After being dressed as the evil god

Anyone who has a little understanding of the Liang State can't help but be amazed at why this country can survive for so long.

Ordinary people are short-lived and weak, so they support each other and live together; ordinary people are obsessed with greed and hatred, so they have mutual hatred and need mediation.

Thus, a country gradually emerged.Rules build trust, chaos breaks the rules.The state represents orderly rules.

However, in Liang Guozhong... the forces from all sides can be said to be a mixed bag, and those evil sects that have been suppressed in other places and cannot survive have taken root in Liang Guo. Naturally, it is difficult for such evil sects to coexist peacefully , let alone abide by the laws of a country.

This situation is a problem left over from many generations ago and has not been formally resolved, but Liang Guo has survived in this situation.Most of the credit for this is due to an institution of Liang Guozhong - the Department of Discipline.

The Discipline Department is an institution in Liang Guo that is responsible for matters related to practitioners, and it is directly under the leadership of each generation of Liang Guo.

Institutions such as the Discipline Department, which are composed of practitioners and are responsible for extraordinary affairs, exist in all vassal states, but Liang Guo's Discipline Department is particularly special.

Its jurisdiction ranges from hundreds of officials down to the common people, and any matter related to practitioners is within their jurisdiction. Although it is directly under the lord of the Liang Kingdom, under special circumstances, they can make their own decisions without the lord's order how to behave.

I am afraid that only such a discipline department can control the complicated situation in Liang's country, so that the large and small forces in the country will not escape control.The complexity and delicacy of this is no less than the finest spider's web, but unfortunately, after the catastrophe, this balance has undoubtedly reached a precarious state.

No matter what kind of tacit agreement those big and small forces have reached with Liang Guo, in the catastrophe where everyone is in danger, there are probably not a few left who are willing to deal with Liang Guo.If you can't survive the catastrophe, everything is empty, so what else to consider?

The breeze blows across the devastated land, the earth is silent, heavy and silently carrying all life and death on the earth, but it cannot accommodate those overly complicated joys and sorrows and joys and sorrows.

The wailing and sorrow of the living beings in the catastrophe gathered into the bitterness of the world of mortals, enveloping most of the beams in the vast expanse.This is the air that not even the cleanest wind in the world can blow away.

But the breeze that blew in the direction of Liangdu still fell, and fell to the place where the bitterness was the deepest and most terrifying along the way.

Zheng.

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"What is that sound?"

A cavalry team was galloping on the road, the leader suddenly reined in his horse and stopped, listened carefully, and asked the other riders behind him.

This team of riders were all wearing similar dark blue clothes. The clothes were loose and tightly tied at the cuffs, trousers and waist, making them neat and easy to move around.

What is slightly special is that each of them has two to seven sea tide patterns embroidered on their necklines, and the team leader embroiders seven. The embroidery thread is white bird feather weaving thread. There is a light blue light faintly reflected from the bottom, and there are slight aura fluctuations on the decoration, which is because of the magic technique attached to the embroidery pattern.

Except for the team leader, the collars of the other riders are all made of red or brown silk thread, the most has five sea tide stripes, and the least is only two.

This is the unique attire of the members of the Discipline Department of the Liang State, and it is also commonly known as the sea pattern collar.In Liang Guozhong, as long as anyone saw the sea tide embroidered pattern on their collars, they would know that they were people from the Discipline Department, and once they saw the people from the Discipline Department, they would know that something related to the practitioner must have happened .

The group's original destination was Gannan City farther ahead.During the catastrophe, the situation in Liang State became worse and worse. All kinds of ghosts and snakes came out to dance, and they, the people in the discipline department, were exhausted for a long time, and this time they went to Gannan City because they got news related to Xuanqingjiao .

But when they were about to reach Gannan City, the leader of the team, Tao Xi, stopped suddenly and asked the others a question.

The horses of this cavalry team are all fat and strong horses, all of them are well-trained, even if they are suddenly stopped during the fast ride, they still stop firmly.The riders following are also practitioners, and their reaction speed is extraordinary. This kind of emergency stop without prior notice will not cause any tragic accidents.

