Chapter 214: Walking into a Trap, Cooking Yourself in a Fiery Fire (5K, monthly ticket requested~)

“Fairy Hu is the real one who never reveals her true identity. My good sister is really tight-lipped. She has never revealed a single word about our relationship.”

Cheng Xinzhan sighed.

While speaking, he was also secretly raising his guard. Looking at the situation, it was hard to tell who was ambushing whom.

If he killed Li Xiahuai and these two men subdued him, wouldn’t Tian Qiaoshan also be named Zhang?
Cheng Xinzhan is not stupid, it is impossible for him to still think that Xue Linglong is clean.

Xue Linglong said angrily,
“I have always kept my mouth shut, but my brother always blames me for being too talkative. I just want to be a matchmaker for the future leaders of the Corpse and Soul Sects in Xiangxi. Is that wrong?”

Cheng Xinzhan laughed loudly upon hearing this and bowed to Xue Linglong.

“Okay, okay, I’ve wronged you.”

Then, he looked at Hu Baozhuang and said,
“Fairy Hu, let’s not delay any more. Whether this great event can be accomplished depends on you.”

Hu Baozhuang said with a smile,
“I will make the temple master’s wish come true.”

After saying this, the fox made hand gestures, muttered something, and his whole body was covered in a mist, making it impossible to see his movements clearly.

When the mist dissipated, the person sitting opposite Cheng Xinzhan was no longer the beautiful fox fairy, but an old woman with a hunched body like an old ape, wearing ochre-yellow hemp clothes!
This woman had a thin face, high cheekbones, a hooked nose, wrinkles and ravines on her face, and drooping eyelids, but her eyes were frighteningly bright. Her gray hair was tied into a bun, and a polished wooden hairpin was inserted on it. The head of the hairpin was a crow head, and the tip of the beak and the eyeballs were painted with red lacquer.

The old woman was holding a yellow bamboo cane with a cloth strip tied on the top and nine copper coins strung under the cloth. The coins were very old and it was unknown what era or place they were from.

Meticulous and without error.

Cheng Xinzhan’s Dharma eyes flickered, but he could not see any flaws.

No matter the appearance, movements or breath, they are exactly the same as the earth temple owner Tian Xiu’e in the mandrill’s memory!
Is this the ability of the Sky Fox clan?

“Fairy Hu’s methods are indeed brilliant!”

Cheng Xinzhan clapped his hands in praise.

Xue Linglong chimed in and said with a smile.

“Brother, you don’t know that my sister’s illusion is different from ordinary sleight of hand. It directly acts on the viewer’s memory. As long as you have this person in your memory, then when you look at my sister, you will directly call up your own memory. The more you look, the more similar she is. The more carefully and longer you look, the more consistent she will be with your memory!”

Hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan’s face showed a look of sudden enlightenment and admiration.

At the same time, he also understood that the Grand Master killed ghosts, practiced medicine, refined elixirs, wrote books, and founded religions. No matter how you look at it, he was a role model for Taoism. So the Grand Master’s “Yangping Zhidu Gongyin” must have been a treasure of high virtue from the beginning.

Now it has become a sinister device that can modify the memory of souls, most likely it was fabricated by later generations using dirty means. Perhaps, this is the work of the Sky Fox clan who are good at bewitching souls. In this way, it is not surprising that the Sky Fox lives in the treasure land where the Heavenly Master keeps the seal sword.

“You two, if everything is ready, I will call for help.”

A hoarse old woman’s voice came out of Hu Baozhuang’s mouth.

The two nodded, and Xue Linglong took out a bell-shaped fruit from her arms, which was densely engraved with spiritual taboos, and handed it to Hu Baozhuang.

This is the communication device of Tianshao Mountain.

This kind of thing exists in every family and sect, and its functions are basically the same. People from the same sect can use it to communicate over long distances.

Perhaps it is out of habit, these kinds of magical instruments all look similar, either spiral-shaped or bell-shaped. The ones from Sanqing Mountain are jade bells.

This kind of thing is not easy to make, and the requirements for precious materials and spiritual restrictions are very high. Small sects cannot afford it. Even in large sects, some low-level disciples are not given it.

In this case, if you want to communicate over long distances, you can only use things like sound transmission notes, simultaneous voice Gu, Ruwu Xin, and morning glory. These things are cheap, but they can only communicate one-to-one, and are not convenient to use.

Therefore, monks of lower realms often have a special box to store sound transmission talismans. The monks in southern Xinjiang are even more interesting. It is common to see monks of lower realms making the sound transmission talisman into rosary beads and wearing them around their necks or waists.

