There is a trick

Chapter 35 Strange Lotus Root
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Zhou Chang followed Paper Face into the pond. The water remained silent, as if it had turned into a clear and transparent swamp, swallowing up Zhou Chang and Paper Face.

His body slowly sank downwards, and the water surrounding him became soft and muddy.

The water in the pool flooded over his head, and the shapeless and colorless water flowing around him showed signs of turning into an illusory and colorful aura for a moment, but it returned to normal in the blink of an eye - this deep pool was filled with a thick "feasting air".

The rich aroma even turned into water in the pond!
The lake water, returning to normal, flowed gently around Zhou Chang, like a woman's soft and lingering arms.

As soon as this thought flashed through Zhou Chang's mind, the soft water flowing around him, like mud, actually turned into snow-white and soft arms!
The beautiful and young women have long hair like clouds floating in the water.

'They' linked arms and danced around Zhou Chang underwater!
The world in Zhou Chang's eyes began to become chaotic. This was a sign that the feasting energy was infecting his soul!
At this moment, strands of snow-white and transparent lotus root silk flowed out from Bai Xiu'e's body and wrapped around Zhou Chang in circles. Those strands of lotus root silk connected to Zhou Chang's thoughts, increasing his thoughts. In this chaotic atmosphere, he still maintained his sanity!
Paper Face pulled him and continued swimming downstream.

Those soft and transparent women were pushed away by Zhou Chang's figure.

Their transparent and colorless bodies were densely packed in the lake, like rotten wood with its insides hollowed out, and could only drift with the flow.

White and transparent silk threads flowed down from their bodies in a dense circle, all the way down to the bottom of the pool.

At the bottom of the Bride's Pond, there are really lotus roots.

In the dark and turbid mud, lotus roots as white as human limbs lay underneath. As the mud was swept away by the lake water, the scales and claws of the lotus roots suddenly appeared.

Countless lotus roots stuck deep in the mud surround a single lotus root that breaks through the mud and sways in the lake water.

The lotus root had nine sections, with fine lotus root fibers growing on the surface.

Those soft and transparent "women" crowded in the pond, and the lotus silk floating in their bodies, all come from this nine-section lotus root.

The nine-section lotus root is still emitting a large amount of lotus root fibers.

A small part of the lotus silk floated towards Bai Xiu'e and connected with the lotus silk on her body.

Most of the remaining lotus root threads were wrapped around another lotus root at the bottom of the pond, layer upon layer.

With the layers of lotus root silk entangled together, the lotus root actually showed the outline of a human figure. The pores on it were finer than a needle hole, just like human pores.

Looking at the lotus root that had grown into a human shape, Zhou Chang inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity.

Paper Face's voice came, light but still very clear underwater: "My dear, have you ever heard of the play 'Nezha Conquers the Dragon King'? In that play, Nezha pulled out the tendons and skinned the Dragon King's Third Prince, thus offending the Dragon King of the East Sea.

The Dragon King of the East Sea summoned the gods of the four seas to flood Nezha's hometown. Nezha was reprimanded by his father for this, so he cut off his bones to return to his father and cut off his flesh to return to his mother...

In the end, he placed his soul in the nine-section fairy lotus root and was reborn.

Do you think that this lotus root can really transform into a human being?

Could it be that the lotus root that can transform into a human being was originally transformed from a human corpse?"

Nezha, lotus roots, corpses...

Zhou Chang listened to what Paper Face said, and had a vague feeling that the other party seemed to be hinting at something to him.

But Paper Face's words were evasive, and with just these few 'code words', he couldn't really connect the clues and see the hidden truth.

At this moment, the paper face suddenly hummed a song in an unknown language. The song sounded ethereal and distant, like heavy snow falling in the mountains: "Buzz, duta, dure soha...Buzz, duta, dure soha..."

As she sang, Zhou Chang's vision saw the clear and transparent water in the pond become illusory and colorful again. The rolling fragrant air flooded his vision!

He saw that the lotus roots buried in the mud had turned into the swollen and pale corpses of women!
Many female corpses were wrapped in colorful rags, surrounding the nine lotus roots that had broken through the mud - the nine lotus roots turned into nine young women with different features!
In the bottom section, the woman who is the root of the lotus root, is wearing a wedding dress. Over the years, the phoenix coronet and bridal robe have faded into a mottled color of red and white, but the woman's appearance has not changed. Her hair is like clouds and waterfalls, and her face under the flowing hair is surprisingly similar to Bai Xiu'e!
This woman who looked like Bai Xiu'e had lingering lotus root silk floating on her body, entangling the other seven women who were wearing clothes made of various flowered fabrics.

The seven women were like lotus seeds, tightly surrounding another woman in the lotus core who was wearing a phoenix coronet and a bridal robe.

The wedding dress that the woman was wearing was still bright and colorful, without any fading.

But her delicate and delicate face and her exposed palms were covered with lotus root holes, and colorless lotus root silk flowed out of them like water!
This woman is Bai Xiu'e!
The nine-section lotus root actually consists of Bai Xiu'e and seven other unnamed women, plus the suspected 'Grandma of the Bai Family', a total of nine women!
“Run…run…”

Bai Xiu'e murmured softly.

Her tearful face suddenly turned into a paper-like one.

The ethereal and pure singing voice lingered in Zhou Chang's ears, but the scene in Zhou Chang's vision became increasingly blurred. His consciousness gradually returned to the depths of darkness, as if returning to his mother's arms.

His gaze finally stopped on another lotus root section that was entangled with numerous lotus roots and had a human-like outline.

When his soul was about to fall into a deep sleep, the contents of the "Dapin Xindan Sutra" that Zhou Chang had browsed once again flowed out of his eyes. Those incomplete and distorted Chinese characters were rapidly arranged and reorganized in front of his eyes.

He saw a voice in his eyes: "The lotus body is strange and the lotus root is divine...

The spirit has not been refined by heaven, and the mind is chaotic and empty...

Reciting the mantra of Su Lai gives rise to my wisdom and knowledge and enables me to communicate...

Suddenly a curse came, suddenly a curse came, calling forth the dark and strange madness, now the world is vast..."

Spirit, spirit...

Zhou Chang's mind captured the key information in that message, and many other associations arose in his mind.

He thought of the first time he read the "Dapin Xindan Sutra", and the "egg sheath embryo" mentioned in the Dapin Xindan Sutra...

Shenjing, the embryonic form of the egg sheath...

The last thought swirled in Zhou Chang’s mind for a while, and he finally couldn’t resist the drowsiness of returning to the mother’s body, and his thoughts completely sank into darkness.

……

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of the kitchen knife chopping flesh and hitting the chopping board kept ringing in Zhou Chang's ears.

He didn't know how long he had slept in the darkness, and was finally awakened by the waves of violent chopping sounds.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Rows of white-skinned dogs, skinned and hung on iron hooks, came into view.

(End of this chapter)