What's more, it's not necessarily so easy to kill this kid, I've observed, the other party is very cautious, it's very difficult to succeed in sneak attack methods such as drugged or something, once it is discovered that there is a frontal conflict, and there is something to do with the other party's territory, we can't take advantage!"

"But second brother, it is estimated that with that kid's scheming, it is estimated that he will not be able to guess what we are hiding from him, just afraid that he will hold a grudge and make us stumble at the critical time of dealing with Xiao Zhuoyan!" Zhou Wu hesitated for a moment and said worriedly.

"En......" Zhou Wen pondered for a while, "With that kid's cleverness, he must have felt it, but so what, he signed a blood contract, and under the constraints of the blood curse, if you don't want to die, you will help us kill Xiao Zhuoyan as soon as possible." What's more, the third brother, you know the second brother, why did you hand over the Nightmare Stone to that kid.

There are many legends about this stone, the source of its power, the treasure house of knowledge, endless treasures, keys to other worlds, etc., but the most legend about it is ......".

"What, second brother, what are you selling, let's talk about it!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Wen showed a look of fear, and hesitated for a while under Zhou Wu's repeated urging before continuing, "It is called the Stone of Curse, the Stone of Calamity, the Stone of Ominousness, or the Stone of Oblivion. ”

"What do you mean, didn't my father say that through this stone, we can gain great power and make our Zhou family rise?

Looking at the third brother who was in a hurry, Zhou Wen took a sip of wine without hurrying, and ate another bite of food before speaking.

"According to the notebook that was kept with the Nightmare Stone at the time, the Nightmare Stone originally came from outside the sky, and it was brought by the gods and men outside the sky to ......."

"I also know that in the book "History of Xia", it is recorded that the gods and men came from the outer heavens, and it was they who created the immortals and witches, and then they didn't leave? Since the Nightmare Stone is theirs, why don't you take it with you when you leave. Zhou Wu wondered.

"The godman is gone? not necessarily, to be precise, it should have disappeared, and no one knows the reason for the disappearance, but it should have something to do with the Nightmare Stone. Zhou Wen sneered.

"In the mouth of the gods outside the sky, the Nightmare Stone is also called the Divine Stone, and it is said that the original gods were not gods, and they knew that they got the Nightmare Stone or the Divine Stone. The Divine Stone is the source of their power, and their first magical power comes from the Divine Stone. Later, the gods disappeared, but the gods and stones stayed, and in order to compete for the ownership of the gods, a war broke out between the two lich clans, and the final outcome was that the two lich clans were defeated, and the gods fell into the hands of the last victors, the immortals.

But soon many immortals, but also because of the disappearance of the divine stone, the divine stone inadvertently fell into the world, people, demons, immortals, witches, countless owners of the clan tossed and circulated, and most of the legends about the divine stone were produced during this period, that is, from then on, people began to call it the nightmare stone.

Someone once gained great power because of Nightmare Stone, and went from an ordinary tribal slave to the leader of a tribal alliance. There have also been people who have gained countless fortunes because of Nightmare Stones, from a beggar to the richest man. But beyond these alluring legends, more legends about Nightmare Stones are terrifying and terrifying.

Nightmare stones will be accompanied by bad luck and ominous, the gods and immortals outside the sky have disappeared because of the nightmare stones, and the owners of countless nightmare stones in history will not end up very well, many people have disappeared because of the nightmare stones, and what is even more terrifying is that after he disappeared, everyone around him forgot about it, including his parents, wives and children, as if this person did not exist in this world at all.

In addition, the Nightmare Stone brings more ominous and calamity to the owner, it makes people lose their beloved, destroy their families, and even make the city disappear, and the country perishes because of her, according to legend, the Nightmare Stone turns one of its owners into a monster, and what is even more terrifying is that the virus carried by this monster is extremely transmissible and infectious, and this monster has turned most of the inhabitants of the entire country into monsters like him, and the whole country has become a ghost. ”

The only one who gets power from the Nightmare Stone is Xia, yes, Xia of the Hua tribe, who is the founder of the Great Xia Dynasty and the first emperor ever. Let's just say that Xia's rise is very mysterious, he was originally just the illegitimate son of the leader of the Hua tribe, Ling, and he was born with a weak physique, unlike other brothers who were born with a strong physique, not to mention, but also possessed the power of spells.

