In the dense woods, the sunlight is blocked by the branches and leaves, leaving only a few crows.
The dying bird was hovering in the air. It was obvious that something bad had happened, but for some reason, it did not dare to get close to the target.
"Ahhhh..."
After waiting for a long time, the largest crow fell towards the jungle.
The crow has an unusual appearance. In addition to its claws, it also has an organ that looks like a snake's head on its abdomen. However, the snake's head is blank and only has its mouth open, which looks extremely weird.
Under normal circumstances, once beasts and birds become alienated, it is due to the influence of the monk's corpse, and even their habits will change.
They are called "tricks".
The crow suddenly stopped, and the strange crow leaned down and landed on the branch.
The snake head emerged from its body, causing the crow's flesh and blood to become shriveled, but its eyes became brighter and brighter.
The crow monster seemed to be practicing cultivation. The snake head on its belly was spitting out scarlet red, and the gray mist floated up and was immediately absorbed by the snake head.
Its feathers became more and more oily and slippery under the nourishment of the mist, but the hunger in its eyes was even more intense.
The crow stared at the clearing at the bottom of the tree, where the source of the blood was.
There were more than a dozen corpses lying strewn across the open space. They had been forcibly cut open from the abdomen, and their internal organs had been exposed.
The corpse must have been a convoy transporting goods, and some people paid to follow it.
There were obviously wild beasts wandering around, but they were in the same condition as crows, and they didn't dare to come forward to eat the corpse.
They seemed to be afraid of something, even though the smell of blood was pungent to their nostrils, they kept retreating driven by instinct.
After a while, the crow creature couldn't bear the stimulation of the smell of blood, so it took the lead and flapped its wings to fly from the branch to the corpse.
It deliberately selected the body of a child who was relatively marginalized.
The child was only seven or eight years old. He had a frightened expression on his face, clutching a rattle tightly in his hand, and his clothes were stained red with blood.
The strange crow stopped crowing and stayed on the child's chest.
It looked around warily, but there was nothing strange about the silent jungle. The other beasts had long been frightened away by the predators.
The crow was stunned for a few seconds, then pecked at the child's face with its beak.
Its beak is also modified, and is filled with fine teeth, which can help break down flesh and blood so that the body can better absorb it.
After the crow completely swallowed the child's face, it stopped pecking.
The snake's head bit the crow creature's neck, devouring blood crazily.
The crow spread its wings in a panic and moved away from the corpse, returning to the branch. Its whole body twitched uncontrollably, and its eyes turned white.
Immediately afterwards, it tore the faceless snake's head with all its strength, probably because it was in too much pain, and its strength was obviously gradually weakening.
I don’t know how much time passed, but a human face suddenly grew out of the crow’s snake head, which was the long-dead child.
After being alienated again, its cultivation level has further improved, and its body size has also expanded several times.
It's just that the crow head lost the dominance of the body and was controlled by the snake head.
Seeing that the crow creature was not in danger, the other beasts were also ready to move, and gradually gathered around the open space, ready to feast.
boom!
There was a muffled sound, and the crow monster exploded, minced meat flying everywhere.
The snake's head twitched several times, and its last vitality was completely lost.
Kakakaka...
The sound of bones being reset was heard, and the wounds on the abdomen of each corpse began to squirm, and the flesh and blood internal organs penetrated into their bodies on their own initiative.
Even the blood stained on the clothes and soil flowed into the body from the mouth and nose.
The reason why the crow monster died suddenly was because of the human face it swallowed, and any organs from the corpse would be returned to their original owners.
Tentacles sprouted from the human face, crawling towards the child's corpse like a centipede.
The beasts roared in terror and fled in panic.
More than half an hour later, a violent and rapid cough sounded. The man in his early thirties got up from the ground and turned around with a blank expression.
Immediately, corpses came back to life one after another, and the sound of coughing could not be heard for a while.
The man's name was Cui Tian, his face was extremely pale, and he subconsciously touched his abdomen. A long scar almost covered his chest and abdomen.
"It's bad."
Cui Tian murmured to himself, standing there at a loss.
"Cui Da, did we just sleep to death?"
