Chapter 47: Going against the grain (VIII) Up and down, like waves...
Dong Yu asked, "Are you all Qingqiu immortals?"
"Does it look like it?" The old woman took a step forward, and everyone became alert, but the woman did not make any other moves. Her voice was bitter. Even though she was just standing in front of them, Zhang Deng could feel that this was a woman who had experienced a lot of pain.
"You should leave now," the old woman said. "Qing Mi aided and abetted the evil, believing that by possessing that old immortal, he would one day become a god. He himself has committed atrocities, and he deserves death. I have no intention of avenging him. You should leave immediately."
Zhang Deng asked, "Aiding the tyrant?"
"What do you mean?" Zhang Deng asked, "Is helping the gods the same as aiding and abetting evil?"
The old woman laughed, understanding: "So the human race doesn't know yet."
"That means humans haven't reached Kunlun yet," the old woman said. "To be frank, what's the point of me explaining this? All of us, including you, are destined to be turned into a pile of rotten meat. Go away now."
Shi Hong said, "You're not immortals, just a bunch of Qingqiu spirits. Let me guess, you were also captured. Which Qingqiu immortal? He's your ancestor. Why did he capture you? To feed you?"
Zhang Deng was shocked by what he said. He would never have thought of this, but Shi Hong dared to think about it because these things were very common to him.
The old woman's eyes turned red, and her sharp teeth showed on her lower lip. She said, "If you continue to talk nonsense,
"That's exactly what happened," Shi Hong said. "Since there are human Qiang, there must be demon Qiang. Rumor has it that the relationship between human Qiang is the same. Even if they are family members, they will not avenge each other after death. They regard life as worthless because sooner or later they will meet in the underworld."
Zhang Deng said, "You've already become immortals, why do you still want to kill your own kind?"
The old woman laughed sinisterly and said, "Didn't the custom of killing and eating one's own comrades originate from the gods?"
The old woman flicked her sleeves, stirring up layers of wind and waves, and said, "Since you don't want to leave, then don't leave."
She was about to take action when Dong Yu suddenly seemed to remember something. He said, "The immortal has lost his power, right?"
Everyone stopped at once, and a strange silence flowed among them.
Dong Yu seemed to have finally reconciled all this with what he had in his head. He asked, "Did the gods get infected with the human plague?"
The old woman frowned and said, "Who are you?"
"I know, I know," Dong Yu said, a little crazy again. "When there's an epidemic among humans, the gods are taking supplements. I remembered that if the gods are unrighteous, they will bring down heavenly punishment. The gods will be infected with the "epidemic" and suffer the pain of mortals. The gods can only rely on eating supplements of their own kind with high magical powers to barely survive. That's why they stole the martial soul's true body!"
This was indeed a match. Zhang Deng said, "Is this why those gods couldn't defeat Wei Yuanye?"
"You say that..." Shi Hong said, "I think it's because your husband is really a beast."
Lin Yuzhou couldn't help but ask Dong Yu: "How did you know?"
Dong Yu didn't answer him, but just said something very scary: "In that case, why not take this opportunity to kill them all?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Deng asked, "Are you serious?"
"Why not?" Dong Yu asked as a matter of course, "Since the gods have sent down punishments because of their unrighteousness, isn't killing them in accordance with heaven's will?"
Zhang Deng thought he was weird, but still said, "Let's just get our spirit body back."
"You're stupid," Dong Yu laughed. "What martial soul body? Which of these immortal corpses isn't more valuable than a martial soul body? At this time, you're still thinking about a martial soul body."
Zhang Deng didn't say anything, and no one else said anything right away. The old woman frowned slightly, as if realizing that these people were unusual. Dong Yu waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's go and don't embarrass them."
Zhang Deng saw that some of them were looking at them with fear in their eyes. Some of them glanced upwards unconsciously. Zhang Deng also followed their gaze and looked towards the pit they jumped in. Perhaps there was a seal at the location of the pit that trapped them.
Zhang Deng held the snow mountain wood in his hand and quietly pressed the button under his butt, shooting out a beam of light. He didn't have any mental skills, but just thought to himself: "Let them go."
A loud sound like thunder rang out in the sky, and the pit mouth seemed to be blown open. The surrounding vines were blown away, and an invisible barrier disappeared.
The people of Qingqiu clearly felt that the restraints had disappeared. The old woman looked at Zhang Deng in disbelief, obviously not believing that he would do such a thing.
Zhang Deng himself hadn't expected to make such a big noise, and the others were also startled. Dong Yu covered his ears and said, "Can you tell me something?"
Zhang Deng said, "I'll just... give it a try."
This snow mountain wood is really awesome.
Zhang Deng thought, isn’t this a cheating tool?
The old woman asked, "...What's your name?"
"Light the lights."
The old woman said, "My name is Qing Mi."
