Prequel 3 Dark
Far away under the southern wilderness border farther away from the moonlight realm, there is a clan called the Yuezhao clan.
They live on the essence of the moonlight, walk day and night, and shoulder the ancient legacy of monitoring the demons of the abyss in southern Xinjiang.
They are called the zombies of the Southern Wilderness Dark Realm by the inhabitants of the Sunlight Realm, and they live in an underground city that lives thousands of feet below. For generations, he has guarded a huge stone pillar of heaven and earth spirits covered with ancient runes, called the Moon Divine Pillar.
This pillar is the only source of light in the Underground City, providing the life-sustaining essence of the Moonlight Clan for generations to come. The stone pillar is also the only channel that can communicate with the ground for the Yuezhao clan, and each generation of the Yuezhao high priest will communicate with heaven and earth, sense miracles, and obtain new information for the Yuezhao clan when the moon is at its strongest.
Their time is long and slow, and the changes in the ground are not so important to them, as long as the heavens and the earth still exist, the divine pillars can still glow, the demons have not invaded, and the underground city can still operate, that is enough.
The common language of the underground city has long been lost, and the moonlight clan's brain turns slowly, and they don't interact with the outside world, except for using their brains to absorb the essence of the moonlight, they usually fall into the dark crypt and sleep in the dark, and for them, unless they want to compete with priests and wizards who patrol the realm, the role of words is really limited.
The Yuezhao clan originally lived on the ground, had their own history and legends, and would interact with the world earlier, but later with the change of the environment, the Yuezhao clan could not even face the moonlight directly, so they could only dig down layer by layer around the moonlight pillar, and over time they formed such an underground deep city, becoming a veritable zombie clan.
Fortunately, the Yuezhao Giant Pillar is a Taixu divine object, the legend is that when the Kunlun Realm as a derivative world broke away from the Taixu, the three ancestors in the Taixu group of immortals, using the heavenly and earth treasures to build, the whole body is 2,000 zhang long, the diameter is 30 miles wide, the exposed part of the ground is turned into a small pillow mountain, the pillar body is almost buried in the ground, so far the Yuezhao clan has not dug to the end, can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon by themselves, provide enough energy to supply the operation of the underground sealing array, otherwise the Yuezhao clan is so thin The power of the divine pillar is divided, I am afraid that the seal will be broken long ago。
Of course, the high priest of the Yuezhao clan knew that as a guardian clan, such a thin power was a dangerous behavior of running on a cliff and dancing on thin ice, but for a long time, they also had grievances in their hearts, and they were trapped in the barren land of the Southern Wilderness for thousands of years. Now that the ground in southern Xinjiang is full of miasma and poisonous swamps, one step is dangerous, many human races have abandoned southern Xinjiang, and the light cast by the moon is like a scorching sun, and only the light filtered by the divine pillar can barely cultivate.
At the earliest time, when there was no underground city, there were two or three generations of priests who kept their duty to guard and refused to use the Divine Pillar Guanghua easily, and as a result, the Yuezhao clan suffered heavy casualties, and even the priests lost their strength because they could not absorb the Yuehua, and they could not sense the situation of the Great Array.
It was a dark time for the Yuezhao Clan, but fortunately, later, the Divine Pillar came with an oracle......
Since when did the Yuezhao clan fear even the night, afraid of falling, afraid of never seeing the light of day again, the old paper rattled, recording the past that it had long been familiar with, remembered, and even reversed.
“...... The Yuezhao clan, the remnants of the original Taixu corpse cultivation tribe, day and night, like the essence of moon dew, vegetarian. Occasionally, there are mutations, like to eat human brains, fierce, and are regarded as zombies. Later, his clan was subdued and naturalized by the ancestor of the Jiang family, and opened up the southern Xinjiang of Kunlun, which was named Yuezhaojie...... Due to the great change in Taixu, Kunlun was out of bounds, and the Jiang clan ordered his clan to guard the Moon Zhao Divine Pillar and guard the ancient demon ......"
This is a tribal resume written in the ancient language of Taixu, the text on it is simple and difficult to understand, revealing a dizzying sense of profundity, and now except for the priests of the Yuezhao clan, I am afraid that only monks who specialize in ancient runes can understand it.
There is only one page of resume, but it is preserved with the hardest and most durable materials and the most intricate runes, which is the most intimate connection between their family and the ancient Taixu.
High Priest Jiang Ao stared at the spread out resume page for a long time, his dry and thin fingers caressing every word on it along the handwriting, feeling the ancestral breath left over from ancient times.
