The years are endless.
In this ancient village, this strange reincarnation has been repeated...
After everyone imagined it for a while, they felt goosebumps rising. This was not out of fear, but because they felt a strange chill at this strange situation.
Although this situation was uncomfortable, Chixinzi had no intention of stopping it. With a meaningful look in his eyes, he was observing the squirming pieces of moist flesh lying on the ground.
"We don't have to act in a hurry. This reset process takes a stick of incense. It's a rare opportunity. Let's watch it carefully..."
In the dull gray mist, the piece of meat climbed out of the dark stone well, trembling and pulsating, waving the slender strips of meat that were originally hands, crawling like a snail. After a while, the piece of meat made a sound, its surface trembled, and it changed its shape in the blink of an eye, breaking away from its original form.
The woman in red covered her mouth desperately, feeling a strong sense of vomiting. In front of her eyes, the piece of meat gradually turned into half fish and half human, and then from half fish and half human to human form. Hair grew on the bald head, and facial features appeared on the face.
Because this scene is so weird, it is difficult for people to imagine the connection between the villagers in the daytime and the pieces of meat in front of them. Seeing this scene with your own eyes, you will inevitably experience the huge difference that is full of blasphemy and terrifying.
Everyone waited for a stick of incense before the half-murlocs who climbed out of the well completed their transformation into villagers and walked towards their homes. They were fake villagers reset in the last reincarnation. In He Ping's view, they were a kind of "clones".
Chixinzi said that these "clones" have the memories of the villagers during the last seven-day reincarnation. However, this memory is also false. They will go to their original homes, kill their previous selves, and then replace them. Then they will forget this memory and live the next seven days as normal...
I don't know how long it took, but the villagers who had completed the transformation entered the gray mist one after another and returned home. The area around the Ancient Well stone fence became deserted, and everyone continued to move forward and arrived at the stone well.
This stone well is larger than ordinary wells. The mist coming out of the well has disappeared. At a glance, a deep black hole is exposed at the mouth of the well. The stone well is like a bottomless tunnel, leading to another world.
"Did those 'things' come from here?"
"White-Bearded Guest"Wumeizi's voice is very deep.
Purple Armor Hall has always believed in the evil god called "Five-Passes Devil Lord", who is the most ferocious and cruel one among Nine Evils of Longevity. Five-Passes Devil Lord is a demon god from outside the territory. In order to be cruel, Purple Armor Hall's Law Technique is also ferocious and vicious. He needs a blood sacrifice to regenerate his soul in order to please this demon Gods and Devils master in exchange for Devil Master's mercy and gifts.
Wumeizi believes that he is in the Purple Armor Hall, and has seen all kinds of cruel and horrific things done to please Devil Master. Killing, torture, eating alive... are all commonplace, but seeing all the weird scenes happening next to Ancient Well, I still felt a little horrified.
"I guess this is an ancient ritual," Chixinzi analyzed.
"Among the Sanyuan Devil Palace, Xiayuan Dongming Lineage majored in 'Water Official Method'. According to legend, Water Official Great Emperor rules the three rivers, four seas and nine rivers Water Mansion. All creatures in the water, including countless spiritual fish, dragons, whales, salamanders and spirits in the vast waters, are all controlled by Water Official Great Emperor."
"However, in addition to the aquatic creatures, Water Official Great Emperor also controls the River of Biluo in Abyss of Youqiong - Impure Yellow Springs. Impure Yellow Springs flows through the Abyssal Realm in the three realms, reaching nine levels. Through the nine cracks, it is injected into the depths of the earth, deriving the Styx water that runs through the nine abyss of the earth."
"This means that Water Official Great Emperor is also in charge of a part of the world that used to be regarded as the 'Netherworld', and has overlapping functions with Earth Official Great Emperor, who specializes in monitoring the five mountains, four poles and eight dimensions, and is in charge of the ghosts and gods of the dead night."
Chixinzi describes the Shinto system of the Sanyuan Devil Palace, and the three official emperors of Three Yuan Lineage are a system of mutual coordination, coexistence, and circulation in terms of Shinto functions.
--Heaven Official Great Emperor sits in the middle of the sky, responsible for monitoring the yin and yang of heaven and earth, the growth of all things, the blessing of the three realms, and the blessing of all spirits.
--Earth Official Great Emperor is in charge of the ten directions and nine places, that is, to eliminate sins, destroy evil roots, cut off the dead names, improve the birth certificates, and test the bright and clear world with the prisons, hells, and suffering sentient beings.
On the other hand, the powers of Earth Official and Water Official Great Emperor can be transferred to each other. They are in charge of the living and the dead. They also take into account the merits and demerits of the common men and women, as well as the long-term service of the deceased, that is, transporting the deceased through rivers and lakes. This is also an important responsibility of Water Official Great Emperor.
Hearing this, He Ping thought of the "triangular" structure in his mind. The triangle is the most stable relationship. In his opinion, these three emperors have obviously achieved a relatively stable triangular structure.
"In some extremely ancient legends, our human race is called 'Ying Clan' or 'Naked Worms'. It is said that our human race was born in the deepest part of the earth, which is Abyssal Realm in the Three Realms. The human race climbed up along the bottom of Abyss of Youqiong, went upstream from Impure Yellow Springs, and finally came to the ground."
"We, the ancestors of all Naked Worms living beings, are the ancestors of human beings. We are similar to the other Scale Clan, and we are all residents of the depths of the Abyssal Realm. There was a saying in the world that our ancestors were like earthworms and worms, living underground. We, at that time, did not have the power of claws and teeth, nor the strength of our bones and muscles, so we could only eat earth and drink from the underworld to survive."
