"If an ordinary Taoist disciple's body is beaten to pieces, even if the Yin Shen is intact, he will be severely injured on the spot, and may even dissipate directly... But the voice of Old Centipede is clear, and it does not sound like he has great vitality.
He is injured and looks like he will die in seven days."
The old centipede just said a few words and moved the Gu insect before Xu Dao noticed this.
Therefore, Xu Dao thought to himself: "This guy most likely has a secret method to save his life. He can survive on the Yin Beast after his physical body is destroyed."
After a moment's thought, he understood why the old centipede first threw a lot of things from its bag when it was suspended in mid-air by the Taoist priest, and finally passed out.
It turns out that this guy did it on purpose, pretending to be unconscious, but in fact he was hiding the Yin spirit in the Yin beast, boldly abandoning the body, so he survived in death and saved his life under the noses of the Taoist priests.
At the same time, the old centipede was so lucky that the toad priest who swallowed it did not pay close attention to the taste of its body.
Interest arose in Xu Dao's eyes. He looked at the Golden Centipede, thought about it, and suddenly laughed and said, "Why do fellow Taoists sneak up on me and not be virtuous?"
"Wrong, wrong!" The old centipede's cry immediately came from inside the golden centipede: "I didn't want to sneak attack fellow Taoist!"
But when it came back to its senses, it suddenly became stunned, looked at Xu Dao's face, and asked tentatively: "Fellow Taoist, are you an acquaintance of my old Centipede?"
The old centipede looked at Xu Dao's face and said with great joy: "My fellow Taoist not only called me by my name, but also knew my catchphrase. He must be an acquaintance of mine. Why bother showing me the face behind his disguise?"
Xu Dao originally just wanted to make fun of the old centipede casually, and then seal off the opponent's five senses and capture him into the centipede flag. But when he heard the old centipede's words, he suddenly realized that the old centipede might regard him as an acquaintance and try to get close to him.
But Xu Dao sneered in his heart. You must know that there are two kinds of acquaintances, one is enemies and the other is friends.
According to Old Centipede's cunning temperament, the other party will definitely not be unaware of this, and most likely willfully ignore it.
Holding the golden centipede, Xu Dao looked at the old centipede jokingly, but he did not immediately answer the other party's question.
After thinking for a while, he glanced at the situation inside the iron tower, released a bunch of earthworms from the earthworm flags, and asked them to fly into the tower to explore their way.
While the centipede was flapping its wings, Xu Dao kept observing the movement of the golden centipede.
Sure enough, after seeing the centipede, the old centipede vaguely recognized the centipede. Its body trembled imperceptibly, and then it called out in a carefree voice:
"What a poisonous insect! I wonder which clan you are from?"
But when Xu Dao heard this, he finally couldn't help laughing and asked: "Didn't you say that we are acquaintances? Why can't you even recognize the Gu insects under Pindao's command?"
"This, this..." The old centipede was speechless for a moment. He possessed the golden centipede and looked around. It didn't look like he wanted to struggle out of Xu Dao's hand, but more like he was extremely embarrassed.
So Xu Dao drank lightly: "Okay, don't fool Pindao anymore."
He squeezed the golden centipede in his hand hard and said in a conspiratorial tone: "If you dare to fool me again, beware that the poor will crush you to ashes, and your body and soul will be destroyed!"
"Fellow Taoist, spare your life, spare your life!" Old Centipede shouted immediately.
After finally escaping from the hands of the Taoist priests, and even seeing someone opening the door of the iron tower, it naturally wanted to live well.
The old centipede is still a wonderful person. After hearing Xu Dao's threat, although it was frightened in its heart, it was happy and said secretly: "Since this guy is willing to threaten me, it seems that he is not ready to take my life directly.
I still have a way to survive, I still have a way to survive!"
Not long after, the centipede that Xu Dao put into the tower flew back to report, indicating that no danger was found in the tower yet.
He stopped chatting with the old centipede, stepped completely into the tower, and climbed one foot up the ladder engraved with the word "Hua Cage".
When one person and one insect sank into the tower, the originally opened iron door was instantly closed, with a dragon pattern hovering on it. The dragon's head finally fell into the middle of the iron door, and the dragon's eyes lost their luster and became sluggish.
There was sudden silence all around, and the evil spirit was completely blocked out by the iron door. Not only could it not harm Xu Dao, but even the sound of the wind could not be heard.
