It was a corpse with tattered clothes and a rotting body. It had pale dead fish eyes and a mouth full of dark brown fishy liquid. It seemed that something had been hit on its head. It looked very disgusting and scary. It was a ghoul.
Lin Tianqi rushed out of the passage and rushed towards the master and apprentice. Lin Tianqi's eyes narrowed slightly and he flicked out with a flick of his finger: "Puff!" The red sword energy shot out, like a stream of light, piercing the corpse's head.
The body of the rushing corpse suddenly froze, relying on the inertia of the body to run forward a few steps, and then fell to the ground without any breath. Although the ghost is a dead thing, this dead thing is actually a dead thing.
Compared with people, life and death often stand on different standpoints. Relatively speaking, if we put aside the standpoint of living people, then ghosts are actually a different kind of life form.
As the time of practice increased and he came into contact with more and more demons and ghosts, Lin Tianqi became more and more aware of this. From the perspective of a living person, life and death are too one-sided. From the perspective of a living person,
Ghouls, zombies, and ghosts are all changes after death. They are monsters and aliens. However, regardless of the perspective of living people, zombies, ghosts, etc. are not a kind of life, but the characteristics of life are different.
The existence of a ghoul is caused by the accumulation of the residual soul in the body, the Yin energy, and the death energy in the body. As long as the residual soul, Yin energy, and death energy in the body are dispersed, the ghoul will naturally die completely.
Although Lin Tianqi's sword energy seemed to only leave a small hole in the ghoul's head, in fact, the remaining soul, Yin energy, and death energy in the ghoul's body had been destroyed by the sword energy.
Killing the ghoul, neither the master nor the disciple paid much attention to it. The ghoul was very weak. Putting aside some of the characteristics of the ghoul itself, just in terms of speed and strength, it was probably stronger than ordinary people.
Even Mingjin warriors cannot reach this level. In fact, most ghosts are actually just like this. They are not that powerful. Compared with ordinary people, the reason why they are stronger is because of their own characteristics.
In fact, many times, ordinary people appear vulnerable in front of ghosts. It does not matter how strong the ghosts are. Just like this dead ghost now, if there are two adult men, they can definitely beat it. The biggest reason for this is
It is because of fear that most ordinary people are frightened by the ghosts as soon as they see them. Not to mention resisting and fighting back, they have already scared themselves half to death...
"This way." After dealing with the corpse ghost, the master and the disciple continued to walk along the passage. At this time, there were more passages and many more forks. However, each passage was very large, and the passages were flat and wide, like a low-rise building.
In the corridor, Lin Tianqi relied on his keen sense of smell and walked ahead, smelling the smell of blood in the air, searching all the way. Finally, after a while, he found the source of the corpse, a middle-aged man.
Both sides of the man's neck were bitten to bits, and the flesh and blood were blurred. His eyes were wide open, as if he would not close his eyes until death. His appearance maintained the pain and distortion before death, and his face had begun to turn blue. This was because he was infected by corpse poison, and it was faintly visible on his body.
There is also a strong resentment accumulating, and combined with the strong Yin Qi in this ancient tomb, if it is not dealt with, it may not be long before it turns into a new ghoul.
"It's Huang Si." Uncle Jiu said, looking at the middle-aged man's body, he recognized the man's identity. It was Huang Si. Lin Tianqi didn't recognize it, as he had never seen it before.
Although they are all in the same town, and Lantian Town is not too big, Lin Tianqi has a relatively homely personality, and he does not know most of the people in the town.
"Master, what should we do?" Lin Tianqi raised his head and looked at Uncle Jiu. Uncle Jiu pondered for a moment after hearing the words. Huang Si had been infected by the corpse poison, and he would only transform into a corpse if he stayed, and said: "Burn it."
Lin Tianqi nodded. He actually had the same idea in his mind. The reason why he asked Uncle Jiu was actually just symbolic. He immediately took out a corpse-burning talisman and threw it on Huang Si without any nonsense.
This is a small tomb, fifty or sixty square meters. There is a wooden black coffin in the middle of the tomb. I don’t know what kind of wood it is made of. It looks obviously very old, but there is no sign of decay. The coffin of the coffin
The lid was opened and fell to the ground next to it. There was an unpleasant corpse smell inside the coffin: "It's the coffin of the corpse ghost before." Lin Tianqi said, and he could tell the difference in an instant.
Because he smelled the corpse odor remaining in the coffin, which was exactly the same as that on the previous corpse. When he thought of Huang Si's corpse next to him, he could guess the result almost instantly.
The previous ghoul was the owner of this coffin, and after Huang Si was killed by the ghoul and sucked his blood, Huang Si's body was also brought here by the ghoul. This place is equivalent to the home of the previous ghoul.
