Just when Jiang Yao and Xiao Hei returned to look for Xuan Miao, Xuan Miao had already fallen into a cold palace under the desert.
Of course she didn't come in by herself, but was pulled down by something.
With a "peng" sound, Xuan Miao fell heavily on the stone slab in the palace. He groaned in pain and his bun fell apart.
"Who is it!" Xuanmiao shouted sharply, turning over and getting up.
"come out!"
Waiting for it to look around, even though she was brave, she felt terrified at this moment.
Inside this ancient underground palace, there were actually many colorful intestinal-like things squirming around, like living creatures, but not insects.
Some of these "intestine"-like things are wrapped around pillars, some are hovering in the air, and some are meandering on the ground.
The 'intestine'-like thing carries an extremely putrid smell and an indescribable strange power.
What's this?
Was he torn out by these intestine-like things just now?
Xuan Miao's scalp suddenly became numb.
When he saw the roundworms crawling out of those intestines, Xuan Miao's face turned pale and she felt nauseous.
"It's so disgusting. Is this an intestinal refining magic?"
She tried to calm down, looked inside the main hall, and suddenly discovered a wooden sculpture.
This wooden sculpture is thin and long. At first glance, it looks like a pointed tree stump, but when Xuan Miao takes a closer look, he realizes that this wooden sculpture has a nose and eyes.
The pointed head, complete facial features, no neck, and slender body look like a giant roundworm!
It's like a giant tapeworm was transformed into a monster, and then a statue was carved in its likeness.
People are not humans, insects are not insects.
This monster, neither human nor insect, is really ugly and weird.
"This, this is a nest of roundworms!" Xuanmiao said to herself, feeling disgusted to death.
Seeing these intestines approaching him, the wriggling movements of the roundworms could be clearly heard, and Xuan Miao's face looked very ugly.
Ginger medicine!
Damn forbidden desert!
"Jiang Yao! Jiang Yao! Xiao Hei! I'm here!" Xuanmiao shouted to the top of the hall.
"Jie Jie!" Suddenly, a creepy, high-pitched voice sounded.
"I have been waiting for so many years and finally found a good insect carcass. How many good insects can such a good human slave raise?"
"Well, I can refine a new intestine."
Following the voice, the wooden sculpture came to life. It turned out that it was either a wooden sculpture or the monster itself.
Xuan Miao calmed down instead. She looked at the monster that was neither human nor an insect, and sneered: "Are you sure you can use my flesh and blood to raise insects?"
"Jie Jie." The monster's laughter was cold, evil, and carried an indescribable aura of decay, "Where do you think this is? This is the dojo of my Great Sage Refining Intestines."
"In the Forbidden Desert, I say one thing, but no one dares to say two things."
Xuan Miao frowned, "Are you the Great Sage of Intestine Refining?"
There is a legend in the real world about "raising insects and causing infestation".
Once upon a time, there was a strong man who had a roundworm in his belly since he was a child. However, he believed that the roundworm had grown up with him, parasitized in his body, and was part of his life, so he kept nourishing it with his own essence and blood.
As time went by, until one day, this roundworm took advantage of the fight between the host and the enemy and suddenly launched an attack in the host's belly.
The host was already fighting a powerful enemy when it was attacked by a parasitic roundworm monster in its body. It was caught off guard and died immediately.
So, after killing the host, Na En took revenge on the roundworm monster, sucked the host's flesh and blood, broke out of the body, and became a powerful evil monster.
This monster calls himself the Great Sage of Intestinal Refining, created his own Intestinal Refining Technique, and founded the Intestinal Refining School. He also refines the intestines of the host into a magic weapon called the Divine Intestine Blood-devouring Whip, which can devour the essence, blood and soul.
"That's right. I haven't been around the world for many years. I didn't expect anyone to know about me." The great sage Lianchang stared at Xuan Miao with a pair of small black eyes.
"Not only do I want to devour your flesh and blood, but I also want to refine your intestines. Your original cultivation level is very high, and you should be able to refine it into a powerful intestinal whip magic weapon."