Xu Dao turned around and looked at the iron gate. His heart moved. He suddenly stretched out his hand and took out the jade hook that served as the dragon's eye from the eye socket of the dragon's head.
Later, the dragon pattern became lifeless and the iron gate became completely dead.
After Xu Dao put away the jade hook, he held the jade hook in one hand and used his magic power to release the light from the jade hook, covering his whole body and using it as a light source to illuminate the surroundings.
The other hand is holding the old centipede, tightly confining it in his hand.
Shaking the glowing jade hook in his hand from left to right, Xu Dao looked at both sides of the stairs and found that there were many pictures on the two walls of the stairs.
Calmly, Xu Dao asked: "What is this tower called? In addition to keeping you alive, does it have other functions? And what are the paintings on the iron walls on both sides?"
The old centipede was still worried at first, but when it saw Xu Dao, he really didn't crush it to death, but chose to take it into the tower, avoiding the evil spirit together, and it felt even more relieved.
At this time, hearing Xu Dao's question, the old centipede realized that this was an opportunity to show its usefulness, so it hurriedly said:
"This tower is called the 'Hualong Tower'!"
"It is said that it was built by our ancestors from Shezhao. As for the murals on both sides, it should be the story of the ancestors who built the city and the tower."
Xu Dao listened, carefully looked at the patterns on the iron wall, and boldly stepped over the "Hua Cong" steps and walked up.
As expected, the next few murals depict scenes of a group of villains forming various formations, singing and dancing, a bit like the sacrificial scene on the Wuxia River before the Taoist priests showed up.
Passing by these, there is a picture of little people working together, pushing stones, cutting foundations, burning bricks and tiles, and building a city on the mountain.
Such murals, from large to small scenes, show the construction process of Shezhao Mountain City from scratch. Xu Dao can roughly understand it without the introduction of Old Centipede.
It's just that the city built in the painting is quite small, far less than the current Sheshan Mountain City.
Although he had some understanding in his heart, Xu Dao still said with a cold face: "Continue to talk, what role does the Dragon Tower play in the Dragon Palace?"
"This, this..." The old centipede faltered for a moment, but Xu Dao's hand exerted force, causing pain to the old centipede, and it immediately shouted again:
"Fellow Taoist, look at the front again. There are also paintings on the wall. I remembered that this tower is probably the hub of formations. Once you enter, you can control the formations of the Dragon Palace."
"Huh?" Hearing this, Xu Dao raised his eyes and looked ahead. Sure enough, he saw murals about the Dragon Palace on both sides of the stairs above.
I saw a scaly thing appearing in the mural, and there was a small figure standing next to the scaly thing in the painting, which was no more than the size of a black dot of an ant.
The scaly creature has four limbs, a pointed tail and a long body. There are clouds and mist growing all over its body, but it has no eyes and its mouth is as wide as its head. It looks like a mirage.
It's just that the appearance of the mirage in the painting is far better than the one in the Dragon Palace now. At least the scales of the mirage in the painting are intact and there are no sores on its body.
In the mural, first the little people are being devoured by the mirage. No matter what methods the little people use and what kind of monsters they control, they are all the result of being swallowed by the mirage.
As a series of touching scenes appeared, the number of villains became few and far between. They began to worship the mirage, and threw some of the villains in the crowd into the mirage's mouth to feed the mirage.
Just like this, the mirage no longer eats the villain. Even when a group of monsters attacks the villain, it will still jump out of the ground and devour all the monsters that attack the villain in one bite.
After arriving, the little people also helped the mirage build a huge nest underground, and also built many palaces and other things, which were quite magnificent.
Whenever a villain is pushed out of the crowd, these villains will first go to the mirage's nest to drink and have fun, and then wait for the mirage to come and be eaten by the mirage.
However, as Xu Dao continued to move upward, more and more villains were pushed out and fed to the mirage, making the villains as a whole miserable.
Among them, there were male and female villains separated, and the man threw himself into the mouth of the dragon alone; there was a villain who held the child, handed the child to others, and then turned back and walked into the palace step by step; there was also an old villain who resisted
He was carried into the palace on a frame by others...
While Xu Dao was watching with interest, the murals on both sides of the stairs were suddenly interrupted. There were marks of axes, chisels, and claws scratching on the iron wall, and all the paintings were erased.
Xu Dao came to his senses at this time and found that he could not walk down the hundreds of stairs, and might have climbed to the waist of the iron tower.
