Day and night tour

Chapter 228 The Whole Clan Ascends
"Monument eggs?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"It is a stele. Hundreds of ghosts are bred in the stele. It looks like an egg sac, so it is called stele egg."

Shi Baiyun said: "The stele egg grew on the highest peak of our Yunluo Mountains.
I don't know how many years have passed,
At first, it was just a fist-sized ball of flesh, then it slowly grew to the size of a brick, and finally it became a monument.

This stele is engraved with words that we, the tattoo people, cannot understand. On every full-moon night, it sings some eerie nursery rhymes. When the rhymes start to sound, hundreds of ghosts walk out of the stele and wander around the Yunluo Mountains.
That old beast Mingshi said that a stele egg can lead us to the savior of our ancient tattoo tribe, who is called the Mother of Hundred Ghosts. "

When Zhou Xuan heard the word "savior", he was extremely confused and asked Shi Baiyun: "You, the ancient tattoo clan, are living well, why do you need a savior?"

"Among our ancient tattoo tribe, every year some tribesmen die because of tattoos. The Dark Stone deceived us, saying that our tribe members were born with a curse, and that in a few years, disaster would befall us, and the whole tribe would have no hope.
Therefore, the Tattoo Ancient Clan needs a savior."

Zhou Xuan felt very familiar with Shi Baiyun's words.
The three-headed stone Buddha used tattoos to make the tree tribe believe that they were cursed. Who would have thought that it is still using the same method to enslave the tattooed people now?
"But this route is really useful..." Zhou Xuan commented.

The three-headed stone Buddha uses the method of "controlling tattoos" to kill some tribesmen every year to create a strong sense of crisis for the ancient tribe.

There is a saying that goes, "When you are in a hurry, you will try any doctor you can find."
The people of the Ancient Clan were no exception. After facing a huge crisis among their clan, they began to trust the Dark Stone.
After this trust reached a certain peak, the ancient clan developed a strong dependence on the Nether Stone.

At this time, it became easy for Mingshi to use the ancient clan to do anything, as long as he did it under the name of "saving the ancient clan".

"Mingshi has controlled us for these years. He has repeatedly said that after the five great Nuos are nailed to death, our tattoo clan - the ghost mother will arrive and Yumen will ascend to heaven."

Those who are involved are often confused. Now that Shi Baiyun has escaped from the situation because of Zhou Xuan, he has thought about some things very clearly.

"Please tell me in detail." Zhou Xuan said.

Shi Baiyun began to speak.
The Ghost Mother arrives, and Yumen ascends to heaven - this is the vision that the three-headed stone Buddha promised to the people of the ancient tribe.

It said that the curse of the ancient tribe came from the body. If the people of the ancient tribe could abandon their bodies, their consciousness would last forever, and the entire tribe would be immortal and eternal.

How to keep consciousness alive?
That is to create a god-level flesh and blood container. On the day when the container is completed, the Mother of Hundred Demons will come. She will take the initiative to kill all the tribesmen, destroy the bodies of the ancient tribesmen, and then pour the souls and consciousness of all the people in the tribe into the container.

Then, the Mother of a Hundred Ghosts will chant the Hundred Ghosts Buddhist Mantra to powerfully gather the soul consciousness of all the tribesmen together.

When the spiritual consciousness of a group is tightly gathered, it will form a god comparable to the gods of heaven, tearing through space and ascending to the sky.

Open the tattooed Jade Gate on the sky and establish your own kingdom of God - the Jade Gate Kingdom of God.

"In the Yumen Divine Kingdom, peach blossoms are everywhere, and the people living there no longer suffer from illness or tattoos.
We have no life or death, and everyone's happiness has become eternal."

Shi Baiyun's words were all about the happiness after the establishment of the Kingdom of God that Mingshi preached. Although he now knew that these were just lies that Mingshi had spent three hundred years weaving,

But when he talked about this, he still showed a fascinated look, as if the "Yumen Divine Kingdom" was truly displayed before him.

Zhou Xuan was also greatly shocked when he heard this. He felt that the three-headed stone Buddha, this evil monk, was an extremely powerful master at least in terms of making up stories, not to mention how skilled he was in Taoism.
First, they fabricated the curse crisis, then made a great wish, and even the process of how to ascend to the sky was clearly fabricated.

