Chapter 9: Remains of the Ancient Witch

It is impossible for so many witches and wild beasts to have the cultivation of the stage of creation. It seems that at the most critical moment, Wu Luo and other witch cult leaders have no time to maintain the mystery of the holy land of ascension. They open the gate of Lingshan Cave Heaven and let a large number of witches who do not meet the conditions enter to resist the attack of Tianshijiao.

The Taoist system of Taoism originated from Tianshijiao. Today's Taoism is only nine grades and twelve levels. With the addition of the great master, great immortal, Taoist children and Taoist people, it is only sixteen levels. The Tianshijiao back then was divided into thirty-six levels, with ghost soldiers and ghost generals, etc. The great Tianshi was at the highest point, and there was the existence of "Tianshizhi", which was like a country.

After the collapse of Tianshijiao, Zhengyi actually declined greatly and was in a very loose state. It was no longer as powerful as it was in the past until Xuansheng rebuilt Taoism. In the more than a thousand years between then, Zhengyi may have recovered a lot in size, but whether it is mobilization ability or organizational rigor, it cannot be compared with Tianshijiao back then.

Because of this, Qi Xuansu saw most of the ordinary bones along the way. Under the erosion of time, there was nothing strange about them. They had even decayed and would break at the touch.

At this time, Qi Xuansu found the remains of an ancient witch who was intact, but not falling down even after death. This ancient witch was six feet tall, had six arms, and there were some traces of wild beasts on his body, but it was severely damaged in the battle and his original appearance could no longer be seen. The ancient witch was wearing simple and rustic armor, which was also damaged in the battle, and only some fragments were left, barely hanging on the skeleton.

Qi Xuansu could be sure that this was an ancient witch in the pseudo-immortal stage, the kind that came to Lingshan Cave Heaven through the pseudo-ascension ceremony of the altar blood sacrifice. The traces of wild beasts on his body were proof of this. Because the blood sacrifice would use the blood of wild beasts, the ancient witch would have some wild beast characteristics.

Qi Xuansu also felt a familiar breath from the ancient witch's skeleton, which was the breath of the human immortal inheritance. After all, the true body of the human immortal is also called the true body of the great witch.

The real body of a human immortal is different from the golden body of Buddhism. The key to the former lies in the acupoints and body spirit in the body. It is said that it is indestructible when it sees the spirit. Once the body spirit collapses, the body of a human immortal is no longer indestructible. After the death of the human immortal, there will be no complete flesh and blood body. On the contrary, the golden body of Buddhism is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Sometimes, a body can be left after death. On the surface, it still looks like a golden body, but in fact, it is already hollow inside.

An ancient witch, or an ancient witch who is more inclined to be a warrior.

Qi Xuansu certainly has to study it carefully. He carefully observed the remains of the ancient witch. After so many years, the bones of the ancient witch are still like diamonds. Qi Xuansu tried to stretch out his hand to break them, but they did not move at all. Although Qi Xuansu did not dare to use too much strength, it was much stronger than the remains of ordinary witches that would break at the touch.

However, there were still lightning residues on the remains of the ancient witch. When Qi Xuansu touched it with his palm, a cluster of electric sparks exploded immediately. Then, the scene of the thirty-six thunder gods appeared at the acupoints of the skeleton.

Qi Xuansu had seen this scene on Zhang Yuelu before. It was a scene that only appeared after practicing the "Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Righteous Law" to a certain level.

From this, it seems that this ancient witch died from the "Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Righteous Law". His body was directly blown up by the thunder. The thirty-six thunder gods took advantage of the situation to replace the body gods in his body, and finally killed the ancient witch.

I don't know whether it was the ancestor Tianshi who took action himself, or the descendants of the ancestor Tianshi's disciples. I think this ancestor should be found in the ancestral hall of the Great Immortal Mansion.

In terms of size and organization, the Tianshi Sect is definitely not comparable to today's Taoism. But if we don't talk about various strategic means that require the power of the crowd, just talking about high-end individual combat power, the Tianshi Sect with the ancestor Tianshi may not be much inferior to today's Taoism.

As the end of the law approaches, although the number of celestial beings shows a blowout trend, the number of immortals has not increased too much, and it stops at the first calamity immortal. Not to mention the second calamity immortal.

This is not only the case with Taoism, but also the Holy Court, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

It seems that the immortals are giving up on the world, and this giving up is from top to bottom.

The first to disappear were the Taoist ancestors, then the three-tribulation immortals, followed by the two-tribulation immortals, the one-tribulation immortals, and finally the ordinary immortals. After the last immortal passed away, there were no more immortals in the world.

Next came the celestial beings. One day, there will be no more people who can fly and hide in the sky. Among the remaining people, the Qigong practitioners and the martial artists are mixed together. They know some Qigong and boxing. If they can reach the innate stage, they are the great masters who have participated in the creation of the world, but they are also afraid of fire guns. The alchemists and witches are indistinguishable from each other, between liars and sorcerers. Rather than magic, they are mostly illusions. Believe it and it will work. Once it is discovered and exposed, you have to change places and start over.

Maybe one day, these distorted martial artists and alchemists will also disappear, and future generations will think that the immortals are all illusory myths and legends, and even martial arts and magic are the toys of liars.

