Xu Dao returned to the black ship carrying a pile of books.
Wu Bixi and Liang Xia, who were left behind on the ship, were relieved when they saw him back. However, they noticed that Xu Dao's face did not look very good, and they shrank in their hearts and became cautious in their behavior.
Be careful with your words and actions, for fear of offending Xu Dao.
Xu Dao boarded the black ship and asked a few questions: "Are there fishmen or others coming to inquire about the situation?"
Wu Bixi and Liang Xia hurriedly replied: "Yes. But the disciples should remember the Taoist Master's words. He only said that he would deal with it after the Taoist Master comes back."
"Very good." Xu Dao nodded, "If anyone comes again later, I can let you know."
After saying that, he was about to walk to the top cabin, but he paused and suddenly took out a few books from his sleeves.
"You two are trapped in the West Sea and have not yet come into contact with the outside world. These are several books related to the customs and customs of the West Sea. Please read some of them to avoid leaking the details to outsiders and causing trouble."
Xu Dao has read these volumes on the road and has memorized them in his mind. It doesn't hurt to give them to the two of them now.
Wu and Liang were surprised when they saw a few books. Although they did not get off the ship, they were actually very interested in the situation on the Meren Island.
Now Xu Dao sent the book to the two of them, which really made them happy. They immediately handed it over and said, "Thank you, Taoist Priest! For letting Taoist Priest take the trouble."
Xu Dao nodded and pointed to a few books: "The environment in Xihai is weird. Just these few books will cost more than a thousand dollars. There are very few Kung Fu books here, and you two are orthodox disciples of the Tao Palace.
I should have learned a lot of magic in my daily life, remember to keep it in mind from now on."
Wu Liang and Wu Liang were surprised by these words, and they were a little confused. However, Xu Dao had already warned them, so he stopped explaining and turned around to go to the upper cabin.
"Farewell to Taoist Priest!" Wu and Liang quickly bowed and saluted before they had time to think about it.
After returning to the cabin, Xu Dao sat down cross-legged, gathered his thoughts, and left all the experiences on the island behind. He leaned on a bed and quietly flipped through the book, like a bookworm.
Bit by bit he gnawed at the book.
There was a rustling sound, and for a while the only sound in the cabin was the sound of books being turned.
The light in the room gradually turned from bright to dim, until finally it was covered with a layer of silver gauze.
Xu Dao suddenly looked up and found that it was already dark outside the window, with only a pale silver moon hanging in the sky.
The moon was suspended above the sea, shining up and down, which was quite magical. He couldn't help but get up, push the window directly and go out, stand in front of the railing, and look at the pale silver moon.
At some point, the fog that enveloped the Merman Island suddenly drooped down, lying on the sea only ten feet high, with the black ship protruding above it, as if it was sailing among the clouds.
The entire Sharman Island seemed to have become an empty island, floating not on the sea but in the moonlit sky.
Humph! A soft voice rang out, falling in the ethereal scene, clear and long, like a woman's cry or a baby's laughter.
An idea flashed in Xu Dao's eyes. He looked around at the sea around him, and immediately found a female shark swimming out, jumping onto a rock protruding from the sea, and singing loudly.
These rocks were dotted around the Shark Island, flickering and flickering, and as the shark girls sang, the moonlight in the sky was like silver threads, falling down from a distance and landing on the shark girls' naked bodies.
Xu Dao saw this scene and realized: "Today the fog recedes and the moon rises, it is a good time for pearl fishing on Sharman Island."
He suddenly discovered that there was a slightly familiar figure lying on a rock not far from the black ship. The figure was naked and covered in silver light, as if he was bathing in the moonlight.
Grains of dew, seawater, or sweat fell on her body, rolling like silver beans.
This shark girl was the same little shark girl who seduced Xu Dao with her mother during the day. While the other party sang softly, she also looked at Xu Dao from the air, with lust in her eyes, mist, and her words were clasping softly, as if
The tears were like complaints, as if she was telling the feelings that had been brewing in her heart for a long time.
But when Xu Dao looked at it, he just found it interesting and did not feel that the other party was attracted by him. After all, he had not succeeded in prostitution, so how could he bewitch the banshee to this extent!
This is just the shark girls stimulating their own blood, vomiting moonlight, just like Taoists collecting the emperor's liquid, and trying to absorb the inspiration from heaven and earth, mix it into one, and condense the shark tears.
This bead is a magical pill that has the effects of increasing one's spiritual conduct, improving eyesight, and detoxifying. It is considered to be the most famous specialty product on the Shark Island besides the Shark Girl.
It is said that the best spiritual plants have the effect of assisting Taoists to break through realms, and are hard to find.
