Chapter 318: Demon Land (2)
The village where the demons live here, more than ten miles away on the east side.
A trace of demonic energy, like mist, steamed in the secluded mountain forest, causing more than half of the trees in the mountain forest to die.
The remaining living trees are quietly undergoing abnormal changes under the infection of demonic energy.
The thick fallen leaves on the ground, and the roots of the trees that protruded from the earth and stones bulged as if they had come to life, and they were constantly twitching.
There are black filaments, and above the roots of these trees, they spread like a network towards the body of the tree.
The thin demonic qi around was constantly sucked into the earth and rocks underground, submerged into the roots of these trees, and a divine consciousness spread out, quietly sweeping through the scene of the mountains and forests, and quickly retracted.
Gu Qing, who was dressed in a black robe, stood with his hands in his hands, like a stone carving, standing at the end of this mountain forest, on a cliff like a gap, looking at the village in the distance, without the slightest breath leaking out of his body.
Gu Qing spent half a month in the stele space, restored his state to perfection, and then broke away from the stele space.
For the time being, he didn't touch it, the mark on the stone tablet lit up, and at the moment, the most important thing for him was to break through the knot.
But if you want to break through the knot, how difficult is it?
At present, his cultivation realm is still only the foundation building ninefold, and the cultivation of the foundation building period is not yet complete.
Although he seemed to be only one step away from condensing the Void Pill and becoming a False Pill Monk, he had no clue how to take this step.
Blindly retreating and cultivating can no longer allow his cultivation to advance and then reach the consummation of the foundation building realm.
Whether it is taking spiritual liquid or taking elixir, it is useless.
Gu Qing guessed that it didn't matter whether the consummation of this foundation building realm was with the help of external objects.
Just as when building a house, the foundation needs to be balanced and stable, and in order to achieve perfection in the cultivation during the foundation building period, it is necessary to achieve a true balance of all the forces in the body.
'Balance......" Gu Qing's brows furrowed.
On his handsome cheeks, a pair of red and golden pupils reflected the light and shadow around him, penetrating the tacit understanding in mid-air, bringing in the distant villages into his eyes.
In the distance, the demon village is still in full swing to build altars.
The female cultivator of the Demon Clan, who had looked at Gu Qing before, had a somewhat ugly face, and was looking around frequently.
'The divine will of the four o'clock has been basically balanced......
In addition to the four seasons of divine consciousness, the cultivation of the human body is nothing more than the essence and spirit, and the so-called essence is the qi, blood, and body; Qi is spiritual power and mana; The god is the divine soul, or the external god, and the origin of the divine soul. Gu Qing withdrew his gaze from the village.
He strolled towards the rear.
There was a constant clatter of fine fallen leaves cracking under his feet, and his figure stopped in front of a large tree, and then he sat down on the spot, leaning on the body of the tree that should have been often leaned on, and had formed a human-shaped depression, and looked at the sky through the sparsely leafed branches above.
The sky was blue, cloudless, just a vast earth, shrouded in a layer of black thin demonic energy.
This layer of thin demonic qi, I don't know its depth and geometry, like a cover, so that the naked eye mortal beings on this earth can't see the sky clearly, even if they look up hard, they can only see a piece of dust, of course, for Gu Qing, it can be penetrated at a glance.
'At the moment, among the three treasures of my essence and spirit, the essence is the strongest, and among the remaining two, the qi representing spiritual cultivation is weaker...... Cultivating the Ten Earth Transformation Sacred Techniques and refining the body of the ancient demons into my body has greatly enhanced my physique, as well as the vitality, qi and blood contained in my body, that is, the part that belongs to the essence......
'The gods among the Three Treasures of the Spirit and Qi Gods have also surpassed my cultivation, and they should be able to compare with some monks in the False Dan Realm. “
"Only my cultivation is weak, but right now, my cultivation can no longer be improved......" Gu Qing's brows furrowed even tighter.
With a flash of inspiration in his hand, he took out the Order.
