Chapter 78 The nameless person only had wet and slippery tentacles in front of her...
Underworld.
Lying in the soft quilt, doctor Li Zhou had a dream.
In the dream, she was Tan Zhao herself.
But it was different from the previous dreams. She was very clear that although she was Tan Zhao in the dream and what happened was Tan Zhao’s personal experience, she was actually just a person playing Tan Zhao.
This dream was not her own dream, but Tan Zhao's dream.
Tan Zhao carried a large bamboo basket on his back and chopped the thorns with an axe and cut the herbs with a sickle.
After climbing over the steep slope and finally reaching the top of the mountain, she looked forward with joy, but saw only a large area of withered yellow grass.
"How could this happen?" Tan Zhao frowned, "Something happened in Qingqiu?"
No one answered her question. On the empty mountaintop, there was only the sound of the howling wind and the faint smell of blood.
Tan Zhaoyun recited the "Jade Cave Hundred Refinements Earth Emperor Sutra", and the vitality in the mountains turned into a gentle breeze, and the dead air on Qingqiu gathered into a light boat. The light boat took advantage of the gentle breeze and carried her down the mountain top.
If one cultivates the "Jade Cave Hundred Refinements Earth Emperor Sutra" to perfection, one will be able to control the power of life and death.
Li Zhou in the dream was confused for a moment. Why was the technique used by Tan Zhao different from when she used it?
After all, it's just a dream, which is different from real spellcasting, and it makes sense.
The confident Li Zhou had no doubt at all that there was a slight deviation in the effect of his spellcasting. Compared with Tan Zhao, he was, if not possessed, then at least a heretic.
Tan Zhao landed lightly on Qingqiu, which was filled with deathly air. A corner of her linen dress was lifted by the wind. As soon as she took a step, she felt something wrong with her feet. She bent down and looked at the withered and yellow grass leaves.
Under the leaves, the scarlet blood vessels rise and fall like breathing. If you put your fingertips on them, you can feel the thumping of your heart.
Tan Zhao pursed his lips, used a sickle to push aside the grass leaves, and scraped away the dark brown soil.
The tip of the knife made a clanging sound, as if it had hit a foreign object.
She applied a little more strength and dug out the hard object.
It was a half-rotten skull, elongated in shape with a protruding snout. Although the fur had fallen off, it was still clear that the skull belonged to a fox.
What's disturbing is that the skull is covered with cracks from compression and teeth marks from gnawing.
The molars that should have grown on the snout are, for some reason, embedded on the top of the head.
If this happened to the fox before it died, I can’t imagine how much pain it must have gone through.
Tan Zhao stroked the empty eyes on the skull, chanted the mantra of rebirth several times, and then he hooked up a wisp of dark deathly air with his fingers and probed deeper into the ground.
Endless resentment overwhelmed her in an instant.
The impact of the huge wave made it almost impossible to breathe. Tan Zhao hurriedly practiced his skills and it took him a long time to calm his turbulent spiritual power.
She barely managed to "see" the surrounding scene through the thick fog of resentment.
The deep red blood vessels all over the mountains crisscross in the foul-smelling soil. They appear to be the blood vessels of plant roots, but in fact they are absorbing the vitality of the plants in reverse.
The scattered fox carcasses and skeletons were piled randomly in deep pits. The bottom of these pits could not be explored, which made people wonder if they had dug through the ground and led directly to the underworld.
Every piece of corpse and skeleton was covered with similar cracks and bite marks, and had undergone varying degrees of disorder and mutation.
Some had legs growing backwards, poking through their backs, some had their entire chins missing, and some had their heads growing on their tails...
Tan Zhao suddenly withdrew his deathly aura, and after a long while, he still felt tinnitus, headache, and shortness of breath.
It was as if one's facial features and body parts were also shifting.
She breathed heavily, and in a trance, she heard a mournful tune:
"There is a fox, on the other side of the Qi River. I am worried, because my son has no clothes...＊"
She turned her head and walked in the direction of the singing. At the end of Qingqiu, a nine-tailed fox and a Taoist priest in a green robe were leaning against each other. The nine-tailed fox's eight tails were broken and piled messily on the side. The Taoist priest in the green robe's spiritual sword was also broken. His chest was covered in blood, his eyes were closed, and he looked silent.
