Hearing the old centipede scream, Xu Dao asked calmly: "What is the dragon-transformation and blood-exchange formation?"
The old centipede was possessed by the Yin God. It twisted the body of the golden centipede, trying to reach the mural to take a closer look, but because its body was caught by Xu Dao, it could not escape at all.
"This formation, this formation..." Old Centipede heard Xu Dao's question and paused for a few breaths before speaking out: "This is a rumor among my Shezhao tribe."
"Fellow Taoist is not a member of my edict and does not know these secrets. Moreover, even other tribesmen do not know these secrets unless they have lived long and have wide knowledge."
"Oh, then you must be one of the well-informed people who know these secrets." Xu Dao sneered a few times, pressed his hands hard, and drank impatiently: "Say it quickly!"
"Hey! I'm going to die!" The old centipede screamed in pain immediately, "The shell is going to break!"
It did not dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately told the matter of "transforming dragons into blood and exchanging blood" honestly.
It turns out that among the Shezhao tribe, there are generally two rumors about the Dragon Palace and the mirage in it.
The first is what Old Centipede and others thought before, but Xu Dao barely guessed the "truth" after many inquiries.
The Dragon Palace was established earlier than Shezhao Mountain City. It is a monster ruin discovered by the Shezhao tribe. Among them is the mirage, which is hiding in the Dragon Palace formation and lingering. From time to time, it will shake the foundation of the Sheshan spiritual veins.
Therefore, the Shezhao tribe would select Taoist disciples to enter the Dragon Palace every year, with the intention of cutting off the dragon's flesh and blood and killing its corpse.
The second is that the Dragon Palace is actually a large formation arranged by the ancestors of Shezhao. This formation can refine the mirage into the spiritual veins of Sheshan, improve the level of the spiritual veins, and increase the strength of the Shezhao tribe.
The newborns born in the Shezhao tribe in the future will be nourished by the essence transformed from the corpse of the mirage, and their bones and qualifications will be continuously improved.
When the entire mirage is refined into the dragon veins, the Sheshan dragon veins can even generate spirituality, protect the Shezhao tribe, and bring greater benefits to the Shezhao people.
According to what Xu Dao saw in the mural just now, the first widely circulated rumor between the two is undoubtedly full of errors.
The second rumor, although almost unheard of by the Shezhao people themselves, is more consistent with the story written on the mural.
After Xu Dao listened to Old Centipede's introduction, he asked aloud: "No matter which rumor is true or false, neither of them mentioned the origin of the dragon corpse. Why do you know that this dragon was killed by Taoist Shengtang?"
The old centipede replied:
"Hey! My old centipede is naturally different from other people. Besides, except for the newborn babies in the mountains who increasingly believe in the first statement, most people who have lived for a few years know that the Dragon Palace is not simple."
He also said casually: "To be honest with you fellow Taoist, the reason why I dare to say this is because we know that the current six bloodlines in the clan are not direct bloodlines."
"The direct lineage is my relative. They used to be the biggest leaders in the mountain, but there were only a few of them. I don't know how many years ago, the last bloodline died."
The old centipede was chattering, unaware that Xu Dao was surprised after hearing his words, and secretly touched the breath-collecting jade hook on his hand.
"Combined with the fact that the jade hook can open the iron door, and the words from the old centipede's mouth, it seems that the last words of the young patriarch of Shezhao in the Baimaofeng Cave are not false, and he is really the direct descendant of Shezhao."
Xu Dao thought, and then thought to himself: "According to the last words in the coffin, White Bone Temple once attacked the Shezhao tribe... Now the relationship between the two is not shallow. It should be like what the old centipede said, the young patriarch's lineage has long been dead.
Guang, even the name has almost been forgotten."
After a question and answer session, although Xu Dao was still wary of what Old Centipede said, he also learned a lot about the history of the Shezhao tribe.
But there is still the most critical issue, and that is the elders of Shezhao. What are the six foundation-building Taoist priests planning? They even did not hesitate to feed nearly half of the clan's population to mirage dragons.
When Xu Dao asked this question, Old Centipede obviously held a grudge against him for almost dying just now.
It glanced around and said sarcastically: "If this place really has a "Dragon Transformation and Blood Exchange Formation", then after the formation is set up, it will logically isolate the inside and outside, preventing others from walking into it and ruining the atmosphere of the earth.
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"A good dragon corpse will slowly be buried in the spiritual veins. It will truly transform the spiritual veins into dragon veins, subtly improving the qualifications of the men and women, and they will also have a few traces of dragon blood..."
"Now that the mirage is dead and 'alive', it is full of corpse energy. I was not sure before, but now it is clearer. I think the Taoist priests probably want to completely refine the corpse into a 'corpse dragon'."
"When the time comes, they will replace their monster bodies and control the corpse dragon, and they will become masters of the Golden Core Realm!"
After saying these words, Xu Dao couldn't help but believe a little bit of what Old Centipede said based on what he saw.
He thought to himself: "According to what this guy said, the Dragon Transformation and Blood Exchange Formation is to extract the evil energy generated by the corpse of the mirage to prevent the mirage from transforming into a corpse. At the same time, it buries the essence of its spirit and flesh into the dragon's veins. The yin and yang are divided into two parts.
useful."
"But now the formation of the Dragon Palace is damaged, the corpse of the mirage has mutated, and there are still living people being fed into the Dragon Palace, which has caused the concentration of evil spirits here to increase sharply. The formation cannot deal with it, but it has become a rare place for one party to raise corpses.
land!"
Xu Dao combed through it and suddenly understood: "Once the evil energy accumulated on the iron tower for thousands of years breaks out, not only will the formation of the Dragon Palace collapse, and it will no longer be able to prevent the Taoist priests from entering the Dragon Palace in person, the mirage will be nourished by the huge evil energy.
There is also a great possibility that it will turn into a real corpse dragon and return to the ranks of golden elixir monsters!"
In this process, the Taoist priests who gave up the imperial edict could have carried out the process slowly, but now it has been going on for two to three hundred years, and most of the mirage has turned into corpses. Also, because of the situation at the White Bone Temple, the Taoist priests do not have much time.
Therefore, the six Shezhao Taoist priests simply threw all the casual cultivators and Taoist disciples in the ghost market, as well as half of the population on Sheshan Mountain, into the Dragon Palace.
One is to feed the mirage to help it regain its strength, and the other is to use resentment to generate evil energy, which will overburden the formation of the Dragon Palace and completely collapse.
After sorting out these things, Xu Dao suddenly felt emotional in his heart.
According to what is said on the mural on the Iron Tower, the ancestors of Shezhao did not eat the corpse of the mirage, but chose to specially arrange the formation and slowly refine the corpse over thousands of years.
Its purpose is to achieve lasting results and increase the foundation of the entire ethnic group.
But today's Shezhao Taoist priests, for their own selfish purposes, not only ruined the efforts of their ancestors for thousands of years, but also did not hesitate to use their own family members as blood food, sacrifice every year, and bury half of their clansmen, just to give themselves a chance.
Possibility of pill formation.
However, there is another point worthy of Xu Dao’s attention:
"Can you raise a corpse dragon to be promoted to the realm of golden elixir and become a great demon? This is just a zombie, it is an external object, and it is not something you have cultivated yourself..."