275 Life is better than death [1st Update]
It is said that when Qingming Zhenren came down from the top of Qingquan Peak, he brought not only one Tian Tian with him, but also several other Gu people. Such Gu people are usually created by mortals or physical cultivators with strong bodies. Nuomi remembered that the pillar said that he was doing things with the real people of Qingming before, and he felt that among those Gu people, maybe there would really be a pillar of storage.
The so-called "Gu people" are actually puppets refined by immortal grass and spirit insects. This kind of puppet is different from wood spirits like Mu Kui, and it didn't originally develop from some spirit objects and spirits. On the contrary, this kind of Gu man is a way to make a puppet by directly connecting humans or spirit beasts to the effect of guò fairy grass.
The puppets created in this way can no longer be called "human", and while the mind is completely obliterated, even the breathing, heart rate, and other qualities no longer exist, except for being able to move, even in appearance, they are completely different from ordinary monks.
There are still some differences between the Gu people who come out like this and the dead people.
Nuomi has never seen this kind of Gu man who is almost like a legend, and there are no relevant records in the jade slips on the mountain gate, but in the travelogue jade slips, there is a little dabbling.
It is said that this is a technique that has long been lost, and it is a technique that only evil cultivators can use. Because it was too evil, it was made of the human body of a living person as a material, so it was quickly suppressed, and now I haven't heard of a Gu person's existence for many years.
Even a place like Nuan Xianglou, which was specifically responsible for collecting intelligence, couldn't recognize those Gu people at once, and only thought that they were the same storage zài as ordinary puppets, so they didn't mention the glutinous rice at all.
If it weren't for the fact that Nuomi and Su Dingbang had gotten the jade slip in that valley before, even if Huāmian mentioned it to her now, saying that there was such a group of Gu people around Qingming Zhenren, Nuomi didn't know what Gu people were at all. With her relationship with Huāmian, of course, it was impossible for her to ask Huāmian, maybe the only clue was accidentally let go.
Thinking about it like this, Nuomi felt a little excited, and felt that this was like a clue that God had put directly in front of her. Although she didn't know very well what Gu people meant, and she didn't know how she could take those Gu people out of the hands of Qingming Zhenren, just a little glimmer of hope in this way already made Nuomi very excited.
She had been through a long, long time, almost groping in a state of utter despair, hoping to get news of the pillar, even to the point where she was at a loss. She had no idea if her efforts would yield any results, and she didn't know if the pillar was still alive in this world.
Now I finally have a clue - moreover, Nuomi has a feeling that Senior Brother Zhuzi has always been by the side of Qingming Zhenren, just in that group of Gu people. She couldn't explain this feeling herself, it was just a flash of inspiration.
That's all, but it has already made glutinous rice have a goal to work towards.
She went back and looked at the records on the jade slip of the travelogue again, and read all the accounts about Gu people very seriously.
On that travelogue, the description of the Gu people is not very clear. Nuomi read the description of the Gu people on this jade slip back and forth several times, but he didn't see anything.
Gu Ren was called a forbidden storage by the original owner of the jade jian. Together with the cultivation with the help of the furnace, he was greatly criticized by the lord of the jade slip.
During the evaluation of Gu people, the value is to reveal disgust without shying away. Even if you don't look at the description of this immortal, just by looking at the feeling revealed between the lines, you can already make Nuomi feel that this is really a chilling dark skill.
It is said that after being refined in this way through immortal medicine, poisonous weeds and poisonous insects, the mind is no longer in the state of an ordinary person. This Lord of Jade Jane once had the privilege of seeing a Gu man, only to see that Gu man was slow, but his skin and flesh were hard, even if he was naked, it was as strong as putting several earth shields on his skin, ordinary magic weapons couldn't hurt him at all, and even the effect of spells couldn't have a great effect on this Gu man's body.
If there is a only drawback of these Gu people, it is probably that they are too slow to act, and there is no way to strike first. If it is used for defensive purposes, it is quite good, but if it is only sent out to fight the enemy alone, I am afraid that it will suffer.
The Gu man that the Lord of Jade Jane saw had already been wiped out of his spiritual wisdom and forged into a pure magic weapon-like storage zài, which was just a magic weapon forged by the flesh, except for the strange material, the magic weapon on the same side was no different.
