Suihe's heart skipped a beat, "Are you feeling unwell or flustered?"
"No." Shen Duo carefully sensed a few breaths and heard more:
Come in, come in...
Take me away, take me away...
Mother, mother, where are you...
Woo hoo, sister, I’m so cold...
"I can hear it more clearly. More than one child is calling me."
"Keep your mind." Sui He made a quick decision, hugged her tightly, turned around and flew away. The innate master who was operating his Qi to the extreme was not slow, but they only flew a hundred feet before being pulled into the mountain temple by a suction force.
The expected crisis did not come, and the two masters and apprentices only saw two halves of the mountain god statue and broken bones and limbs on the ground.
Shen Duo noticed that there were no broken bones of children, and the urgent children's voices he heard just now disappeared.
She couldn't help but scratch the little twitch that flashed above her head, "Master..." Before she finished speaking, she heard another child shouting in unison: "Come in, come in..."
Shen Duo's hand slid down and took out a bunch of fire talismans, but those sounds disappeared again.
Suihe: "What did you find?" Except for the fact that the drafty temple was full of coldness that was different from other places, there was nothing different about him.
It seems that the formation here is a natural result of the terrain, and my uncle didn't notice it before he left.
Shen Duo's little eyebrows furrowed, "They called me in, but they disappeared again."
Subconsciously, she grabbed the little one again, and then heard: "Come in, the sacred mountain road."
"Ang?!" Shen Duo let go of his grip, and the voice disappeared. He gripped again and heard again:
"Hurry up, hurry up, there is a road between the mountain gods."
"Shen Duo, stop it!" Suihe saw her scratching her hair and loosening it at other times, worried that she would fall into an illusion.
Chacha also nudged her neck with his mouth, and Shen Duo pushed it to show that it was okay.
"Master, I'm fine. I heard them say that the way in is among the mountain gods." Her little fingers became the medium for transmitting the sound?
Suddenly, a group of babies dancing flashed in my mind: the morning sun was calling, the birds were chirping...
Shaking her head, she grabbed hold of it again with her little hands and said, "Who are you going to tell me first? Will it harm Master and me? Are there any bad guys inside?"
"..." If it weren't for the unknown danger in this situation, Sui He would have let her wield the sword thousands of times to gain her brain.
But at this moment, he actually heard some inaudible whining sounds from the two halves of the mountain god statue.
And Shen Duo heard it more clearly: "...forgot...don't harm...no one.
Save us, save us, and I’ll give you all my treasures.”
"What baby?"
"Practice, practice...many, many...the ghost king has..."
She put her hands aside and lay down in Master's ear and spoke like this, with stars in her eyes: "...Master, what an opportunity!"
Suihe glanced at her, pondered for a moment and said, "If something goes wrong, go to the Dharma House immediately."
"Okay!" Shen Duo nodded heavily, she was about to start the treasure hunting experience!
Once he decided, Suihe walked into the middle of the stone statue that was tilted into an inverted figure without hesitation.
There was a click, and a mechanism opened and closed under his feet. He quickly stabilized his body, and in the space where he had been missing for an unknown period of time, he tapped his toes twice to increase his energy.
Shen Duo was not idle either. She took out the sunstone from her storage bracelet to illuminate it, but the master fell too fast. She saw nothing but two feet of black stone around her that looked like a deep well.
Until they reached the bottom, they saw a huge circular stone platform with fewer and fewer lamps burning on it from bottom to top, probably nearly a thousand in total.
The top of the stone platform is a nine-story spire composed of many thumb-sized, dark green hexagonal stones.
Shen Duo didn't know what it was, but a voice in her heart said urgently: I want it.
At the same time, she still didn't see the "treasure sword" in the storage bracelet and turned over on its own, shook it twice and became quiet again.
And Suihe had already seen this place clearly: "Using the Jueling Stone as the base, the Soul Crystal as the center of the formation, and the Moon Soul Stone as the formation eyes, it's such a big deal."
"They are all treasures, right Master?" Shen Duo's eyes were brighter, as if he saw a huge Lingshi Mountain in front of him.
Suihe: "Call the spirit that brought you in?"
Shen Duo woke up: "Soul?"
Suihe's eyes kept searching this ten-foot-long land: "Well, this is the soul-refining and god-seizing formation. The wicks of each lamp are lit with human souls to feed the soul crystal tower at the top."
Shen Duo's voice trembled: "What then?"
"When the Soul Crystal Tower completely emits green light, the souls trapped in the lamp will be annihilated, and there will be no reincarnation... no reincarnation... reincarnation..." The last few words, Sui He said using the secret method of sound, echoed for a long time. in this closed space.
During the transmission of sound waves, the flames of the nine hundred and ninety-nine lamps gradually enlarged and flashed several times to reveal young and tender faces.
"Help me!"
"Looking for a mother..."
"go home."
"Don't be here..."
Each of them wanted to break free from the shackles of the lamp, but they couldn't break free even if they turned their faces into thin lines.
The cries of more than nine hundred children drowned Shen Duo's coffin. She held her head and shouted: "Stop, stop shouting! I will send you away."