And the singing came from the mouth of the nine-tailed fox.
Tan Zhao instantly thought of many legends. Fox demons are good at bewitching people. Perhaps, all the scenes he had seen since entering Qingqiu were illusions, and this song was just to lure prey...
However, the next moment, she took out her medical bag, knelt beside the man and the fox, and wanted to heal their wounds.
A doctor has a kind heart.
The nine-tailed fox seemed not to have noticed her, so it stopped singing and glanced sideways at her.
"Don't waste your energy," it said, "the entire Qingqiu has been polluted by the gods. If you have strayed into this place, leave quickly."
"Gods?" Tan Zhao was startled. "In ancient times, the gods fed on mortals? Weren't they killed by Li Yongsuijian?"
"Well," the nine-tailed fox propped himself up and looked at her seriously, "Little doctor, you know quite a lot."
Tan Zhao said proudly: "We medical students don't have much of anything, but we have the most books."
The nine-tailed fox shook his head: "But it's not enough. Since you know that they are gods, how can gods be killed by mortals? They just went away temporarily and fell asleep. Nine thousand years have passed, and it's time for them to wake up again."
Tan Zhao digested the information in its words and looked up at the dead grass around him. He asked, "Could it be that the corpses under Qingqiu are the remains eaten by the gods?"
"The food of gods is power, heaven and earth, the three thousand worlds, and the faith of all living beings. How could they be interested in the flesh and blood of a few foxes?"
The nine-tailed fox chuckled and said, "The current situation in Qingqiu is just because the gods cast a shadow and disrupted the order here."
"Under the influence of the chaos, disorder and madness of the gods themselves, all living things here have lost their constant laws. Drinking water no longer quenches thirst, and grass roots instead suck grass leaves. Even though they are bloated, they still feel extremely hungry."
"The bodies buried underground were all killed by each other. The ones who ate the foxes were the foxes themselves."
The nine-tailed fox's tone was unusually calm, even with a hint of a smile, but Tan Zhao felt cold all over, and he almost lost the strength to breathe: "Qingqiu is finished, Senior Fox, does this mean that the human world will become like this sooner or later?"
"yes."
There was no white lie. The nine-tailed fox smiled and said two words that made Tan Zhao's scalp tingle.
The fox's clear eyes were staring straight at Tan Zhao. If one looked closely, one could see deep hatred and madness through the smile.
"It's better to die, let's die together." The nine-tailed fox said, "Little doctor, why are you unhappy?"
The sarcasm in the words was obvious, and the nine-tailed fox seemed impatient to see Tan Zhao crying bitterly and cursing in despair.
However, Tan Zhao dug his fingernails into his palms and suddenly knelt down in front of the nine-tailed fox, his back bent deeply: "Senior Fox, please teach me a way to save the world!"
The nine-tailed fox was startled, with a strange color flashing in his pupils, but he smiled coldly: "If I knew, how could Qingqiu be reduced to a deadly place? You asked the wrong person."
"If Senior Fox didn't know, why did you have to explain so much to me? Wouldn't it be better to just wait and watch the world fall together?" Tan Zhao raised his head and looked at the Taoist priest in green robe who was standing silently beside the nine-tailed fox. "What's more, Senior Fox's partner died to save Qingqiu. How could you bear to watch her fellow tribesmen die without saving them?"
The nine-tailed fox's eyes lit up, and the anger on his face suddenly disappeared, revealing a human-like expression of relief, and he said "OK" three times in a row.
"You are barely worthy of being a member of the Zhongli clan. You did not show any prejudice when you saw me, a foreigner. Even though we looked suspicious to you, you were willing to treat us. This shows that you have compassion. I only gave you a few pointers, but you were able to infer my true intentions based on limited clues. This shows that you are smart enough."
The Nine-Tailed Fox could have kept these words in his heart, but he had to say them directly to Tan Zhao.
Tan Zhao looked embarrassed and a little ashamed, but suddenly he found that his drowsy brain seemed to be clearer. Looking at the broken tail of the nine-tailed fox and the broken sword of the Taoist priest, the sadness in his heart became even stronger.
It was actually using its magical powers to strengthen Tan Zhao's understanding of herself, so as to prevent her from being affected by Qingqiu's pollution.
