Chapter 153: Mutation
The old man smiled again: "Don't worry, I'll be fine." If you don't, I won't be able to discourage you, and you'll never get out of here. ”
Seeing that Xu Chen still didn't dare to offend the old man, Yan Changsheng stepped forward and said, "My brother is kind-hearted, can you let me replace him?"
"Yes, all of you present can come and try. ”
Yan Changsheng was not polite, he had a little luck, and his right fist, which had condensed a large amount of true qi, slammed into the old man's chest!
With a "boom", the old man's chest suddenly penetrated a big hole, but the old man's body did not move at all, and there was no trace of pain on his face, on the contrary, he smiled and said: "It seems that you still don't believe what I said, this fist did not use all your strength." ”
"Yes, I just used thirty percent of my strength. Yan Changsheng's face changed, and he saw that countless new muscles had grown on the old man's chest, and it didn't take long to fill his chest, and in the end, there was not even a trace of scarring.
"Old man, you have an immortal body!" This time, Xu Chen completely understood.
"That's right, no matter how powerful the attack, even if it blasts me into a pile of powder, I can sprout like a seed and finally stand in front of you with my body intact. ”
Xu Chen was forcing a smile on his face, but he was already hairy in his heart, wasn't the immortal body possessed by the old man the ultimate goal that all cultivators had dreamed of for thousands of years?
Everyone was speechless in shock, and finally a sailor monster couldn't help but cry out: "Mom, immortality means eternal life, which only a true god is qualified to have, may I ask...... Old man, which god are you?"
When the old man heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he said sharply to the little demon: "I am not a god, all the gods are dead!"
His scorched face was flushed red, and his eyes were almost on fire.
Possessing an immortal body is not a god, does the old man mean that he is a supreme being that is more powerful than a god? Everyone was once again in shock, and some of the sailor monsters who came with Mo Li, their legs trembled involuntarily.
"Yes, they are all dead, but I am not dead, O God, why don't you let me disappear into history with them?" the old man's voice choked, and his face was uncertain.
Suddenly, he became excited again, and said to the little demon: "Do you know that in ancient times, what kind of great existence was Huaijiangshan?"
The little demon's face was pale with fright, and his lips trembled, but he couldn't say a word for a long time.
"Of course you don't know, because you weren't born then. The old man muttered: "In the past, Kunlun, Yushan and Huaijiang Mountain were the three most famous sacred mountains in the heavenly realm, and here were beautiful gardens where countless gods cultivated and frolicked.
After saying that, he cried again, crying heartbreakingly, which made people unbearable to look at directly.
After being stunned for a long time, Xu Chen took advantage of the fact that the old man's feelings calmed down a little, and asked boldly: "Old man, the Kunlun Mountain of our god clan, is it really the location of the heavenly capital of the gods in ancient times?"
"You Protoss?" the old man laughed and cried, and said sarcastically, "Is it embarrassing for you to pretend to be the sacred and solemn Kunlun on an unknown hill of your human race?"
Xu Chen was ashamed, before coming here, he had already heard Tie Jiugong and Song Wuji say that the current gods and demons were just noble races of human beings, and the real gods and demons had long since perished.
But why did those ancestors want to name their race after gods and demons? Xu Chen had already had doubts in his heart.
But it was only at this time that he deeply understood the reason why Uncle Taishi wanted to know the secret ancient history in the wordless heavenly monument, because when it was presented to the world, it would be a very explosive news, and even subvert everyone's cognition!
Just when he was in a trance, he heard the old man say: "How arrogant are human beings, how dare they proclaim themselves gods! If these ignorant human beings dare to do this during the years when the glory of the gods shines in the heavens and the earth, they will surely invite catastrophe!"
Then he sighed and said, "The past is gone, what's the use of talking to you juniors, what I want to do now is to follow the glory of the gods and be with them forever!"
"Follow the glory of the gods?" After Xu Chen's eyes flashed, he was suddenly shocked, and he said in a trembling voice: "Old man, you don't want to die, do you?"
"Yes, you have the intention of survival, and I only have the intention of death!"
The old man's words were extremely desolate, "Huaijiangshan can no longer restore its former glory, I helplessly watched those gods who had respected and given me great warmth, one by one died in front of me, and finally lived alone in this world, that kind of feeling, you will not understand." ”
Xu Chen hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade: "Old man, isn't it good to live, you can meet new friends and get in touch with new things......
"Don't say it, you don't understand it at all!" The old man interrupted Xu Chen's words very arbitrarily and said, "Neither you humans nor those demon clans behind you can be compared to the great gods at all. In God's world, there is only love and warmth, but your world is full of deceit, greed and killing, and it is not worthy of my affection!"
"I see!" Mo Li's eyebrows gradually relaxed, although he couldn't fully understand the logic and thinking in the old man's head, he felt that he seemed to understand the meaning of the old man's words.