But Xu Dao looked around and remembered what he had just seen from the booklet, and his heart moved: "In addition to moonlight, the condensation of shark beads also requires spiritual energy. But the spiritual energy on this shark island is thin, and there is even more evil energy in the sea.
They are constantly surging, and these shark girls have nothing else on them, so how can they collect spiritual energy?"
The Shark Girl Weeping Bead must be completely naked and blend closely between the heaven, earth and moonlight. In particular, it must not be damaged by magic weapons and other objects, otherwise the spirit bead will be difficult to remove and will have to wait until the next moonrise.
The next moment, Xu Dao knew where their "spiritual energy" came from.
The shark girls were sitting on the rocks, and suddenly they reached out and dug into the water, like pulling vegetables. With a flick of their hands, they picked out a head from the sea water.
Mortals lurked in the water around the reef, a mass of black with tangled hair, looking like planted aquatic plants. After a human head emerged from the water, the surrounding seawater quickly turned bright red.
The heads that were taken out were not completely dead yet, their faces were miserable, their eyes were moving, it was very scary.
The shark girls held the human head in their hands, looking affectionately, with sad eyes and mist in their eyes. They opened their red lips, came close to the human head in their hands, and rubbed their ears and temples.
The blood fell on their collarbones and chests, which turned extremely red.
The delicate faces of the shark girls were also stained with blood, and there was actually a sense of sadness, making people feel as if they were young women crying for their lovers and sisters.
However, such a scene fell into Xu Dao's eyes, but heads were knocked open one after another. The souls in them were not yet dead, so they took the initiative to swallow them into their mouths. During the breath, only a few light spots escaped.
Most of the light spots were mixed with the moonlight that fell on the Shark Girls' bodies, fused with each other, and slowly formed genuine silver beans, which fell out of the Shark Girls' pupils.
Xu Dao was stunned when he saw this scene. He suddenly thought of something and quickly took out a book from his sleeve.
Crash! The pages of the book turned quickly, and he soon settled on the page he was looking for:
"The spirit of heaven and the earth are in ruins, and those with Tao will seek out the ancients, learn the methods of the gods of heaven and earth in ancient times, and burn incense and fire to continue them, so that the Tao lineage will be endless."
This brief statement is included in a random section of the book. It is not surprising. It is only a few sentences and does not tell much.
But Xu Dao was curious about the monastic environment in Xihai, and because of the inner world, he paid much attention to the word "incense", so he wrote down this sentence.
Now that he saw the way the Shark Girls produced spirit beads, and the inspiration they used was to extract them from human souls, he immediately had more ideas in his mind.
The shark girls on the sea were still weeping and complaining. The scene was quite beautiful and poignant. Not only Xu Dao was watching, but Wu Bixi and Liang Xia were also watching.
Only the boatmen on the ship were hiding in every corner of the ship, all shivering, not daring to look at the beautiful scene on the sea.
Xu Dao did not look at the night scene anymore. He took out all the books in his sleeves and suspended them in all directions. He used his magic power and suddenly there was a violent wind, and the pages of the books turned rapidly.
Soon, one sentence after another was drawn out with his magic power: "In the past, the gods ate incense, but they actually swallowed human souls."
"The four seas are overturned, the water veins are filthy, and the few islands with spirits are overwhelmed. Only people can survive... All wise people are living beings, and their souls are born with spiritual energy. They are less affected by the earth's air and water's turbidity, so they can eat it."
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"The souls of animals and beasts are rare; the souls of those with slippery scales are also rare; only human beings are born with souls and do not need to practice to have souls."
"Meat eaters are fierce and powerful, soul eaters are divine and demonic!"
Various sentences appeared in Xu Dao's mind, and some of the chapters revealed something even more naked. Inside and outside the words, there were two big words written on them: cannibalism.
Xu Dao murmured to himself: "That's it, that's it."
In this West Sea, not only the sea area where he is located has been eroded by evil spirits, but every drop of it has been eroded by evil spirits, but the entire West Sea and even the entire four seas are like this.
The spiritual veins in the sea were also washed away by the nameless evil energy, making them unusable. Even Taoists at the level of golden elixirs and Nascent Souls did not dare to practice directly in the sea, otherwise they would go crazy in the blink of an eye.
In the world of mountains and seas thousands of years ago, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was already thinning and declining. Once this situation occurred, people would be killed immediately.
What makes the situation worse is that the Taoists still have sense and can resist extracting spiritual energy from the spiritual veins in the sea for use, but the birds and beasts have no such concerns.
