How to torture the monk seems to be a difficult problem.
Perhaps in literature, there are all kinds of weird magical abilities.
But Zuo Dao knows that this only exists in China.
It is not necessarily untrue or unrealistic.
It's just because in the Age of Dharma Ending, even if you have the power to reach the sky, what you show in the end may only be a small flame.
But what about in this world?
Zuo Dao was thinking about this issue after making a plan and knocking out the opponent.
So, someone thought of a composite method.
Seeing the old monk lying on the place where he had been working for a long time, Zuo Dao made a move.
One little paper man handed over the tin can, and another little paper man thoughtfully opened the lid.
Under the sunlight, the dreamy sand in the jar was very charming. Several little paper figures ran to the jar and poked their heads, as if the evil dragon's attributes had exploded, and they wanted to take it for themselves.
The Sand of Dreams is a spiritual material unique to this world. At least in the past world, Zuo Dao has never seen this thing. In this world, its uses are very wide, judging from the introduction given in Zangwei's information.
It can be used as a component of the spell "Twilight Sea", and it is also composed of many elements that have the characteristics of illusion, spirit, and mind, and have mysterious abilities that do not cause direct harm to the body.
At the same time, Dreaming Sand also has many applications. It is a restricted grade material with a very wide range of uses. It is produced in many places. It is reported that there are more than ten areas in Huayu that can be mined, and it is a renewable resource.
Zuo Dao, who was thinking this way, grabbed a handful of Dream Sand, and some of it was slipping from his fingers. After rubbing it for a while, he nodded with satisfaction.
Through the information given by Zang Ti, we learned that the Sand of Dreams is also divided into three, six, and nine grades.
The particles of low-grade dreamy sand are only partially transparent, and there are still other structural impurities inside. This kind of sand is usually prepared through special processes to produce a variety of products such as tranquilizers, which are used on people affected by mysterious powers or mysterious pollution. .
For example, the special sedative Tong Yan used at Riwanhe Shopping Mall contained the component of Dreaming Sand.
Medium-sized Dreaming Sand is already considered a high-standard spiritual material in today's era. It will show a pure state and have different colors of reflection in the light. This kind of Dreaming Sand is mostly used for 'elements' Composition, or relatively precious auxiliary materials.
Just like when he originally went on this trip, Zuo Dao received a medium-quality Dream Sand.
However, firstly, he did not wait for the right time, and secondly, he was involved in the branch of the incident, and all his belongings disappeared.
And the more advanced ones, such as what Zuo Dao has obtained now, are completely pure crystal particles that can radiate fire under the light. Even the amount of dream sand of this quality is very small even if it is mined now. It's also expensive.
It's so expensive that you have the assets left by your predecessors, but you also feel that you are poor.
While thinking, he grabbed a large handful again and swung it towards where the old monk was lying.
At the same time, when the dreamy sand floated above the old man, several small paper figures got into it and burned, and the sky above turned into a sea of fire for a while.
"The Sand of Dreams has flammable properties. When burned, it will produce the basic effects of its own properties, making people feel confused."….
I saw a colorful halo now shrouding the old man, and his originally painful face also relaxed.
Then Zuo Dao snapped his fingers and rushed into the three little paper figures again. He could feel that the little paper figures seemed drunk after entering there. Even Zuo Dao's control was somewhat delayed, which made him If you realize something.
"The sand of dreams can also interfere with the little paper man, which means that mysterious creatures will indeed be affected, and things that are entrusted and controlled by spiritual thoughts will also have the same effect. However, if it only stimulates the characteristics of the material itself, the effect is not strong. .”
The three little paper figures began to fall from different parts of the old man's body. After landing on him, they did not enter the old monk's body. Instead, they reached behind with their little hands and took out the paper needles on his back. The paper figures immediately took out the paper. The needles were made and inserted into different acupuncture points of the old man.
Zuo Dao outside and the paper spirit in his body worked out a hand trick together. Zuo Dao's soul power, combined with the paper man's own spiritual essence, started to operate an evil magic from the past world - Evil Art: Disturbing Three Corpses .
Zuo Dao's chest immediately extended, with three purple tentacles that could only be seen from a spiritual perspective.
They connected to the three small paper figures on the old man's body, instantly rendering them into small purple paper figures, and then extended from the small paper figures over there to the paper needles, and finally penetrated into the old man's body.
Disturbing the three corpses was born out of the old three corpse method. Practitioners in the past world believed that the three corpses were a major obstacle to the spiritual enlightenment of practitioners, whether they were good or evil or leftist.
