Chapter 138 Chapter 138
"Oh? I don't know where the Heavenly Fox Bloodline got this from?" Spiritual Taoist looked at Hu Ling sharply.
Hu Ling was not afraid of her at all. He licked his front paws and said, "It is well known that the cultivation of the demon race is more than a little higher than that of the human cultivators. If it were not for the help of the evil demons, how could they be killed by the human cultivators without any chance to fight back?"
Spiritual Taoist was not annoyed by the contempt in his words, and asked back, "Did the Heavenly Fox Bloodline forget that the cause of the demon chaos was that the demon cultivators slaughtered all the members of the Shenxiao Sect, leaving only one orphan? Why don't you suspect that there is a problem within yourself, but suspect that there are evil demons hidden within the human cultivators?"
Hu Ling stood up suddenly, He said angrily: "The place where we, the demon cultivators, live in seclusion is full of spiritual energy and rich in resources. We don't even bother to compete with you for the barren Taoist temple mountains. Why should we slaughter you? What do we want?!"
The voice of the spiritual Taoist also turned cold: "According to the Sky Fox Bloodline, the demon cultivator corpses we collected in the Shenxiao Sect when we rushed to help were all fake?"
Ren Changlin hurried out to smooth things over: "Please be patient, both of you. We can't fight among ourselves now, otherwise it will play into the enemy's hands."
After confirming that the two sides would not fight immediately, he continued: "Although I was not an eyewitness to the incident, I also investigated a lot of information, visited cultivators from both the human and demon clans, and asked both sides about their views on the incident. I suspect, I'm afraid this evil cultivator has penetrated deeper than we know. "
As the saying goes, the parties involved are confused, but the bystanders are clear. Both Hu Ling and Ling Xingdao's views on the incident are based on their own standpoints.
Ling Xingdao believes that the human cultivators were slaughtered by the demon cultivators for no reason, while Hu Ling believes that the human cultivators suddenly broke into their secluded place and slaughtered the demon cultivators.
According to the law of conservation of mass, one party must benefit from it. Since both the human race and the demon race feel that they have been persecuted, is there a hidden third party taking advantage of it?
"Master Lingxing, I wonder if you took the bodies of the demon cultivators of the Shenxiao Sect and went to the demon cultivators to seek an explanation after the incident?"
Taoist Lingxing: "When we arrived, the Shenxiao Sect had already been burned down by the fire. The bodies pulled out from the broken walls were already charred. We could only guess their identities from the characteristics of their bodies."
Some of the appearances of demon cultivators are different from those of humans, and they can be recognized almost at a glance.
Ren Changlin nodded and asked Hu Ling: "Are there any restrictions on the opening of your demon clan's barrier?"
"Do you suspect that there is a traitor in our demon clan?!" Hu Ling suddenly said angrily.
Ren Changlin said in a normal tone: "It's not suspicion, it's just a routine inquiry. There have been too many misunderstandings and mysteries since this happened. Maybe the other party is using the information gap to deliberately create contradictions to cause disputes. Now that we are all here, why not sort out all the doubts."
Ren Changlin is worthy of being a former national security officer, and he is very good at these things.
Hu Ling sat up straight, was silent for a while, and said: "The barrier of the demon clan needs the blood of the sky fox to open, and it must be combined with special spells and tokens. These are held by different elders to ensure that the barrier cannot be easily opened."
"I wonder what the scene was like when the human cultivators broke in?"
Hu Ling recalled the scene at that time.
He originally thought that day would be just like the past hundred years, a peaceful and boring day, but he was awakened by noisy shouting. After waking
up, he ran to the front of the mountain and saw that the people in the tribe were fighting fiercely with the human cultivators who came out of nowhere.
He looked for his parents in shock, but in the end he only found the corpses of the two people who had transformed into foxes.
The demon tribe was no match for the huge number of human cultivators, and they retreated while fighting. The wolves and monkeys fled, and in the end only a few dozen of the tribe survived.
"I wonder where the other two elders who were in charge of the spell and the one who held the token went?"
"Elder Crane knew the spell and was besieged by human monks at the time and was seriously injured, while Elder Crocodile who held the token died on the spot." Hu Ling's face showed loneliness.
Elder Crocodile was a giant crocodile with a thousand years of cultivation and the backbone of the demon clan's guards. His death had a huge impact on the demon clan's combat power, which is why the demon clan was defeated so quickly.
Ren Changlin thought for a moment and asked, "Can you find the token he left behind afterwards?"
Hu Ling shook his head.
Ren Changlin: "Mr. Hu, I apologize for the next question. May I ask if you remember the cause of your father's death?"
Hu Ling was silent.
It was a painful memory that he didn't want to think about.
After the invasion of human cultivators, Hu Ling searched for his parents everywhere, but he couldn't find them in the entire territory. Finally, he found bloodstains not far from the eye of the formation. He looked for them and saw his mother lying on the ground.
She was covered in blood, with a hole in her neck. The blood gushed out and stained the grass under her. She had several long swords stuck in her body, and the swords pierced her body.
It was obvious that the weapons were used by human cultivators.
After walking a little further, he saw a headless white fox corpse lying at the eye of the formation. It was his father's body.
Not far from his father's body was the destroyed eye of the formation.
