Chapter 158: Clues
"What, no return?" Ji Ziran was surprised again, but he didn't expect to hear the name "No Return" again. He was outside the imperial city before, and the tomb under the abyss was suspected to be left behind by the Tao without a home, but that was three thousand years ago, and what Village Chief Li said happened more than a thousand years ago, that can only explain one problem.
The tomb outside the Imperial City was not a place to return at all, or rather, it was not a tomb at all, although he had not finished exploring the tomb under the abyss, but he could see that it seemed to be more like a palace. According to the words of the thief Fei Dao before, the strength of the Dao No Return is a mess, and the ancestor of the Li family can enter the black mountain with the Dao No Return, presumably his strength must be terrifying.
"In that black demon mountain, there are a large number of huge top-grade spirit stones, which are sealed with inexplicable creatures......" Ji Ziran muttered in a low voice. "So I don't tell you this, I just don't want you to go in, I'm afraid I'll scare you. Village Chief Li said. "If there are inexplicable creatures that are not dead inside, it is indeed not easy to enter. Ji Ziran's eyes flickered, and he didn't plan to give up. However, it will definitely take a long time to enter the Black Mountain, and he must solve the problems in the village now.
Just a few days later, there was a roar outside the village, and a large number of humans, horses, monsters and beasts rushed in, bringing up bursts of smoke and dust, and directly stepped on the earth and came to the village. "Zhang Dabiao, that wicked man, is here, leading more than a dozen people, and is about to kill people" are about to hide in the secret passages, bandits are killing and robbing, and more than a dozen monks are all holding weapons. Some of the young and strong men in the village let their old people and their wives hide in the secret passages that had been prepared long ago, and they all came to the group of bandits led by Zhang Dabiao with a fierce spirit, carrying swords and sticks, all of them were full of hard spirit, and they were not afraid of life and death at all.
"You damn bandits and bandits, you know how to pick us weak civilians to bully, you have a kind of going to those big forces, you know how to bully the weak, a group of guys who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard. "Hmph, do you think they don't have to rely on the relationship when they develop, if they don't have the support of those big forces, how dare they be so arrogant. "The young and strong guys in the village are all strong-blooded, they all hold the weapons in their hands, and they are not afraid of Zhang Dabiao and them at all, although they know the disparity in strength, but in front of defending the village, they are not afraid of life and death, and they are all ready to fight to the death.
"There is little brother Ji, the big guy doesn't have to worry about being afraid, be quiet. Village Chief Li came to everyone and shouted at those young and strong guys. Outside the village, the sky was full of smoke and sand, and there were dozens of figures riding on fierce and fierce demon beast pumps, the speed was very fast, and they arrived in front of them in the blink of an eye, those people howled like wolves, and the demon beasts also roared in the sky, as if they were creating momentum. This is a group of experienced and vicious bandits and robbers, they all exude murderous aura, each of them has blood on their hands, and there are many innocent lives, and ordinary bandits are not as strong as them.
In fact, before Zhang Dabiao and the others came, Ji Ziran also looked around for some traces of bandits and robbers, but they didn't find their gang, obviously the hiding place is quite secret, otherwise it is far away, but today they sent it to the door, but there is no need to deliberately look for it. Among this gang of bandits, the person in the middle sat on the back of a one-horned tiger, he looked to be in his thirties, he had messy long hair, his cultivation was not weak, in the early days of Jindan, he looked very fierce, with a fierce spirit, he was obviously the head of this gang of bandits, Zhang Dabiao.
"All the people in the village have come out to meet your grandfathers. Behind Zhang Dabiao, there were many bandits shouting loudly, and the sound spread far away, and those demon beasts also roared, as if they were shocking people's hearts. "Hey, you still dare to hold a weapon, you are all impatient? I don't look at your strength, just this little bit, you dare to use a knife to resist us, it's really beyond your strength. One of the bandits laughed, and the other bandits laughed out loud with disdain when they saw the people in the village holding knives.