It's just that their starting points are different. The decent and the deceitful sect have developed methods such as killing the three corpses and suppressing the three corpses in an attempt to cut off the roots of human nature, while the evil sect has created the method of "disturbing the three corpses."
The method of disturbing the three corpses will infinitely amplify people's desires, and will also cause other people's spiritual platforms to temporarily become turbid. This is fatal in long-range battles or when "encounters" occur in the past world.
Being hit by this method will make it difficult for the practitioner to cast his spells, disorder the mobilization of spiritual power, and even lead to obsession. It will also make ordinary people go crazy as if they were on drugs.
This seems to be a wonderful method of torture, but the actual situation is that although the practitioner will be affected, he will not ask or say anything.
And ordinary people are crazy, what else do they want to ask? Ordinary people who are affected may be able to shake even a wooden stake.
At the same time, to disturb the three corpses, you must insert the needle into the opponent's special part through face-to-face contact, and it must be used when the opponent cannot move and pull it out. There are many restrictions on its use.
In the past, when the world could meet this condition, there were more ways to carry out torture, and a lot of technological materials could prevent the other party from inflicting trouble on themselves. Why bother to do all this troublesome work? Therefore, this thing is also a relatively unpopular spell. .
But in this world, after the other cultivator fainted and there was the Sand of Dreams, the situation was different——
Zuo Dao was using Disturbing Three Corpses while carefully injecting power, keeping it within an exquisite standard limit.
Since the monk will be affected by it, but he will not sink completely, he will interrogate the other party in a state of dream but not dream, illusion but not illusion.
The reason why he went to such great lengths was just because of the other party's status as a practitioner, in case the other party had some secret technique that would cause him to rebound. ….
At the same time, Zuo Dao did not want to spend too much time on torture, which would be a waste of time and energy.
The unconscious old monk was suddenly startled, and he sat up with half of his body upright.
His eyelids were trembling wildly, as if he was resisting something, his face was flushed, and the corners of his mouth were twitching.
When Zuo Dao was distracted by the old man's situation, he looked at the position under his Dantian, and immediately the corners of his eyes twitched. The little paper people watching next to him let out an ooh, and covered their heads with their hands.
- Guilty sin.
After being injected with the original solution of the Dreaming Sand, being affected by the second method of the Dreaming Sand, and finally being attacked by the three disturbing zombies, the old man could only parry for less than five breaths, and his resistance disappeared.
The old man's face was dull and soothing, and he was half asleep. Through the little paper man on his body, he could also detect that the flow of spiritual power of the other party had stopped, but his energy and blood were still surging.
Seeing this, Zuo Dao's interrogation began, and he said softly:
"You're safe now—"
"I... am safe now," the old man repeated.
"I'm not a threat to you—"
"You're no threat to me."
"We are having a heart-to-heart talk, no reservations—"
"We are having a heart-to-heart talk, no reservations."
"I have no malice towards you, no murderous intent, no harm, can you feel it?"
"...No malice, no murderous intent, no harm, I feel it."
"Then - let's start talking without reservation."
The old man nodded in confusion and waited for the next step.
"What's your name and your identity?" Zuo Dao
So asked.
"My name is Cheng Bomiao..." the old monk Cheng Bomiao said without thinking.
But when it came to identifying himself, he resisted a little. After a while, after Zuo Dao secretly increased the power of disturbing the three corpses, he said with a soothing expression:
"My identity is Tianlang Pavilion monk."
Zuo Dao secretly said that sure enough, the other party's identity as a monk was completely confirmed.
In this way, he first asked some non-critical questions to let Cheng Bomiao get used to the conversation:
"How long has Tianlang Pavilion been established?"
Cheng Bomiao shook his head: "I don't know either."
"What's your position inside?" Zuo Dao asked.
"..." The old man was silent for a moment, and even the one pillar holding up the sky was reduced:
"I am a ██ Shou Tibetan, a member of the Tianlang Pavilion Spirit Removal Department, my status... I can't tell you."
Hearing the short silence, Zuo Dao knew that the keyword was not allowed by the event node.
Therefore, he chose the direction where he could ask: "Who are the monks? Are there monks like you in the Ministry of Spirit Resurrection?"
"Shou Zangren is the name given to those who enter the Great Cave to hide secretly. The members of the Spirit Removing Department are all monks." The old man nodded.
Zuo Dao, who was holding his hand, raised his eyebrows slightly: "What is the secret hidden in the big cave?"
But the old man's words gave Zuo Dao a headache——
Because he said a lot of silence.
