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Zombie Ba has not appeared for a long time, but who would have thought that right in front of me, there is one being suppressed.
I knew that this Ritual Platform was not built randomly; it turns out that not only is there a Zombie Ba suppressed here, but also a Pixiu.
I can completely understand the presence of the Zombie Ba here. At the same time, I have a rough idea about the Ritual Platform and the strange terrain surrounding it. Ancient texts record that the conditions to suppress a Zombie Ba are quite harsh. Since Zombie Ba is artificially created, it needs the yang energy of sunlight for suppression. But why was the Ritual Platform constructed with Tomb Brick, which can weaken the effects of sunlight? Isn't that contradictory?
As for the patterns on the Tomb Brick, they explode naturally when activated by magic, which can be understood as a precaution to prevent the Zombie Ba from escaping.
However, what I cannot understand is why there is a Pixiu in a place that suppresses a Zombie Ba. Isn't that strange?
The Pixiu represents wealth and prosperity, but what role does it play here? Moreover, if the Pixiu were to leave, what would happen to this place? These are all questions.
"Do you have any relation to the Zombie Ba?" I asked sternly. If this Pixiu was also suppressed for wrongdoing like the Zombie Ba, then it would be quite Trouble.
"What could I possibly have to do with that lump of rotten flesh?" The 'Earth Dog' did not ask me for buns this time. Its eyes rolled around and suddenly emitted a divine light directed at me.
'Spiritual Sight!' As someone well-versed in Eight Treasures Mystique, I immediately recognized the 'Earth Dog's' Taoist Arts, which is indeed one of the Eight Treasures Mystique, and I am also quite proficient in Spiritual Sight!
The divine light carefully examined me from head to toe. The 'Earth Dog' suddenly let out a soft "oh," then nodded thoughtfully and closed its eyes.
"Your name is Yin Zheng'an?" When the 'Earth Dog' opened its eyes again, it directly stated my name.
The 'Earth Dog's' Spiritual Sight has clearly reached a very high level, capable of seeing through my details at a glance, but it has not yet reached the level of focusing its gaze into laser-like precision like Erlang Shen.
"You should know my background now; I want to know whether we are enemies or friends."
“Heavenly Bureau of Human Affairs? Has the court finally started to intervene in the human world?” The 'Earth Dog' did not answer me but muttered to itself.
Although I also practiced Spiritual Sight, which prevented me from stopping it from peering into my experiences, I could still conceal some details. I only allowed it to see my identity and some inconsequential experiences. However, I had hidden things like Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave and my true strength, so it was impossible for it to see those.
What I let it see was already enough; now I needed to know whether we were friends or foes.
“Rest assured.” The 'Earth Dog' suddenly jumped up, mimicking a human by putting its two paws behind its back. “At least we are not enemies right now.”
“My parents are missing.” The 'Earth Dog' suddenly said this: “Not just my parents, but also my siblings.”
The 'Earth Dog' claimed to be a Pixiu, saying that its parents were Qilin, and that its siblings were also second-generation Qilin. How could Qilin, as an 'Auspicious Beast', disappear so easily?
“My parents went missing after Deification. There were no signs at all; they vanished along with the cave they inhabited.”
“Later on, those Qilin with elemental bloodlines, my siblings, suddenly went missing one by one.”
“No one knows why this happened, nor does anyone know where they went. But since we Qilin have the bloodline of Auspiciousness, it is impossible for them to be controlled by someone; they must have chosen to disappear voluntarily.”
“Then, suddenly, I felt an unusual ominous sign; it was an endless Sea of Blood. I finally understood where my parents and siblings had gone.”
“Based on the purity of our Qilin bloodline, our sensitivity to ominous signs varies. I am the weakest among them, and my bloodline has even mutated. The mutation goes from strong to weak; by the time it reached me, the Auspiciousness bloodline could only attract wealth. Therefore, I was the last to foresee this Sea of Blood.”
“After foreseeing the Sea of Blood, in order not to implicate myself, I took precautions similar to those of my parents and siblings; I wanted to stop that Sea of Blood. Although I knew that even my parents had not truly stopped the emergence of the Sea of Blood, out of pride stemming from our Qilin lineage, I still resolutely set out.”
“But when I found the Sea of Blood, it had already been suppressed by a monk. Moreover, beside the Sea of Blood, I discovered the bodies of my parents and siblings. The monk placed their bodies into the Sea of Blood, and then their bodies began to merge. Finally, from the melted bodies of my parents emerged a towering beast; this beast later became known as Listening to the Truth.
