C21 The Nine Evil Scriptures
Although the Crimson Dust Planet was millions of miles wide, there were only two mountains that were facing off north and south as if they were dragons and tigers. That was the Dragon Ridge, Tiger Peak, which was marked on the map.
From a bird's eye view, it looked like a dragon and a tiger were fighting over something. In the dragon claw, there was a huge sinkhole between the tiger's thumb and forefinger.
When the forty zhang long giant dragon head landed next to the sinkhole, it looked like a leaf floating next to a pond. It was extremely tiny.
According to the map, this should be a dangerous mountain with a circumference of a hundred miles and a thousand zhang tall. Even if it had experienced hundreds of years of vicissitudes, it would not have become a bottomless sinkhole.
Lu Changkong touched the map in his arms and said, "You can retreat a hundred miles away on the Great Dragon Head. Before I find you, don't get close to this place. "
Tu Canntian said, "Master, this Heavenly Pit is bottomless. I don't know what kind of danger is hidden in it. Why don't I stay with you and take care of you?"
Lu Changkong's face darkened. "This trip is related to the secrets of the imperial family. Is it something you can peek at as you wish? Leave quickly, don't make me waste my breath. "
"Yes, Master, be careful. " Tu Canntian knew Lu Changkong didn't want his brothers to take risks with him, which was why he said it so decisively.
But Lu Changkong had already said it to this point, so he could only take his men and leave a hundred miles away.
Lu Changkong saw them go far away, so he spread out his body and landed in the cave. Immediately, he was swept towards the wall by the alternating hot and cold air currents.
Lu Changkong adapted to the crisis and gave up on flying with the wind. He relaxed his body like a fallen leaf and let the whirlwind push him towards the bottom of the cave.
He didn't have the mood to calculate how long he had been floating for, but he was sure that the bottom of the hole was small. The funnel-shaped hole was more than ten thousand meters deep.
The wall of the hole was as smooth as a mirror and definitely wasn't formed naturally. It seemed to be some kind of terrifying force that exceeded Lu Changkong's understanding, forcibly turning a thousand feet high peak into a ten thousand feet deep hole.
Lu Changkong's eyes stared at the sky that was getting smaller and smaller. It was not until the sky turned from a spot of light that was hard to see with the naked eye into darkness that the biting cold whirlwind suddenly stopped hundreds of feet away from the ground.
Lu Changkong, who had flipped in the air and landed on the ground, suddenly made a muffled sound under his feet. A strong smell of blood followed.
When he looked down, he saw a corpse whose brain had been crushed by his foot. Scarlet blood was flowing along the tip of his foot.
Lu Changkong looked down and saw hundreds of dead bodies that had been cut open. Blood was everywhere. It was a shocking sight.
Lu Changkong casually flipped over a few dead bodies and saw that apart from their hearts being dug out, their organs were not damaged at all. The cuts on their bodies were smooth and clean.
Perhaps even professional executioners might not be able to complete such a large-scale massacre in a short period of time.
Who could be so cruel? Lu Changkong was so furious by the miserable scene in front of him that his eyes almost split open. However, he heard screams coming from afar. He immediately spread out his body and ran towards the source of the sound.
"Argh!"
"Please. . . Spare me! . . . Spare me. . . "
"Don't kill me. . . "
In the distance, there was a strange man with blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a red robe with a seven-colored golden flame embroidered on his chest.
He inserted both of his hands into the abdomen of a corpse that was glaring with anger. He pulled out the bloody beating heart from the corpse and sucked a mouthful of blood from the heart. Only then did he reluctantly bury the heart into the ground after wiping the corner of his mouth.
"Bury the heart!" Lu Changkong was shocked. He slowed down his pace and quietly hid himself, observing those strange people from a distance.
Seventeen strange people formed a circle dozens of meters away from each other. There were at least a thousand people buried in their hearts.
Under the signal of the leader, they chanted strange scriptures at the same time. The more they chanted, the faster the ground beneath their feet began to tremble rhythmically.