As for the specially made sound-transmitting instruments, as long as one has one, one can ask the friend he wants to contact to leave a phonetic imprint in advance, and activate the spiritual restriction in the instrument. Then, he can contact them directly in the future. It can support mutual communication between a dozen people to hundreds or thousands of people. The bell fruit that Xue Linglong handed to Hu Baozhuang is such a instrument.

However, the instruments of Tianjiao Mountain are still crude, and the spiritual restraints are simple. For example, the jade bell of Sanqing Mountain can not only actively call fellow disciples in real time, but also automatically reply or ask the caller to leave a message if the person being called is in seclusion or in a place where it is difficult to speak. It can even display the name of the active caller before the voice connection is established, so that the caller can choose whether to establish the connection.

The bells in Tianjiao Mountain do not have these functions.

Of course, if one could cultivate the throat orifice magical power “Thousand Miles Sound Transmission” and combine it with the ear orifice magical power “Super Ear” or cultivate the purple palace magical power “One Thought and All Knowing”, or enter the four realms to establish a Dao domain to connect heaven and earth, then there would be no need for these cumbersome magical instruments at all.

But obviously, these people in Tianshao Mountain don’t have this ability yet.

Hu Baozhuang took the bell fruit, and Xue Linglong helped activate the spiritual ban on Li Xiahuai. Hu Baozhuang put the bell to his lips and uttered a painful and hurried voice,
“Old ghost! Come to the outside of the mountain to pick me up!”

It is so lifelike, even the breath is perfect.

After saying that, the three of them waited quietly.

Soon, there was an echo from the bell. It was Li Xiahuai’s voice.

“Where are you, old lady? What’s going on?”

Hu Baozhuang returned,
“I lost half my life while trying to pass the calamity, and was spotted by the righteous on my way back. Come and pick me up! You go to Red Snake Mountain first, and I will return to the sect from that direction!”

“Okay! I’ll be right there!”

As soon as the words came out, the bell responded immediately.

After that, the sound coming from the bell never stopped, and it kept asking about the situation here.

Hu Baozhuang was also a quick-witted person. He kept coping, and occasionally pretended to be vomiting blood and unable to speak, or speaking incoherently.

“I have exhausted my magic power! But I have temporarily used the miasma to shake off the pursuers. You cross the Red Snake Mountain and come to find me 20 miles south of the Mangxia Mountain. I’m hiding here!”

After saying this, Hu Baozhuang made hand gestures, and the green hills changed their appearance again, turning into primitive forests. At the same time, Hu Baozhuang winked at the two men, who naturally understood and ambushed Hu Baozhuang on the left and right.

Hu Baozhuang fell to the ground with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

After a while, several people saw a faint green light coming from the north.

“this!”

Hu Baozhuang wailed.

The escaping light heard the noise, turned quickly and fell into Hu Baozhuang’s dojo.

As it approached the ground, the escaping light transformed into a man, who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with shifty eyes, messy hair, and wore a green robe. It was none other than Li Xiahuai, the master of the Wooden Temple.

After Li Xiahuai landed, he came to help Hu Baozhuang and said,
“Old woman, how did you become like this?”

The old woman on the ground put her hands on Li Xiahuai’s shoulders and slowly raised her head. It seemed that every movement caused her great pain. She said reluctantly,

“me……”

Li Xiahuai quickly put his ear close to the ground and said,
“Old lady, please speak slowly. I am listening.”

“I……”

Hu Baozhuang was halfway through his words when he opened his mouth and spit out a stream of green mist which sprayed onto Li Xiahuai’s face.

Not far away, Cheng Xinzhan’s eyes twitched. He was close and could see clearly that there was a ghost struggling in the green mist, exactly the same as the green mist in the Lost Soul Gorge!
Li Xiahuai, whose face was covered with green mist, seemed to be bitten by a poisonous snake. He screamed, pushed Hu Baozhuang away, and tried to escape immediately.

However, he was less than three feet above the ground when he fell to the ground with a scream.

Halfway through the task, it was time to close the net. Cheng Xinzhan and Xue Linglong no longer hid and jumped up to attack at the same time. When Li Xiahuai felt the magic power around him gradually solidified and his meridians were paralyzed, he immediately summoned the corpse slave to protect him.

Cheng Xinzhan originally thought that the multi-handed and multi-eyed drought demon and the dragon girl with a human body and dragon bones were already disgusting enough, but now that he saw the evil corpse in the wooden temple with his own eyes, it was really a small thing compared to the big one.

At this moment, a strange tree was released from the void. The trunk was as thick as four or five people could hug together, and five or six feet high. However, the trunk had no roots underneath, but a circle of human feet grew on it. There were no branches on the top of the trunk, but a lot of extremely long human hands. These hands were holding hair, and human heads were hanging under the hair. At a glance, it was full of countless people.

