Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 484: The Wish of the Dead Souls

"Strange, this ghost energy is mixed and turbid, floating and not condensed. It will dissipate when exposed to sunlight. How can it surge here..."

Yun Zhongjun looked down and saw that the ability of [Youyi Taoist] allowed him to easily see a vast gray land through the clouds.

Looking around, you can see undulating mountains and crisscrossing rivers. The slightly higher places are covered with ice and snow, looking white.

But the clouds in the sky blocked the light of the sky, and without the shining light of the sun and the moon, the whole earth seemed lifeless, the yang energy was dormant, and the yin energy was active. This was also the origin of the ghost energy below.

Following the direction of the ghostly aura, I saw a dozen ragged, pale-faced people on the bank of a big river, supporting each other, looking at the boat that was barely put together in front of them, their faces filled with joy.

"Great! With this boat, we can go down the river and never have to stay with those monsters again."

One of them laughed out loud with excitement, and the people around him followed suit.

"Yes, yes, we don't have to stay here anymore. We don't have to worry about being caught and played with every day. We don't have to worry about becoming strange-looking because of what we ate."

As he spoke, one of them touched his cheek where the scales had grown, and ruthlessly pulled them off.

"I heard that there are gods in other places. If we go there, we can definitely ask the gods to change us back to our original appearance and get rid of this layer of fur."

A person nearby pulled at the streaked hair on his arms, trying to expose his skin.

"Hahaha, if I change back to my original appearance, I will definitely walk around outside shirtless to let others see that I am normal, a normal person! Not some toad monster!"

The third person has changed the most. You can see that he tries to cover his whole body with clothes as much as possible. Unfortunately, there is too little cloth to use and a lot of skin is exposed.

The skin that is exposed to the air is usually completely different from that of humans. At first glance, it looks like a frog, smooth and covered with sticky liquid.

"Wait, we've been waiting here for a while, where are Xiao Liuzi and the others? Didn't we agree to leave together? Why haven't they come yet? Could something have happened..."

The person who had plucked the scales asked, with a hint of worry in his voice.

The furry man said unhappily, "The time has come. Since they haven't come yet, we shouldn't stay here any longer. Otherwise, when those monsters wake up, we won't have a chance."

The frog-like man hurriedly said, "Don't wait any longer. They haven't come yet. I think they were chosen for the experiment. If they get to the monsters, we won't be able to hide our escape. Let's go! Go!"

As soon as these words came out, dozens of people led by three men hurriedly pulled the boat into the water, but they failed to move the broken hull again and again.

"Hurry! Use more strength. We can only escape from here if we pull the boat into the water!"

"Damn it! I've used all my strength, but which bastard is being lazy? Don't you want to leave? Do you want to be killed by those monsters?"

Yun Zhongjun stood in mid-air, looking at the tens of thousands of corpses on the shore. A dozen wandering souls were constantly pulling at a broken boat placed on top of the skeletons.

Those wandering souls tried again and again to push the boat, but they had long since died and were unable to touch any real objects. It was only the obsession in their hearts that made them repeat what they could never do.

With a sigh, Yun Zhongjun let go of the cloud light, stretched out his hand, and the bones in the sky turned into powder and merged into the boat. He stretched out his hand and gave a light push, and the boat fell into the river and floated downstream.

Seeing the boat enter the water, the wandering souls cheered and jumped onto the boat one by one, jumping and dancing.

"We escaped, we escaped!"

“Hahaha, we escaped, we all escaped alive!”

"Look, there's light ahead. There must be a fairy there. Let's go over and take a look!"

As these wandering souls cheered, the gate to the underworld opened downstream, and a faint light emerged, leading the boat in. With light dancing on his fingertips, Yun Zhongjun simply calculated the information of those wandering souls.

These wandering souls are simply the dead souls of ordinary creatures. Naturally, they cannot hide any information from Yun Zhongjun, who is of the fourth rank.

Their past quickly emerged in front of Yun Zhongjun. They were a group of native creatures, but because of the pollution of the land and the persecution of the monks living there, they ended up being neither human nor demon, neither ghost nor monster.

"Pollution? Dao Fruit fragments? Why did these creatures become like this?"

Yun Zhongjun was somewhat curious and continued to calculate, but was affected by the fragments of the Tao fruit hidden deep in the land.

"A fourth-grade Dao fruit fragment. No, it should be a Dao fruit fragment with certain third-grade characteristics. Which Dao fruit was cut off by the great immortal who transformed the Dao into the sky?"

Yun Zhongjun, who was worried, did not dare to force a calculation. He prayed silently in his heart, borrowed the power of the Donghuang Bell to maintain his own state and resist possible backlash, then looked back at the various changes in the past.

A more detailed and clear process appeared before Yun Zhongjun.

The incident happened more than a hundred years ago, when two heavens collided and several pieces of Tao fruit fragments fell into this world.

I don’t know if it’s because these Dao Fruit fragments carry the characteristics of the third grade, they are more vibrant than the Dao Fruit fragments Chu Tai has seen in the past. Moreover, these Dao Fruit fragments should be the Dao Fruit system of demon gods, demon saints or demon immortals, which is quite consistent with the land of Northern Wilderness.

As the region with the most ancient remains, there are many humanoid lives in the Northern Wilderness that are not purely human.

It is very easy for extraordinary people to be born among them who are born with supernatural powers, or they may be attracted by blood and combine with the essence of other creatures to give birth to new life.

In the past, these strange people and newborns were regarded as sons of God bestowed by the gods in the Northern Wilderness. However, with the influence of the Central Plains on the Northern Wilderness, the introduction of the three systems of immortals, Buddhas, and demons, the gradual decline of the power of witchcraft, and the gradual weakening of magical powers, all these creatures lost their original status.

Moreover, some people take pleasure in bullying them.

According to the original course of history, the power of these creatures would continue to fade, and they would only retain some strange appearances and would not be able to cause any trouble.

But a hundred years ago, after the Dao Fruit fragments fell to the earth, these creatures were also the ones who were most likely to sense the existence of the Dao Fruit fragments.

Their power continued to increase, and they quickly took a dominant position. At the very least, they began to bully those who had hurt them in the past. At worst, they used ordinary people as test subjects to dilute the fragments of the Dao Fruit that had been integrated into the earth.

Moreover, those who were experimented on did not find peace after death. The monks in this land first deliberately let these people flee their homeland, then let them die before they succeeded, and then used witchcraft to make it difficult for their souls to leave the same pile of bones as before, and imprisoned them in one place.

Through this form, the monks here constructed a special ritual, which, by eroding the essence of the dead souls, integrated concepts such as obscuring and concealing into the mist above the sky.

This makes it difficult for people in the fog to get out, and even more difficult for people outside to discover the problem.

'What a sin! '

Yun Zhongjun sighed in his heart and looked at the clouds in the sky again. With the departure of these wandering souls, the turbid air in the fog was indeed reduced a little. A hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

"In theory, although these guys have magical powers, they are not good at Taoism, so it shouldn't be difficult to deduce them."

Yun Zhongjun continued to deduce, and was suddenly surprised to find that he saw an acquaintance in the deduced secret.

"Wait, Cang Xuan is actually related to this matter. Could it be that Long Gu's calamity is also related to this land?"

Watching Taoist Cangxuan and another Taoist fleeing from here, Yun Zhongjun, who was somewhat surprised, followed his own perception and deduced the breath of Cangxuan.

(End of this chapter)