After thinking for a moment, Chengshuo took out a few more dried fish from the storage bag and handed them to the fish man: "Can you take us to your village? These dried fish should be regarded as your reward."
"welcome!"
The fishman accepted the dried fish with a smile on his face.
Under the leadership of the fishman, Chengshuo and Zhong Ran continued to move deeper into the swamp.
Not long after, I suddenly saw smoke rising from the air, and the tall reeds growing in the swamp gradually disappeared after arriving here.
Disappearing along with the reeds, there was also the white mist that filled the swamp.
So the whole swamp became suddenly enlightened at this moment.
Cheng Huo looked forward and saw countless houses made of stones and reeds, scattered in the open land ahead.
There are roads paved with gravel and dirt between the houses, so that when people walk, they will not step on the slippery and muddy swamp ground.
On the road, you can vaguely see fish people walking through the village.
Not only that.
Among those fish-men, one or two monks can occasionally be seen.
These monks are very strange.
Most of them have expressions of obsession, and they keep staring at the murlocs around them while walking, and deliberately imitate the murlocs' words and deeds.
Something is wrong.
There is something very wrong with this village.
After seeing the abnormality of the monks, Chengshuo immediately took action like lightning and grabbed the neck of the fish-man who was leading the way for him.
He lifted the fish-man into the air with one hand, frowned and said, "Is there something you haven't told us?"
"Hey,"
The fish-man who was grabbed by Cheng Huo's neck not only did not show any panic, but instead smiled at Cheng Huo very calmly.
Immediately afterwards, his whole body exuded the powerful aura unique to monks in the deep dive stage.
This aura forced Chengshuo to instinctively let go of the fish-man's hand and step back unconsciously.
He was surprised: "Who are you?"
"It's guaranteed to be a fake." The fishman said with a smile, "I'm just an ordinary fishman in the fishman village."
this.
Hearing the fishman's answer, Chengshuo showed fear on his face, but he was already ready to escape at any time.
He stared at the fish-man carefully for a long time, frowned and said: "Although you seem to be only in the fetal-building stage, the aura you exude is no less than that of a monk in the deep dive stage. Are you using some kind of method to hide your strength?"
"It is true that I only have the cultivation level of the embryo-building stage, and at the same time, I can indeed exude the aura of a monk in the deep submergence stage." The fish man explained: "The cultivation level of the embryo-building stage in my body is obtained through hard training when I was a human monk. Yes, as for the aura, it’s because after I became a fish-man, I gained a body comparable to that of a deep-diving monk.”
He has the cultivation level of the Embryo Stage, and at the same time has a physical body that is comparable to the monks of the Deep Submergence Stage? ?
The fishman's words stunned Chengsheng.
At this moment, he seemed to realize something in his heart, and hurriedly asked the fish-man: "You mean, not only you, but also all fish-men have bodies that are no less than the deep dive stage?"
"Ah,"
The fish-man chuckled lightly, nodded and said: "Yes, not just me, all the fish-men in this village have bodies comparable to those of deep-diving monks!"
"Just like tigers and lions can easily kill humans without any practice or training after they reach adulthood."
"After humans become fish-men, they can obtain a body comparable to that of a monk in the deep dive stage without undergoing any training!"
While Chengshuo was talking to the fishman.
Zhong Ran suddenly had a guess in his mind, so he interjected: "Could your fish-man village be one of the so-called 'inheritances of ancient immortals' in the secret realm of Tianshan Mountain, right?"
"The little girl is quite smart."
The fishman nodded and replied: "You guessed it right: in fact, our fishman village itself is one of the so-called 'inheritances of ancient immortals' that you are looking for."
"A monk who finds a fish-man village only needs to stay in the fish-man village. Over time, he will be assimilated into a fish-man by the village."
"When you become a fishman, you will also be able to have a body of this strength."
The fishman explained to Chenghuo and Zhong Ran: "I deliberately concealed this from you before because I was worried that you would not come to this village because you were afraid of the strength of our fishmen, or afraid of turning into fishmen."
"And now, you have seen many things with your own eyes, and I have also told you all the secrets of the Fishman Village."
"So whether you want to go or stay, whether you want to have a body comparable to that of a monk in the deep dive stage, or whether you want to turn around and leave, it's all up to you to decide!"
"Oh, right."
The fish-man said, with an unabashed temptation in his tone: "I almost forgot to tell you: the strength of the fish-man's physical body is not only comparable to that of a monk in the deep dive stage, but he is also immortal, and his lifespan is almost endless. characteristics!”
"Eternal?" Chengshuo was stunned when he heard this: "Aren't you murlocs going to die?"
