Chapter 256 Darkroom
Chapter 256 Darkroom
The short elder sealed the walking zombie, then rolled up his sleeves, wrapped up Tian Lin and the others, and in an instant they arrived at Wuliang Mountain.
Wuliang Mountain is the location of the Wu family’s temple dedicated to the God Wuliang, and the Wu family’s main house is built at the foot of Wuliang Mountain.
As Tian Lin and others appeared, several beams of light landed on the mountainside.
The leader of the Wu family knew the short elder. His expression changed slightly, and he immediately bowed respectfully and said:
"Wu Youde of the Wu family, I pay my respects to the short elder."
The other two old men also bowed and said, "Wu Youcai and Wu Youbai greet the short elder."
The short elder snorted coldly and said, "What do you mean by having no virtue or talent? Where is your new clan leader?"
Wu Youde said with a sad face, "Let the short elder know that the tribe leader we elected last night died suddenly along with the other tribe members."
"Sudden death?"
The short elder said in a muffled voice:
"He was killed by Wuliang God, right? Since Wuliang God started to cause trouble, why didn't you from Wuliang Mountain report it to Xiangxi Sect? If you let Wuliang God wreak havoc on the world, aren't you afraid that Xiangxi Sect will sue you in the future?"
As soon as these words came out, Wu Youde and the other two knelt on the ground in a hurry: "The Wu family has been worshipping Wuliang God for thousands of years, and we have never seen Wuliang God causing trouble. This time, Wuliang God's mischief is really unexpected-"
After saying this, Wu Youde remained kneeling on the ground, but raised his head and said to the short elder:
"Last month, the old patriarch asked for fortune and luck, and he knew that he would die soon, so he decided to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. But it is so difficult for the Golden Core to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. The old patriarch was ultimately unable to enter the Nascent Soul stage, and thus died.
The younger generation had no choice but to follow the old patriarch's last words and pack up his body and plan to send it to Xiangxi Sect as a zombie."
At this point, he frowned slightly:
"But it just so happened that at the beginning of last month, the old patriarch's body had just been sent out by the zombies, and that night the God of Darkness appeared. All the villagers in my Wu family dreamed of the God of Darkness that night, and he was looking for a man named Zhang Sheng."
When he said this, his eyes were still on the short elder.
But the short elder's gaze was directed towards Tian Lin.
Tian Lin's heart also moved. He remembered that the time he stepped into the mass grave was exactly the beginning of last month.
So, the short elder was not wronging him when he said that Wuliang God came because of him.
But he didn't recognize Zhang Sheng, and he had never had any contact with Zhang Sheng. Why did Wuliangshen have to recognize him?
"Although Wuliang God appeared at that time, he did not kill anyone. After that, I had the dream for half a month, and no villagers were hurt by the dream.
Seeing this, the younger generation and others thought that the problem was not serious, so they did not report it to the sect - until this time."
The short elder sneered and said, "You are reluctant to give up the benefits that Wuliang God has brought you, so you don't want to report it to the sect. But you don't think about it because of your greed and harm your Wu family."
After the short elder finished speaking, he said, "Why don't you open the temple door quickly so that I can find a way to seal this evil spirit?"
Wu Youde quickly stood up, called the other two old men, and strode to a stone wall in the back mountain.
Wu Youde was seen muttering something to the stone wall, and then his blood seeped onto the stone wall.
The Wuliang Mountain shook, and the stone wall instantly split apart.
A spacious cave hidden in the belly of the mountain was exposed to everyone.
Tian Lin and others followed the short elder and entered the cave together.
The cave was not ventilated, but the hundreds of candles stuck on the stone walls never went out.
The entire cave was brightly lit without any sunlight from outside. In the bright room of the cave, there were zombies kneeling on cushions. All of them were bowing towards the south of the cave, as if they were on pilgrimage.
The zombies were all covered with talismans, so they couldn't move.
But the altar where they were kneeling was empty at this moment.
Wu Youde and the other three elders' faces changed. They ran to the altar and pointed at the empty altar and shouted, "Where is the sedan chair of Wuliang God?"
No one answered them, and Tian Lin and the other man followed the short elder to the altar.
Tian Lin looked at the dust and shallow footprints on the altar, and said to the short elder, "It looks like the old patriarch of the Wu family carried the sedan chair away."
"Nonsense, my old patriarch has passed away long ago. Even if he were still alive, why would he come to the temple and steal the Wuliang God away?"
Wu Youde stared at Tian Lin and said, "You are the disciple of Tian from the Daoist Sect, right? You came to my Wu family to buy elixirs, so why did you slander my old patriarch?"
Tian Lin glanced at Wu Youde, but still did not speak to him. He just said to the short elder, "I think the old patriarch cannot take the sedan chair too far. He should still be on Wuliang Mountain."
The short elder nodded and took out a piece of talisman paper from his storage bag.
He just shook it slightly, and the talisman paper instantly turned into a small fireball.
A fireball flew up from his palm, and then flew towards the western mountain wall with a ghostly light. Unfortunately, it was blocked by the mountain wall, and the small fireball was extinguished after hitting the mountain wall.
The short elder led the way to the cliff, touched the cliff with his hand, sneered, and pressed with his right hand.
The entire Wuliang Mountain shook, and there was a loud 'boom'. The mountain wall collapsed instantly, revealing another cave hidden behind it.
The mountain wall collapsed and huge rocks rolled down.
Fortunately, the cultivation level of the people present was no lower than the Foundation Establishment Stage, so they were not afraid of being hit by these huge rocks at all.
Tian Lin tilted his head to glance at Wu Youde and the other two, and found that they all looked shocked. It seemed that they didn't know that there was another cave hidden in this temple.
As the short elder waved his sleeves, all the huge rocks blocking the way turned into powder. A group of people stepped on the several feet thick dust and went deeper into the narrow stone cave.
About ten feet into the pitch-black cave, light finally appeared.
Soon everyone saw a stone chamber, which was extremely spacious and flat everywhere.
There were oil lamps hanging everywhere on the stone walls.
Tian Lin held his breath and said, "This looks like corpse oil!"
In fact, he didn't need to say it, because the shapes of these oil lamps were very unique. They were all made by rubbing wicks from the necks of zombies after their heads were chopped off, and then igniting them using the zombies as fuel.
Everyone paid no attention to the zombies, but looked directly at the stone platform in the center of the stone chamber, and a teleportation array on the south wall.
No one knew where the teleportation array led to.
But the sedan chair placed on the stone platform was obviously the sedan chair of the God Wuliang.
"Why is the sedan chair here? Who stole it?"
Wu Youde approached the sedan chair and looked at the stone walls around him.
Except for the west side of the stone chamber where the passage was opened, the other three walls were engraved with portraits of people.
Tian Lin took a quick look and heard Wu Cunzheng from Heishan Village say, "These engraved portraits are all the ancestors of our Wu family."
Tian Lin glanced at the portrait and tentatively touched it everywhere.
(End of this chapter)