Chapter 231: Ascending to Breed and Harvest Souls
The rest of the columns showed a look of contemplation.
There is dragon energy on the testimonial, and this thing must not be something that harms them, but should be a benefit. It is very likely that only those who take the assessment with a letter of recommendation will have such benefits, and without a letter of recommendation, they will not be accessible at all.
This made Yu Lie's heart slightly happy.
Previously, when he heard on the altar of the immortal urn that as long as he passed the assessment, he could enter the Dao Palace, in addition to being happy, he was also thinking about the recommendation letter that he had spent a lot of money and favors, which might be useless.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I woke up, the letter of recommendation revealed a miracle.
He wiped the wooden plaque in his hand that had been transformed from the recommendation book a few times, trying to see all the words and runes on it.
Probably because of the low quality of his letter of recommendation, only the first three words were clearly recognizable on the wooden plaque, and the rest was mutilated and annihilated, leaving only a little residue.
There was no other information on the wooden plaque except for these three words, only three human figures faintly flashing behind the words.
Behind the "soulless people" is the image of a withered, yellow-skinned and hungry people.
"Soul Bondage" is a stout figure with a sickle in his hand, which looks like a farmer from the tools he holds in his hand, but gives Yu Lie a completely different feeling, more like a warrior soldier.
The last "immortal" is powerless, and it is even more withered than the "soulless people", like a skeleton, as if it has just crawled out of a coffin.
Yu Lie hesitated, these three are just from the outside, when they are the "soul bonding" in the middle, they look more decent and strong.
If the role of the letter of recommendation is really to provide identity, then choosing a "native identity" with a strong body and a weapon will undoubtedly be of great help to the assessment of the rest of the columns.
However, Yu Lie secretly thought in his heart: "Generally speaking, the further the identity, the more noble and rare it should be." ”
He stared at the last of the three identities, the "undead", although the image of this identity is withered and looks very rotten, but the temperament is gloomy, and it is completely different from the first "soulless people".
And the word "immortal" really attracted the attention of people in the path like Yu Lie.
People in the Immortal Dao cultivate and cultivate, don't they just want to be immortal and free? This immortal is already halfway through the process just by looking at the name.
Yu Lie glanced at the fading dragon qi around him, and realized that there was not much time for him to hesitate.
So he immediately made a decision, stretched out a finger, and his true luck came up, and he pointed on the three words "immortal".
Buzzing!
Immediately, there was a crackling sound, and a dark smoke instantly emerged from the wooden card, and swept over him at a speed that was difficult for the rest of the column to react to.
The true qi in Yu Lie's body was suppressed, and his physical body began to shrink and wither.
In the blink of an eye, he had gone from a young Taoist priest with red lips and white teeth to a skeleton with sunken cheeks, and a stench of decay and exhaustion emanating from his body.
But the light between his eyes was full of vigor, and he didn't look like he had been sucked dry.
Yu Lie lowered his head, not panicked, just curiously looked at the skinny figure under his eyes, and then staggered and shook the bone shelf.
After the wooden plaque released black gas, a twisted rune was imprinted on it, and most of its supernatural powers were lost, leaving only a unique smell of decay in it.
When Yu Lie looked at himself curiously, a memory also popped into his mind, making his face dazed for a while.
Immediately, through this memory, Yu Lie had a better understanding of the "Hideous Dragon Garden" world where the assessment was located.
This is a decadent, decaying, decaying world, where everything struggles to survive in the decaying sunlight, and hunger follows it.
The whole world is falling into death step by step.
Now it is dusk, and the gods are annihilated one after another, making immortality absurd.
It wasn't until a monster from beyond the sky came down from the sky with a golden-red light, gnawed at the dregs of the gods, hid in the sun, and rekindled the firewheels in the sky, that the decay of the world slowed down.
Under the influence of the monster's golden-red brilliance, all living beings in this world are lit up with golden-red flames, and their lifespan is extended, and they glow with a different kind of life, and death begins to disappear.
But after the initial prosperity, the sun dimmed again, and everything was terrified.
It wasn't until another king held high the throne of the gods, called himself a dragon, cut his back, gave birth to wings, and flew into the sun, which once again ignited the brilliance of the sun.
After stubble after stubble of ascension, a king threw himself into the sun, and the world once again lasted for hundreds of years, but it also became more and more sunset.
