Chapter 3 Chapter Three

The vegetation in southern Xinjiang is surprisingly lush. Once you step into the forest at the foot of Fulang Mountain, you can't walk a few steps, and there is no moonlight above your head.The soil under the feet is soft and wet, and the vines and vines are hanging and entangled, as if laying overlapping nets in the dense forest-this kind of forest can only be penetrated in the dark night by the aborigines like Ayan who grew up here. Hurry through dense forests. When splitting the vines blocking the road again, young master Shu Ye finally let out a sigh of relief and gave up the idea of ​​going on the road overnight—maybe, he was really too impatient?However, before he could find a place to rest and wait for dawn to start his journey, the strange rustling sound in the four fields resounded again.

It was as if tens of thousands of tiny animals were crawling fast against the ground, making creepy and creaking noises.The entire empty foothills of Fulang Mountain are filled with this monotonous and terrifying sound! Five Gu gods?Could it be that these are the five Gu gods that the Miao people called the Moon-Worshiping Sect? The young master Shu Ye was in the dense forest where he couldn't see his fingers, trying to identify his position by listening to the sounds, but the overwhelming voices filled every direction, and he couldn't tell the difference at all.At the moment when he was concentrating on it, suddenly there was an icy stream of water passing by, obliterating the back of his feet—what was it?

At that moment, his instincts made him stand up from the ground and swung his sword down.Yet he held back and remained motionless. Bursts of icy sensations flowed from the back of the feet continuously, accompanied by another strange hissing sound - snake!Countless poisonous snakes gushed out from the mountains and fields in all directions in the dark night!Those snakes gushing out of nowhere gathered into a huge torrent, rushing in the dark night, rushing towards a certain direction. There was a fishy-sweet smell in the air, which made him want to vomit.However, being in the huge flow of snakes, he didn't dare to move a bit, for fear that if he moved, he would disturb the snakes traveling at night.The muscles in his whole body were full of strength, and the sword energy was pervasive in his fingertips. At the moment when a poisonous snake slipped past his feet and the second one hadn't arrived, he suddenly floated up, and his fingers climbed onto a snake in midair. Wisteria, in the shape of a big bird, landed steadily on the branch.

Finally, a few stars of light shone from the branches and leaves, breaking through the suffocating darkness in the dense forest in southern Xinjiang. However, looking at it with the light of the star, young master Shu Ye gasped, hastily let go of his fingers and toes, touched the branches, and picked up again—a spider!Among the branches and leaves of the dense forest, there are actually densely crawling spiders!Those spiders are colorful and have different shapes and colors, and they are all extremely poisonous. At this moment, like those poisonous snakes, they crawled along the branches and leaves by themselves in groups, and hurried towards the same direction.

He didn't dare to touch any place anymore, he used his sword several times in a row to jump out of the forest, stopped at the top of a huge spinosa tree, and let out a breath—the spinosa tree is a kind of It is a strange tree. It is said that no poisonous weeds and flowers can survive within one foot of this tree.Obviously, these poisonous insects traveling in the dark are also afraid of this force of mutual generation and mutual restraint, so they bypass it one after another and continue their journey. This spinosa tree is more than ten feet high, far exceeding the rest of its kind in the forest, and its branches spread out like clouds.

Young Master Shu Ye was sitting on this dusty spiritual tree, watching the strange situation under his feet, fascinated - tonight is the full moon, and the moon has just reached the mid-heaven.And under this bright moonlight, the trees all over the mountains and plains are slightly undulating, as if there is a breeze blowing non-stop. In fact, there are countless kinds of poisonous insects wriggling between the branches and leaves of every tree! He cut back some of the branches and leaves, let the moonlight penetrate into the dense forest below, and watched the poisonous current gather and surge in the dark night.He didn't know where he came from and where he was going—but looking down from the spinosa tree, even a skilled and daring swordsman like Young Master Shu Ye felt a chill from the bottom of his heart.

He saw a scene like a dream: those poisonous insects seemed to go in the same direction at the same time, sorted and orderly.Whether it is a spider, a poisonous snake or a centipede and a scorpion, each has its own path, and each of them follows the footsteps of the same kind, and there is no difference between different races.During the journey, from time to time, stronger ones of the same kind will jump out and fight with the leader poison, so the leader poison is also constantly changing, the survival of the fittest, until it becomes stronger and stronger. All of this is in order, as if there is an invisible hand controlling everything in the dark night, making these poisonous insects bow their heads and obey their ears.