Gu Qing looked at this Void Realm Token that could be used to communicate with Lingxu Island, his eyes flickered for a moment, and then he turned it over and put it away.
It was true that he only needed to condense a trace of his divine sense to probe the Na Xian Order, and he could go to the void realm of Lingxu Island.
In that void realm, he couldn't say that he could buy some special elixirs to help him break through the fake pill.
Or, find some other monks from the void and break through the experience of the false pill, or the codex, to solve his current predicament.
But Gu Qing still gave up using the void realm of this Spirit Void Island, and made the decision to seek his own guilt.
There are many shortcuts and crooked paths in the world.
Even if you can get through, it's just a choice.
Now that he has a long life, why bother to make this next choice?
Since the essence and spirit are the three treasures of the human body, they will naturally arise, transform each other, and then return to balance!
When his thoughts turned to this, Gu Qing suddenly felt that everything was empty.
He took off the storage ring in his hand, the storage bag around his waist, and the two rings around his neck, glanced at them, and put them into the space of the stone tablet.
Then, he glanced down at the magic robe on his body, and the golden aura around his body flashed, like thousands of golden needles coming out of the pores around his body, shattering all the subtle spiritual patterns embroidered on the black robe.
Burst!
The black robe, which had been neat just now, immediately became full of holes, collapsed, and clinged to his body, like a beggar's clothes.
The golden aura around him was restrained, Gu Qing's tall body quickly fell down, and a pair of crimson clear golden eyes became dim, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into ordinary black-brown eyes.
The long hair with reddened ends also became dry and hard like withered grass, and its color also turned white from spontaneous roots.
It was also in a single thought that Gu Qing's body was not only highly restrained in cultivation, but even the kind of vitality that was scattered outside was gone.
On his handsome face, the folds spread rapidly, and the originally smooth white skin turned into a texture like the bark of a dead tree.
It's just a few breaths away.
The figure sitting under this tree has turned from a handsome young man with a tall figure to an old beggar who is about to die!
'The Great Five Elements Condensation True Magic Method is really wonderful, and it is so thorough to use its phaseless magic to restrain the breath around the body. The spiritual power in Gu Qingzhou's meridians all regressed, returning to his dantian qi sea and submerging into the five-colored lotus platform.
The five-colored lotus platform was also dull and dim, shrinking a lot, and it became faint in Gu Qing's sea of dantian qi with a thin gray mist.
Gu Qing was also quite surprised by the thin gray mist rising from the sea of dantian qi.
This thing seems to be what he saw when he caused it to enter the body back then, the acquired qi that shrouded the sea of dantian qi!
After the spiritual power of his body retreated, Gu Qing's mind moved again, and the power of the divine soul was condensed in his body, forcing all the majestic vitality in his body into the depths of his internal organs, and then most of the divine soul power, just like the spiritual power around him, retracted back into the five-colored lotus platform.
Gu Qing's black-brown eyes, which were still quite clear, became cloudy, and he no longer looked at himself, but just lay down on his back, quietly looking at the sky.
A feeling of removing the heavy shackles appeared in Gu Qing's heart.
In the years since he embarked on the Immortal Road, there has never been a moment when there is not the slightest spiritual power in his meridians.
More importantly, he took something out of his mind.
With the power of the divine soul and the spiritual power, all of them retracted back into the sea of rice field qi, Gu Qing's body seemed to become heavy, and his eyelids slowly drooped.
He rolled over and curled up into a pile of fallen leaves.
Through the thin layer of demonic qi in mid-air, the sun, which was already visible directly and looked like a red fireball, quickly set down, and night fell immediately.
There were clouds floating in the sky from afar, and there was not a trace of starlight and moonlight in the night, and the originally thin demonic energy in mid-air was even more intense.
The cold wind blew between the hills, lifting a few fallen leaves, stirring the tattered black robe on Gu Qing's body, and the chill penetrated into his body.
Stomp ......