Village Chief Li walked out of the crowd and stopped in front of many young and strong guys, he looked at these bandits, hugged his fists, and said politely: "Please forgive me, the atmosphere here is generally like this, and it is very normal to lead troops." "Don't fucking give me nonsense, I told you a few days ago, are the spirit stones we want ready, it's best not to let me hear these two words, and don't say let's forgive you for a few more days, today we must hand over the spirit stones we need, otherwise blood will wash your village." A bandit snorted coldly.
"Don't wash it all in blood, there should be a lot of good-looking ladies in the village, how good it is to bring them back and enjoy them, hahaha......" This group of bandits and robbers was very arrogant, laughing again and again, not treating the people in the village as human beings, and they were murderous one by one. Village Chief Li naturally knows that the group of bandits and robbers led by Zhang Dabiao are all outlaws, and they never blink an eye when they kill people, without the slightest softness, if they are not satisfied, then they will definitely wash their entire village without hesitation, which will be a disaster.
However, Village Chief Li had already greeted Ji Ziran in advance, and also thought of a way to deal with it, the village chief took out a storage bag and respectfully handed it to a bandit. The bandit took it and looked inside, and suddenly there were a large number of spirit stones, flickering and glowing, all of them were above the middle grade, and they looked very bright, "Big brother, look." The bandit's eyes lit up and he handed the storage bag to Zhang Dabiao. Zhang Dabiao took it casually, and glanced at it lightly, he immediately raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Well, your village is okay, I didn't expect to dig up so many spirit stones in a short period of time, and the quality is quite good." "The instructions of several adults, our village dare not take them to heart. Village Chief Li said respectfully.
The hundreds of medium-grade spirit stones dug up a few days ago, plus some given by Ji Ziran, are worth tens of thousands of lower-grade spirit stones, flickering and shining, the spiritual power is scattered, and the glow is ten thousand, which looks extremely eye-catching, Zhang Dabiao looked at the spirit stones in the storage bag, and was very happy. Ji Ziran didn't plan to do it in the village, so he came up with such a countermeasure, he guessed that this Zhang Dabiao could stand out among the many bandits, and the scale of development was larger than that of other bandits, and there must be some force support.
If Ji Ziran exterminated all the bandits like Zhang Dabiao here, maybe it would directly affect this village, and he didn't want to lead the battle end here because he wanted to lead the battle here, so he first asked Village Chief Li to send out the spirit stone and send them away, and then he wouldn't think of this village if something happened in the future. Zhang Dabiao took the storage bag full of spirit stones, weighed it, he was very happy, he laughed, obviously today's harvest was very rich, and Ji Ziran sneered in the crowd.
"Well, your village's ability is good, originally I thought that I would kill all of you without handing over the spirit stones, just like yesterday's village, but today you are lucky, and you don't have to see blood. ”
Zhang Dabiao laughed and said, he stared at Village Chief Li, and sneered again: "I have long heard that you, the old man Li, know a little bit of mining and soul digging skills, it seems to be true, your old bones will not live for a few years, it is better to help us find more spirit stones, and you can also save your village." ”
The monk in the middle of the foundation was full of lamentation, and some of the other villagers were also worried. In addition to the village chief Li led the team out to look for the spirit stone, there were several other groups of villagers, who also went out to look for the spirit stone, but there was still no receipt, they were also very helpless, some of the nearby spirit stone veins were all searched by them, almost all of them were mined and played, only away from here to find it in a farther place.
Ji Ziran was arranged by Village Chief Li to live here, there were many empty houses in the village, and the village chief sent someone to carefully clean them up and let him live in. Village Chief Li told some of the villagers in charge of the village what happened before, and they were very happy, and in the evening, they entertained Ji Ziran and welcomed him here.
The village names killed some of the monsters they raised, prepared a lot of food and wine, and Ji Ziran was not restrained, and he was very active with the villagers. During the meal, Ji Ziran asked Village Chief Li where the names of some places were, and he learned a lot of information from the previous group of bandits, most of which was about the location of the other bandits, and he planned to take a trip to see if they had enough spirit stones.
