metaverse evolution.

Chapter 961 The Shadow of the Curse

However, Chu Fei and others had done some research on memes and curses before the war began, but they lacked the means of "practice and testing".

Shenglong Temple has been researching memes for a long time, but a long time of research does not mean good results. It is just like the gunpowder technology of the ancient Yanhuang civilization. If you get stuck at the last minute, you can't make a breakthrough. There is no point in being anxious.

But after a long time of research, we have accumulated a lot of data, a lot of theories and directions, and a lot of results whose authenticity is unknown. After all, it is scientific research, not the kind of waste in ancient times.

The things Chu Fei brought with him could be considered as a key. But how to organize things in a room and what standards to follow require practice.

Practice makes perfect. Scientific research requires experiments!

But who dares to mess with memes? The curse of Zhao State is just a remnant of the battle, and the dragon clan has cleaned it up. Now, countless thousands of years have passed, and it still cannot be eradicated.

Therefore, unless you are crazy, you will not experiment on your own territory.

Not only their own territory cannot be used, but also the territory where the army is advancing. The real test area is the rear area centered on the Xianyun Palace headquarters. The area from the front of Xianyun Palace to the battle line, the area that may become a battlefield, is still safe. Before it is confirmed that the memetic virus is mature and controllable, it must not fall on our own people.

The rear area of ​​Xianyun Palace is quite large.

The territory of Xianyun Palace is about 150 million kilometers in radius, and its center, the location of the "capital", is 60 kilometers away from the border of Shenglong Palace. This means that the "rear area" of Xianyun Palace has a huge territory of 90 kilometers.

According to a rough estimate, there should be at least 4 trillion people here. This is because the population density of Xianyun Palace is not as high as that of Shenglong Palace.

This is a crazy experiment.

The memetic virus fell with the bombs, spread with the explosion, and invaded the soul amidst fear and screams.

While the aftermath of the explosion had not yet dissipated, the Shenglong Palace headquarters had already begun to verify one theory after another.

There are many directions, many theories, and tens of thousands of research directions in the study of memes.

Chu Fei has more than a dozen theoretical research directions, and each research direction has more than a dozen possible changes. This is the result of Chu Fei's streamlining.

In the laboratory, Chu Fei calmly directed the verification of the first research direction.

Following Chu Fei's order, the memetic virus in the first research direction received instructions and was remotely unlocked and decompressed.

The first test was somewhat similar to the horrific methods in the direction of the power of faith.

Chu Fei believes that the so-called power of faith and faith practice are a kind of meme. Gods and the kingdom of God are meme creations.

Especially because Chu Fei learned some crooked methods from Wu Yong and later studied the experience of cults, he had a lot of experience in terror and intimidation in the branches of faith. Intimidation and terror can also be regarded as the degenerate variants of the branches of faith.

At this time, Chu Fei locked onto a "city" through a group of large and small cameras.

This city has a radius of more than 30 kilometers. It is a typical city structure in the world of cultivation. It is roughly similar to the ancient city of Yanhuang. However, because it is a world of cultivation, the area is larger and the core buildings are more prosperous. Such a city plus the surrounding areas have a population of about two million.

In Xianyun Palace, this can be considered a medium-sized city.

There are often three, four, or even a dozen such cities around every cultivation sect of a certain size.

Xianyun Palace is an administrative unit based on the forces of cultivation sects, families, organizations, etc. Unlike Shenglong Palace, it is not divided into countries.

"Yunshuihe City" is the name of this city, which belongs to the cultivation sect "Lieyun Sect".

'Fengyun Qinglin' ​​is the lord of Yunshuihe City, or more precisely, the dispatched lord of the city. He has to wait for the sect's dispatch and his cultivation is mediocre at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

As a dispatched city lord, although he could not cover the sky with one hand, Fengyun Qinglin was already very satisfied. With the skills, resources, and the ability to live forever, he was already at the top of the pyramid.

As for managing Yunshuihe City on behalf of Lieyun Sect, it does not require too much effort. With the ability of the Nascent Soul Stage, the powerful Yuanshen can easily scan the entire city.

Lieyun Sect is considered a second-rate sect, but compared to third-rate and inferior sects, it is already a very powerful place. There is an old ancestor in the sect who has reached the realm of returning to the truth.

Although the ancestor's cultivation is not very good, his combat effectiveness is not very high, his weapons and equipment are not very strong, and it is said that his life span is not long, he is also an ancestor who has reached the realm of returning to the truth.

Fengyun Qinglin, as an inner disciple, is a land immortal in the eyes of mortals.

Fengyun Qinglin was very satisfied with this kind of life. He felt that in another hundred years, he would be able to try to sprint to the late Nascent Soul stage. According to his own practice, he had a certain chance to reach the Return to the True Realm in his lifetime.

The origin of the surname "Fengyun" is not simple. It means that some ancestors cultivated to the realm of Lianxu, the true realm of earthly immortals, and left behind names, Taoist names, etc. The descendants used the names of their ancestors as their surnames.

