Lingwu: I am the only immortal

Chapter 352 The ruins of the sand city
Zhou Yi's westward journey was the result of searching for the souls of powerful monsters.

Judging from this result, the sacred stone was given to them by outsiders.

And with the divine stone, the powerful monster has the possibility to go one step further and become a monster god.

Obviously, this is a malicious operation.

But what is the evil intention and the source of the sacred stone? This is the answer he wants to find now.

Although there are gods in Dayong, they are the gods of incense and fire under the control of Dao lineage. Such gods have Dao lineage monks as their fathers, so there is nothing to worry about.

But things are different here in the Western Region. The gods here are relatively top-notch. Although they are not as good as the early ancient gods, they are essentially the same.

However, as far as Zhou Yi knows, the gods here have also been brutally eliminated. The three gods who are currently in charge and widely believed by people are the three gods.

God of medicine, god of animal husbandry, god of magic.

Doesn't it sound familiar?
That's right, it was the Three Gods Cult that Zhou Yi came into contact with when he wrote the book last time.

Zhou Yi came into contact with this sect through the brotherhood led by the four evil men of the Yuan family.

Putting aside his scumbag attributes, Yuan Cai can be regarded as a heroic figure. He can be a lowly person and a domestic slave with the surname N, but he can still be appreciated by the big boss. He can deal with various forces and survive in the cracks.

Later, internal conflicts arose between the direct descendants of the Yuan family and the Three Gods sect.

The feeling given to Zhou Yi at that time was that the brotherhood was partly brainwashed by the church, which led to the subsequent internal turmoil.

This three-god sect is quite impressive. Not only did the external forces successfully gain a foothold, they also seemed to have some connections with spiritual and demonic cultivators.

Of course, the wild monster spiritual cultivators and demonic cultivators are somewhat unruly. They are suppressed too hard by the regular cultivators. As long as they have the power to help them, they don't mind cooperating with them.

Zhou Yi's final understanding of the Three Gods Cult was that the organization failed to trample the Yuan Brotherhood to death in one fell swoop, and later changed its name to the Ascension Society. The name revealed its evil nature.

Zhou Yi didn't have much contact with this force, so he met Zuo Zuo and was invited by the reincarnated Taoist Zuo Xian of Qilei Mountain Nature Temple to go to the Xuanjie and embark on an adventure.

It was the time when I encountered the great tree demon that guarded the world.Then the save file was offline because the avatar could not jump between two realms in a row.

Now the archive is completely distorted.

But the extraordinary circle is not big enough. No, it's a familiar god.

The Three Gods Religion has a high degree of dominance over this plateau desert. Although the geographical features and cultural characteristics mean that there is no concept of a state religion in this land, from a substantive point of view, the Three Gods Religion has achieved such coverage. .

There are also some who believe in the old gods, but these are secret letters. Once discovered, they will be in trouble, including but not limited to hanging in the sea of ​​sand and being dried.

In this context, Zhou Yi looked for a guide who knew the location of the old god's ruins, but the specific operation seemed a bit fanciful and fast-paced.

He did intend to use his body as bait to lure people from the Church of the Three Gods to chase after him.

He believes that the members of this department, which is similar to the Inquisition and specializes in dirty work, know more about the secrets of the ancient gods.After all, I often come into contact with this.

What surprised him a little was that the one who immediately jumped out to pretend to be beeping was not the Three Gods Sect, but the organization Assassin at this moment.

The resurrected warden is now his puppet. In the process of revenge, he fed back some information to him.

It is still unclear whether this Assassin organization is the royal chamber pot of the Three Gods Religion, or whether it is hired to come forward.

If it was the latter, it probably meant that the Three Gods Sect was capable and cautious enough, which would be more troublesome. He would rather have the Three Gods Sect be more reckless and deliver food to their doorsteps themselves.

"Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory! Look at this, the Three Gods Religion is still on the rise, so with this kind of online IQ performance, when faced with the strange existence that dares to provoke the Three Gods Religion, there is no rush to pounce on it , but to test first.”

In fact, this is because Zhou Yi misunderstood the Three Gods Religion.

The main reason why the Three Gods Sect did not come forward to tear him apart immediately was because there was a war going on.

The oasis city-state in the plateau desert has too few people to meet the needs of the three gods.The sect also wants to gain more authority and wealth through expansion.

So a religious war was launched over the vast area known as the Xiasha Sea.

The humans in the Xiasha Sea lived in a tribal style, and initially planned to cede land and pay compensation to settle the matter.In recent years, the Three Gods Religion has completed the integration of the city-states in Shangshahai. It has a strong army and strong horses that cannot be competed by any tribe, so they have to buy peace with money.

