Qin Ziling couldn't help but feel shocked when he heard this, and even found it difficult to breathe.
He just asked casually because he suddenly remembered the ancient well in his nightmare, but he never expected that a Taoist temple like Chixiao actually existed in reality.
"Ahem, I just accidentally heard someone mention it yesterday, so I'm a little curious." Qin Ziling naturally wouldn't say that he dreamed it in a nightmare, so he lied casually.
Ms. Cui didn't think much about it. She said "Oh" and then said: "This Chixiao Temple is located at the foot of Xiaolong Mountain, about fourteen or five miles away from our village. You were still a little popular when you were a child. That year your father was ill.
Seriously, I accidentally heard the name of Chixiao Temple and made a special trip there."
"But the world is very chaotic now. Horse thieves and bandits are looting and killing everywhere. Xiaolong Mountain is far away from the county and official roads. Bandits and horse thieves are the most rampant. The villagers living in that area were either killed or fled one after another, and most of the villages were looted.
Destroyed, the Chixiao Temple has already fallen."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Cui seemed to remember something and sighed quietly, unable to hide her worry.
Qin Ziling couldn't help but feel heavy when he heard this, the world is not peaceful!
"Mother, Ranyue, I'm going to the martial arts school first." Qin Ziling asked some questions about the direction of Xiaolong Mountain, ate breakfast in a hurry, then picked up the lunch spot that Yanyue had prepared for him, stood up and said
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"Pay attention to safety on the road. I heard yesterday that there are bandits committing crimes in the area around the county. A few days ago, Lijia Village was looted," Ms. Cui warned.
"I will." Qin Ziling nodded and left, feeling increasingly heavy in his heart.
Speaking of which, Lijiacun was only more than ten miles away from the county city wall and not far from the official road. Logically speaking, it should still be within the deterrence range of the county defenders. Qin Ziling was surprised that it was looted.
"It seems that the world is indeed getting more and more chaotic. The only way to be safer is to move to the city. But I have no money and strength now. Moving to the city is not easy!" Qin Ziling walked along the official road towards the opposite side of the county town.
He strode towards the direction, thinking secretly, feeling an indescribable sense of urgency and powerlessness in his heart.
Walking along the official road for five or six miles, you can still see popular villages along the way. The fields are connected to each other, and farmers working in the fields can be seen from time to time.
But walking a little further, you will find stretches of overgrown fields and dilapidated and uninhabited villages. In addition to the caravans escorted by bodyguards, there are also groups of refugees with sallow faces and thin muscles on the roads. There are very few
Saw a person walking alone.
After walking for another four or five miles, Qin Ziling turned from the official road into the trail leading to Xiaolong Mountain.
Because no one has walked on these trails for a long time, they are now overgrown with weeds and thorns, making it quite difficult to walk. Moreover, there are many bandits in these hilly wilderness.
Fortunately, Qin Ziling has practiced martial arts, is agile, and can move alone, and has strong mobility. And strangely enough, since his rebirth, he has sharp ears and eyes, and he is still that kind of almost demonic, and he can also detect the changes in the atmosphere around him.
With a very keen sense.
Therefore, Qin Ziling was cautious along the way, which allowed him to discover several places where bandits were ambushing him in advance and avoid the danger of being blocked and robbed.
More than two hours later, Qin Ziling arrived at Xiaolong Mountain without any danger.
Before he actually arrived at Xiaolong Mountain, Qin Ziling smelled the gloomy mountain wind blowing in front of him, which carried an extremely unpleasant smell, like rotting meat.
When he finally arrived at Xiaolong Mountain, Qin Ziling couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster when he saw the scene in front of him, giving him a creepy feeling.
I saw that several peaks of Xiaolong Mountain collapsed, and rocks rolled down halfway up and at the foot of the mountain. Among them, there were several rocks as big as houses split in two. The cracks were as smooth as if they were struck by an extremely sharp sword.
It's like splitting with a sword.
Not only that, there are rotten substances everywhere on Xiaolong Mountain that smell like rotten flesh and flow with yellow liquid, making people extremely disgusting.
Where these rotting substances and yellow liquid flowed, all the vegetation turned yellow and lost their vitality.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Qin Ziling couldn't help but think of the two giant swords he saw in his dream, as well as the old and ugly old man and the strange bird beneath him. The scene of the sudden explosion of blood and flesh and blood made his whole body shudder.
