Xianlu

Chapter 173: She Zhao's Past
"Ordinary Taoist, if the body is smashed, even if the Yin God is intact, it will be severely injured on the spot, and it may even dissipate directly... But the voice of the old centipede is clear, and it does not seem to be a person with great vitality. Injury, the appearance of dying in seven days."

The old centipede just said a few words, controlled the Gu insect to move, and Xu Dao noticed this.

Therefore, Xu Dao secretly said in his heart: "This guy most likely has a secret method to save his life. After his physical body is broken, he can survive on the ghost beast."

After thinking about it for a while, he understood why the old centipede threw a lot of things out of his bag first when he was hung in mid-air by the Taoist priest, and finally passed out.

It turned out that this guy did it on purpose, pretending to be unconscious, but in fact he hid the Yin God in the body of the Yin Beast, and boldly abandoned his body, so he survived the death and saved a life from under the eyes of the Taoist priests.

At the same time, the luck of the old centipede was good, and the Taoist toad who devoured it didn't pay attention to the taste of its fleshy body.

Interest came to Xu Dao's eyes, he looked at the golden centipede, thought for a while, and suddenly opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Why did you sneak attack me, fellow daoist, you don't care about virtue."

"Wrong, wrong!" The old centipede's voice immediately came from within the golden centipede: "I didn't intend to sneak attack fellow daoist!"

But when it came back, it was stunned for a while, looked at Xu Dao's face, and asked tentatively: "You are an acquaintance of my old centipede?"

The old centipede looked at Xu Dao's face, and said with great joy: "Fellow Dao not only calls me by name, but also knows my catchphrase, he must be my acquaintance, why use the face behind the disguise to show others!"

Xu Daoben just wanted to make fun of the old centipede casually, and then close the opponent's five senses, and capture him into the mayfly.But when he heard the old centipede's words, he suddenly realized that the old centipede might have regarded him as an acquaintance and was trying to get close.

But Xu Dao sneered in his heart. You must know that there are two kinds of acquaintances, one is an enemy and the other is a friend.

According to the cunning temperament of the old centipede, the other party would definitely not be unaware of this, and most of them ignored it on purpose.

Holding the golden centipede, Xu Dao looked at the old centipede jokingly, but he didn't immediately answer the other party's question.

After thinking for a while, he glanced at the situation inside the iron tower, released a bunch of gnats from the gnats, and ordered them to fly into the tower to find the way for them.

While the mayfly was fluttering its wings, Xu Dao kept watching the movement of the golden centipede.

Sure enough, the old centipede vaguely recognized the Nanke champ after seeing the champ, its body trembled imperceptibly, and then it took the initiative to call out in its mouth:

"What a Gu worm! I don't know which line of the clan you belong to?"

But when Xu Dao heard this, he finally couldn't help laughing and asked: "Didn't your excellency say that we are acquaintances, why can't even the Gu worms under Pindao's command recognize him?"

"This, this..." The old centipede was at a loss for words for a moment, he possessed the golden light centipede, and looked around, not as if he wanted to struggle out of Xu Dao's grasp, but more like an extremely embarrassed look.

So Xu Dao said lightly: "Okay, don't fool the poor Dao again."

He squeezed the golden centipede in his hand hard, and said sinisterly: "If you dare to fool me again, be careful that the poor will crush you and destroy you physically and mentally!"

"Fellow Daoist, spare your life, spare your life!" the old centipede yelled immediately.

After finally escaping from the hands of Taoist priests, and meeting someone who opened the gate of the iron tower, it naturally wanted to live well.

The old centipede is still a wonderful person. After hearing Xu Dao's threat, although he felt panic in his heart, he was overjoyed and said to himself: "Since this guy is willing to threaten me, it seems that he is not going to take my life directly. I still have a way to live, and a way to live!"

Not long after, the gnat that Xu Dao put in the iron tower flew back to report, indicating that no danger had been found in the tower.

He stopped chatting with the old centipede, stepped into the tower completely, and climbed up the ladder with the word "Hua Cage" engraved with one foot.

When one person and one insect entered the tower, the originally opened iron gate was instantly closed, with the dragon pattern hovering on it, and the dragon's head finally landed in the middle of the iron gate, and the dragon's eyes lost their luster and became sluggish.

There was sudden silence all around, and the evil spirit was completely blocked out by the iron gate, not only could it not hurt Xu Dao, but even the sound of the wind could not be heard.

