Chapter 77 Chapter 77 Immortality Sect
"Golden Buddha Bone, that's a good thing."
"Who says it isn't? Haha."
Suddenly, there was a sound of conversation coming from the corner. Yun Miao realized that his blue bar was almost empty, so he immediately stuffed a handful of Huiling Pills into his mouth, then used the Five Elements Escape Technique and turned into a wisp of breeze to hide.
Two figures in gray robes approached from the corner, their faces covered by pure white masks that seemed to serve as disguises. Their voices clearly indicated they were a man and a woman, but their figures were identical, with no difference in height or weight.
Yun Miao had no idea what to do with this place, so he simply turned around and quietly followed the two men.
After walking for a while, she discovered that not only were the roads here interconnected, like an underground maze, but the security was also very strict. There were two guards every few meters, and from time to time you could see a team of guards patrolling.
These guards all wore gray robes and white masks.
Because the place was filled with obscure stones and formations, Yun Miao's spiritual sense was disabled again. She could not use her spiritual sense to detect the specific situation of these guards. She could only rely on their breath to detect that their strength was at least at the Nascent Soul stage, which was a level higher than the strength of the demon guards who had chased her before.
You have to know that in the world of cultivation, those at the Nascent Soul stage are already ancestors in some small sects and families. In some remote places with scarce spiritual energy, they are even capable of becoming kings and overlords. But so many Nascent Soul stage cultivators are only qualified to be small guards here?
Yun Miao didn't know why they were willing to be guards in such a dark place. She only knew that this place must be hiding a big secret.
These people did not use any magic when they walked, but walked slowly like ordinary people. The Five Elements Escape Technique consumes a lot of spiritual energy. In just one stick of incense, Yun Miao's blue bar was empty again.
Just as she was debating whether to pause her pursuit and find a place to replenish her mana, the two she was following finally reached their destination. It was a prison divided by black gold bars. Looking around, she could see countless monks crammed into these cells, large and small.
Yun Miao's eyes swept across the red "jade bracelets" on the wrists and ankles of those monks. Is this... a soul-locking ring?
Could it be that these people are the cultivators who were captured and sent away by the Yun family?
She immediately passed the two gray-robed men and walked forward quietly, wanting to take a closer look at the conditions of the monks in the cells. It was at this moment that she heard a weak chanting sound.
She turned and walked in that direction. Soon she saw several cramped single cells in the deepest part of the prison. In one of the cells, there was a little monk who looked only twelve or thirteen years old. He was lying on the dirty ground covered in blood.
There was still some baby fat on his face, and there was dried blood from the corners of his eyes to his cheeks. He was wearing a torn and bloodstained monk's robe, and his bald head shone with a round and white luster in the candlelight.
He closed his eyes tightly, muttered scriptures, and tried to sit up several times with his hands on the ground but fell down due to weakness. However, he did not give up and still persevered in trying to sit up. The speed at which he recited the scriptures became faster and faster, revealing deep pain and confusion.
Yun Miao noticed that every time he used his hands to support his upper body while lying on the ground, his waist would collapse in a strange arc, and his entire upper body would be as soft as a noodle.
She had heard rumors about Lingming Buddhist disciple before, and when she thought about the conversation between the two people just now, a guess came to her mind.
The bright and clear Buddha's son, the golden Buddha's bones... no way?
Yun Miao subconsciously wanted to walk over and take a few more looks, but she soon found that her blue bar was almost at the bottom, so she immediately left the prison as fast as she could.
When she was performing the Five Elements Escape Technique, she could not take any pills, so she had to find a place away from the guards, and after canceling the escape technique, she could take the Soul-Restoring Pill to replenish her spiritual power.
Unfortunately, there are guards everywhere, and it is too difficult to find blind spots in surveillance. The place where she landed before is indeed a blind spot, but her spiritual power is not enough to support her to go back there.
So when Yun Miao's spiritual power was completely exhausted, her figure was directly exposed in the corridor. The two guards nearby discovered her tracks and quickly stepped forward to try to capture her.
"who?!"
"stop!"
