Walking into the courtyard, an eerie aura came to my face.

At night, the sky was shrouded in a thick mist that could not be dissolved, and there were no stars or moons, only the rustle of leaves in the wind.

During the day, the temperature is mild, but at night, the cold wind cuts through the face like a knife, like a demon howling, as if trying to tear people's faces off their own faces.

The remnants of the leaves swept away, and it was cold everywhere.

Originally, the temple was a place for people to beg for peace and prosperity.

But the ancient temple in the deserted village, no one cares about it, and it will look terrifying at night.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Ning complained a little unhappily.

"It's clearly the appearance of that small farmhouse courtyard outside, why did it become that ancient temple after coming in, what kind of trouble is this?"

Jiang Ning originally thought that he could go in to meet Lu Jie when he was a child, and learn about Lu Jie's life experience by the way, after all, he saw too many things a while ago, but there was no way to effectively connect them in his mind.

So much so that up to now, Jiang Ning didn't know anything about anything other than knowing that his temporary mission after coming here was probably to rescue Na Lu Jie.

Why did someone kill Lu Jie, what was the meaning of saving him, what was the meaning of those fable-like scenes I saw these days, and what was the meaning of switching back and forth between the ancient temple and the small courtyard of the farmhouse?

Jiang Ning felt that although he had seen a lot, he still knew very little.

And the focus of the matter, Lu Jie, who may have been killed, is a good line that can help Jiang Ning connect and integrate all these bits and pieces.

Only by knowing the ins and outs of the matter can Jiang Ning feel that he can come up with a way to save people.

After all, he didn't even know where Lu Jie himself was, where he was in the forest, and even if he wanted to save people, he couldn't find a way.

The so-called would rather live in a deserted tomb than in an ancient temple, when the light is dim at night, the golden statues of the gods and Buddhas will be shrouded in a deep haze, which is extremely terrifying.

Jiang Ning's heart was more or less unhappy.

However, when I was a beggar in my early years, I burned high incense at night when I could have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and I dared to find fault with what ancient temples were not ancient temples.

In those years when there was not enough food and clothing, being able to sleep in the ancient temple at night was one of the top three things for Jiang Ning in terms of happiness.

Especially after experiencing so many things, Jiang Ning would not have any fear at all for the ancient temple.

On the contrary, if in the usual time, after seeing the ancient temple, Jiang Ning would even feel a little close, when he went south with Que'er, when he was in a hurry, he encountered some deserted village and ancient temple and always wanted to pull the girl to accompany him to go in for a night, of course, in the end, considering the feelings of his daughter's family, Jiang Ning still didn't take her in after all.

If it was the bright girl who accompanied him at that time, Jiang Ning would definitely pull the other party in without hesitation.

But this ancient temple in front of me is different.

The eerie feeling was not brought about by the dim light and cold temperatures of the night.

On the contrary, it seems that its existence itself is a kind of horror, the so-called night, the temperature, are just a foil, maybe even in the bright day, walking into such an ancient temple, people's hearts will be born endless fear.

Although he couldn't see what it was, Jiang Ning could clearly feel that the ancient temple contained a terrifying power, and Jiang Ning didn't know the statues of gods and Buddhas enshrined in the temple.

The ancient temple is very small, about four or five zhang square, but there are many gods and Buddhas enshrined in the temple, and from the entrance, all kinds of statues of different sizes extend from both sides of the wall, covering both walls, and extend to the wall of the last side facing the door.

In the small temple, there are hundreds of large and small statues crowded together.

On the wall facing the door, there was a blank space in the very center.

This blank space should be very eye-catching against the backdrop of the crowded statues, but for some reason, it looks natural, and there is no sense of abruptness or disobedience at all.

Jiang Ning frowned.

There should be a picture of a strong sense of disobedience, but there is no sense of disobedience at all, this matter is already very discordant, Jiang Ning secretly raised his vigilance, a mouthful of true yuan condensed on his hands, and was always ready to fight back.

However, he stood there and waited for a long time, but the expected crisis did not appear.

Even so, Jiang Ning still didn't dare to completely relax his vigilance, but he still left a trace of vigilance in the process of action.

Walking to the center of the temple, Jiang Ning carefully observed the statues in the temple.

Among those gods, the most normal images are those monsters with a thousand eyes, a thousand hands, and a beast body.

Of course, if these images are placed in the yang realm, many people will only regard them as monsters after seeing them, and they will not worship them as gods and Buddhas at all.

It is the Great Sun Rulai of the Western Fanyu Domain and the thousand-armed body of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, which is also a treasure and solemnity, and it is not the incomplete and long-term image in front of Jiang Ning's eyes at all.

