Chapter 257: Shura's Mutation
Xiao Man cautiously poked his head out of the hidden cave.
Through the bright moonlight, she saw countless buildings in the central area of Qingshan Town, all wrapped in layers of white, black, blue, and purple.
Like a giant silkworm cocoon.
Inside, there seemed to be something, breathing regularly.
This is the third day that Xiaoman has entered Qingshan Town.
At first, she only dared to wander around the periphery, and after killing a Shura, she immediately escaped.
But slowly, she grew bolder.
Slowly, she began to delve into the heart of the ruined city.
It didn't take long for her to notice that something was wrong.
This town, which has been abandoned for hundreds of years, was once the most prosperous market in Qingshan County.
There were only a few low-level Shura wandering in the ruins.
It's amazing, but it's just an unintelligent ghost.
Until, she found it.
This former market in Aoyama Town is located.
The old man and Xiaoman said that the market in Qingshan Town was prosperous and lively back then.
There are 100 liquor shops, hundreds of shops, and pedestrians come and go like clouds, sweating into rain.
You can buy almost everything here.
Oil, salt, cloth, needlework......
and even pills, exercises, and magic instruments......
It's a pity that the sky is falling!
The immortal gods in the thirty-three heavens fell like raindrops.
Countless Shura and Heavenly Demons swarmed in from the gap in the sky.
It's all over.
The prosperous capital, the mountain gate is strong.
Annihilation!
The human race and the demon race even had to abandon all the cultivation methods that they had in the past.
Only sword cultivation can still exist.
Even so, they had to hide in Tibet, and even learn from rats to build criss-crossing underground cities.
Even so, I had to tense my nerves.
Send out one sentinel after another, using the flesh and blood of young people to stall for time.
Thinking of this, Xiao Man slowly returned to the cellar.
She sat cross-legged on the ground.
This cellar was discovered yesterday in an abandoned inn.
It is very large, covering almost half of the underground area of Qingshan Town.
Perhaps, this was once a refuge for the Terrans.
However, now that the city has already been empty, there is no clue left.
It is also by relying on this underground network that Xiaoman can get close to here.
You can even observe quietly the 'cocoon' that covers and wraps the entire bazaar.
She remembered what she had glimpsed with her own eyes.
Dozens of ghosts and demons were lying in the open space outside the cocoon.
Hundreds of various Shura monsters were densely packed around the big cocoon.
And that's just what she could see.
In places she couldn't see, there were ten times as many Shuras.
This made Xiaoman very uneasy.
She already knew that Shura's essence was a group of monsters dominated and twisted by desire.
These things, even if they have intelligence, will only be full of killing and madness.
Therefore, they could not be so quiet and well-behaved outside the cocoon.
"There is only one possible ......" Xiao Man thought, "The contents of the cocoon are extremely crucial things for these Shura!" ”
But......
So what could it be?
Xiaoman didn't know, but she was panicked.
Subconsciously, she felt as if the contents of the cocoon had hatched.
So......
She's about to be doomed!
Bang!
At this time, there was a huge vibration on the ground, and it soon continued to rise.
Something seemed to be attacking the market.
And the Shuras, they are fighting!
Xiao Man cautiously approached the exit of the cave, and she slowly poked her head out.
So, she saw a scene that she couldn't believe!
Several black figures are stepping into the air.
They hold one ritual instrument after another in their hands.
A strange scream in his mouth.
There are even people who are shouting: "Slave! How dare you stop the great Holy Family?! ”
"Die!"
So, his long sleeves rolled up countless rubble, crackling and smashing at those crazy Shura.
One by one, Shura was directly sent flying.
There were even ghosts and demons, which were directly smashed by a magic weapon.
Countless ruined buildings, one by one, collapsed.
However, the Shura forgot to die and stopped at all costs.
"That's it!" Xiao Man took a deep breath: "Heavenly Demon! ”
There is no doubt that these attackers are all Heavenly Demons!
And it's the Heavenly Demon who occupies the bodies of those powerful Great Monks.
Only these things dare to fly in the sky after the sky falls!
But here's the problem......
Xiao Man remembered that the old people once said that the heavenly demons all had the ability to command and even control Shura.
There was once a Great Heavenly Demon who controlled and drove hundreds of thousands of Shura to besiege the great sect of a human race.
In the end, relying on the flesh and blood of the Shura, the extremely powerful sect was destroyed.
Even the head of the sect was eaten by the heavenly demons.
