Hedao

Chapter 2 Scarlet Sky View

Qin Ziling's heart was shocked when he heard the words, and he even felt a little difficult to breathe.

He just asked casually because he suddenly remembered the ancient well in the nightmare, but he never expected that there really was a Taoist temple like Chixiao in reality.

"Ahem, I just heard someone mention it by accident yesterday, so I'm a little curious." Naturally, Qin Ziling would not say that he dreamed about it in a nightmare, so he lied casually.

Mrs. Cui didn't think too much, said "Oh", and then said: "This Chixiao Temple is located at the foot of Xiaolong Mountain about fourteen or five miles away from our village. You still had some incense when you were a child. Your father was ill that year. Heavy, I accidentally heard the name of Chixiao Temple, so I made a special trip there."

"However, the world is very chaotic now. Horse thieves are looting and killing everywhere. Xiaolong Mountain is far away from the county town and official roads. Bandits and horse thieves are the most rampant. The villagers living in that area were either killed or fled, and most of the villages were looted. Destroyed, the Chixiao Temple has already fallen."

Speaking of this, Cui seemed to think of something, and sighed faintly, unable to hide her worry.

Qin Ziling couldn't help feeling heavy when he heard the words, this world is not peaceful!

"Mother, Ranyue, I'm going to the martial arts hall first." Qin Ziling asked some questions about the location of Xiaolong Mountain, finished his breakfast in a hurry, then picked up the lunch that Yinranyue had prepared for him a long time ago, got up and said .

"Pay attention to safety on the road. I heard people say yesterday that bandits are also running around the area around the county. A few days ago, the Li family village was ransacked." Cui urged.

"I will." Qin Ziling nodded and left, feeling more and more heavy in his heart.

Lijia Village was only more than ten miles away from the city wall of the county city, and not far from the official road. Logically speaking, it should be within the deterrent range of the defenders of the county city. It was still a surprise to Qin Ziling that it was looted.

"It seems that the world is indeed getting more and more chaotic. Only moving to the city can be safer, but I have no money or strength now, so moving to the city is not easy!" Qin Ziling walked along the official road, towards the opposite side of the county. He strode towards Xiang, thinking secretly, feeling an indescribable sense of urgency and powerlessness in his heart.

Walking along the official road for five or six miles, you can also see popular villages along the way. The fields are connected one by one, and farmers working in the fields can be seen from time to time.

But if you go a little further, you will see stretches of weedy fields, dilapidated and uninhabited villages, and apart from caravans escorted by bodyguards, there are groups of sallow and emaciated refugees on the road. See people walking alone.

After walking another four or five miles, Qin Ziling turned from the official road to the trail leading to Xiaolong Mountain.

Because no one has walked these trails for a long time, they are overgrown with weeds and thorns, making it quite difficult to walk, and these hills and wilderness are also full of bandits who fall into the grass.

Fortunately, Qin Ziling had practiced martial arts, so he was agile, and he acted alone, so he was very mobile, and it was strange to say that since he was reborn, he had clear eyes and ears, and he still had the kind of eyes and ears that were almost demonic, and he was also sensitive to the changes in the surrounding atmosphere. With a very keen sense.

Therefore, Qin Ziling was careful along the way, allowing him to discover a few places where bandits were ambushing in advance, avoiding the danger of being blocked and robbed.

After more than two hours, Qin Ziling came to Xiaolong Mountain without any danger.

Before actually reaching Xiaolong Mountain, Qin Ziling smelled the gloomy mountain wind blowing towards him with an extremely unpleasant smell, like rotten meat.

When he actually arrived at Xiaolong Mountain, Qin Ziling's heart beat faster involuntarily when he saw the scene in front of him, and he felt a creepy feeling.

I saw several peaks of Xiaolong Mountain collapsed, and rocks rolled down the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain. Among them, several rocks the size of houses were split in two from the middle. Like a sword splitting.

Not only that, but on Xiaolong Mountain, you can see the smell of rotting meat and yellow liquid flowing everywhere, which is extremely disgusting and rotten.

These rotten substances, as well as the places where the yellow liquid flowed, all the vegetation turned yellow and lost their vitality.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Qin Ziling couldn't help but think of the two giant swords he saw in the dream, as well as the scene where the old ugly old man and the strange bird under him suddenly exploded, flying flesh and blood, and he couldn't help trembling.

