The feeling of being covered with bugs all over my body can be said to be as weird as possible. I felt that every pore and every inch of skin in my body was itchy and numb. There was always a buzzing sound coming from my ears, which kept happening.
I had the illusion that those bugs were crawling quietly into my ears, which was very uncomfortable.
But there is no way, now is a special period, as long as you can hide, you have to crawl even if it is a manure pit, or drill a mouse hole.
"The flying ability of saha insects during the day is twice as low as that at night, and they cannot breed during the day. So now we must reverse our schedule and try to run around at night, rest half of the day and half of the time explore places that are difficult to spend at night.
"It's safer," Wanlin explained.
"It's okay, don't worry. I've been locked up in the water prison for the past few days, and my biological clock is about to get messed up." I deliberately said in a nonchalant tone, "And I also slept very well just now, it seems.
I’ve made up for all the sleep I owed these days, and now I’m much more energetic than you, but you, on the other hand, were already very tired from running around with me on your back, right?”
"It doesn't matter to me. I have nothing to do in the Evil Witch Cult every day anyway..." Wan Lin said with some worry in her expression, "But you are getting thinner and thinner. I was carrying you just now, and I felt that you were almost skinny and bones."
Damn it, you must have suffered a lot these days."
I was silent and looked at my weak arms. It was indeed true. In the days since we came from the train, we were walking on the edge of tension and life and death every day. Not to mention how many injuries we suffered along the way and how much blood we shed.
Conditionally, I can rest well, but psychological factors cannot completely settle down.
Not to mention me, even the fat man has lost almost two pounds. Now except that his face looks a bit round, he is actually not that fat anymore, and I am even less fat.
But for Wanlin, all this is worth it. Rather, it is precisely because we have paid so much that I am more determined that I will never let this happen in vain and let all the hard work these days go to waste.
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The two of us walked through the dark dense forests of southern Xinjiang, surrounded by endless silent woods. In all directions, there were only the incessant chirping of insects and the rustling of leaves in the wind. We barely walked through the moonlight shining through the dense leaves.
Walk forward with the mud under your feet.
Wanlin and I held each other's hands, but we couldn't help feeling a little panicked. After all, we had never walked through the forest in the middle of the night. The forest at night is dangerous. There are poisonous snakes and beasts hidden in any corner. Even if we are not ordinary
People, but they may not be able to react immediately.
What's more, the atmosphere around us is very uncomfortable, gloomy and heavy. Thinking of the pursuers behind us, we both just hope that daylight will come soon.
"Hey, who are you...turn back quickly, it's me...wait for me..."
A strange and distant voice suddenly came from behind. Wanlin and I trembled obviously, and we felt goosebumps rising on our bodies, but no one stopped or looked back, because we both roughly guessed
Come on, what's going on?
People living in the world are like firewood. The heart is the alchemy cauldron, the essence is the Yang Fire, and the spiritual platform is the gas door. If the breath is continuous, the fire will be strong and everlasting. If the firewood burns out, the breath will be cut off or the flame will be extinguished.
, then life will come to an end, and it will be a different path for humans and ghosts.
The ghosts are cold and thirsty for sun fire. Although the light of the sun is too strong, they will be distraught and disintegrate when they encounter it, but the fire of the human body is not so exaggerated, and it is also something they have had before in life, and it has a familiar feeling.
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Whether those ghosts are motivated by instinct, hope to absorb the Yang energy or seize the body, if they see the Yang fire in the completely silent darkness, they will definitely try their best to pounce on it. However, if a person is healthy and energetic enough, there is no way.
If the disease is not serious, even the three sun-fire lamps on the shoulders and the top of the head are enough to burn ordinary ghosts.
Therefore, as long as you are not unlucky enough to encounter some old demon or ghost, you don’t need to be too afraid even if you are walking in the dark. Of course, if you have nothing important to do in the middle of the night, try to avoid walking in places with strong yin energy.
But if these three yang fire lamps are extinguished, the situation will be very different. The yang energy and defense of the person will be greatly weakened, allowing ghosts to take advantage of it. Even if it is not directly successful, it can be more or less successful.