It's a pity that this time, the attitude of the Three Gods Cult is to want them all.

The seven tribes were completely wiped out, and the tribes in Shahai finally woke up, so they formed an alliance of chiefs and began to fight.

The Three Gods Sect did not expect in advance that Xiashahai, who had lost all news of the old gods and had not interacted with the believers for a long time, would actually show the ferocity of an old dog with a few teeth.

The war was raging, and the personnel had been redeployed several times, so naturally they couldn't care less about the nonsense behind them.

The Three Gods Religion regarded Zhouyi as an old god who took advantage of the situation and worshiped it.

Although these priests are also unable to get in touch with the old gods, they have sacred weapons, and they organize blood sacrifices and living sacrifices from time to time, so they have some miraculous methods.

So they contacted Assassin.

result……

Assassin's secret stronghold in Wanghai State was destroyed. Amidst the raging fire, the warden walked out slowly.

At this time, the warden's appearance was no longer human, but a humanoid monster. Some of his organs had degenerated, but others had regenerated.

For example, the reproductive system is replaced by energy organs.

His face also changed significantly, his eyes became one-eyed, his mouth and nose were gone, but he had unique gills that looked like a filter, and the arc under his brow bone protruded forward, like the brim of a steel helmet to protect his eyes from the sun.

The body is a stick of muscles, not as exaggerated as a bodybuilder, but it has a lot of muscle groups that are obviously not what a human should have, and the bones in the spine have grown and there is an extra tail.

The skin is like the epidermis of a sand lizard. It is rough and has a desert camouflage effect. If you look closely, you can see that it has a layer of fine scales.

The hands and feet have also become claws and claws, no longer suitable for using tools, but have become sharp weapons themselves.

The warden glanced at the people observing from a distance, then scurried out of people's sight.Someone said later that he was seen rushing into the sea of ​​sand.

Indeed, because it was given a task by Zhou Yi, it relied on its special ability to find enemies to go to the next Assassin's stronghold.

This routine was originally prepared for the Three Gods Sect.

Zhou Yi tried to use the warden's commotion to give the Three Gods Sect a signal to see what level their sect's combat power was.

As a result, Assassin was surprised.

It doesn't matter about the Book of Changes. It's not an exaggeration to say that the warden is recruiting free chess.

Without powerful pursuers, the journey becomes mediocre. Fighting with the sky and the earth, an excellent guide is enough.Occasionally, there are some weird things that don't open their eyes, and the performance time is not enough to keep up with the supporting role, and they will fail when they show up, and they will either be bloody or end up on the dining table.

At noon on the fourth day, the first stop, Liusha Bay, arrived.

The danger here is mainly due to the terrain, the sand that circulates like a river. However, from an ordinary person's perspective, it is difficult to get a glimpse of its whole picture. It feels full of mystery and characteristics. The front feet are fine, but the back feet become traps, swallowing life. It's like playing.

But in Zhou Yi's eyes, it is a semi-natural phenomenon formed by the remaining supernatural power according to some semi-collapsed magic model.It originates from artificiality and becomes self-consistent after collapse.

Zhou Yi had no intention of breaking this structure, there was no profit, and it was very troublesome to sort out.

After he figured out the pattern, he opened the passage at the right time, and the camel team entered smoothly.

During the process, Farid and others naturally opened their eyes. The whirlpool channel formed by the quicksand, and the Ou Waterfall under the sand, etc., without having to worry about safety, these are magnificent and magical scenery, and they are still very appreciated. of value.

Buried under Liusha Bay is an ancient city. It is said that the city is half surrounded by a jade-belt-like river. The fields on both sides of the river are fertile and have supported many ancestors.

But this legend is too much of a rescue, just like how Easterners on earth mention the summer time that was earlier than the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Very little is known about it, and the sense of involvement is relatively low.

When people today mention Liusha Bay, they generally refer to an earthen city built on an ancient city whose name has disappeared in the long river of history. It is called Yi Laham, which means River of Faith in translation.

It is said that the great river in ancient times later became an underground river. Under the guidance of the old gods, people made it reappear in front of the world in the form of a well of springs, so there was the city of Cyborg. .

Ilaham was a victim of the religious war and the last bastion of believers in the old gods. After it was captured, the Trinitarian Church launched a prisoner death march. Nearly two-thirds of the people died in this march, and even those who survived Those who came down also became low-class pariahs, only worthy of some of the most humble jobs, and very few of them have survived to this day.

The reason why Faride was imprisoned in Wanghai State's prison was because he knew a little too much and couldn't control his mouth. When he was arguing with others, he exposed some scandals of the Three Gods Religion in the past, and then he was imprisoned. .

Zhou Yi came here this time, not for Ilaham, but for the older Forgotten City.

