Chapter 19: Finding the Trail
The disciples alternated, and the cloud boat kept going day and night, heading towards Meishan quickly, and on that boat, although there was already a recounting of the conversion, the first seat of the refuge still repeatedly looked through the dossier several times, and knew everything clearly.
As one of the abbots of Putuo, the second elder, and one of the four heads, he knew the inside story and purpose of this matter clearly, but he didn't know the specific details, as well as the news of the return of the monks, such as the dry fish and his party, he didn't know that he was going to the depths of Meishan, and he didn't know that the dry fish and others had contacted the Tiansi Chamber of Commerce, how to act, and then how to lure the qi refiner and others into the mountain with them, and lure out the demons in the way of human blood sacrifices.
Although the news of this return was transmitted before departure, based on the knowledge of the dry fish, it is believed that the real process of conversion is not far from what was expected, almost similar.
After pondering, he was going to sail Yunzhou into the camp of the Chamber of Commerce, take a look at the situation first, and then use the Divine Light of the Vertical Earth to go directly to the place where the dead fish died, verify the traces, and see if the monsters hidden here are the evil animals found by the Buddha's decree.
The only use of this bowl is that the divine light talisman hidden in the core can be sensed by the altar, so that as long as he runs the Dharma, he can reach it accurately, and there will not be too much deviation, if he does not go to the camp, he will also have to find a safe place to set up the altar, which will be more troublesome.
Meishan is one of the twelve forbidden demon caves in Dongsheng Shenzhou, don't say it's him, even if it's a fairy real person, I'm afraid I don't dare to fly here easily, not to mention driving a cloud boat, just a big demon can turn over the clouds and rain, and destroy this cloud boat, his little cultivation is at most just floating in the air for a moment, and there is only a dead end when encountering a big demon.
To the periphery of Duomei Mountain, if you want to move forward, it will be extremely difficult.
Following the traces left by the withered fish, not long after entering the Meishan range, the conversion arrived at the sky above the camp.
All he was left with was devastation, bones everywhere, and the flesh and blood that had not yet been eaten and had begun to rot, and the remains of the monsters that had been destroyed everywhere, and the weeds had grown again, sparsely lala, telling of the carnage here.
Yun Zhou turned around twice in mid-air, from the distribution of those corpses, the bow and crossbow were facing, and the conversion immediately recognized that this matter was definitely not attacked by the demon beasts outside, but from the inside to the outside, so he immediately locked his eyes on the surroundings of the demon beast cage and came down to check it in person.
"There are almost no traces of fighting outside the city walls, these monsters will never attack from the outside, so will they be the ones who sneak in, and then do things from the inside......"
"Well, it doesn't seem to be, although there are climbing claw marks on the inner wall, there are no climbing claw marks on the outer wall, and the four corners of the camp have not changed, so it's not a flying monster...... In this way, it can only be done from the inside out......"
"The shackles are actually open, not brute force tearing, which is interesting and interesting...... Well, this lieutenant is too, I don't know if it's a monster or a monster, so smart......"
"There aren't too many blood stains on the chain, so this monster didn't break free by itself, it must have been opened by the monster as well......"
"It's actually a demon beast! This is strange, even if it is a shape-shifting demon beast, it may not have such wisdom, right?"
After more than an hour of inspection, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he slowly walked out of the middle room of Nalang, and said to himself: "I can't imagine it, I can't imagine it, there is still such a smart monster hidden in the periphery of Meishan, it's really interesting." ”
Even if the six ugly have the memory of two lives, I'm afraid I can't think of what I did, and I was actually guessed by someone with the traces left, and when I learned later, I regretted it, and I was annoyed that I didn't set a fire, and in the following years, the six ugly people liked to set fire to it, no matter whether the demons and gods and demons were all demonic and cruel, but they didn't know that the root was here.
After inspecting this place, it was a refuge, and he could only do this step, and there was no way to find the demon beast, and he sighed regretfully, and he began to order the monks to take down the utensils on the cloud boat, find a clean and flat place, and set up the altar.
There are two altars, one back and forth, the refuge is a person who has already touched the door of ascending to the heavens, and his wariness of Meishan is far greater than that of ordinary monks like withered fish, as long as he finds any danger after arriving, he will do his best to escape, and never stop at all.
There was the Six Treasures Ruyi Demon Pestle as the heart of the formation, and the altar of conversion was quickly activated, only accompanied by a halo, and he was already on the edge of the cliff hundreds of miles away, and under his feet, there was the bowl and the white bones that sank deep into the ground.
He didn't dare to move, so he carefully picked up the demon pestle and injected his cultivation into it continuously......
The surroundings of the cliff are the same as before, but the blue sky and white clouds are gone, the black and oppressive dark clouds shroud here, the clouds and mist miasma in the valley under the cliff are all dispersed, revealing countless trees in the valley, insects and birds hissed, and thick fallen leaves are piled up at the foot of those trees, and the branches are yellow, gradually becoming ugly and hideous, just like the rest of Meishan.
Soon, Conversion opened his eyes in surprise, and his face was confused, because the demon-descending pestle in his hand did not move at all, in other words, this demon-descending pestle did not feel the demonic energy at all!
There are no demons here?!
The Six Treasures Ruyi Demon Pestle is different from those bowls, it is a real magic weapon, the gift of Lingtai Xianshan, in addition to being able to subdue demons and eliminate demons, but also to use it to detect the existence of demons, what you are doing now is this, but what you never expected is that there are no monsters here!
Where will he believe?
