Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Coffin of the Soul
Luo Ting put away the flywheel under his feet and walked towards the open space surrounded by the carriage, seeing him coming, the busy entourage put down their work and saluted him, but he just waved his hand and signaled everyone to continue working, if it weren't for his close personal relationship with Shen Dutong, he would definitely not take the monks of the Luo family to wade into this troubled water, after all, their first priority is to ensure that the soul coffin is successfully buried in the target location.
The vegetation on the surface of the clearing has been completely cleared, and the remnants of the underground plant roots and nests built by insects have also been swept away, Luo Ting walked to the center of the clearing, stretched out his hand to touch the ground, the dark aura gushed out from his palm, and continued to go deeper, compared with the surface, the underground aura of heaven and earth is much thinner, which is more conducive to the stability of the soul coffin, Luo Ting manipulated the dark aura to assimilate the scattered heaven and earth aura underground, until the large area under his feet is completely cleared.
At this time, an attendant stepped forward and saluted Luo Ting, "Report to Lord Steward, everything is ready over there, if there are no follow-up questions, you can start at any time, Lord Luo Qin is also over there, she said that if you are not at ease, you can go and have a look." ”
Luo Ting withdrew the aura into his body without a trace, stood up from the ground, and patted the dust on his clothes casually, Luo Qin was the previous female monk who used the half-moon-shaped jade bi to control the wrestlers, among these monks, her strength was second only to Luo Ting, and she was also the descendant of the head of the Luo family, and her identity was a few more noble than Luo Ting, in addition, she was proficient in the art of mercury, and she also had a lot of research on cultivation, and she was solely responsible for all matters related to the soul coffin, to put it bluntly, in this mission, Luo Ting was at best a transport captain.
"She's thoughtful." Luo Ting smiled slightly, "Then lead the way, let's go and have a look." ”
The monks who followed the Luo Ting battle are returning one after another, although they are in the same Jade Void Realm as Lin Xiaotian and others, but their combat experience is much worse, and their willpower is much weaker, and most of them feel very tired after this kind of long-distance attack, but after all, the battle just now was dominated by the border army, and the few monks killed by the wrestlers were not members of the Luo family, so there was no loss.
The monks sat in the carriage one after another, taking the Gathering Spirit Pill that they carried with them, this elixir is refined from several common medicinal materials, the effect is to improve the perception and absorption of the aura of heaven and earth, and it is more often used to assist beginners in cultivation, and it is also suitable for speeding up mana recovery at this time.
After the monks enter the body, they circulate along the meridians for several weeks, and finally plunge into the sea of qi.
At the beginning of the discovery of the secluded realm, many monks discovered this, and the major sects moved even more, and built a lot of quiet rooms for cultivation in the secluded realm, with the help of a steady stream of heaven and earth aura to greatly improve the cultivation speed, but unfortunately later the secluded realm gradually gave birth to many demon beasts, and it was no longer suitable for human survival, so these quiet rooms were also abandoned, and now I am afraid that even the ruins can not be found. A monk in plain robes was the first to finish his cultivation, he stepped out of the carriage, walked quickly to Luo Ting's side, and reported the situation to him: "Lord Steward, all the monks have returned safely, most of them are not injured, only a few people were cut by the bone sword when resisting the attack of that wrestler, but the wounds have been treated in time, it does not affect them to continue fighting, and the few monks who stayed before have already assembled the things they need, just waiting for your order." ”
Luo Ting nodded with satisfaction and patted him on the shoulder, "Haoyang, you have done a good job, when you return to the clan after completing the task, I will report to the head of the family truthfully, and I will reward everyone for meritorious deeds when the time comes, and naturally you are indispensable, I also sent a lot of people to take care of your parents, you can rest assured here, when you go back, go and see them, they have been worried about you." ”
"Master Xie." Luo Haoyang bowed to Luo Ting, he and Luo Ting were born in the same lineage, the parents of the two met, according to blood relations, he can be regarded as Luo Ting's distant cousin, although not as outstanding as Luo Ting, but also became a jade monk, since Luo Ting emerged, this cousin has been by his side, becoming a big help for him, Luo Ting naturally will not treat him badly, this kind of task that can make contributions, so he also took this cousin to participate.
Led by his entourage, Luo Ting came to a carriage covered by tarpaulins, several large boxes were placed on the ground openly, the contents of the boxes had been taken out, they were some plates that looked like they were made of metal, the surface of these plates was etched with golden lines, exuding bursts of mana fluctuations, several monks were under Luo Qin's personal command, controlling these plates to assemble around a dark red spherical core, the plates were tightly connected to each other by a mortise and tenon structure, It was assembled without a single nail, and the dark red spherical core was contained in it.
