Until the last light was completely extinguished, the entire city fell into darkness. After an unknown period of time, a light suddenly appeared among the quiet stone statues. The light appeared from the brow of one of the stone statues, and a palace lantern hung silently. Stop on top of the stone statue.
The palace lantern gave off a soft and warm brilliance, and then, the petrified parts of the stone statue disappeared little by little, revealing Zhao Ning's original appearance.
Zhao Ning blinked, dust falling from his eyelashes.
She was not surprised or confused at all. When she was petrified, her soul entered the Palace of Silent Spirits. The evil power could not break through the barrier of the Palace of Silent Spirits. At the same time, the Innate Saint Virtue Eternal Light also emitted light. bright.
Under the light, the power of petrification faded away.
Zhao Ning raised his hand, and the Thunder Soul Wood appeared on his hand. The palace lantern slowly fell from the top of his head, and then hung on the tip of the Thunder Soul Wood. The thin branches of the Thunder Soul Wood automatically wrapped around the palace lantern, and several thin strips were scattered on both sides of the palace lantern. The integration of the two is extremely natural and just right.
Using the Thunder Soul Wood to hold the ever-bright lamp of innate saintliness, Zhao Ning shined a light on the stone statues around her. The stone statues did not give her any response. Just as Duan Guang said, the souls of these stone statues had been stripped out of their bodies. Even though Even the ever-bright lamp of innate saintliness cannot wake them up.
But the direction they were facing together gave Zhao Ning a clue.
A palace lantern led Zhao Ning around among the stone statues all over the street. She did not touch any of the stone statues until she reached the front of the stone statues and Zhao Ning saw a temple. It was the same temple that Zhao Ning had seen in Yueling City before. Passed the Tianzun Temple.
Tianzun Temple is half hidden in the darkness, extremely oppressive, curled up like a huge and terrifying monster, and will launch a fierce attack anytime and anywhere.
Zhao Ning walked into the Tianzun Temple carrying the palace lantern. The image of Tianzun was sitting cross-legged lazily, but perhaps under the influence of the innate holy virtues and ever-brightening lanterns, the evil spirit did not appear.
The eyes of the Tianzun statue are always closed. When he closes his eyes, it really gives people a feeling of sanctity.
A seed of the Ghost Crying Vine fell on the ground, and the Ghost Crying Vine grew again, and this time it grew without any worries. It spread and climbed along the ground, covering the entire Tianzun Temple, and every corner had to be explored. Again.
And Zhao Ning stood in the center of the main hall of Tianzun Temple, quietly looking at the statue of Tianzun, the Yang God, who looked like a god but not a god.
Is this evil spirit Ye Feng, the Yang God?
Zhao Ning lowered her eyes, unable to make a judgment.
On one side, Duan Guang clamors that Yang Shen is the culprit of the disasters in the Yang God Realm, and on the other side, ordinary people in the entire Yang God Realm regard Yang God as their patron saint.
The two are contradictory, who is the truth, or neither is the truth, and both are hiding the truth or falsehood.
At this moment, Ghost Crying Teng suddenly gave Zhao Ning feedback. Zhao Ning looked out the door slightly and saw Ghost Crying Teng dragging a person in from the outside. That was a person who had not been stone sealed. When Zhao Ning was dragged into the main hall of Tianzun Temple, Zhao Ning recognized this person. It turned out to be Lin Rufeng, whom he hadn't seen for several months.
Lin Rufeng was not unconscious, but his five senses were completely blocked and he had no sense of the outside world.
Zhao Ning stretched out her palm, and the spiritual light scattered on Lin Rufeng. The spiritual power seeped into it, thus forcibly awakening Lin Rufeng.
Lin Rufeng's body suddenly twitched, which was due to the discomfort of unlocking the five senses. Even if he was awakened by Zhao Ning, he still closed his eyes and pursed his lips tightly, as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
"who?!"
"It's me, Lin Ying!" Zhao Ning replied and said, "Fellow Daoist Lin, there is no stone statue here. You can open your eyes."