What's going on here?
Heavenly Demons and Shura are fighting among themselves?
This is something that has never been done before!
Xiao Man was thinking that the Heavenly Demons had quickly cleared out the Shura that was blocking them.
The entire ruins were smashed by them.
The ground was littered with the body of a shattered Shura.
One by one, the Heavenly Demons had fallen to the ground.
They slowly approached the 'cocoon'.
Xiao Man watched, holding his breath, his soul was fully constricted, and his eyes did not dare to relax for a moment.
She doesn't worry about being discovered!
Although the Divine Senses of the Heavenly Demons are extremely powerful, they have a drawback - they are difficult to peer under the soil.
An inch of thin soil was enough to isolate the divine consciousness of these powerful monsters.
Since then, no one knows, why?
But now, Xiaoman knows the reason.
The earth is wrapped in a sacred mountain!
This sacred mountain was brought by the candle dragon before the creation of the world.
It is a sacred mountain where the candle dragon came.
It was wrapped in the earth and slowly rejuvenated.
Today, countless years later, Mount Kinabalu is slowly recovering.
Its power is rendered from the depths of the earth's core, naturally forming a protective film.
The reason why the human race or the demon race can not be hindered by this protective film is because the creatures in the heaven and earth are actually the children of the sacred mountain.
But......
Heavenly demons and Shura, it's different.
They are intruders.
Naturally, it is cut off by the power of the sacred mountain.
Therefore, Xiao Man dared to poke his head out of the cave unscrupulously to observe.
As long as the divine sense is well constricted, even the immortal-level heavenly demons may not be able to discover her.
Under Xiao Man's gaze, the heavenly demons slowly approached the big cocoon.
Then, they gathered around the cocoon and began to reach out and touch the cocoons.
But as soon as their hands touched the cocoon, something seemed to be stuck to the cocoon.
Then......
A pair of slender white arms suddenly stretched out from the big cocoon.
This arm, a cocoon sticks out.
Suddenly transformed into a monstrous monster with a huge mouth like flower petals.
Click!
The big mouth was aimed at a heavenly demon, as the hood was down.
Powerful power burst out from the Heavenly Demon's body.
One by one, magic weapons were sacrificed from the body of this heavenly demon.
But to no avail!
The big mouth, ignoring it all.
With a click, he bit the Heavenly Demon and its magic weapon.
Click......
The sound of bones shattering.
Gurgle...... Gurgle......
The foul-smelling blood in the Heavenly Demon's body kept flowing out of his big mouth.
The big mouth swallowed.
The flesh and bones of the Heavenly Demon, along with its divine soul and magic weapons, were all swallowed.
Then, the big mouth opened again.
The petal-like edges of the mouth, countless jagged things, were blue in the moonlight.
That's poisonous!
Click!
Click!
Big mouth, one bite at a time......
All the heavenly demons were swallowed in their stomachs.
Then, it re-transformed into a long, white, slender beauty arm and slowly retracted into a cocoon.
Meanwhile.
An incomparably powerful consciousness came out of the cocoon.
Like a hurricane, it swept across the entire Qingshan Town.
The original houses in Qingshan Town collapsed one by one in front of this divine consciousness.
Xiaoman stumbled and hurriedly fell back from the entrance of the cave.
In her mind, that consciousness was still echoing.
It was an incomparably twisted and evil consciousness.
Just by feeling it, Xiao Man's heart was already pounding.
Xiao Man gasped for air.
"What the hell is that?"
What is certain is that that thing is not a heavenly demon at all, nor is it Shura.
It's a kind of monster that has never been seen before!
It seems to be in some state now.
"Cocoon ......"
"Turning into a butterfly ......"
Xiaoman thought.
"If that's the case, then the contents of the cocoon are probably an extremely terrible and terrifying thing!"
"Something that even the Heavenly Demon is afraid of!"
Apparently......
Those heavenly demons just want to eradicate it.
Or rather......
The Heavenly Demons were deliberately attracted to it.
The development of this monster requires the souls of the heavenly demons!
Thinking of this, Xiao Man plucked up her courage and crawled towards the exit of the cave again, and she slowly poked her head out.
I saw a group of Shura, and they got up from the ground.
They slowly leaned back into the 'cocoon'.
Like a loyal guard, guarding.
"What's in there?" Xiaoman didn't know.
But she knew that it was not something she could deal with.
Even now, it's still in a cocoon!
Can't stay here any longer!
