Junior Disciple C

Before Fang Yang could understand the reason, Wang Wu started another topic: "Do you know what country the ruins we are going to belong to?"

There was silence for a while, Feng Ye thought about it, but he really didn't remember that he came to find Xiyang, but he didn't pay attention to the history of the imperial city buried under Longqiu.

Seeing no one answered, Cao Zirui replied: "Xiqiang."

His purpose of coming here highly overlaps with Feng Ye's, and it is also to find Xi Rang.Along the way, Cao Zirui somehow realized that Feng Ye's coming to Longqiu was not a coincidence, and he came here for the sake of the soil.

But Feng Ye didn't have Jianmu, so why did he find Xi Rang?

Cao Zirui didn't ask directly, because he kept in mind his master's instruction that the matter of finding Xi Rang must be done in secret, and the fact that the small jar on his back contained Jianmu could not be let others know.

No matter why Feng Ye was looking for Xi Rang, he happened to be able to use Feng Ye's purpose to hide himself, so he never asked.

He also did his homework before coming here. He carefully studied the files and Ji Chengyue's suggestions. In a certain way, his understanding of Longqiu was a little deeper than that of Feng Ye.

So he could answer the country to which the ruins belonged, and explained to Fang Yang, who was blind from history, who was beside him: "An ancient country that existed more than 1000 years ago has only been passed down for more than 100 years, and it was later raised." The southern Chu was destroyed."

"All the cities in Xiqiang changed their owners. Only this imperial city, because the king of Chu didn't like the climate of Longqiu, so he returned to his old capital in the south, and this imperial city was abandoned. Later, because of a major earthquake, the mountains and rivers were destroyed. They all collapsed under the shock, and the imperial city was also destroyed, and now there are only a few ruins exposed above the ground, and most of the rest are buried deep in the ground."

"Haha, little brother is so knowledgeable!" Wang Wu praised, and he said again: "I will test you again. At the beginning, Xiqiang was just a tribe in Longqiu, but in just a few years it became so powerful that it became the leader of the Central Plains. , become a dynasty that dominates the world, do you know why?"

Cao Zirui shook his head honestly, he didn't come here for archaeology, how could he make the history of Xiqiang so clear.

"Because of their priests." Wang Wu revealed the answer.

But the answer is the same as if it hasn't been revealed, Feng Ye and others are still at a loss.

"Can a priest affect the fate of the country?" Fang Yang raised his hand to ask, he thought it was impossible, how could one person determine the prosperity of the country.

"Hey." Wang Wu smiled meaningfully, then shook his head and denied, "This priest is not simple."

"The Qiang Kingdom was martial, and although the Qiang kings were brave and good at fighting, at that time, there were many heroes in the world, and each of them was the overlord who dominated one side, but Xiqiang alone won the final victory, thanks to their priests. .”

"The Xiqiang people believe in the power of ghosts and gods. The priests in charge of sacrifices have a high status, and the methods of sacrifices have been passed down from generation to generation. The priest who helped the Qiang king to rule the world is also called the ghost-faced priest. This ghost-faced priest is an unprecedented genius. There are eight ghost generals."

The Eight Great Ghost Generals... The rest of the people were puzzled when they heard these four words, because they had never heard of the history of Xiqiang, and naturally they had never heard of the prestige of the Eight Great Ghost Generals.

But Feng Ye was stunned when he heard these four words. Although he quickly concealed his gaffe, Hao Chen still noticed a little bit. When Wang Wu said the four words "Eight Great Ghost Generals", Feng Ye His brows were tightly furrowed, revealing a sense of uneasiness.

What's so weird about these eight ghosts?Hao Chen thought suspiciously.

Just in time, Fang Yang asked this question: "What are these eight ghost generals? Are they very powerful generals?"

"It's true that they are very powerful generals, but they are different from ordinary generals. They..." Wang Wu dragged his voice and whetted his appetite before saying, "Ghost generals, ghost generals, they are all ghosts."

"Extremely evil ghost." Wang Wu added.

Evil ghost... Feng Ye's expression froze again.

Still only Hao Chen noticed Feng Ye's strangeness, and Wang Wu and their conversation continued.

"Evil ghost?!" Fang Yang said in surprise, "Are you saying that the priest of Xiqiang can control ghosts?"

"That's right." Wang Wu nodded, affirming: "He not only knows how to control ghosts, but also refines ghosts. This is a technique passed down from generation to generation by the priests of Xiqiang. In the past, it was a great thing for priests to refine a ghost general. Only this ghost-faced priest is so amazing that he has refined eight, that is, the eight great ghost generals."

"They don't feel pain or emotions. When fighting, people fight and kill Buddhas, and they are invincible with one enemy and a hundred. In battles, big or small, as long as there are ghosts and generals, Xiqiang will win. It is precisely because of this that Xiqiang In the end, they will overwhelm the heroes and dominate the world."

Fang Yang and Cao Zirui couldn't help but glanced at each other after hearing this, they both had the same thought in their eyes, since the Xiqiang priests passed down from generation to generation can ward off ghosts, it should also be regarded as a method of practice.

This kind of practice method is actually not uncommon. Many tribes hidden in the mountains have their own set of witchcraft.Outsiders call it witchcraft, but in fact, in the eyes of monks, it is just a kind of magic.

