Chapter 1024: Ten Thousand Arrows Cast in the Nine Heavens

A cart of red fire flame copper ore was sent into Longcheng by a huge iron cart from the door of a small world.

The core of the iron cart was a bug that looked like a human head.

It was imprisoned at the front of the cart, and several thin blood-colored iron chains pierced through it, coming out from the two eye sockets, ear holes, and mouth of the head.

It was hung at the front of the cart, like a hanging human head, and the head emitted a faint light.

But the human skull opened its mouth, making a hoarse insect sound...

Everywhere in Longcheng, such roars came.

The insect sounds that followed one after another were transmitted to the deepest part of Longcheng, into a cave heaven, but it was a nine-headed head gathered by huge men, women, old, and young.

From time to time, one of the huge heads would open its mouth, making a sound that was inaudible to human ears, but urgent, high-frequency, and so sharp that it was almost pervasive, capable of drilling through space.

This sound also reached Qian Chen's ears, and the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Secret Talisman followed that invisible insect sound, penetrating all the way to the nine heads hanging on the top of the Longcheng tower.

But the nine heads all split open.

Their mouths opened wide, their cheeks split into two, and thin, thin, like flesh membranes, blood threads, and bone structures, the wing sheaths flapped urgently, making a gesture of surrender and courtship.

"Nine-Headed Soul-Devouring Gu!"

"Actually a Primordial Spirit level Gu King..."

Stepping through all restrictions, Qian Chen carried Li Zhong and stepped into one of the nine cave heavens of Longcheng.

This was a world of flesh and blood, with countless Gu Mother Pagodas standing tall, supporting a flesh and blood pile, flesh sacs, and dense caves piled up like mountains, like meridians pulling each other, with insect carts crawling on the spreading organization.

Qian Chen didn't know whether it was admiration or disgust, explaining to Li Zhong beside him: "Flying Head Gu is originally difficult to cultivate. This Gu needs to plant insect eggs in the human body. After the insect eggs hatch, they will drill into the skull along the blood flow, gradually replacing the human head! At first, there is no difference, gradually there will be a preference for eating raw flesh, not sleeping at night, not resting during the day, but all memories and speech remain the same, until the Gu insect matures, the host's head will carry the stomach and intestines and fly away, hence the name Flying Head Gu!"

"Flying Head Gu is just a larva. After being cultivated and refined by Gu cultivators, manipulating this Gu to suck human souls, gradually maturing, it will have the magical powers of taking souls and seizing spirits, confusing gods and illusions, and spitting out poisonous smoke."

"Named Soul-Devouring Gu! It is a very basic and common kind of Gu insect in the demonic path."

"According to the cultivation method, it can even enter and exit without space—Ghost Head Gu, like a mountain—Giant Head Gu, spitting out demon light, specifically dealing with cultivators' divine souls—Soul-Seizing Gu."

"But being able to cultivate to seize nine at least Yang Spirit great cultivators, the divine soul is so strong that it is close to the Primordial Spirit cultivators who specialize in divine sense, this kind of Primordial Spirit great Gu King realm, is also rare."

"Even if it is a Primordial Spirit level Gu insect, it is ultimately not 'human' and cannot obtain the protection of the Primordial Spirit Dao Fruit and enjoy longevity."

"The most difficult pass for Gu cultivators is also like this..."

"Only the orthodox Primordial Spirit in the world can attain longevity! Other left-path Primordial Spirits have huge drawbacks in longevity, gradually becoming demons, and Gu insects, even those specially used for longevity like Heaven Yuan Gu and Yu Yu Changsheng Gu, cannot exceed ten thousand years of lifespan! Other Primordial Spirit Gu insects even only have a lifespan of a thousand years. Hard-working to cultivate a Gu insect to the Primordial Spirit level, but it can only be used for a thousand years, naturally refining Gu became a thankless hard work."

"Of course, Gu cultivators attain the Primordial Spirit, and their natal Gu can naturally share its lifespan... This allowed Gu cultivators to occupy a place in the demonic path."