Moreover, his plan seems feasible.

"The spirits of the entire clan converge, and consciousness soars."

Zhou Xuan pondered for a while, isn’t this the idea of ​​​​“Blood Well”?
The four blood well human brains, adding to Zhou Xuan's perception, could be considered a certain degree of aggregation, and the effect it brought was quite overbearing, allowing Zhou Xuan to enter the realm of night wandering at the level of two incense sticks.

The Tattoo Ancient Clan is a group that is very good at spiritual practice. It is hard to say whether they can gather into the level of gods with the power of the entire clan, but there is a real chance that they can gather into the level of gods, or even above gods.

"Mingshi's story is well-made and not ridiculous. It is possible to realize the danger. He is indeed a master storyteller."

Zhou Xuan felt that Mingshi was a bastard, but his idea of ​​gathering consciousness did have its merits.

He wanted to control the Blood Well Society. If he could gather the consciousness and perception of all the Blood Well spiritualists in the Blood Well Society, wouldn't that be...

"For the entire Tattoo Ancient Clan to ascend to consciousness, the flesh and blood bodies of all the members of the clan must be destroyed. Perhaps I can find a better way to gather them together through the talisman scripture in the future."

Zhou Xuan's thoughts were a little distracted, he tried to pull his thoughts back and said to Shi Baiyun: "So, after your Tattoo Ancient Clan believed that the Nether Stone's consciousness had ascended, you have been working hard for this grand scam?"

The word "scam" irritated Shi Baiyun a little. He sighed and said, "The Ancient Clan is indeed working hard to ascend to consciousness and has paid a huge price. However, almost everyone in our Ancient Clan dreams.
In the dream, the ancestral peach tree descended, peach blossoms bloomed in the Yunluo Mountains, and all the tribesmen no longer suffered the nightmare of the tattoo curse.
Gradually, a saying spread among the ancient tribe that perhaps the ancestral tree descended and the twenty-four gods appeared in the world, which was also a way for our ancient tattoo tribe to escape the tragic fate.

So, at night, we sleep with dreams of the ancestral tree in our hearts, but during the day we are busy with the work of ascending consciousness."

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he recalled the historical details of Pengjia Town - just before Pengjia Town sank into a forbidden area, the ancestral peach tree that had already descended into the Big Mother Star Pit flew into Pengjia Town, into a field of peach blossoms.

"This patch of peach blossoms has allowed the people of the ancient tattoo tribe to still remember that their tribe once had an ancestral tree after three hundred years."

As for why the Peach Blossom Tree did not directly tell the ancient people that their ancestors were killed by the Nether Stone?

"Telling them will only lead to the bloody suppression of the Dark Stone, which will not help. It is better to leave a spiritual mark so that they will always remember that they are from the Tree Clan. Then when the person who can truly save them appears, the mark will quickly sprout and grow.
The entire tribe will launch the most brutal counterattack against Mingshi."

When Zhou Xuan thought of this, he realized that solving the problem of the three-headed stone Buddha was not as difficult as he had imagined.
He once thought that the Three-Headed Stone Buddha's own power was extremely difficult for Mingjiang Prefecture to deal with, and he also controlled the Ancient Clan, so it would be difficult to deal with him.

But he didn't really have control over the ancient clan because of that peach blossom.

The hearts of the people of the ancient tribe are still on the ancestral peach tree.

“If I send the Peach Blossom Ancestral Tree to the Yunluo Forbidden Land, the entire Ancient Clan will no longer be the Ancient Clan of the Three-Headed Stone Buddha. On the contrary, the hatred of the Ancient Clan will be like a flood, swallowing up the Three-Headed Stone Buddha.”

Zhou Xuan thought of this and asked Shi Baiyun: "How do you enter and exit the forbidden area of ​​your ancient clan?"

"To enter the forbidden area, you need the guidance of the Dark Stone, but to leave the forbidden area, you don't need it."

"The Dark Stone is the key to entering the forbidden area."

Zhou Xuan thought of a piece of dark stone that was beaten to pieces by the Peach Blossom Tree.

If the dark stone had not been broken, he would be able to take the dark stone and enter the tattoo forbidden area, Yunluo Mountain.

"However, you have to know how to use the power of the Dark Stone. Just holding a Dark Stone is useless.