Xuan Miao was frightened in her heart and stalled for time to say: "I have heard your legend. The host is your benefactor, why do you want to repay kindness with enmity?"
"Repaying kindness with hatred?" Great Sage Lianchang sneered.
"That's because he is being pedantic and seeking death. How can he blame me for repaying kindness with enmity. I am a parasitic creature, and it is my duty to feed on my host. How can I repay kindness with enmity? It's ridiculous."
"If he was really smart, he should have pinched me to death as soon as possible. He deserves to be infested with insects."
Xuan Miao took a step back and said, "You are actually dead. You are just an evil spirit enshrined by the power of evil thoughts. Therefore, you can only stay in this poor place and can't go anywhere."
The Great Sage of Lianchang Jiejie smiled strangely, "Yes, you are right. I have indeed been dead for many years, but I am alive again. Lord Xisheng promised me that I will be truly reborn."
After saying that, its body shook and a piece of intestine wrapped around it.
Xuan Miao suddenly turned pale and her eyes were desperate.
"Bang!" There was a sudden loud noise, a blue light flashed, and the intestine screamed and retracted.
Immediately afterwards, a black shadow flashed, and a tall and strong black dog jumped down with an astonishing aura.
On the back of the big black dog, there was a handsome young man sitting steadily.
"Jiang Yao!" Xuanmiao was immediately ecstatic when she saw Jiang Yao. She couldn't help but rush over and grabbed Jiang Yao's sleeve.
"Are you talking about the Western Sage?" Jiang Yao looked at the Great Sage Refining the Inch, "Are you talking about letting you truly be reborn? Did the Western Sage say that?"
"Who are you? Hey, I recognize you!" Great Sage Lianchang looked at Jiang Yao and said sharply, "It was you who ruined my good deeds!"
Jiang Yao looked at the roundworm monster with a half-smile and said in amazement, "Yes, more than thirty years ago, I had an encounter with one of your shadows and destroyed your shadow."
"I didn't expect that I would see me here today. But I couldn't have imagined that I would be hiding here and lingering, and my strength is not as good as the shadow. Oh, how pitiful!"
He could tell at a glance that although this monster had a solid body, it was actually a soul body. The physical body had long since perished, so its strength was limited and not as good as its former self.
It had previously branched out into several shadows to cause trouble, and it must have been for the resurrection of this deity.
Jiang Yao once destroyed a shadow. When that shadow was destroyed, he still told himself to remember that one day...
"Bold!" the monster shouted, "Even if my physical body has fallen, I can still eat you! Refining your intestines!"
Before he finished speaking, a piece of intestine came to Jiang Yao, ready to swallow the roundworms.
Jiang Yao shook his head and suddenly waved his sleeve.
The snake in his sleeve immediately took a bite out of his intestines.
"Hiss!" The intestines suddenly trembled violently, and the roundworms in the intestines also hissed in pain.
In the blink of an eye, piles of intestines and clumps of roundworms turned into nothingness under the terrifying poison.
Roundworms are inherently afraid of poison. How powerful is Ah Jiu's snake venom?
Back then, Jiang Yao, Xuan Song, Li Xi and others were exploring the desert and encountered a shadowy figure from the Great Sage Refining the Intestine. They used the Poison Domain to destroy the shadowy figure.
There is only one left, the Great Sage Refining the Intestine.
The monster froze immediately and stared at Ah Jiu with a horrified expression.
Although it is a spirit body, it has been practicing for many years and has long been a native of the Forbidden Desert. It has perfect level three strength and is infinitely close to level four.
With such strength, he is definitely the strongest person in the Forbidden Desert.
But it's too careless.
He didn't expect that this man actually had such a poisonous and fast little snake hidden in his sleeve.
Jiang Yao sneered: "Are you a monster under Xi Sheng? Are you also a member of the Tianping God Sect?"
The great sage Lianchang was shocked, "Who are you?"
