Fairy cage

There was a look of thought in Yu Lie's eyes.

There is dragon energy on the recommendation book. This thing must not be something that will harm them, but should be a benefit. It is very likely that only those who take the assessment with a letter of recommendation will have such benefits, but without a letter of recommendation, they will not be able to access it at all.

This made Yu Lie feel slightly happy.

When he heard at the Xianlu Altar that as long as he passed the examination, he could enter the Taoist Palace, he was not only happy, but also thinking that the letter of recommendation, which he had spent a lot of money and exchanged for favors, might be useless.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I woke up, the recommendation letter revealed something magical.

He wiped the wooden sign transformed from the recommendation book in his hand a few times, trying to see clearly all the words and runes on it.

Perhaps because of the low quality of his letter of recommendation, the resulting wooden sign only had the first three words, which were clearly legible, while the rest were incomplete and obliterated, leaving only a few traces.

Apart from these three words, there is no other information on this wooden sign. There are only three human figures faintly flashing behind the words.

Among them, behind the "lost souls" is an image of refugees and hungry people with a withered face and a sallow complexion.

"Jinghun Yong" is a stout human figure holding a sickle in his hand. Judging from the instrument he holds in his hand, he looks like a farmer, but to Yu Lie, it feels completely different, more like a military soldier.

The last "immortal" looked powerless, and was even more withered than the "lost souls". It was shaped like a skeleton, as if it had just crawled out of the coffin.

Yu Lie hesitated. Judging from their appearance alone, the three of them should be regarded as the "spiritual slaves" in the middle. They looked more dignified and had stronger bodies.

If the role of the recommendation letter is really to provide identity, then choosing an "indigenous identity" who is strong and armed with weapons will undoubtedly be of great help to Yu Lie's assessment.

However, Yu Lie secretly thought in his heart: "Generally speaking, the later one's status is, the more noble and rare it is."

He focused on the "immortal" who ranked last among the three identities. Although the image of this identity was withered and looked very decadent, it had a gloomy temperament, completely different from the first "lost soul". no the same.

And the word "immortality" really attracts the attention of those who are practicing Taoism like Yu Lie.

People in the Immortal Way practice and practice, don't they just want immortality and freedom? Just by looking at the name of this undead, he is already halfway there.

Yu Lie glanced at the gradually dimming dragon energy around him and realized that he didn't have much time to hesitate.

So he immediately made a decision, stretched out a finger, and with his true energy, he clicked on the three words "immortal".

Buzz!

Immediately there was a snapping sound, and a jet of black smoke instantly emerged from the wooden sign, sweeping over him at a speed that Yu Lie could not react to.

The true energy in Yu Lie's body was suppressed, and his body began to shrink and wither.

In the blink of an eye, he changed from a young Taoist priest with red lips and white teeth to a skeleton with skeletal features and sunken cheeks. His body also exuded a stench of corruption and exhaustion.

But the light in his eyes was full of vitality, and it didn't look like it had been drained of life.

Yu Lie lowered his head, not panicking. He just looked at his skinny figure curiously, and then shook his bones staggeringly.

After the wooden sign released the black energy, a twisted rune was imprinted on it, and it lost most of its magic, leaving only a unique smell of decay.

When Yu Lie looked at himself curiously, a memory suddenly appeared in his mind, making his expression blur for a moment.

Immediately, through this memory, Yu Lie had a better understanding of the world of the "Ferocious Dragon Court" where the assessment was taking place.

This is a world of decadence, decay, and decline. All things are struggling to survive under the increasingly decaying sunlight, and hunger follows them everywhere.

The whole world is falling into death step by step.

Now dusk is falling, and the gods are being annihilated one by one, making immortality absurd.

It wasn't until monsters from outside the sky descended from the sky carrying golden-red light, gnawing at the remains of the gods, hiding in the sun, and rekindling the fire wheels in the sky that the world's decline slowed down.

Affected by the monster's golden-red brilliance, the eyes of all creatures in this world were ignited with golden-red flames. Their lifespans were extended, they glowed with a different kind of vitality, and their deaths began to disappear.

But after the initial prosperity, the sun dimmed again, and everything was in panic.