"Although the lifespan of Gu insects is limited!"

"But what the demonic path fears least is the limitation of the heavens. Whether it is refining Gu into demons or refining Gu into tools, on the basis of retaining the ability of Gu insects, they are pickled into useful gods, demons, or magical artifacts. For the demonic path, it really can't be called a problem."

"Gu insects have short lifespans, just don't make Gu..."

"But Longcheng retains this Nine-Headed Soul-Devouring Gu King, precisely to use its innate ability to govern, control, and manipulate the Soul-Devouring Gu to operate a part of Longcheng's system!"

"Therefore, a living Gu King is more reliable than refining it into a demon magical artifact."

Qian Chen's Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Secret Talisman penetrated bit by bit. Except for the various vicious demonic path restrictions on the surface, the red restriction truly maintained, controlled, and planted in its origin was finally seized by the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Secret Talisman.

With a casual wave, the invisible restrictions that were scattered in the invisible and stretched across the entire Longcheng gathered in Qian Chen's right hand.

Countless invisible thin threads intertwined into a red line, falling into Qian Chen's hand.

Li Zhong only saw Qian Chen pull it gently, and that terrifying Gu insect with nine ferocious heads let out a weak whimper that was almost begging.

"So it's the Yu Yu Changsheng Demon Restriction!"

"The method of heaven's resentment and blessing for ten thousand years of longevity, descendants prosperous, commonly known as the Hundred Sons, Ten Thousand Grandsons, Ten Thousand Blessings, Wan Shou Demon Restriction..."

"This restriction was naturally created by the Yu Yu Changsheng Demon, the most common among the demons in the world! In the way of luck, blessing and longevity are closely related, so someone comprehended the wonderful method of blessing and longevity conversion, using blessing to replace longevity when their own lifespan was about to end, thereby extending their life."

"And among blessings, the blessing of descendants is the most endless."

"So this Hundred Sons, Ten Thousand Grandsons, Ten Thousand Blessings, Wan Shou Demon Restriction is to have many children and many blessings, planting restrictions on one's own descendants, condensing ten thousand blessings of demon qi, and then devouring the ten thousand blessings of descendants, refining ten thousand longevity demon qi! Transferring one's own disasters, aging, decay, and even fear, despair, and darkness to descendants, which is called bearing."

"For a period of time, this restriction once flooded the world."

"It was the Heavenly Court that took action, ordering the Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper star lords, and the Antarctic Yu Yu Changsheng Great Emperor, to take action together, using the Supreme Three Primordial Life-Cutting Dao Divine Light to temporarily cut off the world's blessing and virtue, exposing those many Yu Yu Changsheng Demons. Then the Northern Dipper fell to death, cursing them all to death, and then cut off this lineage."

"But I didn't expect the demonic path to actually use it here."

Li Zhong ignored the Nine-Headed Soul-Devouring Gu King that was crawling at the very top of the cave heaven, overlooking everything, constantly making hissing sounds to manipulate countless Flying Head Gu and Soul-Devouring Gu!

Just looking far away—those dense, nest-like sacs!

Either open, with countless Gu insects entering and exiting, or closed, with countless Gu objects devouring each other, it was like a Gu nest for refining Gu in the demonic path!

Each insect nest, the smallest is hundreds of feet in radius, the largest is like a mountain, with hundreds of millions of insects wriggling inside.

The thousand-foot-high "Mother Gu Pagodas" standing in the cave heaven stood tall.

Looking at it, hundreds of sky pillars were densely distributed, supporting this flesh and blood cave heaven.

The pagoda body was full of honeycomb-like holes, and in each hole, there was a mother Gu laying eggs.

These strange-shaped mother Gu, whose species had exceeded imagination and exceeded all living beings in the Earth Immortal Realm, were all refined with one of the demonic path's supreme means, the "Gu God Sutra."

In their sea of consciousness, a wisp of demon thought was planted, believing in a god that was like a demon.

