Chapter 472: The Source of the Forbidden Land's Mutation, Cao Bianjiao's Surprise
To the east of Liaoyang City, three thousand miles north of Qianshan Mountain, is an ancient battlefield.
This was the burial place of three million soldiers of the Sui Dynasty ten thousand years ago when Emperor Yang Guang of Sui personally led an expedition to Goguryeo.
Liaoyang City, known as Liaodong City ten thousand years ago, was the capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty at that time.
At that time, the Goguryeo Dynasty was at its peak of strength in history. Coupled with the arrogant Emperor Yang of Sui's ulterior motives and outrageous operations, as well as the Goguryeo people's despicable behavior, the Sui Dynasty, which could have easily won, suffered a series of defeats, resulting in the tragic deaths of millions of Sui Dynasty soldiers.
As time passed and the world evolved, this burial ground with a radius of a thousand miles turned into a large ghost town.
Millions of evil spirits transformed from military souls are entrenched in this ghost domain, including many sixth-level ghost kings, making this ghost domain one of the most famous forbidden areas in the world today.
Even Huang Taiji, who conquered the Liaodong Plain decades ago, did not dare to enter and explore the secrets there.
According to various rumors, there are more than a dozen level six evil ghosts in this large ghost domain, and they are not so easy to deal with.
Their overall strength is even greater than that of the Later Jin clan.
However, today, the arrival of an uninvited guest broke the tranquility here.
"Is this the dangerous place formed by the ancient battlefield ten thousand years ago?"
Cao Bianjiao rode on the back of a giant white crane, a spiritual bird mount, hovering over the pitch-black ghost domain that covered a thousand miles in radius. His powerful spiritual sense sensed several powerful auras below that were no less powerful than his own, and he felt awe in his heart.
He is not idle and comes here to seek trouble.
Half a month ago, the garrison stationed in Liaoyang City reported that this eerie ghost domain suddenly had unusual movements, with countless evil ghosts howling, and even a large vortex of yin energy formed, which was continuously devouring the massive yin energy in the ghost domain!
The defending generals who noticed the unusual changes in the ghost realm did not dare to delay and immediately reported to Cao Bianjiao, the person in charge of Liaodong, informing him of the incident.
Even Cao Bianjiao did not dare to take this large ghost area, which could be called a forbidden area, lightly, so he sent a sixth-level spirit bird, a goshawk, to report to Li Dingguo who was far away in the capital overnight.
The big goshawk returned to Liaoyang City yesterday and brought back an order that Li Dingguo would come in person today to check the situation.
Cao Bianjiao came here now to meet Li Dingguo according to the time agreed with him.
This forbidden land with extremely strong combat power and many evil spirits in the Qi Refining Realm has exceeded the ability of the soldiers of the Fuxing Army stationed in Liaodong to cope with.
Even if several main armies of the Renaissance Army arrived, they would not be a match for this group of evil spirits in a head-on battle.
Even Li Dingguo attached great importance to the changes in this mysterious large ghost domain and decided to come here in person to find out the cause of the changes with Cao Bianjiao and then make corresponding countermeasures.
After all, this ghost forbidden land ranks second among the three ghost forbidden lands in the Ming Dynasty, only below the Changping Ancient Battlefield Forbidden Land. The threat is far greater than the Tumubao Forbidden Land, which is also listed as one of the three ghost forbidden lands.
The main reason is that it has existed for a long time, and the millions of military souls living in it have transformed into evil spirits. After a long period of cultivation, they have become extremely terrifying.
Ordinary means are simply not enough to resolve the crisis here.
After specifically destroying the equally terrifying forbidden area near Hetunala a few months ago, Li Dingguo already had enough confidence in this kind of super evil place.
After all, the large group of mutant zombies that were released after the seal was broken by the brothers Dorgon and Duoduo had even more terrifying overall strength, but they were easily solved by Li Dingguo with the help of his innate artifact, the Twelve-Level Karma Fire Lotus, which naturally restrained them.
This is also the reason why Li Dingguo decided to come with Cao Bianjiao and had the confidence to find out the truth.
If the military spirits and evil spirits in this forbidden land are allowed to riot, if they leave this forbidden land and wreak havoc on the land of Liaodong, it will cause a huge disaster and will undoubtedly cause unbearable losses to the Fuxing Army that has just captured the entire Liaodong area.
That kind of situation was not what Li Dingguo wanted to see.
"Chirp..."
Cao Bianjiao only waited for about a quarter of an hour, and then a golden light broke through the air, and a clear eagle cry sounded.