Village Chief Li asked a villager to get a more detailed map, basically covering most of Chongqing, and he marked the names of the places mentioned by Ji Ziran, and it was very clear that this was the stronghold of some bandits. Now Ji Ziran needs a large number of spirit stones to improve his cultivation, he must first break through his cultivation to a half-step golden pill, so that he can start to prepare for the condensation golden pill, after he took a closer look at the map, he completely remembered it in his heart, he did not hesitate, and soon set off to go to several bandit strongholds he knew.
However, after sweeping these bandit strongholds one by one, Ji Ziran was disappointed, because the bandits in each stronghold were very poor, and there were not many people, even a gang of more than a dozen people, and a total of only a few thousand lower-grade spirit stones were looted, which was not enough at all, and the difference was very far. "This spirit stone is not enough at all, you have to find a fatter bandit to start. Ji Ziran pondered.
At this time, Ji Ziran thought of the large number of spirit stones that he had scavenged from that Ghost Qilin's hands before, and that group of people could be regarded as having some family property, and that time he directly looted millions of lower-grade spirit stones, and some of the scattered bandits here could not be compared with the batch of Ghost Qilin. The village where Ji Ziran is located is located in a very remote place in Yuzhou, surrounded by mountains, close to the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, basically no one comes here, and only those who are looking for mining and digging spirit stones will come to these mountains to look for it, so it has also become a place where bandits and robbers are arrogant.
The spirit stones in some nearby mountains are basically mined, and the spiritual power is extremely lacking, even if the earth veins are not destroyed, but it is impossible to condense the spirit stones in a short period of time. The next morning, Ji Ziran walked out of the door, and the sun had already risen, sprinkled down, shining on the entire village, full of warm feelings. When Ji Ziran walked to the entrance of the village, he found that Village Chief Li was actually sitting on a boulder, looking intently in the direction of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, which made him feel very strange.
He also looked in which direction, but only saw a faint black qi floating between heaven and earth, swirling in the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, and there was nothing strange about it. The young man called Goudan came over at this time, and when he saw Ji Ziran's appearance, he smiled and said: "Village Chief Li will stare in the direction of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range every day, it has been decades Ji Ziran's heart moved, and after thinking about it, he looked at the direction of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range again, and felt that there were probably some secrets there, which was not simple, maybe it was related to the ancestor of this Village Chief Li."
After coming over for a while, Village Chief Li gradually recovered, he got down from the boulder, didn't say anything, just said hello to him and left. "Brother Goudan, do you know why Village Chief Li is looking in that direction?Is there any secret in the Sealing Demon Mountain Range in that direction?" Ji Ziran was puzzled, found Goudan and asked.
"I don't know, and Village Chief Li didn't tell us, but we have heard him say since we were children that the magic mountain is very dangerous and must not be approached. The dog shook his head and said. Ji Ziran nodded, and decided to go over and take a look for himself, he immediately rose into the sky, flew in that direction, like a lightning bolt, and soon gradually approached the Sealing Demon Mountain Range.
Stopped outside the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, stared carefully, and after watching for a long time, Ji Ziran's brows suddenly rose, he flew up a distance again, looking down in the sky, and soon he was surprised, and found that there was a mountain that was very strange, like a portal, blocking in front of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range.
This mountain is still black, surrounded by a monstrous black demonic aura, but it can be felt that it is much lighter than the black demonic aura in the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, and this mountain seems to have been moved here by someone later, forcibly suppressing it, blocking the entrance of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range. Slowly descended, mobilized the spiritual power, and protected the body, fortunately, this mountain is not in the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, but like a portal, blocked from the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, the black demon qi is relatively light, and it can't hurt Ji Ziran now.
He looked carefully around this black mountain, and he was surprised to find that on this black mountain, there seemed to be a lot of strange runes carved, dense, spreading on the mountain, very mysterious, with a strange and unpredictable force Ji Ziran pointed out a finger, a divine light pierced the void, broke through the air and shot at the black mountain, but finally there was a "ding" sound, his attack was like hitting the steel, the black mountain was extremely hard, and there was not even a trace left.