A young man asked. He didn't notice at all that the control eye sockets had not completely healed and the skull could be seen from them.
"Wang Ke, the talisman given by the Taoist Master before leaving has been used up. Now we are still a hundred miles away from Sishan Town, so we can only rely on us."
After Wang Ke heard this, his mouth suddenly opened, and he couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.
Cui Tian ignored Wang Ke and stood up to help the confused people pack their goods and prepare to go to Sishan Town at dawn.
"You must leave immediately while you still remember, otherwise..."
As they worked, the look of panic disappeared as the scars completely disappeared.
They seemed to have forgotten all their deaths and talked about the carriage crash caused by the frightened horses.
Everyone simply ignored the horse corpse in the distance. All the flesh and blood had been eaten away. It had been dead for at least ten days.
Because the carriage fell apart, they could only select the precious cargo, carry it on their own backs, and take a shortcut to their destination.
Even the few children and wives who were brought along in the team had to be carried with them.
Cui Tian tied the iron tools to his back one after another. Unknowingly, it weighed dozens of kilograms, and his feet sank into the soil without realizing it.
"Cui Da, when did your martial arts improve so obviously?"
Lao Xu, whose face was filled with ravages, couldn't help but ask. The realm of a warrior takes time to polish and usually does not advance by leaps and bounds.
Cui Tian only reacted belatedly at this moment, his expression a bit incomprehensible.
In his memory, he had been stuck in the small realm of body training for more than 20 years. He should have never broken through the bottleneck in this life, but he did not expect that there would be another opportunity.
Cui Tian also noticed at this time that as long as the bodyguards in the escort team were around thirty years old, their martial arts had improved to some extent, but they were not as obvious as his own.
He couldn't figure out why, and could only speculate that it was related to the accident he encountered.
Cui Tian wanted to recall the memory of the carriage crash, but found that the past ten days had been like a lake, as if he had just woken up from a hangover.
Lao Xu looked at the continuous mountains and sighed: "The road ahead is not easy to walk, and you have to be careful about encountering evil things."
"Let's go first."
The doubts in Cui Tian's heart were relieved, and he shook his head and said.
The escort team quickly finished packing, and everyone set off on the road in silence, walking along the narrow and muddy path in the mountains.
But they didn't notice at all.
According to the location where the carriage crashed, they were traveling in completely opposite directions, seeming to be invisibly inducing everyone to return.
After passing through several peaks in succession, the slightly wider official road comes into view.
The official road is paved with gravel. Although it is also difficult to walk, at least it has a wide field of vision and can react to danger.
Cui Tian glanced at the dim sky and was about to find a place to place everyone.
Suddenly, he noticed a figure walking alone on the official road, wearing a green Taoist robe and a copper coin sword at his waist.
"Taoist Priest!
"
"Taoist Master, wait!
! "
Cui Tian hurriedly shouted hello, and the figure immediately stopped walking.
Lao Xu stretched out his hand to stop Cui Tian, and whispered: "Cui Da, don't..."
"It's okay, Old Xu. If you can be alone in the wilderness, you must be a capable expert."
Cui Tian came ten meters away from the figure. When he saw the Taoist priest's appearance, he felt an inexplicable sense of trust in his heart and took a few steps forward.
"Taoist Priest, are you going to Sishan Town?"
Ren Qing looked at everyone with strange eyes, then nodded and said: "Yes."
"Go to Sishan Town."
"If the Taoist priest is willing to go with us, we will have someone to take care of us for the hundred miles journey."
Cui Tian was overjoyed, and the expressions of the others suddenly became relaxed, and they naturally accepted a stranger.
Ren Qing nodded, indicating that there was dirt on Cui Tian's face that he had not wiped off.
Cui Tian was stunned for a few seconds, then smiled and wiped his face with his sleeve. A whole piece of human skin was torn off by him, and blood flowed.
"Dare you ask me about the Dharma name?"
"Zhenyuan."
"It turns out to be Taoist Master Zhenyuan, and I, Cui Tian, am the head of the Hengfeng Escort Agency."
Cui Tian introduced the situation of the escort agency as he walked, and prepared to find a place to camp. Traveling at night was too dangerous.
