Chapter 314: Death of a Saint
Li Xiuchang saw Wenwen and asked casually, "Where did your clone take Jinjiao?"
Jinjiao took Wenwen's clone and wandered around the Dark Heaven Realm, and has not returned yet.
"With Bengui, an old senior with rich adventure experience, protecting it, what are you worried about? Don't worry, it's fine!"
Wenwen said in a tone of "You still don't trust me?"
Li Xiuchang just asked casually, and he was not really worried. After all, the Dark Heaven Realm was their own territory, what could go wrong?
"Let's go." Chen Changsheng said, and inserted a formation flag to complete the teleportation formation.
Because this is the teleportation formation leading to the Demon Suppression Realm, and the Demon Suppression Realm is sealed with unknown terrifying existences.
So Chen Changsheng usually removes a formation flag to make the teleportation formation in an invalid state.
To prevent the terrifying existence from escaping and running to the Xianyin Realm through the teleportation formation.
The Demon Suppression Realm has no ascension rules. If there is no teleportation formation, even if the terrifying existence escapes, it will be difficult to threaten the upper realm.
Of course, if one's strength reaches a certain level, it is unknown whether one can go to the upper realm without relying on the rules of ascension.
Li Xiuchang followed Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi and Wenwen, and the two of them and the turtle left through the teleportation array one after another.
Chen Changsheng's body did not teleport over, but he already had an avatar in the Demon Suppression Realm to meet Li Xiuchang and the others.
Seeing Li Xiuchang and the other two leave, Chen Changsheng pulled out a flag on the teleportation array and breathed a sigh of relief:
"The three troubles are gone, and we can have some peace for a while."
Li Xiuchang always felt that Zhang Wanzhi and Wenwen were unreliable and liked to make trouble, but he felt good about himself.
He thought he was a steady and cautious person.
Little did he know that Chen Changsheng had already classified him as a "troublemaker".
He looked quite steady on the surface, but wherever he was, he would always cause some messy troubles.
Chen Changsheng defined Li Xiuchang as "fake steady, real troublemaker".
Maybe he was born with a "troublemaker fate", and even if he did nothing, something unexpected would always happen wherever he was.
Li Xiuchang didn't know what Senior Brother Chen was thinking, otherwise he would definitely refute, what kind of disaster fate, this is clearly the fate of the protagonist!
Wherever he goes, there will be trouble, isn't this the treatment only for the protagonist?
...
Li Xiuchang only felt a dizzy, and when he opened his eyes again, he had come to a strange world.
The most unfamiliar thing is that there is no spiritual energy here.
Compared with the nameless world he had been to before, the spiritual energy there was only thin and could not be cultivated, and there would be spiritual energy revival.
And this demon-suppressing world, the spiritual energy is completely exhausted, not a trace.
Such an environment is destined to have no precious medicines and spiritual mines in this world, and it is a world with almost no cultivation resources.
"The environment in this world is not bad." Zhang Wanzhi praised.
The divine sense swept around, and there were lush trees and dense vegetation, all of which were undamaged original ecological appearances.
Flying steadily to Li Xiuchang's shoulder, he whispered: "This turtle feels uncomfortable here."
At this time, Chen Changsheng's clone came from not far away and said: "You grew up in a place with rich spiritual energy. It's natural that you can't adapt to this place of no spiritual energy."
"Brother Chen, where should we go?"
"Come with me. This place is quite far away from the human tribe I found. There is a long way to go."
Li Xiuchang and the others followed Chen Changsheng and flew in one direction.
Flying in the air, the situation below is more clear at a glance. Chen Changsheng reminded: "Flying in this world, remember to fly as high as possible. Once you fly at low altitude and enter the territory of monsters, you may be attacked by monsters."
"What does this monster look like? Find one for us to see." Zhang Wanzhi said with interest.
"You will see it later."
After flying for a while, Chen Changsheng suddenly pointed down from a distance: "Look, there is a sleeping monster there."
Li Xiuchang looked carefully, but saw nothing at first glance.
Fortunately, he had strong eyesight. He looked at a deep pool on the ground. Through the water, he could vaguely see a ball of strange-shaped flesh at the bottom of the pool.
"What the hell is this!" He couldn't help but curse.
Wenwen also commented: "It looks so ugly!"
It was a ball of irregular flesh, like a bunch of animal organs mixed together.
Grafts, eyeballs, human skin, animal hair, tentacles, etc., a bunch of organs without any rules, all pieced together on a ball of flesh.
Chen Changsheng paused and said: "Each monster looks different. They are different from animals and have no specific race, but... this one is indeed particularly ugly."
