Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Jiang Yuhuan said: "Four years ago, we discovered the first corpse worm host. After capturing it and dissecting it, we found several red worms in its body and called it corpse worms..."

"Until a year ago, the second-generation corpse insect host was discovered. At that time, the corpse insect had evolved. Not only was the host immortal, it also had powerful self-healing capabilities, and other abilities were also enhanced accordingly."

"The corpse worms in the host are more complete and have evolved facial features. By capturing a corpse worm host in the middle stage of foundation establishment, we found out that the mastermind behind the scenes was a late stage foundation establishment monk, and the two met in the territory of Qi State of."

Jiang Yunsheng said: "Tell me your conclusion."

Jiang Yuhuan said: "The corpse worm is an unknown creature that specializes in parasitizing the human body. In view of its unique way of survival, ability and structure, we determine that it is not a product of independent reproduction, but was developed by others. Corpse worm The reason why they can sense each other may be that they come from the same mother body. From this, it can be inferred that the first-generation corpse worm and the second-generation corpse worm are not produced from the same mother body.”

"Is that all?"

"That's all there is for now."

Jiang Yunsheng glanced at the man named Shi, saw him nodding slightly, and said: "The source of undead essence is actually produced by the human body. It is somewhat similar to the maggots in the rotting body. The difference is that it eats spiritual power and flesh and blood. And it can provide the body’s blood supply and metabolic functions.”

"It is a kind of miniature flesh-eating insect that is reproduced using special methods when the internal organs of the body are rotting when a person is about to die. It uses the flesh and blood of the human body as a foster to strengthen itself step by step. When it is strong enough, , can be separated from the body and reside on other human bodies.”

"Not all human bodies can reproduce the source of immortal essence. Its reproduction has high requirements on the external environment. It must be a woman with an extremely yin constitution, and the surrounding environment must be dominated by yin energy. Once yang energy is inhaled, the source of immortal essence will Stillborn."

"It itself is also an extremely yin type of bug, so on a full moon night, bugs hidden in the human body can't help but come out and move, or wake up. Because on a full moon night, the yin energy is the heaviest, and its abilities are reduced. Only by greatly improving can you control the host itself. "

"The cave we found as a source of undead essence is hidden in the rocky hills. A mortal war once broke out there, with hundreds of thousands of people killed and injured, and the yin energy was very strong. This is contrary to our speculation. Conspiring together.”

"So far, the undead essence hosts we have captured are themselves affected by the undead essence source, and they lose consciousness for longer and longer periods. In other words, their physiques are not suitable for the growth of the undead essence source. It is certain that They say that if things go on for a long time, the source of immortal essence will also die in their wombs.”

"Because the host itself is not an extremely yin body, and the environment they are in is not a place surrounded by yin energy, the source of undead essence is affected by this, and it falls into a coma for a long time."

"The source of the undead essence is comatose, and the host remains awake. But once the moon is full, the air between the sky and the earth is densely covered, and the source of the undead essence wakes up, the host enters coma. They actually share the same body and compete for the dominance of the body."

"When the source of immortal essence falls into coma, its breathing and exhalation will provide human blood supply and metabolism. It is exactly complementary to humans. Therefore, even if there are no five internal organs in the body, humans can continue to survive."

"At present, we don't know the purpose of the man behind the scenes, but judging from the hosts he found, his original intention is to let the source of undead essence assist the monks to achieve the effect of immortality, rather than letting the source of undead essence completely dominate the human body."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have found so many people with normal physiques as hosts. Judging from the results, his plan was not ideal."

"Various accidents often occur when the source of undead essence competes with the host for dominance, and they cannot combine well with each other. People often die violently for no reason. Even the second-generation source of undead essence has problems of this kind."

After Jiang Yunsheng finished speaking, several people from the Qian Yizong fell into deep thought. The Shui Yun Sect knew much more deeply than they did, and everyone was silent for a while.

"We discovered a situation where a second-generation corpse insect host was directly promoted to the foundation-building realm because it ate the flesh and blood of the foundation-building monks. Do you know the reason for this?" After a while, Tangning asked.

Jiang Yunsheng said: "The source of the undead essence can directly absorb spiritual power from flesh and blood. I think its spiritual power has reached a critical point, leading to the advancement of the source of the undead essence. Since the source of the undead essence and the monks themselves share the same body, the immortal After the essence source advances, it will absorb a lot of spiritual power."

"This kind of spiritual power does not need to be refined, but is directly stored in the monk's spiritual sea cave, leading to the completion of the monk's advancement. The monk can directly go from Qi refining to foundation building, the prerequisite is that he has reached the peak of Qi refining spiritual power. If he has not At this point, if you suddenly receive such a large amount of spiritual power, you may die violently. "

"Of course, this is just a guess on my part."

Jiang Yuhuan said: "Can you go to the cave you found to cultivate the source of undead essence?"

The man named Shi nodded: "Okay."

Several human beings transformed into the light and flew away. After walking for about a day, they came to a rocky hill in a barren mountain. Looking from above, they saw gray clouds and mist below, all of which were transformed by Yin Qi.

