Moon Emperor

Chapter 364 The source of danger, conspiracy theories
According to Su Yan's exploration experience back then, there are three prerequisites for entering the Jingtian Sect ruins:

The first is to use old objects in the mirror as a medium; the second is to learn mirror-like techniques; the third is to have the means to fix the image in the mirror.

As for the time and place, Youyue told Su Yan that it doesn't matter the time, as long as the place is within the Qingcheng Cave, it can be anywhere.

According to this, Su Yan and the others can actually enter from the main peak. Theoretically, they should appear directly at the main peak of the Mirror World, which was the core of the Mirror Sky Sect in the past.

That should be the source of all abnormalities, and the most precious things should also be there.

However, after careful consideration, Qingcheng Palace still feels that they cannot be reckless. If there is no safe zone at the main peak, and there is no day and night change pattern to follow, wouldn't it mean that you will die as soon as you enter?
Let's start from the place where Su Yan had explored. Moreover, they had no idea of ​​finishing the battle in one battle. Safety was the top priority, and it didn't matter even if they entered a few more times.

After getting ready, Su Yan walked towards the cliff with the copper ring in hand.

In fact, what he is learning now is not a mirror-type technique, and of course it was not the same before he switched to the technique, but his Dantian image does have abilities similar to mirror-type techniques.

I saw Su Yan holding a pair of bronze door knockers with his left hand, his eyes closed naturally, silently running the meditation method in the Taiyin Baogao, trying to make the scene of the sea, sky and bright moon more real and vivid.

Not long after, a blurry dark image appeared on the calm sea, which seemed to reflect another world.

Su Yan immediately suppressed Yuanyuan Mingyue's spontaneous expulsion instinct and opened his eyes.

Sure enough, as the door knocker in his hand became hot, he saw his own figure appear out of thin air on the opposite side.

However, the people in Qingcheng Palace behind him saw nothing. It was not until Su Yan threw the door knocker in his hand to them and let them touch it that they saw their own images appearing in front of them one after another.

At this point, Su Yan did not try to go in. Instead, it was Master Yu Zhen who took the initiative to step forward.

She took out a clay pot from her sleeve. As soon as the pot was opened, two identical white bugs floated out. One landed in Yu Zhen's palm, and the other flew to the door knocker in Su Yan's hand.

These are the "simultaneous insects" raised by Yu Zhen. They have a special characteristic, that is, two insects are born from one egg, and their lives are connected. If one dies, the other will die suddenly even if they are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

This is a special type of Gu insect. After spending a lot of energy and time to raise it into a complete form, although it cannot be used for direct attack, if it is implanted into two living people, the life of one of them can be used to threaten the life of the other. Life can be said to be very "precious".

Of course, Yuzhen is not someone who specializes in cultivating Gu, and the pair of larvae she has are not valuable and cannot be used to implant into living bodies, so they are not considered a waste.

Su Yan took out the fixing mirror and casually fixed the insect shadow on the opposite side.

Then Yuzhen calmly drove the concentric insect to fly towards the opposite side. When it hit the invisible "mirror", the insect disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if it was sucked in by some inexplicable force.

Almost at the same moment, the white insect in Yuzhen's palm twitched, died, and turned into a dead corpse.

This proves that the one that entered earlier should have died suddenly the moment it entered the ruins.

Several real people changed their colors slightly when they saw this. Although they were not surprised, if Su Yan hadn't warned them in advance, even if they found a way to enter Jingtian Sect, a few people would have to die in the first wave before they knew there was a problem.

The reason for the sudden death of the Concentric Worm is very simple. It is daytime, and it is night in the ruins, which is the active period of fog and aurora.

The reason why they gathered here during the day was to conduct a comparative experiment to determine whether there were any changes in the rules inside the ruins. After all, it was seven years ago that Su Yan last entered.

Anyway, Yuzhen still had a lot of concentric bugs in her hands, and they were not afraid of wasting them. They tentatively decided to try them once in the morning, noon, and night. If there was no problem the last time, they would go directly to the ruins.

While waiting, Baopuzi and Su Yan shared the latest information obtained by Qingcheng Palace.

"After hearing about your experience, the headmaster attached great importance to the special white mist and aurora. In the past few days, Gu Chanzi and I went through ancient books. He also contacted Taiyuan Sect, Guixu and other a few... This ancient sect finally found out where these two came from."