It was as if the hearts of the people they had just buried had come back to life in the earth. Slowly, they began to jump at the same frequency. Thousands of crimson blood lines gradually surfaced on the earth, snaking towards the center of the circle.
Suddenly, the yellow light in the soil became brighter and the dignified imperial aura rose. The strange red-clothed man bent his knees almost at the same time and almost knelt down.
"God of Fire, bestow upon me divine power!"
The person in the lead suddenly shouted loudly, and the red-robed man straightened his waist. He gathered power in his dantian, and loudly chanted sutras. The strange sutras guided the blood and Qi into a ball of red light, suppressing the yellow light in the earth for a breath, and then gradually shrank into a ball of light.
"Use red to force yellow!" Lu Changkong was secretly shocked. "They are here for Ancestor Song's yellow robe!"
Ancestor Song's yellow robe was the dragon robe that Zhao Kuangyin and his men had "forcefully" applied on him during the Chen Qiao Army Rebellion. Although the yellow robe had the aura of an emperor, it was the one that was most afraid of red. In the past, Zhu Yunwen had relied on fifty thousand jin of cinnabar to force out the yellow robe. As for the red core (human heart), it was more effective than cinnabar.
As expected, after a moment, a bright yellow dragon robe slowly floated out of the soil, and dust and sand fell. The yellow dragon pattern was still the same. Although it had been hundreds of years, the prestige of the emperor did not decrease at all.
"Go!"
The nine men in red robes rushed forward at the same time. Each of them stretched out their hands to grab a corner of the yellow robe. The five-clawed golden dragon on the yellow robe suddenly opened its eyes wide with anger. A dragon's roar was heard. The tens of thousands of golden lights in the yellow robe shot out like needles and arrows in all directions. They pierced toward the nine men's palms without any mercy.
The nine men were like red-hot iron that was rolling on the ground. Their palms were immediately torn open, and the smell of burnt flesh spread in all directions. When their palms were half a foot away from the yellow robe, they had already turned into black bones. However, they continued to shed their skin and flesh, turning a blind eye to the palms that had turned into white bones. They still continued to push their palms forward without feeling any pain or itch. . .
"Hand it over!"
Lu Changkong furiously shouted. He leapt up and flew into the sky like a hawk spreading its wings. He suddenly spun a thousand times.
A pair of corpse claws swept across in all directions, shattering the nine heads. He grabbed the yellow robe with his hand and fell down. The tip of his foot was like a dragonfly touching the surface of the water. He kicked a corpse that had yet to fall to the ground and borrowed the force to fly a few meters away.
He sneered at the red robed people who surrounded him and said, "You are not the most respected people, nor are you a general's Life Providence. If you can't take this yellow robe, I will take it for you. "
The strange man said in fluent Mandarin, "Han, don't interfere with our Witchcraft Cult's matters. Put down the yellow robe and we will not make things difficult for you. "
Lu Changkong laughed scornfully. "You want to make things difficult for me? Do you think it's rare for me to make things difficult for you? "
"If you refuse a toast, you'll have to drink a forfeit!" The strange man roared angrily: "The Sacred Fire Order serves you!"
The remaining eight red-clothed men each took out a ruler long Jinling. Lu Changkong glanced at it and was surprised to find the Sacred Fire Order in their hands. It was almost exactly the same as the one he had taken from Hee Jinling. The only difference was that the Sacred Fire Order was carved with red, orange, yellow, green and green flames. Blue, purple, and white flames. What Lu Changkong had seized was a black flame.
Before Lu Changkong could take a closer look, the red-robed man had already taken out all the Sacred Flame Tokens. The eight Tokens were burning with raging flames, as if they had opened the door to hell and poured the hellfire that burned the gods and devils into the mortal world. The flames burned the gold and stone, and the dust rose in all directions.
Lu Changkong was forced to retreat by the scorching heat. He instantly raised the Genuine Essence in his body to the peak, ready to unleash the strength of Spiritual Corpse to fight the holy flame tokens at any time.