"Later, we imitated scale insects and transformed into fish, because only fish scales can swim upstream and cross the Impure Yellow Springs. After climbing to the ground, we imitated the caterpillar animals to grow arms and legs, and imitated the Feather Clan to make sounds. Finally, we humans learned from the Shell Clan, imitating the fights of insects, making various halberds, shields, and oars, and learning to fight and kill..."
Chixinzi elaborated on a confusing legend. This legend came from the official unofficial history that was denounced by the Confucian scholars of the Great You Dynasty as "full of nonsense and fabricated lies" and the fragments of scriptures from the previous dynasties that were not burned. There are many unconstrained and almost mythical contents in it. The absurdity of this history about the origin of human race is incredible.
"Sanyuan Devil Palace may have read these ancient histories, and based on this, he believes that human life and death are just like the ancestors of the human race, reversing the process of going from the bottom of the abyss, crossing Impure Yellow Springs, and then from the underworld to the earth.
Between life and death, there is a reversal of state. People come from the Abyssal Realm, just like those 'pieces of flesh', they transform into fish with scales, and then the fish transform into humans... Death for us means returning from life to death, returning to our roots and rebirth, just like our ancestors came from the Abyssal Realm Hades. One day, we who grew up in the earth will also have to comply with this process and return our souls to the earth."
"This ancient well simulates the changes in the law of life and death in the mind of the Three Yuan Demon Palace. The 'ancient well' symbolizes the abyss world where life originates. Those clay-like flesh worms, following the gray mist, gradually turned into villagers in the form of half-fishmen."
He Ping also somewhat understood the operation of this ritual Principle.
"Seven days is a cycle. The reset villagers then kill the previous villagers. After devouring and killing them, it symbolizes the change of life and death..."
Chixinzi smiled and nodded.
"Junior Brother He's statement is roughly the same as my guess. The story that the human race migrated to the ground from the Abyssal Realm in the Three Realms may not be true. It's just that Sanyuan Devil Palace consulted this set of statements and laid out this ritual to run some unknown formation. This created everything we see now."
"But what is the purpose of the person who arranged this ritual?"
Wumeizi frowned tightly, with a Sichuan pattern appearing between his eyebrows.
"This has nothing to do with us. Everyone should act as soon as possible. If the fog completely disappears, we will not be able to enter Water Immortal Cave."
After saying this, he was the first to jump in towards the mouth of the well.
"Comrades, I, Chixinzi, am taking the first step."
Everyone looked at each other, and "White-Bearded Guest" Wumeizi also stepped on the stone railing, and the second one jumped down.
"Girl, it's time for us to go down."
The white-haired Granny Miaohua chuckled, held the woman in red beside him, and walked forward.
"Old woman, this woman is a mortal! Don't you think it's a hindrance to you to carry this burden?"
Old Cell Ghost asked quietly while holding the cigarette rod.
"Old Cell Ghost, you really like to meddle in other people's business. This girl is my unmarried granddaughter-in-law. I'll take her in myself. It's none of your business."
Granny Miaohua smiled coldly, grabbed the woman in red, and entered the well mouth together. In the blink of an eye, they lost their traces in the mist.
Old Cell Ghost did not say hello to the last He Ping, and slowly jumped towards the wellhead. His three twin triplets followed closely behind. One of them glanced at him, and the last one jumped in.
"Looks like I'm the last one."
He Ping shook his sleeves, made corresponding preparations, clasped Nine-Death Substitute Witch Puppet and jumped towards the wellhead.
Penetrating into the pitch-black wellhead, he did not feel the weightlessness of falling. His consciousness fell into blankness for a moment. It was just a matter of a moment, and within a few seconds, he returned to normal.
He Ping tried hard to open his eyes wide, but felt his eyes were sore.
After his vision opened, the surrounding scenery was slightly distorted, but after he blinked a few times, everything returned to normal.
"Is this a cave?"
The light was very dark, but it was not a big problem for He Ping. His five senses were extremely sharp, and he scanned the surrounding area with his spiritual power and recognized that this was a dark cave.
"There's water next to it."
He could hear water nearby.
He Ping gathered his breath and walked very lightly, just walking in the dark for a while, when a light source suddenly appeared in front of him.
It was a Bronze Figurine Lamp, and the ghost-like oil lamp light lit up in front. I saw that the surrounding cave walls were smooth and moist, glowing with a strange green color, as if there was a layer of moss growing on it.
"Junior brother, you are here."
Chixinzi was dressed in green robes, with Wumeizi and others standing behind him. The bronze lamp he held in his hand swayed with flickering phosphorus light, illuminating a narrow corridor in front of him.
"We're almost there, I'll be waiting for you."
"Okay."
He Ping took a few steps forward, followed the people who were walking forward, passed through the narrow stone wall corridor, turned around, and there was an entrance to the stone gate in front of them. Everyone was refreshed and walked towards the stone gate.
The moment they walked through the stone gate, some people's eyes widened, while others took a breath. The strange scenery in front of them made their expressions change drastically.
"What is this?"
He Ping stopped and his heart trembled.
Ahead is a piece of purple-red magic soil, and at the end of the magic soil is a strange swamp. There are no water plants around this swamp, but there are many towering white bone pillars standing in front of it, like corals on the seabed, covered with thousands of branches and branches, forming a Bone Forest.
In the woods where the bones of the forest have turned, there are rags dyed crimson hanging from the branches of countless bone trees. They are shrouds that flutter when the wind blows.
He Ping's gaze gradually looked deeper, standing further behind the Bone Jungle in the swamp. It was an area that even his eyesight could not penetrate - there was a large area of gray mist filled with an aura of deathly silence. There was something hidden in the strange smoke, shadowy and looming, giving off a creepy atmosphere.