A team of patrolling guards heard the noise and turned around to come to the rescue.
“Who is it?!”
The tunnel was too narrow, and Yun Miao was attacked from both sides. She had no time to consume her elixir, so she could only strike back with her sword. Although the dozen or so Yuanying-stage guards outnumbered them, they were no match for Yun Miao. She quickly killed two of them and quickly escaped through the breach.
While running away, she took the moment to pull out the porcelain bottle of Rejuvenating Elixir and poured it into her mouth without even looking at it. However, just as her mana bar was about to refill, a strange female voice reached her ears.
Come to me.
Yun Miao paused, looking around in surprise. Wasn't spiritual awareness forbidden here? Why could this person send a telepathic message to her?
"There she is!"
Pursuers also appeared in the corridor ahead. The grey-robed man in the lead had a very dangerous aura and seemed to be a master in the Void Refinement Stage. Yun Miao did not dare to fight him head-on and immediately used the Five Elements Escape Technique to escape underground.
She fled a long way, making sure she was far away from the area where the pursuers were gathered, and then she poked her head out of the ground like a groundhog. This area was also full of corridors, the walls were covered with colorful murals of immortals, and guards were on duty everywhere.
If her mini-map hadn't shown her in a completely new area, she would have thought she hadn't walked very far.
Yun Miao zoomed out the map and measured the distance between the area he had just lit up and his current location. He was secretly shocked. Could the underground of this island have been completely hollowed out?
Because this is a world of cultivating immortals, does that mean we don't need to follow the basic laws of architecture?
This place was too big and too complicated. Yun Miao didn't know where to start, so she turned around and around in this maze-like corridor and finally found a dead corner with no guards again.
She revealed her figure, ate a lot of soul-restoring pills to replenish her spiritual power, and then stood there quietly waiting for something.
Just as she expected, not long after, the strange female voice appeared again: [Come to me.]
Yun Miao couldn't communicate with her through his spiritual sense, so he could only lower his voice and ask, "Where are you?"
This woman can use her spiritual sense with the dual blessing of the obscure stone and the formation. She must be no ordinary person. She may know the secret of this place.
Come to me.
Yun Miao frowned: "Where are you? Tell me your location!"
【I...I don't know where I am either.】
Yun Miao: "... Are you kidding me? Let me tell you, the last person who played a trick on me was the one I confiscated and wiped out. I even dug up all the dirt from his house and took it away. Think about it for yourself."
The female voice said aggrievedly: [I'm not kidding you. I've been locked up here for a long time and have never been out. I really don't know where I am.]
Locked up?
Yun Miao immediately asked whether the woman was imprisoned in the cell she had just seen.
The woman said that she only knew that she was locked in a very large hole, and besides her, there were only corpses on the ground.
Yun Miao became even more confused after hearing this. Could it be that silkworms were also being raised here, and the woman was in a corpse cave where silkworms were being raised?
This little information was not enough for Yun Miao to find the woman's location. When she noticed that patrolling guards were approaching, she immediately used the Five Elements Escape Technique to hide. After the team of guards left, she revealed herself and asked another question.
"May I have your name?"
[Name? They call me Mother Tree, and occasionally Mother Body.]
Yun Miao frowned again. She explained seriously that she was asking for the woman's name, not how others addressed her. She wanted the name she truly recognized in her heart. If she didn't have a name, then she could choose one now.
The woman's voice became much softer: [My name is... Futu.]
As the woman finished speaking, a white causal line appeared in Yun Miao's causal space. It was very illusory and seemed like it would disappear at any time.
Pagoda?
No, it should be Buddha.
Yun Miao was surprised and asked, "Are you the Buddha Flower Demon?"
"Well, my inherited memories tell me that I am a Buddha flower demon. My people are all called Buddha, so I want to be called that name too. I like it."
The woman's voice first evoked a hint of joy, then softened. "But they don't like it. They never call me Buddha, but only Mother Tree."
After what happened in the secret realm last time, Yun Miao would think of the Changsheng Sect whenever he heard the word "Buddha Tree".
