Chapter 142 The Nether Cult Leader
No one responded.
Li Wuxiang had no choice but to jump out of the tomb again——
Before I jumped into the tomb, I was surrounded by a hillside covered with weeds, but now that I landed, the hillside was still there, but all the tombs on the slope were gone.
However, the surrounding soil slope was no longer an endless wilderness, but turned into a thick fog. When Li Wuxiang withdrew his sight from the fog and turned it back to his body, the slope had disappeared - he was surrounded by such a gray fog, and he couldn't tell whether the sky was cloudy or sunny, and he couldn't even tell what he was doing right now. Whether standing on the ground or hanging in the air.
Until I heard the sound of Mei Zhangjian again: "Li Wuxiang, come here."
The sound was like a thread that suddenly pulled down his fluttering kite. Only then did he feel down to earth and saw the Plum Palm Sword in the fog.
She was standing two or three steps away from her, with someone beside her. He was a man, wearing a green robe and a bun. He has a Chinese-character face, distinctive eyebrows, and only a wisp of beard on his chin. He was tall, looking at himself with his hands behind his back, frowning slightly, and looked very powerful.
Mei Zhangjian laughed: "Are you shocked? This is Youjiuyuan. It was like this the first time I came, but it will be better the next time - it's almost the same as in Lingshan. It takes a thought to stand firm."
Then he turned to look at the man next to him: "Senior Brother Jiang, did you come here specifically to pick him up?"
The person she can call "senior brother" should be Jiang Jie, the leader of Taiyi.
Li Wuxiang raised his hand and wanted to meet him, but heard Jiang Jie say: "It's true, but it's not just to pick him up, but to pick you up."
He glanced at Li Wuxiang, then turned to look at Mei Zhangjian: "I want to see if he can enter the Netherworld."
Mei Zhangjian frowned: "I brought him here, do you still want to see it? Is it because my Zhangjian can't speak anymore?"
Jiang Jie snorted: "Mei Qiulu, you take this junior brother of yours and make trouble together in Coffin City. I don't care, can you do it? Tell me about the disciples of your lineage, what's going on with Lou He?" Zeng Jianqiu seems to be a swordsman, but his cultivation has been ruined by your junior brother?"
He glanced at Li Wuxiang again: "——Our eleventh Golden Core Swordsman, is he a human?"
Mei Zhangjian's eyebrows have always been gentle, and he often couldn't help but smile. But this time he slowly opened his eyes wide and looked at Jiang Jie: "Is this a curse or are you really asking?"
Jiang Jie looked at her for a moment, then looked away: "Why am I scolding someone?"
Mei Zhangjian moved a step to the side and stood in front of him, still staring at him: "Oh, is Master Cui a human?"
Jiang Jie cleared his throat: "I didn't say not to let him enter Youjiu Abyss. I just wanted to ask him a few questions first. Besides, I haven't asked you about you yet. You killed two more members of the True Form Sect. City Lord?”
"I was repaying Helian's debt. If you don't stand up for someone from your lineage, will your death be in vain?"
Jiang Jie sighed: "Okay, you can go back, I won't tell you. I'll ask him a few words first."
Mei Zhangjian looked at him for a while before nodding, and then looked at Li Wuxiang: "This is Leader Jiang. Then you should have a few words with Leader Jiang. Leader Jiang is mature and prudent. Don't say anything weird to make people angry." Not happy.”
Jiang Jie only had time to say the word "you" before Mei Zhangjian suddenly raised his hand, as if opening something, and disappeared into the thick fog.
At this time, Li Wuxiang raised his hand, bowed, and said sincerely: "Disciple Li Wuxiang, I would like to pay my respects to the leader of Donghuang Taiyi."
Jiang Jie stood in the mist with his hands behind his back, looked at Li Wuxiang, and said after a while: "You don't need to be so respectful. How long have you been outside with Mei Qiulu?"
Mei Zhangjian had been vaccinated before - swordsmen are all open and aboveboard. Li Wuxiang also knows that being disliked by an upright person may be more uncomfortable than being disliked by a villain.
