Chapter 649: Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood (3K)
The palace in front of you has been transformed into a spiritual palace.
The surroundings are filled with gauze-like mist, and the fragrance of medicine and incense are intertwined. The walls and pillars are covered with talismans and formations, as if this place is not a place of ordinary mortals, but a forbidden place that resonates with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Suddenly, a strange cry came from the void, breaking the silence at the moment.
There was silence in the palace, and the atmosphere was extremely solemn.
"What is this sound?" Emperor Li Zhou of the Tang Dynasty sat on the futon, frowning slightly, and his heart tightened.
Wen Weilan, who was standing next to him, suddenly turned pale and reached out to cover his chest, as if he was suffering from great discomfort.
She stumbled and took a step back, but Qiao Yu caught her in time.
"We are approaching." Wen Weilan whispered.
"What's so close?" Li Zhou asked with raised eyebrows, obviously having deeper doubts in his heart.
"Could it be..." the eldest princess Li Xi chuckled and said with a joking look on her face, "our ancestors' tomb, right? Are those screaming in agony the ancestors?"
"Shut up! Don't speak nonsense!" Li Zhou shouted in a deep voice, waving the whisk, and his face became even more gloomy.
Wearing a plain robe, he was sitting in front of the elixir furnace, holding a simple whisk in his hand, waiting for the best time for the elixir to come out.
Li Xi stood aside quietly, wearing a cultivation robe and holding a talisman, protecting the law.
Unexpectedly, not long ago, at this critical moment, the Grand Master came uninvited and forced his way into the palace with three women.
The Great Imperial Master could also tell that Li Zhou must be unhappy, but he couldn't say anything to him, so he could only pretend to be calm and ask the Great Imperial Master what was going on.
Of course, they originally planned to force their way in.
But the restrictions in the emperor's palace were unusual. The restrictions were triggered the moment he entered, and the talisman in Qiao Yu's hand immediately became invalid.
The Grand Imperial Master had no choice but to take advantage of the fact that he was still a little thin-faced and explain the cause of the matter.
"You mean, that Liu Sheng... is not dead yet?" Li Zhou raised his eyebrows with disbelief in his tone, "Moreover, he is actually hiding in the tomb of my ancestors. Could it be that he is hiding there?" At my feet?”
"Sure enough, Ji people have their own destiny..." Li Xi chuckled, with a joking face, "However, judging from your meaning, it seems that the temple is chasing her. This matter is a bit unusual."
"Yes, I can testify." Mrs. Su said in a deep voice.
The words spoken by such a weighty bachelor like Mrs. Su naturally carry extraordinary weight.
So as soon as these words came out, Li Zhou and Li Xi looked at each other, with a complicated look flashing in their eyes.
“But I still don’t understand why this tomb is actually at my feet?” Li Zhou frowned slightly, “When we moved the tombs, didn’t we move the dragon bones of the late emperors to the Temple Mountain? Carrying the power of supreme protection to ensure the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty? ”
"Your Majesty, that's what the temple said to the late emperor back then, and you have no way of knowing..."
As the Grand Master said, he saw Li Zhou's hand holding the whisk gradually tightening, almost breaking it.
"So, you are saying... that the temple has been stealing the dragon energy from the imperial city?" Li Zhou's tone was filled with anger, but thinking about the cultivation of his mind over the years, he suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The Grand Master did not deny it.
As a believer of Lord Earth Mother, he has no fear.
Li Zhou's face suddenly darkened, "Grand Imperial Master, as the guardian of the royal family, why have you never mentioned this matter? Have you forgotten what you promised Emperor Mingyuan back then?"
The Grand Imperial Master's eyes turned cold. , and did not tolerate it.
"Li Zhou, what have you done in these years? You have allowed the temple to do whatever you want, and why are you just thinking of asking me now?"
Before he finished speaking, a powerful aura erupted from the body of the Great Imperial Master. , instantly overwhelming the entire palace.
Li Zhou was shocked and realized that the Grand Master seemed to have become stronger, and he couldn't help but feel surprised.
He was very aware of the problems that the Grand Imperial Master had back then.
But in response to this, the Grand Master restrained his breath and said lightly: "If your Majesty wants to know, then please allow me to enter the underground of His Majesty's palace to explore."
"You know. How ridiculous do your words sound?" Li Zhou took a deep breath, his face turned pale.
"I know." The Great Imperial Master said, "But Your Majesty should blame the person who created all this. That is really ridiculous."
Li Zhou naturally understood and clenched his fists .
Li Xi saw this, smiled slightly, and suggested: "Brother, in this case, why not let them go in and have a look, my sister is also curious."
Li Zhou was silent for a moment, and then looked coldly at the Grand Master and his group. The voice said: "If it is not discovered, what crime should you be responsible for?"
"I am willing to bear the responsibility."
At this time, the great national master is responsible.
Of course it is also based on the fact that he is sure that he will find something.
Li Zhou was silent for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.
The Grand Master counted with his fingers, frowned slightly, and then leaned forward to sniff around.
His eyes were fixed on the futon under Li Zhou's buttocks.
Li Zhou was immediately furious, but the feeling of suffocation was synonymous with his life, so he could only move away in humiliation.