After hearing Tao Xi's question, the riders following behind listened attentively for a while, and after shaking their heads to look at each other, a man with a five-pattern collar said: "My lord, we didn't hear anything."

Tao Xi frowned, he seemed to have vaguely heard a zither sound in his ears just now, the rhyme contained in that zither sound was not like what ordinary people play, but he couldn't hear it clearly amidst the hooves of the horses, then he stopped the horse suddenly Down.But after stopping, he never heard the sound of the piano again.

That's it.

"Go ahead." Tao Xi said.

The cavalry set off again, and a cloud of yellow earth-colored dust and smoke rose on the official road that hadn't rained for several days, and the sound of horseshoes kept clattering.

After the speeding team ran forward for a while, Tao Xi heard the sound of the zither again, and as the galloping horses moved forward, the sound became clearer.

Tao Xi gradually slowed down his horse and stopped with the whole cavalry.This time, Tao Xi didn't need to say that some of the riders behind him had already heard the sound of the piano.

Although the sound of the zither is far away, the meaning is long, and the sadness and pity in it have already caused sadness in the hearts of those who heard it far away.This is by no means something that ordinary piano players can do, let alone in this season, in such a wilderness.

Tao Xi frowned and listened carefully for a moment, then said decisively: "Go to the place where the piano is playing first."

Although their original purpose was Xuan Puritanism, other matters involving practitioners are also within the scope of their duties. This sad sound is strange, and they must be investigated.Xuan Puritanism has been rampant for a long time, and it's not too late.In case the source of the sound of the zither is involved in some cult's disturbance, it might be too late to rush there at this time.

After making a decision, the group of people deviated from the official road and drove towards the direction of the sound of the piano.

The further they went, the more amazed they felt.They are all cultivated people, and they can feel the changes in the surrounding atmosphere.During the catastrophe, there was confusion of ideas, miscellaneous qi arose between heaven and earth, and there were many wailing voices for the tragedy in Liang's country, and the endless rise of resentment and sorrow would have an impact.Ordinary people's perception is not sharp, maybe they will only feel depressed and uneasy, but for monks like them, the depression they feel is more than twice that of ordinary people?

San Wen, who had a slightly lower cultivation base, couldn't accept the state of being fascinated, so he activated his mana movement to look at the breath, and when he looked at it again, he couldn't help but take a breath.

The gray-black air enveloped the surroundings like thick smoke in a fire, and the cultivator's keen consciousness was completely fascinated by these chaotic and dark air, unable to feed back any information.This is tantamount to being blindfolded for a monk who has become accustomed to the perception of spirit.

And in the direction they were heading, the thick black air was as indistinct as splashed ink.

Tao Xi stopped the team, got off his horse, and ordered all the people in the team with three collars and below to stay, and called a man with four collars to be the temporary leader of the group.

"Take care of the horses, don't go too deep," Tao Xi said.

It stands to reason that these Erwen collars should not have such a task, but the situation in Liang's country is too bad now, and there is a shortage of manpower, so we have to send out all available people as a last resort.But according to their cultivation base, they can no longer go deeper.This is a critical point, and it won't just be depressing if you go further inside.

The harm of gloom itself is not great. Wherever people gather, some gloom will be born more or less, but the gathering of so many glooms means that there must be some gloom that can attract so many people. obscure things.That's the really scary stuff.

Tao Xi didn't need to give too many instructions, the team was all experienced and knew what to do, after they all nodded in agreement, he led the rest of the people in.

When they walked in, they couldn't be as casual as they were before.Horses must not be ridden. Although these horses are rare and good horses, they are all mortal beasts.They only drive forward because they need to travel for a long time, and because they need to take care of those in the team with insufficient cultivation.

But when things really happen, these horses must never be brought.

The sound of the zither was still ringing, perhaps because of the heavy and dark atmosphere, the sound of the zither was intermittent and not clear, but it was faint and mysterious.But even if they only heard sporadic fragments, they could feel the deep sorrow from the sound of the piano.In such a dark and gloomy atmosphere, it became more and more tense.

Tao Xi and the few monks he brought covered their breath, and followed the sound of the piano carefully.

