Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 450 The Key
Seeing that I had realized something, Chen Shengzhi said softly: "Among the four evils, the origin of Chaos is the most terrifying, Qiongqi, and Wuwu are the most vicious, but when it comes to the most difficult to cure, the only one that cannot be killed is Taotie. .”

I was stunned, and said in shock: "Impossible! Under the power of the nuclear bomb explosion, no living thing can survive. Taotie, there are no bones left from the blast just now."

However, Chen Shengzhi shook his head and sighed: "As I said just now, gluttony is transformed by the greed of creatures. As long as there is greed and tyranny in the hearts of creatures in this world, then they are gluttonous. Although the nuclear bomb in your words is extremely powerful , can kill the body of the fierce demon, but can it destroy the greed in everyone's heart? The human heart is immortal, and gluttony is immortal. When the next living being is controlled by greed, when the greed and tyranny of the world's living beings reach their peak, then It is also the time when Taotie is reborn."

I followed him to land on the desolate land, my brows were tightly frowned, and I thought of those practitioners and army soldiers outside the imperial mausoleum and Jiuyi Mountain who were infected by the black breath and turned into black-armored monsters, that kind of appearance Similar to Taotie, it is also full of greed and tyranny.

"You mean those black-armored monsters that change? If they keep devouring them, will they become gluttons one day? Could it be that the glutton suppressed at the foot of Jiuyi Mountain was once transformed by ordinary creatures?" I was terrified. According to this, a creature like Taotie is really too terrifying.People's hearts are the most unpredictable in this world, and the greed in people's hearts can never be eliminated. Doesn't that mean that things like Taotie can never be killed.

Chen Shengzhi didn't answer, but just looked into the distance with deep eyes.

I gritted my teeth and put aside the question of gluttony for the time being. Since it has been destroyed by the nuclear bomb, no matter whether it will be resurrected in the future, these questions are at least left for later.And there are so many questions I want to ask him right now.

I said loudly: "The Snake King Temple in the back mountain, the white coffin, and Ruochu are all to revive my blood, but what is the purpose of the children of the Chen family who died under the Qingyi River? You are the one who led me, right? For more than 300 years, what are you doing for? Do you really just want to eliminate the descendants of Taotie and Jinyun clan? But you are so powerful, why don’t you just do it and let me do it!”

My voice is excited, because all this has been suppressed in my heart for countless hours.

Unexpectedly, he just listened silently, without even a trace of fluctuation on his face, and after a while, he said quietly: "In ancient times, the world was full of aura, and ordinary people could live for hundreds of years, and practitioners had even longer lifespans. Among them are some powerful people who call themselves "immortals". They live outside the high sky. Yue Tonghui can live through ten thousand calamities."

Chen Shengzhi didn't answer my question, but spoke some words on his own.

"They came from the cultivation of the human race. They once fought against alien races with mortals, and fought against giant beasts for the sake of human beings. But as the distance between them and mortals became farther and farther away, they surpassed mortals and controlled the direction of the human race. Until they Arousing the dissatisfaction of the human emperor, Emperor Zhuanxu pointed his sword at the sky, led the practitioners in the mortal world to fight against the immortal gods in the sky, destroyed the pillars of heaven, sealed the heaven and the earth, and closed the gate connecting the heaven and the earth. It is even more difficult for practitioners to become immortals and ascend. The subsequent emperors did even better, directly using giant beasts to arrange large arrays to seal the spiritual veins of the world. Those who are amazingly talented and who have obtained the inheritance of adventure can barely achieve that state, and the rest of the practitioners all look to the sky and sigh."

I nodded silently. I knew something about what he said when I accepted the inheritance of Emperor Shun. Back then, those so-called gods were blocked in the sky. After thousands of years, I don’t know if it is true. The same life as the heaven and the earth, or it has already turned into a pile of dead bones.It's just that these contents have nothing to do with my question, could it be... Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder.

Chen Shengzhi seems to be lost in memory at this moment, and he changed the topic and said: "I remember that when I was your age, I was studying books and practicing scriptures in the city. On a tall horse, I welcomed her into the gate of our Chen family with my own hands. On the day of the clinker, the news that nearly broke me came... When I returned to the village, it was already in ruins, and everything I was familiar with Everything in my life was destroyed, my father’s bones disappeared without a trace, my uncles, grandpas, aunts, all relatives became food for those animals, and even the woman who grew up with me and I wanted to protect for the rest of my life. When I saw her, it was just a mass of dead bones eaten away by venom."

