This is probably a scene that can make Doraemon die on the spot.

No one can still be calm when they see such a scene, even if it is Li Heng, even if his spiritual power has been strengthened to the extreme of human beings.

But in that tenth of a second, a chill still made his goosebumps crawl over the skin of his whole body in an instant, and then he relied on strong enough concentration to suppress it.

In an instant, Li Heng's muscles tensed wildly, and the explosive power was hidden in his limbs, especially his legs...... Run away!

Nonsense! Who the wants to go head-to-head with a bunch of thousands of rats who don't know how many?!

He'd rather fight a T-Rex than get tangled up with this bunch of things.

And it would be fair to say that Alai Jones fled in a panic and madness after witnessing this scene.

Normal people who don't panic when they see it, and their psychological quality is almost able to have a direct heart attack.

But after accumulating strength for a few seconds, Li Heng found that although the frenzied and noisy squeaks were surging like a storm and a tidal wave, those dense red dots did not come close to him.

Something seemed to have restrained their movements, and the imaginary flood of rats did not happen immediately.

But these things are not good, as the old man's story says.

Li Heng still couldn't figure out why there was such a huge rat nest in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, but since it appeared here, it was probably related to the secret of the White Lotus Sect.

He continued to walk down the steps, ignoring the rat mountain and rat sea on the other side, but always deliberately kept his vigilance and distance.

Walking up the steps, Li Heng walked to a high platform, where there were still ancient religious flags planted on all sides, and at the same time, there was also the layout of the Eight Directions, Eight Precepts and Eight Zen Mirrors, all of which were deliberately done by the White Lotus Sect.

The same "knife mountain" with interlaced canine teeth spreads out all the way, forming a half-moon-shaped outline along the dark red rock wall, reflecting the blood-colored luster.

This arrangement suggests that this place is an altar, a place of death and blood, and it is not at all the same style as the so-called nurturing of life before.

It seems that it was here that the White Lotus Sect took off the mask that had been concealed, revealing the hideous nature here.

Then on a round boulder not far away, Li Heng found that the stone surface was very round and polished, and there were countless dense small characters engraved on it, and the fonts were different, obviously not from one person, but carved by many people.

On the right side of the cobblestone is a large iron lump in the shape of a tombstone, with blood-colored palm prints on it!

And on the iron lump are engraved with four sentences of criticism with a rough but sharp pen -

[Iron armor and bronze corpse immortal, a hundred deaths will be left for a lifetime, if it is for the common people, the blood will be sealed like this]

"This turned out to be a pleading? Are the people who leave the seal here all making a promise of a hundred deaths, the iron-armored bronze corpse immortal ......"

Li Heng squinted his eyes and looked at the big boulder just now, holding the lamp to check the small characters that were engraved.

I saw that there were all kinds of names signed on it, some of them were crooked and looked very difficult to write, most of them were carved people who were not very good at writing, and some carved half of them only engraved a "two dogs" and "three babies" such as Lai's name, and even the surname was not written smoothly.

But there are also good carvings, not only engraved their own names, but even engraved a line of words on it, some simple and some complex.

Such as pure doctrinal slogans - "The motherless mother is above", "Maitreya blesses", "The white lotus lives forever......

There are also more practical ones - "Third brother, I will avenge you!" "Wait for me to go to the capital and take the emperor's dog's head", "I won't die, I will definitely be able to do it"......

There are also more extreme ones - "Kill Kill!" ”

There are also more cultural and national spirits - "Now I am dying, the Han is endless, pouring the rivers and mountains, and recovering my China!" ”

………

All of these are similar to the last words of his deathbed, and Li Heng also saw some familiar names in these signatures.

"Zhang Mingwu", "Sun Sanhu", "Wang Ping"...... As well as "Zhou De Yang"!

Under this ancient blood and oath, a secret that had been hidden for more than a hundred years gradually revealed in front of Li Heng's eyes.

"Pregnant Immortal Lotus Terrace, nine deaths and one life...... Is that what it means?"

Looking at the White Lotus Sect scriptures and a large number of secret records left on the altar, Li Heng knew what a "pregnant immortal" was.

The so-called "Great Immortal" is the "Iron Armor Bronze Corpse Immortal" mentioned on the iron form.

This immortal is not born out of thin air, but is transformed by people.

This [Myotheism] is a sect of many White Lotus branches that was not originally very powerful, and it was once scattered and defeated by the Qing army during the entire uprising, and in the end, it was even unable to spare its strength to the frontline battlefield, and could only provide logistical support for other branches.

And when they retreated to the Qinling Mountains to avoid the main force of the Qing army, they accidentally found a cave in the mountains, and after investigation, it was found that the cave contained a large amount of saltpeter, which was a natural fire nitrate!

