Chapter 105: Qingluan Transformation, Curse in the Tomb
In the ancient burial ground, Hua Tiandu quietly guarded beside Qing Shenxiu.
This Qingluan, who had just regained his physical body, entered into transformation again.
A quarter of an hour later, the transformation came to an end, and Qing Shenxiu finally underwent a big change.
Her whole body was emitting dazzling green divine light, surrounded by countless nine-colored vital energies, covering an area of void, making it impossible to see the changes within.
"After eating two King Fruits in a row, could Shenxiu be promoted directly to the King realm?" Hua Tiandu guessed secretly.
Qing Shenxiu was an ancestor god of the Qingluan clan in his previous life. His cultivation was already extraordinary. In addition, he has witnessed the original trajectory of his destiny in this life. Although his realm is still low now, he has received help from two King Fruits. If his accumulated foundation can be fully unleashed in one day, then it is not impossible for him to be promoted to the King realm.
"Om~"
In the void where Qingluan was, countless nine-colored vital energies dispersed, and the divine light gradually dimmed.
It was at this time that Hua Tiandu could see clearly that Qingluan's figure had disappeared, and in its place, there was a graceful young woman standing there with her eyes closed.
This woman was emitting a halo all over her body, and her beautiful face could be vaguely seen. Her figure was graceful and slender, full of noble and dignified temperament, like a blooming peony.
In this situation, Hua Tiandu understood clearly that the good friend in front of him had gone one step further and completely transformed the body of the divine beast into a human form.
In the halo, Qing Shenxiu opened his eyes and sighed, "I didn't expect that I would be able to recover my Taoist body so quickly."
The reason why she sighed like this was because among all the heavens and worlds, the human race was recognized as the body of the great way and the best form of cultivation.
Now that she has regained her human form, her cultivation will be even faster in the future.
After waking up, Qing Shenxiu smiled softly at Hua Tiandu and said, "I can have this good fortune thanks to Tiandu's gift."
She moved lightly with lotus steps, and with every step she took, the radiance on her body faded a little.
Only when Qing Shenxiu came before him could Hua Tiandu see her full appearance.
I saw that this confidant was wearing a green Taoist robe, with his long hair tied into a Taoist bun. He exuded a heroic spirit and looked extraordinary.
From the attire of this Taoist monk, we can see that Qing Shenxiu and the Old Mother of Mount Li both advocate the Taoist practice philosophy.
Seeing his friend's beauty that couldn't be concealed even in a simple Taoist robe, Hua Tiandu's eyes lit up and he praised very naturally, "It's fine that she has a high level of cultivation, but I didn't expect Shenxiu to be so beautiful. It really surprised me."
Hearing this, the smile on Qing Shenxiu's face faintly spread a little, and he said: "I was born in the Qingluan clan, a divine beast in the heavens. I practice the Heavenly Skills Manual and absorb the essence of heaven and earth. How can I be ugly?"
She looked at Hua Tiandu with a burning gaze, and for some reason she felt a little embarrassed in her heart, so she changed the subject.
Qing Shenxiu moved his gaze to the deepest part of the ancient burial ground, where there was the last remaining tomb of a king, and said, "Tiandu, we should go take a look at that last 'treasure land'."
"Okay." Hua Tian didn't even expose his friend's little thoughts and was the first to break through the air.
After he left, Qing Shenxiu's shame slowly dissipated, and then she followed him closely.
The last tomb is several times taller than the previous four tombs of kings.
What’s strange is that this large tomb has no tombstone. I wonder what the hidden story is.
Hua Tiandu naturally noticed this abnormality and began to make some guesses in his mind.
He recalled the words "disaster", "calamity", "hardship" and "calamity" engraved on the tombstones of the four kings' tombs in front of him, and suddenly felt foreboding.
"Perhaps, those four tombstones have already implicitly expressed some kind of signal, but I just didn't understand it."
With this thought in mind, Hua Tiandu said to Qing Shenxiu who was rushing behind him: "There may be something fishy here, we need to be careful!"
After seeing his friend nod, he directly held the World Tree in his left palm and held the Zhenwu Sword in his right hand. After making this posture of being ready for battle, he fled into the tomb.
Qing Shenxiu did not act rashly. He took out the stone scepter, held it in his right hand, and followed Hua Tiandu.
This stone staff was a trophy obtained by Bodhi Patriarch when he defeated a powerful enemy in the past. It had been hidden in the Bodhi tree until it fell down for unknown reasons and was picked up by Qing Shenxiu who happened to pass by.
