Chapter 9: Wasteland
Indifferent, arrogant, and deranged, this is the information that Tang Wuming read from Tang Wuji's eyes, he was not surprised, and he was even used to Tang Wuji's eyes.
However, what made Tang Wuxian a little puzzled was that this time, in addition to this information, he also read another kind of information from Tang Wuji's eyes - disdain.
Yes, it's disdain, that kind of disdain that is different from ordinary people, which makes Tang Wuming frown as a reflex.
It seems that in Tang Wuji's eyes, this so-called Enlightenment Illustrated Book is a piece of waste paper and garbage.
Since it was waste paper and garbage, why did he take the time to stay on it for a long time.
Looking at Tang Wuer's distant back, he suddenly felt that his familiar and strange twin brother had become more and more mysterious, his loneliness, his indifference and even his ruthlessness had never changed in ten years.
However, Tang Wuming can feel that behind these special personalities, Tang Wuji seems to have something on his mind, he seems to have been planning something, but what he is planning, even Tang Wuming, the twin brother, doesn't know.
Could it be that Tang Wuer did not lose his memories before he was three years old, but it was difficult that he always knew his life experience.
In fact, this idea has long existed in Tang Wusheng's mind, but Tang Wuji is like a solid piece of 10,000-year-old ice, even though he knows the past of the two, he will never tell anyone, including his twin brother, Tang Wusheng.
"Hey. ”
Tang Wuxian sighed, he didn't know how many times he had made such a sigh in the past ten years, it was impossible for him to change Tang Wuji, and he couldn't even do anything.
What Tang Wuer didn't want, even if he was forced to give it to him, he couldn't do it, because Tang Wusheng, whose cultivation was on par with Tang Wuji or even weaker, didn't have the ability to impose his own thoughts on Tang Wuji at all.
He stumbled back to his lodgings, freshened up, and then changed into clean clothes and prepared for meditation.
In the following time, Tang Wuming completely shifted his focus and temporarily stopped the cultivation of the Ontological Immortal Dao, instead transferring all his energy to soul cultivation.
After all, in ten years, Tang Wuming had already laid a solid foundation on his path of immortal cultivation, and soul cultivation had just begun, so he had to spend a lot of time cultivating, at least to awaken his soul in the shortest possible time.
Every day, in addition to eating and sleeping, Tang Wuming spent almost all of his time on meditation, and another month passed in the blink of an eye.
After a month, although with the help of the Awakening Illustrated Guide, Tang Wuming had gradually mastered the basic essentials of meditation and was able to sense the existence of the Awakening Soul more profoundly, but the awakening of the Awakening Soul was obviously much more difficult than sensing the existence of the Awakening Soul and the Styx.
According to the records in the Enlightenment Atlas, it would take at least three times as long for an ordinary monk to awaken the Awakened Soul after sensing the Stygian Sea and the Awakened Soul.
After another two months, summer has passed, the seasons change, and gradually enter autumn and winter.
Tang Wuming still failed to awaken his soul, in order to be able to enter the Black Lawson Prison as soon as possible, and then avenge his grandfather, he couldn't wait. After much consideration, he finally planned to venture to the barren mound twenty miles away, and use the method of absorbing soul essence to speed up the awakening of the soul.
At midnight, in the dead of night, the full moon was obscured by dark clouds, and the roar of the demon beasts of the Black Lawson Prison hundreds of miles away was clear to the ears even if it was a hundred miles away, and within a hundred miles of the quicksand tribe, there was only one place that was silent and terrifying, and that was the barren mound twenty miles away.
The barren mound is so large that you can't see the edge at a glance, and this is where the dead are buried, and there are dozens of tribes around the quicksand tribe who are almost buried here after the death of the clansmen.
Over time, the barren mounds grew bigger and bigger, and there were even some unknown mass graves, which were full of white bones that had long been weathered.
Tang Wuming carried the black sword box on his back, and quickly walked through the mountains and forests at midnight, heading towards the barren mound, the people who cultivate immortals are not afraid of lonely souls and wild ghosts, in their eyes, there is no difference between lonely souls and wild ghosts and people.
Compared with the barren mountain where Bai Mei lives, the gloom of the barren mound is completely inferior, after all, this barren mound has existed on this land for thousands of years, and the number of people buried is millions, such a huge number, such a long time, the accumulated yin qi has long been covering the sky and the sun, and there are countless lonely souls and wild ghosts.
Even during the day, the sky here is gloomy, and at night, the full moon is terrible white, and countless yin qi is sprinkled, enveloping this barren mound.
Although Tang Wuming thought that he was not afraid of ghosts at first, when he actually came here, his back was wet with sweat unconsciously, and there was a deep cold air running from his thumbs and pouring into the heavenly spirit.
He took a deep breath, calmed down, bypassed some of the panicked graves on the periphery, and began to walk inward.
According to Bai Mei's description, the Three Souls Array he arranged was in the middle and periphery of this barren mound, a place where the sun could not even shine during the day, where not only a large number of panicked graves gathered, but even a mass grave, and the Three Souls Array arranged by Bai Mei was actually next to the mass grave.
The more Tang Wuming walked inside, the more frightened he felt, he simply took out a black cold sword and held it in his hand, with the weapon, Tang Wuming's heart was a little more stable.
