174, insidious and cunning! The strength of the sisters!
"Do the Seven Spider Sisters know how to 'shell out and be reborn'?"
Shen Lang still maintained his position of sitting on the ground with his back against the cave wall.
It's just that his face, which was still gloomy before, has become full of energy, and there is no longer any sign of serious injury.
He reached out and picked up the little white rabbit at his feet, caressed its soft ears, and said leisurely:
"As long as you still have a breath, you can shed your shell and be reborn. No matter how serious the injury is, you can recover 40 to 50% in an instant... But I don't know if Donor Du, who has completely breathed his last breath, can still use the 'shell rebirth method'
, come back from the dead."
Bai Shishi clenched her fists, trembling all over, sweating like rain on her forehead, and her back was cold.
She clenched her teeth and contracted her eyes, staring at Shen Lang and the harmless little white rabbit in his arms. She was silent for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice:
"You...you actually broke the rules and killed people. You are indeed an evil monk!"
Shen Lang smiled slightly:
"Donor Bai, what you said is wrong. Didn't you say before that your Lord controls the destination of all sentient beings on earth after death? The young monk sent Donor Du to pay homage to your Lord. He was doing good deeds and accumulating merit. Why?
Can this be considered breaking the precept and committing murder?
"Donor Bai, now that you have recovered four to five points from your injuries, the two palms you just hit me are still forty or five points as strong as when you were at your peak. I wonder if you still have the courage to face the young monk three more times?"
"..."
Bai Shishi's muscles tensed up and her teeth clenched, secretly urging her internal strength to give it a try.
But look at the dead body of the fifth sister Du Qianqian, look at the little white rabbit in Shen Lang's arms, and look at Shen Lang's half-smiling eyes. After being defeated by his three palms, it was not easy to rebuild by self-suggestion.
Confidence was once again shaken and collapsed, and the courage to fight to the death also disappeared.
She dissipated all the internal energy she had gathered, with a dejected look on her face, and sat down on the ground laxly, closing her eyes:
"The young monk is full of tricks, but the fifth sister and I were blind, and you pretended to be pigs to eat the tiger twice in a row... That's all, I admit my defeat, please give me a good time!"
Shen Lang smiled:
"Donor Bai, there is no need to give up on yourself. The monk does not kill. He will only escort you to the Divine Catcher Hall and give you a fair trial."
Bai Shishi sneered: "Don't kill? How did my fifth sister die?"
Shen Lang looked calm: "What does Tutu kick to death have to do with Xiao Monk?"
As he spoke, he threw a small porcelain bottle in front of Bai Shishi:
"This is the 'Hua Gong Powder', which can temporarily remove your internal energy. Please take this powder, Donor Bai, otherwise the monk will have to summon the little skeleton again and ask it to break your hand tendons and hamstrings."
This little evil monk opened his eyes and told lies, he really looked like a "killing arhat"!
Bai Shishi was murmuring in her heart, and without any nonsense, she picked up the porcelain bottle, opened the cork, poured some powder and swallowed it. After that, she couldn't help but ask:
"Are you... a disciple of the 'Killing Arhat'?"
Shen Lang shook his head:
"The donor has misunderstood. The young monk and the senior 'killing arhat' have never met each other. How can he be his disciple?"
Bai Shishi asked again:
"You little rabbit, what on earth is it?"
Among the seventh-level Taoist spells, there is the "summoning monster" spell, which can randomly summon some kind of monster to assist in the battle.
But the young monk "Fahai" is not a monk, but a warrior monk, and it is impossible for him to know the seventh-level magic.
Besides, how obvious is the aura of a monster?
If it was really a monster summoned by magic, how could Du Qianqian hold it in her arms?
As for this little white rabbit, not only is it petite in size and does not have the appearance of a powerful monster, it also has an ordinary spirit, it is well-behaved and quiet, and there is no trace of the violent and ferocious aura of a monster.
But it happened that such a seemingly weak and harmless little white rabbit actually kicked Du Qianqian to death with a series of flying kicks...
Such a strong contrast makes Bai Shishi still feel like she's in a dream, unbelievable even now.
Of course Shen Lang would not tell her the true belief, he just said:
"The young monk is a monk of Jinshan Temple. Rabbit is the guardian of the gate of Jinshan Temple. It is a cub of a mythical beast protected by Buddhism. Before the young monk went down the mountain to travel, the head of my family was worried about my safety and specially sent Rabbit to follow the young monk to protect my safety.
