Seeking immortality in a deceitful way starts by making oneself into a puppet

Chapter 814 Revealing the Bottom

"White bone bats generally only live in the time and space of the abyss," Guan Qiu came to his senses and lowered his voice and said: "They have built many nests deep in the earth, and they like to inhabit dangerous and evil places. I don’t know if it’s due to nature, but there is a saying in ancient books that the places where bone bats build their nests are probably on the edge of the Jedi.”

"There must be a reason for rumors to come out of nowhere. There is such a saying in the world, and there is some basis for it."

Old Man Xida nodded: "The White Bone Bat likes to nest in dark caves. The turbid air, Yin air, and evil spirit in the earth, as well as the evil spirit of corpses in environments such as the Corpse Road, are all for the White Bone Bat clan. A nourishment.

This type of terrain is often a naturally dangerous place, and it is often not a good place for most people. This Devil's Canyon is such a terrain, so it is no wonder that these white bone bats appear here. "

"I'm a little worried that there might be an entrance to the abyss here."

Guanqiu put forward his own point of view.

This is also what worries him. Bone bats rarely come to the human world, let alone find a place to set up a nest in the desert. This is somewhat inconsistent with their habits. If this happens, it probably means that some accident has happened. For example, the turbid underground air penetrates the strata, connecting the underground world with the human world, creating a passage.

"This situation may indeed happen," Old Man Xida sighed: "But the probability is still relatively low. You must know that the Great Desert is the origin of Buddhism and the place where Buddha attained enlightenment.

The dragon veins in this desert are influenced by Buddhism and are different from other areas in the world. There are hidden entrances to the abyss everywhere in the world, but there has never been an abyss passage in the desert. "

"Yeah, I hope so too."

Guan Qiu nodded a few times, said nothing, and continued walking forward on the gray ashes, arriving at the end of the canyon entrance. There was a huge gap there, like a gap leading to the netherworld.

When everyone walked through, they saw a huge deep valley and a huge ruins displayed in front of them. Countless broken walls, stone statues and tall towers formed a dusty ancient city, a lost place. of ruins.

The ruins composed of these buildings, from south to north, from east to west, are like hundreds of rivers returning to their ravines. At the center is a tilted black stone pagoda. The structure of the entire ruins seems to be in a deep gorge opened by thunderbolts. A city created.

"This is the ruins of the old city in the Navaratna Gorge, but unfortunately it is only a part of it."

Elder Xida explained: "The real main part is buried in the earth of this canyon and has long been swallowed up by the yellow sand. There are many ancient city ruins and hundreds of temples."

This was originally a Buddhist holy place, but it was reduced to this state due to a war thousands of years ago. It is a pity.

“Let’s go in and explore it first!”

Guanqiu suggested.

"Everyone should be more vigilant after entering. Every brick and tile here may be contaminated by the turmoil of all spirits. If you are not careful, you will be entangled in curses and evil thoughts, which will cause trouble."

Old man Xida came here unexpectedly once in the past, and it was a bloody storm. Because of that experience, he was very wary of the Devil's Canyon. Before entering the ruins of the ancient city, he turned around and warned several people around him.

Everyone nodded obediently and moved forward cautiously. Even old man Xida did not dare to release the power of Yin Shen at will, but touched everything around him.

The ruins of this ancient city are also very large. This area was originally a huge oasis ancient city. Halfway through, I saw a tall city gate.

This half of the city gate collapsed long ago, and the trench was filled with sand. Everyone entered the city through the broken parts of the city wall, and there was deathly silence in the surrounding ruins.

The buildings in the ancient city are made of stone, which can last for thousands of years. However, time will wash away everything. When people walk through it, they will find that the stone houses in the city are either collapsed, dilapidated, and severely weathered.

It just looked okay from a distance, and it seemed quite large and imposing. When I got closer and looked inside, there was nothing there. It was just sand, rotten wood, and broken stones.

"A hundred rivers are drawn to the east, and two pills are exhausted to the west. The two things are always swollen, and they linger. The short life is like this, and the good ones who have passed away are sad. From the past, all the elites are piles of loess."

Old Man Xida sighed. He practiced meditation intensively and always took things very lightly. When he saw the ruins of this ancient city, he also had some inexplicable insights in his heart.

