Wu Qi, Kong Miaozhi and Changsun Wufang couldn't stay long because they were still living in the Li Mansion, so they talked for a while and then hurried back. Chu Mu pushed Du Jie and Ye Qingcheng aside again. When he and Gu Wu were left alone, Gu Wu took a small piece of something from his body and handed it to Chu Mu: "Elder brother, look at it."
"This is..." Chu Mu originally thought that Gu Wu had something to say to him, but unexpectedly Gu Wu handed over a small object. This object was neither gold nor wood, and was only a few inches long: "Is this a finger bone?"
"Yes, this section was found in Bulao Mountain. Senior brother, do you think this finger bone looks like...?" Gu Wu said with a frown.
"This finger bone is..., is it the living dead of the cult? Are there living dead on the Everlasting Mountain?!" Chu Mu only paused briefly before exclaiming.
"Elder brother also thinks that this phalanx seems to belong to the living dead? So that means the living dead really appeared in Burao Mountain, and they fought with people, so this phalanx remained. But now the traces of Burao Mountain have been buried. Who is it? What they did? A cult? Does the matter of the Immortal Mountain have something to do with them? "
Gu Wu added: "It might be a cult, but it might also be the imperial court?"
Chu Mu didn't understand what Gu Wu meant, so Gu Wu continued.
"I found a large number of horse hoofprints at the foot of Mount Burao. These horses' hoofprints were very deep. They didn't look like ordinary horses, but like armored war horses in the army. I guess someone from the army might have been there. Everlasting Mountain.”
"Did the imperial court do it? Or did the northwest army do it privately? There's something weird about it."
Chu Mu and Gu Wu looked at each other. After a while, Chu Mu asked cautiously: "Second brother, if it is really the northwest garrison, is there anything related to the local government? Have you heard anything about it?"
Gu Wu shook his head: "No, the third team of government officials never left Yongzhou City that day, and more than a hundred people died in Bulao Mountain. No one knows where these hundreds of people were finally buried."
While Chu Mu was still digesting this information, Gu Wu said again: "One more thing, Lao Wu smelled a faint smell of corpse from the room of Madam Li's house. This Madam lived in seclusion all year round, and there was only one person from the house. The maids who came as brides from her parents’ families follow them all year round, and some of the new maids who have entered the house have never seen the eldest lady at all.” Gu Wu said slowly
"Do you doubt the eldest lady?"
"It's not clear yet, but even if she is not a member of a cult, she is definitely related to Mr. Li's disappearance... Senior brother, I have always been a little uncomfortable since I got this finger bone. It feels like there are always a pair of eyes staring at me. Same, it seems that every move I make in Yongzhou is under the control of that person." Gu Wu finished half of the sentence, then paused for a cup of tea and said again.
"What? With your Qinggong attainments, you are still being followed. It seems that the other party is in trouble." Chu Mu felt a little bit in his heart when he heard this.
"It's just a vague feeling. I'm not sure whether I'm being followed or not." Gu Wu said somewhat unconfidently.
"Forget it, be more careful. I will enter the Li Mansion tomorrow. If anything happens, come to me at any time. This place is located in the northwest. It is not surprising that there is an evil spirit. It's just that the evil cult has disappeared for so many years. Now it is really real that it appears in the northwest. It's not good news. If it has something to do with Li Wenyuan's disappearance, it won't be something we can handle." Chu Mu said with a frown.
"Back then, the cult was expelled from the Central Plains by all the heroes of the world as soon as it was discovered. After so many years, there has been no news about them in the world. This land of Yongzhou is a battlefield for conquests, and it is indeed a place that the cult likes. Things are really tricky. If it really has anything to do with them, how should we deal with it?" Gu Wu asked Chu Mudao
Judging from Chu Mu and Gu Wu's tone, they seemed to be deeply wary of this so-called cult, and I don't blame them. They were just children when the cult was rampant. The development of the cult was like a plague, spreading in many places. Many people began to worship a kind of living dead as gods for different reasons. The first living dead was buried in a mass grave. Gang discovered it when a woodcutter passed by. He thought he had been haunted by a ghost in broad daylight. He was so frightened that he ran back to the village. This kind of living dead seemed invulnerable and extremely powerful. At first, the farmers just thought it was a monster, holding a hoe, The rake wanted to beat this monster to death, but no matter how hard he beat it, this thing seemed to be unscathed. On the contrary, some people were bitten by this kind of thing and immediately convulsed and died. The folk customs in the countryside were not yet developed, so most people thought it was an evil thing when they saw this thing. Some magic sticks jumped out and said that this was a catastrophe, a punishment from God, and three animals were required to be sacrificed. After hearing this, people dared not to obey and hurriedly built temples to worship. But this didn't work at all. The monsters evolved from a few at first to dozens, and they came out to harm people at night. Those who were bitten either died or turned into monsters that were neither human nor ghosts.
Later, I don’t know where to start. It seems that the patriarch of a village took a little beggar pretending to be the three animals to worship. Unexpectedly, the little beggar disappeared the next day, and he didn’t appear here for more than half a year. People slowly seemed to understand that this thing needed a human sacrifice. From then on this kind of human sacrifice became out of control.
