Chapter 24: Turning Spirits into Ghosts
The waterway has nine bends and eighteen bends, after mountain after mountain, I don't know how much water has been crossed, how many mountains have been crossed, Luo Heng and others finally saw the flames in the tribal cottage.
Southern Xinjiang is not as Antai as Zhongzhou, where there are many mountains, many waters, many forests, and many beasts. At night, only the inside of the village is safe, and the outside of the wall of the village is a paradise of wild beasts and monsters, and no matter how brave the hunter is, he is not willing to go out of the village at night.
"When we arrive, behind the mountain is our stockade. Zhuoya pointed to a mountain hundreds of feet high and said.
The Kunge tribe is surrounded by mountains, and their cottage is built in a valley surrounded by three mountain peaks, and they have taken advantage of the topography to use the mountain as a wall to carve out a safe place in this mountain wilderness.
"Damn, monster!" After going ashore, Luo Heng jumped sideways and hid behind Luo Ying. Now he finally knew the reason why the wooden raft could run so fast without sails and oars, and it turned out that there were three golden pythons more than one foot thick and five feet long under the wooden raft pulling it away. Now that he went ashore and saw their full appearance, Luo Heng was taken aback by them.
Recalling that when he was thrown onto the boat by the two patriarchs of Mogu and Budu before, he received a big tentacle that turned out to be the tail of one of the pythons, Luo Heng couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and felt a chill, only to feel that his hair stood on end and his scalp was numb.
"Quick, get them out of the way. Luo Heng was so scared that he was about to get into Luo Ying's skirt. The lingering thoughts were full of the three thick and long pythons coiled around each other.
"Young Master Luo, you don't have to be afraid, the three of them are actually very gentle. Zhuoya said with sincerity on her face.
"Can they have a little bit to do with the word gentleness?" Luo Heng, who had slipped into Luo Ying's skirt, asked rhetorically outside.
Seeing that Luo Heng still couldn't accept her three cuteness, she finally followed Luo Heng's wishes and sent them away first.
The mountains and jungles were rugged and difficult to walk, and it took Luo Heng and them nearly half an hour to reach the top of the mountain. On the top of the mountain, there is a circle of wooden and stone walls that are more than three zhang high and more than one zhang thick, and the outer layer of the wall is like a hedgehog's coat with countless wooden thorns, and the tips of the wooden thorns are also coated with strong venom of different colors.
At the foot of the walled wall, there are animal bones scattered all over the ground, and there are dense arrow towers built on top of the wall, which shows how difficult it is to survive in southern Xinjiang.
When he was still a hundred meters away from the wall, Zhuoya picked up the bone whistle he wore on his chest and sent a signal to the guards on the arrow tower, so as not to be accidentally injured by the nervous archers.
"It's the patriarch, they're back! In order to facilitate travel, the people have placed hanging baskets that can take off and land vertically at more than a dozen fixed points for entry and exit.
The square gondola is made of arm-thick logs and can transport about three people at a time. Luo Heng, Luo Ying and Zhuoya were the first to climb the wall, and the three patriarchs were the second to climb the wall.
After climbing the wall, Luo Heng saw the situation inside the tribe, the central area of the tribe is the lowest place, where a lake of hundreds of zhang is gathered, and it is also the main water source of the entire tribe. The lake is surrounded by tribesmen's settlements, and even in some steep places, there are people who build houses in caves in the mountains.
"Holy Maiden, you have finally returned. The priest, the old man, had returned to the ancestral spirit the night before. The guards who came up after seeing Zoya choked with moist eyes.
"No way, the Priestess told me the other day that she has five years to live. How could he have died all of a sudden?" Zoya said in disbelief.
"The priest, her old man, exhausted her mental strength to save her people, and her soul withered and died. The guards finally burst into tears uncontrollably.
"Old Five. When the Kule patriarch, who had just climbed the wall, heard the news of the priest's death, he immediately collapsed to the ground, and Mogu and Budu hurriedly helped him up.
In the southern Xinjiang tribe, the priest is in charge of the sacrifice and the transmission of knowledge, and is the core figure of a tribe, and his status is even above the patriarch.
"Holy Maiden, the priest has left a divine thought waiting for you in the ancestral spirit hall. The guards swallowed their grief and reminded Zoya.
"Old Five, the priest inheritance is the first thing at the moment, you must hold on. Budu encouraged Khuller.
In the southern Xinjiang tribe, the holy woman is the successor of the priest, which means that Kunge Zhuoya is about to become the new priest of the Kunge clan.
"Enter the Ancestral Spirit Temple. Kunge Kule took Zhuoya and walked straight to the Ancestral Spirit Hall, and everyone followed.
The ancestral spirit hall of the Kunge clan is in a very large cave, and after following everyone into the cave, Luo Heng found that at this moment, the corpse of an old woman was parked under the ancestral spirit shrine, and countless clansmen were kneeling and bowing to this corpse with great devotion and mourning.
When everyone saw Zhuoya enter the Ancestral Spirit Hall, they all retreated to make way for her. Three steps and one kneeling, nine steps and one knock, Zhuoya arrived in front of the altar.
