Chapter 342 Influence
On the side of Huaxiu Mountain God, many mountain gods had finished their discussions, got the benefits, and understood the matter. So they stopped eating the banquet, put down a table of food and wine, and all the people ran outside.
After arriving outside, they each used their magical powers.
Some turned into the true form of monsters and ran quickly.
Some soared into the clouds and mist, half flying and half floating, and flew away.
Others have magic weapons in their collections, and they fly away with flying swords or cloud boats.
However, there is no such thing as the Huaxiu Mountain God who magically transforms into a strange wind or directly escapes into the earth's veins.
This is a trait that he only has as a mountain spirit. During this period, there were only a few people who could display these magical powers.
After watching the mountain gods leave, Huaxiu Mountain God looked at the three human shamans again: "Gentlemen, as shamans, you must have amazing skills. How can you help that Zhu Ren?"
The three wizards smiled and said: "Of course we also have means. Although we are not as powerful as the mountain gods, we can still use them."
Hearing this, Huaxiu Mountain God understood.
This method cannot be shown to the public.
However, he also acted magnanimously and waved his hand: "Then let's split up and look for each other. If you have any clues, remember to come here and leave the information in the cave."
"Farewell to the Mountain God." Several shamans saluted immediately, and then watched the Huaxiu Mountain God leave.
They watched with envy as the Huaxiu Mountain God walked out, then swayed his body and transformed into a strange wind, and left gracefully.
After the three wizards saw this spell, they started whispering.
But look at these three people.
The man was dark-skinned, tall and strong. He looked like he had been engaged in manual labor and practiced physical training. He should have worked his way up from the bottom.
Another person looked like an ordinary passerby, but he had a bald head and his eyes shone from time to time, showing that he was a practitioner.
There was another person, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He was very thin, but had a big beard. Every move he made showed that he was the leader of the trio.
The strong man sighed and said: "This kind of magic is really magical. You can go and come when you want. You can't be trapped by a wall or locked up. It's really a magical method."
"Okay, didn't you listen to what those mountain gods said? This one is a mountain spirit god. He is naturally separated from monsters. He is even more different from us. Don't think about it." The bald man He curled his lips, even though he was envious, he was even more jealous.
It's just the difference in birth, but the other party can possess such magical magic, and he is born with it, and he even has a long life.
As natural gods, mountain spirits can live for thousands of years even if their cultivation is not immortal. Such a long lifespan makes their promotion risk much less.
Unlike human monks, if they are not talented enough, they will die of old age if they are not careful.
Or the more extreme insect cultivators, that is called racing against time. The period of not entering the first level is basically a racing car. The longest time is two or three years. To live.
Innate spirits are superior to others in terms of cultivation. Even if they don't practice, they have magical powers that they can use.
"Well, you can't be envious of others. You'd better temper yourself. If you can worship into the gate wall of the Witch God Mountain, these are just some tricks." The thin middle-aged man interrupted the two people's words of envy.
Hearing the words 'worship to the gate wall of Wushen Mountain', the other two people also cheered up, took a deep breath, and felt confident.
The middle-aged man saw his companion cheering up, nodded, and continued: "If what the God of Huaxiu Mountain said is right, there is a big shot from Wushen Mountain who wants to find someone to do something. Let's handle this matter beautifully. Maybe he will be promoted by a big shot during the external examination."
"Look, with such pure spiritual energy, even if it is not used for practice and is simply used as a one-time magic weapon, it can easily kill an eighth-grade person, and even a seventh-grade one can withstand one or two. It can be seen that this Zhu Ren His cultivation level is definitely not low!”
The other two people he said looked excited and eager to try.
The strong man nodded: "What the old man said is right. We are definitely not as good as the mountain god when it comes to finding people. But when it comes to divination, it means that even Zhu Ren's divination skills can't find him." Can we find his mount?"
That strong man was also a witch. Even he had to use the mountain god to find him, so it would be even more impossible for him and others to find him with their divination skills.
The bald man pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head: "Old man, do you have a secret method?"
Hearing this, the old man smiled and said, "That's natural. Otherwise, how could I dare to recruit you guys to do this job?"
He said: "I have a secret method that can use memory as a guide to establish a connection, and then the location can be sensed remotely. I just need someone who has seen the dragon colt before to bleed it, seize its brain, and sacrifice it. Soul, if you extract the memory, you can give guidance."