Not only is the clip muted, but it's all fucking beeping!
After the other party finished speaking, Zuo Dao shook his head helplessly, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he got to the point:
"Why do you want to hunt down monks? Aren't you yourselves the same?"
Cheng Bomiao reacted with resistance again, but still said it:
"Because of the environment of heaven and earth——"
As the old man unfolded the secret corner, although some parts were silenced, Zuo Dao also roughly understood the whole picture——...
In this silenced era.
People have long been maturely aware of the existence of spiritual energy and other elements. Naturally, they also have a practice system. They also call the spiritual energy that has been refined into themselves spiritual power, and they also call themselves monks.
But the difference is that most of the practice systems in this era are not self-created, or in other words, very few are self-created.
More come from various kinds of secret treasures. The reason why they are called various kinds of secret treasures is because they are not one, but there are many.
It will be available in different regions and places.
According to the old man's words, the practice system born out of each different secret store is completely different, and there are not only this kind of inheritance in the secret store, but also many incredible things.
Therefore, whether a region can be stable depends on whether there is a force that can control a secret that is stable and can be accessed normally. If it does not or cannot be fully controlled, that place cannot be called a "region."
The source of spiritual energy in heaven and earth can no longer be traced. In an era when the specific names of branches of events have been silenced, it is still the same as the era of Zuodao. There are many, many historical gaps in tracing upwards, and people in this era seem to have given up thinking. this problem.
But it's not giving up in the true sense, it's because they ran into a problem.
——Aura Curse
This is the definition given by Tianlang Pavilion, but more people will call this phenomenon spiritual energy pollution.
To put it simply, a strange change occurred in the spiritual energy of this world.
It can still exert an influence on everything in this world, breed spiritual materials, nurture spiritual treasure veins, give animals and plants the opportunity to have spiritual wisdom, and the same human beings can still practice cultivation.
But the scary thing is that when human practice begins——
Practitioners will gradually be affected by a strange force, and they will begin to have unstable temperaments, extreme behaviors, life decline and other problems.
The first practitioners did not realize that as usual, practitioners were the mainstream of the world.
The size of a family is not measured by wealth, but by the number of practitioners in the family, a force
The power is directly linked to the monks.
More than seven hundred years ago, people gradually discovered the problem.
At that time, the situation of the monks was extremely abnormal. No matter how good their friends were, they would fight if they didn't deal with one word.
As for monks who don't know each other, if they look at each other on the street, they may instantly turn red-eyed and enter a life-or-death fight.
This is true in this situation, let alone the larger grievances and hatreds.
On a certain day at that time, almost all at once, various forces, large and small, especially those with some practitioners in their families, overturned the table and started a war. With the attitude that no reason is the best reason, this area was destroyed. The world was filled with smoke, and rivers of blood flowed everywhere.
But at this time, there is a group of people who are not affected.
In other words, they were also very irritable at that time, but they could restrain themselves.
That is the greatest power in each region.
They hold the secret——
During the chaotic twenty or thirty years, this world suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, because in the end they turned into monsters who could only kill, they fought less and less. ….
And after waiting for a long time, the big forces who were secretly studying the problem took action.
With almost thunderous actions, it swept across the world and initially took control of the situation.
Over the years, they have roughly figured out the problem.
Those crazy monks didn’t have something wrong with their practice—
But there is a problem with the spiritual energy born in this world.
The reason why the main monks under the powerful forces were temporarily spared was entirely due to their frequent visits to the secret cave.
The old man emphasized here that spiritual energy also exists in secrets.
They have been in and out of the secret hideout all year round and have lived there for a considerable part of their time. Therefore, it seems that although they have inhaled poisonous gas and been subtly affected, the other side maintains the normal aura of inhalation, so it is slower than the people outside. .
After discovering this, they gradually began to restrict the birth of monks in the local aura environment, including themselves.
As for why there is spiritual energy in the secret, and in what way it lives, what Zuodao got was a large area of silence.
When things develop to this point, it stands to reason that the major forces should monopolize the world.
However, things were far from that, and more troublesome problems followed.
At that time, they were not able to effectively control the birth of monks in their own world, because the practice system was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It would not be possible to stop this inertia overnight, and even if ordinary people knew that there was "hell" ahead, they should still be arbitrary. .
The monks who can stay awake, in order to avoid the influence of the cursed aura as much as possible, must practice in the secret store for a long time. If they are not in the secret store, they can only stagnate their practice and limit the use of their own abilities. Therefore, their fighting began to be gradually restricted.
