What exactly did Shuangxie and the others encounter? Let’s leave things aside for the moment and let’s talk about the situation of the other group of people.
That night, at the foot of the mountain to the east of "Yandeng Slope", there was actually another group of people.
There are more than fifty people in this group, and most of them are experienced practitioners. They came here from the east as early as the early morning of the previous day, and waited here for Shuangxie.
An ambush was set up.
Seeing this, some people may have guessed that there is only one organization that can immediately take action in this Miao territory and quickly gather a large group of people to set up an ambush: the Five Spirit Sect.
The goal of these Five Spirit Cultists' trip is also very clear - to capture "Eastern Harmony and Western Poison" alive.
I wonder if you all still remember that in the autumn of the eighteenth year of Yongtai, that is, the year before last... just after the Young Heroes Meeting ended, Tang Fu, the flag leader of the White Tiger Flag of the Wuling Sect, and Li Qiyu, the deputy flag leader of the Xuanwu Flag, once
I tracked Shuangxue for a period of time in an attempt to obtain part of the contents of "Gu Qiying's Notes" from them, but ultimately failed.
Originally, this matter was over. Unexpectedly, more than a year later, at the end of January in the 20th year of Yongtai, Tang Fu suddenly received news from spies that there were seven "very eye-catching" people.
"People" were passing by on their Five Spirit Sect's territory.
After several more explorations and reports, he knew that the seven people who came were: "Dong Xie" Sun Yi Xie, "Xi Du" Huang Dong Lai, "Invincible Swordsman" Ling Huxiang, "Hunyuan"
Lin Yuancheng, the "Excalibur Sword", Jiang Muchan, the "Blunt Sword", Qin Feng, the "Duo Li Ke", and an unknown Kunlun slave.
Good guy, this means that if you don’t take the road to heaven, you will have to throw yourself into hell without any door.
For more than a year, since the leader Yi Shiqing has been practicing in seclusion (he is scheduled to be in seclusion for three years), the entire Wuling Sect is basically in a state of dormancy and has not made any big moves, but this does not mean that you
Can the "Eastern Harmony and Western Poison" swagger right past our faces?
So, after confirming the news, Tang Fu personally led fifty elites from the White Tiger Banner and went to Zhenling Mountain General Altar to kill them overnight.
Of course, the deputy flag leader next to him at this time is no longer Li Qiyu of the Xuanwu Flag (last time they were temporarily paired up because of special circumstances), but replaced by his own deputy flag leader of the White Tiger Flag. This person, everyone
I also know someone named Mu Liyan, the coachman "Lao Wu" who has been undercover beside Shen Youran for many years in the previous article.
After reading this, some people may say, what is there to mention about this guy? Isn’t he just a rookie who was beaten by Feng Shunshui, the third leader of the Cao Gang, at the beginning of the book? In addition, this guy should
He has also been possessed by the "Bliss Gu" for many years, right? Why is he not dead after so long?
Here I’ll explain it to you:
First of all, when he was undercover next to Shen Youran, Mu Liyan definitely couldn't use all his real skills in order not to reveal his identity.
Therefore, when Mu Liyan fought against Feng Shunshui, he only used the "Thirteen Ways of Mountain-Climbing and Water-Breaking Sword Technique" instead of using any Five Spirit Sect's moves and internal skills...then he would be invincible.
Secondly, as to why the "Bliss Gu" on him did not attack... the reason is even simpler. In fact, if you think about it for a moment, you can understand: the Bliss Gu only attacks once every six months, and when Shen Youran and Gu Qiying died, , there are still several months before the poison on Mu Liyan's body will take effect. Mu Liyan only needs to find out the method of undoing the poison in these few months.
So where can I find out this information?
Anywhere will do...
Because this matter is no longer a secret. After all, Huang Donglai told all the righteous people who came to participate in the Young Heroes Association how to remove the poison. Most of the martial arts community knew how to remove it. Jin Yiwei also knew it, and even Luoyang Those who open drug stores in the city all know a thing or two...so they can find out about this matter no matter what.