"Quack, quack!" Chacha whirled towards the lamp shadow and fluttered in circles. With the Jue Ling Stone around, he couldn't use his spiritual power or consciousness.
Suihe's soft sword also swept out the sword light and slashed at the dark green soul crystal tower, but like Chacha, he was bounced away by the invisible curtain.
Taking a look at Shen Duo, who was bleeding from all her orifices without realizing it, he grabbed Chacha and threw her both back to the Fa's house, but the Fa's house suddenly failed and prevented him from entering.
He tried to cut the round stone platform with sharp eyes to no avail, so he prepared to ask his uncle to break it open.
Unexpectedly, after flying up, the passage in came suddenly roared, and the standing stone fell down with a thud.
The sword can cut through stones without moving, just like the dragon-breaking stone sealing the entrance and exit.
Sui He turned back and slashed at Shitai again, secretly sarcastic in his heart: He was the one who got it wrong.
Shen Duo was completely surrounded by all kinds of sounds and did not notice that Master and Chacha were attacking the round stone platform again.
She kept saying "Don't make any noise, don't make any noise", but where did these children stop? Shen Duo became dizzy and whimpered: "I have promised you, if you keep making any noise, I will chop you up and eat you." !”
As she thought, the sword flew out from the storage bracelet, and Shen Duo held it like a melon and chopped it hard.
Suihe never let go of her, and allowed her to let out the anger in her heart and slash in the air. Unexpectedly, the tip of the knife touched the invisible curtain in front of her.
Click, click, click
The invisible obstacles shattered in response, the flames of the lamps on the round stone platform instantly retracted, and the children's faces turned into burning fireworks again. Suihe and Chacha stumbled forward involuntarily.
He immediately retreated and took out the spiritual liquid for Shen Duo to drink. At the same time, he cut his finger and used the blood as a guide to draw a protective circle around her.
Not long after the spiritual liquid was in his mouth, Shen Duo regained his clarity and the corners of his eyes were a little dim: "Master, I have overestimated my abilities again."
"No, all monks like opportunities." Suihe wiped away the blood stains for her. He thought he heard the soul crystal coming in excitedly.
This thing can be directly used for cultivation to replenish soul power. It is no worse than the soul-nurturing tree and has no disadvantages.
It is said that this item is only found in the high-grade soul stone veins of the Netherworld, and is extremely difficult to find.
"Stop talking, close your eyes and calm down, and follow my words to circulate the Qi in your body." Suihe put out a futon made of high-grade Qingxincao for her.
"yes."
"Calm down and concentrate, visualize your mind emptying into the heaven and earth, feel the brilliance of the sun, and attract the vitality of the heaven and earth to stir..."
Shen Duo listened to Master's guidance and slowly entered a state of selflessness. Soon he felt like the breeze was blowing on his face and the sun was shining brightly.
When Suihe saw that her breathing was steady and blood was no longer oozing from her seven orifices, he ordered Chacha to guard her. He stepped closer to the circular stone platform with his sword in hand.
After walking around for two weeks, I tried to reach the nine-story spire at the top of the array with a single step. Suddenly, I heard a ghostly roar as I approached.
He stabbed decisively on the left side, and a ghost appeared immediately to fight with him. When Suihe stabbed the ghost's body, he screamed three times, and three more ghosts flew out of the tower in an instant.
With one against four, Suihe suddenly fell into a tight siege, and was hit by a sneak attack on his shoulder with a squeaking sound.
On the other side, Shen Duoye had woken up, "How dare you hurt my master!"
Xiao Dou Ding grabbed her "treasure sword" and jumped over, throwing out the four ghosts and two fallen monsters.
"Come here." Suihe whipped out his whip at some point, wrapped around Shen Duo and pulled him to his shoulders, "Hold tight."
Shen Duo, who was often carried around, had long since lost her childhood shyness, but sitting on Master's shoulders, she still felt uncomfortable for a moment.
However, the remaining two ghosts immediately merged and roared again, their sharp claws changed from two to four to grab, and there was no room for Shen Duo's other thoughts. She only concentrated her mind and watched the opportunity, and Chacha and Chacha cooperated with the master's sword light. Knife, use wings to strike.
The fight between the two parties continued to lengthen, and the lamps on the circular stone platform took the opportunity to shake one after another, as if they were about to jump off the stone platform.
But the green light of the nine-story spire suddenly appeared with a buzzing sound, making all the lamps stop.
It made a clanging sound on its own, and after only half a breath, the souls began to cry, and the sound penetrated the Shen Duoling Platform again.
"Ahhh!" She immediately took the initiative and flew up from Suihe's shoulders, followed closely by Chacha.
Suihe was blocked by the combined Yin ghosts and could not catch her in time, so he could only try his best to kill the Yin ghosts first.
Over there, Shen Duo flew towards the circular stone platform, and the blade landed on the nine-story soul crystal tower with great precision.
With a click, the tower split into eight petals.
