Chapter 439: Ten Thousand Gu Demon Nest, Noisy Abyss, Singing the Empty City Again

"Ahead is the location of the Demon-Burying Stone Platform!" Sima Yue stood in the Eastern Palace Forbidden Hall and said to an old man in front of him.

The restrictions in the bronze hall blocked all directions, so not even a trace of wind could get out, allowing him to rest assured and explain some things to the old man.

The three Yin Spirit offerings guarding his side were all aristocratic foundations accumulated since the Sima family controlled Southern Jin, but two of them were of foreign surnames, and only the one standing in front of Sima Yue now was a strong man of the older generation of the Sima family, and also the person who supported Sima Yue in seizing power, serving as the head of the three Yin Spirits.

Therefore, Sima Yue was very respectful and did not overstep.

"That Li Taibai calls the Demon-Burying Stone Platform the God-Sacrificing Platform, which is not without reason..." The old man closed his eyes slightly and shook his head.

"Hmph! Wang Zhiyuan told him many things! Wang Zhiyuan discovered some secrets when he entered the Jin Ling Cave Heaven last time. After he was ordered by the Dao Academy to guard the Sanmao Temple, he must have also researched many secrets of the Jin Ling Cave Heaven. This time, opening another road with a golden seed really caught us off guard!" The old man opened his eyes and sneered.

"And little Sixteen! She is clearly a member of my Sima family, and the Sanmao Temple is also her industry, and Wang Zhiyuan is her Yan Yan Shixiong."

"Li Taibai is willing to bring her here, clearly he is the guardian Wang Zhiyuan found for her. This girl has been wolf-hearted and dog-lunged since she was a child, and likes to turn her elbows out. If she had let Wang Zhiyuan hand over the secrets in his hands and then begged us to take action, would we have sat idly by and watched her come to break in alone? Truly clever but mistaken by cleverness..."

Sima Yue also smiled: "Little Sixteen has never been close to us!"

The old man sneered: "This matter should be due to True Person Tao's prejudice, but Wang Zhiyuan still miscalculated!"

"The Demon-Burying Stone Platform was discovered by us during the exploration of the Jin Ling Cave Heaven five hundred years ago! For this reason, we even secretly took action and killed two aristocratic Yin Spirits who approached here unintentionally. So, no matter what secrets Wang Zhiyuan knows, it is impossible for him to know more about the Demon-Burying Stone Platform than we do."

"This time, the Flame Ancestor wants to re-attain the Dao. Once my Sima family has two more Yuan Spirits, we can suppress the aristocratic families again and control the Great Jin!"

"Only then will your Crown Prince position be secure. Only then will you not have to offer national destiny to the Flame Ancestor like the current Emperor!"

Speaking of this, Sima Yue felt sad, but the old man's eyes flashed with disdain, and his words showed no respect for the Emperor.

"What about Sixteen?" Sima Yue lowered his head and said.

"With her here, True Person Tao will not dare to act rashly. It counts as a good hostage. True Person Tao has miscalculated! By then, all matters will be blamed on the Demon Sect, and it will have nothing to do with my Sima family!"

The old man stood with his hands behind his back, looking coldly at Si Princess Qingcheng, who was looking around and acting cute outside the hall.

Sima Yue stared not far away. There was a huge earth mound there. In contrast, the surrounding mountains were all a head lower. The soil of the earth mound was five-colored, accumulated in layers, and under the sky light, it emitted five-colored halos.

It was as if someone had piled up a huge burial mound here, offering something to the sky.

The surrounding mountains wound like dragons, but the dragon heads were all pressed under this earth mound. If someone looked down at these mountains, they could see nine dragon veins surrounding this earth mound, as if guarding a dragon pearl.

This kind of feng shui situation is said in ancient books—Nine Dragon Sacrificing Heaven Style!

Now, in the middle of the earth mound, where the altar should have been worshipped, a bottomless abyss had sunken, like a volcano, looking down it was bottomless, only hearing strange whistling sounds.

It seemed that someone had taken action and knocked the center of this magnificent altar under the earth mound.

Sima Yue knew that down this abyss was the location of the Demon-Burying Stone Platform. They called the ancient stone platform the Demon-Burying Stone Platform because they had seen too many incredible demons during their exploration.