"Really! Everything in my dream turned out to be true! This, how is this possible? I was obviously reborn in Qin Ziling's body, how could I be involved with that old man?"
Qin Ziling's heart trembled, and he subconsciously looked up.
Soon, Qin Ziling's heart was shocked again, and his eyes were fixed on a dilapidated Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain in the distance.
There is a plaque hanging diagonally on the lintel of the Taoist temple with the words "Chixiao Temple" written on it.
Qin Ziling swallowed hard, then suppressed the shock in his heart, carefully avoiding the disgusting things on the ground that were flowing with yellow liquid and exuding the smell of rotten flesh, and quickly arrived in front of Chixiao Temple.
Just as his mother said, Chixiao Temple has long been in decline. The walls of the Taoist temple have collapsed in several places, and the inside is covered with dust and spider webs.
There was nothing unusual about the Taoist temple. Qin Ziling quickly passed through the main hall of the Taoist temple and arrived at the backyard.
As expected, there is an ancient well in the backyard.
Qin Ziling walked quickly to the ancient well and lowered his head to take a look.
There was water in the ancient well, with some dead leaves floating on it. It was not clear what was under the well, but inexplicably when Qin Ziling looked down, he seemed to feel that something familiar to him was greeting him at the bottom of the ancient well.
Qin Ziling didn't bother to think deeply about why this happened. After confirming that the well rope was still strong, he immediately hung down the well along the well rope.
Since the dream is true, it follows logically that the old man can control a strange bird to fly in the sky and be chased by two flying swords. Whether it is himself or the person who is chasing him, he is definitely an extremely skilled man.
Because at least in the county, Qin Ziling had never heard of anyone who could kill with a sword. He was already a first-class figure who was almost a legendary swordsman.
Therefore, the ring on the old man's finger is definitely not an ordinary thing.
Considering Qin Ziling's current family background and his talent, if he wants to have the ability to protect himself in this troubled world, the ring can be said to be his greatest hope.
After going down the well, following the feeling in his heart, Qin Ziling quickly saw the ring embedded in the stone cracks in the well wall.
As for the severed finger, I don’t know where it fell off in the ancient well.
Qin Ziling reached out and pulled out the ring from the crack in the stone on the well wall.
The moment the ring fell into his palm, Qin Ziling felt an extremely familiar feeling of being connected with flesh and blood. At the same time, his brain seemed to have been suddenly touched, and many chaotic picture fragments suddenly flooded into it.
Those chaotic scenes were almost all extremely bloody, sinister, and terrifying scenes, and the old man he saw in his nightmare was the common protagonist in these scenes.
There are more and more pictures, and it becomes more and more confusing.
Qin Ziling had a splitting headache. He endured the feeling that his head was about to explode, climbed out of the ancient well quickly, and then fell unconscious beside the ancient well.
I don't know how long it took before Qin Ziling woke up from his coma.
His eyes were still dark and clear, but in the dark and clear depths, there was a hint of wisdom that had experienced vicissitudes of life and could see into the world, as well as insidiousness, evil and ruthlessness.
"It turns out that when my soul consciousness traveled to this body, the remnant soul of Li Mo, the leader of the Corpse Demon Sect, was trying to seize this body, and at the most critical moment, my arrival eventually turned me into a snipe and a clam.
The fisherman in the fight for profit." Qin Ziling regained consciousness, and after thinking carefully about his reasoning, he finally gradually understood that he who came from another modern civilized world had actually integrated the Corpse Demon Sect, one of the six major demon sects, at the same time.
The consciousness of the remaining soul of the sect leader Li Mo.
Qin Ziling didn't know why the leader of the Corpse Demon Sect was suppressed and killed in Xiaolong Mountain outside the county.
"Oh my god! I have actually merged with the remnant soul consciousness of a demon! Doesn't this mean that I have the soul consciousness of two people and one remnant soul consciousness? By the way, since I was reborn, not only have my ears and eyes been sharp, but I am also aware of changes in the outside world.
The senses are extraordinarily sharp and can even multi-task. Is it because this body combines two soul consciousnesses and one remnant soul consciousness?" After deducing the truth, Qin Ziling also figured out the many changes in his body.
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Thinking in his mind, Qin Ziling's eyes fell again on the black ring that was tightly held in his palm.