Chapter 185

Someone answered the door, and the priest shook his head.

The following actions were exactly the same as before. Every time they arrived at a door, a high priest would take the initiative to step forward and knock on it.

Someone answered from inside the door and the priest was about to go in. When he came out, he looked pale, sweating profusely, and still had a lingering fear. This made Cheng Hui particularly curious about what had happened.

Soon, they arrived at the fifth door. Priest Zhou's pupils dilated and he looked at Priest Chen with pleading eyes, but under the other's stare, he raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

The voice from inside the door was still old and hoarse, but this time it carried a hint of impatience.

Priest Zhou's face was covered in sweat. He hesitated, not daring to move forward. He heard Priest Chen's gloomy voice: "Priest Zhou, you know the consequences of not going in. Escape is impossible."

Priest Zhou looked around in horror, as if he wanted to get help from the other priests. Unfortunately, the other priests all looked at him expressionlessly, with no intention of lending a helping hand.

The expression on Priest Zhou's face gradually turned into despair, and finally turned into malice: "You... will become like me sooner or later!"

The expressions of the priests did not change at all, they just looked at him coldly. Finally, Priest Zhou slowly pushed the door open amid the constant urging voices coming from inside.

With a bang, the door was closed, as if cutting off Priest Zhou's last chance of survival.

The other four people waited at the door for a while, and finally the door opened again, but Priest Zhou who came out had changed. He became indifferent and dull, and just looking at his eyes, you couldn't tell that he was a living person.

Priest Chen sighed imperceptibly and said calmly, "Priest Zhou's successor has been chosen, right? When we return this time, let him take the throne. Priest Zhou has received divine grace and will soon ascend to heaven."

Cheng Hui's heart was slightly moved. Was this so-called ascension actually a disguise? No wonder only the high priests could ascend. Ordinary priests would never be able to come into contact with these things even if they spent their entire lives in the temple.

Cheng Hui felt a little nervous, feeling that he had touched upon the deepest secrets of this temple.

He followed Priest Chen closely, and Priest Chen led them directly to open the sixth door.

The space inside the sixth door was very dark. Even the light from the oil lamp in Priest Chen's hand could only stay about one step away from the entrance.

Going further in, it seemed as if even the light was swallowed up by the darkness. Priest Chen handed the oil lamp in his hand to another high priest and winked at Cheng Hui, indicating that he should follow.

Cheng Hui followed in confusion. Based on the performance just now, he could probably guess that the high priest he possessed was probably the second-in-command of the temple, so...was Priest Chen asking him to learn how to get the meat?

That god is imprisoned in this house?

Cheng Hui had a lot of ideas in his mind, but he had no way to verify them for the time being. He obediently followed Priest Chen into the darkness. He originally thought that he would lose his vision, but unexpectedly, the moment he stepped into the darkness, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had walked from midnight into daytime in one step.

Cheng Hui: ???

A gentle breeze blew across his face, and Cheng Hui looked in shock at the fairyland-like scene before him filled with birdsong and flowers.

Teleportation array? Illusion?

He bent down and pulled up a blade of grass. The touch was very real, not unreal, so... where had he come to again?

"Let's go." Priest Chen wasn't surprised by his weeding. He was even more talkative now than when he was outside. "When I first came here, I doubted its authenticity. But after all these years, every blade of grass and every tree here is exactly the same as I saw back then. Nothing has changed."

"So..." He turned his head slowly, a strange color flashing in his eyes: "Is this place real or an illusion?"

Cheng Hui looked down and saw that the grass he had pulled out had grown back and was exactly the same as the one in his hand.

He shook his head slightly and answered honestly: "I don't know."

He really didn't know that there was something beyond his understanding.

At this moment, he missed Lin Qingyang very much. The other party had much more experience than him. Maybe he knew what was going on?

Priest Chen was not surprised by his answer. He turned his head and looked into the distance, saying in a slightly fanatical voice, "Perhaps, this is the power of the gods, the power of eternal life."

Cheng Hui's heart skipped a beat.

eternal life?

This is not a good word. The life span of a monk will be extended after practicing, but it will definitely not reach the level of immortality. No one dares to say that he can achieve immortality, not even gods are exceptions.

Furthermore, from what Priest Chen said, it seemed as if he had seen an example of eternal life. Could it be that someone actually had eternal life?

After entering this magical world, Cheng Hui felt that he had more doubts in his mind.

After Priest Chen finished speaking, he stopped talking and walked away. Cheng Hui hurriedly followed him. The two of them walked in silence all the way. After about two hours, they came to a... garden?

It should be a garden, right?

Cheng Hui thought uncertainly that the area in front of him was planted with various colorful flowers. The temperature here was suitable, the flowers bloomed beautifully, and the air was filled with various different fragrances.

Perhaps there are too many types of flowers and the fragrance is so strong that the aroma that should make people feel good becomes a bit suffocating.