The Sima family was willing to unite with the Demon Sect, besides having the use of the demonic path to take the blame and realizing the calculations they had planned for a long time, it might also be because the Demon-Burying Stone Platform was too dangerous and the Sima family was alone.

This abyss was like a birdcage, and the rock walls of the top layer were lined with countless caves like a beehive.

Numerous twisted tunnels intertwined, hollowing out the hill; the small ones were like ant nests or insect burrows, while the large ones were like abysses that could hold a city. The wind-evil shuttled through the tunnels, producing intense whistling sounds. This sound captured souls and seized spirits; besides greatly weakening spiritual sense and suppressing the cultivators' souls, it also formed a natural disaster known to the demonic path as the Clamorous Demonic Sound.

The wind evil blew through the countless holes, producing chaotic demon sounds. The weak ones could only make people lose their minds temporarily, while the powerful demon sounds could seize souls and take spirits, making cultivators below the Yang Spirit realm have their spirits scattered in an instant.

There were already demonic path cultivators comprehending here, wanting to create a demon sound divine ability based on the environment here.

"The Demon-Burying Stone Platform is three thousand miles into the earth, and the abyss leading to it is bottomless and extremely dangerous. This top layer of countless caves and grottoes is called the Noisy Demon World, and there are three great ominous things that make people unable to avoid them." The old man warned Sima Yue.

"First is the Noisy Demon Sound produced by the wind evil shuttling. The production and strength of the Noisy Demon Sound have no rules. Sometimes even the most ordinary ant hole can emit the sharpest demon sound, making people's heads explode like a rotten ripe melon in an instant, bang!..."

"Sometimes the demon sound will echo in the cave, the most subtle, inaudible demon sound, making you fall into a quiet sleep without knowing it, sleeping to death in the cave."

"The demon sound is strange and varied, and it is the most unpredictable danger in the Noisy Demon World."

The old man's words were full of murderous intent, making Sima Yue look at the abyss, and there was a layer of cold sweat on his back.

"Besides this, the No-Space Wind Evil is also an ominous thing. In those countless stone caves and tunnels, because of the wind blowing, the turbid Qi in the ground is refined into wisps of wind evil. The most poisonous wind evil once poisoned the Golden Silkworm Gu King of the Wumu Sect to death. Besides the poisonous wind evil, there are cold wind evil, absolute wind evil, Yuan magnetic wind evil, Nine Nether wind evil, etc., each of which is terrifying to the extreme. In the environment here, it is equivalent to a peerless divine ability."

"Encountering the first two ominous things is just bad luck, and if you are well-prepared, you can still survive. But encountering the third ominous thing is the most terrifying thing!" The old man's expression showed a trace of solemnity, and he said gloomily.

"The I Ching says: 'The father's gu, there is a son, no blame, finally lucky.' It also says: 'Wind under the mountain, gu; the gentleman uses it to vibrate the people and cultivate virtue.' Qian Chen explained to Si Princess Qingcheng: 'The mountain is towering, it is a dragon vein, the earth mound is low, it is also the sand in the feng shui image. This five-colored earth mound is round and towering, and the soil quality presents five colors. It is the top-grade auspicious soil, most suitable for hiding wind and gathering Qi, nurturing ground Qi and spirit veins. If you open up spirit fields, this earth mound is the top-grade spirit field that can plant purple-patterned dragon-tooth rice. It is the most expensive in the sand mouth—Zichen!'"

Si Princess Qingcheng looked at this towering earth mound, thinking of the narrow spirit field where the Sima family planted purple-patterned dragon-tooth rice on the dragon vein, and felt very shocked in her heart.

That narrow mountain valley was regarded as a life root by the Sima family. Countless restrictions were laid around the entire blessed land, and even the Yuan Spirit ancestor Sima Shi sat there from time to time.

Every day, there were offering alchemists, feng shui earth masters, and heavenly star yin-yang masters to taste the thirty-six spirit springs around the blessed land, irrigate with natural elixir water prepared by spirit springs, and observe the ground Qi around. Once a spirit spring tasted bitter and the ground Qi was ominous, a group of offerings from the Imperial Observatory would strictly investigate it, treating it as importantly as the Sima family's ancestral grave.

But here, this huge earth mound that could open up hundreds of cities was all such auspicious land.

"Zichen sand, also known as Beichen sand, Beidou sand, where it is located must be the dragon vein knot."

