It took Jiang Yuebai five full days to translate all the witch texts in the "Chaos Nirvana Technique", the thumb stone pillar and the jade slip left by Li Gou.
Wu script is more concise than ancient Chinese, but more complex than tortoise shell script. It is difficult to distinguish its shape and one word has multiple meanings. Jiang Yuebai translated seven versions, and finally obtained a more accurate version by deducing the context and eliminating errors.
There was so much information obtained from it that Jiang Yuebai didn't know where to start talking to Lu Nanzhi.
Jiang Yuebai thought about it for half a day and decided to go to Xingchou to check it out first.
She walked out of the formation, came to the border with Xingchou, and called out to the other side.
After a while, Xingchou dispersed the black fog of demonic energy, still wearing the mask with red dragon pattern. Her eyes looked a little tired, and her demonic energy was very chaotic. It was obvious that she had been trying to practice martial arts in the past few days.
"What do you want?" Xing Chou said in an unfriendly tone.
Jiang Yuebai glanced in the direction of the black coffin and said bluntly, "Let me ask you, is the person lying inside the coffin the witch ancestor Zhu Jiuyou of the Zhangwei Mountain people?"
Xingchou's pupils visibly trembled, "How do you know my Wu Zu's name?"
Jiang Yuebai nodded slightly. It seemed so. The jade slip containing the witch writings was copied by Li Gou from various places in the ruins. It was obvious that Li Gou was proficient in witch writings, so he copied the important parts.
The people of Zhangwei Mountain coexist with the divine dragon Zhu Jiuyin. Therefore, the ancestor of the witch of this lineage was given the surname Zhu and worshiped the Zhulong totem.
The origin of the dragon herding in the Qinglong Realm is this lineage of the Wu clan.
This lineage can be traced back to ancient times, when there were several generations of witches who could be called ancestors in the tribe, but the most amazing one was Zhu Jiuyou, who was born with a holy body of chaos.
Her origins cannot be traced, but are recorded in murals and scattered records.
"Born in the wilderness, raised in a dragon's nest, blessed with a holy body, and with Zhu Jiuyin as his father."
Zhu Jiuyin is Zhulong, so the witch ancestor later named himself Zhu Jiuyou.
In the ancient times when Zhu Jiuyou lived, the Qinglong Realm was not yet called the Qinglong Realm. It was in a desolate and chaotic state with numerous tribes, each with its own dragon clan that they worshipped and coexisted with.
Zhu Jiuyou led Zhulong on expeditions and plunders. She was extremely domineering and cruel. She forcefully subdued the eight divine dragons under Zhulong, unified the tribes in the entire realm, and made the Zhangwei Mountain where she lived become the sacred place of the Witch Ancestor.
She imposed heavy taxes and levied heavy penalties, forcing each tribe to offer natural treasures. She built the Nine Dragon Temple as a place for her practice, and the "Chaos Nirvana Technique" was her main practice.
After finding out the identity of the owner of the black coffin, Jiang Yuebai roughly deduced their current situation.
"Xingchou, can you really master this technique?" Jiang Yuebai asked again.
Xingchou's whole body tensed up, and he asked Jiang Yuebai, "Did you understand that technique?"
Jiang Yuebai admitted, "I know some witchcraft."
Xing Chou felt that Jiang Yuebai was not lying, so she could not deceive Jiang Yuebai. No one here had met the necessary conditions to practice "Chaos Nirvana Kung Fu".
Chaos sounds simple, but it is actually an extremely complex force. It is not something that can be simply combined into yin and yang, humans, demons, monsters, or the five elements.
Xingchou pondered for a moment and said, "Since you know Wuwen, you should have seen the things on the stone pillars of the thumbs of the statue at the entrance."
"The Sun Zhuzhao and the Moon Youying gave birth to the four divine beasts and the four evil beasts, the ancestors of monsters. Only by combining the power of the Moon and the Sun can chaos be born."
Written on the stone tablet under the statue's thumb is an explanation of the moon and the sun.
"Since you already know everything, why are you still asking me? No one can master this technique, unless..."
"Unless what?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
At this point, Xingchou could no longer hide anything. "Unless you have the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, follow the instructions on the thumb stone pillar, serve the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron as your master and become its slave, and offer sacrifices. Then, you may be able to use the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron to transform a trace of Primal Chaos."
Jiang Yuebai knew that the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron that Xingchou was talking about was the black cauldron in her hand.
"What do the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron and the Cauldron Slave mean?"
