The Lord who use immortals as food

Pei Ye let time continue to flow, but the man's figure remained still in the cave with a flickering candle. For a long time, he slowly put the note into his sleeve, raised his sword and wanted to go out, but after moving twice, he stopped. He paused again, and the light from the hole illuminated half of his silent face.

It wasn't until the sky turned dark that someone ran over, and Yang Yan's face popped out of the cave: "Senior brother, are you really here? It's your turn to try the sword tonight, everyone is waiting at the sword field!"

"Oh." Meng Li came back to his senses, "I'll be there right away."

"Senior brother, your face is so pale, what's wrong?"

"." Meng Li lowered his head and silently walked out of the cave, taking a deep breath of the air in the forest, ".It's nothing."

Pei Ye came to Meng Li's courtyard, found a calendar from the bookshelf, slowly turned a few pages of the calendar, and clicked on the nearest solar term.

Four days later, rain.

Pei Ye walked out of the yard. On the mountain road, the man's tall figure was staggering up the mountain.

Qu Zhoufu did not go down the mountain as usual today. Meng Li was drunk and carrying a pot of old wine. He stopped several times along the way. Pei Ye suspected that he was going back three times, but finally the man stood in front of the main hall and paused. Suddenly, he stretched out his arm and pushed in.

"Master!" Meng Li shouted with a red face. In the empty hall, the old man's skinny figure sat quietly with his back.

"What are you doing?" Qu Zhoufu turned around, his expression the same as usual. Seeing that he smelled of alcohol, he frowned impatiently.

Meng Li stumbled towards the old man and fell forward with great momentum, but the next moment he was lifted up by gentle energy.

Meng Li stood up, shook his head unconsciously, and tugged on the old man's sleeve: "Master, stop sitting there, there is an empty city plan in the city under the mountain."

"Go and see for yourself and don't bother me."

"I've finished reading." Meng Li gestured vaguely, "I saw that Kong Ming was killing him in the dark on Changban Slope. A fat pig's head with big ears was killed from the slanted stab, and he raised the rake, like this - Sima Old Thief , suffer death!!”

The zhenqi suddenly fluctuated, and Meng Li pushed out like a thunderous palm. Qu Zhoufu was caught off guard and hit his elbow. His body, as light as thin paper, flew out like a kite and hit the palace wall. He staggered twice. He barely landed calmly.

"What sudden convulsion!" Qu Zhoufu gasped twice and raised an angry face, "My skin is itchy again, isn't it?!"

Meng Li stood there stunned, unable to say a word.

There is no need to pretend, just look like someone who has been frightened to wake up after drinking.

He only used half of his power in this palm.

Meng Li left the hall with heavy thoughts.

In the days that followed, he made insinuations among the older uncles of the outer lineage masters, and searched the empty hall during the short absence of his master. However, he could never find any trace of the so-called "star worm".

He often went to the library, and Pei Ye took out the books he read, which mostly contained all kinds of strange animals and monsters. After that, he left the valley, and Pei Ye sat at the mountain pass and turned the clock. It was more than ten days later that the man walked in from the edge of the fog again, with disheveled hair and rough clothes, and a sword wound on his shoulder. He was holding a sword in his hand. A small magical instrument.

It has a shape like a small snake and is engraved with "Care for life and seek life". One night when Qu Zhoufu temporarily left the hall, the man climbed the mountain against the wind and placed this magical artifact on the top of the mountain.

However, this hard-earned magic weapon failed to achieve the slightest success.

The entire top of the mountain seemed to contain only bronze and white rock. Other than that, there was the constant cold wind, and there were no living creatures of sufficient size at all.

Meng Li began to turn to the other two routes - this strange beast was either extremely small, or resided in the human body. But no matter how hard he tried to search, he found nothing except "Master has indeed been sending out the true energy day by day for more than twenty years." Apart from the constant confirmation of this fact, he could find no other extension.

In the next solar term, he even stayed with the old man in the palace for twelve hours. But as soon as the hour passed, the old man became weak again and was so dull that he did not even notice his temptation.

Meng Li was almost desperate during this period. Pei Ye looked at the man's pursed lips when he was doing all this alone, and roughly understood what he was thinking at this time - if the master hadn't been controlled by this "star bug", how could he have killed himself with his body? How could they continue to choose the next "ration" from the two beloved disciples if they were destined to be together?

Therefore, the man did not dare to ask, and he never told anyone. In front of others, he was still the undistinguished No. 1 True Successor. When he was alone, he held his trembling hands and remained silent.