Just like their Lingxiao Sword Sect prefers swordsmanship, the way of ghosts and the way of swords are just different, and they cannot be judged as good or bad.

But the way of ghosts involves ghosts, and ghosts are all living people.What kind of refining method is this ghost refining, it is related to whether the priest of Xiqiang is the righteous way or the devil way.

However, it is inconvenient to discuss this kind of matter in front of Wang Wu and Zhao Yi, so the two just made eye contact and did not speak.

While Hao Chen was listening to Wang Wu's speech on the surface, he was actually observing Feng Ye.

Feng Ye seemed to be distracted all the time, the more Wang Wu talked, the more distracted he became.

Although no one answered his words, Wang Wu continued speaking on his own.

He rubbed his hands, and after laying the groundwork for a long time, he finally said what he wanted to say: "When the Southern Chu army captured the imperial city, they returned to the court within a few days. Many treasures in the imperial city had not had time to move. Let's go. I was thinking of going back and moving slowly, but I didn't want to encounter a big earthquake, and all the imperial cities of Xiqiang were buried underground. The Chu army tried to search, but the search was fruitless."

"And in the past thousand years, many people have come to search for the treasures of Xiqiang, but no one has ever found them. I heard that in addition to gold, silver and jade, there are many rare magical artifacts in the world that can communicate with ghosts and gods. They are all belongings of Xiqiang priests, and now they can only be ashes in the ground, and I don’t know when someone will find them and bring these treasures to the sky again.” Wang Armed sighed with a pretentious expression.

After finishing speaking, he secretly looked at the expressions of Feng Ye and the others.Of course, he didn't waste so many words just to popularize science for these four people. He has become a bandit, so how could he have such kindness.

He wanted to tell them that there was a treasure buried under the ruins, a treasure that even monks would be moved by.In this way, this group of people was induced to go underground in person to fight against the man-eating ghosts in the ruins.

Although he felt that the purpose of Feng Ye and his party to go to the ruins was the underground treasure, but what if it wasn't, and if they didn't know the existence of the treasure, and they didn't plan to go underground to find it, then his and Zhao Yi's expectations would be nothing more than Frustrated.

So he came here specially, regardless of whether Feng Ye and the others knew about it or not, he told them frankly, this would not only reduce the other party's vigilance, but also ensure the success of his plan to a greater extent.

He was full of calculations, but it was a pity that among the four people, three of them didn't show any emotion.

The two older ones were absent-minded, as if they didn't listen to him at all, the two younger ones, Cao Zirui was very indifferent to treasures, and he was not short of money.

Only Fang Yang showed a little expectation.

This made Wang Wu feel a little uneasy, wondering whether Feng Ye and his party would go down to the underground palace for treasure hunting as he planned.

"Here we are." Zhao Yi, who had been leading the way, suddenly said.

Feng Ye, who was immersed in his own thoughts, raised his head when he heard the words, and he saw a stone platform hidden in the forest, like a part of some building, buried in the soil at an angle, with only a small corner exposed.

This small section is relative to the building itself, but in the eyes of people on the ground, it is also a three-meter-high boulder.

The stone platform is covered with vines, and the soil next to it is densely covered with green grass, which blends in with the surrounding environment. If Zhao Yi hadn't reminded them, Fang Yang and the others really didn't notice the difference between this stone platform and other stones on the mountain.

Fang Yang exclaimed. Although he only saw such a small corner, he could vaguely glimpse the grandeur of the Western Qiang Imperial City.

Fang Yang pulled Cao Zirui to run ahead, and the two ran to the side of the stone platform to watch the ruins at close range.

But Feng Ye didn't get close, he stood far enough away to see the patterns exposed between the vines on the stone platform.

Those are two parallel and spiral upward curves, and there are some tiny textures drawn between the two curves, like scales.

snake scales.

This stone platform is just a collapsed corner, others don't know what the stone platform looks like when it is intact, but Feng Ye knows.

It was a stone pillar about 20 meters high, and the relief of giant snake hovered around the tower.

Xiqiang people believe in the power of ghosts and gods. They worship and sacrifice to gods. This god is the snake god on the relief.

The stone pillar with the giant snake hovering over it is the statue of the Xiqiang people worshiping the gods. The statues of gods can be seen everywhere in the imperial city of Xiqiang, with different sizes.

The stone pillar in the center of the imperial city is the tallest, 20 meters long.It is so tall that no matter where you flee to any corner of the imperial city, you will see the giant snake on the stone pillar.

That was also the scene that Feng Ye would see every day when he opened his eyes during that time. The giant snake on the stone pillar was spitting out a letter, and the snake's eyes were coldly looking down at the subjects under his feet.

He also looked at Feng Ye.

This stone statue is everywhere, and the snake eyes are also everywhere. Under its gaze, there is nowhere to escape.

Feng Ye didn't realize it when he first heard Xiqiang's country name, because in the Three Thousand Worlds, such a country name is not uncommon.

But following the eight great ghost generals, the extremely evil ghosts... and the stone pillar with the broken snake body carved in front of him, he was finally sure.

He's been here before, when he...wasn't Ying Long.