Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue came to a secluded alley in the outer city with low and old houses and sewage flowing through the streets.
When she walked to the third courtyard gate in the alley and took a look at the charcoal marks on the corner that looked like children's graffiti, Mu Qingxue stopped and made a gesture to Shen Lang.
Shen Lang pointed his finger at the center of his eyebrows, and his mental energy surged out. He scanned the yard and said via voice transmission:
"The layout of one main house and two side rooms. There are four people living in the main house, one person in the left side room, and two people in the right side room. The atmosphere is not right. There is a large space on the ground floor of the main house, but there are some restrictions
, unable to penetrate the restrictions and get a glimpse of the specific situation.”
Mu Qingxue nodded and said:
"It seems Guo Xiaojing is hiding here!"
This nearby area is an area where poor people and migrant workers in the capital gather. There is a large flow of people and a mixture of good and bad. Many lawless people, even killers and assassins, hide in this area.
It’s not surprising that Guo Xiaojing is hiding here.
Shen Lang asked: "After you find Guo Xiaojing, should you kill him on the spot or capture him alive?"
Mu Qingxue pondered:
"Guo Kai was killed because he was afraid that he would be protected by the emperor. Guo Xiaojing fled here to hide, but did not escape into the palace to seek asylum from the emperor. This shows that he did not know how to refine the elixir of youth and was of no value to the emperor.
"But he should know a lot of secrets between Guo Kai and the emperor... Capturing him alive, interrogating him to find out the secrets, and then explaining the canonical punishment may make the emperor restrain himself."
Shen Lang shook his head:
"You want to use black materials to force the emperor to restrain himself? It's impossible. His Majesty, Da Chu, I think is a master who won't shed tears until he sees the coffin."
Mu Qingxue had long been accustomed to Shen Lang's disrespectful and even contemptuous attitude towards the emperor, so she said nothing more and only said:
"Let's take action, capture Guo Xiaojing first."
When the two of them jumped up together, they flew over the courtyard wall and landed in the courtyard.
As soon as he landed, the doors to the main room and the side rooms on both sides opened one after another, and seven men, women and children, holding weapons and swords, surrounded him with stiff steps.
Mu Qingxue glanced up and saw that their expressions were dull, their eyes were straight, and there seemed to be maggots twisting and squirming under the skin of their faces, and a hint of anger suddenly flashed in his eyes:
"They've been bewitched!"
Among these seven men, women, and children, only one strong man showed signs of having practiced martial arts. The other six were just ordinary people. But at this time, they were all controlled by someone, and they were like walking zombies. It was obviously the good deeds of Guo Xiaojing.
Shen Lang slapped out a palm and knocked an old man in front of him to the ground.
As soon as the old man's back hit the ground, he stood up straight using the force of the shock, without even bending his knees.
Although Shen Lang's palm did not kill anyone in the first place, an ordinary person without martial arts would fall to the ground and pass out after receiving this blow. However, not only did the old man not faint, he could get up immediately. It was obvious that his body had been strengthened by the Gu.
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Ho ho!
The seven men, women, and children roared like beasts from their throats, with muddy saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths. They raised their weapons and charged at them like zombies.
Mu Qingxue whispered:
"Knock them unconscious first!"
Just as he was about to take action, a ray of moonlight fell from the sky, split into seven strands, and enveloped the seven men, women, old and young.
Under the moonlight, the seven men, women, and children stopped at the same time, twitching all over like convulsions. At the same time, smelly black smoke kept coming out of their mouths and noses.
As black smoke emerged, the seven people's facial skin, which seemed to be twisted and squirming with maggots, quickly returned to normal.
The following seven people collapsed to the ground at the same time and passed out.
Seeing this, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue were slightly startled. Looking around, they saw a girl wearing an arrow-sleeved outfit, riding boots and breeches, and a dozen pigtails appearing on the wall of the courtyard.
The girl was sitting on the wall, crossing her legs and swaying her calves, looking very playful.
"Your Majesty?"
Seeing this pretty girl, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue were startled at the same time and were about to step forward to greet her.
Shh!
The pretty girl made a silent gesture, winked playfully, and said via voice:
"Little Fahai, don't shout so loudly, and there is no need to salute. Just be quiet and don't alert the thief."
Shen Lang couldn't laugh or cry:
"When he first entered the courtyard, the thief was already alerted... Venerable Sir, why are you here?"
Fa Liuli, who looked like a pretty girl, smiled:
"I promised Yan Baotou and Yu Zhen to help them keep an eye on the movements in the capital. Then if you go out to catch the bad guys, I will naturally follow you and take care of them."
Mu Qingxue said:
"Your Majesty, if your meddling in worldly affairs is known by the royal family, there may be some trouble."
Fa Liuli smiled disapprovingly:
"I also heard the tip and knew that the people I wanted to arrest this time were the remnants of Guo Kai from the Yujing Temple. Guo Kai was a demon and cannibal. This was not a purely mundane matter. I had also helped little Fahai check the identity of the victim before.
of.
