Chapter 220 Burial
“An evil ghost from a foreign land?”
Lie’s brows furrowed slightly. There are indeed many things about Zhengchu that are different from ordinary people:
“You What happened to the man he met before?”
Wu was lost in memories, and after a while he spoke: “That was an extremely terrifying person, warlike, and murderous. He seemed to feel uncomfortable even if he didn’t cause trouble for a day. .”
"He has gone into the outer world to hunt the blood phoenix of the divine phoenix. He has also entered the sea to capture and kill the real dragon. He has even killed many peak warriors in the big tribes. He is fearless and has a moody temperament that cannot be deduced by common sense."< br>
"Later, I heard that this person seemed to have died. I have no way of knowing exactly where and how he died..."
Lie's heart tightened. He felt a little uneasy: "Witch, what do you mean when you tell me this now?"
"I can't see through this child Zhengchu... The trouble he causes, I hope the mountain tribe may not be able to Bear it. "
Wu's face was full of sadness, and she didn't know how to treat Zhengchu.
Now Zhengchu is kind to the Wangshan tribe, and the changes he has brought about are enough to change the fate of a tribe.
However, if Zhengchu is really like the person she knew back then, a creature from a foreign land, he may bring disaster to the Wangshan tribe in the future.
"I will keep an eye on him."
Seeing Wu being silent for a long time, Lie said in a deep voice: "In any case, I brought him back, and I will always keep an eye on him in the future. , I won’t let him go astray.”
“You go back first, I want to rest for a while, just keep Ying by my side.”
Wu said no more, and with Ying's support, he walked into the depths of the palace.
The large stone bed was covered with thick soft animal skins. Ying seemed a little absent-minded. After helping Wu onto the bed, she couldn't help but ask in a low voice:
"Wu , will you hurt Zhengchu?”
“No.” Wu shook his head, squeezed Ying’s little hand, and asked in a deep voice:
“Ying, if one day, The survival of the tribe requires Zhengchu's death. What will you choose? The demise of the tribe...or let Zhengchu die."
"This day will never come." Ying said without any hesitation, with a serious expression: "If that day does come, it will be my incompetence."
"Wu, don't worry."
Ying stood up straight, her eyes burning like torches, and said word by word:
"I will become the most powerful shaman in the Wangshan tribe in the past and up to now. I will protect the tribe for you and continue the flame of Wangshan." .”
“Ying, I’m sorry.”
Wu let out a long sigh, raised his hand to stroke Ying's hair, his eyes full of pity:
"Your mother was originally my chosen heir, but she loved your father so much that she couldn't control her heart and gave up. With your qualifications as a witch, this responsibility has been placed on your shoulders."
Ying looked slightly sluggish, subconsciously took a step back, lowered her head and murmured:
"These... ...My father never told me.”
She didn’t know what happened before, and she had never even seen her mother. She only knew that her mother died on the day she was born. .
"Nianya gave up on being Wu's successor and stayed with your father. After that, she felt very guilty. After she became pregnant, she found me."
A slightly bitter smile appeared at the corner of Wu's mouth: "As a witch, I understand and even envy your mother. At that time, there were no suitable children in the tribe. As my life was approaching, I agreed to Ya's request."
"Your mother is the one I met. She is the most talented person in the world. As a candidate for a witch, her natural soul power is extremely powerful. Even before she was a minor, she was stronger than some witches."
"On the day you were born, she will use her own power to do so. All the power has been passed down to you, so you are born with spiritual power that far exceeds that of many witches, but it is precisely because of this that she..."
Speaking of this, Wu Zhi He stopped talking and said no more.
"So that's it."
Ying lowered her head, with relief in her tone. For many years, she had thought that she had killed her mother, and she often felt very guilty.
"Ying, don't blame your mother. Sometimes, people are like this. It's hard to control their thoughts and they will do a lot of things that they regret." Wu's expression was complicated and her eyes were dim. There are many regrets.
“No, Wu.”
Ying raised her head with a smile on her face:
"My mother did what she wanted to do, and that's why I was born. I think... my mother will not regret being with my father. Her only regret may be that she was not able to succeed you and continue to protect the tribe.
“And I... will take her place and finish this matter. ”
At this moment, the haze in Ying’s heart disappeared, and her eyes were firm. Her mother gave up the chance of survival and passed on all her strength to her, probably hoping that she would make up for this regret.
