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Chapter 449 The Water and Fire Veins and the Divine Stone

Barren mountains, ancient temples.

The ancient temple is located deep in the mountains and forests, where few people go. It is surrounded by shrubs, with twisted and ugly trees and old tree roots that have broken through the soil and are covered with moss. It is clear that no one has come to worship for a long time.

Perhaps because it had long been abandoned, the small temple was in a state of disrepair both inside and out.

In addition, the temple is very small, and it seems that apart from a statue of a god and an offering table, there is no room for anything else.

The statue was made of polished bluestone and was over eight feet tall. Unlike the usual majestic and awe-inspiring statues, this one appeared cold and sinister, exuding an evil aura.

Moreover, the area around the small temple was quiet, without a sound, like a dead place, exuding an eeriness and mystery.

Moonlight streamed through the dilapidated roof of the small temple, making the statue even more lifelike. Its expression, movements, wrinkles, and hair were all clearly visible, which also made the statue look more evil and eerie, as if it might leap off the altar and transform into a bloodthirsty demon.

Given its already remote location and the presence of such a strange and evil deity, it's no wonder the ancient temple fell into disrepair.

However, the tranquility of the ancient temple will be broken today.

In the moonlight, a figure drifted into the temple.

This person was dressed in a long, flowing robe, and his face was painted with strange patterns, making him look like a face-changing actor, obscuring his true appearance.

The man stood before the altar, looked at the statue, and then took out an incense stick and lit it.

It's worth mentioning that this fragrance has a very eerie feel to it, as if it has been soaked in blood.

Moreover, after the incense is lit, it burns very quickly, and instead of wisps of blue smoke, it produces thick smoke that is white with a hint of red.

In just a moment, thick smoke filled the small temple, almost completely filling it, which was quite eerie.

Then, even more strangely, the white smoke tinged with blood red began to gather and swirl, like two long snakes, and burrowed into the nostrils of the statue.

No, to be precise, it's the idol that's smoking!
As the statue inhaled the last wisp of smoke, it began to crack, revealing countless tiny cracks that spread like a spider web across its entire body, making the statue look like a broken porcelain doll.

Then, with a loud "boom," the statue suddenly exploded.

In an instant, countless fragments scattered and flew everywhere.

Amidst the swirling sand and dust, the previous statue had vanished, replaced by a burly man who looked almost exactly like it.

He was tall and imposing, standing like a mountain, with long hair that was half black and half red, the black strands like a waterfall and the red hair like fire.

He wore a fiery red battle robe, covered with a seemingly dark yet lustrous fish-scale armor, making him look like a ball of fire.

A ball of fire burning in the darkness.

However, what filled his open eyes was not a raging fire, but rather a gloomy, inhuman, and extremely insane aura that sent chills down one's spine.

"High Priest, why is it you who has come?"

The burly man in the statue spoke, his voice equally cold, exuding an aura of evil and domineering arrogance.

“Divine General, you committed a grave error in the past, angering the gods, who have therefore imprisoned you here. Only by lighting the incense to awaken your soul can you be roused from your slumber and allowed to see the light of day again.”

The god remained noncommittal, but smiled with a hint of amusement, saying, "It seems he has something he wants me to do."

Seemingly dissatisfied with his title, the robed man addressed as the High Priest let out a cold snort.

"Indeed, the supreme god now needs you to do something, so I, the priest, have awakened you. If you can complete this task, the god will not only absolve you of all your sins, but will also impart to you the supreme Heaven-Shifting Divine Technique."

"Shifting God Technique?!"

The god's eyes lit up. He had already learned the World-Destroying Demon Body. If he were to learn the Immortal God's Heaven-Shifting Divine Technique, given time, he might be able to stand on equal footing with the Immortal God, or even kill him.

Of course, he also knew very well that for the Immortal God to promise the Heaven-Shifting Divine Technique, it was enough to show that this matter was by no means simple. It was even possible that the Immortal God himself was not confident in making a move, otherwise the High Priest would not have come to awaken him.

Clearly, he was merely a pawn used by the God of Immortality to test the waters, but the words "Heavenly Shifting Technique" still ignited a flame within him.

However, the god did not rush to ask what he needed to do. Instead, he looked at the high priest with his sinister and cold gaze and said slowly, "I have been asleep for a long time and have been hungry for a long time, so... High Priest, is my meal ready?"

"Of course, it's been prepared for you for a long time."

The high priest smiled faintly and clapped his hands.

Then, amidst a series of soft footsteps, a bright-eyed young girl entered the dilapidated temple. Her eyes were lifeless, and her expression was dull and blank, like a puppet on strings.

