From this day on, the monks in Zhuguang Tower began to try to explore the tomb. Master Yan Xi personally took charge of the sweep of the imperial tomb step by step.
However, only then did everyone on the boat realize that there were an unexpected number of evil corpses inside, as well as many ghosts and evil spirits.
After the death of the owner of the Great Su Imperial Tomb, nearly three million people were buried with him. They were sealed alive in the tomb and suffocated to death, and their ferocious anger was not allowed to be vented. At least 70% of the corpses were produced shortly after the tomb.
Change. In 240,000 years, although the corpses cannot rot, they have no blood to supplement their food, so they can only eat each other to survive.
So far, there are less than 30,000 evil corpses left in this imperial mausoleum. But all of them are above the second level and can absorb the spirits of heaven and earth to maintain their own existence.
Then, due to the environment here, the evil spirits within thousands of miles around were absorbed and gathered here.
This made the Suhuang Mausoleum a completely dangerous place.
In just one day, the Zhuguang Tower had completely cleaned the outside of the mausoleum and killed more than 9,000 evil corpses. However, the Zhuguang Tower also suffered many casualties, with hundreds of monks killed or injured.
Zhuang Wudao, like other Lichen monks, did not participate. He only needed to preside over the formation and provide support at any time.
Zhuang Wudao, on the other hand, was even more at ease. The large formation on the desert island was already saturated. Unless the quality of the formation was improved, there would be no room for expansion.
The number of Thunder Fire Warriors reached over one thousand and fifty-four, and there was no room for any other Thunder Fire Warriors.
Inside the mausoleum, it is no longer possible to shake the formation and destroy the formation pillars.
But the process that followed was not smooth. The number of casualties in Zhuguang Tower increased day by day. Nearly a thousand people were injured, and more than a hundred people died directly from the inside. The rest were also infected with poison in most of their bodies and could not survive in a short period of time.
recover.
There is also a green thick fog spreading out from the tomb. This is the corpse poison that makes people talk about it. Not only ordinary people will transform into evil corpses in a short time after being exposed to it. It is not appropriate for monks to stay in it for a long time.
There is also the risk of corpse transformation if there is no way to resist it.
If this place had not been frozen, it would first spread to the entire lake, and then merge down the water system, causing a large-scale corpse disaster along the Zangxuan River.
At this moment, it was frozen within the ice, and its activity was suppressed by the cold force here, minimizing the threat to the monks.
When Zhuang Wudao was bored, he would occasionally study corpse poisons. He captured a group of green mist from a distance and swept it away with his spiritual sense.
I discovered that this mass of corpse poison seemed to be a mist, but in fact there were countless insects inside. They were densely packed and as fine as mustard dust. Once it came into contact with the human body, it would penetrate pervasively, swallow up the blood, and invade the body.
Dye the soul.
"The so-called corpse poison is actually a kind of existence that looks like evil or poison, mixed with ghosts and evil spirits, and has more than a dozen branches. It is extremely complicated. It is difficult to explain clearly at the moment."
Yun'er, for Zhuang Wudao, answered the question about the evil corpse: "Generally, the evil zombies below the second level have spiritual wisdom. Generally, except for voluntary and active transformation, the rest are done by the power of resentment.
It is aggregated with fragments of consciousness and obsessional memories of countless people. It may be dominated by the thoughts of the original owner of the corpse body, or it may be a mixture of external consciousness and obsessions. It is extremely chaotic and may conflict with each other.
Fighting, so you can only rely on instinct. Only with a clear consciousness and dominated by one idea can you advance to the third level. However, after that, if you cannot continue to advance, you can only exist for a maximum of eight hundred years.
The primordial will of these third-level evil corpses will die, and if they fall to this level, their thoughts and obsessions will fall into chaos and disorder until the next primordial will that can dominate the body is produced."
"Although this is the same as those resentful ghosts, there are differences. The third-level resentful ghosts cannot advance within a thousand years, and their souls will die, scatter into pieces, or transform into resentment.
, or turn into fragments of obsessions and consciousness until they continue to gather next time to produce new resentful souls. However, the evil corpse is different.
Although the god is dead, the body is still there. Therefore, you can often see some evil corpses whose bodies are like steel and iron bones, reaching the third level, fourth level, or even seventh level and eighth level, but the spirit is extremely weak. They are also often resented by stronger ones.
Ling Duo She, but they are not pure evil corpses, and their combat power is far inferior to the former, so they are generally called spirit corpses."
"In other words, the 30,000 evil corpses in this mausoleum have no relationship with the people buried with them 240,000 years ago?"
Zhuang Wudao secretly sighed, as expected, everything in this world has a lifespan limit, even ghosts are no exception.
According to the records of Xuan Ming Ji Yin Lu, those ghosts in the underworld cannot live forever.
If the souls of ordinary people cannot undergo reincarnation or improve their level within three hundred years, they will also die or be swallowed by other ghosts.
"It can't be said that the original three million resentful obsessions must have been preserved and mixed in. Many of them have become the dominant will of those evil corpses."
Yun'er shook his head and said: "In short, the soul is easy to perish, but obsessions last forever. If a person does not have the will to persevere, even the peerless immortal king cannot make the soul survive in the world forever."
Zhuang Wudao curled his lips, thinking that he was discussing the importance of obsession to a monk's practice.
However, he is actually not very interested in things like evil corpses. At this time, he is just researching out of boredom.