"Besides, as long as you don't say anything, no one will know that I was involved in this matter. Okay, stop talking nonsense. You go and arrest the people. I will help you guard the formation to prevent the thieves from escaping."
Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue looked at each other and walked quickly towards the main room without saying anything else.
With Fa Liuli holding the formation here, even if Guo Xiaojing made some arrangements underground, he would be able to capture it safely.
The two broke into the main room. Shen Lang launched a mental scan and found a mechanism hidden in the mezzanine of the wall. He went over and opened the mechanism, revealing a secret passage leading underground.
As soon as the secret passage opened, several rays of black light shot out from the entrance of the secret passage and flew towards Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue. They were four black-backed centipedes with wings.
Mu Qingxue flicked her finger and shot out a bit of golden light. The golden light was divided into four and attacked four black-backed flying centipedes at the same time. In the blink of an eye, they were shot to pieces from head to tail.
After killing the four flying centipedes guarding the door, Mu Qingxue took the lead and stepped into the secret passage. Shen Lang followed closely behind, casting spells as he walked, blessing "Vajra Indestructible Body" and other protective spells.
Originally, he wanted to give Mu Qingxue some defensive spells, but she refused.
"My protective aura can withstand even second-level magic spells several times. Guo Xiaojing is only a fifth-level Taoist practitioner. Even if I stand and let him cast spells at will, he can't break my protective aura.
There's no need to waste spells on me."
Mu Qingxue's words made Shen Lang a little upset - your husband and I are only at the fifth level of Taoism...
Walking down the stone steps of the secret passage for more than ten steps, we came to a corner. Just as we passed the corner, a guillotine fell from the sky and struck Mu Qingxue head-on with a heavy sound of breaking wind.
Mu Qingxue casually waved her hand upwards, and with a clang, she split the guillotine into two pieces and flew away left and right.
At this time, densely packed small holes were opened on both sides of the secret passage, and countless poison-quenching steel needles were shot out.
But Mu Qingxue had Gang Qi to protect her body, and Shen Lang also put on the Vajra Indestructible Body, Golden Bell Shield and other defensive spells. The steel needles didn't even touch their clothes, and they fell to the ground one after another.
The two of them strode forward with steel needles in their hands, and suddenly several small holes in the dome of the secret tunnel opened silently. Several small green snakes flew down, opened their snouts, showed their fangs, and bit Chen fiercely.
Lang, Mu Qingxue.
Shen Lang raised his hand and pointed, and shot out a fire-enhanced version of the "Finger Arrow Technique", which penetrated into the mouth of a small green snake, shooting it from head to tail in an instant, and roasting it until it was ripe.
Several other small snakes were raised by Mu Qingxue, and a golden thread as thin as a hair flew out from his fingers, cutting them all into several pieces in one stroke.
The mechanism of this secret passage is actually not too weak.
In particular, the flying centipedes and these little green snakes were all Gu insects that had been sacrificed using evil methods, and their lethality was actually quite terrifying.
At least an average fifth-grade warrior, or a warrior in the early or middle stages of fourth-grade, even if they are cautious and step by step, they may be seriously injured or even die.
It's a pity that the people who came to break through the secret path at this moment are one of the best in the world in the second-level Gang Qi realm, and a fourth-level martial arts practitioner and a fifth-level practitioner of both law and martial arts.
All the mechanisms in this secret passage were useless in front of the two of them, and they couldn't even slow down their pace a little.
After going through poisonous smoke, poisonous fire, ground spears, poisonous bees and other traps along the way, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue finally arrived at the end of the secret passage, in front of a stone door.
There are restrictions on the stone gate, and it is these restrictions that prevent Shen Lang from scanning with his mental power.
However, although this restriction can block prying eyes, the defensive power is not very strong.
Mu Qingxue stood in front of the door, observing carefully with the insight given by the "Tianmu Point", and quickly saw through the weak points of the restriction.
She raised her slender white palms, and the wrist guards made of black gold sand dripped with a golden solution that shimmered with purple light, covering her palms and turning into a pair of golden gauntlets.
Then she slowly clenched her golden gauntlet-covered palm into a fist, and punched a certain part of the stone door. There was a muffled sound on the ground, the whole stone door shook, and there was a click sound at the location where the fist was hit, and dense cracks burst out.
Spider web cracks.
The cracks quickly spread in all directions, spreading throughout the entire stone gate in the blink of an eye. Finally, with a crash, the stone gate was completely shattered, turning into countless rubbles no larger than a fingernail, and scattered everywhere.
Once the stone gate is broken, there is no barrier in front.
Mu Qingxue and Shen Lang stepped into the door, looked up and saw a spacious stone hall behind the door.
In the center of the stone hall, there is a white jade altar carved with various evil spirits.
A young man wearing a black robe with a sinister face was sitting cross-legged on the top of the altar, flanked by a girl wearing the same black robe.
