The three of them took a plane and landed at the entrance of the village. They saw that every monk in the village had a smile on their face and started to decorate the lanterns. The atmosphere of the New Year gradually became more intense. Unfortunately, there is no night here. It would be amazing if the red lanterns were lit up. A great night.
When Mu Sheng was thinking this, Li Rong waved his hand and a barrier covering the whole village was formed. Suddenly the whole village turned into darkness, and one could even see the stars and the bright moon in the night sky. At this time, every household in the village Red lanterns were hung up.
The atmosphere of the New Year was also more intense. The village also knew that the four people had returned from customs. A group of male and female monks gathered at the entrance of the village to welcome the four people. Mu Sheng took a quick look and saw that there were as many as a thousand people in the village. Of course, Lao Chen and the three of them were the only ones in the village. A monk with the ability to create things naturally has a very high status in the village.
The monks they met in the village along the way all came forward to bow and greet them warmly. On the way, Li Rong and Chen Tianji returned to their homes respectively. Only Yuan Ang took Mu Sheng back to the largest stone house in the center of the village.
The two entered the house, and Yuan Ang said: "Brother Mu, I have sent someone to prepare a room for you. You can live in the village for a while now."
Mu Sheng thanked Yuan Ang and said, "Thank you to Brother Yuan. By the way, Brother Yuan, I'm curious about something. Why are the female cultivators in the village followed by so many male cultivators along the way? They all seem to be related. Very intimate?"
Yuan Ang smiled bitterly and said: "What else could be the reason? Of course there are few female cultivators. Scarce things are more valuable. Originally, there were only a few females among the cultivators. This paradoxical ancient treasure only absorbs the souls of the cultivators. It cannot be absorbed by ordinary people at all." Ignore it, so there are even fewer female cultivators in this ghost place. Counting Sister Li Rong, there are seventy-three female cultivators in the village. The remaining thousands of people are male cultivators. Female cultivators are not the same. It’s delicious.”
Mu Sheng couldn't help but be speechless when he heard this. The ratio of men to women was too imbalanced. He didn't even wait for him to say anything.
Yuan Ang lowered his voice mysteriously and said: "Little brother, if you like any female nun in this village, just tell me and I will arrange it for you."
Hearing this, Mu Sheng quickly waved his hands and said, "I appreciate Brother Yuan's kindness. I already have a wife, but I don't dare to be so dissolute."
Yuan Ang laughed and said: "Okay! I can't see that your boy is still a good man who takes care of his family, so that's it! Yuan will not accompany you."
Yuan Ang called a monk to take Mu Sheng to the village to arrange accommodation. The male monk was white, fat, and had a round face. He looked very pleasant. He stepped forward and bowed his hands and said, "I, Feichen, have met Senior Mu." .”
Mu Sheng waved his hand and said, "Don't call me senior. I'm just a direct disciple of the Yuzhen Sect, and I can't afford to be called senior."
Pei Chen looked shocked and said: "Brother, it turns out that you are from the Yuzhen Sect? I was also an inner disciple of the Yuzhen Sect back then. Now I have been accidentally imprisoned and trapped here for nearly ten thousand years. I didn't expect to meet my old friend again. ……Why!"
Mu Sheng was also a little surprised that he could actually meet someone from the Yuzhen Sect in the world of ancient treasures? It seemed that Yuan Ang had deliberately arranged it so that he would not be so restrained living in this place.
Pei Chen introduced his background. It turned out that he was sucked into the real world more than 600 years ago. He came here more than 100 years earlier than Chen Tianji. But the reality is that you came earlier. It's useless. In the end, it all depends on your strength. If you don't reach the realm of the Four Elements, and don't have the ability to create things, you can only rely on others in the world of ancient treasures.
The process of coming here was very similar to that of Mu Sheng. At that time, although the Yuzhen Sect was also a powerful sect in the monk world, it was far from the transcendent status of the leader of the martial arts league like it is now.
On the way back, Yuan Ang once told him that it would be extremely difficult to escape within two years. Mu Sheng also had some lack of confidence in his heart and had plans to settle down here. We have gone, but the situation is stronger than the people!
Mu Sheng asked again: "Pei Chen, tell me the origin of this village. Why do monks gather here?"
Pei Chen said: "Actually, we used to be under the command of three ancestor monks in the village. When I first came to this wild continent, there were seven villages at first, ruled by various ancestor-level strongmen. Now there are only Let’s go to this village..."
Mu Shengqi asked: "Why is this?"
Pei Chen told the biggest secret of this ancient treasure world, and Mu Sheng was on pins and needles when he heard this.
Pei Chen said: "Senior brother, because this place has been lacking the energy of heaven and earth for a long time, and if you stay here for too long, the monks' spiritual bodies will gradually degenerate into soul-eating beasts. Not only will they lose their consciousness, but they will also specialize in hunting monks' spirits. The flow of time in the outside world is different. The earliest monks who came here can be traced back to more than five thousand years ago, when the ancient Yu Dynasty was just established. At that time, even the Yu Dynasty did not exist. Of course, those ancient monks had long since become Devourers. It’s a spiritual beast. One day in the outside world lasts one year here.”
"A monk will definitely turn into a soul-devouring beast after staying here for about 30,000 years at most. The only way is to break through the barrier, because it is connected to the energy of heaven and earth, which can appropriately delay the degradation, but it cannot solve the fundamental problem, so in the early days of the village As the ancestors and villagers gradually degenerated into soul-eating beasts, they all disappeared."
