When the giants were chasing, they were inevitably attracted by these smells.
In each room lay a pile of "cooked" long-waisted giants, steam rising from their bodies, their eyes still shining, but they looked even scarier than if they were alive.
Soon, some of the pursuing giants could not bear the temptation, stopped, and began to eat the "food" in the houses.
What started as a chase quickly turned into a feast for the giants.
Gu Jiu distanced himself from them, left the huge underground city, and came to the cliff.
He looked back at the city where shadows kept swaying, especially the depths of the city, and he was still uneasy.
Then he turned around and jumped up.
He no longer had his sword, so to jump over this very long abyss, he could only walk in the air.
Even with the guidance of a compass, Gu Jiu, who was not good at finding his way, still got lost.
Finally, he broke through the top rock layer and returned to the ground like a groundhog.
When he returned to the ground, he found himself still in the town and it was already daybreak.
Seeing the dawn in the sky, Gu Jiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Perhaps because it was daybreak, the giants who had been guarding the town disappeared.
Gu Jiu just felt that he had experienced an extremely terrifying dream underground and felt a little tired.
The thing that crawled out of the jar was probably the most unbearable existence for him since he came to this world.
The fear brought by this thing was so deep in his bones that he couldn't even control his emotions at that time.
What's even more terrifying is that even if he used the power of a saint to bombard this thing, it seemed to have no effect.
What is the reason?
Gu Jiu walked outside, felt the breeze, and calmed himself down.
He felt that such a thing should not exist in this world because it was too scary.
It was already afternoon when Gu Jiu returned to Duan Shui Sect.
After discovering that Gu Jiu had returned, everyone gathered around.
When Su Ying told them that Gu Jiu and his elders had gone to gather information, many people here became nervous.
They sent out ten spies, but the only one who came back was scared away, so the purpose of the spying was not achieved at all.
But when Gu Jiu and his elders take action, the concept is different.
Gu Jiu’s elder is a semi-saint. What kind of ability does a semi-saint have? Few people present are dissatisfied with him.
Due to the number of people present, the strongest ones are only close to the sixth level of moving mountains, and are still a long way from being a semi-saint, not to mention the others.
Gu Jiu felt a little tired and decided to take a bath first.
After taking a comfortable flower petal bath, Gu Jiu came out and gave a general account of the situation inside, but did not mention the matter of the Gangpo in the palace.
Now he himself is a little scared. Telling it out loud will affect morale and disrupt the situation.
After listening to Gu Jiu's description, the atmosphere in the entire hall suddenly became serious.
The news that Gu Jiu brought was valuable, but it was not good news.
If one third of the thousands of giants were of that species, the battle might be even more difficult.
Liu Fengyao and others were formulating tactics, while Gu Jiu asked for all the information about Gangpo.
The information Hua Ningfeng had previously mastered was truly precious, because Gangpo was indeed too mysterious, and only Wang Chuixue's notes could be said to have revealed the tip of the iceberg.
From Hua Ningfeng, we learned that the water ghost disaster and the ghost head tumor disaster mentioned in the notes were both related to the Gangpo.
With the information from these disasters, we can find out a lot.
Since these materials were collected temporarily, despite great efforts, they are still incomplete, and some of them are simply nonsense.
Gu Jiu read the information while having Xiao Qi massage his shoulders and drinking the wolfberry tea made by Su Ying.
Most of these materials record the disastrous consequences of the two disasters. For example, the water ghost disaster caused almost no ferries in the southern water towns, and the ghost head tumor made people in the Shanhaiguan area panic for nearly a hundred years, and they have not recovered until now.
These things were of little help to Gu Jiu. What he wanted was not the disaster records, but something related to Gangpo.
Gu Jiu reads very fast. If he wants to be a top student, he will naturally be one. He is just a lazy person in his normal state.
Not long after, Gu Jiu locked onto a cultivator named "Mo Zhi".
Mo Zhi was the vice-president of the Lotus Academy at the time and already had a reputation as a semi-saint, but he became unconscious after going to investigate the water ghost disaster.
According to the records above, Mo Zhi was very afraid of wells after she came back, so all the wells in her home were sealed, and all the water was carried in buckets from other places in the city.
It is said that the reason why Mo Zhi was afraid of the well at that time was because she thought a huge white-bone python would emerge from the well and devour the world.
During those years, a white-bone snake really appeared in the Jiangnan area, but it disappeared after eating a lot of people.
When seeing this information, Gu Jiu always felt that there was something strange in it.
He guessed that maybe Mo Zhi had seen the old woman in the jar just like him, but the thing she saw coming out of the old woman in the jar was different from what he had seen.
Half an hour later, Gu Jiu found another piece of information, which was about a female Taoist priest named Ning Yu.
This female Taoist priest also had a high level of cultivation and was very good at refining elixirs. She once had an embarrassing incident where she was so obsessed with refining elixirs that she injured her family members.
Later, after the Shanhaiguan gynecomastia incident, Ning Yu began to be afraid of the dark. He would keep candles burning all night long, and he didn't want to see any darkness at all.
According to her, when darkness comes, her deceased mother comes to her.
There must be a reason why a daughter is so afraid of her mother. Gu Jiu quickly focused his attention on the statement of "family members were injured in the explosion."
Perhaps, it was Ning Yu's own mother who was injured in the explosion, and he has felt great guilt and fear towards his mother ever since.
The change in her mental state happened just after the hive incident, which made Gu Jiu connect her with Gangpo.
What is even more creepy is that according to historical records, the servants of the Ning family actually met the deceased head of the family at home later, so that the Ning family, which originally had a good foundation, declined.
Gu Jiu remained silent as Xiao Qi switched from massaging his shoulders to massaging his legs.
