Chapter 712: Corpses
An indescribable trembling sensation climbed up from Song Qingxiao's back and spread to all parts of his body.
Beneath the still, dark underwater, these female corpses clinging to each other are curled up like newborn girls, trapped in the depths of the water.
There are a total of 145 people in the Yulun Void Realm, and there are black cocoons in 133 grooves in the grooves of the Holy Temple, that is to say, there are a total of 278 'people' in the Yulun Void Realm above the Holy Temple.
Except for the black cocoon, which has not yet been reincarnated, most of the 145 'living people' who act are mainly male, while females are extremely rare.
Although Song Qingxiao had doubts at the beginning, as the mystery was revealed little by little, and after she gradually figured out the origin and reason of the Soul Suppression Clan, this doubt naturally disappeared slowly.
After all, after merging with the demonic qi, Yichang said that this kind of demonic qi transformed by the evil dragon's yin soul will use the body of the soul suppressor clan as a Gu, and stay in it, intending to devour its flesh and blood and resurrect the soul.
This is like raising an extremely terrifying parasitic Gu on the body, which will bring endless pain to the living host.
In this process, women's physique is congenitally much weaker than that of men, and it is not impossible to slowly hold on, and it is not impossible to eventually 'die'.
Therefore, after some screening and elimination, it is reasonable that only most of the men who are mainly Yichang are left in the Yulun Realm.
It's just that Song Qingxiao never expected that these 'dead' women in her opinion would appear under Jiuquan!
In other words, a thousand years ago, after the Soul Suppression clan led by Yichang made the decision to change, they should have built a temple and divided the clan into two.
On the top of the temple, the men led by Yichang are the mainstay, while the women are retreating to the bottom of the spring and guarding the nine secluds!
In this way, he has fought for a thousand years of peace for the Yulun Realm.
Song Qingxiao slowly dived down the current, swimming in front of these female corpses who were silent underwater.
Beneath the claustrophobic underwater, the faint light that shone from the surface of the water took on a strange blue color, and the further down it went, the darker it became, from blue to black, until it ended.
The female corpses lined up next to the jade carving were like a long and narrow procession, stretching straight into the abyss.
The women had been trapped for thousands of years, their cheeks covered with a black, sticky, mucous membrane-like layer of dirt that covered their features.
But through these weak mucous membranes, their eyebrows can be faintly seen.
The demonic qi under the water is extremely heavy, these corpses don't know what power they have, they can compete with this thick demonic qi without being corroded by it, Song Qingxiao was about to reach out to touch it, but only heard a loud noise coming from the top of his head-
'Roar-'
The dragon's roar pierced through the surface of the water and into the depths of the water.
The sound reached the bottom of the water seventy or eighty meters, and it had been weakened a lot, but the breath of the giant dragon spread through the water current, deep into Song Qingxiao's sea of knowledge.
Then I heard the loud sound of 'bang', and the statue seemed to be shaken by a huge force!
The huge black jade carving began to sway from side to side, like a chopstick inserted into a bowl and stirred vigorously, stirring up the water waves.
In the sound of the 'whooshing' water, the female corpses that were attached to the jade carving and were tightly encircled also began to tremble violently because of the swing of the jade carving.
The corners of the silent vermilion palace clothes swayed, and the edges turned into powder and mixed into the water.
Under the translucent black-gray mucosa, the skin on their cheeks, wrists, etc., was like a weak and abnormal piece of paper, and under this jolt, it shattered silently.
A stream of black and thick ink-like juice gushed out from the broken mouth, and Song Qingxiao's eyes froze, and then he keenly sensed the surging of demonic energy.
After guarding under the water for thousands of years, the black juice gushing out of the female corpse naturally could not be blood, and Song Qingxiao sensed the demonic qi in it, which was exactly the same as the aura she sensed in the grooves of the stone wall.
In other words, after the soul suppression clan was divided into two, not only did the people who lived on the ground attract demonic qi into their bodies, but even more, these women who decided to sink to the bottom of the lake may also attract demonic qi into their bodies and sleep in the depths of the lake.
The formation of Jiuquan is probably not because of the demonic energy at the bottom of the lake itself, but perhaps because of the existence of these women who introduced demonic qi into their bodies, and gradually formed this lake with strong demonic energy.