Seeing Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue breaking into the hall, the young man in black robe said sharply:
"Why? I've already hid underground and never seen the light of day. Why are you, the evil bitches of the Divine Catcher Hall, still unwilling to let me go?"
Shen Lang looked at the young man in black robe with cold eyes and said calmly:
"Guo Xiaojing, you assist your master Guo Kai, who is a demon and cannibal. He is a heinous and unforgivable crime. If you are captured without mercy, you will die a good death. If you resist stubbornly, the punishment of Lingchi is designed for you!"
Guo Xiaojing said angrily:
"We masters and disciples work hard for the emperor! We raise the four-winged demon lord to refine the elixir of immortality for the emperor! The emperor is the culprit. You are so righteous, go catch the emperor and cut him to death with a thousand knives!"
Do you think I don’t want to?
Just give me a chance...
Shen Lang sneered in his heart, but his face remained calm as he said calmly:
"Guo Xiaojing, standing in front of you is Mu Qingxue, Mu Captou, the second-ranked Divine Catcher of the Divine Catcher Hall, who is known as the 'Ruthless Iron Judge'. Your master, Guo Kai, was beheaded by Mu Captou himself. Just let him be captured.
You have no chance."
The corners of Guo Xiaojing's eyes twitched fiercely, and he looked at Mu Qingxue with fear on his face.
After Mu Qingxue came in, she didn't say a word, and only locked her energy firmly on Guo Xiaojing and others to prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry.
However, at this distance, even if Guo Xiaojing and the two wanted to give it a try, they had no chance.
If Mu Qingxue didn't want to be captured alive, she could kill Guo Xiaojing and Guo Xiaojing instantly, making them unable to even cast a spell.
"Mu Qingxue..."
Guo Xiaojing glared at Mu Qingxue fiercely, then looked at the girl in black robe beside him:
"Junior sister, Mu Qingxue came to arrest us personally. It seems that we are unable to fly."
The girl in black robe turned pale and said with a trembling voice:
"Brother, do you really want to take that last step?"
Guo Xiaojing nodded solemnly and said fiercely:
"Only when you are alive can you have hope. Even if you just live, it is ten thousand times better than dying!"
Hearing that the tone of the two of them was wrong, Shen Lang didn't say anything, raised his hand and pointed, and hit Guo Xiaojing with a "soul-destroying curse".
Mu Qingxue did not hesitate, and with a flick of her finger, two golden lights struck Guo Xiaojing, the black-robed girl, like lightning.
But the strange thing is that Guo Xiaojing, the girl in black robe, did not make any recalcitrant move to cast a spell.
Shen Lang's spell fell smoothly on Guo Xiaojing, making him stiff and his expression dull.
The two golden lights that popped up from Mu Qingxue penetrated Guo Xiaojing's shoulders more easily.
"So easy?"
Shen Lang was surprised, but he didn't stop with his hands, quickly making seals and preparing to cast the fifth-level control spell "Forgetfulness Curse".
His fighting style has always been to take advantage of your illness to kill you, and he will not stop until the enemy dies.
Mu Qingxue took one step forward and rushed to the altar to arrest the two of them.
But just as Shen Lang was about to recite the mantra, Mu Qingxue swept under the altar.
On the altar of Guo Xiaojing, worm-like marks suddenly appeared under the skin of the black-robed woman.
The marks kept twisting and squirming, and soon the skin of Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed girl's exposed face, neck, and hands began to burst open, with strips of blood-red, gray-white, oily green, or dark and strange stripes.
Maggots protruded from the cracks in their skin and fell to the ground in flakes.
Even though Mu Qingxue was very brave, when she saw this strange situation, she couldn't help but feel her scalp explode, her heart felt sick, and she stopped instinctively.
No matter how strong she is, she is still a girl, so she will naturally be afraid of these weird maggots that burst out of her skin, are covered in mucus, and are constantly twisting and squirming.
Not to mention Mu Qingxue, even Shen Lang saw that Guo Xiaojing and the girl in black robes had changed beyond recognition in an instant. Not only were maggots of various colors protruding from the cracks in their skin, but maggots were also protruding from their nostrils, mouths, ear apertures, and even their eyes.
I feel like I can't bear the waves, my sanity is crazy, my spine is numb, and I feel nauseous.
"Come back, be careful of fraud!"
Shen Lang suppressed his nausea and called to Mu Qingxue, then stretched out his finger and shot out a series of fireballs.
To deal with these disgusting maggots crawling all over the ground, of course, you must use fire spells that bombard them in a large area.
Mu Qingxue said nothing and retreated. At the same time, Shen Lang's fireballs also landed in front of the altar.
He has the third-level flame enhancement and the seventh-level continuous fireball. With the blessing of flame enhancement, the power is no less than that of the fifth-level secret technique.
As usual, when such a string of fireballs are bombarded, not to mention the maggots, even the altar can be blown into powder.