Those who are possessed by yin energy or haunted by ghosts may suffer from physical weakness or mental depression, or may be directly suppressed by ghosts.
How to extinguish the Yang Fire Lamp? The most direct method is of course that the surrounding atmosphere is too cold, so that the Yang Fire Lamp on ordinary people is not enough to continue burning, and the flame becomes extremely small, and ghosts can take the opportunity to enter, usually
In places like mass graves, cemeteries at night, etc.
But normal people rarely go to such a weird place at night, so some cunning ghosts will take advantage of when there are few people around and call you from behind, trying to get you to turn around, only to find that there is nothing.
Then he calls from the other side, and you look back to the other side.
As a result, your own breath blew out the two lamps on your shoulders, and only the top of your head was left on your body. That would be much easier to deal with, and most of the ghosts who can have such scheming and methods already have some cultivation.
He is not a newly dead kid. If he really falls for the trick, the consequences will be disastrous.
I don’t know what’s calling us back now. I’m afraid it’s also a lonely ghost who died in this forest. This area is the territory of the evil witch cult. God knows if they have performed many cruel and cruel sacrifices here.
, it is normal to have an innocent soul.
"Don't look back." I warned. Wanlin nodded and said, "Yes, if you turn around, your neck will be bitten off by it. We'd better keep moving forward."
The neck was bitten off? It sounds a bit strange to me. After all, the knowledge I learned told me that the reason why I can't look back is mainly because it will take the opportunity to possess the body, or suck people's yang energy. I have never heard of it.
Directly causing harm to the body.
Forget it, Nanjiang has its own mysterious system. I didn’t pay too much attention to it. I kept silent and walked forward with Wanlin. The voices behind me echoed one after another, like a death knell calling for death.
Let's turn back quickly.
I held Wan Lin tightly with one hand, and rested my other hand on the hilt of the mahogany sword. Although the Yanghuo lamp was not extinguished and ghosts generally did not dare to approach easily, I still took precautions first.
Chapter 497 Red-headed Red Chain Snake
We both had a tacit understanding of not looking back or mentioning this matter. The voice behind us seemed to have gradually lost patience and finally stopped speaking.
Has it left? Wanlin and I are thinking about this question. In any case, at least now is not the time to look back. Some old ghosts are particularly cunning. If they find it difficult to succeed at once, they will give up for a while and wait until you
When you relax your vigilance and your body's defensive awareness is reduced to the lowest level, an unintentional turning back can put you in immediate danger.
I looked up at the moon. Today's moon phase is the Emei Moon, so the moonlight is scarce and everything is very dim. It is also the best time for all kinds of evil spirits to come out to do harm. According to our industry's "cultivation according to the sun, in order to
According to the rule of "Moon Walking", it is logical to avoid going out at night. Even if you want to go out, it is more appropriate to be fully armed and ready.
What's more, we are coming to a place like the dense forest of southern Xinjiang. Even if we don't talk about ghosts, the poisonous insects and wild beasts in the forest, as well as the monsters and evil beasts that have been cultivated into spirits, are enough to drink a pot. Those things are not necessarily just relying on
When it comes to seeing people with our eyes, it is still unknown how useful the poisons on our bodies that cover our bodies can be.
I don’t know how long I walked, but it felt like several hours had passed. The deep black night in the eastern sky had gradually turned into navy blue. Although it hadn’t turned white yet, it was already one step closer to dawn.
And I found that the density of the surrounding woods has also dropped a bit. Before, there was a tree a few steps away, one next to another, almost completely covering up the moonlight, but now each tree is more independent.
There is often another tree dozens of meters away, with a big gap between them, and the ground is covered with dense weeds, like a velvet blanket.
"Are we out of the deepest part of the jungle now?" I asked casually, "Where are we going further out? Are we going to a village where humans live?"
"We have indeed walked out of the dense forest near the Evil Witch Cult, but it is still far away from the city and the countryside, or it is basically in the opposite direction, because several nearby villages are either entirely members of the Evil Witch Cult.