Ren Qing looked at the escort team with his eyes, and after using the toe separation technique, he realized that in their own eyes, everyone looked extremely normal.
But Ren Qing's perspective is different.
The skin of the escorts was like linen, covered with strange gray-black depressions. Any movement would cause the skin to break and bleed out with pus and blood.
Children's fingers are boneless, like octopus tentacles.
The most inexplicable thing is that the strength they displayed was at the level of a ghost, but their bodies were as fragile as babies.
Ren Qing followed Cui Tian to rest. The bonfire was quickly lit under their busy work, and tents were immediately placed around the bonfire.
Cui Tian wanted to give Ren Qing a tent to rest, but the latter declined.
He didn't force it, and soon forgot about Ren Qing's existence under the influence of the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, and went about packing the food on his own.
Ren Qing sighed, the situation in the outside world was weirder than he imagined.
Twenty years have passed since he escaped from the restricted area of the Immortal Position, and he has spent most of that time practicing his control over various spells.
Ren Qing originally thought that the mortals in this world had become extinct, but using the toe separation technique, he could clearly sense that the number was only reduced by two-tenths.
However, mortals are divided into six parts, concentrated in various parts of the world.
Among them is the mountain village surrounded by the mother of all things, which is called "Peach Blossom Spring" and seems to be a paradise for living and working in peace and contentment.
In addition, there is too little information that Ren Qing can obtain, because the memory of mortals is blocked by certain entities, and the memories are all insignificant and ordinary life.
He chose a nearby gathering place to go, which was the "Four Mountain Town" in Cui Tian's mouth.
If he can't figure out the current situation in this world, Ren Qing is really uneasy and always feels that something deeper is involved.
Being promoted to a Corpse Execution Immortal is not an Earth Immortal.
He could no longer create a forbidden area of immortality that was isolated from the outside world. The process of breaking through the bottleneck might be exposed to the eyes of the Three Dao Ancestors.
If the Three Dao Ancestors could not come to this world, it would be easy to say.
I'm afraid that the situation in this world is all caused by the Three Dao Ancestors.
Ren Qing actually met Cui Tian's escort team when he was fifty miles away from Sishan Town.
At that time, the escort team had just left the town and were walking on the desolate plains. According to the memories collected by Ren Qing from their minds, they were heading to a place called Qingfu Town.
But the problem is that Ren Qing knows that there are no scattered towns in this world. Except for six towns, not even a single village exists.
At the beginning, the wave of refugees he projected in the restricted area was the Peach Blossom Spring that the "Buddha" drove away.
Ren Qing has not found any trace of the so-called "Buddha" in the outside world for twenty years, which shows that the Buddha is driving away the refugee flow.
It is very likely that six indescribable beings, due to specific reasons, divided up the hundreds of millions of people in this world.
The information flow from Cui Tian and others is a little weird, maybe they are already inhuman.
【Cui Tian】
[Age: Thirty-six]
[Shou Yuan: None]
[Skill:? ? ? 】
Ren Qing has been following the escort team. When Cui Tian and others walked out of the fifty miles of the town, they encountered a strange and inexplicable accident.
The people who were chatting in one breath started cursing each other in the next breath.
Ren Qing watched them with red eyes, pouring out the negative emotions in his heart, which gradually developed from quarrels to pushing and finally a fight.
The scene degenerated into a bloody slaughterhouse.
The living person cut open the deceased's abdomen, held the internal organs in his hands and whispered, and then stabbed the sharp weapon into his own abdomen.
The horses just made some noise to disturb them, and were cut into pieces.
After completing a sacrifice, they turned into corpses and lay on the ground in a mess.
Wild beasts dare not approach the corpse. No matter what method Ren Qing wants to use to detect it, the tortoise shell hexagram will directly become a "death omen".
The solution is to stay away from the body.
Ren Qing suspected that within ten days after the sacrifice, the beings behind Sishan Town were admiring the hollowed-out corpses.
Ten days passed, and before Ren Qing could react, the escort team came to life again.
However, the alienation of each person's body is more serious than before, and the depressions on their skin were not as dense as they are now.
After the escort team experienced resurrection, they changed the "Qingfu Town" they were going to back into "Sishan Town" and circled it just for sacrifice.