It wasn't until another king held the throne high, called himself Dragon Son, split his spine, gave birth to two wings, and flew into the sun, igniting the sun's glory again.

After ascending one after another, a king threw himself into the sun. The world once again lasted for hundreds of years, but the sun was setting more and more.

At this time, the last king established the Dragon Court, uniting the blood of several generations of kings to rule the broken earth.

The people of that generation continued to herd animals and raise minions, set up torches all over the world, and ignited thousands of creatures to sacrifice to the monsters in the sun. They called it "Ascension Sacrifice" and replaced the previous king's ascension.

The "immortal" identity that Yu Lie has chosen now is the descendant of a king in this world, similar to the nobles and landowners in the ancient world of mountains and seas.

It's just that he belongs to the kind of landless nobles with thin blood, whose territory has been swallowed up by the wind and sand, and whose torch has been extinguished.

After reading the information that came to his mind, a strange look suddenly appeared in Yu Lie's eyes.

As an orthodox Taoist cultivator under the command of Tao Ting, he saw at a glance that there was something wrong with this "singing and tearful" legend.

This matter is obviously that when this foreign world is in decline, it is invaded by outside creatures, occupying the magpie's nest, and the resources in the world are being squeezed out like oil.

The so-called ascension ceremony is obviously the monster forcing the local aborigines, throwing them into its mouth one after another and being devoured by it.

The later establishment of the so-called "Dragon Court" was probably after eating the "big ones" among the indigenous people. The monsters had no more food to eat, so they simply established a system to carry out blood sacrifices all over the world, and eat them regardless of size.

As for what exactly this monster eats...

Yu Lie thought about it, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to himself: "Good guy, it seems that the records in the history books are good. The source of spiritual energy is the soul of all things.

This alien monster uses living souls as food and extracts spiritual energy from them!

In other words, this foreign world has completely become a breeding ground for that monster. "

Through this information, Yu Lie also gained a clearer understanding of the three identities of "lost soul people", "soul prisoners" and "immortal".

Among them, the former are the grass people who are ruled by Long Ting, who provide their souls to the crops and lambs of the monsters in the sun.

The word "lost soul" describes their state after their souls are extracted.

The monsters who came to this world have infected the world and abolished death in order to collect as much spiritual energy as possible. Therefore, even the most ordinary local aboriginal mortal has nothing to do with death. Death will only result in the loss of part of the soul and memory.

Because humans are the spirits of all things and have three souls and seven souls, it means that a person can be harvested at least three times and at most ten times, and then he will turn into charcoal and can no longer be harvested.

However, during this process, the ordinary people can still survive, give birth to deformed children, give birth to monsters, and reduce their food intake, and can provide new sources of souls as much as possible.

The second "soul arrester" is under Long Ting, responsible for capturing "lost souls" and the minions of any living thing with a soul.

As for the "immortal" chosen by Yu Lie, as an indigenous noble, his role is not as simple as simply governing the place and administering the "lost souls".

After the Ascension Sacrifice replaced the King's Ascension, the King's bloodline was responsible for presiding over the sacrifices in various places. Their role was more similar to that of priests, who were the incarnations of gods.

Because the ascension sacrifices in various places are offered to the monsters in the sun, but the sun is far away and out of reach. The ascension sacrifices are the next best thing. They sacrifice to the undead in various places first, and then the undead are offered to the sun. monster.

Because they possess the "blood of dragons" in their bodies and can taste souls for the gods, these "immortal" are closer to immortality than the "lost souls".

Even if their bodies are withered, rotten and smelly, their souls will not dry up, but will become more vigorous and powerful due to the increase in the number of ascension sacrifices held.

Every "immortal" who has mastered the ascension ritual can live for at least three hundred years.

Of course, there is a cost. Every time a soul is devoured, the undead's own soul will be polluted, and his sanity will be increasingly lost.

The "last king" who single-handedly established the Dragon Court and replaced the ascension of kings with ascension sacrifices is now like a beast, with his mind broken and his personality completely lost.

I heard that this "last king" is now imprisoned in the underground king's tomb in Longdu. Whenever a living creature enters the tomb, whether it is a rat or a living person, he will be eaten up by the other party, and his behavior will be as cruel as rot. Wild dogs.

