Chapter 17: The Great Secret Palace
There is an old shrine under the Hokyo Palace, and there is no sunlight in the temple all year round, and even in the hottest summer, it is as if you are in an ice cave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoEvery grain of dust here is the deposition of history. Every prayer is an echo of the past.
Before one reached the temple, one heard the sound of prayers and prayers in the temple, and stepped into the somewhat sunken ebony threshold that had been stepped on, and one could see the strong incense staining the air in the temple pale blue.
Looking at the hall, the whole hall is supported by eighteen huge pillars, the crimson pillars are painted with golden dyes after opening the world, the ancestors and the heavens and the earth compete with the picture of ten thousand beasts, although these paintings have gone through more than 700 years, but you can still feel the emotions that the original painter poured into it, the ancient ancestors, stepping on the earth and pointing to the sky, with the backbone to support this happy land.
In the center of these eighteen giant pillars, there is a seat carved from pale cyan cold jade, through which you can see that there is a creature that looks like a dragon and a non-dragon swimming inside the cold jade from time to time. but it is a living creature
Many priests and witches dressed in short animal skin skirts bowed to the middle-aged people in gorgeous costumes on the high platform. The pale golden power of pious faith gradually gathered from everyone's bodies, and was injected into the seven-colored auspicious clouds above the middle-aged man's head in the distance. Every moment, the auspicious cloud will grow stronger
In this ancient hall, the statue of King Yu was originally enshrined. Today, the idol carved from a single piece of agarwood has been moved aside. Standing quietly, the eyes inlaid with the night pearl stared directly at the people in this cool and solemn hall. There seems to be a smile on the finely carved face at all times, but the shadow behind this curtain makes people feel a little creepy.
The ever-bright lamps around it, because of the special spices offered by Dongyi added to the lamp oil, the whole flame turned into a green and blue color, which illuminated the entire hall even colder.
At this moment, there was no sound in the temple except the cheers and breathing of the people. Everything seems lifeless, and the eyes are full of death.
With the clatter of footsteps getting closer and closer, passing through one invisible barrier after another in the air. In the end, the owner of the footsteps stopped under the high platform.
"Well, Shaodian, you're here" The figure on the high platform took a deep breath of light blue incense, and the auspicious clouds above his head expanded again.
"Yes" Shaodian bowed slightly, saluting Wang Shi on the high platform.
And then there was a long silence. King Zhou's quiet cultivation absorbed the power of everyone's faith, and at the same time continued to refine the mana in the incense, and then continued to absorb the soul power in the merman's oil lamp. The elixir held by the attendant beside him, which is said to be able to raise the flesh and bones of the dead, is even taken from time to time.
Shaodian just stood aside, looking at King Zhou, but also guarding King Zhou, once there is a little accident, the power of the Terran Great Sacrifice Wine inherited by Shaodian will be the greatest guarantee for King Zhou.
A man in black walked over briskly from the side hall with a small box in his hand: "King, this is the ghost mother incense that Dongyi tributed, according to Dongyi's envoys, as long as this ghost mother incense is lit, it can attract countless ghosts and evil ghosts, and at this time, the king can use secret methods to absorb their soul power." The man in black hunched over the box carved from the gloomy blue and black wood in his hand, but which looked colorful because of the inlaid jewels.
Shaodian frowned and looked at the fluffy tail that appeared behind the man in black. The people of the demon clan actually dared to enter this secret hall. You must know that this secret hall is a temple secretly built by King Wu after the founding of the country, and it stores too many secrets of the Zhou royal family. In the past, only three or four heads of the Secret Temple were allowed to enter.
Now, King Zhou's use of this secret hall for cultivation is already overstepping. But how did you let these monsters in?
The reason why King Zhou occupies this hall of eternal life dedicated to King Yu is that the nameless magic circle carved on the ground of this hall when it was originally built. Sometimes like clouds, sometimes like thorns, the circle is unpredictable. So far, no one has studied all the mysteries of this magic circle, and the effects known now are concentration, calming qi, gathering souls, purifying, etc.
This moment of cultivation is comparable to the gain of a day of cultivation on earth.
A few years ago, Dongyi paid tribute to a fragment of an ancient book, saying that it was a reward from King Li at the beginning, and it was about the secret method of how to ascend to the gods on the ground.
After detailed study by several great witches of the secret hall, they all believed that this method was feasible.
This secret method is actually a very predatory exercise. This exercise can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, the qi of the five elements, and the power of the soul. It can absorb the essence of the flesh. All powers, as long as they are absorbed, are like great rivers flowing into the sea, and they do not distinguish each other.
It's like someone sending a pillow when you're sleepy, this is what King Zhou needs, the secret method to quickly improve your skills.
Since the reign of King You, the King of Zhou lost the power of inheritance, and the twenty-six generations of King Zhou have been working hard to restore the power of the Zhou royal family.
I don't know how many times the technique of sacrificing heaven and earth has been performed, and the slaves and animals slaughtered by the sacrifice are also unknown, and once all the power is injected into the void, it will be gone.
There is no reward from heaven and earth, no gift from demons and gods.
Compared with being reprimanded by the ancestors for insufficient offerings, this kind of silent thing makes people feel more like gains and losses.
Gradually, the sacrifices became more and more frequent and vast, and now they are becoming more and more scarce, and the twenty-six generations of Zhou kings are less and less convinced that they can still inherit the power inherited from Jiuding.
The ancient books in the secret hall have been read by the kings of Zhou and the great sacrificial wine of the past dynasties, and even every sentence of each book can be memorized backwards. But what went wrong, they still don't know.
It is only from a clay fragment that records the inheritance power of Jiuding that when the bloodline is broken, the heaven and the earth are greatly changed, and the Jiuding is destroyed, the power stored by Jiuding will be used to guard this heaven and earth. It's just that whether there is a way to recover the power or not, due to the damage of the pottery shard, it is no longer known.
Countless secret methods that were almost lost before have been read, and many secrets that have not been noticed have been discovered. Techniques such as the Soul Splitting Technique and the Soul Melting Technique, which were originally listed as taboos and permanently sealed, were also discovered.
In the inheritance of these more than 20 generations of Zhou kings, in addition to recording various methods of trying to call Jiuding, it is the various methods they practiced to improve their strength.
Some are righteous and grandiose, and some are ghostly.
From the Spirit Gathering Array absorbing the essence of the Five Elements, to the Sunu Heart Sutra handed down by the Yellow Emperor, to sucking human milk to refine the undead. Each time it is more extreme than the last.
By the time of the previous generation of King Zhou, he was almost crazy.
The first king used the technique of splitting the soul recorded a long time ago to divide one of his son's souls into two, sharing one body, and when one was responsible for handling state affairs, the other continued to cultivate. On the second day, the two souls rotated. In order to achieve the purpose of growing stronger.
It's just that these courtiers suffer from it, and they often have to face the moodiness of King Zhou.
In order to increase his strength, he is a little unscrupulous.
In recent years, King Zhou has become more and more perverse, and even Dongyi's evil secret methods have begun to cultivate.
There is also more and more no discipline in doing things. Now, even this kind of monster that has not fully evolved can enter this secret hall in a grand manner.
Once the heaven and earth are disturbed, I am afraid that the disaster will not be far away.