Chapter 10 Spring

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

At this time, the gate of the temple was not closed, which is reasonable. They were conquered by the Tianshi Sect. How could it still be closed, unless the ancient witches closed the gate again after resurrection.

As soon as he walked into the gate, Qi Xuansu saw a wild beast that looked like a hill. This wild beast had been dead for a long time, but it was not just a skeleton, but with fur, flesh and blood, and lifelike, as if it had just died not long ago, just blocking most of the door.

It seems that this wild beast wants to block the door with its huge body before dying to block the enemies outside.

But now it seems that this wild beast was pushed open by someone from the outside with great force, so that it was a distance away from the gate of the temple, not blocking it, but like a shadow wall.

Qi Xuansu was not careless. He poked the wild beast with the "Qingyun" in his hand, and then the remains of the wild beast that seemed to be alive at any time immediately turned into dust, leaving nothing.

"The Taoist predecessors back then were really domineering. It seems that most of the creatures here have completely lost their vitality and there is no possibility of resurrection. Only a small number of them have escaped." Qi Xuansu thought so, "But the bodies of these wild beasts can still remain intact after many years of death, which shows how powerful they were when they were alive."

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

A figure was sitting with his head down, holding a wooden stick similar to the "gongzhu stick" in his arms, with two snakes entangled, but it was not a pattern of two dragons playing with a pearl. Instead of the dragon pearl, there was a grim skeleton.

This figure was not a six-foot-tall witch, but the size of an ordinary person, motionless, and seemed to have been dead for a long time.

Qi Xuansu had a scene in his mind. The army of the Tianshi Cult surrounded the temple. The wild beast blocked its master behind it and blocked the door of the temple with its body. In the end, it was killed by the Tianshi Cult. Its master was not spared and died here.

This figure was not only the size of an ordinary person, but also not wearing armor and weapons. It looked like a "civilian official" instead of the "general" seen before.

Qi Xuansu did the same thing and poked it with "Qingyun".

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

Unlike the remains of the wild beast before, this figure did not turn into dust. Instead, it slowly raised its head, and two red lights appeared in the depths of the originally empty eye sockets.

Qi Xuansu also saw the face of the figure clearly. It had been completely dried up. It was literally skin and bones. It was just a layer of skin compared to a skeleton, and it was an ominous gray-black color. It looked like a mummy.

Qi Xuansu was startled and wanted to strike first.

At this moment, the figure spoke.

Strictly speaking, it was not a voice made by the throat. After all, his body had completely decayed, and it was still unclear whether he had a throat or not. Instead, it was a voice from the heart, similar to the "telepathy" of Buddhism, which was directly transmitted to Qi Xuansu's mind.

"You have the breath of the ancestors of witches..."

Because it was a communication of the heart, not a certain language, the thoughts conveyed would be transformed into meanings that the other party could understand directly. Qi Xuansu was most familiar with vernacular, so in Qi Xuansu's ears, this kind of voice was plain language, and it would not be a flowery "I am this and that, you are this and that".

Qi Xuansu didn't rush to attack after hearing this, but he still maintained a defensive posture and asked in his mind: "Who are you?"

The figure's mind conveyed a smile, as if he was smiling and speaking: "But you still have the breath of the Tianshi Sect on you. If I'm not mistaken, you are holding Zhang...'s sword?"

It seems that due to some power, this figure couldn't call out the full name of Zu Tianshi.

This is certainly not to avoid mentioning the name of the venerable, but Zu Tianshi's power still affects Lingshan Dongtian, which makes this figure very afraid.

Qi Xuansu said casually without changing his face: "Imitation."

The figure didn't seem to be suspicious: "You are not of the Zhang family bloodline."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Speaking of the Zhang family bloodline, haven't you seen another family? The members of that family are Taoists and have the bloodline of the Great Witch."

"Never seen it." The figure conveyed a very affirmative voice, "You are the first person I have seen. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to return from fake death."

Qi Xuansu's heart moved.

Fake death?

Did this guy escape by pretending to be dead? But the essence of magic is to deceive people. If you can deceive yourself and make yourself believe that you are dead, you may be able to deceive the world. A thousand-year-old turtle, in the absence of a heavenly calamity, enters a state of suspended animation with minimal consumption. It is not impossible for it to linger for more than a thousand years.

But this kind of life is really worse than death, and there is no meaning, so few people would choose this way of longevity of "turning a deaf ear to the outside world".

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

The figure finally gave an answer this time: "My name is Quan. What about you?"

The names of the ancient witches are all one character, such as Wu Luo is called Luo, and Wu is just an identity. Wu Luo means a great witch named Luo. Other great witches can be deduced in the same way.

The figure in front of him can survive for more than a thousand years without dying. Although he is not an ancestor witch, he is also 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 respected as the ancestral 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 said sharply: "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, 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, and the ancient witches have 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 played 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 the same 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 emperor of heaven and earth are the masters, and the hierarchy is orderly. Heaven is the highest, earth is second, and humans are next."

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

Qi Xuansu replied: "Zi Buyu has strange powers that mess with the gods. Taoist sects and witchcraft have the same treatment, they both have strange powers that mess with 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 their authority.

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 was already a completely bloody world.

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