In Fire Crow's continuous testing, Master Tongtian finally found a gap in the north corner of the Naga Ghost Tree.
The fire crow slowly fell down, and during the whole process, neither the ghost tree nor the hyphae showed any reaction.
It seems that there is really no intelligence at all!
This is a little strange.
Because, whether it is spiritual energy or "demon energy", it may eventually make plants and trees become spirits, and jade and stones generate wisdom.
In ancient times, because of the abundant spiritual energy, there were endless stories of plants and trees turning into spirits and jade stones turning into strange things.
And in the Nine Nether Sea of Blood, there are also countless ancient evil objects from the Hongmeng Era.
Many of these evil creatures were actually infected by demonic energy, opened up their spiritual wisdom, and had already become demonic immortals before the First Tribulation of Longhan.
The First Tribulation of Longhan was a great tribulation between Taoist ancestors and Demonic ancestors fighting for the Three Realms.
The Demon Ancestor was defeated and died, and became the "Demon Ancestor", causing the world to exclude all those who practice the demonic way.
These demon fairies were reduced to evil beings and could only swim in the sea of blood.
Some of them were killed by the newly reborn Asura clan.
This is the source of the magic weapons and evil treasures of the Asura clan.
Refining the remains of evil objects into treasures.
Later, the Asuras introduced the method of refining magic weapons and evil treasures to the human world.
There are evil practices in the world!
Because they made faster progress than orthodox cultivation, evil cultivators once wreaked havoc on the entire world.
In order to live forever, the lower limit for monks is lower than anyone imagines!
During the reign of the Human Emperor, Han Zhuo, the minister who usurped the throne of the Xiahou family, was an evil cultivator. He is also the recognized ancestor of the evil cultivators in the three realms today!
Therefore, the leader of Tongtian Cult is strange.
According to the government here, this so-called 'Naga ghost tree' has existed here for more than twenty years.
For more than twenty years, the evil spirit has continued to influence me.
No matter what, it’s time to give birth to an evil creature with intelligence!
unless……
"Something's stopping this!"
Leader Tongtian flicked his fingers, and the fire crow slowly flew in along the gap under the control of the talisman.
When the fire crow burrowed into the ground through the gap.
The leader of Tongtian Cult suddenly shrank!
From Fire Crow's perspective, it is a colorful field, like crystal clusters, clusters of things growing together.
These things, like moss, grow densely in the soil, surrounding and wrapping the roots of the ghost tree.
It's more like a layer of filter.
Separate below the root system from above the root system.
The hyphae that drilled out of the ground and competed for the fallen debris from the ghost tree crown grew from these clusters of crystal-like things.
The small fire crow continued to fall silently along the channel opened by the roots.
After passing through these crystal clusters, in a moment, the crystal clusters disappeared into the formation.
The underground world under the crystal clusters is revealed before your eyes.
Countless hyphae began to appear.
It's different from the hyphae on the surface.
Leader Tongtian can clearly feel that these hyphae are alive.
They have energy!
They cover the entire ground!
Growing densely in soil and rocks.
And among these hyphae, Master Tongtian discovered many things.
Bone fragments, rotten coffin remains, and countless remains of birds, fish, shrimps, and beasts!
Leader Tongtian remembered the message Xu Ji had left with him.
"Before the ghost tree grew... this place was called 'Holy Snake Valley'..."
"There is a folk custom among the people here...people will carry the dead to this canyon for burial and cremation..."
"Local people who believe in Buddhism believe that if the deceased is buried here or cremated here, his soul will ascend to the Western Paradise!"
"Even the dignitaries of that small country called the Khmer Kingdom have chosen to move their cemeteries here!"
"At that time, many people discovered that the canyons here were covered with mushrooms and looked like spring all year round... Mycelium was often found..."
"Local wizards and monks also used the mycelium found as medicine..."
"This custom lasted for several years until this 'Naga Ghost Tree' grew!"
Lord Tongtian murmured in a low voice and continued to follow Fire Crow's perspective and stare at the various wreckage that appeared in the stratum.
Those human bones and coffin fragments may be leftover from that time.
However, it is contrary to the simple and beautiful wishes of the local people.
Not only did their ancestors fail to ascend to the so-called Western Paradise.
Instead, he sank into the ground!
Leader Tongtian controlled the fire crow and glanced back at the ground.
The soil and rock layer where those crystal clusters grow is about a foot thick.
They isolate top and bottom.
Let these hyphae and mushrooms grow underground.
So here’s the question?
Why do this?
With this thought in mind, the Master of Tongtian Sect controlled the Fire Crow and continued downward, along the path of the root system, and continued to sink.
After sinking about three to five feet, the bottom layer before Huo Ya was completely different.
The soil and rocks here seem to have been completely repelled by the mycelium and the root system of the ghost tree.
So much so that no soil or rocks can be seen here.
The root system of the huge ghost tree grows intertwined together.