When Lin Rufeng heard Zhao Ning's voice, her ears twitched. She opened her eyes and saw Zhao Ning. She breathed a sigh of relief and became a little excited, "It turns out to be Miss Lin. It's great. I thought I was going to be raped." I’ve been shutting myself down like this for a long time.”
Zhao Ning looked at her, "Fellow Daoist Lin, why are you here?"
"It's a long story. I just checked some things and ended up..."
Lin Rufeng suddenly paused. His eyes fell on the palace lantern held by Zhao Ning. His expression was a little strange. There seemed to be shock and scrutiny hidden in the depths of his eyes, but they were covered up very quickly, as if Zhao Ning was the illusion.
Zhao Ning asked, "What is Fellow Daoist Lin looking at?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Lin, this lamp seems to be very powerful. I feel a strong vitality." Lin Rufeng looked at Zhao Ning and said,
"I got this palace lantern accidentally. It can withstand the stone seal rules." Zhao Ning said plainly, without any intention of introducing it. However, Lin Rufeng's strange expression changed, and Zhao Ning said, "If Fellow Daoist Lin follows, By my side, you won’t be afraid of the threat of this stone seal.”
"That's great. Miss Lin really hides it."
Zhao Ning didn't express anything, just asked, "It seems that Lin Daoyou hasn't finished what he just said."
With Zhao Ning's palace lantern around, Lin Rufeng didn't seem to be afraid of the sudden appearance of the stone statue, so he pointed to the futon on the ground, meaning to speak slowly.
This attitude has changed slightly.
Zhao Ning took advantage of the situation and sat down on the futon, and Lin Rufeng also pulled a futon and sat on the ground.
"After the incident about the evil spirit in Yueling City, I went to investigate some things and learned some secrets."
His mood seemed very low, his head hung down, and he talked about his findings in detail.
After leaving Yueling City, he went to many towns, especially those with Tianzun temples. He found that many strange things happened in these towns with Tianzun temples. For example, some people would go to Tianzun temples. After staying there for a few days, ugly people will become handsome and beautiful. For example, some Tianzun temples can also provide dreams for the people in the city...
Without exception, these things are not beneficial to ordinary people, so the incense in Tianzun Temple is particularly strong. However, during his careful investigation, he discovered the strangeness behind the strange things.
Those whose appearance has changed are actually directly changing heads with those who have good-looking faces. Those ancestors seen in dreams will replace the original people.
Similar things happened secretly, so Lin Rufeng had to find out what was behind it.
So he squatted in various towns, and without exception, the source of these things was the statue in Tianzun Temple.
Just like what he had seen before, there were indeed evil spirits growing on the statue of the temple that day.
But when Lin Rufeng subconsciously used the word "breeding" to describe it, his heart collapsed. This made him insist before that the Tianzun statue was sacred, and there must be something using the Tianzun statue to harm the people. In this way The view is shaky. If one or two are like this, it is understandable, then what if all the Tianzun statues have this situation?
This shows that the Tianzun statue has become a breeding ground for evil spirits, or that the Tianzun statue is inherently evil.
This impacted Lin Rufeng's respect for Yang Shen Tianzun, just when his faith was on the verge of collapse.
Lin Rufeng met a strange guy on the outskirts of the city. The guy suddenly emerged from the ground, carrying a stone statue wrapped in clothes on his back.
Not long after, another person appeared and walked to the stone statue like a wandering spirit. After the strange guy slightly opened the corner of the clothes covering the stone statue, the person who suddenly appeared disappeared together with the stone statue.
This is probably what Duan Guang told Chen Hu, "you will know after you experience it". Zhao Ning thought silently in her heart.
"I saw that person disappear completely with my own eyes, and his soul was completely annihilated." Lin Rufeng spoke with some trembling, "How is this possible! I caught that guy and forced him to tell the truth. A sound that The absurd truth. He said that he was a corpse mover, that the world on earth was all fake, that everyone was not human, and that everyone was just a ghost. Including him, including me."
Zhao Ning lowered her eyes. This corpse mover was not as secretive as Duan Guang. Under Lin Rufeng's questioning, he told everything.