"Really! Everything in my dream turned out to be real! This, how is this possible? I was reborn on Qin Ziling's body, so how could that old man be involved?"

Qin Ziling's heart was trembling, and his eyes subconsciously raised his eyes to look around.

Soon, Qin Ziling's heart was shocked again, and his eyes were fixed on a dilapidated Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

There is a plaque hanging obliquely on the lintel of the Taoist temple, with the words "Chixiao Temple" written on it.

Qin Ziling swallowed hard, then suppressed the shock in his heart, carefully avoided those disgusting things on the ground that were flowing with yellow fluid and exuding the smell of carrion, and soon came to Chixiao Temple.

Just as his mother said, Chixiao Temple has long since fallen, and the walls of the Taoist temple have collapsed in several places, and the inside is covered with dust and spider webs.

There was nothing unusual about the Taoist temple, and Qin Ziling quickly walked through the main hall of the Taoist temple to the backyard.

Sure enough, there is an ancient well in the backyard.

Qin Ziling walked quickly to the ancient well and looked down.

There was water in the ancient well, and there were some dead leaves floating on it. It was impossible to see what was at the bottom of the well, but inexplicably, when Qin Ziling looked down, he seemed to be able to feel something familiar to him at the bottom of the ancient well.

Qin Ziling didn't care to think about why this happened, and after confirming that the well rope was still strong, he immediately hung it down the well along the well rope.

Since the dream is real, it can be logically speculated that the old man can control the strange bird to fly in the air, and is chased and killed by two flying swords. Whether it is himself or the person who chased him, he is definitely a master.

Because at least in the county, Qin Ziling had never heard of anyone who could kill someone with a sword, and that was already close to a first-class sword fairy in the legend.

Therefore, the ring on the old man's finger is definitely not an ordinary thing.

With Qin Ziling's current family background and his fundamental talent, if he wants to have the ability to protect himself in this troubled world, the ring can be said to be his greatest hope.

After going down the well, Qin Ziling followed the induction in his heart, and soon saw the ring embedded in the crevice of the stone on the well wall.

As for the severed finger, I don't know where it fell off in the ancient well.

Qin Ziling stretched out his hand to pick out the ring from the cracks in the rocks on the well wall.

The moment the ring fell into his palm, Qin Ziling felt an extremely familiar feeling of being connected by flesh and blood. At the same time, his brain seemed to be touched suddenly, and many chaotic scenes rushed into him.

The chaotic picture fragments are almost all extremely bloody, sinister, and terrifying pictures, and the old man he saw in his nightmare is the common protagonist in these pictures.

There are more and more pictures, more and more chaotic.

Qin Ziling's headache was about to split, he resisted the feeling that his head was going to explode, quickly climbed out of the ancient well, and then fell unconscious beside the ancient well.

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Ziling woke up from the coma.

His eyes are still black and clear, but in the dark and clear depths, there is a faint flash of wisdom that has gone through vicissitudes, insight into the world, and insidious, evil, and ruthless.

"It turned out that when my soul consciousness passed through this body, the remnant soul of Li Mo, the suzerain of the Corpse Demon Sect, was trying to seize this body, and at the most critical moment, my arrival finally made me a snipe and a clam. The fisherman who fights for the fisherman's profit." Qin Ziling, who came to his senses, after careful deliberation and reasoning, finally gradually understood that he, who came from another modern civilized world, also merged with one of the six major demon sects, the Corpse Demon Sect. Suzerain Li Mo's remnant soul consciousness.

It's just that Qin Ziling didn't know why the head of the Corpse Demon Sect was killed in Xiaolong Mountain outside the county.

"God! I have also integrated the consciousness of a demon's remnant soul! Doesn't this mean that I have two soul consciousnesses and one remnant soul consciousness? By the way, since I was reborn, not only my eyes and ears are clear, but I also have the ability to respond to changes in the outside world. The senses are exceptionally sharp, and you can even multi-task, is it because this body has fused two soul consciousnesses and one remnant soul consciousness?" Qin Ziling also figured out many changes in his body after deducing the truth. .

Thinking in his heart, Qin Ziling's eyes fell on the black ring tightly held in his palm again.

(End of this chapter)