Countless mycelium and mushrooms replace the existence of soil and rocks, filling between these root systems.
and……
It is different from the hyphae and mushrooms I have seen before.
The mushrooms and mycelium here are bigger, thicker, brighter, and weirder!
There is even a thick dark red liquid flowing on the surface of the body. If you look closely, you will know that this liquid is actually flowing out from the root system of the ghost tree.
It seems that the root system of the ghost tree secretes some kind of substance that nourishes these hyphae and mushrooms.
The mushrooms and hyphae nourished by these viscous liquids grow extremely twisted and weird.
In the dark underground, they even emit a faint fluorescent light.
Like a will-o'-the-wisp!
What's more important is... there are weird eyeball-like things on the surface of these mushrooms and hyphae that are constantly rotating.
Whenever those 'eyeballs' start to move, all the mushrooms and hyphae will squirm irregularly.
In the eyes of Tongtian Cult Master, it is like a huge mass of rotten flesh covered with eyeballs, staring at the heaven and earth above the strata above.
"It's an evil thing used to produce spiritual energy!"
There are many kinds of evil things and their uses are countless.
But each one is extremely evil and cruel.
In the Nine Nether Sea of Blood, and even in many dark places in the Three Realms, evil cultivators have created countless kinds of evil things.
Each evil thing has a different purpose.
But the same point is all the same: using the soul of living beings as the source of power!
What evil cultivators like most is blood sacrifice!
Send tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people to the altar, and use their souls and flesh and blood as guides to refine magic weapons and evil treasures, or to exchange them for powerful power, or to fight with certain Chaos Demon Gods who will not die.
trade.
In short, evil cultivators are everywhere in the Three Realms.
Even in Nanzhan Buzhou, where the Taoist tradition is located and the fundamental place of Xuanmen, it is not uncommon.
The kings and ministers of the Lu State and the Ju State once refined large quantities of magic weapons and evil treasures.
The auspicious Haechi that protects the country of China is formed from the remaining souls of captured magic weapons and evil treasures!
Unexpectedly, there are traces of evil things in this world!
"Sure enough, there are visitors from the ancient times who have appeared in this world!" Master Tongtian sighed while controlling the fire crow: "No wonder this world is so weird and unusual!"
According to what the leader of Tongtian now knows.
About two thousand years ago, this world was still a world without demons and ghosts, and there were no ghost trees.
There is neither martial arts nor Taoism.
But one day, things suddenly changed!
According to the historical records of the Central Plains, it was probably in the so-called seventh year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, about 1,800 years ago, that the great sage Zhang Jiao launched the Yellow Turban Uprising, under the banner of "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian shall stand", and immediately
Sweeping the whole world!
The great virtuous master claimed to have been taught by immortals and could call wind, rain, thunder and lightning!
Look at everything for a moment, and you will be invincible in the world!
It was also at that time that demons appeared in records for the first time.
There is war, and demons and ghosts are superimposed on each other.
For a while, there was no rooster crow for a thousand miles, and the bones were exposed in the wild!
It was also at this time that martial arts first appeared.
There are many people who can equal a thousand with one horse!
Zhao Yun, the general of the Ji Han Dynasty, even single-handedly faced 800,000 enemy troops on Changban Slope, killing them seven in and seven out, which frightened the enemy!
There is also the so-called Lu Bu, one man can guard the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it. Under the Hangu pass, he fought with all the heroes on one horse and defeated the millions of troops in the Kanto region who did not dare to go north!
In troubled times, the world is in chaos.
In the end, the person with the strongest martial arts ended the troubled times!
Under the command of Liu Bei, the great martyr of the Han Dynasty, those ambitious heroes who vowed to end the troubled times and restore peace to the world joined forces.
Martial gods Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, martial sages Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and others loyally assisted Liu Bei on his left, first defeated Cao Wei, and then destroyed Soochow.
Eventually, the capital was returned to Luoyang, and the Han Dynasty prospered.
According to records, after returning the capital to Luoyang, the Jihan Dynasty, under the auspices of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, established the "Sili Xiaowei" to preside over the suppression of demons and ghosts.
Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and other generals each led a large army and divided the towns into one area to destroy the demons and ghosts.
Finally, all the demons will be killed!
As the demons disappeared, martial arts declined.
Interestingly, in the records, Zhuge Liang, who established the "Sili Xiaowei", is said to have met an immortal and was awarded the so-called "Qi Men Dun Jia".
This unique art of Dunjia has been passed down to this day.
Master Tongtian met once.
It was the policeman who called himself "Yan Liang" that he met when he first met the demon.
At that time, he was performing some kind of secret technique on another floor.
Later I learned that it was a type of Qimen Dunjia, specially used to restrain low-level and mid-level demons and ghosts.
At that time, the leader of Tongtian Cult did not take it seriously, thinking that it was just a secret martial art created by mortals in this world.