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The next few days were quiet and boring.
Most of Chu Zheng's energy was put on cultivation. Except for occasionally going to the smelting land to communicate with the weapon casters and pass on the formation pattern, he would stay in seclusion in his residence.
He replayed the scene of Wu Weilie changing his totem that day over and over in his mind, absorbing the nutrients from it.
Wu's skillful techniques left a deep impression on him, which made his understanding of the totem a lot deeper.
As long as he can understand it thoroughly and his cultivation is higher, he can try to create his own totem and then replace the totem behind him.
After changing Lie's totem, Wu lay in bed for several months before he could barely get out of bed. He was already exhausted. Chu Zheng had already expected this.
Her body has been exhausted, she has no remaining strength, and has been completely squeezed out. Now she only relies on her obsession to force herself to stay in the world.
The thousand-foot underground tunnel is already covered with frost and is extremely cold. With Chu Zheng’s current cultivation level, he also needs to circulate Yuan Qi or let the animal fire flow in his body in order to keep his body from falling. Frozen.
After the cold wave came completely, Wu's health became worse and worse. He rarely went out and only moved around in the hall. Lie pulled a few young men and dug out a fire pond under the main hall and placed it. A place where ore is smelted, making the surroundings of the hall as warm as spring.
Even so, it is difficult to restore the lost vitality of Wu through various means.
The weight of these four words is enough to explain everything.
Buzz——
Lie pushed open the stone door and stepped into the house, his expression a little solemn:
“Zhengchu, the witch has passed away, come with me to see him off. She's a step away."
Chu Zheng was stunned for a moment, nodded, stood up and followed Lie's footsteps.
Four warriors from the Wangshan tribe were carrying a jade coffin, which had been sealed. Ying stood aside with no sadness on her face.
Lie took one step ahead and walked towards the ground.
As we get closer to the ground, the surrounding temperature drops sharply, the ice layer becomes thicker and thicker, and eventually the tunnel is completely blocked by ice.
The energy and blood in Lie's body began to surge, and the blazing high temperature evaporated, instantly melting three feet of ice. The melted ice water rolled down along the corridor and formed a gurgling stream. into the ground.
After a while, the group of people arrived on the ground, and everything they could see was ice and snow. Chu Zheng stepped onto the earth for the first time in a long time. The howling of wind and snow echoed in his ears, and all he saw in his eyes was a dead winter, without any life.
The original Wangshan tribe has been completely sealed by heavy snow and hidden by thick ice and snow.
The extremely cold low temperature made Chu Zheng feel uncomfortable and accelerated the movement of the animal fire in his body, which made him feel much better.
This extremely low temperature was somewhat beyond Chu Zheng’s expectation. Apart from the howling of the wind and snow, there was no noise between the sky and the earth. There was a dead silence in the hustle and bustle. It seemed that even time and space had come to a standstill. Freeze thoroughly.
Lie led a group of people forward and entered a wasteland.
The surrounding ice and snow quickly melted away, revealing a tomb. Lie walked straight towards a tombstone without stopping.
The tombstone looks very clean, without any weeds around it, and it is obvious that people often take care of it.
"The Tomb of the Early Ming Dynasty..."
Chu Zheng looked at the name on the tombstone and his eyebrows moved slightly. The name with a surname is enough to prove that this person has an extraordinary background.
“He was once the strongest warrior of the Wangshan Tribe and came from a large tribe. But for Luan, he stayed and joined the Wangshan Tribe and protected the tribe for more than four hundred years.”
Lie said in a deep voice: "The witch's last words were that he hoped to be buried beside him."
As a witch, he could not marry for the rest of his life, so Chu Ming waited for Luan for more than four hundred years, or even longer.
For the early Ming Dynasty, Lie did not explain too much. He dug a new pit on one side of the tomb and buried the jade coffin.
Wu's funeral was very simple. Apart from Lie and Chu Zheng, there were only a few of the strongest warriors in the tribe, as well as Ying.
Ying was not affected by the cold air at all, her face was rosy and her breath was steady.
Chu Zheng slightly glanced at it with some doubts, and his heart couldn't help but move.
Under the spiritual eyes, Ying's soul strength has actually reached the level of the third level. This is the power that an adult totem monk can achieve, and is comparable to the great monks in the Immortal Condensation Realm.
