Chapter 40: The Foggy Past (2)
Being unconscious, but having a body that appears intact, sounds a lot like ...... When the blazing fish heard the strange illness of the people of the foggy village, he faintly remembered something.
Wuyu paused and continued to talk about the past of Wuyin Village.
Wuyu and Jing Xu have no family since they were children, and they left the village at a very young age to practice martial arts with their respective masters. Ten years ago, the two did not experience it firsthand.
It wasn't until the two returned to their hometown as adults that they realized the catastrophe that had suffered from their hometown.
Elder Qing and Elder Red knew that the two of them had been practicing magic since childhood, and they might be able to find a solution to the illness of the people in the village, and they were also the only hope for the people in the village. The two elders led the brothers to the ancestral hall in the village, where a scroll handed down by their ancestors was stored, which was said to record the events of the altar at the back of the village.
But this scroll is very peculiar, there is only a landscape painting on it, and there is no word on it. So although the scroll had been kept by the village elders, no one could understand what was written on it.
They took the scroll and studied it carefully for a long time to no avail, and finally one day, Jing Xu inadvertently touched the scroll with spiritual power, and the words on it appeared.
"What's written on that?" Blazing Fish asked.
Wu Yu continued.
It is recorded on the scroll that the souls of the people of Wuyun Village have been marked by the "devil" for some reasons from their ancestors. If this kind of mark is in a state of slumber all the time, the villagers will naturally be safe and sound, and once someone activates this mark, the soul will be taken away by the "devil".
"What do you mean?" Blazing Fish puzzled: "This sounds a bit like ......"
"Soul Pact......" Jing Xu continued.
The blazing fish cupped his chin and motioned for him to continue.
This scroll was left by a certain elder in the village, and it was only written that he was called Elder Wu, so they later called him Elder Wu.
This kind of soul imprint will be passed down from generation to generation on the people of Wuyin Village, so the Wu Elder is worried that the descendants of the villagers will be harmed. He was a sorcerer himself, so he used all his strength to build an altar in the mountains behind the village. There is a special formation on this altar, although it cannot completely remove the soul mark from the villagers, but it can temporarily make the activated soul mark sleep again for fifty years.
Fifty years is not a long time, but at least it gives the villagers time to continue looking for a solution. Elder Wu warned future generations that people in the village must have someone who can practice the magic and pass on the opening technique of this formation, so that they can save themselves when disaster strikes one day.
Later, Wuyin Village has undergone several changes, and the villagers are tired of making a living, where can anyone still take care of practicing magic, hundreds of years have passed, and no one in the village can use magic anymore.
This extremely important scroll, although it records the major events related to the life and death of the people in the village, hundreds of years have passed, and no one even knows about it.
"Since this is something that will be passed down from generation to generation by the people of Wuyun Village, why are you two okay?" The blazing fish was puzzled.
"We are not brothers, we were originally orphans picked up by the elders, so we don't have this mark of the villagers." Jing Xu said: "Yu'er, that's why when my brother wanted to exchange your soul for your life, I stopped me to death." ”
"If his soul is also engraved with this mark, the consequences will be unimaginable." Jing Xu continued: "I'm sorry, I'll ...... at that time"
"I was going to die at that time, you ...... for my brother," Blazing Fish smiled reluctantly.
"Don't talk about it." Wu Yu suddenly interrupted Blazing Fish's words.
Wu Yu and Jing Xu took the scroll and found the altar, and there was indeed a formation recorded on the scroll on the altar. The two brothers were overjoyed, and said in their hearts that the people in the village were saved.
But when Wu Wu wanted to open the formation, he was stupid again. This formation required a large amount of spiritual energy, which could not be completed by him alone.
Jing Xu originally thought that if one person didn't work, the two of them would do it, and if the two didn't work, they would find someone else. But the spiritual power required by this formation is really incredible, as if comparing a person's spiritual power to a glass of water, this formation needs a lake. Therefore, finding more people is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.
"In that case, how did that formation be completed back then?" Blazing Fish Qi said, "Wasn't there only Elder Wu at that time? ”
"Because of a coincidence, he met a 'god'." Wufu said.
"Gods?" Blazing Fish repeated.
After Elder Wu completed the design of the formation, he also encountered this problem. The spiritual power required to complete this formation is simply too much.
He meditated hard every day, but he couldn't find a way. Just as he was lingering on the altar every day, one day, a person suddenly appeared on the altar mountain.
This man had white hair, but he looked like a young man. To Elder Wu's surprise, he could feel the endless flow of spiritual power in his body, like an ocean.
Elder Wu finally said in his heart that the spirit had finally appeared, and he hurriedly stepped forward to bow down and ask him for help.
The boy-haired man, though a little surprised at first, readily agreed to his request. He only waved his hand, and a layer of blood-colored mist filled his body, and the Wu Elder hurriedly started the formation, and almost in a moment, he completed the formation with the help of this man.
Despite this, Elder Wu still used up almost all his energy and fainted on the altar on the spot.
When he woke up, he was already in his bed. His youngest son told him that a white-haired man had sent him back. He tried the spiritual power in his body, but there was no damage at all, and he thought that it was the god who helped.
After accomplishing such a great thing, the big stone that was pressing on Elder Wu's heart finally fell. In the years that followed, he warned his children and grandchildren about the formation, and then he stepped down from his position as an elder and lived out his old age at home.
"It's a pity that the elders of the Wu are exhausted and leave a way for the people in the village to live, and no one in the future generations takes it seriously." Jing Xu sighed: "Hundreds of years have passed, and the soul mark has never moved, and the people in the village have even forgotten about it. ”
"We can't find that god anymore, so we have to look for the spirit treasure in this world." Wu Yu said: "I heard Master say that there are dozens of treasures with abundant spiritual power in this world, distributed in all walks of life. If I can find it, I can use the spiritual power stored in this spiritual treasure, maybe I can also open the formation on the altar. ”
"That's how the reputation of the ghost thief brothers came about." Blazing Fish cupped his forehead.
Blazing Fish was suddenly a little confused, she couldn't tell whether this was right or wrong.
For the people of Wuyun Village, they are just trying to survive. For those who hold the spiritual treasure, if they are willing, of course it is also moral, but what if they are not willing?
The world is inherently complicated, can right and wrong, good and evil, really be as clear as black and white?
Blazing Fish couldn't help but sigh lightly.