As soon as the crying stopped, the ghost that was fighting Suihe suddenly split into two unstable souls, and he took advantage of the opportunity to penetrate both of them with his sword and kill them.
He quickly dodged to Shen Duo's side, only to find that he was blocked by the light from the tower three feet away.
And Shen Duo's body radiated golden light, which traveled along the blade to the cracked soul crystal tower. Many soul breaths were emitted layer by layer in the tower, constantly flying towards the heart of the nine hundred and ninety-nine lamps.
Shen Duo stood in mid-air as if he was frozen, holding the handle of the knife in his hand and dumbfounded. When the golden light passed more and more, she realized: "Come back, come back, you haven't set up the formation for my master yet!"
Suihe couldn't get in after repeatedly stabbing him, but also found that his apprentice was not in any other danger. When he heard her words a few steps away, he was startled and said hurriedly: "Try to let go of the knife, slowly, don't rush."
The tone was softer than ever before. Shen Duo made up his mind and said, "Master, you can't let go."
Then she broke away frantically, and the blade shook her twice but still didn't let her break free.
Chacha screamed "Quack", kicked her claws and hit the blade to no avail.
Shen Duo was furious: "Ugh... Master, what will you do if your merit is gone?"
Just when Suihe said, "You can find someone else," his great disciple said again, "Will Master kick me out of the door because I have lost my merits?"
He suppressed his raised eyebrows and sounded like a bell exploding: "Shen Duo, do you want to betray the school?"
"No!" Shen Duo was agitated and immediately realized that he was distracted and was speaking out his thoughts randomly.
Suihe said more than ever before: "Don't be impatient, patiently feel your knife, and negotiate with it carefully to leave the tower.
If it still doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter if you don’t want those merits.”
"What should I do, Master?"
"Just look for people with merit in the world."
"May I?"
"OK."
"Oh." Shen Duo felt more at ease, and then he tried his best to communicate with "Treasure Sword". He said a lot of good things in his heart, and finally said "I will take you out to practice swordsmanship every day from now on", and it left the tower with a hiss.
He also flew out lovingly to catch the falling Shen Duo, and then flew up with a whoosh and swept the eight-petaled tower body to Shen Duo.
Chacha resisted her and prevented her from falling on her butt again.
Suihe also strode forward without resistance at this moment. He wanted to take a closer look at the mortal knife, but the knife shook and flew back to the storage bracelet.
Shen Duo summoned it himself, but it didn't move. Only then did she see clearly that there was an extremely bright soul crystal on the tip of the knife being absorbed by it.
In her mind, she could still hear the clicking sound of eating. "Master, it is eating and refuses to come out."
Suihe felt her pulse: "Ignore it for now, how do you feel?"
"I don't feel it. I just don't know if the merit is still there." As soon as Shen Duo finished speaking, many lamps overturned and went out at the same time.
Suihe released several sunstones for illumination.
The souls of children formed their bodies and surrounded them, saying, "It's so warm here."
"Stand there and don't move!" Shen Duo, now more experienced, pointed his index finger forward and raised his voice loudly: "I have to discuss with Master how to send you away to reincarnate.
Let’s make it clear first, there are differences between humans and ghosts, so there is no way I can send you to find your family.”
The souls stopped, formed a circle around the edge and stopped moving forward.
Shen Duo asked for credit: "Master, what did I do well?"
"Very good." Sui He praised without hesitation, then looked around, "Sending them to reincarnation is a shady thing. You have to use your merit to open the door of hell."
"Scream quickly and I'll come out." Shen Duo didn't want to be disturbed by them anymore.
Suihe took out a pen and paper and drew the god-inviting rune pattern: "You practice, master will dismantle the base of the formation first."
Shen Duo responded and took out the table to copy. He quickly pried out the Moon Soul Stones from all directions. After the eighteenth one was finally pulled out, the circular stone platform in the center automatically split into four parts.
The dazzling brilliance spread in an instant. Shen Duo dropped his pen and jumped up, "So many spiritual stones."
Sui He was also surprised. Under the hollow space of the stone platform were all high-grade and medium-grade spiritual stones, and there was not a single low-grade spiritual stone.
Shen Duo rushed forward and jumped into the pile of spiritual stones: "Master, don't be stunned, the ghost king's treasure belongs to us, quickly put it away.
Get rich, get rich." She had seen her great uncle's precious box of high-grade spiritual stones. There were only fifty of them, and several sealing talismans were added to hide them.
One high-grade spiritual stone costs 100 pieces of medium-grade spiritual stone, which is equivalent to 10,000 pieces of low-grade spiritual stone. By visual inspection, there are 5,000 pieces of high-grade spiritual stone and 10,000 pieces of medium-grade spiritual stone.
Of course Suihe was not cowardly, so he took out all the storage tools on his body and packed them with his apprentice and Chacha.
Neither the master nor the disciple knew that Taoist Qiushi, who had rescued many children and caught their accomplices, was going crazy looking for them.
When he was in a hurry, he received a messenger from Chang Jie: "Please come quickly, the soul-binding array here suddenly released itself, but the city god has died long ago, and we can't open the ghost gate."