Ying is only ten years old now, and her future achievements are limitless.
The death of the witch did not have much impact on the tribe, and everything remained as before.
Ying took over Wu's position and began to prepare wound medicine for the warriors in the tribe and draw totems for newborns.
Her current level is quite different from that of Luan, but except for the first-class totem, which cannot be carved for the time being, she has already mastered the methods of engraving other totems.
In the eyes of the Wangshan tribe, she is already a qualified witch and has the respect of many tribesmen.
Chu Zheng's status among the Wangshan tribe has also increased, and most of the tribe regards him as a rare genius.
The formation pattern he sent out greatly increased the power of the talisman soldiers and the loss when refining the talisman soldiers.
At the same time, Chu Zheng had begun to teach some crude breathing techniques to the warriors in the tribe.
This is a way to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is somewhat different from the real Qi refining method, but it has also had a great impact on these warriors of the Wangshan tribe, and their combat power has improved a lot.
In this regard, Lie did not interfere in any way, but just watched silently, his attitude towards Chu Zheng was the same as before.
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This cold wave lasted for a long time, more than half a year longer than before, and lasted for nearly four years.
If the blood food previously stored was not sufficient, many members of the Wangshan tribe would have suffered from hunger.
After the cold wave, the populations of many tribes will enter a period of growth, and the Wangshan tribe is no exception. In recent years, the number of newborns has increased year by year.
Correspondingly, Ying, as a witch, has become extremely busy. She spends a lot of energy on carving totems for newborns and regulating their bodies every day.
Living underground for a long time and lacking Yang Qi intake, Chu Zheng’s cultivation level improved much more slowly. However, with many elixirs, he still condensed the Dao Fetus and entered the middle stage of the Dao Fetus Realm. .
The growth of the physical body is even more astonishing, and the strength has more than doubled. Nowadays, it is difficult to find a third-level desolate beast that can withstand his palm.
This time, the totem has entered adulthood. The connection between the totem and him has become closer, and the magical power hidden in it has shown signs of manifesting.
As the cold wave subsides, the temperature underground gradually begins to rise. The high temperature and high humidity caused by melting ice make many newborns extremely painful and diseases occur from time to time.
However, during this period of time, we cannot rush back to the surface. We need to persist for a while.
Lie has already led the top experts in the tribe out of the underground. They want to thoroughly cleanse the Wangshan tribe within a radius of thousands of miles in the shortest possible time and eliminate threats.
The cold wave has just passed, and the surroundings are full of hungry wild beasts. Many powerful wild beasts, in order to make up for the losses in the cold wave, will start crazy hunting.
This period of time is even more dangerous than before the cold wave.
It was not until one month after the cold wave subsided that the Wangshan tribe began to migrate and return to the surface to live again.
As soon as he returned to the surface, Chu Zheng couldn't wait to leave the tribe and entered the wilderness to release the aggrieved feeling of living underground for a long time.
Along the way, he could often see the bones of desolate beasts, the blood essence in which had been drained out, apparently drained by the molten beads.
The wild beasts within thousands of miles around have been swept away. Chu Zheng did not see any prey. It was not until he ran more than 20,000 miles away that he saw traces of the wild beasts.
At the same time, he discovered traces of a tribe, and the traces were very new.
A paw print spanning more than a hundred miles covered the entire tribe, leaving only a deep pit, and some remaining traces of the palace could be seen at the bottom of the pit.
An extremely powerful wild beast passed by and destroyed the entire tribe with one blow, leaving no one alive.
Chu Zheng was slightly shocked. If this claw fell on the head of the Wangshan tribe, it would only have the same result.
This place is only 20,000 miles away from the Wangshan tribe, which is too close.
Chu Zheng composed himself, cleaned up the remaining traces in the tribe, obtained some talisman soldiers and fragments of bone books, and embarked on the return journey.
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When Chu Zheng returned to the tribe, the Wangshan tribe was very lively.
After asking several tribesmen, Chu Zheng finally understood the situation. A few days ago, people from the Wan clan came and sent some wild beast flesh and blood, as well as elixirs.
This is a congratulation to the Wangshan tribe for surviving the cold wave.
At the same time, the Wan clan members also sent an invitation about the beast hunting celebration.
(End of this chapter)