I feel sad in my heart, even though it happened hundreds of years ago, I still feel pain in my heart when I listen to his narration today. Those people, after all, were my ancestors.

"I knelt in the village for three days and three nights. The wind and rain blew on my body, like ten thousand ants gnawed at my heart. I made an oath at that time, I would go to find those legendary immortals, I I want to ask them to pass on my Taoism and supernatural powers, and I want to take revenge with my own hands. I used my feet to cover every inch of this country, I went to Emei, Wudang, and Longhushan, and I went to find all the sects I know , I want to learn skills, I want to be strong enough to destroy everything. But none of them is willing to accept me. Those monks and Taoists said that I was too obsessed, that I was blinded by hatred, and they drove me down the mountain. Tell me, if a person like me has power beyond ordinary people, it will only bring disaster to the world."

"I knelt on the ground and begged them, I hugged their legs and begged, my eyes were full of blood and tears, but what I got in return was only indifference and those heartless words. I spent all my savings in order to ask immortals, I had no food, no shelter. Along the way, I was like a beggar, squatting on the street and begging for food from passers-by. I cried and wept. I even competed with wild dogs for food and searched for any Something that can satisfy your hunger."

My body trembled and my eyes widened. At this moment, everything in Chen Shengzhi's words shocked me.In the past, in the stories of grandpa, they would only tell how powerful the great ancestor of the Chen family was, beheading evil dragons and snake monsters, and his scenery was incomparable, but they never said that he had suffered such hardships.

When Chen Shengzhi said this, he seemed to be moved too, his eyes were red, and he said softly: "Until I arrived at Mount Hua, I found a small Taoist temple built on the edge of the cliff. The local people said that there lived an old fairy there. I asked As usual, I begged the old man bitterly, and I knelt outside his Taoist temple for days and nights, but he was still indifferent. Until she came, she persuaded the cold-hearted old man and forced me to accept me as a disciple. Knowing that although he accepted me as a disciple, he never looked down on me, so I can only do my best to learn all kinds of spells and Taoism that can bring strength."

"I didn't expect that my aptitude is not bad, coupled with hard study day and night, I finally learned what I want after a few years, and finally I can go home for revenge. The White Snake, however, learned the secret of the back mountain from it, and got this thing."

As soon as the words fell, a simple and vicissitudes of tortoise shell appeared in his hand. I just glanced at it briefly, and felt as if I saw an ancient world, which made people dizzy.

I asked, "What is this thing?"

Chen Shengzhi said with a smile: "'The river produces pictures, Luo produces books', the ancient sage king Fuxi obtained the treasure from a turtle in Luoshui, and used it to comprehend the way of gossip. After that, it has been passed down as the treasure of the human race. Until the time of Emperor Zhuanxu, although he destroyed the pillars of heaven, the gate between the heaven and the human world was difficult to close. In the end, he united with the great powers of several practitioners, communicated the laws of heaven and earth with the power of Luoshu, and closed the gate of heaven , and this thing is the key to open the gate of heaven. The influence of the ancient gods on the human world was too great. In that era, many people were dissatisfied with Emperor Zhuanxu's behavior of sealing the heavens, and there were even many powerful practitioners He and the remaining gods in the world want to conspire to seize Luoshu and reopen the gate of heaven and earth."

"At that time, Emperor Zhuanxu was wounded in the war, coupled with the huge number of secret opponents, and even involved many high-ranking people in the human race. Forced to do so, he secretly gave this Luoshu to one of his own. The ugly child Cancong pretended to be disgusted and dispatched him and some tribes to the wilderness of Western Shu. The purpose was to let Cancong keep Luoshu in the land of Western Shu forever. Unexpectedly, the gate of heaven was closed forever. And as he expected, no one could have guessed that Luoshu had left the Central Plains. Even after the fall of Emperor Zhuanxu, there had been several civil wars among the human race, and even some remaining gods had also taken action. But I didn't find the key either..."

(End of this chapter)