The several-meter-high, wall-like skin has sparse hair and no scale protection. It is only covered by a layer of strange tissue that does not seem to be part of its body. It is unknown how deep it spreads in the cave.
Its mouth was shaped like a combination of a narrow hole and a slit, and a dozen eyes sunk deep into the flesh into a row of pits, twisted and squeezed together. The glimmer of light from the gilt-copper feather box gathered on its skin, reflecting only an evil red arc of light.
The ancient bronze sword hit the hard flesh, and the sound was like a collision with a huge stone. The ancient Yue sword Canglanglang, which was heavy on piercing but not good at cutting, wiped out continuous sparks. The huge wall continued to rotate without any damage, but it was unable to Add injury!
As the giant wall of corpses continued to rotate slowly, making a loud noise that shook the sky, Jiang Wen saw that the monster in front of him was huge and shriveled. Jiang Wen was only about a quarter of its height, and its exposed lithified edges were sharp and stiff. .
It is very similar to some primitive lower animals, but it has some inexplicable human characteristics in its temperament, which makes it even more terrifying. It felt like a malformed conch to Jiang Wen, with a stone-hard body hidden deep in a soft and disgusting shell, and the soft shell kept leaking weird mucus.
It seems that it is this mucus that makes countless shriveled corpses stick to it - this disgusting creature actually uses the corpses to form another shell to protect itself, squirming outwards.
Extreme panic and disgust made Jiang Wen unable to move. For a few long seconds, he even thought that he had turned into a deep-sea fish on the prehistoric sea floor and accidentally broke into the nest hole of a straight-shelled nautilus on the ocean floor!
He should have thought that this magical method of spitting out mist into paintings, turning smoke into scenery, making the sun and moon shine, and towers suddenly coming to life, has long been recorded in ancient books. It's just because the Manting Peak is deep in the Wuyi Mountains, and the mythical legend continues for thousands of years. , so that Jiang Wen never thought about that.
Mirage is a legendary monster. According to ancient books, it looks like a snake and is large, has horns like a dragon, often spits out red hyenas, and has all the scales below the waist. It can exhale and form a mirage. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a pheasant entering the sea became a mirage.
"Shu Yuan Miscellaneous Notes" mentioned that "the theory of mirage air towers comes from "Book of Heavenly Officials", and it comes from a long way away. Maybe the mirage is a big clam, and "Yue Ling" said that a pheasant entering the sea is a mirage. Maybe it is a snake. Transformation, there are definitely many of these things in the sea.”
Strictly speaking, "it" should not be used in front of you, but "it" should be used. Because Jiang Wen has already guessed that the thing in front of him that can make people miserable just by its mere presence should be called a monster - the Void Mirage Snail!
At this time, Jiang Wen could hallucinate that beyond the stone rim, the cold North Star was already hanging high at the end of the sky. Some mysterious and irrepressible power was emitting to this corner of the mountains through the strange and complex space of the universe. By doing so, he dispelled the abnormality on the monster in front of him, so that he could meet Jiang Wen at such a close distance.
Streams of fishy mucus suddenly flowed out of Wang Mang's head. The unknown substance on the soft shell of the strange mirage snail was now turning into a carpet breeding ground for fungi to grow. Only a spore-like creature could be seen quickly. It grew rapidly from Wang Mang's tongueless mouth and evolved into a dry and ugly black spore plant, which approached Jiang Wen with malicious intent.
The immortal mushroom turned out to be a part of its body!
Seeing this scene, the four Liujia God Generals stepped on the ground with their feet, raised their bodies, turned their eyes wildly, and slammed down the gilded bronze feather human box.
The four people put their arms together, leaning on their shoulders, pressing their middle fingers and Shicuo on the middle joints of their thumbs, and at the same time formed the Beidi Seal, which commanded the ghosts and gods of the three realms to enter and destroy the temple.
The surging internal forces contained in the Heavenly Master's Pill Breathing Technique echoed each other, like an endless wave. The four of them either punched or used their palms to attack in unison with the Demonic Ghost Technique, and at the same time they hit the mirage conch.
