Chapter 93 Ksitigarbha Spirit

When he first entered the Qinling Mountains, the story he heard from the old man in the old village has basically been verified here.

A sudden outbreak of rat infestation, a mysterious man wrapped in a black robe with only one pair of eyes left to see...

As expected, the mysterious man was the only survivor from here.

And he came in here for the last time and never got out again.

The purpose of his last line is to solve a disaster buried here.

Li Heng looked at the countless pairs of scarlet light spots moving in the darkness on the other side, and the squeaking sounds lingered one after another.

This huge rat nest exists naturally here. The White Lotus Sect believes that these giant rats that have never been seen on the surface are monsters guarding this place.

Li Heng felt that this might be some kind of strange symbiotic relationship.

Originally, these rats would not go to the surface. Their long-term living environment is deep underground. Therefore, in the past long years, there has never been an incident of rat tide invading the Qinling Mountains, and humans living on the surface do not know it either.

There are also such biological communities underground.

It was a small pool embedded in a rocky slope, only about one foot square, wide in front and narrow in back, like a big chestnut, or pine cone shape.

The mosaic here looks like a piece of solidified egg white, or like amber made from thick emulsion.

Could it be that the poisonous dragon is breathing?

But Li Heng was unmoved, with a face as cold as cast iron, and walked straight towards the back of the altar, where there were only special landforms of naturally formed rock ravines.

There is this sentence in it——

"Wu Qiu is actually a traitor! He has defected to the Japanese army and stolen the Dragon Boat Festival. Although I have captured and killed him, he has sent the Dragon Boat Festival to the Japanese Army's Kinoshita Brigade and cannot be recovered.

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Even after the White Lotus Sect discovered this place, built an altar, and continued to create "great immortals", there was no huge rat tide.

Speaking of which, the abnormal temperature here and the dark red Warm Palace Stones everywhere are indeed very similar to the extremely hot hell. As a branch of Buddhism (self-identified), the White Lotus Sect itself uses Buddhist mythology to incorporate this underground space into its doctrine system.

In order to incorporate this strange place into the world view of this religion, in a sense, it is to complete the legalization of its "legal system" and thereby convince the believers.

After seeing this thing, Li Heng couldn't help but feel moved and felt mysterious.

Except for local conflicts between humans and rats, most of the time it was peaceful.

In the dim red light, Li Heng could only see that it was a high slope with a semicircular shape. It was very huge and made entirely of natural underground rocks. There were no traces of artificial polishing, but it was covered with stripes.

There are cracks and ravines, and the "Pregnant Immortal Pond" is on this semicircular high slope.

The [Ksitigarbha Spirit] in this pool should not be a pool of stagnant water, fixed and unchanging, but slowly growing every year.

All of this depends on Li Heng getting the answer from the records of the survivor and the last "Iron Armored Bronze Corpse Immortal".

Judging from this situation, it is no wonder that the people of the White Lotus Sect thought that these "demon rats" were the guards of the Ksitigarbha spirit.

Li Heng's feet were still steady, ignoring the pressure of the rats as he walked up the tall stone slope. In his eyes, one of the ravines reached the top.

Originally, this kind of story should be just a pure superstitious rumor, fabricated by the White Lotus Sect to improve its own teachings and confuse the general public.

But now Li Heng looks at it based on reality, and it may not be that simple.

What exactly is this so-called [pressing dragon]?

Li Heng continued to pursue this question——

Something that attracted him to travel thousands of miles to China.

This is a piece of information Li Heng found in these records.

"The wonders of the world emerge from the Qinling Mountains, and there are mysteries deep in the dragon's veins."

A dozen rats with dark red fur opened their mouths at the bottom of the slope to catch the flowing [Ksitigarbha Essence] and then swallowed it.

Not only that, Li Heng also saw this title in the secrets of the White Lotus Sect left on some altars.

Ocean of rats.

Except for the narrow rocky path connecting the altar, the rest of the rocky slope was crowded with dense scarlet light spots, like an ocean.

