Myriad Paths

On the side of Huaxiu Mountain God, many mountain gods had finished their discussions, got the benefits, and understood the matter. So they stopped eating the banquet, put down a table of food and wine, and all the people ran outside.

After arriving outside, they each used their magical powers.

Some turned into the true form of monsters and ran quickly.

Some soared into the clouds and mist, half flying and half floating, and flew away.

Others have magic weapons in their collections, and they fly away with flying swords or cloud boats.

However, there is no such thing as the Huaxiu Mountain God who magically transforms into a strange wind or directly escapes into the earth's veins.

This is a trait that he only has as a mountain spirit. During this period, there were only a few people who could display these magical powers.

After watching the mountain gods leave, Huaxiu Mountain God looked at the three human shamans again: "Gentlemen, as shamans, you must have amazing skills. How can you help that Zhu Ren?"

The three wizards smiled and said: "Of course we also have means. Although we are not as powerful as the mountain gods, we can still use them."

Hearing this, Huaxiu Mountain God understood.

This method cannot be shown to the public.

However, he also showed great magnanimity and waved his hand: "Then let's split up and look for each other. If you have any clues, remember to come here and leave the information in the cave."

"Farewell to the Mountain God." Several shamans saluted immediately, and then watched the Huaxiu Mountain God leave.

They watched with envy as the Huaxiu Mountain God walked out, then swayed his body and transformed into a strange wind, leaving gracefully.

After the three wizards saw this spell, they started whispering.

But look at these three people.

The man was dark-skinned, tall and strong. He looked like he had been engaged in manual labor and practiced physical training. He should have worked his way up from the bottom.

Another person looked like an ordinary passerby, but he had a bald head and his eyes shone from time to time, showing that he was a practitioner.

There was another person, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He was very thin, but had a big beard. Every move he made showed that he was the leader of the trio.

The strong man sighed and said: "This kind of magic is really magical. You can go and come when you want. You can't be trapped by a wall or locked up. It's really a magical method."

"Okay, didn't you listen to what those mountain gods said? This one is a mountain spirit god, and there is a natural distance between him and the monsters. He is very different from us. Don't think about it." The bald man He curled his lips, even though he was envious, he was even more jealous.

It's just the difference in birth, but the other party can possess such magical skills, and he is born with them, and he even has a long lifespan.

As natural gods, mountain spirits can live for thousands of years even if their cultivation is not immortal. Such a long lifespan makes their promotion risk much less.

Unlike human monks, if they are not talented enough, they will die of old age if they are not careful.

Or the more extreme insect cultivators, that is called racing against time. The period of not entering the first level is basically a racing car. The longest time is two or three years. To live.

Innate spirits are superior to others in terms of cultivation. They have magical powers that they can use even if they don't practice.

"Well, you can't be envious of others. You'd better temper yourself. If you can worship into the gate wall of the Witch God Mountain, these are just some tricks." The thin middle-aged man interrupted the two people's words of envy.

Hearing the words 'worship to the gate wall of Wushen Mountain', the other two people also cheered up, took a deep breath, and felt confident.

The middle-aged man saw his companion cheering up, nodded, and continued: "If what the God of Huaxiu Mountain said is right, there is a big shot from Wushen Mountain who wants to find someone to do something. Let's handle this matter beautifully. Maybe he will be promoted by a big shot during the external examination."

"Look, with such pure spiritual energy, even if it is not used for practice and is simply used as a one-time magic weapon, it can easily kill an eighth-grade person, and even a seventh-grade one can withstand one or two. It can be seen that this Zhu Ren His cultivation level is definitely not low!”

The other two people he said looked excited and eager to try.

The strong man nodded: "What the old man said is right. We are definitely not as good as the mountain god when it comes to finding people. But when it comes to divination, it means that even Zhu Ren's divination skills can't find him." Can we find his mount?"

That strong man was also a witch. Even he had to use the mountain god to find him, so it would be even more impossible for him and others to find him with their divination skills.

The bald man pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head: "Old man, do you have a secret method?"

Hearing this, the old man smiled and said, "That's natural. Otherwise, how could I dare to recruit you guys to do this job?"

He said: "I have a secret method that can use memory as a guide to establish a connection, and then the location can be sensed remotely. I just need someone who has seen the dragon colt before to bleed it, seize its brain, and sacrifice it. Soul, if you extract the memory, you can give guidance."

