Chapter five hundred and sixty-eight: the end of the deceitful saint
The strange mask in front of me was exactly the mask I saw on the face of the Ghostly Saint.
No! It should be said that it is more refined than the mask on the face of the Holy Ghost. The material is similar to the armor material of the guild. It is light and breathable, and even the hidden lines on it are very cleverly designed.
It's obvious that a lot of effort was put into making the mask.
So here comes the question, if this mask is of the Holy Ghost, then who is this corpse in front of me?
Even the strange saint he met before...who was it?
This thought came to mind, and Ding Xiaoyi couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart. This feeling of being in a mystery was not comfortable at all.
However, just when he felt incredible about the doubt in his heart.
The eyelids under the mask actually opened a crack quietly.
"I still found it."
The corpse slowly raised its head, stared at Ding Xiaoyi and the others not far away, and let out a long sigh.
"Fuck, you're cheating!"
Wang Jialiang pulled Mu Wandi back quickly, but when he stretched out his hand to pull, he found that Mu Wandi was looking at the corpse with a look of disbelief on his face.
Following Mu Wandi's eyes, Wang Jialiang looked forward carefully, and then he noticed that the strange mask on the corpse's face looked familiar no matter how he looked at it.
"This is……"
"It's the mask of the Quiet Saint! And it's original!"
Ding Xiaoyi answered for Wang Jialiang with a cold face, looking directly at the resurrected corpse in front of him: "Who are you?"
"Original?" Wang Jialiang was startled, and then he seemed to think of something, and suddenly looked at Mu Wandi aside.
I saw Mu Wandi's face turning pale and staring at the mask on the corpse.
As if he suddenly understood something, his body couldn't stop shaking.
"No...impossible!"
Fragments of childhood flashed through Mu Wan's eyes.
"Dad, this mask is so beautiful!"
She held up her mask and said to her father who was chopping firewood.
Under the sun, Dad's face looked a little blurry. He looked at the mask in her hand. After a moment of confusion, he slowly took the mask over and said, "Silly girl, this is a very important thing. Don't take it carelessly!"
This was the first time she saw this mask, but it was also the last time.
From then on, Dad never took it out again, and he almost forgot about this mask.
It wasn't until this moment that memories flooded into my mind.
"No! No, my father, my father is still alive and still in the village, who are you!"
"Wandi!"
Wang Jialiang stepped forward and stretched out his hand to block Mu Wandi's shoulder. He was not taking advantage, but felt the fear under Mu Wandi's questioning voice. He was eager to know the truth, but also full of fear of the truth.
"Kaka..."
After the corpse twisted a few times, it slowly stood up from the ground. The empty eyes under the mask stared at Mu Wandi: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Wandi, you have grown up again."
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Hearing this, Mu Wandi's body trembled even more violently. She covered her ears with her hands and kept shaking her head: "No, I won't listen. I won't listen. It's all fake! It's fake!"
I sensed that Mu Wandi's mentality was beginning to show signs of collapse.
Ding Xiaoyi awakened the [Fire of Thought] and gently moved his fingers. An invisible force interfered with Mu Wandi's emotions, suppressing the fear that made her convulse.
At the same time, he looked at the corpse in front of him and asked: "Are you the Holy Ghost?"
"Strange Saint?"
The corpse scratched his head, as if he had been thinking for a long time before he remembered something: "Maybe, but not really."
"If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not, why are you pretending to be a ghost?" Wang Jialiang said angrily.
Although Ding Xiaoyi suppressed his fear, Wang Jialiang could still feel the fear in Mu Wandi's heart after hearing the corpse's words.
Being in the guild, he had seen with his own eyes the cases where the exterminator suddenly lost control without warning and turned into a monster after being greatly stimulated.
Although with Mu Wandi's level of strength, the probability of this happening is extremely low, but irritating her like this is not a good outcome.
The corpse said nothing, but looked at Ding Xiaoyi.
"Although the route we planned before is not easy to walk, it was a route he and I tried several times. As long as you are patient, you will find that the light of the dragon ladder has specific rules. As long as you follow the rules,
You can come out.
When you pass the dragon ladder, you will get two inheritances and a treasure we have prepared long ago without any risk, and everyone will be happy, okay?"