"Who am I?" Jiang Yao asked with a playful look, "I am the King of Ming, the leader of the divine religion. Both the Western Sage and the Middle Sage are now under my control. Who do you think I am?"
"Leader? Jiejie!" Great Sage Lianchang laughed strangely, "How can there be any leader in the divine religion? It has always been a few saints who have the final say. Huh, it's really ridiculous that someone like Lord Xisheng is still controlled by you."
Jiang Yao looked at the Great Sage Lianchang coldly, "I have become the leader of the divine religion these years, and have integrated most of the manpower of the divine religion, but there are still many people. Not only do I not need them..."
"Not only did I not use them, I secretly ordered them to be cleaned up."
"Outsiders may not know that I have purged several strong men in the sect in the past few years, including those at the holy level. I have purged tens of thousands of evil spirits like you."
"Do you know a person named Qin Yu?"
"Holy Son?" The Great Sage Lianchang couldn't laugh anymore, "He..."
Jiang Yao's eyes became even colder: "Yes, you also know that he was once the Holy Son, but now he is an important minister of my Ming Dynasty, and he is no longer the Holy Son."
"It was this former Holy Son who, following my secret order, executed 37,000 people at once. They were all old men in the sect, and the vast majority of them were monsters and evil cultivators like you."
"Impossible!" the Great Sage Lianchang screamed, "I am an old man from the divine religion, how can I not know what the divine religion is doing! Absolutely impossible!"
"My body was destroyed for the sake of the Western Saint, and I have made great contributions to the divine religion!"
Jiang Yao smiled grimly: "In the past few decades, those who obey me have prospered, and those who have gone against me have perished. Very few people can offend me and still live well."
"More than thirty years ago, didn't your shadow say to me, sooner or later? How about now?"
"Now that I am the leader of the religion, how can I let your evil spirits tarnish the name of the religion?"
"Is there any secret in this place? If you explain it well, I may spare your life."
"Arrogant! I was the confidant of the Western Saint back then!" The roundworm monster screamed, "How dare you go against the Western Saint!"
"Come on!" Jiang Yao was too lazy to talk. As soon as he clapped his hands, Xiao Hei rushed forward.
Although Jiang Yao is relatively kind, she has always killed such disgusting creatures directly.
The reason why the Great Sage of Refining Intestines dominates here is that he has the third level of perfect strength, mainly relying on the intestine magic weapon and the roundworm magic weapon.
Now that this monster's magic weapon has been poisoned and annihilated, it is difficult to use the most powerful insect domain methods. Therefore, its strength has dropped from ten to seven, and it is far inferior to Xiao Hei.
"Woof woof!" Xiao Hei rushed forward fiercely, biting and biting.
"You can't kill me, I am Lord Xi Sheng..." The monster screamed, but where was Xiao Hei's opponent?
After a few rounds, Xiao Hei tore it into pieces and bit it into several pieces.
The Great Sage of Refining Insect finally fell completely.
Xuanmiao was greatly relieved when she saw the monster being bitten to death by Xiao Hei.
"Jiang Yao, thank you for saving me." Xuanmiao patted her chest, "This thing is so disgusting."
Jiang Yao looked at the dead monster and said with a smile: "I never thought that it was the one who captured you. It deserves its misfortune."
"More than thirty years ago, I almost suffered a big loss from this monster's shadow. I have always wanted to kill him. Today I finally got my wish, hehe."
Xuanmiao also smiled, "Then you really hold a grudge."
Jiang Yao looked around in the main hall and suddenly found that this building seemed a bit familiar.
"Huh?" Jiang Yao felt more and more familiar the more he looked at it.
But for a while, I couldn't remember it.
Jiang Yao frowned and thought for a while, and finally remembered that this building was actually the Guanxi Prison during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
This main hall is the warden's official office.
The Guanxi Prison was one of several major prisons in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Because it was very important, it was adjacent to Yunshuiguan in the east and the Guanxi Camp in the west. It was supervised by Xiongguan and the army.
The prisoners held in the Kansai Prison are mainly from the Western Regions and demons, and only prisoners with Mahayana cultivation level or above are held. It is a prison directly managed by the Ministry of Punishment.
