The sound of jumping behind them was accelerating, from bottom to top, quickly approaching the seven-person team.
In the blink of an eye, the sound of jumping was already closer. At that speed, it would not take long for them to collide with the team.
“This, can’t it be jumping stiffness?” The person who spoke was Zhao Liu, who changed his identity after old man Kuzhu changed his appearance.
"When I was traveling around the world in my early years, I heard some folk stories about jumping zombies. It was said that places with strong Yin Qi are prone to corpse transformation, and people who die in vain die more tragically. The evil spirits after this corpse transformation
The evil spirit will become stronger.
"And this kind of place is often not a cemetery, but a righteous village, because the righteous village is full of unclaimed dead people. They died in a foreign land. They died in vain before their life span was over. There was no one who could be reincarnated before their life span was over, so they were resentful.
The heavier it is, the easier it is to lift the body..."
The old Taoist priest shook his head and whispered on the empty steps: "This is wrong, wrong, wrong."
"You only know one, but not the other."
Seeing that the mysterious jumping sound behind him continued to approach rapidly, and the atmosphere in the dark underground palace began to become strange, Old Man Kuzhu frowned and quickly asked what was wrong with his words?
Old Taoist priest: "The mountains are covered with bushes all the year round, without sunshine all day long, and have heavy yin energy, so they are most likely to breed evil spirits and evil corpses. Villages located in remote wilderness areas have a tradition that they like to build high thresholds.
Specifically to prevent ancient corpses from the mountains from coming to the village to capture living people and suck their blood."
“In the same way, the stone steps under our feet are very high. If someone jumps, they won’t be able to jump up the steps.”
“The thing coming behind us should be something even more evil than jumping zombies.”
Xu Anping on the side also added a sentence at the right time: "Speaking of jumping and thresholds, there are many taboos against the seven-night mourning hall among the people, including raising the threshold of the mourning hall, just to prevent people from walking uneasily and unwilling to live in peace and contentment.
In the first seven reincarnations, he suddenly got up and ate people in the middle of the night."
The old Taoist priest glanced at Xu Anping in surprise, and was secretly surprised in his heart. He thought that the Taoist sect of Yujing Jinque in the capital city had their own set of superb methods of subduing demons and eliminating demons, but he did not expect that they would also learn from some folk and rural methods.
Just after such a moment of delay, the jumping sound behind him was already close to a hundred feet away. Just when he was about to hit him, the jumping sound on the steps suddenly stopped.
The people present were all talented and courageous people. People who were afraid of death would naturally not have the courage to go so deep into the underground palace. No one was in a panic and wanted to escape. Instead, they all looked curiously at the deep and dark spiral behind them.
steps.
At this time, the Qianshi monk, who was last, opened the celestial eye of Sakyamuni Buddha, and his two black pupils turned into two golden pupils like golden suns, and he carefully looked at the dark steps behind him.
As a result, because of the spiral steps and the blind spots, he did not see what was hidden behind the darkness.
Just when the team was in a stalemate, they felt that it would be okay to remain in a stalemate like this, and there was something that was not clear whether it was alive or dead being followed behind them. Everyone was about to go down together to see if there was really something unclean.
, one of them would forcibly save another, and two pairs of people would forcibly save one pair. Suddenly, the old Taoist priest exclaimed in a low voice with a suppressed voice.
"What's wrong with the old Taoist?" Jin An glanced at the old Taoist priest, with a look of caution on his face that still didn't let up.
The old Taoist priest pointed to the dark stone walls on both sides of the steps and exclaimed: "Did you see a few dark figures running past the rock wall just now?"
“The scariest thing is not this. Those figures were chasing each other, several of them ate one of them, one person held his head and gnawed, and several of them ate their arms, legs, and body.”
No one except the old Taoist priest saw the figure on the wall. Just now everyone was watching the movement behind them and did not pay attention to the movement around them for the time being.
After listening to the old Taoist priest's description, everyone discussed it and unanimously decided to solve the trouble behind them first, and then spare their time to deal with the figure on the wall.