Immediately, he let go of the demon pestle and began to use only his own cultivation to explore his surroundings, looking for traces of demonic energy......
This time, as before, there are no demons, not even demon remnants!
This is the strangest thing, the conversion knows in his heart that no matter where and where, as long as there is a demon coming, there will inevitably be a very long time of demon energy remaining, the more low-level monsters remain, the longer they will remain, and they will disappear completely after only five days, which only shows one thing:
If it's not that there has never been a monster here, then the cultivation of this demon is extremely high, so high that it has not ascended to the heavenly realm, and it is impossible to detect it at all......
In Meishan, will there be such a large forest sea without demons?
The answer is self-explanatory.
Now that the monster has left, then he is safe for the time being, and the next thing is not for him to do, what he has to do now is to send the message back to Putuo, and the abbot will pray and pray, so that the Western Buddhist countries will know.
But before that, he still has one more thing to do, that is, to burn the monks who died here, and bring the ashes back to the temple, which is also what the abbot told him to do, although he feels that the dry fish are not worth it at all, and he can only do it.
As for the other corpses in the cave, although they were found, they didn't bother to take care of them.
He gathered some branches of grass and threw them into the pit, and he lit the fire.
Seeing that the fire was gradually raging, he sighed, and was waiting for you to recite a mantra of the past life, but suddenly felt a faint demonic aura not far from him, and was rapidly approaching.
Conversion was startled at first, but immediately laughed to himself, he also felt that his plants and trees were all soldiers, this demonic aura was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, at most it was a little demon who had not been transformed for a long time, and there was no cultivation at all, how could it be a big demon who occupied such a valley?
Sure enough, this demonic aura didn't wait for it to get completely close, so they all stopped, and looked from a distance, but saw that it was two little demons hiding behind the tree to probe their brains, and his heart moved, and he walked towards the little demon.
When the little demon saw him coming, his heart suddenly panicked, and he turned around and wanted to escape, but he was not in a hurry, and he sacrificed the demon pestle, only to hear a loud noise, and the demon pestle fell from mid-air, smashing a boulder on the road facing the two little demons, only three feet away from falling on the head of the two demons.
With such a sense of deterrence, the two little demons dared to run again, both knelt on the ground, and kept begging for mercy, shouting: "Grandpa spare his life, grandpa spare his life......"
Conversion slowly walked over, chose the current stump and sat down, took a closer look, but saw that it was a weasel demon and a fox demon, both of which were demons that had not long been transformed, and the demonic aura on their bodies was weak, so he said: "Do you want to die or live?"
"If you want to live, you want to live, please have mercy on grandpa!" the two little demons agreed and kowtowed.
"If you want to live, then you can be honest. Let me ask you, what is going on in this valley below, and why are you looking into your brain here?"
"I said, I said, a few days ago, we followed the king to hunt, and said that someone broke into the mountain, so we chased it straight here," the fox demon had sharp teeth, and immediately said silently:" When I got closer, the king stopped chasing, saying that there were our ancestors in the mountains, not saying that it was a person, that is, the gods came and couldn't run away, only let me wait here, but waited for a day but looked at the dark clouds in the sky, the king took me to wait in to check, and said that the ancestors were not there, and they wanted to go back to discuss with several other kings, leaving only two of me waiting here, if the ancestors came back, they would go to tell them. ”
Convert to ponder, guess that the so-called ancestors of these monsters are the big demons they speculate, and the ones who can be called the ancestors of the demons are by no means idle, and they can't really be the monsters that the Buddha country is looking for, and now they have fled - such a big demon is by no means something that the Putuo Temple can deal with, and when you return to the camp, you can return to the reasons you know.
As for the hunters who were chased by the monsters, it must be the Tiansi Chamber of Commerce and the withered fish and others, but with the shrewdness of the withered fish, how could they lure the demon king out of the mountains, and they were hunted down, and they were never mentioned in the file, which is a little unreasonable......
While thinking, Conversion Removal looked at the two demons at will, and suddenly noticed the scar on the Weasel Demon's chest, although it had scabbed, it could be clearly identified as the injury of two round iron thorns, and then looked at the shackle marks between his hands and feet, Conversion immediately shouted: "How did you wait for the demon king to know that someone had entered the mountain, say!"
"I, I, I ......" The fox demon was frightened by him, and subconsciously opened his mouth, but immediately found that he didn't know why, but the fox demon's mind was really not slow, and then he pointed his finger at the weasel demon, and shouted again and again: "It is retribution, it is ...... retribution"
Conversion shifted his gaze to the Itachi.
Without waiting for him to ask, the weasel demon was already busy opening his mouth: "I said, I said, grandpa don't want to kill me, the thing is actually like this......" He didn't hide it at all, and in a few words, he spit out the whole thing like a bean on a bamboo tube.
People are ungrateful, but demons are not, because demons don't say anything like that!
As long as I can live, let him flood the sky?
Although the weasel demon's words are not as clever as the fox demon, it can also be said clearly, with its narration, a multi-intelligent near demon - non also, here should be said to be a multi-wise near demon - the image of the monkey, little by little by it outlined, very clear.
"I see!"
Combined with his own inquiry, he was sure that the weasel demon was not deceiving, so he nodded with satisfaction: "But there are others?"
"Don't dare to hide it, don't dare to hide it, grandpa, I'll say it all......" The two little demons knelt down again, kowtowed, and begged desperately.
"I believe you are waiting!" Conversion nodded and said with a smile: "In this case, then it is useless for you to wait!"
With the words, the demon pestle suddenly flew up and fell straight above the heads of the two demons!