When ordinary people come to this kind of rainforest, even those who are born with it, there are certain dangers. After all, there are some special terrains here, you may die if you fall, there are also all kinds of snakes, insects, beasts, and miasma. But when it comes to Qi Xuansu,
When the realm of cultivation is still the inheritance of humans and immortals, it won't be a big deal.
With strong Qi and blood, snakes and insects dare not get close to you, and your body is strong and almost as if you are walking on flat ground.
Therefore, Qi Xuansu made very fast progress and managed to carve out a road in the vast rain forest. Along the way, various trees and vegetation were either pushed down or torn up and pulled up, as if a giant beast had passed by.
After searching for about two days, Qi Xuansu finally found a cave deep in the rain forest. There seemed to be some traces of artificial digging here.
After entering the cave, he found that it was all the way down. Qi Xuansu couldn't help but wonder, has part of the city of Paititi sunk underground? Or is there an underground mausoleum here?
Qi Xuansu thought so and walked deeper into the cave.
There is no light source in the cave, or there used to be a light source, but it has been extinguished now. However, Qi Xuansu has a true pupil, which is not affected at all, and everything is visible. The deeper he goes, the wider the cave becomes, and Qi Xuansu discovers that there are many people on both sides of the cave.
There are more and more corpses of all kinds, and some places can simply be described as piled up like mountains.
Qi Xuansu was not a person who came from the war era. He was born in a peaceful era, when the Taoist sect was extremely powerful. Even if there was a war, it would happen overseas. The Central Plains has not heard the sound of horse hooves or artillery for nearly two hundred years. Those red fields
Thousands of miles away, ten rooms and nine empty spaces, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Qi Xuansu had only seen it from descriptions in books, but had never seen it with his own eyes.
Even though Qi Xuansu participated in the Fenglinzhou War and the Southern Continent War, most of those battles took place at the military level. Master Qingwei repeatedly requested to keep Fenglinzhou a popular place, and Xidaomen also conducted an orderly evacuation of the people before the war.
It didn’t involve the common people too much.
Since it is an army fighting, the number of casualties will be controlled within a certain range. After all, Qingwei Zhenren put down the Fenglinzhou rebellion without a hundred thousand people, not counting the servant army. Xidaomen and the Holy Court fought, and the two sides fought.
The casualties of more than 10,000 people are already a bit crippling. If there are really more than 100,000 casualties, the balance of victory will begin to tilt.
But once the common people are involved, a party with a low moral level can easily develop into a one-sided massacre, with hundreds of thousands of people killed at every turn. In addition, war has broken various systems. In the event of natural and man-made disasters, such as plague and famine, no one will organize disaster relief.
, then the death toll will be uncontrollable. Over the years, it may be millions or tens of millions of casualties.
Such troubled times are terrifying, with corpses exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. This is not an exaggeration.
The corpses accumulated in the Ghost Kingdom Cave are mainly from the more than 100 years since the Jinzhang went south to the establishment of the Wei Dynasty. To this day, the Dao Sect has not yet finished processing them, which shows the huge number of deaths.
Xuansheng was born in such an era, so Xuansheng was determined to save the world. You must know that Xuansheng was born in a family of Zhongmingdingdingshi. The ups and downs outside could not touch his head. He could guide the country step by step.
, instead of leaving the shelter and dying several times. But he still did it. The reason is simply that he couldn't stand it anymore. It was so miserable that it touched his soul.
Qi Xuansu did not have such an experience, and it is difficult to fully understand Xuan Sheng's feelings at that time just from the words. After all, the death of thousands of people and the death of tens of millions of people are two completely different concepts. The latter can just go anywhere,
You can see dead people, and all kinds of human tragedies are happening one after another. You can't hide even if you want to, and it's easy to become completely numb.
Qi Xuansu somewhat understood Xuan Sheng today. I dare not say that he understood it completely, but at least he was touched. Along the way, he saw piles of corpses, probably more than ten thousand. And for some unknown reason, these corpses did not rot, basically
It still retains the state before death, as if it had just died, and is different from the rotting corpses in the cave of the ghost country.
One can imagine the tragic situation that occurred when the country named Paititi perished.
Paiti was nominated as a country, but in fact it was a city-state. This was true for the three major empires including Tawanting. It was a larger city-state alliance with a relatively loose structure.
A truly huge empire is like the Dao Sect or the Holy Court, which spans all continents and has a territory of more than ten thousand miles. Such an empire will not perish due to foreign enemies, but will only collapse due to internal troubles.
This reminded Qi Xuansu of what Zhang Yuelu said.
"Tian Yuan, if one day you reach a high enough position, I hope you will not care about the gains and losses of one place at a time, but consider the interests of the overall situation, be based on reality, and focus on the long term, and don't do it for your own selfish interests.
Or short-term interests, regardless of the overall situation. Dare to be responsible, dare to take responsibility, have no shame, be a person who stands tall in the world, and be a person who can withstand the test of time."
"Don't be like some people who are obsessed with seizing power by any means necessary. Other than that, they don't have any ideals at all. Their starting point for doing or not doing something is whether they can take advantage of it.
You must compare, all day long, you are thinking about how to maximize your own interests. For the sake of temporary results, you dare to put yourself in the situation
He ignored the misfortune for the next hundred years. All day long, he said things he didn't mean, saying all the good things and doing all the bad things. He wore a smile that looked like a smile but was not a smile, and there was a knife hidden in his smile."
