Xu Dao's eyesight went dark, and then he saw strange things. When he calmed down again, the world had changed in his eyes. It was no longer the beautiful scenery, the water and the sky were the same color, but the mist dispersed, and the sky was dark.
, a gloomy look.
Xu Dao quickly used his protective spell to protect himself. He raised his head and looked around, only to feel that there was a deep gloom all around, and there seemed to be monsters and monsters hidden everywhere.
"Squeak!" Suddenly, the sound of a mouse rang in his ears. Xu Dao looked up and immediately found something jumping out of the white dead branches at his feet, and he kept shouting.
It was a mouse, which must have been attracted by the smell of Xu Dao. This mouse was as big as a cat, with extremely scarlet eyes and sharp teeth. It looked like a monster at first sight.
But that's not the most important thing. What's important is that half of the rat's head is missing and bitten off by something unknown. You can still see the shriveled, dark red brain inside, but it can still move.
"Chi!" The rat leaned in front of Xu Dao, with a greedy and hungry expression on its broken face, and suddenly rushed towards Xu Dao.
Xu Dao just flicked his sleeves and slapped the rat to the ground. He used his strength to break the opponent's bones and internal organs. But even so, the rat's body could not crawl and it was still not dead. It kept cutting and rubbing with its teeth.
Makes a cry of appetite.
Seeing this scene, Xu Dao frowned. He took a step forward, caught the rat in the air, and studied it carefully.
Xu Dao suddenly discovered that the rat was actually dead a long time ago, but the corpse air in its body was dense, transforming it into a ghostly thing, full of corpse poison, but still alive.
"Corpse Rat!" Xu Dao was slightly shocked when he saw this scene. His mind sank, and he immediately used the magic formula to capture the soul from the corpse rat's body.
There was a squeak, but Xu Dao only grabbed a ball of corpse energy without a soul.
He instantly determined that the rat did not have its original appearance, but had absorbed corpse energy and resurrected into a ghost monster.
Xu Dao squeezed it casually, dissipating the corpse energy in his hand, and the corpse rat's body immediately stopped moving.
But suddenly, there was another creaking sound nearby, and hundreds of pairs of blood-red eyes popped out of the darkness, their eyes crazy, all staring at Xu Dao tightly, their eyes full of desire for flesh and blood.
Under these eyeballs, there are rat faces that are in disrepair, each filled with corpse energy, and they are not living creatures.
Seeing this, Xu Dao raised his eyebrows slightly. He turned slightly and suddenly heard a clicking sound in his ears. Xu Dao lowered his head and found that the dead branch he stepped on was pale and brittle.
But when he took a closer look, it was clear that what was on the ground was not a dead branch, but a slender, pale rib.
Xu Dao raised his head and looked around, and found that the "dead branches" everywhere on the scene were like a jungle of white bones.
The corpse rat is a very powerful thing, especially because it carries corpse poison on its body. If an ordinary mortal touches it, his body will fester and die within a few days.
However, Xu Dao was born in the White Bone Temple. Although his disciples were not good at raising corpses, he was also familiar with corpses and dead objects. In addition, he possessed magical powers. In a short time, all the corpse rats on the scene were eliminated and all the dead rats were eliminated.
The corpse energy was extracted and sealed in a piece of talisman paper.
During this trip to Black Mountain, including the Immortality Fruit, the only goal of the Taoist disciples is to collect spiritual materials, including elixirs, spiritual mines, spiritual energy, monster flesh and blood, etc... Corpse energy is also one of them.
Therefore, Xu Dao carried many charms and jade boxes for sealing corpse energy and other things.
Putting the Corpse Qi Talisman away, he thought about it for a moment.
After entering Black Mountain, the Taoist disciples were scattered everywhere. In order to keep the disciples in contact with each other, the White Bone Temple specially cast a spell on the identity plates of the Taoist disciples, so that the Taoist disciples who were close to each other could sense each other.
This will allow the Taoist leaders of each academy to gather scattered disciples, work together to collect resources and distribute tasks.