This scene seems a bit weird to ordinary people.Although this place deviates from the official road, it is just an open wasteland. At most, there are some withered and yellow grass, which can't block the view. It's the middle of the day, and the sky is bright, but Tao Xi and his party seem to be in a dark and dangerous jungle. Just like in Li, walking with hands tied.

After walking for a long time, Tao Xi and the others only saw a small hill, the surrounding gloom had become extremely dense, and the sound of the zither had reached the clearest place, but they still only saw the barren grass, although the gloom was thick Scary, but not dangerous.Even if an ordinary person walks here, he will only feel cold and depressed, and at most he will go back with a minor illness.

Tao Xi pondered for a while, then his eyes fell on the small hill at his feet.

"Underground," he said.

Tao Xi took out a small piece of paper, folded a paper sparrow, stretched the wings of the paper sparrow with both hands, and the paper sparrow flapped its wings and flew up. Fly straight in one direction.

This is a small guiding technique, a trick that can be used by people with little cultivation. The advantage is that it doesn't consume much, and the fluctuation of spiritual energy produced is also small.Although it is confirmed that there is no danger in the vicinity, there is no need to be as cautious as before, but it is better not to cause fluctuations as much as possible.

A group of people followed the paper sparrow, and soon found a hidden cave covered by grass and vines on the hill.Wisps of coldness blow out from the gaps in the grass and vines, like ashes that have been stale for countless years.

The paper sparrow flapped its wings and burrowed into the cave. Tao Xi reached out to catch it, rubbed his fingers together, and the paper sparrow turned into fine ash without any trace.

Looking at the deep and dark cave, Tao Xi slowly took a long breath.This time, they really encountered something extraordinary...

Tao Xi didn't speak anymore, he made a gesture, and one person in the team was guarded at the entrance of the cave, and the others followed him into the cave.

Night vision is not difficult for practitioners, but after they enter the cave, only the first part of the journey is dim, and ahead... or ghostly green or blue ghostly lights illuminate the dark cave .

Tao Xi and his party were shocked by the scene in front of them. After passing through the narrow dark passage, their eyes suddenly opened up.

It was a large barren land, the "sky" was very low, supported by thick stone pillars, and above their heads was the small mound that looked inconspicuous from the outside.

And between this barren land supported by stone pillars and the "sky" of earth and stone, there are countless blue and green will-o'-the-wisps floating.

A group of well-trained members of the Disciplinary Department immediately conditioned to cover up the breath of life on their bodies, making themselves look almost like a moving corpse.

Tao Xi sank his heart, and took the first step into the mountain belly from the mouth of the secret passage.

With his cultivation base, his footsteps were so light that he almost seemed to be floating, and he didn't leave any footprints below.But Tao Xi still clearly felt the touch under his feet, the soil was dark, wet, soft, and even had a sticky feeling like flesh and blood.

The will-o'-the-wisps around sensed his presence and floated a little closer to him.These will-o'-the-wisps are not the phosphorus fires seen by mortals, or the yin fires ignited by the friction between a place with too much yin energy and a little yang energy, but real "ghost" fires.Outside every will-o'-the-wisp, there is a ghost.

These ghosts are ambiguous, acting only on instinct, and do not have any terrible power, but there are too many will-o'-the-wisps in this cave...

After Tao Xi took that step, he didn't continue to move. The ghost fires around him couldn't feel the vitality on his body. After instinctively approaching and wandering around for a while, they dispersed in a ignorant manner and continued to wander freely in the cave. with.

Only then did Tao Xi continue to take a few steps forward.He took every step steadily, and the nearby will-o'-the-wisps sensed that something new had appeared, and they all approached one after another, and then dispersed after not finding it.

Tao Xi made a gesture, and several monks behind him stepped into the cave, following Tao Xi's steps.

After entering the cave, the intermittent sound of the piano suddenly became clear, and after the intermittent blur, the sound of the piano did not have the quiet and weird feeling it gave people before.

Tao Xi led the people towards the direction where the piano sounded. Although he didn't speak, his eyes never stopped observing.Although the will-o'-the-wisps around seem to be floating aimlessly, they are actually moving towards the center of the cave, which is the direction where the piano sound came from.

