Chapter 16: Bugs
The group of three people continued to move forward, and the road in the middle was exactly twenty miles as Taiying said, just twenty miles, and at first you could still see the messy steps and footprints of the Condor Guards, and the further back they went, the fewer the footprints became, and finally they were invisible, as if they had been erased by something.
Soon, the three of them came to the end, and this was also a dead end.
"It shouldn't be like this, even if it's a mausoleum, there should be a burial chamber, you can't say that this is an unfinished mausoleum, there are only three burial lanes." Qi Xuansu looked at the earthen wall in front of him and said.
Wu Niang said, "Let me come." ”
Without waiting for Qi Xuansu to agree, Wu Niang had already made a move, and a horizontal pillar of fire hit the soil wall in front of him, and under the blazing high temperature, the soil was directly crystallized, and Wu Niang opened up a crystallization channel with flames.
It seems that as Taiying said, this seemingly unfinished passage stops digging here, and the front is solid.
However, Wu Niang does not believe in evil, or Wu Niang firmly believes that miracles can be produced if she is strong enough.
Therefore, instead of stopping the flame and opening the way, Wu Niang increased the firepower, constantly burning the soil into crystallization, and extended this crystallized road forward for about two miles.
Then Qi Xuansu found out that it had been opened.
Separated by two miles of thick soil, there is a hole on the other side.
It can't be said that Taiying is wrong, Erli is a thousand meters of Westerners, and with such a thickness, it is difficult to say that it is not solid. Such a long distance makes sense to dig into another adjacent mausoleum.
Qi Xuansu actually didn't like this kind of investigation experience very much, he preferred to fight with people rather than solve mysteries here, he couldn't help but think to himself, he should bring Chen Jianqiu here.
The three of them walked through this cramped crystallized passage where only one person could barely bend forward, and came to the other side, where they found that it was an underground palace.
In the middle of the palace was an altar, and above the altar was a small mountain of corpses - probably made of forty or so corpses, all of them had turned into skinny and dried corpses, twisted and hideous, but judging by their clothing, it was the Condor Guard, who had been missing for a long time.
They were sacrificed.
These Condor Guards are all people with cultivation, and the quality of their souls is higher than that of ordinary people.
An ordinary soul is worth a thousand less devout ordinary believers in a year's output, how can a Divine Eagle Guard be ten with one, that is, the output of ten thousand ordinary believers in a year.
One hundred Condor Guards is the output of millions of ordinary believers in a year.
Converted into a devout core believer, there are also 100,000 people.
This number becomes terrifying.
Maybe for Daomen, this is just a small number, only one million, and there are more than so many people in one Jinling Mansion, not to mention that Jinling Mansion is only a part of Jiangnan, Jiangnan is only a part of the Central Plains, and there are many overseas territories outside the Central Plains.
Don't forget, the Daomen has to use divine power to support a huge army of spiritual officials, including twelve first-grade spiritual officials at the pseudo-immortal level and seventy-two second-grade spiritual officials, and even more third-grade spiritual officials, not counting Qi Xuansu, a major consumer of divine power among Taoist priests.
Therefore, the consumption of the Dao Gate is also huge.
When it comes to a specific person, it is difficult to obtain so much divine power in a short period of time.
With so much divine power, what are the people behind the scenes going to do?
Moreover, the divine power obtained through blood sacrifice carries karmic fire, and there is a danger of falling.
This result cannot be said to be unexpected, but it is followed by many things that cannot be figured out.
How did these Condor Guards pass through a kilometer-long dirt barrier? You can't always know how to escape.
Who built this altar?
Qi Xuansu carefully observed the underground palace and the altar, and then he found that the styles of the two could not be said to be incompatible, that was also a strong conflict, and it could be concluded that there was a temple first, and then an altar.
Qi Xuansu approached the altar, since it was a sacrifice, it must have a clear direction, and generally left some obvious signs, such as the holy emblem corresponding to the gods.
Qi Xuansu didn't find the corresponding sign around the altar's pedestal, so he had to move the corpse on the altar away, revealing a holy emblem in the center of the altar.
Not Samuel's emblem of a scythe, a white bone, or a crow, but a black sun.
Wu Niang also came to the altar, looked down, and sighed, "Where did this holy emblem come from?" I've never seen it when I've been in the Southern Continent, is it really the symbol of Cirilla? ”
Qi Xuansu examined the corpses of the Condor Guard again, and found that the corpses had black sun tattoos on their bodies, which were exactly the same as the corpses parked in the Absolute Holy Hall.
Qi Xuansu let out a long sigh: "Let's go to the other two forks in the road and take a look." ”
Then the three of them returned to the fork in the road and went to the road on the left, which was the same road where Taiying picked up the obsidian knife.
At the end, it was still a dead end, only the unexcavated earth wall.
Wu Niang motioned for the two to retreat, ready to repeat the old trick.
Qi Xuansu stopped Wu Niang: "Wait a minute, it seems a little wrong." ”
"What's wrong?" Wu Niang's palm was already burning with colorful flames, eager to try.
Qi Xuansu was not untargeted, just a moment ago, the "Returning Lamp" that had not moved suddenly took effect.