In other words, this "Bliss Gu" prescription is actually not very valuable now, and it is not as useful as the other prescriptions in Gu Qiying's notebook that have not revealed the solution.
The Bliss Gu on Mu Liyan's body was naturally removed within a short period of time.
After that, Mu Liyan, who ended his lurking mission and returned to the Five Spirits Sect, burst into tears of gratitude because he was rewarded with gold, silver, a sword, and the position of deputy leader of the White Tiger Flag by the leader.
In order to live up to the expectations of the sect leader, Mu Liyan worked hard day and night to practice the magical skills of protecting the sect under the guidance of Tang Fu, the elder of the sect and the leader of the White Tiger Banner. After this year and a half of practice, he regained his foundation in Wuling Sect Kung Fu. It can be said that Mu Liyan has been reborn; now, even with bare hands, he can still have about 60% of the strength of Tang Fu, and his own special skill "Thirteen Ways to Open Mountains and Cut Water Swords" was given by the leader of the " With the blessing of "Treasure Weapon Blade", his power is also doubled... Now it is not an exaggeration to position him as a "first-class master".
As for Tang Fu, let alone him, he is a first-rate person.
With the two of them in charge, and fifty strong men from the White Tiger Banner, they set up an ambush at the foot of the mountain, waiting for Shuang Xie and his party to fall into the trap... This wave, Shuang Xie is going to be more dangerous than good.
but……
Neither party expected that in the early morning when Sun Huang and others were about to go down the mountain, the situation changed...
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Jingle bell—jingle bell—
The sound of the soul-stirring bells sounded from afar to near, gradually approaching the big house.
Linghuxiang, who was sleeping outside the house "watching horses" with Sun Yixie, was the first one to wake up... He was timid to begin with, and he was having nightmares even when he fell asleep. Now when he opened his eyes, he was in the dark. Listening to the vague ringing of the bell in the distance, for a moment I couldn't tell whether I was awake or still in a dream.
"Brother Sun...Brother Sun..." Linghuxiang touched the darkness and wanted to push Sun Yixie's shoulders to wake him up. Unexpectedly, he touched the other person's buttocks, but he didn't care that he touched the wrong one. He just pushed and called Sun Yixie softly.
"Well..." Sun Yixie was sleeping soundly. He was a little angry after being woken up, so he said, "... Damn you... why are you grabbing my ass?"
"Shhh - Brother Sun, listen, is there a sound of bells over there?" Linghu Xiang lowered his voice and continued.
When Sun Yixie heard this, he stopped talking and immediately pricked up his ears to listen.
"Fuck you!" Two seconds later, Sun Yixie's whole body was agitated. He immediately lost all sleepiness and continued softly, "What's going on..."
"I don't know either... I just woke up too." Linghu Xiang replied with a trembling voice.
"Damn... come on, let's wake up the others." Sun Yixie didn't think much about it. His first reaction at this time was that he was emboldened by the number of people.
So, after their eyes got used to the darkness, these two timid guys followed the road towards the big house.
The two of them didn't sleep too far apart, only about twenty meters apart, so they arrived in a blink of an eye.
As soon as they arrived at the door, before they opened their mouths, there were several sounds of weapons being drawn in the room, and at the same time, a cold voice came: "Who is it?"
Judging from the voice, this question was asked by Huang Donglai.
Obviously, the five people sleeping in the room had also woken up after hearing the noise and were on alert.
"It's us." Sun Yixie replied.
Because Brother Sun's voice is very distinctive, these three words are enough for him to reply.
"Brother Sun, did you hear that too?" Huang Dong said and leaned out of the house; the other people also came to the door of the house one after another like him.
"Yes." Sun Yixie replied, "It seems to be a ringtone..." He paused and asked a question that everyone was interested in, "Brother Huang, there is no way anyone is here in the middle of the night..."
We're walking on a mountain road, isn't this some kind of monster?"
"I don't know..." Huang Donglai said, "But whether it's a human or a ghost, listening to this voice, it's not far from us..."
He said so, but in fact the other party was still quite far away from them, but because it was night and the valley was very empty, the ringtone could travel far.