The Myojin Sect was overjoyed and immediately settled here, because they had already been reduced to logistical support, so they were relieved to mine and refine nitrate to make gunpowder here, and help other White Lotus branches at the same time in exchange for money and food to maintain them.

However, in the process of mining, they were also slowly exploring the ground fissure in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, extending downward and inward, and finally discovered an extremely strange underground cavity.

Everywhere here is dark red as blood, like the Infernal Hell described in Buddhist scriptures.

And in this "Infernal Hell", they stumbled upon an even more bizarre place.

It was a pool of water, but instead of water, it was something they didn't recognize.

This substance is as thick as soup and pure as milk, not at all like a natural thing.

In the end, it was the altar owner who was well-informed and knowledgeable, and said that it was the [Jizo Spirit] in it.

This [Earth Essence] is the place where the energy of the earth gathers, the place where the mountains and rivers are deposited will be generated, and the "power of heaven and earth" accumulated over countless years has made the rock milk earth gas condensed, and I don't know that it has taken hundreds of millions of years to gather such a essence pool.

It is the product of the creation of heaven and earth, and the mystery of invading the sun and the moon.

However, since it is a treasure, it is naturally guarded by foreign objects, and there is a huge rat nest around this essence pool, where countless huge gophers live, fierce and abnormal, for which the White Lotus Sect has also launched many "human and mouse wars" here, and even did not hesitate to transport gunpowder.

In the end, although the giant rat was not exterminated, it was finally obtained from the Jizo Spirit.

Hearing that this was a treasure of heaven and earth, some of the sect members couldn't wait to drink this earth treasure, but all the disciples who did so died violently immediately, and the death was tragic and ugly.

Suddenly, a panic was set off in the sect, and this earth treasure spirit instantly changed from the original treasure to an ominous thing in the eyes of everyone, and this place was also banned for a time.

However, human desire and curiosity cannot be contained.

It didn't take long for another altar master to unseal this place after he succeeded him, and once again started the idea of this [Jizo Spirit], but this time he changed his method, no longer the way of direct internal use, but changed to external use.

However, this Jizo spirit has a characteristic, that is, it can only exist in that pool, and once it leaves the pool, it will quickly fade away and become transparent, and gradually turn into ordinary mountain spring water and lose its effectiveness.

Therefore, only people can enter the pool and soak in the Jizo spirit.

This move really worked, and the original soaker had an extremely miraculous change after coming out, his body changed rapidly, his muscles became firm and firm, the meridians continued to strengthen, his skin became harder and stronger, and even his strength continued to increase, until finally the surface of his body was even as tough as an iron sword, and it was not easy to cut.

Just like the folklore that invited the upper body of the "Great Immortal", he is no longer a mortal!

With this precedent, the follow-up people joined one after another, and they all had to enter this pool to bathe in the immortal essence of the earth.

Think about it, if the entire Mingshen Sect all became such invulnerable "Great Immortals", wouldn't this world be within reach?

But how could the world be so simple, and soon they found that not everyone could be as lucky as the first one, and that almost all of the followers died one after another after soaking, and their bodies were blackened, their skin shriveled and withered like tree bark, and the miserable situation was horrific.

This frightened the cultists again, and the horror didn't stop there, the first successful person died only half a year or so after the "Great Immortal Possession".

The body of the deceased cultist was a strange bronze color, and his whole body seemed to solidify into metal.

After this series of changes, the White Lotus Sect realized that this was not the elixir jade dew of the Immortal Family's blessed land at all.

Later, the sect called the cultists who had soaked in the [Jizo Spirit] and did not die immediately - Iron Armor Bronze Corpse Immortal.

Because their bodies become stronger and tougher during their lifetime, and their bodies solidify like brass after death, hence the name.

And in order not to cause panic, the altar master and elders and other high-level officials concealed the truth about the iron-armored bronze corpse immortal from the outer cultists, and only referred to him as "Great Immortal".

Only the most core believers can know the truth, and it is possible to become the new "Great Immortal" through ritual (immersion).

It's just that most people don't have this kind of courage, after all, the probability of death is as high as more than ninety percent, and even if it does, it will not exceed three years of life, or even a few months.

Basically, only those who have been brainwashed deeply or those who have a deep hatred for the Qing court will choose to "become immortals".

Therefore, this forbidden place is called "Pregnant Immortal Lotus Terrace", with a large number of lives to breed an invincible "Great Immortal" on the battlefield, and only such a "Great Immortal" can withstand hundreds of internal guards, carrying a full body of knife wounds, sword wounds and foreign guns all the way into the Forbidden City, killing in front of the Palace of Nourishing Heart.

In other words, this so-called "great immortal" is actually just a "dead man" who can defeat many people.

(End of chapter)