Chapter 200: The Demonic Characters, the Cunning Giant Beast
Ye Changsheng sat aside, listening to Han Li and the elders' constant communication, asking for all kinds of information about this dark place.
The underworld is not very big, only about a hundred miles in radius.
Among them, there are more than a dozen human villages, and the one where Ye Changsheng and his friends are now is one of the largest villages.
Many other small villages are on the brink of extinction every day and may disappear one day.
In addition to humans, there are also many monsters living in this dark place.
These monsters naturally also came in from the outside world. Although they are also unable to use magic, because the monsters' cultivation path is different from that of humans, they not only cultivate monster pills, but also temper their own bodies.
Therefore, their bodies are much stronger than those of humans, and these monsters live quite comfortably here.
They feed on Yinming beasts and generally live in a few fixed areas. As long as no one provokes them, they will not leave their nests on their own initiative.
The food chain of the entire Yinming Land is composed of monsters, Yinming beasts and humans. Humans are at the bottom, and Yinming beasts like to eat human flesh and blood the most.
Once the human village is not strong enough, it will easily be destroyed and slaughtered by the Yinming beasts.
And because the Yin and Ming energy has always existed, the Yin and Ming beasts in this place are almost impossible to kill.
After a conversation, Ye Changsheng and Han Li were assigned to a stone house under the arrangement of the village elders.
Han Li glanced at the dark sky, sighed, and asked, "Uncle Master Ye, what are your plans next?"
"Of course we have to leave this place. Brother Han, didn't you just ask the Great Elder about how to leave?" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Han Li smiled bitterly and said, "Master Uncle also heard from that person that Storm Mountain is full of dangers. Climbing it is almost like committing suicide!"
"There will always be a way out when you reach the mountain. I'd like to try whether those Yinming beasts are as powerful as they say!" Ye Changsheng smiled faintly and said indifferently.
When Han Li heard this, a helpless smile appeared on his face.
Uncle Master Ye's body is incredibly strong, so he can naturally try to fight against the Yinming Beast, but he can't.
Not to mention the Yinming Beast, he might not be able to deal with the dangers such as the cold wind and thick fog on the mountain.
It seems that if I want to leave this place, I have to be more careful!
All kinds of thoughts arose in Han Li's mind.
He recalled the village elder's description of Storm Mountain and considered how he could climb it.
In the past, there were countless people who wanted to leave the dark land from Storm Mountain, but without exception, they all turned into frozen corpses at the foot of the mountain.
Han Li now is not sure about climbing this dangerous mountain.
So he looked very worried.
After the two stayed here for a while, there was a knock on the door.
Han Li's expression changed, and he went forward to open the door. There were several figures standing outside the door.
An old man with wrinkles on his face and sparkling eyes said with a smile: "We heard that two more Taoist friends came, so we came here specially to visit you!"
"Are you also a cultivator?" Han Li asked.
"My name is Wulonghai Baohuanzi. May I ask what are your two Taoist names?" The old man asked with a smile and bowed.
"My surname is Han, and I am a casual cultivator from Tiannan!" Han Li clasped his fists and said with a smile.
"Who is this fellow Taoist?" Bao Huanzi looked at Ye Changsheng and asked.
"My surname is Ye!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Bao Huanzi looked at him carefully and said, "I have heard of the Tiannan where you two Taoist friends are from. The people behind me are all cultivators from Dajin!"
Hearing the name Da Jin, Ye Changsheng and Han Li both looked over.
As a holy place for cultivation in the human world, the name of Dajin is spread throughout the cultivation circles everywhere.
Compared with the immortal cultivation world of Dajin, places like Tiannan and Luanxinghai can be considered remote and poor areas to some extent.
"My surname is Yun, and I am from Tianfu Sect!"
"My last name is Jin, and I come from Sihai Zhenyuan!"
The two old men each introduced their origins.
"Three fellow Taoists, is there something that has brought you here?" Ye Changsheng looked at the three of them and asked.
The three of them looked at each other, and the old man in the lead, named Bao Huanzi, laughed and said:
"This time we came here, firstly, to visit the two Taoist friends who just arrived here, and secondly, to ask the two Taoist friends if they are interested in joining our alliance?"