Xiao Man thought, so she hunched over slowly, slowly, cautiously from the narrow passage underground, to the distance.
When she was halfway there.
Her heart moved.
"Perhaps...... I can go inside that cocoon and see ......."
The underground passage here does not lead to the inside of the cocoon.
But......
Xiao Man remembered that the underground shelters of the Terrans were generally multi-layered.
This was designed to take advantage of the fact that Shura and the Heavenly Demons could not peer underground.
The connections and designs between each layer are different.
It depends on the philosophy of different designers.
Moreover, because the heavenly demons will encroach on the memories of the souls of the human race and the demon race.
So......
The design of most shelters is constantly being updated.
Originally, the underground passage of the vault was a trap.
Later, it became a magic circle, and now, it is a mixture of magic circles and mechanisms.
Sometimes the circle is the key to the trap, and sometimes the trap is the gateway to the circle.
Legend has it that some really good shelter designers will even make secret keys with the Heavenly Stems and Earth Branches, Qimen Dunjia.
The passages and entrances on each floor change their location from moment to moment.
But, that's the design now.
And it's a design that can only be found in large shelters, shelters with the protection of the primordial strong.
An abandoned shelter like this, with entrances and passages designed, shouldn't be too complicated.
After all, it is no longer a place of refuge.
Those precious magic circles and traps should have been dismantled.
So, Xiaoman immediately turned back.
She went back to the cave and searched inside.
But in every corner, there is no entrance.
So......
"Is this a password-style entrance?" Xiaoman thought.
If that's the case, then she'll probably not be able to find an entrance anytime soon.
But......
Xiao Man looked at this cave, and she knew that it couldn't be a password.
Because the password-type entrance requires a set of extremely complex magic circles to cooperate, and it also requires precious spirit stones as an energy source.
Moreover......
It's been abandoned for a long time.
The passages and corridors that have been here for a long time have no trace of human existence.
So, Xiao Man stood on tiptoe and reached out to rub against the wall.
Finally, she touched something that seemed to be words.
"Sure enough!" Xiao Man laughed, and she slowly twisted the text.
Click......
A faint voice came from a corner of the cavern.
Xiao Man walked over and saw an entrance about a foot wide.
She cautiously reached for it, and felt a rotten rope.
So, she knew she had found it.
And he jumped down from here.
Thump!
She landed steadily on the ground.
The ground is soft and should be dirt.
Xiao Man opened his eyes and looked at the surroundings in the dark.
Jian Xiu's vision allowed her to see every detail here.
It's a very old sanctuary design.
The surrounding walls are mostly separated by wooden planks.
Lamps lined up on either side of the wall.
But Xiaoman didn't need to light the lamp, she looked in the direction, and walked in the direction of the big cocoon.
Soon she followed this entrance corridor to the living quarters of the underground vault.
There are a lot of scattered living utensils here.
In the walls on both sides, there are hand-hewn caves.
Most of the shelters are hollowed.
Xiao Man ignored this, she continued forward, passed through the living quarters, and walked into another corridor.
She walked to the end and a wooden staircase appeared in front of her.
Xiao Man climbed up the stairs and touched the hard stone slab.
She tapped a nearby mechanism.
The stone slab on it slowly moved, and countless dusts fell.
Above, there is still a cave.
"This is the design of the shelter from seventy or eighty years ago...... Xiao Man thought about what he saw.
Now, even the simplest temporary shelter is much more complex than such a shelter.
As long as the Heavenly Demons can't find the entrance, then the people are safe.
At the very least, you can take advantage of the opportunity and escape through the other exits.
And a shelter like this is designed to be almost impossible to escape once discovered!
It's just that......
Xiao Man just wanted to climb out.
She immediately stopped.
Because, she perceived the velvet like silk and spider silk.
That monster......
Spit its silk into this cave as well?
Does it know about this cave?
These filaments are what it uses as an early warning?
Xiaoman thought of this, and immediately flew straight back.
But......
It's too late!
Those silks seem to have sensed her presence.
Immediately rolled down the hole and towards her.
Xiao Man had no choice but to draw his short sword, and his soul ignited.
Then slash in mid-air towards the entrance of the cave.
The soul fire slashed towards the silk that was rolling towards the little man.
These silk flots, without fear, directly meet the soul fire.
Disheveled!
When the soul fire and the silk wool met, there was an immediate muffled sound.
Then, it burned.
Yes!
The terrible scream, screaming in the eardrums, made Xiaoman's brain hurt a little.