A group of people walked silently in the cave, surrounded by blue or green will-o'-the-wisps gathering and leaving them.

If you can look from the perspective of the top of the cave, you will find that in this cave with dark soil and no sun, countless will-o’-the-wisps are floating towards the center of the cave along the spiral in a disordered manner, like a piece of Huge blue-green nebula.

And at the border of "Nebula", a silent team drew a clear spiral line with the will-o'-the-wisps gathering and parting as they moved forward slowly.

The faces of the people in the team became paler and paler against the background of the will-o'-the-wisps. They seemed silent, almost like a procession of dead people blending into the will-o'-the-wisps.But this team is not as silent as it looks on the surface, they have been communicating with each other with gestures in private.

Although it would be more convenient to transmit sound with spiritual consciousness or spells, the ghostly aura and gloom in this cave are too thick, I am afraid that any spell will cause a reaction like water pouring into a hot oil pan.Although spiritual communication is convenient and secretive, it is not absolutely safe.Tao Xi has been in the Disciplinary Department for so many years and can be considered to be well-informed, but he has never seen such a weird situation like now.

To be on the safe side, the group did not do anything other than to seal off their breath.

The further they went, the more weird they found the situation here.Tao Xiben still walked steadily forward step by step, but suddenly there was a slight pause in his footsteps.

The soil in this cave was originally sticky and soft, but at the step he just took, it seemed that he stepped on something hard.

Tao Xi made his footsteps a little heavier, and then he raised his feet and rubbed away the dirt on the surface.He glanced down imperceptibly as he walked on.

Round and white, it was a skull.

The further they walked, the more bones they encountered. All of them were in a state where the skin and flesh had all decayed, leaving only bones. Apart from human bones, there seemed to be horse bones.

The bones were incomplete, with cracks recording injuries.Swords, guns, arrows, and even some records of being crushed by heavy objects.Tao Xi could see those weapons, armor, and chariots from these traces. Even though these things have decayed in time, they still left their own shadows on the land.

This is an ancient battlefield.Tao Xi remembered that in 700 years when the kingdoms were fighting, there was a great battle here, and countless warriors of the Liang Kingdom were trapped here. The same predicament today, they have no food.

The supplies of the frontline soldiers were already insufficient, and after being trapped to death by the enemy, they couldn't bring in any food.Liang Jun didn't want to surrender at first, but after they ate the last war horse, even the leather armor on their bodies was torn and chewed with their teeth, and there was nothing to eat between them except the comrades beside them. After that, they descended.

They had to drop.

But the enemy has no extra food and grass.Years of melee almost exhausted every country's heritage.

The enemy army can hardly support its own soldiers, so how can it support the Liang army?As a result, the surrendered Liang Jun died forever in this mass grave.

After Tao Xi figured it out, he suddenly felt cold.With his cultivation base, even in this environment, he shouldn't feel cold at all, but after trying to understand what's going on here, he can suddenly understand the resentment and darkness entrenched here, Because of this bit of enlightenment, his thoughts resonated slightly with this place, and he felt cold in such a thick gloom.

But Tao Xi didn't say anything, he didn't seem to be affected by the cold, and continued to walk forward, and they soon approached the first stone pillar.

After getting close to the stone pillar, Tao Xi realized that he was wrong.He once thought that those ancient armors had already decayed in time, but the overly dense darkness and resentment here obscured his eyes, so that he could only see clearly after getting closer, where are these stone pillars formed naturally?Numerous weapons, armors, chariots... were engulfed in the huge stone pillars, and hideous corners were exposed on the surface of the stone pillars, desolate and terrifying.

This is by no means a weird place formed naturally, but the result of man-made shaping!

But how is this possible?

Everyone knows that such an ancient battlefield is the most prone to change, not to mention that countless desperate Liang people are buried here.After the end of the war that year, Liang Guo freed up his hands and sent monks here to save the souls and clean up the grievances. This ancient battlefield has already been cleaned up.

