“I have never seen so many Xuan Huang Stones…” Du Haitang looked at the magnificent scene before her, her expression filled with shock.
These Xuan Huang Stones are truly immeasurable, higher than mountains and wider than long rivers. They resemble orange-yellow tides, wave upon wave. It's hard to imagine how long it took for these things to form, probably not something that could be achieved in just a few decades.
“So many Xuan Huang Stones, I'm afraid even the Reverends would be unaware,” Du Haitang said.
Jiang Wen maintained the mana of the Four Symbols Sword Formation, slowly landing on the Xuan Huang Stone mountain. After exploring for a while, he had a new understanding of the use of Xuan Huang Stones. This stone, which gathers the power of the earth veins of Buzhou Mountain for endless years, not only facilitates the smooth flow of mana but also has the effect of isolating water and fire. Its exterior is incomparably hard, truly a superior material for refining magical artifacts.
If there are capable individuals, they can even extract the essence of the earth veins from it, which is only superior to spirit stones. It can be said that this Xuan Huang Stone vein alone is enough to set off a shocking war in the Immortal Sect. It seems that this flesh soil not only has the ability to nurture the Four Heavenly Venerables of the Orthodox Gods but also has the effect of purifying the power of the earth veins.
“This matter must not be publicized,” Jiang Wen said with a deep expression. “Once the Immortal Sect knows that this flesh soil has such abilities, they will definitely not easily let go of this primordial flesh and blood. At that time, I'm afraid they will try every means to use its characteristics to provide more Xuan Huang Stones for the Immortal Sect. By then, neither the Tai Divine Palace nor the Myriad Worlds Gate will give up this opportunity that is rare even in billions of years.”
“The disaster caused by this is probably more serious than the disaster caused by the God-Worshipping Society. At that time, it will be a true catastrophe for the world!”
Jiang Wen seemed to have thought of something, and a look of horror appeared in his eyes. He recalled the mist of calamity he had encountered, that mottled blood-colored thing was very similar to the scarlet earth. He also thought of the blood pool under the temple and the locust tree in the Qian family's old house.
The purpose of the two mysterious people who set up the layout seemed to be to disrupt the peace of the Great Qian.
“Indeed, we were still thinking too superficially,” Jiang Wen sighed softly.
“Is there a problem?” Du Haitang asked with some doubt upon hearing this.
Jiang Wen couldn't help showing a helpless expression when he heard this: “I'm afraid the God-Worshipping Society has already been plotted against.”
Just when Jiang Wen and Du Haitang were talking about the flesh soil, on the scarlet earth of Ming Prefecture, a huge tree of light blotted out the sky and the sun. The light illuminated a land of ten thousand miles, dyeing everything red.
Also under this tree, a unique small courtyard with verdant bamboo forests was not affected by this scarlet erosion at all. In the courtyard, two cultivators were leisurely playing chess. One had a youthful face and crane hair, with eyebrows drooping. The other wore a patterned mask and a black and blue robe. The two were evenly matched, truly meeting their match.
The old man dropped a chess piece and smiled at the patterned mask man: “Ping Sheng, you lost.”
The patterned mask man put down his chess piece and chuckled, looking at the old man frankly and saying: “Senior Mu is indeed more skilled in chess, this junior admires you.”
“Haha, this old man is only placing pieces on the chessboard, it doesn't count as chess skill. And you use the world as a chessboard, much more powerful than this old man,” the old man laughed loudly, clapped his hands, and looked at the distant Buzhou Mountain. “Isn't everything there arranged by you?”
“Is Senior talking about the God-Worshipping Society? They are just the emperor's dogs, not worth worrying about. It's just that the Son of Heaven is cooperating with the demons, wanting to conceive my Orthodox God's Heavenly Venerable, it's truly laughable,” the patterned mask man smiled. “They are creating a sea of blood and cultivating flesh soil in that Buzhou Mountain, all thinking that no one in the world knows, but they are just pawns in our plan. What we are plotting is not that flesh soil and sea of blood, nor this land of three prefectures, but the true catastrophe of heaven and earth—the Killing Tribulation.”
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The Killing Tribulation is one of the three great tribulations of heaven and earth, descending every ten thousand years.
There are three types of Killing Tribulation, namely the Heaven Killing, Earth Killing, and Human Killing.
