Black Night Mountain is worthy of its name. Invisible Yin energy permeates the mountain, and then turns into clouds. The sky is dark from morning to night. If you enter it rashly, you will feel dizzy and weak.
If you stay in a place where evil or yin energy is concentrated for a long time, you will be easily affected by it. At the least, the spiritual platform will be stained, and you will have various hallucinations. At the most, you will lose your soul and become a madman. Even the body will be gradually corroded and the yang energy will gradually fade away.
Decline, loss of life.
As the name suggests, the function of "Dividing Yin Qi" is to divert these Yin Qi or evil spirits, just like releasing floods.
After receiving the order, the alchemists took out the bag specifically for the powdered stone from their saddle bags, and then took the bag to the mountain pass, where they used the powdered stone to draw a huge "Yin-dividing Halberd" that was nearly a hundred feet long and ten feet wide.
” is nearly a hundred times larger than the ordinary “Yin-Dividing Halberd”, and only a “Yin-Dividing Halberd” of this size can divert the Yin Qi in a mountain.
As for sending warriors to block the earth's energy, it is also to serve the "Yin Dividing Halberd". If the earth's energy is not blocked and turned into stagnant water, but allowed to flow continuously and "living water" is continuously injected, it will become a palace of all things.
The classic question is, if a pool is filled with water and drained at the same time, how long will it take for the pool to be filled or drained?
The warriors were extremely powerful and physically strong. Ten of them could be worth more than a hundred civilians. With the help of gunpowder, they quickly followed Lingquanzi's instructions to block and destroy several key nodes, creating a situation of shutting the door and beating the dog.
The Qi Master who occupied the commanding heights sent out signals with talismans.
Lingquanzi, who was guarding the mountain pass, raised his sleeves and stretched out his hands, raised his middle and index fingers, and drew in the air. A thin red line spurted out from his fingertips, like ink marks on a pen. As the fingertips turned up and down, in the blink of an eye, there was a line similar to
The pattern book of the halberd is just suspended in the air, filled with clear light and auras.
Then he waved his hand again, using his two fingers together as sword fingers, pointing far away at the halberd pattern, and said "go".
Ordinary alchemists would still draw with powdered stone, but Lingquanzi had a higher level of cultivation and could draw the "Split Yin Halberd" without using any external objects such as powdered stone.
In an instant, Lingquanzi's "Split Yin Halberd" merged with the huge "Split Yin Halberd" on the ground, which seemed to be the finishing touch.
The "Split Yin Halberd" is called a halberd, but it is actually more like a simple arrow. At this moment, it actually lights up with a faint fluorescence. Then the wind rises from the ground. This wind is not a spring breeze, a hot summer breeze, or a bleak autumn breeze.
, it is not a biting wind, but a dark wind. There are roars in the wind, like crying and laughing, rushing out of the mountain along the direction pointed by the arrow of the "Split Yin Halberd", like a river that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
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This lasted for most of the time
After an hour, the yin energy in the mountain was exhausted, and the dark night mountain that seemed to have been shrouded in a layer of mist suddenly cleared, as if the clouds were clearing and the sun appeared.
When Arthur saw the Taoist priests of Tiangang Hall "purifying" the place in an orderly manner, he couldn't help but said to Qi Xuansu beside him in half-baked Chinese Mandarin: "Qi, you guys are very good."
It was actually the first time Qi Xuansu met him, but he said: "This is what we do, how about it?"
While he was talking, Zhang Yuelu, who was standing on a big tree, floated down and said: "Chief Lingquan, Deacon Qi, and Bishop Yershou, follow me into the mountain. The rest of the people follow Deacon Zhou's command.
Don’t let one go.”
Everyone took the order, and the person whose name was called by Zhang Yuelu followed Zhang Yuelu and walked up the mountain.
When Shangguan Dun heard that his name was not there, he hurriedly came to Zhou Bai's side. In the past few days, Shangguan Dun had become familiar with several deacons.
Among the people who entered the mountain, Qi Xuansu was undoubtedly the weakest in cultivation, but he was also the best in the Kunlun stage. The few people walked on the rugged mountain road as if they were walking on flat ground, and soon arrived at the gate of Cimut Fort.
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As Ellie said, this is indeed an abandoned castle. Part of the city wall has collapsed and all the wooden structures have been destroyed. Only the basic masonry structure is left. However, the gate of the castle is still well preserved and tight.
closure.
Zhang Yuelu stretched out his hand and pressed it on the huge city gate that was two feet high. He only heard a "rustling, rustling" sound, like spring eating mulberry leaves. The two giant doors turned into pieces of fine sand and flew away with the wind.
One thing remains.
This is exactly the "Six Void Tribulations" used by Zhang Yuelu to defeat Xu Kou in one move. It is the top magical power of the Qi Refiner. The threshold is extremely high. Even after simplification, ordinary Qi Refiners have to reach heaven to practice, but they can be relegated to immortals.
You can control it in the realm of manifested babies.
This is where the Immortal Exiled is unreasonable. Otherwise, the Taoist sect would not be obsessed with copying the Immortal Exiled, and would not hesitate to create a Sanren who looks nothing like him.
Arthur owned a Sumeru item, which they called a "space bag". It was basically the same thing. Arthur took out a two-handed giant sword from it and entered the castle first.