Xu Dao turned around to look at the situation of the iron gate, his heart moved, he stretched out his hand suddenly, and took off the breath-holding jade hook that served as the dragon's eye from the eye socket of the dragon's head.

Afterwards, the dragon pattern became lifeless, and the iron gate became completely dead.

After Xu Dao put away the jade hook, he held the jade hook in one hand, and his magic power circulated, causing the jade hook to emit light, covering his whole body and using it as a light source to illuminate the surroundings.

The other hand was pinching the old centipede, firmly imprisoning him in his hand.

Shaking the glowing jade hook in his hand left and right, Xu Dao looked at the two sides of the stairs and found that there were many pictures on the two walls of the stairs.

Calmly, Xu Dao asked: "What is the name of this tower? Apart from keeping you alive, does it have other functions? And what are the paintings on the iron walls on both sides?"

The old centipede was still apprehensive at first, but seeing that Xu Dao really didn't pinch it to death, but chose to take it into the tower to avoid the evil spirit together, his heart was even more relieved.

Hearing Xu Dao's question at this time, the old centipede realized that this was an opportunity to show its usefulness, so it hurriedly said:

"This tower is called 'Hualong Tower'!"

"It is said that it was built by our ancestors of Shezhao. As for the murals on both sides, it should be the story of the ancestors who built the city and the tower."

Xu Dao listened, carefully sizing up the pattern on the iron wall, and boldly stepped over the steps of the "transformation cage" to go up.

Sure enough, the next few murals depict a group of villains forming various formations, singing and dancing, a bit like the sacrificial scene by the Wuxia River before the Taoist priests showed up.

Passing over these, it is a scene of small people working together, pushing stones and digging foundations, burning bricks and tiles, and building a city against the mountain.

Such murals, from large to small, show the construction process of Shezhao Mountain City from nothing. Xu Dao can roughly understand it without the introduction of the old centipede.

It's just that the city built in the painting is quite small, far smaller than the current Sheshan Mountain City.

With a little understanding in his heart, Xu Dao still kept a cold face and said, "Continue, what role does Hualong Pagoda play for Dragon Palace?"

"This, this..." The old centipede faltered for a while, but Xu Dao exerted force on his hand, causing the old centipede to suffer, and it immediately yelled again:
"Fellow Daoist, look at the front, there are also paintings on the wall. I remembered, this tower is probably the hub of formations, and the formations that can control the Dragon Palace come in."

"Huh?" Xu Dao heard the words, raised his eyes and looked forward, and he saw the murals about the Dragon Palace on both sides of the steps above.

I saw a scaled thing appearing in the mural, and there was another villain standing beside the scaled thing in the painting, which was no bigger than a black spot of an ant.

The scaly thing has four limbs, a pointed tail and a long body, with clouds and mist growing all over its body, but it has no eyes, its mouth is as wide as its head, and it looks like a mirage.

It's just that the appearance of the mirage in the painting is far better than the one in the current Dragon Palace. At least the scales and armor of the mirage in the painting are intact, and there are no sores on its body.

In the murals, firstly, the villains are constantly being devoured by the mirages. No matter what methods the villains use, what monsters, snakes and insects they control, they are all just the result of being swallowed by mirages.

With the appearance of one after another touching pictures, the number of villains was scarce, they began to pay respects to the mirage dragons instead, and threw some of the villains in the crowd into the mirage dragons' mouths to feed the mirage dragons.

Just like this, the mirage dragon stopped devouring the villain, and even when there were monsters attacking the villain in groups, it would still jump out of the ground and devour all the monsters attacking the villain in one bite.

After arriving, the villains also helped the mirages build a huge lair underground, and built a lot of palaces and other things together, which is quite magnificent.

Whenever a villain is pushed out from the crowd, these villains will first go to the mirage's nest to drink and have fun, and then wait for the mirage to come and be swallowed by the mirage.

It's just that as Xu Dao continued to walk up, more and more villains were pushed out to be fed to the mirage in the screen, making the villains as a whole miserable.

Among them, there are male and female villains separated, and the man throws himself into Jiaokou alone; there are villains who pull children, hand them over to others, and then walk back into the palace three times at a step; there are also old villains who resist It was carried into the palace by others on a shelf...

Just as Xu Dao was watching with great interest, the murals on both sides of the stairs were suddenly interrupted, and there were traces of ax chiseling, knives and claws on the iron wall, and the pictures were all erased.

Xu Dao came back to his senses at this moment, and found that he could not walk down the hundreds of steps, and he might have climbed to the waist of the iron tower.