"Grandmaster."

Guanqiu added: "Let's go to the stone tower in the middle to investigate. If we still find nothing, we will temporarily withdraw today and go back to the city to investigate tomorrow. This will be safer."

He also knew that the depths of this canyon were dangerous, especially after nightfall. The risk was even greater. It was best to leave the canyon quickly before the sun went down.

"That's fine."

Elder Xida also had the same view.

Everyone naturally acted according to Guan Qiu's opinion. After all, he was the leader in exploring Devil's Canyon.

They continued to find their way through the ruins, taking detours when they encountered collapsed areas. After walking for a long time, they arrived at the middle of the ancient city. The streets here were quite wide. Although the yellow sand was everywhere, the pattern of the streets could still be seen. come out.

However, except for the sloping black tower, there are no other large buildings nearby. It should be that the ruins in this area are generally part of the residential buildings in the oasis city and belong to the original residential areas.

"The royal palace, ancient sacrificial sites, and some large buildings in the ancient oasis city, as well as many Buddhist temples built later, were suppressed underground."

Old Man Xida pointed to the black stone tower in the middle. This stone tower is nine stories high. The stones are covered with smooth reliefs. The base under the tower and most of the arched stone doors are buried in the sand and rubble fragments. Somewhat tilted, but still very solid.

"If you look closely, this stone pagoda doesn't look like a Buddhist pagoda at all. It seems to belong to another sect."

After Guanqiu got closer, he was greatly surprised, because he judged that this was not a Buddhist pagoda at all, but belonged to an alternative sect.

"You are right, this stone pagoda is not the pagoda of our Buddhist lineage."

Old man Xida had excellent eyesight. When he observed the pagoda, he found that in addition to the reliefs, there were countless ancient characters engraved on it. These characters were all pitch black and shaped like tadpoles or ghost skeletons with noses. It has eyes and gives people a very eerie feeling.

Those relief patterns are also very weird, they are all ferocious ghosts, beasts and demons, with strange shapes, gloomy air, and various evil spirits that are ready to move.

"I guess that this stone tower symbolizes an ancient belief and inherits an evil and mysterious orthodoxy."

Elder Xida said calmly: "Of course, it is not the inheritance in the true sense of that Taoist tradition, but just a sect that believes in its existence. There is a saying in our Curse family that when Chandragupta destroyed this ancient city, it was because he was afraid of it. That evil legacy.”

He continued: "Or maybe it's fear. This oasis city in the desert secretly worships the terrifying existence of that orthodoxy, which has aroused the hostility of many surrounding oasis city-states. In particular, they have conducted many bloody sacrifices and carried out strange killings. They also robbed the population of surrounding desert countries, causing public outrage.”

"During the founding of the Nanda dynasty, Chandragupta heard this and immediately sent a large army to clear it out. It was not until he personally visited this ancient desert city that he discovered that the city had completely deteriorated."

"In this city, both men and women, old and young, are addicted to this evil sect, and their souls and hearts have been polluted. Chandragupta also knew this, and finally got angry with thunder and used his great supernatural powers to destroy the city, and then It caused the earth to sink, burying the entire city, moving mountains like mountains, capturing the mountains with supreme power, and suppressing them in the earth. "

The old man said this with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Committing such a murder may be one of the reasons why Chandragupta later fell into the devil's path."

Guanqiu was also shocked when he heard this: "The king of the Nanda Dynasty is a strong man who shows his spiritual cultivation. Is there anything in the world that makes him afraid? What is the origin of this Taoist tradition?"

"This Taoism is called the other side."

The old man explained calmly: "This is a very ancient inheritance. It is said to be related to a certain branch of the ancient Taoism. The other side believes that the world is filled with a sea of ​​suffering, or that the whole world is a sea of ​​suffering. To escape the sea of ​​suffering, one must leave the sea. Landing, and the act of landing is hidden in one’s life and death.”

"They believe that the law of life and death was fixed at the moment of the death of the first 'person' in the world. To solve this problem, we must start from the beginning of life and death."

