Chapter 48: Whispers of the Heart
The Kongyun Sect above Kongyun Mountain in Kongyun Mountain is a small sect that has only been established for less than ten years. The leader of the sect, Taoist Hongyun, is actually just a casual cultivator who has reached the second level of Gangshatian.
Like other casual cultivators, they have been working hard in the world for hundreds of years and have gone through a lot of hardships to practice Zigangshatian, and then they have the intention of establishing their own sects.
In fact, this is what most casual cultivators think. Only when their cultivation reaches Gangshatian can they be qualified to establish a small sect in some places where there is no other sect or family base, open up mountains and recruit disciples, and develop slowly, hoping to receive an excellent disciple who can surpass his or her, and carry forward his or her inheritance and sects.
Many sects in the Earth Immortal Realm have developed in this way, and most of them will perish after not long after persisting. However, occasionally a few sects have persisted and gradually grown through wind and rain. Among them, some of them were just small sects thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.
The Kongyun Sect was built on the top of Kongyun Mountain. I don’t know if there was a big battle here in ancient times. The top of one of the mountain was flattened by a sword by a powerful man, revealing a huge peak platform. Taoist Hongyun took a fancy to this place and settled down here to establish a sect. Now it has a certain scale.
Although there are few people in the deep mountains and forests, unfortunately, there is a small town not far from Kongyun Mountain that is built on the copper mining area. There are no other cultivation families around to compete for it. This small town naturally becomes the territory of Kongyun Sect. Not only is there a certain worship every year, but it can also collect some good-qualified disciples from the small town every few years, which has a foundation for development.
But recently, Taoist Hongyun was a little worried because something happened recently in the Tongmin City, which is an important foundation for the development of the sect, had happened recently. The city lord sent an envoy to inform that miners often disappeared in the mining area recently and sent people in several times. The people sent in the previous two times were also missing. The third time, the immortal chief stationed in Kongyun Mountain in the Tongmin City was invited. In the end, everyone died and only the immortal chief escaped with serious injuries, but he went crazy.
Of course, Taoist Hongyun couldn't sit still in such a big deal, so he went there in person as soon as possible, but he walked out less than a stick of incense when he entered the mine. Soon the city lord announced the closure of the mine.
As a casual cultivator who has been traveling around the country for hundreds of years, Taoist Hongyun certainly knows what happened in the mine. The strange power can distort the divine thoughts and souls, exactly the same as the power of the legendary evil spirits from foreign lands.
After confirming this, he knew that this matter was not something he could solve. He informed the city lord's mansion of the speculation, and then he returned to the sect to order prohibiting his disciples from running to the mining area in the near future.
When Gu Xuan and his group came to Kongyun Mountain, they saw the Kongyun Sect that had already been closed, and a reverse five elements inverted formation that could barely cover the top platform of the peak protected Kongyun Sect.
The Anti-Five Elements Inverted Formation is a mountain protection formation that is the same as the Nine Heavens Guiyuan Qiankun Inverted Formation of Yuanxu Immortal Sect. Although it also has the word "Inverted", the power of the two formations is vastly different, and it is not at the same level at all.
But no matter how bad it is, it is the mountain protection formation, which is much stronger than the small Sumeru square inch formation in Gu Xuan's hand. With the Hongyun Taoist master in the formation, ordinary Taoist masters cannot break it.
The flying boat landed before the anti-Five Elements Inverted Formation, Ling Feng walked out of the flying boat and crossed to the front of the formation, shouting loudly:
"Baojian Peak chases Yunjian Immortal's head Ling Peak, and asks to see Senior Hongyun."
The sound rolled like muffled thunder, and it quickly spread across several miles. Through the translucent protection formation, you could vaguely see a surge of people inside.
Soon the formation separated, a middle-aged Taoist in a red robe flew out and said enthusiastically to Ling Feng from afar:
"So it's Ling Feng's nephew, how about you?"
Ling Feng nodded, proudly and without any politeness, turned around and pointed his hand behind and said:
"I'll introduce you to you. This is an inner disciple from Yuanxu Immortal Sect. Today I came here for the evil spirit. Your Kongyun Sect is a local sect. I wonder if there are any traces of evil spirits?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Hongyun looked up in surprise, and a hint of panic suddenly appeared on his face. He shook his sleeves and tidied up his entire robe and bowed to them solemnly:
"When you come to the door, Hongyun is missing and welcomes you, I hope you can forgive me."
After several senior brothers received this gift, the senior brother signaled him to get up and said:
"In the lower house, Yu Zhanbai, the first disciple of Yu Chen, the real master of the Mingshen Peak of Yuanxu Immortal Sect, was ordered by his family master to pursue the evil spirits. He learned from the county magistrate's office that there were traces of evil spirits here. I wonder if you have seen them?"