However, this is a good idea. The power of the Buddhist verses and the dark stone has the same origin. I can let the people of the Bone Elders Association use the Buddhist verses to figure out the power properties of the dark stone, and then artificially create something similar to the dark stone and enter the forbidden area. "

The whole process is like making a key.

"What did you, the Tattoo Ancient Clan, do to achieve your consciousness ascension?"

Zhou Xuan asked Shi Baiyun again.

Shi Baiyun said: "Three things. First, build the Hundred Ghosts Palace, which is a palace made of human skin.
The human skin palace is made of the skin of the ancient tattooed tribe. Some of the tribesmen have brick walls tattooed on their skin.
Some tribesmen have carved pillars on their skin.

Some tribesmen have flowers and plants tattooed on their skin.

Tens of thousands of human skins were used to build a huge palace using bricks, tiles, grass and trees.

That old beast Mingshi said that this palace was a sacrifice to the Mother of Hundred Ghosts. Now that I think about it, the palace was fake. The real purpose was that Mingshi used the flesh and blood of those tribesmen to restore his strength. "

"What is the current strength of Mingshi?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"I don't know, but he should be above the High Priest of the Hundred Eyes."

"What is the strength of your Hundred Eyes High Priest?"

"Only one step away from ascending to the level of eight incense sticks."

Zhou Xuan was surprised. One Hundred Eyes took almost eight incense sticks?
Those three-headed stone Buddhas must be above the eight incense sticks, right?
"It's about the same if you calculate it. Back then, the three-headed stone Buddha was able to collude with Lord Peng, so he must have at least god-level strength. Now that he has recovered to the eighth stick of incense, he has not yet recovered to his peak."

"The first one is to build a palace of human skin. What's the second one?"

"The second thing is to use the blood and flesh of the tribe members to feed the stele egg. The name on the stele egg is Hundred Ghosts, but because it always sings evil ghost nursery rhymes, the ancient tribe calls it Hundred Ghosts Song."

"What about the third one?" Zhou Xuan asked again.

"Let Bai Guiyao reincarnate." Shi Baiyun said: "Twenty-three years ago, the most powerful high priest of the ancient clan was not Baiyan, but Yumen. The high priest of Yumen wanted to help Bai Guiyao reincarnate in Mingjiang Mansion.
After reincarnation, Bai Guiyao gained true consciousness. After the ancient tribe crucified the fifth Nuo and created a god-level flesh and blood container,
The flesh and blood container will descend into the body of the Hundred Demons and become the Mother of the Hundred Demons."

Zhou Xuan frowned and asked, "That's not right. For the Mother of Hundred Ghosts to descend, she must enter the flesh and blood container. Why is it the other way around now?"

"This... I don't know either. Just like how to reincarnate a hundred demons, I don't know the process."

Shi Baiyun didn't know.

Zhou Xuan tried to figure it out himself. He looked at his body and recalled the sound of his heart when the Fire of the Gods was ignited.

"The god-level flesh and blood container may not be the kind of container I saw in Pengjia Town.
It is the heart of God."

When Zhou Xuan thought about this, he understood a little. Bai Gui Yao was already the dharmakaya of the Mother of a Hundred Ghosts. After her reincarnation, she regained her spirit and consciousness, but she was rejected by the world of Jingguo and had been sleeping. If her heart was replaced with the Heart of the God, the rejection of the world of Jingguo would disappear.

"She hasn't even arrived yet, she just needs to wake up."

Zhou Xuan said to Shi Baiyun: "How long have you four brothers been in Dongshi Street?"

"It's been a few days."

"Is it to find the Hundred Demons?"

"Ah."

"Then why can't they find it?" Zhou Xuan was a little curious. Why can't the Tattoo Ancient Clan find the Hundred Ghosts Ballad they wrote? "

"We, the ancient clan, have a dark stone that can resonate with Bai Gui Yao and allow the reincarnated Bai Gui Yao to gain consciousness.

Then Baiguiyao will automatically approach the Dark Stone,
But this piece of stone was lost by Peng Hu and has not been found."

"Without the Nether Stone, can't you find the Ballad of a Hundred Ghosts?" Zhou Xuan asked again.