The deity stood on the altar, looked the girl up and down, and revealed a satisfied expression.

"Excellent, it's clearly top-quality stuff. I'm very satisfied. I didn't expect that after all these years, High Priest, you still understand me the best."

With a wave of his long sleeves, he created a suction force out of thin air, and the girl, like a blade of grass in the wind, involuntarily fell into the general's arms.
The god embraced the girl, his hand gently tracing her fair cheek, like a lover's caress, his expression tender and gentle.

Finally, he moved his fingertip to the girl's brow and poked it in with a "plop".

A moment later, a chilling sucking sound echoed in the deathly silent temple.

Even the high priest was startled by what he saw and felt a wave of nausea.

A cold wind blew by, and the girl with a deep hole the size of a finger between her eyebrows was thrown to the ground by the god general as if she were a rag doll.

If you look closely at the space between his eyebrows, you can see that the cavity is completely empty, as if his internal energy has been completely drained.

The god stood proudly, with a thick, blood-like liquid still remaining at the corner of his mouth.

He stuck out his scarlet tongue and licked it clean. After savoring it for a while, he smiled and said, "It's really delicious. The only flaw is that this woman is too foolish. I like to eat wise men and brave men. These two kinds of people are truly unforgettable."

The high priest just looked at him without saying a word.

Having satisfied his appetite, the deity leaped down from the altar and said calmly, "Tell me, what does he want me to do?"

“God has commanded you to kill someone!” the high priest replied.

"Who?"

"The panic of Ying Xun!"

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Hangzhou, West Lake.

Ying Xun and his party had been here for three days.

He originally planned to keep his appointment with the Demon Lord Bai Suzhen first, but the Demon Lord did not come to find him, so he decided to go and find the Divine Stone first.

Fearing that the God of Immortality might use the divine stone as bait, he didn't bring You Ruo and the others along, and acted alone. As for the location of the divine stone, if he remembered correctly, it was under Leifeng Pagoda.

Legend has it that Leifeng Pagoda was first built in the Wuyue Kingdom. When King Qian Chu of Wuyue had a son, he planned to build a thirteen-story brick pagoda and use 84,000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures to pray for Huang's safety. Therefore, Leifeng Pagoda is also known as the Imperial Concubine Pagoda.

Of course, another theory is that Leifeng Pagoda was built by King Qian Chu of Wuyue to enshrine the Buddha's hair relic and pray for peace and prosperity for the country. In gratitude for the posthumous title bestowed upon his concubine by the Northern Song Dynasty and to commemorate his wife, Lady Sun, he named the pagoda the Imperial Concubine Pagoda. Because the pagoda was built on Leifeng Mountain, the people commonly referred to it as Leifeng Pagoda.

The setting sun was like blood, and the temples around Leifeng Pagoda rang their evening bells.

Its melodious bell tolls seem to urge visitors to go home, one after another.

As the last rays of sunlight disappeared from Leifeng Pagoda, the tourists had all dispersed.

Ying Xun also entered Leifeng Pagoda and found the entrance to the underground cave beneath the pagoda.

The cave was huge, with countless large holes in its walls. The moment his foot landed, the stone door at the entrance slammed shut.

"Rumble..."

A series of deafening roars, as if shaking the heavens and the earth, emanated from the cave and echoed continuously.

As the sound of the rolling boulder grew closer, the vast underground cavern began to tremble violently, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.

From each cave entrance rolled a huge rock, more than ten feet in diameter, rolling towards Ying Xun in the center from all directions.

Its imposing presence was so terrifying that it seemed as if it would crush him into mincemeat at any moment.

At the same time, countless chilling arrows rained down from the top of the huge cave.

Arrows rained down like a storm!

It must be said that the mechanism is ingeniously designed.

It was a place with no way to go up to heaven or down to earth. Even if a person dared to trespass and could use their superb lightness skills to dodge the boulders, they would still find it difficult to avoid the overwhelming barrage of arrows.

For most skilled fighters, there are only two outcomes: either they are crushed into mincemeat by boulders, or they are riddled with arrows and turned into hedgehogs.

However, Ying Xun was no ordinary master.

His method of breaking the formation was extremely simple: to use force to break force.

With a flick of his sleeve, Ying Xun created a cloud that seemed to hang from the sky, momentarily stopping the rolling boulder and blocking the rain of arrows.

Although it was only for a moment, it was enough for him to do a lot.

For example, he noticed a hole where no boulders had rolled down and slipped inside.

As he ventured deeper, he soon came across a stone coffin.

