owlsbooks Chapter 571 True Ancestor, Zombie!
Chapter 571 True Ancestor, Zombie!
Everyone lit torches and moved forward.
In the deep cave, there was an indescribable atmosphere of oppression.
When we walked deep into the cave, a pool of blood suddenly appeared before our eyes.
The pool water is as thick as pulp, with bubbles appearing on the surface from time to time.
The blood foam splashed by the explosion left a burning mark on the rock wall, which was shocking.
"Can you live forever by jumping in?" Xuan Chengzi's disciples sneered, "Isn't it the bone-melting pool?"
At this moment, Wu Shi suddenly burst into laughter.
Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, his face began to distort and change.
The wrinkles on his face gradually smoothed out, and the white hair on his head quickly turned black.
In the end, it turned into a handsome face of about thirty years old!
"I am Wu Shouyang, my Taoist name is Chongxuzi."
Wu Shi's voice was low, with an unquestionable majesty.
After that, he slowly took off his outer robe, revealing the Taoist robe of the Ming Dynasty style underneath. "I entered Taoism in the 32nd year of the Jiajing reign, and it has been 300 and 70 years now."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.
This Chongxuzi was a Taoist master who had become famous during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty!
If what Wu Shi said was true, this person had lived for at least three hundred years, which was beyond everyone's cognition.
"Lin Mo"'s legs became weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.
He had seen this legendary figure in an ancient painting.
He was a great master of the Inner Alchemy School in the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that he had ascended to heaven long ago. I didn’t expect to see him here today.
The old Taoist priest Xuan Chengzi, who was about to die, was the first to lose control. With a desire for immortality flashing in his eyes, he stepped into the blood pool tremblingly.
In the blink of an eye, he was swallowed up by the scarlet liquid, leaving only ripples on the surface of the pool.
When the old Taoist priest, who was at the end of his energy, stood up from the scarlet pool, everyone was shocked.
I saw that his appearance became younger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The wrinkles were smoothed out, the white hair turned black, and even the hunched back was straightened like a pine tree, as if he had suddenly become decades younger.
Just when everyone was in doubt, an even more shocking scene occurred.
The other party actually reappeared with an appearance that was several decades younger.
It was as if he had returned to childhood.
This scene completely shattered everyone's rationality.
The desire for immortality spread in their hearts like wildfire.
I don’t know who shouted, “It really can make you look younger.”
The crowd suddenly became like a broken dam, rushing towards the pool of blood, fearing that they would miss the chance of immortality if they were a step late.
"Lin Mo" wanted to dissuade them, but was swept forward by the crazy crowd and couldn't break free at all.
At the moment when the last person sank into the blood pool, Chongxuzi's laughter suddenly became ferocious.
"Eternal life? Hahahaha... You are nothing but my sacrifice to awaken the True Ancestor!"
He laughed wildly, his Taoist crown exploded, and his white hair danced like snakes.
The water in the pool suddenly began to boil, and Xuan Chengzi, who was the first to "rejuvenate", immediately let out an inhuman howl.
His flesh melted like wax, revealing the white skeleton inside. Under the reflection of the blood pool, he looked particularly terrifying.
The people in the blood pool then realized that they had been tricked and wanted to jump out of the pool.
A chill energy rushed from the soles of his feet straight to his forehead, and all his Taoist magic was like a drop in the ocean, unable to be used at all.
Several Taoist masters fought desperately, but were knocked back by Chongxuzi with a single wave of his hand, vomiting blood and falling heavily to the ground.
"Lin Mo" watched his fellow disciples fall one by one, his heart filled with despair.
More practitioners turned into half-human, half-corpse monsters while screaming. Their bodies were twisted and deformed, emitting a disgusting odor.
And "Lin Mo" was also horrified to find that his palms were covered with corpse spots. The black spots spread rapidly like maggots on the tarsal bones.
Before the last bit of consciousness faded away, he vaguely saw Chongxuzi kneeling on the ground with a face full of piety.
Deep in the blood pool, a humanoid mummy wearing a twelve-chapter patterned crown was slowly sitting up, and the dry bones exuded an ancient and mysterious aura.
The person was wearing the Immortality Jade on his waist, which was shining with a strange light under the reflection of the blood pool.
The memory ends here.
Lin Mo slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
Who would have thought that in Wang Qing's memory, he accidentally glimpsed some secrets hidden in this mysterious place, Fengmen Village.
Before this, he had heard of Fengmen Village from fragments of words from others or from some people's memories.
But that understanding is very superficial.
But today, everything became so clear, so clear that it made him feel a little scared.
The so-called method of longevity in Fengmen Village is to turn people into zombies with no self-awareness!
This is not immortality at all, it is clearly another form of death, a kind of imprisonment with no escape!
Without self-awareness, even if the body can still move, what is the point of living?
It's just a controlled body.
Lin Mo couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Then, his thoughts drifted to the Immortality Jade again.
Since this jade of immortality is the treasure of the mysterious being in the blood pool, will the other party come to ask for it in the future?
Chongxuzi came from a prominent family and was a well-known figure in Taoism.
But he is still willing to become the other party's lackey, which shows that the mysterious existence is by no means an ordinary person.
Lin Mo suddenly remembered the word "True Ancestor" that Chongxuzi had mentioned.
A light bulb went off in my mind, as if something deep in my memory was gently touched.
"Oh right! The corpse driver I killed in the Taihang Mountains was from the Zhuyou Wei family. Wasn't he the one who believed in Ying Gou, one of the four true ancestors of zombies?"
Lin Mo's eyes flickered.
"Could it be that the being in the blood pool is Ying Gou?"
Once this thought arose, it grew wildly in his mind like weeds.
"No way? If that guy is really alive today, how many years has he lived?
Two thousand years? Or three thousand years? This is beyond common sense."
Lin Mo's brows were tightly furrowed, and a hint of worry appeared on his forehead.
If you really make an enemy with such a terrifying person, it will be no joke.
However, he quickly comforted himself.
"That guy shouldn't be able to leave Fengmen Village so easily, otherwise the world would have been in chaos long ago. There's no need to scare yourself."
Thinking of this, a new doubt arose in his mind.
How did Wang Qing walk out of Fengmen Village after becoming a corpse ghost?
Why did he appear in this ghost market?
Wang Qing had no answers to these questions in his memory.
Because the memory after that was completely cut off, as if it was wiped out by an invisible hand.
Lin Mo thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he just didn't bother to worry about it anymore.
He is optimistic by nature and believes in the principle of "if an enemy comes, we will fight him with our generals; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth."
"Let's see what rewards there are first."
He collected his thoughts and checked the rewards of the "Catalogue of Sinful Spirits".
There are two rewards in total.
The first one is a book called "The Secret of Golden Elixir", which talks about the combination of internal and external elixir.
"The so-called Tao is the principle of human life. The Tao is used for transformation and creation, which is the transformation of essence, qi and spirit into human body. Therefore, the transformation of essence, qi and spirit into human body is the transformation of Tao into human body..."
Lin Mo took a quick glance and skipped over it.
These profound theories did not have much appeal to him at the moment.
His eyes fell on the second reward and suddenly his eyes lit up.