Chapter 345: The Hero's Cutting Off His Arms, the Underground Survivors
The black and white dagger seemed to be dragged by many empty chains, and it rotated extremely slowly, which even made people hear the harsh sound of the iron chain dragging on the ground.
But no matter how slowly the black and white dagger rotated, as it rotated, the whole cave began to change, the heavy yin energy began to dissipate, and the gloomy and terrifying atmosphere began to recede.
The ghosts in the air that were looming and crying "Woo woo woo~~" slowly became quiet, and the twisted and hideous faces gradually became peaceful. There were men and women, old and young, and then they all bowed deeply to Shi Xuan, and then turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared.
A burst of black fog rose above the 1,297 mummies. In the black fog were ghosts who wanted to rush out but were trapped by the black fog. They were full of hatred, anger, resentment, curses and countless negative emotions.
As the black and white magic turned, the black fog became dim, and then all collapsed. The ghosts rushed towards Shi Xuan with all kinds of negative emotions, but every time they moved forward, the negative emotions on their bodies dissipated a little. In the end, they also showed a quiet and peaceful expression, bowed to thank Shi Xuan, and slowly turned into white smoke.
And the five ghosts, after the black and white magic began to turn, all floated in the same place with fearful expressions, as if waiting for judgment.
Every time the black and white magic turned a little, a burst of green smoke came out of their bodies and turned into a baby face.
The baby face, which originally had a mixed expression of resentment and innocence, slowly retreated from the resentment, and showed Shi Xuan an ignorant, innocent, and pure smile, with white light flashing on its body, and disappeared in the air.
Bursts of green smoke came out, and the baby faces were freed. The strength of the five ghosts began to drop sharply, and their bodies became blurred.
The mother ghost in the distance seemed to sense these situations, and a more powerful consciousness descended on the child ghost through the connection between the mother and child ghosts. This consciousness actually felt infinitely close to the original spirit!
The breath of the five child ghosts suddenly became extremely powerful. They made a cry that could pierce the ghosts. Their bodies swung violently, and green mist lingered on their bodies. They were about to get rid of the cycle of yin and yang life and death. Moreover, the light in their bodies flowed, and they seemed to be brewing a powerful attack.
The Tai Chi diagram needs to be defended, and magic weapons cannot be used lightly, but Shi Xuan was prepared. A small banner with deep darkness appeared behind his head, emitting infinite black light, making the whole cave dark, and this darkness was vaguely divided into six parts of different depths.
The green mist on the five child ghosts in the darkest place was immediately suppressed, and the powerful consciousness could not get rid of their fear and sluggish state.
This is the soul-bewitching banner that has been upgraded to the spiritual weapon life and death banner.
If the Yin-Yang Life and Death Wheel is added to the Life and Death Banner, then the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Life and Death Array can be set up. However, the Tiangang restriction of the Life and Death Banner is still low, and it cannot exert the full power of the array. However, the Life and Death Banner can enhance its power by adding it to the Yin-Yang Life and Death Wheel.
But at this moment, the five ghosts inexplicably collapsed and turned into dots of green light, which caught Shi Xuan off guard.
"It turns out that all the efforts made by that powerful divine consciousness after he came, such as trying to get rid of the Yin-Yang Life and Death Wheel, such as wanting to launch powerful attacking Taoist magic, etc., were all pretexts. From the beginning, he was ready to cut off his arm and let the five ghosts explode." Shi Xuan looked at this scene and thought to himself, so that he could avoid being tracked by others with the help of the ghosts.
After all, that person could not arrive in a short time, and he was facing the Yin God Venerable who had restraint means. Even if he could temporarily gain the upper hand, the result would be the same. It is better to abandon it from the beginning, but the self-explosion of the five ghosts was suppressed by the Yin-Yang Life and Death Wheel and the Life and Death Banner, and it seemed calm.
Shi Xuan didn't care about it. Even if he really captured the captives, he would design to hand them over to the empire and make it known to the world. If Shi Xuan acted secretly by himself, he would not only have to face the Yuantai Sect, but the laws of the empire were also Shi Xuan's enemies. It was really a constraint and quite inconvenient. As for the small world, Shi Xuan would look for it if he had the chance, and would not force it if he didn't have the chance.
So Shi Xuan took the black pebble in the middle of the lake into his hand and smiled, "Hey, you are really willing to give it up." This refers to the action of the self-destructing mother and child heavenly ghost. You should know that in this Taoist art, both the mother ghost and the child ghost are quite difficult to refine successfully. Not only are they bloody and cruel, but the materials required are also quite expensive.
In addition, judging from the powerful consciousness of that person, he should be a person whose true spirit has grown to the limit, most of his Taoist arts are of the ninth level, and he is only a little bit away from advancing to the Yuanshen. Even a hundred years ago, such a person should be extremely powerful, but at that time, the only one with such cultivation in the Yuantai Sect was Tianzha Tongzi.