Could this be the Immortal Cult's stronghold... or perhaps its headquarters? Are the Immortal Cult and the Demon Cult actually the same organization?
She had more and more questions in her mind, so she immediately pulled the newly appeared causal line and chose to be teleported to Futu's side.
"Wait, I'll come to you."
Yun Miao's figure disappeared out of thin air again. The next moment, she found herself in a thick darkness. There was no light at all, and the silence was so irritating.
Because she couldn't see with her spiritual sense and didn't dare to use her spiritual power to set fire to illuminate, she hesitated for a moment and took out a lotus lamp from the secret realm, which was burning with a pale cold light.
She, who worked hard to support her family, cremated the boys and girls and kept the mermaid oil. She also piled the copper lotus lamps aside. At that time, she thought that although these scraps of copper and iron were useless, the secret realm was big enough and it would not be a problem to keep them, so she kept them. She didn't expect that she would need them at this time.
Fortunately, the sudden appearance of fire did not trigger any formation or mechanism. With the help of the white light, she finally saw everything around her clearly.
This is a large underground cave. In the center of the cave is a hundred-meter-high pagoda tree. The ground is full of high-raised tree roots. At first glance, she seemed to have returned to the mysterious ancient ruins again.
But if you look closely, you can still see many differences. First of all, there is no tree stump here, but a complete pagoda tree. Although it is nearly a hundred meters high, compared with the original shape of the pagoda that covers the sky, this pagoda tree is just a sapling.
Secondly, this pagoda tree not only has no leaves, but the white pagoda flowers are also blooming sparsely, hanging here and there on the treetops, making the whole tree look sick.
Yun Miao was standing under the tree, but she couldn't smell the fragrance of the pagoda flower that was said to persuade people to be good.
The stone walls of this cave are densely packed with shrines, and in each shrine is placed a pink, greasy, and plump immortal shell.
The ridges of tree roots on the ground climbed up the stone wall, weaving a crisscrossing web. Countless root tips penetrated the immortal sloughs from all directions, like umbilical cords transporting nutrients.
This strange scene made Yun Miao feel nauseous, but then she noticed that there seemed to be murals inside these shrines.
She walked towards the stone wall with the lotus lantern. The five senses of a cultivator were far superior to those of an ordinary person. A cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage could even see clearly a mosquito flying by at a distance of thirty miles if his eyes were not obstructed.
So, being closer, she could quickly see the murals inside the shrines and roughly piece together the stories they told.
The world was originally shrouded in clouds and mist. Through cultivation, monks ascended to the immortal realm. Then one day, the clouds and mist dissipated, and the monks began to age and die painfully. They continued to offer sacrifices, praying to the heavens for a golden light to guide them to the immortal realm, but unfortunately, the heavens did not grant them any blessing.
So they found an immortal slough shaped like a fleshy mushroom, discarded their mortal bodies, and placed their souls into a pagoda fruit. Then they placed the pagoda fruit back into the immortal slough, allowing the immortal's corpse to regenerate them. In this way, they could become immortals at birth, never having to worry about aging and death again.
When Yun Miao understood the meaning of these murals, she felt as if the wrinkles in her brain were instantly smoothed out, and her cerebellum even shrank directly.
Although many people say that everyone's fate is determined at the time of reincarnation, you can't really force yourself to go back and reincarnate again just to change your fate. That's just nonsense!
The pagoda tree shook its branches, and a few wilted petals fluttered down. A woman's voice said happily, "You're really here."
Yun Miao turned his head and looked at the tree: "What is this place?"
The pagoda tree indicated that this was the Immortality Cult, and this dark cave was called the Immortality Temple by the gray-robed people. She had been staying in this dark cave since she regained consciousness. The gray-robed people who came here rarely spoke to her. They simply ordered her to hand over her fruit and forced her to use her roots to transport nutrients to the greasy fat.
There were many formations set up in the cave, and she had no way to escape. However, after years of unremitting efforts, her roots drilled out, and roots as thin as cow hair quietly grew and spread along the cracks in the bricks of the dark stone.