Jiang Yao remembered that the Kansai Prison held more than a thousand prisoners all year round, including dozens of immortal-level prisoners. These prisoners included humans, demons, and ghosts.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yao started thinking about it.
Although the Great Sage Refining Intestines has been here for many years, his movements are limited, so he may not really know the secrets here.
"Come on, let's look for it." Jiang Yao said and started working immediately.
Soon after, he finally found several ancient arrowheads in a nearby place.
This arrowhead is from a giant divine crossbow arrow. The four words "Kansai Camp" are engraved on it.
More than one arrow.
Then, Xiao Hei dug out a skeleton with a waist badge from the nearby sand.
Judging from the handwriting on the waistband, he was a warder of the Kansai Prison. Judging from the injuries on the skeleton, he was shot by a military crossbow.
Several more corpses were found. Those of jailers, prisoners, and soldiers of the Western Prison.
The reason why the bones are still preserved today is also related to the desert environment.
Through the analysis of skeletal injuries, it was revealed that the jailer and the prisoners were actually working together to deal with the officers of the Kansai Camp.
What does it mean?
It shows that the Kansai Camp attacked the Kansai Prison, and the prisoners and jailers of the prison fought together.
Why?
His Highness Prince Ming began to reason.
Back then, during the great catastrophe at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the warden of the Guanxi Prison should have died, because the warden was a powerful person at the immortal level.
At the same time, dozens of immortal prisoners held in key prisons should also have died immediately.
Moreover, at that time, the world was in chaos, and immortal-level powers fell one after another in the catastrophe.
The originally heavily guarded Kansai Prison must have lost control.
So, what will the remaining thousands of prisoners with Mahayana cultivation do?
Of course I want to escape from prison!
But the problem is, they all have top-notch True Essence Locks, their cultivation is sealed by the Immortal Legalist Seal, and they are blocked by the Prison Formation. How easy is it to escape from prison?
What to do?
At this time, what will the jailers and jailers do when they see the immortal officials fall and the Tang Dynasty perish?
This group of jailers will definitely release more than a thousand Mahayana prisoners in exchange for benefits!
Moreover, in that chaotic and dangerous situation, jailers and Mahayana prisoners would probably stick together for warmth and temporarily form a force.
This is in line with human nature.
Okay. So next, what will the Mahayana prisoners do when faced with dozens of immortal corpses?
Immortal remains are a very precious resource, will they give up?
impossible.
In order to increase their strength to protect themselves and cope with the chaos, they would probably refine the remains of those immortals into deadly weapons such as Explosive Immortal Pearls.
The Explosive Immortal Bead is refined from the remains of immortals, and the materials are extremely difficult to obtain. Moreover, it requires the cooperation of weapon masters, array masters, talisman masters, pharmacists, and puppet masters of level eight or above.
You can see how difficult it is.
But don't doubt their ability. They can become prisoners of Mahayana cultivation. What kind of capable people are not among them?
Among them, there are powerful pharmacists, weapon masters, puppet masters, formation masters, talisman masters, etc.
With the remains of immortals as materials, they are fully capable of working together to refine the explosive immortal beads.
If you want to refine it, then it is best to go to the underground palace of the True Fire Palace in the west. It is the best location for refining and it is also very secret.
However, if they succeeded in refining the Explosive Immortal Pearl, they would not be so easily attacked and destroyed by the Kansai Camp.
Because the immortal-level generals in the Kansai camp must have also fallen, leaving them without a leader and with very weak combat power.
Based on this reasoning, we came to the conclusion that because of time constraints, they have not yet succeeded in refining it, and it is only a semi-finished product.
In other words, they were almost ready to refine it, but before they could use it, they leaked the news and attracted the leaderless soldiers from the nearby Kansai camp to attack.
If something like the Explosive Immortal Pearl is a semi-finished product that is almost refined, it will become as hard as iron and can be stored for a long time.
Especially in a desert environment, it can be preserved for more than 200,000 years!