Zhao Ning knew all this. The moment Duan Guang turned from a human to a soul, Zhao Ning vaguely guessed it.
Lin Rufeng continued to learn the truth from the corpse movers, "He said that the corpses of all the resentful souls were buried underground and had been dead for more than three thousand years. The corpse movers wanted to remove these corpses from Bring it up from the ground, so that the resentful souls floating on the ground can find their home, and when they meet, they can find rest."
Lin Rufeng laughed twice strangely, "Heh...heh...he even said that the one who killed everyone in the Yangshen realm for three thousand years was the Yangshen Tianzun, and the one who caused everyone's souls and bodies to be stripped off was the Yangshen Tianzun. . Heh...heh...how is that possible."
At this moment, Lin Rufeng's head rested on his knees, and he grabbed his hair with both hands, tearing it extremely hard.
Zhao Ning did not try to comfort him. She could understand Lin Rufeng's behavior. This was the feeling of his worldview being completely subverted.
Maybe Zhao Ning really came from outside the world and has no feelings for the Yang God Realm, or maybe Zhao Ning is cold-hearted. After half-guessing the truth from Duan Guang's mouth, she suppressed all her emotions and truly regarded herself as a Yang God. A bystander in the divine realm.
"The most ridiculous thing is that I was really shaken at the time." Lin Rufeng seemed to have calmed down from the emotional outburst. He stretched out his legs and looked at Zhao Ning, "The reasons behind the weird things I found out before made me... When I was questioning the sanctity of Yang Shen Tianzun, the words of the corpse mover seemed to support my guess. At that moment, my state of mind was on the verge of being broken. I even felt that my cultivation would be completely destroyed anytime, anywhere due to the collapse of my state of mind. Close the sea of consciousness.”
"But you are still alive and well now," Zhao Ning said, "and your mood is clear."
"Because I held on to my last bit of faith and went to Tai Chi Lake."
Zhao Ning paused for a moment. When she went to Taiji Lake, she only searched in the treasure house and focused on finding meteorites. She did not and would not search Taiji Lake extensively.
"What's in Tai Chi Lake?"
"Ancient altar."
Lin Rufeng told Zhao Ning that there was a sleeping altar at the bottom of Taiji Lake. It was left by the survivors of the Yangshen Realm three thousand years ago to worship the dead, and the altar was surrounded by reliefs. A catastrophic situation.
The first relief depicts the peaceful scene at the beginning of the Yangshen Realm. The Yangshen Tianzun teaches the children with spiritual roots in the Yangshen Realm to practice and guides the mortals to farm and work.
The second relief depicts an evil demon coming into the world and fighting with Yang Shen Tianzun for several rounds, and was finally beaten away by Yang Shen Tianzun.
The third relief depicts evil spirits hiding in the human world and transforming into the appearance of the Yang God. They use something like an eagle's claw to attack mortals, and the mortals disappear.
The fourth relief depicts the evil demon relying on the "eagle claw" to bring chaos to the entire world. Yang Shen Tianzun appears again and seals the evil demon.
When Zhao Ning heard the "eagle claw" that appeared in Lin Rufeng's introduction, she thought in her mind that that thing could be the claw that was chopped off by Cho Ming.
Lin Rufeng said with emotion, "Up to that moment, I suddenly connected everything together. It was this evil devil who used the statue of Yang Shen Tianzun to cause chaos. He deliberately used this method to make everyone question Yang Shen Tianzun and destroy Tianzun's faith. , and the 'Yang Shen Tianzun' who destroyed the entire Yang Shen Realm among the corpse movers should be an evil spirit."
"Only the corpses buried under the stone seal three thousand years ago and the sealed demons know the truth. If I want to confirm these reliefs, I have to come down to this... who!"
Lin Rufeng was suddenly startled, looked outside, and stood up suddenly, "Evil?!"
He flew out directly, followed closely by Zhao Ning.
Under the light of the ever-bright lamp of innate saintliness, they were not affected by petrification at all, even though these stone statues moved their heads strangely and kept staring at them with cold eyes.
They quickly found the source of the movement, which was not the evil spirit, but the corpse mover.