The shell of the Void Mirage Conch is soft and sticky, and the skin is as hard as rock. Jiang Wen's sharp sword just now cannot cut through it, so using internal force to break open the door is an excellent way - the state of the upper body seems to be really good. Able to somehow make these four people who should be stupid and stupid have profound and mysterious intuition.
The surging force of the external power is enough to crack the monument and crack the stone. Even the real rock wall will be shattered into powder. However, the four palms slapped on the smooth and weird skin of the Void Mirage, but it did not cause a single wave.
"Get back quickly! Since the fairy mist it spits out can create a virtual space, it can definitely resolve external forces!"
No one understood Jiang Wen's cry. When the top of the mirage's conch touched the roof of the cave, his body began to hiss and squirm. Without stopping for a second, Liujia God General suddenly vomited blood and flew backwards, flying straight out of the stone chamber. , as if he was fighting against a powerful gambler with amazing physical strength, and suffered a huge loss.
Jiang Wen was silent for a moment, kicked out the gilded bronze feather box with his feet, and slowly moved backwards.
No matter who is facing a barbarian monster at close range, especially a monster of this size that fills underground caves and has lived in caves for countless years, they will feel extremely troubled.
After the four people were knocked down, the soft back shell of the mirage snail turned back again. Wang Mang's head was empty and his mouth was open, as if he was making a sinister mockery. A trace of red light flowed out from between his eyebrows, and he gradually danced and came to life. stand up.
As time passed, the barbarian monsters began to move again, and a vast white mist once again filled the dark stone chamber. The terrifying red clouds also continued to appear in it, hiding an unknown figure in the mist.
The stalemate continued, and Jiang Wenye had already retreated to the stone cave. Starlight from outside the cave shone into it, and a few clouds lingered in the night sky, but they could not block the sinking Beichen Star.
time is limited!
Jiang Wen had already noticed that the mirage snail in front of him was different from the six-toothed and seven-branched mirage snail buried under the Wuyi Mountains. It was not burned to death by magma and then suppressed by the Xuanwu Mountains for several seconds. The vicious resentment that has rotted and melted in the darkness for billions of years.
The barbarian monster in front of him, the mirage snail, lives under the dark stone, and there is something in him that can give people immortality.
If you want to take it, you must first give it.
Its dozen or so pitted eyes are filled with the strongest greed and cruelty. All creatures that come here driven by lust will become part of its nourishment.
Because there is the desire of those who seek liberation, the obsession of those who seek immortality, the greed of those who seek immortality, and the unrepentance of those who seek to explore the truth. The strange mirage presumably understands people's hearts. After all, from the moment it spit out the fairy mist at Manting Peak, it has come into contact with the ever-changing desires of human beings.
People who eat immortality mushrooms eventually turn into deformed and twisted black dragons, transforming into a walking corpse like the Holy Child of the Red Sun. The outcome of this immortal transformation is already doomed.
But what did those people who saw the Immortal Banquet at Manting Peak and claimed to reach immortality across the Hongqiao Bridge see? What happened to them again? !
Jiang Wen thought with some pessimism that these deepest desires of human beings are only nutrients for it to maintain itself and food for its spiritual growth. The legend of immortality in Wuyi Mountain has been lingering for thousands of years. In the final analysis, it is the eternal obsession of mankind, supporting a lie that no one wants to expose...
Immortality may just be a curse set by humans themselves.
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The mirage snail slowly approached Jiang Wen. It would never hunt with violence. It would only use the most secretive means to lure its prey to the bait. In the past thousands of years, maybe one or two people could escape, but they would only give Bring more food yourself.
The experience of hunting barbarian monsters made it slowly turn its back, restoring the high wall composed of Wang Mang's head and densely packed corpses. I saw fairy mist and red clouds flying, twists and turns that are indescribable, but suddenly turned into a solid circular mirror. The round light-like picture reflects the darkness and quietness of the cave, as well as the dripping stalactites and stalagmites.
The situation suddenly became dangerous. Jiang Wen caught a glimpse of Wang Mang's head with the ancient sword stuck in it, and decided that since it could be pierced by the Western Jin Dynasty rangers, it should be the weak spot on the body of the barbarian. With its shell as the void and flesh as the reality, this strange mirage snail is so strange and unusual that it simply does not look like a creature born on the earth.