For such a Gu person, the owner of the jade slip also had a speculation.
In the cultivation realm, there has actually been some research on puppet technology since a very early age. In the beginning, this technique was used to create wood spirits like Mu Kui, or some other way to seal the soul elements of demon beasts and monks into human-shaped magic weapons, so that these magic weapons had some of the characteristics of monks.
At the beginning, there were many monks who studied puppetry, and there were even some sects that specialized in teaching the know-how of puppetry. It is said that a well-done puppet is very difficult to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood, and can even disguise itself as an ordinary monk to do some espionage work. It's just that this kind of technique is very difficult, and many skills have gradually been annihilated in the torrent of history between the alternation of sects.
This puppet technique has been passed down to the generation when the jade abbreviation was written, and it is already very weak.
In addition to the manufacturing method of the wood spirit, the way to seal the soul element of the demon beast fellow cultivator into the puppet body was already broken, and it was not enough to support the inheritance of this sect.
Sealing the soul element into the puppet body is not as simple as forging the soul element into a tool spirit. Because the soul element had to fit perfectly into the puppet's limbs, and even every nerve up to the fingertips, the forging of the same instrument spirit was far from the same thing.
At a time when there was such a serious defect in the puppet technique, among these puppet sects, there was suddenly a way to create puppets like Gu people.
Since it is not possible to completely seal the soul element into the puppet, then simply refine the human body together with the soul element directly into a puppet. Killing the physical body, then sealing the soul element in the body, and then making the physical body into an indestructible magic weapon in various ways, in fact, it is like tanning the skin and flesh of those demon beasts into a magic weapon, which is not impossible to achieve.
No one knew where this technique of creating Gu people began to spread, but it quickly spread among these sects that used puppets.
That's not really the scary part.
What really makes the Lord of this Jade Slip jealous of Gu people is not the existence of this Gu people themselves, but this skill of forging people into Gu people. During this period, the lord of the jade slip did not record it in detail, but he just brushed it over, but just in this stroke, the things written about it were already chilling.
Nuomi didn't care much about the description of Gu people at first, but now when she looked back, she was suddenly a little stunned.
She really wanted to get news from Senior Brother Zhuzi, but she was also secretly looking forward to good news. If the pillar had really been refined into a Gu person by the Qingming Zhenren, not to mention that he couldn't live at all now, he would have to suffer a great deal of pain before he became like this.
It was precisely because this method of refining Gu people could be called inhumane and harmful, so not long after this method emerged, it was jointly killed and resisted by many decent monks, and it was quickly wiped out from this immortal cultivation realm. When the Lord of Jade Jane saw the Gu Man, the Gu Man had been almost wiped out, and it was by chance that he saw such a person by chance, and learned how the Gu Man was made.
After knowing this way, the master of the jade slip would hate the Gu man so much.
Nuomi held the jade slip and sat in a daze for a long time, not knowing what to do at all.
Originally, she had indeed hoped to get news from Senior Brother Zhuzi, but she never expected to get such a ...... Even if the pillar died in some corner that no one knows, she would not feel so sad in her heart. Whenever she thought of the description on the jade slip, and then thought about the pillar's kindness to her, she couldn't help but have the urge to cry.
There are such people in this world, who have never had a good life, and their hearts are not bad, but they have never had good results.
"If so...... If it's serious......"
Nuomi looked at the jade slip in her hand, bit her lip, but she was determined in her heart.
If this is the case, no matter what, she will bring Senior Brother Zhu back again. She must think of a way to bring Senior Brother Zhu back to her senses. Even if he can't succeed in the end, he can't make Senior Brother Zhu suffer all the way under Qingming Zhenren.
Once he thought of the scars on Senior Brother Zhuzi's body and the honest smile, Nuomi felt a little restless, his eyes were hot, and he couldn't help but want to cry.
She felt that in this world, there would never be anyone who was more simply good to her than Senior Brother Zhuzi. Senior Brother Zhuzi has never offended anything, and if she has carried so much all the way, but in the end she still ends up like this, she feels that there is really no fairness between this heavenly way.
Although this Heavenly Dao is originally unfair, why bother to call good people like this is better than death. (To be continued.)