Pawn Crossing the River

The gate of the temple is very high. It is not for ordinary people, but for the ancient witches who have gone through the blood sacrifice and ascension ceremony. The ancient witches are all six feet tall. This has also led to a fundamental change in the structure of the temple. .

At this time, the door of the temple was not closed, which was reasonable. It had been conquered by the Tianshi Sect, so how could it still be closed, unless the ancient witches closed the door again after being resurrected.

As soon as he walked into the gate, Qi Xuansu saw a desolate beast that looked like a small mountain. This desolate beast had been dead for a long time, but it was not just a skeleton. Instead, it was full of fur, flesh and blood, lifelike, as if it had just died and was blocked. Most of the doorway was covered.

It seemed that this wild beast wanted to block the door with its huge body before it died, blocking the enemies outside.

But now it seems that this wild beast was pushed away with great force from the outside, so that it was some distance away from the gate of the temple. It was not blocked, but looked like a shadow wall.

Qi Xuansu was not careless and poked the desolate beast with the "Qingyun" in his hand. Then the lifelike remains of the desolate beast, which seemed to be resurrected at any time, immediately turned into dust on the ground, leaving nothing behind.

"The Taoist seniors back then were really overbearing. It seems that most of the creatures here have completely lost their vitality. There is no possibility of resurrection. There are only a small number of fish that have slipped through the net." Qi Xuansu thought, "But the bodies of these wild beasts The fact that it can still maintain its appearance intact after many years of death shows how powerful it was during its lifetime.”

After the corpse of the wild beast turned into dust, the scene behind it was also revealed.

A figure is sitting with his head bowed, holding a wooden stick similar to a "gong candle stick" in his arms. Two snakes are entangled, but it is not the pattern of two dragons playing with a pearl. Instead of the dragon pearl, there is a dense skeleton.

This figure is not a great witch who is six feet tall, but is the size of an ordinary person. He is motionless and seems to have been dead for a long time.

A scene like this appeared in Qi Xuansu's mind. The army of the Tianshi Cult surrounded the temple. The desolate beast blocked its master behind him and blocked the door of the temple with its body. In the end, he was killed by the Tianshi Cult, and his master was not spared either. Finally died here.

This figure is not only the size of a normal person, but also does not wear any armor. It looks like a "civilian official" rather than the "general" seen before.

Qi Xuansu still followed the same method and used "Qingyun" to poke.

Although "Qingyun" only has the power of a semi-immortal, it is still an immortal in nature and is not afraid of all evil spirits.

Unlike the remains of the previous desolate beast, this figure not only did not turn into dust, but slowly raised its head, and two red lights lit up deep in the originally empty eye sockets.

Qi Xuansu also saw clearly the figure's face, which had been completely dried. It was literally skin and bones, with just one more layer of skin than a skeleton. It also had an unknown gray-black color, making it look like a mummy.

Qi Xuansu was taken aback and decided to strike first.

At this moment, the figure spoke.

Strictly speaking, it was not a sound made with his voice. After all, his body was completely decayed. Whether he had a voice or not was still a question. It was a voice from the heart, similar to the Buddhist "other mind", which was directly transmitted to Qi Xuansu's mind.

"You have the aura of the ancestral witches on your body..."

Because it is a heartfelt communication, not a certain language, the conveyed ideas will be transformed into meanings that the other party can directly understand. Qi Xuansu is most familiar with vernacular, so to Qi Xuansu, this kind of heartfelt voice sounds like vernacular, instead of being formal and formal. How about, how about you.

After hearing this, Qi Xuansu did not rush to take action, but still maintained a defensive posture, and also asked in his heart: "Who are you?"

The voice of this figure conveyed the emotion of laughter, as if he was speaking with a smile: "But you still have the aura of the Tianshi Sect on your body. If I admit it correctly, what you are holding in your hand is Zhang...'s fairy sword?"

It seems that due to some kind of force, this figure was unable to call out the full name of the Ancestral Master.

This is of course not a taboo for the Venerable, but the power of the Ancestral Master still affects the Lingshan Cave Heaven, making this figure very fearful.

Qi Xuansu said nonchalantly without changing his expression: "Imitated."

This figure seemed not to be suspicious: "You are not of Zhang family blood."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Speaking of the Zhang family bloodline, haven't you seen another family? The members of that family are Taoist priests and have the bloodline of a great witch."

"I've never seen him before." The figure conveyed a very positive voice, "You are the first person I saw. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have come back from suspended animation."

Qi Xuansu's heart moved.

suspended animation?

Did this guy get away with it by playing dead? However, the essence of magic is to deceive people. If you can deceive yourself and others and make yourself believe that you are dead, you may be able to hide it from others. The thousand-year-old king and the eighty-thousand-year-old tortoise have entered a state of suspended animation with minimal consumption in the absence of natural disasters. It is not impossible to survive for more than a thousand years.

It's just that this kind of life is really worse than death and has no meaning, so few people will choose this way of immortality of "not hearing anything outside the window".

However, Qi Xuansu did not dwell on this and asked again: "Who are you?"

The figure finally gave the answer this time: "My name is Quan. What's yours?"

The names of ancient witches only have one character. For example, Wu Luo is called Luo, and Wu is just an identity. Wuluo means a great witch named Luo. The same can be said for other great witches.