Right at this moment, a wave of restlessness suddenly came from the ring. Lu Changkong subconsciously raised his hand, and a stream of profound fire shot out like a flood dragon. It rebounded all of the eight-colored flames - Jinling, who was engraved with black flames, broke through the restriction and descended upon the world. He appeared in midair. The eight tokens resonated in unison, as if they were subjects meeting a king. The flames instantly disappeared, with the white flame as the lead. The red flame was the last, and it fell down towards the black token.
"Sacred Fire Emperor's Token!"
The eight of them exclaimed in unison, and six of them prostrated themselves on the ground.
"Get up!" The strange man in the lead shouted angrily and cursed: "Are you crazy? Why is Fire Saint a Han?"
Two of the six men stood up, while the other four knelt on the ground.
Lu Changkong coldly said: "What an audacious maniac. Why aren't you kneeling when you see the Sacred Fire Emperor's token?"
"I will kneel if you are the Sacred Fire Order. I won't kneel if you're not me! "
Lu Changkong cast a sidelong glance at the strange man. He said: "The Sacred Fire Emperor Token is in my hands, what makes you think that I am not the Sacred Fire Emperor?"
"This. . . " The strange man hesitated for a moment before saying, "If you can control the Nine Tokens at the same time, then I'll admit that you're the Fire Saint. "
"Watch carefully!" Lu Changkong raised two fingers on his right hand and pointed at Jinling. A black gas was released from his fingertips. His eyes shone brightly and he shouted, "God of Fire, give me strength!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his left hand shook violently. The soul hook appeared out of nowhere. The iron hook in his hand was as fast as lightning. It flew out of the ground and into the jaws of the four kneeling people. It was suddenly pulled back. The tip of the hook was inserted into their mandibles. It pierced through their heads and the iron chain shook. The four heads fell down and were held in his hand.
Lu Changkong's right finger was like a sword, and it was slashed diagonally. His palm turned into a corpse claw midway, and he grabbed half of the head of the person closest to him.
"Shameless!"
The red-robed man roared in unison. He rolled a few feet on the ground and grabbed the two Sacred Flame Tokens in his hands. The two Sacred Flame Tokens collided with each other, and six Flame Dragons roared out from the clash of metal. They split into three groups and attacked Lu Changkong from all directions.
Lu Changkong saw that the situation was not looking good. He retracted his soul hook and jumped up. Like a hawk, he spun several times in the air and rose steadily. The six flaming dragons also coiled up and chased after him, opening their mouths to the sky. With every zhang Lu Changkong grew, his dragon body would increase by eight zhang. From the beginning to the end, he had been roasting Lu Changkong with raging flames three feet below him.
"Those bastards deliberately didn't want me to die too quickly. If this continues, even if I can ascend to the cave entrance, I will still be roasted into a dried corpse. Why don't we go all out and fight to the death! " Lu Changkong's heart raced as he pushed his Dantian away and forced the Golden Core in his abdomen with a mouthful of blood essence.
Just as he slowly opened his mouth to reveal the black light of the golden core, there was suddenly a loud noise that shook the sky. Dust and dust rose from the bottom of the pit in a radius of more than ten miles. The ground at the bottom of the pit suddenly rose more than a hundred feet. Lu Changkong looked again and saw a giant hand that covered the entire hole from the bottom of the pit. It grabbed him and the six fire dragons from the bottom to the top.
After a long time, Lu Changkong opened his eyes and found himself lying in the endless darkness. A human figure that was emitting a faint green light twenty feet away was looking at the book titled "Corpse Controlling Essence. He couldn't help but mutter, Bullshit, nonsense. . . Nonsense. . . "
Lu Changkong jumped up and pointed his finger at the man and shouted angrily, "Who are you?! Put down the secret book of my sect!"
"Hmph!" The man snorted coldly and turned his head around. Two beams of blood-red light shot out from his eyes and knocked Lu Changkong, who was on full alert, fifteen meters away.