Cheng Xinzhan had never seen such a disgusting and filthy thing, and how many lives would be killed by refining such a ghost thing?

“Old woman, what are you doing!”

It seemed that Li Xiahuai’s eyes had been blinded by the poison. He was sitting on the top of the strange tree with his eyes tightly closed and blood oozing from all his seven orifices.

“Mountain monkey! Vampire snake! You are here too! Old woman! Are you crazy? Join forces with them to ambush me!”

Although Li Xiahuai was blind, all the heads hanging on the strange tree opened their eyes and looked at the three people. Li Xiahuai was sobbing and unable to speak, but the hundreds of heads on the tree were roaring.

Things have come to this point, Cheng Xinzhan and Xue Linglong naturally would not waste any more words, one summoned the drought demon, and the other summoned the dragon girl, and they attacked together.

Hu Baozhuang did not take action. It was not difficult to deceive Li Xiahuai by changing her appearance, but she would be discovered if she took action. So she just pretended to be reluctant to take action, and continued to attack his mind.
“Old ghost, don’t blame me. These two said that they would only accept me as the mountain master if you were killed. I have no choice!”

Li Xiahuai shouted, still unable to believe it.

But there was no time for him to think about it, Wu Qingbo strode forward. The remaining memories in his mind were so clear, the scene of the massacre in the village by this strange tree was so vivid that he even saw the heads of his own villagers on the tree!

Seeing that Hanba was coming with great force, Li Xiahuai naturally went all out. As he thought about it, the hands growing on the evil tree loosened one after another, and then the heads flew towards Hanba like birds, dragging their long hair at an extremely fast speed.

However, Wu Qingbo is now very different from when he was just born in the fire pond and blood pool. He is wearing heavy armor, a helmet on his head, and flames burning all over his body. He holds a machete in his lower left hand and a tiger-head shield in his lower right hand. His middle hands hold a long copper stick, his upper left hand holds a drum hammer, and his upper right hand holds a square mace. He is really like a demon god descended to the earth.

Wu Qingbo’s armor almost emptied the baboon’s belongings, so its power was naturally extraordinary. He swung his weapon and hit it as if it was just a fly.

After Hanba smashed dozens of heads effortlessly, the heads that flew over changed again. They no longer bit Wu Qingbo closely. Some spit out poisonous water, some spewed out flames, and some even had long hair that turned into poisonous vines, wrapping around Wu Qingbo.

However, the dragon girl on the side was naturally not idle either. She held a clean bottle in her hand. When she poured out the bottle, dark blue water gushed out, flowing in the air and forming a hanging river.

The hanging river surged, cold fog rose, and where the river touched the void, ice debris precipitated from the void and fell down. White bones appeared in the river, some in the shape of fish, some in the shape of snakes, some in the shape of dragons, and some in the shape of humans.

The cold river rushed towards the flying skulls, carrying the bones. When the flying skulls touched the cold water, their flesh and blood melted immediately, turning into ice slag and falling, while the skulls remained in the cold river. Some flying skulls dodged, and the bone monsters in the cold river jumped out of the cold river to bite them, and then dragged them back to the cold river after biting them.

However, although Hanba and Longnu looked brave, the fruit of heads on the strange tree seemed endless. The two evil corpses destroyed no less than a hundred of them, but the flying heads still covered the sky like locusts.

“Old woman, what’s wrong with you? If you want to be the master of the mountain, I will push you to be the master. Why do you trust these two fur-scale guys?! Kill these two monsters with me, bring the monster heads back to the mountain and threaten Old Monster Tie, and the position of the master of the mountain will naturally be yours!”

At this time, Li Xiahuai was still persuading her. It seemed that he and Tian Xiu’e had a good relationship on weekdays.

Xue Linglong heard this, and the only trace of guilt in her heart was completely gone. She was furious and ordered the dragon girl to fly up. The dragon girl swung her tail, which suddenly became longer and bigger, like a huge bone whip, and lashed at the plums under the evil tree bushes, shattering the flying skulls along the way.

However, when the whip got close, the hands on the top of the strange tree suddenly grew wildly. Hundreds of hands wrapped around the dragon’s tail like vines, and thousands of fingers dug into the joints on the dragon’s tail, pulling the dragon girl so hard that she could not move.

“Hahaha, you lazy snake, why don’t you just stand aside and watch from a distance and dare to come forward and compete with me in strength?”

Li Xiahuai laughed loudly, and the strange hands on the tree swung together, and the dragon girl was swung around like a straw. At the same time, the flying skulls in the sky immediately seized the opportunity and rushed towards Xue Linglong’s body.

Xue Linglong’s expression changed at this moment.