Previously, the reason why Taoist Mowen asked Xu Dao to learn to refine talisman coins was that after the large army gathered together, he could arrange for Xu Dao to work in the camp, just refining talisman coins, without leaving the camp and wandering around.
, in this way Xu Dao can be protected.
But when Xu Dao thought of this, he took out his identity tag and took a look at it silently.
Thinking in his mind, Xu Dao threw the sign directly to the ground and kicked it into the pile of bones.
Since a spell has been cast on the identity plate, there is no guarantee that no one will be able to find Xu Dao through the plate. It doesn't matter if it is someone else, but if it is Fang Guanhai, Xu Dao will also be unlucky.
For the sake of caution, Xu Dao thought it would be better not to carry this brand. As for when he would join the main force in the future, it would be better to wait until he breaks through to the middle stage of Qi refining.
In the early days of the Black Mountain Divine Banquet, there were more than two thousand Taoist disciples walking in the mountain, and they had not yet become a powerful force, so there would be chaos. It was best for Xu Tao to hide first and avoid the limelight.
After all, according to the rumors, the Black Mountain Divine Banquet has a saying that only after more than half of the Taoist disciples entering the mountain are killed or injured, the Immortality Fruit will appear in the mountain.
Although this is a rumor, there is no guarantee that those Taoist disciples who are interested in the Immortality Fruit, especially those in the late stage of Qi refining, will not go on a killing spree in the hope of finding the Immortality Fruit as soon as possible.
Xu Dao looked around and immediately used the magic technique to find a suitable place to stay, so that he could easily arrange the formation and build a place to stay.
Leaving the bone jungle covered with corpse rats, Xu Dao originally wanted to find a vibrant place to practice his own practice, but he walked through the mist for less than a quarter of an hour, and his eyes were still desolate and gloomy.
The few dwarf trees that I occasionally found were twisted and weird. They were not ordinary trees, but murderous trees. Unknown flesh and blood corpses were strangled at the roots. The trees were entangled with gloomy energy, and green will-o'-the-wisps loomed.
And along the way, he saw more ghosts and monsters, all of them with mutilated bodies, strong corpse aura, and no souls in their bodies.
And the only things that have souls are ghosts and ghosts that wander around.
Xu Dao carefully avoided these monsters. He vaguely felt something was wrong, so he climbed up a small hill and prepared to look around and identify the direction.
But when he looked through the thin mist for several miles, his eyes suddenly became blank and confused.
Except for the place he just walked through, the rest of the place was also a dark and strange scene, full of ghosts, ghosts, and no Yang energy left.
Xu Dao stood on the hill, reaching out to catch the cold wind and comprehending the situation here.
"The spiritual energy here is indeed rich, almost as much as the medium-sized quiet room in the White Bone Temple. If we find a spiritual vein, the spiritual energy will be even richer... but the yin energy is also strong and continuous, with overlapping winds."
A glance at one spot reveals the whole thing. The huge Black Mountain territory is not as imagined by Xu Dao. It will be rich in products, graceful and full of vitality.
Instead, the sky is dark, the earth is filled with gloom, and demons are rampant. Anyone who comes here will probably have their flesh and blood carved up and their souls devoured immediately.
Even Taoists must always be cautious and beware of demons and ghosts.
Xu Dao thought to himself: "This place is closer to a land of ghosts than a fairyland."
After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered that in the Taoist books, the so-called mountain gods had the job of controlling the earth's veins and controlling the souls of life and death.
There are also rumors in the world that there is an underworld after death. One of the sayings is that "life belongs to Chang'an and death belongs to Mount Tai." The underworld has the Lord Taishan as its lord, who is in charge of the register of the dead, drives away ghosts, and can enter the human world and arrest them.
Live soul.
The king of Taishan Mansion is also the mountain god.
The black mountain tree demon is also a mountain god.
Xu Dao suddenly had a suspicion: "Could it be that this so-called Black Mountain is actually a ghost..."