But regardless of whether it was possible or not, the current situation was already what he had seen. With this awareness, Tao Xi looked at the surrounding environment again, and found some problems that he had ignored before.

The strong resentment and gloom affected their perception. These huge stone pillars blocked their sight. Although they had been approaching the direction of the piano sound, they were not walking in a straight line, but circled in a large circle. .

These huge stone pillars formed a formation.

In addition, they are not always moving forward on flat ground, but are always going down.The terrain here is getting lower and lower, like a huge vortex, they are walking along the vortex wall, gradually moving towards the center of the vortex.

This gave Tao Xi a bad feeling.The complicated situation around made him unable to see the function of this formation for a while, but no matter what this strange formation was used for, Tao Xi did not intend to follow its arrangement.

After making a decision, Tao Xi calculated the direction in his mind, and as soon as he turned his footsteps, he stopped going around in circles and walked straight to the center of the vortex.

Although the others behind him didn't understand, they followed Tao Xi's gesture and turned around with him.

But within a few steps, Tao Xi suddenly stopped again.

He was forced to stop.

After they changed their direction, all the will-o'-the-wisps around them, who were originally insane and did not show any harm, suddenly stopped and turned to look at them.These gloomy gazes fell on them clearly. If the acupoints all over their bodies hadn't been closed, some people with a slightly lower cultivation base would already be sweating.

Tao Xi stopped there, not daring to take another step forward.He had a hunch that as long as he took another step in the changed direction, these ghosts would pounce on him without hesitation.

He stopped in place for a moment, then raised his foot again, and when he fell down, he was already walking in the direction of the previous spiral.

After they walked in the original direction, the will-o'-the-wisps also returned to their previous state.

The situation here is beyond their ability to handle.In the next journey, Tao Xi also tried to take his own people back, or to see if he could leave in an upward spiral way.However, no matter what he tried, as long as they deviated from a certain direction, the will-o'-the-wisps around them would all stare at them.

They have been deeply trapped in this formation, unable to get out, they can only continue to move forward according to the arrangement of the formation.

They went down step by step, bypassing one stone pillar after another.Tao Xi was vigilant all the way, but there was no danger. He has rich experience, not only observing the outside world, but also observing himself, and constantly communicating with the team members.They themselves are also in a normal state, and have not been affected in any way except for a little cold accident caused by being in a dark place for a long time.It seems that as long as they follow the route arranged by the formation and walk slowly inside, they will not encounter any accidents.

This changed, however, as they approached a third of the way to the center of the vortex.

Originally, as they approached the center, more and more bones were exposed under the soil, but the traces of war and years can still be seen on these bones. They are all Liang Guo who were buried in the mass grave 700 years ago Soldier.After approaching the inner third, the ground has become almost a pile of bones, and there is no more dirt to be seen.

They were all disgusted with the soft and sticky black soil like flesh and blood before, but now when they stepped on these bones, they couldn't help but began to miss the previous soil.

No matter what the dirt feels like, at least it's still dirt.

Tao Xi's expression suddenly changed after walking on the ground completely piled up with bones.

He is a very stable person, and his expression has always been calm and reliable. Even in the weird situations he encountered before, his expression did not change, but now his expression has changed because he discovered something.

He discovered that the land paved with bones under their feet was not paved with bones from 700 years ago.

These bones come from people who died no more than 23 years ago. The closer to the center, the closer the time of death.

23 years ago, the catastrophe had not yet begun, and the Disciplinary Department still had control over the territory of Liang Guoguo, but at that time, someone had already planned such a thing in Liangguo, and established such a formation under this land , and leave them unaware.

Tao Xi had already realized how terrifying what they were discovering now was, but he didn't expect that this thing was far more terrifying than what he thought before.

And the worst thing was that they had no way out. To be precise, when Tao Xi stepped into the cave, he had no way out, and he couldn't pass on the news.

Anyone who knows how to swim knows how terrifying the vortex is. Although this underground vortex looks silent, it also has such a terrifying power. Once you touch it, you can't escape, you can only be swept away. deeper.

The closer to the center of the vortex, the greater the density of the surrounding ghost fires, almost one ghost fire at a time, illuminating the brightness of the cave as before dusk.

