Chapter 494 Assimilation
Jiang Mei said: "When Jiang Lei saw us, he looked very surprised, and it didn't seem like he was cheating. After I revealed my identity to him, he said that there were some suspected demons deep in the underground palace. As for the runes left behind, he gave me a jade talisman and said that I could just walk along the path inside. At the same time, he also noted in it the mechanical beasts and the like that I might encounter along the way."
“I proposed to him that I would take Brother Jiang away, and he readily agreed. He said that he did not torture Brother Jiang on purpose before, but when he saw the younger generation, he was so angry that he did not seek to improve. , that’s when we saw the scene.”
“He also asked me to teach Brother Jiang a lesson and guide him to the right path, so that he would not hang out with ordinary people and make others laugh.”
“It’s all pretending.” Jiang Bai said.
Jiang Mei did not answer his words and continued: "So I tentatively asked him about Elder Xiao. He said that he knew that Elder Xiao had enlightened in the secret realm, but their ways were different. He focused on studying the underground palace. The spirit beast created another Qingzong secret technique, so they only met a few times and had no friendship."
"Then I asked him about the little demon in the secret realm. I don’t know.”
“Does he think you are fools?” Li Chuan couldn’t help but say.
Jiang Mei said: "Qingzong monks...most of them give others the impression that they are solitary, protective of their shortcomings internally, and ruthless externally."
"I can't tell. When he came, he said goodbye and prepared to explore the depths of the underground palace. ”
"After that, the three of us walked down. Because Brother Jiang was injured, we walked very slowly. We walked for about five or six days before we reached the seventh floor marked in the jade talisman. Jiang Lei said that the exit is at There is a secret passage under a dark room on the seventh floor."
"How are you injured?" Li Chuan asked Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai said: "Brother Jiang helped me cure him, and all the sequelae were cured."
Jiang Mei: "Thanks to Brother Jiang, we escaped from the underground palace. ."
"What's going on in the underground palace?" Wen Guying asked.
"There are some spiritual beasts, magic weapons, and various mechanisms. These are with the jade talismans given by Jiang Lei. They can be easily solved by prescribing the right medicine." Jiang Mei replied, he paused and said: "When we arrive at what Jiang Lei said, After entering the dark room, we successfully found the secret passage. "
"Xiao Liu discovered the anomaly of the secret passage. He said that the secret passage seemed to have been dug out in recent years and was not originally in the underground palace. ...At that time, we had no other choice but to continue going down."
"The secret passage is not long, and we reached the end in less than half an hour. It was a dead end."
< br>"A dead end? There is no way?" Li Chuan asked.
"It is dark, and from time to time there will be some sounds coming out of it. Those sounds are like the sound of broken branches, crackling, crackling." Liu Yang said.
"Can't you light a lamp?" Li Chuan asked?
"The darkness is not just without light. The three of us can see in the darkness," Jiang Mei explained patiently. "There are many spirits floating there. Brother Jiang said that those are the ones whose transformation has failed. Although Soul Eater failed, it is still possible to devour the soul."
He asked: "Do you know what Soul Eater is?" "It is a kind of ghost, but it is inherently deficient and requires some intervention to become parasitic. However, once they are successfully parasitized, they will be infected faster than the White Walkers. After being parasitized, they will gradually lose their memory until the soul is completely swallowed, and then the soul will dissipate with the body and no longer infect other people. Some of the demon clan's methods can temporarily suppress it," Wen Guying said.
After listening to Wen Guying’s words, Jiang Mei asked: “What happened outside?”
Wen Guying said: "There is a theater troupe who was infected with the Devouring Soul and came to Beijing. It has been solved and there is an antidote."
"Yes." Jiang Mei nodded and continued, "I'm aware of it. After the crisis in the darkness, Xiao Liu said that we should go back and take a look elsewhere in the underground palace, or ask Jiang Lei if he thinks he can be beaten into submission and then torture him. "< br>
Wen Guying asked: "You didn't go back?"
"Yes." Jiang Mei explained: "Jiang Lei must have known what we would encounter. When he saw us , maybe it’s really a surprise, but after five or six days, he has probably run away, or has set up a bunch of traps, waiting for us.”
“So, we can only step into it. In the darkness. At first, we planned to go in the direction of the sound, but after we were in the darkness, we found that the crackling sounds did not come from one place, but came from everywhere. "< br>
"So we chose a direction and kept walking forward. As we walked, I also observed the heavy floating soul eaters around me. Gradually, some illusions appeared in front of my eyes," Jiang Mei looked at Wen Guying and said: "To be precise, it was not an illusion, but we saw those memories devoured by souls. These memories were precipitated in the darkness, increasing in number, and finally passed a certain point, and a strange change occurred. "
"You...are you okay?" Li Chuan asked quickly.
Jiang Mei understood what Li Chuan meant and said, "It's not parasitized. Just to be on the safe side, can you give us a look later?"
"Have a look, just to be on the safe side?" "Li Chuan said.
"Wait until I finish," Jiang Mei continued again: "There, the Devouring Spirits have undergone a strange change. They have become a whole. A single Devouring Spirit has no consciousness. , but there, after hundreds of millions of Devouring Souls gather together, it has a consciousness. This consciousness can affect the living beings sinking in it, including the monks, and connect their consciousness to the overall consciousness through a kind of resonance. Connected together, regardless of each other.”
Jiang Mei said: "So I suspect that the soul-eating parasitism you are talking about may have passed through here, and it is not parasitism, but assimilation."
"Brother Jiang woke us up. I relied on coming from the illusion. The memories gained from it have found their way."
"There are... a lot of bones. Some of them are the bones of those who died after the Huaian Mountain secret realm collapsed, and the other part are the bones added in the past few hundred years. "
"Jiang Lei should have discovered this strange change in some way, and then he continued to try. Through his experiments, he finally found a way to do it. "
"I suspect... everything in the darkness now is not the end. He is still experimenting and finally refining all the Devouring Spirits into him. A puppet driven by him and used by him.”
"Is this...is this an evil cultivator?" Li Chuan said.
Jiang Bai said: "This kind of behavior is absolutely not allowed by the Qingzong."
(End of this chapter)