Ren Qing threw the firewood into the bonfire, listened to the crackling sound, and closed his eyes to relax.
The bodyguards consciously kept vigil alternately, and howls sounded from time to time in the dark night. It was easy to encounter wild beasts in the inaccessible wilderness.
Cui Tian only squinted for half an hour in the first half of the night.
He chewed tobacco leaves in his mouth, steeling himself to stand in the cold wind, and from time to time he would gently tap the ground with the handle of his long knife.
The dull knocking sound responded to Cui Tian.
This is the tacit understanding of the night watchmen, and the frequency also represents various signals.
As time passed, Cui Tian did not dare to relax at all, but his energy was more or less sluggish, and he kept stuffing tobacco leaves into his mouth.
Cui Tian finally felt relieved when a bright light appeared on the skyline.
Snap, snap, snap.
At this moment, a strange sound came from the grass in front of Cui Tian, as if something was rolling on the ground and hitting stones.
Cold sweat broke out on Cui Tian's forehead, and he grabbed the long knife on his back.
The long sword is two meters long, and its appearance is more like a Guan Dao. Each inch is longer and stronger, and it can be used more skillfully when used with horses.
Cui Tian took a few steps back and stepped on it with his right foot to make a sound.
After a brief period of chaos in the temporary camp, there was soon movement. The bodyguard was awakened from his sleep and hurriedly packed up his goods.
Cui Tian used the blade to draw across his palm while lowering his body.
"Captain Cui, what's going on with this evil situation?"
Ren Qing walked up to Cui Tian at some unknown time, pretending to be holding a talisman in his hand, and his copper coin sword was unsheathed.
After Cui Tian saw Ren Qing, he couldn't help but swallowed.
"Master Tao, evil spirits often appear in the jungle. They like to have human flesh and blood the most. We call them head ghosts."
"I see."
The ghostly shadow on the soles of Ren Qing's feet quietly spread into the grass, and the movement disappeared immediately.
The rising sun completely emerged from the horizon, and the sunshine shone on everyone, dispelling the haze in their hearts.
"Taoist Master, thank you for your help."
Cui Tian clasped his fists and said that even though the head ghost chose to hide, Ren Qing was willing to stand up, which showed that he was somewhat confident in dealing with Xie Yi.
After chatting with Ren Qing for a few words, he hurriedly commanded the escorts in the escort team.
Ren Qing stared at the remains of the bonfire when it burned out, but his consciousness was looking at the world in his stomach.
The head ghost is similar to the head, but there are no facial features. Instead, it is covered with large and small pustules, and it moves with the help of the pustules.
Even though the monster is inconspicuous, its strength is as high as that of the Heavenly Magic Realm.
The head ghost came to the world in the stomach, and its breath became a little weak. The pustules on the surface began to explode one by one, and flesh and blood hatched.
【Head ghost】
【Depend on? ? ? To be conceived, the head of an immortal Buddha statue must be used as a carrier, and life span will be exhausted five days after birth. 】
"really……"
Ren Qing narrowed his eyes and walked non-stop towards Sishan Town with the escort team.
The function of the head ghost is to drive strangers back to Sishan Town. It does not appear at night, but is attracted by the escort team when they are resting.
The "Buddha" who drives away the refugee flow should be a similar strange creature.
Therefore, as long as the refugees stay in one place for a long time, the Buddha will appear mysteriously until the flow of refugees approaches the head of the Mother of All Things.
Ren Qing knew how miserable the "Peach Blossom Land" that the refugees saw as no disaster had become.
Enshrouded in the head of the Mother of All Creatures, creatures will reproduce at an exaggerated speed.
Over the course of hundreds of years, mortals have reproduced for at least dozens of generations, and their lifespan has been compressed to only ten years.
When a baby is just born, it can take at most one month to learn to speak.
Just after their first birthday, children are almost like adults. They are ready to get married and have children before their minds are mature.
With such an astonishing reproduction rate, it is impossible to avoid incest marriages.
When Ren Qing reached the 20th generation of breeding in Peach Blossom Spring, he discovered that the appearance of mortals became deformed, their bodies grew extra limbs, and their organs also had congenital defects.