But the worse thing hadn't happened yet. After Tao Xi took another step, he suddenly felt unsteady on his feet.

This is not really unstable. With his cultivation base, even without mana, he can walk smoothly on the surface of countless large and small polished smooth balls.

Tao Xi's feet were unstable, not because his steps were unstable, but because the things under his feet were unstable—the bones that had died long ago were moving.

Tao Xi hastily made several gestures to the back, telling the people behind to be careful.

They have all drawn their weapons, and even if they cannot use mana, they themselves are capable of mortal sword skills.

These bones are just trembling like this right now, but it may not be so in the future.

As they expected, before they had gone far, the bones under their feet had already begun to stick out sharp sections to stab them, or stretched out bone claws to try to grab them and drag them down.

At first they were able to avoid it, but soon they had to use their weapons.The agility and physique of the monks were enough for them to handle these things with ease. Fortunately, the will-o'-the-wisps around them didn't respond to the interaction between them and the bones, as long as they didn't deviate from the vortex route.

However, these bones will not always remain in a state where only a few limbs protrude from the ground. As they approach the center of the vortex, more and more parts of these bones can break free from the ground, and they will gather again when they are scattered. , even if it is broken into pieces, it can be put back together unless it is crushed into powder.But what about being smashed into powder?This is a land of corpses, and there is a steady stream of corpses.

What's more, these bones are supported by the strong resentment here, which is much harder than ordinary bones.There were a few weaker people in the team who were already struggling, Tao Xi had no choice but to protect them, but even if he couldn't use mana, he was still very limited compared to them.There is still a long way to go from the center of the vortex, what's more, they don't know what is waiting for them in the center of the vortex.

The bones in front of him shook more and more violently, a deformed skeleton that was put together indiscriminately pulled itself up from the ground, and took a shaky step towards Tao Xi's team.

With a wave of the long knife in Tao Xi's hand, he broke up the bones again, but everyone including him changed color.

When these bones can break free from the ground, it means that in the next journey, there will be countless bones attacking them from all directions.

These things were originally just the most common zombies. If they were encountered outside, not to mention them, even the Erwen collar in the Disciplinary Department could easily deal with them.However, they are now in such a formation, unable to retreat, and dare not use magic power. Are they going to confess here, in the hands of this group of corpse monsters who are not even sane?

One corpse after another climbed up in front of him, and the back of Tao Xi's hand was already bulging. Just when everyone was unwilling and desperate, a piano sound suddenly sounded.

Zheng.

The sound of the piano is far away, but it is as clear as in the ear.The crawling corpses suddenly fell back to the ground, and all the bones stopped moving. Even the shaking bones under their feet were as calm as if nothing had happened, as if what happened just now was just an illusion of theirs.

Everyone's faces were in a daze, not because they really felt that they had an illusion, but because of the sound of the piano.

Before... they seem to have forgotten the sound of the piano, obviously they came here following the sound of the piano, and they heard it when they first stepped into the cave.

After noticing the sound of the piano again, they recalled that the sound of the piano seemed to have never stopped, from the moment they stepped into the cave, it has been ringing until now.But they seemed to be confused before, the sound of the piano was in their ears but not in their hearts, and they ignored it for life.

After the sound of the piano, not only the bones became silent again, it seemed that even the gloom around them had dissipated a lot, and the will-o'-the-wisps around them... It seemed that some inexplicable influences had also been eliminated.

Tao Xi had a feeling in his heart, and led his people to change direction, and took a few steps back, but the will-o'-the-wisps did not stop them as before.

He immediately separated the two people with the weakest cultivation base from the team, and asked them to go back the same way and bring the news out, while he still stayed here with the rest of the people.

This formation has apparently reached a certain point, and the matter here has not been clarified. If it leaves like this, it is very likely that it will never be clarified again.And here, apart from the power of the person who arranged the formation, there should be another force that goes against it—that is, the person who plucked the piano.

Contrary to their initial guess, the plucker didn't seem to have any malice towards them, but instead helped them out.From the point of view of the means of siege, the plucker is definitely not the one who arranged the formation, otherwise there is no need to use the sound of the piano to suppress the corpses and eliminate the influence of the formation on the will-o'-the-wisp.He just needs to control the formation directly.