The old woman looked at him deeply, and half of the people behind her also bowed and saluted. Zhang Deng also returned the salute. In fact, he found it difficult to let go of the fact that he had killed Qing Mi, and felt that he was not worthy of this salute.
Qing Mi said: "I will repay this favor."
After saying this, they turned into a gust of wind and disappeared.
In fact, no one had any objection to releasing these Qingqiu half-people, but Dong Yu watched them leave and asked, "Zhang Deng, I suspect your main mission is to be the savior."
Zhang Deng: "My main quest is the Spirit Incarnation! Who on earth forgot?"
"You are too kind," Shi Hong said, "Next time at least discuss it with us, or you might get cheated."
Zhang Deng does not agree with the term "goodness". He is just an ordinary person. If one must say that he is different from others, it is that he will always maintain his "ordinariness" and will not change this "ordinariness" for any reason.
After this incident, everyone seemed a little worried when they set out on the road again.
Zhang Deng is now basically certain that Dong Yu definitely has some bugs similar to the "system" or "book-traveling". Perhaps there is something in his brain telling him some information, otherwise he would not know so many things.
The word "main mission" also appears very strangely. Dong Yu always suddenly comes up with some such words. Does it prove that the person in his mind is telling him these things?
So did Dong Yu deviate from his main task, or did he find his main task?
Zhang Deng was thinking when the person in front of him stopped. Lin Yuzhou turned his head slightly and put his hand to his lips, signaling him to be quiet. Zhang Deng looked forward and saw lush grass and chirping birds in front of him, which was completely different from the cold and desolate outside the mountain. They walked to the mountainside and saw a huge cloud of fog. Above the cloud, a group of people sat meditating with their eyes closed.
The clothes those people wore were as thin as cicada wings, fluttering in the wind. They seemed to be asleep, but also seemed like they would open their eyes in the next second. When I turned on the lights and took a closer look, I found that many of them had varying degrees of cracks, rashes, and peeling on their bodies.
Is this a human epidemic?
Is it just to experience the sickness of life?
It shouldn’t be that simple, Zhang Deng refuted himself in his heart. He subconsciously held his breath and left with everyone.
Then, Zhang Deng saw two large birds with human faces flying over their heads in the sky. Zhang Deng found that they were not aggressive.
"We arrived too early," Dong Yu said, "They don't know we are mortals yet. Immortals are not as sensitive to human scent as monsters."
The scene they saw in Yingzhou was a group of cranes carrying their martial spirit bodies flying towards the top of the mountain. They also walked along the mountain road to the top of the mountain. The more Zhang Deng walked, the lighter he felt, as if he had endless strength. He felt extremely comfortable, and all the physical fatigue and mental distress seemed to have disappeared.
Shi Hong obviously felt the same way and said, "Kunlun Mountain's spiritual energy is indeed abundant."
Wei Yuanye said: "The oxygen content is high."
Zhang Deng said, "You are so unromantic."
Wei Yuanye: "It's very romantic because the altitude here is very high."
Yes, Zhang Deng suddenly thought, it’s so high here, but he still feels that there is enough oxygen. What’s going on? At this moment, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.
Zhang Deng lifted up a patch of waist-high unknown grass and said, "How beautiful—"
Behind the grass is a shallow beach with a light mist filling the air. The shallow beach is covered with lavender fluorescent flowers. Unknown insects are lingering around the flowers and dancing gracefully, just like a fairyland.
Only then did Zhang Deng feel that he was at the intersection of the divine world and the human world. It was the first time in his life that he had seen such a beautiful scene.
"Jinhua," Dong Yu suddenly said behind him, "This is Jinhua."
"Look," he pointed to the mist surrounding the flowers and said, "This is the ice crystal mist rain."
Zhang Deng thought, this plant is so beautiful, no wonder it was stolen by mountain hikers. It’s such a pity that I can’t take a picture of it.
Suddenly, someone patted his shoulder. Zhang Deng turned around and saw that it was Wei Yuanye, who stopped him from going forward.
Wei Yuanye asked, "What kind of insect is that?"
Dong Yu didn't take it seriously and said casually, "It's probably just bees, mosquitoes, or something like that."
Wei Yuanye said: "They are dying."
When they looked closely, they found that every leaf of the broccoli seemed to be covered with the corpses of insects, but there were still flying insects that kept flying over. They sucked the food on the broccoli, then began to jump around, and finally fell down and died.
Zhang Deng was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what this meant, and turned to look at Wei Yuanye.
Wei Yuanye simply said, "It's poisonous."
Everyone: “…”
In fact, everyone guessed that it was poisonous, but no one dared to speculate further.
Wei Yuanye continued, "I guess it was the gods who wanted to eat humans and poisoned them."
There was a dead silence. When the lights were on, all I could hear was the chirping of insects.
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