Chapter 387 Ancient Fairy Spring
The small courtyard outside the government office fell into deathly silence.
From the direction of the altar in the distance, the sound of drums and chanting continued.
"Nonsense, this is nonsense... The Mother and Child Spring is an ancient fairy spring. If there was a problem with it from the beginning, would the Grand Palace Master not know about it? Would the transcendents not know about it?"
A female official from the Taichang Temple was the first to break down and became emotionally unstable because she had drunk from the Zimu Spring.
Another female official who had drunk from the Mother and Child Spring said, "This is a conspiracy by the demon tribe. They want to create panic and shake the morale of the army on the eve of the war in the western border."
Taishi Qingshi was a man of great insight, able to judge the truth from falsehood in Long Xiangcen's words.
At this moment, he felt as if a thousand pounds weighed heavily on his heart. He walked over, exerting a heavy pressure from his telekinesis, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you get the news?"
Long Xiangcen was almost mentally collapsed by the power of the Holy Spirit Mind Master: "It was Luan Sheng Lin You... Zuo Ning of Tan Yue Fang fought with the ghost mother and used mind magic to wake her up. When Luan Sheng Lin You found out, he laughed and said it was useless, and then he said those words."
"He also mentioned Liunian Zen Temple at the time. It seems that Zimu Spring has a great relationship with someone over there... I really only know this much, and I don't know anything else..."
Tai Shi Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Since it only came from the mouths of Luan Sheng and Lin You, it may not be true, and it is most likely alarmist."
Li Weiyi had been observing Taishi Qingshi's expression.
The eyes of the Minister of Taichang Temple became more solemn, as if he was thinking deeply about something.
Taishi Qingshi knew some information about Liunian Zen Temple. When Long Xiangcen mentioned this place, he was shocked and believed it more than half.
He straightened his official robes, tried to remain calm, and called out solemnly, "Your Excellency!"
"The old slave is here."
The eunuch who had gone to the restaurant to deliver the message came out and saluted.
Taishi Qingshi said: "I have to go to the palace immediately. Before I come back, you are only allowed to enter the Taichang Temple but not leave. Everyone keep your mouths shut. If the news leaks out, your entire clan will be in danger. Give her the Mother and Child Spring!"
Tai Shiyu looked at Tai Shiqingshi's back as he walked away quickly, and his mood became heavy. The old man was always calm in the face of things, and he had never been as flustered as he was at this moment.
Even he could see that the old man was pretending to be calm.
After Long Xiangcen was fed the Zimu Spring, he lay there in a daze, like a stray dog abandoned on the ground.
This kind of despair and fear is more terrifying than death.
All the officials of the Taichang Temple felt as if a disaster was about to happen, and they were all in a hurry and scattered in a sad mood.
Li Weiyi walked to Long Xiangcen's side and squatted down: "Fairy Long is a proud daughter of the inheritor level. Is this the only psychological endurance you can have? After drinking the Mother and Child Spring, will you definitely live a life worse than death?"
Long Xiangcen regained consciousness, thinking of Li Weiyi's ability, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw: "Save me... I agree to all your conditions..."
No matter how wise and intelligent you are, when a knife is hanging over your head and you don't know when it will fall, you will surely collapse in agony.
Li Weiyi asked, "What were you doing at Liunian Zen Temple on the night of the Xihai Palace's 60th birthday banquet a month ago?"
Tai Shi Yu stood aside with his eyelids raised, completely unaware of the matter.
Long Xiangcen said, "It was Luan Shenglin's idea to let me lead you to Liunian Zen Temple. We all know that the Six Desires Dharma King and the Nine Fasts Dharma King are your people and they obey the orders of the Jiuli tribe."
Li Weiyi guessed this when Shi Liu failed in his attempt to capture her and was ambushed and seriously injured.
Only Long Xiangcen knew that Shi Liuyu would follow her, so she could set up an ambush in advance.
If you know that someone is following you, why do you still go to Liunian Zen Temple? There is only one answer.
He deliberately led them there.
"What is the purpose of leading me there? Why did the Liang family and the evil martial arts practitioners come out with you? What is hidden in the Liunian Zen Temple? What is the great gift that Luansheng and Linyou mentioned?"
Li Weiyi asked several questions in a row.
Tai Shiyu couldn't hold it in any longer and interrupted, "Li Weiyi, how much do you know? How come the Liang family is related to the cult?"
The Liang family is a large family dependent on the Taishi family.
Not only is it the number one family in Liangzhou, but it also has a significant influence in the city defense camp of Lingxiao City.
"Don't worry, I will tell you the details later." Li Weiyi said.
Long Xiangcen said: "I know nothing about Liunian Zen Temple. I am only responsible for leading you there. As for the Liang family and the evil martial arts, I am also unfamiliar with them. If I want to lie to you, I can make up a perfect story to lead you to Liunian Zen Temple and let you die without a burial place. You will save me, right?"
Li Weiyi stood up and thought secretly, if Sikong Jingyuan was not meeting Long Xiangcen secretly that night, what else was he going to do? Could it be that there was an important figure in the Dao Sect hiding in the Zen temple? Could the great gift that Luansheng and Linyou mentioned be a means to lure him to Liunian Zen Temple to die? Li Weiyi could not tell Tai Shiyu about the Dao Sect for the time being, so he evaded the question.
As for Lin An, who drove for Long Xiangcen that night, he was on the list. Li Weiyi believed that the imperial masters led by Tai Shibai and Jiang Ning could capture him tonight.