In the valley, after Yu Lie sorted through the information that popped into his mind, he suddenly made a tut-tsk sound.

If he were an ordinary Taoist disciple, he might not understand the true role of this "immortal" after receiving this information, but Yu Lie had seen the breakthroughs of Black Water Temple Master and She Shuangbai, and he knew it very well.

The ancients said that incense is poisonous.

Just consuming the incense belief mixed with the residual thoughts of living beings can pollute the body of the god, let alone directly consuming the three souls and seven souls of living beings.

This undead is a tool to filter out the dregs from the soul for the monster in the sun. It will bear the disadvantages of soul-eating as much as possible, and then the monster will devour the cleaner soul.

As for why there was no need for "immortals" to filter before the Dragon Court was established, it was because every ascended king himself was the world's largest soul filter and container.

And these beings who can delay the decline of the world and save the world are called "kings" and not "saints".

It is also because except for the last step of the ascension process, in which they sacrifice themselves, in all other processes, these people walk in the world, bringing blood and fire, killing and destruction, and eliminating all those who the king thinks should not be A creature that exists in the world and wastes resources.

In Yu Lie's view, this process is obviously more like a "harvest" than a "conquest" by the king.

And this point is precisely related to the task of Yu Lie's assessment on this trip.

He raised his withered arm and looked at it, took out a mirror from his sleeve, stared at his eyes that did not emit golden red flames, and sighed softly:

"Pity."

In the ferocious Dragon Court world, there are no golden-red flames in the eyes, which means that either the soul has been harvested by others, or it has been harvested many times, and it is already dying, and the soul is about to fly away, and it is difficult to cure it with medicine or stone.

Either it was born to be in conflict with the ascended sacrifice, unable to devour the soul, and it was a heretical evil.

As a visitor from another world, Yu Lie is not a creature of this world, and he is participating in the assessment of the Taoist Palace. Naturally, it is impossible for the Taoist Palace to let them harvest and devour souls at will, lest they fall into evil ways.

Therefore, Dao Lu and Dragon Qi directly extinguished the "dragon flame" in their eyes, making them unable to eat their souls.

And once they eat souls, their Taoist records will be severely marked, and they will never be hired by the Taoist palace.

However, although it is impossible to harvest the souls of ordinary creatures in this world, Taoist disciples still have another opportunity, and that is to harvest the souls that have been "harvested"!

That is, the crazy souls of the indigenous undead were imprisoned in their heads, and used as medicine bottles to rob them of the "souls of dragon feast" that they wanted to sacrifice to monsters.

And killing the indigenous undead and extinguishing the torches in various places are also the tasks of this Dao Palace assessment!

The specific task requirements and number are not restricted, and there is no upper limit. The more, the better. The Dragon Feast Soul that the Taoist disciples robbed can be exchanged for the same amount of spiritual stones after the assessment.

Suddenly.

In the unknown valley, the dragon energy surrounding Yu Lie disappeared. He had completely stepped into this foreign world, and the light around him was dim.

But in the bronze mirror, his two eyes were bright, as if a different kind of flame had been ignited.

This flame is not the "dragon flame" as the natives call it, but a kind of desire called greed.

It's not just Yu Lie who is like this. More than 40,000 Taoist disciples who came to the foreign world, after getting through the initial panic, learned a little about the situation in this world, and their eyes showed greed.

The ancient way of immortality involved eating the wind and drinking dew; the way of immortality today involves eating food from all directions.

As Taoists after the Great Destruction of the Mountain and Sea Realm, Yu Lie and others bowed to a ray of spiritual energy every day. Now that they have encountered such a "soul of dragon feast" that is directly equivalent to a spiritual stone, they are like hungry mice. It was like lamp oil, and his eyes were glowing green.

Besides, this place is a different world, so they can be unscrupulous, and this trip is just an assessment. They have the Dao Palace behind them, so everyone will not die much!

Jie Jie!

Bursts of stern laughter suddenly sounded in this broken world.

Opportunity, no small opportunity!

The figures that landed one after another, with excitement in their eyes, immediately walked out of their hiding places and rushed towards the golden and red torches scattered everywhere.

The sun is falling, and the setting sun is like blood, taking care of the visitors.