"
"Jinshan Temple?" Bai Shishi hesitated and asked, "Where is this Buddhist temple?"
Shen Lang smiled and said: "My Jinshan Temple is hidden in the mountains. The temple is full of ascetic monks. Very few monks go out for walks. It's not surprising that Donor Bai has never heard of it."
As he said that, he stood up with the little rabbit in his arms. Without changing the white robe that had his chest and back blown apart, he just wore tattered clothes and walked out of the cave:
"Poetry Master Bai, it's time for us to set off."
Bai Shishi's internal strength was dissipated by the "Hua Gong Powder", and the strength of her flesh and bones was also partially suppressed, but her movements were not hindered. She stood up and followed Shen Lang:
"Where to go now?"
Shen Lang said:
"Poetry Master Bai, can you tell me the layout of the hot spring villa?"
Bai Shishi without thinking:
"Don't even think about it!"
Shen Lang shook his head regretfully:
"In that case, let's not go to the Hot Spring Villa. Let's go to Luling City to rest for a while."
The hot spring villa may be one of the strongholds of the Seven Spider Sisters, and there must be various arrangements inside.
Shen Lang knew nothing about the Hot Spring Villa, and the Seven Spider Sisters were not weak, so he would not take the risk to break into the preset positions of a group of experts.
Bai Shishi originally wanted to mock him and inspire him to go to the hot spring villa.
But think about Shen Lang pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger twice, and successfully deceived her and Du Qianqian. How could such a sinister and cunning person who is good at disguise be easily provoked?
He closed his mouth immediately, not bothering to waste any saliva, and followed Shen Lang silently down Mount Lize.
She didn't speak, but Shen Lang talked to her without saying a word:
"Donor Bai, you used human blood to sacrifice to the devil. This is a serious crime. The young monk estimates that you will either be sentenced to beheading in half or be sentenced to death. Beheading is the easiest way to die...
"But don't worry, donor. As long as you are willing to cooperate and confess your sins, the monk will intercede on your behalf and ask the prison officer to allow the monk to help you recite the 'Rebirth Mantra' on the execution ground."
"..."
The corners of Bai Shishi's eyes twitched slightly, and she couldn't help but say:
"Shouldn't I beg for mercy from the God's Catcher Hall and give me a light sentence as appropriate?"
Shen Lang shook his head:
"It is impossible to give a light sentence. You cannot reveal the true identities of the other five sisters, nor can you tell the important secrets of the Demon God Church. Even if you are willing to confess, you can only tell some insignificant news. There is no major meritorious service,
How can we give a lighter sentence based on the circumstances? Being able to help you recite the rebirth mantra before you are sentenced is already a great mercy."
Bai Shishi sneered:
"You little evil monk is really a 'great compassion'! Since I am destined to die a bad death, why should I confess it frankly?"
Shen Lang smiled and said:
"Donor Bai, you have already surrendered. I think you have recognized the reality. If you confess frankly, you can die a little easier. Donor, you are a smart person. I believe you understand which choice is more beneficial."
Bai Shishi sneered:
"If I want to die happily, why do you need to be merciful? All I need to do is reveal the names of my sisters, and their souls will fly away. And you won't get the complete names. You can only know a surname at most."
Shen Lang chuckled:
"Donor Bai, are you deceiving me because I don't understand the devil? If you reveal the secret and are cursed to death by the soul, your soul will be scattered and you will not be able to be reincarnated. But if you strictly keep the secret and die after being tortured, then you will have performed meritorious service to the devil.
The soul will return to the Demon God and be rewarded by the Demon God... You think so, right?"
Bai Shishi's face changed slightly, she snorted coldly, and said nothing, but looking at her expression, it was clear that she agreed with Shen Lang's statement.
However, Shen Lang said leisurely:
"Donor Bai, you believe in the Demon God. You believe that after you perform meritorious deeds, your soul can return to the Demon God after death, and you will be rewarded, and even gain eternal souls by the Demon God's side... But have you ever thought that your souls may return to the Demon God? Can you return to the Demon God?"
What will be the real outcome after that?
"Is there such a possibility...that your souls are actually just food for the Demon God? You were driven and used by the Demon God during your lifetime, and your souls will be devoured by her after death? The so-called immortal soul is just eaten by the Demon God and used as consumables.
, nourishment to provide her with immortality? After all, your god is a demon god who accepts blood sacrifices. It is normal to feed on the essence, blood and soul..."
"Shut up!"
