Chapter 342: The Other Side is Death

The paper boat gradually approached the source of the Yin River. Unlike the Yin River, the wind was blowing slowly here. Gu Chen looked at the dark Yin soil with a lot of gravel and stones piled on it. He clenched his fists. Gu Chen had a hunch that the last clay doll was here. It was not only a whim, but also the constantly turbulent magic power nurtured by the Golden Seal of Side Door Achievements was reminding him.

"Have you made up your mind?"

The sudden sound startled Gu Chen. It was his heart, his own strange heart. In the past three years, except for the time when he shortened his life and borrowed power, the two of them rarely talked.

'What other choice do I have now?'

Gu Chen thought about the current situation of the human race, which only had Dragon City as a respite. Those fallen immortals were wandering everywhere. Not to mention that there were not enough manpower and strength to kill the gods and immortals, even if the lost land was taken back, the polluted land was no longer suitable for human survival. He could only pin his hopes on the glimmer of hope given by his father.

"Do you know what's coming?"

Guiyi Xin asked, and seeing that Gu Chen didn't speak, he spoke: "This Yin River is the source of life and death, the place of reincarnation, called the Death Path River, and the black soil is called the other shore. When you cross the Death Path and step onto the other shore, guess what will happen?"

will die.

Gu Chen did not reply with his heart sound. When he entered the Yin River, Gu Chen felt something vaguely in his heart. The inexplicable feeling made him know that this was his doom. When he reached the other side, he would cut off the last trace of life and turn into a dead thing.

The golden medal of merit given by the clay figurine had destroyed four of the five internal organs, and the only one left was the heart. A person cannot live without a head, but what about a heart? Once the heart meridian is destroyed, it is nothing more than death.

"You have noticed, the closer you are to the other side, the weaker you will be. When you find that clay doll, you will be dead. Aren't you afraid?" asked Guiyixin.

Gu Chen shook his head: "I'm not afraid of living, so why should I be afraid of death?"

He stroked his heart, which was beating slowly at a speed far lower than that of an ordinary person. Perhaps this was the last time that Gu Chen felt the pulsation of his heart.

"Besides, my father guided me here. He can't just watch me die, right?"

Gu Chen smiled. This was the source of his confidence. Although he didn't know how powerful his father was, he could vaguely sense some of his strength.

He suddenly changed the subject: "Come to think of it, you and I have lived together for so long, we have been through thick and thin together, and we are friends in life and death. Can you tell me your name?"

The heart beat a few times: "I am originally in between life and death, unable to be reborn, unable to die, born without a name, and do not need a name or title. I am just me, a strange heart."

Gu Chen tapped his chest: "Then...when my heart veins are cut off, where will you go? Or in other words, will you die?"

"I have no life or death. How come your superfluous compassion has overflowed to the point where you want to pity a weird person like me who has taken away most of your life span? This is really ridiculous!"

Guiyixin suddenly became furious: "Look at what you look like now, you are neither human nor ghost, your internal organs are mostly destroyed, and in exchange for a few magical powers, you have lost most of your life for your unnecessary kindness. If you listen to me, choose a fairy mountain to rest, and wait until all mortals are wiped out, those immortals and gods may be able to start a new world and build another thirty-three days. By then, with our strength, we can also become immortals and gods. You have brought this fate upon yourself!"

"It's easy to say, but I don't want to watch familiar things slowly go to destruction. Besides, if you want to stop it, why don't you just not lend me the power?" Gu Chen asked back.

This question left Guiyixin speechless. He snorted coldly and said nothing more.

The paper boat gently bumped against the edge of the Yin Earth, causing a wave of shock. Gu Chen and Yan Jing looked at each other, jumped, and stepped onto the Yin Earth. They finally crossed the path of death and reached the other side.

Yan Jing was shocked when he saw Gu Chen's breath fluctuating. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Gu Chen stagger and half-kneel on the ground.