Gu Jiu analyzed that anyone who wanted to meet Gangpo must have a high level of cultivation, and these two people just met the requirements.
The two people felt fear just after the disaster related to Gangpo happened, which means that there is a high probability that they really have some relationship with Gangpo.
Gu Jiu had some thoughts in his mind.
The two different people both felt great fear after seeing the old woman. One sealed the well and the other was afraid of the dark. This was very similar to the scene Gu Jiu had seen before.
The world inside the vat is very dark, like a well, and scary things crawl out of it.
But Gu Jiu was a little puzzled at this time, because the things the three of them saw were too different.
Especially Ning Yu, who saw his dead mother.
At this moment, Gu Jiu suddenly stood up, scaring Xiao Qi.
A line gradually became clear in his mind.
Perhaps, there was nothing in the abyss-like body of the old woman, but people who looked at the abyss would involuntarily imagine something.
What Gu Jiu was thinking about at that time was Huangquan, and the Huangquan monster in his mind was probably so huge, with a pair of huge yellow eyes, carrying the taste of his childhood nightmare in the previous life.
Ning Yu felt that when darkness came, her deceased mother would come. Perhaps when she was standing in front of the "abyss" of the jar, the person she thought of was her mother.
Then her mother really climbed up.
In other words, these things that terrify them are all created by themselves?
And will these things really exist in the world for a period of time?
Before writing the first two chapters, I considered the questions everyone raised, so I'll say it in advance. Anyway, the main theme of this book is supernatural and relaxing, and it will be exciting, but not all the time. It will be suppressed for a while before being exciting again, because I want to write it with some ups and downs.
Chunfeng is not a great writer, but he is not a newbie either. He will try his best to write well and will not let you down. I hope you will be patient.
No more talking, just keep playing.)
Chapter 41 Begins (Fourth Update)
Thinking of this, Gu Jiu suddenly felt enlightened.
The reason why he was afraid before was, firstly, because that thing really brought him back to the shadow of his childhood, and secondly, because he felt that the other party was too strong.
At that time, he bombarded the opponent with the strength of the Apocalypse Realm, but the opponent seemed to be intact. This was the key reason why he lost confidence.
Ghosts of this strength should not exist, at least that's what Gu Jiu thinks.
But it would be different if it was something he created himself. Gu Jiu thought in his heart at that moment that the other party could not defeat it, so that thing could not be defeated.
I'm afraid that the place the Gang Po is connected to is really the underworld, because the underworld is full of things that humans fear.
No matter in which era or world, ghosts always make people feel terrified.
The place with the most ghosts is the Yellow Springs underground, and there are countless strange and bizarre legends about it.
Over the years, so many practitioners have tried to stop Gangpo but have never succeeded. One reason is that they are not strong enough and would probably die before finding Gangpo. The other reason is that they cannot defeat themselves.
No matter how strong you are, as long as there is fear in your heart, fear will follow you like a shadow.
The inner cavity of the jar is probably really an abyss.
When you look into the abyss, the abyss is also looking at you. When you feel fear in your heart, the abyss will give fear to you.
After figuring this out, Gu Jiu's thoughts suddenly became clear and he became confident again.
It turns out that it was not the enemy that he could not defeat, but himself that he could not defeat.
What's there to worry about if you lose to yourself once?
Gu Jiu didn’t know whether his inference was correct or not, and he didn’t want to know.
And now this inference is indeed the most reasonable explanation and the one he is most willing to accept.
Gu Jiu stood up, stretched his muscles, and prepared to defeat himself.
Not long after, news came from the prefect Liu Fengyao that the army was ready to set off.
Based on the intelligence brought back by Gu Jiu, they have re-formulated their strategy.
The underground city was not something they should touch, because according to Gu Jiu's description, they could not cross the abyss at all.
There must be other entrances and exits to this underground world, but we have no way of knowing for now.
And in any case, fighting on the ground is most advantageous for them.
As long as we can continue to erode the enemy's strength, we will eventually be able to achieve the goal of completely destroying the enemy, but it may take a longer time to fight.
Although the army was prepared hastily, it still had sufficient food and grass, which was more in line with Liu Fengyao's wishes.
Because if they concentrate their forces and kill them step by step, a lot of casualties will be reduced.
According to the plan, the first step of this joint army of the northern cultivation community and the imperial court was to conquer the mountains and forests outside the town.
At this moment, Gu Jiu couldn't help but think of the female beggar. He wondered if she was still hiding in the crevice of the mountain after two days had passed.
Liu Fengyao arranges everything in an orderly manner, giving people a strong sense of trust. He is a rare military talent.
But Gu Jiu knew that she must have intentionally overlooked a very important point - the old woman.
In Liu Fengyao's plan, the total number of long-waisted giants is almost fixed. As long as they are eliminated step by step, victory will be achieved in the end.
However, the information provided by Gu Jiu included details that the long-waisted giants would eat their own kind in order to survive.
Surviving in this way only proves that the renewable amount of the long-waisted giants is no longer what it used to be, otherwise how could they be so wasteful.
Gu Jiu guessed that it might be because Gangpo was constantly producing giants from her body, which was why so many giants appeared.
Thinking of this, Gu Jiu knew that he still had to do at least two things.
The first thing, of course, was to defeat the thing he had created, and the second was to find a way to deal with the old woman.
Since they were marching with the cavalry, Gu Jiu and the others naturally could not ride in the carriage anymore.
Su Ying, Xiao Qi and the others were riding horses, while Gu Jiu was lying on a donkey.
When they were riding in the carriage before, Xiao Hui had eaten, drunk and had fun all the way, which was like a long vacation.
Now it's time to get out to work.
Gu Jiu lay on Xiao Hui's back. The wind blowing from the mountains stirred his clothes, and he looked very lazy.
This is a typical sleeping beauty.
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