Xingchou's eyes were filled with probing, "Have you found the tripod?"
"Just asking out of curiosity." Jiang Yuebai's eyes were clear. She was best at playing dumb.
Xingchou took a deep breath and said slowly, "That tripod is the sacrificial tripod of the Zhangwei Mountain people. It can devour all things, transform the blood and flesh of living beings, and merge into chaos. However, only Wu Zu can control the tripod. Others can only become slaves of the tripod and constantly offer sacrifices to the Heaven-Swallowing Tripod. Once the sacrifices are not enough or not enough, they will be swallowed by the tripod."
"Does Ding...spit out bones?"
Xing Chou frowned, "How should I know? I haven't seen the tripod. If you get the tripod, you'd better take it out. It's the only hope to leave here."
"I've already told you that I don't have it. And if the tripod really exists, do you want to be its slave? What are you going to feed the tripod? Yourself or me?" Jiang Yuebai said unhappily.
Xing Chou was speechless and waved his hand to gather the evil black mist, refusing to talk any more.
"Not a big talent, but a big temper."
Jiang Yuebai went back muttering to himself. Lu Nanzhi was still in meditation and cultivation. The demonic energy around him was extremely cold, freezing him three feet deep.
Thinking of what Xing Chou said just now, Jiang Yuebai felt that it would be better not to use the cauldron rashly. When she broke Yinglong's restriction before, she plundered the spiritual energy, and the cauldron swallowed so much without spitting it out in one mouthful.
Also, the cauldron has been in the hands of Iron Leader Yi Zhengyang for so many years, but he has never cultivated the chaotic energy. This shows that the synthesis of chaotic energy in the cauldron is also conditional, and it is not that you can produce chaotic energy by just throwing anyone in.
Jiang Yuebai turned his head and looked at the black coffin above the abyss. It was tightly fitted together and there was no pattern on it. The divine sense could not penetrate into it, and no one knew whether Zhu Jiuyou was inside.
"Destroyed from chaos, born from chaos."
Jiang Yuebai recalled the two sentences in the technique and was worried that Zhu Jiuyou was not dead yet and was wondering what method he would use to achieve chaos nirvana.
It was recorded in the jade slip of Li Gou that Zhu Jiuyou once encountered a powerful enemy who killed the Zhulong beside her, which was also the only Zhulong in the world. After that, Zhu Jiuyou disappeared, the Zhangweishan tribe fell into pieces, and gradually declined and died.
Jiang Yuebai sat down cross-legged, concentrating all her mind on the roots of the white vine. She decided to explore the abyss.
Thousands of roots turned into fine threads, forcefully breaking through the rocks and slowly emerging from the rock wall beneath the abyss.
The abyss is very deep, and even if Jiang Yuebai's roots reach their limit, there is still no bottom. He can only vaguely feel the edge of the forbidden barrier.
The hair-like roots of the white vine penetrated into the thick and dense black fog, as if they were traveling through the seabed, floating in the air with nowhere to rest.
This black fog is indeed very similar to the black fog surrounding Xingchou.
Click!
A faint sound of chains was heard, and Jiang Yuebai continued to move forward following the sound.
Bai Teng was suddenly blocked in the black fog. An invisible barrier prevented her from moving forward. No matter how hard she tried, she could not break through and could not find any gap.
It was still pitch black ahead and I didn't know what was inside.
Jiang Yuebai thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered the last scene of Li Gou's image-retaining jade, where the existence under the abyss sucked away Li Gou's soul.
"You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb!"
Jiang Yuebai made up her mind and used a white vine to roll away the Disha Pagoda Bag from her waist. The five ghosts had already been refined into it by her.
In the black fog under the abyss, Jiang Yuebai tried to release a ghost cultivator.
Suddenly, a powerful suction force came, and the ghost cultivator was sucked into the darkness in an instant.
Jiang Yuebai took the opportunity to rush forward, but the white vine still hit the invisible barrier.
She gritted her teeth and released another ghost cultivator. This time, she rushed forward one step ahead of the ghost cultivator the moment the suction force came.
Ripples appeared in the black fog, and Jiang Yuebai successfully broke through the obstacles. The moment the barrier closed again, nine pairs of blood-red vertical pupils flashed in her sight.
Frightened by her as an intruder, nine pairs of sinister and bloody eyes looked over at her.
There was a sharp pain, and the white vine was cut off by the closed barrier. Jiang Yuebai's consciousness returned to his body, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Is that... a nine-headed dragon
(End of this chapter)