In this way, the last king established the Dragon Court, uniting the bloodlines of several generations of kings to rule the ruined land.
The herdsmen of their generation continued to raise their minions, set up torches all over the world, and lit thousands of creatures to sacrifice the monsters in the sun, and named it the "Ascension Sacrifice", replacing the former king Ascension.
The identity of the "immortal" chosen by Yu Lie now is the descendant of a king in this world, similar to the nobles and landlords of the ancient mountains and seas.
It's just that he belongs to the kind of landless nobles whose blood is thin, whose territory is swallowed up by wind and sand, and whose torch has been extinguished.
After reading the information that came to his mind, a strange look suddenly appeared in Yu Lie's eyes.
As an orthodox cultivator under the command of the Dao Court, he could see at a glance the inappropriateness of this legend of "singing and crying".
This matter is obviously that when this foreign world was declining, it was invaded by external creatures, doves occupied the magpie's nest, and the food in the world was squeezed and scraped.
The so-called ascension ritual is obviously a monster forcing the local natives, throwing them into its mouth one after another, and being devoured by it.
Later, the so-called "Dragon Court" was established, most of which were also after eating the "big one" among the natives, and the monsters had nothing to eat, so they simply established a system to let blood sacrifices be carried out all over the world, regardless of size.
As for what exactly this monster eats......
Yu Lie pondered, suddenly squinted his eyes slightly, and said secretly: "Good guy, it seems that the records in the history books are good." The source of aura is the soul of all things.
This otherworldly monster is to feed on the soul and squeeze the aura from it!
In other words, this exotic world has become the entire breeding ground of that monster. ”
Through this information, Yu Lie also had a clearer understanding of the three identities of "soulless people", "soul detention", and "undead".
Among them, the former is the grass people who are ruled under the command of the Dragon Court, providing the crops and lambs of the monsters in the sun with their souls.
The word "lost soul" describes the state of their soul after it is extracted.
The monsters that have descended to this realm have infected the world in order to scavenge as much aura as possible, and death has been abolished. As a result, even the most common indigenous mortals in the region have nothing to do with death, and only part of their souls and memories are lost once they die.
Because man is the spirit of all things, he has three souls and seven spirits, which means that a person can be harvested at least three times, and at most ten times, so that he will become charcoal and can never be harvested again.
In the process, however, the grass people can still survive, give birth to freaks, give birth to freaks, and eat less, providing as much as possible a new source of souls.
The second "soul detention" is the command of the Dragon Court, who is responsible for capturing the "soulless people" and the minions of any animistic thing with a soul.
As for the "immortals" chosen by Yu Lie, as a nobleman among the natives, his role is not as simple as simply governing the place and governing the "soulless people".
After the ascension sacrifice replaced the ascension of the king, the bloodlines of the king were responsible for presiding over the sacrifices in various places, and their role was more similar to that of the priests, who were the embodiment of the gods.
Because the ascension sacrifices in various places, although they are sacrificed to the monsters in the sun, but the sun is far away and out of reach, the ascension sacrifices are secondary, they are first sacrificed to the undead in various places, and then the undead turn to the monsters in the sun.
Because they have the "blood of the dragon" in their bodies and can taste the soul for the gods, these "immortals" are closer to immortality than the "soulless people".
Even if their bodies are withered, rotten, and stinky, their souls will not be depleted, but will become more vigorous and powerful as the number of ascension sacrifices increases.
Every "immortal" who has mastered the Ascension Sacrifice can live for at least three hundred years.
Of course, there is no price to be paid for, and every time the soul is devoured, the soul of the undead itself will be tainted and their sanity will be lost day by day.
The "last king" who single-handedly established the Dragon Court and replaced the ascension of the king with the Ascension Sacrifice is now like a beast, his reason has collapsed, and his personality has been completely lost.
I heard that this "last king" is now imprisoned in the underground tomb of the king of Longdu, but whenever a living creature enters the tomb, whether it is a rat or a living person, it is eaten by the other party, and his behavior is as cruel as a rotten wild dog.
In the valley, after Yu Lie sorted out the information that popped up in his mind, his mouth suddenly made a smack sound.
If it was an ordinary Taoist disciple, he might not understand the true role of this "immortal" when he got this news, but Yu Lie had seen the breakthrough of the Black Water Viewer and She Shuangbai, and he knew it very well.