Before that, Yun Miao was standing on her roots, and through the contact, her spiritual consciousness was successfully transmitted to Yun Miao's ears.
Because of the existence of the obscuring stone and the formation, the people of the Changsheng Sect were unable to use their spiritual sense to investigate, and it was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, so they did not know that part of the pagoda tree had quietly escaped from the cave.
[I've never used my spiritual sense to communicate with them, so they don't know I have this ability.]
Fu Tu Shu's tone was filled with innocence, uninformed by the world: "I hate those gray-robed people. They always force me to do this and that, and if I don't agree, they'll burn me. You're the only one not wearing a gray robe. I saw them chasing you, so you're definitely not in the same group as them. That's why I like you."
Yun Miao looked at the murals, but still couldn't understand the Changsheng Sect's train of thought. She asked Futu Shu, has anyone in the Changsheng Sect really succeeded in becoming an immortal using this method?
The Buddha Tree said that she had lived here for thousands of years and had never seen anyone become an immortal because of this, but most of the believers swore that some people had become immortals because of this and they believed it without a doubt.
However, she had heard two guardians of the Changsheng Sect privately mention that the ancient catastrophe would recur, and the guiding golden light would no longer descend. The last immortal born from the immortal transformation was the only hope for salvation. Everything they did now was to ensure the immortal's safe birth.
Yun Miao was suspicious: "What exactly is the catastrophe? The destruction of the world?"
Fu Tu Shu said she didn't know.
Yun Miao turned her head to look at the murals and pondered again. After a moment, she pointed to the first mural shrouded in mist and asked, "Do you know what these clouds represent?"
Fu Tu Shu: "A gray-robed man mentioned it to another person before. It's spiritual energy."
Yun Miao's gaze moved to the next mural where the clouds disappeared, and a light bulb went off in his head. Could it be that the so-called ancient disaster was actually the disappearance of spiritual energy?
All the things about ancient times that she had learned in recent days flashed through her mind quickly, and she had some speculations in her mind. After a monk practiced fasting, his body was completely supported by the magic power in his body.
When the spiritual energy disappears, the monks cannot be replenished and can only rely on the remaining magic power in their bodies to maintain their activities. Once the magic power is exhausted... they will quickly age and die.
When Fu Tu built the secret realm, it must have been during a disaster when the spiritual energy was cut off, so the spiritual energy in that secret realm was so scarce.
Ancient monks had endured thousands and tens of thousands of years of arduous training, forsaking all pleasures and staining their hands with countless blood, finally reaching this point. They could endure being slain by their enemies, dying gloriously on the path to enlightenment, but they could never endure the bleak fate of their spiritual energy suddenly vanishing, leaving them helpless to die in despair.
So some people became desperate and decadent, some tried to save themselves, and some accepted it calmly like Xinyi. As death approached step by step, more and more people fell into despair, their Taoism collapsed, and they went crazy.
It is not surprising for a group of lunatics to do anything. Most cultivators in the world of cultivation think that they are superior to ordinary people. The atmosphere in the ancient world of cultivation is probably not much better than it is now.
And when those high-ranking monks suddenly discovered that the realm of cultivation they were once proud of had become a cage that trapped them, while those mortals who did not know how to practice could live in peace, one can imagine the jealousy in their hearts.
Perhaps the ancient custom of those so-called ancient monks who liked to sacrifice and bury mortals was actually just madness and twisted jealousy caused by despair.
The Changsheng Sect said that the ancient disaster will happen again. Does this mean that the disappearance of spiritual energy will occur again?
Yun Miao's gaze fell on the mural depicting the golden light that was descended through sacrificial prayers. Shui Furong seemed to have said before that the golden light had not appeared for 30,000 years.
Seeing Yun Miao remained silent, Fu Tu Shu spoke again: [Why are you silent? Are you thinking about how to escape?]
"I can help you escape, but I have one condition. I hope you can take this fruit with you. It is my clone. Once it escapes, I will be able to see the outside world."
The branches of the pagoda tree hung low, with a small fruit the size of a palm hanging on it. It grew at a speed visible to the naked eye and soon became a large fruit as big as a human head.