At this moment, the ancestral spirit divine seat appeared, and a soul phantom appeared above the divine seat. "The one hundred and thirty-fourth priest of the Kunge tribe, Kunge Zhangjia, has decided to pass on the priesthood to the ——。 The remnant priest god suddenly stopped, and looked at Luo Heng and Luo Ying, who did not kneel in the temple.
"Who are you?" "Why don't you worship in front of the ancestral spirits?" "The crime of disturbing the ceremony of the priest's succession is not punishable." "Sacrifice them to the spirits of their ancestors." ”......。 The Kunge people thought that Luo Heng's rude behavior had angered the ancestral spirits, and they all looked sideways and angrily, wanting to sacrifice the two of them to the ancestral spirits.
"Heavenly ghosts are above, the one hundred and thirty-fourth priest of the Kunge clan, Kunge Zhangjia, wishes to lead the whole clan to worship you as the supreme guardian spirit of our clan, and to be worshiped by our clan for eternity, please have mercy and save our clan from suffering. At this moment, the remaining sacrificial divine thoughts suddenly knelt at Luo Ying's feet.
"Heavenly Ghost, please forgive me for the offense that ignorant people like us have offended you. We will serve you forever. The Kunge clan who reacted followed the priest of their clan to worship Luo Ying. At this moment, the Kunge priest has already returned to the ancestral spirit, the ancestral spirit is her, and she is the ancestral spirit. They naturally had to obey the orders of their own ancestral spirits without question.
"I am willing to accept your followers, and from now on the Kung clan will be guarded by me. At this moment, Luo Ying, who was calm and unhurried, was like a true god accepting the devout worship of the believers.
All this came so suddenly that Luo Heng, who was standing on the side, was a little dazed. What just happened here? What are you guys doing?
"Kunge Zhangjia, you have led your people to make the right choice, and I will give you a new life. "Without Luo Ying's appearance, the soul of Priest Kunge Zhangjia would have completely returned to the ancestral spirit after the priest succession ceremony, merging with the previous one hundred and thirty-three previous priests, and thus losing its sense of self.
Under Luo Ying's intervention, Kunge Zhangjia still merged with the first one hundred and thirty-three ancestral priests, but Kunge Zhangjia not only did not lose his self-consciousness, but also completely inherited the power of all the previous priests.
Now Kunge Zhangjia has become a soul body, a soul body with a soul power value of nearly 30,000. As long as the soul power value exceeds 100, the soul body can be gathered but not dispersed, and it can remain in the heaven and earth for a long time. But if you want to truly survive in this world, you still need to withstand the test of heaven's will - the heavenly tribulation.
Although the providence of heaven is dead in this world, the business is still there, and all beings are afraid of ghosts and hate ghosts, so the business has replaced the will of heaven to suppress ghost cultivation. Therefore, the heavenly tribulation that this ghost cultivator has crossed can also be said to be the tribulation of sentient beings.
Spiritual cultivators have seven realms, and ghost cultivators also have seven eons. At most, if a spiritual practitioner fails to cross the border, he or she will be cut off, while a ghost cultivator will be wiped out if he fails to cross the tribulation.
The soul body with a soul power value of 100 will have to cross the first tribulation of this ghost cultivation, and after that, every tenfold increase in soul power will cross a heavenly tribulation, until the seven calamities are exhausted, turning ghosts into immortals.
Kunge Zhangjia now has a soul power value of nearly 30,000, which means that she will soon survive three tribulations in a row. The form of the catastrophe is uncertain and unpredictable, it may be a thunder tribulation or a fire tribulation, and only when the calamity comes, can we know which one it is.
Kunge Zhangjia's catastrophe came soon, in order not to affect the clansmen, she deliberately chose the no-man's land at the top of the mountain to cross the tribulation. The sky was overcast, and suddenly there was a loud thunderstorm, and the green thunder and lightning filled the zenith, and her first calamity was a thunder tribulation.
Fortunately, this is only a tribulation for a catastrophe of ghost cultivation, and its power is limited, even if it is the green thunder plus body, Kunge Zhangjia, has not suffered any substantial damage.
The first catastrophe was passed safely, and the soul never dispersed. But this second calamity also followed.
At the top of the mountain, there was a sudden strong wind, strong enough to fly sand and rocks. This second calamity is the wind calamity, and the limelight is like a knife, and it comes to kill Kunge Zhangjia.
Under the second tribulation, her soul power value was directly evaporated by 5,000, but she finally survived. From then on, the spirit is opened, and it is no longer like a walking corpse that only follows instinct.
Before she could take a breather, the Third Tribulation was coming. I saw that the mountain under her feet suddenly erupted with a dark blue flame, this flame had no temperature, because it was a flame specially used to calcine the soul, and the blue flame caused her several times more damage than the damage caused by the previous two heavenly tribulations combined.
I saw that her soul power was rapidly decreasing, and most of it had disappeared in less than a quarter of an hour. At the critical moment, Luo Ying made a move, and she sacrificed a part of the remnant soul fragments collected from Yunyang County to her SSS ability [Gathering Thoughts Come True], using her mental power to fight against the will power of all beings, and weakening the Heavenly Tribulation for Kunge Zhangjia.
"Thank you, Supreme for your grace of recreation. "Kunge Zhangjia successfully survived the Third Tribulation. After the three tribulations, the phantom soul has turned into a form, and from then on, you can have a virtual soul body, and it is no longer just an invisible obsession.