Judging from the direction from which the sound came from the piano, the harpist was at the center of the formation. Although I don't know how he was struggling with the power of the formation, judging from the fact that he still had enough energy to help himself and others, it was obvious that The situation is still optimistic.That being the case, why can't they check it out?

More importantly, Tao Xi wasn't sure whether the pluckers wanted them to leave or not.

After letting the two weaker people leave, Tao Xi did not lead the others to go deeper, but stopped there temporarily.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the two people who had left to find them again.

They shook their heads at Tao Xi and made several gestures.

Only the nearby will-o'-the-wisps have been eliminated from the formation, and the will-o'-the-wisps farther away outside the formation are still the same as before. If they try to go out, they will be targeted.The two couldn't help it, so they had to go back again to find Tao Xi.

Tao Xi nodded as expected, let these two people join the team, and followed him to continue walking into the formation.

But just as he took a step, there was another clear sound of the piano.

The will-o'-the-wisp within the range of the zither sound has been eliminated by the formation. These ghosts who lost their minds were wandering in disorder, but now they froze after hearing the sound of the zither.

From the center of the formation to where Tao Xi and his party were, all the will-o'-the-wisps suddenly receded to the sides, making way for a path leading directly to the center.

Tao Xi paused, accepted the invitation, and led the rest of the team along the road to the center.

The sound of the piano is non-stop, broad-minded and far away. Although there is still sadness, it is more relieved and peaceful, like the wind in early autumn.

Under this kind of piano sound, it seems that even the cave full of corpses and ghost fires has become less scary, instead, each one reveals a sense of silence and tranquility.

Tao Xi led the people along the opened path to the center of the formation, walking on the silent white bones and shining the light of the ghostly fire amidst the sound of the zither.

Since they don't have to sink down bit by bit in a whirlpool-like direction according to the restrictions of the formation, it may mean that the core of the formation has been broken.

They walked along the road, bypassing the last huge twisted stone pillar in the formation, and finally saw the appearance of the center.

In the deep cavern, blue or green ghost fires quietly float around the center, illuminating countless white bones.

Such a scene was originally eerie, terrifying and shocking, but amidst the sound of the piano, it was desolate and silent.

The person playing the qin is sitting in the center, he is at the bottom of this vortex of corpses and will-o'-the-wisps, surrounded by silent wailing and resentment, yet he can still play such a qin.

The mourning sound is long and long, and the chants are changeable, like the seven emotions of all beings, delicate and subtle, but any emotion will eventually become mourning.

When the body dies, all the feelings of life, parents and children, brothers and sisters, lovers and old friends are all cut off, and everything is empty, how can we not feel sorrow?

But this kind of mourning sound does not make the mourning deeper and heavier.

After hearing the sound of the zither, Tao Xi understood that the sound of the zither was not suppressing corpses and ghosts as he thought before, nor was it superseding or manipulating ghosts and grudges as usual.This is soothing.

Every sound of Qin is speaking for them and understanding them.That's another kind of consolation, just like after talking and crying, you can regain some strength.

After these ghosts felt such comfort, all resentment and unwillingness turned into sorrow.

After mourning is known and understood by others, those will-o'-the-wisps ignited by resentment and attachment will gradually be extinguished. After the will-o'-the-wisps are extinguished, the ghosts will only have time to leave a last cry or sigh, and they will be dragged into hell by the underworld. Netherworld.

Tao Xi stood there, as if he himself had fallen into solitude, waiting until the song fell.

After a song, the will-o'-the-wisps are extinguished.

Tao Xi was silent, and took a step forward.The crisp crack sounded under his feet, and he was awakened from the world shaped by the piano sound.

He looked down, and there was a sudden crack on the hard bones piled up to form the earth.Cracks spread like spider webs, and the dense bones in this cave were all broken.

Tao Xi raised his head suddenly, and the luthier in the center of the vortex had already stood up with his violin in his arms.

The robe is dark green, and the hair is black and the pupils are black.