After personally testing it, she found that this stone weapon was extremely powerful and used it as her trump card.
Now, it is just right to deal with unknown risks.
Using the earth escape technique, Hua Tiandu and Qing Shenxiu dived all the way down and arrived at the tenth underground tomb.
Unlike the previous tombs, which were illuminated by eternal lamps, the tomb in front was completely dark.
Standing at the edge, Hua Tiandu and Qing Shenxiu clearly saw that there was only a lonely sarcophagus in the entire tomb. What made people terrified was that the lid of the sarcophagus fell to the ground at an angle. Obviously, this tomb had undergone some changes over a period of time.
"Let's go over and take a look."
After greeting, Hua Tiandu took a cautious step towards the sarcophagus.
Behind him, Qing Shenxiu hid his divine power in his hands and tightly grasped the stone staff. He was obviously ready to launch a thundering attack at any time.
As they gradually approached the sarcophagus, they clearly saw the abnormality inside it.
The coffin was completely empty except for a very obvious human-shaped bloodstain on the bottom.
While inspecting the sarcophagus, Hua Tiandu and Qing Shenxiu were also paying attention to everything going on around them.
Fortunately, no accidents happened from beginning to end, which made them feel relieved.
"Shenxiu, look at that bloodstain. There are still a few drops of blood in it. It hasn't dried up yet." Hua Tiandu's eyes condensed and he pointed at the few spots of blood in the coffin and reminded him.
The bloodstains in the sarcophagus were very strange. Although most of them had dried up, only a bloody mark was left on the bottom of the coffin. However, there were still a few inconspicuous little blood beads in this bloody mark.
Hua Tiandu leaned forward and sensed everything inside the sarcophagus.
When his spirit passed by, the few drops of blood flickered faintly a few times, emitting a faint scarlet light.
“That stain of blood is dead blood, completely lifeless. But those three drops of blood contain divinity and still retain a certain vitality.” Hua Tiandu truthfully recounted what he had discovered.
At this point, he raised a question, "This bloodstain and blood bead are obviously from the same source, so why are they so different?"
Upon hearing this, Qing Shenxiu took a step forward, his eyes shining brightly, obviously using some kind of clairvoyance technique.
"Tiandu, you are not a native creature of this world of death, so naturally you don't know much about the fire creatures in this world." Qing Shenxiu's eyes returned to normal, and he obviously got some answers.
Then, she expressed her guess, "A dead king should have been buried in this sarcophagus."
"But, for some reason, at some point in time, this king came back to life."
"This lifeless human-shaped bloodstain is the dead blood forced out by the king when his life and death reversed."
"And those few drops of blood that contain divinity and vitality are the waste blood that was replaced when the dead were reborn."
At this point, Qing Shenxiu recalled some legends. "In the world of death, some powerful kings would choose to use certain secret methods at the moment before they were seriously injured and died, going against the will of heaven and forcibly leaving a trace of life in their bodies." "In this way, after death, as long as the body is not completely wiped out, after a long period of dormancy, these powerful people still have the possibility of resurrection."
She looked at the few drops of blood in the coffin, her eyes flashed with solemnity, and she said with certainty: "The king who was originally buried in this stone coffin has reached the peak of this realm. I am afraid that one foot has already stepped into the realm of the ancestral monarch."
Zujun, also known as the ancestor god, is a strong person in this realm who is difficult to be destroyed by heaven or buried by earth. He has the power that is eternal and will last forever in the world.
It is not surprising that the mysterious king who is about to be promoted to this realm is resurrected through some secret technique.
Looking at the blood beads in the sarcophagus, Hua Tiandu and Qing Shenxiu fell into deep thought.
They didn't expect that they would discover a big secret in this last tomb.
Suddenly, Qing Shenxiu saw a scarlet light of blood flying out of the coffin, and he immediately felt something was wrong.
A strange blood light flew rapidly in the void and rushed straight towards her.
"not good!"
By the time Qing Shenxiu reacted, it was too late. The blood light had already rushed to her forehead and easily broke through her divine power barrier.
"Om~"
Fortunately, the stone staff in his hand trembled slightly, emitting some energy, which blocked the blood.
After escaping from the crisis, Qing Shenxiu immediately fought back, injecting his divine power into the stone staff without reservation, making it shine brilliantly.
"Chi~"
The blood light seemed to sense the power of the stone staff, and immediately broke through the air and rushed towards Hua Tiandu.