If I hadn’t killed the previous corpse ghost, and I hadn’t burned Huang Si now, when Huang Si’s corpse transformed and woke up, would he and the previous corpse ghost be at each other’s throats?
Lin Tianqi couldn't help but have a naughty thought in his mind, and then he saw that his master had walked to the end of the coffin, and seemed to have discovered something. He was looking at the end of the coffin, frowning and thinking.
Lin Tianqi also walked over immediately. When he reached his master and followed his master's gaze towards the end of the coffin, his expression changed slightly.
I saw a dark red rune-like inscription engraved on the end surface of the coffin.
This is the inscription of some kind of talisman!
Obviously due to the passage of time, the runes have become somewhat dim, but the aura on the inscription still remains, making Lin Tianqi feel that there is a cold and evil atmosphere in the inscription.
"Master, what kind of inscription is this?"
Lin Tianqi asked Uncle Jiu. Although he could feel the energy in the inscription, he didn't know it. The main reason was that he had seen and learned too little now, although his current Taoist practice could be said to be the best in the entire monastic world.
Except for monks in the soul-condensing realm like his master, it is difficult for anyone to compare with him in Taoism. However, in terms of magic, Lin Tianqi is still very shallow.
Lin Tianqi has been practicing Taoism so far. He has only learned a dozen or so talismans from his master, such as the Sky Thunder Talisman. Although there are many, but looking at the entire monastic world, there are more than tens of millions of magic talismans. He is just a drop in the ocean. See
His master's expression was rare and serious. Sensing the cold and evil aura on the inscription, Lin Tianqi asked.
"I'm not sure yet, but the aura of this inscription is very similar to a legendary evil forbidden art from western Hunan."
"What?"
"Curse of Immortality."
"The Immortality Curse!" Lin Tianqi looked stunned. The name sounded a bit awesome: "The name sounds pretty powerful. Is it related to longevity?"
Lin Tianqi's mind moved slightly. Uncle Jiu nodded slightly when he heard the words, then shook his head.
"The Immortality Curse, although it is called longevity, is actually a method of refining corpses. Since ancient times, witchcraft has been popular in Miao territory, and exorcism of corpses has been popular in Xiangxi.
He has exhausted the forbidden arts to the extreme, turning people into corpses, turning dead people or people who are about to die into zombies, in order to achieve an alternative form of immortality..."
"Xiangxi warlocks of this lineage firmly believe that living people, ghosts, and zombies are all life, but they are lives with different essential characteristics. Zombies and ghosts are after death for some people.
Monsters, but in their view, are just another kind of creature with different life characteristics, whether it is a human being, a zombie, or a ghost, they are all living creatures."
"Therefore, the Xiangxi warlocks of this lineage believe that humans, ghosts, zombies, and monsters are all living beings and have equal status. Humans have an finite life span, but zombies have an infinite lifespan. Therefore, in order to pursue immortality, this lineage
A magician from western Hunan created the Immortality Spell. On the premise of preserving his soul and intelligence, he transformed his body into a zombie in order to live forever."
When Lin Tianqi heard this, he felt that it made sense. Of course, he would not say this out loud, otherwise he would not be sure that his master would clean up his family.
But in his heart, Lin Tianqi didn't think there was anything wrong with this concept technique, because as his practice time increased, he came into contact with more fairies and ghosts. Lin Tianqi also felt more and more that zombies and ghosts were not monsters.
Human beings are all living beings, but their life characteristics are different.
These Xiangxi warlocks preserve their intelligence and transform their bodies into zombies in order to live forever. Although it is difficult for ordinary people to accept it, Lin Tianqi feels that there is no problem. If his life span is really exhausted in the future, he may not be able to help but do something like this.
Ways to make yourself immortal.
Thinking of this, Lin Tianqi couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly. He felt that there was something wrong with his thinking.
If his master knew what he was thinking, he would probably kill him immediately.
"If it is really the immortality curse, then it means that the owner of this ancient tomb probably wants to turn his body into a zombie and resurrect it from the dead."
After pondering for a moment, Lin Tianqi reacted again and said, his eyes flashing and his heart getting a little excited.
Uncle Jiu nodded, but his expression was mostly solemn.
"If it is really the Immortality Curse, we must find the owner of the tomb and solve it. The Immortality Curse is a forbidden technique in Western Hunan. Among the many corpse refining techniques, it is the most evil and weird one. No one knows what the specific result will be. Who knows?
I don’t know what I will refine it, but judging from the Yin Qi in this cemetery, it is not trivial. Once it is born, it will probably be a disaster."
Uncle Jiu looked solemn.
The Immortality Curse was the only spell he had ever heard of. It was the most top evil forbidden spell in the Xiangxi lineage. He had seen it in ancient books before and knew how terrifying this spell was.