The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 874: The End of the Pilgrimage
Carrying unspeakable secrets, the Tang Dynasty pilgrims walked through the long tunnel inside the Great Wall.

The tunnel was dead silent and pitch black.

Everyone lit up their spirit lanterns, with faint halos of light falling on both sides. On the stone wall, there were reliefs of soldiers in armor and armed with sharp weapons, waving flags and shouting, with spears raised high, all facing the darkness at the end of the corridor, as if they were rushing towards an unknown destination in the depths, just like them.

And those pairs of eyes carved on the stone wall reflected slightly in the light, sharp as a knife, as if silently examining, as if they could see through the long-deviant beliefs in the heart.

The level of realism is so real that it almost makes people doubt whether those reliefs... were originally real people.

Thinking of this, even these priests with extraordinary divine duties and cultivation could not help but feel a chill in their hearts.

"High Priest...does the Divine Blessing Pilgrimage in previous years also have to pass through places like this?" Yuan Wu spoke cautiously.

Gao Yisheng is the only priest among the eight who participated in the pilgrimage last year.

Although he is young and of low rank, he is very popular among the upper echelons because of his sweet talk - especially the great priest Lou.

Last year, not long after he entered the temple, he was strongly recommended by Priest Lou and taken by Priest Li to tour and train. This year, he was directly inserted into the team.

Grand Priest Mei did not make any comment and allowed him to go with him. Unexpectedly, this man was very good at judging the situation and soon sided with Grand Priest Mei, completely ignoring the support of Grand Priest Lou.

By now, all the priests who had followed the great priest Li in previous years had unfortunately died on the road to heaven, leaving only Gao Yisheng, so naturally the question fell on him.

However, Gao Yisheng shook his head solemnly.

"Last year, as soon as we pressed the token and walked into the wall, a teleportation array appeared, which directly teleported us to the inner city temple. So I didn't walk through this wall tunnel..."

Everyone immediately felt uneasy.

"Did...something go wrong?" someone whispered.

"What are you afraid of? There are so many of us, what can possibly happen inside this wall?"

"Besides, Great Priest Mei hasn't spoken yet!"

"Besides, we have the protection of... adults."

"But didn't you feel it?" Yuan Wu reminded in a low voice, "Since you came in... you can't sense the adult's aura."

Of course Song Haiyin also noticed it, but she didn't say it out loud. She frowned silently, trying to sense the divine will through the trembling of her heart.

However, the two increasingly withered pear tree babies in his hands were enough to show that he was getting farther and farther away from the giant tree that he had just glimpsed and thought he was finally going to see again.

The expressions of the others changed drastically, and they were a little panicked for a moment.

"Enough, stop scaring yourself. Faith is in your heart, how can you not feel it?" Great Priest Mei scolded.

He raised the holy sword, and a holy flame was still burning on the sword.

Everyone looked at his slightly hunched back, which showed no sign of wavering in the firelight. They felt a little more at ease and continued to follow his steps.

However, the further we walked, the weirder it felt.

The road did not go up, but went down.

Gao Yisheng became increasingly uneasy, muttering, "No... None of this is right..."

The darkness on both sides grew deeper and deeper.

Gradually, even the light in my hand could not fall on the wall, let alone the lifelike reliefs.

The same thought arose in everyone's mind -

"This tunnel is getting wider and wider!" Yuan Wu exclaimed.

But his voice did not echo in the tunnel as expected.

Instead, it was swallowed up by a sense of emptiness, as if falling into a huge invisible abyss.

All that remained was endless silence.

After the silence, there was a moment of fear.

One by one, the spirit bead lamps trembled and rose up, illuminating the surroundings.

But there is no end to it.

There was only boundless darkness, so deep that it seemed to swallow up even sound and time, filled with some kind of awe-inspiring supreme existence, as if countless eyes were watching them from the depths, examining their own will and the purity of their hearts. The holy sword in the hands of the great priest Mei gradually dimmed.

The holy flame finally dissipated completely.

In front of such a being, the so-called holy sword is just a tiny firewood stick, not worthy of being presented before their eyes.

Great Priest Mei slowly sheathed his sword, sensing the image of Mother Earth that still remained in his heart. A force rose from his dantian, allowing his mind to temporarily remain clear in this darkness.

He walked in front and gradually saw more scenery.

Gradually, in the darkness in the distance, dots of light emerged.

From few to many, becoming increasingly dense, and finally pouring out like the Milky Way.

And under my feet, there is a vast expanse of white snow.

But not Snow White, nor anything else.

Song Haiyin picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, rubbed it with her fingertips, and it turned into flying ashes.

“These are ashes.”

Everyone was shocked and their legs went weak.

However, I didn't expect that the ground was not flat and had curves on both sides, and I almost slipped down.

Great Priest Mei summoned several golden chains to bind everyone tightly, and shouted in a deep voice: "Stand firm."

Everyone stood firm and looked down, only to find that there was no flat road under their feet.
It is made up of snow-white sections that are thick at both ends and thin in the middle, and are round like pillars. It forms a huge spine that lies across the sea of ​​stars and extends to the invisible end.

Beyond the Spine Road is the boundless void, with stars like a river that is suffocating.

When I wanted to look back, I found that the black fog had swallowed up the way I came.

There is no way back.

We can only keep moving forward.

Unconsciously, there was something more among the stars.

I saw that the eyes that were peeping at everyone from the darkness finally appeared, falling from a high place, becoming clearer and clearer as they walked. They came from a group of snow-white illusory giants, standing on both sides of the spine, looking down at everyone with undisguised cold scrutiny in their eyes.

One could vaguely see the giant's phantom's wide sleeves fluttering in the void. The cuffs, as transparent as white mist mixed with stars, were covered in circles of gold, extending out countless golden threads that scattered towards the void, and several more golden threads floated in front of everyone's eyes.

It sank into the body again.

Disappearing without a trace, as if it had always been in the body.

For some reason, at that moment, the priests understood the meaning of these golden threads.

In this way, I somehow knew what these existences were.

Finally, we reached the end of the road.

An extremely tall light gate stood there, completely white with exquisite carvings.

It is quite familiar. Every priest who has climbed the stairs has looked up at this door and walked through it.

Seeing each other again at this moment, my heart trembles.

What happens later may not be what you imagine.

Or maybe, behind this door is what you have always dreamed of.

As if a blessing had come to his mind, the great priest Mei slowly pasted the token on the door.

With a loud bang, a holy and bloody breath poured out from the crack in the door.

Everyone's heart was hanging in the air.

Until I saw the scene behind the door, I could no longer let it go.

Only endless shock remains...

With deep fear.