The heavy sound of hooves hitting the ground sounded intensively, from far and near, and in a short time, more than a dozen demons had already come to the bottom of this cliff.
This cliff with a semicircular gap is next to a large mountain, and there is only one line between the two.
These dozen demons were armed with swords, most of them were extremely thin, with no ears on either side of their heads, and a blue and purple face like a demon, with one eye, two nostrils, and a large mouth of blood.
As for them, they rode a strange beast with black fur and similar to a horse, but it was several times larger, and had a single horn.
There are reins on the strong bodies of these dozen or so strange beasts, pulling four or five huge prisoner carts full of ordinary people of the human race behind them.
The internal space of this prisoner cart is four or five zhang square, but there are hundreds of people crammed into this four or five zhang square circle.
These hundreds of ordinary people, both men and women, old and young, but regardless of men, women, old and young, their faces were numb, their eyes were lifeless, as if they were only empty shells, and their souls had long been strangled.
Scattered among them, there are still a few strips of cloth left, most of them naked, as if they were animals waiting to be slaughtered.
There were hundreds of zhang down this cliff, and among the dozen or so demons, the leader frowned, looked at the cliff on one side, and the two nostrils on his cheeks continued to tremble.
"Big brother, what's wrong?" Immediately behind this leader was a guy who was obviously fatter than the other demons, and when he saw the leader of the demons turn his head, he hurriedly asked.
"There is the breath of a living person here, Brother Fei Jingwu, you take two people, go up and have a look." The leading demon man restrained the strange beast, slowed down his forward speed, reached out and patted the fat demon behind him on the shoulder, beckoned to the back, and immediately two demons came up.
"Huh? Be...... Be! ”
The fat demon was shocked at first, and he wanted to refuse, but when he saw the fierce eyes of the leading demon, he hurriedly nodded and responded.
This group of demons stopped and opened, and under the gaze of the leading demons, the fat demons Fei Jing turned over and dismounted, standing on the desolate ancient road with some weakness under his feet, and looked at the steep cliff on one side.
Fei Jing, who rode out on a strange beast for the first time, shook his head and swallowed his saliva fiercely.
He glanced at the two demons standing on his left and right, gritting his teeth and climbing up the steep cliff.
Just climbing this steep cliff took Fei Jing more than ten breaths, and the moment he climbed the cliff, he felt that his whole body was scattered, but in the face of the two demons who had already climbed the cliff, with a little disdain, Fei Jing still stood up straight and puffed up his chest.
Fei Jing's one-eyed turn swept over the mountain forest behind the cliff.
Immediately, Fei's vicious gaze fell on the tattered black-robed figure shrunk under the fallen leaves.
"Looks like a Terran beggar...... I've been swept around here more than a dozen times, but I didn't expect there to be Terrans hiding. Fei Jing strode towards the tattered black-robed figure that fell.
The two demons are also one on the left and one on the right, following behind Fei Jing.
Fei Jing came to the front of Gu Qing's figure under the fallen leaves, and his huge palm, which was like a ghost claw, grabbed Gu Qing's body and carried it.
Fei Jing's demon people, the general height is about one foot and four feet, although Fei Jing has never cultivated, and even his physical strength is poor among the demons, but carrying Gu Qing at this time is naturally very easy.
"Let's go, although this Terran beggar has a weak vitality and doesn't seem to have much to live, it should also be able to be used as flesh and blood nourishment to feed the Great Demon Heaven." Fei Jing's tone was firm, and he looked like a person in charge, and returned to the bottom of the cliff with two demons who looked at each other.
The leader of the demon people looked at Gu Qing with a slight disgust.
"Inferior and weak Terrans, disgusting, stuff into the last prison cart." The leader of the demons said with a wave of his hand.
"Go, load into the last prisoner cart." Fei Jing threw Gu Qing's thin body to the demon on the right.
Then he got on his horse and started talking with the leader of the demons.