It's just that I didn't expect it to reach this point - it seems that before stepping into Youjiuyuan's door, the leader will personally give him a showdown.
If it were an ordinary sect, he might have thought of leaving at this time. But since he is a sword sect and knows the general temperament of these people, he feels that he can endure it.
So he smiled: "Senior Sister Mei rescued me outside Coffin City, and we stayed together for about six or seven days."
Jiang Jie nodded: "Six or seven days, okay, then she should have told you everything, and she also said she was very dissatisfied with me, right?"
No... why do you, the first master and the second master, come over and ask me, a newcomer like me, if you don't want to deal with them? Although he had already made preparations in his heart, Li Wuxiang still felt that this question was a bit outrageous - when he was in the world of the world, Mei Zhangjian told him a lot of things about the sect, just like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube. At that time, he had a lot of personality as Mei Zhangjian, and he was considered his nominal master, so it was not surprising.
But Jiang Jie is the leader of a religion, and he comes here to ask himself these questions?
This was the first time he encountered an organization with this kind of style, and he really couldn't figure out how to get along with Jiang Jie. Do you want to show the "true temperament" of the swordsman?
But he himself is not a "true temperament" person. You can pretend this kind of thing for a while, but you can't pretend it forever.
So he still said politely: "Yes. But after listening to what the leader and senior sister just said, I feel that the relationship is very good."
Jiang Jie frowned: "A good relationship is a good relationship, right and wrong is another matter. Don't bring bad habits from elsewhere here. Let me ask you, what do you think of what she said?"
Li Wuxiang felt unhappy. But before expressing his displeasure, he still held back and asked one more question: "Senior Brother Jiang, when other disciples come to Youjiuyuan, will you stop here to ask questions?"
Jiang Jie looked at him and then said: "Some people can. In case someone doesn't recognize people clearly. Do you think I'm making things difficult for you? According to other people's opinions, so be it. You have formed an elixir. If it were anyone else, you would be in trouble in the sect. You should be a sword master and wield a sword, but you are Mei Qiu. If you are someone from this lineage, and your thoughts are similar to hers, then don’t even think about it. I can only allow you to be an ordinary disciple in the sect. If you feel that you can’t stand it and have resentment in your heart, just take advantage of it. Go back now.”
Li Wu has always had a very good impression of the swordsman, until now.
So he looked around, wondering if he really wanted to go back and become an outer disciple like Mei Zhangjian said - so far, Jiang Jie's behavior has gradually exceeded the limit of what he can tolerate. . He seems to be quite mean and not very broad-minded. If you get along with this kind of person for a long time, you will probably be extremely uncomfortable in the future.
Then, just as he had this resentment in his heart, another thought suddenly came to his mind: he wanted to see what was in the surrounding fog.
As soon as this idea appeared in my mind, it immediately took root, like a rapidly growing seed.
So Li Wuxiang suddenly felt that the surrounding fog suddenly became very light, so light that he could slightly see something in the fog——
It turns out that what's around is not mist...but people.
Many people, with dull and gray faces and tattered clothes, were wandering one after another in the gray mist. It was impossible to tell how many there were at a glance.
These people were all looking in the direction of You Jiuyuan, as if they wanted to break in, but because there was an invisible barrier around them, they could only stay in place and keep walking, take a breath and then change directions. It is filled in by the people around and behind.
And now he could also see the land beneath these people's feet. In fact, it doesn't look like land, but looks like extremely smooth strands of something that extends deeper into the mist. His eyes and mind couldn't help but grasp those things, and then extended them into the distance, where there was——
"Come back! Don't look!" A shout suddenly brought his consciousness back. Li Wuxiang suddenly fell into a trance, and everything in front of him turned into a thick fog again.
Jiang Jie was raising his hand, and the light from his fingertips illuminated Li Wuxiang's chest and face. Seeing that he had come to his senses, he took another step forward and stood in front of him: "What you see is the underworld, and those are the souls of the dead! Don't look, keep your mind! Be careful you fall in! Let me ask you a few words, are you so resentful? Then you are really not suitable to stay in Youjiuyuan!”
Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Jiang Jie seemed to dislike himself very much, and seemed to really not want him to enter the Netherworld. But just now he seemed to have fallen into what he considered a very dangerous situation, but he pulled himself back without hesitation.
So Li Wuxiang thought for a while and sighed: "Thank you, Senior Brother Jiang. Senior Brother, I just..."
"Don't ask too much. It's not a good thing for you to know. Didn't your senior sister tell you? Youjiuyuan is between the Netherworld and Lingshan. What should you do in Lingshan? You shouldn't think about it, and you shouldn't look at it. Look, it’s the same here!”
"Okay, I understand."
Jiang Jie frowned and looked at him: "Then answer what I just asked you!" Li Wuxiang thought for a while and said: "Senior Sister Mei told me a lot of things. With the temperament of her and the swordsmen, I don't think so. As for the exaggeration and fraud, based on what she knows, what she said should be true. I think she is right.”
Jiang Jie looked at him for a while and nodded: "Well, okay. Then you will-"
"But I'm wondering if there might be something she doesn't know. When we were in Coffin Mountain, Senior Brother Lou also said a lot of things to me, which were similar to Senior Sister Mei's views. At that time, I told Senior Brother Lou that maybe there were some Things he doesn’t know.”
Li Wuxiang paused and looked at Jiang Jie: "Senior Brother Jiang, it has been eight hundred years since the Tao—"
Jiang Jie was stunned for a moment: "What?"
It seems that this poem does not exist in this world. So Li Wuxiang said softly: "I just remembered a poem. In the past eight hundred autumns of Dedao, there has never been a flying sword to take someone's head. The Jade Emperor has not yet received the heavenly talisman, and his goods are black and gold."
Jiang Jie was stunned and silent for a while.
After a while, he frowned again: "Did you write this poem?"
"Yeah."
"This poem is quite good." He looked at Li Wuxiang carefully again, "But as I said before, after coming to Youjiuyuan, don't bring in some habits from other places - you are flattering me. ”
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Then he said: "You are not a human being. I think you are a green bag fairy?"
"Yeah."
"Qingnangxian, if you live for a long time, many people's habits will slowly disappear. Then it's not a bad idea for you to come to Youjiuyuan." Jiang Jie thought for a while, "But the sword master, the sword master, you It’s better not to think about it. This is not a personal grudge. Mei Qiulu may not like what you do outside, but it doesn’t matter whether I like it or not. What you do is still a credit to Taiyi Sect.”
"You can try to be a sword bearer. But I don't have the final say in holding the sword, but you have to teach everyone here to see your character. Mei Qiulu asked Lou He to be a sword bearer before, but now he stays in Coffin City. You are of her lineage, I think it will be difficult for you.”
Li Wuxiang smiled: "Senior Sister Mei who was outside asked me first if I wanted to come to Youjiuyuan. At that time, I also asked her if there was any nonsense like fighting for power in the church. She said It doesn’t matter, I just came. So, Brother Jiang, it doesn’t matter to me whether I hold a sword or not.”
"However, if I can't do it because others think poorly of me, then I think about it and feel that I still have to do it."
Jiang Jie said nothing.
Li Wuxiang said: "Can I enter Youjiuyuan now?"
Jiang Jie remained silent for a moment and suddenly asked: "Don't you want to know what you might have seen just now?"
Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, and then an idea came to his mind——
Leader Jiang's attitude towards him seemed to have suddenly changed for the better. I don’t know if it’s because of the few lines of poetry I recited. But if so...how pitiful is Jiang Jie?
What he just said was true. Mei Zhangjian's dissatisfaction with Jiang Jie all stems from the things she knows. But she also said that there are some things that only a leader can know.
Since he can be the leader of the Taiyi Sect, he shouldn't be a coward. Mei Zhangjian probably thought the same thing, so she only kept her dissatisfaction verbal instead of insisting on confronting it.