In other words, every person with a name or surname is at least of "land immortal bloodline", and their cultivation potential is generally higher than that of people without a name. And he, Fengyun Qinglin, even has the potential to cultivate to the realm of returning to the true self.

However, in recent years, there seem to be some messy "rumors" coming out, saying that Shenglong Palace is restless and there is a possibility that a war will break out that will affect the entire continent.

But Fengyun Qinglin didn't care. Xianyun Palace was the most powerful, and he was in the rear area. If a war really broke out, it might take ten years to win.

In fact, more than a hundred years ago in the Year of the Dragon, the Shenglong Palace had collided with the Xianyun Palace, and the two were badly beaten.

For Fengyun Qinglin and even Lieyun Sect, war is too far away!

But half a year ago, an elder in the sect who was good at divination said that the divination results were not very good. Then, after everyone listened... they just listened.

Divination and deduction are of course available in the cultivation civilization. But Fengyun Qinglin doesn't believe it, and even most people don't believe it. Because the elder who does the divination himself thinks it's unreliable.

As for divination, how should I put it? It must have some significance to be passed down. But the actual effect is not that magical.

To give an extreme example, if divination is very effective, there will be no poor people in the world. In fact, the fortune tellers themselves are setting up stalls.

Maybe the real means of divination are good, but it is obviously not something that mortals can master. Especially in this world full of gods, the changes in fortune are unpredictable and unstable.

So after the divination, everyone held a meeting to discuss it, and then asked the surrounding sects, and everything was fine.

Fengyun Qinglin continued his life of cultivating immortals.

However, such an excellent life and indifferent thoughts were destroyed more than an hour ago.

At the beginning, Feng Yun Qinglin felt a palpitation and rushed out immediately. Then he saw dozens of light spots rushing towards the sect, Lieyun Sect, a hundred miles away.

When Fengyun Qinglin discovered them, the dozen or so light spots were still hundreds of miles in the sky.

At the same time, Lieyun Sect immediately sent out more than a dozen sword lights, directly crushing more than half of the "light spots".

But then the remaining light spots suddenly burst into an indescribable light. Feng Yun Qinglin, a master of the Nascent Soul Realm, felt it was dazzling. The light was so strong that it even felt like burning. The surrounding sky, mountains and rivers fluctuated like water ripples.

As the water ripples spread, the mountain peaks shattered like porcelain, then collapsed and scattered. In the core area of ​​the light, the mountain peaks seemed to evaporate directly.

The masters who rushed out from the sect, those with high cultivation level retreated, and those with low cultivation level turned directly into blood mist. Some people were submerged by unimaginable strong light as soon as their Nascent Soul left their bodies.

Afterwards, the mountain gate was covered by "water ripples", but the mountain protection formation was immediately activated.

At the beginning, it could be seen that the entire sect was like a bubble, unshakable in the stormy waves.

However, as more water waves raged and as the surrounding mountains collapsed, the mountain protection formation quickly weakened and collapsed, and was then submerged in endless destruction.

The whole process takes just a blink of an eye.

It was a long time later that Fengyun Qinglin heard a loud sound like the collapse of heaven and earth. The earth was shaking, the rivers were boiling, and Yunshuihe City was trembling in the earthquake.

Then, an unimaginable shock wave raged, the ground was overturned, and the storm rolled up mud and sand all over the sky, rushing in like a torrent from dozens of miles away, and rushing through Yunshuihe City like a solid wall of steel.

The defensive formations of Yunshui River City were still somewhat effective, at least they managed to withstand the most powerful first wave of attacks; but in the subsequent waves of smaller attacks, the defenses of Yunshui River City eventually collapsed, and the city walls and formations collapsed together.

Fortunately, the power of the shock wave basically disappeared afterwards, and only a number of ordinary buildings collapsed.

Half an hour later, the storm gradually disappeared, the mud and sand gradually settled, and the scene in the distance appeared in Fengyun Qinglin's eyes.

Lieyun Sect is gone!

Only half of the mountain peak remained of the former paradise. The surrounding dozen peaks that once reached the sky have become round and cute little buns.

Suddenly, a few crooked lights flew away into the distance. As they flew, a few more fell down.

Fengyun Qinglin stood in midair in a daze. After a moment, Fengyun Qinglin suddenly felt that the spiritual energy around him began to become chaotic. It was very difficult to control the energy outside his body, and it was also difficult to maintain his figure suspended in the air.

It is possible to continue to float, but you will not be able to call upon energy outside the body and can only consume the energy within the body, which is completely unnecessary.

Several men came up to Fengyun Qinglin and asked what happened and what to do next.

Fengyun Qinglin still had some responsibility after all, and he just organized people to rescue the disaster. Forget about the situation at the mountain gate, I won't go there for now.

Just after giving the order, Fengyun Qinglin seemed to hear some movement in the dimness, and then something seemed to appear around him, which gave him a faint sense of creepiness. However, after careful observation and search, he found nothing.

After searching carefully for a long time and finding nothing, Feng Yun Qinglin took a deep breath, walked numbly in the city, and began to replay everything that had just happened in his mind.

