Chapter 814: Disclosure

"Bone bats usually only live in the abyss of time and space," Guan Qiu came to his senses and lowered his voice, "They have built many nests deep in the earth and like to live in extremely dangerous and evil places. I don't know if it's their nature. There are ancient books saying that the places where bone bats build their nests are mostly on the edge of the Jedi."

"There is no smoke without fire. There must be a reason. There is some basis for this saying in the world."

Old Man Xida nodded, "Bone bats like to build nests in dark caves. The turbid air, yin air, evil air in the earth, and the evil air of corpses in the environment of the Corpse Road are all a kind of nourishment for the bone bat clan.

And this kind of terrain is often a naturally dangerous place. For most people, it is often not a good place. This Devil's Canyon is such a terrain. No wonder these bone bats appear here."

"I'm a little worried that there might be an entrance to the abyss here."

Guan Qiu put forward his own point of view.

This is also what he is worried about. Bone bats rarely come to the human world, let alone find a place to build a nest in the desert. This is somewhat inconsistent with their habits. This situation probably means that some accidents have occurred. For example, the turbid air in the ground penetrates the stratum, connecting the underground world with the human world and creating a passage.

"This situation may indeed happen," sighed old man Xida, "but the probability is still relatively low. You must know that the Great Desert is the origin of Buddhism and the place where the Buddha preached.

The dragon veins in this desert are affected by Buddhism and are different from other regions between heaven and earth. There are hidden entrances to the abyss everywhere in the world, but there has never been an abyss passage in the desert."

"Yes, I hope so."

Guanqiu nodded a few times, and without further ado, he continued to walk forward on the gray ashes and came to the end of the canyon entrance. There was a huge gap there, like a crack leading to the netherworld.

As they walked through, they saw a huge valley and a huge ruin in front of them. Countless broken walls, stone statues and tall towers formed an old dusty city, a lost ruin.

The ruins composed of these buildings, from south to north, from east to west, are like rivers flowing into a valley. In the center is a tilted black stone pagoda. The structure of the entire ruins seems to be a city built in the deep gorge opened up by thunder and lightning.

"This is the ruins of the old city in the Navaratna Canyon, but unfortunately it is only a part of it."

Elder Xida explained: "The real main part is buried in the land of this canyon and has long been swallowed by the yellow sand. There are many ancient city ruins and hundreds of temples."

This was originally a Buddhist holy place, but it was reduced to such a state because of a war thousands of years ago. It is a pity.

"Let's go in and explore it first!"

Guanqiu suggested.

"After entering, please be more vigilant. Every brick and tile here may be contaminated by the turbid resentment of all spirits. If you are not careful, you will be entangled by the curse and evil thoughts, which will be troublesome."

Old man Xida came here accidentally once in the past, and it was a bloody storm. Because of that experience, he was very wary of this Devil Canyon. Before entering the ruins of the ancient city, he turned around and warned the people around him.

Everyone nodded obediently and moved forward carefully. Even old man Xida did not dare to release the Yin Shen power at will and touch everything around.

The ruins of this ancient city are also very large. At the beginning, this area was a huge oasis ancient city. Halfway through the road, you can see a tall city gate.

This half of the city gate has long collapsed and the trench has been filled with sand. Everyone entered the city from the broken part of the city wall, and there was a dead silence in the ruins around.

The buildings in the ancient city are made of stone, which is why they can last for thousands of years. However, time will wash away everything. When people walked through it, they found that the stone houses in the city were either collapsed or dilapidated, and the weathering was serious.

It looked okay from a distance, and it was quite large and imposing. When you go inside, there is nothing but sand, rotten wood, and broken stones.

"Hundreds of rivers flow eastward, and two balls fall westward. The two things are always busy, never lingering. Short life is also like this, and the dead are really sad. Since the past, the blue-sky scholars have all become piles of yellow earth."

Old Xida sighed. He practiced meditation and always looked at things lightly. Seeing the ruins of this ancient city, he also had some inexplicable insights in his heart.

"Master."

