Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Chapter 25: Take a good look at the truest and darkest secrets of the Phoenix King

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The sky in Beijing was still sunny in the morning, and just after noon, dark clouds rushed in from all directions, like a huge dark curtain covering the sky, pressing down on the head of this international metropolis with a population of 20 million.

The mountains and rains are about to come and the wind fills the city.

The doors and windows of the warehouse were closed, and the door was locked by a large lock. Under the dim light, everyone was crowded together with expressions of fear on their faces.

I saw that the window was crowded with shadowy "people", like gray ghosts on a cloudy day. While whimpering, they reached out and scratched at the doors and windows. The iron rolling shutters had been scratched with traces. The glass windows were temporarily spared because they were wrapped in anti-theft nets, but listening to the harsh metal friction, it was estimated that they would last for a long time.

Situ Yingzhi squatted in the corner of the warehouse, tore off his shirt and tied his bloody right arm, sighing, "This is Hermes..."

The little policeman who was rescued by him stood beside him with tears in his eyes. His first reaction was to thank the three team leaders for their shirts.

"It's none of your business," Situ Yingzhi said. "I was negligent. I didn't expect that a rotten corpse could turn into a corpse."

Yu Jingzhong held his cigarette with a sullen face and asked, "What the hell is going on outside?"

With a sharp clatter, the rolling shutter door was caught with a long scratch, and it looked like it was about to break. Everyone panicked and turned their guns. The two groups in front were still able to hold on, but the policemen in the back were so frightened that they couldn't even hold their guns.

- No wonder they were originally hired to investigate the warehouse murder case, but who knew that the corpse had just been unloaded from the concrete wall, and suddenly the sky outside was gloomy and dark, and shrill ghosts were crying from all directions. Crawled out of the ground and staggered around the abandoned warehouse.

A group of policemen had never seen such a battle before, and those with richer associations immediately remembered the latest release of Resident Evil Zombie Siege. If it wasn't for the fact that Team Leader Situ and Deputy Director Yu were standing in front of them, they would have been scared to pee their pants at that time. .

"This unfortunate man—" Situ Yingzhi pointed to the corpse behind him, which had almost rotted into a skeleton, and said, "After he was killed here two months ago, someone did a trick to him, using him as an eye. An extremely powerful Quartet walking corpse formation. Near this warehouse, there happened to be a mass grave from the late Qing Dynasty. The skeletons buried deep in the ground were attracted by the formation eyes and slowly climbed from the ground to the warehouse, which is what surrounds us now. "

"What is the purpose of this formation?" Yu Jingzhong asked.

"Condensing the dead energy, using the leylines under this warehouse as the transmission pipeline, transmitting the dead energy to the hands of the main formation. If we hadn't unloaded the corpses from the concrete wall, the corpses within a radius of thousands of miles would have climbed here within seven days. The amount of dead energy condensed is extremely terrifying, if it were all released, it would be enough to cover half of Beijing city like a haze."

Yu Jingzhong's eyelids jumped: "The surnamed Liao is just a third generation of red, are you full to support? Or do you want to usurp the throne?!"

Situ Yingzhi shook his head and said, "The power of this Quartet walking corpse formation is beyond your imagination. Look at the speed at which the corpses gather, I can't do it, at least it's at the level of Boss Zhou... The surnamed Liao should still be behind. There is a bigger black hand manipulating this matter, and he himself is just a pawn to be used."

The stumbling and scratching outside became more and more intense. Yu Jingzhong looked up and asked, "Did you inform Zhou Hui?"

"I sent him a message just now, and he said that he probably found the main team, but he couldn't be separated from us and sent a group of people to respond." Situ Yingzhi said thoughtfully: "Now The most important thing is to figure out what the other party is doing to collect so much death energy, and how to break this Quartet Walking Corpse Formation..."

He was just about to go to the corpse to find inspiration again, when suddenly there was a violent and shrill roar outside the door, followed by "Bang!" The rolling shutter door was hit with a loud noise!

The little policeman at the front couldn't hold the gun steady, and went off with a "bang!"!