Luo Qin always concentrated on directing the monks to manipulate and avoid letting those plates come into contact with the dark red spherical core, so she never noticed Luo Ting's arrival, until all the plates were assembled, she breathed a sigh of relief, noticed Luo Ting with a smile on his face not far away, and saw Luo Ting coming, Luo Qin motioned to those monks to check whether the joint of the plates was firm again, and he stepped forward in three steps and two steps, "Brother Luo Ting, you are here, I specially asked them to inform you later, I want you to rest for a while, Just now, your mana consumption is not small, and you have been on the road for such a long time, I'm afraid you are too tired. ”
"It's okay, you infused me with mana in time when I lost too much before, so that my qi sea would not be so empty, and I had rested enough during the journey, how is the condition of the soul coffin, can it be buried now? We can go back sooner if we finish the task as soon as possible, and I always have some foreboding after what happened before. ”
Luo Ting stretched out her hand to gently arrange Luo Qin's hair, just now she was focused on work, her forehead was dripping with sweat, and the wavy hair was glued together, at this time after being straightened out by Luo Ting's slender fingers, it returned to her usual and supple appearance, Luo Ting also carefully helped her wipe off the dust on her cheeks, seeing that she looked extremely cute, she pinched her cheeks again, Luo Qin pretended to be angry, raised her pink fist and hit Luo Ting, Luo Ting did not dodge or dodge, let Luo Qin mess around, the atmosphere between the two was ambiguous, It's like a couple in love.
Of course, the identity of the steward can not meet Luo Ting's ambitions, although he is now called an adult by many children of the Luo family, but in fact, his status is just a leader who does chores, if he wants to go to the next level, he has to find another way, hooking up with Luo Qin is just the appearance, his real goal is to climb the patriarch behind Luo Qin, with the support of the patriarch, he can enter the inner circle of the Luo family, of course, he needs enough results to prove his strength, this mission is a good opportunity.
As a newly rising family, the Luo family naturally has their uniqueness, they know very well about the secluded world, and secretly grasp many caves and blessed lands containing treasures, providing a large number of heavenly and earthly treasures for the royal family, and later attached to the eight princes who controlled the internal affairs of the government, and were regarded as a powerful arm by the eight princes.
After a moment of warmth with Luo Qin, Luo Ting walked to the side of the Soul Bundle Coffin, several monks had already completed the inspection, to make sure that the plate was firmly bonded, he stretched out his hand to touch the golden lines on the plate, those lines looked like human blood vessels, there was something faintly flowing in it, Luo Ting felt a little strange, because the perception of divine consciousness told him that this Soul Bundle Coffin was alive.
"Don't be afraid, Brother Luo Ting, your feeling is not wrong, this soul coffin is a living thing, otherwise how could it be called a coffin, you have less contact, so it's normal not to know." Luo Qin saw that his face was different, and the jade hand stretched out to pull his hand away, and then explained: "Although the aura of heaven and earth in the secluded realm is extraordinarily abundant, it is also mixed with many impurities, under the nourishment of this aura of heaven and earth, those originally normal creatures will become bloodthirsty and brutal demon beasts, in order to make the vast land in the secluded realm for the use of the imperial court, an amazing and brilliant power invented the soul coffin, as the name suggests, is to seal the monk's soul into the coffin, so that the monk's sea of qi to filter the impurities in the aura of heaven and earth, In order to ensure that no new monsters are produced in the surrounding area, the court has demarcated a safe zone in the netherworld. ”
"The dark red spherical core you saw is a container used to carry the soul of the monk, its refining process is extremely complicated, and the things needed are not easy to raise, even I just know a rough idea, in addition to a large number of heavenly and earthly treasures, you also need enough people, you should have noticed that there are so many death row prisoners in the imperial court every year, most of them are sent to our clan, presumably they have become the core materials, but over the years, there are not so many death row prisoners, I don't know what these cores are made of now."
After listening to Luo Qin's explanation, Luo Ting thought for a while, it turned out that this was the role of the soul coffin, no wonder the imperial court took care of the Luo family, as long as there was a continuous supply of soul coffins to purify the aura of heaven and earth, then the area of the safe zone in the secluded realm would continue to increase, and the heavenly and earth treasures that the imperial court could control would also increase.
Regarding the questions raised by Luo Qin, Luo Ting also has some understanding, after becoming a steward, he has handled a lot more affairs than before, among which the recruitment of servants is one of them, but the strange thing is that there are many servants recruited from poor families every year, but they did not appear in the mansion in the end, now that I think about it, probably they have become the raw materials of the dark red core, but Luo Ting did not mention this matter to Luo Qin, after all, for those poor people, the silver money given by recruiting a servant, Enough for their family for a year.