Big-bellied, six pairs of jointed limbs, four pairs of compound eyes, the whole body was like a fusion of a human body and a white ant queen, but one could find all known insect characteristics on him.

Qian Chen knew that this was a demon lord of the Gu Demon Dao—Gu Mother!

This thing attained the Great Dao of Reproduction, belonging to a branch under the Great Dao of Creation, a thing that wanted to be a running dog under the Cauldron of Creation but couldn't, belonging to a character Qian Chen didn't even want to touch...

Enduring the discomfort, Li Zhong frowned: "Does this also belong to Longcheng?"

"What do you think a spiritual treasure is?"

Qian Chen asked back, and after a while, he suddenly realized: "Oh! White Tiger Seven Kill Saber, Vajra Samadhi Pagoda, etc. don't count. The so-called magical treasures and spiritual treasures that have not attained creation and have not entrusted the Dao Fruit are all things that deceive you small cultivators!"

"This Longcheng is a spiritual treasure rebuilt from one-third of the ancient Longcheng that was knocked down, opening up nine cave heavens inside!"

"This Gu God Heaven is just the cave heaven on the top layer. There are eight layers below, some of which even Little Murong Chui himself cannot control, which are the territories managed by successive masters of Longcheng. The true foundation core of this spiritual treasure city!"

"In the Gu God Heaven, there are hundreds of millions of Gu nests, countless kinds of Gu objects, and all nineteen kinds of fierce Gu in the universe, except for the top three, are all here."

"Of course, the real fierce Gu are all sealed in the deepest part of the Gu God Heaven, and Little Murong Chui cannot control them either!"

Qian Chen reached out and pointed.

Li Zhong's gaze followed that finger and fell on the fortress city on the upper layer of Longcheng, only to see the iron cart transporting red fire flame copper ore, under the manipulation of the Soul-Devouring Gu, throwing the cart of ore into a huge iron well.

A huge hammer smashed down, and in an instant, the cart of ore was ground into powder.

These powders were not sent into the huge Bagua furnace in the city, but were swallowed by a Gu insect that looked like a centipede with hundreds of segments like a train.

The Gu insect drilled downward, and soon drilled out from a Mother Gu Pagoda in the Gu God Heaven.

It came to a huge flesh sac, drilled its huge body into it, but only squeezed in half, and spat out the mineral powder mixed with the mucus in its mouth.

Those mucus were also collected by the centipede Gu from the huge poison pools spread across the Gu God Heaven!

At this time, the ants that had just hatched, dense and dense, as short as needles, crawled over and began to gnaw on the poison liquid mixed with red fire flame copper mineral powder.

The adult bodies of these ants were like pine needles, and their exoskeletons were all mixed with red fire flame copper, incomparably sharp, capable of easily turning through mountain rocks and shooting other Gu insects!

After they transformed a pair of wings for nuptial flight, this Red Needle Flame Copper Ant was successfully cultivated.

A school captain in the demon army drove a huge golden beetle and came.

He raised a waist card, flicked his finger, and the invisible demon thought swept over. The adult Red Needle Flame Copper Ants in the flesh sac all fell into a deep sleep.

He also opened the leather pocket at his waist.

A huge tongue rolled, and the dense millions of Red Needle Flame Copper Ants fell into the pocket.

The demon army school captain raised his waist card, and the golden beetle turned with golden light, sending him away from the Gu God Heaven.

Li Zhong's gaze could still see the school captain carrying the leather pocket, coming into a building, where there were dozens of demon cultivators, all dressed as craftsmen, and several demon army guards.

The leather pocket opened, and the dense, needle-like Gu insects fell out.

Piled up in one place!

And the demon army craftsmen were all specializing in demon sense, with cultivation at least at the Foundation Establishment level. They picked out those copper needles, about eighty-one in a set, and installed them in a talisman arrow.

Dozens of people were agile and their demon sense was precise, and soon they assembled thousands of talisman arrows according to the procedure.

"Thousand Gu Armor-Breaking Arrow!"