As a result, after swallowing spiritual energy, the monsters in the sea became crazy and unable to produce any wisdom, and they all turned into ferocious beasts.
As a result, the number of monsters in the sea not only did not decrease, but because they lost their intelligence, they became extremely fierce and did not know how to advance or retreat, and their combat power suddenly became much stronger than before.
Regardless of whether they are human cultivators or demon cultivators, faced with such a situation, they are constantly retreating and can only retreat to the only remaining islands in the West Sea.
Because the spiritual veins of the islands in various places are directly connected to the earth's crust and not connected to the sea water, the spiritual energy is only shrinking and escaping into the sea, without being polluted by the sea.
It is recorded in several books that the Taoists at that time screamed that the "era of the end of the Dharma" had arrived. They all felt like mourning their heirs, either dying because they were unable to fight, or perishing together, or not being evil, swallowing the spiritual energy in the sea and falling into evil spirits.
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Since the Holy Tang Dynasty, countless small and large Dao channels that have survived have been cut off again; all kinds of strange creatures on the sea have also continued to fall into evil and lose their wisdom.
It's just like the rumored Dharma Ending Age, when spiritual energy is exhausted and Taoism collapses.
Finally, the Taoist priests dug out the word "incense" from the pile of old papers, and like Xu Tao, they knew that the essence of the soul is aura.
Then there were the cannibalistic words that Xu Dao had just seen.
Each living person has become a continuous source of spiritual energy minerals for the people of Xikai Dao.
In today's West Sea, pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth has long been rare among the rare. There are only 108 spiritual veins in the entire West Sea, distributed among 108 islands.
Thirty-six of the islands are occupied by the Jindan Venerable, and seventy-two are occupied by the Lian Gang Taoist priests. They are scattered, sometimes east and sometimes west, without a system.
Moreover, the spiritual veins in the one hundred and eight islands are very small and are shrinking day by day. Taking the Sharman Island as an example, the concentration of its spiritual energy has dropped to the same level as Xu Dao's Bone Observation Cave, and is on the verge of extinction.
No matter what the Taoists in the West Sea think or not, they can no longer rely on swallowing the pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth to perform their kung fu, but can only rely on the essence of the sun and the moon, and squeezing the spiritual energy from human souls and the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts.
Among them, Sun Jing Yue Hua can barely survive starvation, but if they want to improve their cultivation, practice spells, and refine magical weapons without becoming blood food in the mouths of others, Taoists can only turn to the latter.
And compared with the spiritual energy squeezed out of the souls of living people, the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts have long been contaminated by evil spirits, so they are often not suitable for cultivation and can be used for other purposes.
Xu Dao raised his gaze from the pile of papers in front of him and once again looked at the bright moon on the sea and the beautiful scene of the shark girl weeping.
The scene in front of them was that the Shark Girls were chewing the raw soul, grinding it into powder, turning it into incense, and then refining it into spiritual beads, which were used as the best spiritual elixir.
Suddenly, Xu Dao turned his hand, and a scarlet talisman appeared in front of him, buzzing and trembling.
Today, in Xihai, there is no longer a classification of third-class talisman coins. There is only one type left, which is the scarlet talisman coin he holds in his hand.
"No wonder this money is scarlet and is also called 'blood money'. I thought it was just a different refining method, soaked in the blood shed by Taoists fighting for it."
But its essence is much darker than Xu Dao imagined.
Every piece of blood money is made by squeezing at least one mortal soul and mixing in some of the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts.
Among them, the better the quality of the blood money, the less the blood and flesh of the ferocious beasts are mixed, and the more soul and spiritual energy is used. The best quality is undoubtedly made from a mixture of Taoist souls and Taoist flesh and blood, and is refined.
Blood money paid out.
It is for this reason that the mortals and Taoists in the West Sea are divided into "vegetable people" and "animal people".
Moreover, the Western Sea is divided up and down, and the art of refining blood money is not something everyone knows.
Take the Taoist surnamed Lai as an example. The other party only knows how to spend money but does not know the true origin of the blood money. Otherwise, this guy will definitely cry out that he is a loser because he does not know that a mortal soul can refine it.
One penny!
As soon as he thought of this, Xu Dao raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the night sky. The moonlight was bright and gentle, but he felt as if he was being watched by a terrifying giant, which made him feel chilled to the bone.
I thought the West Sea was just crueler. At most, there were more monsters than the Wu Kingdom, and Daofan was more divided than the Wu Kingdom.
But who would have thought that the entire Xihai, and even the entire Shanhai Realm's cultivation system was already based on soul-drawing and money-making.
In such a world, living people are not used as fish and meat, but fish and meat are used as living people.