Chapter 143: What Really Happened in the Hundred Herb Garden?
"This small world and why I have become like this, and why there are wild insects here, why it has survived until now, I will tell you all about it as it is......" The girl did not refuse Liu Qing's question, and began to tell her story. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"My name is Qing Yao, my race is strange, and I am called a mountain ghost clan by other demon spirits. Because we are children of the mountains......" said the mountain ghost girl named Qing Yao.
A long, long time ago, Qing Yao was still a girl from the mountain ghost clan who had just formed. Unlike the vast majority of demon spirits, the mountain ghosts were born entirely from heaven and earth, and were often born in the mountains that were inaccessible to people. In other words, mountain ghosts have no father, no mother, and no family or tribe.
Liu Qing had been fortunate enough to see mountain ghosts in the demon world before. Generally speaking, wherever there is abundant spiritual energy and dense living creatures, it is possible to breed mountain ghosts. Mountain ghosts are closely related to the mountains and forests that give birth to them, and in a sense, mountain ghosts are the embodiment of the consciousness of mountains and forests. When the mountain ghost is exhausted, it will reintegrate into a part of the mountain forest until the next mountain ghost is born.
In her ignorance, Qing Yao gradually gained self-consciousness and noticed that the world in which she existed was actually very small. Although it is very rare for mountain ghosts to be born in a small world, for mountain ghosts, the size of the world does not matter, and if nothing else, they will stay in their own mountains and forests for the rest of their lives, guarding all living beings in the mountains and forests.
One day, a group of humans suddenly appeared in this small world. At first, Qing Yao was wary of these otherworldly creatures. But she soon discovered that the humans were gentle and didn't wreak havoc on the environment. She soon realized that these people were not enemies.
It didn't take long for Qing Yao to learn that these people belonged to a sect of alchemy, called the Baicao Sect. Unlike other Dao Sects, the disciples of the Baicao Sect were obsessed with refining various herbs and were not very interested in things like subduing demons and killing demons. By chance, Qing Yao was bumped into by the head of Baicaomen, and after the latter learned Qing Yao's identity, he actually apologized repeatedly, saying that he didn't know that there was already an owner here.
The kindness of the head of the house made the lonely Qing Yao feel good, and she quickly accepted the head of Baicaomen and his disciples, and the relationship between the two sides became closer and closer. Before his death, the head of the sect set up a door rule, requiring the disciples of Baicaomen to treat every grass and tree in the small world kindly, and not to destroy it wantonly, and those who violate the rules will be expelled from the sect. At the same time, the head of the sect also implored Qing Yao to be the guardian of the small world, because Baicaomen is not good at fighting after all, and if he encounters a strong enemy, he is afraid that he will not be able to support it.
Qing Yao agreed to the master's request without any hesitation. For many years after that, Baicaomen and Qing Yao were in a state of tacit symbiosis, and with the passage of time, the disciples of Baicaomen even called Qing Yao the elder of the guard, and the relationship between the two sides was extremely harmonious. For Qing Yao, the disciples of Baicaomen are like their own children, and the disciples of Baicaomen often regard Qing Yao as a kind elder.
During this period, Baicaomen also encountered several invasions by foreign enemies, but in this small world, Qing Yao had control over the entire world, so every wave of enemies suffered heavy losses. Over time, no one dared to harbor ill intentions towards Baicaomen. It's just that the people in Baicaomen are peaceful by nature and indifferent to fame and fortune, so after a long time, they gradually faded out of the sight of the Daomen.
It stands to reason that as long as there are no accidents, the Baicaomen will continue under the protection of Qing Yao. Unfortunately, however, they encountered a wild worm.
How the wild insects discovered this small world, everyone did not know, but when the wormhole appeared in the small world and the fog continued to spread, Qing Yao felt her powerlessness for the first time.
Qing Yao is the controller of the small world, and it is naturally true. But just as the Qingfeng Sect was the inheritor of Ye Liangchen to the desolate power, the power of the desolate was also fatal to Qing Yao. Just like Yu Tian had seen before, the energy of the desolate insects would quickly absorb the energy of the small world, making Qing Yao extremely weak, and she was powerless to resist at all.
Without Qing Yao's protection, how could Baicaomen resist the attack of the desolate insects, the disciples died tragically in the hands of the monsters conjured by the desolate insects, and Qing Yao was actually powerless, and could only watch as the familiar figures were killed by the desolate insects. Under the extreme stimulation, Qing Yao's spirit collapsed, and her body could not be condensed, turning into the form of a soul, degrading to a juvenile state. This is also the reason why the Qing Yao that Yu Tian and Liu Qing saw was in the form of a girl.
At the critical moment, at the cost of his own cultivation and life, the head of the Baicao Sect urged the secret method to open the talisman array, completely cutting off the wormhole opened up by the desolate insects to the small world, and sealing the entire small world. But at this time, the consciousness of the wild insect has been closely integrated with the small world, although the back road was cut off, but the wild insect did not disappear, but shrank into the corner of the small world, into a long sleep.
Speaking of this, Yu Tian has already speculated some characteristics of "desolation", that is, his consciousness is not like other creatures, there is only one, "desolate" has multiple consciousnesses, each consciousness can be independent, this is the "desolate insect" defined by the people in the Daomen. Wild insects invade different worlds like cancer cells, grow in this world, and eventually assimilate them completely.
With the sacrifice of the boss, the small world was finally preserved. But at this time, the people in Baicaomen had already been killed and injured, and Qing Yao had also lost her body and memory, floating in this realm in a daze, and finally fell into a deep sleep. Since then, the small world has returned to calm, and only time will erase the traces of Baicaomen's existence little by little.
What the head didn't expect was that although the rune array he urged could seal the entire small world, it could be opened from the human world. The passage to open the small world is in the deep pit of the Niushan Capital Medicine Garden, and the rock puppet is both the guardian of the passage and the key to open the passage. It is precisely for this reason that Yu Tian and others can open a temporary wormhole and enter the small world.
However, although Qing Yao suffered a heavy blow during the invasion, her remaining consciousness always remembered the tragedy of the destruction of Baicaomen. Therefore, when the temporary wormhole was opened, Qing Yao also woke up, and she mobilized the power in the small world at all costs to completely destroy this temporary wormhole, so that there would be no other passages to enter here.
From Qing Yao's standpoint, this is the wisest choice, but for Yu Tian and Liu Qing, this is not good news.