"What should we do?" Linghu Xiang suggested at this time, "How about we get on the horse and run away?"
"What are you thinking?" Sun Yixie rejected him at that time. "You don't even look at the weather. Just this early in the morning, when it's dark, you're riding a horse on a mountain road without guardrails? Underage and undocumented.
Even the high-beam dog driving to deliver tofu would not dare to be so wild."
"Ah?" Linghu Xiang didn't fully understand what he said, he asked doubtfully, "Is there anything about sending tofu here?"
"Don't listen to his nonsense." It was Huang Donglai who brought the topic back on track, "But it's really not a good idea to run away. First, it's not safe, and second, the sound of horse hooves will reveal our location and number of people... In my opinion, we still have
It's better to just sit back and wait here, keep the enemy in the open and we are in the dark, and wait for the other party to come over and then make calculations."
Huang Donglai's countermeasures quickly gained everyone's approval. Of course, this was also because others had little confidence when facing this unknown, possibly supernatural ringtone, so they could only listen to his decision.
One minute, two minutes...
Five minutes passed in a blink of an eye, but to the seven people waiting in the big room, these five minutes were like seconds.
Finally, when the ringing was very close, they saw... a "group of people" walking out from the corner in front.
The leader, a tall man of 1.8 meters, was wearing a long green cloth gown, a green cloth hat on his head, a black belt around his waist, straw sandals on his feet, and a soul-catching bell in his hand; and he followed behind him.
Those "people" are all wearing black clothes and "Zongye bamboo hats" on their heads, and everyone has straw ropes tied to their bodies. The ropes "tie" them to each other and make them walk like
It becomes swaying from left to right, very weird.
After seeing this, all the judges will understand that the leader is a "corpse chaser", and the people behind him are all dead people.
Only this kind of people travel at night and rest during the day, and they don't know how to light a lantern.
"Huh?" When the corpse driver arrived near the big house, he quickly noticed that some horses were tied in the forest. After he walked a little further and came to the door of the big house, he stopped and said
, "My friends in the house, if they are awake, you might as well come out and say hello."
Seeing that he took the initiative to talk and showed no malice for the time being, the fear of those in the room calmed down a little.
Not long after, Huang Donglai walked out of the dark room alone, keeping a distance from the other party, clasping his fists and saying: "This friend is polite, may I ask... which road is your Majesty on?"
As for the corpse exorcist, in the dim light where it was difficult for ordinary people to see clearly, he looked Huang Donglai up and down in confusion, and then replied: "With a lamp of cinnabar in my hand, three souls and seven souls will follow me."
As soon as Huang Donglai heard these two sentences, his expression flashed, and he immediately added: "Nine in thirty-six, the phoenix sings in the sparrow's nest."
"It turns out to be fellow Taoist, I'm disrespectful..." When the corpse driver heard that the incisions were facing each other, he clasped his fists and said politely.
"What the hell...nice to meet you." People are being polite to you, and Huang Donglai also wants to reciprocate.
"Hey, come out, it's okay. This is a friend who is 'evicting corpses.'" The next second, Huang Donglai turned back and said to the six people in the room.
The six people inside, except Tyrell, all understood the meaning of corpse chasing; although they had never seen a real "corpse chaser", they had heard of the name of this profession and some anecdotes.
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Therefore, after a brief hesitation, the other six people also came out of the house.
After the two parties exchanged pleasantries, everyone learned that the corpse driver's name was Liang Jingshuo, who was thirty years old this year. Although he was not too old, he was already an old corpse driver who had been working as a corpse driver for almost ten years.
Liang Jingxuan told Shuang Xie and others that the big room behind them was actually a "dead body inn", which was specially used for corpse exterminators and corpses. During the day, the corpse exorcists would take all the corpses to that house.
They stood in rows behind the door to prevent them from being exposed to the sun, and slept in the middle of the room. When it got dark, they would go out again... This is why there are no windows or furniture in this room.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After listening to his science introduction, everyone felt a chill down their spines. No wonder the room was so "yin-y".