"Theoretically, it is possible to find it." Shi Baiyun said, "After all, the ancient clan once accompanied the stele egg day and night, and is very familiar with her aura. Even if she is reincarnated and her spirit and consciousness are revived, her aura will not change much. If the four of us brothers walk all over East Market Street, we can find Bai Gui Yao.

But it’s strange that the four of us have searched all over East Market Street these days, but we still can’t find her.”

Zhou Xuan was also puzzled and asked, "There is a breakfast shop across from my house, which is run by Cui Jie. Cui Jie has a younger brother with a little mental disability, named Mu Hua.
Have you checked him out?"

"I have checked it."

Shi Baiyun didn't know why Zhou Xuan asked this.

"He is Hyakki Ya."

Zhou Xuan said.

Shi Baiyun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head like a wave drum and said, "Impossible, impossible, how could he be Bai Guiyao?"

"The Blood Well told me." Zhou Xuan asked again: "The High Priest Baiyan is a spiritualist of the Blood Well. Can't he use the Blood Well to ask who is the Hundred Ghosts?" "He did ask, but the High Priest Baiyan told the tribe that the sacrifice required by the Blood Well is too high a price that our ancient tribe cannot afford."

"Jingzi, you are the greediest." Zhou Xuan almost laughed out loud when he heard this.

Among all his divinations, the one about "Who is the Yaoi Yao" required the lowest level of sacrifices.
But when Baiyan asked the same question, the price was so high that he couldn't afford it.

Two people asked the same question, but the price was different.
Zhou Xuan thought that it might be due to the different values ​​of this issue to the two people.

For the ancient tattoo tribe, the Ballad of a Hundred Ghosts is the final blow for the arrival of the Mother of a Hundred Ghosts.
For Zhou Xuan at that time, it solved a mystery - who is Bai Guiyao?

In addition, Mu Hua was very close to Zhou Xuan and Xiao Fuzi, so this could be considered as fate, so Xue Jing was too lazy to ask for a price.

"Is Mu Hua really the Hundred Ghosts?" Shi Baiyun still doesn't want to believe it.

"One hundred percent."

Zhou Xuan now knows that the function of the Dark Stone is to find the Hundred Ghosts Ballad, and he also knows that Sister Cui can use the Feng Shui formation of Dongshi Street.

Thinking back to Peng Hu's death, Yun Ziliang said that the feng shui of Dongshi Street had changed that night.
Putting all this together, Zhou Xuan was able to draw the conclusion - that night, Peng Hu used the Nether Stone to summon the Hundred Ghosts Ballad, and something must have happened to Mu Hua, so Sister Cui activated the Feng Shui formation and killed Peng Hu.

First there was the answer to the divination at the Blood Well, and then there was Cui Jie killing Peng Hu.

If Muhua is not the Hundred Ghosts Ballad, then these things cannot be explained.

"I checked that silly boy Mu Hua, and he really doesn't have any aura of a stone egg. He is a normal person who looks a lot like you."

Shi Baiyun repeatedly emphasized that
His other three brothers also agreed, saying that they had met Mu Hua on the street many times and there was no strange smell about him.

Mu Hua and Xiao Fuzi rolled hoops and went shopping in Dongshi Street every day. There was no trace of the atmosphere of the Hundred Ghosts Ballad.

Zhou Xuan was also very surprised. He had a very strong sense of perception and had examined Mu Hua before, but he really couldn't see anything different.

"But it's okay. It's precisely because Mu Hua is abnormal that your ancient tribe can't find the Hundred Ghosts Ballad.
If you can’t find the Hundred Ghosts Song, then even if you nail five or a hundred Nuos to death, you won’t be able to wake up the Mother of Hundred Ghosts.”

When Zhou Xuan asked this, he felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction. The 300-year plan of the ancient tattoo clan had been going smoothly for 99% of the time.

Until the last 1% of progress, the Ancient Clan could neither kill the fifth Nuo nor find the Hundred Ghosts Ballad.

Zhou Xuan and Mu Hua became the wall of sighs of the ancient clan.

"It's stuck with us two brothers."

Thinking that Mu Hua looked exactly like him, Zhou Xuan became even more proud.

How come we, half-brother twins, became the nightmare of the three-headed stone Buddha?

"I guess even the stone Buddha wouldn't want to dream of my face."