"I've met the commander-in-chief!"
Cao Bianjiao saluted Li Dingguo who had just arrived, and said, "I just carefully sensed the situation in this forbidden area from the air, and found that there are no less than ten thousand Qi Refining Realm evil spirits, no less than thirty level six evil spirits, and even more than a handful of level six peak evil spirits."
His face was solemn, and he continued to report, "If we confront the other side head-on, our strength gap is too big, and we are far from being their opponent."
"But what's strange is that although the evil spirits in this large ghost domain have experienced an unknown change, none of them have left the forbidden area, nor have they caused any chaos. Instead, all the evil spirits have gathered around the vortex formed by the evil spirit, and they are motionless."
This forbidden place has no protective formation, so Cao Bianjiao's strong spiritual sense can clearly see the general situation inside.
After finding out the strength of this group of evil spirits, even he gasped.
There was no way. The strength of this group of evil spirits was beyond the capabilities of the several legions of the Fuxing Army stationed in Liaodong to cope with.
He couldn't even imagine how devastating a catastrophe would be if the other side rioted and spread out in all directions.
At the very least, the Fusion Army had no choice but to retreat.
This is the helplessness of human forces in today's world, where they are faced with many unfavorable situations.
"It doesn't matter."
Li Dingguo waved his hand and said calmly, "If other major human forces were faced with this situation, they would have no choice but to retreat."
"But you have also seen that I have a life-defining artifact that can be called the nemesis of this kind of evil creatures, and all the seals have been lifted."
"No matter how powerful the evil spirits in this ghost domain are, they are still in the realm of Qi Refining due to the restrictions of the current world rules. They will naturally be restrained by my life artifact."
"Moreover, this special divine weapon of mine was recently combined with another similar lotus platform divine weapon to form a twenty-four-grade lotus platform, which is enough to suppress this forbidden ghost area."
The past two months he has spent in the capital have not been wasted.
After capturing the Tartar's imperial city and the entire Liaodong region, destroying the Qing Dynasty, and swallowing up the Black Dragon of the Later Jin clan's national destiny, they immediately marched out of the Great Wall, destroyed the Tartar's ancestral land of Hetunala, and plundered to gain a large amount of luck.
A few days ago, he spent 360 points of luck and, with the help of the golden finger, successfully combined the two divine lotus pedestals into one, transforming it into a 24th-grade lotus pedestal, his own divine artifact.
The grade of this lotus platform has surpassed that of the Human Emperor Cauldron and the Chaos Bell, and has become his most powerful natal artifact.
The twenty-four lotus pedestals in red and black not only retained the properties of the original two lotus pedestals, but also gave birth to a great and perfect Yin-Yang law.
Even though Li Dingguo's current cultivation level was too low and he could only unleash a trace of its power, it was enough to suppress this large ghost domain.
As for how to deal with the evil spirits that were transformed from the souls of millions of soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, Li Dingguo was still undecided.
After all, they were Han Chinese soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country. If he had a choice, Li Dingguo would not have the heart to kill them all at once. Although he already knew that there was reincarnation in this world, he had seen it with his own eyes, and it was all done by him.
“That’s great!”
Cao Bianjiao said happily.
He was also present at the previous battle against a horde of mutant zombies near Hetunala, and witnessed with his own eyes how the seemingly invincible horde of mutant zombies was destroyed.
It has to be said that the Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus, which has been completely unsealed, is a natural nemesis for zombies and evil spirits, and can be easily captured as long as they are not one major realm higher than the owner of this innate artifact lotus.
Although Cao Bianjiao was not clear as to why the Twelve-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus could be upgraded and evolved once again, since the commander-in-chief said so, there must be no problem.
"Dajin, Dabai."
Li Dingguo instructed the two Level 6 mid-stage spirit birds, "Just stay in the air. Don't enter this forbidden ghost area, lest you run into unknown dangers."
"Commander Cao, the two of us will use our life-defining divine tools to conceal our bodies and our auras, and quietly enter this ghostly forbidden area to investigate, and first find out the cause of the abnormality."
Li Dingguo thought about it for a while and came up with a plan, and told Cao Bianjiao.
"Okay, Commander-in-Chief."
Cao Bianjiao agreed, and then gave a few instructions to the big white crane he was sitting on. He immediately activated the concealment and breath-holding techniques that he had cultivated to perfection, summoned his own life-long magic weapon to hide his figure, and together with Li Dingguo, jumped up from the back of the spirit bird he was riding, and floated silently towards the large ghost domain below.
