Day and night tour

Chapter 319: The Method of Sharing the Heavenly Ghost
"Ah Shui, why did you make this thing for me?"

Zhou Xuan circled the lotus throne several times but did not understand Heishui's intention.

Black Water also became arrogant this time, and did not respond or pay attention to Zhou Xuan's complaints. Miss Qiang advised: "The God of Black Water naturally has his own ideas, which should be very effective."

"I feel the biggest effect is to let the White Bone Monk recite the Heart Sutra for me to dispel the anxiety in my heart."

Zhou Xuan shook his head as he watched and entered the Chenghuang Taoist Temple.

Inside the temple, the soul of the great elder Li Jiumu had been tortured to death.

The eyes in the City God Taoist Temple, when they carry out executions and torture, rely on invisible gazes, which are like iron whips, lashing out at the soul's will. Naturally, Li Jiumu could not withstand it.

At this moment, he was huddled in a corner of the temple, shivering.

"Great Elder, is the torture still bearable?"

As soon as Zhou Xuan said the word "torture", Li Jiumu seemed to be stressed and began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Look at me, Great Elder."

Zhou Xuan said easily. Li Jiumu didn't dare to resist at all and looked at him weakly.

When their eyes met, Zhou Xuan saw all of Li Jiumu's memories of this life.

Since the eyes of the Taoist temple had made preparations in advance, they cleared away a large amount of useless memories of Li Jiumu - at least for Zhou Xuan, they were useless - so the memories Zhou Xuan saw were simplified versions after filtering, with abundant information.

Zhou Xuan saw how the "Nine Snake God" enslaved Liuyun Village.

One year, the Nine Snake God became angry with the people of Liuyun Village because of the poor quality of the sacrifices, and did not come for several months.

In the first month, the life of the people in Liuyun Village was relatively normal, but in the following months, the adult men and women in the tribe began to become listless, and then they felt severe pain in their bodies. Not to mention the hard work of reeling silk, weaving hemp, fishing and hunting, even walking and stretching the waist would bring great pain.
What's worse, just breathing is full of pain.

When some tribesmen shared their "pain" with each other, they described the feeling of their bodies in this way: as soon as they moved, the bones and flesh in their bodies felt like two rough palm trees rubbing against each other.

Every friction brought excruciating pain.

Finally, when the tribe was in the most difficult time, the whole tribe gathered the sacrifices required by the "Nine Snake God", and finally the Nine Snake God came.

After the sacrifice that day, stone pillars suddenly grew out of nowhere in the land of the village, and nine thick, black snakes were entangled on each of the stone pillars.

"The God of Nine Snakes has come. This great god has not given up on us, his devout people."

The great elder Li Jiumu called out to his tribesmen,

The people in the entire village, enduring great pain, limped and walked to the stone pillars step by step, cut their arms and thighs with knives, and splashed their blood on the pillars.

With the irrigation of blood, the snakes in relief on the stone pillars came to life one after another. They swam on the tribesmen, and the huge snake bodies secreted apricot-yellow viscous liquid while moving.
These liquids flowed through the pores on the tribesmen's bodies, penetrated into their bones and flesh, and acted as lubricants, completely eliminating the extremely rough and astringent feeling between bones and flesh.

The tribesmen stretched their waists and waved their arms as much as they could. Their bones and flesh became smooth, the pain disappeared, and strong vitality returned to each of their bodies.

"As long as we are ordinary people, we won't feel any pain when we walk or breathe. It seems that the people of Liuyun Village are born different?"

Zhou Xuan thought about it and felt something was wrong... If the bones and flesh of the people in Liuyun Village were not naturally lubricated, then when the Nine Snake God left, why did only the adult men and women in the village suffer the pain of friction between their flesh and bones? Why didn't the children in the village have any problems?
A self-evident deduction is about to emerge.

"I understand. This kind of human instinct of lubricating bones, blood, and flesh is taken away by the evil god after the villagers worship the Nine Snake God again and again after they grow up. That's why their bones are not smooth enough."

"The Nine Snake God used his mucus to soak bones, reducing the pain caused by insufficient lubrication in the tribesmen's bodies, and took control of Liuyun Village."

