Chapter 518 Nutrition
This time he fell, with the fluorescent light emitted by Hua Xiaolan's spell, Hua Wuying was finally able to see clearly where he landed, and he would not fall to pieces again.
But because of this, when they fell, they saw a scene that frightened them extremely.
Further down, those huge flowers and plants are all gone.
The rest... are all the "roots" of the big wooden hand.
Extending downward from its "little arm" is a dense and endless root system, which clings to the edge of the rock wall of the pit like a web.
But the huge root system certainly did not frighten the two of them.
What made their whole bodies shiver... was that these roots were connected, one by one...
The corpses.
Human corpse.
I don't know how long these corpses have been dead. Their skin and flesh are still there, but they have long been turned into mummies. They are bound by the roots and clinging to the stone wall. Each corpse is covered with the roots of big wooden hands.
Those roots burst out from the corpse’s facial features and skin. Just a look at them is enough to make people’s scalp numb and give them nightmares for months!
Hua Wuying stepped on the bulge of the stone wall, holding the floating roots in his hands, using his strength to cushion, and moved down little by little.
"What on earth are these...?" Hua Xiaolan asked in a trembling voice.
"Yuan Laozhang once said..."
Hua Wuying said in a cold voice: "There are only so many people in the Lingjing Sect, so we must keep more people, so some people will die every year. At that time, the disciples of the Lingjing Sect will come to collect the corpses - and those dead people will be fed Demon. "
No need to say more, both of them understood.
The so-called man-eating monster is this big wooden hand.
Then...what is it?
“Is this a way to protect the Millennium Nine-section Bellflower?” Hua Xiaolan said softly: “But with the background of the Spirit Mirror Sect, there are many ways to protect the Nine-section Bellflower, why is it necessary to adopt such a bloody and cruel method? Way? ”
"... Let's go deeper."
Hua Wuying sighed: "Perhaps, we can know."
They continued to go deeper, and the big wooden hand above was no longer there. Pursuing, it seems that it is just to defend that level. As long as it passes that level, there will be no hindrance.
It's just... Although there is nothing stopping the two of them from going down, their mental impact is definitely not small.
The further down you go, the denser the root systems become, and the more corpses appear.
The top ones were still the dried corpses, but as they went deeper and deeper, the corpses gradually turned into skeletons without even skin and flesh.
Going on, there are no complete skeletons anymore. Those bones have long been disintegrated and hung in pieces on the roots.
At this time, the two of them had gone nearly a hundred feet deep into the pit, and an extremely pungent, sour and spicy smell, like rotten rotten eggs, began to appear on the stone wall.
But at the same time, the extremely rich spiritual void also condensed into white mist, filling the deep pit... But after seeing those corpses, neither of them was in the mood to open their acupoints and absorb the spiritual void. .
Finally, when the white mist of Lingxu was so thick that it almost obscured all sight, and when the roots were so dense that they were almost like spider webs, they finally reached the deepest part of the pit.
The moment he landed, Hua Wuying also mobilized his true energy and waved his hands into the wind, slightly dispersing the white mist.
So, a small grass suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
Hua Xiaolan stared blankly at the small black grass in the center of the bottom of the pit, and murmured: "Is this...the thousand-year-old nine-section bellflower?"
Hua Wuying was, however. Frowning, he cast his gaze around the grass.
The appearance of the grass is not very special. It has a single stem without leaves, and a cylindrical reed head on the top. Each section is like a string of pearls, hanging slightly.
But in the soil around it, there are full and thick rhizomes. These roots spread out in all directions, and then broke out of the soil, completely connected with the dense roots around it...
“This nine-jointed bellflower and the big wooden hand above are the same plant.”
Hua Wuying said softly: “There are such weird and weird plants in this world... "
Hua Xiaolan did not speak. She looked at the thousand-year-old bellflower with a very struggling expression. Hua Wuying saw her expression and understood what she was thinking.
"Xiaolan."
He whispered: "No..."
