1 The Great Change at Sea
Chapter 1: The Great Change at Sea
The August noon sun hung in the clear blue sky like a fierce burning fireball, constantly ejecting blazing flames. The scorching air filled every corner of heaven and earth, making it very difficult for people to bear. Only the occasional gentle brush of the sea breeze, in order to make people feel the slightest coolness.
Zhao Rui stood on the top deck of the "Sea Ridge" luxury cruise ship, leaning against the side of the ship, looking at the bikini girls playing in the pool, in a very good mood.
Fortunately, the tickets were not sold, otherwise the scenery would not have been seen. He smiled and was a little thankful.
Zhao Rui is a sophomore at a university in the western ancient city of Dong'an, ordinary-looking, ordinary temperament, in addition to the eyes are sharper than normal, the face basically can not find what can be remembered features.
His parents died early, and no relatives, since childhood, tuition fees and living expenses have to earn their own, if not because of a television program with a prize happened to win the top prize, won the opportunity to take a luxury cruise ship five days at sea, he absolutely can not afford the cost.
Zhao Rui originally felt that this prize would be more practical if it could be exchanged for money, but until the moment before he boarded the ship, he could not transfer the ticket, so he had to go on the cruise ship with a chagrin, by himself to enjoy this luxury five-day cruise.
However, after enjoying two days on board the "Sea Ridge", that chagrin was thrown away by him to the clouds.
"Three more days to go back, time flies!" Zhao Rui still sighs, his ticket includes the cost of accommodation, good food and drink on board, nothing to worry about, go back to where there is such a good treatment?
Is that feel regretful when a middle-aged couple nearby rambling chat, walked past him.
"I heard that there are a lot of ancient shipwrecks under this sea!" The husband said.
"A phew, then there are not a lot of treasures down here? If only we could fish them out, then we would be really rich!" The somewhat obese woman, eyes glowing, sweeping around on the surface of the sea, as if there are really countless treasures lying on the bottom of the sea, just waiting for her to go down and salvage.
Zhao Rui stood there, listening to this can not help but laugh: hearsay, but also take it seriously, I read the novel also want to become immortal! What true what false can not tell?
The husband went on to say: "It is said that two years ago there was a famous treasure hunting team to salvage here, and then suddenly disappeared in this neighborhood, I do not know what happened."
"Ah? There is this?" The wife screamed, "That does not mean that this sea is very dangerous?"
"The Sea Ridge is a five-star luxury cruise ship, the route are carefully selected, how can choose dangerous sea sailing?" The husband hurriedly reassured, "As for the disappearance of the expedition, it may be because of a storm or some other reason. This kind of thing will not appear in our ship, you do not think too much ..."
Two people said the voice gradually decreased, walking away.
Zhao Rui glanced at the back of the two, shook his head, that woman is really too sensitive, people casually said a sentence, can actually associate so much out.
The Sea Ridge continued to sail on the sea, I do not know when the sky became dark, thick black clouds like galloping wild horses, from far and near, blocking the sun, the sea wind also gradually fierce, with a low whistling sound, whistling.
"A storm is approaching, please return all passengers to their rooms! All passengers please return to your staterooms!"
The ship's announcement suddenly blared.
"Didn't they say the weather is fine for the past few days?"
"Why is there a storm all of a sudden?"
"The weather at sea is getting too fast!"
The tourists complained and left the deck. The bikini girls who were originally playing in the pool also came out of the pool, wiping their bodies with towels while heading to their rooms.
"What a bummer about the weather."
Zhao Rui grunted and followed the crowd, also preparing to go back to his room.
At that moment, a huge lightning bolt ripped through the dark clouds and smashed straight into the sea to the left of the "Sea Ridge" cruise ship, instantly stirring up huge waves, followed by one thunderstorm after another, deafening!
The "Sea Ridge" cruise ship violently lurch up, the huge hull, almost to lift over!
Too late to enter the room tourists screamed loudly in shock, rolled on the deck.
Zhao Rui was just two steps away from the side of the ship, unprepared, a huge wave hit, where can still stand, directly over the side of the ship, a scream, plunged into the sea, the raging seawater almost in an instant swallowed him.
"Shit! How can I be so unlucky!"
