I, the only extraordinary in this world

Chapter 93 Ksitigarbha

When he first entered the Qinling Mountains, the stories he heard from the old people in that old village have basically been verified here.

A sudden outbreak of rat plague, a mysterious man wrapped in a black robe with only one pair of eyes to see...

Unsurprisingly, the mysterious man was the only survivor who survived from here.

And the last time he came in here, he couldn't go out again.

And the purpose of his last line is to solve a scourge buried here.

Li Heng looked at the countless pairs of scarlet light spots in the darkness on the other side, and the creaking sound lingered one after another.

This huge rat nest exists naturally here, and the White Lotus Sect believes that these huge rats, which have never been seen on the surface, are monsters guarding this place.

Li Heng felt that this might be some kind of strange symbiotic relationship.

Originally, these rat swarms would not go to the ground. Their long-term living environment is deep underground, so there has never been a rat wave invading the Qinling Mountains in the past long years, and humans living on the surface do not know about it. There are also such biomes in the Underground.

Even after the White Lotus Sect discovered this place, built an altar, and kept making "great immortals", there was no huge rat wave.

Except for local human-mouse conflicts, most of the time it is peaceful.

So Li Heng doesn't think that the rat's nest here exists to protect the [Ksitigarbha Essence]. Both should be the product of the peculiar space environment here.

All the changes happened later. It was after the arrival of another group of people during the Republic of China that the rat population became abnormal and even rushed out of the ground at one point, forming a large-scale rat plague.

All of this depends on Li Heng getting the answer from the record of the survivor and the last "Iron Armored Bronze Corpse Immortal".

"That guy Wu Qiu is actually a traitor! He has defected to the Japanese army and stole Yalongjian. Although I have captured and killed him, Yalongjian has been sent to the Kinoshita Brigade of the Japanese army by him, and he can't find him again." ..."

This is a piece of information Li Heng found in these records.

There is a key word [pressing the dragon] in it.

And this thing he saw not long ago, it was in the notebook of the explorer Ale Jones!

Something that attracted him to travel thousands of miles to China.

Not only that, Li Heng also saw this title in the secrets of the White Lotus Sect left on some altars.

There is such a sentence in it-

"The wonders of the world come from the Qinling Mountains, and there is a mystery deep in the dragon's veins"

"Ksitigarbha Essence Dragon Saliva, pressing Longjian Town Purgatory Heaven"

What exactly is this so-called [pressing the dragon]?
Li Heng continued to pursue with this question——

"If there is no pressure on the dragon, the poisonous dragon will make trouble"

Another such record appears on a scripture on the altar, which is a modified Zen scripture.

In it, the content of the "Sea Dragon King Sutra" has been drastically revised, and the dragon that turned the sea was changed to the poisonous dragon of purgatory.

Purgatory is the eight-heat hell mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. The entire eight-heat hell is covered with flames and burnt iron into the ground. It is also called this place as the extremely hot hell among the eight heat hells.

Speaking of the abnormal temperature here and the dark red warm palace stones everywhere, it is indeed very similar to the extremely hot hell, and the White Lotus Sect itself, as a branch of Buddhism (self-confessed), adopts the theory of Buddhist mythology to incorporate this underground space into the teaching system In the future, including this strange place into the world view of the religion, in a sense, it is to complete the legitimacy of its "legal system", so as to convince the believers.

And it also derived a legend that the poisonous dragon was suppressed in purgatory.

Originally, this kind of story should be purely superstitious rumors, fabricated by the White Lotus Sect to perfect its own teachings and confuse the general public.

But now Li Heng looks at it in combination with reality, maybe it's not that simple.

After all, the group of righteous men of the Republic of China who came here a hundred years later are no longer members of the White Lotus Sect, but he also mentioned related matters, and also said that the [Pressing Dragon Sword] was stolen.

Li Heng took a step forward. He was looking for all kinds of information to corroborate each other. On one side was the content written by the White Lotus Sect in the form of superstitious teachings and legends, and on the other side was the scattered "diary" left by the righteous man.