However, the next day, Yan Ming came to the door again. After a few days, this Jindan Master, who was one of the ten masters of the Zhuguang Pavilion, had long lost the high-spiritedness he had when he first came, and his words contained
The meaning of supplication.
"I'm ashamed to say it, but this time I might have to ask fellow Taoist Zhuang to take action and set up another positive and negative two-dimensional infinite sky formation inside the mausoleum."
Zhuang Wudao suddenly frowned. He had already made up his mind and would never get involved in this muddy water. Especially after the monks from the Zhuguang Tower suffered heavy injuries in the Great Suhuang Mausoleum.
Not to mention that he is now facing assassination from the Demon Slayer at any time, and there is no telling what kind of danger there is in this mausoleum.
"One infinite and infinite formation should be enough."
Without hesitation, Zhuang Wudao politely refused: "Even if we set up another Infinite Formation with positive and negative rites in the imperial mausoleum, what would be the use? At most, it will only seize another spiritual eye, which will not help much."
"Yes! At least after I, Zhuguang Tower, enter the imperial mausoleum, I will have a safe place to live, and I will also have a solid backup. I will not die of exhaustion of true energy, and it will no longer be difficult for me to be surrounded by those evil corpses."
Yan Ming tried to convince people with reason, but when he saw Zhuang Wudao's indifferent expression and his unwavering eyes, he already understood.
He stopped trying to persuade and instead placed a brocade box in front of Zhuang Wudao.
"The safety of our Taoist friends is naturally the responsibility of me, Zhuguanglou. When we set up the formation in the mausoleum this time, Yan will not let our fellow Taoists' hard work go in vain. This is the three-turn Xuanyuan Dan. Please accept it with your smile, Taoist friend Zhuang."
Zhuang Wudao glanced at the brocade box in front of him, and then looked at Yan Ming meaningfully.
Xuanyuan Dan is a very special Taoist elixir with a wide range of uses. It can increase people's true Taoist power, improve their cultivation level, and also open spiritual orifices. There are two, three, or even nine turns.
It is made by combining Xuanyuan Dan. Ten ordinary Xuanyuan Dan can be combined into one two-turn Xuanyuan. In the same way, ten two-turn Xuanyuan can be combined into one three-turn Xuanyuan. The further to the back, the stronger the effect.
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Third Transformation Xuanyuan, ordinary monks in the middle stage of foundation building can take this elixir and immediately improve their cultivation level by two to three levels.
In addition, spiritual apertures can also be copied. However, they can only be used with those below the fifth level, which is of no use to him. Zhuang Wudao has not developed any mysterious apertures below the fifth level in his body.
However, it can make his cultivation level reach the eighth floor of the Foundation Establishment Realm in one fell swoop, and he is expected to break through to the later stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm in the near future.
And just such a third-level Xuanyuan Pill is worth hundreds of fourth-level Yunyuan.
It's not that Zhuang Wudao doesn't want to buy such a good thing, it's just that he can't buy it. His foundation is already stable, and it's no problem to use external forces to increase his true energy. However, in the entire Yi Bao Conference, only one product with similar effects has appeared.
Spiritual fruit
It happened that at that time, due to Mo Ling, Zhuang Wudao had run out of Yuan Yuan stones and was short of money.
Just like those elixirs that can replicate or even open spiritual orifices, few people sell similar elixirs and spiritual objects, either take them themselves, or transfer them to their relatives and friends.
At the beginning, Zhuang Wudao had never considered selling those Jiuqu Adenophora berries.
However, at this time, Zhuguanglou ventured into the mausoleum to invite him to take action, but placed this rare elixir in front of him.
And if there is anything else in this world that he can't refuse, it is this magical elixir that can quickly improve his cultivation.
"Please also ask fellow Taoist Zhuang not to ask why."
Yan Ming smiled bitterly: "Now my Pearl Tower is no longer entirely for the original purpose. Now we are riding a tiger and it is difficult to get off. If we don't turn this great Suhuang Mausoleum upside down, it will not be enough to recover the losses."
Zhuang Wudao did not agree to this, but asked: "I wonder what the situation is like in the imperial mausoleum now?"
“Not good”
Yan Ming shook his head, knowing that if he lied and deceived, it would only anger Zhuang Wudao, so he said bluntly: "There are twenty to three third-level corpse generals that have been discovered. There are also two fourth-level corpse generals.
There is also the Corpse King, whose combat power is unpredictable, and we still haven’t figured out what rank he is in.”
The main difference between Evil Corpse, Corpse General, Corpse King, Corpse King, Corpse Emperor, and Corpse Emperor is the quality and strength of the soul, and their combat power is also determined by this.
Ordinary peak Jindan cultivators can handle the fourth-level evil corpses. The fourth-level corpse generals can also be easily suppressed by early Yuanshen monks. The early fourth-level corpse kings require the full strength of the early Yuanshen cultivators.
As for the corpse kings at the early stage of the fourth level, unless they are among the top 400 in the Tianji Monument and have extremely powerful Yuanshen realm, for the other ordinary Yuanshen at the early stage, it is not a problem for one to fight against three.
Now Zhuguang Tower has not tried to figure out whether the corpse king has reached the late fourth level. In fact, he is not afraid of the mid-fourth level, but once he reaches the late stage, even Master Yan Xi may not be able to defeat him.