Surprised, Ji Ziran was a little surprised in his heart, this black mountain was too hard, it didn't look like a mountain, it was more like an indestructible divine weapon, suppressed here. The black mountain reveals a very ancient vicissitudes of life, and it is obvious that the suppression has been here for a long time, at least thousands of years. "The more this mountain looks at it, the more it looks like a pinnacle divine weapon, who could have suppressed it here?" Ji Ziran was puzzled in his heart and thought about it.
"Could it be the ancestor of Village Chief Li, that feng shui master with profound feng shui attainments?" Ji Ziran was full of thoughts. Soaring into the air again, Ji Ziran carefully looked down at this black mountain from above, the more he looked at it, the more he felt extraordinary, not only there were mysterious runes on the mountain, but even the top of the mountain seemed to have the meaning of the mysterious avenue, but it was polluted by the black demonic energy, which was already very dim and difficult to detect. Ji Ziran looked towards the Sealing Demon Mountain Range again, it was pitch black, and the black demonic aura was full of sky, monstrous, blocking people's vision, and it was difficult to see what was inside.
After investigating for a long time, he still didn't find anything, and he reluctantly returned to the village. The next morning, Ji Ziran got up early, wanting to take a look at Village Chief Li's actions, he walked to the entrance of the village, and sure enough, he found Village Chief Li sitting on top of the boulder, looking intently at the direction of the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, it should be said that he was looking at the strange black mountain. He was really curious, and wanted to find out, and when Village Chief Li came down, he hurriedly went over and asked: "Village Chief, why do you have to sit on this stone every day and look in that direction?" Is there anything special Village Chief Li's eyes were slightly condensed, he glanced at Ji Ziran, let out a long sigh, and then said: "That direction is very dangerous, it is a very terrible area, you have to be careful, don't go near there, my ancestor once passed down a word, saying that no one in the whole of Yuzhou can come out alive." ”
"So terrible?" Ji Ziran was extremely surprised, and continued to ask Village Chief Li. The Sealing Demon Mountain Range is indeed much more demonic than he imagined, but to say that no one in the entire Yuzhou can come out alive is too exaggerated, there must be many hidden masters in Yuzhou, Ji Ziran doesn't believe that this Sealing Demon Mountain Range can still help those strong people who have cultivated to the sky.
The village chief seemed to be concerned and didn't want to reveal anything, he just reminded Ji Ziran: "I don't know what is terrifying about that Sealed Demon Mountain Range, you just need to listen to me and don't approach." Ji Ziran didn't get any clues from Village Chief Li, after he wandered around the village for a while, he went to find Goudan and wanted to learn something from him, but Goudan couldn't say it, he knew less than Village Chief Li.
Just when he was about to return in vain, another teenager passed by, he seemed to be called Sanwa, very smart, Ji Ziran had some impression of him. Sanwa heard Ji Ziran's question, and he said, "I know some news about that Demon Mountain Range. "Tell me quickly, what's the secret of that Sealed Demon Mountain Range?" Ji Ziran's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked. "Once, when I went to deliver something to Village Chief Li's house, I overheard him talking to himself, and it seemed that he was mentioning something about Nine Days...... Something like that, it's scary in there. Sanwa thought about it and said.
"Nine Days...... Are you sure it's nine days?" Ji Ziran almost jumped up on the spot, he was really shocked, his previous life was one of the Nine Heavens Killing Heaven, this Demon Mountain Range actually has the same as the Nine Heavens "That's right, it is indeed the Nine Heavens, I definitely don't remember these two words." Sanwa replied affirmatively. After hearing the news, Ji Ziran's memory suddenly returned to his previous life, to the era when he was at his peak, and he couldn't help but boil with blood, and he let out a long howl, which shook the world and scared the three babies a lot.
"Nine Days...... Nine Heavens, since the Sealing Demon Mountain Range is related to Nine Heavens, then I must find out, what is the secret?" Ji Ziran's momentum bloomed, his long hair was windless, and his temperament changed all of a sudden. "Then do you know what those nine days mean, did you mention any names?" Ji Ziran continued to ask the third baby. Sanwa shook her head slightly, and said, "I don't know about this, I only heard these words from Village Chief Li, saying that the Sealing Demon Mountain Range is very dangerous, what nine days to wait......"