"This monster seems to be equivalent to the foundation-building cultivation?" Li Xiuchang judged based on the breath sensing.
"No, the breath of a sleeping monster is greatly restrained. This monster is at least the fourth level." Chen Changsheng said.
The fourth level is equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage.
Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi looked at each other and understood what the other was thinking.
The fourth-level monster, the "talisman bullet launcher" they just developed should be able to destroy it with one shot.
"How about giving it a try?" Li Xiuchang suggested.
"Let's give it a try!"
Zhang Wanzhi took out a cannon more than one meter long.
Chen Changsheng and Wenwen cast doubtful eyes, not knowing what the two were going to do.
Li Xiuchang went over tacitly, filled a high-quality spirit stone at the butt of the barrel, then opened the loading port above the barrel and filled in a talisman.
Zhang Wanzhi shouldered the barrel of the gun and pulled the lever at the rear of the gun. The high-grade spiritual stone embedded in the rear of the gun flashed with light, and there was a whoosh...
A ball of light shot out from the muzzle at an extremely fast speed!
The target is the ugly monster in the deep pool.
The sleeping monster is a living target. You can aim accurately without worrying about missing or being dodged by it.
Therefore, it is also an excellent subject to test the power of the rune bomb launcher.
"Xiuchang, what kind of talisman are you placing?" Zhang Wanzhi asked.
"Fourth level volcano talisman."
"Not bad, just right."
To deal with the fourth-level monsters, Li Xiuchang only chose the fourth-level attack talisman.
If a higher-level talisman is used, the significance of the experiment will be lost.
The fourth-level attack talisman, coupled with the power of the mid-level magic weapon rune bomb launcher, if you can't take down a fourth-level monster, then smash the rune bomb launcher as soon as possible!
The light ball emitted by the rune bomb launcher was instantly submerged into the deep pool, causing no movement and not even much splashing.
But then, there was terrifying energy brewing at the bottom of the deep pool!
One of the functions of the rune bomb launcher is to shoot the rune bombs remotely and detonate them in the air.
The Volcano Talisman, as the name suggests, erupts with power like a volcano erupting.
Boom!
The earth shook.
A pillar of fire spurted out from the bottom of the pool, instantly evaporating the water in the pool.
A huge mushroom cloud slowly rose.
The monster sleeping at the bottom of the pool was vaporized in an instant.
"good!"
Zhang Wanzhi's eyes shone, and he was quite satisfied with the power of the rune bomb launcher.
Using fourth-level talismans as ammunition, upper-level spiritual stones as energy, and mid-level magic weapons as boosters, it would be unjustifiable if this power was not strong.
You must achieve an absolute instant kill against monsters of the same level!
This was the minimum requirement when Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi built the rune bomb launcher.
In other words, if you use the fourth-level talisman as a cannonball, you must kill the fourth-level monster instantly.
If you use the fifth-level talisman to fire the cannon, you must kill the fifth-level monster instantly!
The process before using the talisman launcher is cumbersome and the preparation time is long. Not only do you need to fill the talisman and spirit stones, but you also need to take good aim.
Especially if it is used by mortals, it is even more important to find a good location.
This is not a magic weapon for fighting in a head-on conflict.
With so many prerequisites, the lethality far exceeds that of magic weapons of the same level.
This thing may not be of much use in other worlds, but it is very suitable in the world of suppressing demons.
Because most of the monsters in the Demon Suppression World are asleep, they can lie still and be beaten.
Chen Changsheng roughly understood the intention behind Li Xiuchang's creation of this magic weapon. He suddenly stretched out his hand and took a cloud of black gas from the mushroom cloud that was like a volcanic eruption.
"Look, this is the magic power in the monster's body. Can you see anything special about it?"
Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi observed attentively for a moment. Li Xiuchang said with some uncertainty:
"It is indeed very similar to the magic cultivator's magic power, but it seems... more advanced?"
Zhang Wanzhi nodded: "It should be said that it is more pure and of a higher level."
Chen Changsheng's face looked a little solemn: "I have studied this magic power for a long time and found many incredible things, such as this..."
A trace of spiritual energy emerged from his fingertips.
The moment the spiritual energy came into contact with the black magic power, it reacted instantly like dry wood touching a burning fire!
The black magic power directly absorbed the spiritual energy, and then expanded, doubling in volume in an instant.
Chen Changsheng showed off the magic power after absorbing the spiritual energy and asked, "How is it? Does it feel more like the magic power of a demon cultivator?"
Li Xiuchang guessed: "Could it be that the inheritance of demon cultivators comes from this monster? Or does it come from that terrifying existence?"