However, Xia, who was so talentless and not valued by anyone, suddenly changed when he was sixteen years old, and his physique gradually began to become stronger, not to mention, he also mastered the mysterious magic power. Xia began to rise in the Hua tribe, not to mention that it had a strong power that was not weaker than the immortals, and conquered many tribes on the continent, establishing the first unified tribal alliance since mankind - the Great Xia Dynasty.

For the mysterious rise of Xia, it is said that he got a peerless opportunity, and this opportunity refers to the nightmare stone, "Xia History" records, Xia Di lived for more than a thousand years, and finally under the witness of the children of the dynasty's subjects, he left this world with the concubines, children and subjects who were willing to follow him in a mysterious flying machine, but for some reason Xia did not take the nightmare stone.

Natsu is also the only one who has managed to gain power and wealth from the Nightmare Stone and escape the Nightmare Stone's doom and curse.

After Xia left, the Nightmare Stone fell into time again, and the Great Xia royal court and the major families, the Immortal Cultivation Sect, broke out countless battles for it, and even led to the outbreak of the Great Flood of Annihilation. A few decades later, the flood receded, and human civilization was set back hundreds of thousands of years, entering an era of darkness and chaos.

It led to the destruction of the world by the Great Flood and the root of the collapse of Great Xia, but the Nightmare Stone has mysteriously disappeared since then, and after three or four thousand years, the world has completely forgotten about this stone with endless opportunities and countless disasters and destruction, and only in a few prehistoric materials there is a half-word record about the Nightmare Stone.

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Zhou Wu was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said in horror: "Second brother, what you said is not true, that nightmare stone is so terrifying!"

Zhou Wen was silent for a while before he said bitterly: "Third brother, I used to think that the legend of this Nightmare Stone was very, and my father was a little too alarmist, but what do you think of the fate of our Zhou family?"

Speaking of this, he seemed to have a lot of tightness in his chest, and he took a long breath and said: "My eldest brother was beaten to death, my father and mother died one after another in hatred and pain, and our brother has also become a lost dog, running around and wandering. And what about our enemies......?"

He showed resentment and a painful look, "Not to mention being happy outside, he was also favored by Cihang Jianzhai and became the target of marriage." As for our brothers, the hope of revenge has become even more distant. ”

Zhou Wu's face also showed a look of hatred and pain at this time, and said, "Second brother, you mean that the misfortunes that our Zhou family said are all caused by the Nightmare Stone!"

Zhou Wen nodded, followed by shaking his head again, "Even if I am not sure that it is caused by the Nightmare Stone, it cannot be denied that after my father got the Nightmare Stone, the luck of our Zhou family is indeed getting worse and worse, and there is hardly a day when there is luck and good things." ”

Zhou Wu, with a thoughtful expression, nodded and said, "So the second brother, you took the initiative to send the Nightmare Stone to Li Xiaoliu's kid, and let him do what kind of shields and experiments." ”

"That's right!" Zhou Wen nodded and said solemnly: "At least the unknown stone of the Nightmare Stone can't be left in our hands......."

Seeing that Zhou Wu looked like he was about to speak, he waved his hand, "Second brother, I understand your thoughts, you said that you want to take out the Nightmare Stone and use it yourself, but the Nightmare Stone is such a mysterious and terrifying thing, if you use it rashly without understanding anything, the hope of success is extremely slim, and I am afraid that in the end, neither of us will end well."

It's better to put the Nightmare Stone in the hands of Li Xiaoliu's kid first, on the one hand, you can use him to help us Xiao Zhuoyan, and on the other hand, you can also let this kid be an experiment for our two brothers!"

"However, second brother, we signed a blood contract with that kid, in case something really happens to that kid, won't our brothers ......?" Zhou Wu said with a puzzled expression.

Zhou Wen calmly drank and ate, "It's good to sign a blood contract, we are dead, the blood curse is back, that kid is dead." But if that kid dies, let's use it more than we must die, otherwise how can we use that Li Xiaoliu as cannon fodder to test that kid Cihang Jianzhai and Xiao Zhuoyan. “

Zhou Wu immediately became excited, and his joy was overflowing: "Second brother, so you have a way to lift the blood curse?"

