After that, these Anxi veterans watched the complete loss of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and disappeared into the desert with nostalgia for their homeland.

Because they are the elite and elite soldiers of Hexi, the obsession with protecting their home and country is deep in their bones, even if they die, their souls also maintain this obsession, so they are trapped in the desert and cannot be dissipated, nor can they be reincarnated.

As mentioned earlier, there are devils in the desert who are sealed, and the souls of these people wander in the desert and are captured by the demon king, who sees that they are still not reincarnated to protect their homeland after death, and feels that they are very loyal to their homeland, so he wants them to give up their obsession and reincarnate.

These people died too tragically, and there was no way to reincarnate if they were obsessed, so the demon king gave these people two choices, either as the demon king's yin soldiers, existing in this world, and then following the demon king, becoming his guard soldiers, and never needing to be reincarnated again.

Or, as undead wandering in the desert, they belong neither to the living nor to the dead, a state in between.

In this case, they do not belong to the yang world, nor do they belong to the underworld, and of course they are exempt from the lawsuit of reincarnation, although their souls are immortal and immortal, they still cannot get rid of the law of the mortal body and will gradually decay within a few years, until the rotting bones can no longer support their souls, and they will have to find new corpses again.

That is, the soul can exist forever, and the body has to be constantly changed in order to sustain their movement.

Because of this particular reason, demon hunters are unable to eat, drink, breathe, or rest, as long as they have consciousness to survive.

In any case, this state is too terrifying, the corpses often decompose and smell, and they can only live forever outside the crowded settlements, away from the cities, towns, villages, and tribes inhabited by the living, but anyone who finds them can only hide.

In the process of thousands of years of displacement, in order to survive, they can only keep looking for new bones, in the case of not being able to kill, the corpses they can find are really limited, as long as the body decays, they can no longer move, they can only be trapped in place, until a dead person appears next to them, let them inject their souls into the dead person again, they can start to move again.

In order to achieve this goal, most undead people will go to the demon hunter, and the duty of the demon hunter is to go to all parts of the desert to hunt those monsters that hurt people, these desert monsters often hurt people to death, and they can keep finding new corpses in the process of hunting monsters, so as to maintain their movements.

From this point of view, the undead become demon hunters, not because they have justice in their hearts, they want to be righteous, but just for themselves to exist forever, and they make a move to live, so to speak, as long as there are spirits that hurt people, there are demon hunters.

Because of this, they are very mysterious and never let people find out their whereabouts, but when there is real danger, they will appear near the town to help the people deal with the spirits that hurt people.

Nearly two thousand years have passed like this, and the fame of the demon hunters has been known by most of the people, and their mysterious identity has been accepted.

After listening to Gu Hengxi's words, Yue Guanchao asked again: "I remember that Daoist Wang also said that there were ghost monks in Hexi, is it similar to the demon hunter you understand?" Or maybe they're the same kind of people, but with different identities. ”

As early as when Keli and Wang Yuanqi mentioned the story of the ghost monk, Yue Guanchao was already curious about the identity of the ghost monk and the origin of the ghost monk.

Gu Xixi said: "The ghost monks you are talking about are actually demon hunters, didn't I tell you just now?" Demon hunters are all undead, but not all undead are demon hunters, and they are willing to become demon hunters because this is the only identity that allows them to get close to villages and towns and dispose of those corpses.

It is still possible for other immortals to take on new identities, such as monks, merchants, Taoists, or illusionists like us, regardless of their identities, for thousands of years there has only one purpose, and that is to find a physical vessel for their souls and live forever.

Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes: "If, according to your words, they don't need to eat, they don't breathe, and they don't feel pain, then it's equivalent to a walking corpse, even if they live, what can they do?" They can only hide in the shell of the corpse like a parasite, what is the plan to survive for 2,000 years? If it was because of obsession, did they still want to take the opportunity to recapture the Western Regions and let the Western Regions return to the Tang Dynasty? ”

Gu Xixi didn't seem to know much about this, shook his head and sighed and said, "The way demon hunters survive is like this, I don't know what their purpose is?" Maybe it's just for an obsession to live forever. Maybe it's because they're still greedy for everything in the yang world and refuse to be reincarnated, but in short, they've been wandering in the desert for nearly two thousand years, and they don't know how long they'll continue to exist. ”

Song Siyuan pondered Gu Xixi's words carefully: "If these immortals are real, it means that they may have really survived for thousands of years, what I am curious about is whether there is really a demon king in the devil's desert?" Have you ever met a demon hunter? ”

Seeing her mention this, Gu Xixi nodded meaningfully to everyone in acquiescence, lowered her voice and said: "Of course, when we walk in southern and northern Xinjiang, we are destined to meet three religions and nine streams, what kind of people have seen it, and what kind of strange things have also met a lot of ......."

At that time, they were still very young, about fifteen or sixteen years old, performing illusion tricks in Qiuzi City, at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which was already close to the Devil's Desert, and they had been attacked by sand wolves when they were hurrying at night.

These sand wolves can escape into the desert, ambush and bite people, and when pedestrians leave the city and come into the desert, they will pounce and bite the living.

At that time, they were in a hurry, so they could only rush to the next town at night, and it was also at this time that a whimper suddenly sounded behind them, and when they looked back, they had already seen a sand wolf with angry eyes wide open, green eyes staring at them, Gu Baiyue's hand was also bitten by a sand wolf, if it wasn't for the demon hunter rushing to the place, they would definitely be buried in the wolf's belly.

Afterwards, the demon hunter led them all the way to the next city, and it was not until they saw the lights on the top of the city that he gradually stopped and walked in their direction into the desert.

Speaking of this, Gu Baiyue interjected: "These demon hunters are wearing heavy armor and hats, and they can't see their faces at all under the black veil, but I can be sure of one thing."

These people, who were not breathing, could not hear the rhythm of their breathing at all in the silence of the desert, and there was also a smell of rotting corpses covered in spices.

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