Jiang Wen was running his internal energy in an attempt to kill him with one blow. Countless martial arts skills were circulating in his mind. His moves were from complex to simple, and his murderous intent was from full to non-existent. With Jin Yong's superb martial arts skills in the world, he had improved his swordsmanship to an almost perfect level. In the realm of Tao!
But the next moment, the strange mirage generously and insidiously unfolded the scene of the fairy world for him, interrupting his entrance!
What Jiang Wen saw in the round light was neither like the beautiful fairyland in Dao Zang legend, nor even the scene of endless hell in Buddhist scriptures. There seems to be nothing in this fairyland, but it seems to contain everything, and with indistinguishable "virtuality", it instantly descends on the land of reality.
The little sounds were like leaves falling and branches snapping. Something dark and ominous seemed to be turning into a virtual image like light spots and flying past Jiang Wen. The floor of the grotto where Jiang Wen stopped produced frightening fractures and flickers, converging into a broken Line segments and light spots circled the gradually ethereal cave walls and stalactites growing everywhere, forming some indescribable creatures that swooped towards Jiang Wen.
They are composed of irregular red lines, but have no essential bodies. They are either flat or curved and dance wildly on the stalagmites and stalactites. They also sway and dance with the shadows of the illuminated stone pillars, creating a chaotic and chaotic footsteps. .
Jiang Wen wasn't sure whether what he saw now was different from what others saw, but was this the so-called residence of the immortals? Is this the legendary banquet of the Queen Mother that mortals dare not set foot on?
This is the destination of the other way up the mountain. It is the inevitable ending of what people in the little Taoist village call the road to immortality in the caves and valleys.
They transcended their bodies in advance, resisted the temptation of the immortal mushroom, and plunged into the strange "virtual fairy world" where the strange mirage snails unfolded without hesitation.
From then on, the passage of time and the passing of spring and autumn have nothing to do with them in the "Void Immortal Realm", even if the world is changing outside.
Since then, they have entered a "virtual fairyland" that humans cannot understand, and have become parts of a broken and twisted red dotted line.
From then on, they would only swim from the "Void Immortal Realm" to the rock altar and dance wildly at the climax of the Immortal Banquet at Manting Peak. Just like now, they would viciously curse this world where rationality has not yet disappeared. !
They became immortals, but they became strange immortals in the virtual world, entering an irrational and beyond logical cause and effect, which made the Milesian school frightened and helpless, and made Pythagoras prefer to kill people instead of erasing it. A completely hopeless possibility. A universe of order, madness, chaos, and complete emptiness!
In the round light displayed by the barbarian monster, he also cunningly added fragments of past scenes and inserted messages that disturbed his thinking - all of them were the traces on the wooden goblet, the thoughts conveyed when he first came here. Together they turned into weapons to seduce Jiang Wen, disturbing his mind.
Only by barely understanding the non-linear relationship could Jiang Wen take the opportunity to interpret the cross-time and space dialogue on the wooden goblet.
First of all, it was the doctor who left that extremely scrawled handwriting. He was hunched over and lost in thought.
The apocalyptic panic that raged at the end of the Western Han Dynasty led Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, who had just ascended the throne, to believe that there must be a curse factor flowing in his body - why did he suddenly suffer from paralysis at the age of seventeen despite having an extremely healthy youth.
At this time, the aristocratic families and relatives of the Western Han Dynasty, seeing the ignorance of several emperors and the weakness of the central government, had long wanted to aspire to the throne. At that time, the Confucianism of the unity of man and nature was popular, so all parties deliberately released all kinds of panic to challenge the authority of the Han Dynasty, trying to prove that the Liu family had been abandoned by destiny and was about to lose the honor of the emperor.
In the final analysis, this was just a vicious political act, but it touched the fragile heartstrings of several emperors after the Western Han Dynasty, so they resorted to illusory techniques. The result was like drinking poison to quench their thirst, accelerating their own stupor and decline.
Doctors determined that this was a disease, but Jiang Wen speculated that he actually had "Baker muscular dystrophy", with an incidence rate of 130,000 and an average age of onset of 11 years old. The clinical manifestations of patients with this disease are mild. Not many patients rely on wheelchairs at the age of 16. Patients over 90 can live to be over 20 years old, so there are no signs before they are enthroned.