But this time I didn't see the future, I saw the past.
Although the earthly qi here has been chaotic and it is impossible to trace the earth's qi, the "Returning Lantern" is not affected by the earth's qi, it is to look at the past and the future in a higher-level and higher-dimensional way.
At this moment, Qi Xuansu saw more than thirty Condor Guards coming to the end of this passage, they were confused, their faces were gray, like walking corpses, and then walked towards the earthen wall that was already dead.
At this moment, the earth wall came to life and began to wriggle, like a mollusk species, which was filled with sap.
The first Condor came into contact with the earth wall, and then was swallowed directly, as if squeezed by some external force, forcibly passed through this film, and entered the slime, but this film was not damaged, which was very magical.
The Condor Guard that entered it continued to make its way through the slime and struggled through the slime, and the Condor Guard behind it passed through the membrane in the same way and entered it.
Now, Qi Xuansu finally knew how these Condor Guards passed through the thick soil layer, not that the Condor Guards would use the soil escape method, but that these soil layers were strange.
These layers of soil are alive, like a huge translucent slug that is a kilometer long, and can usually be disguised as a layer of soil, but it is this slug that blocks the road.
And the slug seems to move, wiping out the footprints of the Condor Guards as it wriggles.
Wu Niang opened the way directly and violently before, and it is likely that she directly killed a huge slug, and the flames directly evaporated everything, turning it into crystals.
It's no wonder that Wu Niang, who would have thought that there was such a thing in the world.
In fact, in the early years, there were many similar ghost things in the Central Plains, indescribable, unclear, may be some strange beasts that exist in legends, they adapted to the changes of the times, conformed to the trend of the development of the times, and also developed some new routines, pretending to be ghosts, blowing the conch, and how to make all human races at every turn, they stared at the world for hundreds of millions of years, and actually began to preach.
The people of the world do not know the inside story of this, believe it to be true, regard it as an indescribable foreign god, worship it, and often make some cruel and strange incidents, which have a very bad impact. It's just that these people don't want to think about it, if they really have such power, where do they still hide their heads and tails.
After the Daomen defeated the Buddhism, he was finally able to free up his hands to deal with these things, and throughout the entire tenure of the three generations of the Great Palm Sect, while developing the economy, he did not stop dealing with these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, washing away all kinds of muddy water hidden in the dark corners and crevices, and even did not hesitate to use Tiangang Hall directly, and later the tradition of secret associations by Tiangang Hall was also left at this time.
The final result is remarkable, these things are rarely seen in the Central Plains today, and only a few of the large and small associations that were originally like cow hair are left.
When it comes to Qi Xuansu's generation of Taoist priests, monsters are rare, and Jiaolong is almost extinct, not to mention these things, they have basically not been exposed to much, and for them, the biggest enemy is people.
However, the Southern Continent is different, it is still in a state of wilderness, and there are still many undiscovered secrets.
After coming back to his senses, Qi Xuansu said softly: "This is a living slug, let's call it a slug." ”
Wu Niang was stunned: "Slug? ”
Immediately, Wu Niang diverged her divine thoughts and began to explore the things in front of her, and then she was also a little shocked: "This Southern Continent is really an evil sect, and there is such a ghost thing." However, it reminds me of an old incident that happened when we first arrived in the Southern Continent. ”
Qi Xuansu asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Wu Niang said slowly: "At that time, in the Central Plains, the Southern Continent, Nanyang and other places where people from the Daomen set foot in, there was a way of cultivating immortals, known as the Inner Dan School, saying that it was to devour a special pill, which could be cultivated to increase greatly, and some people called this pill 'Zhuji Dan', and after eating the so-called 'Zhuji Dan', you can build a foundation, and then there is any refining gas and condensate, and you will soon be able to form a Dan and enter the so-called Jindan period." ”
Taiying couldn't help but say: "The so-called golden pill, the golden one, is a strong and permanent indestructible thing; Dan is a thing that is perfect and pure. Gu Immortal borrowed the name of Jin Dan to metaphorize the nature of the original true spirit. This sex is called Taiji in Confucianism, Yuanjue in Buddhism, and Jindan in Taoism. Although the name is divided into three, it is actually one thing. If you cultivate Confucianism, you will be sacred, if you cultivate Buddhism, you will be a Buddha, and if you cultivate a Daomen, you will be an immortal. ”
"The so-called Jindan Avenue uses the body as the furnace, the essence and qi in the body as the bait, and the god as the fire, and the three are one, and you can achieve immortality. What the hell is this Yudan? Jin Dan is not alchemy, do you still need to cultivate a pill in your body? Jindan is a kind of realm, invisible, intangible, is an abstract concept, rather than a specific thing, what is formed Jindan, at first glance is a layman looking at the literal meaning of the thing, it is far-fetched. ”
Wu Niang agreed with this statement: "It is indeed far-fetched, and later we found out that the so-called pill is actually worm eggs, and the so-called cultivation process is actually the process of hatching worm eggs in the body. At this stage of the adult, the internal organs are gnawed by the adult, leaving an immortal body, and the whole person becomes a puppet of the insect, and most of the medicine stones have no cure. ”