Lu Li flattened the woman's body, squatted down, and carried Yao'er on his back. Yao'er kept trembling until he was on Lu Li's back.
"Keep your eyes closed until I tell you to open them, then open them again."
Lu Li asked, and Yao'er whispered "Yeah" in a low voice.
Lu Li closed the city wall, and the crane looked at Lu Li warily, but Lu Li didn't give it any chance and chopped it to death with a sword.
He left the house, jumped to the roof, and looked around. The fire in the village was getting bigger and bigger. The cranes seemed to sense that outsiders were coming and were gathering in the streets of the village.
The guzheng had been broken and the four dragon balls were missing. Only Monkey Taoist was left holding his buttocks and wailing not far away.
From the moment he was stained with deer blood, all the effects of the Six Ding God on Lu Li disappeared. When the cranes saw the blood stains all over his body and the blood was still flowing, they took off one after another, but did not attack him, but hovered in the sky.
The shadows of auspicious clouds appeared in the distance, and each auspicious cloud had a figure on it, which was obviously the opponent's support.
Lu Li got off the roof and ran wildly on the street. He saw that the courtyard doors of every house on the road were open, and there were corpses in every house. There was only one living person left in the whole village.
Yao'er was too young and didn't know anything. He could only come to the Monkey Taoist, grab its Taoist robe, pull it, and carry Yao'er on its back, looking for a place where he could fight with the cranes.
He can easily kill one or two, but there are many opponents, so he must save his spiritual energy to face the dangers that can be seen everywhere in the Yingzhou Immortal Sect.
As he walked, he asked: "What does the human vegetable field mean?"
"Chief Immortal, this is what the sect master asked us to do!"
Monkey Taoist felt that Lu Li's body was getting heavier and stronger, so he trembled with fear and started talking like beans from a bamboo tube.
Monkey Taoist said that more than a thousand years ago, the sect leader went out to travel and saw the suffering of the world, the continuous war, and the devastation of life.
The patriarch asked about the cause of the war, and everyone answered that the emperor was fatuous and indulged in women, which led to the rebellion of the border officers and led to the war.
So the sect master sent his son to summon the monks from all over the world to punish the traitors and eradicate the evil, support the emperor's cause, and even imprison the demon girl himself, finally restoring peace to the world.
"So, the world is pacified by your sect leader? Stop telling these jokes to beautify yourself, and just tell the origin of the human vegetable field."
Monkey Taoist trembled and said: "The young sect master gathered the refugees all the way and asked them what they wanted. They said they wanted to go to a place without war. The sect master also asked if they would like to come to a land of bliss, and the refugees all agreed. So...
"
Lu Li hid at a corner and stopped, saying, "So your sect leader deceived the refugees and treated them as human beings here?"
Through Xuanyuan Yixi and Lan Hua's words, combined with Monkey Taoist's narration, Lu Li already had the answer in his mind.
What restores the troubled times is just the Yingzhou Immortal Sect subsidizing itself. The fact is that the sect leader himself came here for the refugees.
In the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanyuan recalled that he had met the people of the Yingzhou Immortal Sect on the sea, and they were making preparations at that time.
In the 14th year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Taoist priest Chixuan went down the mountain to rescue people. At this time, the Yingzhou Immortal Sect gathered all the Taoists from all over the world and tricked them into helping gather the refugees.
As for what to do to gather the refugees...
"Exalted Immortal, those people are indeed extremely happy every day. They have endless food and wine, and they can be happy every day!"
Monkey Taoist was so frightened that he kowtowed on the ground in shock at Lu Li's words. Monkey's head was swollen.
"Food and drinks? I think it's leeks. Those so-called fairy medicines will only make them hallucinate, but they won't bring real happiness! What's the point of feeding them fairy medicines?"
"I don't know..."
Before Monkey Taoist finished speaking, an angry Lu Li slammed the monkey's head to the ground and said sternly: "Think about it first!"
"Exalted Immortal, have mercy on me!"
Monkey Taoist raised his hands without fingers and said loudly: "The sect master gathered a hundred thousand refugees, a total of one hundred thousand people, and asked various immortal masters to help escort them to the fairy mountain. Every twelve years, the sect master released one person from the refugees.
batch, put them on the vegetable fields, give them elixir every day, make them extremely happy, activate the medicine in bliss, and slowly turn into suitable materials. When mature, our brothers and sisters will eat their flesh and blood,
The souls are harvested and used to make wine for the sect master. After drinking the sect master's wine, one can increase his spiritual power and it is the most precious treasure in the Immortal Mountain!"
