Moon Emperor

Chapter 109: "History of Struggle" at the Underworld Cave Grass

Seeing Daoist Yuzhen coming back alone, Su Yan didn't ask anything, but just stepped aside.

Yuzhen didn't speak, she took out the commander's warrant again, pinched the sword finger with her left hand, and silently recited in her mouth: "Taiyi North Pole, I respectfully tell the gods; the blue dragon holds the candle, and the gate of heaven will open."

With the sound of chanting, a flame shot out from the warrant, reflecting on the bare mountain wall, and soon formed a portal in the shape of a door frame.

The world behind the door is blurry, but a piece of snow-white can be vaguely seen.

Yuzhen glanced at Su Yan, "It's a bit cold inside, please pay attention."

After speaking, she stepped into the door first.

Looking at the mysterious world, Su Yan was a little excited. He has devoted himself to cultivation and rarely went out in these years, and it is not bad to explore the secret realm now.

Silently mobilizing mana in his body to prepare for the cold, Su Yan followed into the door.

A world of ice and snow, endless wind, endless snow, a world covered in silver.

This is Su Yan's first impression of this place after entering the Arctic Sky Candle Realm.

In fact, in a sense, this environment exists for the survival of the Underworld Cave Grass. Its internal environment simulates the bitter cold of the Arctic and is highly similar to the [Mountain of Planting Fire].

Rumor has it that this mountain is completely dark where the sun and the moon can't shine.

But in this extremely cold place, there is "a green dragon holding a candle to illuminate the four poles of the mountain".

In the Arctic Sky Candle Realm, it is naturally impossible for there to be a suspected ancient candle dragon. It is just a simulation of a candle-holding dragon shadow, illuminating this secret place from a very high place.

Otherwise, when Su Yan and the others came in, it would be pitch black, and there would be no snow scene to be seen.

Speaking of Candle Dragon, Su Yan's previous impression of this mythical creature was the description in "Shan Hai Jing": a human face with a snake body, eyes open for day, eyes closed for night; blowing breath for winter, exhaling for summer.

After reading more ancient books, he realized that the Candle Dragon had another image with a candle in its mouth.

For example, in "Shi Han Shen Wu", there is a saying that "the sky is not enough to the northwest, and there is no news of yin and yang, so there is a dragon holding fire essence to shine in the gate of heaven".

In "Chu Ci Zhangju", there is also a saying that "in the northwest of the sky, there is a dark and sunless country, and there is a dragon holding a candle to illuminate it".

While Su Yan was observing the world and adapting to the cold climate here, Master Yuzhen looked around and said with a little emotion: "It feels like this place has never changed, how many years have passed."

Su Yan took the opportunity to ask: "Can the real person please introduce the situation of this place to me? Although I have heard about this place, I don't know the details."

"Let's talk as we go." Yuzhen took the lead towards a certain ice peak, without any intention of flying.

The mountain was so tall that Su Yan could only see halfway up the mountain when he looked up. The upper half of the mountain was completely covered by clouds and snow.

There seems to be only one such high mountain in the Arctic Sky Candle Realm, and other peaks are scattered around, and the top can be seen at a glance.

"At the beginning, this place was only created for transplanting and planting living cave grass, but in order to build a complete arctic ecology, the great supernatural beings at the time also worked hard, so what should have been in the ancient arctic, here is absolutely Part of it."

Yuzhen began to explain to Su Yan in a soothing tone. It is worth mentioning that she did not leave her own footprints on the snow.

Although I don't know if the other party is used to doing this, or to hide his tracks, Su Yan also followed carefully. He used some lightness skills in "Extreme Warfare", so stepping on the snow without a trace is not too difficult.

"Our goal this time is the Underworld Cave Grass, so let's talk about this first."

"Actually, many years ago, the Underworld Cave Grass could not move, let alone run, and there is no ancient document describing such a bizarre situation."

"Even when the Qingcheng Palace was first established, it was not difficult to collect cave grass."

"But later, I don't know whether it was picked too much, or something changed in the Arctic Sky Candle itself. Although the cave grass didn't have long legs, they all ran away."

"To be precise, the land under them will move around, as if carrying the will of the fairy grass."

"The seniors of Qingcheng Palace have been investigating this for hundreds of years, but they have not been able to find out the reason in the end."

"It can only be explained as: the Underworld Cave Grass in this realm may have produced some kind of group and heritable spirituality, and this spirituality has become entangled with the core of the secret realm."

"This leads to the fact that when the hole grass has the intention of self-protection, they can use the power of the secret realm to change their position."

Su Yan was a little surprised when he heard that, "Is this about to become a master?"

Yuzhen shook her head, "It's not that simple. Originally, it is more difficult for plants and trees to transform demons than birds and beasts; plants and trees that are natural treasures are even more difficult."

"Otherwise, with the innate appearance of some immortal grasses and elixir, if all of them are easy to become refined, it will not be our turn to pick them. I'm afraid they will come to pick us."

"So in general, we can accept that in the Arctic Sky Candle Realm, after thousands of years, one or two Cave Grass Demons that can become spirits have been bred by chance."

"However, it is impossible for all the cave grasses to become refined from a certain moment. This is a violation of the natural law between heaven and earth."

"Although the Qingcheng Palace has not been able to solve this mystery for a long time, we have also come up with some methods to improve the success rate of collection."

"For example, strengthen the search method and search scope; another example is to master some methods that can burst out extremely fast in a short period of time."

"Finally, some traps can be set."

"It's strange to say that although the bright stem grass grows in the extremely cold place, it is not a natural treasure of the yin attribute, but neutral and mild, which can strengthen the yang energy."

"Besides, it is yin-loving, and the places where it lives are mostly places where the yin energy of the earth's veins is stagnant. When running away and moving, it also likes to burrow into such places."

"So we can artificially create some places with strong yin energy, and scare away the dark cave grass when we find them, and lure them into the set trap by themselves."

Su Yan felt a little ashamed when he heard that, these little flowers and grasses are really hard to compare with humans in terms of fighting minds.

"However, this method has been used a lot, and it has not worked well in the past few hundred years. The cave grass that grew later has gradually become vigilant, and rarely enters the shade where human traces are obvious."

"For this reason, we have to spend a lot of time, use some precious Yin-type natural treasures, and arrange perfect enough traps to attract them."

"But this is not cost-effective, and the cost is too high. Sometimes it is better to use the original stupid method, which is the search and chase methods mentioned above."

"It is also because it is very difficult to obtain the cave grass, so now basically in the sect, whoever wants to use it, whoever picks it by himself, there is no saying that the sect will distribute it to you."

(End of this chapter)