Sun Yixie directly started complaining about Huang Donglai's ignorance and leading his brothers into a trap. When Huang Donglai heard this, he spread his hands and said that they Taoist priests and corpse exorcists can only be regarded as "half-way comrades", and it is only right that he does not understand these things.
Then the two exchanged cross talk, wasting everyone's time for more than ten minutes.
After a while, Jiang Muchan asked a more useful question: "By the way, Daoist Liang, I have heard that you exorcists use the 'yin gong' to lead the corpse and the 'bell' to open the way, but I don't know..."
Why did you come here and only ring the bell but not the gong?"
His question was correct. According to the rules, gongs and bells are indispensable when a corpse driver is walking: the "bell" is shaken to the living people to remind everyone "I want to fight here", so
Those of you who should give way should get out of the way, and those who have dogs and children at home should also lock them up quickly, lest the barking dogs or the cries of children startle the corpses; as for the "yin gong", it is played for the dead, and the dead bodies listen to the gong.
Only by sound can one follow the corpse chaser forward.
But...the Liang Jingshuo in front of him only rang the bell but did not move the gong, and still led the dead body away. This was unusual.
"Well..." Liang Jingxuan's eyes flickered when he was asked this question, "The 'thirteen' I received are somewhat different from ordinary corpses, but what are the differences... I can't tell you.
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Each profession has its own rules, but there are also some rules that are universal. For example... when the other party says "it's not convenient to tell", then outsiders usually say "it's not convenient to ask further".
Since Liang Dao's long story has ended, no one will bother to get to the bottom of it.
Now, morning was approaching, and it was impossible for Shuangxi and his party to sleep any longer, so they stopped "occupying the corpse room" and simply gave the room to Daoist Liang and the corpses, and prepared to lead the horse on the road.
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Unexpectedly, just as the two groups of them passed each other on the not-too-wide mountain road... one of the thirteen corpses stepped on a small hole in the ground, and then stumbled.
Slide down sideways.
Originally, this was not a big deal, because the thirteen corpses were all strung up with straw ropes. The one who fell in the middle was held by the two who were still standing in front and behind, so the one who fell to the ground would not break away from the group and roll down the hillside.
some type of.
But... at this moment, the side of the slipped corpse happened to be Sun Yixie...
Everyone knows Brother Sun's courage, and his reaction at this time was particularly "smart". Faced with the sudden "corpse attack" in this dark environment, he instantly shouted: "Ah——"
Following this shout, Brother Sun turned around and instinctively pounced on his companions nearby, and the one closest to him was Huang Donglai...
At this moment, Huang Donglai was also stunned. He didn't know why. Brother Sun in front of him suddenly let out a scream like a slaughtering pig, and then he was knocked down by the opponent with a grappling movement; if it weren't for Huang
My neck is short, so I might be defeated by this combo of hugging, throwing and "throat locking".
But it wasn't over yet. When Brother Huang fell, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell behind him were also brought down.
As we said before, this mountain road... it has no guardrails.
These people were walking on the side of the downhill slope. They were unprepared in the dark and were knocked to the ground by someone very close to them. They lost their balance. Even if they wanted to use Qinggong to adjust their posture immediately, they would not know that they were in the dark.
Where should I borrow strength from, not to mention that there is the weight of the predecessors on me, and Tyrell and Brother Sun have nothing to say.
In this way, the result was obvious...the four of them all started to roll down the slope beside the road.
In the emergency, the reaction of these four people was also very consistent: they all grabbed the people in front and behind them with both hands. First, they were afraid that the person in front would fall, and second, they hoped that the person behind them could hold them.
Don't fall off with the person in front.
However, Tyrell was the last of the seven, and behind him... there was no one.
But Tyrell, who was born with height and wingspan, still caught something in the dark - a straw rope.
In this way, an accident and a series of absurd chain reactions led to extremely terrible consequences.
Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai, Lin Yuancheng and Tyrell actually pulled thirteen "dead corpses" and slid down the mountain road like a string... and fell into a bottomless valley.