Chapter 8: The Extinction of Human Nature
Yuan Bao looked at the broken Taoist temple and the corpses all over the ground, the blood had coagulated, and the killing had been more than two hours, that is, before dawn today, this Songhe Temple was attacked by unknown forces.
Songheguan has two masters of Mahayana realm cultivation, and there are 300 disciples, and they have quietly killed all these people in a short period of time, and there are not many forces in the world that can do this.
The Demon Sect has withdrawn from the Central Plains since the First World War eight hundred years ago, mainly concentrated in the southwest and the northwest wilderness, if a large number of demon masters sneak into the Central Plains, they will definitely be detected by the Shushan faction and the Kunlun faction guarding the southwest border. In the righteous path, in addition to the Songhe Temple near Phoenix Mountain, there is also a Seven Star Gate, and a branch of the Buddhist Arhat Temple. The strength of these two factions is about the same as that of Songheguan, and even if they want to destroy the entire Songheguan faction by surprise, it is almost impossible. There are only five major sects of the righteous path that can have strength, such as Shushan, Kunlun, Bodhi Temple, Wuxingmen, and Xuanbing Palace.
And this is the Shu land of Hanzhong, which belongs to the sphere of influence of the Shushan faction. Could it be the master of the Shushan faction?
Master Li seemed to understand what Yuan Bao was thinking, and said, "This is definitely not the work of the Shushan faction. ”
Yuan Bao said: "I know that the Shushan faction is a large sect with a history of thousands of years, and it will never get along with this small sect, I just wonder what kind of force can silently destroy the Songhe Temple." ”
Master Li said: "This is what I want to check when I go down the mountain." ”
"Could it be that the Shushan Sect has already noticed it?"
Master Li nodded and said: "It should be, I don't know the specifics, Shizun ordered me to go down the mountain to explore the Songhe Temple, the Seven Star Gate, and the Xiaoyao Gate, these three factions have behaved strangely in recent years, and there seems to be another force working in secret."
"Another force? Could it be the resurgence of the Demon Dao and its desire to get involved in the Central Plains?"
Judging from the use of the Southern Xinjiang Miao Black Witch Gu by the Songhe Temple, this sect was by no means the pioneer of the battle between the righteous and the demons eight hundred years ago. It has long been reduced to heresy.
Hundreds of houses were almost all in ruins, and they were not burned, but the powerful true qi of the cultivation master swept away, and even the giant tripod that Yuan Bao saw last time was torn apart by a sword. It can be seen that the other party's cultivation has reached the realm of unpredictability.
The two of them searched around to see if there were any clues, or if there were any living mouths. Suddenly, "whoosh......" Two golden rays of light shot at the two from the ruins behind.
Yuan Bao and Master Li were very comparable, and they retreated at the same time, dodging two golden rays.
Yuan Bao sneered: "It turns out that the murderer is not finished yet, this time I have to capture you alive." ”
"You're the murderer. Out of the ruins came a young yellow-clothed little monk, hanging Buddhist beads, holding a golden bowl, slightly chubby, and looking extremely cute.
"It turned out to be a disciple of Buddhism?!" Yuan Bao was stunned, he didn't expect a monk to appear here.
The little monk pronounced a Buddha name and said: "The little monk is the empty phase of Bodhi Temple, and he was ordered to come to investigate the Songhe Temple, but he didn't expect to find that there was no longer a living mouth when he arrived here."
"Void phase?" Master Li didn't let his guard down, and said, "What kind of evidence do you have?"
The little monk seemed to be stunned, and said, "What kind of credentials does the girl need?"
Yuan Bao glanced at the empty phase, turned his head to Master Li and said: "Master girl, this little monk is indeed a disciple of Bodhi Temple, have you seen the big bowl in his hand, the Buddha is introverted, strong and powerful, it should be the Buddha bowl of the Buddha's treasure, and the rosary he hangs around his neck should be the reincarnation bead if I am not mistaken"
Empty Phase's face changed slightly, and he said, "This son has good eyesight."
Master Li gasped, she had naturally heard of the Buddha's bowl and the reincarnation bead, but she didn't expect that these two treasures of the world would appear on the body of a young monk.
