In the far north of Jingxi, there is a continuous mountain range stretching from north to south for more than 300 miles. The vegetation in the mountain is dense, and it is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, and many wild animals inhabit it. It is called "vertical cut mountain".
This name is very rustic, but it vividly describes the appearance of this mountain range. It is indeed like a scar left by a vertical cut with a knife.
However, it is said that the terrain of Shuiqie Mountain is not good and cannot contain the beauty of Zhong Ling. Therefore, even if this mountain range is not trivial, it is just an ordinary mountain range with no cultivating sect standing in it. On the contrary, there are many hunters in the surrounding areas who rely on the mountains to eat.
As the mountains get bigger and the time goes by, there are always some legends among the hunters. For example, it is said that certain areas cannot be visited, and most people who go there will almost die. Someone almost died in there, and they saw "ferocious beasts" or "evil spirits" or " Monsters” to name a few. Or maybe you get lost when you get close to a certain area, wandering around there losing direction and almost starving to death.
Some of these legends are particularly bizarre, but some are bizarre but are not made up by the hunters, but are facts. Because although there is no cultivating sect in the Shuiqie Mountain, there is a group of people in the cultivating world that everyone shouts about.
In the middle of Shuiqie Mountain, there is a strange-shaped boulder beside a mountain stream that is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round. It is the "man-eating stone" that some hunters have heard about. The shape does look a bit like a beast with an open mouth, and to strangers, this boulder does indeed "eat people."
Of course, the "people-eating" thing is not necessarily a monster, let alone a stone, it could also be a person.
In the eyes of ordinary people, if a person accidentally approaches a stone and then disappears inexplicably, he or she will naturally think that he was "eaten" by the nearest stone?
The disappeared Orion was indeed "eaten". From this point of view, the rumor that the "man-eating stone" is not wrong. But in fact, the "eating people" are not the stones, but the "evil spirits" in the stones.
If someone with advanced cultivation comes here, if they look carefully, they will find that this strange-shaped boulder is actually a very powerful blindfold. The strange-shaped boulder is used as a shield to cover a huge underground entrance behind it.
Although they don't like being called "rats", the evil monks can only stay in inaccessible places or deep underground in the Jingji Dynasty.
Shen Hao's judgment and speculation about the evil monks were almost correct. The root cause of their repeated killings was that the people in the mountains and fields in these remote places provided the evil monks with enough "seedlings" for their existence and development.
On the one hand, "worshiping gods" can be used to develop disciples for selection and backup; on the other hand, it can also provide auxiliary materials of flesh and blood needed for the practice of bloody magic. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have brought a strange-shaped boulder, it would just be to attract some curious people to die.
Publicity? Is it any wonder that so many people died in the ravine?
Man-eating stone? There are not even a thousand but eight hundred kinds of rumors of this level. Who cares?
Besides, the mind of evil monks can be understood by ordinary people?
After passing through this blinding barrier of strange-shaped boulders, we went down dozens of feet of steps, and then there were underground houses lit up by lighting instruments, which were connected together and even gave the feeling of an underground village. It's just that the surroundings of the house are eerie, and you can often see strange shadows of howling fog flashing past the light, leaving an unpleasant smell behind. You can see randomly discarded bones on the ground and even in the corners. Some have turned to stone, and some still smell of decay.
The smell of such a place is certainly bad, like a decaying tomb. But there are actually living people walking around, but these people's faces are pale with almost no blood, and the aura on their bodies echoes here. They are really like the walking corpses, and the eyes flashing are not normal, with a strange look. crazy.
This place has no name. People here call it "nest", which means a place where similar species are hatched.
The "nest" has existed for a long time, longer than the Jing Dynasty. All the famous figures among the evil monks have stayed here without exception. To a large extent, even the fame of the big figures among the evil monks has a lot to do with the "nest".
Because the "nest" is a place where it is easy to accumulate a team and reputation. Therefore, those who have ideas among the evil monks hope to stay here for a period of time to accumulate some knowledge for themselves.
Therefore, the evil monks here have a good background, and they are not low-ranking characters.
It's just that this time they encountered fundamental trouble for the first time in thousands of years, and the opponent attacked too quickly without giving them time to react, and the methods were also very different from before. They had been working hard to maintain their relationship with ruthless direct hits. foundation.
It’s a big danger!
In a stone room in the center of the "nest", eight people were sitting, seven of whom were sitting on both sides, and one in the middle.
The man sitting at the top of the center spoke, his voice a bit shrill and harsh, as if the tip of a knife was scraping hard on a bronze mirror: "This time is very troublesome. The newly established Black Flag Camp can be regarded as a knife." It's a blow to our lifeblood. Do you have any ideas to resolve it?"
"Humph, first envoy, you are right. The Black Flag Battalion is actually willing to bend down and play soft tricks with the unscrupulous people in the mountains, and kill them unexpectedly, directly eliminating our response invisible. If it is true, If we let it go like this, something big might happen."
"There are ways to resolve it. The worst thing is to relax the restrictions on the "Obstacle Breaking Pill", give more sweetness to the unscrupulous people, and set off a few more "miracles". The unscrupulous people still don't flock to it? Don't believe those bullshit gangsters. The flag camp can really break the customs we have maintained for thousands of years."
"It's hard to say. This time is different from the past. He killed everyone, and used hidden methods. He rejected all our follow-up responses and bit us back. From the beginning to the end, the Black Flag Battalion did not Showing up in person, completely aloof from the incident. It's too difficult to burn the fire on them.
Moreover, once the elders of the clans in various places died, the people who spoke in the clan fell directly to those chiefs who were not prominent in daily life. These people often came into contact with the local yamen, had the same vision and thoughts, and were more afraid of the background of the Black Flag Camp. Now it seems that they have been pulled over and turned against us. So I think even if we relax the restrictions on the Barrier-Breaking Pill and temporarily change the situation, in the long run we will still be passive and it will be difficult to return to the way it was before. "
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Several people were talking to each other, all with serious faces and worries on their brows.
Finally, someone said: "Actually, I think the core of the problem is not the so-called missionary teams of the Black Flag Camp in front of us, nor the series of methods they used against them, but the people who sit in the Black Flag Camp and bring us these problems. people."
"Human? You mean the commander of the Black Flag Battalion, Shen Hao?"