The man casually threw the 《 Corpse Controlling Essence 》 in front of Lu Changkong and said, "If it wasn't for this stupid thing and the fact that you can transform into a Spiritual Corpse, You would have been like them a long time ago! "
He pointed at the three heads that were lifted to the side. His brain was empty, his chest was cracked open, and all his internal organs were gone. This really made Lu Changkong suck in a breath of cold air.
"Kid, tell me who you are, and where is your sect?" The man's words didn't allow anyone to resist. It forced Lu Changkong to answer truthfully, "I, Lu Changkong, am a disciple of the Holy Church's Snow School. "
"Hahahahaha. . . " The man laughed. "The Indestructible Holy Church can be called the Indestructible with just the techniques of Cat, Three, Dog, and Four. Pooh! It will be strange if it doesn't die!"
Lu Changkong's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "I don't care who you are, I have to tell you this clearly. Although the Holy Church has vanished into thin air, the name of the Holy Church doesn't allow anyone to insult it. "
"So what if I have insulted it?"
"Kill!" Lu Changkong shouted angrily. He turned into a Bronze Corpse in midair and attacked with all his strength. His claws slashed towards the head with the momentum of a meteor chasing after the moon.
"Get lost!" That man let out a low shout and shattered Lu Changkong's curved blade. Then, he flew a few meters away as well.
"You have a strong backbone!" The man looked at Lu Changkong who was slowly getting up and said, "You know you are no match for him, why did you still attack?"
Lu Changkong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and placed his palm on the side of his body to gather power.
Lu Changkong looked straight at him and said proudly, "To protect the sect!"
"Then the Holy Church has done you a favor?" The man saw Lu Changkong shake his head and asked again, "They have done you a favor!"
When he saw Lu Changkong shaking his head again, the man was confused and asked, "Ungrateful and unrighteous, why did you risk your life to protect the Holy Church?"
"The Holy Church has no kindness to me, but my master has feelings for me. In order to protect the Holy Church, my master died in battle. As his disciple, I naturally have to protect the Holy Church with my life, and revitalize the prestige of the Snow School. "
"En! What you said makes some sense. Perhaps, I should have met you earlier. . . " The man muttered to himself and asked again," What time is it now? Nuwa, Hou Tu, Chen Gou, where are they? "
Lu Changkong felt dizzy from his words. After a while, he replied, "Those ancient gods have disappeared for countless years. "
"What did you say?" That person said excitedly, "Tell me in detail!"
Lu Changkong thought for a moment, organized his thoughts, and gave him a general description of what he knew. Fortunately, he was very familiar with history and ancient myths, so in the shortest time possible, he could finish the most concise description of China for five thousand years.
When the man heard that, he let out a long sigh and said. So it has been so long. Kid, do you know who I am?"
Lu Changkong shook his head. He asked himself and answered," I am Houqing! "
"Fiend Star Houqing!"
Houqing was the younger brother of the Emperor of Hou Tu, so he was sent by Hou Tu to help the Yellow Emperor fight Chiyou. Unexpectedly, Houqing had been influenced by Chiyou and the others to join Nine Li and go against the Yellow Emperor. He had even turned himself into a flying corpse just like Hanba. Even if he died and turned into a demon star, no one would be able to stop him. Later, Nuwa joined forces with Hou Tu, Ziwei, Gou Chen, and Ksitigarbha to seal him with the Five Elements Formation.
Even though Lu Changkong had long been mentally prepared, this sentence of 'Houqing' was like a myriad of mountains collapsing in silence, and it shook Lu Changkong to the point his vision went black and he felt as if he was about to faint.
After a long while, he asked doubtfully: "Great God, wasn't it sealed by the Five Elemental Formation?"