Those were the four lines of the poem he had just read, and Jiang Jie suddenly felt like he could really understand him?
No, then among the hundred or so people in the Sword Sect, there isn’t even one who can say something nice? Then what this leader did was really tasteless.
He said: "This...Senior Brother Jiang, didn't you say it's best for me not to know?"
"You have to know sooner or later anyway. I'll just ask you to take a look, lest you get curious in the future and make things more difficult."
Before Li Wuxiang could speak, he stretched out his hand and touched Li Wuxiang's chest: "Look, look up. But remember, without me or Mei Qiulu to protect you, you are never allowed to look up again in the future."
Li Wuxiang raised his head.
The moment he thought about what was on top, the thick gray fog dissipated again, and then he saw an extremely huge face in the deep void!
That face should be extremely high and far away. If there was a sky here, it should be as high as the clouds in the sky!
But even at such a long distance, the face covered almost the entire space above.
It was not a human face... but an oval shape, pale white, with no ears, nose, mouth, eyebrows, or hair. Instead, it was filled with huge, slender, blood-red eyes, looking down like criss-crossing wounds.
Li Wuxiang only glanced at those eyes and felt that his heart was ashen and he no longer had any thoughts of life, as if he had become a dead thing!
However, just at this moment, his chest felt warm, and his consciousness calmed down slightly. He was able to move his eyes with difficulty, and then the gray fog gradually dissipated, and he saw something else——
No torso. Below the neck of that face is a broken body, like countless slender and deformed arms, or many organs left behind after the torso was mutilated. They continued to extend in all directions, unknown to where, and some of them extended to the place where he was standing at this time, turning into thinner strands - the dead souls he just saw outside should be standing on these things. above.
This thing... the whole thing seemed to be curling up, embracing an extremely huge and incomplete baby where he was.
Li Wuxiang tried to take a closer look with difficulty, and found that its pale and decayed body seemed to have large and densely packed holes, as if they were caused by decay. In the holes, things like maggots were squirming and swimming... But they were not bugs, but countless dead souls!
And... there are also many dark red, scar-like things on it, and there also seem to be many maggot-like things squirming and rolling inside, as if -
"Youjiuyuan is between Netherworld and Lingshan."
Li Wuxiang heard Jiang Jie's voice faintly in his ears.
"What you see now are the dead souls in the netherworld. Those dark red ones are part of the Lingshan Mountain - a part of the Lingshan Mountain that your current cultivation level can understand."
"Besides these, what else did you see?"
A few words almost came out of my mouth. But Li Wuxiang's slightly muddled mind suddenly realized that Jiang Jie only mentioned "dead souls" and "part of the Lingshan Mountain", but did not mention the most shocking and frightening thing, the huge thing.
That thing... shouldn't you see it now?
Both Mei Zhangjian and Leader Jiang knew that they were Qingnangxian, and this was no longer a secret. But there is another secret on his body - Donghuang Taiyi.
Is it because of Taiyi that I can see it?
So he suppressed his thoughts and spoke with difficulty: "And... I feel like there is something else... I can't see clearly..."
"Then let's talk about it later."
Li Wuxiang's consciousness was suddenly pulled back, and the gray fog quickly drowned everything in his field of vision. The sense of death and despair was slowly squeezed out of his heart bit by bit.
He stood in a daze, and when he finally felt a little alive again in his heart, he could ask: "Senior Brother Jiang, what else is there? What else can you see?"
Jiang Jie retracted his hand and looked up: "The Nether Mother. She is also the Nether Cult Leader of the Nether Path."
"Or it can be said that the remains of Taiyi."
Li Wuxiang opened his mouth: "You...Senior Brother Jiang, are you saying that the Nether Mother is the East Emperor Taiyi!?"
Jiang Jie actually smiled at him, and the smile flashed away: "No. Didn't you say that there might be some things that only I know? Then wait. If you can be the leader in the future, you will know that it is What's going on? Don't tell the third person about this."
(End of chapter)