The more important thing is that this disease is usually only recessive carriers in women. Emperor Xiaoai, concubine and grandson of Emperor Yuan, and Prince Dingtao Gong. Mother's name is Ding Ji.
In other words, Emperor Ai of Han's mother may have carried the disease-causing genetic gene, but she had no symptoms. However, if she gave birth to a son, Emperor Ai of Han, she would have a 50% chance of contracting the muscle atrophy disease.
Unfortunately, Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty was 50 who was struck by fate.
So he turned to the Blue Bird's Art of Subduing Truth in the Han Palace Collection, and embarked on the wrong path of previous emperors.
As the last Han emperor who had the hope of turning the tide, he did not believe these rumors when he came to the throne. However, due to a strange combination of circumstances, he contracted this rare disease and eventually died, which became the source of prophecies. Since then, Wang Mang's Instead, the countdown has begun.
The doctor relied on his clinical treatment experience and abandoned Xuanxu's deliberate apocalyptic panic, and saw the dust-laden truth clearly under this stone. But it was too late, and he could only lament the destined decline of the Western Han Dynasty thousands of years later.
Later, Jiang Wen saw the ranger sent by Zhang Hua, holding a white jade sword and entering under the stone. His movements were brave, agile and unstoppable, and his martial arts had reached the highest level.
When he used Wang Mang's head as bait to attract the barbarian monster in front of him, he also fell into deep thought.
In his later years, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, suddenly realized that the Western Jin Dynasty was facing a great crisis. The royal bloodline seemed destined to decline. Only nine of his twenty-nine sons grew up, and among them, the prince Sima Zhong was still mentally retarded.
The invited warlock Fuluan Hou even saw the prophecy of "two horses will eat", which means that in the end only two of his sons will die a good death, and the remaining seven will all die violent deaths!
Seeing that it would be difficult to save the Jin Dynasty if things continued like this, Sima Yan thought of Wang Mang's head that was sealed in the arsenal.
He recruited many Confucian doctors and yin and yang alchemists to study it, trying to restore the blue bird descending technique in the Han Palace and use it to prolong life and promote health.
This huge revival movement of prophecies and talismans has caused countless celebrities to flock to it. They consider themselves to be knowledgeable about heaven and man. They turn their private affairs into public affairs and serve as bureaucrats in various places. They pursue strange and underworld things in order to find ways to communicate with Wang Mangtou. This method resulted in double corruption of the political situation and ideology.
Emperor Hui who came to the throne was weak, Empress Jia was cruel, and Zhang Hua and Zhang Mao, who were dedicated to assisting the government, made Yan Ran the leader of the country. Relying on Jia Nanfeng's respect and support, he finally put an end to this absurd movement and sent someone to send Wang Mangtou to where he belonged. The place.
Unfortunately, during the Eight Kings Rebellion five years later, Zhang Hua suffered an accident, and the nobles' search for the underworld could no longer be curbed. Sima Yan's fearful prophecy of "the two horses will be fed" also unfolded in the Sima family's great civil strife. The curtain of the performance...
The ranger had calculated everything, but he didn't understand the mystery of the star positions, let alone the fact that the vital parts of the back of the mirage's snail were covered with shells and covered with corpses, but the flesh on the front was extremely hard and could not be penetrated by ordinary means.
It was already too late when he missed the blow, so he could only throw the snake-cutting sword angrily into Wang Mang's head, which was swallowed up by the accompanying white water jet, and turned into bones after the failure.
Then, the immortal-like figure of the White Jade Chan Immortal Master, wearing a wide robe and long sleeves, also appeared in the shadow of the round light, holding the Thunder Technique in his hand without saying a word.
A Taoist sect once met Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty with the true Dharma, and found that the reason why the edict of the Queen Mother of the West he carried out was unimaginable and unprecedented was because what he wanted was completely different from that of the previous emperors.
Emperor Xuan, Emperor Yuan, and Emperor Cheng of the Western Han Dynasty were all strong and prosperous emperors. It was just because they were fascinated by the method of ascending to immortality passed down by Emperor Wu that they had something to think about. They prayed day and night for the Queen Mother of the West's Qingluan to descend and take them to the immortal world.
