Chapter 159: Hearing the Dao
At the foot are ancient rock formations deposited over hundreds of millions of years, and those once towering trees have been turned into coal by the precipitation of time. Bones are stone, wood is carbon, and perhaps the flesh and blood we are born with are no different from the nature of the whole world.
In the past fifty years, the originally tamped earth has been completely hollowed out, and such a huge project can only be done by an emperor who integrates the power of a country.
At the very edge of the pit were nine huge dried lakes arranged around a larger pit, and at the edge of the lake were a group of black-robed men kneeling on the ground, their heads bowed and motionless, as if waiting for the judgment of fate.
And the emperor, who came down with everyone, disappeared at this time.
"Qingya, there are people there, they, are they still alive?"
Hua Qing'er also saw the crowd kneeling by the lake, and asked Qingya's voice with a slight tremor.
"Last time in the underground of the Thousand Autumn Palace, those people who kidnapped the princess seemed to be wearing the same black robes, who are they, and who are they loyal to?"
No one could answer Qingya's question, and no matter what, Qingya still planned to go up and find out.
At this time, Qiu Chiyu's weakness had been lifted, and with a wave of her hand, a red rope was wrapped around Qingya's waist.
"Be careful, if there is any change, I will pull you back."
When Qingya approached, these black-robed people still didn't react, Qingya squatted curiously beside one person, stretched out his hand and carefully removed the hood that the person was wearing.
In front of her was a woman in her early teens, her eyes were closed, her face was pale, like a patient who had been tortured by illness for a long time, and her left hand was connected with another black-robed person next to her.
Qingya could clearly hear that her heart was still beating, not only her, but everyone kneeling here still had the characteristics of life.
Moreover, Qing Ya looked at the face of the woman in front of him and felt very familiar, as if to confirm the conjecture in his heart, he took off the hood of the person next to him who was connected to his hands.
Although they have lost a lot of weight and their faces have become very weak, Qingya can still be sure that they are the targets they have been looking for, Ye Zhongtao and Ning Tongyue, the husband and wife, are also the beginning of various events since Qingya arrived in Chang'an.
In the past few months, Qingya has been running around but has not found any trace of them, and today he finally got rid of the concern in his heart.
Although the silent crisis is still permeating everyone at this moment, no matter what today, Qingya will take these two people out alive and bring them back to her mother-in-law safely.
Not only them, but all the living people here, not a single one can die.
There is no way to store living life in the star field, but at this time, they are already at the boundary between life and death, and they can just hide under the judgment boundary of the star field, just like the original bird's egg.
After opening the star field and absorbing all the black-robed people in front of him, Qingya came to the edge of the nine huge lakes again, looking at the bottom of the dry lake.
There were no rocks below, no silt on the leaves, and no aquatic creatures, all the green cliffs could see, only black robes piled high.
If a black robe is a person, there are countless lives devoured within these nine lakes.
On the wall of each lake, there is a relief of a giant beast carved, and it seems that this is the birthplace of the Nine Fierce Beasts.
"Nam no Amitabha Night, Dotagada Night ......"
Several people came behind Qingya, and also saw the traces of those people buried at the bottom of the lake, and they were all saddened by this, and the empty release Zen master recited the mantra of the past life to cross their reincarnation, and even Xie Linlan, who was used to seeing death, couldn't bear to turn his face sideways.
No one knew what his expression was under the mask, but his right hand holding the long knife tighter.
There have been years of conquest and countless sacrifices, not so that the people of Fuxia can live without worry, and everyone can go to school and work with peace of mind. But now, there are still so many people who have been taken their lives.
The source of the disaster in the emperor's mouth has been guarding Chang'an City, and the emperor, who should have been trusted by the people, has ruthlessly harvested their lives.
Who is the root cause of this catastrophe?
Just as everyone touched the scene, water gushed out from the bottom of the dry lake again, but this time, it was all black water.
The colorless and tasteless water soon overflowed, but the water level stopped rising when it touched the reliefs of the giant beasts on the lake wall, and the reliefs that had been soaked in the black water also lit up with a silvery light, which could be seen clearly even through the black water.
And the black water in the lake has not completely fallen silent, there are constant ripples on the surface of the lake, which means that the water below is still gushing up, where does the extra water go?
Qingya looked at the deep pit surrounded by nine lakes, and it was so striking that people noticed its existence at first sight.
But Qingya tried her best to ignore its existence, because it was too weird.