He wanted to find answers from ancient clues, and wanted to know whether the ones older than the old gods were the group of ancient gods who turned into constellations.

When the Three Gods Cult destroyed Ilaham, they obviously used geological weapons. This made the city trapped under the sand very fragile, even if there were holes, and there was a risk of collapse at any time.

But in the face of Zhou Yi's extraordinary methods, these are not problems.

Farid, Hashim, Adan and his daughter Muna even believed that the Book of Changes was actually the incarnation of a certain god.

After all, in their cognition, even the recognized high priest of the Three Gods religion often needs a lengthy and complicated process to cast spells, but Zhouyi can do it with ease, and can have extraordinary effects.

Like sand moving and condensing on its own, showing roads, hardening into sandstone, forming vaults, columns, walls, floors... these are all routine operations.

What is less conventional is that the scene is rather grand. The sand flows and rises like sea water, forming a huge dome with a radius of more than a kilometer, revealing the remains of the buried fortress.

Even the damaged houses seem to have gone back in time and restored to their original form. Although the details are not interesting, from a grand perspective, it is still shocking.

Surrounding Zhou Yi, there are dozens of spiritual light balls. They can be evenly arranged when needed, emit strong light, and illuminate the ruins as brightly as a cultural relics exhibition hall.

It is a pity that when the Three Gods Cult destroyed this place, they conducted a very thorough search and even pried away some inlaid precious metals, thereby destroying many murals and other monuments of great artistic value, which made the guides feel heartbroken.

After all, these represent the history and even the origin of the Shahai people. For those Shahai people who value tradition, this kind of destruction is tantamount to digging up ancestral graves.

After advancing for a period of time in a restoration style, the part of Ilaham came to the end, followed by the ruins of the ancient city.

This part requires more sophisticated exploration methods.

Farid and the other four saw Zhou Yi put his hand on the ground. After a moment, waves of clear rhythmic micro-oscillations rippled like ripples.

After a while, the sand solidified into a giant mole-like puppet, and then began to dig holes with hands and pedals.

The mole puppet can also secrete a coagulant that sticks the sand into a shell with a certain elasticity, thus ensuring that the dug channel will not collapse.

The next journey became Lianliankan.

Areas like tombs one after another are connected by mole puppets.

In the view of Farid and others, Zhou Yi's attitude towards these areas was nothing short of a piece of cake, and they did not consider archeology first.Often after entering, after taking a quick look around, the place loses its character, and continues to close its eyes and hug its shoulders, waiting for the mole puppet to dig through the next place.

The four of them, Farid, were busy throughout the whole process and marveled at the fact that there were so many cultural treasures in the Forgotten City that shocked them, and many concepts completely subverted their cognition.

For example, they soon discovered that the level of civilization and technology when Forgotten City flourished was far above modern times.

It can even be said that the various beauties of the Kingdom of God preached by those big hoaxers of the Tritheism may not be as good as what they see here.

They couldn't help but ask Zhou Yi if they could take away one or two representative cultural relics from here.

Zhou Yi smiled: "Of course, you have the right to deal with the relics of your ancestors."

Zhou Yi did not remind them what kind of trouble these things would cause if they were displayed in front of the world.He had long seen that these people were more or less idealistic.

In other words, they love their own nation deeply, and they have strong opinions on the belief power generator of the Tritheism that washes their compatriots into idiots.

However, faith is no match for swords and guns.It seems that if civilization wants to see the dawn of dawn again, it will have to go through a long night.As a result, qualified inheritors are needed to pass on the glory of the ancestors, the treasures of culture, and the technology to survive and build a better future.

To be honest, Zhou Yi still respected such people. They could have done well by relying on their outstanding professional knowledge, but they were burdened with a heavy burden for a noble goal.This made Zhou Yi feel the weight of life.

As the saying goes, lighter than a feather, heavier than Mount Tai.

The mole puppet dug and dug in the deep yellow sand ruins, and finally dug out something interesting.

It seems to be an important facility. After such a long time, some of its defense mechanisms are still functioning normally.

Zhou Yi tried the risk alone, using Yuanci Dao to defend or crack, and successfully surpassed the defense system based on high-energy strikes.

He could have disintegrated it more neatly, even peeling off the deadly shell that might have protected the candy he wanted like a piece of paper.

But in the end, he chose to be cowardly. He was worried that too violent methods would trigger the self-destruction device here.

And like now, when he is receiving a blow, he is understanding the system and related mechanisms in more detail, trying to stop it before it activates the possible self-destruction fuse.

But the final facts proved that his caution was somewhat unnecessary. The things left here seemed to be for those who came after. Those defense mechanisms were more like some kind of qualification test...

(End of this chapter)