"I X—" Several people scolded at the same time, only to see the glass shattered in response, and several black dry hands stretched in through the anti-theft net at the same time, grabbing the policeman closest to the window!

The little policeman let out a scream. The next second, Yu Jingzhong threw the cigarette butt and stepped on it with one foot. He took out a gun from the back of his waist and fired directly. A shot from more than ten steps away broke the dead hand and flew out!

The little policeman tumbled and fell to the ground, but at this moment, the rolling shutter door was pushed by the dry hands of countless pairs of dead corpses and collapsed to the ground!

Countless rotten corpses poured in, and several policemen who couldn't shoot were caught instantly, and some were almost completely submerged by the corpses. In the warehouse, gunshots erupted, and everyone was roaring and pulling the trigger desperately. However, many carrion corpses just fell back after being hit. After a while, they could sway and get up without arms and legs. Reduce them in number.

Amid the intense gunfire, someone quickly ran out of bullets, and several carrion took the opportunity to climb up and grab a policeman's leg. Two steps away, Yu Jingzhong raised the handle of the gun and smashed the corpse that was rushing towards him until the skull cavity was shattered. Then, he threw the empty gun and grabbed the corpse that was trying to tear the policeman with his bare hands. "Bang!" The neck of the carrion immediately fell at ninety degrees.

"Vice Yu!" The policeman said gratefully, but in the next second, more carrion roared and crawled up, and countless terrifying faces were almost crowded with each other and stretched out in front of him.

"Lower your head!" The roar came from far to near, a group of young men almost stepped on the shoulders of everyone and rushed forward, their feet volleyed into the air, and a dazzling garland appeared in his hand. I saw the first end of the rope tied between his four fingers, and the end of the rope swept across in a fan shape, rolling up the blood, and the heads of more than ten carrion corpses were twisted alive and flew!

However, this is still useless. There are more than a thousand carrion corpses gathered outside the door, and more are constantly breaking out of the ground. Situ Yingzhi grabbed Yu Jingzhong and pushed him behind him. He didn't have time to care about the others, so he raised his hand and let out a scream that went straight into the sky.

In the next second, the lightning fell from the dark cloud and was caught by him in the air, like a dazzling long whip, shaking his hand and throwing it at the carrion group!

It's sizzling!

The electric current raged, and the carrion fell like a rice field under a sickle, instantly clearing a large area!

The stench of electric current and the scorching smell of the roasted corpse were so strong that many policemen vomited them out at the time. In the dazzling light, the ball lightning roared, and the carrion turned into coke wherever it went, and even smashed a few corpses that had just climbed out of the soil into two pieces!

"I'll stay at the rear!" Situ Yingzhi shouted, dragging Yu Jingzhong, "Run with someone! Call a group of people to break the formation!"

Yu Jingzhong's ears were bled by lightning, and before he could answer, he stretched out his hand to his side.

Situ Yingzhi turned his head and saw that the ball lightning finally exploded, blasting more than a dozen carrion corpses into pieces, and a large hole was blasted out of the concrete floor of the stump, which led directly to the ground.

- This should have been dug before, the surface was blocked with cement, and after being electrocuted, it collapsed to reveal the tunnel inside.

"It's too late! I can't run away!" Yu Jingzhong shouted while wiping the blood gushing out of his ears, "All down!"

Situ Yingzhi was afraid that he would encounter the main formation in the tunnel, and he would not be able to retreat with a group of mortals at that time. However, the carrion continued to gather in the distance, just like the bunches of radishes in the ground, killing them incessantly. If they stayed on top, none of these people would survive, so they turned their heads and shouted sharply at the others. : "Behind the deputy hall, I will take the lead! - Follow me closely!"

The carrion swayed and gathered again, Situ Yingzhi turned his wrist and grasped it from the void, and two long knives appeared in his hand.

Among the stumps in the sky, he passed through the blood rain like lightning, rushed to the tunnel and jumped. The rest of the policemen ran after him as if they were dying. They couldn't stop in an emergency, and they tumbled in front of the tunnel and fell in.