But Guo Xiaojing, what happened to the black-robed girl was unnatural to begin with, and it seems natural that something unreasonable will happen next.
So the fireballs launched by Shen Lang landed on the altar that was covered with a thick layer of maggots, but they didn't make any sound.
Nine human-head-sized and powerful red flame fireballs popped several times and burst like soap bubbles.
At the same time, the body of Guo Xiaojing, the girl in black robe, collapsed with a crash, all flesh, blood, and internal organs disappeared, leaving only the skeleton, broken skin, and hair wrapped in the black robe.
The top of the altar is already covered with maggots of various colors in layers, like a colorful carpet of flesh that is constantly squirming, making people's scalp feel hot and their whole body chilling.
Mu Qingxue's palms were already covered in cold sweat, but she still forced herself to stare at the disgusting insect blanket and asked in a deep voice:
"Shen Lang, what's going on?"
Although she was well-informed, her understanding of Taoism was not as good as that of a professional practitioner, so she could only ask Shen Lang.
However, although Shen Lang scanned his mind full of spell information in the Sutra Collection Hall of the Taoist Academy, the Scripture Collection Hall only contained serious spells. The magic spells of evil demons and heretics were taboo knowledge and could not be found in the Sutra Collection Hall.
Of course, there are many common sense books introducing evil magic and magic in the Sutra Collection Hall. Although there are no specific cultivation methods, you can also use these common sense books to understand the characteristics of some evil magic and how to restrain and deal with it.
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But Shen Lang had never seen the magic trick of Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed girl turning into maggots in the book in the Sutra Collection Hall, so he could only ask:
"Hasn't Guo Kai used this method before?"
Mu Qingxue said: "No! Guo Kai has practiced many powerful Gu insects, but he has not turned himself into such a ghost."
Shen Lang thought of the old bug from the Matong family and guessed:
"The two Guo Xiaojings must have used some kind of evil magic. It may not have been developed by Guo Kaixin. The immature magic was tested on his own disciples first... The souls of Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed woman should have been hidden in a certain place.
Inside one or more Gu worms, trying to escape."
Didn’t Guo Xiaojing say that it is better to live well than to die well?
This move should be the final resort for Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed girl to "keep alive".
Mu Qingxue said decisively:
"Then kill all the maggots!"
It was no longer possible to capture them alive. In this case, we had to clear out all the maggots and destroy the hope of Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed girl to survive.
At that moment, Mu Qingxue raised her right hand and slapped it towards the altar.
As she struck out with her palm, the air above the altar exploded, causing layers of milky white air waves to explode. An invisible force fell from the sky, covering the entire altar and bombarding it fiercely.
The power of a second-grade warrior's strike is naturally not comparable to Shen Lang's current continuous fireballs.
Under the bombardment of the invisible force, the insect blanket on the altar burst out with a pop of liquid, and the sky was filled with colorful juice. That scene...
vomit!
A large piece of Shen Lang's penis fell off, he turned his head and retched, almost vomiting out his last night's meal.
Mu Qingxue also twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, held her breath and closed her eyes, purely relying on her energy to sense, not wanting to take another look at the altar.
And the effect of the palm just now shocked her.
Her palm was originally intended to smash the insect blanket and the white jade altar into pieces.
But in the end, only the surface layer of the thick insect blanket was crushed, while the middle and lower layers of the insect blanket and the white jade altar were left intact.
It felt like there was some kind of power absorbing the power of her palm.
However, since the maggots on the surface were shattered by the previous palm, it means that the power of absorbing her palm power has its limit, and it cannot absorb all the power of her palm.
If that's the case, then slap him a few more times until all the maggots are crushed!
At that moment, Mu Qingxue moved her palms one after another, and the air above the altar exploded with waves of air. The invisible force bombarded the insect carpet above the altar into colorful colors and splashed juice everywhere.
Shen Lang also followed Mu Qingxue's example, closing his eyes and holding his breath, and only used his mental power to scan and observe the altar.
At the same time, he also tried to cast spells to strike.
However, his most powerful attack spells are only at level 5. Mu Qingxue's palm power can only shatter the superficial maggots with each blow, and most of the palm power is absorbed out of thin air. Naturally, Shen Lang's spells are even more powerless.
He cast several spells in a row, but they had no effect. He didn't know what kind of force had absorbed them. Shen Lang no longer wasted spells needlessly, and only used his mental power to scan and monitor the area around the altar, to be on guard against the maggots hiding Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed female soul.
escape.
Boom boom boom...
Mu Qingxue applied more than ten palms in a row. The maggots on the altar were crushed and killed layer by layer, and the insect blanket became thinner and thinner.
But at this moment, Shen Lang suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Guo Xiaojing and the black-robed girl had to survive by transforming into maggots, but after turning into maggots, even their souls could be hidden in one or a few maggots and mixed among countless maggots, which made Shen Lang and Mu
Qingxue can't find them, but as long as all the maggots are killed, they will definitely die.