"In order to change people's life and death, the other side once tried to distort time and turn time back to the moment of life's first death, hoping to create the first change of life and death in history, and then create the 'shore' of the sea of ​​suffering called the other side. "

There is only the sea of ​​suffering in the world, and the sea of ​​suffering is this shore. There is no shore there. The purpose of the Taoism on the other shore from ancient times is to create a "shore" that reaches the source of life and death.

This view is different from the detachment of Buddhism and Taoism. The purpose of the other side is to create something out of nothing, to create a shore of life and death from nothingness, and also to distort time and solve the first "human" problem of life and death in the world.

They seemed to have made a very dangerous attempt in the past, which caused the ancient Taoist sect to be furious. This triggered public outrage. All parties united to completely defeat the forces on the other side, which caused the Taoist forces to turn from the light to the dark and hide behind the scenes. act.

Guanqiu was also very shocked when he heard this.

"After the other side suffered the last loss, they did not dare to mess around again, reversing time and rolling back the long river of time. This kind of thing has offended the public. They also hide in the darkness of history to create the underworld and do what they want. Some secret activities.”

Old Man Xida added: "According to the records of our Curse Clan lineage, Bian'an later took the route of using corpses to prove the Tao, and was determined to find a way out from the Taoist corpse dissection technique. Later, when it was spread, there were many The method of refining corpses, the famous method of Shibi Sect, should be learned from the other side. "

Guan Qiu asked curiously: "Have the forces from the other side penetrated into the desert?"

"Yes, the corpse-raising method of the Shibi Sect is different from the corpse-refining method of Zhonghuan. It was spread by several evil sects in the desert. The leader of the Shibi Sect can be said to have combined the Eastern and Western methods. Lu’s corpse refining technique created the secret scripture of the Shibi Sect.”

When Old Man Xida said this, his eyes moved to the black tower again.

"The origin of this black tower is very suspicious. I plan to use my own magic power to see if I can dig out some key information from this black tower..."

"Master, you don't have to take such risks."

Guan Qiu quickly gave words of advice.

"I was ordered by my master to investigate whether this Navaratna Canyon is a treasure of the Six Paths? Or is there any conspirator in it, throwing out bait and inducing various forces to come here to secretly plan... If this black tower really has something to do with the forces on the other side, even you, the master, might get into trouble."

"Actually, I don't want to meddle in other people's business."

Master Xida sighed faintly: "But behind this matter is not as simple as you think. At present, in this game of chess on the table, in addition to the Bai Feng tribe and the Shrouded Chamber of Commerce among the Tiele people, it is very likely that there are also A big force like the Dragon Worship Sect is also involved... Behind my senior brother Ajiamu, there is a powerful Taoist with profound strength. If this matter is not clear, we will not even know what the situation will be like. , not to mention saving lives.”

Unlike young people like Guanqiu who are just starting out, old Xida sees things very accurately, has a sophisticated vision, and his grasp of the situation is far better than ordinary people.

The old man realized very early on that there was something fishy about the fact that Ajiamu would come to him again to snatch the Twelve Heavenly Curses of the Curse Lineage, decades after being exiled.

Not to mention the Bai Feng tribe, which is a large tribe of Tiele people, the Zhemu Chamber of Commerce and the Dragon Worshiping Sect are not powerful forces that can cover the sky with one hand.

If these big forces really want to cause trouble for themselves, why bother to restrain themselves? For them, they and others may not even be able to block the car with their hands.

However, the other party did not openly rob it, but instead manipulated his own senior brothers Ajiamu, Zhan Hongsheng and other casual cultivators to rob the fundamental spell of the Curse lineage.

Using such a roundabout method, it is obvious that he does not want others to know about it.

The more this happens, the more dangerous the situation becomes.

In addition to Guanqiu, himself and others who have already been involved in the situation, even the small oasis town of Mukta, which has nothing to do with it, is likely to be in danger of destruction because of this incident.

Old Man Xida led the team here without hesitation, intending to find important clues one step ahead. In fact, he had an answer in his heart, which was that he and his master came here when he and the previous generation of sect masters from the Curse lineage, In other words, it has something to do with the mysterious disappearance of his master.

"It's amazing, I really didn't expect Master Xida to be able to see through it to this extent..."

Suddenly, a female voice floated over.

"But it's a pity that we can't let you continue to play, otherwise this plan may be exposed!"

A figure suddenly flew in from the outside world.