Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 786: The Location of the Cave Heaven

"No method can come out of thin air."

“It takes tremendous energy and cost to transform an inspiration into concrete results.”

"Especially the life-extending method you use, which requires countless test subjects. After confirming that there are no problems, it will be applied to you and then improved generation after generation."

"So, can you tell me where in your clan this method of prolonging life is practiced and tested?"

Ao Bing held the man's neck and the mark on his palm was pressed against his body, locking his soul and making it impossible for him to escape from Ao Bing's hands no matter what.

Before the man could speak, Ao Bing continued to speak.

"Of course, you don't have to tell me. That means after your soul returns to the netherworld, the ghosts and gods in the netherworld will learn these secrets from your soul and then tell me."

After hearing this, the man who was being held by Ao Bing's face changed again.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was different from all the practitioners he had dealt with in the past - this was a messenger from the underworld, and all his secrets could no longer be secrets in front of the underworld.

"But I don't believe that you, the Netherworld, really dare to pry into other people's secrets at will." After a moment, the man seemed to have thought of something and forced a smile. "If that's true, how could the strong between heaven and earth tolerate the existence of you, the Netherworld ghosts and gods."

"No one will pry into the secrets of ordinary people, and the ghosts and gods in the underworld will naturally not pry into the memories in their souls."

"But the fugitive whose name you had long since erased from the Book of Life and Death is not the case."

"You should know the reason yourself."

So the man also fell silent.

There is a blue book in the sky, with Qi as its root.

The earth has a record of the dead, and uses the living as a proof.

This is just like the Yellow Book in their human world, which records the identity of every person - the Yellow Book in the human world. Only those who are included in the Yellow Book are considered human beings and are protected by humanity.

Those outside the Yellow Book are non-human.

Everything that happened to you has nothing to do with humanity - no matter what the reason was that your name was not included in the yellow list.

This is also the reason why the princes in the human world, as well as the immortal gods, can casually take countless slaves for surgery, use the slaves as consumables, and even use their flesh and blood as precious medicine.

As for these people, they were safe and sound between heaven and earth before because their secret methods were "hidden" from humanity and they were protected by humanity. Therefore, even if the Ministry of Life and Death lost its name, it would not affect them at all.

But at this time, humanity no longer protects them, their names are not on the Book of Life and Death, and their "Qi" does not exist between heaven and earth.

In this case, the rules between heaven and earth naturally have nothing to do with them, let alone the underworld. Even if Ao Bing at this moment used the soul-searching method on them openly, splitting their souls and searching for everything he wanted in their souls, there would be no trouble - unless Ao Bing really saw something extraordinary.

"If you can give me a quick death, so that my soul no longer suffers in the netherworld but enters reincarnation directly, I will tell you those places. Not only the secret places of our family, but also the secret places of other families. I will tell you as well."

"I can only promise that if you tell me in detail, you will not suffer unnecessary pain from the anger of the ghosts and gods after you enter the underworld."

Hearing this, Jie fell silent again and carefully considered Ao Bing's words.

Avoiding death and prolonging life is a road of no return - because it is a way to anger the underworld.

They all knew how to vent their anger on the offender after being offended, let alone the ghosts and gods in the underworld.

Therefore, once this method of avoiding death and prolonging life is used, it must be used consistently, lest it one day fall into the hands of ghosts and gods in the underworld.

Likewise, the longer they evade and deceive, the more terrifying the wrath of the ghosts and gods in the Netherworld will become, and these people will become more and more afraid to return to the Netherworld.

Therefore, for this person, Ao Bing's conditions were really tempting - only the original merits and demerits would be settled, without having to suffer additional pain, and the anger of the ghosts and gods in the underworld would not be vented on him.

"It's a deal." The old man said, and immediately named a place in front of Ao Bing.

——Contrary to Ao Bing's expectations, the noble families in the Hufang country, who studied ways to avoid death and survive, were actually gathered in the same area.

"Ghost Lord, this method is originally a taboo. You must avoid heaven, earth and humans."

"There aren't many places that can be hidden from the heavens, the earth, and the people. Building these places would consume a lot of resources. If every clan did their own thing, choosing their own place, preparing their own resources, flesh, blood, souls, etc., then the secret of prolonging life would have been exposed to the world long ago."

At the beginning, these shadowy actions were indeed hidden in the wild mountains and wilderness, in unknown places.

But as time went on, as those aristocratic families, some princes, and even a certain generation of human kings were pulled into this shadow, the wind direction began to change slowly.

From the initial pursuit of secrecy and stability, it has become the pursuit of safety and efficiency.

Therefore, under the guidance of that generation of human kings, these shadowy habits also changed.

With the protection of the Human King, they moved their base from an uninhabited place where they might be bumped into by practitioners, to a place where mortals gathered - this would allow them to avoid those practitioners and also provide them with enough "materials."

At the same time, the tradition of "concentrating resources to accomplish great things" was also integrated by the King.

Different strongholds, according to their respective routes, had their required materials integrated into one center after another to conduct unified integration and unified testing on the method of longevity.

The king of that generation was named Jie - Jie of Xia.

After integrating various research centers, as the research progressed step by step, these nobles who were pursuing the extension of life became more and more demanding on materials - from ordinary slaves to fellow countrymen, and finally, even some nobles and some practitioners were abducted and turned into materials.

The rule of the Xia dynasty, which was established by the first human king and passed down from generation to generation, came to an end because of the exposure of this incident.

After King Cheng Tang destroyed the Xia Dynasty, he wanted to eliminate these shadows, but he was shocked to find that with the demise of the Xia Dynasty, these shadows also shrank.