She hugged her fists and said: "Master Li, a disciple in Xia Shu Mountain"
The empty phase clasped his hands together and said: "It turned out to be Senior Sister Li, look up for a long time!"
Today, all the schools of the righteous path, with the same qi and branches, have all been called brothers.
Yuan Bao said: "My name is Yuan Bao, no door and no faction, empty phase little monk, this day Water City is thousands of miles away from Bodhi Temple, completely outside your sphere of influence, why did you come here?"
The empty phase walked over and said with a wry smile: "Half a month ago, the abbot of the Luohan Temple sent a letter to my master, saying that the Seven Star Gate and the Songheguan have been acting strangely recently, and they are afraid that there is a demonic control, so the master asked the little monk to come and explore, and he arrived here early this morning, but he didn't expect that all the people in the Songheguan were killed." ”
Yuan Bao asked, "Don't you see who destroyed this Songhe Temple?"
The empty phase shook his head and said, "I'm one step late, those thieves have just walked for less than a quarter of an hour, and I have been searching for a long time before I found an underground secret room." ”
Master Li frowned and said, "Where is the underground secret room?"
The empty phase pointed to the place where he came from, hesitated for a moment, and said with an unbearable look on his face: "Senior Sister Li, you still don't want to go down, where are ...... Hey, there is no Amitabha Buddha in the south."
Yuan Bao groaned: "Could it be that there are a lot of dead people in it?"
"To be precise, it should be a living person." ”
Sora wanted to stop the two of them from going down, but they didn't block it, and the entrance to the secret room was behind the small courtyard where Miki Daoren lived, which was extremely secret, and the entire Taoist temple was flattened, and it was difficult to find out if you didn't look carefully.
It was very dark inside, and when I entered it, there was a long artificial tunnel leading straight to the belly of the mountain, and Master Li walked in the front, drawing out the Qingying Divine Sword, and the bright light radiated from the sword body under the urging of the real force, illuminating the tunnel brightly. As soon as I walked away, a foul and pungent smell came from inside the tunnel. You can still faintly hear the woman's terrible screams.
Yuanbao's heart jumped, stopped his steps, and said, "Senior girl, I think you still don't want to go in."
The empty phase was sandwiched between the two, and he hurriedly said: "What Yuan Shaoxia said is very true, you still don't want to go in"
Master Li frowned, looked back at the ingot, and said, "Do you know what's inside?"
Yuan Bao showed a unbearable look and said, "It should be a lot of women"
Master Li said coldly: "What's so terrible about women?"
"If it's a living woman, but her whole body has festered, do you think it's terrible?"
Master Li's face changed slightly, as if he had thought of something.
The three of them still walked in, and the empty phase had come in alone before, and knew what was inside, so he hurriedly closed his eyes.
At the end of the tunnel is a huge mountain cave, dozens of zhang high, and there are more than a dozen sacks at the entrance.
In the middle of the cave grew a plant that looked like a tree, seven or eight feet high, with very large leaves, like the banana leaves in the south, colorful and beautiful, countless tiny rattans stretched out from the huge plant, and there were hundreds of iron cages around the plant, some of which were rusty, and in each iron cage there was a woman in rags. Countless rattans stretched out from the strange plant and ran through the women's bodies.
Most of the women were motionless, their bodies were crawling with disgusting bugs, and many of them were still unconscious, screaming in pain.
"Beast, beast ......" Even the ingot, who had experienced countless lives and deaths, couldn't help jumping up and scolding at this moment.
After all, Master Li is a daughter, even if she has an indifferent surname, her face can't help but change greatly at this moment. Seeing that hundreds of women had festered in many parts of their bodies, disgusting insects crawled in and out from the festering of the woman's body, and the woman was not dead, so she couldn't help but tilt her head and retch a few times.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.
In the eyes of heaven, people are like grass, and grass is like people, all of them are equal. And in the caves in the belly of this mountain, all the sides that are showing are extinction of human surnames. Using living people as vessels to cultivate Gu worms is extremely rare even among the extremely vicious Demon Dao sect valves.
"Kill me, please kill me!" begged several young women who were still in their consciousness but were suffering from bone-eating screams.