Either it is also under the control of the Evil Witch Cult, and if we go in hastily, we will only be arrested faster, so I am walking in the direction of the Diancang Mountains."
Wanlin pointed to the faintly rising mountain in the distance and said: "Diancang Mountain is full of righteousness, and there are dragon veins connecting it underground. Although it was shaken in the past, it is also the best way for you to practice Taoism.
When the time comes, you can set up a magic circle and gather the energy of the dragon veins, hoping to suppress the riot of the golden silkworm Gu's true energy in the body."
It turns out that Wanlin didn't just shoot aimlessly and change places, but had already planned the most suitable route in her heart, and even considered helping me suppress the golden silkworm Gu. This is indeed true.
A hero among women.
"But now we are passing through the most dangerous area. If you hear a voice calling you to turn back, don't turn back, because that is the sound made by the red-headed red-chained snake when it is preying. This kind of snake is very strange, and
He is very picky and will only eat intelligent animals as long as he is not extremely hungry. Of course, the ones that best meet this condition are humans."
Wanlin made a gesture of biting her neck with her hand, and then continued: "Those creatures that heard her call, not only did not run away, but turned back, it means they understood the content of the words and knew that someone was calling them, then
Naturally, only intelligent humans would do this. The red-headed red-chained snake would quickly pounce on it, wrap around its body, and then bite off half of its neck in one bite before savoring it carefully."
Wan Lin's words reminded me of a famous prose written by Mr. Lu Xun called "Baicao Hall and Sanwei Bookstore" when I was in Chinese class when I was a child. It mentioned a beautiful snake that eats human flesh, and it was also mentioned in it.
When you go out at night and call the scholar's name, if you pretend to be asleep and don't answer her, you'll be fine. But if you are ready to make a move and answer her, I'm afraid it will become her meal.
Of course, Mr. Lu Xun said that this was just an unfounded rumor and joke. Although he was frightened at night when he was a child, he had never encountered such a thing before. Later he realized that this was just a folk legend.
However, for those of us in this field, even if it is absurd folk tales, except for the kind of jokes that are completely made up for hype, most of them have their own realistic prototypes, and they may be different from what people say.
They are exactly the same, and there are even big differences, but there is always a certain connection between them.
It is precisely because such and such supernatural things have happened in the past that they have been passed down from one person to another by those who know about them. Many details have changed unknowingly and become more like just absurd ghost stories and horror stories.
The so-called beautiful snake I used to refer to is a kind of lonely ghost who can use the word spirit and eat human flesh as a means to replenish Yang Qi and improve cultivation. However, listening to what Wan Lin said, it seems that there are still some ghosts in the world.
Such snakes really exist.
"Is that snake very powerful? Although it is said to be a monster, the most advanced Gu monsters in your evil witch sect are basically monsters controlled by people, right?" I asked casually, "This place is so close to your main altar.
No one has been sent to clean it?"
"The red-headed red-chain snake itself is not particularly powerful, but it is extremely cunning." Wan Lin shook her head and replied, "If it is just a head-on confrontation, there is always a way, but these red-headed red-chain snakes are probably because they eat
With the addition of a human brain, he becomes extremely smart and will not confront you directly when he is not sure. He often uses various conditions or even traps to first lure a person to be alone, and then attack him in groups to entangle him.
If you kill your limbs and eat meat, you will have almost no chance to resist."
She pointed at the sparse trees and said: "The Evil Witch Cult once wanted to set up an altar in the savanna outside the dense forest, open up wasteland for cultivation, and build an altar. Who would have expected that groups of pioneers would be sent there?
Team, all of them disappeared inexplicably in the end, leaving only bones and tattered clothes around."
"They were all killed by this red-headed red-chain snake? No way, this monster is so powerful that it can kill all the evil witches and cultivators in one pot?" I asked in disbelief, although
It is said that monsters are cunning, but the smartest creatures in the world are still humans themselves, let alone those who possess strange skills and methods.