Bai Shishi shouted, interrupting Shen Lang's words, glaring angrily, and shouted fiercely:
"Little evil monk, don't stop talking nonsense here and insulting my Lord! If you are so blasphemous, my Lord will send you to purgatory after your death, and you will be tortured in all kinds of ways, and you will never be reincarnated!"
Shen Lang chuckled and said:
"It's just a matter of exploring various possibilities. Why should the donor be angry? Speaking of which, if donor Bai is so excited, could it be that the young monk got his idea right?
"Is it possible that you had doubts about your destiny after death, but you just didn't dare to admit it, and now that the young monk exposed it, you felt guilty, so you just scolded the young monk sternly to cover up your inner fear and uneasiness?"
"It's ridiculous, what do you, a little evil monk, know? You have no idea how great our Lord is!"
Bai Shishi's face turned red, her tone was fierce, and she said loudly like she was quarreling:
"My lord Kang Ge has always been rewarded for his merits. As long as you make contributions to my lord, you will be rewarded by my lord!
"Five years ago, I only knew a few rudimentary boxing and kicking skills, and could barely defend myself. In just five years, I have reached the fifth level of mastery. I also have many secret skills at my disposal, and I have made a big name in the black market. These
They are all gifts from our Lord!”
Shen Lang said in surprise:
"No way? That devil of yours can only bestow secret skills, but she can even bestow martial arts? Is she really that powerful?"
Bai Shishi snorted coldly and said proudly:
"My Lord controls all living beings on the earth, the reproduction of all things, and the cycle of life and death. He has boundless power. He can change our muscles and cleanse our marrow, help us reborn, and gain supreme martial arts talents.
"My eldest sister 'Blood Spider', five years ago, had only achieved the sixth level of martial arts. Among her fellow sects, her aptitude was mediocre. Her master once asserted that with her talent and potential, she could reach the fifth level at most in her lifetime, but now
She is already in the middle stage of the fourth level, and she is still a true fourth level person who relies on her own ability to condense the true energy seeds!
"In addition to martial arts, the eldest sister also possesses secret techniques such as the shelling and rebirth method. Her exclusive secret technique is more powerful than my 'Black Mist'!
"My second sister, 'White Spider', five years ago, was not as good at martial arts as I was. Now she is in the early stage of the fourth grade. She also has the energy seeds condensed by her skills. Her exclusive secret technique is also extremely powerful.
It’s beyond your imagination. No matter how good your martial arts skills are, little monk? In front of my second sister, you don’t even have a chance to do anything!
"My third sister, 'Golden Spider', did not know martial arts five years ago, but three months ago, she successfully condensed the Qi seeds and entered the fourth level. My fourth sister, 'Jade Spider', also entered the fourth level one month ago.
…
"Although my sixth sister, 'Stone Spider', has not yet reached the fourth level, her martial arts skills are still above mine. With only half a year of accumulation of martial arts knowledge, my sixth sister will be able to condense the true energy seeds with her skills!
"We seven sisters were originally either ordinary women with no martial arts, or ordinary warriors with limited talents, but now we are all highly skilled in martial arts and possess secret skills. This is all due to the great power of our Lord!
"If our Lord can appear in the world and bestow divine grace, wouldn't it be countless times more powerful than your ethereal Buddha?
"With my lord's justice, if I keep the secret and die, I will return to my lord's kingdom after death, serve my lord, receive my lord's favor, and have eternal soul!"
"Amazing! Your Lord is truly powerful and powerful!"
Shen Lang held up his palms in admiration, and at the same time sighed in his heart:
Although superstitious fanatics are difficult to deal with, there is an advantage.
That is, as long as they question the "Lord" they believe in, if they cannot destroy your body, in order to protect their own beliefs, they can only argue with you about scriptures.
Under the guise of enthusiasm, a lot of useful information will be revealed without even realizing it.
For example, now, Shen Lang knows that among the seven spider sisters, the strongest eldest sister is in the middle stage of the fourth level, the second sister is in the early stage of the fourth stage, the third sister, and the fourth sister are all at the beginning of the fourth stage. They have not long since condensed the true energy seeds.
Six of them have only five grades of Dacheng.
This allowed Shen Lang to have a more accurate prediction of the enemy's strength and be able to respond better.
As for the identity of the fourth sister, there were some clues before, and now there are also some clues about the identity of the eldest sister——
He has a master and a fellow sect, and he is probably a disciple of a certain martial arts sect in Luling Prefecture.
Five years ago, he was only at the sixth level of cultivation, but now he is in the middle stage of the fourth level.