However, even if it is like this, it is already the more acceptable category in this temple.

Jiang Ning's gaze passed over those gods and fell on the rest of the gods, only to feel that what he saw in his eyes seemed to coincide with some mysteries in the universe in the underworld.

Of course, if these mysteries are of any use to Jiang Ning at the moment, it is not necessarily, but since he saw that mysterious and powerful eye in the world of the giant scorpion palace, Jiang Ning knew that the world he saw in his eyes before was just the skin of the world.

Based on his vision at the time, he could clearly tell that the eye was not a part of a creature that had fallen from it.

Because, although the cultivation has been suppressed, Jiang Ning's Yuan Shen Perception Ability still exists under the protection of the eighteen-story small tower.

He can clearly perceive that there is an independent breath of life above that eye, that is to say, that one eye is a life.

If an eye can be a separate being, then a hand, a foot, a lump of flesh, a pile of bones, or just a stone, as long as it has the breath of life, it is a complete life.

Although in the eyes of human beings like Jiang Ning, their body forms and life forms look a little strange, such as the asymmetry of body parts, or mutilation, for example, a ball of flesh is covered with tentacles that should have belonged to an octopus, and there are two big Ao on a bone, and so on, like things that have been spliced together randomly, they actually have their own lives, these things, when they appeared in Jiang Ning's sight, he realized it.

It's clear that they're just some statues, they should be dead things, but Jiang Ning just inexplicably believes that in this world, where he can't see his forehead, there are really such lifeforms, maybe they have existed in the universe for much longer than their own human beings, and even before the star under his feet appeared, they already existed.

Jiang Ning had realized a long time ago that what he hadn't seen didn't mean that people didn't exist, so he naturally trusted his instincts.

Even in a sense, he once thought that the life that exists on these planets seems to be very orderly, such as symmetrical facial features, symmetrical limbs, the whole person or other life, their body shape is quite symmetrical, it looks like it is artificially made handicrafts, but those that look terrifying, mutilated, and irregular existence, in Jiang Ning's concept, it is somewhat like a naturally generated life in the universe.

The universe is irregular.

When Jiang Ning experienced the end of the stars several times in the inner world of the giant scorpion palace, he had already experienced it firsthand.

There is no such thing as a perfect work of art in space.

On the contrary, in small worlds and small stars, the life in them, from plants to animals, their body structure looks very delicate and exquisite.

In Jiang Ning's own words, it was perfect, as if the top craftsmen in the universe had spent countless hours specially crafting it.

Therefore, when he first heard the legend of the so-called Nuwa Great God creating a man, Jiang Ning didn't believe it, but after he experienced the shocking glimpse above the giant scorpion palace, he believed it a little.

An eye can be a single life, so can an ear, and in the same way, a hand, a tail, or a stinger, a tentacle, a pincer, or even a simple lump of flesh, can be a life.

In the cosmic space, the life that can survive is naturally extremely powerful, because those who are not strong have perished in the turbulent space turbulence and rule turbulence almost at the beginning of their birth, and those who can survive are all strong.

If it was said that there was a certain existence among them, and he collected the parts above the bodies of various cosmic lifeforms, and then spliced them together in an orderly manner to form the lives above the stars today, Jiang Ning felt that it was very possible.

After all, the so-called Nuwa God in the legend is not a creature in the universe, but the earliest group of innate beings at the beginning of the birth of the star in front of her, although the strength is strong, but according to Jiang Ning's thinking, she should also belong to the created life.

And when these created lifeforms are strong enough to be comparable to the lives in the universe to a certain extent, it may not be impossible to create life again.

Therefore, Jiang Ning did not fully believe in this legend in his heart, but at this time he also felt that he could not completely deny it, but under the contrast between the perfection of life above the weak stars and the strength of those ugly, mutilated, irregular, and strange lives in the universe, Jiang Ning felt that the so-called origin was only said, not necessarily groundless.

Since the origin is full of faith, then the existence of this temple is naturally full of faith.

"I don't know what the Kidnapping Immortal saw after becoming a controversial realm, so that he would leave such a secret place and such a temple in this misty forest. ”

Jiang Ning thought privately that maybe the death of the abducted immortal might be related to the strange creatures in these temples.

Again, the unknown is always scary.

When he saw the eye wrapped in the ball of flesh for the first time, Jiang Ning only felt that even if it was a true immortal in front of this eye, it would definitely not be enough to see, and it could even be said that if that one-eyed wanted to kill a true immortal, maybe it just needed a blink.

