The original origin of the method of soul searching is now not very examinable, even the Chongxuan Pavilion, which collected the magic of the Immortal Sutra on a large scale during the Tianxia Dynasty, did not find out which immortal family created the method of soul searching.

In the past, there has even been a saying that the method of soul searching came from a certain evil cultivator power a long time ago, after catching other monks, he used the method of soul searching to ask the immortal magic skills, and the process was extremely painful, like thousands of sharp blades scraping in the soul of the gods.

For a long time, all kinds of soul-searching methods were also regarded as left-handed evil arts, but they could not stand the fact that some people had been using them, and they were constantly improved, and they were gradually accepted by the Xuanmen monks.

So much so that the Daming Treasure Mirror refined by Qingya Zhenjun also has the ability to take pictures of the gods and search for the soul, and it will not damage the person who is skilled.

That being said, the method of soul searching is still taboo, after all, no one wants to know everything about their past for no reason.

Moreover, those who receive the method of soul searching must disarm themselves. In this case, once the method of soul searching becomes a killing ability that impacts the divine soul, the recipient is likely to be scattered on the spot.

The higher the realm of a person who cultivates immortals, the stronger his soul becomes, and after the conjugation of the fetal immortal, the soul is completely condensed.

Generally speaking, only when you are completely subdued can you have the opportunity to perform the method of soul searching, and most sect lineages also list the method of soul searching as a forbidden technique, unless the master and master approve it, it is not allowed to practice, let alone use it at will.

However, in the current situation of the Rock Swallowing Lord, the form god is integrated with the mountains and rivers and the leylines, and he has almost no power to protect himself, and he can't get out of trouble on his own, and it is difficult to resist in the face of the soul searching method.

The Swallowing Rock Lord obviously knew his own situation, so he made a desperate bet and simply let Zhao Huang do it, in order to prove his innocence and exchange for a glimmer of life.

Unlike Wakaki, who used the roots of the Eternal Emerald Divine Tree to cover thousands of miles and silently observe all things in the southern soil, the Rock Swallower Lord has been sleeping most of the time in the past long years.

Even the weakest of the races, as long as they are not robbed, have a lifespan of more than three hundred years. Correspondingly, the rock pig sleeps for most of its life, especially after swallowing gold and iron minerals, and must go into the cave to sleep for months or even half a year.

While Zhao Huang used the Great Ming Treasure Mirror to perform the method of soul searching, he also discovered that the lethargic nature of the rock pig was an alternative cultivation method.

When the rock pig is sleeping, the form and the earth's veins faintly resonate, the vitality is dormant and guarded, and the kung fu of holding Yicheng Dan secretly coincides with the human body Dan Ding Miao method passed down by Ge Xian Weng, but it is far less profound than that passed on by Ge Xian Weng.

But what about the specific practice...... To put it nicely, it is called "robust and simple", and to say it badly, it is "rough and simple".

Interestingly, this kind of cultivation was not taught to the Rock Swallowing Lord and the Rock Pig Clan, but by their talent. In other words, the rock pig can be regarded as a beast of Lingrui that is born to know.

Since the Rock Swallowing Lord has been sleeping for most of the year, it has not had a lot of past experience, even if it leads its fellow people to migrate to the south to settle down, and is worshiped as the Rock Swallowing Lord by mortals, there are very few contacts with the believers.

And as Ruomu said, those believers who worship the Lord of Swallowing Rock are not pious at all, and all kinds of worship actions are the spiritual rock marrow excreted for the sake of the rock pigs, which is no different from captivity.

This kind of heavenly and earthly treasure that has been refined by the miraculous body of the rock pig is extraordinary, and the believers of the Rock Swallowing Lord use it to exchange with other tribes.

In the past, there were indeed some short-eyed fellows who planned to capture the rock pigs, but they angered the short-hearted Rock Swallower, and a giant beast like a mountain peak struck out, causing a landslide and mudflow, and since then it has become famous, and later it was worshiped as one of the nine gods.