While thinking, Fengyun Qinglin gradually woke up from the shock, his will gradually became clear, and then he gradually became shocked and numb again.

Fengyun Qinglin is not stupid. He has already analyzed what happened - Shenglong Palace, it must be Shenglong Palace, it was the Shenglong Palace that launched the attack!

This type of bomb attack method was brought by Shenglong Palace, what kind of technology is that?

With shock, Feng Yun Qinglin finally tried to activate the jade talisman, wanting to contact the escaped sect masters, the surrounding cities, and his fellow practitioners, but found that the means of communication was completely ineffective.

Fengyun Qinglin then realized that the jade talisman needed to borrow the surrounding spiritual energy to communicate. Now that the spiritual energy was chaotic, the jade talisman was also ineffective.

Suddenly, an indescribable panic and loneliness invaded my heart, and I had a vague feeling of being monitored.

Fengyun Qinglin looked around but found nothing. He just didn't know why he felt uneasy.

Shaking his head, Fengyun Qinglin prepared to return to the secret room to pack up his wealth first. What happened next... I'll talk about it later.

But after walking for a while, I couldn't help feeling a little scared, as if there were poisonous snakes hiding everywhere, ready to bite anyone at any time.

The powerful soul searched all around but still found nothing.

"Strange!"

Fengyun Qinglin began to ponder it, but the more he thought about it, the more nervous he became.

Suddenly, a scream came from the front. The scream was so sudden that Feng Yun Qing Lin was so scared that his hair stood on end.

Looking up, I saw an ordinary middle-aged man screaming and turning his head to look at another ordinary teenager behind him. The middle-aged man roared: "Little Tiger, why are you walking without making any sound? You are like a ghost."

"Uncle, I didn't. I called you twice and you didn't respond, so I tapped your shoulder."

Fengyun Qinglin frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

If you observe carefully, you will find that the mental state of ordinary people is not right, and they seem a little numb?

Then I saw two ordinary people walking with their heads down, and suddenly their shoulders bumped into each other. As a result, they both jumped up and screamed at the same time, accusing each other of scaring them.

"wrong!"

The soul began to observe the surroundings, and in just two seconds, Feng Yun Qinglin was completely clear that there was indeed a problem and his previous feeling was correct.

This situation is...

curse!

Yes, it's a curse!

As a cultivator with a family background in cultivation, Fengyun Qinglin identified the problem immediately.

But where did this curse come from?

Did it appear when I just felt the creepy feeling in my heart? How did it appear? Was it caused by those bombs?

But it's easy to say if it's a curse, it doesn't seem to be a very strong curse. Fengyun Qinglin walked quickly into the city lord's mansion and rang the bronze bell with his own hands.

"Boom..."

The deep and powerful sound of bronze bells floated in the air. Although no magical power was activated and it was just a basic sound, the melodious sound of the bronze bells was enough to bring peace to people's hearts.

The sound of the bell passed through Feng Yun Qinglin's body, and Feng Yun Qinglin felt as if something around him was taken away.

In a trance, Fengyun Qinglin felt as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"You thief!" Feng Yun Qinglin roared and continued to strike the bronze bell several times. The melodious sound echoed throughout the city.

Countless ordinary people who had gradually become numb and practitioners who had gradually become anxious suddenly woke up.

A subordinate nearby immediately ran over and said, "City Lord, just now..."

"It should be some kind of curse. It's okay, it has been cleared. As for the explosion and other things, I will go back and take a look, and you continue with the disaster relief."

"Yes." The men got busy.

Fengyun Qinglin took several deep breaths again, cleaned up the secret room, packed up all the good things and took them with him, then prepared to go to the mountain gate to check out the situation.

But at this moment, Fengyun Qinglin suddenly felt a creepy feeling again.

This time Feng Yun Qinglin felt it very clearly. It came out of nowhere, as if it had come out of nothing.

Could it be a ghost?!

As a cultivator, Fengyun Qinglin's understanding of ghosts is not the same as that of ordinary people. Perhaps it can be called "ghost-like means and spirits." For powerful cultivators, their souls will not disappear immediately after death, so there is a possibility of some kind of ghost.

Fengyun Qinglin wanted to walk away, but after taking two steps, his left foot suddenly tripped over his right foot, and his figure stumbled. Fortunately, as a practitioner, he had a good balance ability and adjusted his posture immediately.

But just as he had adjusted himself, he suddenly looked at the sharp edge of the spear in front of him and broke out in a cold sweat.

It was a magic weapon-level spear, used in daily martial arts practice, and was strong enough to pierce Fengyun Qinglin's defense.

And I didn’t see it just now!

"Something is wrong!"

As this thought flashed through my mind, I saw a cleaner who was cleaning the room nearby trip over his right foot, lean forward, stagger two steps, and then bump into a long sword that had been upside down on the ground at some point.

"puff……"

The long knife pierced through the center of his eyebrows and stabbed out from behind his head.

Unimaginable fear instantly occupied Fengyun Qinglin's soul. He felt an unimaginable chill erupting, and his soul seemed to be somewhat stiff. (End of this chapter)