At this moment,

Zhou Xuan suddenly understood why the tree tribe in Pengjia Town also had a terrifying blood sacrifice, but the alien Peng Hou behind it was a god-level figure above the sky, and the tattoo hall was also one of the main halls.

On the contrary, the God of Nine Snakes is called the Evil God and Liuyun Village is called the Yin Hall.

“Gods and White Walkers control believers and disciples through faith;
The evil god, on the other hand, takes away something that the believers originally had and then gives it back to them.

From a certain perspective, the White Walkers and gods really help their believers and disciples, but the evil gods have never helped anyone."

It is true that I soothed your pain, but it was also I who caused your pain.

"This tricky method is not in line with the incense and Shinto of Jingguo, so it is only natural that it is rejected."

Zhou Xuan continued to watch Li Jiumu's memory scenes... After the tribe members regained their lost vitality, Li Jiumu went to the mountains alone and knelt in front of a grave overgrown with weeds.

The ground near the grave mound cracked, and a strange giant snake made up of nine white pythons stood up from the wide gully on the ground. It sneered and said, "The painful time of these few months is a punishment for you Liuyun Village. If the next sacrifice angers me again..."

"There will be no more mistakes."

"This is the best." The nine snakes twisted their bodies, rolled up their sharp tails like a cone, and stabbed them into their own bodies...

If you look closely, you will see that the place where it pierced was not the body of any white python, but the center of the eyebrows of a human face.

This human face cannot be seen under normal circumstances. It can only be seen clearly when the nine snakes raise their fat bodies to take blood.

When Zhou Xuan saw the face, he was immediately delighted - he was none other than Xu Jingshan, whom Zhou Xuan had seen in the fur shop - the great literary figure from 220 years ago.

The snake's tail pierced Xu Jingshan's forehead, and bright red blood flowed out. Li Jiumu quickly pulled out the soft stopper of the bamboo tube in his arms to collect the blood.

"I bless you with the blood of the gods because I hope you will do a good job for me. If you make mistakes again, I can replace you as the chief elder."

When the bamboo tube was half full, the nine snakes pulled out their tails and dived into the ravine, and the crack in the earth closed again.

"What a pity. This time I angered the Nine Snake God and only received half a tube of Nine Snake Blood..."

He shook his head, as if this blood was extremely precious.

……

"The second Yama Gua is just one step away from completion."

Zhou Xuan has already locked on Xu Jingshan's location. As long as he finishes today's work and takes his men to the Laoshan Cemetery again, he will be able to find the true body of the Nine Snake God - finding the true body is equivalent to finding Xu Jingshan.

He had obtained the clues he wanted most from Li Jiumu's memory, and even got an unexpected surprise, directly locating Xu Jingshan, but he did not leave the Taoist temple immediately.

The eyes of the City God filtered Li Jiumu's memory and only two parts were left. One was the scene just now, and the other memory was from yesterday.

"Li Jiumu, I will not descend upon Gangfeng Cave during the joint blood sacrifice tomorrow. You send the high priest to the Qingshui Cave on Luoshen Peak of Baimei Mountain..."

"Follow the command of the gods."

……

After Zhou Xuan left the secret realm, he asked Yun Ziliang, "Old Yun, I just got news from Li Jiumu that the Nine Snake God had Li Jiumu send a high priest to the Qingshui Cave on Luoshen Peak of Baimei Mountain in advance. What's the purpose of this?"

"The Nine Snake God did not descend upon the altar, but asked the chief priest of Liuyun Village to go to Qingshui Cave... There must be something fishy going on here."

"I don't know there's something fishy going on? I'm asking you, what is the fishy thing?"

"It's hard to guess. We have too little information."

Yun Ziliang said.

"Then I'll help you find some more information."

Zhou Xuan contacted Stipa awang again through the Blood Well Secret Realm.

"Awang, your third uncle is the chief priest of Shijiazhai, right?"

"That's right, High Priest."

"Did he participate in the joint blood sacrifice at Gangfeng Cave?"

"No." Awang said, "My third uncle seems to have gone to... Dashishan..."

"Are you in the Gangfeng Cave?"

"Yes." Awang said, "I am the spiritual officer of Shijiazhai, so I have to participate in the blood sacrifice."

