ninety thousand miles

Chapter 481 Accident
"Then we have to tell Mr. Zou and the others as well." Li Chuan asked.

"Well, maybe later." Wen Guying said, and then asked: "Has anything happened here in the past few days?"

"No," Li Chuan thought for a moment and asked, "Did you find anything unusual?"

"No, just asking." Wen Guying said.

"Oh, by the way, Yang Shan seems to have agreed to go to Mr. Zou." Li Chuan said.

"It can be considered a place to go." Wen Guying said, and turned to Yao Shuang, "Senior Sister Yao, please talk to Brother Li about some of the speculations of the three heads on this matter."

"Okay." Yao Shuang agreed immediately.

So Li Chuan perked up and listened.

Yao Shuang said: "The three masters believe that the spire also appeared in advance."

"Why?" Li Chuan asked.

Yao Shuang said, "We judged it from the appearance of the Devouring Souls in the spire. Junior Brother Wen and I brought back some Devouring Souls samples. After the three elders looked at them, they all thought that these Devouring Souls were some incomplete bodies."

"Incomplete body?" Li Chuan heard the unfamiliar word and continued to ask questions.

"Yes, after Senior Gong arrived, we further confirmed this after comparing it with the Soul Devourer in his hand." Yao Shuang said.

"Isn't that what a defective body should look like?" Li Chuan asked.

Yao Shuang said: "If it weren't a defective body, it would be like a strange ghost, unable to be detected by any cultivator. The cultivator who was parasitized might even deceive the heaven and ascend to become an immortal."

"Oh." Li Chuan nodded.

At this time, Wen Guying said, "Brother Li, let Senior Sister Yao finish speaking first."

"Okay, Senior Sister Yao, please continue." Li Chuan said, "I'll wait until you finish speaking before asking."

Yao Shuang continued to stare at the ground and said, "The three leaders believe that the gods and demons tried to use the spire to breed something, but because the spire floated up prematurely, the plan failed."

She said: "According to the old palace master's speculation, the spire may have encountered some accidents more than 8,000 years ago and began to float up."

Accident?

Li Chuan resisted the urge to ask any questions.

Yao Shuang said: "Eight thousand years ago, the secret realm of Huai'an Mountain came into being. It might have been that accident. At that time, several cultivators fought fiercely to fight for a magic weapon in the secret realm of Huai'an Mountain. The fight was so fierce that the secret realm finally broke into dozens of pieces."

"From then on, there was no life around Huaian Mountain for a long time, and nothing existed. It was not until three thousand years ago that a cultivator entered to explore, discovered the corpses of those cultivators, and took away the source of the disaster. Only then did the area around Huaian Mountain gradually recover, and people gradually lived there again." "There are many records about the secret realm of Huaian Mountain in the Four Heavenly Mysteries. The collapse of the secret realm can indeed affect the barriers between the boundaries, and can also cause the originally blurred areas to become clear again."

Li Chuan understood, and asked: "Then the collapse of the secret realm of Huai'an Mountain, was it intentional or an accident?" After asking, he immediately realized that he had said too much, so he said: "Senior Sister Yao, please continue."

Yao Shuang said: "After the spire began to float, the protection measures for the spire began to fail. Senior Gong believes that a second accident occurred during the floating process, causing the spire to be damaged. Before it was automatically repaired, some Devouring Souls leaked out and infected some monsters, eventually leading to the Qiufeng Village incident."

"Moreover, there may be more than one Qiufeng Village, but we only know about this one. This also confirms the previous speculation of the three masters. The Devouring Soul in the spire is incomplete."

"Even if it parasitizes on an intelligent monster or a human, it will take a very long time and extremely harsh conditions to infect other hosts."

This time Li Chuan held back and didn't say anything.

Sure enough, Yao Shuang answered his doubts later. She said, "The sample brought by Gong Wuguang has been improved. It has strong parasitic and infectious abilities, but it cannot replace the host, and after parasitizing a certain number of hosts, it will naturally die."

"Master Chu speculated that more than a thousand years ago, a cultivator of the Qing Sect might have been accidentally possessed by the Devouring Spirit. He suppressed the Devouring Spirit with the secret techniques of the Qing Sect and thought he could transform the Devouring Spirit and use it for his own purposes."

"So after using the Green Frost Grass to cure the Soul Devourer on his body, he began to explore the source of the Soul Devourer, and finally captured the Soul Devourer somewhere in Yashan County."

"This somewhere..." Yao Shuang hesitated for a moment and said, "Master Chu thinks it might be the nunnery, but the old palace master thinks it's not. He thinks it's Huai'an Mountain. Master Wang also thinks it's Huai'an Mountain. They think that at that time, the spire was still floating up, and they couldn't be sure that it would eventually float to the nunnery. But Master Chu thinks it can't be Huai'an Mountain, because the spire will avoid that place when it floats up."

Li Chuan listened to Yao Shuang's narration and realized that the three masters were arguing again.

"Let's not go into the details for now." Wen Gu responded.

"Okay." Yao Shuang said, "That's about all the discussion about the Soul Devourer. There are also some speculations, such as the elders of the Qing Sect may be colluding with the remnants of the demon clan; the vine monster may have originally been conscious, but after being parasitized by the Soul Devourer, it gradually forgot everything and only had instincts left; the Stone Dragon King may be an escaped clone, etc. But there are only discussions, no conclusions."

"After knowing the name of the high priest of the gods, we can make some inferences." Yao Shuang began to talk about the next topic.

Li Chuan also understood why Yao Shuang had to speak for Wen Guying. It was too tiring to speak for a long time.

Yao Shuang spoke at a steady pace, saying, "Master Chu believes that one of the high priest's three clones must have entered the Xuanmen sect and become a cultivator, or even ascended to become an immortal. Only by becoming an immortal can he ensure that his plan will not go wrong. And since 30,000 years ago, so many accidents have occurred, which can only mean that something went wrong with his clone."

"But the old palace master doesn't think so. He thinks that Chi Lin's backup plan seems to focus on the demon spirit and the spire, but that may just be Chi Lin's deliberate confusion. Because the relationship between the gods and demons is not that close. As the high priest of the gods, even if he is desperate, he should not put all his hopes on the demon spirit. So he is going to find the root cause, and it must not be an ordinary immortal."

"Master Wang feels that no matter what the truth is, the first thing to do is to find Jiang Mei and Liu Yang. Master Chu and the old palace master finally agreed with Master Wang."

Li Chuan felt a headache just by listening to it, and he admired Yao Shuang very much for being able to write down everything they said.

He said, "I think so too. Anyway, we are going to Qinling Mountains tomorrow. Senior Sister Yao, I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, I'm almost done talking about it," Yao Shuang said.

(End of this chapter)