Even if a few of them were killed when they first came here, they could actually be wiped out again and again?
Chapter 498 The snake tail in the hand
"That's right, when I first heard about this incident, like you, I thought it was nonsense. I thought it was just that elite troops were not sent out. But until a certain time, my father realized that the nature of the matter was very serious, and it was not those
When Spider Black and Scorpion Stinger could be dealt with, we sent cadres to follow them, but..."
"What happened?" I saw Wan Lin suddenly stop talking, and couldn't help but asked curiously, but found that the expression on her face was a little strange, obviously she was recalling something terrible.
"The result was that the whole army was still almost wiped out, but the cadre came back with a breath. There was not a single intact piece of flesh on his body, and everything was bitten like jagged gaps, especially the incomplete head, which looked like it had been bitten.
He used the Nine Nether Soul Fixing Gu to hold on to the watermelon that someone had chewed for the last time, trapping the soul in his body and refusing to let it go. He escaped desperately just to come back and recover."
Speaking of this, Wan Lin closed her eyes, as if she couldn't bear to look back, "I was still young at the time, and I happened to be learning Gu magic next to my father's seat that day, so I can still remember all these scenes. Every time the man said a word,
A piece of flesh and blood fell from his body, and I realized that even his remaining body was forcibly condensed with the power of witchcraft. In fact, it had been bitten to pieces by the red-headed red chain snake. By the time he finished speaking,
, there is only a pool of flesh and blood on the ground, which is like mud, and a standing white skeleton."
"...So it's so scary? So your father gave up on letting the evil witch cult come here?" I imagined the situation at that time. I'm afraid it also left a lot of psychological shadow for Wan Lin, who was still a child.
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Wan Lin nodded and said: "Yes, although sending a few more cadres may be able to suppress them, my father thought about it again and again and felt that since the monsters are native to this place, they will not invade the underground main altar of the evil witch cult anyway.
We won’t attack the subordinate villages, so just let it go. Don’t deliberately violate the natural development and make this place an inaccessible forbidden area. You need the permission of the sect to enter, and this place is always open to the evil witch sect.
It also happens to be a natural protective circle for the altar.”
Hearing what she said, I remembered a very serious problem and quickly asked: "Since this place is so dangerous, why do we deliberately break in, isn't it..."
"Then what can we do? It is because this place is regarded as a dangerous forbidden area by the evil witch sect, so I took you through here. Those saha insects have already discovered our movements, but they have not been pursuing us for a long time.
Come, the reason is that the pursuers dare not approach here." Wan Lin said, "The two of us can only take a gamble. The red-headed red-chained snake is very cautious by nature and never acts rashly, and its mouth is also very tricky. If it
If we can’t be sure that we are intelligent creatures, we won’t pounce on them easily.”
So what I thought was a ghost before is actually a snake demon? There are really many wonders in the world, and it is nothing more than this southern Xinjiang region. Over thousands of years, it has developed a mysterious witchcraft system that is completely different from the authentic one in the Central Plains.
It is its own sect and has many mysterious methods that are difficult to understand in Taoism and Buddhism.
After running for a while, the color of the sky was getting closer and closer to blue. I knew that the sun would rise soon, but I didn't feel very relaxed. The main reason was of course what Wan Lin said about red heads and red heads.
Chain snakes are not like ghosts. They will hide during the day and dare not come out.
I couldn't help but feel relieved and started to look around, only to realize that the trees around me looked a bit weird. They were not like ordinary trees. Their crowns were gathered together and their leaves were connected. The bases and petioles of the upper leaves actually grew on the lower mesophylls.
in the matrix.
In other words, it is not clear whether it counts as a leaf or not, because as the leaves rise one after another, they actually connect with each other and wrap around each other at the top, making it look like... a huge bud.
"Wanlin, what kind of plant is this? Doesn't it look too strange?" As soon as I opened my mouth, I suddenly felt something was wrong with the hand that was holding Wanlin. Her white and tender wrist suddenly became extremely smooth to the touch.
It actually has a cold, scale-like touch.