There is a terrifying existence sealed in the demon-suppressing world, and the appearance of the demon is probably related to that person.
Chen Changsheng said: "The magic power cultivated by demonic cultivators now seems to be an extension of this magic power. Whether it is the blood magic way or the soul magic way, it is nothing more than the combination of other attributes of magic power on the basis of this black magic power. That’s all.
"That's why you feel that this black magic power is purer. Demonic cultivators have always been called evil and violent, but if you look closely at this black magic power, you will find that it is actually just a kind of magic power with special attributes, and it does not incorporate other attributes. of mana, it doesn’t appear evil.”
Two questions instantly appeared in Li Xiuchang's mind, and he asked: "There is no spiritual energy in the Demon Suppression World. How did the black magic power of these monsters come from? Is it obtained from the sealed terrifying existence? That's why it seems pure."
He didn't know whether the black magic power could be transformed from spiritual energy through cultivation and other means.
But even if it were possible, the demon-suppressing world simply doesn't have aura, so it wouldn't be possible.
Chen Changsheng said: "This black magic power, which I call the original magic power, is definitely related to that terrifying existence, but even for monsters, the original magic power is a very cherished energy.
"As you can see, most of the monsters in the Demon Suppression Realm are in a deep sleep state. Only by intruding into their territory will they be awakened. This is to reduce the consumption of raw magic power.
"Once the original magic power is consumed, it is difficult to replenish it, or even impossible to replenish it at all."
Li Xiuchang was thoughtful and asked: "This original magic power will expand when it comes into contact with spiritual energy. What will happen if the monster goes to the upper world where spiritual energy is abundant?"
Chen Changsheng didn't expect Li Xiuchang to think of this level, so he nodded approvingly:
"Just as you feared, the strength of the monsters will increase dramatically!"
The strength increased dramatically... Even though he had already speculated, Li Xiuchang was still shocked when he received the affirmative answer.
The demons in the Demon Suppression Realm are not weak to begin with. For example, the ugly demon just now, the fourth-level strength is only common in the Demon Suppression Realm.
But such a demon, will its strength expand when it reaches the upper realm?
At least expand to the fifth level, or even the sixth level.
Who can withstand this!
At this moment, Li Xiuchang truly realized the threat of the Demon Suppression Realm.
Zhang Wanzhi cursed: "These ugly things just directly improve their realm, without enlightenment?"
Normally, the expansion of mana alone may improve cultivation in a low realm, but it will not work in a high realm. It must be accompanied by the corresponding avenue perception.
Chen Changsheng shook his head: "I have tested it. They do not need to perceive the avenue, and can directly obtain the combat power of the corresponding realm. It is completely inexplicable."
The existence of demons is beyond common sense and cannot be understood.
How many demons are there in the Demon Suppression Realm, and what is the strength of the strongest among them?
When they reach the upper realm, what kind of demon army can they expand into?
There is spiritual energy in the upper realm, and the monsters may no longer sleep, but become active again. Their consumption can be replenished, and their strength can be expanded when encountering spiritual energy...
It feels that most worlds are unable to resist the invasion of monsters.
Fortunately, there is no spiritual energy in the demon-suppressing world, no rules of ascension, and there is a seal left by the ancients, sealing the unknown terrifying existence.
The threat of monsters was eliminated by many restrictions.
"Brother, let me study this original magic power."
Li Xiuchang put away the original magic power and carefully sealed it.
The original magic power can be regarded as "magic pulp". When mixed with any other energy, it will generate various magic powers after dilution.
The magic power of the Soul Demon and the Blood Demon is nothing more than blending it according to different formulas and proportions on this basis.
In addition, there is no magic cultivator in the upper realm who cultivates pure original magic power, so how do the magic cultivators generate their magic power?
This shows that the original magic power can still be transformed through spiritual energy.
It's just that the demon cultivators can't cultivate such pure original magic power, they can only cultivate various kinds of magic power after dilution.
Li Xiuchang studies original magic power, not only because he is interested in this magical energy, but also because it may be the only source of magic power in the Demon Realm!
In the Demon Realm, they can only use spirit stones as energy to refine magic weapons for local people, but this original magic power is also a kind of energy, or a very pure high-level energy, can it be used as energy?
Zhang Wanzhi affirmed Li Xiuchang's idea, so he planned to collect more original magic power to study.
Next, Li Xiuchang and his group continued on their way. When they met monsters along the way, they would kill them and collect original magic power.
After each battle, Chen Changsheng would remind them: "Quickly collect the spiritual energy that is scattered around!"
It is inevitable to use magic power in battle. After the magic power dissipates, it will turn into spiritual energy and return to the world.