From this point of view, the Rock Swallowing Lord is indeed not a big deal, and it can even be said to be docile, even if it is a revenge, it is difficult to investigate.

Witnessing the past of the Rock Swallowing Lord, Zhao Huang couldn't help but think that humanity and prosperity must compete with all kinds of heaven and earth, but blindly searching and exhausting mountains and rivers is destined to not last long. Unless it is to verify the immortal way, the world still cannot transcend this heaven and earth.

Monsters and evil cults should be avoided, but for the aliens who are not too big, I am afraid it is not appropriate to kill them on a large scale. In Zhao Xiao's view now, the righteousness of the immortal path is not only the life of oneself, but also the Yuqing Divine Mother who makes up the sky with her body, not only sheltering mortals, but also all living beings in the world.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xiao didn't plan to kill the Rock Swallowing Lord, but just put it to another test.

"Well, it seems that you are honest too." Zhao Xiao withdrew the soul search method, even if the Swallowing Rock Lord couldn't speak, he could sense a trace of relaxation from the leyline qi.

"I wonder if the immortals are willing to come to the rescue?" The Rock Swallower asked with some urgency.

"Don't worry." Zhao Xiao asked, "I don't understand, even if you know that I am in the Valley of Hundred Flowers, why do you think I can save you?" As the same Nine Gods, you can go to the Chihiro Snake, I heard that it has the magical power of molting and being reborn, and it may be able to save you from trouble. ”

"The immortals are really good at laughing, and the nine gods are like beasts, each dividing the land and ruling each other, and beware of each other." The Swallowing Rock Lord said helplessly: "Whoever shows weakness will be immediately eaten up and divided by the rest of the families."

Many of my descendants are now being taken captive, and I can hear their wails while I am here, and my heart is extremely unbearable, so I will ask the immortal chief to make a move no matter what, even if there is only the slightest possibility, I will do my best to fight for it. ”

The Daming Treasure Mirror hung on the floating stone wall, and Zhao Huang saw that the words of the Swallowing Rock Lord were not pretentious and hypocritical, and it was indeed anxious to get out of trouble and save the descendants of its descendants, and this kind of emotion could be said to be a matter of course.

"I can indeed save you, and there are two ways." After thinking for a while, Zhao Xiao said: "One, if you give up the remains, I will pass on an edict to you, and let you become the mountain god and earth god in the nearby area." In both cases, I will help you reshape your body, but your strong physique will no longer exist, and your cultivation will be almost exhausted, and there will be no one in ten, and everything in the past will start all over again. ”

The reason why Zhao Huang came up with two methods was that the situation of the Swallowing Rock Lord and Ruomu seemed to be similar, but in fact they were completely different.

Ruomu chose to merge with the Yongcui Divine Tree on the other side of the world, and the Yongcui Divine Tree is not an ordinary grass and tree, and it turned into a cave heaven enchantment after descending on the southern soil of Kunlun. Zhao Huang taught Ruomu the method of turning into a fetal immortal, regarded the sacred tree as the mother, and gave birth to Ruomu.

The Rock Swallowing Lord, on the other hand, was too seriously injured to save himself, and had no choice but to merge into the mountains and rivers, which was almost an irreversible solution, equivalent to burying himself in the soil. Even if Zhao Xiao taught the Immortal Family Technique, it would be impossible for the Swallowing Rock Lord to regard the Fangyuan Mountains and Rivers as the mother body and re-nurture the vitality of the body.

But fortunately, Zhao Huang has rich experience, and the immortal fate of witnessing Tiegong's ascension in the early years is inspired at this moment. And the two methods he proposed to the Rock Swallowing Lord were actually to repeat the encounter of Tie Gong back then.

