Chapter 238: Exploring the Heavenly Demon Territory in the Hollow Cave
Chapter 238 Empty Cave Sky, Exploring the Demon Realm
There are many trees with names in the world.
But if you don’t count the sacred trees and holy trees in myths and legends.
The Meishan Crooked Tree must be one of the most colorful trees in Chinese history.
After all, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Sizong, Emperor Chongzhen, and his friend Wang Chengen, hanged themselves on this crooked neck.
Of course, Emperor Chongzhen's suicide at Meishan happened in historical time and space.
"Where is Emperor Chongzhen of this world?"
"Is he really dead, or is he hiding somewhere in the world, or simply in another world?"
In the Shenxiao Palace, Jiang Xuan looked at the picture in the Xuanguang Mirror and fell into deep thought.
On Meishan Mountain, Zhu Kaizhong also led Hu Cang across the cave-sky barrier and entered the Meishan Cave-Heaven.
As Hu Cang entered the Meishan cave, the Xuanguang mirror in front of Jiang Xuan also started to ripple in circles.
Looking at the distorted and weird picture in the mirror and listening to the intermittent sounds coming from his ears, Jiang Xuan frowned and then turned his attention to Tian Qing:
"Did this happen when Juzi was experimenting with Xuanguang glasses before?"
"Never."
Hearing Jiang Xuan's inquiry, Tian Qing, who was staring at the Xuanguang Mirror, also frowned and replied:
"This has never happened before when people were in heaven and then brought Xuanguang glasses into the underworld for experiments."
"By the way, Taoist Priest, you previously gave me formation authority so that Xuanguang Glasses can borrow the power of "Zhoutian Xingdou Formation"."
"Previously, the Xuanguang glasses were tested within the coverage area of the large array, so the projected images were extremely stable."
"But the place where the Xuanguang Glasses are now located in the Meishan Cave is outside the coverage of the formation."
"Did this cause problems with the Xuanguang glasses' projection screen?"
Jiang Xuan nodded silently:
"It's possible."
"Juzi first finds someone to test the formation."
"Tian will find someone to test it now."
Seeing Tian Qing start to use magic to send messages, Jiang Xuan also put his hand on the screen in front of him.
The next moment, the picture of continuous ripples began to become clear.
The intermittent sounds in my ears began to become coherent.
However, Jiang Xuan's brows were still furrowed as he looked at the scene where ripples occasionally flashed across the screen.
"There seems to be something wrong with the 'Tao' in Meishan Cave."
"If you compare the laws of heaven's operation in this world, the Earthly Immortal Realm, Jiuyuan and other places to an engine."
"Then in these places, the engine runs very smoothly."
"But when we arrived at Meishan Dongtian, although the engine was still the same, it seemed that sand had entered the engine."
"Although it can still run, it stutters during operation and makes annoying noises."
In the Shenxiao Palace, Jiang Xuan frowned and understood the 'Tao' in the Meishan Cave Heaven through the connection between the Xuanguang Mirror in front of him and the Xuanguan Glasses.
Hu Cang, who entered the Meishan Cave, also looked at the bare Meishan Cave.
The topography of Meishan Cave is funnel-shaped as a whole, excluding the large gray area in the middle.
The entrance to the cave is suspended in mid-air, so once you enter the cave, you can clearly see the entire environment inside the cave.
Seeing that Hu Cang began to look at the environment in the cave as soon as he entered the cave, Zhu Kaizhong first invited Hu Cang to enter a military camp.
"I would also like Mr. Hu to know that there are twenty military camps in Meishan Cave."
"These twenty military camps have a radius of ten miles vertically and horizontally, and the deer village is a hundred feet high. In addition to a large number of military formations, there are also countless military strategists with valuable treasures to suppress the military camps."
"Each military camp has three soldiers cultivating the Sixth Realm, three hundred soldiers cultivating the Fifth Realm, three thousand soldiers cultivating the Fourth Realm, and one hundred thousand soldiers cultivating the Third Realm."
"In addition, there are millions of soldiers from the Second Realm."
"Of course, there are said to be millions of Second Realm Soldiers, but they basically take turns to rest, practice, or enter the Demon Realm to fight with enemies from other worlds."
"The number of second-level soldiers repairing in the camp is around 300,000."
Listening to Zhu Kaizhong's introduction, Hu Cang couldn't help but swallow as he looked at the military cultivators walking by, who seemed to be carrying endless evil spirits.
The patrolling military cultivator teams are composed of one fifth realm soldier, six fourth realm soldier cultivators, and thirty third realm soldier cultivators.
Hu Cang felt that if such a military cultivator team came up to the tenth team, and then summoned the military evil minister, they might be able to fight against him.
If there were hundreds of military repair teams like this, he might just turn around and leave.
"Fortunately, Bingxiu's life is short."