However, they ran down for about a hundred feet and could not find the people who had been jumping heavily behind them. However, there was a strong and lingering cold air here, indicating that there was indeed something unclean here.
After descending about a dozen more steps, the cold air began to get thicker and thicker, like an ancient deep mountain pool filled with thick, foul-smelling stagnant water.
Having not gone very far, I finally made a major discovery.
No one has been here for a thousand years, and there is a series of messy shoe prints on the steps that should have been covered with a thick layer of dust. It seems that many people passed this spiral step not long ago.
But this was not their biggest discovery. These shoe prints were covered with a pair of very new black human handprints with clear palm prints. The yin energy here, like a rich ancient pool of stagnant water, came from this black human handprint.
The fingerprints are constantly spilling out.
There was no timid person among the people present. Monk Qianshi boldly squatted down and touched the black palm prints on the steps that were constantly exuding black energy.
Before the tip of his index finger touched, the pair of black human handprints on the ground immediately sprouted a large number of black threads like hair threads. The breath was indescribably evil and cold. The black threads wrapped around Qianshi Monk's index finger, trying to break it.
But Monk Qianshi cultivates both the physical body and the Dharma. Those black threads, apart from deforming and twisting his fingertips, cannot break Monk Qianshi’s fingers.
Senshi Monk’s skin is extremely tough.
Seeing that I could not wring the fingers of Monk Qianshi, suddenly, Peng!
Those black threads exploded like a spider web, piercing hundreds or thousands of spider web black threads in the narrow steps, connecting them into one piece.
If it were an ordinary person who was cut by these cold black lines, his body would be turned into hundreds of pieces on the spot.
Boom!
Monk Qianshi's body erupted with dazzling Buddha light, just like the white snow shining on the summer day, and the black lines transformed by evil spirits melted away in an instant.
Until then, Monk Qianshi stood up again. His eyes were bright and seemed to have divine light. He saw a pair of black human handprints on every step in front of him.
There is black energy coming out of those black people's handprints.
It was as if a ghostly hand from hell had climbed up from the deepest depths and reached their feet.
actually.
Without the reminder from Monk Qianshi, everyone else in the team also saw these black human handprints from the deepest part of the underground palace.
“This jumping stiff looks a bit special. It crawled out of hell head and foot.” Monk Qianshi, who had a plain appearance but particularly bright eyes, giving people a sense of extraordinary magnanimity, said after thinking for a while.
At this time, he noticed that Jin An and the old Taoist priest had different expressions on their faces, so he asked if he knew the origin of this ghost hand?
Jin An looked dull and denied knowing the origin of the ghost hand.
At this time, if you admit that you know Ban Duan Zhi and Kui Xing, wouldn't you be confessing your identity as a Taoist temple in the Five Zangs?
The Tomb of the Dragon King at the foot of the Yinyi River was unusual. He believed that everything that happened in the Tomb of the Dragon King had been urgently reported to the Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and the Central Court in the capital, and had already been filed in the archives.
After all, the people who went to the tomb at the beginning had complex powers, including captains from the imperial court, Bailong Temple with the power of Sakyamuni Buddhism, and masters directly from Yujing Golden Tower, so everything that happened under the Dragon King's tomb was no longer a secret.
If there are files in the imperial court's archives, it will not be difficult for the Tianshi Mansion, which is already half-dependent on the imperial court, to check the files.
As long as he opens his mouth and says that he knows him now, everyone will definitely know that he is from Wu Zang Taoist Temple.
So Jin An must not admit to knowing him.
This is to clear up trouble for the Taoist view of the five internal organs.
However, since the upper body of the underworld ferryman appeared here, Kuixing Kidou, who came ashore from the Dragon King's tomb with him, must also be nearby.
He had to find an opportunity to remind the old Taoist priest and Xiajian to be more careful about Kuixing Kidou, whose flesh shell was taken over by the evil spirits from the underworld. This evil spirit that escaped from the underworld was the big trouble. Apart from a soul-calling person,
Other abilities are still unknown.
And just such a soul-calling ability almost wiped out all of them at the beginning, which was so fierce.