"certainly!"
The fish-man replied: "It is precisely because our lifespan is endless that we fish-men do not have the concept of 'time'."
"So, I can't tell you exactly how many years I have lived. But one thing I can be sure of is that I learned from monks from outside that the curse broke out in the Tianshan secret realm, the heaven fell, and the fishman village was born. Since then, this village has existed for at least 10,000 years."
The fishman finally said: "In other words, the longest living fishman in our fishman village is at least ten thousand years old!"
this.
Chengsheng is a little excited.
It has to be said that after becoming a fishman, you can live an almost eternal life, which is a fatal and irresistible temptation for anyone.
However, all these are just one-sided words of the fish man.
As for whether this is actually the case, we need to continue to observe and observe to determine.
At the entrance of the Fishman Village.
Facing the temptation of the fish-man, Chengshuo said nothing but glanced at the fish-man village again.
He asked the murloc: "So those monks who stay in the murloc village and deliberately imitate the words and deeds of the murlocs are all doing that in order to become murlocs?"
"Yes." The fish man nodded and said, "According to the monks, you can imitate the fish man's words and deeds like that, and you can speed up your transformation into a fish man."
"However, this statement is just a guess. Whether it is accurate or not has not been confirmed."
"After all, even if some monks don't deliberately imitate fish-men, they can still mutate as long as they stay in the village long enough."
As long as you stay in the Murloc Village long enough, you can become a Murloc.
After becoming a fishman, not only can one have tyrannical strength, but one can also become immortal and have an almost endless lifespan.
As for the flaws.
Thinking of this, Cheng Sheng asked the fishman again: "But becoming a fishman also comes with a certain price, right? For example, your body will mutate into a fishman, and you will be trapped in a fishman village forever, eating reeds and fish. , hungry and full.”
The fishman rushed to the living room and said: "If a monk stays in the fishman village, his body will mutate into a fishman. This is indeed an indisputable fact."
"As for whether this is good or bad, it depends on what you think."
"But what you just said, that you will be trapped in the fishman village forever, is just your guess." The fishman emphasized: "Even if the monk becomes a fishman, he can still leave the village at any time. For example, in our village There are often fish people who go to the outside world to exchange food with normal humans in order to improve their food."
Chengshuo questioned: "Since fish people can leave the village, why have I never seen fish people where I am?"
The fishman said without hesitation: "Then if I guess correctly, the place you two are in shouldn't be a big place like the 'Realm of Pain' or the 'Mitian City', right?"
"Just like villagers go to big cities to go to the market, do you think if you were in a remote rural area, there would be fishmen willing to come to your place?"
"And if the place where you are is in the middle of a war, or a curse has broken out, or if pollution is spreading everywhere, it will be even less likely that anyone will get there."
"It is not impossible to even dismantle the teleportation array on your side in order to prevent the war, curse and pollution from spreading further."
The fishman recalled: "Just like the Heavenly Palace that prospered ten thousand years ago, all the forces on Xuanwu Star bowed to it."
"But since the curse broke out in the secret area of Tianshan Mountain and the pollution spread, it was not that everyone was isolated in an instant."
"Then only a few hundred years later, Heaven completely disappeared."
this.
Chengsheng is speechless.
Because in the country of Daliang where he is located, pollution is really spreading everywhere.
And if it is as powerful as Heaven and will perish due to pollution, then when the great catastrophe of the West comes, the Liang Kingdom will really be in danger.
The catastrophe in the West is far beyond what one person can stop.
So he temporarily ignored the catastrophe in the west and continued to ask the fish people: "If the fish people can leave here and go elsewhere, then why do you have to stay in the fish people village and even grow crops here?" No, what about a place where you can’t even satisfy your appetite?”
"Because of the curse."
The fishman replied: "The curse of the fishman village only exists in the fishman village and its surrounding areas. Once you leave the fishman village for too long, the curse will weaken with the passage of time, until it finally disappears completely, and makes The fish-men polluted by the curse turned back into humans."
"When you change back to a human, you will lose your fish-man body, and naturally you will also lose your almost endless lifespan."
"So for some murlocs who have lived for thousands of years and have already exceeded their lifespan limit, once they leave the murloc village for too long, they will die because their lifespan is exhausted after they turn back to humans. Therefore, most of them Most fishmen will not leave the village easily and settle elsewhere."
"But..." Zhong Ran couldn't figure it out: "If you stay in the Fishman Village simply to survive, what's the difference between doing so and going to jail?"
"Don't forget, fish people can practice just like humans."