The corpse refining technique of Tianshao Mountain is to pile all the good things on the corpse. All the cultivation is on the corpse slave, and Xue Linglong’s own strength is actually inferior to that of the corpse slave. Therefore, when the corpse slave is controlled at this time, Xue Linglong himself is in immediate danger.

She made a hand gesture and the cold river that was rushing towards the monster corpse flew back, trying to protect her body. At the same time, she released a dozen zombies to resist.

But it was too late. The flying skulls came in large numbers and in a hurry, and were left behind by Hanhe. The dozen or so zombies in front of him were scattered and eaten clean by the skulls behind them.

“Come to my place!”

Just as Hu Baozhuang was about to take action, Cheng Xinzhan shouted.

He was not far from Xue Linglong, and at this moment he summoned out an ape corpse. Although the ape corpse was not as tall as the Hanba, it was also a monster more than two meters tall. This thing was used as a substitute by the Fire Temple as it had been unable to refine the Hanba. Its strength should not be underestimated.

The giant ape roared, and flames emanated from its body, protecting the two men beneath it.

At this time, Wu Qingbo naturally did not dare to miss the opportunity to fight. Without Fei Luan’s obstruction, he quickly stepped forward, raised the stick over his head, and chopped down with force.

But Li Xiahuai was not stupid. He dared to catch the dragon’s tail, but he did not dare to take the attack of the drought demon. The feet of the person under the strange tree squirmed like a centipede. It looked cumbersome, but it moved very quickly and avoided the stick neatly.

At the same time, the drum hammer in Hanba’s left upper hand had already swept out, but the strange tree dragged the dragon girl’s tail and swung her upper body over.

Hanba wanted to smash the dragon girl’s head to pieces, but he finally held back, threw the hammer to the ground, grabbed the dragon girl’s upper body, and pulled her towards himself, trying to snatch her away.

However, as the two wrestled, Xue Linglong immediately let out a piercing cry of pain.
“Brother, let go, let go!”

The upper body of the dragon girl was in the giant Long Boyan’s hand, like a handle. Naturally, he did not let go at this moment. Instead, he kept pulling her into his arms, while moving sideways quickly and getting closer to Li Xiahuai.

Xue Linglong was about to faint from the pain, but since she could go this far, she must have been ruthless. Seeing the drought demon approaching quickly, she became ruthless and made another hand seal. Suddenly, ice appeared on the dragon girl’s body, freezing all the hundreds of hands of the strange tree!

The ice was still spreading towards the strange tree. Wu Qingbo seized the opportunity, turned around, swung the iron rod, and hit the strange tree hard.

Then the flying skulls in the sky started screaming and started to rush back.

The strange tree was knocked to the ground, and Wu Qingbo jumped and sat on the giant tree, but at this moment the giant hand of the strange tree also broke free from the ice and broke the dragon girl’s tail into two pieces.

Hundreds of giant hands came to entangle Wu Qingbo like vines. At the same time, heads flew back from the sky like a flock of birds returning to their nests, all biting the drought demon.

But at this moment, Wu Qingbo let go of all his weapons, raised his six arms, and opened the remaining ten eyes on his hands!

“call–“

A heat wave swept in all directions, scorching the grass and trees on the ground, cracking the earth, and the dragon girl with a broken tail fled madly. The long hands and flying skulls that were clinging and biting Wu Qingbo’s body were all reduced to ashes.

Wu Qingbo moved all six hands at the same time and drilled into the pile of countless fleshy hands on the top of the strange tree. After a long roar, he suddenly exerted force to pry them open – revealing the panicked Li Xiahuai inside.

“Don’t! Brother Shan! Don’t kill me! I am willing to offer the wood spirit to you, recognize you as my master, and be at your service!”

Li Xiahuai shouted, but he did not look at Hanba, but turned his head to look at Cheng Xinzhan in the distance.

At this moment, Wu Qingbo lowered his head, with his back to the three people in the direction of Cheng Xinzhan, and the six giant eyes on his face looked down at Li Xiahuai.

Li Xiahuai watched and felt something, subconsciously retracted his gaze from afar, turned his head to look at Wu Qingbo, and met those six eyes. Then, he watched those six eyes go from empty to filled with overwhelming hatred.

Li Xiahuai was stunned. How could there be emotions in the eyes of a corpse slave?

wrong!

This is not the corpse refining method of Tianshao Mountain!

Li Xiahuai’s face suddenly changed and he was about to shout.

“Roar!!!”

But at the same time, Wu Qingbo suddenly lowered his head again, opened his mouth and roared, and dazzling red flames spurted out of his mouth, all pouring on Li Xiahuai’s body.

The raging fire washed away the filth until Li Xiahuai’s bones were burned into ashes, and the giant corpse continued to burn for a long time.

(End of this chapter)