Su Yan perked up after hearing this. He had originally wanted to ask about this, but he almost forgot.

"First of all, those things that look like auroras are alive."

This first sentence surprised Su Yan. Of course, he still had to pretend to be calm on the surface.

After all, in theory, he is the reincarnation of an immortal, so he should know a lot of strange and weird knowledge. Even if he uses "can't recall part of his memory" as an excuse, he still needs to have the proper demeanor.

"According to the message from our colleagues over at Guixu, the essence of the aurora should be an extraterrestrial creature called the [Erosion Insect]."

"They are few in number and wander in the endless void outside the territory. They generally feed on the space fragments of the Great Thousand World or the Small Thousand World."

"Generally speaking, hollow bugs will not cause much harm. Even if they cling to the outer edge of the complete world and eat the trunks, branches and leaves of big trees like borers, as long as the absolute number is not large, they will not cause towering disasters. The tree dies.”

"The clinging of a small number of void worms will at best make the space in certain areas weak and more susceptible to destruction by powerful forces."

"Not to mention that a self-contained world has the ability to repair its own space. Just like when powerful monks like us create space rifts, we can quickly see the broken places repaired to their original state."

"And the repair ability of the Great Thousand World is much stronger than that of the Small Thousand World. A small amount of erosion cannot keep up with the self-repair speed of the Great Thousand World."

"But under certain special circumstances, the void worms will proliferate in large numbers, usually when they encounter a world that is about to die."

“When a world ages and dies, its boundaries spontaneously break apart and lose the ability to repair.”

"The space debris it escapes will attract the void worms in the nearby void to gather; when the number of void worms reaches a certain number, this dying world will become a mother's nest for them to hatch, eventually giving birth to adults. Thousands, millions, or even tens of millions or billions of sky-eating insects."

"These monsters will decompose the world they live in, and then they will actively expand outward because they lose food."

"Under normal circumstances, [-]% of the void bugs will die during the long drift because they can't find food."

"But if there are other complete worlds near the mother nest, that world is likely to be destroyed. If the world is not high enough and does not have enough high-end combat power to completely wipe out the insect swarm, it will usually end up being buried with it."

Su Yan felt a little numb after hearing this. I hate bugs the most!Especially the terrifyingly numerous and densely packed bugs.The other real people also looked solemn. Since the information from all parties was only collected and sorted out yesterday, it was the first time for them to hear such a detailed description.

"Of course," Baopuzi added: "Based on what you saw and heard back then, fellow Taoist, the Sky Eclipse Bug in Jingtian Sect should have undergone some kind of special mutation."

"They no longer feed on space debris, but instead devour all living objects."

"By the way, the body of the Sky Eclipse Worm is as thin as a fine dust, and it cannot be seen by ordinary means. Whether it is the naked eye or spiritual consciousness, it will be as if it is nothing if it is scanned."

"But they themselves emit a faint light. When a large number of void worms gather together and fly together, they will form magnificent light bands that look like aurora, which is easy to spot."

Su Yan recalled his original experience. After nightfall, he could indeed see white mist like a sea, and aurora light bands swimming in the "sea" like living creatures.

And when he finally escaped to the alchemy room, he clearly saw that the large force of light belts was still some distance away from him, but when he was looking for a mirror later, he found a light belt sweeping over at a very fast speed.

Now that I think about it carefully, it is obviously that I am consciously hunting prey!
By the way, what is white mist?
Before Su Yan asked, Baopuzi took the initiative and said: "As for the mist, it should be something spitted out by the Sky Eclipse Insects. It can be regarded as their only means of attack besides direct bites."

"In the fog, they can move freely, instantly."

"And the white mist has the same devouring ability as the main body. The food swallowed by the white mist is equivalent to being digested by their main body, which can provide them with strength."

Good guys, the teleportation flashes are here, and Su Yan finds these monsters more and more difficult to deal with.

At this moment, the round-faced Master Xuanping asked in confusion: "According to what Master said, the Sky Eclipsing Insects should have not eaten or drank for at least 5000 years, right? Why are there still so many of them now? Aren't they starving to death?" ?”

Baopuzi pondered for a moment, "Headmaster and I have the same doubts. I guess there are two possibilities."

"One is that after they mutate, they will first devour living objects, but when there is nothing left to eat, they will also eat the space in this world to satisfy their hunger."

