Fire Monster

Chapter 357 Karma Hourglass
Skull Mountain is extremely huge, and the mines in the mountain are crisscrossed. Zhao Guanshan’s idea is not wrong, but it is quite troublesome to find it.

After spending most of the day searching hundreds of mines, they still didn't find any bodies or relics of the demon miners.

Just when he was about to give up, he suddenly saw a demon soldier coming out from the entrance of a mine. Its body was more bloated and weird than the demon miner, but also more powerful.

And this one has to be at least a small boss level.

Zhao Guanshan dodged and hid in a mine not far away. Although the demon soldier could be killed in one shot by him, he did not want to alert the enemy.

However, he didn't expect that this demon soldier actually ran towards the mine where he was, and muttered something as he walked. Although he couldn't understand it, Zhao Guanshan could guess that it seemed to be greeting someone, not that he had discovered him.

So he had no choice but to go deeper into the mine. This was not a dead end mine, and he could just go around it and avoid it.

But soon, a gurgling sound was heard from deep inside the mine. Was there a demon over there, or did he miss one during his search just now?

Zhao Guanshan immediately sped up and drilled into a mine on the side before the second demon appeared.

Soon, a demon miner came over. He was no longer in human form. He had a bloated belly as big as a lotus pot, a strange and equally huge head, and four extra legs and two arms. There were some strange and evil runes on his chest, back, and head.

To be honest, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Zhao Guanshan wouldn't have believed that this was actually a human transformation.

"Wait, this isn't the new demon miner."

Zhao Guanshan's heart moved, and he did not follow him. Instead, he turned around and ran towards the mine where the demon miner came out, and then he immediately found something different.

Because the mines he had just searched were actually the above-ground parts, but this mine led directly underground. As soon as he got in, he vaguely heard the clanging sounds of digging. There were quite a few old demon miners below.

In addition, the environment here is also different. There is a sticky blood gas spreading around, and the pollution level is a bit high.

There are even more demon miners here, about several hundred.

And the degree of deformity is even more serious. If the new demon miners can at least be seen in human form, then the demon miners here are all very strange.

Zhao Guanshan even doubted whether they still possessed human rationality and memory?
But the good news is that he finally found several bodies of demon miners, or rather piles of bodies.

It was just randomly piled up in a corner and left to rot. Many sneaky creatures were sitting there chewing the food, drooling over it, looking very satisfied.

However, these demon miners did not seem to have died from exhaustion or other reasons. It was very likely that they died in fighting.

Because at this moment, a fight was taking place here. Two gangs started fighting over a disagreement. They were brutal and merciless, and no one stopped them.

This was a great opportunity. Zhao Guanshan took advantage of the chaos to find the pile of corpses, pulled aside a corpse that looked relatively intact, and searched it quickly, but still couldn't find the so-called karma hourglass.

"Wait, it's not in his stomach, is it?"

Zhao Guanshan's heart moved. Apart from the tools for digging rocks, these demon miners didn't even have any other storage tools. Considering that they had spit out a stone ball before, this was probably the case.

At that moment, he did not hesitate. He drew out the purple fire dagger and slashed the corpse. Then he reached in, turned left and right, and he actually found it.

However, after holding the karma hourglass, Zhao Guanshan was shocked. Without caring about anything else, he immediately returned along the original route.

After his soul returned to his body, he looked at the thing that was only ten centimeters high and looked simple and crude with a complicated look. Who would have thought that this seemingly inconspicuous thing was actually built based on a magic weapon.

In other words, every one of those demonic miners is a cultivator...

Not an ordinary mortal at all.

But this is reasonable, because mortals simply cannot withstand such torture.

After pondering for a long time, Zhao Guanshan reached out his hand and picked up the so-called karma hourglass. It was obvious that this thing was still running, so it had the ability to cleanse itself automatically. Even in such a corrupt and polluted environment just now, it was not stained with the slightest bit of filth.

In addition, this magic weapon is still bound to the deceased. It is his natal magic weapon, but why it was changed into a karma hourglass may be related to the current environment of the immortal cultivation world.

Zhao Guanshan did not try to crack and activate it, but just observed it quietly. This thing was smooth and transparent all over.

There were masses of black air above and only a few grains of white sand below. These were the white sands that filled the rewards of the spirit miners who had left before.

Don’t know what it is?
But there is no doubt that this white sand can neutralize the black air above.

"So, the deceased died suddenly because the white sand was exhausted and not enough to neutralize the black gas above?" "Also, it is also because of this black gas that other demon miners will not come to snatch this karma hourglass, because - it will be easy to transfer this karma to themselves."