The velvet that came into contact with the soul fire immediately broke and fell to the ground.
The soul fire immediately shot back towards Xiao Man.
The rest of the silk wool, like a snake, crawled back to the mouth of the cave.
Obviously, they are afraid of soul fire!
The returning soul fire drilled into Xiaoman's eyes.
They're a little weak!
This is the first time that Xiao Man has discovered that the soul fire will be weak.
Obviously, the silk wool had just been burned and their energy had been expended.
This made Xiao Man's heart frightened, knowing that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he immediately turned around and left.
The facts also proved her judgment.
On the ground, all the heads of Shura stood up.
What they felt.
Rush to the whole town at once.
They began to rummage through the rubble.
The intruders are underground.
The entrance must be found!
…………………………………………
It's already night.
Ling Ping'an had just had dinner, and he was holding his mobile phone at the moment, watching a short video.
This is a clip from a documentary clip.
It's about an insect called a parasitic wasp.
Ling Ping'an looked surprised.
"The world is really full of wonders!"
In the video, the parasitic wasp lays its eggs in the caterpillar's body.
Not one, but a dozen.
These eggs actually carry special viruses that interfere with and paralyze the caterpillar's immune system.
As a result, the eggs hatch safely in the host's body.
The caterpillar became the bodyguard, nanny, and wet nurse for these things.
The larvae of parasitic wasps, which feed on the blood of caterpillars, grow up on the caterpillars.
Finally, they grew up.
It bit through the caterpillar's skin and came out of its body densely.
At this time, the point comes!
The caterpillar isn't dead yet!
The caterpillars, who had been slaves to these parasitic wasps all their lives, became the bodyguards of these larvae at this moment.
It does everything it can to protect these vulnerable parasitic wasps.
And spit silk and cocoon for them.
Eventually, the caterpillar died of exhaustion on the parasitic wasp's cocoon.
And the new parasitic wasp has broken out of the cocoon.
Next, they will embark on their journey to breed and search for caterpillars.
Ling Ping'an watched this video several times.
"That's amazing!" After watching it again, he sighed.
The parasitic wasp's strategy is simply fantastic.
Parasitic host, let the host be a cow and a horse, and even serve loyally in life and death.
It's a material that can be written into a book and become a swarm.
Well!
Ling Ping'an nodded!
He knew that if such a strategy was changed, the swarm would be very violent.
Parasitism - growth - plundering, reproduction......
Then, digest everything of a race.
He feels that such a swarm may be liked by readers!
Thinking of this, he clicked on the 'Nightmare Legend Family Manager' on his phone.
I haven't watched it in days.
It's time to check it out!
By the way, consider the magic change of the parasitic bee.
………………………………
Outside the town of Castle Peak.
Xiaoman's figure appeared from the drainage channel on the side of the river.
This is an emergency escape route for the shelter.
She turned her head and looked at Castle Hill Town in the night.
Suddenly......
She felt the earth tremble!
The trembling direction is the market in Naqingshan Town.
Under the moonlight, countless clouds of smoke and dust are rising.
In the midst of the smoke, a figure of a woman with wings like a dragonfly had risen into the air.
Xiao Man looked at it.
She knew it was what was inside the cocoon.
It's out of its cocoon!
Facing the moonlight, the woman-like thing spread its wings.
The moonlight flowed into her body like water.
She's practicing!
Xiao Man's hands began to tremble.
It's cultivating!
And as we all know, whether it is a heavenly demon or a Shura, they can't cultivate!
These monsters have nothing but crazy paranoia and a thirst for flesh and blood!
But now......
A monster, a monster born from Shura, but cultivating!
Xiao Man's body trembled at this discovery.
What does this mean?
She couldn't know better.
A whole new kind of creature!
Between heaven and earth, a new creature has appeared!
In other words, if in the future, the human race and the demon race will become extinct.
Then, this kind of creature will become the true master of this heaven and earth.
The same ......
Xiaoman knows......
The human race and the demon race in heaven and earth have reached the most dangerous moment!
This kind of brand-new creature, as long as it exists for one day, the human race and the demon race will not be able to take back the heaven and earth!
Something that people once fantasized about.
Lean on the underground shelter to hide from the Heavenly Demons and Shura.
Hold on to these monsters, drain their strength, dry their flesh and blood, and roll back into the void.
Everyone came out of the ground again, regained the sweet dream of heaven and earth, and went bankrupt in front of this new soul!