"Is it that simple?" The strong man frowned, seemingly in disbelief.

"The old man won't lie to us. We are all brothers who have gone through life and death. You still can't trust him?" The bald man was a little unhappy at the strong man's doubts.

"It's not that I can't believe it, but it's too simple and I'm not sure about it." The strong man shook his head.

But the middle-aged man just smiled: "Whether it can work or not, we will know after trying it. Let's go find the people who have seen the dragon colt first."

"Yes, let's try it first." The other two people also nodded and decided to try it first.

"Besides, besides, this time we are doing things with the endorsement of this person, we are not afraid of making a big fuss. We are holding on to our backs." The bald man said with a smile.

The other two also smiled, obviously understanding what he was talking about.

Since it was an order from a high-level Zhuren, then it wouldn't be a big deal for them to use this name to make some money for themselves, right?

Anyway, as long as the information can be found, the big shots won't care so much.

From the beginning to the end, none of them had the slightest doubt about the bloody extent of this technique.

Because there is no need.

The path of witchcraft has no restrictions on this kind of thing, and it doesn't care about the so-called good and evil. The good and evil of witchcraft purely depends on what they think. The path itself does not impose any restrictions on the behavior of practitioners.

Good and evil themselves are meaningless under the entire laws of nature.

For example, if a tiger eats a deer, who is good and who is evil?

The answer is it doesn't matter.

There is no good or evil, no right or wrong. Witches and Taoists treat this equally, and they don't care. What they pursue is to maintain the supreme law of the universe. As for everything else, it is the product of natural operation under the supreme law.

Many high-quality shamans will carefully cultivate a new world and become existences like seeders of life in that world. They are simply the embodiment of kindness.

But at the same time, these 'incarnations of kindness' will casually end a world that is coming to an end, erasing this world and the hundreds of billions of lives that exist in it, just because doing so can allow a new world to be born.

The balancer of the laws of the universe, the balancer of the laws of nature, and the convergence point for communication among all things.

Clues can also be seen from the path lines of the three orthodox shamans.

Diviners are responsible for statistically calculating the laws of all things.

Zhu Ren is the center of communication among all things, using himself to maintain the balance of heaven, earth, humans, gods and ghosts.

Zong people implement all laws and manage existing things in a comprehensive way.

In the middle, there are only the cold and ruthless laws of nature and the laws of the universe, and there is no room for the existence of such things as good and evil.

Of course, for high-level witches or self-aware witches, there is no need to stick to good and evil. The motivation of their actions is to make the universe as a whole better.

Therefore, wanton killing is not only meaningless, but also has negative effects. Therefore, in addition to being weird and sinister, mid-to-high-level witches do not actually have the reputation of being bloodthirsty.

But... that's all.

Those who are not bloodthirsty are mainly middle- and upper-class shamans. They have realized many things, so they have formed their own unique views on good and evil, and most of them are impartial.

However, among the lower-level witches, especially those wild witches in the countryside, the killing phenomenon is quite serious.

Blood sacrifices, refining Gu, soul sacrifices, and body snatching are quite common. As a result, a branch has even developed called ghost witches, which specialize in refining human souls and playing tricks on imps. They have broken away from the grand road and have entered the category of evil paths. .

The purpose of the great road is to encompass the world, to explore the ultimate principles of the universe, and to interpret the entire universe with its own traditions and theories.

Xiaodao focuses on martial arts, and only cares about exploring how to do one thing well, how to complete some spells and techniques, such as making tea, practicing swordsmanship, taming animals, raising ghosts, etc.

The lineage of ghost witches has long deviated to the point where they don't care about the core of witchcraft, and they just use the methods of witchcraft to manipulate ghosts and gods to satisfy their own selfish desires.

It is a pity that both the Shewei County magistrate Li Qi once met and the three in front of him are all from the ghost witch lineage.

This is also the most common and most accessible path for wild witches in the countryside.

There's no way, it's easy to get started and there are no requirements for your character. It's just like using bad energy to practice martial arts...

As long as the number of kills and souls is controlled enough, the entry speed will be very fast.

However, it cannot be said that the real witchcraft has no responsibility at all. The development of ghost witches to this point actually has a lot to do with the connivance of the witchcraft.

The indifference to the bottom caused by neither good nor evil is the normal state of witchcraft. Sometimes, indifference leads to connivance.

