Fire Monster

Chapter 252 Migrating Ancestors

In the blink of an eye, the situation was reversed. Although there were still a large number of ghost scorpions outside the pit and ghost mother scorpions joined the battlefield, they were no longer enough.

The main reason was that the old man surnamed Cheng was too strong. Within a radius of dozens of meters, he controlled the +9 enhanced long sword purely with his mind and specifically targeted the ghost mother scorpions. Ordinary ghost scorpions were just small soldiers. Not to mention Ding Daoren and the others, even Zhao Guanshan could kill them with one arrow.

Soon, no more ghost scorpions came to die, and the place became quiet. There were only thirteen witchers left alive, but without exception, all of them had been strengthened from head to heel.

Among them, at least six witchers strengthened their spiritual weapons to +7, which could be seen from the fact that they fought bravely and rushed forward to kill the enemies.

In comparison, Zhao Guanshan's harvest can only be considered the last, but fortunately he managed to successfully repair his helmet and half-body armor, so defense is the first priority.

"Which Taoist friend gave me a spiritual weapon just now?"

At this time, the old man surnamed Cheng asked in a deep voice. He was not wearing a cloak, and there was not even a half-body armor on his spirit body, only an inner armor. However, he seemed to be glowing all over, and he was intimidating without anger, like a overlord.

"Congratulations to Elder Cheng for breaking through the sixth level of spiritual body. No matter who gave the spiritual weapon just now, I, Ding, will not be stingy and am willing to give ten spiritual stones!"

Ding Daoren shouted loudly, looking quite proud.

But this old fellow is also fearless, because he has a physical body in the real world, and the Cangwu Taoist Palace is behind him. Even if you, Cheng Muye, advance to the sixth-level spiritual body, you will not be able to do anything to him.

Sure enough, Cheng Muye glanced at Ding Daoren and nodded calmly, thus letting the matter go.

"it's me!"

Zhao Guanshan stood up at this time, and everyone's eyes were focused on him. They couldn't see the scene of sending the sword just now, so they would not claim it. However, this little recruit who came from the poor relatives of Linjiang Dao Palace was a bit ridiculous.

Ding Daoren looked at Yu Huan in surprise, while Yu Huan looked at Zhao Guanshan in surprise, very puzzled, but they were not stupid enough to point it out to their faces.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist. I'm sorry I can't return this spiritual weapon to you, but I still have 20 spiritual stones here that are useless in the spiritual world. I'd like to give them as compensation to you. What's your name, fellow Daoist?"

Cheng Muye glanced over and nodded slightly, basically confirming it.

"Junior Zhao Chengfeng, greetings to Elder Cheng."

Zhao Guanshan bowed, and without any hesitation, he took out twenty spirit stones and put them into the spirit ash bag. This was a good profit.

"Haha, I am Cheng Muye. I never thought that you have already overcome your inner demon tribulation. No wonder. For today's matter, I owe you a favor. From now on, if I can help you in the spirit world, you can give me instructions."

After saying that, Cheng Muye turned to look at the stunned Ding Daoren, his meaning was very clear, he must keep his word.

Ding Daoren felt numb all over.

"Inner demon tribulation? Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, is this true? I admire you!" Ding Daoren sighed, feeling mixed emotions.

In fact, it wasn't just him. Everyone present felt jealous.

The inner demon tribulation is one of the three initial tribulations for Qi cultivators, and is the second most difficult. If they could overcome the inner demon tribulation, they would not come to the spirit world to waste time. Wouldn't it be better to practice in the real world?

To put it bluntly, those who come to the spirit world to be professional demon hunters are the scum among the Qi-refining practitioners, those who have been eliminated.

So we can’t blame them for being idiots.

It's really not good.

At this moment, after Ding Daoren handed the ten spirit stones to Zhao Guanshan, Cheng Muye spoke again, "Everyone, this time we can say that it is a blessing in disguise. Previously, a spirit demon in this Skull Mountain set a trap and wanted to catch us all, but unfortunately we broke it. Now it must have retreated to the Magic Tower. Although we are now unable to attack the Magic Tower, we can take this opportunity to sweep this Skull Mountain and set up a base here."

"Mr. Cheng, this is not a good idea. There are only four of you left now, and you are isolated and helpless. How can you survive here?"

Ding Daoren hurriedly said that he had already lost his wife and his soldiers, so he should not lose any more money.

"Humph! Stupid and cowardly! You know, whenever the evil spirit general occupies Skull Mountain, the most important thing he relies on is the pit-guarding beasts. With the pit-guarding beasts occupying the entrances and exits, it is like one man blocking a pass against ten thousand. Now that the pit-guarding beasts here have been killed by us, do we have to give them up and give the evil spirit general the opportunity to train pit-guarding beasts from scratch?"

"As of now, the evil spirit leader must still be seriously injured and dare not go beyond the magic tower. As for the four spirit demons, as long as they dare to leave the magic tower, I can kill them all by myself!"

"Without the demon soldiers and the opportunity to go out and develop, do you think this evil spirit general will have a chance to turn things around?"

“Even if this matter is reported to your Cangwu Dao Palace, the rotating headmaster of your Dao Palace will agree.”

"This is a golden opportunity, don't miss it!"

