Chapter 18 Reproduction of the Ancient Picture
Shortly after Han Bingyu and Ze Yuhui disappeared at the entrance of the Ice Palace, the woman in red patrolled the surroundings alertly. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, she got up from the seat and walked along the steps towards an ice room next to her. The entire ice room was a huge piece of ice that was hollowed out in the middle.
He reached out and gently touched the mechanism. The ice door made by Hanbing opened automatically. Suddenly, an extremely cold breath turned into a swell of ice fog and rushed over. The coldness in the ward can be imagined. When the ice fog in front of him dissipated, the woman in red quietly entered, and the ice door behind him also closed.
When you walk into the ice room, you can see circles of ice pupas arranged in an staggered manner, wrapped in an oval shape wrapped in a layer of ice. If you count carefully, there are as many as 72 ice pupas. The originally huge ice room also seemed a little crowded due to the existence of these ice pupas.
In the center of these ice pupas, there is a protruding ice platform, and a crystal white ice jade silkworm about eight feet long lying on it. At this time, a trace of the cold air is constantly oozing out of its body, and then quickly absorbed by the surrounding ice pupas. Each ice pupa is like a huge container, absorbing the cold air and nourishing itself.
Everyone who walked into the ice room would be frightened by the scene in front of him: except for the ice jade silkworm lying on the ice platform in the middle, there was a child in all the ice pupas. Every child in it seemed to be asleep, curled up tightly, looking like a lifelike specimen. It should be extremely painful to be in such a cold ice pupa, but their faces were not as pale as they imagined, and they were still rosy, and their expressions were even painless. Some children even raised their mouths slightly and smiled. It gave people the feeling that every child inside seemed to be having a beautiful dream.
At this time, the woman in red who walked into the ice room quietly looked at everything inside. The eagerness in her eyes made people shudder. After standing for a while, she walked straight towards the ice jade silkworm in the middle, stretched out her hand and gently stroked it. The originally quiet ice jade silkworm suddenly twisted her body in pain, as if she was struggling hard. Seeing the big bug in front of her, a sneer came from the corner of her mouth: Humph! It's not good!
Seeing the body of the Ice Jade Silkworm twisting more and more intensely, the woman in red finally showed a satisfied look. The next moment, she jumped lightly and stood directly above the ice platform. Steady her body, sat cross-legged in the void, and saw her take out a roll of drawings from her arms, and then carefully unfolded it slowly.
Seeing the somewhat worn ancient picture that was shown in front of her, the eagerness in the eyes of the woman in red was gradually replaced by blur, as if she had lost her spirit. Finally, when the ancient picture was completely presented in front of her, the last trace of awakening disappeared into her eyes. Then she closed her eyes as if she was asleep. The ancient picture in her hand also naturally fell from her hands, but it did not fall down, but slowly rose to the top of the ice chamber.
After staying still for a while, the situation in the ice chamber began to slowly change: First, the ice jade silkworm under the woman in red stopped releasing the cold air. When the surrounding ice pupa sucked the last wisp of cold air into it, the situation reversed: the cold air accumulated in the ice pupa actually began to be released!
So at the same time, all the children in the ice pupa opened their eyes at this moment. Their eyes looked extremely empty and had no spirit at all, as if they had lost their minds, which formed a strong contrast with their rosy faces.
As the cold air in the ice pupa continued to surge outward, the children's originally peaceful expression became distorted due to pain, and their curled body slowly stretched until they struggled continuously. It seemed that what was gushing out from it was not the cold air, but was constantly drawing their souls and minds. Each child was struggling silently inside, which looked chilling.
The most cold air that surged from the ice pupa gathered into the body of the ice jade silkworm on the middle ice platform. The body, which originally seemed very weak and shriveled, became more abundant as the cold air continued to pour in. However, judging from its constantly twisting body, this process was obviously full of pain and suffering.
The children in the ice pupa were also enduring great pain. The ice jade silkworm was not until the coldest energy of each ice pupa was absorbed. At this time, the ice jade silkworm had expanded to its limit, like a blown balloon, and the rich coldest energy filled with its body was slowly flowing.
The atmosphere in the ice chamber became depressing and weird, like a silent purgatory: its hideous face and twisted body due to pain. Every child in the ice pupa seemed to be as crystal clear and pale as it merged with the outer ice, making the ice chamber even worse.
The woman in red sitting cross-legged in the void ignored the changes below. She had already sunk deeply into the illusory dream.
Time passed quietly without realizing it. Suddenly, the old and old picture that was originally floating on the top of the ice chamber was moving, and it slowly fell to the body of the ice jade silkworm, whose size had become huge, on the ice platform below.
The moment the two came into contact, the bulging balloon-like body seemed to have been poked a hole suddenly, and the cold air in the body gushed out like a sudden erupting volcano, and then it was all melted into the ancient picture covering the body of the icy jade silkworm.
The ancient pictures also changed as the cold air poured in. The previous dilapidated color slowly disappeared, and the dazzling crystal white light became stronger and stronger. The scenery painted in the ancient pictures was like plants after a long drought, which seemed to be alive after being nourished by rain and dew.
Finally, when the body of the Ice Jade Silkworm changed back to its original size and there was not much cold energy left in its body, the ancient map, which had absorbed enough energy, floated again and rose to its original position.
As the ancient picture rises, it is originally flat and slowly erects. An extremely strong light shines out from the painting and shines on the walls of the ice chamber not far away, like a projector from a certain world. A strange scene happened: a tall snow mountain is clearly visible on the bright ice wall. On the top of the snowy mountain are snow lotus, and white snow lotus stands on the branches. On each lotus, there are like butterflies carved from ice, crystal clear.
The originally still painting suddenly heard the sound of whistling wind and snow. The butterflies falling on the lotus flew away from the ancient picture and flew out of the ancient picture, falling towards the woman in red, and then melted into her body like melting ice and snow. Soon, a huge butterfly with an illusory figure quietly appeared behind the woman in red. As more and more butterflies flew out of the ancient picture and merged into the red jade girl's body, the butterfly behind her became clearer.
It continued to cycle until the woman in red became as crystal clear as ice and almost disappeared. When the butterfly behind her became more and more real, the butterfly in the painting stopped flying out, and the strong light emitted from the ancient picture suddenly became restrained and entered the picture. Soon, the painting turned back to its original worn appearance and floated back to the top of the ice room and floated.
During the entire fantasy process, although the woman's eyes were still closed tightly, as if she was asleep, her expression was constantly changing, including the joy of enlightenment, the frown when she was confused, and the confusion when she doubted, especially when she was about to become transparent behind her, she could see a strong sense of anger from her expression.
"Why is this happening every time? Why can't I break through the last shackles? Is it really only by abandoning my body and truly transforming into a butterfly to fully comprehend it? But in this way, wouldn't I have to let go of everything!" The figure of the woman in red instantly turned into her original appearance, almost roaring and saying this sentence.
"What is wrong? Why is it that only the last bit of morality can be broken through, but it just can't be understood." The unwilling voice of the woman in the red letter echoed in this ice room again.
"Is it because these children are not enough?" She turned her eyes to the children who had long lost their minds, and the cruelty in her eyes flashed by.
Chapter completed!