If she didn't hide her strength, then just ask, among the martial arts sects in Luling Prefecture, which female disciple has suddenly made rapid progress in martial arts in the past five years, and even exceeded the upper limit of her original talent.
lock their identity.
Of course, Shen Lang felt that the eldest sister would probably not be so showy and might be hiding her strength.
But this is one more clue after all.
Out of the instinct of a fanatical believer, Bai Shishi unknowingly exposed part of the information about the other sisters in order to refute Shen Lang's "fallacy" of blasphemy, and was already on the verge of leaking the secret.
If I say a few more words, I'm afraid the "secret-keeping restriction" in Yuanshen will be triggered, and I will lose my soul.
But Bai Shishi was unaware of it and said angrily:
"You evil monk, you dare to blaspheme my Lord over and over again. You are simply committing a heinous crime and being insane! It's too late to compliment me now. Unless you sincerely convert to my Lord, you will suffer the tortures of purgatory even after death! Don't do that!
Seeing that you are so proud now, my eldest sister and the others will find you sooner or later and send you to see my lord for trial!"
Shen Lang chuckled and said nothing.
He brought Bai Shishi with him, originally intending to use her as bait to catch the other spider sisters.
Otherwise, why bother taking her with you?
He had sent her to her Lord long ago.
But Bai Shishi is really not a brainless fanatic.
When she was having a heated debate with Shen Lang, every time she came to the corner of the mountain road, she would intentionally or unintentionally rub the hem of her clothes against the grass or small trees on the roadside.
All the grass and small trees that had been rubbed by the hem of her gown were covered with slender spider silk that was difficult to discern with the naked eye.
Those slender and transparent spider threads, after she left, squirmed on their own to form some complex patterns like spells, which contained some kind of information that only the spider sisters could decipher.
Shen Lang, who was walking in front of her, rarely looked back, seemingly unaware of her little movements.
Just like this, all the way down Lize Mountain, Shen Lang silently recalled the map for a while, looked at the sun to determine the direction, and then headed towards Luling Fucheng.
When Shen Lang took Bai Shishi to Fucheng.
On Lize Mountain.
On the mountain road that Shen Lang and Bai Shishi once walked.
A woman wearing a light gray tight-fitting military uniform and a veil, with slender legs, a slender waist, but an ordinary breast, looked down at the intricate patterns made of slender spider silk on the grass on the roadside, and whispered to herself:
"The Dharma name is 'Fahai'. He is a warrior monk from Jinshan Temple and is at the sixth level of martial arts. He has amazing palm power, powerful physique, and unfathomable hard skills... Sword skills and knife skills are superior to palm skills... There is one thing that can summon bones.
A rare thing like a skeleton, and a little white rabbit that can kill a fifth-grade Dacheng warrior with a sneak attack? Little white rabbit? Kill a fifth-grade Dacheng warrior? What are you talking about, Qimei?"
Just when she was surprised, a cold female voice condensed into a bunch came into her ears from a distance:
"Fifth sister has been found. She has been killed. Sixth sister, come quickly."
The masked woman in gray clothes was slightly startled:
"Fifth sister is dead?"
His body suddenly flashed and disappeared without a trace, as if melting into the air.
After a while.
In the cave where Du Qianqian's body is located.
The cold female voice of the woman in gray who carried the message said calmly:
"Seventh sister was captured and fifth sister was killed. That monk Fahai's strength is far beyond his realm. He took seventh sister to Luling Mansion in a big way. It seems that he wanted to use seventh sister as bait to fish us out."
The masked woman in gray clothes said:
"Fourth sister, are you going to save the seventh sister? Although the young monk's strength is beyond the realm, in the final analysis, he is only a sixth-grade warrior. No matter how strong he is, there is a limit. Now that I know his details, I can kill him alone.
, rescue Qimei."
A cool female voice said:
"How do you know that the strength he showed is his true identity? How do you know that Monk Fahai didn't hide more strength? The seventh sister and the fifth sister were captured and killed by him just because they underestimated the enemy. Now.
The fifth sister died with her eyes closed, her body is right in front of you and me, do we want to make the same mistake as them again?"
The masked woman in gray clothes lowers her head to receive instruction:
"What the fourth sister taught me is that it was the younger sister who was careless."
A cool female voice said:
"Then Monk Fahai is so confident that he must be hiding more and more powerful methods! You are quick on your feet. Go back to Fucheng first and inform the eldest sister and the others. I will personally take the corpse of the fifth sister to the Du family manor to see Du Baisheng and tell him who the murderer is.