Zhou Xuan couldn't help laughing, and then asked Shi Baiyun: "You said that the Yumen High Priest was the strongest high priest of the ancient clan 23 years ago. How many incense sticks does he have?"

"Eight sticks."

"Where is he now?"

"He disappeared inexplicably and lost contact with the ancient clan." Shi Baiyun said: "The High Priest Baiyan once used various methods to find the High Priest Yumen, but to no avail. However, Baiyan felt that Baiguiyao was in Dongshi Street, but Dongshi Street was very strange, and he couldn't tell which one was Baiguiyao."

Zhou Xuan knew that this was caused by the Feng Shui formation of Dongshi Street. Just like just now, in order to capture the four brothers, the Feng Shui formation was deliberately closed for fifteen minutes. If Baiyan looked again at this time, perhaps he could see that Bai Guiyao was Mu Hua.

But Baiyan is also a human being, not a machine. He cannot stare at Dongshi Street 24 hours a day.

After talking about this, Zhou Xuan’s doubts were basically resolved.

The three-headed stone Buddha controlled the minds of the ancient people with the story of the entire tribe's consciousness ascending, the method of killing people by tattooing, and the grand vision of the Yumen Divine Kingdom.

In this grand deception, what the three-headed stone Buddha really wants to do is nothing more than two things - to use the flesh and blood of the ancient tribe to restore his strength, and to use the ancient tribe to help him realize his ideal of guiding the "Mother of a Hundred Ghosts".

"The three-headed stone Buddha spent such a huge price to guide the Mother of Hundred Ghosts, which shows that her strength should be higher than that of the Great Heavenly King."

The ancestral ginkgo tree, the Nuo god, and the blood well descended into Zhou Xuan's body together, set up a prison of heaven and earth and a cage of time, and then killed the Great Heavenly King with one blow.

The process seemed to be going smoothly, but that was the Nuo God of the celestial god level, the Blood Well, the strongest alien in the Well Country, and the Ginkgo, one of the nine ancestral trees.
Only by gathering such a powerful force could he kill the Great Heavenly King so smoothly.

But now, the Nuo God has fallen into a deep sleep.

We still don’t know where the ancestral ginkgo tree is.
"It seems that the well is sometimes effective and sometimes not. If the Mother of Hundred Ghosts really wakes up, given the current state of decline of Mingjiang Mansion, what can we use to resist?"

Zhou Xuan stood up and said to the four brothers of the Shi family: "Let's talk about this for today. If I have any questions, I will ask you to supplement them."

"Thank you so much, my benefactor."

The four brothers of the Shi family bowed to Zhou Xuan in unison. In their hearts, Zhou Xuan was the young Nuo god who helped the tree tribe smash the three-headed stone Buddha.

"I have a lot of things to do these two days. When I am done with my work, I will take you to see the ancestral peach tree."

"Have you seen the ancestral tree?!"

The four brothers of the Shi family were a little surprised.

"Well, how should I put it?" Zhou Xuan said, "I practice Nuo, which requires walking through nine halls. The second hall is tattooing, and I am learning the twenty-four sets of gods and spirits."

"Tattooed Ancestor? Are you the ancestor who saved our ancient clan?"

When the four brothers of the Shi family heard about the twenty-four pictures of gods and the ancestral peach blossom tree, they were a little dazed for a moment. They felt that the tattooed ancestor had appeared.

"I'm not the Great Ancestor. There is only one Great Ancestor that you have tattooed, and that's him."

Zhou Xuan pointed at Peng Sheng on the altar and said, "The Tattoo Ancestor can only be the Peach Blossom Witch. I am not the savior of your ancient clan. I just simply like to chop up the three-headed stone Buddha."

After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he cut off the connection to the Divine Awakening Secret Realm.

He actually wanted to take the four brothers to see the Peach Blossom Tree right now, but he only had three chances to return to the temple.

"I have to go back to the palace three times to ensure that I can reach the level of three incense sticks. I really can't waste the times."

Zhou Xuan thought that when he learned the eighth level of tattooing, he would bring the four brothers into the Totem Hall to meet the Peach Blossom Ancestral Tree.

