Four hundred and seventieth chapters fire sideburns
"What's wrong? Guo Guo."
Chujiu stopped in confusion and looked around, but there was nothing unusual.
I didn't know how to explain it. I could only tell Chujiu to be careful. I had a bad feeling.
Fortunately, Chujiu and Xiaoyu trusted me 100%. We hid behind the rockery and stopped, instead of going in blindly.
"What are we going to do next?"
I closed my eyes and captured the danger in my heart. That feeling was right in front of me, and I felt like I was about to touch it.
Chujiu's answer was of course to rush into the basement and beat up those old immortals.
"No, I'm talking about the next thing I'm going to do."
I still closed my eyes and searched for that glimmer of feeling. Just when Chujiu said to open the secret door of the rockery, my right eyelid started to twitch wildly again.
"This is it. There is danger here."
I waved my hands slightly excitedly, that's what I felt, there was something wrong with the entrance to the rockery.
Chujiu walked to the stone door at the entrance of the rockery in confusion, squatted down and put his ear to the stone door. After a few minutes, he shook his head towards us, but did not hear any movement inside.
Xiaoyu sat cross-legged on the ground, staring at the gap under the stone door, and then closed her eyes slightly.
After a while, a small mouse crawled out from a group of rocks not far away. The mouse circled around Chujiu and me several times, and then got into the gap of the stone door.
For just a moment, I watched the mouse enter the crack in the door. I turned around to see Xiaoyu's face flushed, her expression seemed to be in extreme pain, and she gritted her teeth to prevent herself from making any sound.
Just after Chujiu and I were so nervous that our breathing became weak, Xiaoyu's face finally began to return to normal.
"I separated a ray of spiritual consciousness and controlled the mouse. As soon as it entered the stone door, it was swallowed by a monster."
Xiaoyu's face turned pale. It was the first time he encountered such a thing. The monster could swallow up his spiritual consciousness together.
Chujiu hurriedly took out the elixir given by Ivan Qiao from his cloth bag.
This elixir was divided into eight parts on the ninth day of the lunar month. We have eaten six parts in the past few days. Before the ninth day of the lunar month, we ate one part as per the recipe, and now there should be the last part left.
"Sister Xiaoyu, you should feel better after eating it."
Chujiu frowned. He had experienced the feeling of losing consciousness before. It was like the pain of being ripped out of the head alive. Most people couldn't bear it. He didn't expect Sister Xiaoyu to be able to endure it without screaming.
I looked at Chujiu in confusion. I had never heard him mention this before. Chujiu rolled his eyes at me. If it were Guo Guo, he would have wet his pants in pain.
"It's much better. In fact, it only lasted a moment. Fortunately, it was a little mouse that I controlled."
After Xiaoyu swallowed the pill, his expression began to return to normal. If he controlled a larger animal, more spiritual consciousness would be released.
Chujiu gave me a thumbs up, Guo Guo had accomplished another great feat. If he went in so hastily, the consequences would be really disastrous.
"For the sake of safety, I will open your eyes first."
Chujiu guessed that the monster in Xiaoyu's mouth inside the stone gate should be an evil spirit type. He didn't dare to confirm what it was specifically. After all, there were many evil spirits that could devour spiritual consciousness.
"The laws of heaven are clear, the laws of earth are spiritual, the essence of yin and yang is combined, the spirit of water appears, the aura is photographed by water, reaching the sky and the earth, the law is followed, the mirror of yin and yang, the true form appears quickly, the true form appears quickly, I entrust San Mao Zhenjun like a law, urgently
Just like the law!"
Without the copper coin sword, casting spells on Chujiu became a lot more complicated. In the past, when opening the Heavenly Eye, he only had to take out the talisman and wave it in front of my eyes.
This time, Chujiu's fingers changed hundreds of gestures within tens of seconds, and only a trace of fog appeared in front of my eyes.
"You squat here and don't move."
Chujiu told us that when he opened our eyes, he also cast an invisibility spell. As long as we stayed still, not even ghosts could detect us.
Well, it has nothing to do with the copper coin sword, it's just me overthinking it.
The stone door was pushed left and right. Chujiu put his feet against the rockery behind and exerted force with both hands. The stone door slowly moved to the left, and soon a black hole half a meter wide was revealed.
Just when I breathed a sigh of relief, Chujiu cursed with a hammer, "What the hell is this?" and ran away.
The moment Chujiu left the stone gate, a fiery red figure the size of a calf jumped out of the black hole.
My instinctive breathing began to slow down, but I still couldn't control my crazy heartbeat. The temples were full of flames, and specialized in eating ghosts. They were as famous as the three-headed dogs of hell, the fire temples.
"Qin Feng, was I not dazzled just now?"
Xiaoyu couldn't help but tremble when she spoke. What kind of monster did she just see? She had never seen such an animal before.
"The flaming sideburns dog is as famous as the three-headed dog of hell."
I began to pray in my heart, hoping that Chujiu could handle this guy.
At the same time, my brain was running rapidly, thinking about the books I had read before. The book records that the flaming sideburns guard the gate of the underworld and never leave the underworld. What is the situation with this one in front of me.
"Three-headed hellhound?"
Xiaoyu shook her head slightly, saying that she had never heard of it.
"That's Cerberus in Greek mythology."
Cerberus, the watchdog of hell in ancient Greek mythology, was born to Typhon and Echidna.
Hesiod said in "Theogony" that this dog had 50 heads, but some later artistic works mostly showed that it had 3 heads. Therefore, in Chinese popular culture, it is often called the three-headed dog of hell.
Its name has no definite meaning in ancient Greek, but it is also said to be: "the devil in the dark".
After Hercules brought the dog from the underworld to the earth, it spewed venom from its mouth while barking, and Aconitum plants grew where the venom fell.
"Aconite?"
Xiaoyu frowned. It was recorded in the ancient books of Fengwang Village that among the ten forbidden techniques of Gu, there is a kind of hallucinogenic drug that can even hallucinate ghosts and even poison the soul to dissipate. Its raw material is Aconitum.
The sound of Chujiu's running footsteps became smaller and smaller. Judging from the direction, he should be running towards the inner city.
"what to do?"
Xiaoyu asked anxiously, there was no Gu technique to deal with this kind of thing among the techniques he had learned.
"There should be something that can be done on the ninth day of the month."
I can only comfort Xiaoyu like this, and at the same time comfort myself. What I can be sure of is that this flaming temple dog is definitely not the one guarding the gate of the underworld in legend.
"No wonder I've never seen a story about someone escaping from hell when I read Western mythology books before."
Xiaoyu may have deliberately changed the topic to divert her worries about the ninth day of the lunar month.
In Chinese mythology, there are often capable people who rush into the underworld and come back alive, such as Sun Wukong,
There is no such plot in Western stories because there is a three-headed hell dog guarding the gate.