"Why not?"
Hua Xiaolan twisted her temple hair behind her ears, He said calmly: "The Lingjing Sect feeds the Millennium Nine-section Bellflower with human corpses... The foundation that supports the entire sect is actually the corpses of ordinary people! It is not an exaggeration to say that such a sect is an evil cultivating demon sect. What can I do if I pick this grass?”
“Without this bell grass, Lin Wangshu will still be Lin Wangshu, and the cultivation of those disciples will not collapse and die, at most, this Black Mountain will. There are no more storms in the archipelago, and they can no longer stop outsiders. Those trapped here can finally get out, and the Yuan family and his son can return to their hometown. ”
"And..."
She turned to look at Hua Wuying, her tone remained calm as usual, even a little gentle: "With it, I, the Phoenix Blood Pool of Ten Thousand Poison Mountains, can restore my divine power and resist evil spirits. Then there will be no need for so many people to die, the evil spirit will not enter the southern border, and the world will be at peace."
As he said that, Hua Xiaolan smiled slightly: "Wuying, tell me why I can't pick it off. Let’s go?”
Hua Wuying was speechless for a moment.
In the past, he would have been able to retort righteously, but the corpses he saw along the way... they were like an invisible hand, strangling his throat, making him speechless. Come.
After a long while, he said solemnly: "Perhaps, we should find out why the Spirit Mirror Sect does this..."
"No matter how complicated the reasons are and how many difficulties there are, it can't change the facts."
Hua Xiaolan said slowly: "They kept all the people who broke into this place and didn't let them leave. They kept them here for generations and didn't let them rest in peace. Instead, they kept them here. After they died, they were thrown here to serve as nourishment for the Nine-sectioned Bellflower for a thousand years..."
As she said that, she smiled softly: "Putting these Nine-sectioned Bellflower here can not only serve as a source of energy for the Spiritual Mirror Sect. Is there any other meaning for those dozen of people to practice cultivation besides providing spiritual support? "
"Without the Nine-section Bellflower, wouldn't they be able to practice elsewhere? "
"And it's not that we wanted to go down here - from beginning to end, we were just helping the Spiritual Mirror Sect deal with Hoyaer, but when she shot us down into this pit, Lin Wangshu didn't save us, and we fell into He didn't rescue us after we got into the pit. Isn't it God's will that we are here now?"
Hua Wuying lowered his head and sighed softly.
He knew that Hua Xiaolan actually gave herself a lot of face.
If the relationship between the two had not become much closer in the past few months, she would have poisoned herself with a wave of her hand when they first met, and then picked the fairy grass.
Moreover, he really couldn't refute it.
The Spirit Mirror Sect is still the Spirit Mirror Sect without the thousand-year-old Nine-section Bellflower... An ancient sect must have a foundation. With Lin Wangshu's cave-heaven realm and the powerful water-bending skills of those disciples, the sect cannot be maintained. Any questions.
The absence of the Millennium Nine-section Bellflower in Wandu Mountain means that they do not have the strongest logistical support when facing the evil spirit in southern Xinjiang, and many more people will definitely die.
Hua Xiaolan has spent half a year looking for this bellflower... Every extra day she waits, one more member of her clan, her brothers and sisters, may die.
Even so, she was still willing to persuade with kind words.
Hua Wuying didn’t know if he had any other reasons to stop her.
"I understand."
He said softly: "But the nine-section bellflower is so weird, you need to be extra careful when picking it."
Hearing this, Hua Xiaolan smiled. , with a smile in his eyes.
She hummed softly and squatted down next to the nine-sectioned bellflower.
But at this moment, a sigh sounded in their ears at the same time.
"Brothers from Chinese Elementary School, Miss Xiaolan, you must not..."
That was Lin Wangshu's voice: "It's not a big deal that our Lingjing Sect inheritance is cut off, but if the volcano here erupts again, it will be a disaster. There will be a great slaughter..."
(End of this chapter)