Li Weiyi looked at the alienated ghost mother lying on the ground and released the golden crow flame light threads into her body and began to refine her.
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In the second half of the night, the Taichang Temple was still brightly lit.
Tai Shiyu had been interrogating Long Xiangcen, trying to get more information. He was exhausted, so he dragged Li Weiyi to the dining hall, ordered the imperial chef to prepare a midnight snack, and asked, "How are you doing over there?"
"It's not optimistic. I can only refine the ghost energy in her body's magic energy. I can't do anything about the corpse decay of her blood and flesh." Li Weiyi said.
Tai Shiyu said: "The decayed body of the corpse can be immersed in the Lingxi spring water for baptism."
"If the consciousness cannot be awakened, it will be useless no matter what you do. Human consciousness is quite fragile. How can it withstand the torment of ghost and corpse qi?" Li Weiyi said.
Even someone as powerful as Tang Wanzhou had his cultivation and spiritual will interfered with and had big problems, let alone these ghost mothers.
This is also the biggest problem with soul-searching methods.
The success rate of soul searching is actually not very high.
Consciousness is very fragile, like smoke or fog, and will shatter at the slightest touch. If the soul-searching person is determined and resists fiercely, the effort will fail.
Li Weiyi asked curiously, "What on earth is Zi Mu Quan?"
Tai Shiyu sighed, "Now, I'm not sure either! When the Grand Palace Master brought it back, he said it was one of the Nine Springs cultivated by a powerful ancient immortal in Yingzhou's history. It has been in existence since ancient times, connecting the inner and outer worlds, and contains immortal power. After drinking it, not only can you give birth to a fetus with extraordinary talent, it will also have great benefits for the mother."
"That's right. In those years, countless women drank from the Mother and Child Spring and became pregnant and gave birth to children. You have to know that with the prestige of the Grand Palace Master at the time, countless people would have listened to her call and gone crazy for her."
"These women and their families are spread across the twenty-eight states of Lingxiao, as well as various government offices and the military."
"Now you know why the old man looked so panicked, right?"
"If something goes wrong... No, nothing has to happen. As long as this news gets out, the war in the Western Territory will be lost, the human race will be defeated, and the entire court will be finished!"
"Now we can only hope that this is fake news, and maybe we can come up with some way to calm people's hearts."
Li Weiyi frowned, "All the women in the twenty-eight states drank from the Mother and Child Spring? Not just the imperial court?"
"Of course, the Xiaotian Order had not been issued at that time, and the world was not in chaos. That's why I said that the human race is bound to fail. The Zuoqiu Sect, the Xuejian Tang Court, the Leixiao Sect, the Zhumen, and the Jiuli Clan, no one can stay out of it. It's just the difference between a big impact and a small impact. After all, the Zimu Spring must be drunk in time in Lingxiao City." Tai Shiyu said.
After supper, Tai Shiyu took Li Weiyi to the dungeon under the altar.
The dungeon is an inverted tower-shaped magical instrument made of black metal, engraved with array patterns and runes, and guarded by a large number of powerful men outside.
Walking down the stone steps, the entire space was shrouded in black ghost fog, as thick as ink, just like entering the netherworld. The two of them used spiritual light to protect their bodies to isolate themselves from it.
Some of those ghost mothers were imprisoned in water dungeons, while others were chained to stone walls with rune chains. All of them had red eyes and loose long hair. They were all howling in a low voice, and each of them looked as ferocious as an evil ghost.
The chains rattled and they showed their teeth and claws, no longer as graceful and elegant as before.
The ghost babies were locked in iron cages, some were crying, some were roaring.
A group of ghost mothers imprisoned in the sixth level of prison were chasing and hunting each other, and then gathered together to eat each other. The scene was extremely horrifying.
I can’t imagine that a few months ago, they were all young and beautiful, with their own thoughts and pursuits, and they were someone’s daughter and someone’s sister.
Evil and destruction come suddenly, bringing disaster to every family.
Li Weiyi and Tai Shiyu were feeling depressed and full of negative emotions, so they had to leave quickly and return to the ground, where they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"The ghost mothers and ghost babies have only recently erupted. From the initial sporadic appearances to now, the Taichang Temple prison is almost full."
Tai Shiyu asked again: "How is it? Are you still hiding something? Do you have any solution?"
"If I were a Holy Spirit Master, I might have enough energy to face this unprecedented challenge. But with my current telekinetic power, it's hard to save one person, let alone so many. It's just a drop in the bucket!"
Li Weiyi is a flesh-and-blood person. Recalling what he had just seen and heard in prison, he felt a strong sense of powerlessness and grief.
I really want to climb to the top of Fengge and pull out the number one person in the world who has been locked up in the palace and cannot come out, so that she can see the sins she has committed.
After all, Li Weiyi is a person who never gives up and is always full of fighting spirit. As soon as he finished speaking in a discouraging manner, he turned around and went back to the dungeon, bringing out two ghost mothers who had been alienated not long ago and had higher cultivation levels.
Use telekinesis to clear the mind and break the evil, then use the power of the Golden Crow Flame to refine it.
So what if it's just a drop in the bucket? Saving every one you can is saving one.
The next day, the sun rose.
The sunlight shines into Taichang Temple, passes through the treetops and branches, and forms spots of light and shadow on the ground.
Jiang Ning came from afar, led by a eunuch.
Li Weiyi was still treating the ghost mother. In the spirit world, his mental energy was greatly consumed and his face was full of fatigue.
(End of this chapter)
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