[Chapter 1548: A frog in the well]
Mu Mantian told the story of this place. They were trapped here for ten thousand years. They also met people who came in earlier than them and learned about it from them.
According to Mu Mantian, this is indeed the center of the Thousand Demon Slaying Array. The entire Bagua Mountains are the center of the array.
And it is indeed used to suppress the demon.
In fact, this Bagua array did not exist at first. Later, the immortals and demons fought each other, and a big demon came. In the end, the nine immortals killed the demon’s body, but did not destroy the demon soul. The nine immortals also exhausted their magic power. They had no choice but to move mountains and set up arrays to suppress the demon soul in the center of the array.
The place where the demon soul was sealed is in the single peak in front of them.
Originally, according to the center of the Bagua, there were two single peaks of yin and yang. The single peak of yin attribute suppressed and sealed the demon soul, and the single peak of yang attribute was used to absorb the power of the outside world to maintain the large array and refine the demon soul.
However, later, a demon cultivator destroyed another single peak, which was equivalent to cutting off the power to refine the suppressed demon soul, in order to prevent the suppressed demon soul from being refined.
At the same time, the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth here was also cut off, so that the cultivators who entered later could not interfere with the refining of the demon soul, or in other words, they had no power to refine the demon soul, and could only rely on the power of the nine ancient immortals’ own immortal bodies to suppress the demon soul.
The current situation is that the nine ancient immortals suppressed the demon head at the cost of their lives, suppressed the single peak with the power of their immortal bodies, and completely connected themselves to the single peak through the sealing iron chain, forming a powerful immortal body formation.
The bodies of the nine ancient immortals have also become the source of power for the entire world of the formation. Mu Mantian and others have survived to this day by relying on the weak power emitted by the nine immortals’ immortal bodies on weekdays.
Mu Mantian and others have tried to find a way out, and also wanted to find a way to break through this formation world, but after countless years, they came to a conclusion that they can only enter but not leave.
Now, Yang Yiyun and Yuan Wuchang are told that they can’t get out once they enter. For the time being, they can only rely on their own true essence and the spiritual stones on their bodies to support them, but how long can they last?
One thousand years? Two thousand years, three thousand years… or even ten thousand years?
Without cultivating to become an immortal, a cultivator does not have an immortal body and lifespan. They
can’t get out of here at all, and will eventually die.
Without the support of spiritual energy, they don’t know how long they can last.
Even if the power of the immortal bodies of the nine ancient immortals is emitted, it is of little use.
Because Mu Mantian said that the power emitted by the immortal bodies of the nine immortals can only support eighteen people, which has been their experience for ten thousand years.
…
After finishing speaking, Mu Mantian looked at Yang Yiyu and Yuan Wuchang and said, “The power emitted by the nine immortal bodies here is only enough to sustain the lives of eighteen people, and now there are nine of us, plus the nine people on the other side of Dufeng, which makes a total of eighteen people. So your arrival means there are two more people competing for the share of immortal energy.
It doesn’t matter for the nine of us, but we are afraid that the other nine people on the opposite side will cause trouble, so you just stay here for the time being and don’t go to the other side of Dufeng.
The share of eighteen people is one carrot one position, unless someone dies, or gives up two places, otherwise you’d better preserve the true energy in your body to survive here…”
Touching on his own interests, Mu Mantian also directly stated the key points, and his words were very clear. There is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth here. When the true energy in one’s body and the spirit stones on the body are exhausted, there will be no support from the power of heaven and earth, and there will be only one way to die…
And the only source of power for everyone is the weak power emitted by the nine ancient immortal bodies, which can only guarantee survival.
Who would give up their positions to Yang Yiyun and Yuan Wuchang at this time?
And according to Mu Mantian, those trapped here were divided into two groups. One group was the nine of them, and the other group was on the other side of the single peak. They were the people from the sects of the cultivation world in the past dynasties. They were all people who were accidentally teleported into the center of the formation when they ventured into the Wujian Valley.