"Do you know all the other high priests in the village?"

"There's a joint blood sacrifice every month. I'm all too familiar with them."

"Then you can check whether the high priests from other villages are present."

Zhou Xuan asked.

"Then allow me to leave the Blood Well Secret Realm for a short while."

Awang left first. Two or three minutes later, his blurry figure reappeared. He spoke with great doubt, saying, "The high priest and all the high priests did not come to participate in this joint blood sacrifice."

"You continue to pay attention to the joint blood sacrifice. If there is any movement, report to me. Similarly, this mission is not free. I will pay you afterwards."

"Thank you, high priest."

Awang left the Chenghuang Taoist Temple.

Zhou Xuan also returned to the real space and said to Yun Ziliang: "Among the sixteen Yin Halls, none of the high priests of the Yin Hall participated in the joint blood sacrifice. They should have received the instructions of the evil god in advance and went to a cave like the high priests of Liuyun Village and Shijia Village. Why is this?"

"I'm a little confused about this. I guess it has something to do with the characteristics of the evil god, but I haven't studied the characteristics of the evil god in depth."

Zhou Xuan asked Yun Ziliang: "Who has done in-depth research in this area?"

"Currently, the one who knows the evil god best in Mingjiang Mansion is the one in the sky."

Yun Ziliang pointed in the direction of the Heavenly Fire.

Li Chengfeng once said that there are big Buddhas, gods, strange ghosts, and evil gods in the Well Country. Among them, only the evil god, the source of power, is closest to the god.

The origins of the powers of the gods and evil gods are similar, so they naturally know some details.

"Lao Yun, you really gave me some advice."

Zhou Xuan's spirit immediately traveled throughout the day to look for the fire of the gods.

……

In the sky, the already bright fire was now staring at the Li Yuan Building.

"My waking speed now is not even as fast as a bell."

The ancient tree golden bell only truly recovered its spirituality the day before yesterday. Thanks to the constant nourishment of the storyteller's wishes provided by Zhou Xuan, its spirituality rose extremely rapidly, causing even the God of Suffering to be a little jealous.

"The God of Disaster."

"Zhou Xuan, do you have any way to transfer the power of the wish given to Jin Zhong to me?"

The God of Suffering asked.

"We'll talk about the power of vows later."

Zhou Xuan got straight to the point and said, "I have something urgent to ask you."

"You can ask whatever you want, I will tell you everything I know."

The God of Suffering expressed his attitude.

If he told Zhou Xuan the "secret of Xuejing Tianzun" last time in order to thank Zhou Xuan for protecting Mingjiang Mansion, then his open attitude towards cooperation now is completely because he sees Zhou Xuan's value.

A person who can quickly revive the ancient tree golden bell naturally has the ability to help his fire burn quickly.

There is no reason for the God of Suffering not to cooperate with such a person.

"The bow is about to descend upon the earth, have you received the news!?"

"What? He's coming to the world?"

"Relying on the joint blood sacrifice of the sixteen Yin Halls of Mingjiang Prefecture, the peak arrival is completed."

Zhou Xuan said.

"I really don't know that."

The God of Suffering said, "Once this old thing comes, I'm afraid he will cause trouble for you."

"Whether it's troublesome or not, we'll talk about it later. I've received news that the joint sacrifice will be held as scheduled, but... the sixteen high priests of the Yin Hall received instructions from the evil god behind them and went to certain caves in the mountains. Is there any deep meaning behind this?"

After thinking for a while, the God of Suffering suddenly said, "Gong Zheng is indeed the oldest god-level god. He can actually think of such a method... a method to share the Heavenly Ghost."

"Please explain it more clearly, God of Suffering."

Zhou Xuan said.

"This goes back to the ancient times, when there were no gods or white walkers."

The God of Suffering said: "Only the Heavenly Ghosts and Heavenly Gods protect the human world of the Well Country. Originally, the nine Heavenly Gods each had their own governorate to protect them. Although there were occasional disputes, overall, it was quite peaceful.

However, one day, twelve celestial ghosts appeared from nowhere in the Well Country. They were cruel and brutal by nature, killing without restraint.

