As long as it is an individual, it is not difficult to see.

The relationship between Su Xing and the high priest was mutually hostile.

In the opinion of the villagers, since the high priest is a person from the 'heaven', he can help them 'ascend to the heaven' after death.

So Su Xing, who is hostile to him, is naturally the enemy of the 'Heaven Realm'.

Following him, it is impossible to ascend to heaven.

then.

After the four people received the 'Aura of Spiritual Light', two of them expressed their intention to return to Mushroom Village, and the other two joined other high priest teams.

Su Xing's original plan was to rope in these villagers and use them as shields at the critical moment.

After all, there are countless possible dangers deep underground.

But since the villagers were unwilling to go with them, Su Xing changed his strategy and casually followed the high priest's team...

…

On the road.

Su Xing checked the high priest's storage bag that he had just grabbed.

In this storage bag, in addition to storing a large number of Happy Boards, there is also a mace and a small amount of 'blood mushrooms'.

These 'flesh and blood mushrooms' made Su Xing more convinced of what he had thought before.

——The reason why the high priests take away people who are nearing the end of their lifespan may really be cultivating ‘flesh mushrooms’ underground.

Besides, it's just like what the villagers of Mushroom Village said.

As the crowd continued to move deeper underground, the villagers' behavior and expressions began to become strange.

They either cry or laugh.

Or he keeps mumbling to himself while walking.

All of them looked like crazy, obviously their spirits were affected by the 'spirit'.

Compared to the villagers, Su Xing, as a monk in the Qi refining stage, is in a much better situation.

Although the voice of the 'spirit' kept echoing in his ears, his behavior was still normal and not as crazy as the villagers.

I don’t know how this giant underground cave was created.

Su Xing followed the high priest and walked for nearly half a day before arriving at the bottom of the giant cave.

The space at the bottom of this cave is extremely huge.

In the middle area of ​​the bottom floor of the cave, there is a mountain-like vein of spiritual stone nearly fifty meters high.

wrong.

This can no longer be called a spiritual stone vein, but should be called a ‘spiritual stone mine’.

In the outermost layer of this mine, you can still see countless human corpses covered with "blood mushrooms".

They are attached to the surface of the Lingshi mine, and they are densely packed and look disgusting.

While Su Xing was looking at the Lingshi Mine.

Under the constant pollution of the 'spirit', the villagers who followed the high priests to this place have also completely fallen into madness.

The villagers were wailing and rolling on the ground with their heads in their hands, while the high priests just stood there and watched the villagers on the ground coldly.

When villagers died suddenly due to the pollution of the 'spirit', the high priests piled their bodies in the spirit stone mine.

it's easy to see.

This spiritual stone mine located deep underground was gradually built up by the accumulation of corpses by the high priests day after day.

As for why the high priests wanted to build a spiritual stone mine, Su Xing couldn't guess.

He was observing in secret.

There are countless high priests coming and going at the bottom of this cave.

In order not to attract the attention of these weird people, Su Xing's entire body became translucent and he hid in the cave wall.

After a period of observation, Su Xing discovered.

In addition to human corpses covered with 'flesh mushrooms', there is also a huge talisman more than one or two meters wide attached to the top of this spiritual stone mine.

There are six characters written on the talisman: "Om, Mah, Ne, Ba, Mi, Hum".

These six characters seem to have some kind of soul-stirring power.

Su Xing just stared at the talisman for a moment, and then he felt as if his whole body was being burned by fire, with unbearable pain all over his body.

Su Xing can feel it.

This burning sensation did not come from his body, but from his soul.

It was as if his soul was ignited by the six-character mantra.

After feeling the burning sensation from his soul, Su Xing immediately looked away, not daring to look directly at the strange talisman again.

As a time traveler, the six-character mantra on the Lingshi Mine made Su Xing subconsciously recall the classic scene in "Journey to the West".

Could it be that what is buried under this spiritual stone mine is...

Thinking of this, Su Xing moved his gaze to the foot of the mine mountain, looking for the possible monkey head.

While Su Xing was looking for the monkey head, as time passed, all the mortals brought here by the high priests had died suddenly due to the pollution of the 'spirits'.

At this point, the mission of the high priests is completely completed.

After throwing the mortal corpses to the surface of the Lingshi Mine, the high priests turned into countless white lights and merged into the six-character mantra on the top of the mine.

Not far from Lingshi Mine.

Seeing that the high priests were all integrated into the talismans, Su Xing also walked out of the cave wall, with a look of understanding in his eyes.

From this point of view, the high priests who brought people here from various villages who were nearing the end of their lifespan should all be transformed by the six-character mantra.

Thinking of this, Su Xing had already guessed the purpose of the high priests' accumulation of spiritual stone mines...

Perhaps, the six-character mantra itself is a kind of weirdness, and the source of its power is the spiritual stone mine that contains a large amount of spiritual power.

The six-character mantra ordered the high priests to expand the mountain, precisely to further increase the spiritual power contained in the spiritual stone mine.

The spirit stone mine is to the high priests what a beehive is to bees.

The six-character mantra is the queen bee in the hive.

Every one month, it will release the high priests hidden in the talismans and bring a large number of mortals to the villages underground to expand the mountain.

This can be understood as the queen bee directing these bees to continuously expand the size of the hive for herself....

It is precisely because the six-character mantra is a 'living creature' and a strange one.

Therefore, when Su Xing looked directly at the talisman before, he felt his soul being burned by it.

In this way, everything can be explained.

There was only one thing Su Xing still couldn't quite figure out:

Why does the pollution caused by the whispers of ‘spirits’ become more and more serious the further you go underground?

Is it possible that the true nature of the ‘spirit’ is hidden deep underground?

For example, that six-character mantra is the essence of "spirit"?

In order to save his own life, and to get rid of the whispers that kept echoing in his ears, Su Xing watched from a distance for a while, then bravely moved closer to the Lingshi Mine.

He looked around and saw that there was nothing unusual happening around him, so he took a few steps forward again.

There was still nothing unusual around.

No weirdo suddenly appeared, and no high priest jumped out to attack him.

only....

Just as Su Xing was getting closer and closer to the Lingshi Mine, a voice suddenly came from inside the mine.

"But someone is outside?"

The voice sounded sharp, weird, and a bit weak.

Upon hearing this sound, Su Xing immediately stopped where he was, not daring to make any sound.
Chapter completed!