By now in Peach Blossom Spring, the people inside could hardly recognize their human form.
The bones grow wantonly, and many people are born without limbs, like a pile of flesh and blood, or with no brains at all.
The proportion of flesh, blood and bones in the body is decreasing, while fat is increasing.
It will undoubtedly lead to people becoming lighter. Nowadays, adult men generally weigh less than 50 pounds, almost to the point of being unsinkable in water.
What makes Ren Qing's hair stand on end is that under the purple light emitted by the Mother of All Things, living beings can only die through the depletion of longevity.
Even if children are not fed, they will become very thin at most, but they will still grow and develop.
Ren Qing rarely visits the Peach Blossom Spring anymore, because the statue used as a carrier has become distorted, and the connection with the Kitchen God is slowly disappearing.
The people of Peach Blossom Spring should have been affected in the same way as Sishan Town. No matter how deformed the body is, in their eyes, it still looks normal.
Compared with the weakening of body and soul, the aura exuded by the people has already reached the Yin difference state.
Their strength is so weak that wild beasts can easily attack and kill them, but their auras are constantly getting stronger, and even babies are born with ghost realms.
Ren Qing recalled the animal pen, and the black goats were floating towards the sky. The higher the cultivation level, the farther away from the ground they were. They were obviously sifting.
"If the Third Dao Ancestor really gets involved, things will be in big trouble."
Ren Qingshun glanced at the black goatskin bag and found that the latter had reached the perfection of the Heavenly Creation Realm and had risen to 100 meters at the same time.
The black goat skin bag has surpassed several black goats, but it is still not enough to see.
"arrive."
After Cui Tian noticed the town in the distance, he couldn't help but put down his arms behind his back.
Ren Qing used the toe separation technique to know in advance the number of mortals in Sishan Town, which was about two million, and their souls were all normal.
But when he looked at Sishan Town from a distance, he still felt like his scalp was numb.
There is clearly an aura of the Heavenly Creation Realm in Sishan Town. I am afraid that the Earth Immortal is not far away. It is 80% that it is really the work of the Three Dao Ancestors.
"What a mess..."
Ren Qing left the escort team directly and arrived at the entrance of the town in a few flashes.
The hexagrams on the surface of the tortoise shell do not indicate death, or even great evil, but a very strange "good luck".
The good omen has reached its extreme, and Ren Qing has never seen such an opportunity.
Even when he was about to obtain the Sutra of the Dead, which obviously involved immortality, the hexagrams were not as terrifying as at this moment.
Ren Qing was confused now. He was prepared to face a sign of death, but what greeted him was a sign of good luck?
Could it be that there is an opportunity hidden in Sishan Town that could involve the corpse?
Ren Qing frowned and used the Yanzu Vein to release dragons with severed limbs, letting them be distributed everywhere. He also went to six towns where mortals gathered to investigate the situation.
Sishan Town is also much noisier than expected.
As soon as Ren Qing set foot in Sishan Town, he felt that the air was filled with a breath that could protect the body and soul of mortals.
The breath does not make the body and soul of mortals like a peach blossom garden, immortal.
Instead, it has a special function. Ren Qing has not seen it yet, but at least he is sure that it will not affect his body and soul.
The mortals in the town had strange shapes and had sunken skin. Ren Qing even noticed that some people had tentacles growing from their spines.
The degree of alienation in appearance involves the strength of the aura emitted.
Of course, even if the aura has reached the Heavenly Creation Realm, the strength is still at the mortal level, but Shouyuan is immortal.
Ren Qing also noticed that there are many third-rate businesses in Sishan Town, especially gambling. Various gambling houses can be seen in the streets and alleys.
An old man from the Heavenly Realm passed by. His legs had deteriorated severely. He relied on crutches to support his body and moved slowly with a large number of tentacles.
Ren Qing's eyes stayed on the old man's spine.
Because the tentacles were standing on the back, the entire vertebra was squeezed out of the body.
And after the alienation, the length of the exposed vertebrae turned out to be about one meter, facing the sky like an antenna. As the old man's aura slowly strengthened, the vertebrae continued to grow.