The Rock Swallowing Lord was silent for a long time, and then said, "You can be free by reshaping your body, but you must abandon your past cultivation; Although the fiefdom only has great power, it is trapped in the mountains and rivers and cannot be free. ”

Zhao Yan said: "It depends on how you comprehend this so-called freedom." Too weak, hitting walls everywhere, is there really freedom at all? The mountain gods and the earth are only restrained on one side, and they seem to be trapped, but in fact, they are free to let go of the world and the world, and the small can also be seen in the big. ”

"I see." The Rock Swallowing Lord asked, "What does the Immortal plan to do?" ”

"It doesn't make a difference for me, it's all going to take a lot of work." Zhao Xiao said: "Although you have been hit hard, but you have cultivated for a long time and your true spirit is firm, as long as I open the altar and practice the Dharma to run the mountains and rivers and the leylines, and turn it into a survey fit and your true spirit, you will have the truth of the mountain god and the earth." Later, another shrine will be set up, so that you can be worshiped by the incense faith of the Li people.

As for reshaping the body, it will cost you the heavenly and earthly treasures to help you refine the true form. Because your original foundation is still there, and you can only use gold, iron and rock as the foundation, I already have seven or eight clues. Moreover, after reshaping the True Form Law Body, you can continue to cultivate and improve. ”

"I ...... I would like to be made a decorate of the earth. The Rock Swallowing Lord hesitated for a while, but still made a choice.

"Is it to rescue the heirs of the rock pigs scattered all over the place as soon as possible?" Zhao Xiao asked.

"Yes, I beg the Immortal to give you a talisman." The Rock Swallowing Lord's tone was extremely humble, and he almost bowed down and bowed.

Zhao Xiao said seriously: "I can make you a mountain god, but this is not arbitrary. Shinto teaching, benefiting people and people, you must make a wish to protect all things in the mountains and rivers, and all living beings with spirits, and the vow will restrain your behavior, and you must not indulge in wanton indulgence from now on. If there is an act of extortion and worship, a calamity, or a cruelty to sentient beings, the three calamities will add to your body and destroy your true form and Dharma body inch by inch! ”

The Swallowing Rock Lord immediately replied: "The disciple is willing to keep the oath, if there is a violation, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Xiao, who was in the Valley of Hundred Flowers, also made a move, he introduced a wisp of cave sky from the Qingya Fairyland, described the spirit of the main qi of swallowing rock, and the book became a true form of the talisman seal, and then flicked through the air, borrowed the mirror to walk through, and appeared in front of the floating stone wall.

Zhao Xiao's clone raised his hand to hold the true form diagram and said, "I still have to make some preparations for the canonization of the mountain gods and earths. Now that there is a bear country that is about to annex the southern land, since you have been enshrined, you should be included in the national rituals, and the name is justified, and you will no longer worship the evil gods. ”

"The disciple obeys." As soon as the Lord of Swallowing Rock finished answering, Zhao Huang himself turned into a doppelganger and went to explain mundane matters, with Zhao Huang's current status, it is a matter of a few words to let the Lord of Swallowing Rock be listed in the ceremony.

In fact, Zhao Huang didn't reveal everything to the Lord of Swallowing Rock, so he was canonized as a mountain god and earth, not to cut off his future. He has witnessed the ascension of Tie Gong, if the next day swallows the rock master to accumulate merits and complete the success, and there is an immortal family to lead, it is not impossible to exceed.

As for the two paths provided to the Rock Swallowing Lord, Zhao Xiao can restrain him, as for the future achievements of this desolate alien species, it depends on his own creation.

"By the way, I just have one more thing to ask." Zhao Yan said: "Back then, the nine gods worked together to cause the stars to fall, how did you do it? I used the soul-searching method to achieve nothing. ”

"Stars? It wasn't the work of the nine gods. The Rock Swallower replied, "That star was originally the tribulation of the Great Snake of Chihiro, but it has miraculous powers, and it keeps molting and rebirth, and it has escaped the tribulation, so that the star will not fall for a long time." ”

"Can molting and being reborn still be able to escape the catastrophe?" Zhao Xiao still heard about it for the first time.