"This earth mound is extremely prosperous, more than one dragon vein, nine dragon veins surround it, this Beichen sand is supreme and noble, it is absolutely impossible to be naturally nurtured by the cave heaven. It should be that the Fangshi used five-colored sand to accumulate soil into a mound, exhausting the Qi of the nine dragons, presenting the shocking situation of nine dragons sacrificing to heaven."

"This situation is not an ordinary layout, it is too domineering to be used in building feng shui, and it will inevitably be backlashed by the dragon vein. But the Fangshi used this situation to arrange the God-Sacrificing Platform, but it was just right. Because no matter who is buried in this situation, they cannot suppress the nine dragons, and no matter which sect builds this situation, there is a danger of the interruption of Qi luck, but this place is the altar for sacrificing to heaven."

"The nine dragons are born by bearing the ground Qi, sacrificing to heaven and surpassing the earth, which is natural."

"The Heavenly Dao is high and far, and no sacrifice is too much."

"Pity... this kind of great auspicious blessed land was knocked into the ground with one palm, cutting off the vitality of hundreds of thousands of miles around. Under that palm, the nine dragon veins around were all beheaded. Before, how much this blessed land enjoyed the love of heaven and earth, at this moment, it suffered the same backlash."

"It is precisely because the mountain is high that the wind and rain invade!"

"Wind under the mountain, it is the Gu hexagram. The external force that hit and shattered the earth mound is the wind; and under the destruction of the external force, this feng shui blessed land, the great situation of heaven's favor, the backlash of the once auspicious spirit Qi acting internally, is 'Gu'!"

"Wind under the mountain, wind blows and produces Gu, this is the reason for the Gu hexagram in the I Ching's sixty-four hexagrams. The ordinary 'Gu' is just a hidden danger of internal corruption under the invasion of wind and rain, but this is after the mountain collapses and the ground cracks, under the erosion of ten thousand Gu, all auspiciousness turns into poisonous miasma, and the Gu king raised by the mutual devouring of all Gu!"

"I would like to call this place, Ten Thousand Gu Demon Nest!"

Qian Chen said solemnly: "So, this place must be full of poisonous insects, hiding I don't know how many poisonous things and demon things, and under that five-colored soil should be dense caves!"

Si Princess Qingcheng said in horror: "Yan Yan Shixiong, you mean, under this five-colored earth mound, are all insects?"

"More than just insects?" Qian Chen shook his head slightly: "The Gu I said is all foreign objects born from the Qi of decay, turbidity, gloom, filth, and poisonous miasma. This Gu can be poisonous insects, can be Yin souls, can be demon things, can be evil spirits, can be cultivators, and even can be—human hearts!"

"Everything here is already under my control!" Sima Yue sneered: "This Noisy Demon World has been repeatedly explored by us, and all dangers have been figured out, including Noisy Demon Sound, No-Space Wind Evil, including Gu demons, my Sima family has backhands to deal with them. For us, this place is like walking on flat ground!"

The old man beside him nodded slightly, looking down at the crowd outside the bronze hall: "But those aristocratic loose cultivators, first entering the Noisy Demon World, if they are lucky enough to walk the path we have cleared, wouldn't it be cheap for them?"

"Most people here are useless to us. Weakening the combat power of those aristocratic True Persons is also good, so... I have invited fellow demonic path friends to take action and set up some small 'surprises' here. The Crown Prince can watch a good show with me!"

"Uncle is wise!" Sima Yue smiled.

He turned his head and stared at Qian Chen in the distance, coldly: "This must be... a big surprise! Li Taibai... let's see how long you can be at ease."

"Wang Zhiyuan looking for you, really looked for the wrong person!"

Qian Chen's true body stood at the edge of the countless intertwined tunnels. He stood by the cave entrance where the wind evil whistled, feeling nothing, and even a smile appeared on his face, listening to him hum softly: "Good sound, good music! This place is a natural musical instrument, making me unable to help but itch my hands."

He hummed softly: "I am watching the mountain scenery on the city tower... listening to the chaos outside the city, the flags are fluttering and turning in the empty shadows... it turns out to be the soldiers sent by Sima..."

"A 'Lost Empty Cut', dedicated to all the trash of the Sima family," ===== CHAPTER 440 =====