So Mo Li said confidently: "Even if you are trapped in the divine array, knowing that there is a way to leave, you are unwilling to go to the core area to see what is going on, because you don't want to deal with the races in the world today. Am I right, old man?"
"You're not wrong at all. I am not God, but I have the compassion that God should have. As long as an outsider comes here, I can't cut off his only way of life. ”
"Thank you to the old man for guiding us. After tasting the old man's power, Mo Li didn't dare to make a second time, he bowed first to express his gratitude and then said tentatively: "But I still have a question in my heart, if your old man doesn't mind, can you let the junior tell it?"
"There's no harm in speaking up. As he said this, no one noticed that a small white spot appeared in the middle of the old man's forehead.
"Your old man has already possessed an immortal body, and I am afraid that this wish to seek death will never be realized. I would like to advise you, in the long time you have lived in seclusion, the world has already changed in the vicissitudes of life, so why bother with the prejudice against our race, why don't you go to the core with us and see the new world before making a decision?"
On the surface, he was persuading the old man to give up his prejudices, but there was another meaning in Mo Li's words.
Because he had never believed in this strange old man, he was afraid that what he said about the secret of cracking the divine array hidden in the core area was a trap, so he sent an invitation to the old man to go with him.
As long as the old man can be with them, if something really goes wrong, Mo Li can also come up with a countermeasure in time.
"Hehe, your attitude has changed really fast enough! I see that you are actually afraid that I will give you a false news, right?" The old man is not an idle person, and he can see through Mo Li's calculations at a glance.
"Old man, you misunderstood, how can the junior have such thoughts. Mo Li hurriedly waved his hand to deny it, for fear of angering him again, then he really couldn't eat and walked away.
The old man said with a stern expression: "I don't care what you think, what I want to tell you now is that I am not simply helping you, in fact, it is also for myself." ”
Hearing this, Mo Li suddenly sneered in his heart, and said secretly: "Sure enough, I was not mistaken, you are finally going to show your fox tail." ”
Unexpectedly, the old man's next words surprised Mo Li: "The gods who are powerful to the top of the universe cannot avoid the fate of death, can I, who is weaker than them, be able to escape from this fate? In fact, I can't be an immortal existence." ”
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they all realized in their hearts that the old man was about to tell a secret that would kill him.
This is too unreasonable, just ask who would reveal their fatal weakness to others, not to mention that they are not acquaintances to the elderly, just strangers who have met once.
"In the golden age when the gods lived, I was a mortal like you, and if it weren't for the favor of the Great Gods of Yingzhao, I wouldn't have lived for such a ......long time," he coughed violently as he said this, and the conversation was interrupted.
The impatient Xu Chen couldn't help it, he interjected and said, "Could it be that the immortal body of the old man is a favor given to you by the Great God of Heroic Recruitment?"
The old man coughed and said, "That's not it, my immortal body was acquired after the death of the gods. ”
When his body regained his calm, he continued: "The gods opened the Divine Array before they died out to protect this pure land from the pollution of the world, but no one thought that although the Divine Array could block the invasion of visible evil spirits, it could not resist the erosion of the invisible heaven and earth aura. ”
Xu Chen asked in surprise: "Why is Huaijiang Mountain corroded by the evil spirit? The remnants of the ancient gods are enough to drive away all these evil things. ”
"I said that God is merciful, and even when they are gone, they must find ways to maintain the normal operation of yin and yang in this world. The old man sighed, "And the author of all this, your race, is caused by your killing!"
Xu Chen was puzzled, but Mo Li figured it out, and he also followed the old man and sighed and said, "The gods and demons of the human race have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and even our demon clan is involved. There are countless souls who have died in battle, and many of them have become lonely ghosts, and the resentment in their hearts has nowhere to vent, and after a long period of accumulation, it has turned into a stream of anger floating in the heavens and the earth......"
"You're right!" said the old man, "If we can't get rid of these growing angers, it will cause great calamity to the world." Buried deep in the depths of the Huaijiang Mountains, the remaining divine consciousness of the gods sensed this anomaly and began to use their own power to purify the aura that filled the heavens and the earth, which made me also stained with this holy energy, which was exerted on my body, making me immortal. ”
Everyone was dumbfounded, but they didn't expect the old man to get his immortal body in this way.
"So the only thing I ask you to do is to go to the core area and find a way to open the Divine Array Birth Gate, and then destroy it completely!"
"If we destroy it, won't we be trapped here forever like you?" Xu Chen was stunned.
"No, once it is destroyed, the Divine Array will also disappear with it, and then the Divine Consciousness will return to its original hiding place, and the Divine Power attached to me will disappear with the Divine Consciousness, then I will be able to return to my original appearance, and I will no longer be immortal. ”
Everyone is dumbfounded, in order to seek death to such a point, let alone in the world today, I am afraid that no one in ancient times has been as persistent as the old man in front of him, to the point of almost extreme.