Houqing smiled: "The four planets and one star suspended above this planet are the five array cores of the Five Elements Array. Other than star power, what other array can seal me, Houqing? "
Only now did Lu Changkong believe that the person in front of him was the insufferably arrogant Demon Star's Houqing, a true god worshipped by the members of the Immortal Holy Church. However, Three Madness and One Egg never worshiped ghosts and gods. Except for the occasional mention, they never brought Lu Changkong to worship the Empress. Otherwise, he would definitely recognize him at a glance.
Lu Changkong bowed down. "Lu Changkong greets Great God!"
Houqing said, "You don't need to call me Great God, nor do you need to restrain yourself. In all seriousness, I am still your Ancestral Master. The Corpse Controlling Essence in your hand was one of the Nine Evil Scriptures that I created back then. I wonder what went wrong with your master and grandmasters when they passed down their legacies. It made my 'Nine Evil Corpse King' a bit weird. "
"Lu Changkong greets the grandmaster!"
"Hahaha. . . " Elder Houqing laughed in relief. "Good, good, good. Get up. Tell me, what have you learned?"
Lu Changkong honestly told her what he had learned. When she heard him, she shook her head and said repeatedly, "Silly, silly, ridiculous. This is ridiculous!"
Houqing put on a stern face and said, "Not only did the 'Nine Evil Corpse King Plot' lose too much in the inheritance, it was also changed by your self-righteous ancestors. It's a miracle that you're still alive. Look at the two Spiritual Corpse weapons you've refined. According to the Nine Evil Corpse King Manual, the Spiritual Corpse that you have refined can dismember the Evil Servant and the Evil Corpse Guards. The Evil Corpse General, the Evil Corpse General, was four levels higher than the Evil Corpse General, and the Evil Corpse General was four levels higher than the Evil Corpse General. But your Spiritual Corpse hasn't even reached the most basic of Corpse Slaves, and you still dare to show them around?"
" Your master, Feng YI, is a great figure. He was able to deduce the essence of the Nine Evil according to a few words in the 'Corpse King Scripture'. He must be a man with extraordinary talent, a very smart person. Unfortunately. . . Otherwise. . . Who else in the Three Realms was his match? That Jun Moxiao was rather clever as well. He was actually able to comprehend the method to refine a living person's corpse. But with his method of refining a corpse, how long will it take for you to cultivate it to become a Heavenly Devil?"
Lu Changkong said," Could it be that I refined it wrongly from the very beginning? "
" Not only was it wrong, it was also ridiculously wrong! Absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, The idea of tempering the main body was right, but you did not digest all the Yuan Qi cultivation methods as the foundation. Just by relying on the Taotie's method of eating and digesting the spirit energy, it can take away one's cultivation. The final result could only be - Beng. " Houqing made an explosive gesture and continued:" We meet again, you and I. . . I'm afraid it's the will of heaven, so I'll fulfill your wish! Come here! "
Lu Changkong took a few steps forward. In just a few short steps, Houqing's figure suddenly became extremely tall. He stretched out his huge claw that covered the sky and covered the earth and grabbed him in the palm. His right index finger slowly stabbed into Lu Changkong's chest.
Lu Changkong only felt a warm flow slowly pour into his heart, forcing all the blood in his body to flow out through his seven apertures.
Lu Changkong spat out blood one after another, and Houqing's fingers also sank inch by inch into his heart.
This time, what appeared in front of Lu Changkong's eyes was not all the memories of the past. It was the all-encompassing Nine Evil Scripture, the Qi Training Scripture. Refining the soul, forging weapons. Pill Refining, Array Formation. . . Corpse Controlling, the techniques he had learned from his two masters were many times more profound than what he had learned from his two masters. It was also extremely bizarre. Especially the last piece, Evil Controlling Heaven and Earth, which had almost reached an unimaginable level.
Houqing's voice rang in his ears, "Have a good sleep! Comprehend that piece of Evil Warding Heaven and Earth in your dreams. If. . . If you don't understand anything when you wake up, you don't deserve to be my Houqing's successor. I will personally refine you. I would rather have another Spiritual Corpse by my side who only knows how to chat with me. I don't want to have a descendant who will bring shame to me in this world. "