"Is it that simple?" The strong man frowned, seemingly in disbelief.
"The old man won't lie to us. We are all brothers who have gone through life and death. You still can't trust him?" The bald man was a little unhappy at the strong man's doubts.
"It's not that I can't believe it, but it's too simple and I'm not sure about it." The strong man shook his head.
But the middle-aged man just smiled: "Whether it can work or not, we will know after trying it. Let's go find the people who have seen the dragon colt first."
"Yes, let's try it first." The other two people also nodded and decided to try it first.
"Besides, this time we are doing this, but we have the support of this Zhu. We are not afraid of making a big fuss, because he has our backs." The bald man smiled.
The other two also smiled, obviously understanding what he was talking about.
Since it was the order of a high-level Zhu, then it is not a big deal for them to use this name to make some money for themselves, right?
Anyway, as long as the information can be found, the big shots will not care so much.
From beginning to end, they did not have any doubts about the bloodiness of this magic.
Because there is no need.
The witch path has no restrictions on this kind of thing, and does not care about the so-called good and evil. The good and evil of witches and shamans depends purely on what they think. This path itself does not impose any constraints on the behavior of practitioners.
Good and evil themselves are meaningless under the entire natural law.
For example, a tiger eats a deer, who is good and who is evil?
The answer is it doesn't matter.
There is no good or evil, no right or wrong. Wu Dao treats all of this equally, and they don't care. What they pursue is to maintain the supreme law in the universe. As for everything else, it is the product of natural operation under the supreme law.
Many high-quality witches and shamans will carefully cultivate a new world, and become a life-seeker in that world, which is simply the embodiment of kindness.
But at the same time, these "incarnations of kindness" will also end a world that is heading for its end, wipe out this world and the hundreds of billions of lives in it, just because doing so can allow a new world to be born.
The balancer of the laws of the universe, the balancer of the laws of nature, and the convergence point of communication between all things.
Clues can also be seen from the Tao veins of the three orthodox witches and shamans.
The fortune teller is responsible for statistically calculating the laws of all things.
The blessing person is the center of communication between all things, and uses himself to maintain the balance between heaven, earth, people, gods and ghosts.
The clan will promote all laws and manage existing things.
In the middle, there are only cold and ruthless natural laws and cosmic theorems, and there is no room for things like good and evil to exist.
Of course, for high-level witches and shamans, or witches and shamans with self-awareness, there is no need to stick to good and evil. The motivation of their actions is to make the universe better as a whole.
So wanton killing is not only meaningless, but also has negative effects. Therefore, in addition to being weird and insidious, the middle and high-level witches and shamans are not known for their bloodlust.
But... that's all.
Those who don't kill are mainly middle and upper-level witches and shamans. They have realized a lot of things, so they have formed their own unique views on good and evil, and most of them are impartial.
However, among the low-level witches and shamans, especially those in the countryside, the phenomenon of killing is quite serious.
Blood sacrifice, refining poison, offering soul sacrifice, and snatching corpses are quite common. Even a branch has developed from this, called ghost witches, who specialize in refining human souls and playing with ghosts. They have left the grand road and have entered the category of evil paths.
The Great Dao emphasizes the Dao, and its purpose is to encompass the world, to explore the truth of the universe, and to interpret the entire universe with its own Dao tradition and theory.
The Minor Dao emphasizes the technique, and only cares about exploring how to do one thing well, how to complete some techniques and skills, such as making tea, practicing swords, taming animals, raising ghosts, etc.
The ghost witch lineage has long deviated to the point of the minor Dao, and has reached the point where it does not care about the core of the witch Dao, but only uses the witch Dao method to enslave ghosts and gods to satisfy its own selfish desires.
It is a pity that whether it is the county magistrate of Shewei County that Li Qi has seen before, or the three in front of him, they are all from the ghost witch lineage.
This is also the most common and easiest way for rural witches to come into contact with.
There is no way, it is simple to get started, and there is no requirement for the mind, just like practicing martial arts with evil spirits...
As long as the number of people killed is sufficient and the number of souls is sufficient, then the speed of entering the grade will be very fast.
However, it cannot be said that the real witch Dao is completely irresponsible. The fact that the ghost witch can develop to this point is actually closely related to the indulgence of the witch Dao.