"Be careful, Tiandu!"
Without being reminded, Hua Tian had already sensed the strange aura in the blood.
The Zhenwu Sword in his hand shone brightly, and countless large formations were activated within the sword body, causing the magic sword to transform into countless sword lights and slash directly forward.
But what was strange was that the sword light and the blood light, which should have encountered each other, seemed to be in two different time and space, and penetrated each other.
"Oops!"
Hua Tiandu's heart skipped a beat and the Wanfa robe on his body rumbled, transforming into a Yin-Yang diagram that blocked in front of him.
Unfortunately, the blood light still easily passed through the divine picture and directly penetrated into Hua Tiandu's forehead.
The moment the blood touched his body, Hua Tiandu's figure completely stopped, and his eyes instantly lost all their luster.
"Tiandu!"
Qing Shenxiu rushed over with a stone staff in his hand, his eyes full of anxiety and worry.
She didn't dare to act rashly before she figured out the situation in Huatiandu.
"We have to find a way to save Tiandu..."
Recalling the situation when he was attacked by the blood light just now, Qing Shenxiu remembered that he saw a few drops of blood in the blood light.
Those blood beads originally remained at the bottom of the sarcophagus, but for some reason they suddenly flew out of the sarcophagus and launched an attack.
What’s important is that she sensed the aura of the curse from those drops of blood.
Thinking back to everything that had happened before, Qing Shenxiu had a guess, "Those few drops of blood in the sarcophagus were deliberately left by the king who resurrected from the dead! He also planted a curse in the blood!"
"We came here and used our divine senses to investigate the sarcophagus. We accidentally touched the blood bead and became the target of the curse!"
Only after all this happened did she realize the cause and effect.
Looking at his friend who was standing there with no reaction at all, Qing Shenxiu forced himself to calm down and think of a solution.
She walked up to Hua Tiandu and found that her friend's forehead was covered with blood, emitting a curse unscrupulously.
The heavy blood light condensed into a strange rune and was imprinted on Hua Tiandu's forehead, but it just fell apart as soon as it took shape.
Seeing this situation, Qing Shenxiu breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, "Fortunately, Tiandu still has the power to resist."
She recalled the flash of blood rune just now, and remembered some similar magical power.
"What remains in the blood bead should be a cursed magical power that enslaves the soul."
She had seen similar strange runes in the trajectory of destiny before. They were a secret technique used by a powerful opponent to control the souls of his subordinates.
"So, the king who walked out of this sarcophagus in front of us wants to control Tiandu's soul."
After thinking this through, Qing Shenxiu was no longer anxious. As long as his life was not in danger, there was still room for recovery.
At this time, the cursed blood bead had been completely integrated into Hua Tiandu's sea of consciousness. The two were closely connected. She didn't dare to act rashly for fear of harming her friend's soul. However, she couldn't solve this thorny crisis immediately, so she thought of leaving.
Qing Shenxiu released a divine power, enveloping Hua Tiandu, and then fled directly, rising along the earth, coming to the surface, and returning to the valley.
By the stream, she laid Hua Tiandu down and made him sleep on the grass.
Staring at the center of Hua Tiandu's brows, Qing Shenxiu looked at the blood-colored rune that gathered and dispersed from time to time, and began to think about how to lift the curse.
At this moment, a huge change was taking place in Hua Tiandu's sea of consciousness.
In the largest sea of consciousness, a few drops of blood released a monstrous blood light, firmly occupying the center of the sea of consciousness.
Countless blood lights revolved around a talisman, obviously trying to refine it, but they were blocked by the five-colored light in the talisman.
When the stalemate occurred, those few drops of blood released countless blood-colored runes, which devoured all the energy in the sea of consciousness one by one, and seemed to be occupying the magpie's nest.
While invading the sea of consciousness, those drops of blood merged with each other and transformed into a tall figure with a blurred face, emitting a will that made all living things submit.
"Be loyal to me and serve me..."
Obviously, this mysterious figure derived from the blood bead has some kind of consciousness.
"Want me to surrender? You can try it." Hua Tiandu's will responded in the talisman.
Hua Tiandu looked at the unknown figure that invaded his sea of consciousness, feeling the increasingly strong power of the curse, and all kinds of speculations arose in his mind.
He felt that this figure was most likely the master behind the scenes, casting some kind of curse power from a distance in an attempt to subdue the natal talisman.
"Then let's see which one is more powerful, your curse or my great curse."
(End of this chapter)