The sinister wind blew more and more fiercely, making the clothes of Gui Li and Jin Ping'er rustle. They stood at the entrance of the Zhenmo Ancient Cave, watching as a huge and strange evil spirit gradually appeared in front of them.
Eyes the size of copper bells suddenly opened in the white air, and there was a faint blood-red light coming out. The huge figure of the evil spirit enveloped it, and its eyes fell on the two mortals standing beneath them.
"Who dares to come here?"
The voice of the evil spirit suddenly sounded, loud and deafening, as if the surrounding mountain walls were shaking. However, after a moment, the evil spirit seemed to have discovered something, and was startled for a moment, but his eyes turned to stand slightly beside Gui Li.
Later, Jin Ping'er asked: "It's you again?"
Jin Ping'er smiled slightly, infinitely charming, and said: "Yes, it's me, we meet again."
The evil spirit roared angrily, and the sound echoed far away, as if his roar was echoing far away in the deep ancient cave behind him: "Why did you come here again? Don't you think you disturbed the goddess statue last time enough?"
Jin Ping'er was thinking about how to deal with this evil spirit. Judging from the situation that day, this evil spirit guarding the ancient cave of Zhenmo was definitely difficult to deal with. She was thinking about it in her mind, but she still had a smile on her face.
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard the ghost beside him saying sternly: "Are you the Black Tiger among the Seven Heroes of Southern Frontier who followed the Linglong Miko deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains?"
Jin Ping'er was stunned and turned to look at Gui Li, only to see Gui Li's face was indifferent. Just looking at the huge figure of the evil spirit, almost at the same time when Gui Li asked this question, the evil spirit could not help but froze for a moment.
, as if the name "Black Tiger" hit him somewhere deep in his heart like a heavy punch.
Even if he transforms into a fierce ghost, even if he is abandoned by the world and has been waiting alone for thousands of years, there are still some memories hidden deep in his heart.
"Who are you?" The ferocious spirit's majestic voice seemed hoarse suddenly, completely different from the scene that just appeared.
Gui Li looked at the voice surrounded by the gloomy ghostly aura, with a complicated and difficult-to-understand light flashing in his eyes, and said slowly: "Of the seven people who followed Linglong Witch, the last five returned, and then established today's five tribes in Southern Xinjiang.
The remaining two are the two brothers who have followed Linglong Miko for the longest time, Black Tiger and Black Wood, but they have not returned. According to the ancient witch clan legend, the eldest brother Black Tiger is loyal and brave, and the second brother Black Wood is stoic and persistent. I think
You are extremely respectful to this statue, and you have been so tenacious for thousands of years. You have transformed into a vicious spirit without regrets, so I guess you are a black tiger, right?"
The evil spirit was silent for a long time, staring at Gui Li. Under that fierce gaze, Gui Li showed no fear at all. As he looked directly at it, the white ghost energy around the evil spirit slowly began to appear.
Surging, the blood-red color in the fierce spirit's eyes became thicker and thicker, and even the temperature at the entrance of the already bitterly cold Demon Suppressing Ancient Cave seemed to be getting colder.
The monkey Xiao Hui, who was lying on Gui Li's shoulder, seemed a little uneasy and called out twice.
"Who are you to know the past of the Witch Clan?" The originally angry voice of the evil spirit seemed to have suddenly changed, and there was an indescribable coldness in his tone.
Gui Li seemed to feel nothing. He just looked at the huge shadow and said: "Most people in the world can't remember things that happened too long ago, but there will still be legends that are passed down bit by bit." He
Looking at the evil spirit, he said word by word: "In today's southern Xinjiang, there are still people who are descendants of the Wu clan who remember you."
The evil spirit's eyes were closed and did not open for a long time.
Jin Ping'er stood behind, frowning slightly, looking at the evil spirit, and then at Gui Li beside her. She didn't know anything about these so-called legends about the exquisite statues of the ancient witch tribe, but looking at that
From the reaction of the evil spirit, it was obvious that what Gui Li said was the truth. She had always thought that no one in the Demon Cult knew more about the various strange things in the Hundred Thousand Mountains than she did. Unexpectedly, it seemed that Gui Li had some knowledge.
Hidden and unknown things
She looked at the man's figure, her heart was slightly awe-inspiring, but her eyes seemed cold.
For a long time, the dark wind was still blowing coldly above the head, black clouds rolled silently, the cold wind was bleak, and the scenery was desolate.
In this silence, suddenly, the ferocious black tiger suddenly raised its head, looked up to the sky and roared, the sound was shrill and shrill, as if there were countless vicissitudes of the past, all in this roar, while the roar was still faintly echoing in the distant mountains.