Until he discovered something in the cave again, like a hammer knocking out a beam of light on the black wall in front of him.

Meng Li has not forgotten how he made his first discovery. These days, he went to the cave whenever he had the opportunity and carefully sorted out the books. It can obviously be seen that it has been cleaned up, but there are still some fragments of words that can be found. But most of them were too fragmented to be refined, and the contents were specious. It wasn't until more than ten days later that he found another ancient fragment that was worth reading.

It's still the sharp handwriting, but the scrawling is messy, with sketches, odd strokes, random lines, sometimes several pages of neat calculations, sometimes it's a bunch of violent messy ink. This is obviously not a book for recording, but for scribbling. But it was at the end of this book that the owner wrote down the conclusion he had spent the entire book on.

"The mountains drink from the lakes, and their popularity attracts stars. The Lakes and Mountains Sword Gate has been living in a formation for thousands of years."

Below it is a map of lakes and mountains. The author spent more than ten pages to dismantle it in detail. I don’t know how he came up with such a fantastic idea, nor how long he spent on research and survey. In short, At the end of the illustration, the unknown person's penmanship definitely classified it as a unique ancient formation.

Pei Ye stood next to Meng Li and watched him close the book in silence for a long time. He knew that without this book, a man who was not familiar with the formation would never think about this aspect.

So from this day on, Meng Li began to soak in the library day by day, studying the basic principles of formations from scratch, and verifying the illustrations at the back of the ancient books page by page - all he got was an exquisite fit. .

However, the inference from the ancient books only goes so far - it is indeed a formation, but what kind of formation? What is the function? What is the relationship between "Star Bug" and "Ancient Formation"? But everything is missing.

It was from here that the wordless blue booklet was placed on the man's desk, and he began to use all his strength to search for the appearance of this ancient formation.

Pei Ye took his hand away from the blue cover, looked at the thick book that was almost full of writing, and temporarily stopped looking back at time.

Meng Li put all his hard work and hard work together here. Theoretically speaking, just by reading this volume, you can learn the "truth" he finally discovered. But Pei Ye couldn't understand.

There are no shortcuts to the formation. As much time and effort as Meng Li had spent at that time, Pei Ye had to follow them all. He obviously didn't have the time, so he could only return to sorting out the man's experience.

Fortunately, Meng Li did not just read and calculate. At every stage when he gained something, he would hold the ancient book to the corresponding place in the silent night, and use the unfamiliar methods he had learned to calculate and survey.

But every time I really gained something, it was because of the newly discovered words in the cave.

"When you swim in the cliff, you will see the end in two days; the winter solstice is on Ding, and the summer solstice is on Gui."

Among the lakes and mountains, the "Gui" position is where the mountain pass is. Pei Ye stood on the night of the summer solstice. The man held a dim lamp and jumped up to the dangerous cliff above the mountain pass.

The mountain pass of Hushan is like a real gate. The plaque on the gate is vertically slippery, and the cliff is dangerous and boring. No one would come to this kind of place, and the two brothers have never been able to take a look at it. Interest in the location.

In the thick night, there was only the empty echo of the tall forest owl's cry all around. Meng Li dug shovel after shovel at the place he had calculated, removing the earth and rocks. Finally, he dug out the place nearly two feet deep. A clear sound of gold and iron.

Meng Li held his breath and looked under the lamp to see a piece of curved bronze exposed.

The ancient, mysterious and complex patterns exuded an ancient atmosphere. When Meng Li gently touched its cold body, he suspected that it was actually older than the Hushan Sword Gate.

Meng Li did all he could to investigate, and then covered up the traces here.

"Winter is never dry, summer is never full, the lake is the heart and the forest is the veins."

Verifying this record consumed more of Meng Li's time. The lake where his disciples usually lived was ten feet deep. He dived to the bottom of the lake for seven consecutive mornings, almost depleting his energy each time, and finally dug out a disc-shaped bronze vessel at the center of the lake.

Unable to take it out or move it, Meng Li spent a long time surveying its direction, which led to the woods, connected by the roots of the trees, and then connected to the cliff.

That night, Meng Li returned to the marked mountain pass cliff for comparison, and Pei Ye followed closely - the man's efforts these days had almost brought the entire formation out of the frame. If he could match the initial formation on the cliff, If you find that they are right, then the appearance of this formation will basically be in front of you.