After hearing this, Taoist Hongyun nodded quickly:
"I saw it. Not long ago, the path sensed the traces of the evil spirits in the mine cave in the copper mine city not far away. Now the mining area has been sealed, and I think the evil spirit has not left yet."
"Um!"
The eldest brother and Ling Feng looked at each other, and said with a serious look in his eyes:
"This is not good, it's not easy to do when hiding in the mining area."
He paused for a moment and bowed to Taoist Hongyun and said:
"As it is, I won't bother you and say goodbye."
Taoist Hongyun quickly persuaded him to stay:
"It's already noon, and you're tired of getting on the bus. Why don't you take a break before going?"
The eldest brother shook his head:
"This matter cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise the evil spirit will be stronger."
Taoist Hongyun quickly said as soon as he heard this:
"Subduing demons and eliminating demons is the duty of our cultivators. If you come to the door and dare to take risks, how can you stand by and watch? The path has entered the mine, so the path will lead the way."
The eldest brother hesitated for a moment when he heard this, but he saw that Taoist Hongyun looked expectant and couldn't bear to refuse. In addition, his strength had reached the Gangsha Realm and was not bad, so he nodded.
After the elder brother agreed, Taoist Hongyun was overjoyed. He turned around and called more than a dozen disciples to follow, and each raised some ceremonial guards that looked like they were in a fancy way, which looked vast and lively.
The eldest brother looked at it and shook his head, but said nothing.
They seem ridiculous, but they are the intention of Taoist Hongyun. For a casual cultivator like him, the Yuanxu Immortal Sect is a door that needs to be looked up to. It is rare to meet him, so he is naturally worried about it. This is also the sorrow of the casual cultivator and the small sect.
Gu Xuan was a little glad that he had joined a big sect like Yuanxu Immortal Sect. If he joined a small sect, it would be difficult to develop even if he had the support of the prehistoric world.
Not to mention anything else, the resources obtained from the prehistoric world cannot be cashed out. The most important thing is to worry about whether the benefits obtained from the prehistoric world will be snatched away by the master.
The copper mine city was not very far away. After crossing a few hills, Gu Xuan suddenly looked up in surprise, and a crystal gem-like eyeball emitting a faint gem-like light appeared on his forehead. In his vision, there was a large clump of gray gas in one of the clear sky and earth in front of him, which was clearly separated from the Qingming path around him.
The most important thing is that the cloud of gray gas faintly formed a strange face outline, as if he had noticed his gaze. The outline took shape in an instant, and two extremely evil gazes rushed towards him.
"What's it!"
The eldest brother suddenly shouted loudly, and his sleeves waved his clear air and flew out of the Bu Gang, forming a ray of energy that was dozens of meters long and wide in front of him to block his eyes.
His eyes were staring forward, and the senior brother said in a deep voice:
"There is indeed a problem here, please be careful."
At this time, Gu Xuan closed his forehead and said to the senior brother who was looking over:
"I saw a gray face above that mining area, as if I had my own consciousness and discovered my gaze and attacked me."
"Can you see the evil spirit's will directly?"
"Yes!"
He nodded affirmatively.
The eldest brother nodded and said:
"Should you follow us and give us guidance on the evil spirits' direction."
"OK."
The group set out again, but did not go straight to the mine cave, but went to the copper mine city first and borrowed two hundred city guards through the identity of Lingfeng, the county magistrate.
It’s not that they are used as cannon fodder, but that they just set up formations to guard the entrance of the mine cave and prevent anything from escaping. The military formation itself has the power to gather the blood and break the magic of soldiers. In addition, they have the backhand and keep people in garrison, even if the evil spirits escape, they can block it.
Before coming to the mine, Gu Xuan opened the Spirit-Destroying Divine Eye again and found that the huge gray-gasy face had disappeared, but there was still some residue at the entrance of the mine. He probably retreated.
Everyone discussed at the entrance of the cave, and the third senior brother led several Ling Feng's junior brothers to guard outside, and the others entered.
The eldest brother took out a ball of green gauze and threw it away, turning it into a huge ball of clear light to cover everyone, and told everyone not to run around and walk into the mine first.
As soon as I entered the cave, I felt the temperature in the mine drop by 20 degrees till thirty degrees. It seemed that I ran from the tropical to the cold zone. A chill that penetrated my heart could not be isolated from the magic weapon. There was also a faint whisper of the soul like a whisper in a slight mix and whisper. I heard it in my ears and felt a faint pain in my head. Many ordinary disciples behind couldn't bear it and were trembling.