After some research centers were wiped out, the remaining research centers became empty shells.

The kings of the Shang Dynasty all knew that those empty shells did not mean that the shadows had disappeared.

Rather, it means that this shadow has been taken away and digested by the other princes who rose up in rebellion with them, and has become one of the foundations of those princes.

Perhaps at first, the princes who raised the army just wanted to understand these things and then formulate strategies to deal with them. But as time went on, they also began to need these things.

Even some people in the Shang Dynasty royal family were caught up in this shadow.

However, these people's ability to hide and lie dormant was too strong, coupled with the protection of the princes and the aftermath of the war - so, after the war between Shang and Xia, all traces of the shadow disappeared completely.

In other words, it completely parasitized the flesh and blood of the Shang Dynasty.

Just as the shadows cast by living beings under the sunlight cannot be eliminated.

Similarly, because of its vigilance against the Xia Dynasty and this shadow, the Shang Dynasty was even more stringent in its defense against this shadow.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, these shadows adopted the same methods as the Xia Dynasty.

With a vassal state as the center, the nobles and kings of this vassal state are pulled into this shadow, and then, under the protection of this vassal state, they "live and multiply."

What Jie told Ao Bing was such a research center located in the territory of Hufang Country.

All the mature or immature longevity techniques circulated in the Hufang Kingdom come from here - the method of stripping away the soul and the method of nourishing the blood, flesh and fetus also come from here, and are by-products of the process of researching and promoting longevity.

According to Jie, as long as this research center was destroyed, the legacy of longevity of the Hufang Kingdom would not be completely cut off, but it would definitely be cut off by 70% to 80%. Moreover, with the huge accumulation of two dynasties inherited by that research center, it would be almost impossible to reconnect it after its destruction.

Because with the passage of time, many past research results, as well as research raw materials, and even materials for casting some facilities, are no longer possible to find.

And that research center is located in a cave within the borders of Hufang Country.

The entrance to that cave was not somewhere else - it was right inside the royal palace, inside the statue of a human body with a tiger head!
In the country of Hufang, the king would often organize the nobles of the country to come to the palace to worship the ancestors of Hufang. That sacrifice was actually the king of Hufang taking these nobles to the cave to receive new research results and extend his lifespan.

At the same time, this sacrifice is also an excuse to send those many consumables as sacrifices to the research center in a reasonable way.

"Statue?" After sending the man in front of him into the underworld, Ao Bing looked up at the statue that was overlooking the royal capital from a high place, and he couldn't help but feel a headache.

I have to say, these people really chose a perfect hiding place.

Their methods are even more sophisticated.

The statue was made from the remains of the demon god, and the demon god's soul was trapped inside the statue - plus the humane aura of this royal capital.

It is no exaggeration to say that the existence of the statue is a treasure of humanity.

But even with such a precious treasure of humanity, those beings in the shadows can play with it in various ways, and even connected a cave hidden somewhere to the statue.

Even Ao Bing thought he was inferior to such means.

And for the current situation, the most troublesome thing is the location of the statue.

Within the palace.

At this time, the palace had been surrounded and blockaded by soldiers - the prince in the palace was also waiting for Chaoge's response.

This can be said to be the time when the defense inside and outside the palace was the most strict.

It is almost impossible to step into the palace at this time and then step into the cave through the statue.

Therefore, the safest way is to crush the statue from a distance, cut off the entrance to the cave, and seal off the cave permanently.

But the problem is that Ao Bing doesn't know whether there are other entrances to the cave.

It is also unclear how long the cave can drift in the void after being blocked, and it is even more unclear whether research centers in other places have the means to connect to this cave.

This method does not require facing the soldiers in the palace directly, nor does it require facing the unpredictable situation inside the cave.

——The only difficulty lies in how to smash the statue made from the corpse of the tiger demon god, or in other words, how to cleanse the cave portal on the statue.

Although this is also difficult, compared to breaking into the palace and then finding the portal to the cave and stepping into it under the siege of those soldiers, it is already very safe.

but……

"We still have to step into that cave." After a moment, Ao Bing shook his head.

Only by stepping into the cave and completely destroying everything in the cave with one's own hands can one avoid future troubles.

"It is said that the human race has a method to measure the cave heaven. If we can use this method, combined with the human race's vitality cannon, with one shot, everything in the cave heaven, along with the cave heaven, will be blown into nothingness. That would be truly foolproof."

"Unfortunately, the human race obviously won't let me use such means." Ao Bing shook his head and exhaled all the foul air in his chest. Then he took out his spear and headed towards the palace with it.

Under the blockade of the army, no means of hiding or escaping would be possible to enter the palace.

Therefore, the only way to enter the palace at this time is to break in!

When Ao Bing set off, the nobles in the city, those who could still make decisions, all hurried into the palace. Every noble who entered the palace underwent extremely strict inspections at the gate of the palace. Even the defensive equipment they usually wore was removed from their bodies.

In the past, this harshness would have caused a stir, but now it has not caused any dissatisfaction.

Because no one had time to linger in front of the palace gate - the princes in the palace were waiting for Chaoge's decision.

And these noble families who had just lost their helmsmen had to appear before the new king as soon as possible, pledge allegiance to him, and then, with the support of the new king, fight with their brothers and sisters for the power of the family in order to completely and fully obtain the family inheritance.

Especially those who have a vague awareness of longevity.

It was at this time that Ao Bing appeared in front of the palace gate.

"It's him!" The soldiers at the gate recognized Ao Bing's identity at the first moment and sent out the signal to assemble.

(End of this chapter)