Shen Xiu was able to agree so quickly because, firstly, he felt that the old monk was not a man of bad faith, and secondly, he had already seen the old monk's cultivation level through his double-pupiled celestial eye.
The peak of the Seventh Realm is not too far away from the Eighth Realm.
I'm afraid this is also the reason why the old monk asked for help and went to Tiandu Mountain together.
Shen Xiu could still remember the sight of the black-armored underworld soldier that appeared outside Shanglin City that day. An ordinary seventh-level martial artist was no match for it. It was an eighth-level martial artist named Su who took action in Shanglin City. It shocks and kills.
Such a powerful black-armored underworld soldier, with the old monk's cultivation, one person cannot destroy him no matter what.
Shen Xiu was not surprised that he could be found on his head.
"As far as I know, the black-armored underworld soldier's cultivation level is almost equivalent to that of a human's eighth-level martial arts cultivation. It's just that the master and I may not be able to do it!"
After agreeing to the old monk's invitation, Shen Xiu said this without revealing the trump card that he could use to temporarily improve his cultivation by a large level.
However, the old monk glanced at him with a smile on his eyebrows, "Donor, may I have heard the rumors in Dongshan County in the past few days that the Blood Sea Sect stronghold in the Chilian Mountains has been uprooted."
"Master, what do you mean?"
The old monk smiled and said nothing.
Chen Xiu immediately understood that this old monk must have been to the stronghold of the Blood Sea Sect.
After eating and taking a rest, Shen Xiu followed the old monk and rushed towards the so-called Tiandu Mountain.
Because he didn't know the old monk's temperament, Chen Xiu did not summon those ghosts. He was afraid that the old monk would be saved directly out of professional habits.
So the two of them honestly found a few horses and pulled the cart to Tiandu Mountain.
During a conversation on the way, Shen Xiu also learned that the old monk's Buddhist name was Li Shan, and he discovered the movement in Tiandu Mountain half a month ago.
Several nearby villages and towns were devoured by it, leaving a scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Without the strong suppression of high-level martial arts, the black-armored underworld soldiers were running rampant, and there were faint signs of turning the area into a netherworld.
Chen Xiu learned from the mouth of the old monk from Lishan that the Netherworld is the place where evil intentions of demons and ghosts are produced. Apart from those that are born naturally, some are intentionally created later.
And these black-armored underworld soldiers have the ability to transform an area into a place where demons and monsters are born.
Listening to the explanation of the old monk Lishan, Chen Xiu couldn't help but think of the Xiaoyao Mountain outside Shanglin City.
He speculated that these black-armored underworld soldiers, apart from causing damage to humans, may not have transformed the place into an invisible purpose suitable for the survival of underworld creatures.
But there was one thing that always seemed strange to him, and that was how these black-armored underworld soldiers appeared in the underworld beyond the Guixu Great Wall, just like how they appeared in the hinterland of mankind tens of thousands of miles apart.
Back then, when he saw the black-armored dark soldier in Shanglin City, he had doubts, but he didn't understand anything.
"That's because of the Ming Bead. The birth of the black-armored Ming Pawn all started with a Ming Bead. Only if someone brings the Ming Bead to a place surrounded by Yin Qi and absorbs enough Yin Qi, the Black Armored Ming Pawn can be born. Jia Ming died."
The old monk Lishan stroked the short beard on his chin and explained patiently.
Shen Xiu frowned when he heard this, "In other words, these hell beads are equivalent to seeds. They are sown into suddenly fertile land. After absorbing enough nutrients, they will grow into fruits."
"Not bad." Old monk Lishan nodded.
"What about the sowers?" Shen Xiu suddenly thought of a key point.
Those are the seeds. There must be a "person" to sow them, because he will not climb over the Guixu Great Wall and travel tens of thousands of kilometers to the hinterland to take root and sprout.
"Has the donor ever heard of the Guixu Immortal Alliance?"
Chen Xiu nodded and said, "The main alliance in Yingzhou to resist the invasion of the underworld is here."
Old monk Li Shan asked, "Since you have heard of the Guixu Immortal Alliance, have you heard of the Hades Temple?"
When Chen Xiu heard this, he immediately shook his head. This was the first time he heard about the Hades Temple from the old monk.
"There are righteous people who try their best to fight against the invasion of the underworld and protect the paradise on earth, so naturally there are also degenerates who take destruction as their own duty and breed with those in the underworld.
They believe that human beings are evil, and only by being transformed by the invaders from the underworld can the sins of the world be washed away.
Those underworld beads that can generate black-armored underworld soldiers were brought back to the hinterland of the world by these people from the underworld of Guixu Great Wall and scattered everywhere."
Listening to it this way, it is not difficult to understand that this so-called Hades Temple is a traitor who appears on the human side, and its mission is to help creatures from the underworld invade the human world.
Through the explanation of the old monk Li Shan, Shen Xiu also understood that compared to the Hades Temple, which wanted to drag the entire human world into the underworld, the so-called Blood Sea Sect, which was plundering the Dajing Dynasty, was just making a small fuss.
Along the way south, Shen Xiu learned things he didn't know while approaching the old monk Lishan's destination.
"This is not the right place..."
Arriving at the entrance of a small town more than ten miles away from Tiandu Mountain, Shen Xiu immediately stopped.
Because at the entrance of such a small town, where there should be noisy coming and going, there is no one, and the environment is a bit scary. Even in the air, there is a faint smell of blood.
Even the old monk Lishan in the carriage noticed the abnormality of this environment, with a solemn expression on his face. He immediately got out of the carriage and rushed into the small town without any hesitation.
Seeing the old monk from Lishan entering the town, Shen Xiu followed closely behind him. When he crossed the huge archway at the entrance of the town, he saw a main street spreading out.
When he saw the situation in the town, Chen Xiu couldn't help but shrink his pupils.
I saw that the spacious bluestone avenue was covered with countless corpses, lying on the ground in a mess like straw.
From the black dry marks, it can be seen that the blood flows along the cracks of the bluestone slabs and flows into the waterways on both sides, exuding a strong smell of blood. The whole scene is like a blood pool in hell.
It spread like this, all the way to the end of the town.
This village is not large, but there are hundreds of households. If all of them were turned into corpses, the number would be really terrifying.
At this moment, the old monk Lishan was running through the streets. As time went by, his face became more and more solemn.
Shen Xiu, who was in the town, raised his head and saw wisps of faint black air swirling upwards along the sky, from the town, on top of the corpses lying on the ground.
Such a terrifying situation, such a bloody scene, there is no need to even guess, it must be the method of the black-armored underworld soldier, who wanted to turn the entire village and town into a netherworld that no strangers should approach.