Yun Miao didn't take the fruit. Instead, he asked tentatively, "Since you know how to escape, why don't you escape? Don't you want to escape and experience the outside world with your real body?"
Futushu said dejectedly that it was not that she didn't want to, but that she couldn't. She was too big, and the slightest movement would cause an earthquake. Only half of the formation in the cave was used to resist foreign invasion, and the other half was used to prevent her from escaping.
The most important thing is that there are two powerful human beings in the Mahayana stage guarding here. It is impossible for her to escape under such heavy obstacles.
Yun Miao was shocked and quickly put aside the matter of the disaster and carefully inquired about the specific situation of the two Mahayana cultivators in Futushu.
Because the Buddha tree was afraid of the two Mahayana masters, it didn't even dare to spread its roots to where they were. The followers of the Changsheng Sect didn't dare to discuss the two leaders at large, so the Buddha tree knew very little about their situation.
She only knew that they were a man and a woman. The woman had been in seclusion for years to break through the tribulation period, while the man was more active and would go out from time to time.
After repeated confirmation, Yun Miao discovered that the male leader of the Changsheng Sect and the leader of the Demon Sect, Yan Hai, were not the same person. In other words, including Yan Hai, there were actually three Mahayana masters on this island!
Her scalp suddenly went numb. You know, in Xuantian Sect, only his master was at the peak of the Mahayana stage, and the rest were at the peak of the Void Refining stage at most.
She had originally thought of asking Chu Beiliang to report the location of the Demon Cult, and then having the sect bring a large army to launch a surprise attack, catching the Demon Cult off guard. But now there are three Mahayana cultivators... it's not clear who will defeat whom!
Fortunately, at this time, the Buddha Tree said that her roots had personally heard those gray-robed people mocking the stupidity of the demon sect, and that all their current efforts were just to make wedding clothes for the Changsheng Sect. So she felt that the Changsheng Sect and the demon sect above were probably not in the same group.
Yun Miao was not particularly pleased to hear this. The Demon Cult and the Immortal Cult were not on the same side, and it was even less likely that they were on the same side as the Xuan Tian Sect. Whether the Demon Cult and the Immortal Cult joined forces to attack the Xuan Tian Sect, or a direct three-way melee ensued, the Xuan Tian Sect would not have much of an advantage and would likely suffer countless casualties. This was something Yun Miao absolutely did not want to see.
Her first reaction was to return to the sect to stop the action, but as soon as this thought came to her mind, she recalled the evil deeds that Elder Zuo had mentioned before, and the understated malice he showed when he killed Xiao Hei.
It was at that moment that Yun Miao deeply understood the hatred that her master, Tian Laokou and even the entire Xuantian Sect had for the Demon Sect. How could she and they be willing to give up such a good opportunity for revenge?
Her brain worked rapidly, and she soon came up with another idea. If what Fu Tu Shu said was true, then as long as she could expose the existence of the Changsheng Sect to the eyes of the Demon Sect before the sect's army arrived, the Demon Sect would naturally confront the Changsheng Sect.
As the saying goes, when the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits. When the Demon Cult and the Immortality Cult are both defeated, she can lead her master and others to intervene. Wouldn't that make things twice as effective with half the effort?
So how can we let the Demon Cult know about the existence of the Changsheng Cult?
It would definitely not work for her to go and tell the Demon Cult directly. The Demon Cult would not believe her. It would be better to make a big noise so that the Demon Cult would notice the underground Changsheng Cult.
Yun Miao turned her head to look at the tall Buddha tree and asked sincerely, "Dear Buddha, do you mind if I blow up this place?"
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The author has something to say: Demon Cult Leader Yan Hai: The entire island is under my control, it’s just a little mouse that sneaked in, it’s not enough to be used as evidence.
The Changsheng Cult living under the Demon Cult: The pure cockroach is hot~
I came to your house tonight.
You have my little lover at home~
Let's make an appointment to jump and rub together~
Then have a baby together~
Doll reborn as a little doll~
Your home has become a cockroach home~~~
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