As the ghost energy gradually flowed out of Ding Yuan's body, his face, which was initially covered in black energy, suddenly turned as pale as paper. After all the ghost energy dissipated, his complexion showed a little relief.
Ding Yuan's eyes were no longer so stiff, and there was a gleam in his eyes.
After a while, his body trembled slightly, and Ding Yuan let out a soft cry: "Ouch! My waist hurts!"
After he calmed down and saw me, Ding Yuan was surprised and asked me weakly: "Brother Tianyi, where is this place? Why is it so dark?"
I smiled and explained, "Brother Ding, this is the underground space, where Xiong Nantian lives. We encountered something unclean before. Do you remember?"
After hearing what I said, Ding Yuan's brows showed a thoughtful expression.
After a moment of silence, Ding Yuan's memory came back, and he asked me in surprise, "So, brother Tianyi, did you subdue that burning ghost?"
I smiled bitterly, shook my head and said, "She ran away! That evil ghost was very cunning, and I couldn't keep her."
Ding Yuan said with some fear: "This is the second time I have seen a ghost. I didn't expect it to be so evil. I am still scared when I think about it now. When the evil ghost rushed towards me, my calves were cramped. This is much scarier than the ghosts in horror movies."
I didn't respond to Ding Yuan's words. I took out the ghost-exorcising talisman from my cloth bag, burned it into ashes, made talisman water, and made him drink it.
Sun Xiaoli and police officers Xiao Huang and Xiao Yue also came over and asked about Ding Yuan's situation with concern.
Seeing that Ding Yuan was speaking freely, thinking normally, and not injured, I turned around and walked away.
Sun Xiaoli saw me walking deeper into the underground space again, and she asked me in surprise: "Brother Tianyi, where are you going? Aren't we leaving here?"
I stopped and said in a deep voice, "Go up the iron ladder first. There is a ghost weapon over there that I need to collect. It's very special and I want to keep it for later use."
Who would have thought that Sun Xiaoli would follow me happily, she grabbed my hand and said with a smile: "Brother Tianyi, I will go with you."
My arm touched the soft part of Sun Xiaoli's chest, which made me feel embarrassed.
But I still pretended to be calm and asked her: "Aren't you afraid?"
Sun Xiaoli said proudly, "I was afraid before, but I am not afraid now. You have chased away the burning ghost. And those zombies have all been burned to black ashes. What should I be afraid of? Besides, you are still here."
She trusts me.
Sun Xiaoli's gentle voice makes me feel very comfortable.
I nodded and said, "Okay, then come with me."
"Thank you, Brother Tianyi, you are so kind."
Damn it, I can’t stand it. In such a dark underground space, Sun Xiaoli is still acting cute and coquettish. I’m really drunk!
After giving Sun Xiaoli a blank look, I took her and walked towards the depths of the underground space.
Soon, we came to the ghost mirror and I picked it up from the ground.
I touched the surface of the ghost mirror and felt a cool touch. It even seemed as if there was a faint electric current flowing out, making my fingers feel numb.
But this is not a big deal. I just put this "true self ghost mirror" into my bulging cloth bag.
Looking at the seven ancient corpses that were burned to ashes with only a few bone fragments left, I shook my head and thought, "Their bodies have all been burned, and it's time for their souls to be reincarnated in peace."
Later, when I passed by the stone trough containing the corpse poison, I released two fire talismans and burned all the corpse poison in the stone trough.
A little bit of black corpse poison powder appeared at the bottom of the stone trough.
This was pure corpse poison. I thought it was not a good idea to leave it here, so I put all the powder of the corpse poison into an iron pot.
After doing all this, I fixed my eyes on the location of the seven coffins.
At this moment, the seven coffins had been smashed into pieces, and the broken coffin fragments were scattered all over the ground.
Sun Xiaoli asked me in confusion: "Brother Tianyi, aren't we leaving yet? Didn't you put away the mirror?!"
I shook my head and said in a deep voice, "There's still something I haven't found. I need to look for it."
"Is there anything you haven't found? What is it?" Sun Xiaoli asked again curiously.
I felt that Sun Xiaoli was being a little too talkative, so I kept silent.
When Sun Xiaoli saw that I didn't answer her, she tactfully stopped talking.
However, I noticed that her mouth was pouting and she looked dissatisfied.
What I am looking for is the "Seven Evils Yin Coffin" or "Seven Evils Yin Coffin Formation", and what it suppresses.
The Yin-Yang Soul Crossing Notes had a certain overview of most of the magic arrays, and the Yin coffin was arranged upside down, which was obviously suppressing something. If it was like Xiong Nantian, just using the Yin coffin to collect corpse poison, it would be redundant.
Therefore, this inverted "Seven Evils Yin Coffin" must be suppressing something.
And I suspect that what it suppresses is something evil, the kind that is difficult to control.
But the "Seven Evil Yin Coffin" was broken the moment the seven ancient corpses left the coffin. If there were any evil things, they would definitely appear. However, it did not appear now, which puzzled me.
Therefore, the purpose of my coming here and going deeper into the underground space again is to resolve the doubts in my heart.