"Nonsense, if I didn't have a back hand, how could I take out that blood contract and tie our lives to Li Xiaoliu. Besides, the blood contract looks magical now, but in fact, it was just a big road in the Great Xia period, and there are many ways to crack it, the simplest is a stand-in doll. ”

Saying that, Zhou Wen took out two little dolls from his arms, woven from blades of grass, the faces and eyebrows of the two dolls looked very similar to their two brothers, and often there was a yellow note on each of the eyebrows, on which the birthdays of the two were written.

He explained: "This doll is called a substitute soul doll, which is woven from the leaves of the soul grass that has grown for hundreds of years, and the eight characters of our brother's birthday are written on it. As long as we carry this witchcraft doll with us, when we violate the contract, or when Li Xiaoliu dies and the blood curse backs up, the witchcraft doll can be used as a stand-in to attract the blood snake out of the body and transfer it to the doll. ”

"The immortal cultivator is really powerful, and there is such a magical thing!" Zhou Wu's eyes lit up, and he was amazed, and he took the witchcraft doll that belonged to him over and over again, and then bit his middle finger and left a drop of blood on the eight characters of his birthday.

Zhou Wen explained: "The most important thing in making witchcraft dolls is soul grass, but after the soul flood, it was almost extinct, and the soul grass in our hands is limited, and this kind of stand-in doll is now used one less than one." ”

Zhou Wu sighed: "Second brother, it would be good if you were born in the Great Xia period, with your qualifications and hard work, you will definitely be able to become an immortal, but unfortunately now that the aura is thin and the immortal gate is cut off, the immortal Dao seed like you is actually not as good as those secular warriors and reckless men." ”

Zhou Wen's eyes flashed, there was regret in his eyes, he didn't dare, more of a deep ambition.

"The aura is thin, and it doesn't matter if the immortal path is cut off, as long as you can break through the innate nature, open the entrance of the Heavenly Gate, and initially achieve the refining of qi and the gods, you can also enter the Tao with martial arts, and at that time you can practice spells, supernatural powers, talismans, and magic weapons, those martial artists who can only use the vitality of heaven and earth superficially are just dirt chickens and dogs are not worth it. He said with a faint smile of disdain.

"Therefore, we must get the secret book of "Mixed Yuan True Scripture" in Li Xiaoliu's hand, which can be cultivated to the innate top-grade mental method. Zhou Wu suggested.

"Of course, you must get it, but don't worry, then Li Xiaoliu still has some use value, the Nightmare Stone and the "Mixed Yuan True Scripture" are stored in his hands now, and the things will be our brother's sooner or later!" Zhou Wen's eyes flashed.

"My brain is not as good as my second brother's, everything is up to my second brother!"

Zhou Wu saw that Zhou Wen had a plan in his heart, so he didn't persuade him anymore, and then the two of them no longer talked about secret matters, but you had a cup and I had a cup, and they drank and ate and drank.

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Funiu Village, the main house in the backyard.

Li Mingyu put the spirit gathering grass into the dark pavilion under the bed and put it away, took the strange stone from the lead box, and studied it carefully for a while, but he still had no clue. Because he was interested in the history of the Great Xia period, he had also read a lot of historical materials, legends and secrets of the Great Xia period before. At this time, he recalled all the information of Great Xia in his mind, but he did not find any records related to the strange stone in his hand.

"Alas!" sighed.

Although he didn't know the origin of the strange stone in front of him, his intuition told Li Mingyu that this stone was very important to him. But thinking of Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu, his face couldn't help but become gloomy. However, Li Mingyu also knew very well that even if he and Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu tore their faces, it would be useless, they would not tell him the origin of the strange stone anyway.

After studying for a while, he put the strange stone back into the lead box, hesitated in his heart, but did not put the strange stone in the dark pavilion like an elixir, but after thinking about it, he put the lead box in his arms, and simply lay down with his clothes.

Li Mingyu had a hunch in his heart that the origin of this strange stone was not much bigger than he expected, and its effect on him was much more important, but the elixir that everyone couldn't ask for was not worth mentioning compared to this strange stone.

Because there are Gathering Spirit Grass and Strange Stones, these two valuables are there, plus Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu and others in the cottage, after all, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and their minds are unpredictable.