By then, he had turned around, and the rumbling sound seemed to be the stirring of emotion, but it was suppressed after all.
"Thank you very much"
The evil spirit stared at Gui Li for a long time, then lowered his head slightly and said this
Gui Li had no expression on his face, slowly took half a step back, closed his eyes and bowed slightly, as a return gesture.
The evil spirit nodded, and his tone gradually calmed down, and said: "I didn't expect that there are still people in this world who remember the empress and us. Hey, but when we followed the witch empress deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, how could we have thought of the everlasting fragrance?
"
His eyes slowly turned to the exquisite witch goddess statue standing at the entrance of the Ancient Demon Suppressing Cave. His eyes instantly became gentler, and even his voice seemed to be much softer: "But you guys
When you come here, you must not have come here specifically to say these few words to me, who is not a human being and a ghost who is not a ghost?"
Gui Li was silent for a moment and said: "Yes, before I came here, although I had heard the legend about Linglong Witch and the seven of you, I didn't know about your current situation, nor did I know that you would be here." He raised his head and looked
Xiang Xiangling said slowly: "I came here because of the beast god in this cave."
The huge figure was shocked, and even this evil spirit seemed to be afraid of that name.
However, the evil spirit's gaze did not come to him. It still stayed on the statue and said, "What are you looking for him for?"
Gui Li said calmly: "We have to find him and then kill him."
The fierce spirit suddenly turned back, stared at Gui Li, and said slowly: "Just the two of you?"
Gui Li nodded slowly and said: "Yes"
The white ghost energy around the evil spirit seemed to rotate faster suddenly, and his figure seemed a little blurry. After a while, he said coldly: "Yes, the beast god is indeed in this ancient cave of suppressing demons."
Jin Ping'er's body was shaken, and a hint of joy flashed across his face, but not much joy. He still looked at the evil spirit.
The evil spirit was also looking at him and suddenly said: "From what I see in your clothes, you are not from the Southern Territory, but from the Middle Territory?"
Gui Li nodded and said, "Exactly."
The evil spirit pondered for a moment, and in the gloomy ghostly aura, he seemed to see his expression changing, and said: "Do you know why I guard the entrance of this cave?"
Gui Li said: "I don't know"
The evil spirit said: "Of course I am here to protect the statue of the Queen, but apart from that, I am here to guard. Firstly, I do not allow outside forces to resurrect this monster, and secondly, I do not want ignorant people to enter and die. Do you understand?"
Gui Li nodded.
The evil spirit smiled miserably and said: "But after all, I still failed to live up to the great trust of the empress. I was deceived by that beast and made a big mistake. The evildoer resurrected and the world was devastated." As he said this, his voice gradually became lower.
Afterwards, the evil spirit seemed to regain his composure and said again, "I was already in despair. I thought that no one in the world could stop this evildoer from causing harm to the people. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, he came back seriously injured. There are outstanding people in the Middle Earth, and there are even experts.
Being able to inflict serious damage on him is really beyond my expectation."
The corners of Gui Li's eyes twitched slightly, and he suddenly sneered and said, "You don't have to worry too much. Although the Beast God has been defeated, the person who defeated him may not be easy."
The evil spirit was slightly startled, not knowing the meaning of Gui Li's words, but he was too lazy to delve into it at the moment, and said: "It would be the best if we could get rid of this monster. I have had this intention for thousands of years, and I only regret that even if he hasn't woken up that day
On that day, I also have nothing to do with him. You guys are from the Middle Earth. You may be able to do it, but if it really succeeds, I don't know." The evil spirit's ghostly aura suddenly disappeared, his eyes widened, and he said loudly: "I will be here on behalf of the empress.
Thank you”
After that, he slowly moved his body and made way for a road, revealing the deep and bottomless ancient cave behind him.
Gui Li stared deep into the cave, turned his eyes, and took a deep look at the evil spirit. The evil spirit was also staring at him.
Gui Li nodded slowly and said nothing more. When he walked in slowly and passed by the evil spirit, the monkey Xiao Hui who was lying on his shoulder suddenly raised his head and looked at the huge body of the evil spirit with some curiosity.
Three unblinking eyes
The evil spirit suddenly said loudly to Gui Li's back: "One more thing, you have to worry that the beast god did not come back alone that day. In addition to the evil beast Taotie beside him, there is also a monster with extremely high moral standards. You
Be careful”
Gui Li paused for a moment and said: "As far as I know, all thirteen monsters under his command have been wiped out."
The evil spirit shook his head and said: "It's not one of the thirteen monsters. Even I have never seen that monster before. You must be careful."
