"The spiritual energy here is stronger than that in the valley. I think the plain in the middle is more suitable for practice. We should go down the mountain as soon as possible and go to the most ideal place to practice."
Team leader Tian Tong's proposal was unanimously approved by everyone, and everyone walked along the gentle mountain towards the plain below the mountain.
The five golden elixir stage monks took the lead, followed by the foundation building stage and Qi refining stage monks. After crossing a wide river, everyone officially entered the plain.
Sure enough, the aura on the plains is much richer than on the mountains.
Passing by a small lake, Chief Tian suddenly stopped and held out a small flag. Everyone also took out their weapons to be on guard. Chief Tian warned the surroundings and said calmly:
"From the valley, to the top of the mountain, and then down to here, apart from these strange weeds and plants, we didn't encounter a single animal, whether it was a person, a bird, or an animal; we didn't even see a fish in the water.
In a place with such a strong aura, there is not a single living creature. This is abnormal. We must be careful!"
Tao Tiansheng on the side said:
"Everyone, please look ahead."
Everyone stopped beside a ruins by the lake:
"This should be a village, but it is so dilapidated. And if you look carefully, this dilapidated village has obvious signs of man-made destruction and signs of fire. It seems that there was a war here."
"Amitabha, what my fellow Taoist said is true, we should be careful."
Only Tianci stood quietly in the distance, silently looking at everything around him, but in his mind was the sea of fire reaching the sky!
Everyone continued to move forward and passed several villages along the way. All of them were destroyed by man-made people and had signs of being burned by fires. The more they walked, the more frightened they became.
Unknowingly, they had reached the end of the first floor. Everyone followed the steep steps, climbed up the thousand-meter-high stone wall, and climbed to the second-floor plain.
On the second floor, what you see is still silence and desolation.
Even though everyone had seen countless dilapidated village ruins along the way, when they saw the scene in the center of the second floor, they were all shocked by the dilapidation in front of them:
A ruin, a huge city ruin, destroyed, burned, no people, no animals, no living things, a complete silence; the magnificent ruins, tilted pillars, collapsed halls and houses, all indicate the original prosperity.
After careful investigation, it was confirmed what everyone thought:
This huge city that occupies half of the second-floor platform, like many villages I have seen, has long been destroyed and burned, without a single soul, and it is completely silent!
But the spiritual energy here is extremely rich!
"This place is very strange. There is a big square in front. Let's go there and practice quickly!"
The central square is entirely paved with huge bluestones. It is not only the center of this abandoned city, but also the center of the entire double-layered plain, and the center of the entire Lotus World.
In the middle of the square is a tall stone platform ten feet high and thirty feet in diameter. There are a bunch of fragments scattered in the center of the stone platform, like a huge round tripod that was broken here.
The stone platform is surrounded by nine bluestones in a circle. The second circle contains eighteen bluestones, the third circle contains twenty-seven bluestones, the fourth circle contains thirty-six bluestones... until the ninth circle contains eighty-one bluestones.
After looking around carefully, the team leader Tian Daochang said to everyone:
"It seems that this square is the most suitable for practicing. Everyone, please disperse and practice as soon as possible!"
"yes!"
The foundation building and Qi refining monks dispersed one after another and began to practice separately!
Tianci stood next to the stone platform and looked around silently. Only he knew how glorious this holy city was back then. It was the center of the entire Lotus World! ~ Now it is in ruins...
"Seniors, come and see here!"
A foundation-building monk behind the stone platform suddenly shouted to Tian Tong, Xinyuan and others; four golden elixir monks rushed over almost at the same time.
Tianci did not move, standing on the stone platform, looking at the ruins of the city in the distance in a daze, because he knew what was there.
Behind the stone platform, there were three corpses sitting cross-legged. The skeleton in the front was missing a right arm. Along the way, except for a dilapidated building, no one saw a living thing or even a corpse. Three corpses were found here.
, is particularly unusual.
Three white bones, in the shape of finished characters, protected a stone slab on the wall of the stage. Scanning it with his spiritual consciousness, he found nothing unusual, but looking closely at the gaps around the stone slab, there were obvious signs of frequent movement. Tian Tong gently tapped the flagpole on the stone slab.
:'Boom', a muffled sound came:
"It's empty inside!"
After removing the stone slab, there was indeed a dark passage. A fireball flew in leisurely, and the passage circulated downwards. It seemed to be a stone room inside. After some discussion, Tao Tiansheng and Monk Xinyuan went in to investigate.
At the end of the stone path is a huge circular stone chamber, the same size as the central stone platform above; in the center of the stone chamber is a standing stone statue; the stone statue is exactly the same as the image of the 'Oath Cursed Shadow' in the sacrificial chamber. The surrounding walls of the stone chamber
Different lines are carved on it, forming a picture scroll, telling a legendary and amazing story. The story is divided into two parts:
The first part occupies almost half of the stone room, with beautiful murals and smooth lines. It tells the story of the rise of a powerful figure, who eventually ascended to heaven amid the worship of countless people;
The second part has only a few paintings with rough lines and hasty painting style. It tells the story of three gods who suddenly came to the lost world. After reading an order, they carried out a massacre in the entire small world. After the massacre
, and piled the corpses of all the creatures in the entire small world around a large hall.
The three gods not only destroyed the entire city, but also set fire to the entire small world. Ten people survived by hiding in this stone room and recorded everything they saw.
Afterwards, the seven survivors entered a cave and left here; three seriously injured people chose to stay here and guard the entrance of the square.
After confirming that there was no danger inside, Tao Tiansheng walked out of the stone room, told everyone about the situation inside, and indicated that they could go in. Everyone entered at once, and Tianci thought for a while and finally walked in.
The base of the statue is carved with cultivation techniques, and the first part of the mural tells the legendary life of Ka Zong.
Most of the people were studying the exercises on the base, and a few people were watching the first part of the murals. Only Tianci stood silently in front of the last few murals with rough lines.
Tianci knew in his heart that ten people survived in the stone room, but only one person got out of the Qianzhang Cave. Master Kule was burned to death by the fire, three people fell to death in the Qianzhang Cave, and two escaped and their whereabouts are unknown.
Chief Tian Daotong is sitting on the stone platform in the center. On the outside are fifteen foundation-building monks, and on the outside are thirty Qi-refining monks. On the outside are four golden elixir monks, Tianci, Tao Tiansheng, Xinyuan, and Mingshi, protecting the four directions.
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The alternation of day and night in the small world seems to be the same as the outside world, except that there is no sun, moon, or stars here. I don't know where the light source here comes from.
There have been no years of cultivation, and it suddenly occurred to everyone that they had been here for several months.
There are four Qi Refining monks who have successfully built the foundation, and two monks who have built the Dzogchen Foundation. Recently, they have frequently communicated with the five Golden Pill monks and are preparing to build the pill.
With so many golden elixirs, foundation building, and Qi refining monks communicating, learning, and learning from each other, everyone has made huge progress.