Due to various reasons, the number of monks in the world began to increase. At this time, some strange creatures appeared in the world.
Their bodies are like deformed monsters, with unprecedentedly powerful abilities, and they seem to have been preparing for a long time. They choose to go out in full force at a certain time and madly attack the major forces and their secrets.
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His life span is no more than 120 years old, which is not even as long as an ordinary person with a long life.
The problem of reduced life span continues to shrink to this day.
Therefore, during the brutal purge, a new system gradually emerged: martial arts practitioners. ….
About five hundred years ago, various forces that had been prepared for a long time gathered together all the monks who could no longer support themselves and the core practitioners, and launched a thorough purge, along with the martial arts practitioners who had been secretly cultivated over the years. , and stabilized the situation again.
At this point, Tianlang Pavilion in Huayu established the Tianlang Army and began to hunt down any people and families with monks in this world to eliminate hidden dangers.
Later, they also discovered that those mysterious deformed creatures were actually the monks who had escaped in the past.
Therefore, we finally summarized several characteristics——
Those who absorb the spiritual energy of this world will count down their lives. They will go from being emotionally unstable to being extreme and then starting to lose their minds. If they don't die in the end, they will turn into some kind of monster at the end of their life and attack certain things in a targeted manner. .
And this process is irreversible. Even if you only practice a little bit and circulate the spiritual energy in your body, this process will start to spread like a virus.
So far, no clues can be found about the reason, so it is called a curse.
More than seven hundred years later, in the current branch of events, there are almost no traces of monks in the world, and most of all the methods that have been practiced have been collected and sealed.
So now, the discovery of the monks was a real big deal, so Tianlang Pavilion mobilized troops and sent people over.
After probing for a long time, they discovered that there was a very powerful monk here, so they prepared strong weapons inside and prepared a combined internal and external attack in a female-like manner.
Considering that this family has been entrenched for many years and has mastered the method of becoming a monk, although this family is very smart and restricts itself from giving birth to monks, their power coverage is a hidden danger after all.
Therefore, Tianlang Pavilion came here this time to implicate the nine clans.
Hear this.
Zuo Dao was silent.
He hurriedly awakened all his brain cells.
Review your own past.
Finally let out a long sigh of relief——
"It's so dangerous, damn it." He said a rare expletive.
Cheng Bomiao, who is at the peak of the situation, does not know that many years in the future, that is, in the current era, there will indeed be no monks. Even people in this era, even officials with a certain status in the officialdom, have never heard of this word. .
Zuo Dao personally estimates that this secret has entered a higher-level confidentiality process, and a higher-level department is supervising the matter.
"In other words, are there still monks outside the branch of events now?" Zuo Dao thought, but he quickly rejected it.
"Not necessarily. According to the existing information, the inheritance was cut off in Huayu twenty years ago. Maybe it was in this regard...
"According to Cheng Bomiao's remarks, if you want to be a normal monk, you must at least practice in a secret place, just like the concept of a paradise in world literature. But if the inheritance I learned is cut off, it will be separated from this big hole. If you want to hide the hook——"
"That probably means there are very few monks in Huayu at least now.
"Even if they had it, it would be difficult for them to use their own abilities. In the true sense, they use a little bit of aura, and then they take a breath of the aura of this world and start the countdown to death."….
Zuo Dao analyzed on his own that since many of the old man's contents have been silenced, his concept of the so-called secret can only stay at this stage.
After thinking for a moment, he continued to ask the old man questions:
"How many practitioners do you have now, how powerful are they, and what are the stages of your practice system?"
Cheng Bomiao answered this question with a confused expression:
"There are not many monks left. In this world, over the years, various problems have arisen in all the major secret treasures. There are fewer and fewer people who are qualified to enter the secret treasures, and the monks choose to inherit
There are also fewer and fewer, now it is the world of martial arts practitioners, and the secrets mainly show the inheritance of martial arts practitioners.
"In terms of power... it can still have great power, but it consumes a lot of money. We dare not use it in this world. Drastic consumption of our own spiritual power will cause our bodies to unconsciously absorb the spiritual energy of this world, and also make Our lifespan and condition plummeted.
"Every monk's order is different. For example, I practiced in █████████——"
The old man entered into a silent narration and was silenced again.
Even so, Zuodao can discover a lot of information from the side.
The most confusing thing is that the secrets they talk about do not seem to be a rigid or fixed world.
It seems that it can follow the influence of certain reasons and produce inheritance?