He couldn't help cursing as the seawater took the opportunity to fill his mouth. He gurgled a few times and began to sink, and his consciousness gradually became fuzzy.
Just before losing consciousness completely, a whirlpool suddenly appeared at his feet and sucked him in toward the bottom of the sea.
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I don't know how long it took, Zhao Rui slowly woke up from the coma, half-awake, feeling like something blocked in the trachea, breathing is extremely difficult, the stomach is heavy, as if filled with seawater, the mouth is salty and astringent.
He coughed a few times, coughing out some seawater, and only then felt that his breathing was much smoother, and his mind gradually became clear.
He felt as if he was lying on all fours on a stone slab, his body was cold and icy.
Zhao Rui gently shook his head, confused, did not know where he was, he remembered that before he fell unconscious, he seemed to be sucked by the vortex towards the bottom of the sea. However, this little doubt was very quickly replaced by the great joy of survival.
"I'm still alive! To have survived in that bad situation is really something to be thankful for!"
He let out a low laugh with difficulty, rolled over, using his almost stiff limbs to support his body, and slowly rose from the ground, ready to take a closer look at the surroundings before deciding what to do next.
However, the scene that entered his eyes stunned him.
The dark seawater was suspended a thousand meters above him, as if there was an invisible wall blocking it out, and in the midst of the seawater, sea creatures, heard or never heard of, swam back and forth in groups.
The wreckage of countless ships scattered in the mud and sand of the sea floor, broken keel stretched out randomly, a few rags hanging on it, gently floating with the current.
"Where the hell am I ...?"
Zhao Rui took a few deep breaths to calm his fiercely beating heart, and slowly turned around, and a huge hall of ancient shape and grandeur, as if it had only stood here since the beginning of time, steeply entered his eyes.
This hall by the amazingly huge stone piled up, hundreds of meters high, only look up to see the top of the hall.
Golden light covered this temple-like building. The light is like water, gently flowing, dazzling people. Milky white clouds, lingering around the hall, set it off like a heavenly palace.
A stone staircase hundreds of meters long, shining with silver light, from the door of the hall to his feet, stone steps on both sides, about ten meters of foreign beast stone statues neatly arranged, awe-inspiring, so that people do not dare to look long.
Zhao Rui stood on the wide stone steps, standing in front of this sacred and solemn giant hall, suddenly felt himself incomparably small, like a grain of dust.
I don't know how long it took for him to come back from the extreme shock. But his heart was still beating hard, and everything that appeared in front of him made him feel mysterious and puzzled.
He didn't know exactly where he was and who had built this building in front of him. The only thing he could be sure of was that he was located at the bottom of the ocean at a great depth, so deep that even the most advanced submersible in the world could not reach it!
"It's still a miracle that I can enter this undersea temple alive!"
Zhao Rui muttered, feeling that he could not find any other words to describe it other than lucky.
But he immediately found a new problem: how should he leave?
Zhao Rui would not be foolish enough to try to swim out of the deep sea through that invisible barrier. Not to mention the fierce sea monsters outside, the enormous pressure generated by the deep sea would be enough to crush him within a second of him stepping out of the barrier!
Now the only hope is that the mysterious hall has a passage to leave.
However, even if there is no passage in the hall, he is still going to go in and have a look.
This building that stood in the middle of the deep sea, shutting out billions of tons of seawater, what exactly was placed inside, would there be amazing treasures?
His heart was suddenly on fire.
Without much consideration, Zhao Rui walked down the stone steps and headed for the door of the mysterious hall.
The stone steps were high and steep, and even though Zhao Rui was physically strong, he had not recovered his strength because he had just awakened from a coma, so he had to walk extra hard on this part of the path.
When he arrived at the door of the temple, Zhao Rui suddenly realized that the door was so tall and heavy that it would be almost impossible to push it open if he didn't have the strength of a thousand pounds!
With a fluke, he tried to push the door with his hands, surprisingly, in the rumble like thunder, the huge door slowly opened to both sides.
Zhao Rui heart a burst of excitement, about to walk in, a surge of cold air suddenly rushed out from inside the door, almost froze him!
"Damn, does this lead to the North Pole, how can it be so cold!"
He cursed as he kept jumping back and forth, and it took him a while to get over it, and only when the coldness was gone and his body was warm did he walk inside.
