The Ye Hongxiu that Gu Cheng saw when he was in the capital was actually not 'Ye Hongxiu'. At that time, she still had the appearance of the young lady from the Xiao family.
Seeing Ye Hongxiu's appearance at this time, Gu Cheng had to admit that this Luo Jiao saint, recognized by the outside world as a witch, was indeed stunning in appearance, and she was worthy of her name.
"Appearances can change, but the smell and taste of a person never change.
Why did you appear here? Did you come with the Holy Son of Luo Jiao? But why didn’t I see you before? And where is your nervous butler?”
Gu Cheng came up with three questions in a row.
Ye Hongxiu looked at herself. She didn't smell anything on her body. It was also body fragrance.
"Of course I didn't come with that guy. To be more precise, I came after him, but I got here earlier than him.
And Uncle Zhang is not nervous, he is just nervous about me."
Gu Cheng shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. Your Luo Jiao seems to know a lot about this hell realm. What on earth is this place?"
At least the two of them have collaborated once. At best, they are called allies. At worst, they are working in cahoots.
Gu Cheng had a grudge against the Holy Son of the Luo Jiao, and judging from Ye Hongxiu's intention, it was obvious that he was here for the Holy Son of the Luo Jiao, so both parties had nothing to hide.
Ye Hongxiu said in surprise: "You have come down here, and you still don't know where the hell realm is?"
Gu Cheng spread his hands and said, "I and the people from Jiangnan County's Wulin strangled the remnants of the Samsara Sect before. I got the map of the hell realm from those guys, so I decided to come down and take a look."
Ye Hongxiu slapped his head: "You are also ignorant and fearless, and you dare to come down without even knowing where this place is.
But strictly speaking, I'm actually not sure where this place is.
The legend of hell comes from the Song Dynasty five hundred years ago. You should know those legends, right?"
Gu Cheng nodded: "I know."
Ye Hongxiu continued: "Actually, the legend is true. People from the Song Dynasty did dig a passage, entered it, and discovered a sacred tree."
Gu Cheng thought: "Is it that thing outside?"
Ye Hongxiu nodded and said: "It's that sacred tree, no one knew what it was at that time.
In the past, I, Luo Jiao, served as the national counselor of the Song Dynasty. In fact, the Song Dynasty had more than one national master. At that time, every small country had several national masters like Daqian.
But that guy came from a left-behind cultivator and was an idiot. He dared to try anything. He actually said that this was the sacred tree of immortality and made the people of Song Dynasty eat the fruit from this sacred tree."
"Then what?"
Ye Hongxiu had a weird look on his face and said, "Then you saw it too, didn't you? The immortals were indeed immortal, but they turned into ghosts and monsters.
And they are not ordinary ghosts, they are the fruits of the sacred tree."
"Fruit? What do you mean?"
"It literally means that they ate the fruit of the sacred tree, but in fact it was the fruit of the sacred tree that fused with them. The yin and ghost energy they accumulated over the years will be absorbed by the sacred tree after a certain period of time.
You should have discovered it, right? Until now, they all think that they are not dead, and that time has only passed more than fifty years. In fact, every hundred years, all their powers, including memories, etc., will be absorbed by the sacred tree, and then there will be another
Start from scratch and repeat.”
Gu Cheng shook his head gently. This is not eternal life, it is simply hell. Of course, they may not know these things themselves.
"Didn't your Luo Sect's founder leave halfway? How could he understand it so clearly?"
"He left halfway, but after hearing the news, he came back again. After passing through many levels, he came here. However, he was attacked by some monsters here and was severely injured. He had to go back with the news and deduce it.
After a while, we came to an uncertain result.”
"What result?"
"The founder of the Luo Sect suspects that this hell realm is actually the burial place of a powerful demon god in ancient times!"
Seeing that Gu Cheng was not surprised at all, Ye Hongxiu said in surprise: "You know?"
Gu Cheng shook his head and said: "I don't know, but after hearing what you said, I feel that things along the way are correct.
We also encountered some strange things on the top floor before, including hair, eyes, and a cave like a big mouth.
That should be the head of the devil?
And the ghost city and even the sacred tree above should be the heart of the demon, or the core of the entire demon.
As for the thing at the bottom, I have seen pictures of the hell realm, and this may be the devil's belly, where his intestines were transformed."
Ye Hongxiu's eyes revealed a strange color and said: "Your analysis is the same as that of my Luo Jiao ancestor.
Of course, there are still some things that cannot be explained, but this existence is the legendary ancient demon god, and anything he can transform into it is possible."
Gu Cheng said: "Let's talk about you. Last time you went back with dragon energy, you didn't even kill that guy. The power around him seemed to be much stronger. This is a bit sorry for your ability."
