With the existence of the "Iron Armor Bronze Corpse Immortal", the White Lotus Sect was often able to catch the Qing army off guard and achieve key victories in the rebellions in various places, so that it disturbed the Qing Dynasty, and finally shook the foundation with great vitality.

And those low-level Qing soldiers even called these "great immortals" the "black wind demons" of the White Lotus Sect.

Because on the one hand, it is necessary to keep the secret of the iron-armored bronze corpse immortals, and on the other hand, the appearance of these "great immortals" has undergone a terrifying alienation, and all of them are wrapped in black clothes and black robes, leaving only their eyes exposed.

In addition, their strength is extremely large, and their speed is as fast as the wind, and rushing into the enemy formation is like blowing a black demon wind!

And these immortals basically will not die in battle or be captured, so when their lives are exhausted, they will be recovered by the White Lotus Sect, and then locked in an iron coffin to worship.

Because the White Lotus Sect is a feudal and superstitious religious association after all, although the sect highly respects the iron-armored bronze corpse immortals, this strange change still makes them jealous, and the matter of ghosts and gods should still be treated with caution.

After all, this kind of "great immortal" can't hide the corpse, and it is too terrible, so an iron coffin was specially built to hold their corpses, to prevent them from crawling out again, and even not to be buried in the soil, not to touch the earth, and can only hang in the air and chant and worship every day.

Except for Zhou Deyang, whose body fell into the hands of the Qing court and could not be recovered.

However, judging from the historical development, even with these "Great Immortals" the White Lotus Sect failed to complete the great cause of rebellion and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was finally destroyed under the suppression of the Qing army.

The branch of the Myojin Sect that occupied this area was eventually unable to support it and dispersed, leaving behind the ruins of this forbidden place built more than a hundred years ago.

However, based on what he saw in front of him, Li Heng found that there were still people here after being abandoned by the White Lotus Sect!

With the exception of the foreign explorer Ale Jones, there were still others who came here after the defeat of the White Lotus Cult.

Because on the altar not far in front of Li Heng, there were corpses on display, corpses one by one, stacked on top of each other, no less than ten in total, and there were also a lot of clothes piled up on the side, which were all long shirts and coats in the style of the Republic of China.

The gathering of the White Lotus Sect was a matter in the middle and late Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and there were still nearly a hundred years before the Republic of China.

And most of them are in a state of nakedness, and their deaths are very tragic, their skin is atrophied and hard, like a dead tree, and their limbs are twisted by great pain, like a demon tree that grows wildly.

They died in some kind of intense pain.

Li Heng guessed that if nothing else, they all died after soaking the Jizo Essence but failed to survive the toxic attack, which means that they failed to become "Great Immortals", and most of them became more than 90% of the sacrifices.

But why did they do it?

Even if you don't hesitate to die so miserably, you have to bathe in this essence pool, is the desire to become an immortal so strong?

Besides, what kind of immortal can this iron-armored bronze corpse be?

Li Heng didn't have to guess anymore, there was a wooden sign erected next to these corpses, which should be made of the wooden curtain on the white lotus altar used in local materials.

This is a tombstone.

And on this humble tablet is written a very simple line - "Where my brother rests"

Not far from this "tombstone", a few lines of blood were inscribed on the altar, but the content had nothing to do with the white lotus sacrifice or the gods and ghosts.

It was a petition oath.

The full text is as follows-

"Now we are waiting to enter the mountains to harass is really a last resort, the ambition of the wolf son of Dongying, poisoning the world and killing tens of millions of Chinese children, the rise and fall of the world is in danger, I hope that the ancestors will hang the curtain in the sky, so that the younger generations will seek the treasure, strengthen my Chinese sons and daughters, clean up the jackals and clarify the world, and the younger generations will die without regrets under Chen Wanshan! Juniors Chen Zi'an, Zhao Hualing, Li Yi, He Tianwen...... (Another string of names) leave this blood book to worship the ancestors, look at the heaven and earth and pity me, the blood and tears of my 40,000 Chinese children, we are willing to incarnate as copper and iron fierce demons, black evil ghosts, and also want to kill the Japanese and the jackals, and regain the rivers and rivers to reproduce the sun and the moon! ”

At this point, Li Heng has fully understood that these latecomers are not ambitious people who hope to become immortals, but people with lofty ideals who were desperate during the tragic period of the Japanese invasion of China.

A group of Chinese sons and daughters who were desperate under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders had to embark on this road of no return.

Although the White Lotus Sect was destroyed, not all the members of the sect were killed, and many of them returned to the civilian body and hid in various places to continue to survive, and some of them left their descendants.

Among these people, there may be the top leaders of the White Lotus Sect back then, who told their heirs about this secret buried deep underground when they were dying.

Time passed in a hurry, and came to the most chaotic and tragic era in the land of China, these former descendants of the White Lotus and the people of the Republic of China today also threw themselves into the war of resistance after the war of aggression against China.

However, the disparity in national power at that time made them desperate, and they finally reunited and decided to re-establish the forbidden land that had been passed down from their ancestors.

Just like the White Lotus Sect created the "Great Immortal" to fight against the Qing army, although they already clearly knew that this was not an "immortal" at all, it was just a short-term humanoid weapon.

But they did not hesitate to go to this dark underground, and one by one they threw themselves into the pool of almost certain death, and after witnessing the cruel and horrific death of their companions, they were determined to enter it.

Until, the only one who succeeded.

Yes, judging from this last situation, it is true that there is a person who managed to survive and become an iron-armored bronze corpse immortal, and that simple tombstone is what he erected.

And that man was very lucky to live for a long time, probably through the entire period of the Anti-Japanese War!

Because right next to these corpses, Li Heng could see a small line of handwriting every other paragraph.

"I killed five thieves today, do you ......know Brother Zi'an?"

"Yesterday, I ambushed in Sanjiatun and unscrewed off the head of the captain of the Gang Gang for a day, and blood sprayed me all over, but I was also shot, and my arm hurt so much......"

"Brother Hualing, I slaughtered the traitor who betrayed your father! Your spirit in heaven rests ......"

"Today, the thieves swept the village under the mountain, although I killed the three beasts, but I still failed to save the insulted girl, alas, ......"

"Brother Tianwen is so dangerous today! After taking off the black robe, I was almost seen by the flower girl, my current appearance must not be seen by her, otherwise it will frighten her, and I will also let the matchmaker find a home for her again, no need to wait for me to die only when I die......"

"I don't feel anything in my back, I'm probably going to die......"

"The flower girl is married, that man is very honest and difficult to do, I am very relieved ......"

……

"Victorious! Victory! We won, the dog days lost, and the brutes retreated...... Did you see it, brothers...... Aha"

The last piece of writing is out of shape and confused, indicating how excited he was when he wrote this line, and some of the handwriting was blurry, probably washed away by tears.

This is a fragmented diary, a family letter to the heavenly brothers, and a song of the years left by a lonely soul here.

Li Heng was silent for a long time before he slowly stood up, looking at the black robes and black coats hanging on the side, which were disguised here, and they were stained with blood that had long dried up and turned black.

"He came back here in the end, and that story is not a legend"

(End of chapter)