Taoism and Daxuan have even become lost civilizations.

Just as Qi Xuansu's thoughts drifted away, a little red light lit up in the eye sockets of the ancient witch's skeleton. The remains that had been sleeping for more than a thousand years seemed to be awakened by Qi Xuansu, slowly raised the weapon, and slashed at Qi Xuansu fiercely.

Because the remains of the ancient witch were six feet tall, Qi Xuansu could not have been looking up at its head all the time, and he did not notice that the remains of the ancient witch had come back to life and was chopped hard by an axe.

However, Qi Xuansu has now entered the stage of creation. Not to mention that this ancient witch is dead, even if he is still alive, he may not be able to take down Qi Xuansu.

So this axe not only failed to hurt Qi Xuansu, but was shattered by Qi Xuansu's body, and the axe that had long been rotten was shattered.

Qi Xuansu immediately drew out "Qingyun" and slashed with a sword, cutting the remains of the ancient witch in half.

The reason why "Qingyun" was used instead of "Pure Bodhi" was mainly because "Qingyun" had been here before, and showed its divine power here, drinking the blood of the ancient witch.

As expected, "Qingyun" immediately made a clear sound, as if it resonated with some kind of remaining existence here.

After the ancient witch was cut off by "Qingyun", there was no movement immediately, as if the resurrection just now was just a last gasp, just a breath.

However, this still made Qi Xuansu more careful.

This Lingshan Cave Heaven is indeed strange, not necessarily dead and silent, but still has "vitality".

After all, Wu Luo has been resurrected and is making trouble outside. By the way, Wu Xian, who was killed by the sisters, also resurrected after many years and returned to the world.

And when it comes to "resurrection", this is exactly what the ancient witch cult is good at, but the witch cult cannot achieve perfect resurrection.

For Qi Xuansu now, whether he is perfectly resurrected or not, it makes no difference at all, both mean great risks. No wonder the Yao family regards this place as a "warehouse". In addition to the fact that the entrance and exit of Lingshan Cave Heaven have been destroyed, these ancient witches are also natural guards.

Qi Xuansu looked at the remains of the ancient witch again. Just now, it was comparable to diamond. Now it seems that it has experienced tens of thousands of years in an instant. It has completely decayed and turned into dust.

Qi Xuansu didn't know for a moment whether this was the characteristic of the remains of the ancient witch or the peculiarity of "Qingyun".

However, Qi Xuansu didn't come here to study the ancient witch religion, and he didn't think too much and continued to move forward.

Next, Qi Xuansu clearly felt that the population was dense.

This "population" does not mean living people, but more and more buildings. It was a wilderness just now, but now it has entered the scope of villages and towns, but most of these buildings are only broken walls and ruins.

Qi Xuansu looked around and found that the lower half of many buildings had sunk into the ground, and the whole was crooked. It seems that this town was not just smashed by external forces, but also experienced a major earthquake.

Almost a day had passed since Qi Xuansu woke up in Lingshan Cave Heaven and arrived at the ruined town on foot.

There was no sun in Lingshan Cave Heaven during the day, but there was skylight, which gave people the feeling that it was a cloudy day, and when you looked up, you could only see thick leaden clouds all over the sky. Once night fell, the clouds and fog would dissipate, and a blood moon would appear, illuminating the entire Lingshan Cave Heaven in blood red, as if it was a world of blood.

Qi Xuansu had an inexplicable intuition that the night in Lingshan Cave Heaven would be more dangerous than the day, and perhaps many ancient witches would be resurrected at night and fall asleep during the day. After all, the blood-colored moonlight that filled every corner was weird no matter how you looked at it. Who knows what would happen if you were illuminated by the blood-colored moonlight for a long time.

Qi Xuansu did not dare to take risks and decided to find a place to stay and wait for dawn.

The most conspicuous building in this town is an ancient temple, which is completely different from the Taoist temples of later generations. It is full of wild atmosphere, not exquisite, and has a rough beauty, as if it was carved out of a whole rock, rather than built with bricks and stones.

The temple is also the only relatively intact building, not half-sunken underground, but the area around the temple is also the most tragic place. The corpses of the ancient witches here are far more than other places. It seems that the ancient witches fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the vicinity of the temple, where they fought to the death and were finally annihilated by the Taoist priests of the Tianshi Sect.

This also made Qi Xuansu hesitate. Should he enter the temple?

It is true that the temple can block the moonlight, but if a large number of corpses around the temple are all resurrected and just surround Qi Xuansu, Qi Xuansu can only fight his way out, which will backfire.

Now Qi Xuansu is like a person alone in the enemy's territory. In addition to retreating, there is no supply and support. Once retreating, there is no way back. In this situation, Qi Xuansu must be careful and try not to get hurt easily, not to consume too much energy, and try to avoid unnecessary battles.

Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu unfolded the celestial phenomena and sought enlightenment from Zi Guang Zhenjun.

A very simple divination of good and bad luck, only a small amount of divine power is required.

Soon, Zi Guang Zhenjun responded.

Neutral.

Generally, there are six standards for divination of good and bad luck: great luck, good luck, medium luck, neutral, bad luck, and great bad luck.

Neutral means that there is a high probability that nothing will happen.

Qi Xuansu then walked into the temple.