The fish-man replied: "Just like me, among the human monks, my qualifications are considered to be very poor, but I relied on my long lifespan to cultivate all the way to the embryonic stage. And a fish-man like me , and there are many, many more in the village.”
"There are also a very small number of fishmen who have even accumulated time to practice all the way to the blood elixir stage."
"And being able to practice is a kind of hope."
Speaking of this, the fishman said with a hint of expectation in his tone: "Because being able to cultivate to the blood elixir stage means that we can further break through to the deep dive stage, or even a higher state."
"And as our realm becomes stronger and stronger, one day we will no longer be bound by life span and rely only on our own cultivation to become an eternal and immortal existence."
"When that day comes, we fishmen will naturally be able to leave this hellish place."
"No matter how far away that day is, it may even take ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of years, but we fishmen have endless lifespans, so we can always wait."
Use the endless lifespan of the fish people to practice and pursue the great path.
This motive sounds reasonable.
"Since the fish-men's lifespan is endless."
Chengshuo thought for a while and said, "Then, can I take advantage of this characteristic and wait until my life is almost over and I'm about to die before I come to the fish-man village again?"
The fishman shook his head and said: "Theoretically, it is possible, but after all, the fishman village is one of the ancient immortal inheritances in the secret territory of Tianshan Mountain, and the ancient immortal inheritance is not something you can encounter just because you want to. The randomness in it is too great. .”
"Only fishmen can enter the fishman village on their own initiative."
"Human monks, on the other hand, can only rely on luck. Those who are lucky may come to the Fishman Village by accident for the first time they come to the Tianshan Secret Realm. If they are not lucky, they may spend their whole lives searching. You can't even find the fish-man village in the secret realm of Tianshan Mountain."
The fishman Chong Chenghuo and Zhong Ran emphasized: "So, just because you two can come to the fishman village this time, it doesn't mean that you will meet the same person next time. So this is not only your chance to gain eternal life, but it is also probably the only one you can meet." A chance at eternal life.”
Is this an opportunity not to be missed?
Chengshuo glanced at the monks in the fish-man village.
He found that there was indeed a large number of young monks in the village, and not all of them were about to die of old age, so he chose to stay in the Fishman Village.
Seeing that Cheng Sheng remained silent, the fish-man added, "Besides, you don't have to be afraid of our fish-men's strength."
"As I said, our fish-men have only reached the strength of deep dive monks in our physical bodies, not our overall strength."
"For example, we murlocs cannot use all kinds of magical powers and secret techniques, because most of us murlocs only have the cultivation level of embryo-building period."
"So, we usually release the aura of the monks in the deep dive stage, and it's okay to use it to scare people."
"If we really want to fight with others, relying on our powerful physical body, our real combat power is at best equivalent to that of a Blood Core monk!"
"Staying to death is just because of your cultivation in the embryonic stage, you can be on par with the monks in the blood pill stage."
"And if you are a murloc with blood elixir stage cultivation, you can barely protect yourself from the deep dive stage monks by relying on your physical body."
"I believe that the two fellow Taoists are blood elixir stage monks, so you don't need to be too afraid of the fish people in the village."
"Everyone should be evenly matched, and no one can do anything to anyone else."
I don’t know whether what this fish man said is true or false.
In order to verify the authenticity of what the other party said, Chengshuo made fun of 'Tieniu' and 'Yuan Xiujie' who were standing aside. Then he turned to Zhong Ran and whispered a few words to him.
The three people understood what it meant and immediately dispersed.
Among them, 'Tieniu' and 'Yuan Xiujie' used their non-existent characteristics to eavesdrop on what the fishmen and monks in the village were talking about.
Zhong Ran, on the other hand, directly took the initiative to talk to other fishmen and monks.
During this period, Chengsheng always stood at the entrance of the village so that if anything was wrong, he could alert everyone and escape immediately.
Lean less.
After collecting the information, 'Tieniu' and 'Yuan Xiujie' returned to Chenghuo and nodded to Chenghuo one after another.
And Zhong Ran also followed up: "I just asked other people, and what they said is very different from what this fish man said."
"Now, you should believe everything I say, right?" Now that he had gained the trust of Chengshuo and others, the fish man introduced himself: "My lord, Huabei, this is the name I gave after I became a fish man. I have long forgotten my previous name because it’s been so long.”
"Fellow Daoist Hua, I have one last question."
For now, Chengsheng just doesn't doubt everything about the fishman village for the time being.
But he still remained vigilant.
He asked the fish-man Hua Bei: "Dare you ask my friend, are you getting any benefits from trying so hard to keep us?"
(End of chapter)