“When heaven sends forth its intent to kill, stars shift and constellations change; when earth sends forth its intent to kill, dragons and snakes rise from the land; when man sends forth his intent to kill, heaven and earth are overturned. If you want to subvert the Great Qian, which has dominated humanity for tens of thousands of years, it should be broken from its roots by the Human Killing. Although the Great Qian royal family is corrupt, they still hold the Mandate of Heaven. However, the Mandate of Heaven belongs to the will of the people, if the will of the people is not at peace, where does the Mandate of Heaven come from?” The patterned mask man chuckled, waving his sleeves to categorize all the chess pieces. Then he placed them back on the chessboard, playing against himself.
“In the past, the Immortal Sect cultivators were removed from humanity by the Tai Cang who held the Mandate of Heaven, and finally, they could only rely on the Nanqi humanity to avoid the suffering of being beasts. They didn't need to eat people and drink blood, and they could live forever in the world. It is precisely because of this that all the Immortal Sects helped the Nanqi Li family overthrow the Tai Cang and establish the Great Qian.”
“Now I use Buzhou Mountain as a blade to sever the Great Qian dragon vein. Causing the world to be turned upside down. Let's see how much of the Great Qian's Mandate of Heaven remains?”
The patterned mask man gently dropped a piece, then looked at the chessboard and continued: “The Great Qian Son of Heaven thinks that creating a Godly Monarch avatar can achieve longevity and eternally rule the world. He is truly treating everyone in the world as fools. Let him take my Orthodox God's sacrificial techniques and use flesh and blood to sacrifice to the Heavenly Venerable. When he devours the Godly Monarch's body, he will know how naive he is.”
“In that case, the demon disaster in Sucheng is also in your plan?” the old man asked with a smile, stroking his beard.
“That was just a variable,” the patterned mask man shook his head. “Although the death of the Enchanting Serpent of the God-Worshipping Society in the Sucheng turmoil is somewhat related to us, we did not cause this matter. There are many variables in it, and I also have many unknowns.”
“There are still things that you, who plot against ghosts and gods, don't know?” the old man became interested.
“I don't know everything about the world,” the patterned mask man said helplessly. “Although I am from the Divine Calculation lineage, there is ultimately a limit to human power. Every time this person appears, he is outside my calculations, and I cannot calculate his origins.”
“This person is so mysterious?”
“Not really mysterious, just hazy like fog, unable to see the cause and effect,” the patterned mask man dropped another chess piece, then nodded in satisfaction. “Tianqian City should have moved, and our next step in the plan should begin.”
The two were silent again, and as the wind rustled past, there was no one in the small courtyard. Only the chess pieces placed on the chessboard remained, the chess game forming a caged situation.
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Jiang Wen looked at the Xuan Huang Stone under his feet. Although he realized that the God-Worshipping Society's plan here was also a layout set by others, whether he was being plotted against or stepping into a conspiracy, he was already standing here.
“There is no influence of the scarlet land here, perhaps there can still be some changes,” Jiang Wen thought to himself. He had not lost his memory these past few days, so he could be sure that this place was not affected by the tree of light. It should be that the Great Buzhou Mountain blocked that force of erosion, stopping it outside Buzhou Mountain.
It's just that time waits for no one, and the movement of Buzhou Mountain will sooner or later attract the attention of the Immortal Sect. Because the Myriad Worlds Gate has already arrived, and he personally led the Myriad Worlds Gate here. Jiang Wen felt a headache when he thought of these things. He was never good at these conspiracies and calculations, it would be good if Yan Gongli was still by his side.
“They are really a group of cunning people,” Jiang Wen rubbed his head, feeling that if he dealt with this group of people all year round, he would die from brain exhaustion sooner or later.
Fortunately, there is still time now. He can rely on the magical power of the Ziyun clone to solve the Blood Demon Ancestor, otherwise, I'm afraid it would not be so easy to stop the expansion of the sea of blood.
After all, with the existence of flesh soil, the sea of blood will never dry up.
“Benefactor?” Du Haitang asked softly from the side.
Jiang Wen, who had been thinking for a long time, moved his body and looked towards the depths of the giant mouth and smiled: “Let's continue forward.”
Now there is only the road ahead left. As long as he finds the primordial flesh and blood and then takes it back, then even if the Xuan Huang Stone is tempting, it will not cause the Immortal Sect to fight for it.
After all, things that cannot be regenerated, even if they are tempting, are limited. The hundred families of the Immortal Sect will not use their sect's luck to gamble on these non-renewable things.
The two flew towards the deep cave, with only endless Xuan Huang Stone veins in front of them.