Tan Zhao was amazed. The nine-tailed fox glanced at the Taoist priest in green robe and continued, "But there is one thing you said wrong. Taoist priest Zhongli resisted the gods for the sake of you humans. Once Qingqiu is overthrown, the human world will be next. As the most accomplished person in the human race, she was the first to notice the changes in the world. In order to stay in Qingqiu, she did not hesitate to have a love affair with a fox demon like me. In this way, even if Qingqiu fails to successfully resist the invasion of the gods, I will teach you humans the way to save the world for my daughter's sake."
Taoist Zhongli moved her fingers slightly and raised her tightly closed eyes. The nine-tailed fox smiled slightly and placed the last tail in her palm.
Tan Zhao subconsciously asked: "Then... Senior, aren't you angry?"
"What right do I have to be angry with her?" The nine-tailed fox looked up at Tan Zhao, her eyes gentle and without a trace of hostility. "If she hadn't chosen me, I would just be a fox who knew nothing, and now, I would have been buried under this desolate grave. If possible, I would like to persuade her not to die for Qingqiu. If she retreats to the human world first and waits for two years, perhaps a cultivator stronger than her will appear, and then the future of the human world, Qingqiu, and her and her daughter will all have hope."
"But she still chose to stay." Tan Zhao looked at the nine-tailed fox, "Because in the future that Senior talked about, there is no you."
The nine-tailed fox laughed: "You clever people are very scary. Nothing can fool you. How can a fox from Qingqiu abandon Qingqiu and live in disgrace?"
Tan Zhao remained silent and bit his lower lip.
The nine-tailed fox smiled and said, "Master Zhongli has already arranged a backup plan, but it is far from enough to resist the gods. She needs more people to join in. However, the more people know about the gods, the more likely the world will be influenced by the gods. Therefore, everyone who participates will become an unknown person."
"Including me, Zhongli, and your future self."
"Each of us must take the initiative to disappear from history. We must not leave any traces behind. We must not let future generations know what we have done and thus follow the clues to discover the existence of the gods."
"In that case, are you still willing to join?"
Tan Zhao didn't hesitate and laughed heartily: "Senior, you are really worrying too much. I am an unknown person. How can I worry that my name won't spread? In fact, I don't want to save the world that much, but it happens that I have two friends who have also come to this world. Although I haven't found them yet, it can't be that this world is destroyed before we are reunited, right? Wouldn't it be a waste of time to travel through time?"
The nine-tailed fox had never heard of some of the words she used, but it already understood her determination.
Since it is for friends, it is willing to believe in this determination.
It remembered the scene when it ran and chased other foxes on the green grass of Qingqiu.
The nine-tailed fox smiled and nodded, as if it could no longer hold on, and its breath suddenly weakened.
Tan Zhao hurriedly tried to find a way to save it, but it laughed so hard it gasped, "Don't... worry... I won't... die before I finish my words..."
Tan Zhao's hand holding the needle was shaking. This was the first time that the young miracle doctor, who was famous far and wide on Yaowang Mountain, couldn't hold the needle.
"senior!"
"Go find... my daughter... The thing you want... is in that child... Taoist Zhongli named her... Sui..."
The last tail of the nine-tailed fox slowly slid down from the palm of the Taoist priest in green robe, and his eyes gradually drooped: "I hope she... is safe... and happy..."
There was a long sigh, not sure whether it came from the nine-tailed fox or the Taoist priest. The man and the fox hugged each other. Tan Zhao stretched out her trembling fingers, but suddenly she felt a huge spiritual power pushing her towards the mountains outside Qingqiu.
She was pushed further and further away by this gentle force, watching the withered and yellow Qingqiu collapse with a rumbling sound, countless white corpses rolling in it, and the deep red blood vessels whistling silently, and the sound waves were suppressed within Qingqiu.
The nine-tailed fox rubbed the Taoist's cheek affectionately, and the bodies of the man and the fox turned into two embracing mountains, replacing the original hills filled with the smell of decay.
They used the last of their strength to seal Qingqiu to prevent the pollution from spreading and affecting other living beings.
The female doctor Li Zhou stared at the scene in a daze and suddenly woke up from her dream. The half-demon Li Zhou unscrewed the copper gourd and looked at the clear blue night sky.
A corner of the curtain was lifted, and a wet and slippery tentacle flashed before her eyes, and it seemed like it was about to escape.
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