He suddenly understood—the so-called five Gu gods of the Miao people are these poisonous insects, right?Poisonous snakes, centipedes, scorpions, toads and spiders, these are the "five poisons" used to refine Gu insects in the Miaojiang!In the past few years, he has been walking on the land of southern Xinjiang, and he has also seen capable people manipulating snakes and insects, or even using strange magic; however, being able to control so many poisons and carry out such a large-scale migration is simply beyond his previous experience. knowledge! Is it the Moon Worshiper?The only one who can control the power of poison in this way is the Moon Worshiper in Miaojiang, right?

However... why is there such a large-scale summoning and migration of poison?Could it be that something major happened in the teaching? Young master Shu Ye sat on a spinosa tree thirty feet high, looking down at the dense forest beneath his feet, full of thoughts.Everything in this strange land is so weird and unpredictable, beyond what people can imagine.He broke into the southern border alone with a sword, and at this moment he was really at a loss to find a drop in the ocean. If everything is as A Yan said, then Sha Manhua came to Fufeng Village half a year ago, and then she took the elder of the Mingjiao, Miaoshui, to the Moon Palace on Lingjiu Mountain on a white lion—she was worshiping the moon. The people who teach are familiar with the Miaojiang area, so by now, she should have arrived at the Moon Palace, the main altar of the Moon Worship Sect, right?And looking at the current situation, there must have been a lot of changes inside the Moon Worship Sect, which caused snakes and insects to run rampant in Miaojiang.

I don't know how she is now... If you follow this group of migrating poisonous insects, sooner or later you will encounter something related to the Moon Worship Sect, and then inquire about the faint Moon God Palace, right? The moonlight on Vulture Mountain seemed exceptionally clear, as if the Moon God also favored his followers and generously poured three percent of the moonlight in the world into the Moon Palace on the top of the mountain. The holy lake and the temple are bathed in the moonlight, but the moon palace, which has always been full of believers and prayed all night, is shrouded in a deathly silence, and the air is full of ominous blood. The hissing sound came like a tide, and countless poisons gathered around the Moon Palace, surrounding this holy land in southern Xinjiang, like an isolated city.