"Calm down." Song Qing carefully tasted the two words that Yichang had said, and at that time she understood that there was demonic energy in the lake, and she suppressed it with the 'Dragon King Sacrifice', so she got this name.
At this moment, it seems that it is probably because these women are sinking at the bottom of the lake and suppressing the demonic energy.
They are the soul suppression clan, among these people, it is very likely that they are the wives, daughters, and family members of Yichang and others, who made different decisions in order to suppress the black dragon yin soul separately.
Therefore, when Yichang is at the 'Dragon King Festival', he will show such a gentle look, as if he is missing, as if he is appeasing, as if he is treating relatives, everything has found a reason.
From the crack in the female corpse's face, as soon as the demonic qi came out, it seemed to be lured by the roar of the black dragon above, rolling and trying to pour out.
But at the moment when the black demonic qi spread, the translucent mucous membrane on the female corpse's face stopped it at once!
The black juice slammed the mucous membrane apart, like a blown balloon, but the next moment it was blocked by the mucous membrane, and slowly rebounded, forcing it back into the corpse.
They have been dead for thousands of years, but they are still suppressing the confluence of demonic qi in this way.
Song Qingxiao's heart swelled up with an extremely complicated feeling, it was difficult for her to describe her state of mind at this time in words, what kind of will could make this clan collectively do such a thing in order to seal the dragon soul?
She paused for a moment, and with a flick of her wrist, her spiritual power turned the lake into a torrent and slammed it towards one of the female corpses.
The current of water washed over her clothes, twisting the clothes that had been corroded for thousands of years, staining the water turbid, but there was a layer of mucous membranes on her body, which locked the demonic energy in her body firmly and could not leak out.
I don't know if they used some secret method before they died, but they were closely united with the jade carving, and the water flow urged by spiritual power washed away these attached female corpses at all.
It seems that in the past thousand years, they have grown on the jade carving, and it is difficult to give up.
The tremors gradually subsided, and the situation on the water was once again under control.
Song Qingxiao settled down, and then continued to swim forward.
After discovering the existence of these women, it seems that they have gradually groped for the end of the water.
But to her surprise, after swimming a few meters forward, the light became dimmer and dimmer, but Song Qingxiao found that the amplitude of the jade carving had changed.
Since the waist of the jade carving was submerged in the water, the curve has not changed, and the height of dozens of meters has been maintained at the same amplitude, as if a thick cylinder has been pestled into the water, except for the slight undulation of the black dragon carved above, the diameter has not changed at all, until Song Qingxiao discovered the female corpse group of the Soul Suppression Clan, this diameter has undulated.
But the ups and downs of the curve have not been large, and the appearance of a large number of female corpses has always made Song Qingxiao's attention always focus on the corpse group, although she noticed the abnormal change of the curve, but did not put it in her heart, until the slope of the curve became larger, when she turned her head to look back, she found that from the place where the corpse group appeared to the present, about ten meters long, the corpse group here suddenly 'protruded' a lot.
The upside-down corpses spread out diagonally at a very strange angle, and the amplitude was extremely large, as if they were on a steep slope.
Song Qingxiao let go of his divine sense to explore, this kind of abnormality was not because of the corpse group, but because of the change in the jade carving itself, so the position of the corpse group attached to the jade carving body changed, which was different from other female corpses.
What does the jade carving look like after the corpses? The length of tens of meters has not changed, why is there a sudden fluctuation here?
She slowly moved forward another two meters, but saw that the bulge was not spreading, but like a small hill, only slightly protruding, and then retracted.
This situation is not like the handover of waist and legs, nor is it the hidden dragon head she imagined at the beginning.
A bold thought flashed through her mind, and for some reason, Song Qingxiao remembered the statue of the female body above the water at this time.
Above her slender waist was a plump and straight chest, and a black dragon wrapped around her body, submerging into the water with her slender waist.
The curve and amplitude in front of me, no matter how you look at it, coincide with the female statue on the surface of the lake.
If that were the case, she was wrong at first when she thought that there would be a pair of legs under the water and a dragon head.
After all, this kind of speculation is just her preconceived idea.