"Brother Gu!" Gu Chen pushed away Yan Jing's supporting hand, feeling a wave of weakness coming over him: "It's okay, it should be that this place has caused some changes in my body, it's nothing serious."

He said that it was nothing serious, but his face became more and more livid, his strength disappeared, and even his magic power was very slow. Gu Chen could only take a step forward and drag his other foot forward, gasping for breath, and his dead body was actually sweating.

"Haha, I haven't felt such a strong physical sensation for a long time. Now I suddenly realize that I was once a human being, not a dead body that doesn't eat or sleep, doesn't feel hungry, and doesn't feel tired."

Gu Chen held his knees with his hands, but couldn't help but smile. This feeling of being alive had been away from him for a long time.

Yan Jing looked at the weak Gu Chen but did not go forward to help him. He knew how boring it would be to be like a walking corpse when all the senses of the body slowly disappeared. The longer something was gone, the more he would miss it.

"Brother Yan, you said..." Gu Chen panted a few times, "You said I'm not really going to die, right?"

Without waiting for Yan Jing to answer, he spoke again: "No, although my heartless father is always mysterious, he won't watch me die."

Having said that, as Gu Chen walked on the Yin soil, his various senses began to revive, and they were revived a thousand times, as if they had been suppressed for a long time and were finally released today.

"It fucking hurts!"

He suddenly roared. When his senses became tens of millions times more sensitive, the slightest touch would bring him great pain. Even the breeze that blew by felt like a slow torture. Every time Gu Chen exhaled, his lungs felt as painful as if he had swallowed a knife.

But he was unwilling to stop this self-mutilation behavior. This was proof that he was alive. At least he could still feel pain. It was a thousand times, ten thousand times better than losing most of his body in the battle with the fallen immortal and feeling like a rotten wood without any feeling.

Yan Jing looked at Gu Chen, who was almost hunched over and crawling forward. He didn't know what was going on. Even though he was also on the Yin soil, he didn't show any abnormality.

"Brother Gu, how about taking a break?"

He couldn't help but dissuade him. The soil was full of gravel and stones. When Gu Chen walked on it, he felt as if he was being polished by it. Dirty blood flowed under his feet. There was a lot of wind, which blew on him, scraping off his flesh and blood. Soon he became a bloody man.

“No need to rest, I feel great!”

Gu Chen laughed: "Life and death are like clothes, take them off now, know that feeling is like gauze, wear it as you like, this place is my calamity, the road is ahead, how can I stop!"

As he spoke, he did not retreat, but instead walked faster. The faster he walked, he left a trail of bloody footprints behind him. After walking for a long time, Gu Chen's stature suddenly shortened. He lowered his head and saw that half of his leg bones had been worn away by the gravel and soil. He had no support, so he could not shorten his stature.

Mobilizing his magical power and gathering all his strength, Gu Chen was not satisfied with just walking, and began to run with big strides. The wind became stronger and stronger, blowing away his flesh and blood. Soon, only a broken skeleton was left running with his head on top. The remaining internal organs could be seen in the crotch of his ribs, shaking continuously as he ran.

'Keep going, keep moving forward, don't stop, if you stop you will never be able to get up again.'

Gu Chen shouted silently in his heart, because he no longer had any organs to make a sound. His feet moved faster and faster, leaving Yan Jingdu far away. His flesh and blood disappeared, his consciousness also began to be worn away, and his magic power dissipated even faster. After a while, Gu Chen's mind began to become dazed, and only his skeleton moved forward unconsciously.

After an unknown amount of time, the miserable and incomplete skeleton suddenly stopped, and the white gums rubbed a few times, as if laughing. Under the skeleton, there was a black clay doll with half of its body hidden in the soil, standing quietly, waiting for travelers from afar.

The next second, the skeleton broke into pieces, and when the breeze blew away, there was no trace of it left, leaving only the organs in the abdominal cavity that fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)