The figure in front of me can survive for more than a thousand years. Although he is not an ancestral witch, he is still at the level of a great witch.

It is worth mentioning that the "great witches" among the Taoist people of later generations mainly refer to the eleven witches, while the "great witches" among the people of the shaman religion refer to the witches who have experienced the pseudo-ascension ceremony. The eleven witches are respectfully called the ancestor witches. And there are witches and witches, witches are witches and wizards are witches, collectively called "witches and witches". It's just that later generations directly confused the concept of witches and witches. Because the eleven witches are all women, all witches and witches are collectively called witches.

Qi Xuansu asked: "Why don't you have the characteristics of a wild beast? Nor have you turned into a giant?"

Quan replied: "Because my blood sacrifice ceremony did not use the blood of wild beasts."

Qi Xuansu was startled and then understood: "Is it human blood?"

Quan didn't answer, Quan acquiesced.

After a moment of silence, Quan asked again: "Taoist priest with the aura of ancestral witch, why did you come to our holy land?"

Qi Xuansu said vaguely: "I'm here to find some answers. As you said, I have the aura of the ancestral witch on my body. I want to know why there is the aura of the ancestral witch."

Quan hit the nail on the head and said: "Then you are going to Lingshan."

Qi Xuansu also acquiesced.

Quan said: "We are not enemies. Although I don't know how long I have been sleeping, but judging from the degree of decay of my body, it should be a long, long time, at least hundreds of years. Maybe the ancestral witches have fallen. In ancient times, The witchcraft is gone. Those hatreds are a thing of the past.”

Qi Xuansu responded: "Indeed, nearly two thousand years have passed since the ancient witch religion was destroyed, and the ancestral witches are no longer in the world."

He was playing a trick here. He did not say that all the ancestral witches had fallen, but that they were no longer in the world, because Wu Xian, Wu Luo, and Wu Yang did not die, but they were indeed no longer in the world. For example, Wu Luo, she Being in your own divine kingdom cannot be considered the human world. However, this would lead to the misleading impression that all eleven witches have fallen.

As expected, Quan sighed: "Even the ancestral witch cannot escape the fate of falling."

Then Quan asked again: "So, the Tianshi Sect has established a Taoist kingdom on earth."

Qi Xuansu said: "The Heavenly Master Sect also no longer exists."

Quan couldn't help but be startled and asked: "Who is it... who has replaced the Tianshi Sect?"

After walking around the world for many years, Qi Xuansu has a profound understanding of the truth that it is essential to be on guard against others, so at this time he tells no lies and no truth, and uses the information gap to mislead in order to protect himself: "Confucianism. "

"Confucianism?" Quan also knows about this sect, "That Confucian sect that says 'Feng Xi Feng Xi is like the decline of virtue'?"

What he was talking about was the allusion of "Feng Ge laughs at Confucius".

Zu Tianshi is the founder of the Tianshi Sect, not the founding founder of the Taoist sect, so the Taoist sect and the shamanic sect have been in parallel for a period of time. As early as the Zulong period, the shamanic sect has been weak and retreated to the southern border area of ​​​​Shuzhou. They became "Southern Barbarians" and severed contact with the Central Plains. At that time, the Taoist sect began to become the common master of the world, and had fierce disputes with the Confucian sect. Even after concentrating solely on Confucianism, the Taoist sect was not completely defeated overnight. There was a long process in between.

It was not until the Taoist sect completely failed and withdrew from the center of the imperial court that the Tianshi Sect and the Taiping Tao emerged. Only then did the Tianshi Sect destroy the surviving witch sect. Therefore, people in witchcraft also know the existence of various schools of thought, but their understanding is not deep.

Qi Xuansu nodded and said: "Yes. Confucianism replaced the Tianshi Sect, suppressed Taiping Dao, and became the common master of the world. They respected the Tao of Heaven and called it 'Heavenly Principle'. They took the Human Emperor as their leader and called them 'Emperor' , meaning Son of God.”

In fact, Confucianism and the Holy Court are playing the same trick. The West regards the goddess as the daughter of the supreme will, while Confucianism regards the emperor as the son of heaven. They are both stories of a shell.

Quan murmured: "Our witch sect is also a subordinate of the Human Emperor, and that's how it should be. But how can the Human Emperor be the son of Heaven? People in heaven and earth should be equal. The Human Emperor is the master of the human world, and he shouldn't turn to Heaven. Lower your head."

Qi Xuansu said: "This is the difference between Confucianism and shamanism. Under the concept of Confucianism, the king of heaven and earth is the master, and the hierarchy is orderly. Heaven is the highest, earth is second, and human beings are next."

Quan asked again: "How does the Confucian sect you mentioned view witchcraft?"

Qi Xuansu replied: "Zi Buyu has strange power that confuses the gods. Taoist sects and witch sects have the same treatment. They both have strange powers that confuse the gods."

Qi Xuansu's answer gave people the illusion that at this time, the Confucian sect dominated the world outside, and the Taoist sect was just hanging on. This is indeed not wrong, but this is already a thing of the past. He deliberately failed to say that the Taoists had made a comeback and regained power.

Quan fell into silence.

This time it was Qi Xuansu's turn to ask: "Do you know how to get to Lingshan?"

Quan turned his gaze outside the temple.

At this time, the outside world was completely bloody.

Quan said slowly: "I know, but I can't leave for Lingshan now. The blood moon means great danger."