Guanqiu said again: "Let's go to the stone tower in the middle to investigate. If there is still no discovery, we will temporarily withdraw today and re-enter the city to investigate tomorrow. This is safer."

He also knew the dangers in the depths of this canyon, especially after nightfall, the risk is greater, and it is best to leave the canyon quickly before the sun sets.

"Okay."

Old Xida had the same opinion.

Everyone naturally acted according to Guanqiu's opinion. After all, he was the leader of the Devil's Canyon.

They continued to find a way forward in the ruins, and took a detour when they encountered collapsed places. After walking for a long time, they came to the middle of the ancient city. The streets here are quite wide. Although there are yellow sands everywhere, the pattern of the streets can still be seen.

However, except for the tilted black tower, there are no other large buildings nearby. It should be that this piece of ruins is generally part of the residential area in the oasis city, belonging to the original residential area.

"The royal palace, ancient sacrificial sites, and some large buildings in the ancient oasis city, as well as many Buddhist temples built later, were suppressed underground."

Old Man Xida pointed to the black stone tower in the middle. This stone tower is nine stories high. The stones are covered with smooth reliefs. The base under the tower and most of the arched stone doors are buried in the sand and rubble fragments. Somewhat tilted, but still very solid.

"If you look closely, this stone pagoda doesn't look like a Buddhist pagoda at all. It seems to belong to another sect."

After Guanqiu got closer, he was greatly surprised, because he judged that this was not a Buddhist pagoda at all, but belonged to an alternative sect.

"You are right, this stone pagoda is not the pagoda of our Buddhist lineage."

Old man Xida had excellent eyesight. When he observed the pagoda, he found that in addition to the reliefs, there were countless ancient characters engraved on it. These characters were all pitch black and shaped like tadpoles or ghost skeletons with noses. It has eyes and gives people a very eerie feeling.

Those relief patterns are also very weird, they are all ferocious ghosts, beasts and demons, with strange shapes, gloomy air, and various evil spirits that are ready to move.

"I guess that this stone tower symbolizes an ancient belief and inherits an evil and mysterious orthodoxy."

Elder Xida said calmly: "Of course, it is not the inheritance in the true sense of the Taoism, but just a sect that believes in its existence. There is a saying in our Curse family that when Chandragupta destroyed this ancient city, he was afraid of it. That evil legacy.”

He continued: "Or maybe it's fear. This oasis city in the desert is secretly worshiping the terrifying existence of that orthodoxy, which has aroused the hostility of many surrounding oasis city-states. In particular, they have conducted many bloody sacrifices and carried out strange killings. They also robbed the population of surrounding desert countries, causing public outrage.”

"During the founding of the Nanda dynasty, Chandragupta heard this and immediately sent a large army to clear it out. It was not until he personally visited this ancient desert city that he discovered that the city had completely deteriorated."

"In this city, both men and women, old and young, are addicted to this evil sect, and their souls and hearts have been polluted. Chandragupta also knew this, and finally got angry with the thunder and used his great supernatural power to destroy the city, and then It caused the earth to sink, burying the entire city, moving mountains like mountains, capturing the mountains with supreme power, and suppressing them in the earth. "

The old man said this with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Committing such a killing may be one of the reasons why Chandragupta later fell into the devil's path."

Guanqiu was also shocked when he heard this: "The king of the Nanda Dynasty is a strong man who shows his spiritual cultivation. Is there anything in the world that makes him afraid? What is the origin of this Taoist tradition?"

"This Taoism is called the other side."

The old man explained calmly: "This is a very ancient inheritance. It is said to be related to a certain branch of the ancient Taoist sect. The other side believes that the world is filled with a sea of ​​suffering, or that the whole world is a sea of ​​suffering. To escape the sea of ​​suffering, you must leave the sea. Landing, and the act of landing is hidden in one’s life and death.”

"They believe that the law of life and death was fixed at the moment of the death of the first 'person' in the world. To solve this problem, we must start from the beginning of life and death."

