Shu Guan's body fell rapidly in the air, and when he silently counted to "ten" in his heart, his toes finally touched the ground.
Shuguan responded with lightning speed, slightly bent his knees, and then stood firm.
He was still not very good at mathematics and physics, so he couldn't calculate how far he fell after free falling in the air for ten seconds.
But based on a practitioner's perception of spatial distance, Shu Guan felt that he should have fallen at least five hundred meters.
And in this deep underground place where there is no light and almost absolute darkness, Shu Guan's vision is also greatly affected.
He could only vaguely feel that the place where he stood now was no longer as narrow as the cave he jumped down from just now, but was instead in a rather spacious space.
There seemed to be something ahead, but he couldn't see clearly.
But the scent like musk and orchid coming from the nose became stronger and stronger.
Then Shu Guan took out the flint and fire sickle from his arms. As a smoker, he would naturally carry something to light the fire with him.
This is also one of the benefits of smoking.
Shuguan struck it with a flint and fire sickle, and a few sparks shone in the boundless darkness.
Shu Guan's spiritual power turned slightly, and he controlled the spiritual power with his spiritual thoughts, and performed the fire-bending technique.
For the most basic Taoist skills like this, it has no impact on Shu Guan whether he practices the Taoist techniques or not.
And as Shu Guan used his fire-bending technique, a few sparks in the darkness instantly turned into a ball of fire, illuminating the surrounding darkness.
This underground cave that had been without light for who knows how many years finally attracted light again.
Shu Guan still held the sharp knife in one hand, raised the other hand, let the ball of fire fall on the palm of his hand, and then looked up.
The next moment, he saw a huge corpse.
The corpse was five or six meters in front of him, leaning against a stone tablet.
The corpse was about three meters long, the whole body was red like blood flames, and the texture was as moist as jade.
As for the shape, how can I put it? Apart from its size, its torso and limb skeleton are not much different from those of humans, but its skull and bones look nothing like human skulls, more like horses or sheep. Or the skull of an animal such as a cow, and underneath it, there are three thin tail bones.
...It turns out that the God Huan really exists...
...It turns out that Huan Shen is dead...
Shu Guan was silent for a moment, then took a few steps forward, wanting to take a closer look at some of the bones of the great magical master of the Witch Clan from a long time ago.
And when he got closer to the corpse of the God, the smell of musk in his nose became stronger. It seemed that this strange fragrance was emanating from this corpse.
If this great magical power user of the Wu clan named "擓" really belongs to the era of the Kuei clan, that is, a creature at the end of the Age of Conferred Gods, then it has a history of at least nearly 40,000 years ago.
After such a long time, although the flesh and blood have long been corrupted, the bones can still be preserved and even emit a strange fragrance, which shows how powerful this god was at the time.
Shu Guan walked to the corpse, moved the ball of fire in his palm closer, and then his eyes suddenly flashed.
Because he discovered that there were many faint golden marks on the flame-red bones of Yanshen.
Shu Guan squatted down and looked carefully for a while.
I saw those golden marks entwined and attached to Huan Shen's bones, like an iron chain tightly binding Huan Shen's bones. They did not look like their own things on Huan Shen's body.
For some reason, when he saw these golden marks, Shu Guan felt a sense of awe in his heart.
So Shu Guan brought the fire ball in his hand closer, trying to see those golden marks more clearly.
But the next moment, Shu Guan instinctively flew back a few meters like a catapult.
Because at that moment, he saw a certain golden mark on the bones of Huanshen, which seemed to move.
Like a line that was originally sinking
The sleeping bug felt the change in temperature due to the approach of the flame, and suddenly woke up.
Shu Guan felt a creepy feeling in his heart.
He stood three or four meters away from the body of Yan Shen, took a deep breath, suppressed the fear in his heart, and then looked at the body of Yan Shen again.
The moved golden stain he had just seen was now quietly attached to the bones of Huan Shen, as if it had not moved at all.
But Shu Guan was sure that he was not being blinded just now. The golden mark squirmed like a small insect.
Shu Guan stood still, holding the ball of fire in his hand, silently staring at the golden marks on the bones of the God of God.
He stood like this for half an hour without blinking an eye.
Half an hour later, Shu Guan saw a golden mark somewhere again and squirmed slightly.
Sure enough, these golden spots can move!
With the super patience of a hunter, Shu Guan once again confirmed that he was not wrong.
At this time, the fear in his heart had dissipated a lot. Although those golden marks could "move", from the current point of view, they did not seem to pose any threat to him.
It's just that Shu Guan will never get close to those golden spots again.
Of course, there are still a lot of doubts in my mind, that is, what are these golden spots?
If these weird golden marks were already present on Huan Shen's body before his death, then after several years, Huan Shen's body has long been corrupted, but these golden marks actually still maintain a kind of The characteristic of "living" is really incredible.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, these golden marks are a strange thing that entered here later and attached to the bones of Huan Shen.
…There is too little information available for judgment to draw conclusions…
Shu Guan thought like this, and he said the same thing. After all, his current vision is not enough to know the truth of this matter.
