readx;? In the middle of the woodland were a few iron pots, which emitted a strange fragrance. The www.biquge.info everyone sat around the campfire and whispered gossip. The atmosphere suddenly became comfortable again, as if the thrilling battle just now had never happened.

It's just that the blood on the ground not far away, as well as the five newly erected graves outside the camp, are wordlessly reminding everyone that everything before is not a nightmare, but a real fact.

"Eat more," Zhang Xun fished out two bowls of meat, handed one bowl to Qiu Zhe, and left one bowl for himself: "This demon tiger has cultivated for at least three hundred years, and the meat is more replenishing than any ginseng and lingzhi." You've just spent a lot of energy, and you're in need of replenishment. ”

Seeing that the people around him were feasting, Qiu Zhe couldn't help frowning. Thinking of everything that had just happened, the current atmosphere always made him feel a little ironic, but he still didn't say anything in the end, lowered his head and ate in a muffled voice.

After eating three bowls in a row, as soon as he put down the dishes and chopsticks, a stream of heat gushed out of his abdomen and scattered into the limbs and hundreds of remains, the flesh and blood of this demon tiger was really extraordinary, Qiu Zhe said while his luck was divergent: "Uncle Zhang, I think something is wrong." ”

"What?" Zhang Xun was old after all, and he couldn't compare to the amount of food he had eaten as a young man, so he had already finished eating and resting: "What did you find?"

"We've encountered a little too many dangers along the way," Qiu Zhe said, "Since the wolves on the third night, the creatures in this cloud and mist have attacked us wave after wave as if they had taken the wrong medicine. Last night's bat swarm was troublesome enough, and tonight's demon tiger is only one step away from being able to transform. How did we provoke these beasts, knowing that they would be our enemies even if we were going to die?"

"Ever since we entered the clouds, I have always felt as if a pair of eyes were watching us. The deeper you go, the stronger this feeling becomes. If these eyes really exist, then they must be hostile to the gaze they look at us. I now feel more and more that the whole cloud and mist valley, whether it is the birds and animals in it, or the surrounding grass, trees, bamboos and stones, this woodland, and even the stream that draws water, is full of hostility towards us. And our experiences along the way seem to prove my hunch. ”

Hearing him say this, Zhang Xun was silent for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he remembered something: "Could it be that this cloud and mist has already had Haotian consciousness?"

Qiu Zhe's mind exploded, and the word "Haotian" was like a key, opening some clues that had been sealed in his heart for a long time.

Regarding the concept of Haotian, Qiu Zhe first heard about it from Lai Shouzhong. The word Haotian is the name of the Supreme Heavenly Emperor in the Middle-earth civilization, and it is the highest god of official worship. Merchants take their ancestors as gods and call them "God", and the Zhou people worship the sky, after the merger of Shang and Zhou, the "God" of the Yin people and the "heaven" of the Zhou people are united, and they become the supreme god of "Haotian God".

However, if you want to dig deeper into the meaning of this word, there is actually another meaning. Haotian is not a god of any religion, but a general term, referring to the supreme consciousness that governs all things in heaven and earth, which is equivalent to the concept of a cosmic god. In Taoism, it is depersonalized, used to refer to the core of the mixed atmosphere, a natural force that controls and dominates all things in the universe.

"There is a kind of ant in the desert, as an individual, they are just very simple arthropods, all actions are based on instinct and reflexes, but when there is a certain number of populations, this group as a whole, begins to have a certain logical thinking and judgment ability. The larger the population, the more complex the thinking of the whole becomes, and gradually there is a tendency towards intellectualization, that is, the so-called collective consciousness. ”

Cui Peng once studied the concept of the so-called Haotian with Qiu Zhe, and after saying the above theory, he said very firmly: "Haotian in Taoism is the ultimate form of this collective consciousness, which is the collection of consciousness of the whole world and even the entire universe, which can be called world consciousness. ”

Every thing, while being an individual, naturally exists in the collective. Even human beings themselves are no exception, regardless of whether the individual is conscious or not, he must assume the role of an element in the collection, and the individual consciousness will also be reflected in the collective consciousness. From this point of view, every world has Haotian consciousness, and everyone is a part of Haotian consciousness, regardless of whether he has this consciousness or not.

"Could it be that the world where this cloud and mist is located has awakened the consciousness of Haotian?" Qiu Zhe suddenly thought: "And this consciousness is still hostile to us?"

At the thought of this possibility, Qiu Zhe suddenly felt creepy, at this moment, whether it was the grass under his feet, or the surrounding trees, the cool breeze blowing at night, the stream flowing in the distance, everything that belonged to this world seemed to be looking at him with hostile eyes. This feeling of being the enemy of the world gave him unprecedented pressure.

"The danger is not over," Qiu Zhe suddenly understood: "From wolves to bats, to last night's demon tiger, this world has regarded our group of people as an invading virus, and wants to eliminate us by all means. The incoming enemies are stronger and stronger, and God knows what awaits us behind!"

"No," Qiu Zhe thought to himself, and couldn't help blurting out: "We can't go any further, we must return as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid no one will be able to get out alive." ”

He found Zhou Fanghe and explained his concerns, but the latter was expressionless, noncommittal to Qiu Zhe's words, but said that he would discuss it. After Qiu Zhe left, he frowned, turned around and walked towards the three monks of the Wuxiang Sect: "A few masters, what do you think?" ”

The three high-ranking monks of the Ming generation, who have always been low-key, are gathered at this moment, and they don't know what they are discussing. The three of them are all cultivators of the Law Realm, and they naturally hear the conversation between Qiu Zhe and Zhou Fanghe clearly. Monk Mingku was the first to speak, and said in a deep voice: "This posterior is so sharp, we just noticed this, and we don't want him to foresee it." ”

The monk said: "The demon snake was born according to the will of heaven, and in this heaven and earth, it is the destiny of heaven." I waited for this time to come, I want to kill the demon, I have already aroused the taboo of this world, and now the entire cloud and mist is surrounded by enemies, this trip, I am afraid that it will be in vain. ”

Hearing the words of the two masters, there was a great meaning of Mingjin to withdraw the troops, and Zhou Fanghe's heart was inexplicably relieved. This time he was entrusted with someone, and it was really the worst journey he had ever experienced in his life. Along the way, three people died inexplicably, and the real murderer has not been determined so far, and the various dangers experienced along the way have not been experienced in previous years. He now has no hope for the original goal, and only thinks about returning safely, bringing the rest of the people back, giving an explanation to the six major factions, and then returning to his hometown immediately, and never getting involved in these things again.

As for whether the six major factions can accept his rhetoric and what they will do with Xiao Xuanran, he doesn't care at all. Anyway, Su Wenzhai secretly refined, and the matter of refining the Qingwang God was thrown out, and the six major factions were afraid that they would immediately have civil strife, and he himself was not without heels, so naturally he would not let anyone knead it.

Just verbally, he still had to be a little reserved, and said unhappily and angrily: "Then the meaning of the three masters, but they want to return here?"

Ming Ku and Ming Fa glanced at each other, and invariably looked at the monk Mingdeng in unison: "Now that the matter is now, where to go, it is naturally up to the senior brother to decide!"