How can this be considered the last resort to survive?
And until now, not a single maggot has escaped off the altar.
All the maggots were densely stacked on the altar, allowing Mu Qingxue to attack them without any sign of escaping from the altar.
Thinking that his spells were being absorbed, and that most of Mu Qingxue's palm power was being absorbed, Shen Lang had a flash of inspiration in his mind and blurted out:
"There's something wrong with the altar!"
"What?"
Mu Qingxue wondered, and at the same time, following the inertia of the previous series of palm strikes, she struck down with two more palms.
As these two palms crashed down.
As if it had finally absorbed enough energy, the white jade altar suddenly bloomed with strong light, and the strong light instantly filled the entire stone hall. In the light, there were countless densely packed runes and rituals that were combined into a ring-shaped magic circle, covering all living creatures in the entire stone hall.
Covered within.
Then, the ring-shaped magic circle was surrounded by strong light, rotating at high speed and collapsing inward. Finally, it collapsed into a small light spot above the altar, then flashed and disappeared out of thin air.
The stone hall became deserted.
Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue disappeared without a trace, and all the living maggots above the altar also disappeared, leaving only the fragments of maggots that splashed everywhere, filling the lake with the altar.
Afterwards, the white jade altar creaked, cracks appeared, and collapsed layer by layer.
As the fragments of the altar, large and small, collapsed, they continued to crack and disintegrate into smaller fragments.
It just kept disintegrating and collapsing. When the white jade altar finally collapsed completely, in the center of the stone hall, above the ground, there was only a pile of white jade powder mixed with countless maggot slurries, and there was no trace of the altar anymore.
At the same time, in the stone hall, a figure flashed, and Fa Liuli, who looked like a pretty girl, appeared out of thin air.
She frowned slightly, and with a sweep of her mind, she captured the remaining fluctuations after the space shift.
"Void Moving Array? This formation technique..."
Fa Liuli was thoughtful.
"Little Fahai and Xiao Mu were teleported away! Fortunately, little Fahai has the exorcism seal that I refined personally. Otherwise, the magic circle would self-destruct and mess up the cause and effect, and it would be really difficult to find them."
Fa Liuli looked at the pile of white jade powder. There seemed to be countless lights and shadows flickering in the hole.
In the blink of an eye, she "saw" where the exorcism seal was at this moment, and immediately took a step forward.
As she took this step, ripples suddenly appeared in the space in front of her, and then her entire figure seemed to melt into the void, suddenly dissolving and disappearing without a trace.
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After a while, the world was spinning.
After coming back to his senses, Shen Lang found that he and Mu Qingxue had arrived in an empty grotto.
This grotto is not dark.
A river of lava flows slowly from a corner of the grotto, making the grotto extremely hot and bringing a little light to the grotto.
On the dome that is tens of feet high, there are also patches of luminous moss, blooming with a dull red light, reflecting the grotto like dusk under the bloody sunset.
The floor of the grotto is uneven, with huge stalagmites more than ten feet high, and a dark cave that seems bottomless at first glance and leads to nowhere.
There seem to be many dark caves above the dome of the grotto.
In some caves, there are also strange scarlet light spots flashing, like the eyes of some kind of creature.
While observing the environment, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue held each other's hands at the same time, and then said in unison:
"Don't be afraid, I'm here."
"..."
After a strange silence.
Shen Lang said seriously:
"Master Mu, please take care of me as a man and your husband's mood."
Mu Qingxue is also very serious:
"Of course I know your courage and strength, but sometimes, we have to respect the facts. The fact now is that I am still stronger than you."
As she spoke, her two black gold wristbands flashed with purple light, flowing out of molten gold, quickly covering her whole body, turning into pieces of gold foil, connecting to each other, expanding, and in the blink of an eye she was donned with that gorgeous and mighty golden battle armor.
Shen Lang was speechless, took out the "White Dragon Armor" and put it on, and held the "Golden Dragon-Slaying Knife" in his hand - this knife had been charged by Mu Qingxue and could emit a forty-meter sword energy.
The power is equivalent to a full blow from Mu Qingxue when he was in the third level.
Seeing a lava river nearby, Shen Lang prepared the "Xuanyin Orb" and could activate it at any time.
Although his third-level flame enhancement allows him to persist in the lava for a moment, the fire-proof ability of the Xuanyin Orb is even more powerful than the third-level flame enhancement. With the orb on his head, he can wave freely in the lava, at least for one wave.
hour.
"Where are the little monsters? Why don't you ask them to come out and help?"
"The situation is unclear, so we have to keep a few tricks up our sleeves."
"Well, be careful, I feel like the smell here is not quite right."
As he was speaking, a vicious and hoarse voice suddenly came from a stalagmite in front of him:
"Mu Qingxue, Shen Lang... you have made us become like this. If I don't cut you into pieces today, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart!"
Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue followed the sound and saw two monsters that looked like skinned monkeys squatting on the stalagmite that was more than ten feet high.
They were only about three feet tall, with not an inch of skin on their entire bodies, exposing bloody muscles and tendons, with thick blood dripping down from them.
The blood seemed to be highly poisonous, and when it fell on the stalagmites, it made a sizzling and corrosive sound, and black smoke rose up.
Seeing the two skinned monkeys, Shen Lang's expression suddenly condensed:
"Blooded mandrill? How can there be a star abyss monster here?"
Shen Lang scanned a common sense book introducing monsters in the Xingyuan in the Sutra Collection Hall of the Taoist Monastery, so he recognized monsters like blood mandrills, which look like skinned monkeys.
There are strong and weak blood mandrills.
But even the weakest blood mandrill has the melee combat ability of a fourth-grade accomplished warrior, as well as weird innate magic.
However, even in the Star Abyss, blood mandrills are uncommon monsters. How come there are two of them here?
"We didn't fall into the star abyss, did we?"
Shen Lang asked Mu Qingxue in surprise.
"This is still the human world."
Mu Qingxue said firmly: "If it were Xingyuan, the omnipresent demonic energy would have begun to corrode us long ago."
Shen Lang nodded, looked at the two blood mandrills again, and asked:
"You are...Senior Brother and Sister Guo Xiaojing? How did you become like this?"
The slightly larger blood mandrill on the left roared violently, and stared at Shen Lang and Shen Lang with its dark eyes without a trace of white:
"You actually have the nerve to ask? If it weren't for your relentless pursuit, how could my brother and sister be forced to inhabit the corpse soul Gu? Do you know that once the soul is in the corpse soul Gu, we Will we live in the form of maggots for the rest of our lives? You have turned us into maggots!"
This blood mandrill was none other than Guo Xiaojing. When he was speaking, the slightly smaller blood mandrill next to him was whimpering and weeping tears of blood, eating away at the stalagmites and leaving streaks of green smoke.
Shen Lang suddenly said:
"That's it! You haven't turned into blood mandrills, you are still maggots, you just took over the bodies of these two blood mandrills!"
Guo Xiaojing said bitterly:
"Any flesh body, even the flesh body of the Star Abyss Demon, will immediately turn into a dead thing once it is occupied by the Corpse Soul Gu! We are just 'wearing' two corpses now, and they will soon rot...
"We have to keep changing our bodies, and no matter what body we change, we will not be able to smell, taste, or even touch... Do you know how painful this feeling is?"
Shen Lang spread his hands regretfully:
"It's really miserable to lose your sense of smell, taste, and touch. You lose most of the joy of life! I deeply regret this. But is it really appropriate for you to blame us? If you hadn't helped the tiger, how could you have fallen into this situation? Is this such a situation? Even when we went to arrest you and you were arrested, you wouldn't be in this situation, right?"
Guo Xiaojing smiled sadly:
"If you are captured without restraint, you will inevitably die! It is better to live than to die!"
"Then you are bringing it upon yourself and you cannot blame us." Shen Lang's face turned cold and he said calmly: "Where is this place? What is your purpose in bringing us here?"
Guo Xiaojing laughed strangely:
"This is where my master discovered the Four-Winged Demon Owl! Aren't you curious why there are blood mandrills here? Because this is the outpost of Xingyuan's penetration into the human world! Not only are there blood mandrills here, but also There are more and stronger Star Abyss monsters! Now that you are here, don’t even think about leaving again!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the blood mandrill next to him suddenly let out a sharp howl.
When the blood mandrills screamed, Mu Qingxue pointed out, and a golden light shot out, split into two, and shot into the foreheads of the two blood mandrills in an instant. However, the two blood mandrills crashed and turned into two masses of blood mist, hissing.
The howling did not stop, but came from another stalagmite.
It is the blood mandrill's innate magic, Blood Shadow Escape.
The "Blood Shadow Clone Technique" that the Spider Mother gave to Lin Meng, the boss of the Seven Spider Sisters, was developed based on the Blood Mandrill's "Blood Shadow Escape".
Mu Qingxue was about to chase two blood mandrills when bursts of ear-piercing howls suddenly came from the dome of the grotto.
Then groups of black shadows flew out of the cave on the dome and rushed down towards Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue.
Astonishingly, it was a huge bat with a wingspan of nearly ten feet, two thick hind legs, claws like eagle claws, and a ferocious human face.
"Human-Faced Bat!"
This is another kind of Star Abyss monster that likes to eat human blood and human souls. When it preys, it often sucks up all the blood and souls of living people in one breath.
This kind of monster is not as strong as the blood mandrill, and its hand-to-hand combat ability is basically equivalent to that of a fourth-grade entry-level warrior. However, when it appears, it will appear in groups, and it also has powerful sorcery. When surrounded by a group, warriors in the early and middle stages of the third-grade must be cautious.
If you are not careful, the boat may capsize.