The indifference to the lower class brought by neither good nor evil is the norm of witchcraft. Sometimes, indifference brings indulgence.
Anyway, as long as it does not affect the overall natural law, the great witches are too lazy to look at the few victims.
In nature, death and predation are normal. Even orthodox witches will not care about these things. Ghost witches are just another kind of predator.
Like now.
These three ghost witches started their predation.
How to prey?
It's very simple. There are civilians in Wushen Mountain. There are even more than civilians. In the environment of Wushen Mountain, there are naturally bred monsters, humans, and other races, forming a mixed society.
The area under the jurisdiction of Wushen Mountain is similar to the territory of Tang State, with its own unique ecology.
The three quietly came to the foot of the mountain and began to search for passers-by.
At the foot of this mountain, there is a mountain village of the human race.
Inside the mountain village, people are jubilant.
It can be seen that the men in the mountain village seem to have caught a big wild boar. Everyone is very happy and lit a bonfire.
Most of the buildings here are made of wood, with only a few made of stone. They look like a simple primitive tribe, or like humans from the prehistoric times.
The clothes are also very simple, some are made of linen, some are made of animal skins, but none of them have the fashionable feel of the Tang Dynasty.
If you want to compare, it is modern society compared to primitive society.
However...
Half of the people in the whole village are of the ninth rank, and basically all adult males have successfully entered the rank.
Although they seem backward, their cultivation is surprisingly high!
Because this is the hinterland of Wushen Mountain, everything is thriving here, and so are people.
Although there is cruel natural competition and predation, it is still developing in a good direction overall. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant, and all kinds of auspicious and magical things emerge in an endless stream.
The total power of Wushen Mountain is even stronger than that of Tang.
Whether it is the population or the number of masters, it is more than that of Tang.
However, the internal strife is quite serious, because there is no stable regime, and people exist as individuals or groups, slashing and burning, and living a less modern life.
This arrangement makes it difficult to pull all the forces together like Tang.
However, the productivity is definitely not low.
There are mountain and water gods in various places, and people and gods get along harmoniously and peacefully. They also keep their distance, not too close nor alienated, so the weather is good, and the heaven and earth are strong, so the grain output is not inferior to that of Tang.
Also, although there are not a large number of magic weapons, the monsters or people living in the Wushen Mountain are basically better than the Tang people in terms of qualifications and physical fitness.
They live in Wushen Mountain by nature, and they do not plunder the world like the Tang people, so the spiritual energy is abundant, and the physical functions of various races become stronger under the nourishment of these spiritual sources.
In the Wushen Mountain, the number of natural gods is much greater than that in the outside world, and the probability of animals naturally becoming monsters is also much greater. The human race will also have their own characteristics according to where they live. For example, those who live in the mountains have natural divine power and hard skin.
Those who live in the water can control water and breathe underwater.
This is a natural effect produced after the world becomes strong.
This is also the future that Wushen Mountain pursues.
When the entire universe and all world groups are like this, they all operate according to the supreme law, and the entire world becomes stronger and stronger. Sooner or later, all life can become like natural gods, and the whole world will enter the highest perfection.
It seems backward, but it is not backward at all, it is just progressing in other places.
In the mountain village, people greeted each other enthusiastically.
Several hunchbacked old men, smoking opium, looked at the young man carrying the wild boar: "Hey, little Lao Shi, you've got a lot this time!"
The young people also laughed and said: "Uncle, I didn't hurt this skin this time, I pierced through the eyes, but I'm afraid that grandma can't eat the brains she likes to eat!"
"It's okay, it's okay, your grandma has good teeth, she can eat meat!"
The whole village was happy.
But at this moment, the sky outside suddenly darkened.
Countless ghosts began to run!
The unsaved ghosts in the dark gathered together,
some were injured by weapons, some died of water, fire, and thieves.
Some were forced to death by others to steal money, and some died by others forcibly taking their wives and concubines.
Some died of torture and were wronged, and some died of natural disasters and epidemics.
Some were killed by wild beasts and poisonous insects, and some died of hunger and freezing.
The three ghost witches gathered countless innocent ghosts and gathered outside the mountain stronghold, blocking out the light of the sky!
And all this was because of Li Qi's casual order, so they had the courage to pull the tiger skin.