Although it was not said explicitly, it could be heard that the other group of people had no intersection with them.
Yang Yiyun could understand this. In the cultivation world and even in the mountain and sea world before, the sects looked down on the independent cultivators.
If the nine sects on the other side of the single peak found that Yang Yiyun and Yuan Wuchang joined in to compete for the weak immortal energy, they would definitely not be happy, so Mu Mantian kindly reminded them.
Yang Yiyun did not speak. He wanted to see how Mu Mantian and his people would face him and Yuan Wuchang when they faced matters concerning their own life and death?
Of course, to be precise, it was him.
Because Yuan Wuchang, the old immortal, was originally an old friend of Mu Mantian and his group.
After Mu Mantian finished speaking, Yang Yiyu deliberately said, “It has come to this, but I don’t know if Brother Mu has any good solution?”
As for the problem Mu Mantian mentioned, it would be a matter of life and death for others, but it would not exist for him.
Because he has the Qiankun Pot.
Now he deliberately asked Mu Mantian and others just to see human nature. When
Yuan Wuchang heard Yang Yiyu asking Mu Mantian, he was about to speak, but was glared back by Yang Yiyu.
The way of cultivation is also to observe human nature, especially in the face of such a matter of life and death, when human nature can be best reflected.
How could Yang Yiyu miss it?
The next moment, Mu Mantian smiled, his face calm, as if he had expected Yang Yiyu to ask such a question, and said, “To be honest, if it were a different environment, or even anywhere in the cultivation world, facing such a question, I would be the first to answer you. I will not give up my position to you. Who would want to die if they can live?
After all, letting you join us means that two of the nine of us will have to face death, but now…”
Mu Mantian’s voice lengthened when he spoke here, and he paused before continuing, “Now I can tell you that any of the nine of us can get a share, or a position to absorb the power of the immortal body, at any time after you have exhausted your true essence. After
being trapped for ten thousand years, this feeling of sitting in a well and looking at the world is too uncomfortable. This place is like an ancient well. We are not the natives of the well, but the creatures who fell into the well from the vast world, and we are always hoping to get out.
But we can’t get out… This is a dead end. Living here is no different from being dead. If there is a way to get out, there is still hope, but there is no way out. .
After being here for thousands of years, watching the old people around me go crazy and die one by one, I have long been numb. As a cultivator, not only can I not improve my cultivation here, but I need to rely on the power of the immortals to survive… I have lived enough…
Even the power of these ancient immortals will eventually be exhausted one day, and I will still die at that time. What’s the point of living for hundreds or thousands of years?
So don’t worry, when your true energy is exhausted, I will be the first to give you my position to absorb the power of immortals…”
Mu Mantian said his heart very frankly, without any pretense, only a bitter face.
“I will also…”
“Yes… Old Mu is right. It’s more uncomfortable to be trapped here than to die. When the time comes, we will all give way to you to absorb the immortal energy and survive…” The
nine people faced it calmly.
At this moment, Yang Yiyu admired them in his heart. This is the calmness in facing life and death, which ordinary people cannot do.
“Thank you, fellow Taoists.” Yang Yiyu didn’t say much, but just saluted to the nine people.
He knew that although Mu Mantian and his people had been trapped in Wujian Valley for ten thousand years, their Taoism was extraordinary. As long as they could get out, their cultivation would soar and they would become powerful people in the mixed cultivation world.
“Thank you for your courtesy. Now we are all frogs in the well of this world. Haha… Your arrival has brought us ten thousand years of historical anecdotes in the cultivation world. Tell us about them every day in the future, and we can have more fun in silence…”
Mu Mantian laughed happily.
But for them, it was indeed the case.
Yang Yiyu was also infected by the open-mindedness of Mu Mantian and others, and couldn’t help laughing.
Then he asked again: “Fellow Taoist Mu, haven’t you ever found any way out? For example, the unique peak suppressed by the nine ancient immortals in front of you?”
After hearing this, Mu Mantian and the other nine people’s faces suddenly changed.
(End of this chapter)