"If this were not the case, this world would probably be a world of military cultivators."
With a secret sigh, Hu Cang, led by Zhu Kaizhong, started walking around the military camp with one post every five steps and one post every ten steps.
While walking around, Zhu Kaizhong also introduced various items in the military camp.
"Mr. Hu, please look at this. This is the Kui Niu drum. It uses thunder cowhide as the drum head, thundering iron as the body, and ringing gold and jade as the ring."
"If you hit it with an earth-shaking hammer, it will make a sound of thunder."
"Let the soldiers from the Sixth Realm gather together to attack the Dharma Prime Minister and then beat the drum. The sound of thunder will be enough to kill the souls of the ordinary Sixth Realm monks."
"For hundreds of years, no fewer than three people from the six other realms died under the sound of Kui Niu's drums."
When Zhu Kaizhong finished speaking, Hu Cang saw that he was pointing at a bloody military flag and was about to speak, so he hurriedly asked:
"Is what you say true?"
"Didn't you tell Taoist Master Jiang before that only second-level monks can pass through this Demon Realm?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Kaizhong looked at Hu Cang and then replied:
"What I mean is that the Heavenly Demon Realm will suppress all monks' realms to the second realm. It's not that high-level monks cannot enter the Demon Realm."
"If a high-level monk is not afraid of death, he can naturally come in."
"In other worlds, there are often body-refining warriors who refine their bodies to make them indestructible. They enter the demonic realm, kill through the military formations, and then come to the Meishan Cave."
"Fortunately, most of those body-refining warriors don't cultivate their souls. If the Kui Niu drum shakes, they will become puppets waiting to be slaughtered."
When Jiang Xuan in Shenxiao Palace heard Zhu Kaizhong's explanation, he immediately frowned.
His lips moved slightly, and Hu Cang in the Meishan Cave also asked a question:
"If a body-refining cultivator enters the Demon Realm, won't his level be lowered?"
"Besides, if you take the treasures of heaven and earth and enter the Demon Realm to build a wall, can you build a high wall that people from other worlds cannot break through?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Kaizhong glanced at the glasses on the bridge of Hu Cang's nose, and then said:
"When a body-refining cultivator enters the Demon Realm, his level will also be lowered."
"But in the lower three realms, body-refining cultivators are invincible."
"In addition, when they charged into battle, they were not alone. There were also troops from other worlds assisting them. The army did not dare to say that they could stop them all."
"That's why there are situations where people from the six other realms break through military formations, break out of the demonic realm, and enter the coal mountain cave."
After answering the first question, Zhu Kaizhong said again:
"As for building walls, it's not like we haven't tried it before."
"But the problem is that there are demons causing trouble in the Demon Realm."
"The ancestors once spent a lot of resources from heaven and earth to build a five-hundred-meter-high wall."
"But before it could be used, the demon extracted its aura, and the city wall turned into rubbish."
"In other words, if a spiritual object has its own aura, can it exist in the demonic realm?"
"For example, if a Lihuo Stone that can emit the power of the three realms is used in the Demon Realm, can it also exert the power of the three realms?"
Zhu Kaizhong shook his head when he heard this, "No."
"The power will be suppressed to the second level."
"Things above the second realm will be suppressed to the second realm as long as they are placed in the Demon Realm."
"Even if it is a spiritual object that takes time to be broken by monks in the Sixth Realm, the strength of the spiritual object will be suppressed to that of the Second Realm after entering the Demon Realm."
"It's just that this strength belongs to the limit of the second realm. Although the second realm monks can break it, it will take a lot of time."
"This is also the reason why we were willing to use natural materials and earthly treasures to build walls."
"After all, if we can stop the monks from other worlds a little bit, we can gain a lot of advantages."
During the conversation, Zhu Kaizhong had already led Hu Cang through two military camps and arrived at the area exuding gray fog.
After looking at the gray mist about three thousand meters away from him, which seemed to be connected to the sky, Hu Cang stepped on the ground under his feet again, and said with some confusion:
"Is the area covered by the gray mist the demonic realm?"
"And there's something wrong with this ground?"
"Also, the entrance to the cave is at such a high place. How did Emperor Chongzhen get down in the first place?"
"When Emperor Chongzhen entered the cave for the first time, he probably hadn't received the inheritance in the cave yet. He was just a mortal, right?"
Seeing Hu Cang asking a series of questions, Zhu Kaizhong pondered for a moment and then replied:
"The area covered by the gray fog is indeed a demonic realm."
"As for the location of the ground and the entrance to the cave, there are actually explanations."
"When the late emperor entered the cave, the entrance was not in mid-air, but on the ground."
"Now the cave sky is in mid-air. It's not because the entrance position has changed, but because we have moved away all the earth and rocks in the cave sky."
Having said this, Zhu Kaizhong motioned to Hu Cang to squat down and let him imitate tapping the ground himself.