It would have been fine if that was the case. Although using human beings as a memorial was a bit cruel, in the war years, people almost didn't have a meal, and human life was not valuable at all. But at this moment, a group of people suddenly jumped out to preach the doctrine. People saw with their own eyes that these people could actually command the living dead. Not only that, these people seemed to be like the gods on land, calling wind and rain and spreading beans to form soldiers. These people claim that they are messengers from heaven, coming to protect all suffering people from the flames of war.
This gave hope to all the helpless people. More and more people joined the cult, and more and more temples of the living dead were built in different villages. Each village temple guarded a living dead, guarding As a condition, the villagers must send a boy and girl to the temple every six months. Moreover, if a young man died unexpectedly, he was not allowed to be buried and was brought to the temple together. This was not a problem at all for people at that time. Moreover, the villages guarded by the Temple of the Living Dead actually have good weather every year, which makes people respect them even more like gods. During that time, every Temple of the Living Dead was bustling with incense. And this Temple of the Living Dead has grown to almost two states in less than two years.
Of course, such a thing alarmed the imperial court. The imperial court immediately judged this as an act of subversion and sent out troops from various government agencies to encircle and suppress the cult. However, instead of doing anything to the cult, the imperial court suffered heavy losses. At that time, the war in the northwest was intense, and the court really did not have the extra energy to take care of these things. Fortunately, the cult seemed to feel that it was developing too fast and did not expand any further. As a result, the court was happy to see it doing this. This should have ended here. But something happened. At that time, a young monk from Jiezi generation of Jialan Temple passed by this place where the cult was rampant in order to deliver a letter to Master Sansi. At that time, the patriarch of a village saw that it was a foreign monk, and he became interested. Use him to pay for the human sacrifice of these six months.
Thanks to the cleverness of the little monk, he pretended to be faint and escaped the disaster, and escaped back to Jialan Temple overnight. This incident finally alarmed Master Sansi. Originally, these two states were the two poorest states in the entire Central Plains. There were basically not many people in the world, so it was normal for them not to take them seriously. When monk Sansi learned about this, he felt that it was a big deal. He personally went down the mountain to investigate. He first found a living dead in the Temple of the Living Dead and found that it was actually a dead person who had been dead for many days. It was re-fed by someone using a kind of sacrificial method. Master Sansi was shocked when he saw the truth about the living dead. He was very knowledgeable, but he seemed to have only seen this method in a very shabby fairy novel in Zangshuge. He didn't expect that someone actually knew how to do it, and it had already developed to two states. place. Master Sansi spent a lot of effort to beat the living dead until he couldn't move. This kind of living dead don't know pain or fatigue. Unless they hit their vital points, they can't be beaten to death at all.
Master Sansi felt that the situation was serious and did not dare to delay. He hurriedly returned to Mengshan Jialan Temple. Then, as the acting head of Jialan Temple, he summoned all the heroes from the world to Jialan Temple to discuss the matter. After the discussion, most of the sects were somewhat suspicious of Master Sansi. For the first time, the Three Temples, Seven Sects, and Twenty-one Sects only sent less than a hundred second-generation disciples. As a result, within half a month, all but three people were wiped out. This shocked the entire martial arts world. And among the three survivors, except for Master Sansi who led the team, the other two were crazy.
Only then did all the martial arts people understand that this religion that breeds evil spirits has become something that no one sect can contend with. Jialan Temple performed rituals for the dead souls for three days. After three days, all the famous sects and sects in the world sent their elite disciples to participate in the operation to suppress the cult.
This battle was extremely difficult, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Those sects with inheritance almost took out all the secret treasures in the sect. The most important thing is that the local people are very hostile to the martial arts people, and they have to avoid interacting with the common people. This protracted tug-of-war ended quickly with the addition of Tianjisou Zhou Li and Tianjimen, because Tianjisou didn't know how to find the fatal weakness of these living dead, and everyone's weapons were tempered by Tianjisou before setting off. After a while, fighting those living dead became as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.
In the end, he had a decisive battle with the leader of the cult on the shores of the East China Sea. The leader of this cult was really awesome. He led eight ghost kings with one person to face the world's heroes without changing his expression. It took the martial arts men three days and three nights to eliminate all eight ghost kings with wheel fighting. In the end, the leader of the cult only said a harsh word and then jumped into the sea. From then on, there was no news about the cult.
But not long after, it was revealed in the world that the Su family, which was famous for taming animals, actually began to breed evil ghosts, and even raised a ghost king. Cults are an eternal pain in the hearts of all sects. This kind of thing was used as a model at that time. All the famous people in the martial arts world sent representatives, and every member of the Su family was killed.
Five years ago, on the coast of the East China Sea, seven evil dragons suddenly appeared at the place where the leader of the cult jumped off the cliff. The wheel of fortune was so dramatic that all the gangs that had surrounded and suppressed the leader of the cult had lost their lives in this massacre. Tragically, the man who raised the dragons called himself Su Ran, the contemporary head of the Su family.
