Chapter 588: The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch follows
I walked over and looked at the Gu King's corpse, he had been beaten into a honeycomb, and his back was densely covered with bullet holes. Some people describe a tragic death as bloodshed, but it is definitely not the same as seeing such a dead person.
He fell to the ground, his body was terrible, but the blood gushing out of his body was not much, it was extremely thick and black.
This person built the Void Demon Tower, since the Qin Dynasty has been sleeping here, sleeping for thousands of years just to seek eternal life, and now after waking up, it has ended up with a thousand holes, which is infinitely embarrassing......
Looking closely, I saw that this guy's body was scrawny, and the muscles and flesh on his body were dark red.
No matter how many years this Gu King has been asleep, as long as it is a human being, it is inevitable that the body will be dehydrated after death, but it will definitely not be so fast. And this person is not a problem of dehydration, judging from the state of the skin and muscles, it looks like a dried corpse.
Thinking of the golden light surging around him when he just came out of the coffin, and the sudden dissipation of these golden lights, could it be that he had died a long time ago, but his body was controlled and dominated by the golden toad in his body.
In other words, the fight just now was all the behavior consciousness of that Gu worm. In this way, it seems that after the Gu King was shot, it made sense that the golden toad broke through its body and escaped.
I turned back and explained the situation to the fat man, Amorous and Nafutang, and then compared what I had seen and heard before one by one.
After some discussion, everyone's opinions were basically the same, and they all agreed that the Gu King had probably turned into a zombie a long time ago, and the only one who survived was the Golden Toad Gu worm.
After all, no matter how high the cultivation level is and how strong the spell is, it is impossible to live for thousands of years with the flesh and blood of a human being. This has nothing to do with modern science, but with the worldview of the Six Realms and Three Outlines, which is recognized by the monastic community.
The Three Outlines of the Six Realms are constantly circulating and changing, interdependent and restrictive, whether it is human ghosts, gods and demons, or monsters, it is impossible for them to remain unchanged in the same realm forever.
From staying overnight in Saipan Village to the ancestral house of the Wang family, and then entering the Void Demon Tower, the various experiences along the way have made people feel mixed in their hearts, and at the same time, they have also made us basically understand the ins and outs of the matter.
As early as the ancient Qin Dynasty, the Gu King and his junior brother built this Void Demon Tower together, in order to achieve the purpose of immortality by raising golden toad Gu worms, and reawaken after a few years.
These two people are quite smart, and they understand that openly building a cemetery or surface building will inevitably be stolen by others, and their own Qing cultivation will be ruined, so they built the Void Demon Tower in a deep mountain where the qi of the leylines meet.
It is very likely that the ancestral house of the Wang family and even the two buildings in Saipan Village were built together at the same time and the Xumi Demon Tower, which can be inferred from the tunnels leading to the Demon Tower in both the ancestral house and the village, as well as the location of the seventeen ladies.
Located in the remote mountainous area of Xiangxi, it is true that it is a treasure of feng shui, but the real purpose of Saipan Village and ancestral house is to hide people's eyes.
Because no one would have thought that there would be a demon tower hidden in the deep mountains where the village and ancestral house depended, and the tomb robbers would naturally not do it in a crowded place.
Some people may say, how can the tunnel of the Wang family's ancestral house lead to the Demon Tower? Weren't you taken to the tower by Xiao Hei, who rescued you halfway?
On the face of it, it was, but let's not forget that we only took two of the three routes we were going down. The first is to meet the group of living dead red generals, and the second leads to the halfway up the mountain.
The fat man speculated that the third passage that we hadn't walked through was probably the road to the Demon Tower, but it wasn't clear whether it was possible to reach the bottom directly, that is, the hall where we were currently located or where it led. A small bookstore
The question about the third passage was also answered in the affirmative when I asked the second senior sister in the future, and it was the one that led to the lowest hall. It's just a pity that we missed it, as the so-called no coincidence does not make a book, and creation makes people.
The structure and design of the Wang family's ancestral house are extremely special, and the appearance of the day and night is also very different, as well as the secret passage leading to the Void Demon Tower, which should have been lived by Gu Wang and his junior brother when they built the tower, and after the founding of the country, they were bought by the Wang family by mistake.
After all this was completed, the Gu King and his junior brother began to bewitch the villagers, concocting a legend of the so-called "Saipan Divine Bird", "Grandpa Mountain God" and "Heavenly Road", in order for them to settle here for a long time and keep it a secret.
If you think about it carefully, the project of the Void Demon Tower is huge, not to mention the Qin Dynasty, even today, it is not a day's work, and the ancestors of these Saipan villagers are most likely the people who built the Demon Tower in the first place.
The people in the border areas all believe in the gods, and when they see the beautiful mountains and rivers here, and the Gu King and his junior disciples have magic power, they naturally believe it is true.
With secrecy and the condition of hanging the corpse into the mountain, he signed a contract with the two brothers and sisters, and the guardian was passed down from generation to generation, worshipping the mountain god grandfather devoutly, and dreaming of reaching heaven after death.
Recalling the night we were in the stilted building, the Miao family and his wife clearly noticed that something strange had entered their daughter's boudoir in the middle of the night, but they did not stop it.
During the climb to the Wang family's ancestral house, the family that was holding a funeral with a white cloth wrapped in a white cloth was not sad, and some people greeted Wang Hao.
All of this was an anomaly, but we didn't think about it at the time.
As more and more ignorant villagers grew, the Void Demon Tower, the ancestral house, and Saipan Village were built one after another, and everything seemed seamless. The junior brother of the Gu King didn't expect that the little abacus in his senior brother's heart would actually hit him.
According to Nafutang Qian Ziqiang, this Gu King will awaken once every thousand years, and only at this moment will the secret passage to the Void Demon Tower be opened.
Obviously, this Gu King tricked his junior disciple into cultivating in the Demon Tower and guarding the door for himself.
He didn't know how much time had passed, and he had already died, just relying on the fact that he was formed by the strong qi of the earth's veins, and the bones were secretly transported out of the demon tower by the Gu King and buried in a mound on the mountainside.
We found Xiao Hei guarding the grave in the dense forest on the mountainside, this corpse dog should be raised by the junior brother of Gu Wang, I don't know why, it has survived and its appearance has changed.
can only vaguely speculate that it seems to be related to the perennial guarding of the corpse pill.
As the saying goes, "The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch comes behind". The Gu King estimated that he never expected that after all his calculations, the golden toad in his body would actually rebel.
Maybe it's because he has been sleeping for a thousand years, and his head is already muddy, this golden toad doesn't know what evil method he used, and he actually slowly refined the Gu King into a zombie.
For thousands of years, the Great Soul Detention Array has continuously provided it with souls, and in addition, the golden toad has also possessed the giant centipede on the first floor to enjoy flesh and blood, and it has long been able to move independently from the body of the Gu Keeper.
And this shrewd Gu King has unknowingly become a shell of someone else's lodge!