"The disciples of this matter are also difficult to understand the mystery, the origin of this Qianxun Snake is older than the disciples, it claims to be born of creation, and controls the authority of the law between heaven and earth." The Lord of Swallowing Rock said: "It's just that for some reason, the Chihiro Great Snake later seemed to become intolerant of the creation of heaven and earth, so it caused the Star Tribulation. ”

"Not tolerated by the creation of heaven and earth?" Zhao Huang vaguely understood that the Qianxun Snake caused the catastrophe, and it was likely that after the Yuqing Divine Mother made up for the sky with her body, the law of creation had changed, and they were against each other, and the Qianxun Snake was unwilling or afraid to bear the catastrophe, so he used some ingenious means to hide from the sky and the sea, and it dragged on until more than ten years ago.

In fact, in Zhao Xiao's view, the cultivation of demons caused by the catastrophe is not entirely a disaster. In the Xuanmen Immortal Dao, it is believed that the three disasters of the heavenly calamity are all due to the fact that the monk's Taoist weather is contrary to the creation of heaven and earth.

Stirring up the three calamities of the Heavenly Tribulation shows that his people can't cultivate at home. And the higher the cultivation, the higher the realm of heaven and man, the more fierce the conflict between qi and machine, and the more fierce the calamity is often fierce.

But the Heavenly Tribulation itself is not only a test of the foundation of cultivation, but also a warning. If the three calamities of the Heavenly Tribulation are approaching, the cultivators themselves will usually have a premonition, and they will know that they have deviated from it, and if they cultivate in time, there is still room for improvement.

However, like the Chihiro Snake, it directly caused the fall of the star, which shows what kind of situation it has come into conflict with the creation of heaven and earth.

And learning of this situation made Zhao Xiao even more determined to deal with the Qianxun Snake with the Three Calamities of the Heavenly Tribulation. The stars from the sky can't deal with it, so it depends on whether the God Killing Nail is up to the task.

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"Gods?"

In the palace city of the emperor's capital, one of Zhao Xiao's doppelgangers came to the young emperor, and after roughly telling the situation of the swallowing rock master, the young emperor said with great interest: "Since Immortal Master Zhao has the ability to canonize the mountain gods and earths, he doesn't need to explain it to me, he can act cheaply, and Zuo Xiang has already entrusted me before his death." ”

"No." Zhao Xiao shook his head and said: "The country has rituals and rituals, and if you don't follow them, it is obscenity." The ghosts and gods acted in vain, and the people of Li suffered because of this, which was very inappropriate. ”

The young emperor nodded slightly, and then said: "Zuo Xiang said before that the king of Nantu is not enough, and many rules and regulations should not be forcibly implemented, but Shinto religion can better calm people's hearts. ”

"Not bad." Zhao Huang explained: "Shinto is not separated from humanity, but from ignorance to clarity, as for self-realization, it takes a long time, not a generation can see the merits. The people of Nantu Li have been bewitched by the demon gods for a long time, so they conform to the hearts of the people, and use the ghosts and gods to stabilize the situation, educate them, and change customs. It is precisely for this reason that it is more necessary to list the Lord of Rock Swallowing as a national ritual god. ”

Zhao Huang had already begun to prepare to open the altar in the depths of the southern soil, but now he was no more far-sighted than in the past, and he couldn't just consider what was in front of him and himself, so he finally found the Emperor of Youxiong Country himself.

"It is worthy of Zhao Immortal Master." The young emperor showed a look of admiration and said: "Zuo Xiang had the intention to recommend me to make you a national teacher before his death, I don't know what the immortal master wants now?" ”

Zhao Xiao stood up and bowed: "I am an idler in the mountains and wilderness, I can't bear such a heavy responsibility, I am going to kill all the demon gods, and I should stay away from the world, please forgive me." ”