SWDnovel Chapter 1833 The dusty past
Chapter 1833 The dusty past
Chapter 1833 The dusty past
In the world of cultivating immortals, digging up other people's ancestral graves is a recognized taboo, but in comparison, colluding with the devil is an even bigger taboo.
The latter mistake is more serious - if the former taboo is violated, at the very least, one will rarely end up with the entire clan being exterminated.
Thinking of the clan extermination, Qu Shitong had to consider another problem: What if someone in the Xiong family had violated the taboo before Xiong Chumo?
This possibility does not exist.
With Qu Shitong's limited knowledge, he could roughly guess a fact.
It is very likely that Xiong Chumo had come into contact with the demon during the exploration outside the small world.
But he was not sure whether any of the Xiong family's ancestors had violated taboos before that.
Once this situation occurs, he will obviously be on the verge of being exterminated by his entire clan - whether he lives or dies depends on the other party's mood.
He thought for a few seconds before sighing, "Senior, you can't ask me to say the word 'agree'."
If you want to dig it up, go ahead. Anyway, the ancestral temple has been messed up beyond recognition in the past few days.
But expecting him to express his agreement... Sorry, it is impossible for the Qu family to have such an unfilial descendant!
"I didn't intend to ask for your consent," Qu Jianlei said calmly, "I just wanted to inform you... after all, you are the only descendant left."
He also knew that what he was about to do was a bit taboo, so he had to be a little bit reverent when doing it.
Will you leave this bloodline of mine? Qu Shitong nodded silently. It seems that these seniors are not particularly overbearing in their actions.
Next, everyone rushed to the Xiong family ancestral temple.
The ancestral temple had been destroyed beyond recognition, with two walls of the main hall collapsed, leaving only the crumbling half.
This has nothing to do with the education of the Qu family's children. Those who have been attacked by the devil's energy have long lost their sanity, and it is not surprising that they do anything.
Among the densely packed ancestral graves, many had experienced the impact of fighting, and dozens of graves had been overturned.
However, going further ahead, most of the area of the Xiong family's ancestors is intact, especially the tomb of the ancestor.
Perhaps even under the influence of the devil, some reverence for ancestors still remains?
This ancestor's tomb is a little taller and bigger than Xiong Chumo's tomb.
It is said that the Qu family renovated it later - they couldn't let the gate tower of Xiong Chumo, a descendant, be taller than that of the ancestor, right?
What is rare is that this ancestral tomb has a defensive formation, and it is in an open state.
Normally, even if there is a defense array at an ancestral tomb, it will not be open all the time.
In Qu Jianlei's impression, when the chaos started, it seemed that someone in the Xiong family who was a little more sober activated the formation.
However, the highest defense of the formation in this world is only at the foundation-building level, and the ancestral tomb has only been opened to the Qi-refining stage.
He flicked his sword casually and directly destroyed the formation.
A big hand appeared behind the paranoid man's head and easily opened the grave. Then, several powerful spiritual senses swept over.
The next moment, several people's expressions changed slightly, "There is a cave?"
"Be careful," Jiao Daoren's spiritual sense came, "There may be a self-destruct device!"
As an elder of the Beast Taming Sect, no one knows this better than him - the secrets of this cave cannot be known to outsiders.
Then, several spiritual senses swept back and forth next.
The cave does have a self-destruct device, but how could it be hidden from the consciousness of a Nascent Soul?
After cracking the device, Qu Jianlei and others went down into the tomb, and people were arranged outside to pick them up.
After Qu Shitong discovered the existence of the cave, the expression on his face was quite complicated.
There was surprise, resentment, annoyance, relief, shame, resentment... and a hint of curiosity.
As the eldest son of the direct lineage, he didn't even know that there was such a layout in the ancestor's tomb...
He hesitated for seven or eight seconds, but still walked into the cave head-on - my ancestors' things are not allowed to be seen by outsiders, so why shouldn't I?
Fortunately, the few evil foreign guests didn't take it seriously, probably... because there was a huge difference in their cultivation levels.
Before going down into the cave, Qu Jianlei and his companions had already confirmed that there was no obvious demonic aura inside.
Otherwise, I would definitely not have entered so rashly.
However, in the cave, they were delighted to find that the Xiong family had actually left quite a few records in the cave.
These records clearly record the origin of the small world.
It turns out that this place is indeed a weak point leading to the demon world.
At that time, the immortal cultivators had no time to conquer this demon world, so they simply sealed off the town and left it for later action.
However, the plan changed later and the cultivators had to evacuate this world first, and it was uncertain when they would be able to return.
So a powerful person took action and sealed off this place with a small world line.
The weak points of the space barrier are actually vague and uncertain, and immortal cultivators have a clear understanding of this.
Therefore, it is necessary to create a talisman, firstly to prevent the invasion of demons, and secondly to leave a cause and effect for easy search in the future.
However, if it is just a small world, the effect of guarding it is not very good - without popularity, the world will not be complete.