"Could it be that the scum boy is not dead?" Shi Xuan pondered in his heart. This is not surprising. You know, in the ghost world, there are many secret methods of substitution, fake death, and substitution. It is not surprising that the scum boy escaped with this.
Using his spiritual sense to look at the black pebble, Shi Xuan found that it could resist the penetration of spiritual sense. The solid shell seemed to be protecting a life that was being nurtured inside.
"Could this be the Yuantai of the Yuantai Sect?" Shi Xuan looked at this thing, but couldn't figure out its function. He only had ordinary knowledge in ghost arts, and didn't understand why he had to work so hard to cultivate a Yuantai. Could it be that it was born with Yuanshen strength, similar to the gods born naturally?
Since he didn't understand, Shi Xuan put it in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, and then used the Yin-Yang Divine Mirror to eliminate his own traces of breath, and arranged a timed activation formation.
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After leaving the cave, Shi Xuan restrained his breath and turned into a breeze, passing through this hidden crack. Not long after, he came to the abyss crack.
At this time, a group of people flew up from the ground. They were all wearing ancient robes, which were very different from the clothes close to the earth in the empire, but they looked unusually shabby.
Shi Xuan immediately understood that these people should be the underground survivors often mentioned by the empire, but apart from their clothes, they were no different from the empire people outside.
Seeing that it was still early, and planning to leave a way out, the breeze transformed by Shi Xuan quietly followed these underground survivors.
Their cultivation was not high, the highest one was the spirit, and the lowest one was out of the body. They all looked sad, as if they had encountered something sad, and most of them were carrying people who seemed to be seriously injured.
They were very familiar with this underground abyss. After finding a hidden crack, they turned left and right, walked up and down, and moved forward without hesitation in the spider web-like underground cracks.
After flying for a quarter of an hour, they returned to the place where the tribe was. This was also a large cave. There were all kinds of stalactites around and above the cave. Waves of fluorescence were emitted from some underground plants, reflecting these stalactites beautifully.
The road was extremely tortuous, and there were even many places with evil winds and fires that blocked the divine consciousness. If it weren't for Shi Xuan, others would have lost them long ago. No wonder these underground survivors were able to live across from the empire for so long without being wiped out after the empire's formation shrank.
"Patriarch, what happened?" When the underground survivors returned to the cave full of stone caves, the old, weak, sick and young inside came out to greet them, with longing, expectation and desire on their faces, but when they saw those seriously injured people, their faces changed drastically.
The leading cultivator in the Soul Stage looked gloomy: "Originally, we harvested a lot of spiritual herbs and spiritual stones this time, but who knew that we encountered some powerful underground monsters and ghosts on the way back, and many tribesmen died. It was all because of my poor performance. I didn't make a decision and didn't set up the battle formation in time. Alas, I took fifty tribesmen out, but only twenty came back, and about half of them were seriously injured."
Other cultivators, old and weak people comforted the tribe leader, saying that it was just an accident and had nothing to do with the tribe leader, but a faint feeling of despair began to spread throughout the cave.
Originally, their tribe was small, and there were not many powerful cultivators. Now most of them have been lost. How can the tribe survive and develop in the future? Planting moss, mushrooms, etc. in the cave can only keep people from starving to death, but it cannot cultivate cultivators.
The relatives of the dead monks were crying, and the seriously injured monks were fed various elixirs. However, the tribe had scarce resources, and the effects of those elixirs were imaginable. In addition, the healing technique was only at the first level, so they groaned in pain and were about to die.
The monks were helpless and looked at the clan leader. The clan leader had no choice but to order the tribe members to lift the seriously injured monks and come to the stone platform in the center of the cave where the ancestral tablets were enshrined.
"Please bless the ancestors and make them better." Someone prayed.
"Please open your eyes and let them not turn into evil spirits after death." This person understood that the ancestors were just a sustenance, and the monks still relied on themselves. The only thing they could do was to hope that they would not be connected with the evil wind after death and turn into ghosts.
At this time, a faint voice suddenly came: "I have a way to cure them." Although the voice was not loud, it seemed to ring in everyone's ears.
"Who?!" The clan leader expanded his consciousness and saw a young monk in a green Taoist robe, holding a small white jade bottle about an inch high, appearing silently in the cave.
Seeing the vigilant and hostile attitude of these underground monks, Shi Xuan smiled and said, "If I had bad intentions, you would have wiped out your entire clan long ago. It's just that I have always been kind-hearted. I passed by and saw someone seriously injured here, so I wanted to help." At the same time, he released the simulated golden elixir pressure.
The underground cultivators were sweating. The pressure from the golden elixir was so terrifying. At the same time, they also understood that what Shi Xuan said was true. If he was an enemy, no one here could escape.
In this case, why not try his healing method? Anyway, this is the only price our tribe can pay. If these more than ten cultivators die, our tribe will be finished. So the tribe leader said, "I am Ding Shi, the leader of our tribe. Thank you for your kindness. Please help me."
As for the so-called mercy and the unwillingness to see others seriously injured, Ding Shi did not believe it at all.