The ancients had a saying that incense is poisonous.
Just eating the incense belief made from the remnants of living beings can defile the body of the gods, let alone directly eat the three souls and seven spirits of living beings.
This immortal is a tool to filter out the dregs in the soul for the monster in the sun, and will suffer the drawbacks of soul eating as much as possible, and then the monster will devour the clean soul.
As for why there was no need for "immortals" to filter before the establishment of the Dragon Court, it was because every ascended king was the largest soul filter and container in the world.
And the reason why such beings who can delay the decay of the world and save the world are called "kings" instead of "saints".
It is also because except for the last step of the ascension process, which is their sacrifice to themselves, all the rest of the process is that these people walk in the human world, bringing blood and fire, killing and destruction, and eliminating all the creatures that the king thinks should not exist in the world and waste food.
In Yu Lie's view, this process is more like "harvesting" than the "conquest" of the king.
And this point is precisely related to the task of the rest of the line's assessment.
He raised his withered arm and looked at it, took out a mirror from his sleeve, stared at his eyes, which did not emit golden red flames, and sighed softly:
"It's a pity."
In the world of the Hideous Dragon Court, there are no golden-red flames in the eyes, which means that either the soul has been harvested by someone, or it has been used many times, and it is already dying, and the soul is about to be scattered, and the medicine stone is difficult to treat.
Either it is its innate and ascension sacrifice recoil, unable to devour souls, and is a heretic.
And Yu Lie, as a visitor from another world, is not a creature in this world, and he is participating in the Dao Palace assessment, so it is naturally impossible for the Dao Palace to let them harvest and devour their souls at will, so as not to fall into the evil way.
Therefore, the Dao Urn and the Dragon Qi directly extinguished the "Dragon Flame" in their eyes, making them unable to eat their souls.
And once they eat souls, they will also make a ruthless mark on their Dao urn, and they will never be hired by the Dao Palace.
However, although it is impossible to harvest the souls of ordinary creatures in this realm, the Taoists have another opportunity, and that is to harvest the souls that have already been "harvested"!
That is, the crazy souls of the indigenous undead are imprisoned in their heads, and used as medicine bottles to plunder the "dragon souls" that they want to sacrifice to monsters.
And killing the indigenous immortals and extinguishing the torches in various places is also the task of this Dao Palace assessment!
The specific number of tasks is not limited and there is no upper limit, the more the better. The soul of the dragon feast captured by the Taoists can also be exchanged for the same amount of spirit stones after the assessment.
Suddenly.
In the unknown valley, the dragon qi that enveloped Yu Lie disappeared, and he had completely stepped into this exotic world, and the light around him was dim.
But in the bronze mirror, his two eyes were bright, as if a different kind of flame had been ignited.
This flame is not the "dragon flame" as the natives call it, but a kind of lust called greed.
Not only Yu Lie, but more than 40,000 Dao disciples who descended to the foreign world, after getting through the initial panic, knew a little about the situation in this realm, and their eyes showed greed.
The ancient fairy road, the wind and drink the dew; Today's immortal road, the meal is ten thousand directions.
Yu Lie and the others, as Taoists after the great destruction of the mountain and sea realms, bent their waists for a wisp of spiritual energy every day, and now they have met such a "dragon soul" that is directly equivalent to a spirit stone, it is like a hungry mouse seeing the lamp oil, and his eyes are shining green.
Besides, this place is a different world, but it can be unscrupulous, this trip is just an assessment, there is still the Dao Palace behind them, and everyone can't die much!
Boom!
Bursts of laughter suddenly sounded in this ruined world.
Chance, no small chance!
One by one, the figures who landed on the ground, their eyes were excited, and they immediately walked out of the hiding place and rushed towards the golden red torches scattered all over the place.
The sun is falling, and the remnant sun is like blood, taking care of the visitors.
Push the book, title: "Entertainment 1999, Starting from Tang Dynasty Film and Television"
Introduction: In 1999, the second year after the establishment of Tang Film and Television, Chen Nan, a later self-media person, returned to this era and became a freshman who had just signed a contract with Tang Dynasty.
Do you sit back and wait for "Xianyi", or take the initiative?
"Can't wait!"
Chen Nan decided to be positive.
(End of chapter)