Gui Li nodded slowly and continued walking deeper into the ancient cave.
Afterwards, Jin Ping'er also slowly followed up. The figures of the two and the monkey slowly melted into the darkness, swaying forward in the depths of the shadows. Slowly, but finally they were no longer visible.
The evil spirit's body and ghostly aura gradually became blurred, but his huge eyes kept staring at the darkness deep in the cave. Suddenly, he let out a loud roar like thunder towards the deepest darkness,
The wild shouts roared out like a torrent, overwhelming the sea, and even the cold and cold wind flowed back in response to it. The extremely hard rock walls roared like the sky was falling apart and the earth was cracking.
Amidst the roaring sound, the huge body of the evil spirit slowly disappeared into the darkness.
However, when the evil spirit disappeared, he did not notice that outside the ancient cave of suppressing demons, a black figure appeared faintly behind the statue. It was the man who instigated civil strife among the five tribes in southern Xinjiang that day and took back the five people.
The clan's sacred weapon resurrects the beast god's black wood
The black and wide robe covered Heimu's whole body as before, exuding a cold air, but his eyes were flashing with extremely complicated eyes, looking into the depths of the ancient cave of suppressing demons.
After that evil spirit, who was also his former eldest brother, disappeared, he slowly withdrew his eyes, but the heavy ones fell on the statue of the exquisite witch next to him.
In the howling wind, he seemed to be whispering: "Mother"
At the same time, far away from the scorched black mountain peak where the Ancient Demon Cave is located, under the vast black forest, a team of more than a dozen people slowly walked out. The first person was a woman with a beautiful face wearing white clothes like snow.
, holding a blue Tianya fairy sword in his hand, his face as clear as frost, but his eyes seemed to have some unspeakable sadness and vicissitudes, silently looking towards the charred black mountain peaks in the distance.
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Zhongtu, thirty miles outside Heyang City
On the road, after so long, most of the refugees who fled have returned to their hometowns in the south. This place is not far from the foot of Qingyun Mountain, but you can still see people in ragged clothes trudging from time to time, but there are already more
The small businesses and hawkers coming and going are much better than when the catastrophe happened a few months ago.
"Immortal's advice, let's see how many half lives you have." Suddenly, a loud shout rang out on the road, breaking the silence here, which seemed very harsh.
"Wealth luck, official luck, marriage, whereabouts; Feng Shui, facial appearance, calligraphy, bone touch, everything is master, everything is omnipotent, come and come, each person only costs five taels of silver, it's cheap."
Yiyi Xian held the sign of "Immortal Guiding the Way" and walked over with big strides, shouting all the way, and all passers-by looked at him sideways.
The wild dog Taoist who followed him did not speak, and carried all the salutes as usual. However, Xiao Huan behind him seemed to be startled for a moment. He had been looking carefully at the book in his hand with a black cover and wordless cover.
The man from the book raised his head and said with some surprise: "Grandpa, what did you just say, how many taels of silver per person?"
Immortal Zhou Yi turned around and smiled. He held out five fingers and solemnly said: "Five taels of silver."
Xiaohuan frowned and said: "But yesterday you were asking for three taels of silver. Also, what's wrong with you these days? Three days ago we were doing the same as usual, charging five cents to each guest for a fortune telling.
Silver, but you are good. In the past few days, you have been jumping up and down. Five qian rose to one tael. One day later it became 2 taels. The day before, it became three taels. Today is good. You might as well just call.
It’s five taels”
Xiaohuan walked up to Zhou Yixian and looked her up and down carefully. Yi Xian was a little embarrassed by her look, took a step back and coughed dryly, and said, "What are you looking at, little girl?"
Xiao Huan ignored him, but stretched out her hand to touch Zhou Xian's forehead. Zhou Xian was startled, then took a step back and said, "What are you talking about?"
Xiaohuan let out a "poof" and said: "You are the Taoist priest? I'm here to see if you have a fever and your brain is confused." After saying that, she turned to the wild dog Taoist who was following behind and asked, "
Taoist priest, do you think my grandfather has been a little confused recently?"
Because it was daytime at this time, Taoist Wild Dog had a piece of cloth wrapped around his face as usual, but his eyes were sparkling and very bright. At this moment, Xiaohuan looked at him, laughed twice, and then immediately nodded and said: "
He, uh, I mean, senior is old, so it is inevitable that he will be a bit "
"fart"
Zhou Xian jumped up in front and was furious
Xiaohuan rolled her eyes at him and said: "Grandpa, what are you so excited about? I think what the Taoist priest said makes sense. Looking at your behavior these days, I'm afraid you are really a little old and confused."