But even if this little spiritual energy is scattered, it is enough to make the strength of some monsters around a little bit expand.
Although it is generally harmless, collecting spiritual energy is not necessary, it is just a icing on the cake.
But they are determined not to let the monsters taste the sweetness, and they must recycle the spiritual energy after each battle.
After flying for a long time, they have not yet reached their destination. Wherever they go, there are endless monsters to kill.
Later, Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi’s novelty has worn off, and they have collected enough original magic power, so they are too lazy to attack those monsters.
There are endless kills, there are no way to kill them all!
It is not something they can do to eliminate the monsters in the Demon Suppression Realm.
"Brother Chen, how big is this Demon Suppression Realm?"
The Demon Suppression Realm is too big, and there are monsters everywhere. I don’t know how many people and how much time it will take to eliminate all the monsters.
And it is very likely that even if all the monsters are killed, they cannot be eradicated. There is reason to suspect that the appearance of monsters is related to that terrifying existence.
If they are not eradicated from the source, new monsters will be born sooner or later.
Chen Changsheng said: "The size of the Demon Suppression Realm is beyond your and my imagination. My several clones went to different layers of the world to find the entrance to the basement world.
"Some found it, some didn't, but as long as they found the entrance and came down, through the induction between the clones, they can be confirmed that they have all come to the Demon Suppression Realm.
"So the previous guess was right. There is probably only one world in the basement, the Demon Suppression Realm."
There is only one world in the whole floor, so this world is bigger and more vast, which is very reasonable.
Conservatively estimated, the Demon Suppression Realm must be as big as more than a dozen worlds added together.
...
After flying for a long time, Li Xiuchang and his party finally arrived at their destination.
The monsters are rampant, squeezing the living space of humans.
The sleeping monsters are not always motionless. They will move when they wake up occasionally, and they will also prey on humans when they sense the breath of nearby humans.
Therefore, the surviving humans must constantly migrate and stay away from monsters.
But in a world full of monsters, it is not easy to find a gap to live in.
So there are fewer and fewer surviving humans in the Demon Suppression Realm.
If Senior Brother Chen Changsheng had come a few decades or even hundreds of years later, the humans in the Demon Suppression Realm would have been extinct.
Because they had to move constantly, the people in the Demon Suppression Realm had no fixed place to live and could not build houses. They could only live in simple tents or caves.
Fortunately, the vegetation in the Demon Suppression Realm was lush, and although wild animals were often killed by monsters, many survived.
Relying on wild gathering and hunting, it was enough to feed the already small population.
Of course, that was in the past. Ever since Chen Changsheng came, he has been searching for survivors, gathering them together, and building formations for them to provide shelter.
In the formation set up by Chen Changsheng, the lives of the survivors have stabilized. They built houses, cultivated fertile fields, and raised livestock...
No longer have to live in hiding.
Therefore, they all felt grateful to Chen Changsheng. When they saw Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang and others coming, they were extremely enthusiastic and respectful.
Several dark-skinned and skinny children surrounded Li Xiuchang, staring with big black and white eyes, curiously looking at the little turtle on Li Xiuchang's shoulder.
Li Xiuchang chuckled and took out spiritual fruits and various homemade candies from the storage bag to share with them.
Li Xiuchang noticed that although the children's clothes were worn and patched, they were not dirty.
They behaved well, and when they took candies from Li Xiuchang, they were also orderly, and did not forget to express their gratitude.
In this village, the most conspicuous building is actually a school.
Confucianism and Taoism have long been in decline, but the people of the Demon Suppression Realm still habitually regard Confucianism and Taoism as the last straw, unwilling to give up this only hope.
Until now, generations still insist on teaching the next generation to read and write.
The children took Li Xiuchang to visit their academy.
There are volumes of books here, many of which are still fresh. At first glance, they were compiled by adults after they stabilized. They record the past history of the Demon Suppression Realm and poems that have been passed down to this day, as "textbooks" for children.
Li Xiuchang flipped through a book that recorded the history of ancient times, saying that a saint came to the world and taught the methods of Confucianism and Taoism.
Since then, the human race in the Demon Suppression Realm has risen and can compete with monsters.
These are the same as what Senior Brother Chen Changsheng told them before.
But when he turned to the back, Li Xiuchang was stunned.
This book said that in ancient times, the magic well gushed out, and the saint suppressed the magic well with his body, and died in the Demon Suppression Realm. Since then, Confucianism and Taoism have been cut off!
The saint died in the Demon Suppression Realm?
Once the saint dies, Confucianism will cease to exist?
Where did this news come from?