Then Shu Guan's gaze turned elsewhere.
I saw this cave deep underground. The height of the space inside was roughly like that of a three-story building, with a width of about 20 meters from left to right. There were many traces of something unknown on the ground left by decay.
Tens of thousands of years have passed, and even the physical body of a person with great supernatural powers like Huan Shen has rotted, let alone other things.
It is expected that this Huan Shen lived in this underground cave tens of thousands of years ago, but now there is no trace of his life here.
The only things left in the cave were his bones and the stone tablet behind him.
Then Shu Guan's gaze finally fell on the stone tablet.
If no one has entered this place except himself, and no one has moved the body of Huan Shen, then Huan Shen died relying on this stone tablet.
Above the skull of Huan Shen's corpse, there is a line of words, which are written deep into the stone tablet.
"In the battle of Kunlun, the Wu clan has been eliminated from heaven and earth ever since."
What I want to say here is that the Dahua script currently used in Dahua was not created after the founding of the Dahua Dynasty, nor was it even created by the human race. According to the records in the Shanjiguan Taoist Pavilion, Dahua The origin of words is extremely mysterious.
It was when this world first opened that countless words fell from the sky, and were recorded by the first beings in the world, and have been passed down to this day.
Therefore, Dahua's characters have been passed down for countless years, and the writing method of any characters has never been changed.
Because every word contains mysterious power.
The secret technique of Confucianism is to mobilize the mysterious power in these words. It does not mean that practitioners of other sects cannot use the power of words. For example, the Taoist secrets of Taoism and the Buddha's name of Buddhism are all in a certain sense. Use the mysterious power contained in those words.
It's just that the origin of Confucianism has a deep connection with those words, so Confucianism is better at using the power of these words.
And from the beginning of heaven and earth to
Nowadays, no matter which race the creatures are, they always use the same kind of writing, and the Wu Clan is no exception.
At this time, Shu looked at the line of text on the stone tablet and was extremely shocked in his heart.
The Battle of Kunlun? The witch tribe is extinct?
If the legend of the era in which Yanshen lived is true, then this incident should have occurred at the end of the Fengshen Era, and it should have been an earth-shattering event.
However, there is no record of this incident in the ancient books of Shanjiguan Daozang Pavilion.
However, Master Li Zhixia also said at the time that since Heavenly Court completely ruled the Three Realms, most of what happened in the Yuanhui eras before Heavenly Court has been buried under the long river of time.
In this moment of contemplation, I feel like I have inadvertently uncovered the thick black veil covering the historical truth and got a glimpse of some hidden secrets.
Of course, what he glimpsed at this time was not even a fraction of the truth. He only knew that tens of thousands of years ago, there was a battle called the Kunlun War, which directly led to the extinction of the Wu clan.
As for the cause of the Kunlun War and who launched the war against the Wu Clan at that time, Shu Guan still knew nothing about these most important facts.
Then Shu Guan walked around Huan Shen's corpse. Because of the presence of those weird golden marks, he kept a distance of five or six meters and walked around, and then came to the back of the stone tablet.
Immediately afterwards, Shu Guan was suddenly startled.
Because there are also words on the back of this stone tablet, and there are many words. They are densely packed and almost cover the surface of this stone tablet which is about four meters high and two meters wide.
Shu Guan raised the ball of fire in his palm and looked up at the writings on the stone tablet.
"I was born in the river here. I learned the secret of the character "湓" when I was born, so I took my name from this character..."
When he saw the first sentence on the stone tablet, Shu Guan was stunned for a moment.
He had seen in the classics that the ancient witch clan had no father or mother, and was born out of the essence of heaven and earth or some kind of Taoism.
But I didn't expect that this Huan Shen was born in this river, which is a bit surprising.
In addition, what does it mean to get the secret of the word "湓"? Is the birth of the Wu clan related to the words that came down from the sky from the place where the heaven and the earth were born?
Shu Guan originally thought that the name of the god Huan was just an ordinary name, but he thought it was related to the mysterious power in the words.
However, the meaning of the word "湓" seems to originally mean water flowing upward.
Shu Guan thought of the legendary story of Fan Shen waving his hand to make the flood recede. Perhaps this was his innate magical power!
And because this Huan Shen lived here, there has never been a flood here since.
... However, Huan Shen died tens of thousands of years ago, but why did no floods hit the land of Huan City afterwards... Could it be that because his bones are still here, the river was suppressed from flooding?
Shu Guan guessed that, in that case, the water-type innate magical power of Yan Shen during his lifetime would be terrifying.
In addition, Shu Guan also solved another doubt, that is why Huan Shen stayed here.
When he first read the legend in the Huanshen County Chronicle, Shu Guan found it unbelievable because how could a person with great supernatural powers stay here to protect a group of mortals just because of their entreaties.
This is not to say that a powerful practitioner must be indifferent, but it will never be so easily bound by mortal things.