Looking up at the swaying galaxy, it seems that you are on a lonely boat.
Gu Qing's eyes first opened a gap, and then opened them completely, looking at the clear sky through the thick wooden fence of the prisoner car.
Gu Qing naturally knew what happened to him, but he only had a vague sense, so he didn't know where he was at the moment.
He turned his head to glance at the inside of the prisoner's car, his eyes slightly condensed.
Inside the prisoner's car, there were all indifferent Terran people, and just as he looked over, a thin man with a flushed face was doing that self-desecrating thing to him as if he were crazy.
It should be that Gu Qing's eyes were too sharp, which shocked the thin man's heart, he took half a step back, and fell into the crowd on his back.
There was a little commotion in the prisoner car, Gu Qing sat up straight, and his calm gaze quietly looked around.
The night was like water, and the moonlight was silvery white, sprinkled on the ground like frost.
The layer of demonic qi that had been enveloping the earth all this time cracked a large hole in the nearby mid-air, through which one could see the night sky without barriers.
There was still no heaven and earth aura around, and Gu Qing didn't have to deliberately investigate, just by relying on the induction of many years of cultivation, he could easily find out about it.
The prisoner cart traveled along the bumpy road, and he did not know where he and the people in the three prisoner carts were going to be transported - he guessed that it should not be a good place, either to pull them to sacrifice, or to pull them to be coolies, or to transform into half-demons.
At this time, Gu Qing's side came over to a stinky old woman.
The old woman wore a few strips of cloth that could vaguely see the color of the flowers, her thin body shrunk into a ball, her long gray hair was tied together, covering her chest and back, and she carefully looked at Gu Qing.
"Look...... Look at the looks...... You...... Also...... Industrialists? The old woman seemed to have not spoken for a long time, and stammered a little.
Gu Qing retracted his gaze and looked at the old woman.
Xu is Gu Qing's calm gaze, with a special magic power, this old woman was just looked at by him, and her mood settled down like never before.
"Yes." Gu Qing looked at the old woman and looked at it carefully for a while, but she didn't find the corresponding face in her mind, but she still nodded.
The old woman was slightly excited when she saw Gu Qing's response.
"You...... Since you are a businessman, you should ...... You should know that there is a Tianbei County in the country, right? The more the old woman spoke, the smoother she became, with an inexplicable look of fanaticism in her eyes, and asked Gu Qing.
"Yes." Gu Qing still responded briefly.
"Tianbei County is so cold, thanks to the protection of the barbarian god, the people there have been able to thrive so far, the reason why the demon god invaded our industry country this time is also for the barbarian god...... I have a piece of skin left by the barbarian god here to help you get out of trouble! The old woman leaned into Gu Qing's ear and said mysteriously.
As she spoke, the old woman also pointed to a place on her chest.
"Oh?" Gu Qing's gaze changed slightly.
Tianbei County, he has indeed been there, there are indeed some tribes that believe in barbarian gods, and he even suspected that in the legends of those tribes, the barbarian god who is ten thousand feet tall is also an ancient demon.
But he really didn't expect that at this time, in such a scene, he would hear an old woman with a sloppy body and a foul smell mention the barbarian god, and he didn't expect that the purpose of this old woman coming up was to use the skin of the barbarian god to help him get out of trouble.
So, Gu Qing's expression was a little excited, and his lips trembled and asked, "What you said, is it true?" ”
"Nature is true, this grandmother is the messenger of the barbarian gods, if you really want to get out of trouble, then swear to this grandmother, serve the barbarian gods for the rest of your life, and have the same faith, if you violate it, the true spirit will fall into the three hells, and you will never be able to live beyond the ......" The old woman was also excited.
When Gu Qing heard this, his eyes flashed again.
His excited expression eased slightly, and he turned his head to glance at the prisoner car, hearing the eyes of the old woman, and the other ordinary people who quietly approached, and the original numb expressions of these people seemed to become more vivid.