There are only two ways to open the formation. One is to open it from the inside, and the second is to destroy the eye of the formation, making the formation completely ineffective.
It was precisely because the eye of the formation was destroyed that Hu Ling first thought of the human cultivators.
It is impossible for the demons to destroy the homeland where they have lived for hundreds of years.
After Ren Changlin heard this, he integrated the information, thought for a long time, and said, "Mr. Hu, I have a guess, you might as well listen to it."
Hu Ling: "Go ahead."
"I guess, the demon clan should have been mixed with evil cultivators. In that battle, the formation should have been broken from the inside."
Hu Ling was about to refute, but was stopped by Ren Changlin: "And I think this matter is not over yet."
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In the hall of the underworld, King Lunzhuan looked at Gu Yanyi who was walking towards him, and was shocked that Gu Yanyi was not afraid of his pressure: "Who are you? If you have any grievances, just say it. Why do you want to get close to this hall? Judge, why is this person not on the list you presented just now?"
For living beings, they begin to bear the cause and effect from the moment they are born, and they will also be recorded in the list. As long as King Yan opens the list, he can see all the right and wrong merits and demerits of this person from birth to death.
But this person's name was not on the list.
Not only that, his Samsara Eye was ineffective against this person, and he could not see the past, present or future of this person.
The soul in front of him seemed to be an existence outside of cause and effect.
"Who are you?"
Gu Yanyi bowed to the Wheel King and took out the token of the Equal King - a trace of his own breath that he separated from Jin.
The Wheel King recognized him immediately and looked at Gu Yanyi with some hesitation, remembering the variable of "one escaped" mentioned by Ksitigarbha.
He hurriedly asked again: "What night is it tonight?" Without waiting for Gu Yanyi to answer, he said to the judge: "Judge, quickly present the water mirror!"
The judge brought out a copper basin filled with water from the corner and placed it in front of the Wheel King.
Gu Yanyi felt the breath of the six reincarnations from the basin of water.
The Wheel King explained, "This is made from the water of the Wheel Well and the River of Oblivion. As the King of Hell, it is difficult for us to leave the underworld, and sometimes we need to use this item to understand the affairs of the human world, especially when judging some controversial souls. The water mirror is particularly important." As he spoke, his palm brushed across the water surface, and the water surface immediately turned into a mirror, reflecting the appearance of the human world.
Tall buildings, neon lights, a constant stream of cars and hurried pedestrians.
The Wheel King stared at the unfamiliar scene in front of him for a long time, and then he felt relieved: "As long as there is a glimmer of hope, human beings can survive in the cracks." His voice was choked with sobs, "You don't know, when the sky collapsed and the earth sank, we all thought that the human world would be annihilated, and the world would return to the eternal chaos. We can only wait for a new God of Heaven to appear. Fortunately, we decided to replace the Heaven-Mending Stone with the underworld, so we got the opportunity to let the world breathe."
He was excited for a while, and finally got back to business.
"To be honest, since we entered the crack in the sky instead of the Sky-Repairing Stone, we have turned into a stream of energy and completely lost our own will. Now seeing the changes in the human world, I am really moved. - I wonder why you came here?"
Gu Yan said, "I can't stay here for long. I do have something to discuss with you." He introduced his identity in another world, how he came to this world across time and space, and why he appeared here.
After listening to his description, the Wheel King sighed, "I never thought that the two worlds would be so different."
Gu Yan was puzzled and asked, "Wheel King, do you also know my world?"
The Wheel King nodded, "It's not that I have experienced it, but I learned about it from the library in the underworld."
He slowly told the things that were not mentioned in the mythological story.
After the creation of the world, the clean and dirty air separated, the clean air gathered into the sky, and the dirty air sank into the ground, forming a system of yin and yang circulation.
Pangu's body turned into mountains and land, his blood turned into rivers and lakes, his spine became the pillar supporting the world, and his soul turned into the rules of heaven.
The gods were the first group of creatures born in the world full of spiritual energy.
They were not bound by their appearance, their shapes followed their hearts, and their appearances were different. They lived freely and unrestrainedly between heaven and earth. After a long time, they were inevitably bored, so they started to make things.
It was at this time that Nuwa's human sculpture appeared.
At first, she patiently and carefully sculpted a group of people. These people inherited her slight divine power and could freely absorb the spiritual power between heaven and earth. These were the original immortals.
Afterwards, she lost her patience and began to create humans by throwing mud dots. Although these people did not inherit divine power, they were still able to absorb spiritual power between heaven and earth through some methods. They were the first immortal cultivators.
For more than ten thousand years, the hot-tempered gods often quarreled. Whenever they fought, there were almost no exceptions, and the earth shook, mountains collapsed, and even mountains were moved and filled in the sea, and mountains and seas were exchanged.
Finally, one day, a hole was poked in the sky by the fight between two gods.
Disasters came.
The world shook, and disasters followed. The first to suffer were not the gods or the immortals, but the human race that Nuwa threw out with mud dots.
Although humans can cultivate immortality, they are still weak compared to gods or immortals. A simple accident can kill them, not to mention the great disasters that befell the world.
During the great disasters, groups of humans died and became souls wandering in the world. They had no place to come from and no place to return to. They drifted like rootless duckweed and could only cry helplessly between heaven and earth.
"Hell appears when there are the most wandering souls in the world."