Chapter 66: Strange Coming to the World
At that time, the first group of people who entered the Yunshui Heavenly Palace ruins consisted of hundreds of monks.
Most of them are in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages.
They thought it was just an ordinary relic, but they didn't expect that Yunshui Palace was full of strange things. The monks were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
In the end, less than one in ten people came out alive.
Among them was a man named Sikong Yi.
This person is only in the late stage of Qi Refining and looks ordinary.
Everyone thought he survived by luck.
No one expected that it was this inconspicuous Sikong Yi who, after returning to Wanxian Island, handed in the "Cloud and Water Map" and completed the bounty mission of up to 100,000 contribution points.
After receiving the reward, Sikong Yi left Cong Yunhai through the ultra-long-distance teleportation array and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Since then, Sikong Yi has never appeared again.
"Search for information related to strange things and sect ruins." Li Fan slowly recalled what he had seen and heard in his previous life, and said to the Tianxuan Mirror.
In an instant, hundreds of messages popped up.
However, most people can only see the first few sentences. If they want to get complete information, they have to pay a certain contribution.
Li Fan was not stingy either. He immediately spent 100 contribution points to purchase the most popular "Survival Guide to Sect Ruins".
The author of this guide is named Qi Yuanzhou, who is also a casual cultivator.
He explored and mingled in various ruins for many years, and only after he cultivated to the Golden Core Realm did he join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Qi Yuanzhou must have some extraordinary qualities to be able to escape unscathed from the danger-ridden ruins of each sect every time.
The "Survival Guide for Sect Ruins" he summarized was also enthusiastically sought after by many monks and regarded as a guide.
The ruins of Yunshui Palace are treacherous and dangerous. Although Li Fan has foresight, he does not dare to take it lightly.
Read it carefully now.
When the ancient catastrophe came, countless sects were destroyed, leaving only ruins in the world.
Some of these ruins have already been explored countless times by cultivators over the years. They are completely clean and there is nothing valuable left inside.
Some of the ruins have not been fully explored yet because they are too dangerous and huge. Nowadays, many monks still venture into them every year, either for the sake of practicing or to seek opportunities for breakthroughs.
There are also those sects that have been hidden by caves and formations for a long time. These sects are completely undeveloped virgin lands, and it can be said that there are opportunities everywhere. Once they appear in the world, they will definitely attract a large number of monks from the surrounding areas.
The various experiences in "Survival Guide in Sect Ruins" are aimed at the latter two types.
The guide mentioned that in today's world of immortal cultivation, all the valuable and worthwhile sects to explore can be divided into two categories.
One is the one without any weirdness.
The other is the existence of weirdness.
If there is nothing strange, then as long as you are careful to guard against the formations and mechanisms, there will generally be no particularly great danger.
But if there is something weird, you have to be extremely careful.
The so-called weirdness refers to the various strange phenomena existing in the ruins that cannot be measured by common sense.
The weirdness seems to not belong to this world and often has its own unique rules.
There are also strong and weak weird rules.
In the world of immortal cultivation, it is customary to grade the intensity of strange rules.
According to the highest realm of cultivators it can affect, it is also divided into Qi Refining level weirdness, Foundation Building level weirdness, Golden Core level weirdness and so on.
If the cultivation level of a cultivator within the coverage area of the weirdness is lower than the strength of its rules, then he must follow the weird rules.
If you violate it, you will inevitably die.
If one's cultivation level is higher than the strength of the strange rules, perhaps one will not be affected by the strangeness and avoid death.
But no matter how high your cultivation level is, you cannot change the weirdness.
Even a strong person in the Hedao stage cannot change the strange rules of the Qi Refining level.
It is even more impossible to save the monks who violated the weird rules from the weirdness.
Once a living being enters the strange range, it will be triggered.
Only when the number of deaths reaches a certain level, or the strange rules are cracked, can the monks who have entered be able to leave.
The guide gives an example.
One hundred and fifty years ago, a cave suddenly appeared on an unnamed island in the western part of Congyun Sea close to the mainland.
Since its appearance, rays of light have been emanating from it, illuminating the sky within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Many monks were attracted by the precious light and went in to explore.
After some investigation, the cultivators discovered that this cave was built by Master Hongzhi, a Yuanying-level cultivator in ancient times, before his death.
There are more than ten sets of martial arts techniques hidden in the cave, and countless magic weapons.
These monks were overjoyed and started snatching things.
Just then, something horrible happened.
All those monks who were smiling because they had obtained martial arts techniques or magic weapons, had their heads dropped down for no reason.
Completely freeze the smile on your face.
In just a moment, more than half of the monks present died.
The remaining cultivators were also frightened, thinking that there were some restrictions on those skills and magic weapons.
He didn't dare to move the treasures lying all over the ground and fled out of the cave.
After the news spread, some monks who did not believe in evil came to test it out.
After they had held the treasure for a long time without triggering any restrictions, they all showed smiles of either disdain or joy.
Then the head and body were separated and the heads fell to the ground.
Only one monk who was born with facial paralysis survived.
But he was also frightened by this horrifying scene, so he just picked up a magic weapon and ran away.
The news of another group of people being annihilated shocked all the jealous monks around.
The paralyzed monk who had managed to escape the disaster and obtain the treasure from the cave naturally attracted everyone's attention.
But no matter how he was questioned, the paralyzed monk said that he didn't know how he survived.
Later, a clever man figured out the secret after thinking for a long time.
Laughing is prohibited in this cave.
No matter what the reason, if you smile, you will lose your head.
Although this matter sounded absurd, all the cultivators believed it after the intelligent man calmly walked into the cave and took out a technique with a peaceful and safe face.
So they followed suit and took out all the treasures in the cave.
…
What happened in Master Hongzhi’s cave was the most typical and simplest weirdness, involving only one rule.
In fact, the strangeness in those sect ruins is often the result of the combination of multiple rules.
The weirdness is extremely dangerous. If you don't know the rules, you will die if you are not careful.
But after mastering the weird rules, the risk is almost zero.
Based on his own personal experience of surviving several strange situations, Qi Yuanzhou summed up dozens of experiences.
First: Stay calm at all times.
Under the mysterious shroud, anything incredible could happen.
Second: Don’t act rashly.
If you don't understand the strange rules, the faster you move, the faster you die.
(End of this chapter)
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