The will of the Jing Kingdom was in deep sleep at the time, and only the nine gods were awake. Under the leadership of Nuo, we started the ancient war with the twelve heavenly ghosts. "

"We, the nine great gods, can borrow the power of the Well Country, and each of us has extraordinary combat power.

As for the twelve heavenly ghosts, apart from their own powerful strength, each of them is good at using strange and ingenious skills, and they are immortal."

The God of Suffering talked about the Heavenly Ghosts, and seemed to have returned to the glorious past. He said in a daze: "We, the nine Heavenly Gods, were destroyed by the immortality of those Heavenly Ghosts... If we fight them head-on, even though the Heavenly Ghosts have the advantage in numbers, they cannot defeat us.
But after they die, they will be reborn again, and the cycle will repeat over and over again. No matter how hard you try, you can never kill them all.

Until one day, the Nuo God who controls destiny, in the endless cycle of fate, realized the way to deal with the sky ghost, which is to create the shadow god. "

The God of Suffering explained: "The Shadow God is the current evil god. How was the Shadow God created? When we gods are between heaven and earth, whenever we take action, we will leave behind the aura of gods.
After Nuo God collected the auras of these gods, he grabbed some of the desires of all living beings in the world from the Gate of Destiny, and extracted the most gloomy and evil aura of the underworld from the Soul-Shepherding City.
After the three auras collided, they became the Shadow God.

The desires of the Shadow Gods are extremely strong. Perhaps it can be said that they are the embodiment of human desires. There were at least dozens of Shadow Gods in the first batch. They were like released hunting dogs, sharing the corpses of the Sky Ghosts killed by the Gods.

Before the Sky Ghost was resurrected, its corpse was divided and eaten by the Shadow God.

Then the Shadow Gods would disperse to various corners of the Well Country. Without a complete corpse, the Sky Ghosts could not be resurrected.

Thus, the situation in that ancient war tilted towards our side... However, we never expected that... our great victory over the Sky Demon would attract the will behind the Sky Demon, and that will was as powerful as the Supreme Will.

Then, there was the aftermath of the death of the eight gods and the large number of aliens who, following the command of the will, entered the people of the Well Country... These aftermaths are not glorious to me, so I won’t talk about them.”

The God of Suffering said, "As I just said, evil gods are born every year. They are formed by the interweaving of the aura of the gods left in the world, the desires of the human world, and the evil aura of the netherworld.
It is precisely because of these three types of temperament that the evil god possesses a power source similar to that of the gods. He is naturally good at controlling people's hearts and desires, and he also loves evil places, flesh and blood, and death.

Gong Zheng took advantage of this point, and the method of his advent was to imitate the Shadow God's method of eating the Sky Demon."

Zhou Xuan suddenly understood when he heard this, and said, "That is to say, today's joint blood sacrifice is not to let Gong Zheng descend directly, but the sixteen evil gods will share Gong Zheng's divine aura. After the sacrifice is over, the sixteen evil gods will find a suitable time and a safe place to spit out Gong Zheng's divine aura..."

"That's right. The evil gods will first share the food, and then let the auras gather to complete the transfer from the sky to the human world... The entire process of descending is extremely safe."

The God of Suffering said, "The sixteen evil gods are scattered in every corner of Mingjiang Prefecture and in the deep mountain caves. It is almost impossible to find them all at once. You don't have enough manpower... Unless you stop the joint blood sacrifice, you can stop Gong Zheng from coming.

Otherwise, once he comes, as long as the evil god does not exhale his breath and gather it into a bow, you will not be able to find him no matter what."

When he was about to reach this point, the God of Suffering sighed and said, "The longest-lived god-level being is more cautious than anyone else. If it is not 100% safe, he will not choose to descend to the human world..."

“Isn’t Gong Zheng afraid that those evil gods will not exhale his breath after consuming it? Just like those shadow gods who consumed the sky ghosts before.”

"So Gong Zheng understands evil gods. Evil gods are the embodiment of human desires. As long as there are enough benefits, those evil gods will be easily controlled."

The words of the God of Suffering reminded Zhou Xuan of Zha Xing, the Nine Incense Sticks on Earth who was hiding somewhere unknown. She used her "appearance" to confuse the evil god "Time" so much that he would rather die than betray her...

(End of this chapter)