A popular world is both nourishment for the demons and can attract them, but at the same time, it is also the demons' nemesis.
The mutual promotion and restraint under the laws of nature are so magical.
At the same time, unfortunately, another powerful person discovered that there were many cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation who needed to go to the battlefield to atone their sins.
They are all cultivators who have committed serious crimes. Fortunately, they have the opportunity to conquer other worlds, otherwise, what awaits them is direct annihilation.
Then it is just right to send the low-level cultivators among these people to guard this world.
When these people first came to guard the city, a powerful person did say that if they guarded the city for a certain period of time, their mission would be considered complete.
Unfortunately, these powerful beings never came back after they left.
The Xiong family also has some roots in the world of immortal cultivation, and they are relatively clear about the cause and effect involved.
So from the very beginning, the Xiong family carried out the mission very seriously, looking forward to the future.
However, this matter involves many causes and consequences and cannot be made public. We should all hold on to hope and complete the garrison mission conscientiously.
So there was the cave of the Xiong family's ancestor's tomb, which only every clan leader knew about and could continue to add various information.
The following clan leaders also maintained a positive attitude and recorded various events that happened in the small world.
However, as time went by, the garrison mission continued, but the promise was delayed, and the successor patriarch gradually began to waver.
At first, several clan leaders did not dare to complain, but only wondered if they had been forgotten. But later, their suspicions grew stronger...
In the end, the Qu family split up and not only occupied the ancestral temple, but also went to war with their own branch.
Naturally, there would be no further follow-up after this, and the patriarch’s records came to an abrupt end.
The clan leaders who had left records before were indeed on guard against the demons and had written down many seemingly abnormal phenomena.
Some phenomena are similar to those in “Science Approaches”. After being revealed, they are not worth mentioning, but some are really worth pondering.
Some of the individual phenomena could not be explained clearly even by Qu Jianlei and his team.
Qu Jianlei and others were watching, and Qu Shitong was also watching.
After reading it, he heaved a sigh of relief and said impatiently, "Senior, my ancestor was very attentive..."
Qu Jianlei ignored him and looked at the others, using his spiritual sense to indicate, "The path to the demon world..."
Everyone just wants to go to the world of immortals and the world of demons... If they go there now, I'm afraid there will be no trace of their bodies left!
Even the stubborn paranoid man looked unhappy, "This place should have been... infiltrated by the demon world?"
"Besides, we messed up the defensive formation a little bit... what?"
No one could answer his question because it was a very bad guess!
After a long while, Jiao Daoren said, "As for infiltration, it's not necessarily the case... After guarding for a long time, it's a bit contaminated with aura, isn't that normal?"
These were obviously words of comfort, but everyone felt a little better after hearing them.
Then, Yi He also comforted everyone, "I kind of understand why Broken Blade and World Breaking Shuttle reacted that way."
According to him, the Boundary-Breaking Shuttle was originally used to break boundaries.
It discovered the breath from another world, so it was normal for it to absorb a wave of energy.
As for the properties of this wave of energy, or where its origin comes from, no one can tell clearly.
Yi He could only guess that it was related to the realm.
And the Broken Sword... is undoubtedly a weapon of the human race. It cannot be sealed by a large formation, and it will ruthlessly attack the aura from other worlds.
This explanation is logically self-consistent.
But everyone was silent for a long time, and then the paranoid man spoke again, "So now, how should we deal with the current situation?"
This is another soul-searching question - going to the demon world is not advisable, but you can't just leave like this, right?
Qu Jianlei thought for a moment and replied, "Then let's continue digging the grave."
The corner of Qu Shitong's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything in the end.
Having one's ancestral grave dug up was a tragic thing, and it was considered as an act of unfilial behavior by descendants. However, the secret of the underground cave in the ancestral grave also opened his eyes.
He had never thought that a tomb could be used in this way.
However, when Qu Jianlei and his men took action again, it had nothing to do with the Xiong family's tombs, but was aimed at the Qu family after their separation.
This is also a very normal choice. After all, all the previous patriarchs of the Xiong family have been keeping records and no major problems have occurred.
But it is hard to say about the Qu family after the split, so it is normal to know more about the situation.
But when Qu Shitong saw this, his face became even uglier, and he stammered, "Senior..."
However, no one paid any attention to him, and he didn't have the courage to continue to pester her.
When a paranoid person digs up graves, he doesn't just do it without caring about the consequences. He usually chooses those that are more famous or seem a little suspicious.
It didn't take long for him to destroy forty or fifty tombs, but unfortunately he found nothing.
After all, not everyone has the habit of hiding things in graves.
Taoist Jiao muttered, "There's not even a magic weapon among the burial objects. It's really... can it be any poorer?"
As a Yuanying master, he certainly looked down on low-level magic weapons and just complained casually.
However, Jing Yuexin felt that she had received a hint when she heard it, so she used her spiritual sense to ask, "Boss, how about collecting some techniques?"