"In order to change people's life and death, the other side once tried to distort time and turn time back to the moment of life's first death, hoping to create the first change of life and death in history, and then create the 'shore' of the sea of ​​suffering called the other side. "

There is only the sea of ​​suffering in the world, and the sea of ​​suffering is this shore. There is no shore there. The purpose of the Taoism on the other shore from ancient times is to create a "shore" that reaches the source of life and death.

This view is different from the detachment of Buddhism and Taoism. The purpose of the other side is to create something out of nothing, to create a shore of life and death from nothingness, and also to distort time and solve the first "human" problem of life and death in the world.

They seemed to have made a very dangerous attempt in the past, which caused the ancient Taoist sect to be furious. This triggered public outrage. All parties united to completely defeat the forces on the other side, which caused the Taoist forces to turn from the light to the dark and hide behind the scenes. act.

Guanqiu was also very shocked when he heard this.

"After the other side suffered the last loss, they did not dare to mess around again, reversing time and rolling back the long river of time. This kind of thing has offended the public. They also hide in the darkness of history to build the underworld and do things like this. Some secret activities.”

Old Man Xida added: "According to the records of our Curse Clan lineage, Bian'an later took the route of using corpses to prove the Tao, and was determined to find a way out from the Taoist corpse dissection technique. Later, when it was spread, there were many The method of refining corpses, the famous method of Shibi Sect, should be learned from the other side."

Guan Qiu asked curiously: "Have the forces from the other side penetrated into the desert?"

"Yes, the corpse-raising method of the Shibi Sect is different from the corpse-refining method of Zhonghuan. It was spread by several evil sects in the desert. The leader of the Shibi Sect can be said to have combined the Eastern and Western methods. Lu’s corpse refining technique created the secret scripture of the Shibi Sect.”

When Old Man Xida said this, his eyes moved to the black tower again.

"The origin of this black tower is very suspicious. I plan to use my own magic power to see if I can dig out some key information from this black tower..."

"Master, you don't have to take such risks."

Guan Qiu quickly gave words of advice.

"I am following the master's order to investigate the Navaratna Canyon. Is it the Six Paths Treasure? Or is there any conspirator who throws out bait to attract various forces to come here secretly... If this black tower is really related to the forces on the other side, even you, the master, may get into trouble."

"Actually, I don't want to meddle in other people's business."

Master Xida sighed: "But the story behind this is not as simple as you think. At present, in addition to the Baifeng tribe and the Zhaimu Chamber of Commerce among the Tiele people, it is very likely that a big force like the Dragon Worshiping Sect has also been involved... Behind my senior brother Ajiamu, there is a powerful Taoist master. If this matter is not clarified, we don't even know what the situation is, let alone saving our lives."

Unlike Guanqiu, a young man who is just starting out, old man Xida sees things very accurately, has a very experienced vision, and has a much better grasp of the situation than ordinary people.

The old man realized very early that it was a bit strange that Ajiamu would come to him again decades after being exiled to snatch the twelve heavenly spells of the Zhuzang lineage.

Not to mention the large Tiele tribes like the Baifeng tribe, the Zhamu Chamber of Commerce and the Bailong Sect are all powerful forces.

If these big forces really want to cause trouble for him, why should he be restrained? For them, he and others may not even be able to stop a chariot with a mantis arm.

However, the other party did not rob openly, but instead manipulated his own senior brother Ajiamu, Zhan Hongsheng and other casual cultivators to snatch the fundamental spells of the Zhuzang lineage.

Such a roundabout method obviously does not want others to know.

The more so, the more it proves that the situation is very dangerous.

In addition to Guanqiu and himself who have already been involved in the situation, even the oasis town Mukta, which has nothing to do with it, is likely to fall into the crisis of destruction because of this incident.

Old man Xida led the team here without hesitation, intending to find important clues in advance. In fact, he had an answer in his mind, which was related to the fact that he and his master came here that year, and the inexplicable disappearance of the previous generation of the Zhuzang lineage leader, that is, his master.

"Amazing, I didn't expect that Master Xida could see through it to this extent..."

Suddenly, a female voice floated over.

"But it's a pity that you can't continue to play it next, otherwise this plan may be exposed!"

A figure flew in from the outside world.