Anyway, as long as it does not affect the overall natural laws, the great witches are too lazy to look up at the few victims.

In nature, death and predation are normal. Even orthodox witches will not care about these things. Ghost witches are just another kind of predator.

Like now.

These three ghost witches began their own predation.

How to prey?

It's very simple. There are also civilians in Wushen Mountain, and there are even more than just civilians. In the situation of Wushen Mountain, there are naturally reproduced demons, humans, and other races, forming a mixed society.

The area under the jurisdiction of Wushen Mountain is similar to the territory of Tang State, with its own unique ecology.

The three of them quietly came to the foot of the mountain and began to search for passers-by.

Under this mountain, there is a human village.

Inside the cottage, people were rejoicing.

It can be seen that the men in the village seemed to have caught a big wild boar. Everyone was very happy and lit a bonfire.

Most of the buildings here are made of wood, and only a few are made of stone. They look like simple primitive tribes, or the human race in the prehistoric period.

The clothes are also very simple, some are made of linen and some are made of animal skins, but none of them have the fashionable feeling of Tang Dynasty.

If we want to compare, it is modern society versus primitive society.

However……

Half of the people in the entire village are at the ninth level, and basically all adult males have successfully entered the ninth level.

They may seem backward, but their cultivation levels are surprisingly high!

Because this is the hinterland of Wushen Mountain, where everything thrives, and so do people.

Although there is cruel natural competition and predation, it is still developing in a good direction on the whole. The heaven and earth are full of spiritual energy, and all kinds of auspiciousness and miracles emerge in endlessly.

The total power of Wushen Mountain is even stronger than that of Tang State.

Both the population and the number of experts are larger than those of Tang State.

However, internal strife was quite serious, because there was no stable political power, and people existed as individuals or in groups, cultivating slash-and-burn farming, and living a less modern life.

With this kind of arrangement, it is difficult to twist all the forces into one rope like the Tang Dynasty.

However, productivity is definitely not low.

There are gods of mountains and rivers everywhere, and humans and gods get along harmoniously with each other. They also keep their distance and are not too close nor alienated. Therefore, the weather is smooth, and the heaven and earth themselves are strong, so the food output is not inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty.

And, although there are not a large number of magic weapons, the demons or people living in the Wushen Mountain realm will basically have stronger qualifications and physical fitness than the people of the Tang Dynasty.

They were born to live in the Wushen Mountain, and did not plunder the heaven and earth like the people of the Tang Dynasty, so they were full of spiritual energy, and the physical functions of various races became stronger under the nourishment of these spiritual sources.

In the realm of Wushen Mountain, there are much more natural gods than in the outside world. The probability of animals transforming into demons is also much greater. Humans will also have their own characteristics depending on where they live. For example, those who live in the mountains will have natural supernatural powers. , characteristics such as hard skin.

Those born living in water can control water, be able to breathe underwater, and so on.

This is the natural effect produced by the strength of heaven and earth.

This is also the future that Wushenshan is pursuing.

When the entire universe and all world groups are like this and operate according to the supreme law, the entire world becomes stronger and stronger. Sooner or later, all life will become a being like a natural god, and the entire world will enter the highest perfection. .

It seems backward, but it is not backward at all, it is just progress elsewhere.

In the village, people greeted each other warmly.

Several rickety old men, smoking big cigarettes, looked at the young man carrying the wild boar: "Hey, little old man, you have gained a lot this time!"

The young people also laughed and said: "Uncle, I didn't hurt the skin this time. It was pierced through the eye. I'm just afraid that grandma's favorite food will not be eaten!"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Your grandma has good teeth and can eat meat!"

The whole village was enjoying itself.

However, at this moment, the sky outside suddenly became dark.

Countless ghosts start running!

The ghosts of Wusi gathered in the dark,

Some were wounded by weapons, and some died from water, fire, and thieves.

Some were forced to die after their wealth was taken, and some were killed after their wives and concubines were forcibly taken away from them.

There are people who have died due to punishment, and there are people who have died due to natural disasters and epidemics.

Some were killed by ferocious beasts, poisonous insects, and others died of hunger and freezing.

Those three ghosts and witches summoned countless unjust ghosts and gathered outside the stronghold, blocking out the sky!

And all this was because of Li Qi's casual instructions, so they had the courage to pull off the tiger's skin.