I walked around the fragments of the Seven Evils Yin Coffins, but didn't find anything of note. However, there were quite a few runes carved on the boards of the coffins.
Most of the runes are “Gathering Yin Runes”.
However, now that the coffin is broken, the "Gathering Yin Talisman" is of no use.
Seeing my frown, Sun Xiaoli asked anxiously, "Brother Tianyi, is there anything wrong again?"
I said, "It's okay, just follow me!"
After saying "Oh", Sun Xiaoli curled her lips and muttered, "You are really unromantic." But her voice was so low that I couldn't hear it clearly.
I tilted my head and asked her, "What did you just say?"
Sun Xiaoli blushed and quickly covered it up, saying, "No... I didn't say anything. I was just mumbling to myself."
My eyes shifted to the coffin boards again, and I began to look through them one by one, but I saw nothing but the "Gathering Yin Talisman". I was a little confused.
After searching for a long time and still not finding anything to suppress it, I became a little discouraged.
After thinking for a while, I called Sun Xiaoli and said, "Let's go. Maybe I'm overthinking. Let's leave here."
"good!"
Sun Xiaoli spoke in a low voice.
But just when I took Sun Xiaoli out and walked a few steps away, the jade gourd pendant around Sun Xiaoli's neck suddenly emitted a bright green light.
Immediately afterwards, a green light flashed, and the light suddenly shot towards Sun Xiaoli's feet.
With a "bang", green light shot under Sun Xiaoli's feet, creating a hole in the ground.
Sun Xiaoli was frightened and ran towards me quickly.
At this moment, I just turned around, and Sun Xiaoli fell right on me.
Two soft lumps were squeezed on my chest, and a moist breath came from in front of my mouth.
I smelled a strong body odor.
I slowly lowered my eyes and noticed that Sun Xiaoli's mouth was right in front of my lips. The distance between the two of us was only about half a finger.
They touched each other at once.
To be honest, my heart was pounding like crazy, like countless deer running around in the air, and I really felt a surge of excitement.
Sun Xiaoli's eyes were fixed on mine, and my eyes also caught her eyes.
At that moment, we were all stunned.
I held Sun Xiaoli's shoulders and she held my waist. Although our mouths did not touch, our bodies were in close contact.
Soon, Sun Xiaoli blushed, and quickly pushed me, saying unhappily, "Brother Tianyi, your soul-collecting bucket hit someone."
When I heard this, my face turned red and I really wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into. Well, it wasn't the soul collecting bucket that hit her, it was clearly me that had a reaction, the thing in my crotch couldn't help but rise up.
I hurriedly said, "I'm... sorry!"
He quickly used the soul-collecting bucket to cover his crotch to avoid being exposed.
We are all men, I believe that friends who see this should understand. In a word, everyone has a love of beauty, and I am not a saint, so I can't avoid being vulgar.
Sun Xiaoli saw the embarrassed look on my face and then started laughing.
I didn't want to dwell too much on the issue of the "soul collecting barrel", so I quickly changed the subject and asked Sun Xiaoli: "What happened just now?"
Sun Xiaoli didn't know the reason either, so he shook his head and said, "I don't know."
The protective pendant on her neck had returned to normal and became ordinary.
I said, "Come over here first, let me see what's going on."
Then, Sun Xiaoli stood behind me.
The flashlight beam was focused on the place that the protective pendant had just attacked.
I guess the protective pendant must have sensed some danger and was able to protect Sun Xiaoli.
I discovered that there was a vermilion box in that place.
There was nothing strange about the box, but it was made of golden nanmu wood and looked a bit old. The surface was a little eroded by moisture and the paint was a little peeling.
The box is more than one foot long and wide, square in shape, with an old-fashioned long lock hanging on it.
I bent down and slowly moved the box out of the pit.
The box is very heavy, probably weighing several dozen kilograms.
Sun Xiaoli stared at the box in astonishment, covering his mouth with one hand, and asked in surprise: "Brother Tianyi, why is there a box here?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know either. Let's open it and take a look."
Unexpectedly, Sun Xiaoli grabbed my collar and said hurriedly, "No, no, no, Brother Tianyi, you'd better not open the box. If something strange comes out of the box, it will be difficult to deal with it."
What Sun Xiaoli said makes sense. After all, this thing is suppressed under the "Seven Evils Yin Coffin". I also observed it just now. The position of this box is exactly at the center of the spoon in the "Big Dipper". In other words, this thing is not only suppressed here, but also absorbing the evil spirit in the Seven Evils Yin Coffin.
But I sensed it again, there was no evil energy, death energy, or corpse energy in the box.
This is even more strange.
After listening to Sun Xiaoli's words, and with my own doubts, I opened the Yin-Yang diagram on the palm of my right hand just to be on the safe side.
If there really is something strange in this box, the opened Yin-Yang diagram can help me resist for a while.
Then, I used the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword to chop at the long lock.
With a "click", the long lock broke and fell to the ground.
I slowly bent over, swallowed, raised my hand and opened the red lacquer box.
But after opening the box, I felt a little depressed. There was no treasure in the box, but...
(to be continued)
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