"arrive."

Priest Chen walked into the flower field and found a narrow passage in it.

The two walked along the passage and soon arrived at the end of the flower field.

Seeing the flower at the end of the flower field, Cheng Hui tried hard to control his expression from showing shock.

That huge flower, as big as a house, looked very familiar. The difference from the previous carnivorous plant was that this flower did not have sharp teeth or whip-like vines. The core of the flower was a normal round disc, and the green leaves under the calyx covered a large area, but there was no trace of vines at all.

Priest Chen walked to the giant flower and gently patted the petals. The white and pink petals trembled slightly, and then the ground not far away began to churn, and a handsome boy was sent up from underground.

When Priest Chen saw the boy, he showed a strange expression.

Then he placed the boy on the disc in the center of the flower bud.

The flower core around the disc bent inward and connected to the boy's body. Immediately afterwards, the boy suddenly opened his eyes, revealing an expression of extreme pain.

Cheng Hui couldn't help but take two steps back. He felt an extremely powerful will descend upon the child. The boy opened his eyes, revealing golden pupils. He looked at Priest Chen with a fierce look: "I will kill you! I must kill you! I curse you and the entire Wu Zombie Clan!"

Priest Chen sneered: "You are a defeated general of our ancestors. Now you have become a pig raised by us. Do you think you can still rebel against the heavens?"

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the giant flower slowly closed its buds. The boy continued to scream miserably, but soon the screams gradually weakened and finally disappeared completely.

When the flower bud opened again, the boy was already dead, leaving behind a body riddled with holes.

Priest Chen glanced at Cheng Hui and said, "Go and carry the body."

Cheng Hui walked over reluctantly and carried the corpse on his back. Then Priest Chen took him to another place where a large area of ​​strange plants were planted. These plants were about one person tall, and each plant had seven or eight fruits. These fruits were big and small, and were covered with a thick shell. No one knew what was inside.

Priest Chen commanded Cheng Hui to throw the corpse into a big pit in the center of the strange plants. After he threw the corpse in, he saw many roots and vines suddenly emerge around the big pit, and began to fight for the corpse.

The corpse was quickly torn into pieces and swept away by several vines. Some of the vines were obviously thinner than the others and only grabbed some scattered pieces of flesh. They immediately lashed around in the pit in dissatisfaction, as if venting their anger.

Cheng Hui noticed that although the plants looked similar, he could still distinguish them as being divided into five distinct areas. The root systems and vines extending from each area were slightly different, and the few slightly thinner vines and the strange plants in the ground were not growing well, each producing only two or three fruits.

The two thin vines failed to grab enough meat and suddenly stretched forward, as if trying to wrap Cheng Hui in it.

Cheng Hui was so shocked that he was about to reveal his identity, but he saw two vines emerging from another very lush field, and he pulled back the two thin vines.

Cheng Hui vaguely heard a muffled groan, and then heard an old man roar angrily: "Old Ghost Liu! You're looking for death!"

Then, a deafening roar sounded: "Get out!"

Cheng Hui felt that the first voice was somewhat familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly remembered that this was clearly the voice of the ancestor of the Zhou family.

The other voice shouting "Get out" was very unfamiliar. I thought it was probably the ancestor of the original high priest.

Cheng Hui was practically in a cold sweat. What the hell was this? Weren't they talking about ancestors? How did they all turn into plants again?

These plants shared the boy's body, so where did the divine meat come from?

He soon found out. After Priest Chen had retracted all the roots, he raised his hand and waved it. Soon, a large number of puppet-like people emerged from the ground, walked into the fields and began to pick the fruits.

Cheng Hui glanced at the puppets and felt that they were a bit like Priest Zhou just now.

Could it be that... this is what is called ascension, and those people will become puppets working here?

Priest Chen glanced at him calmly and said meaningfully, "Those who can control their mouths will live long. Your ancestor Liu has always been able to control his reason and is very powerful. As long as you behave yourself, nothing will happen. Priest Zhou is just unlucky. Last time something happened, the ancestor of the Zhou family was the most seriously injured. Our status still depends on the support of our ancestors, so if you want to continue your current good life, you must know how to keep your mouth shut."

Cheng Hui roughly understood it, but the more he understood, the more he felt that the development of this ancient city of the Wujiang tribe was very distorted.

The entire city's residents rely on eating and drinking the flesh and blood of gods to survive? Moreover, this god obviously resents the Wujiang tribe very much. If he has the opportunity to escape, will the Wujiang tribe still be able to survive?

He changed his mind and realized that it was not a good thing. Looking at the real ancient city, there was not even a living person. It was obvious that the controlled god had finally escaped and taken revenge.

So the question is, why does Cheng Hui appear in this world?

Or in other words... who sent him into this world, and what did they expect him to do?

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