Li Heng frowned slightly, could it be said that there is really a so-called poisonous dragon imprisoned here?

It is precisely because of the loss of the [Dragon Pressure] that it loses its suppression. If the Poison Dragon turns over, it will be a disaster. It is precisely because it feels this disaster that the Rat Nest riots and flees to the ground?

It's incredible that he can accept this thing as a spectacle specially created by someone.

All changes happened later. It was after the arrival of another group of people during the Republic of China that the rats became abnormal and even broke out of the ground for a time, forming a huge rat infestation.

"Ksitigarbha Essence Ambergris Liquid, Suppresses Longjian and Suppresses Purgatory Heaven"

"After losing Dragon Pressure, the poisonous dragon no longer lives in peace. The rats were so frightened that they became furious and inexplicable. The poisonous dragon may not be far away from turning over. What should the people on the ground do..."

And he saw this thing not long ago, it was in the notebook of the explorer Al Jones!

Li Heng couldn't help but think of the series of regular sounds he heard before, relaxing and relaxing, just like the breathing sounds hidden underground.

In it, the content of "Sea Dragon King Sutra" has been greatly revised, and the sea-turning dragon in it has been changed into the purgatory poisonous dragon.

And it also spawned a legend about suppressing the poisonous dragon in purgatory.

Now nearly a hundred years have passed, and the liquid inside has filled this small pool.

Li Heng immediately made a decision in his heart and decided not to make random guesses anymore. He stared ahead. Anyway, the answer was not far away. He wanted to find out the truth for himself!

The noisy rat squeaking still lingered around his eardrums, as if countless hair burrs were pricking his cerebral cortex repeatedly.

Fortunately, the rats swarming like waves below had no intention of climbing up the high slope. Instead, they were all following the rules and surrounding the place.

Another such record appears on a scripture on the altar, which is a Zen scripture after demonic modification.

There is a keyword in this [pressing dragon].

Purgatory is the eight hot hells mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. The entire eight hot hells are covered with scorching flames and the sky is covered with burning iron. This place is called the extremely hot hell among the eight hot hells.

After all, the group of righteous men of the Republic of China who came here a hundred years later are no longer considered members of the White Lotus Church, but he also mentioned related matters and said that [Yu Longjian] was stolen.

And it was filled with white "emulsion", just as the record said, it seemed to be milk seeping out from the earth, an essence condensed from pure vitality, as pure as snow.

Anyone who walks here will be under tremendous psychological pressure. Just thinking about the possibility of falling... it will not only make the scalp numb.

"If there is no suppressing dragon, the poisonous dragon will cause chaos"

There, he finally saw what the White Lotus Sect called the [Pregnant Immortal Pond] and the [Ksitigarbha Spirit].

Li Heng took a step forward. He was looking for various pieces of information to support each other. On one side were the contents written by the White Lotus Sect in the form of superstitious teachings and legends, and on the other side were the scattered "diaries" left by the righteous man.

Then Li Heng saw a wisp of overflowing "emulsion" flowing down the natural ravines on the semicircular stone slope, and suddenly a huge wave arose among the rats!

Immediately afterwards, all the rats quickly moved away from these rats to make a "passage". These rats ran all the way along the passage, but before they ran far, they began to struggle and twitch, becoming strange and inexplicable, as if they were poisoned.

Therefore, Li Heng does not think that the rat nest here exists to protect the [Ksitigarbha Spirit]. Both of them should be the product of the strange space environment here.

"Is this thing really a natural product of the creation of heaven and earth..."

But they still rolled and crawled forward until they collapsed at the end of the "passage", struggled and twitched to death.

And at the end, Li Heng saw something extraordinary - it had no gray-black fur, and was covered in dark red skin. It was huge, as big as an underage sow, and was unable to move like a puddle.

A giant female rat lying like rotten flesh among the rats!

The plump female rat was completely naked and had no eyes. Under its belly were countless squeaking young rats that were only about the size of a thumb.

She stretched out her equally fat and eyeless head, opened her mouth, bit the rats that had just died in front of her, and ate them one by one.
Chapter completed!