I don’t know whether it’s because the yin energy here is too strong, or because the black lines from the black handprints on the ground just broke out, stimulating the underground palace here. Those evil shadows mentioned by the old Taoist priest appeared again, this time including Jin An, Xu Anping,
Everyone, including Monk Qianshi, could clearly see it.
The dark shadows on the rock wall suddenly appeared. They were a wedding procession carrying eight sedans. They were marching happily on the rock wall with the sound of gongs, drums and suonas. Suddenly, heavy rain began to fall from the sky, and the earth was covered with rain.
After the wedding procession was caught in the rain, they started to go crazy. They dropped everything in their hands and smashed the bride's sedan like crazy. The bride screamed and desperately asked for help. Only she was sitting in the sedan and was not caught by the rain and did not turn into a madman.
The bride in the sedan chair looked for help, but she was actually asking for help from Jin An and the other seven people in the underground palace.
But the wedding team of dozens of people went completely crazy, and the sedan was quickly smashed by dozens of people. They ignored the bride’s desperate screams and screams of curses, got into the sedan, tore the bride’s body into pieces, and grabbed Xue Linlin.
The legs, feet, head, internal organs, and black hair were chewed in big mouths.
These people in the heavy rain all turned into bloodthirsty madmen.
The fragments of the bride's body that they ate seemed to be blended into the bride's boundless resentment and vicious curses during her lifetime, making their bellies bulge like thick water tanks. Then with a loud bang, dozens of black figures on the rock wall exploded into a pile of flesh.
A moment.
The Yin Qi surged in the steps of the narrow space, the wind blew violently, and ghosts cried and howled. At this moment, it was like the gates of hell were opened wide, and all the evil ghosts in hell ran out.
The flesh and mud on the ground merged and stood up. The original dozens of figures turned into hundreds of figures. They were like complete madmen, without any sense at all. As soon as they stood up, they attacked each other, fought, and tore human bodies into pieces.
, sharing the food, and then being filled with resentment and exploding.
Hundreds of figures once again exploded into a pile of flesh. At this time, the Yin Qi in the underground palace was so intense that even the old Taoist priest had difficulty standing. His face was pale. Thousands of figures stood up from the pile of flesh on the rock wall.
They did not attack the living people like Jin'an who were close at hand. Instead, they continued to kill each other, tearing each other's bodies to pieces, and then eating human flesh...
"run!"
Jin An did not hesitate. He picked up the old Taoist priest and fled with his sharp sword to the top of the spiral stairs.
The old Taoist priest's physique is that of an ordinary person. When the strong yin energy from this place entered his body, his body became ice-cold. His hands and feet were so frozen that he could not move. The breath he exhaled from his mouth and nose was no longer hot air but a layer of frost condensed near his mouth and nose.
.
The old Taoist priest's three yang fires and soul fires have reached their weakest point. The cold yin energy in his body is quickly extinguishing the three yang fires of the living person.
If you don't think of a way anymore, the old Taoist priest will really stop here today.
“Disciple, wine gourd!”
Jin An shouted urgently towards Chi Jian.
I sharpened my sword and immediately took out the wine gourd with understanding, uncorked the wine, and poured several sips of spiritual wine into the old Taoist priest.
Through the clothes on his back, Jin An finally felt that the cold body of the old Taoist priest had regained some body temperature, and the old Taoist priest's frozen hands and feet were warm again.
"Old Taoist, hold a sip of wine in your mouth to eliminate the smell of alcohol and protect the purity of the spiritual platform. Don't fall asleep here. We will take you out immediately! Remember, don't fall asleep!"
Jin An ran headlong, shouting to the old Taoist priest over and over again to keep him awake.
He knows very well.
When a person's body temperature is extremely low, it is easy for a person to fall into coma. Once he falls asleep, he will really not be able to wake up.
The old Taoist priest had a mouthful of wine in his mouth and was unable to speak. Fortunately, his palms were no longer so frozen and stiff, so he gently squeezed the back of Jin An's hand and responded.
In fact, when Jin An said to run away, everyone present ran without hesitation. He jumped up a dozen steps at a time and ran out with all his strength.
At this time, everyone was trying their best to escape, and no one spoke.