But Meng Li dragged his tired body up the high cliff. After digging away the loose soil and gravel, he froze in place and the huge bronze disappeared.

That day, only a corner was dug out to make Meng Li stand firm. If it were a column, it would be almost half the width of the cliff based on the arc. It was firmly buried in the cliff, and the hard earth and boulders almost molded it into the cliff. There.

Because of this, Meng Li couldn't even dig out its entirety. Now it has completely disappeared.

Meng Li jumped down and looked quietly at the huge hole left at the bottom, unable to say a word.

"It has accumulated nothing, and has been silent for thousands of years. There is no such formation in the world, and no old records can be found. There are three ancient characters on the bronze carving, which must be its name. Let's call it [Star Burial Tomb]. As for The thing mentioned above, I call it 'Star Bug'."

After calculating pages and pages, flipping through books, and with the passage of time, Meng Li finally used these fragments of words as bones to piece together the horrifying full picture of this lake and mountain.

Starworm hugs the grave.

The majestic and strangely beautiful array design. Behind the main hall, on the top of a high cliff that no one can set foot on, is the Tomb Hall. However, it is not the Hushan Sword Gate that guards it, but this ring formation that is consistent with the heaven and earth.

The body of the bronze python is buried on the cliff. It surrounds the "Star Burial Tomb", just like a snake surrounds a fruit. It uses the true energy of people as a guide and the starlight in the sky as blood. The remaining characters say that it "swims in the cliff." ", because it is such a living ancient formation.

The people of Hushan Sect are just the nutrients to maintain its operation.

Even though his experience in formation formation was still short and his knowledge was shallow, Meng Li knew how amazing this formation technique was. It must be the work of the ancient sages who worked hard. To create it, half of the city's resources must be spent.

So, what is the purpose of such a formation operating secretly here for thousands of years?

Thinking about the same problem as Meng Li at this time, Pei Ye came to the Bronze Palace on the third day.

It was already the end of spring of another year, and Qu Zhoufu's body was getting weaker and weaker. Meng Li finally decided to ask the master about all this.

It was at this meeting that the first quarrel broke out.

But the reason why the quarrel broke out was beyond Pei Ye's expectation. Meng Li didn't have time to ask his questions one by one, because in the first sentence of the meeting, Qu Zhoufu told him what he was thinking.

"I want Xiaoyan to be the leader." The old man said softly.

"." Meng Li choked on the words on his lips. The words "worm rations" and "premature aging" that had been on his mind for a long time suddenly expanded and burned into a ball of flame.

"Bullshit." He said softly.

"."

"Let him be like you, without any need for cultivation or life. Are you going to stay here feeding bugs all your life?"

"..." Qu Zhoufu looked at him quietly, then lowered his head and smiled, "I knew you had been investigating this for a long time."

Meng Li just pursed his lips and looked at him.

Qu Zhoufu sighed softly: "But I think there is no need to stop you. You will know sooner or later anyway."

"answer my question."

"Everyone has to do something in life."

"."

"A sect must always have its own mission."

"What mission?"

Qu Zhoufu said softly: "When I took over the position of leader, your master told me, 'Keep Tianxin secretly, one day, the Lord of the West Courtyard will come and take it away'."

"What is 'Tianxin' and who is 'Master of the West Courtyard'?"

"I have no idea."

"Then what happens if he takes it away?!"

"Legend has it that the world will return to the shelter of the Immortal Court." The old man sighed softly, "That is a beautiful world."

Meng Li showed a bewildered expression: "Do you believe this?"

"Why don't I believe it?" Qu Zhoufu looked at him calmly, "I have believed it for twenty-seven years."

"Xiaoyan can't be the leader." Meng Li took a deep breath and said, "He hasn't grown up yet, and he is not ready."

"But you have lofty ambitions and amazing talents." Qu Zhoufu looked at him, "Xiao Meng, I don't prefer anyone, but you can't be promoted to Xuanmen if you become the leader. Those who are more qualified to leave the nest can go fly."

"None of us will do it!" Meng Li said resolutely, pointing to the high cliff outside from the top of the palace, "Or none of us can do it, but we will never give everything for this inexplicable thing!"

"Then what do you want?"

"Find out what it is, unravel it...or destroy it."

"I knew it." Qu Zhoufu sighed hoarsely, as if he was not surprised, "How could the guard ruin the whole world's plan for his own selfish interests and Xiaoyan would listen to it?"

"I said no."

"I also said, no." Qu Zhoufu looked at him calmly.