But if this was originally Fanshen's hometown, then it would not be surprising at all that he stayed here.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and then Shu Guan continued to look at the words on the stone tablet.
"When I was born, the Witch Clan was already extremely rare in the world, and they were still not prepared to leave any way for the Witch Clan to survive..."
"...The Kunlun War has finally broken out. Although I am a new witch with weak strength, I dare not avoid this battle..."
"...Severely injured, and knowing that my time was running out, I returned to the place where I was born, because of the door I acquired by chance.
My secret technique, they can’t find me..."
"...I have been living for a thousand years, and the end has finally come. There is no way in heaven and earth to save the injuries I have suffered. Before I retire, I will leave the divine art of my destiny and the secret technique that I got by chance on this stone tablet. If there is still a chance for the Witch Clan to survive in the world, and he can come here by chance, these two secret techniques can help him escape from trouble..."
Shu Guan finally finished reading the upper half of the text on the stone tablet, and in the process of reading these text descriptions, his mood surged one after another like the waves of the sea.
Perhaps when the God Huan left this narrative, he was already on the verge of death and in a very bad state. Therefore, many important things in Shuguan's eyes were left unclear and brushed off.
For example, who are the "they" mentioned in it.
The story of the Kunlun War was not detailed.
And what kind of serious injuries he suffered, and whether it has anything to do with the golden marks on his bones.
There are still no answers to these things, but at least he finally knows the cause and consequences of Huan Shen's death here.
I also know why the extremely powerful witch clan in ancient times suddenly died.
It turns out that it was not the natural demise of a race, but its targeted destruction.
So what kind of existence are "they" who destroyed such a powerful wizard clan?
The shock in Shu Guan's heart at this time is really beyond words.
After a long time, he finally calmed down and began to read the words on the upper and lower parts of the stone tablet again.
The text in the lower half of the stele is about the cultivation methods of those two secret arts.
…
Lu Duanyang finally finished listening to Master Liu Xia's story.
Master Liuxia first told the final result of the Jingcheng Incident.
Regarding the changes in Jingcheng, Lu Duanyang didn't seem too surprised. After hearing this, he just nodded coldly and said:
"When those guys on the Western Continent and the traitor on the island came to find the seven of us, I had already roughly guessed what they wanted to do. Unfortunately, we were entangled by those guys and couldn't escape."
"They originally had three targets this time, one in Jinling, one in Jingcheng, and one in Chongqing."
"Fortunately, they failed in both Jingcheng and Yucheng. Yucheng happened to have a few of the first batch of "immortal species" training there, so their plot was stopped. Jingcheng and the others also failed, which was an unexpected surprise. . But the place of luck in Jinling was finally destroyed by them. "
"In addition to the originally destroyed Taibai Mountain Luck Land, now two of Dahua's nine Luck Lands have been destroyed."
"Although it is not enough to shake the foundation of the entire Dahua Destiny Formation, it has also caused Dahua to lose a lot of its destiny, especially the areas outside the Northeast Pass and Jiangnan, which are no longer protected by the Destiny Formation."
"And if they destroy two more places of luck, then the entire Great Fortune Formation will really collapse."
"So the seven of us decided after a good discussion that the remaining seven places of destiny will be guarded by the seven of us personally until the war between their mortals is over."
Lu Duanyang rarely said with such a solemn expression.
Then Master Liuxia began to tell in detail about Shu Guan, who was once the seventh disciple of Shan Si Kuan but has now rebelled against him. Everything he learned about Shu Guan from Shan Si Kuan was detailed. Relayed to Lu Duanyang.
So while Lu Duanyang listened, his expression became more and more strange.
This kind of strangeness is not just the emotions of surprise and surprise, but also some confusion, surprise, excitement and even fear. In short, it is so complicated that it is difficult to simply describe it in words.
During this period, Lu Duanyang even lost his composure several times and interrupted Liu Xia's narration.
For example, the Shu Temple mentioned at the beginning came from an isolated valley in Shennongjia. In that valley, Li Zhixia and Mu Yao also discovered the hiding place of Qixia, the 18th temple leader of Shanji Temple five hundred years ago. and Yishen, and it was certain that Qixia had been hiding in that valley for at least two hundred years before she died.
When he said this, Lu Duanyang's face showed a look of extreme astonishment, and he immediately lost his voice.
"This is impossible!"
"Back then, I personally divined the disciple's whereabouts, and the hexagram showed that he was no longer in the world... Wait, I remember the original hexagram, which only said that he was not in the world, so I thought he was dead...not in the world... But it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s dead…”
"... Could it be that I misunderstood the meaning of the hexagram? But that person is in Shennongjia. Why doesn't the hexagram directly show his hiding place?"
Lu Duanyang murmured to himself, the confusion in his eyes getting darker.
With his eyes flashing like this, he waved his hand, signaling for Master Liuxia to continue speaking.
But not long after, Lu Duanyang's mind was hit even harder and he blurted out something again.
"This is absolutely impossible!"
In desperation, the ancestor of the Taoist sect no longer cared about his image and directly cursed.