"After losing the Yalongjian, the poisonous dragon is no longer safe, and the group of rats are frantic and inexplicable. The poisonous dragon may not be far away, and the people on the ground can do nothing..."

Li Heng frowned slightly. Could it be that a so-called poisonous dragon is really imprisoned here?
It is precisely because of the loss of the [Suppressing Dragon Jian] that it loses its suppression, the poisonous dragon will turn over and there will be a catastrophe, and it is because of this catastrophe that the rat nest will riot and flee to the ground?

Li Heng couldn't help thinking of the series of regular sounds he heard before, stretching and stretching, like the sound of subterranean breathing.

Could it be that the dragon is breathing?

Li Heng immediately decided not to make random guesses by himself, and stared ahead. Anyway, the answer was not far away, and he wanted to find out the truth by himself!
The noisy mouse calls still lingered around his eardrums, as if countless burrs were piercing his cerebral cortex repeatedly.

But Li Heng was unmoved, with a face as cold as cast iron, and walked straight towards the back of the altar, where only the special landforms of naturally formed rocky ravines remained.

In the dim red light, Li Heng could only see that it was a semicircular uplifted high slope, which was very huge, completely made of natural underground rocks, without any traces of artificial polishing, but it was covered with strips. There are cracks and ravines, and the "Immortal Pregnancy Pond" is on this semicircular high slope.

Except for the narrow rocky path connecting the altar, the rest of the rocky high slope is crowded with dense scarlet light spots, like an ocean.

A sea of ​​rats.

Anyone who walks here will be under tremendous psychological pressure, just thinking about the possibility of falling down... It's not just scalp numbness.

But fortunately, the group of rats swarming around here like a wave has no meaning of climbing up this high slope, but they are all around here in a well-behaved manner.

Judging from this situation, it is no wonder that the people of the White Lotus Sect thought these "demon rats" were the guards of the Ksitigarbha.

Li Heng's feet were still steady, ignoring the oppressive feeling of the rats and walking all the way up the tall stone slope, one of the ravines in his eyes came to the top.

There, he finally saw the "Immortal Pond" and "Ksitigarbha Essence" that the White Lotus Sect called.

It was a small pool embedded in the rocky slope, about one zhang square, wide at the front and narrow at the back, resembling the shape of a big chestnut or pine cone.

And it was filled with white "emulsion", just as the record said, it seemed to be the milk oozing from the earth, the essence condensed from pure vitality, pure white as snow.

Inlaid here looks like a piece of coagulated protein, or amber made of thick emulsification.

"Is this thing really a natural product of the creation of heaven and earth..."

After seeing this thing, Li Heng couldn't help being moved, feeling mysterious.

It's incredible that he can accept this thing as a spectacle specially created by someone.

The [Ksitigarbha Essence] in this pool should not be a pool of stagnant water, fixed, but growing slowly every year.

Now that nearly a hundred years have passed, the liquid inside has already filled this small pool.

So Li Heng saw a wisp of overflowing "emulsion" flowing down the natural ravines of the semicircular stone slope, and suddenly there was a huge wave among the rats!

A dozen or so mice with dark red fur opened their mouths at the bottom of the slope to catch the flowing [Ksitigarbha Essence] and swallowed it.

Immediately afterwards, all the rats quickly moved away from these rats to create a "passage". These rats rushed along the passage, but they began to struggle and twitch before they ran far, becoming strange and inexplicable, as if they were poisoned.

But they still rolled and crawled forward until they collapsed at the end of the "channel", struggling and convulsing to death.

And at the end, Li Heng saw an incredible thing—it had no gray-black fur, and its whole body was covered with dark red skin. It was as big as a juvenile sow, unable to move like a pile of A giant female mouse lying among the rats like rotten meat!

The fat, naked mother mouse has no eyes, and there are countless squeaking young mice that are only the size of a thumb under her abdomen.

She stretched out her fat and eyeless head, opened her mouth, and bit and ate the mice that had just died.

(End of this chapter)