He couldn't be sure, but this doubt was obviously unobtainable within the branch of events.
With this in mind, Zuo Dao asked the question he was most concerned about:
"Have you ever heard of spells, rituals, mysteries, secret rituals?"
Cheng Bomiao's confused face became even more confused. He shook his head and said:
"No..."
Zuo Dao nodded.
It seems that these occult systems were formed later and eventually replaced them as the mainstream.
So based on the current situation, can it be roughly divided into the age of cultivation, the age of warriors, and the age of mystery?
But what happened in the era of warriors? Why didn't he see anyone with this ability in this current situation——?
According to the current battles of the soldiers in this world, this system is very strong, especially the general's sword, which even the leftists feel amazing, and there is no reason why it should not be passed down.
Even if there are all kinds of reasons, it is not as weird as the mysterious ability, but when you get close to fight, what will happen to people now?
Isn't "Dual Cultivation of Martial Arts" delicious?
In other words, there must have been problems with the warrior system later on. Unfortunately, this puzzle cannot be found in this era of branching phenomena.
For Zuo Dao, who likes to "eat melons" to explore the secrets of the world, he can't help but feel a little regretful.
At the same time, an idea gradually emerged in his mind.
"How about... think of a way to become a historian or archaeologist, and delve into the past branch?" Zuo Dao's eyes flashed slightly.
This is more fun than being a cop!
But the most urgent thing is to get out of this place quickly.
After knowing this information, the Li family's so-called secret book of Yin and Yang is no longer popular.
Even Gujing was classified as a dangerous area by Zuo Dao. He had already begun to think - if he didn't go to Gujing and followed the example of Fatty Yan Fang and the other two, and managed to survive until nightfall, could he leave?
However, he was also worried that if he did not complete the task that suddenly appeared in his mind, he would be punished or would be detained here. ….
With many years of experience in writing online articles, Zuodao can't help but think a lot.
"Let's play a game." He said to the old man at this time, and added:
"Do you have any coins with you, coins or other things with front and back sides?"
He had not searched the old man before, and even the little paper man tried to keep touching him, out of caution.
After Cheng Bomiao was controlled by him, Zuo Dao had no time to explore him because of the secrets he told him, so he just started brainstorming.
Cheng Bomiao nodded when he heard this, touched his collar and took out a jade pendant.
After showing Zuo Dao the front and back sides, he said, "This is a jade pendant for storage."
"..." Zuo Dao almost made a handstand question mark.
The painting style of this world is getting weirder and weirder...
He held back his words and asked a small paper man to go in and get the jade pendant.
"How to open it?" Zuo Dao asked without trying rashly.
"You just need to infuse spiritual power." The old man replied.
Zuo Dao nodded: "Pros and cons, you choose one."
Cheng Bomiao's old face looked a little confused.
In this state, he had insufficient ability to think independently. After a while, he said:
"I choose the front."
"Okay." Zuo Dao agreed.
He threw the jade pendant into the air, finally caught it, and closed his palms.
As one palm is detached, what it shows is - the front.
"Good luck." Zuo Dao smiled and continued:
"You will fall into a deep sleep, which will be a nice dream, and you will wake up the next day."
When Cheng Bomiao heard this, he lowered his head, lay back and fell into a dream.
This was Zuo Dao's kind repayment based on his decent style and the other party's behavior when he was an actor at the time.
Although the other party was not alive, he gave the other party a chance to live.
And the old man does have good luck.
Zuo Dao has his own way of dealing with such situations.
In human terms, he has an impeccable and flexible moral bottom line.
If anyone has objections to his behavior, he still has the ability to charge with high intensity to climb to the moral high ground!
After the melon is eaten and the matter is finished, Zuo Dao has to start getting down to business.
At this time, he threw the jade pendant to the little paper man.
He himself has no spiritual power, but the paper man himself has spiritual energy, so he can activate it.
With the injection of spiritual power, Zuo Dao's spiritual thoughts entered a small space and saw a dazzling array of spiritual materials.
"Are fat people's good days coming?" Zuo Dao chuckled.
Yan Fang seemed to be brewing a counterattack at the moment.
The leftist side has resolved the crisis.
Only Fatty's situation was the least optimistic among the three, and the situation he was in was the most complicated.
Under the current situation, they would not give up on Fatty directly, so the two would communicate through paper figures from time to time to discuss how to save Fatty.
And Zuo Dao himself indeed needs to return to the Li family ancestral hall again.
At this moment, Zuo Dao's expression changed.
——The situation is different.
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PS: Please read this chapter. .
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