Yuan Bao clenched the hilt of the long sword and shouted, "Don't be afraid, I'll save you." ”
Kong Xiang hurriedly stopped and said, "Yuan Shaoxia, don't do it, these Gu insects are extremely powerful, don't get close." ”
Yuan Bao pushed him away and said, "Do you just watch these mortals suffer like this?"
Master Li finished retching, his face was pale and bloodless, and he looked at the women in the iron cage screaming in pain one by one, and finally his eyes fell on the colorful giant plant in the middle, and said slowly: "Burn, burn here." ”
Yuan Bao said: "What are you talking about? You're not joking, there are hundreds of living people here." ”
Master Li said coldly: "These women have already become the living dead, once they leave that plant, they will definitely die in a day, even Senior Li can't cure this Gu poison, do you think even if they are rescued, how long can they live?"
The empty minister nodded and said: "Senior Sister Li is right, for these suffering female benefactors, death may be a relief, I am in favor of burning here." ”
Yuan Bao didn't speak again, even though he was unhappy in his heart, but things had to be solved. Once these Gu worms leave this cave, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Master Li said to Yuanbao: "You stand back, I will cast the true fire of Samadhi, Senior Brother of the Void Phase, you recite the mantra of the past life to surpass these unjust souls"
He nodded, sat cross-legged, removed the rosary from his neck, and began to chant.
The ethereal Sanskrit sound permeated the cave, and a faint golden Buddha light emanated from the empty and slightly chubby body, and gradually, the entire cave in the belly of the mountain was shrouded in a faint golden light. Some of the unconscious women slowly opened their eyes and looked at this side. More women were screaming, "Burn us, beg girl!"
Master Li's body was trembling, and it took a long time to calm down before she recited the true formula, and a faint blue flame suddenly rose between her jade fingers, this is the extremely powerful samadhi true fire of Taoism, which can incinerate all things. The water cannot be extinguished, and the wind does not disperse.
Yuan Bao stepped forward, looked at the one hundred and ten women who were peacefully waiting for death in the iron cage, and said slowly: "Don't worry, my Yuan Bao will definitely avenge you." ”
Master Li couldn't bear to look at it, turned his head, and closed his eyes. With a wave of his right hand, the samadhi true fire on the tips of his fingers suddenly turned into five blue fire dragons and rushed towards the cave.
Screams, wails, and the crackling of burning bodies filled every inch of the corner. Even if a cultivator is burned by the Samadhi True Fire, he can't stand it, let alone these mortal women.
Death is not terrible, waiting for death is more terrible than death itself.
These women suffer from the pain of ten thousand Gu desires at all times, and as the void phase says, death is the best relief for them.
The Samadhi True Fire burned for a whole hour, and everything in the cave turned to ashes, especially the strange plant that emitted a ghostly light as if it had life when it was burned, but it still couldn't stop the powerful flames of the Samadhi True Fire.
Yuan Bao saw that there were more than a dozen hemp bags at the entrance, his heart moved, he stepped forward to untie it, and found that it contained a lot of rice, he knew that the sack was by no means rice, and reached out to dig down, there were a lot of white wax pills inside, the wax pills were not big, at most only the size of two rice grains, Yuan Bao crushed a wax pill casually, and found that there was a young insect egg inside.
"It turns out that Zhao Er and the others came back from the southern Xinjiang camel are these Gu worm eggs, no wonder Miki Dao people want to kill people and destroy their mouths, but unfortunately he never thought that he would be destroyed by others, retribution, retribution!"
He threw more than a dozen sacks into the fire, and looking at the cave that had turned into ashes, he sighed and said, "Senior girl, this matter is very high, and I ask you to send it back to the Shushan faction as soon as possible." ”
Master Li nodded and said, "I know." ”
The little monk of the empty phase recited the Buddhist Gate "Mantra of Death" nine times, and then got up and said: "Two, this Songhe Temple has been reduced to a demonic path, and the Qixingmen that has been acting strangely recently should be the same as the Songheguan, which has long been controlled by a hidden force, and now the five major factions have been aware of it, and the Qixingmen is estimated to be wiped out, without further ado, we should rush to the Qixingmen as soon as possible to find out which force is causing trouble in the world." ”