Ding Xiaoyi frowned slightly. The words of the suspected sage in front of him revealed a huge amount of information.
On the one hand, it was confirmed that they were under each other's surveillance from the beginning.
On the other hand, it made him even more sure that there was something wrong with the map that the strange saint outside gave Mu Wandi.
"Sorry, I've never been very patient."
"So you went astray and almost reached a dead end. There are some places here that even I don't dare to approach easily."
The danger the corpse refers to is the huge palace and the giant cocoon inside.
As he said that, he walked up to the three feathered men, patted the head of the one in the center, and slapped it with his palm: it made a "croaking" sound.
Ding Xiaoyi became nervous again, fearing that these feathered people would suddenly come to life.
As if seeing Ding Xiaoyi's worry, the corpse said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, these three guys have been eaten up by me a long time ago."
As he said this, he saw the corpse being swept away with a fierce slap.
There was a "bang" sound on the Yuren's head in front of him, and it was smashed to pieces like ceramics. You could see that there was nothing inside the Yuren's body.
What caught Ding Xiaoyi's attention even more was that the bodies of these feathered men were actually covered with vines.
The corpse's eyes returned to Mu Wandi's body, and through the mask, he could feel the deep love cast by those empty eye sockets.
"My child, don't be afraid or panic. The dad outside is dad, and the dad in front of you is also dad. Dad has never lied to you. It's just that sometimes he changes his place and his perspective.
I'm just staying with you."
"Abba?"
Mu Wandi didn't know how to accept the strange scene in front of her.
"What about your dad? My dad, can you please explain it clearly? I'm already old."
Wang Jialiang's mind went numb for a while after hearing this, and he was almost dizzy from the other party's words.
The corpse was not in a hurry to explain. He walked up to the other feathered man and smashed the feathered man's head into pieces with a slap like before.
"I heard that the third child is still alive and the fourth child's apprentice came to visit. I was also surprised. But what surprises me even more is that you are actually his grandson!"
"My grandfather?"
Ding Xiaoyi thought to himself: "Old man, what kind of pit did you bury when you came here? Why are you mentioned in this tone every time??"
Sure enough, the corpse in front of him that seemed to be a strange saint nodded, as if he was trying to think about something: "I didn't think highly of your grandfather back then. I just agreed to take him on the adventure because of the face of my companions. As a result..."
That is a very distant memory.
He still remembered the ordinary old man's appearance, wearing thick warm clothes.
He had quarreled with the archaeological team more than once over this matter.
After all, even if he brought an ordinary person with him, the other person turned out to be an elderly man.
This is not like downloading a dungeon in the game, where the big one and the small one.
This is obviously to find a bottleneck for the team.
However, the facts proved that he was wrong, how wrong, how wrong?
Just like at a celebrity's concert, a random fan at the front stage is invited to sing a few lines along with him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the other party opened his mouth, he realized that it was Eason Chan.
If Mr. Ding hadn't led the team, they would have been wiped out long ago.
"When your grandfather left, he told us not to come in again. Unfortunately... we didn't obey. After a few years, we came in again, and something happened."
There was an accident and all the people they came in died.
Only one person survived, the one who turned into a ghost.
I saw the strange saint in front of me saying that, and slapped the third feathered man's head to pieces.
After the heads of the three feathered men were smashed, the Quiet Saint sat on the stone steps: "I didn't listen to your grandfather's words. I regret it, but the end is done. I am no longer me, I have become like this!"
As soon as the words fell, the bluestone slab in front of the Jade Gate began to squirm, and one after another saplings broke out from the ground, and immediately grew like crazy.
Soon, a huge ancient tree appeared in front of the three people.
A face that was no different from a human appeared on the ancient tree, his eyes opened, and two faint fires burned in the two hollow tree nests.
The ancient tree shook its huge crown, and just a slight shake caused the surrounding palaces to tremble.
He is no longer a human being, and even his heart is empty.
Ding Xiaoyi looked at the exposed true body of the Strange Saint. He was shocked and suddenly remembered something in his mind. When he took the pulse of the Strange Saint outside, he found that the heart of the Strange Saint was empty and was filled with a piece of wood.
Heart instead.
Thinking of the Strange Saint in front of him who had turned into a tree man, he was shocked in his heart: "So you are the Strange Saint, and the person outside... is Howard!"