Zhou Yixian seemed to be particularly intolerant of the word "old fool". He was annoyed and said angrily: "What do you two guys know? How old are you and how much do you know about the world? I am not the same."
Xiaohuan said, "Really? Then tell me, why are you trying so hard to increase the price?"
Yiyi Xian snorted, waved the immortal guiding bamboo pole in his hand, pointed at the sparse pedestrians around, and said: "Look at these people, and the people we met along the way, are they all fleeing people?"
?”
Xiaohuan nodded and said: "Yes, everyone does it, including us."
Zhou Yixian choked for a moment, his old face turned slightly red, and then he acted like he didn't hear anything and Xiaohuan said again: "Since they are all refugees and have left their hometowns, I don't think many of them think about fortune telling at all.
, I was originally thinking about whether I should reduce the price, but grandpa, it’s better for you to raise the price desperately."
Zhou Yixian put his hands behind his back, put the bamboo pole behind him, and sneered: "According to what you said, I was wrong, but do you think there are fewer or more people coming to us for fortune telling in the past few days?"
Xiaohuan was startled for a moment and frowned, but Daoist Taoist Wild Dog intervened and said: "Speaking of which, it seems that there are indeed more people reading fortune-telling these days."
Zhou Yixian snorted again, with a proud look on his face, and said to Xiaohuan: "You are so young, what can you know? Let me tell you, originally, during the disaster, everyone left their hometown, so you may not have seen it.
But this time, the meaning of the phase is very different. The catastrophe is so great that it is rare in ten thousand years. All the people in the world are in ruins. Everyone is in danger. No one knows whether he will be alive tomorrow? Under this vision, there is a fairy like me.
If you show them the way, wouldn't it mean that everyone is eager to do it?"
Xiaohuan lowered his head and pondered. After a long time, he slowly shook his head and sighed, but there was a trace of confusion on his face.
Taoist Wild Dog was still a little confused and couldn't help but said: "Then why do you keep raising the price?"
Zhou Yixian looked at it strangely and said: "How can I teach you such profound knowledge?"
Taoist Wild Dog hit a snag and shrank back, but Xiao Huan next to him sighed and said, "I understand this a little better now."
Taoist Wild Dog and Zhou Xian were both surprised. Zhou Xian said, "Oh, tell me about it?"
Xiaohuan shrugged his shoulders and said calmly: "It's just that you expected that everyone in the world is panicked and doesn't care about their own lives. How many people pity their personal belongings? On the contrary, the higher the amount of money you raise, the more ordinary people will.
The people on the contrary thought that this man was a profound and extraordinary person, which I didn't believe in at first. I thought that even an idiot would see through such a little trick, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, there are still many people who can't see it."
Zhou Yixian shook his head and said: "You are wrong, Xiaohuan."
Xiaohuan was stunned and said: "What?"
Zhou Yixiandao: "You are right in what you said before, but in the last sentence, it's not that they can't see it, it's just that they themselves can't see it."
Taoist Wild Dog listened confused and asked, "What can't you see?"
Zhou Yixian glanced at the staggering people around him and said: "How can all the people in the world be stupid? It's just a matter of life and death, but I don't know how many people refuse to believe in themselves. They would rather listen to the comfort of others. I
He gave them some guidance, and most of what he said was about how the rest of their lives would be much better than today's situation. With these words, they paid the money and felt at ease."
Xiaohuan suddenly said: "Grandpa, are you really telling me from physiognomy, or are you just telling them nonsense?"
Zhou Xian smiled slightly and said, "I was just talking nonsense."
Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog looked at each other and were speechless for a moment.
Immortal Zhou Yi looked up at the sky, stared at the long sky, stared at it for a long time, and said leisurely: "Such a catastrophe can be one but cannot be two, otherwise the law of heaven will not tolerate it."
Having said this, he turned back and said with a smile, "In this case, the days in the future will naturally be much better than the days now where I don't know whether I will live or die. I am not a liar. On the contrary, I came all the way and comforted and advised countless people."
I don’t know how many people among the homeless people have been reborn and revived under my words. How can such merits be achieved by those monks and Taoists who huddle in temples all day long chanting sutras and chanting Buddha’s name?”
He stretched out his hand and patted Xiaohuan's head, with a fair and righteous look on his face. He had the compassion and compassion of an old man to save the world, and the tragedy of going to hell alone to save the common people. Even accepting this lot of white money is also a sign of great righteousness.
It is not enough to save people, but it is an act of great kindness and compassion. The vicissitudes of righteousness sighed:
"Life is so lonely"
There was no sound for a moment, and there was silence all around.
Zhou Xian frowned, withdrew his eyes from the high sky, lowered his head and looked around.