"The current village is the merger of three villages after the discussion of three ancestors. It is also a village united to fight against the soul-eating beasts. Now as time goes by, there are more and more soul-devouring beasts, and the monks are indeed getting more and more They come less and less, and the soul-devouring beasts will gather to raid the village once every thousand years or so."
"It's just that under the joint attack of the three ancestors, the soul-devouring beasts did not take advantage. However, these soul-devouring beasts cannot be killed like the monks' spirits. They will still be resurrected after being scattered. We can only find a way to kill the soul-devouring beasts. The spirit beasts have been sealed, and Ancestor and the others have already sealed tens of thousands of spirit beasts, and now the village as a whole is much safer."
Mu Sheng frowned and said: "I see, that is to say, the monks who came here more than a hundred years ago have been here for nearly 3,600 years, so wouldn't it be that Old Chen and the others have stayed here for more than 10,000 years? Years? How did you survive such a long life sentence? If it were me, I might not even be able to survive a hundred years. How did you survive such a long time?"
Pei Chen smiled bitterly and said: "There is only one way, which is to sleep collectively and defend the village at any time when you wake up. The time here is too long and too difficult. Sooner or later, you will go crazy. The monks who go crazy don't have to wait for thirty thousand years. He will soon lose his intelligence and turn into a soul-devouring beast, and those who survive now are the only ones with a tough character!"
Mu Sheng suddenly said: "So that's it..."
Pei Chen said, "Senior Brother, it will soon be the day when the Soul Devouring Beast will attack. It may only take a year or two. We usually wake up a hundred years in advance to start preparations. The ancestors will frequently go to Jujian Mountain to break through the barrier." In order to delay the degeneration time, but don't worry, there are much fewer soul-devouring beasts now than before. Without new monks captured by ancient treasures, there will be no soul-devouring beasts. Although there are many soul-devouring beasts, they have no wisdom and can only rely on Instinctively offensive, it’s actually easy to deal with.”
Mu Sheng sighed in his heart, rushing too early is worse than rushing too late. Everything has a cause and effect...
Next, Pei Chen took him to visit the underground of the village. There was a huge stone cave dug out by the ancestors. The entrance of the cave was guarded by a special person. When the guard saw that he was an acquaintance, he let him in directly.
When the two walked into the huge cave, even their voices echoed, which showed how deep the cave was. The strange crystals inlaid on the floor of the cave illuminated the entire cave with a faint light.
After Er entered the core area of the cave, he saw a huge and strange magic circle on the ground silently operating. There seemed to be hundreds of white energy balls in the magic circle. They were the same as the ball he saw when Li Rong was resurrected that day. Same.
Pei Chen pointed at these energy balls and explained: "Brother, please look, these are the villagers in the hibernation period. The spirit body will transform from human form into spirit eggs. We all sleep in shifts. The next group we will enter dormancy. This group of people He will become the watchman of the village and be responsible for waking us up..."
Mu Shengqi asked: "Can this monk's spiritual body still become like this?"
Pei Chen smiled bitterly and said: "This sleeping method was also invented by ancient monks. Unfortunately, they have already turned into soul-eating beasts..."
After saying this, Pei Chen taught the dormant mind technique to Mu Sheng. Mu Sheng silently recited the method in his mind and experimented several times. Sure enough, his eyelids started to fight. This was the first time he wanted to sleep here. He hadn't closed his eyes for a whole year. He quickly regained consciousness. Now is not the time to sleep...
After leaving the cave, Pei Chen took Mu Sheng to the lantern street in the village for a stroll. There were also people setting up stalls to buy and sell things, or all kinds of exquisite food. The women were wearing bright clothes and a group of men were surrounding her. They teased each other, being intimate with this man for a while, then turning around and being intimate with another man.
The strange thing is that there is no jealousy on the faces of these men, and they are still surrounding these women like a prince across the river.
Seeing this, Mu Sheng sighed to Pei Chen: "The people here are actually open!"
Pei Chen said helplessly: "Brother, don't be surprised. You can count the women in this ghost place on your fingers. Every woman has countless faces. It's not surprising for a woman to marry multiple husbands. But there has been no such thing here for a long time." With the concept of marriage, as long as we look at each other, we can have fun on the spot at any time..."
Mu Sheng looked at the people coming and going on the street and asked curiously: "Isn't there a normal relationship?"
When Pei Chen heard this, he looked strange and sighed: "It might have happened in the past, but it's long gone now. The only reason why the monks who came here in the first place fought was to compete for their partners. Later, they fought back and forth and couldn't kill anyone, so they simply became Now it's like this. To be honest with you, senior brother, I was trapped here with my junior sister at first. Later we got married. I fought with other monks a lot because of her. Later, my senior sister was spotted by my ancestor and occupied her. There’s really nothing I can do.”
"I am just a monk in the Heavenly Master Realm. I have no power to fight back against my ancestor. Later, my ancestor degenerated into a soul-eating beast. Only then did my junior sister and I escape from the village and join our ancestor Yuan Ang. He is actually a very upright person. , will never force others to make things difficult for him, so I have followed him wholeheartedly until now..."
Mu Sheng's mind turned to Bald Yuan's drooling look as he stared at Sister Rong's body, looking obscene and obscene, which was really incompatible with the four-word comment of "being an upright person"...
Maybe he usually pretends to be pretty good in front of his subordinates, but Wei Guangzheng’s character has never been compromised...
Mu Sheng looked at Pei Chen with admiration and said, "Brother Pei and his wife are united and can be considered a breath of fresh air here!"