When Lu Li remembered the information he had checked, there was a jade paste like wine in Yingzhou, which was called jade wine. Drinking it would make one live forever.
Unexpectedly, this wine was actually made from the souls of people who had taken the elixir.
One hundred thousand people...
Lu Li's head was filled with blood. This Yingzhou Fairy Mountain actually took advantage of the Anshi Rebellion and abducted so many people from the Tang Dynasty when the refugees had no fixed place to live!
"Is your sect master a human being?"
Lu Li Qi Dao.
"Of course he is a human being. If he were not a human being, how could he teach us how to dress up as humans? But now, he is already an immortal!"
Monkey Taoist's answer made Lu Li clench his teeth. It would be fine if the mountain spirits and wild monsters were raising people as food. But now it's human beings who are doing this kind of thing. It's simply crazy.
Lu Li looked around, wondering if other villages were like this village, with all the people dead.
Ironically, because the village was disorderly and looted the elixir, some villagers were unable to take the elixir and could not "mature", which allowed the people in this village to live a little longer.
However, they didn't live much longer. For some unknown reason, these cranes attacked immature villagers again.
"Where are the refugees who have not been released yet?"
Lu Li asked.
"In the vegetable cellar of the sect master's immortal mansion!"
…
Taizhen led Qingshui Liuli and two other girls through the cave.
They had been walking here for a long time, and Qingshui Liuli had never seen such a big cave before. It seemed as if the entire fairy mountain had been hollowed out, and the clouds under his feet were almost broken.
After Mi Mi was immobilized, Taizhen asked her to put on Mi Mi's clothes. This pair of cloud-head shoes was what she put on at that time.
The Rabbit Fairy has a pretty good figure, and Qing Shui Liuli wears this outfit just right, much more suitable than a Taoist robe.
She put on colorful clothes and golden hairpin, and transformed into a fairy's dress.
Taizhen didn't tell her who she was, and she refrained from asking. In fact, Taizhen was so tall that even a recognized beauty like her felt ashamed of herself.
When Taizhen spoke, it was clear that he had no spiritual power, but Qingshui Liuli was naturally convinced.
Along the way, they first entered a fairy palace-like palace halfway up the Fairy Mountain. The guards seemed to know Taizhen and let her in directly.
The place is brightly lit and worships the Taoist Three Purities. Further inside, there are smaller halls dedicated to the four gods and five directions. Further inside, there is a cave.
The cave spiraled downwards, and the temperature was obviously much cooler. Qingshui Liuli was in good health and felt nothing. She paid attention and found that the two girls had no reaction, but Taizhen was already trembling slightly, and she had no spiritual power at all.
"Sister Taizhen, where are we going and how long will we have to go?"
one of them asked.
Taizhen tilted his head and listened for a while, then smiled and said: "Shuang Cheng'er, we are going to see the sect leader."
"Didn't the sect master go to Dongyingzhou to meet the Zhiri Queen?"
Both became confused.
"The master's spirit has passed away, but his physical body is still here."
Taizhen's voice is ethereal and even more magical in this cave.
Another fairy spoke: "But we are going to the vegetable cellar soon!"
"Xiaoyu, I'm not afraid. What are you two little demons afraid of?"
Taizhen smiled and opened the door of a cave and walked in.
Xiaoyu didn't feel any embarrassment at all when her identity was revealed, but instead smiled and followed.
Qingshui Liuli looked at the two of them doubtfully, not seeing what type of monsters they were.
As soon as she followed the cave, she was shocked. She saw that the inner wall of the cave was extremely huge, with countless ropes hanging from the top of the cave, and a transparent cocoon-like thing hanging from the bottom of each rope.
Most of the cocoons are empty, and a few have something in them, with dark shadows inside.
Qingshui Liuli took a few steps forward and realized that the people in the cocoon were all human beings!
Just like in the village, there were people wearing ancient costumes, including men and women, old and young.
From the high cave roof to the underground, layer by layer, densely packed, they are all cocoons that trap people!
When the wind in the cave blew, their bodies swayed in the wind, and they couldn't tell whether they were dead or alive.
Seeing that the lights here were very dim, Xiaoyu trembled and spit out a piece of grass from her mouth. The grass burned in the air and illuminated the entire space.
Qingshui Liuli looked at this space in shock, densely packed and layered, with countless cocoons shaking in the air.
This scene is really like hell.
Vegetable cellar, a vegetable cellar that treats people as vegetables!
Taizhen looked at these cocoons with compassion and murmured to himself: "It's been one thousand two hundred and sixty-seven years, and I'm too late."