Mo Li asked coldly: "Since you all know the way to break the immortal body, why don't you do it yourself, but let us do it for you?"
"Do you think I don't want to?" the old man frowned and said, "The only one who can get there is a human or a demon, and I have entered it at all, so every time I meet a person who enters Huaijiang Mountain, I make the same request to them." ”
"But none of them succeeded, and they all died on the way to find the core, right?"
"Yes, so I want you to be the last ones, and I don't want to see anyone sacrifice for that anymore. ”
"It seems that we have no choice, so please ...... old man"
Mo Li originally wanted the old man to take them to the core area of Huaijiang Mountain, but at this time, the Qin Yuan on the old man's shoulder screamed signifyingly!
As if sensing that danger was coming, it flapped its wings quickly, flew away from the old man in panic, and disappeared into the mountains and forests in a blink of an eye.
The old man's body was trembling violently, and the small white spot on his forehead that was not noticed was slowly expanding, and now it had expanded to half of his face.
What was even more surprising was that where the white dots passed, the original tree-like skin on the old man's face suddenly tightened, and then became white and ruddy, and his eyes gradually had a strange look......
"Don't ...... Don't!" the old man cried out in pain with his hands over his face, and then fell to the ground and twisted like a snake.
Everyone was shocked, and they didn't know why he suddenly became like this, Xu Chen asked in a trembling voice, "Old man, are you okay?" As he spoke, he stepped forward and wanted to help the old man up from the ground to see what was going on.
"Don't ...... Don't come over to me!"
Xu Chen's heart sank as soon as he grabbed the old man's hand, although it was through his clothes, he could still find that the old man's hand became very smooth, which was not at all like the young skin that the old man should have!
Before he could come back to his senses, a powerful force burst out from the old man's arm, flying Xu Chenzhen dozens of feet away on the spot!
At this moment, the old man's entire head was changing, and the muscles on his face were constantly expanding, making people feel as if something was about to burst out of his brain!
Everyone was shocked by this sudden scene, and they didn't know what to do for a while!
Suddenly, the old man's body stood up straight like a spring, and he glared at everyone present with a hideous face.
Everyone was immediately frightened and hurriedly flew away, for fear that he would launch a frenzy and kill himself.
"Why...... Why...... You're going to stop me!" the old man shouted and flew up, his body rolling in the air, and before everyone could react, his figure was already far away, about to disappear from sight.
"Chase!" Mo Li, who was the first to come back to his senses, quickly stood up and flew straight in the direction of the old man, and the other monsters also flew into the air in unison, all rushing in that direction.
Everyone knew in their hearts that if the old man disappeared like this, then they might never know the path to the core of Huaijiang Mountain.
By the time Xu Chen got up from the ground in embarrassment, both the old man and Mo Li had disappeared, which couldn't help but make him feel extremely frustrated.
Just when Xu Chen was wandering and didn't know what to do, suddenly a lightning-like figure flew over, Xu Chen was shocked, thinking that an enemy was coming to take his life, so he hurriedly transported his true qi and condensed it into a cold ice sword and waited for him.
With a "snap", this person came to Xu Chen extremely quickly, and reached out to smash the ice sword in his hand.
"Old man, it's you!" Xu Chen was surprised and delighted, he didn't expect the old man to suddenly go and return.
The old man who appeared in front of him at this moment had a more hideous face than he had just looked, and a narrow opening had been split in the middle of his face, as if something would pop out of it at any moment.
Xu Chen was stunned on the spot, but the old man immediately grabbed his shoulders with both hands and said sharply: "Ah...... Listen to me, go all the way south and don't look back, ah...... Until I saw that crooked-necked willow tree......"
He said almost every word through gritted teeth, which made Xu Chen's heart tremble when he heard it, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
"Mark my words......! There is a hole in the root of the tree, and if you reach into it, you will touch it...... A protruding tree nodule ......"
At this point, he couldn't go on, his whole body kept shaking, and even the hands that grabbed Xu Chen's shoulders were shaking.
"Old man, what are you talking about, why can't I understand at all?" Xu Chen listened like falling into the clouds, completely unsure of what to do.
"Ah...... Ah......h Then the old man let go of his hand, screamed and flew away.
"Old man, wait for me, what's wrong with you?" Xu Chen flew over, but only between the ups and downs, the old man's figure suddenly disappeared.
"Oops, I lost him again!" When Xu Chen fell down and stopped on the ground with remorse, Mo Li and the others also came back.
Xu Chen hurriedly stepped forward and told everyone what he had just seen, recalling the shocking moment while talking, and it took a long time to finally tell the old man's words word for word to the people present.