Gu Cheng has never officially fought against Ye Hongxiu, so he doesn't know her strength.
But when it comes to ability, Ye Hongxiu can definitely be regarded as a ruthless person.
As a saint of the Luo religion, she dared to lie in wait under Da Gan's nose for two years. Apart from anything else, the pressure involved was not something that ordinary people could bear.
And in the end, this matter was considered a success. Logically speaking, such a big achievement should be enough for Ye Hongxiu to suppress and beat the Holy Son of Luo Jiao, but why is he still getting stronger and stronger now?
Ye Hongxiu said quietly: "Who can let me have a good master? I can do ten points, and he can do seven points, but his master can also make up for eleven points."
"His master is the leader of Luo Jiao?"
Ye Hongxiu shook his head and said: "The leader never accepts disciples. Besides, if his master is really the leader, I won't have to fight and just betray Luo Jiao.
But his master is the deputy leader of the Luo Cult, and he is the oldest among the deputy leaders, even older than the leader.
Some old people in the Luo Jiao headquarters and some helmsmen of the Luo Jiao branch were promoted by him.
The most important thing is that even the leader of the church was mentored by him when he was young, and he also supported him strongly when he ascended to the position of leader."
When Gu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but touch his chin. To be honest, he had thought that Ye Hongxiu's situation in the Luo Jiao might be very bad, otherwise she would not have been reduced to being an undercover agent in the capital.
But he didn't expect that the other party's situation would be so bad.
"So this time you are planning to come to trouble the Holy Son of the Luo Jiao? Tsk, it was already five hundred years ago. Why did your Luo Jiao think of coming here? What on earth is that guy looking for?"
Ye Hongxiu squinted his eyes and said: "It wasn't that I, Luo Jiao, didn't want to explore the hell realm before, but that this place had changed its direction.
Do you still remember the flood in Jiangnan County five hundred years ago? It was that time that caused some changes in the shape of the Black Mountains, and the map left by the ancestor became invalid.
I, the Luo Jiao, are not your Jingyesi. I can seal off a large area on the Black Mountains with great fanfare and start digging.
So at the beginning, I, Luo Jiao, was just exploring in secret, but because the time was too long, I, Luo Jiao, couldn't put most of my thoughts here, and no one paid attention to this matter for a while.
But that guy's master dug out these things from some ancient books of our Luo religion. He has been sending people to search for them over the years. He has some clues but has not officially entered into them to explore.
That guy was able to come this time because I brought dragon energy back from the capital and put a lot of pressure on him, so he begged his master for all the information and maps of this place.
As for what he wants, I'm really not sure, but I have some vague guesses.
What he wants should be the seeds of the sacred tree."
"seed?"
Ye Hongxiu nodded and said: "According to the inference of our Luo Jiao founder, the demon gods in the hell realm were actually born under the earth.
Legend has it that there is a sacred tree underground in the southwest, which will bear immortal fruit at sunrise. Those who swallow it can live forever, but after sunset, their souls will enter the netherworld.
Although he is immortal, he is reincarnated between life and death.
Later, because too many people came to pick the immortal fruit, the sacred tree angered people's greed, and a demon god was born from the seeds of the sacred tree, depriving those people of their vitality and causing them to fall into the netherworld forever.
The idiot imperial master of the Song Dynasty should have swallowed these fruits after hearing this legend, but it turned out that he only listened to half of the legend.
This is a legend that has been spread to a very small extent in the southwest. Until now, except for some local natives, no one even knows about it.
The ancient demon god was born in a sacred tree. After his death, his soul returned to the earth, and a young sacred tree grew out of his body. At the same time, this sacred tree should also contain a seed, a seed that can give birth to a demon god!"
Gu Cheng was startled: "Can you give birth to the seed of a demon? Are you sure you're not kidding?"
Although there are many legends in ancient times, not everything is qualified to be called a demon.
Only those beings who stood at the top of the food chain in ancient times and were said to be able to turn the world upside down are qualified to be called demon gods.
For example, although Gu Cheng's Soul of Shura is also a legendary existence, compared with the real Demon God, it can be described as follows: one is a strong man in the holy realm, and the other is a low-level left-behind cultivator, although they are both practitioners.
, but the strength is completely different.
Ye Hongxiu nodded and said: "It is very possible that the demon god was born from the seeds of the sacred tree. After death, the sacred tree takes root and sprouts in the body, gradually grows, and another demon god will be born from the seeds, and the cycle goes back and forth, just like a reincarnation. This
It is very consistent with some legends from ancient times.
Of course, this process may take tens of thousands of years or even longer, but if there is a demon seed, it is definitely the greatest treasure among treasures, and it is worth the guy spending all his wealth to go through this hell."