At this moment, hundreds of human-faced bats swooped down, and while they were still in the air, they were already rushing towards the sinking waves, and Mu Qingxue let out a sharp scream.
When the whistling sound reached his ears, Shen Lang felt a turmoil in his soul, and his mind went blank for a moment.
Fortunately, his soul was strong and his magic resistance was also very strong. He woke up in just a moment, opened his mouth and roared without saying a word, and responded with a "lion's roar".
The golden ripples of the lion's roar blasted into the group of bats. The first few human-faced bats felt like they had been hit on the head with a sap, and they fell down whirling and bleeding from their seven orifices.
At the same time, Mu Qingxue also spread out her fingers and blasted a palm towards the sky. The invisible palm power shot out into the sky, and with a bang, more than a dozen human-faced bats were blown to pieces.
Groups of human-faced bats can threaten early to mid-level third-grade warriors.
But the problem is, here is a second-grade Gang Qi realm warrior...
Hundreds of human-faced bats can't help Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue, but there are not only two kinds of monsters in this devil's cave: blood mandrills and human-faced bats.
Just when Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue were facing the siege of human-faced bats.
From the bottomless caves on the ground, which lead to nowhere, suddenly jumped out of a black head, with a body like a leopard and a face like a jackal. The eyes were just two holes with black smoke constantly coming out, and the end of the tail was even longer.
A monster with a snake head.
"Shadow jackals! Be careful, they can sneak into the shadows!"
Before he finished speaking, a shadow jackal jumped out from the shadow at Mu Qingxue's feet and bit into Mu Qingxue's calf.
Mu Qingxue snorted coldly, tapped her heel lightly, and kicked the shadow jackal's head with a thud of the thick heel of the golden combat boots.
Although this kind of monster has the ability to sneak into the shadows, its melee combat ability is not very strong. It is fast and highly poisonous. Especially the snake head on its tail. If it bites it, a fourth-level master warrior will ascend to heaven on the spot.
However, Mu Qingxue was wearing a golden armor. Blessed by the golden aura, the soft golden armor was far stronger than the "white dragon armor" on Shen Lang. Even if he stood still and let the shadow jackal bite him, he could still
Knock off their big teeth.
Mu Qingxue punched and kicked, easily smashing heads of human-faced bats and shadow jackals. Shen Lang could hardly catch any monsters around her, and could only pick up occasional misses and make up for it.
However, such a relaxed and comfortable situation soon changed.
In the lava river in a corner of the grotto, there was a sudden explosion and a wave of fire burst into the sky.
When the lava was flying, a huge tentacle, burning with blazing red flames and covered with eye-like red patterns, protruded from the lava river and swept towards Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue.
Peng Peng Peng!
The tentacles have infinite brute force. Wherever they pass, stalagmites more than ten feet high are shattered upon contact, and the gravel is shot out in all directions like cannonballs. Any human-faced bat or shadow jackal that blocks its sweeping path,
They also exploded into powder one after another, and the smashed corpse pieces burst into flames, turning into ashes before they even hit the ground.
Shen Lang didn't know the origin of this tentacle, but one look at its sweeping posture showed that it was definitely not a benevolent creature.
Facing this huge tentacle that had the potential to sweep through thousands of armies, Mu Qingxue's expression condensed, she let out a loud cry, and kicked the ground with her combat boots. When the ground exploded, it flew towards the tentacle like a shell, and at the same time
He made a fist with his right hand and punched the tentacle.
Boom!
Amidst the deafening explosion, a huge ball of flame erupted from the place where Mu Qingxue's fist and tentacle collided. The scorching flame even illuminated the entire grotto.
Mu Qingxue's body was shaken, and she was thrown backwards. She was thrown more than ten feet away before she forcibly fell to the ground.
After landing, she continued to slide backwards, her combat boots plowing two deep cracks into the ground, until she hit a stalagmite, knocking it down by its roots, and then she barely stopped her retreat.
But that huge tentacle, under this collision, only paused slightly, froze for a moment, and then continued to sweep towards Shen Lang - Mu Qingxue was pushed back too far by it, and its length was limited, so it could not reach it.
Already.
Seeing this, Mu Qingxue's face changed slightly and she quickly reminded:
"Don't touch it head-on! Its power is still higher than that of a second-grade warrior!"
As he spoke, he kicked the ground violently and flew towards the tentacles.
Of course Shen Lang knew that this tentacle could not be touched, so he spread out a pair of metal wings from his back and suddenly rose into the sky.
The tentacles swept under Shen Lang, but failed to touch him. But the eye-like patterns on the tentacles suddenly opened up, and they turned out to be blood-red eyes, but the whites of the eyes were dark eyes!
Hundreds of strange eyes were staring at Shen Lang at the same time. Shen Lang felt his whole body stiffen. Every muscle, tendon, and blood vessel seemed to have a will of its own, trying to turn into tentacles and break away from him.