Lingquanzi followed closely and took out two talismans at the same time, making them hang around him and slowly rotate around him.
Zhang Yuelu took out his "Dragon Gun" and a
The bag was filled with projectiles and handed to Qi Xuansu: "I don't need this, you can use it for self-defense."
Qi Xuansu took the "Dragon Gun" and put the projectiles into his shoulder bag. For the first time, he did not say thank you, but just said: "I took note of it."
Zhang Yuelu then walked into the castle.
Qi Xuansu hung up the "Dragon Gun" and "Blue Bird Gun" on the left and right, tightened his dagger, and was the last one to enter the castle.
The light inside the castle was very dim. There were twelve columns arranged vertically in the entrance hall, but half of them had collapsed, making the place crumbling.
Lingquanzi waved his hand, and many wall lamps lit up again.
Arthur very skillfully and quickly explored the entire castle hall and found some human skeletons, some of which were old, and some of which were newly deceased. This undoubtedly confirmed Ellie's speculation from the side.
After Zhang Yuelu came in, his eyes immediately fell on a tattered tapestry with a strange symbol painted on it.
This is a popular decoration in the Western Regions, also called tapestry, woven with wool, while those in the Central Plains prefer to use screens.
Qi Xuansu followed Zhang Yuelu's gaze and couldn't help but ask: "What is this?"
Zhang Yuelu said: "That is...the mark of the ancient immortals."
So far, the war between Daomen and the ancient immortals has lasted for more than two hundred years. Daomen once had the opportunity to completely end this war, but it failed because of Buddhism's intervention. This directly led to a series of wars between Daomen and Buddhism in the Western Regions.
It wasn't until the face-to-face confrontation between Xuansheng and Lord Buddha that it came to an end.
This also led to the so-called "post-Three Religions Era".
The so-called "era of the first three religions" refers to the era when Confucianism dominated the world. At that time, Taoism and Buddhism joined forces to compete with Confucianism and finally defeated Confucianism. After Taoism replaced Confucianism and became the orthodoxy of the world, Confucianism and Buddhism became their own
Subsidiary. In the past, Confucianism took the lead and promoted the unification of the three religions. Nowadays, Taoism takes the lead and continues to promote the unification of the three religions.
At a certain stage, Taoism has become the de facto leader of the three religions. The three great priests of Confucianism, Xinxue, and Qiology chose to be loyal to Xuansheng, which is equivalent to the deputy head of Taoism, Da Zhenren.
The "Later Three Religions Era" saw Buddhism challenge Taoism's dominance, and Taoism joined forces with Confucianism to suppress Buddhism. Eventually, under pressure, Buddhism had to make a truce with Taoism and recognize Taoism as the leader of the three religions.
However, Buddhism is involved in many things
Emotionally, they still had disagreements with Taoism, and there were constant frictions. Especially regarding the ancient immortal, Buddhism openly supported Taoism in eradicating the secret associations, but secretly supported the ancient immortal to contain Taoism.
The ancient immortals develop believers in the form of secret associations, so the Taoist sect spends a lot of energy every year to eliminate various secret associations.
Qi Xuansu asked: "There are traces of the ancient immortals here, which means that this place is a stronghold of a secret association. In other words, the reason why those sinners collect living souls is because they want to please the ancient immortals and then obtain
Ancient Immortal’s help?”
"That's understandable." Zhang Yuelu nodded.
Qi Xuansu finally couldn't help but asked: "Who is the ancient immortal?"
Zhang Yuelu hesitated for a moment and said: "In the context of Taoism, 'ancient immortal' is not a compliment, but is similar to 'evil god', 'devil' and the like. It is a powerful existence that Taoism must eradicate. The reason why it is called
They are called 'immortals' because the methods they use are not magic... some of them are even the founders of Taoism."
Qi Xuansu was taken aback and lowered his voice subconsciously: "Taoist Patriarch!?"
Zhang Yuelu continued: "There is a saying that says, 'When a righteous person uses evil methods, the evil methods are also righteous; when evil people use righteous methods, the righteous methods are also evil.' The Taoists do not completely agree with this sentence, but they have to admit that the ancient immortals
It’s the existence of ‘evil people using the righteous method’.”
Qi Xuansu asked again: "Why did the ancient immortal betray the Taoism?"
Zhang Yuelu did not answer directly, but asked instead: "The power of flying swords is better than that of fire blunderbuss, and many powerful spells are also far more powerful than artillery, but why do Taoist sects and the imperial court vigorously develop firearms? Why can Quanzhen Taoism's organ sect be able to compete with
Are the Talismans fighting against each other? Have you considered this issue?"
Qi Xuansu was startled.
Zhang Yuelu obviously knew many secrets of Taoism that ordinary Taoist priests could not touch, and said softly: "If one day, all magic and magical powers in the world disappear, then where should we go?"
Qi Xuansu frowned: "What does this have to do with the ancient immortal?"
Zhang Yuelu sighed and said: "Of course it does matter, but the Taoist sect has regulations. This is not something you can know now, so I can't tell you directly. When you become a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, or become the deputy palace master, deputy hall master
, you will naturally understand.”
Only then did Qi Xuansu understand that the reason why Zhang Yuelu knew the secret was not because of his status as a fourth-grade wine-sacrifice Taoist priest, but because of his status as the deputy hall master. Lingquanzi, Sun Yongfeng and others were also unaware of it.