Seeing this, the eldest brother frowned and said:
"Let them go out so they don't get distracted."
Ling Feng nodded and waved directly:
"You guys go out first."
Taoist Hongyun also asked his disciples to leave, and there were only three of them, Taoist Hongyun and the five Ling Feng. Although there were a lot fewer people, they were stronger, so at least they didn't have to be distracted to take care of them.
This mine has been digging very deeply for many years. Ling Feng took the mine map obtained from the city lord's mansion and walked directly into the depths of the mine. Taoist Hongyun had made a visit once before and knew where the evil spirits were hiding, so he didn't have to take detours.
The lower the temperature, the lower the temperature. As the senior brother walked, he introduced to Gu Xuan what the so-called evil spirit was.
To put it simply, the so-called evil spirits, evil spirits, and demon spirits are just cultivators in foreign lands that overlap with the earth immortal world. In fact, they are all creatures in the same foreign land. The different names are just because their practice methods are different.
The power of the demon spirit is good at distorting the flesh and blood of the creatures, and the power of the evil spirit is good at distorting the souls of the creatures. It is very similar to the demons outside the realm. As for the evil spirit, it refers to a kind of alien creature who has no power of the demon spirit and evil spirit and is good at fighting. It is very powerful, but it is the least worried about the earthly world.
Just because they are powerful, they are not afraid. There are so many experts in the Earth Immortal Realm. What they are afraid of is that they are not as powerful as the evil spirits but are very strange and difficult to deal with evil spirits, especially evil spirits.
Of course, the so-called evil spirits, demon spirits, are just the names of foreign creatures by cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm, and of course they have their own names.
After walking nearly a kilometer according to the map, I arrived at the end of the old layer of the mine cave. Further down there was a new mining area, which belonged to the new layer, but before I could go down, I heard a crisp sound of jingling from below.
Everyone was puzzled. When they went down to the entrance of the cave, they saw a group of people wearing ragged miners' uniforms in the lower mine cave waving their hoes and digging. They seemed to sense their arrival. The miners stopped and looked over. They were miners covered in black ore mud, which looked normal.
But in Gu Xuan's eyes, he saw that these normal faces were distorted, with blood red eyes emitting a faint blood light, and surrounded them with teeth and claws.
"Something is wrong, please be careful!"
The second senior sister did not have Gu Xuan's spirit-destroying eyes, but her powerful spiritual sense still felt something was wrong. She whispered and reminded her, and a flying sword flew out around her and Gu Xuan, setting up circles of sword energy to form a wall to protect him.
Among the seemingly normal miners, a middle-aged miner who looked honest and honest, walked out of the seemingly normal miner, and said as he approached:
"Are you here to mine?"
Behind him, all the miners surrounded him and said in unison as they walked:
"Are you here to mine?"
The sounds overlap, and the whispers of the mind everywhere in the mine cave suddenly increased. All the miners' faces suddenly changed, like they were made of rubber, twisted and twisted, and they bounced back to their original state in an instant, and acted enthusiastically to pull them to mine.
The elder brother's eyes turned cold, and a ball of lightning light in his palm quickly expanded and pressed. With a "boom", countless lightning lights exploded, and his eyes suddenly turned into a sea of thunder. Many miners were swallowed and melted, and their bodies remained.
The rumbling thunder exploded and echoed back and forth in the mine cave. The ubiquitous whispers of the mind disappeared immediately, but after the thunder disappeared, it surged like a tide. There were waves of jingling sounds and staggering footsteps from the black hole of the mine cave in the distance. In their sense of their spiritual sense, many miners moved over like zombies like staggering steps.
But after seeing them, it was like a chicken blood, and it was suddenly extremely flexible, jumping back and forth on the rugged mine walls like monkeys.
The eldest brother snorted coldly, and grabbed another hand with his empty hand. The lightning that had just disappeared quickly gathered in his palm into a ball of thunder that could not be held. He slapped it with a palm, and suddenly exploded into countless fiery white thunders as thick as a baby's arms and burst out, quickly woven into a thunder net and fell down. A rumbling sound made the world suddenly purr.
Gu Xuan was secretly shocked from behind. The eldest brother's grenade technique was powerful. Judging from his ease of lifting weight, he probably hadn't even exerted any effort.
Thunder method has always been the strongest of all Taoist methods, specializing in defeating all kinds of demons and ghosts. Generally, only when the cultivation level reaches Gangsha Heaven and the true essence is converted into magic power will you choose to major in one Taoist method. However, judging from the elder brother's appearance of taking heavy weight, his cultivation level is probably not just Gangsha Heaven, but it is very likely that he has entered the realm of Taoist base heaven.
With this grenade technique, the miners will die as much as they come.
Chapter completed!