This is the "historical reasoning method" commonly used by historians.
It seems a bit absurd, but every step is in line with the situation of the time and common sense. There are no fatal loopholes, and it is possible to guess the historical truth!
After Jiang Yao reasoned here, he suddenly became a little excited.
Exploding fairy beads!
Although there are more steps in this reasoning and less data and evidence, the possibility is still not small.
In other words, as long as you search carefully here, you are very likely to find the explosive fairy beads that are about to be successfully refined.
Even if it was only 10% possible, it was enough to search for it, and it was enough to make Jiang Yao excited.
Jiang Yao gets goosebumps just thinking about such a powerful weapon as the Explosive Immortal Pearl.
That thing is used for group killing on the battlefield...the picture is simply not too beautiful.
"Xiao Hei, follow me to the west! Dig hundreds of feet to find the True Fire Palace first!" Jiang Yao said.
Based on his memory, he selected a specific location, "Probably in this direction, dig down!"
If it were anyone else, I really wouldn’t know where the True Fire Palace is. Because even back then, the True Fire Palace in the Great Prison was a very secret underground palace.
Xiao Hei used brute strength, his claws flew, and yellow sand flew up.
Soon, Xiao Hei got under the yellow sand.
Fortunately, Xiao Hei's brute strength was there. Otherwise, even if he knew that the underground palace of the True Fire Palace was underneath, it would have been difficult to dig in.
It took more than an hour before Xiao Hei came out, shaking his head and tail as if asking for credit, indicating that the True Fire Palace had been opened.
"Let's go!" Jiang Yao jumped down without hesitation.
Xuanmiao hesitated for a moment and then jumped down.
After traveling more than a hundred feet, Jiang Yao sneaked into the True Fire Palace.
As soon as they entered the True Fire Palace, they saw seven or eight corpses.
These seven or eight corpses surround a giant cauldron that is more than four feet high and three feet wide.
This giant cauldron is indeed a five-sided cauldron in which the weapon master, formation master, talisman master, pharmacist, and puppet master work together to refine the treasure.
There are very few types of treasures that can be jointly refined by five kinds of characters, and the Explosive Fairy Bead is exactly one of them, and it is also the most special, precious and powerful one!
Just seeing this five-sided tripod, Jiang Yao felt that his historical reasoning might be right!
He walked around the corpse, climbed up to the five-sided cauldron that was more than four feet high, opened the lid and carefully looked inside, and suddenly showed a look of extremely proud surprise.
It’s the Explosive Immortal Pearl!
There are more than one, and it seems to be almost successful in refining, maybe just missing the last step!
Awesome, Taishi Jiang!
Knowledge changes destiny, this is the victory of scholars.
Jiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't go down to retrieve the treasure immediately. Instead, he concentrated on alert and looked around to see if there was any problem.
Because people are most likely to be unlucky when they are carried away.
This is one of the reasons why ginger medicine can survive to this day.
Just as Jiang Yao gathered his spirit platform and concentrated on alert, he heard a "dong" sound from the drum.
The sound of the drum came suddenly, from nowhere, as if it appeared out of thin air.
When Jiang Yao heard the "dong" sound, his heart seemed to explode suddenly, the spiritual platform was in chaos, his aura was chaotic, and his soul was in intense pain.
"Pfft—" Jiang Yao couldn't help but spit out a large mouthful of blood.
It's blood!
In just one stroke, Jiang Yao was seriously injured.
If he hadn't been alert in advance, his injuries would have been several times worse, and he might have been killed by the sound of the drum!
PS: I originally wrote a big chapter today to add updates for the leader, but I am too busy today and have been forced to serve as a volunteer. I have something to do in the evening and will go out soon.
It’s so hot, it’s really depressing!
This weekend will be taken away. I can only add an update next Monday. I’m really sorry, everyone!
I just wrote about the Nanjing Summer Festival today, and then I went out to a Nanjing temple to honor the Japanese war criminals of the Nanjing Massacre. That’s enough! It’s crazy!