If it weren't for the indestructible body, golden bell and other heavy shields on his body, as well as the spell resistance provided by skin strengthening, bone strengthening, and vitality strengthening, he might have turned into a body covered with tentacles.
monster.
At the critical moment, Mu Qingxue rushed to the tentacle and punched the tentacle again.
But at this moment, most of the eyes on the tentacles rolled around and stared at Mu Qingxue closely.
Although Mu Qingxue didn't feel like Shen Lang's muscles, tendons, and blood vessels were turning into tentacles, her whole body froze, as if she was bound by countless invisible strings, and her movements froze for a moment.
Although she quickly burst out with energy and broke free from the restraints, the tentacles were already roaring and sweeping towards her. Mu Qingxue had no choice but to withdraw her fists and cross her arms across her chest to block.
boom!
There was an explosion, and another ball of flames burst out. Mu Qingxue was blasted out by the tentacle, and was thrown dozens of feet away again.
This time, before landing, a pair of huge wings that looked like they were made of gold or condensed light spread out from behind her. She flapped them violently, forcibly removing the momentum, and flew towards the tentacles at a faster speed than before.
Shen Lang also seized the brief opportunity to repel Mu Qingxue with the tentacles, regained his mobility, and cast spells repeatedly to kill several human-faced bats that tried to take advantage of him.
Then he flew away from the lava river and reminded Mu Qingxue:
"Don't confront that monster head-on! Avoid it first and wait for support!"
Fa Liuli had been holding a formation in the courtyard before, and everything that happened in the underground stone hall could not be hidden from her perception.
And Shen Lang has the "Expelling Magic Seal" made by Fa Liuli himself. No matter how far they are teleported, as long as they are still in the human world, Fa Liuli can use the Expelling Magic Seal to lock their location and come with his "Magic Foot Power"
support.
Mu Qingxue said: "It's coming out! There's no way to avoid it!"
Shen Lang looked back and saw a huge figure emerging from the lava river. It was a monster with a humanoid upper body and dozens of tentacles below the waist.
Looking at the dozens of equally huge tentacles, and then looking at the half-length giant who was nearly twenty meters tall, with dense flame patterns all over his body, and his eyes tightly closed, Shen Lang couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling——
The monster used one tentacle to suppress Mu Qingxue with its eyes closed. If dozens of tentacles came out at once, and then opened its eyes and started fighting seriously, how could Mu Qingxue be its opponent?
The key is that the scope of this grotto is limited, and I don’t know where the exit is. There is no place to hide if you want to!
Just when the half-length giant's eyelids trembled, as if he was about to open his eyes.
A bright moonlight suddenly fell from the sky and fell on the half-length giant.
Seeing this moonlight, Shen Lang breathed a sigh of relief:
"Backup is coming!"
Under the moonlight.
The trembling eyelids of the half-giant became calmer, and the dozens of tentacles that were climbing towards the shore to attack Mu Qingxue also retracted and submerged into the lava.
Even the first tentacle retreated into the Molten Bank River.
After that, the giant's huge body sank into the lava river little by little.
The lava river returns to calm.
The moonlight that caused the giant to return to sleep in the lava river suddenly fell to the river bank and transformed into a pretty girl with a dozen pigtails.
It is Fa Liuli.
She smiled at Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue, clasped her hands together and recited the "Sweet Rain Mantra".
Amid the incantation sounds like fairy sounds and sounds of nature, crystal-like rain falls from the sky.
Human-faced bats, shadow jackals, and other Star Abyss monsters that try to attack will instantly lose their power and collapse to the ground limply once they are touched by even a drop of the sweet rain.
And as more sweet rain falls on them, the bodies of the monsters gradually melt into pure water, and the evil spirit is purified.
The two blood mandrills transformed by Guo Xiaojing and his junior sister also howled and turned into water, but Fa Liuli did not kill the two "corpse soul Gu", but only photographed them from the air and sealed them in a jade purification bottle.
In the blink of an eye, all the evil spirits in the cave were swept away by Fa Liuli.
Fa Liuli has the weakest attack power among the current first-grade ones, but that is only compared to other Eastern First-grade ones.
Fa Liuli still has absolute suppressive power against people below the first level.
After handing the purifying bottle to Mu Qingxue who was coming over, Fa Liuli looked at the lava river with a solemn expression:
"That monster in the lava river... I seem to know it."
"What?" Shen Lang was stunned: "Your Majesty, have you seen that monster?"
"No." Fa Liuli shook his head with a strange expression: "I mean, I think I have seen its physical appearance."
"This..." Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue looked at each other in surprise and confusion.
"I can't say I've seen him before. I should say I've seen his portrait." Fa Liuli said: "The monster's facial features look very much like a man named 'Li Jin' in the late years of the previous dynasty, when heroes were fighting for hegemony."
The heroic overlord..."
Just as he was about to talk about Li Jin's deeds in detail, a deep and old male voice suddenly sounded:
"Junior sister Liuli, are you okay?"
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