"Wanlin!" I was shocked. I realized that the "thing" I was holding was definitely not Wanlin or any other human being. When I combined it with the scale-like touch, the five characters "Red-headed Red Chain Snake" immediately appeared in my mind.
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"I'm here, behind you."
A familiar voice sounded in my ears. Yes, no matter the tone, tone, timbre, or even the flow of breathing, it was almost exactly the same as Wan Lin. I couldn't help but feel suffocated and almost turned around.
Just as my neck turned back involuntarily, Wanlin's previous reminder suddenly echoed in my ears - the red-headed red-chained snake is very cunning, no matter what you hear, never look back.
I quickly stopped my head suddenly, my heart beating violently. It was too dangerous. This monster is really cunning. It actually knows how to exploit people's psychological traps. It called us tentatively before, but neither of us responded, but it didn't seem to.
I gave up easily, but followed us all the way here. I don't know what method I used to take Wanlin away, and then pretended to be her voice to lure me back.
So where did Wanlin go? Compared with my own situation, I am more worried about her. Now I can only hope that since she understands this kind of monster better than me, she should be able to take care of herself.
I quickly let go of my clenched hand, and sure enough, a red snake tail slipped from my hand, and then disappeared. Of course, I didn't dare to look back to see where it had crawled, for fear that I would be hit hard if I looked back.
A mouthful of.
Obviously, Wan Lin and I were separated inadvertently. We originally held each other's hands tightly, but at an unknown point in time, they were suddenly replaced by a red snake's tail.
Damn it, how could we both not notice such a big move at the same time? Only now did I have a complete and complete understanding of what Wan Lin told me about the annihilation of the Evil Witch Cult, so pervasive and mysterious.
Even if you have magical powers, you will fall into a trap before you can use them.
No, you have to calm down. No matter what the other party is, it is just a monster. If I, a Taoist disciple, were frightened by the monster, wouldn't it be an insult to Master Liu Yishou?
I pulled out the mahogany sword without using any Taoist power. I just slightly activated the evil-fighting charm on it and slashed behind me.
Chapter 499 Blooming Leaf Flower Tree
The mahogany sword was like a dazzling meteor speeding past, with an orange-red sunfire light, and it slashed towards the back of my neck, but it didn't hit anything. After all, it was a blind stab. If the opponent was not stupid, he would definitely hide.
So I took out a charm and chanted the spell quickly in my mouth:
"The laws of heaven are vast, and all laws are in ruins. Now I cast a spell to drive away evil spirits and break them, as urgent as a law or order." A sharp pain came from the sea of qi, and then spread to my limbs like an electric shock. I squatted down in pain.
, I know this is because I used my true energy rashly and caused another riot by the golden silkworm Gu.
But fortunately, with the golden silkworm in the body, although the Dao power was rioting, it was much stronger than before. All of them poured into the evil-suppressing talisman. The talisman emitted brilliant silver light and sharp energy.
Gangqi was thrown behind me.
The evil-suppressing talisman only works on ghosts and monsters, and does no harm to ordinary people at all, so I can safely throw it behind my back without fear of accidentally injuring myself.
"Hey! Hey hey hey!" A very unpleasant and even disgusting cry came from behind. It sounded like a baby's cry and a scream when someone's throat was stretched out.
It echoed and felt very uncomfortable. I think that is the real voice of this red-headed red-chained snake, right?
Then I ran forward desperately. After going back and forth, the red-headed red-chained snake was determined that I was a human and would not let me go. Before it summoned more companions, I had to find at least one
A safe hiding place.
As I was running forward, I couldn't help but look up at the strange-looking plant, which looked like a flower or a tree. I felt a vague sense of weirdness in my heart. I always felt that there was something strange about this plant that I couldn't explain.
By the way, the "bud" made up of leaves actually opened a little. Compared with the tightly closed state before, it is now slightly open by one-tenth, although it is only a small part compared to the whole.
But it is very obvious to outsiders.
