Chapter 187
But every time I think of the countless hidden corpses (the teenagers used every month) and the strange plants in this fairyland...
The sixth door was as fairyland as ever.
But every time I think of the countless hidden corpses (the teenagers used every month), strange plants (the fruits are meat inside), and the large number of puppets without souls in this fairyland...
The more beautiful the scenery is, the more ironic it seems.
Everything in the fairyland is peaceful, but Cheng Hui does not dare to underestimate this place.
After thinking about it, he didn't go directly to see the flower buds. Instead, he quietly came to the vicinity of the field.
Because he didn't know how big the actual area controlled by those ancestors was, he didn't dare to get too close. Instead, he observed from a distance, staring at the direction of the flower bud.
After a while, Priest Chen arrived as expected.
This time, he did not carry the boy's body, but he had a water bottle in his hand.
He slowly walked to the big pit where the bodies had been dumped, opened the lid of the kettle, and poured the liquid in the kettle into the pit.
Suddenly, several vines emerged from the ground, madly absorbing the liquid. One vine was particularly greedy and rolled directly towards Priest Chen.
Priest Chen had a strange smile on his face and threw the kettle away.
The vine chased the kettle, quickly rolled it away, and sucked up all the liquid inside.
Cheng Hui observed for a while and found that only a few vines absorbed the liquid in the kettle, which was obviously inconsistent with the number when the corpse was divided.
And judging from the places where the vines came out, they should all belong to the Zhou family ancestor who had problems.
Hiss—Priest Chen is going to cause trouble!
Ancestor Zhou was already in that state. Although Cheng Hui didn't know what was in the kettle, it was obvious that there was something wrong, otherwise Priest Chen wouldn't have to come here in the middle of the night to water the flowers.
So the question is, is this problematic liquid the root cause of Patriarch Zhou's madness? Do the other Patriarchs know that Priest Chen secretly gave Patriarch Zhou extra food?
Cheng Hui felt that his brain was in a mess. At this moment, he missed Lin Qingyang very much. When encountering such things that require brainpower, just leave it to him.
After drinking the liquid, the plant community where Zhou Laozu was located became visibly wilted, and the unripe small fruits fell to the ground just as they were forming.
However, this obviously abnormal scene did not arouse the vigilance of Zhou Laozu at all, and he was only focused on chasing those strange liquids.
Although Cheng Hui hid far away, he could see the situation here quite clearly. To be honest, it was thanks to the fact that the people here almost completely did not understand the wonderful use of spiritual consciousness, which allowed him to take advantage of it.
After pouring the liquid, Priest Chen took a few steps back and watched quietly.
Seeing how calm he was, Cheng Hui estimated that if nothing unexpected happened, he would see the result today.
Sure enough, not long after, the field that Patriarch Zhou was looking after suddenly began to surge, and large areas of strange plants began to wither and die, as if something was constantly draining the vitality from their bodies.
Priest Chen's eyes lit up when he saw this scene, but he did not act rashly. Instead, he carefully approached the big pit where the bodies were dumped.
Soon, the vitality of those strange plants was drained away, and they turned into a handful of dried corpses, which disappeared without a trace when the wind blew. Dozens of thick vines suddenly emerged from the ground. These vines should have been green, but now they were covered with gray cracks.
There are so many cracks and they are growing all the time.
Cheng Hui saw with his own eyes that a vine suddenly exploded at a certain point, and the green liquid inside quickly turned gray after overflowing, and dried up and formed scabs on the vine.
The vines seemed to have lost moisture and began to gradually become stiff. Priest Chen muttered something, and as he moved, the vines covered with gray cracks began to turn black from the roots, and gradually lost their vitality, drooping down and dead.
"Ah! Damn you...! They won't let you go!"
Ancestor Zhou's painful howls came from underground. He seemed to have just woken up, but it was too late. He could no longer control his own decline.
Priest Chen walked forward quietly, looking at the vines that were constantly dying in the corpse pit, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
His voice suddenly became hoarse, and he smirked, "Do you think they'll avenge you? Why do you think I haven't been discovered in all these years? Or don't you find it strange? I've consumed so much blood, so why can't I maintain a stable state?"
The scene suddenly fell into a strange silence, and the next moment, a large number of roots emerged from the ground and whipped towards Priest Chen desperately.
"Damn it! You guys are in cahoots with each other!"
Priest Chen raised his lips, his eyes filled with disdain. "You finally know. Honestly, I'm wondering why they let someone as stupid as you get involved in this in the first place? Is it really just luck, a coincidence?"
Ancestor Zhou did not give an answer. He was still struggling hard. Those thick roots, like vines, were gradually stained with gray cracks. Anyone who opened his eyes knew that Ancestor Zhou was obviously in danger of his life.