"I see that everyone is interested in serving the barbarian gods, so it's better to ......" Gu Qing's expression seemed to be compassionate.
"No! How can the barbarian gods be served by these filthy people? The old woman's eyes turned red, and her face became extremely fierce, and she swept over the crowd one by one, and saw that everyone hurriedly avoided it.
It's strange to say.
There seemed to be a special power in the old woman's body, which was usually not visible at all, but as anger arose in her heart, her face changed strangely under the influence of this force, which in turn produced a strong deterrent to the other ordinary people in the prisoner's car.
Even Gu Qing, who had reined in most of his divine soul power, sensed a little discomfort, and he took advantage of the situation with a face full of fear and shrank towards the rear.
"You don't have to hide, you are the purest person my grandmother has ever seen, and the barbarian god needs a waiter like you......" The old woman said, her face touched and tears flowed.
"Now I am going to die, and the skin left by this barbarian god will be entrusted to you." The old woman reached out and poked into her chest, stabbed, and really tore off a piece of black skin and handed it to Gu Qing.
Gu Qing looked at this piece of black skin and didn't pick it up.
Puzzled, he said to the old woman: "This piece of skin, which seems to be unremarkable, how can it have the power to get me out of trouble?" ”
When the old woman heard this, her eyes widened suddenly.
She looked at Gu Qing with a bloodthirsty face, and looked at Gu Qing with a distorted face, as if she was about to pounce on her at any time and bite off a piece of Gu Qing's flesh.
"You have forgotten the grace of the barbarian god, then leave your life to me......" The old woman stuffed the black skin back into her chest, and then rushed towards Gu Qing with a roar.
Its voice roared like a beast, but before it could pounce on Gu Qing, it was beaten upside down by a black whip drawn from outside the prisoner car, and smashed into the pile of people with a scream.
"Ahh The old woman's screams were so sharp that they were screaming.
Outside the prison car, a demon was frowning at the noise, but he still suppressed his temper, put away the whip, didn't look at Gu Qing and the others, and drove the strange beast under the seat to leave the side of the prison car.
The old woman cowered to one side, tumbling violently.
The people who were hit by it have already avoided it.
There was a huge whip mark on his body, as if he had been cut in half from behind, and there was a trace of black smoke in the ravines of the wound.
Part of this black smoke was demonic energy, and part of it was just black smoke from the burning of flesh and blood.
The pain was severe, causing the old woman's body to writhe constantly.
Under this severe pain, she cursed again and again, some to Gu Qing, to those demons, and to the other people in the prisoner car......
Gu Qing's eyes were different, looking at the whip marks behind the old woman.
With Gu Qing's five senses, he even found that one of the old woman's vertebrae was cracked, but this old woman was not dead, not only not dead, but she couldn't even see the appearance of serious injuries, and she was still alive!
This woman is not simple. “
Gu Qing retracted his gaze and continued to look at the night scene around him.
Almost all the essence and spirit were introverted into the body, causing Gu Qing to lose the ability to see at night, and due to the high degree of restraint of qi and blood, that is, 'essence', even his physique began to become weak.
At the moment, it is a low-level monk in the Qi refining period, if he can successfully sneak attack Gu Qing, he can also behead him with a sword!
Even if Gu Qing had the divine will of the four seasons, after all, he was only a foundation building monk, if he was beheaded by a sword owl, in addition to death, he could only make the divine soul control Dao Ji leave the body for a short time and do the thing of taking away.
But on the other hand, Gu Qing's essence and spirit were highly compressed, and they were cast in one body, and they had initially begun to merge and transform with each other, as if to mark that as long as he maintained this state and allowed time to pass, his spirit and spirit would eventually reach a true balance and enter a state of harmony and unity.
Then, condense a Void Pill and become a False Pill Monk!
But when this breakthrough is fake, is it really so easy?
Gu Qing's brows furrowed imperceptibly.
Things shouldn't be so simple, and right now, in his body, this fusion of spirit and spirit is only preliminary.