The monk who suppressed the Sea of Blood must be Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, right? However, what surprised me more is that Listening to the Truth was actually born from the fusion of the Kirin's corpse. No wonder Listening to the Truth has such strong abilities.
There cannot be a lack of Auspiciousness between the earth, so pure-blooded Kirin will definitely be born. However, before the pure-blooded Kirin is born, the Pixiu in front of me has become more passive. After all, it is the only direct bloodline of the pure-blooded Kirin. Although its bloodline is not as powerful as that of the Kirin, it is still a representative of Auspiciousness, even if its Auspiciousness is somewhat limited.
“At that time, the court itself was not yet fully stable, so it would not manage the relationships between us divine beasts and other beasts. I am the weakest among the direct bloodlines of the Kirin, but although there are other beasts eyeing my bloodline, they do not dare to act against me because they fear my parents. However, once my parents died, they launched a reckless pursuit against me.”
“It was during the era when this Ba was rampaging, so in order to survive, I petitioned with the contemporary master and voluntarily came here as a guardian divine beast.”
“As a guardian divine beast, I received protection from the court, and at that time I was also very free; I just had to return periodically. But later on, I don’t know what that Idiot sorcerer felt my presence. You know my Auspiciousness attracts wealth; he built a Ritual Platform above my head that functions like a treasure basin.”
“Thus, I became trapped beneath the Ritual Platform. Although I am a divine beast, I was restrained by Tomb Brick and had no choice but to stay here.”
“Tomb Brick wasn’t set up by Ba? And it can restrain Pixiu? This is really the first time I've heard of it. But thinking about it makes sense; those who can use Tomb Brick wouldn’t need Pixiu to begin with, which is why it can restrain it.”
“So what do you plan to do now?” I asked Pixiu, and only now did I truly acknowledge that it is indeed Pixiu.
“I need to recover my strength first. You don’t know; my strength relies on what I consume to stimulate it. For so many years, I've only been eating dirt; all my magical power has been used just to survive.”
Pixiu has such a ridiculous setting? However, I never expected that eating dirt would be Pixiu's first action. If even Pixiu has to eat dirt, this world is too complicated.
“What will happen to Zombie Ba if you leave?”
“Damn it! After absorbing my Auspiciousness for so many years, if he can still get up, then I'll write my name backward,” Pixiu said indignantly.
Pixiu? At first glance, there seems to be no difference at all. Moreover, even if you don't write it backward, not many people would take the time to write such a difficult character. Your name has already been directly written as 'Pi Xiu' by many people.
“How much do you need to eat to recover?”
"Maybe a few hundred of those things, right? Don't you have any better food?"
"Good morning."
I directly poured out a pile of food from the Seed Bag, but unfortunately, it was all vegetarian.
"Wow, you have so much good stuff!" Pixiu exclaimed, almost jumping up and pouncing on the food.
"I can let you eat this, but you have to take me up with you."
"Deal!" Pixiu readily agreed.
I leaned against the side, watching Pixiu struggle with the pile of food when suddenly I remembered something.
"By the way, what was up with that smoke earlier?"
When we entered, the entire jungle around the Ritual Platform was enveloped in thick smoke. And what about the team members from the Execution Office who were poisoned? What was going on?
"It's probably better if you don't know," Pixiu said with a strange expression, suddenly acting very unnatural.
"It wouldn't be your fart, would it?"
"How could that be? I'm Pixiu! I can't go in or out; that was just—"
"Just what?"
"It came from the Ba, because that idiot sorcerer used Tomb Brick to build the Ritual Platform. For all these years, I have been using my own Auspiciousness to suppress this Ba. The mist that has spread out is actually the result of my Auspiciousness clashing with the malevolent energy of the Ba over the years."
"Why does Auspiciousness still have toxicity when it counters malevolent energy?" I recalled the team member who had been affected by the poisonous gas. Moreover, I had been here for so long and hadn't felt any trace of malevolent energy leaking from the Ba. I felt that Pixiu's explanation was completely unreliable.
"I've already given you a method; can't you at least give me some face?" Pixiu suddenly shouted, "I'm stuck here eating dirt; what else do you expect me to do? How about you try being trapped here instead? I'm just a mouth without an outlet, not a sewage pit. If you have the ability, come and try it yourself!"
"So the smoke earlier was actually just the gas you've accumulated over time," I suddenly felt a bit nauseous.
"Of course, I understand how it is."
"Ugh."
No wonder Pixiu had been acting so unnatural. Thinking about it, with no outlet, the only way for it to vent would be...
I glanced at Pixiu's mouth.
"Ugh."
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