"Alliance?" Ye Changsheng frowned when he heard that.
"That's right, it's a monks' alliance, and its main members are monks like us who have joined the village!" Bao Huanzi said.
"You guys are not forming this alliance for no reason, right?" Ye Changsheng asked calmly.
"this……"
Hearing his question, the three of them looked at each other, seemingly hesitant, not knowing whether they should speak their mind directly.
After a moment of stalemate, the hunchbacked and grim old man named Jin suddenly spoke up: "My two Taoist friends, are you interested in ruling this village with us?"
"This..." Han Li showed a look of surprise on his face when he heard this.
"What do you mean?" He was a little confused.
"Since we are both cultivators, I will tell you the truth. I believe that you two Taoist friends have also met the elders in the village. Among those people, except for the two cultivators who came earlier, the rest are mortals!"
"These mortals, relying on their martial arts skills, control the power of the village and do not take us cultivators seriously at all!"
"Not only do they guard against us like thieves, they also make us risk our lives to hunt and kill evil beasts. I've had enough of this kind of life!"
"If we work together, we will definitely be able to overthrow these mortal elders. As long as we can grab one or two pieces of Yinming Beast Crystal, we can use them to cast some spells and completely control the village!"
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The man who held the Five Dragon Sea's throne tried his best to tell Ye Changsheng and Han Li the benefits of joining their alliance and overthrowing the rule of mortals.
According to what they said, monks have a very low status in this village and are under surveillance and guard against everywhere.
Moreover, they have to go out to fight with the Yin and Ming beasts from time to time. In the past, many cultivators even died because of this.
"I'm not interested in this kind of thing!" Ye Changsheng said lightly and refused it outright.
Han Li also shook his head. He was naturally indifferent to such power struggles and immediately said, "Han has the same attitude!"
"You two, are you willing to be ordered around by mortals here for the rest of your lives? You must know that once you enter this dark place, you can never get out!" Bao Huanzi said immediately.
"In the past, even masters in the Nascent Soul stage came here, but facing the Storm Mountain, they could only sigh in despair and eventually died of old age here!" Bao Huanzi said with a sad face.
As a monk, he absolutely did not want to stay in such a place.
However, there is no point in staying, as there is no hope of getting out.
He had climbed Storm Mountain before, but after climbing a short distance, he gave up and turned back.
Because he was blown by the cold wind, he even fell seriously ill and had to lie in bed for more than half a month.
From then on, he completely gave up the idea of leaving this dark place and concentrated on the intrigues in this village.
Han Li was not interested in the old man's sad mood. Instead, he asked in surprise, "Oh? Has a Nascent Soul cultivator been here before?"
"also?!"
Hearing this word, the cultivators looked at Ye Changsheng and Han Li with suspicion.
Bao Huanzi's attitude changed a little. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes, that Yuanying master also engraved his life's cultivation insights on a stone tablet!"
"Where is the stone tablet?" Han Li asked immediately.
"It's in that warehouse. There are still many relics of monks who came here before!"
"Perhaps, we will have to put our things there in the future!" Bao Huanzi said with a little sadness.
"Everyone, please go back. We are not interested in what you are talking about , but we will not tell anyone about today's conversation!" Ye Changsheng said lightly with a smile on his face.
The three men looked at the two of them hesitantly, looked at each other for a few seconds, and finally walked out unwillingly.
They were somewhat surprised by the information revealed in Han Li's words just now, and suspected that one of the two was a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Therefore, nothing more was said.
Although they had arrived in the dark land, the threat posed by the Nascent Soul cultivators still existed.
"Uncle Ye, I want to go take a look at that warehouse. Do you want to go?" Han Li said immediately after seeing the three people leave.
He was very interested in the cultivation experience of a Nascent Soul cultivator and couldn't wait to check it out.
"If I remember correctly, Han Li learned the demon language here!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
So he said, "Let's go and have a look!"
As they spoke, the two walked out of the stone house, came to the warehouse, pushed open the heavy door, and entered.