I don't know how far the underground distance is, and at such a depth, it can be extended even further, and this pit can't be dug through the center of the earth.
Also, these nine lakes are the birthplace of the nine-headed beast, so what kind of things will exist in the deep pit that dwells in the center of these nine lakes?
It wasn't until the sound of running water came that Qingya determined the direction of the water in the nine lakes, and when he poked out from the edge of the pit, he still couldn't see the edge below, and the black water was flowing down the edge of the pit.
A summoning power that rose out of nowhere rose in Qingya's body, strictly speaking, came from the star field.
Thinking of the black robes buried at the bottom of the lake, Qingya immediately understood that this force was driving the remaining survivors to continue to die, which made Qingya feel a burst of anger, and decisively cut off the perception of the star field and the outside world, and this summoning power was immediately cut off.
Seeing the vitality of the hand fly like this, from the bottom of the deep pit, there was immediately a concussive roar.
This sound is not the roar of a dragon and a tiger, nor the thunder of the wind and thunder, but it beats in people's hearts like a war drum, Qingya has never heard such a strange cry, nor has he seen any relevant records in any classics.
After a few roars, from under the deep pit, there was a clear sound of footsteps, which seemed out of place in this silent underground, and everyone knew that the people who came at this time were friends and foes.
"All cultivators in the world have searched for heavenly opportunities and developed their bodies to the extreme, all in order to become immortals, but who knows what kind of world they will be after becoming immortals?
Even if the gods who are as powerful as the heavens, they can't be truly at ease after all, the so-called Chaowen Dao, you can die at night, so far, do you still think that my goal is just to eradicate the sword of calamity? ”
The person who stepped on the hanging ladder from under the pit was the emperor who fell down with everyone and disappeared.
There was still a scar on the center of his eyebrows, but his expression was no longer his old state, and he had returned to the appearance of his prime.
In his hand, he held a treasure jade, and everyone could recognize it at a glance as the symbol of the power of the emperors of the past dynasties, the imperial seal.
After getting a trace of the luck flowing out of the core of the sky by chance, the emperor could no longer sit still, just a trace of luck could support him to complete the creation of the Nine Fierce Devouring Soul Array, if all the luck was completely used for his own use, wouldn't he be able to directly transform into a god?
For this reason, the emperor tried every means to unlock the seal of the Heavenly Core, but to no avail.
At the beginning, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi gave this thing to the First Emperor, in order to protect the peace of the world for a long time, and the seal of the core of heaven has never been opened, only under the washing of time, there is a trace of the possibility of flowing out.
But human nature is always greedy, and after seeing the powerful power of luck, he was born with a low cultivation talent, and he also began to fantasize about one day being able to descend to the divine realm.
Immortality, this is something that everyone has dreamed of since ancient times, and countless cultivators have gone forward to succeed each other, isn't it just for this goal?
After years of study, he still couldn't unlock the seal of the Heavenly Core, but the outer layer of Baoyu was contaminated with the divine power of luck in the accumulation of thousands of years.
For this reason, the emperor did not hesitate to use Xuanyu glass to make sharp blades, and extracted his longevity through his own essence and blood, so as to activate the divine power that penetrated into the precious jade.
But he only knows one and doesn't know the other, the divine power left in Baoyu is extremely scarce, and it can't be used at all, even if he forcibly activates this power with a side door like him, it can only bring a short-term peak, and when the divine power is exhausted, he will also die due to the exhaustion of life.
And the emperor's seal will also become uncontrollable after being washed away by the breath contaminated in the world.
Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's another unknown.
"Now, this is the first step on my path to God."
The emperor engraved the broken dagger on the emperor's seal, the blade could not leave scratches on it, but it could drip his longevity onto the surface of the jade, and the divine power in it was activated, and a white light also flowed out of the emperor's seal, flowing into the wound on the emperor's eyebrows.
"Uh~"
The emperor let out a painful groan, and his eyes were also stained by that white light, revealing a dazzling light, and now he was a bit like Qingya when he was planted with a needle.
Gradually, the emperor's whole body was surrounded by a white halo, and with his cruel laughter, white lines reverberated back and forth under him, and also supported his body to rise into the air, until it stopped after a height of dozens of zhang.
The white light flowed more and more violently, and the particles of light continued to split and increase, as if someone was holding a paintbrush to outline the lines of a huge thing.
And as the brush continues to fall, after the outline is completed, a large area of brilliance fills in, and a strange body is assembled.