"Mr. Hu should be able to feel how firm the ground is, right?"
"Actually, this ground is no longer the ground."
"It's the barrier of this cave."
"When we first started fighting against other worlds, we were inexperienced. People from other worlds dug tunnels from the underground through the Demon Realm and into the Meishan Cave and Heaven."
"Fortunately, the person who smuggled in through the tunnel was not very strong and was discovered by the monks guarding the cave in time, so it did not cause a big disaster."
"After learning this lesson, we emptied all the dirt from the Meishan Cave."
"It's not even just Coal Mountain."
"We also spent a lot of time and manpower to remove all the soil from the Demonic Domain."
"Now those people from other worlds want to come through the passage between the two worlds, they have to fall from the sky first."
Speaking of this, Zhu Kaizhong showed a trace of bitterness on his face:
"It's just that I have Zhang Liang's plan, and he has a wall ladder."
"At the beginning, we did use this trick to restrict the entry of people from other worlds, but within two days they developed a high-altitude gliding thing."
"If we hadn't developed the gravity military formation quickly, we might have let them fly directly out of the demonic realm."
Hearing this, whether it was Hu Cang in the Meishan Cave, or Jiang Xuan and others watching through the Xuanguang Mirror, they all felt emotions in their hearts.
When the two worlds are at war, what they are fighting for is indeed their foundation and innovation ability.
The foundation is strong enough, and it can completely push into different worlds.
The foundation is the same, that is, a protracted war.
In this protracted war, who can research something beneficial to the war? If the other side does not come up with a response plan in time, the balance of victory will begin to tilt.
"It's just that the foundation of the other world should be stronger than our world, right?"
"They can even defeat the ancients, why are they so slow to defeat us?"
"Even if the demonic realm existed, it would probably have been impossible to stop the invasion from another world hundreds of years ago, right?"
Jiang Xuan looked at Xuan Guangjing and his thoughts were changing. Zhu Kaizhong from outside the Demon Realm also extended an invitation to Hu Cang:
"Mr. Hu, do you want to enter the Demon Realm to have a look?"
"However, the Demonic Realm will extract the spirituality of the magic weapon. After you enter the Demonic Realm, you may not be able to communicate with the Taoist priests of the Shenxiao Sect."
Hearing this, Hu Cang pondered for a moment, then nodded:
"Go in, you must go in."
"But there are instructions on how to get in."
Seeing Zhu Kaizhong's curious expression, Hu Cang first smiled, then waved his hand, and a whole set of instruments full of science fiction atmosphere appeared in front of him.
However, after the instrument appeared, Hu Cang did not control the instrument first, but took out a wooden bird the size of a thumb.
After taking out the wooden bird, Hu Cang glanced at the gray mist-filled Demon Realm again, and then nodded the wooden bird's head.
Then a spiritual light flashed in the wooden bird's eyes and it flew into the air.
At the same time, another mirror screen appeared in front of Jiang Xuan and others who were far away in heaven.
However, this mirror screen is also rippled like the previous Xuanguang Mirror.
Reaching out to stabilize the mirror screen, Jiang Xuan sent another message to Hu Cang.
The next moment, the wooden bird flapped its wings and flew directly towards the Demon Realm.
Then?
There is no then.
Seeing the mirror screen that instantly disintegrated after the wooden bird came into contact with the gray mist, Jiang Xuan shook his head and gave Hu Cang a second order.
After receiving the order, Hu Cang did not hesitate and started the set of instruments full of science fiction atmosphere.
Soon after, various indicator lights came on, and nine figures flew up out of thin air on the high platform of the instrument amid the buzzing sound.
These nine figures are as big as a human head and as small as a mosquito. They are all technological creations.
Of course, a remote-controlled camera as small as a mosquito or fly cannot be made with current technology.
This mosquito camera was made by Tian Qing using weapon refining methods.
It's just that it doesn't have any talismans or inscriptions written on it, nor does it contain any aura.
So this thing should be considered a technological creation, right?
A technological creation made through cultivation methods.
Don't mention anything else.
When Hu Cang started up and checked the nine remote-controlled cameras of different shapes to make sure there were no problems, he pressed the button and controlled the cameras to fly towards the Demon Realm.
It's just that the flying speed of these cameras forged with technology is a bit slow, with the fastest speed being only 100 kilometers per hour.
Converted to speed per second, it is less than 30 meters/second.
The distance between where Hu Cang was standing and the Demon Realm was 3,000 meters. Nine remote-controlled cameras, either fast or slow, flew for a total of two minutes before arriving outside the Demon Realm.
After observing the positions of the nine cameras through the Xuanguang Mirror, Jiang Xuan first asked Hu Cang to control them to spread out more, and then gave him the order to enter.
The next moment, Jiang Xuan's long-awaited Demon Realm finally appeared in front of him through the camera.