Zhao Guanshan thought about it and guessed several possibilities, including that there was a great possibility that the karmic black energy would be transferred to him.

But if he doesn't look for a breakthrough and doesn't understand what the current world of immortal cultivation is like, is he going to rush in ignorantly?
Knowing yourself and your enemy, collecting information and intelligence always comes first.

As soon as this thought came to mind, Zhao Guanshan slowly shook the karma hourglass and circulated the innate pure yang energy at the same time. He needed this breakthrough.

In fact, it is not that complicated at all. Although the basis of this karma hourglass is a magic weapon, the blockade is not very tight. As soon as his innate pure yang energy touches it, the magic weapon will activate itself.

But the black gas above did not gush out. Instead, the few remaining white sand grains below burned and consumed automatically, and quickly formed a phantom of a middle-aged man with a melancholy temperament. It was the soul of the deceased.

Or, his last words.

"My fellow Taoist, your luck is not very good!"

"I don't know where you found my body, and I don't know why you dared to activate the karma hourglass without any scruples. But since you have activated it, I can only wish you all the best and hope that you can turn danger into safety."

"Ah, actually I don't know if anyone can find my body and really dare to activate the karmic hourglass, but maybe time has passed, and thousands or tens of thousands of years will pass in the blink of an eye?"

"Who knows what will happen in the future? Since I have come to this world and embarked on the path of cultivation, and have obtained a golden elixir, even though I know that I will die, I still want to say a few words to people in the future. What if the environment in the world of immortal cultivation has improved? What if there are still normal people?"

"This world of immortal cultivation has gone crazy. Karma is pouring in like heavy taxes. Mortals have become numb and dumb under the impact of the torrent of karma, like half wild beasts. Immortal cultivators are not immune. Even the masters of Taoism and the immortals who are high above will occasionally reveal a hideous and strange demonic appearance. It's not normal."

"If you want to avoid the pursuit of karma, you can only borrow money. The bodies of fallen immortals still contain immortal blood, which can be used to pay the interest on the pursuit of karma."

"But in the end, destruction is inevitable."

"There's no hope. There's not even a glimmer of hope."

"But according to rumors, the sky fire fell to the ground and turned into an abyss. In this abyss, there is still a pure land that has not been pursued by karma. It is called the Dao Palace. Everyone in the Dao Palace can live a normal life. But rumors are just rumors and cannot be believed."

"I don't know if anyone will be able to read my last words, or if they will remain silent forever."

"It doesn't matter. I'm going to die anyway. If any fellow Taoists find out, they can verify it. It's said that when you die, your debts are wiped out. If I die, can my karmic debts be wiped out?"

"Hahaha!"

"A dying man is talking nonsense. How happy he is!"

……

Li Ying's soul dissipated, and the black air above the karma hourglass was no longer blocked, and it poured down in one go. At this moment, Zhao Guanshan shuddered, as if the black air had already enveloped his head.

However, what he found incredible was that the black air in the karma hourglass was suddenly cleared out, as if it was offset by some force.

Then, he saw a flash of golden light under the karma hourglass, and his own figure inexplicably appeared in it. Immediately afterwards, uncontrollably, golden grains of sand began to appear under the karma hourglass, one grain, two grains, three grains, and a total of twenty-eight grains appeared!
However, right above the karma hourglass, there is nothing at all. There is no such thing as any black karma energy.

"Shit, this thing is mine."

“So, this golden sand is my karmic wealth?”

Zhao Guanshan was stunned. The scene before him was not incomprehensible. The only thing that could neutralize and offset the karmic black energy was the positive feedback karmic wealth.

He was just shocked that he had unknowingly gotten so much benefit from the Lihuo Immortal.

I don’t know how much the golden sand is worth, and how much white sand it can be exchanged for?
For a moment, Zhao Guanshan felt extremely complicated.

He even felt a little regretful. Now that he looked at it this way, although the immortal cultivation world here was not swallowed by the out-of-control heavenly fire, the fallen immortals, in order to reduce their own karmic debts, directly caused massive floods here and issued gold yuan coupons recklessly, which directly led to the collapse of the original karmic economic system of the immortal cultivation world.

A karmic version of the financial crisis really occurred.

Everyone, whether mortal or immortal, is forced to bear various karmic debts, even unborn children.

Just comparing this environment with that of the Taoist Palace, it's like heaven and earth.

It’s a pity that there is no regret medicine!
(End of this chapter)