Suddenly, a cloudy drop of water dripped onto the paper, sliding down an oblique angle. The high priest Jiang Ao was shocked, and hurriedly lowered his head to wipe the water traces, but the more and more they dripped and dripped, and at some point, tears filled its eyes, rolled down from its eyes, and dripped onto the book.
It was so busy with ashes that only the simple embroidered sleeves covered the page, and it forgot to use even the basic cleansing spell. I didn't realize it, but when my eyes filled my eyes, I realized the sadness in my heart, but I didn't know where this sadness came from.
"Why are you so sad?" a soft, gentle voice sounded from the darkness, soothing, "Can you tell me?"
The high priest wiped his tears in a panic when he heard the sound, with the shame of being peeped at, and because of the recent awkward quarrel between the two sides, the high priest's face was a little unbearable, so he responded to the voice a little stiffly: "Don't worry about it!"
"......" There was a faint, very sad sigh in the darkness, and after the voice finished sighing, it seemed to disappear.
The high priest felt a sense of guilt in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Are you still there, I'm sorry, yesterday...... I just thought of something bad. ”
There was silence, as if talking to oneself.
"Are you angry? Hey, our clan used to be the ancestor tribe, but now trapped in the southern wasteland, the clan is getting fewer and fewer, and the deeper they live, only this endless divine pillar, a page of ancient texts proves that my clan was also brilliant. The eyes that had been washed by tears and became bright were gloomy: "I have been receiving the inheritance from my father for a thousand years, but I have never sensed the tide of the moonlight, and the clansmen will only become weaker and weaker without the moonlight...... Are you listening?" asked the high priest cautiously.
There was silence.
After several moonlit nights, the sound never came again. However, the Divine Pillar was brilliant for several days, illuminating the entire underground city like a moonlight. The high priest was troubled, and because he had been unable to leave for the past few days, he had no way to find out about the man.
It wasn't until half a month later that it was empty and I decided to go down and have a look. If you are angry, you have to apologize well, knowing that the other party is more difficult than yourself, why are you always angry with him like a child.
In the middle of the pillar, there is actually a secret passage that leads to the bottom of the pillar, and no one else knows the key to open it except for the high priests of the past generations.
The high priest Jiang Ao opened the secret passage, entered the path alone, and teleported to the bottom of the pillar.
The translucent water flowing from an unknown material flowed slowly along the arcane rune groove carved on the ground, refracting a sharp colored light, intertwined with colored light, woven into a dense sealing enchantment.
In the middle, there was a black phantom one zhang long, floating on a golden light rune.
Unlike the top of the column with a radius of thirty miles, the bottom of the column is actually a round bottom with a pointed bottom, like a container in the hemisphere, only one mile wide, sealing the unknown abyss demon in the world.
The high priest walked out of the teleportation array, shaking his head, finally getting rid of the dizziness of the teleportation, but saw that the phantom was not moving, and he was not as happy as in the past, through the enchantment.
It couldn't help but be shocked, and there were a few traces of black mist on its thin face: "Hey, what's wrong with you!"
"You speak!" shouted for a long time, and the black shadow moved invisibly, and the high priest still remembered not to interfere with the large array at this time, but looked anxiously at the black shadow on the rune through the array.
After a while, the black shadow sat up blankly, and the black fog dissipated, revealing a face that was eclipsed by the sun and the moon, and the gender seemed to have blurred with him, but it would not make people feel that he was feminine and indifferent.
He crossed his knees, seemed to be very weak, and muttered to himself: "How did I hear Jiang Ao's voice is nearby, I don't know if he forgives me for my abrupt offense, I ignored him for a few days, he must be very angry." Fu shook his head gloomily: "He is so busy, how can he care about the cold feeling of such a poor worm as me, I ......" said very melancholy and buried his beautiful face between his knees, and said with annoyance: "How can I be so useless, try my best, but I can't even cause the moonlight tide to ......"
He lay down again, his beautiful face was full of worry, and he didn't know that Jiang Ao outside was calling him anxiously, he was so weak that he couldn't hear the sound outside.
Jiang Ao could hear his muttering, like being struck by lightning, he couldn't hear the sound, was it because he was in a period of weakness? That divine pillar has been very active recently, although it is not the moonlight tide, but it has provided great help to the advancement of several clansmen, it turned out that he activated the large array below to provide energy for the underground city, but he did not even dare to provide him with a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
I have known him for hundreds of years, and I have been pretending to be a trick on him, talking to him when I am happy, and mocking him for being a monster when I am unhappy. In comparison, he is more like a monster......
