The sudden appearance of Lu Buren made the atmosphere cool down instantly, not only because of Lu Jinshan and Li Moyan's worship ceremony, but also because of the complicated expression on Lu Buren's face.
Lu Shiyue and Jiang Lingxian have never met Lu Buren, but from Lu Jinshan's words, we can also know that this is a big shot.
Lu Buren came in the form of wind and sat in the middle, looking a little lost. Lu Jinshan asked in a low voice: "Ancestor...?"
"I lost Ruyi." As soon as Lu Buren said this, everyone except Lu Shiyue and Jiang Lingxian were shocked!
Regardless of the two's superb cultivation, Lu Buren just cherished Lu Ruyi as much as his life, and it is difficult to understand how he could lose Lu Ruyi.
"How is it possible! How could you lose Senior Ruyi! What do you mean?" Li Moyan stood up and asked in surprise. He always had an indescribable emotion towards Lu Ruyi, maybe it was admiration, or maybe it was something more complicated.
"Shut up!" Lu Jinshan shouted in a deep voice.
The sudden situation made the air freeze, and everyone's enthusiasm was instantly extinguished. Lu Buren was silent for a long time before sighing and telling everyone the whole story.
Since their last separation, Lu Buren and Lu Ruyi have been living together. Although they are living souls, Lu Buren has refined the golden elixir and Lu Ruyi has incarnated in the body of the black cat. There are no restrictions on the two of them.
Traveling long distances, visiting mountains and rivers, walking in mountain streams and swimming in great rivers. Looking up at the rising sun and setting moon, counting the stars; looking down at all living beings, smiling at the mediocrity.
Although the two have been together for thousands of years, this time is undoubtedly the happiest time for them. They don't have to worry about their livelihood, and they won't be bothered by worldly things. They are as happy as a couple of gods and immortals.
It happened half a month ago, near Mount Tai. Lu Ruyi squatted on Lu Buren's shoulder, rubbed his cheek affectionately and said: "Buren, they say that we are together to the end of the world, and now we are together, but it has been so long.
, we haven’t even visited the boundaries of Shandong.”
Lu Buren looked at the clouds on the top of the mountain and said with a smile: "We have plenty of time, so we are not in a hurry, so what? Are you in a hurry?"
"No." Lu Ruyi followed Lu Buren's gaze and saw a long cloud scorching thousands of miles away. It was extremely beautiful. However, it was the depth of winter and the mountain scenery lacked some life and interest.
"That place..." Lu Buren's eyes suddenly flashed with golden light, and he stared at the mountain stream in the distance and wondered.
Lu Ruyi noticed Lu Buren's change and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
"That place is a bit strange. Normally no one would come to a place like this, but there is something strange there. It seems like something is calling me, and it's very strong."
Lu Ruyi smiled and said: "Maybe it's from some immortal family."
Lu Buren hesitated for a moment: "Let's go, come with me and have a look." After that, he turned into a golden stream of light and went straight to the mountain stream in the distance.
Relying on Lu Buren's sensitive perception, before the two of them entered a cave, the surroundings of the cave were irregular. It looked like it was not man-made but formed naturally. The cave was wet and it was difficult to see what was going on inside.
"Go in and take a look?" Lu Buren asked softly.
"Come here, let's take a look." Although the cave entrance is not big, the strange feeling coming from inside also aroused Lu Ruyi's curiosity, and the two hit it off immediately.
Gradually, the strange feeling gradually became stronger, just like the attraction of delicious food to a villain, so the two couldn't help but step forward to find out.
"The yin energy here is so heavy." Lu Buren has stayed in the Lu family's ancestral tomb as a living soul for thousands of years, so he is naturally more sensitive to the yin energy. However, this kind of dignified yin energy is not suitable for Lu Ruyi.
Be more comfortable
many.
The cave was pitch black, without light or wind, but there were eerie whistling sounds from time to time. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been so frightened that he would have turned around and escaped.
Lu Buren raised his hand and tapped it, a golden light flashed through and turned into a bright golden ball of light, floating in front of him, lighting up the surrounding caves. In the distance, a huge black shadow stood quietly in the darkness.
When the two walked forward, they discovered that the cave had reached the end. The huge black shadow was a large stone. Countless chains extended from the stone to connect to the surrounding caves. On the stone, there were densely carved words.
"The great road travels with clouds, and the Patriarch comes auspiciously. Before the world is divided, I am the first one. There is no ancient Buddha in the center, the river god is not alone, and the stars in the sky shine brightly. Millions of golden lights absorb all the demons in the world. The Patriarch sends auspicious light, and the disciples pardon,
The Ten Thousand Heavens are honored, and the Three Mountains form a poem to urgently order, Transform! Transform! Transform!”
"This is...the soul-collecting curse?!" Lu Buren was shocked after seeing the words on the stone clearly. If he was still a human being, this soul-collecting curse would naturally have nothing to do with him, and since they were both Taoist mantras, they could be considered companions.
, but he is a living soul now, and if this soul collecting curse is activated, it will be a bit troublesome.
"Unkind..." Lu Ruyi called softly.
Only then did Lu Buren come back to his senses and looked sideways. Lu Ruyi raised his head with a horrified look on his face, a pair of cat eyes full of fear. Lu Buren suddenly raised his head and saw a coffin standing on top of the huge stone, like a pillar of heavenly incense.
As if they were inserted into the stone, the top of the cave above the coffin was painted with a pattern of eight trigrams to ward off ghosts. On the chains extending from the boulders, there were densely hung hollow iron lanterns, thousands in number.
"The soul-binding lamp!" Lu Buren took a breath of cold air. As a soul-born person, he was naturally afraid of things. This soul-binding lamp was a Taoist magic weapon, specializing in collecting souls.