On the high altar, stood the figure of a woman, with long hair loose, wide sleeves and long skirts, raised her hands facing the bright moon in the sky, and chanted something loudly, every time her voice became sharp, The poisonous substances dormant in the four fields are in a state of commotion.The woman was wearing a white robe, embroidered with extremely complicated patterns of manjusawa, and trimmed with peacock feathers, dazzling in the dark night. Her face is as soft and smooth as ivory, her forehead is high, with the light of a wise man and a goddess, exuding a shocking beauty.There is no jewelry on the jet-black hair, only a very small crescent moon painted with gold powder on the left cheek, shining with dim gold, like a third golden eye, peeping into the hearts of the congregation. That is the identity mark of the supreme moon worship leader in Miaojiang. However, at this moment, this beautiful face was slightly distorted due to tension.She kept praying, while grabbing the vermilion powder on the case, and throwing it into the stone cauldron in the center of the altar—with a chirping sound, a puff of reddish smoke rose.The powder is made of twig chrysanthemum, black heart lotus, poisonous toad eggs, fungi contaminated with miasma poison, and the ashes of several poisonous substances, the sacred flower of the Moon Worship Sect, Manjusawa, as long as the slightest smell is released. The poisonous insects all bowed their heads and obeyed. The red mist dispersed into the air, and the surrounding poisons suddenly let out terrifying screams, and scuffled each other!In the tumbling and rolling, finally five poisonous insects became the kings of each clan, and crawled towards the altar from all around. The Lord of Worshiping the Moon stretched out his hand to the divine cauldron, and a string of bright red blood beads suddenly dripped from his fingertips. The five poison kings seemed to smell the smell of blood, they jumped up and threw themselves into the boiling hot cauldron, where they fought fiercely again.But the Moon Worshiper just stretched out his hand above the divine cauldron, continuously injecting his own blood into it, opened his lips, murmured something, and his face became paler and terribly pale. "Yixiang, you don't hesitate to use the blood-splitting soul-devouring technique to kill me?" On the edge of the holy lake, a white-clothed man looked at the moon worship leader who was performing voodoo on the high platform, and sneered, "Don't you know that the past dynasties The Lord of Worshiping the Moon will never have stronger power than the High Priest?" The moonlight shone on the surface of the lake, and there were thousands of dots of silver light, which reflected on the white clothes.I don't know what the white clothes are made of, but the bright moonlight is reflected by the lake, and it seems to be alive, flowing on the skirt.However, it was the dark blue eyes of the man in white and the blood-red gemstone on the forehead ring that were dazzling. In the dark night, that little ray of light was so dazzling that it seemed to deter the venomous snakes that were about to move. This time in the Moon Palace, the leader of the Moon Worship and the High Priest had a complete break, and the fighting between them had lasted for more than a month. The corpses of various poisonous snakes and centipedes were piled up on his side, almost forming a three-foot-high wall.However, in the darkness behind, there are still endless poisons ready to pounce on them with their teeth and claws. The priest in white stretched out his fingers and pointed out that the stagnant water in the holy lake behind him was slightly rippling, as if something jumped out of the water, causing the air to suddenly twist wonderfully. It was a ghost drop that was summoned by the priest.It seems that an invisible force suddenly appeared, turning a leaping poisonous clam into powder in mid-air. "Go!" At this moment, the shrill voice of the Moon Worshiper suddenly came from the high platform in the distance! The mixed smell of medicine and blood still lingered in the wind, and the divine cauldron shattered with that loud shout—the five poison kings that had entered the cauldron disappeared without a trace, and a huge monster rose from it!That monster was winding in mid-air, with a length of almost ten feet. Its two eyes shone red and miserable in the dark night. It suddenly rushed close, covering all the moonlight above its head, and opened its blood basin full of sharp teeth. gulp. "Gu King!" High Priest Feng Ya blurted out and pressed down on the red gemstone on his forehead - it was Moon Soul, one of the Three Treasures of Moon Worship Sect, which could ward off all evil spirits and beasts. However, before he activated the head drop technique to summon the ghost drop, the moonlight above his head suddenly disappeared.Once the moonlight disappeared, his power was blocked for a while, and the evil spirits in the lake never obeyed his orders! "Yi Xiang... I brought you up and taught you everything, but you hate me so much now?" When Gu King threw himself on his head and bit half of his shoulder, Priest Feng Ya didn't feel the slightest pain , the dark green in his eyes slowly condensed into ice. He suddenly laughed long, his voice was as cold as ice, during the loud laughter, the ruby ​​on the forehead ring penetrated Gu King's body like a flash of lightning, and the huge monster actually split into two halves! The priest in white flitted through the rain of blood falling all over the sky like the wind, and rushed to the altar in an instant. "Get up!" The Moon Worshiper was not afraid at all, with a single finger point, countless snakes, insects and poisons around him rushed towards him like rain.However, how can these ordinary poisons stop the priest's footsteps?Priest Feng Ya flitted past like a fairy flying out of the sky, stretched out her finger, and already touched the blood on the side of Moon Worship Sect Master's neck—but the strange thing was that she didn't dodge or dodge, and there was no fear in her eyes. "Yi Xiang, how dare you betray me!" High Priest Feng Ya's eyes suddenly flashed a strange ruthlessness, he put his fingers together and sternly said. "Lord Feng Ya!" At that moment, he heard a voice calling urgently in the dark night. Feng Ya was slightly startled: Is it that little girl Sha Manhua?It's really ridiculous... This goddess who was sent to the Great Light Palace in the past actually ran back by herself, but when she came back, she encountered the biggest civil turmoil in the sect. The High Priest Feng Ya sneered, but his hands didn't stop for a moment. With a little force on his fingers, he cut off the slender neck of the Moon Worshiper—at that moment, the warm blood wet his hands like a fountain, and he felt pity. Looking contemptuously at the woman who was about to lose her life, she sighed: "Those who betrayed me will only be trapped at the bottom of the lake forever after death." Yi Xiang was laughing, his eyes full of sarcasm.how?Suddenly felt that something was wrong, he wanted to turn around, and suddenly found that his body could not move for a moment.It's a blood curse! ... It was Yi Xiang who cast a spell with all his blood, and trapped him on the altar at this very moment! "Lord Feng Ya!" The voice behind became more panicked and anxious, "Be careful!" He tried his best to relieve the paralysis of his body, but this spell that cost his life was so terrifying that even the high priest with supreme spiritual power of the Moon Worship Sect was trapped and could not move.Out of the corner of his eye, he saw an extremely strange scene - in the dark night behind him, the Gu King that had been cut in half actually got back together again! The gigantic Gu King roared towards the two people on the altar.Yixiang's blood seemed to drive it crazy, and it wanted to devour everyone on the altar no matter what! "Master Priest! Elder Sister Yixiang!" Sha Manhua rushed from a distance, and seeing that it was too late to arrive, he stood up, drew his bow and arrows, and made a string of beads—at that moment, seven rays of light were torn apart. In the dark night, chasing the trajectory of the Gu King flying into the sky, he nailed the huge monster into the void!