on the other side of the street, the white-bearded old man in dark blue robes looked at Gu Xu who was walking further and further away. And the snow girl sighed.
"Tell me, if we were to cast this spell that cuts off cause and effect, would we be able to achieve the same effect?" The thin storyteller beside him pondered for a moment and then asked.
"It's difficult," the old white-bearded Taoist thought for a while. "The way we hide is to use the law of cause and effect to erase our names, so that the world will forget us unconsciously.
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"But our magic cannot change the objective facts. For example, when people turn to the information that records us, they will still recall usexistence.
"Gu Xu is different this time.
"The spell on the mask not only modifies people's memories, but also changes objective things. I can't do that. Overnight "Thousands of portraits on wanted posters can be replaced by one person."
"I didn't expect Luo Chuan to have such an ability." The middle-aged man who performed the rat trick said sincerely, "If all this happened. If he really did it, then his strength should be far beyond the seventh level, and he is not ignorant of the law of cause and effect as known to the outside world."
"It may not be Luo Chuan who did it," Whitebeard The old Taoist interrupted him and said, "Maybe some strong man we don't know attached the spell to the mask and handed it to Gu Xu through Luochuan."
"Then this strong man What is the purpose?" The middle-aged man frowned, "If he just wants to help Gu Xu escape, there is no need to go to such trouble."
"I don't understand either," White Beard The old Taoist shook his head slightly and said, "But now, we don't need to consider the thoughts of that mysterious strong man. Let's take care of our own affairs first."
As he spoke, he took something out of his sleeve again. Take out that simple wooden hairpin.
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