What's going on? Is this tree about to bloom? I didn't have time to think about it, so I ran past the tree. I wanted to forget about it, but after walking a hundred steps, I found that there was another tree in front of me.
An identical mosaic tree appeared, except that the "buds" on the crown of the tree bloomed larger.
Against the backdrop of the skylight, the faint pollen actually shone with a dark red light, like blood droplets flying in the air, falling to the ground like red rain.
I don’t know if this kind of pollen is poisonous. After all, in this situation, I didn’t dare to inhale it at will. I quickly covered my nose to avoid the floating pollen, but I heard a familiar voice coming from behind me.
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"Are you here? This is very dangerous. Let's go."
Wan Lin? Hearing that concerned tone, I almost turned around, but in the end my reason prevailed. Instead of turning my neck, I gritted my teeth and said, "Come here, come to me."
"Come here, come to me." The "person" behind me kept repeating this sentence, seeming to ignore my words.
There's definitely something wrong with this, that's not Wanlin! The red-headed red-chained snake caught up again, and I felt the wind on my feet again, and ran forward desperately. This thing is really very patient, and it kept chasing after it.
He keeps changing his tricks to lure me in.
This time I probably ran a few hundred meters away, but when I opened my eyes, my legs gave way and I sat down on the ground. I couldn't believe my eyes.
It's still the same tree, still the same flower bud, but now it's mostly open, and more and more red pollen is flying out of it, filling the sky above your head.
I'm pretty sure this is the tree I saw before, not other plants of the same species, because I've seen it so many times before that I can almost memorize even the lines on the trunk. Although the crown of the plant in front of me has
The flower and leaf buds are constantly changing, but its trunk remains the same without any change.
I didn't pay attention to this at first, but after watching it a few times, I should have discovered it no matter how slow I am. This can only mean two possibilities. One is that just like the original Kali three life barrier, I encountered a ghost again.
Hitting the wall, secondly, I fell into an illusion inexplicably, thinking that I was running non-stop, but in fact I was just standing still.
But both of these explanations don't seem to make sense. If it is really a hanging soul ladder structure similar to Kali's Three Lives Barrier, Wan Lin has said that even the evil witch sect would not dare to set foot here easily.
The forbidden area is occupied by monsters like red-headed and red-chained snakes. You said that they are cunning in nature and have powerful supernatural powers. I can accept it.
But if you want to say that they can create cycle barriers that require advanced magical skills like humans, I always think it is impossible.
Ghosts can cause ghost wall structures because of their own physical reasons. First of all, they were formerly human beings and can understand space better than any other creature. Secondly, because they are spiritual bodies now, they can
Use spiritual power and resentment to lock up a small part of the space structure to form a cyclic ghost wall.
Obviously, no matter how smart the red-headed chain snake is, it is still a beast. It is impossible for it to have human-like learning, understanding and research capabilities. Unless they are born with the instinct to control the spatial structure, otherwise if it was acquired, they would have been out by now.
The forest has replaced humans as the top creature.
Wanlin seemed to have never mentioned that the red-headed red-chained snake could cause ghosts to hit the wall before. She only mentioned its ferocity and cunning. Otherwise, the evil witch sect cadre would not be able to escape even if he relied on the Gu insect to breathe again.
Gotta come back.
But if I was trapped in an illusion and was running in vain, then why didn’t the red-headed red chain snake behind me take the opportunity to pounce on me? After all, from its perspective, I should have been just running in place.
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If such a good opportunity doesn't come up to eat me, what is it still waiting for? Could it be that it has obsessive-compulsive disorder and insists on asking me to turn around before it dares to eat me?
And listening to the slippery sound on the ground, while I was running, it seemed to be trying its best to chase me, indicating that we were indeed in a chasing station and not standing still.
Damn it, it would be great if I could know the situation and distance of the strange snake behind me, but I can’t look back, what should I do...
I reached into my arms, originally just to see if there were any useful spells, but I touched something cold and hard. My whole body felt like being drenched in snow, and I suddenly felt that the dilemma of information asymmetry was resolved.
, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly took it out of my arms.