Cheng Muye's voice was like a bell, and he was so decisive that Ding Daoren was in despair. This time, he had suffered a heavy loss. At this time, Cheng Muye came to the smooth cliff, suddenly jumped up, and the long sword in his hand shone brightly, and he actually scratched a scratch only one centimeter deep more than ten meters above the ground.

Then, he jumped up, climbed on the scratch with one hand, drew his sword again to leave a scratch on it, and then jumped up. After doing this several times, he successfully climbed to the top of the pit.

At this point, he took out another spiritual weapon and directly evolved it into a hundred-meter-long rope, dragging everyone up one by one.

At this moment, they finally arrived inside Skull Mountain, where they could see a large number of building ruins, which had once been the residences of their ancestors.

"Everyone, there should be a large number of Spirit Mist Demon Soldiers and Puppet Beasts hidden in this Skull Mountain. These are all Spirit Ashes delivered to our doorstep. If you want to gain some, you can divide your forces to encircle and suppress them."

"If you want to be safe, you can just follow me and go through the motions."

After Cheng Muye finished speaking, he set off with three witchers from the Zhenhai Dao Palace. They were really desperate and had no way back, so they dared to fight to the death. If they didn't work hard to upgrade their spiritual weapons, they would die sooner or later. Instead of that, they might as well give it a try.

Cheng Muye had the same idea. He was now a level 9 spiritual body, holding a + spiritual weapon. He could kill ghost scorpions and ghost mother scorpions with just one sword. Leaving spiritual ashes to strengthen his spiritual weapons was the long-term solution.

Ding Daoren, Yu Huan, Chu Mo and others hesitated for a moment, then each chose a direction and went to collect the spirit ashes.

No one formed a team. It was obvious that Ding Daoren, the captain and initiator of this mission, had completely lost the support of the people. Even Zhao Guanshan didn't want to listen to his orders.

However, he did not rush to collect the ashes. Instead, he followed Cheng Muye like a tourist, carefully examining the ruins of the buildings, imagining what the buildings were like when they were intact, and imagining the scenes of the ancestors living, fighting, and practicing here.

At the same time, inevitably, he couldn't help but have some questions.

When he was going through the tribulation of his inner demons before, the scenes he saw were obviously happening in the spiritual world.

The first question is that the spiritual world today is really different from the real world. It is like an illusion, a combination of some kind of thoughts, so only the spirit can enter but the physical body cannot.

But the question is, when those ancestors migrated through this spiritual world, did they also enter with their spirit bodies and leave their physical bodies outside?
This is obviously wrong and illogical.

There are only two possibilities. One is that when the ancestors migrated, the spiritual world was not yet a spiritual world.

One possibility is that the ancestors at that time were too powerful, and they could enter even the spirit world in their physical bodies. Only after they died on the way would their bodies turn into a mountain of skulls.

Then there will be a second question: why did the ancestors migrate? Who were their enemies? Why do they look like humans, with the same body, facial features, and proportions as ordinary people, but why are their bodies so huge?

Is he a natural giant or a kind of magical power?
The third question is that the migrating team of ancestors undoubtedly walked out of the spiritual world in the end. Although they lost nearly 90% of their members, this is beyond doubt. So, where did they go and are they still alive now?

The fourth question is, is the collapse of the Xiuxian world related to the migration of the ancestors? One day, can these Taoist Qigong practitioners unite and take this migration route again?
The fifth question is, what is the relationship between the ancestors who migrated back then and the ancestors who once lived inside Skull Mountain? Are they their descendants, or are they the ancestors who fell behind in the migration team?

They had obviously lived in Skull Mountain for a long time, and even built towns and defenses. Even the design of the pit beasts should have been their work, but where were they now?

Did he return to the real world?
With these questions in mind, Zhao Guanshan searched through the ruins of the buildings, but of course he found nothing. Although these buildings were also built with the rocks of Skull Mountain, they had lost their energy long ago and would not produce any ash.

From this, we can judge that the ancestors must have mastered some very convenient and effective method to cut the Skull Mountain, and at the same time, they can use the ashes more effectively...

"Wait, are they really using spirit ash to strengthen spirit soldiers?"

This thought lingered in his mind, and Zhao Guanshan devoted himself entirely to the excavation of these building ruins, to the point of being completely absorbed in it.

Of course, he didn't care. As a man who had already earned thirty spirit stones and could ride the wind away at any time, he could ignore any danger. He only cared about what interested him.

But there's really no danger.

Zhao Guanshan excavated and inspected the ruins of the buildings in Skull Mountain for several days in a row, and he didn't even know when Ding Daoren, Yu Huan, Chu Mo and others left.

This group of people stopped pretending and obviously acquiesced that Zhao Chengfeng had found a new big fat leg.

What's more, a witcher who has overcome his inner demons does not need them to order him around.

In this way, after a few days, except for the temple in the center and the magic tower occupied by the evil spirit, which he had not been able to enter, he had completed the excavation and sorting of the rest of the building ruins, and restored their original appearance in his mind.

“Fellow Daoist Chengfeng is very elegant. You are worthy of being able to overcome the inner demon tribulation at this stage. I only overcame the inner demon tribulation by chance in the spirit world after I cultivated to the seventh level of Qi Refiner.”

One day, Cheng Muye appeared in front of Zhao Guanshan, looking in a good mood.

(End of this chapter)