"Such people will only regard the Taoist Sect as their own private property and take it away. In the end, they will only make the Taoist Sect irreversible."
Qi Xuansu gathered his thoughts and continued to move forward, arriving at a huge underground space. There was a high altar, and in front of the altar there were densely packed human figurines.
Qi Xuansu didn't pay attention at first, because there were many human figurines in the southern continent, most of which were pottery figurines, painted with oil, and commonly found on various altars and mausoleums. However, when Qi Xuansu walked forward, he found that these figurines were not pottery figurines.
They are not stone figurines, but they look like they were made by living people.
Qi Xuansu broke off the palm of the human figurine and found that it was empty inside, with no flesh, flesh, or bones. Then a large number of black bugs emerged from the figurine, some like beetles. The origin of these bugs was unknown, but they were not afraid.
Qi Xuansu's strong blood energy crawled towards Qi Xuansu's body, and Qi Xuansu's true pupils could clearly see that these insects had sharp mouthparts. If ordinary people encountered them, they would probably be eaten up in the blink of an eye.
Before Qi Xuansu could take action, Wu Niang had already appeared and helped Qi Xuansu burn all the insects with a fire.
Qi Xuansu asked, "Wuniang, what are these insects?"
Wuniang hesitated a little bit, "It's a bit like a voodoo in witchcraft. The ancient witchcraft only represents the witchcraft of the Central Plains and radiates to the Golden Tent Grassland and Nanyang. In fact, witchcraft also exists in other places, and according to the culture of each place
They are different and derive their own characteristics. The strange thing is that this kind of witchcraft seems to be a method from southern Xinjiang, how could it come to the southern continent?"
Qi Xuansu said, "Has someone found this place first? Yes, even Wang Jiaohe has a map. It makes sense for others to walk ahead of us. Could it be someone from Xidaomen?"
Wu Niang thought for a while, "This possibility cannot be ruled out. Back then, Xidaomen was a mixed bag and was divided into the evil camp. There is no guarantee that someone would not be proficient in southern Xinjiang witchcraft and then follow Xidaomen to the southern continent."
Qi Xuansu suddenly thought, "It's the Insect Man! In those days, the Insect Man originated from Southeast Asia. Borneo was already full of witchcraft and it was not far from southern Xinjiang. Moreover, the Insect Man. Insect Man, they are originally bugs, so it is reasonable to control them. I asked before
Hu En'ahan sent people to investigate various ruins, and they found some traces of the insect people. I thought it was a coincidence, but I didn't expect the insect people to actually find this place."
Wu Niang checked a few more human figurines. After all, she was more powerful than the Fox Fairy of Qingqiu Mountain.
He wanted to be an ancient existence, well-informed in every sense, and said, "You reminded me, you should know about Western vampires. There are two types of descendants they develop. One is the real descendant, which is the young."
The other type of vampire is an inferior slave who is controlled and is also called a spawn. In fact, the same is true for insect people. Excellent people are given insect eggs called 'Foundation Pills' and turn into insect people after taking them.
, the eliminated people become containers for hatching insect eggs, and the insects are implanted into their bodies. Then the insects eat their internal organs and lay eggs in their bodies. The people who are used as containers will quickly dry up, leaving only one person.
There are layers of skin. So the bodies of these human figurines are empty.”
Wu Niang paused for a moment, "The method you just used was wrong, turning the sleeping eggs into larvae. However, these eggs need to be further screened. The later the eggs awaken into larvae, the greater their potential, which determines whether they can be fertilized.
Pill, only the most perfect insect eggs can become the material of the 'Foundation Building Pill'. It would be good to have a suitable one out of about a hundred insect eggs."
Qi Xuansu was silent for a moment, "I must complete two things when I leave the Southern Continent. One is to eliminate the insect people, and the other is to abolish the blood sacrifice. I have not come to the Southern Continent in vain."
Wu Niang agreed, "Good, good, good, it's all good governance. If you can use the power of Taoism to promote the completion of these two things, it will be considered a great merit."
Qi Xuansu was not arrogant, he really wanted to do something practical. He was influencing Zhang Yuelu invisibly, and conversely, Zhang Yuelu was influencing him invisibly.
The noble are the stupidest and the humble are the smartest.
Many of Zhang Yuelu's actions may seem stupid to others, but she is noble. This nobility does not come from blood, but from behavior and spirit.
There is of course nothing wrong with subordinates obeying superiors, and Taoist priests obeying Jinque. However, one cannot blindly obey superiors and do whatever the superiors say. If the superiors don’t say anything, if it is not good for one’s own future, then just don’t do it. This is not good.
Of course, sometimes, it is good to be able to do whatever the superiors tell you to do, but I am afraid that those who have been told to resist will either be passive and slow down the work, or over-execute.
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Qi Xuansu asked, "What to do with these human figurines?"
Wuniang said, "It's easy to handle. Just set it on fire. I'll burn it. I'll make sure not a single insect can escape."
This is a standard Wuniang answer. If a problem can be solved with fire, other methods will never be considered.
Qi Xuansu thought for a while and decided that this was really the best way, so he asked Wu Niang to burn all the human figurines, and he walked up to the altar surrounded by human figurines.