In front of the stone coffin stands a tombstone, on which are prominently carved the five characters "Tomb of Bai Suzhen".

Beside the stone coffin, a skeleton sat cross-legged, draped in a weathered and tattered kasaya. On the kasaya was a lustrous jade pendant with two characters engraved on it: Fahai.

In addition, there is a long inscription carved on the stone wall, which records everything about Fahai's life in the voice of Fahai.

Initially, Fahai was practicing at Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang. He was impressed by the unparalleled martial prowess of the immortal god and his slogan of "abolishing the imperial system and making all people independent," and thus became a member of the Search for Gods Palace.

However, the reason why Fahai, the immortal god, wanted to abolish the imperial system was because he wanted to become a god who ruled over the world and was the only one of his kind in heaven and earth.

Fahai originally wanted to leave the Search for Gods Palace, but the God of Immortality threatened him with the lives of the monks of Jinshan Temple, forcing him to continue working for him.

Later, the immortal god and Fahai discovered the Divine Stone, one of the four wonders, under Leifeng Pagoda.

Although this divine stone is incredibly powerful, not only a magical weapon capable of countless transformations, but also a sacred object that can save people from death, once it is taken out, it will trigger a huge disaster, causing countless people in the land to suffer.

However, without Fahai's knowledge, the immortal god took it out, refined it into a bowl, and gave it to Fahai to deal with Bai Suzhen, who was in love with Xu Xian.

Later, the immortal god was seriously injured. Under the influence of Fahai and the monks of Jinshan Temple chanting sutras for three days and three nights without eating, drinking, or sleeping, his heart softened and he agreed to release the divine stone back under Leifeng Pagoda.

However, there is one condition for becoming an immortal god.

That is to have the monks of Jinshan Temple set up traps and mechanisms under Leifeng Pagoda to prevent others from obtaining the sacred stone.

Furthermore, it was demanded that Fahai be buried alive at the foot of Leifeng Pagoda on the day the institution was completed.

Ying Xun glanced at the inscriptions on the stone wall and pondered for a moment.

After a long while, he placed his hand on the stone coffin and exerted force. The stone coffin slowly moved open, revealing an entrance about three feet square.

Ying Xun flashed into the cave like a wisp of smoke, and after traveling about a hundred feet, he arrived at the deepest part of the cave.

Looking around, one could see a hazy red light deep within the cave.

Upon closer inspection, one could see a magma pool of about ten square meters beneath the hazy red light, where the churning magma was as red as blood, seemingly capable of burning everything in the world.

Just then, Ying Xun also sensed the unusual movement of the Fire Qilin.

However, he did not immediately summon the Fire Qilin, nor did he pay much attention to the lava, because there was an object that was even more dazzling and eye-catching than the light emitted by the lava. It was suspended above the lava pool, emitting a brilliant white light that illuminated the entire cave as if it were daytime, as if someone had used some heavenly means to pluck the sun down and hang it there.

Above the lava pool and the ball of light, there is an incredible spectacle.

It was a water column falling from the sky, about the same size as the lava pool, crashing down from the cave ceiling, seemingly about to merge with the lava, but it was stopped by the ball of light and froze in mid-air, like a waterfall that had reached the halfway point and could no longer rush down...

Just as Ying Xun was about to release the Fire Qilin, a voice filled with cold evil and domineering, yet tinged with a hint of laughter, suddenly rang out.

"Surprised, aren't you?"

Hearing the voice behind him, Ying Xun did not turn around, but simply spoke calmly.

"It's truly amazing; it's a sight I've never seen before."

"These magma and water columns are what people call 'fire from hell' and 'tears from the underworld.' In reality, one is a fire vein from the earth's core, and the other is a water vein from West Lake. If the fire and water meet, the magma will cool, causing the earth to deform and the fire vein from the earth's core to erupt. At that time, the whole country will be shaken, and an unimaginable catastrophe will be triggered."

As the person spoke, they slowly walked into the cave.

This man was tall and imposing, with long, strangely long hair that was half red and half black, parted in the middle. He was none other than a divine general under the command of the immortal.

He looked at Ying Xun with a sinister smile: "You must be Ying Xun, the one who is terrified. Remember me, I am a divine general. This is a name that will be remembered for thousands of generations, and it is also the name of the person who is about to take your life."

"Who do you think it is? It turns out to be the dog raised by the immortal god."

Ying Xun smiled slightly, turned his head to look at the divine general, seemingly unsurprised by his arrival.

"However, a dog that bites without barking is a good dog. If it's a dog that only knows how to bark, you should be careful that it doesn't get slaughtered and eaten."

(End of this chapter)