He pondered and realized that the palace he saw on the murals was probably the current Dragon Palace.

Xu Dao thought to himself: "I thought that the dragon palace was built by the mirage, but I didn't expect that it was built by the ancestors of the Shezhao tribe, and the big and small palaces in the dragon palace were not used to house shrimp soldiers and crab generals. , For entertaining guests, it is the same as now, it is the 'food box' and 'dinner plate' for feeding mirages."

In this way, as the old centipede said just now, the iron tower they are in is the core of the entire Dragon Palace, and entering the tower will have the possibility of controlling the formation of the entire Dragon Palace.

Thinking of this, Xu Dao's heart became faintly agitated. He realized that he should have found his life, and he still had a chance to gain benefits.

Standing on the stairs, Xu Dao hurriedly called a few more gnats. After confirming that there was still no danger ahead, he quickly climbed up the stairs and stopped looking at the erased murals on both sides.

While climbing the stairs, Xu Dao questioned the old centipede in his hand, trying to get more things out of his mouth, so he learned a lot of specific situations.

Suddenly, he stopped, raised his eyes to look at both sides of the iron wall again, and said in surprise:
"Who exactly killed this mirage dragon?"

I saw that the wall was no longer blank, and murals began to appear again, and when the mirage reappeared, it was covered with scars, and the villains surrounding it were singing and dancing again, indicating that the mirage was dead.

When the old centipede heard this, he immediately called out: "I know this, it is said that it was beheaded by the Taoist of Shengtang!"

"Shengtang, Taoist." Xu Dao chewed these two words, feeling a little surprised.

Taoist is the title of a Taoist who is above the realm of building foundations, and he can spread the word to the world, so he is called a Taoist.

Combining the two words Shengtang, because Shengtang was destroyed more than a thousand years ago, that is to say, the mirage in the Dragon Palace has been dead for more than a thousand years!
This immediately made Xu Dao's heart beat, he never thought that the mirage was dead for thousands of years, but the body was still there, and it could eat people.

"No, there must be a mystery in it." Xu Dao thought of all the things he had seen and heard in the Dragon Palace before, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.

He continued to walk up, and found that the posthumous mirage on the mural was different from the current one in the Dragon Palace. It was motionless. Although the death of the dragon was still there, it was not cannibalistic, and there was no granulation growth on its body. Come out, it's usually just a corpse.

In the mural, the body of the mirage dragon was not cut up and eaten by the villains, but was dragged into the Dragon Palace.

At this time, words suddenly appeared on the murals, which were written on the top of the big and small palaces built by the little people before, and it was the word "cage palace".

Since then, the palace groups in the murals have been titled, and there has been a suspected act of arranging formations.

There are a total of 81 steles, each of which has the word "cage" written on it, and they stand in nine circles in the palace complex, enclosing the corpses of mirage dragons.

At the same time, on the top of Mijiao's head, there was also written the word "Jiaolong".

Xu Dao looked at these pictures, and his eyes fell on the word "Jiaolong" on the top of Mirage Jiao's head, and the word "Cage Palace" on the palace.

Doubt appeared in his eyes, Xu Dao took a closer look, and found that the word "Jiaolong" in several murals was complete, and there were no traces of tampering or daubing.

Discovering that the characters for "dragon" and "cage" are different, Xu Dao was slightly surprised, "Wrong?"

But when he looked at the 81 steles on the inner third, middle third, and outer three floors that tightly wrapped the corpse of the mirage, he suddenly felt that the picture was indeed like a cage, and the corpse of the mirage was tightly trapped in it.

Therefore, Xu Dao thought to himself: "Could it be that the word 'cage' in the 'cage palace' is not a fake character, but written like this on purpose?"

Immediately afterwards, he discovered that the formations arranged around the "cage palace" in the mural were in operation, and smoke came out of it and flowed into the villain.

After getting the green smoke, the number of villains began to increase, and their size became larger. They could tear tigers and leopards with their hands, and pull rhinoceros with strength, as if they had gained great benefits.

As for the mirage corpse in the cage palace, as the smoke continued to emerge, it became more dilapidated, the scales fell off, and sores continued to appear on the corpse, which was closer to the real appearance that Xu Dao had seen, which was extremely miserable .

Xu Dao didn't react when he saw this scene, but the old centipede in his hand saw it, shook his body, and cried out:

"This, this, is there really a dragon transformation formation?"

(End of this chapter)