"The other is that they may have another food source in the ruins; anyway, we still have to go in to find out the truth."

"Can the Sky Eclipse Insect be used as medicine?" Xuan Ping asked with a very interested tone.

This left Baopuzi speechless. He shook his head and said, "I don't know. This was not mentioned in the information given by Guixu."

While they were talking, Su Yan secretly asked Youyue whether the information Baopuzi received was consistent with her experience back then.

You Yue slowly replied: "Maybe this is the truth. Back then, the sect master and the others not only failed in the forced transmission, causing the Dao Mirror to break, they even attracted a large number of mutated Sky Eclipse Insects, completely annihilating the Jingtian Sect that was caught off guard."

Su Yan asked thoughtfully: "Is it possible that there was no failure? They succeeded, but the place connected was not the seemingly beautiful world, but a trap that had been preset for a long time."

"Even the Dao Yijing did not break naturally, but was broken by some high-ranking being from afar."

"As a result, even if the leader of your sect wakes up before his death, he will not be able to control the immortal weapon to close the passage. He can only watch the white mist and aurora pouring into this world."

"Fortunately, he and the senior officials still had the last bit of conscience left. In order to prevent natural disasters from sweeping the entire world, they sealed the sect into the Mirror World after throwing out individual keys."

"Oh no, since it's all a conspiracy theory, let's get to the bottom of the conspiracy. It should be the mastermind behind the scenes who helped you deal with it. They were also worried that the Sky Eclipse Insect would cause a catastrophe in the human world, so after annihilating the Jingtian Sect as planned, So I hid it here to avoid causing a bigger disaster."

"Of course, this cannot explain why the mastermind behind the scenes did not completely seal the Mirror World, and even stripped off the entire Mirror Sky Sect ruins and exiled them to the outside of the Endless Territory."

Youyue was silent for a long time, then asked with difficulty: "Why would someone want to destroy Jingtian Sect? And how powerful a person would be if he could destroy the immortal weapon from a distance?"

Su Yan calmly replied: "It's very simple. I suspect that your sect leader abused the fairy weapon and used it to spy on the fairy world in private, and saw some secrets that he shouldn't have seen."

"As for the existence that takes action, it is naturally the immortal god in heaven."

Of course, Su Yan was just guessing based on the existing clues. The main reason was that the death of Guaxian left a deep impression on him. In addition, there were many strange things about the demise of Jingtian Sect, which made him suspect that it was not just a simple matter. The sect leader and others went crazy for no reason.

Youyue fell into silence and did not respond for the time being.

At this moment, Yu Nu, who had been quiet for a long time, took the initiative to communicate with Su Yan, "Master, Master, I remembered."

It is worth mentioning that she did not interrupt on purpose, because Su Yan usually used a "one-way encrypted channel" when talking to these two people. It seemed that the two of them spoke to Su Yan one after another, but in fact only Su Yan heard it. .

"What did you think of again?" Su Yan was a little wary. Every time he listened to this demon's advice, he would always be tricked in unexpected places, causing him to suffer from PTSD.

"The Sky Eclipse Worm that the old man mentioned should be one of the favorite foods of the evil dragons from outside the territory. However, I didn't recognize it at first because our demon clan calls it [Disaster Worm]. It wasn't until the old man described its characteristics in detail that I realized Recall key clues.”

"Master, don't you want to tame an evil dragon from outside the territory? You just take this opportunity to collect a large number of plague insects so that you can lure the evil dragon into being fooled later. If there are enough, we can also consider signing a contract with it in an open and honest manner."

The more Su Yan listened, the more suspicious she had ulterior motives, "But didn't you persuade me to give up before? Why are you so kind and giving me advice now?"

Yu Nu was speechless, "You are tempting me to do things for you with empty words, and you are not willing to believe what I say, so what do you want?"

"And didn't I say it last time? Most of the things that the evil dragons from outside the territory want are rare objects and treasures that can only be born in the void outside the territory, and disaster insects are one of them. This is very good for them to replenish their vitality, and it also It can accelerate growth.”

Su Yan pondered for a moment, "Does the evil dragon want to eat dead or alive?"

"Of course they are alive. After the plague insect dies without a body, it will turn into vitality and naturally dissipate in the heaven and earth."

Su Yan did not continue chatting with Yu Nu for the time being, but just wrote down the matter silently.

(End of this chapter)