Ordinary Taoists collect souls either to save them or to drive them, but this soul-binding lamp is different. Once captured, it begins to be refined! Obviously, such a large number of soul-binding lamps are supporting the huge stone. To be precise,
Offering the things in the coffin!
Only then did Lu Buren understand that the attractive aura came from the soul-binding lamp, just like the flytrap attracting flies. Some souls with low intelligence would naturally be attracted by these soul-binding lamps.
The lamp attracts them, and thus they fall into the trap.
"Buren, let's go." Lu Ruyi said uneasily.
Lu Buren nodded. Such a large number of soul-retaining lamps made him extremely shocked. Although he also wanted to find out who was in the coffin and needed such a large number of soul supplies, these were not his.
Something that a living soul can spy on.
Just when the two of them turned around, the Eight Diagrams ghost-suppressing pattern on the top of the coffin suddenly lit up, and all the iron chains started to "clatter" in an instant. Thousands of soul-restraining lamps on it simultaneously emitted a faint green light, lighting up the entire coffin.
The cave is reflected in green.
People are alive, and souls have death energy. The death energy on the two of them caused the soul-binding lamp to stir. Lu Buren secretly said in his heart: "Oops!" His body moved and turned into a golden stream of light. He picked up Lu Ruyi and followed him.
The road ran away quickly.
Countless green ghost hands stretched out from the thousands of soul-binding lamps at the same time, grabbing at Lu Buren at an unbelievable speed. At the same time, green chains stretched out from the cave wall along the way, in a chaotic manner.
It swept towards the two of them.
Lu Buren held Lu Ruyi in his arms, like a shooting star in the night sky, flying through countless chains and ghost hands. At the same time, he made seals with one hand and yelled: "Jiu!"
But he saw a golden light coming from his hand, and with a "pop" sound, it shot out like a laser. Then Lu Buren's hand technique changed again, and a golden bagua "trip" suddenly enlarged in front of him, and flew forward with a "whoosh".
Suddenly in front of my eyes
A "crackling" golden sound came from the narrow space of the cave. When all the ghost hands and chains collided with the golden light, they were swung around like headless flies, but none of them broke.
This made Lu Buren feel frightened and frightened!
"Unkind..." Lu Ruyi turned around and exclaimed.
Lu Buren followed the sound and looked back, only to see a field of green ghost hands behind him, thousands of them, coming so fast and fiercely that they even filled the entire cave. They were so densely packed that it made one's scalp numb just by looking at them.
There are interceptions in front and pursuers behind. At this speed, it is absolutely impossible to escape from the cave. Sooner or later, those ghosts will catch up. Once caught, it will be difficult to leave.
Lu Buren's expression was ferocious, he roared angrily, and a burst of dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from his body, making his whole figure look like a golden immortal descended from the world. Then he put Lu Ruyi on his shoulders and pushed forward suddenly with both hands.
Following Lu Buren's gesture, countless golden lights erupted from his body and shot out in all directions. At the same time, Lu Buren took Lu Ruyi into his arms again and said softly: "Ruyi, I will come soon."
Lu Ruyi's pupils shrank suddenly, and before she could even blurt out the word "no", Lu Buren was thrown out with great force. Lu Buren stopped running and turned around to face the dense green light with a serious face.
"Quick!" Lu Buren shouted loudly, and a golden sword condensed out of the void, slashing diagonally at the green ghost hands that were sweeping in. "Boom!" The whole cave shook, but those green ghost hands seemed to be endless.
Endless, one wave is not over, another wave comes, and I catch it with perseverance.
Lu Buren retreated while fighting, but unfortunately the ghost hands transformed by these soul-binding lamps had absolute restraint on the ghosts, and his offensive could not achieve the desired effect.
"We're about to reach the entrance of the cave!" The white light coming from behind him ignited Lu Buren's hope, but the countless green ghost hands in front of him seemed to understand this, and they condensed together in an instant to form a huge ghost hand.
"Go!" Lu Buren drew a circle with his hands, forming a circular golden light in front of him. He made three "puff puff" sounds in succession, and three golden lights flew out one after another. However, these golden lights collapsed in front of the ghost hand.
Knowing that he was outmatched, Lu Buren turned into a stream of light and ran away. After the huge ghost hand defeated the golden light, it swept forward like a broken bamboo, three points faster than Lu Buren's speed.
"Hurry! Get out!" Looking at the white light in front of him getting bigger and bigger, Lu Buren was extremely anxious. At this time, he could already feel the pressure from the huge ghost hand behind him.
"It's too late!" Lu Buren's expression changed slightly. The speed of his ghost hand was too fast and he was going to be caught!
"Whoosh!" A black shadow rushed towards him from the white light at an extremely fast speed. When he passed by Lu Buren, he saw clearly that the black shadow was none other than Lu Ruyi.
Lu Ruyi looked calm, and without even looking at Lu Buren, she shot towards the ghost flashlight.
"No!" Lu Buren naturally knew what she was going to do. She was going to be the victim in exchange for her own chance of survival.
But the passing only lasted a moment. The unsuspecting Lu Buren didn't even have time to catch the black cat, so he passed by it. He could only stop and chase after him again.
But Lu Ruyi came with determination this time. When Lu Buren paused, she had already run into the ghost hand. The ghost hand grabbed Lu Ruyi with a "whoosh", and then started going crazy.
He retreated into the cave, leaving only Lu Ruyi's words: "Find someone to save me!" It echoed in the cave, and there was no more movement.
The entire cave was now empty, just as quiet as when we first entered. Everything seemed as unreal as a dream, except that the people around him were gone.