Emperor Ai burned incense and prayed, hoping only to be able to cure his physical ailments, that is, like the Holy Child of the Red Sun, he longed to become a cicada and live forever. Therefore, after causing a sensation in the capital for several months, he finally received salvation in the fairy mist. The "Elixir of Immortality" presented by Luan...
After Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty took the medicine, due to the congenital paralysis of his body and the accumulation of food without practicing Qi, under the horrified gaze of the palace people, his body melted and shrank on the spot into a jade cocoon as big as a fist, and he was unable to emerge at all. The corpse seemed dead but not dead, and its eyelashes were still moving, so it could only be buried in the Yiling Mausoleum in a hurry.
Later, Wang Mang, who was ordered by the Queen Mother to rebuild the mausoleum, was a scholar proficient in Confucianism. He discovered the secret of immortality in the jade cocoon of Emperor Ai - the green-gold immortal seed, which was shining brightly in the Lingtai cave. .
Wang Mang was overjoyed and thought he had mastered the secret of immortality, so he tried to plant the green-gold seeds into his body with the help of Zitong's Aizhang.
Until his defeat, Wang Mang believed that all this was God's blessing. "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records that before his defeat, Wang Mang was cyanotic, holding the Yu Emperor's dagger, Tian Wenlang in front of him, Mang sitting on the mat with the handle of the bucket, and said: "I am born with virtue, how can the soldiers of the Han Dynasty do it?" !”
Unfortunately, the rebels had already invaded Chang'an. The businessman Du Wu killed Mang, and the captain Donghai Gongbin beheaded Mang. Mang still opened his eyes and breathed as usual. The soldiers were divided into Mang's bodies, and they were divided into men and women. Dozens of people rushed to kill them. .
This green-gold immortal seed has been circulated since then, and has a new name in Taoism - Taishang Buxing Shengzanglu!
Bai Yuchan knew that whether he was praying for immortality with the Blue Bird Subjugation Technique, or he was eager to take the medicine of immortality, it was an act of eager for quick success and instant benefit, buying a coffin for a pearl. The portal connected by the Blue Bird Subduing Art is in Wuyi Mountain. Only the path opened from Manting Peak in Wuyi Mountain can truly ascend to the fairyland.
He read through the Taoist classics and thought for a long time, and finally determined that if he wanted to truly ascend to immortality and cross the Hongqiao, he must first reach the realm of golden elixir!
The so-called golden elixir is not an omnipotent divine art, but a unique thing formed by the three talents of the human body. It is the most stubborn and indestructible heart in the mind of a Taoist who cannot be destroyed by water, fire or wind or thunder. Seeds of transformation.
Only with the achievement of the golden elixir can we avoid the tragic situation of the Holy Child of the Red Sun. After taking the immortal mushroom, we can overcome the three demonic cicadas in the body, shed the cocoon, and successfully return to the innate body.
Only if the golden elixir is not bad, can you step into the shapeless immortal gate with your head held high when it opens. Unlike the villagers of the little Taoist priest who are consumed and alienated by the wind of the Nine Heavens and the plain water of the Heaven and the Han Dynasty, you can always maintain your true self!
The white jade toad faced the snail of the alien monster and mirage for a long time, and finally sighed, guarding this place that seemed to be the only remaining path to immortality in the world until the immortal died.
The outstanding people who have stepped into it for thousands of years have all had their thoughts read by the mirage conch like the palm of their hand, and more of the past figures and thoughts are colorfully staged like a kaleidoscope.
The dotted line ghosts emitting red light were entangled from all directions, trying their best to drag Jiang Wen into the unpredictable abyss. The virtual mirage conch was still chattering about secret inside stories, disturbing Jiang Wen's concentration. , even if Jiang Wen moved around with his superb body skills, he still couldn't guard against the all-pervasive information projection.
But among these people, there was a slovenly and ancient-looking person who impressed the barbarians the most, and even made him faintly flinch.
All because this unkempt person came here and recognized the heel and legs of the monster Void Mirage Snail at a glance.
The sloppy Taoist recognized that the Void Mirage Snail was something that had fallen from the Tianhe River to the lower realm. It had fallen in the Yazi Mountain on the bank of the West Sea in an era earlier than Yao and Shun.