The Great Imperial Master Jie Jie smiled rudely and threw aside the precious futon that was finally woven with great difficulty.
Li Zhou was heartbroken, but he could only silently pick up the invisible dust and pat it.
Then he watched the Grand Master stretch out his withered hand, tremblingly pull up the alchemy cauldron of the ancient spiritual object in front of him from the ground, and then push it aside.
The alchemy furnace fell down with a clang and rolled twice on the ground.
Then the Great Imperial Master lightly hit the ground with his hand like a dead branch, and the floor made of gold and jade instantly shattered.
The corner of Li Zhou's eyes twitched, and he felt distressed again, but he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, glad that he did not have a direct attack.
So, the great national master continued to dig.
I don’t know how to operate it, but I dug a deep hole in a moment. With the excavation, the putrid smell became stronger and stronger, and even the overwhelming incense in the emperor's palace could not cover it up.
This stench was not familiar at all to Li Zhou, who was born into a noble family.
But except for him, including Li Xi who once walked all the way in the blood sea of corpse mountain in Mobei, everyone quickly recognized it and said almost in unison:
"Corpse stinks!"
Li Zhou was naturally stunned.
Now he no longer hesitates and follows the group of people down.
It’s just that the pit is too deep, almost bottomless, so you can only use the flying spiritual weapon to descend slowly.
Also, there are inscriptions everywhere.
These inscriptions are suspended in this cave, layer upon layer, misty, and so dazzling that it is difficult to see what is going on below.
But as the inscriptions were broken one by one, it was impossible to cover up the strong smell of corpses.
The inscription shimmered, gradually revealing the scene below.
Li Zhou first made a sound of vomiting.
As for Li Xi, his face was cold.
Mrs. Su's wrinkles wrinkled up and she was furious.
Wen Weilan and Qiao Yu looked at each other and knew something was wrong.
The Great Imperial Master just sighed in a low voice: "What a sin, what a sin..."
At the bottom of the pit, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood piled up.
Some have decayed and only bones remain, while others are still the structure of mummies, soaked in the red and black rotten water below.
There are quite a few of them, but they are still human bodies with full texture and only some scars and damage.
In other words, he died not long ago.
Li Zhou's face turned pale at this time, and the anger in his heart reached its peak.
No matter who it is, seeing such a huge corpse pit under their own palace will probably not feel good.
What's more, these sources seem to be their own people.
I don't even know anything about it.
At this time, Li Zhou began to hate his escape all these years...
"Brother, there is nothing you can do." At this time, Li Xi silently patted his brother's shoulder.
"No... there should be a way." Li Zhou lowered his head, but was speechless.
When we reached the bottom, as the surrounding inscriptions lit up and dimmed, it seemed that something was changing, but we couldn't see it clearly.
But everyone is still at a loss as to how to take a step closer.
Qiao Yu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "We are going in here."
"Where?" Li Xi asked.
Looking along her fingertips, Li Xi almost vomited when she saw that she was pointing to the center of the pile of corpses.
"The inscription is the brightest there...and the number of corpses is decreasing." At this time, Wen Weilan said softly.
Everyone was shocked and looked at that place carefully.
Especially Mrs. Su and Grand Master, some of them are dim-sighted and have to squint to see clearly.
Where it turned out to be the core, as the inscriptions lit up, some corpses leaked out, forming a slight depression.
It's just because there are so many corpses accumulated over the years that it's not obvious.
"Here...there is something eating the corpse..." Li Zhou's expression became even worse.
"Let's go in," the Grand Master said clearly.
Although it is disgusting, going down below seems to be the core of what the Grand Master said.
Everyone put amulets on themselves one after another, suppressing their nausea, and let the Grand Master, who was almost the same as these corpses, lead the way, passing through the piles of putrid corpses, and gradually entered the depths of the corpse pile. ...
The body clung to the soft, slimy corpses around it, and fell into a quagmire of mutilated limbs and minced flesh. It pressed against these lifeless faces and kept squeezing deeper.
Suddenly, the light of the inscription flickered, and a strong squeezing feeling suddenly hit.
Then he let go and his body fell violently.
The feeling of falling suddenly stopped.
Everyone suddenly opened their eyes and found that they were inexplicably suspended in the void.
It was pitch black before his eyes, and corpses were scattered around, quickly decaying and turning into a sea of charred blackness surging like a tide.
During the surge, the snow-white shadows were pulled away one by one, slowly rising, converging upward, forming a huge torrent of shimmering light.
Everyone looked up along the light, their eyes full of shock and fear.
I saw a huge and weird structure suspended in mid-air, with a vague palace-like outline, vaguely shaped like doors, windows, and spires.
However, more parts were covered by groups of charred corpses. Those corpses swarmed upward like ants, gathering into a suffocating black mass and squirming.
What’s even more creepy is that several elongated giants are snaking through them, their scales shining with golden light, but the tender and bloody flesh underneath is exposed.
These monsters are entangled, showing a painful face from time to time. The human face has sharp horns and hard golden scales, and howls in a twisted way.
The voice was like a dragon's roar, but it was rough and ugly, full of unspeakable pain and anger.
The Grand Master looked up at all this, dumbfounded, and murmured to himself: "What a sin..."