Fortunately, Priest Chen did not expect Ancestor Zhou to give an answer. What he expected was to live like Ancestor Zhou, and live forever. Instead of letting such a fool waste a place, it would be better for him to replace him, right?
He carefully approached the corpse pit, where the real bodies of Zhou Laozu and others seemed to be hidden.
Patriarch Zhou made such a big noise, but the others didn't react at all. It was not known whether they were watching or whether Priest Chen did something to prevent him from waking up.
Most villains can't help but express their feelings when their plot succeeds, and Priest Chen is no exception.
Of course, if Priest Chen is a villain, he is obviously a cautious villain. At least the target of his emotion has obviously no possibility of turning things around.
He simply expressed his own psychological process without too much elaboration. It was basically a replica of "Don't bully the poor young man". This priest Chen could also be called Chen Aotian. Anyway, the process of his rise to fame was quite magical, the kind that could be the protagonist in a novel.
As a smart and capable person, after learning the truth about the temple, he began to think about how to enjoy the highest treatment for a long time.
Although the treatment of the high priest is good, in fact, it is just the reserve food of several ancestors. Although some ancestors are in good condition and do not need the sacrifice of their descendants, allowing many high priests to die of old age, but Priest Chen does not want to gamble on this probability. Instead of entrusting his life and death to others, he would rather be the one who can control his own destiny.
It is said that capable people are more proactive. Under the careful planning of Priest Chen - which is not really careful, after all, the existence of the ancestors is kept secret, and all matters of the earthly temple are handled by him. It is also because he lived the longest that the high priests who came later were basically selected by him. His personality... is just like that, very suitable to be a puppet.
The temple became the one-man show for Priest Chen. He spent a lot of effort investigating in ancient books and finally discovered something.
He used these things to trade with the ancestors and successfully made them turn a blind eye to his actions.
Today, he is about to succeed. He is about to replace Patriarch Zhou and become one of the five ancestors. From now on, no one can control his destiny!
Priest Chen was extremely excited. His centuries-old dream was about to come true, and he couldn't help but be nervous.
He was still very cautious and never got too close to Old Ancestor Zhou, so that Old Ancestor Zhou could not seize the opportunity to give him the final blow. Finally, Old Ancestor Zhou could not hold on any longer, and the death of a large number of vines and roots gradually brought his life to an end.
He knew he was going to die, so he began to expose secrets desperately, cursing his former companions, the other ancestors, and insulting Priest Chen.
It’s hard to say whether Priest Chen was surprised by his revelations, but Cheng Hui was quite shocked.
He was shocked at what these people did back then!
No wonder the god was so angry. If this happened to him, he might kill everyone in the city to vent his anger.
Yes, ordinary people may not know anything, but if they enjoy this dividend, they must pay a price.
Although it was passed on from one hand to another, in essence, these people were eating his flesh and blood. They were able to live so long because of his vitality.
Simply put, this whole thing is a scam that has been going on for tens of thousands of years.
Well... no, for this god, he was just deceived for thousands of years. The most unlucky one was the ancestor of their family, the most original god of the Wujiang tribe. He was the one who was truly deceived for tens of thousands of years. So once he discovered the scam, he died together with everyone else.
This is also the real reason why the Wujiang Clan's small world disappeared. The entire small world was supported by that god. He was deceived so badly. Would he still leave a glimmer of hope for those people in the small world who ate his flesh and drank his blood?
So the small world was destroyed, completely destroyed. Unfortunately, the unlucky god didn't know that his descendants had already been kept in captivity. The one with the purest bloodline managed to keep the rest of the Wujiang tribe alive for thousands of years.
That is the "god" who is imprisoned under the flower bud at this time.
Cheng Hui sighed silently. This god was truly pitiful, and those so-called elders and priests of the Wujiang Clan were truly inhumane. It could only be said that the ancestors of these five families were exactly the same as those priests back then, or perhaps they had relevant records? That was why they were able to use this trick so skillfully.
Of course, the bloodline of this god's descendant is not as good as the previous one, and there is no way to directly grant believers cultivation through the connection between faith, so it is necessary to use the so-called fruit to achieve the same purpose. However, this also makes the so-called descendants of God fall into a deeper hell.
Those young men that Cheng Hui had seen coming out of the ground before did not appear out of thin air. Instead, they were descendants of gods that were raised by these ancestors and used as breeding pigs to continuously breed young men with this bloodline. It was precisely because of the existence of these young men that the 'gods' buried deep underground could descend in the bodies of the young men, absorb some filtered beliefs, extend the lifespan of the five ancestors, and grow that strange fruit.
To be honest, when Cheng Hui heard about the self-destruction of the old ancestor Zhou before his death, he wanted to rescue him, torture him and then kill him.
Killing people is not enough. These guys are really too insidious in their pursuit of immortality!
No wonder he felt that those young men were a bit similar. It turned out that they were all descendants of that god. They had brought disaster to the entire family.
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