Only the monks who had been transformed from the mortal world could see the faint gray gas. Several people escaped from the light and went straight down to between a stone wall.

A large hole was created in the wall by huge force, and several people entered the cave.

After walking forward for about a few dozen feet, he turned a corner and came to an empty secret room.

The man surnamed Shi said: "This is where the source of immortality is cultivated."

The entire secret room is twenty to thirty feet long and wide, with several stone beds placed horizontally. The dark air in the secret room was dense, turning into a substantial cloud of sadness, and there was a very strong fishy smell. Even after so long, the smell was still strong.

In addition, there are some black stains everywhere in the secret room, all of which are solidified blood.

Several people investigated and found some traces of unknown green liquid scattered in the corner, which was also accompanied by a strong fishy smell, as well as some dried flesh and blood and internal organs.

There are shallow pits in several corners of the secret room. Judging from the directions, they should be the traces left by the formation flags where the magic circle was arranged.

"It seems that this place has been abandoned for a very long time, and even the spiders have settled here again." Guan Sheng grabbed a black spider and said.

"Are these traces of green liquid something?" Tangning asked.

Jiang Yunsheng said: "It is a herbal solution."

"Herb? What herb?"

"The sap of cliffweed."

The sap of cliff grass has paralyzing and analgesic effects. Taking a large amount can make people lose consciousness. The people behind the scenes must be using this method to conduct experiments on human bodies and cultivate corpse insect hosts.

"What are you going to do next?" Yin Qingyuan asked

The man surnamed Shi said: "According to the clues you provided, since the people behind the scenes are late-stage foundation-building monks, the scope can be greatly reduced. Among the casual cultivators in Qi State, there are no more than ten late-stage foundation-building monks. They can be eliminated one by one. In addition There are no more than twenty family heads in total."

"The only problem is that although the other party is meeting in Qi State, it does not mean that he is a Qi State monk, and may not even be a Xingang monk."

Guan Sheng asked: "Do you have any clues about the person behind the scenes?"

"To date, no one directly linked to him has been captured."

Tang Ning said: "The other party obviously knows Jiang Taihua and knows that he is about to die when his life is exhausted. However, Jiang Taihua has no impression of him. We can start from this point and investigate the key suspects first."

The man surnamed Shi said: "According to our investigation during this period, there are two casual cultivators in the late stage of foundation building who are acquainted with Jiang Taihua. I think they are divided into four groups. Two groups investigate these two casual cultivators, and the other The two groups of people assisted our sect in continuing to investigate the whereabouts of the host and obtain more clues."

Yin Qingyuan nodded: "We are here to assist you. Everything must be obeyed. Fellow Daoist Shi can just make arrangements."

"In that case, I will arrange the distribution of personnel. Fellow Daoist Yin and I will follow and investigate these two people separately. Junior Sister Nangong, Junior Sister Liu and Junior Brother Jiang will be in a group, and the three Taoist Fellows of Guizong will be in a group."

Yin Qingyuan frowned slightly and said: "We have just arrived and are not familiar with the place. It is not conducive to carrying out investigation work. We still need someone to act as a guide. You will be more useful than us for many things."

"What Taoist Fellow Yin said is reasonable, but I didn't think it through a little bit. Then how about Junior Brother Jiang and Fellow Taoist Guizongguan interchanging with each other?"

Naturally, everyone had no objection.

Yin Qingyuan said: "I wonder who I want to investigate?"

The man surnamed Shi turned over his right hand, took out a paper file, handed it to him and said: "This person's surname is Feng Mingjun, a surname from Zhulu County, and Jiang Taihua is also a surname from Zhulu County. As far as we know, the two have known each other since they were young, and they were friends in their early years. Quite thick.”

Guan Sheng said: "But in Jiang Taihua's memory, we found that he did not recognize the man. If the two had a deep friendship, we should be able to suspect his identity even if he was wearing a black robe and a bamboo hat. I think the person behind the scenes probably Not this person."

Jiang Yunsheng said: "Currently we only have this information, and our sect's intelligence department is still investigating."

After some discussion, several people left.

Tang Ning and Jiang Yuhuan followed Shuiyun Sect Jiang Yunsheng for a day to a Taoist temple in the south of Qi State. Three rays of light just fell, which aroused the vigilance of the monks in the Taoist temple. A graceful woman came towards them and came towards them. Jiang Yunsheng bowed: "I wonder which uncle of our sect is this? Do you need disciples to inform you?"

Jiang Yunsheng pulled out a token and asked him, "Junior Brother Han, is he here?"

After the woman took the token and confirmed her identity, she returned to him and said, "Uncle Han is resting in the palace."

"Take us there!"

"yes."

"Fellow Taoist Tang, Friend Jiang, please." Jiang Yunsheng turned around and said

The three of them followed the woman for more than a hundred feet and arrived at a large hall. In the hall, sitting on a futon, was a man with a pink face and a fair complexion. Judging from his frail appearance, he looked like a woman.

When several people entered, the man opened his eyes and stood up to greet them.