Before the awakening of the soul, the yin and yang of the body have not been opened, and they cannot practice the soul art related to soul consciousness, so people who do not have a special ghost-attracting physique or yin and yang eyes, even if they are Chonglou monks, it is impossible to see ghosts directly, after all, ghosts are only a form of energy, and the physical body has long been gone.
And with the awakening of the soul or with the help of some soul arrays, ghosts can be seen, and the three soul consciousness arrays placed by Bai Mei can allow Tang Wuming to see ghosts, but this is not the point, the point is that the three soul awakening arrays can allow Tang Wuming to absorb the surrounding soul essence and improve his soul power.
The so-called soul essence is the soul essence of the lonely soul and wild ghost, and the more yin qi is in this kind of place, the stronger and purer the soul essence on the ghost's body.
After walking for about half an hour, Tang Wuming had already come to the position where the Three Souls Awakening Array was arranged, and his rear was already a panicked grave that could not be seen at a glance, and the surroundings were also, if Tang Wuming was an ordinary person, he might have been scared to death.
In the center of the dense panic grave, there was indeed a huge earth pit, and inside the soil pit, countless terrifying white bones were scattered and piled up, shining in the moonlight.
And next to the mass grave, Tang Wuming finally discovered the existence of the Three Souls Awareness Array.
On a clearing next to the mass grave, there are nine huge stone pillars rising into the sky, the stone pillars are about ten meters high, each of which requires at least three adults to hold hands and form a circle to encircle, they are placed in the shape of a five-star, taking care of each other, as if they are the foundation of the Three Souls Awareness Array.
Tang Wuming stood beside these nine stone pillars, and couldn't help but gasp, each of these stone pillars had at least tens of thousands of catties, and he didn't know how Bai Mei moved these stone pillars here, if he wanted to move these tens of thousands of catties of stone pillars, at least he had to be able to do it by a monk of Chonglou.
In the center of the stone pillar, there is a circular stone platform, and countless terrifying and strange totems are carved around the stone platform, and on the stone platform, countless skeletons and white bones are randomly placed.
"That is the Three Soul Awareness Array, you need to go to the stone platform to meditate, and you can absorb the soul essence around it. ”
Tang Wuming did not hesitate, walked directly towards the stone platform in the center, climbed up the stone platform, he sat in the center of a place surrounded by nine skulls, and instantly felt that the surroundings began to change rapidly.
The next scene, so that Tang Wusheng, who was already cold on his back, was completely frozen, after he entered the big array, the formation was urged, at this time, the nine stone pillars were shrouded by the yin qi sprinkled by the silver moon in the air, and then they all emitted a fierce cold light, taking care of each other, and the stone platform in the center shot out a yin qi that rushed to the sky, forming a pillar of heaven and earth with the silver moon in the sky.
The originally surprisingly silent barren mound suddenly became a ghost crying wolf, and countless terrible howls hit Tang Wusheng's eardrums again and again, and then look at the periphery of the big array, there are countless terrifying-looking lonely ghosts with teeth and claws, staring directly at Tang Wuming's side with those terrifying eyes.
At the same time, wisps of purple aura floated on their bodies, and then floated back and forth between the large arrays, as soon as Tang Wuming entered meditation, he felt that those breaths suddenly increased their speed, all of them were absorbed by the large array, and then shot towards Tang Wuming's body.
"It's a soul spirit. ”
Tang Wuming was happy in his heart, he had regained his composure, he entered meditation as soon as possible, standing on the edge of the Stygian Sea, Tang Wuming stared at the black and white Awakening Soul on the sea, and then quickly urged the Awakening Soul Atlas to use the absorption of the soul essence to awaken his Awakening Soul.
Countless soul spirits rushed into Tang Wuming's body, only to see that in the sky above the Styx, there were countless purple spheres like meteors across the sky, and then fell into the Styx Sea with a roar, and the calm Styx Sea suddenly had huge waves, and countless purple water rushed to the sky, enveloping the black and white soul in it.
"There is an effect, the black and white soul has been fused with the Stygian Sea, as long as I absorb enough soul essence, I can revive my soul. ”
Tang Wusheng couldn't help but speed up his meditation, in this barren mound, with the help of the Three Soul Awareness Array, the soul essence was absorbed endlessly, and Tang Wusheng gradually felt that his soul was slowly waking up.
Just when Tang Wuming felt that success was imminent, something unexpected suddenly happened, it was a very terrifying thing, which caught the inexperienced Tang Wuming off guard.
Although there was an endless stream of soul essences, they had always maintained a state of balanced input, allowing Tang Wuming to meditate while refining, but just now, Tang Wuming suddenly felt that a large number of soul essences were pouring into his Stygian Sea, almost to the point that he couldn't bear it.
Long before entering the big array, Tang Wuming had already observed the surroundings, although there were 10,000 mass graves here, and there were many lonely souls and wild ghosts gathered, but even if this was the case, it was absolutely impossible to suddenly have so many soul essences, after all, these three soul consciousness arrays were isolated, in order to prevent the body inside from exploding the Stygian Sea because there were too many soul essences, so its absorption of soul essences was not crazy.
And there are two possibilities for such a situation, the first is that the formation base of the Three Soul Awakening Array is destroyed, causing it to lose its isolation at the beginning, and then it will suddenly pour in this large number of soul essences, but this possibility is not great, because Tang Wuming is the only one here, and who will come back to destroy the formation base of the Three Soul Awareness Array?
The second possibility is that Tang Wuming encountered a soul tide that is rare in a hundred years in this barren mound.