In just a moment, the two of them entered the area covered by the thick dark ghost fog in this forbidden ghost land.
Although it was pitch dark in front of them, the two of them had strong consciousness and did not have to worry about getting lost.
After a while, Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao had already landed on the ground quietly.
They were not far apart, and they were sneaking towards the vortex of yin energy, one in front and one behind.
When they landed from the air earlier, the two had already arrived within a hundred miles of the vortex of Yin Qi, so they just sneaked around for a while and arrived at their destination silently.
Perceiving with their divine senses, the scene before them shocked the two of them.
All I saw were millions of evil spirits, densely packed together, sitting in clear layers and in an orderly manner around a vortex of yin energy that was a hundred miles in radius.
They were like pilgrims, sitting still and staring at the source of the vortex of negative energy.
"Great Commander, the source of the Yin Qi vortex here is actually a pitch-black nine-story pagoda!"
Cao Bianjiao used his divine sense to check the situation at the scene, and immediately said to Li Dingguo beside him in surprise, "This strange pagoda that seems to be reviving on its own, the aura it exudes is actually not inferior to my life-defining artifact, the Wuliang Pagoda!"
"This is strange. In ancient myths and legends, among the ten great artifacts of the universe, there is no information about this pagoda. It's incredible!"
Even Cao Bianjiao, who is usually a thick-skinned man, was frightened this time.
He could never have imagined that the source of this large-scale ghost domain anomaly was actually an extremely mysterious innate artifact pagoda, and it was the kind that had never been heard of!
The innate divine weapon revived on its own?
This was the first time he had seen such a situation.
"Could it be..."
When Li Dingguo saw this, his face changed and he immediately guessed something.
He himself has an extremely magical innate spiritual root, the Five-Colored Divine Tree.
This natal spiritual root also does not belong to the ten innate spiritual roots in the universe, but its grade exceeds that of the Bodhi tree, one of the ten innate spiritual roots in the universe.
So after seeing this innate divine artifact pagoda that was reviving on its own, he naturally would not be as ignorant as Cao Bianjiao.
After all, he had seen too many adventures, far exceeding Cao Bianjiao's experience in this regard.
In the secret realm of Longmen Canyon in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the innate top-level artifact, the God-killing Spear, was also reviving on its own, and its aura even broke through the seal of the secret realm and leaked out.
Fortunately, Li Dingguo suppressed it in time and no unexpected incident occurred.
The aura emitted by the self-reviving pagoda in front of us is no weaker than that of the Chaos Bell and the Human Emperor Cauldron. It is obvious that its level is not inferior to these two top-level innate artifacts.
And looking at the current situation, it seems that it has absorbed enough evil energy over the long years, broke through the seal of heaven and earth on its own, and is now recovering.
The special innate aura it exudes is obviously of great benefit and attraction to the evil spirits in this forbidden ghost land.
Li Dingguo could clearly sense that these evil spirits were attracted by the black pagoda that was reviving on its own, and were sitting quietly around it. The aura on their bodies was slowly increasing!
Obviously, this mysterious and magical unknown artifact pagoda can be regarded as the holy weapon of the evil spirit clan, and it is of great help to them.
Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao were surprised to find that among the evil spirits in this forbidden area, the weakest ones were at the peak of level three!
It is conceivable how much benefit these evil spirits have gained from accompanying this pagoda artifact for tens of thousands of years.
No wonder they have always stayed in this forbidden area without any formation seal, reluctant to leave, and have never harmed any living creatures from the outside world. The reason is needless to say.
"Commander-in-chief, what should we do?"
Cao Bianjiao looked at the mysterious artifact pagoda in front of him that was reviving on its own, and felt a pang of envy.
He now only has one natal artifact on him, and there are still two spots left for natal artifacts.
Now that I have seen such an awesome unknown artifact pagoda, it is impossible to say that I don’t want it.
As a core general of the Renaissance Army, he naturally knew that Li Dingguo's quota for his natal artifact was full and it was impossible for him to refine the artifact in front of him.
If he could successfully obtain this mysterious pagoda artifact, it would most likely fall into the hands of Cao Bianjiao, and he would refine it into his own natal artifact.
What he is most worried about now is that once this unknown innate artifact pagoda is revived on its own, it is likely to escape and disappear.
If that situation happened, Cao Bianjiao would probably be so heartbroken that he would want to vomit blood. Now he can be said to be extremely anxious.
Now that this mysterious pagoda is surrounded by ghosts, it is not so easy to suppress and take it away.
(End of this chapter)