If it is the power of worship and the power of faith, then these creatures that are very likely to exist in the universe are very likely to exist as believed, so it is understandable that their statues appear in temples.

As for what the connection between the abducted immortals and these beings was, Jiang Ning didn't know.

However, since the Immortal Kidnapper died here in the end, it is obvious that his relationship with these beings is not very harmonious.

Just seeing these strange-shaped statues, Jiang Ning diverged his thoughts so far away in a breath, which made him a little helpless.

Being good at thinking is actually not a good thing in many cases, because when others are focused on doing a certain thing, you are thinking while doing it, and your attention is not able to achieve a high degree of concentration, then you are likely to be less efficient and effective at doing the same thing.

Of course, Jiang Ning is a special case, even if he is single-minded, he can effectively ensure that his results are better than others.

This is talent.

The gift of unreasonableness.

Jiang Ning's gaze followed the statues on the walls on both sides to the blank space on the middle wall, and when his gaze fell on the only statue in the blank space, Jiang Ning was stunned for a moment.

It was a very beautiful tree, and it was a very familiar tree.

The statue is clearly the image of the big tree that Jiang Ning saw outside the thatched house that needs to be hugged by many people.

And it is also the only one among all the gods that looks very regular and very in line with Jiang Ning's aesthetics.

In addition, there was an eye on the branch of the big tree, which was dark blue, and when it opened and closed slightly, it could emit a faint blue light like the big tree itself.

Jiang Ning's gaze fell firmly on the big tree, not because he didn't want to move away, but when the eyes on the statue fell on him, Jiang Ning actually had a feeling that he was directly seen by the eyes above the big tree, and he wanted to move his feet and leave this place at the first time, but he failed.

Not to mention his feet, even if it was a toe, he couldn't move it away at this time.

"Damn, what the hell," Jiang Ning said in his heart: "It doesn't matter if your body is so powerful, just a statue is so evil?"

Forcibly mobilizing all the energy in the body to fight against the imprisoning power, the result is still failure.

Jiang Ning was not discouraged, he had already figured out a certain way to deal with it before, but he never had a good opportunity to show it.

Before the body of the big tree, Jiang Ning had no power to fight back at all, even if he used the kind of means he imagined, he would still fail.

It's better to hide it first, and then show it when it's useful.

Now is a good opportunity.

When the heart lamp turned on, the invisible power restraint on Jiang Ning's body was reduced a lot, but just like that, he still couldn't move.

But Jiang Ning was not discouraged.

When the heart lamp appeared, it was also the time when the ancestral aperture of the entrance appeared.

Because the heart lamp itself is hidden in the ancestral aperture.

The source of his energy is not the so-called true yuan or star power, let alone the power of the primordial gods, but a kind of will or the power of the mind from the underworld.

For this kind of power, Jiang Ning felt quite deeply.

After the final power was exerted, his heart lit up, and Jiang Ning only felt that the pressure around his body had decreased a lot, but just like that, he still couldn't move.

"Cut!" Jiang Ning pursed his lips and said, "Do you have to force this Sword Immortal to use all his strength?"

Jiang Ning took advantage of this opportunity to inject all the true yuan and star power in his body into the entrance.

The entrance is a mysterious place where the human body connects to the depths of the universe, and Jiang Ning has rarely had the opportunity to make it manifest before.

But whenever the heart lamp appears, the entrance will emerge, which is also something he only realized after he was forced to use the heart lamp recently, after all, in between, Jiang Ning only used the heart lamp once.

And before the heart lamp awakened, for Jiang Ning, the ancestral aperture was a medium to fuse the true element of the wood phase and the origin star power.

If there is no such medium, relying on Jiang Ning alone, if he wants to master this ability, he doesn't know how long he will have to cultivate, but after the ancestral aperture appears, he only needs to inject the same amount of two energies into the entrance every time, and when these two powers flow out, they will naturally merge into a new and more powerful power.

Jiang Ning originally thought about whether he could convert all the star power and origin wood power in his body into this kind of energy, in this way, with the same energy reserve space, Jiang Ning could double the quality of the reserve, double the strength, and multiply the power of the energy.

He even once fantasized that with this kind of power, when he was in the Dao and Realm, he might be able to transcend the rank and defeat the legendary True One Immortal!

However, a ruthless reality thwarted his thoughts.

Although the entrance is something he cultivates by himself, he can't control when the entrance appears and disappears at will.

In this way, just by triggering the entrance by chance, it was impossible to completely transform all the energy, so Jiang Ning gave up directly at that time.