He thought about it and realized that the palace he saw on the mural was probably the current Dragon Palace.
Xu Dao thought to himself: "I thought that the Dragon Palace was built by the Mirage itself, but I didn't expect that the ancestors of the Shezhao tribe built it, and the large and small palaces in the Dragon Palace were not used to house soldiers and generals.
, used to entertain guests, but just like now, they are 'food boxes' and 'dinner plates' for feeding mirages."
In this case, as Old Centipede said just now, the iron tower the two of them are in is the core of the entire Dragon Palace. Entering the tower will have the possibility to control the formation of the entire Dragon Palace.
Thinking of this, Xu Dao felt faintly excited, and he realized that he should have found a chance to survive, and there was still a chance to gain benefits.
Standing on the stairs, Xu Dao quickly called several more crickets. After confirming that there was still no danger ahead, he quickly climbed up the stairs, no longer looking at the erased murals on both sides.
While climbing the stairs, Xu Dao asked the old centipede in his hand, hoping to get more things out of the other person's mouth, so he learned a lot of specific information.
Suddenly, he stopped, looked up at both sides of the iron wall again, and said in surprise:
"Who killed this mirage?"
The walls were no longer blank, and murals began to appear again. When the mirage appeared again, its body was covered with scars, and the little people surrounding it started singing and dancing again, indicating that the mirage was dead.
When the old centipede heard this, he immediately shouted: "I know this, it is said that it was killed by the Taoist master of Shengtang!"
"Shengtang, Taoist master." Xu Dao chewed on these two words, feeling a little surprised in his heart.
Taoist master is the title of Jindan Taoist who is above the realm of foundation building. He can preach to the world, so he is called Taoist master.
Combining the two words Shengtang, because Shengtang was destroyed more than a thousand years ago, it means that the mirage in the Dragon Palace has been dead for more than a thousand years!
This immediately made Xu Dao's heart beat. He had no idea that the mirage had been dead for thousands of years, but its body was still there and it could eat people.
"No, there must be a mystery here." Xu Dao thought of all the things he had seen and heard in the Dragon Palace before, and a look of thought flashed in his eyes.
He continued walking up and found that the dead mirage on the mural was different from the one in the Dragon Palace. It was motionless. Although the death threat of the dragon was still there, it did not eat people, and there were no fleshy buds growing on it.
It's usually just a corpse.
In the murals, the corpse of the mirage was not cut up and eaten by the villains, but was dragged into the Dragon Palace.
At this time, text suddenly appeared on the mural, which was written above the large and small palaces built by the villains before, and it was the word "Cage Palace".
Since then, the palace groups in the murals have been titled, and there have been actions that appear to be the formation of formations.
There are a total of ninety-nine and eighty-one stone tablets, each with the word "cage" written on them. They are erected in nine circles in the palace complex, surrounding the corpse of the mirage.
At the same time, there is also writing written on the top of the mirage's head, which is the word "dragon".
Xu Dao looked at these pictures, and his eyes fell on the word "dragon" on the head of the mirage, and the words "cage palace" on the palace.
Doubts appeared in his eyes, Xu Dao took a closer look and found that the word "dragon" in several murals was intact and there was no trace of tampering or smearing.
Xu Dao was slightly surprised when he discovered that the characters for "dragon" and "cage" were different, "Wrong writing?"
But he looked at the eighty-one stone tablets on the inner three floors, the middle three floors, and the outer three floors that tightly wrapped the body of the mirage. Suddenly, he felt that the scene was really like a cage, trapping the body of the mirage.
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Xu Dao therefore thought to himself: "Could it be that the word 'cage' in 'cage palace' is not a false character, but was written like this on purpose?"
Immediately afterwards, he discovered that the formations arranged around the "Cage Palace" in the mural were in operation, and smoke came out of them and flowed into the villain.
After getting the green smoke, the villains began to increase in number and size, and were able to tear apart tigers and leopards, and conquer rhinoceros and elephants with their own hands, as if they had received great benefits.
As for the mirage corpse in the Cage Palace, as the smoke continued to emerge, it became more dilapidated, with scales falling off and sores constantly appearing on the corpse, which was closer to the real appearance that Xu Dao had seen. It was extremely miserable.
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Xu Dao didn't react at all when he saw this scene, but when the old centipede in his hand saw it, it shook its body and cried out:
"This, this, is there really a dragon-transforming and blood-changing formation?"