"This arrow is divided into child-mother arrow style and armor-breaking arrow style. In the hands of demon cultivator military family archers, one arrow is shot, and it can burst halfway! The power of the talisman arrow is fully added to the eighty-one Red Needle Flame Copper Ants, fully stimulating the ferocity of the Gu insects, making them fly to find flesh and blood. Such an arrow can slaughter a town without any defense."

"Similarly, they can also gather the power of fierce Gu in one place!"

"When the arrow hits armor, formation, or protective magical technique, the talisman arrow shell will burst, tearing open the restriction, and injecting eighty-one fierce Gu into it, or breaking the armor and devouring flesh and blood, or breaking the formation, turning into eighty-one smaller talisman arrows."

"And this kind of armor-breaking child-mother arrow is just one form of the Thousand Gu Arrow of the Military Demon Path!"

"Besides the Thousand Gu Demon Arrow category, there are Yin Malevolent Demon Arrows, Poison Miasma Demon Arrows, Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Arrows, God-Demon Dharma Arrows, etc."

"For example, the Rakshasa Boundary-Breaking Arrow!"

"Refined with the Inter-Space Heavenly Ghost, one arrow shot can tear through space, break formations and restrictions, act as a coordinate to transmit demon army, and even several in a group can directly tear through space-time cracks, allowing demons to rush directly into the hinterland."

"Fortunately, this arrow is difficult to refine. It requires nine Inter-Space Heavenly Ghosts to cooperate with the Ghost Mother to refine the Nine-Child-Mother Heavenly Ghost, so that nine arrows can be a group, arbitrarily moving the army."

"With Little Murong Chui's accumulation, there are no more than ten groups of such Dharma arrows!"

Regardless of Li Zhong's worry, Qian Chen took another step and left the Gu God Heaven.

Going deeper into a cave heaven, here the demon clouds were miserable, and all objects, shapes, and sizes seemed not to exist, only countless mirrors reflecting each other, opening up countless layers of mutually projecting worlds.

"Ten Thousand Mirror Heaven!"

Qian Chen smiled: "A cave heaven that even the Little Murong clan's demon army and the old demon heads of the demonic path dare not enter rashly."

"It was opened up by the Ten Thousand Mirror Demon Lord. You don't need to know who he is. He is also a small character who wanted to be a running dog for a certain mirror but couldn't."

"The cave heaven he opened up is a nesting of ten thousand mirrors, projecting a world that is illusory and between spirit and matter."

"Once your shadow falls into the mirror, countless mirrors project, and you will soon lose the position of your own existence. Your form and spirit will differentiate on countless mirror surfaces, and your senses will also be projected and lost. The true self is hard to observe, and you can no longer find your true body!"

Although Qian Chen said so, Li Zhong found that no mirror could reflect their figures.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Qian Chen sneered: "Playing with truth and illusion in front of me, I am also an existence that the Ten Thousand Mirror Demon Lord wanted to be a running dog for but couldn't!"

"However, the Ten Thousand Mirror Demon Lord and successive masters of Longcheng all have some ideas."

"They keep summoning demons from the Yu Yu Jiuyou into this world..."

Qian Chen reached out and pointed, and a mirror platform in Longcheng above appeared in front of them.

On the mirror platform stood eight glazed Dharma mirrors, and an old demon was disheveled, dancing on the eight-mirror Dharma altar, shaking the chess banner in his hand.

That banner was the embroidery of men and women intertwined. As the chess banner waved, the embroidered men and women on it became more and more emotional. Gradually, a kind of dissolute qi was emitted from the Dharma altar.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1025 =====

Qian Chen reached out a hand and pointed, and a mirror stand within the Longcheng above appeared before them.

Standing upon the mirror stand were eight glazed magic mirrors, and an old demon, with disheveled hair, was dancing wildly upon the eight-mirror altar, shaking a chess banner in his hand.

On that banner was embroidery of men and women in intimate embrace; as the chess banner waved, the embroidered figures grew increasingly aroused, and gradually, a decadent aura emanated from the altar.

(End of chapter)