The space in this mysterious hall is very large, empty and can not see the edge, like the music of heaven in the hall constantly dazzling, beautiful, low, full of mourning, so that people's mood also for the heavy.
The golden light fell from above, staining the surroundings with the same color. An avenue paved with Chinese white jade led straight to the depths of the hall, where a semicircular object was neatly arranged!
Zhao Rui opened his eyes wide and tried to take a closer look at the situation in front of him, but unfortunately, it was too far apart for him to see more clearly.
Follow the Chinese white jade avenue to the depths of the hall, surrounded by the cold air gradually increased, the body was soaked with seawater clothing are frozen hard, as if wearing an ice suit on the body.
Even running away took nearly an hour, Zhao Rui finally came to the depths of the hall and found the source of the cold.
Appeared in front of him, is a huge scale, a glance can not see the border of the giant burial complex!
These tombs were built by a semicircle of huge ice blocks of varying sizes, some of which were tens of meters high, and the smallest ice tomb had a radius of several meters high.
What is even more peculiar is that these giant immortal tombs, crystal clear, a colorful stream of light flowing on the ice, extremely dazzling, not only that these immortal tombs are also extremely hard, no matter what method is used, it is impossible to leave even a trace on the ice surface.
In these ice tombs, some of the frozen creatures immortal style, clothes flowing, like an immortal; others are hideous face, demonic aura, like a demon; some tombs frozen creatures, handsome, sacred and majestic face, with white wings on their backs, like Western angels!
In front of each giant immortal tomb, a square-tipped tombstone carved out of ice was erected, with extremely ancient prehistoric words engraved on it.
"What exactly is the meaning of the words engraved on all of these?"
Zhao Rui frowned and stopped in front of a tombstone.
The owner of this tombstone, an old man frozen in the tomb, wearing a Taoist robe, hair silver, eyebrows kind eyes, left hand holding a fan, right hand holding a gold steel facet, immortal style Taoist bones in the atmosphere of kindness and benevolence, so that at first sight, people feel peace and affinity.
Zhao Rui was about to carefully ponder the meaning of the inscription when suddenly, the words on the tombstone shone out a silvery light that shot straight into his brow.
Zhao Rui only felt a boom in his head, making him almost faint, yet in this instant, as if enlightened, he completely understood the meaning of these ancient words!
The words on the tombstone were a summary of the life of the tomb owner, recording the past deeds of the owner of this immortal tomb.
Even though Zhao Rui had been in constant shock since he arrived at this deep-sea tomb and was almost numb, this name still made him feel like a thunderstorm roaring next to his ears.
He is actually the supreme deity of Taoism, ruling the heavens, leading all the saints, practicing the ways of heaven, spreading the virtues of heaven, the three realms, the ten directions, the four beings, and the six paths are all under control of Tai Shang Lao Jun!
Zhao Rui hurriedly turned his head to look at another tombstone.
The owner of this icy tomb was actually the Lord of Destruction in the Western legends who blew the trumpet of doom, made meteors fall to the ground and opened the gates of hell - Abaddon!
"How can an immortal demon die and still be frozen in this tomb?"
Zhao Rui exclaimed in low alarm, despite the fact that he had experienced many storms and was always calm, his mind was in chaos at this time.
He never believed in ghosts and gods, and did not want to believe in the authenticity of the words written on the tombstone, but this tomb located in the deep sea, this majestic hall that can turn away billions of tons of seawater, but he could not use scientific common sense to make any explanation!
Zhao Rui wandered confusedly in this huge tomb complex, an obelisk-shaped tombstone passed before his eyes, and a name that he had only heard of in mythological stories kept jumping into his eyes.
"The Tomb of the Great Demon God Interlocutor of the East!"
"The tomb of Archangel Michael of the Western Heavenly Realm!"
"The tomb of Zhang Daoling, the First Master of the East!"
"The tomb of Billy the Great Demon King, one of the seventy-two demon kings of Solomon in the West!"
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The more Zhao Rui looked, the more frightened he was, if the introduction on the tombstone was true, then ... what kind of great changes had occurred, so that these immortal gods and demons, which existed only in the ancient legends of the East and West, all slept in this endless immortal tomb?