"I remember hearing my grandfather mention that the reason why Village Chief Li stayed in this village and didn't leave seems to be to complete the explanation left by his ancestors, which is related to the Demon Mountain Range, otherwise we can move out when people from the Eastern Earth Imperial Kingdom came last time. Sanwa suddenly thought of something again, and said. Ji Ziran's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What did your grandfather say specifically?" "My grandfather didn't say much, it seems that he also mentioned that the ancestor of Village Chief Li disappeared from the direction he was staring at, and he should have entered the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, and the inheritance of Feng Shui Secret Art was broken at that time. Sanwa thought carefully for a while, and said, "That direction, is that black mountain?Is the inheritance of feng shui secret art in that black mountain?" Ji Ziran thought a lot, guessed constantly, and thought about a lot, that feng shui mining secret technique, he really wanted to practice. "My grandfather seems to have said that Village Chief Li also has a few immortals who have cultivated to be powerful, and they once entered the Sealing Demon Mountain Range in order to find the inheritance of Feng Shui secret arts, but none of them came out alive. Sanwa seemed to be very scared when she said this, and felt a chill in her heart, and kept looking around, as if something was staring at him.
Ji Ziran couldn't calm down in his heart, hearing everything Sanwa said, he felt that the Sealing Demon Mountain Range, or the black mountain, definitely had an extraordinary secret. The pinnacle of the world, the madness of the Nine Heavens, each of them is a strong person who can easily destroy the heavens and the earth, and they are already strong to a terrifying level, not only that, but the divine weapons they use are also unparalleled in the world, just like Ji Ziran's Immortal Slashing Sword, which is so powerful that it has this kind of power, not to mention those Nine Heavens Divine Soldiers who are not destroyed and are intact.
If a monk can get a complete Nine Heavens Soldier, the whole person must be invincible, if the spiritual power is sufficient, the divine power is endless, so that the divine soldier can use endless spiritual power, then it can almost dominate the world, no one can stop it. The realm of the nine strong people of the Nine Heavens is not something that can be achieved by relying on financial resources or talents, and they may not be able to give birth to one in several eras, they have reached this realm, they have their own path, created their own law, and passed down the ancient scriptures, which is a temporary cultivation path, and they are much stronger than ordinary people by nature.
Ji Ziran couldn't calm down in his heart, he was not killing the sky now, but a monk in the late stage of foundation building, he needed to cultivate step by step, if he could get some powerful inheritance or divine soldier protection, then the power of cultivation would naturally be much smoother. That black mountain is related to the Sealing Demon Mountain Range in the Nine Heavens, if Ji Ziran can obtain the inheritance of such a strong person, then he will definitely be able to reach the peak again in the shortest possible time, and merge with his own law, maybe even surpass the past.
He knew very well that at that point, everyone's cultivation method was very extraordinary, and they had their own uniqueness. "If I can get a complete Nine Heavens One Divine Weapon, then where else in this heaven and earth can't I go?" Ji Ziran's eyes lit up, and he was inexplicably excited when he thought about it. Although the immortal sword in his body is still there, it is very mutilated, and it cannot be compared with the peak at all, and it is extremely troublesome to repair, not only is it difficult to find the treasured materials, but it is also a great test for his own cultivation, and the repair is extremely consuming of divine power.
However, Ji Ziran was excited, he was also very aware of the facts in front of him, and his mind soon calmed down, Village Chief Li had said many times that it was very terrifying and dangerous, and it was a terrible place, and he refused to tell some secrets he knew, obviously worried that Ji Ziran would rush to die. Ji Ziran thought for a while, left the village again, and soon after, he came to the strange and huge black mountain again, and circled around him very carefully, his eyes flashed, and he refused to let go of any corner.
"Is there anything strange about this mountain standing in this position?" Ji Ziran muttered to himself in a low voice, no matter how carefully he investigated, he couldn't see the slightest abnormality, he just felt that this mountain was like a divine soldier who was forcibly suppressed here.