There was a bit of bitterness on the face of the ancient tree: "The second time we came down that year, we encountered those terrible things, and I was also contaminated by the dirty things in the pool. My soul was gradually separated and turned into this portrait.
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Howard fell into a pool of fire to save me, his face was burned beyond recognition, and his heart was directly ripped out by the monster in the pool of fire.
A tree can live without a heart, how can a person live without a heart?
So I gave him my Mu Xin and asked him to take away my psychic creature and live on my behalf.
In this way, on the one hand, Wandi can be taken care of, and on the other hand, it is also to deceive others."
As he spoke, he looked at Mu Wandi with a guilty look on his face: "This matter has been hidden for so many years. I am tired, and so is he. My child, I will take the opportunity today to tell you the truth. I only hate that we are too
I was greedy and thought that if I followed the path that Mr. Ding walked, I would be safe."
The corner of Ding Xiaoyi's mouth twitched a few times, thinking: "It's not safe to have ghosts. No, no, no, it should be said that it's not safe to have ghosts. The Emperor is acting as a super bodyguard, otherwise you really think that the old man
Can you come here and act as a tour guide?”
But he quickly figured out something was wrong from the strange saint's voice.
His face changed: "Wait a minute, you mean, Howard and you are going to live soon?"
As soon as these words came out, Mu Wandi's expression changed drastically and he looked at the strange saint in front of him.
The Holy Ghost made no secret of this: "To be precise, his body can no longer hold on!"
Mu Xin is in Howard's body. Howard's body is too old. Even if he breaks through the disaster spirit with the help of the spiritual spring water here, he will still be unable to defeat the years.
It was only when his body was declining that he thought of arranging this trip to the underground palace, so that Mu Wandi and Ding Xiaoyi could get a share of the inheritance here.
On the one hand, I can leave with peace of mind and no longer worry about Wandi’s future.
On the other hand, they wanted to use this to compensate for their guilt for not listening to Mr. Ding's words.
After hearing the news about Howard, Ding Xiaoyi felt relieved. As for Howard's aging body, can it still be difficult for him?
Since he can break through the low-level disaster spirit, he has a way to make him break through the middle-level disaster spirit. Even if he fails to break through, don't forget that he is sitting in hell, and just extending his life span is not a difficulty at all for him.
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In this way, the bet between himself and the emperor will be completed.
Thinking of this, Ding Xiaoyi's eyes lit up: "In that case, we won't bother you! As for Mr. Howard, you don't need to worry, I have a way to delay his physical aging!"
With that said, he was about to leave with Wang Jialiang.
"etc!"
Seeing Ding Xiaoyi actually turning around and about to leave, Guisheng immediately called him to stop him.
"Anything else??"
I actually don't have any feelings for this second uncle, and besides, they have to reminisce with their daughter, so they are too embarrassed to stay here and be a lightbulb.
As for the core area of the underground palace behind the Jade Gate.
To be honest, I have no interest at all.
The things here are so weird and complicated that if one pops up at random, you may not be able to deal with it.
It's so dangerous on the outside, but it's probably even more complicated inside.
So what if he has a map in his hand? Doesn’t the Old Man of the Holy Ghost also have a map? It will still end up like this.
In short, there is one thing to say: "A dog's life is at stake."
I heard the Holy Ghost say helplessly: "Originally, you could leave according to the previous route, but now... you can't!"
It turned out that the narrow path they took when they came was actually a trap in itself.
You can only walk through that passage once a month, and walking further is the road to death. Most of the monsters in the underground palace are concentrated there.
It was impossible to go back the way we came.
There were other exits, but they were too dangerous and involved some weird places. He didn't dare to explore easily, so he didn't recommend them to take those roads.
After hearing Guisheng's explanation, Ding Xiaoyi curled his lips and said, "You are a fool to go back the way you came. Let's take a ride back."
As he spoke, he lit a piece of money.
I plan to take the BB train directly to leave here.
However, when he was thinking about how to take care of Howard's body after returning.
However, I saw that the lit money was extinguished quickly. When it was extinguished, the money cracked with a "bang", and the broken paper fell to the ground, turning into a line of small words: [You have been suspended from service.]