It bit its lower lip with its sharp fangs, and the taboo in its heart had loosened. It watched tormentedly as a person who treated his own people meticulously was pressed and tortured under the divine pillar, and the lever in his heart had long been tilted.
At the beginning, its father generation died in the scorching sun because of the sudden collapse of the underground city, and it was forced to take over the underground city for nearly a thousand years.
In fact, this entanglement has lasted for hundreds of years, on the one hand, it is entangled in the righteousness of the tribe, and on the other hand, it secretly hates that it can't even save a friend, but today, this shackle that has trapped him for almost a thousand years has broken through and fallen off, making it suddenly brighter.
"Dark, I've decided, the never-ending Tai Void Testament, until my generation, I'm going to study this Demon Suppression Array, if it doesn't work for a year, then two years, one day, I want to give you back your freedom. You don't deserve to be imprisoned underground like this!" Jiang Ao swore secretly with his not-so-rotten brain.
It took a few steps forward and stepped into the water of the rune trough, causing ripples. However, in an instant, the originally slow-flowing brilliance was flourishing, and the water in the rune trough flowed sharply, driving the defense of the large array, and countless brilliance suddenly swept by the attack, drawing out a series of void cracks that were cut off. If it weren't for Jiang Ao wearing the ancestral starry sky dragon soul suit, he would have been strangled as a foreign body.
This big movement also attracted the attention of the person in the middle, and he bounced up in surprise, and when he saw that it was Jiang Ao who was in danger and was swallowed by Sheng Guang, his face suddenly turned pale, and his previously warm and peaceful voice also became sharp: "Jiang Ao-"
When he saw Jiang Ao jump out and be intact, he held on to the inner enchantment and slid down in collapse.
Jiang Ao actually just wanted to attract his attention, he had always followed the rules in the past, and he had never touched the enchantment, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful when he touched it, and he was also shocked, but he saw the dark demon with a pale face, and looked at it stupidly, and suddenly his heart settled down, and the two looked at each other across the enchantment.
It saw a pair of dark, deep and clear eyes, far away, but it could see that it was reflected inside, black and thin, its body was tattered, its huge hollow eye sockets, and the two fangs peculiar to the Moon Clan protruded ugly, like a monster, it panicked for a while, and did not dare to look directly at it, at that moment, it felt humble and ugly, and only wanted to kneel at the feet of the owner of those eyes, and it did not even hear what the dark demon said.
He has waited for this moment for too long, waited for tens of millions of years, and all kinds of tricks have been played, but he has not found the rift of the Yuezhao clan. Later, Southern Xinjiang encountered an unknown light in a small area of the void, activating the Kunlun Sixty-four Array, Southern Xinjiang was cut off from the Kunlun Realm at that time, and disappeared on the map of the Kunlun Realm, the Yuezhao tribe that experienced a catastrophe was gradually extinct without the birth of a newborn, and the corpses of 100,000 people were buried deep next to the Divine Pillar, according to the will, transformed into a formation servant in order, and continued to guard the Moonlight Divine Pillar, even after despair, he still couldn't find the spiritual defects of the Yuezhao Clan, so he had to watch a good dark servant material transformed into a zombie.
I have to say that Jiang Yun is really the ancestor of zombies, and the transformation ceremony completely retains the stone heart characteristics of the Yuezhao clan. Maybe the Yuezhao clan is not emotionless, but it is not strong enough for him to catch it, until, Jiang Ao's appearance is really unexpected. The strong seven emotions and six desires, if he doesn't know how to grasp it, he will be in vain as an ancient ghost, in the empty underground city, the real moonlight zombie is only Jiang Ao, what clansmen, Yuehua tide, high priest, parents, the underground collapse, all are tricks played. originally thought that such a strong emotion should be successful soon, but it took almost a thousand years to leave a mark in the solid stone heart of the Yuezhao Clan.
Next, he is going to use Jiang Ao to analyze the formation eye, but Jiang Ao's qualifications are really not very good, the inheritance given by the transformation array is only partially inherited, and the formation structure is missing and forgotten part, so he can only rely on him to analyze it slowly, as long as he does not die, there will always be a day to get out of trouble.
At this moment, he descended like a god emperor, full of lofty meaning, his eyes locked on the zombie, soft and full of cruelty: "The first one, the servant of darkness, has caught you." ”