……

"The forbidden area of ​​tattoos requires a power similar to that of the Hades Stone to enter. Above the three-headed stone Buddha and eight incense sticks, there is also a high priest with a hundred eyes sitting in front of him. The other priests are also of high caliber.

The current Tattoo Ancient Clan is still quite powerful."

Zhou Xuan pondered many factors and decided on a strategy - first find a way to enter the forbidden area of ​​tattoos, then find a way to send the ancestral tree into the forbidden area and incite those high priests to rebel.

Thinking of this,

Zhou Xuan decided to go talk to Yun Ziliang, saying that an old person in the family is like a treasure.

He went downstairs.

Yun Ziliang and Zhao Wuya were chatting, there were a few dishes on the counter, and they were drinking wine.

Zhao Wuya was very excited when he saw Zhou Xuan. He said to Zhou Xuan, "Mr. Zhou, guess what? I seem to remember that the fox lady from Dongshan appeared. My compass moved. I told my master about it, but he didn't believe me. He said I was drunk and dreaming.
You help me make the decision. "

"You said you saw the Dongshan Fox Lady?"

"Ah."

"Eat two more peanuts. Look how drunk you are." Zhou Xuan took the plate of peanuts and handed it to Zhao Wuya.

Zhao Wuya: “…”

"Lao Yun, I'm going to be frank with you today. Actually, I've been under surveillance by the Tattoo Ancient Clan these days."

Now that the link was broken, Zhou Xuan finally dared to say whatever he wanted to say. He told Yun Ziliang everything about the Tattoo Ancient Clan.

Yun Ziliang was stunned when he heard this.
He was so excited that he gave Zhou Xuan a thumbs up and said, "Boy, you've chosen the wrong career by doing Yin Bai Shen. You should go act in movies. You've been acting under my nose for so many days?"

"Landlord Zhou, your life is so wonderful." Zhao Wuya was a little envious.

Yun Ziliang slapped him on the forehead and said, "Don't be blindly envious. If you were Xiao Zhou, you would have been taken to the forbidden area by the Tattoo Ancient Clan to be used as a vessel, just like this one, not to mention that you were acting to deceive them."

He pointed to the wine glass beside him.

This was the first time that Zhao Wuya felt that a wine glass could be so insulting.

“Lao Yun, this is just about the Tattoo Ancient Clan. I also have to tell you about the Pengjia Town.”

Zhou Xuan went back three hundred years and told the story of the Nuo god, the blood well, and the ginkgo tree.

This time, Yun Ziliang was just like Yuan Buyu before, his eyes widened and he said, "Ah?!"

"How many things have you got hidden from me?"

"That's all, that's all. When I remember it later, I'll tell you slowly." Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"I have to remember it before I can tell you." Yun Ziliang shook his head and said, "However, you did a great job. If it weren't for you, the Prajna Buddha Kingdom, the Mother of Hundred Ghosts, and the Three-headed Stone Buddha would have caused great harm to Mingjiang Prefecture."

He couldn't help feeling sad when he talked about this. Now, he learned from Zhou Xuan how his tattoo artist partner Peng Sheng died three hundred years ago.

"Taohua Wu, you are not cunning or fierce enough, and you were fooled by the three-headed stone Buddha. However, you are always the great ancestor of the tattooed people. Only those who are devoted to their people are great ancestor."

Having suffered the same disaster of genocide, Yun Ziliang and Peng Sheng shared the same suffering. He picked up the wine glass and poured it on the ground as a tribute from three hundred years later.

"Xiao Zhou, you are worthy of being the successor chosen by both the Blood Well and the Nuo God. As a senior, I must do my part this time to support you and my brother Peng Sheng, who once traveled west with me."

"To enter the forbidden area, you don't need any dark stone. I have the method of riding a dragon. You just need to study the aura in the Buddha's tomb. I can help you lead a big dragon into the forbidden area."

Yun Ziliang's method of riding a dragon was something he gained after his clan was exterminated. Over the years, he treasured it like a treasure and never shared it with anyone.

Now, the Prajna Buddha Kingdom is watching closely, the Mother of Hundred Ghosts may wake up at any time, and the three-headed dark stone is still using Peng Sheng's body as a breeding ground.
Due to national crisis, personal grudges, and his deeper trust in Zhou Xuan, he was willing to share his treasures with Zhou Xuan...

(End of this chapter)