It was a rather tall corpse mover, and he was carrying a stone statue onto his body. "It's you, Luo Tong!" Lin Rufeng yelled, "Stop!"
Lin Rufeng rushed forward, and at the moment when he was about to escape from the light of the ever-burning lamp, he threw his robe over the head of the stone statue, covering its eyes. He put one hand on the shoulder of the stone statue and pulled the statue away from the body mover Luo Tong. He grabbed it forcefully and kicked Luo Tong out at the same time.
This movement was so fast that afterimages appeared.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, please calm down." Zhao Ning fell to the ground and looked at Luo Tong, who was clutching his stomach and struggling, and stopped the furious Lin Rufeng.
Lin Rufeng stood there angrily, pointing at Luo Tong and scolding, "Luo Tong, I warned you before, even if what you said is true, you move the body to the ground and let the body and the soul disappear together. It has completely destroyed their chance of reincarnation! By doing this, how can you give them peace of mind and prevent them from reincarnation forever?!"
After all, the corpse mover was just an ordinary mortal, and he was just an ant under Lin Rufeng in the foundation building stage.
But Luo Tong still stiffened his neck and said, "No reincarnation for eternity? So what, it's better than being a resentful soul in the illusory Yangshen realm on earth. This kind of repeated experiences in life has tortured you for three thousand years. You haven't had enough, but I Enough is enough! Anyone who knows the truth has had enough!"
"What truth! Do you know what the truth is?!" Lin Rufeng was about to go crazy. He forced his way around Zhao Ning and grabbed Luo Tong's collar. Luo Tong's eyes were covered with cloth. Such a violent attack The movement almost ripped the strip of cloth off.
Lin Rufeng yelled at him, "The truth is that you were deceived by the evil demon. The culprit that caused the destruction of the Yangshen Realm was the evil demon disguised as the Venerable Yangshen! And the Venerable Yangshen finally rushed out and saved the Yangshen Realm, The 'fire' of the Yangshen Realm was left behind! That's why we have the Yangshen Realm today!"
"Then how do you explain the sudden acceleration of growth in the past hundred years? It seems that everyone's time has been deprived and their lives have been forcibly accelerated!"
Lin Rufeng suddenly couldn't answer the question at this moment.
"Because...because..."
After Lin Rufeng was stunned for two times, Luo Tong suddenly broke away from him, and then shook the bell in his hand. All the Yin spirit objects hidden nearby came out amidst the ringing of the bell, and attacked Lin Rufeng. Lin Rufeng sank into him. There was no movement in the struggling thoughts, but the Yin spirit items were still blocked from the clear light.
"who is it……"
Only then did Luo Tong realize that there was another person.
Zhao Ning walked forward slowly holding the palace lantern, "He doesn't know the answer, I can tell you the answer. Because a sacred object that controls time is lost and exists somewhere in the Yangshen Realm, constantly depriving these people of it. time."
Lin Rufeng's eyes tilted back slightly, but he lowered his eyes so that no one could see this detail.
He looked up again, his face full of surprise and joy, "Is it the 'Eagle Claw' on the relief? Yes, yes, those people who were attacked by the 'Eagle Claw' disappeared because their time was deprived of them. , naturally it will not appear at that moment again.”
"What Chief Time? What Eagle Claw? What are you talking about? It's just to cover up your stupidity of being brainwashed by the appearance of Yang Shen Tianzun!!!"
Luo Tong said angrily. After the Yin Spirit items were stopped, he had no means of resistance and could only retort with words.
"You don't believe it?!" Lin Rufeng looked at him coldly and pulled off the cloth from his eyes, "Then I will show you the truth."
Lin Rufeng said to Zhao Ning, "Miss Lin, I just said that only the people three thousand years ago and the sealed evil spirits know all this. Now these people are sealed in stone. We can't get the truth, but we can Starting from the evil spirits, the evil shadows in the city all come out of the seals of the evil spirits. They have more memories than the evil spirits on the ground. As long as I draw the evil shadows out, I will have a way to see its memory! "
Lin Rufeng meant to let Zhao Ning draw out the evil shadow.