Just imagine, when Yichang built the temple, he may not have built a truly complete statue.
The temple is separated by the surface of the lake, one up, one down, one yang, one yin, just opposite.
If the temple is inhabited by men such as Yichang, then under the lake of the temple is another group of people who are mainly women.
No matter which side it is, it can't be called a complete soul suppression clan, only the combination of the two sides is the complete descendant of the surviving soul suppression clan back then.
The female jade carving on the water surface is not connected to the legs below the waist, but the other half of the upside-down female jade carving body, combined with the previous clues, Song Qingxiao dared to boldly speculate that the underwater world of this holy temple should coincide with the world on the water!
In other words, she looked at the shape of the temple like an upside-down jade bowl at first, and it was very likely that she only saw half of the temple.
The shape of a real temple should be a round 'ball'!
But the other half of the 'ball' sank into the water, and it was like a reflection of the temple above the temple.
The jade carving has no legs, and the black dragon wrapped around it has no head, which also happens to mean that 'the dragons have no head'.
In order to verify his guess, Song Qingxiao immediately decided to swim forward, and sure enough, after sinking a distance, he found that the location of the jade carving had shrunk a lot.
"Shoulders, necks, heads!" The changes in these curves completely proved Song Qingxiao's guess.
The jade carving on the temple was not far from the dome of the temple's roof, and after a few meters, she saw the bottom of the black water.
If the temple is turned upside down, this should be the roof of the temple, and the upside-down female statues and female corpses should be turned upside down.
More than a dozen corpses sank under the water, and it was not long before the sacrifice, and Qinglu, who was wearing a vermilion palace dress, was also among them.
Her body was entangled in a large amount of black gas, and because of Song Qingxiao's arrival to break the silence under the water, her hair and clothes swayed slightly.
But every time she moved, a black aura locked her, as if to stop her from escaping.
Judging from the number of bones, it does not correspond to the number of deaths that Hatsurong originally said, which is to hold a 'dragon king sacrifice' every three years.
On the contrary, these densely curled up female corpses, about 300 people, if calculated according to the sacrifice once every three years, the cumulative number is about a thousand years, and it is estimated that it is in line with Yichang's plan.
Song Qingxiao swam out along the bottom of the temple again, as she guessed, the underwater world is exactly the same as on the water, the interior of the temple is equivalent to being reproduced, and even the criss-crossing black totems on the jade wall also exist.
The gate at the entrance of the temple opened, and the water and demonic energy escaped from it, connecting with the outside world, forming nine springs and lakes.
The long-standing doubts have been solved, and the origin of Jiuquan and the situation of the Soul Suppression Clan have basically been clarified, but Song Qing has new doubts in his care.
Why did the Soul Suppression Clan divide the clan into two groups, men and women, each appearing in different places? What is the reason why these women die by clinging to jade carvings? Why does the middle of the jade carving feel warm? What is the mystery of the reincarnation of the Soul Suppression Clan?
These female corpses don't know what secret method they used, they are closely connected to the jade carving, and part of the demonic energy of the black dragon yin soul was sucked into their bodies before their death, and they have become one with them after death, how can they release such demonic qi and resurrect the 'dragon king'?
And if you want to break this situation, do you need to break the jade carving?
Thinking of this, before Song Qingxiao could act, a weak scream passed through the deep current and into her sea of consciousness:
"Song Sanβ"
Xiang Si's frightened voice came, weakening her voice through the current, but the horror and helplessness in her voice could still be heard.
She shouldn't be able to hold on, or something has happened to her.
Song Qingxiao's expression changed, and then he heard a loud sound: 'Boom! β
The jade carving was hit by a violent force again, and the bottom of the water was rapidly stirred, and the corpse attached to the jade carving trembled wildly with the current.
A large strand of black demonic qi escaped, although there was a thin film to block most of the demonic qi, but there was still a small part of it escaping, burrowing into the inside of the jade carving, turning into black qi and clinging upward.
'Roar! β
A long dragon roar penetrated the bottom of the water, and the sealing totems around the jade began to swim uneasily, trying to break through the wall, as if they were also infected.
But the black qi had just escaped, and before it could get close to the jade carving, it was sucked away by the dewy corpse under the water.