Lu Qingshan brought the Western Rat King and quickly left the stone forest.
"Where are we going?"
Looking at Lu Qingshan, who had not spoken a word since they left the stone forest, the Western Rat King hesitated for a long time before asking.
"Origin Mountain City!"
The Western Rat King actually wanted to ask Lu Qingshan if he could let it go since it had already told him everything.
Following by Lu Qingshan's side made it very afraid.
However, seeing Lu Qingshan's serious expression, it did not dare to ask.
It was too difficult to be a rat!
.....
After walking for a while, a majestic city appeared in front of Lu Qingshan.
Origin Mountain City, one of the 108 counties under Zhenjiang Prefecture.
As a county, there were dozens of cultivator clans and three Rank-9 Sects stationed near Origin Mountain City.
Standing outside Origin Mountain City, Lu Qingshan could not help but recall some memories.
The 108 counties of Zhenjiang Prefecture were the birthplaces of the players of Nine Heavens. In other words, it was the Beginner's Village.
Although the Beginner's Village in his previous life was not Origin Mountain City, but another county, he could not help but feel a sense of familiarity when he saw the familiar scenery.
Lu Qingshan directly entered the city. He was not interrogated at the city gate, nor was he charged the so-called entrance fee. However, the black rat on his shoulder made the city guards curious.
Who raised rats in this day and age?
The roads in the city were paved with limestone slabs, clean and tidy. Countless pedestrians, traveling merchants, and stalls selling snacks crowded the originally spacious streets. It was bustling with activity.
In this world with demons, ghosts, and immortal arts, human cities were far more prosperous than the ancient world of science, be it in terms of economy or other aspects.
Lu Qingshan casually found an inn and asked for a room. He ordered some wine and dishes and started drinking alone in the room.
The Western Rat King looked around for a moment. Finally, he could not help but jump onto the table and join in.
Lu Qingshan glanced at the Western Rat King but didn't say anything.
Right now, he needed to calm down, throw away all distracting thoughts, and organize his thoughts.
The appearance of the blood pool, which had never been mentioned in the plot, made Lu Qingshan feel that something was not right.
He could feel that there was a layer of fog shrouding the history before the outbreak of the zombie rebellion.
What he needed to do was to use the massive amount of information he possessed to break through this fog.
First of all, the existence of the blood pool must have its purpose. Demonic cultivators wouldn't build a blood pool without a purpose.
Since he had a goal, whether he succeeded or failed, there would be a result.
The beginning and the process of a matter could be hidden very well, but the result could not be hidden, because no matter what the result was, it would inevitably have a great impact.
It was just like the ancient times when the princes tried to force the emperor to abdicate. If they planned it carefully, everything would be quiet before the result was out. However, once the dust settled, whether it was a failure or a success, it would be recorded in the history books.
However, when he recalled the historical plot records, he did not find anything related to the blood pool that was thousands of miles away from Zhenjiang Prefecture City.
In that case, there was only one possibility. It existed in a more obscure way in the records.
Then, he had to deduce which matter was related to the blood pool through the result!
Lu Qingshan dipped his finger in the wine and gestured on the table.
He wanted to go through all the major events that had happened in the vicinity of Origin Mountain City in this year.
When he had checked in, he had asked the waiter to confirm the current time.
Chang 'an, Year 20,000.
It was also the last year of this era. A few months later, the zombie rebellion began.
After the zombie rebellion ended, the Divination Temple took the initiative to use the Divination Mirror to detect the secrets of the heavens.
In an instant, the head of the Divination Temple, who had reached the Mahayana Realm, had reached the end of his lifespan. Before he died, he left behind one last sentence: The abyss has arrived. From then on, the heavens will fall into chaos.
In the second year, the royal family of the Da Xia Kingdom changed the era name to Immortal Martial.
In this year, everyone's attention was attracted by the zombie rebellion and the death of the head of the Divination Temple. Therefore, not many people paid attention to the other minor details and they were drowned in the long river of history.
However, Lu Qingshan was different. He had studied the plot of "Nine Heavens" in depth.
Names flashed through Lu Qingshan's mind one by one.
He was sifting through the useful information.
Suddenly, a very inconspicuous record in the vast historical records quietly appeared in front of Lu Qingshan's eyes.
According to the historical records, in Year 20,000 of Chang 'an, on the 15th of July, one of the seven major Daoist sects, the Divination Temple, which was stationed in Zhenjiang Prefecture City, lost a Divination Mirror near Origin Mountain City.
Due to the death of the temple head at the end of the year, the entire Divination Temple was in mourning.
When it came to the Immortal Martial Year, major events happened one after another. Thus, this matter dragged on and on, and was left unsettled.
The disappearance of the Divination Mirror became an unsolved case.
The Divination Mirror was the most important Dao artifact of the Divination Temple. It could connect to the spiritual vigor of heaven and earth and the karma of the human world. It had the ability to detect heaven's secrets and seek fortune and avoid disaster.
Apart from that, the Divination Mirror had another very important ability. It could split into many different mirrors and each mirror could possess a small portion of the Divination Mirror's power.
Because of the Divination Mirror's mystical abilities, the royal family of the Da Xia Kingdom reserved a post for the disciples of the Divination Temple who possessed the Divination Mirror to guard the prefecture.
The Divination Temple monitored the world!
Lu Qingshan had never been able to understand this part of history.
The guard of Zhenjiang Prefecture was a Fourth Stage Nascent Soul cultivator. Why would he appear in a small prefecture like Origin Mountain City for no reason and lose such an important Divination Mirror?
Something was wrong!
Thinking back to the blood pool that appeared near Origin Mountain City, Lu Qingshan could already smell the scent of a conspiracy.
A … hidden plot, huh?
Lu Qingshan's eyes gradually lit up. He thought to himself and his thoughts became clearer.
The Divination Mirror could detect heaven's secrets. Such a strange ability had many limitations. For example, most of the time, the heavenly secrets detected by the Divination Mirror were only vague images.
This required a cultivator to analyze and study the meaning of these images.
And this point could often be used by people with ulterior motives to deliberately create some false images to mislead the user of the Divination Mirror.
That's right.
The blood pool was such an important item. How could the hidden illusion array suddenly lose its effect? There was not even a single guard.
It was obvious that the demonic cultivator had purposely removed the array so that the blood pool would appear in the Divination Mirror and attract the guard of Zhenjiang Prefecture.
In order to prevent their identity from being exposed in the Divination Mirror, the demonic cultivator had to stay away from the blood pool.
Even though this matter seemed extremely strange, the Divination Temple disciples were the world's guards. How could they ignore it? They would definitely come to investigate.
The reason for doing so was very simple. The demonic cultivator's goal was to make the Zhenjiang Prefecture guard lose something.
The Divination Mirror!
If the Divination Mirror was still around, Zhenjiang Prefecture would not have been defenseless and would not have been massacred by the demonic cultivator!
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan's gaze deepened as he recalled another matter.
After losing the Divination Mirror, Zhenjiang Prefecture had sent out a large number of cultivators from the prefecture city and stationed them in the various large county cities.
Therefore, when the Corpse Puppet rebellion rose, the Corpse Puppets used as a cover to attack the various large county cities. Although the momentum was great, the number of deaths they caused was actually not shocking.
However, Zhenjiang Prefecture City was filled with bones!
Lu Qingshan now understood why there was such an outcome.
The guards of Zhenjiang Prefecture were most likely misled by the blood pool that appeared near Origin Mountain City.
They thought that the demonic cultivator's goal was only these small county cities.
However, they did not expect that the demonic cultivator's ambition would be so great that they were prepared to attack the prefecture city and even succeeded.
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