This place is extremely simple. Apart from rows of stone tablets of similar size around it, there is only a rough stone table in the room.
On the stone table, there were only a few dull magical instruments.
There were no jade slips, bamboo slips or anything like that that might be related to recording the secret books.
Come to think of it, the storage bag cannot be opened at all in this place, so naturally no secret books can be seen.
However, strangely enough, there was not a single monk's storage bag here.
Those stone tablets recorded a lot of things, some of which were the life experiences of some monks, and some of which recorded their own cultivation experiences .
Han Li looked at the stone tablets and immediately went to look for the cultivation experience of the Nascent Soul cultivator, while Ye Changsheng began to look for the stone tablet with the demonic text recorded on it.
He walked to the last stone tablet, reached out to brush away the dust on it, and saw many rice-sized words densely engraved on it.
There are two kinds of characters, one is the ordinary ancient characters that he knows, and the other is a kind of characters that looks very strange.
This is the demonic writing. The piece of animal skin that Ye Changsheng got, which contained the nameless Qi-gathering mantra, was covered with demonic writing.
Comparing the two pieces, this stone tablet conveys the demon language in great detail, with every word explained. This must have been carved by a cultivator who is familiar with the demon language.
Although he didn't know why someone would leave an inscription teaching demon language here, Ye Changsheng immediately memorized it.
“Boom!”
"roar!"
Just as the two were observing the inscriptions here, suddenly, bursts of roaring sounds came from outside, accompanied by huge roars of beasts.
The earth was shaking, as if some huge monster was approaching.
Ye Changsheng and Han Li walked out immediately and saw that outside the wall, a little further away from the village, there were flying sand and rocks, strong winds, and gusts of strange black wind.
It was impossible to see anything clearly, and wherever these strange black winds blew, a thick layer of black frost condensed on the ground.
It looks extremely cold. This should be the cold wind that the elders mentioned.
It was indeed not something that ordinary people could endure. Han Li saw the frost on the ground change color.
If you want to leave and climb Storm Mountain, there is this kind of gloomy wind everywhere.
However, as soon as these cold winds approached the village within a hundred meters, they immediately dissipated and were unable to cross an invisible boundary.
Ye Changsheng looked towards the high platform in the middle of the village. The formation there was operating, resisting the cold wind.
In the gloomy wind, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground continued to be heard, and a huge black shadow several dozen feet tall walked out of the wind.
After seeing the true face of the black shadow, Han Li took a breath of cold air.
At first glance, the black shadow looked like a giant gray ape that was magnified dozens of times, but this beast had four eyes on its face, a pair of wings under its ribs, blood-red eyes, and was filled with endless murderous aura.
"It's a cunning beast, send the big shield over here quickly!"
Waves of terrified shouts rang out. Some people in the village gasped when they saw such a huge and ferocious monster, their eyes filled with fear.
Too big!
It’s not that there haven’t been cunning and ferocious beasts attacking villages in the past, but they were only more than ten feet tall and were easy to deal with.
This one is three times bigger than the previous one, and is obviously more powerful!
Accompanied by shouts, shields were sent to the city wall and taken by the soldiers.
The warriors held a shield in one hand and a snow-white weapon in the other, ready to attack the giant beast at any time.
Bao Huanzi and others who had just met Ye Changsheng and the others also appeared on the city wall, each holding a thumb-sized light green crystal in their hands.
As they chanted something, a moment later, a ray of light shot out from the light green crystal and landed on the huge stone platform in the center of the village.
The next moment, several huge tentacles made of purple fog suddenly appeared on the ground outside the village.
These tentacles suddenly grabbed the giant beast's feet and dragged it, preventing it from moving forward.
The giant beast's pace was slightly stopped. At this time, the soldiers on the city wall immediately took action, and dense spears and arrows shot like raindrops.
The giant beast roared and blew out a gust of cold wind from its mouth, causing the arrows and spears to be frozen and fall to the ground.
At the same time, it seemed to be enraged, with bloodshot eyes flashing, and with a "bang", some of the hard hairs on its neck stood up one by one.
Then, it lowered its head, and its erect hair turned into countless black rays that flew towards me.