Yu Jingzhong, who was guarded by the rear of the hall, was almost surrounded by carrion corpses. He almost blocked a bloody path among the corpses, and then chopped up the two carrion corpses that were roaring and roaming in front of the tunnel. His head was covered in blood. Jump into the hole.

In an instant, his feet were empty, and the wind whistled in his ears. After half a second, he fell to the ground with a plop, and was immediately helped up by his hands and feet.

"How is Yu Fu?" "Are you okay, are you okay?"

Deputy Yu stood up and wiped the blood: "Comrades, you have worked hard. All events today are classified as top secret. Please cooperate with the work of the National Security Special Branch, and keep the confidentiality regulations in mind... Situ? What are you doing?"

I saw a narrow stone room under the tunnel, maybe only the size of the basement of an apartment in the urban-rural fringe, barely able to stand seven or eight people. The stone chamber shrank to the east, forming another tunnel that snaked to the depths. Situ Yingzhi was standing at the entrance, looking at the darkness in the depths, his body straight and motionless.

Yu Jingzhong walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "What are you looking at?"

"..." Situ turned his head, his face was terrifyingly pale: "Is it too late to go up now?"

Yu Jingzhong was stunned for a moment, only to hear the sound of dripping water coming from the tunnel.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely domineering and gloomy aura, like an invisible giant python, snaked out from the other end of the tunnel and enveloped everyone.

Yu Jingzhong only felt that his chest was under heavy pressure, and it was difficult to breathe. When he turned around, he saw that everyone was leaning against the earth wall, and some of the timid ones could no longer stand up. The sound of running water was getting closer, and a few seconds later, a wisp of black water flowed out of the tunnel, meandering among the gravel and clods, and gurgling into the stone chamber.

Situ stared at the black water, and said word by word: "—Dead Air Sea..."

"Back off!" He suddenly raised his head and roared: "Back off! Don't get in this water, back off!"

Everyone retreated in a hurry, but it was too late. The little policeman he rescued just now stood closer and didn't react. The black water had flowed down the seam to the soles of his shoes.

Half a second later, the little policeman let out a terrifying scream, and saw that he melted rapidly from his feet, his bones melted like snow meets boiling water, and the exposed flesh turned terrifying black!

Situ Yingzhi rushed over and was about to chop off his leg, but it was too late. The little policeman fell to the ground and twitched, his whole body rotted into bones at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just a few seconds, he completely melted into the bloody water on the ground!

Everyone panicked, screaming and backing up again and again, for fear that the spreading black water would touch the soles of their shoes. Situ Yingzhi retreated to the entrance of the tunnel where he jumped off, probably because he would rather go out with a group of mortals to kill the carrion than stay here and face the sea of death, but the next second, a thick and gloomy voice came from the tunnel. Voice: "Since you are here, don't even think about leaving."

Situ Yingzhi was shocked and turned his head to look in disbelief.

I saw a fiery red man appearing in the tunnel, with three sides and eight arms, holding a halberd, and stepping on the soil with bare feet, the hot and domineering breath rushed towards his face like a raging fire.

"Jiang, Jiang Sanshi, King Ming..."

Yu Jingzhong asked curiously, "What did you say?"

The flaming red man walked out of the tunnel and stood in the stone room. The terrifying sea of dead air rushed to the ground from behind him, and the momentum became stronger and stronger, almost converging into a small stream.

He looks so deformed, just like the golden statue in the temple jumped straight down - but this kind of appearance is solemn and majestic in the temple, and it is a horror movie when he appears in front of his eyes, and a few policemen are screaming He couldn't even scream, and he was shaking while holding on to the stone wall.

"One of the five authentic Ming Kings of Tantric Buddhism, the A-Tyorai Teaching Order Wheel Body, has a higher status than the Phoenix Ming King..." Situ Yingzhi rattled his teeth and asked in a trembling voice, "A man like you, who is strong in the way of heaven, has come to the human world to abuse it. Killing innocents to accumulate death energy, what do you want to do?!"

King Jiang Sanshi Ming had three eyes on each face, and the vertical pupils of the face in the middle stood up, looking down at them from a height.

In his eyes, these lower world mortals can be ignored like air. Only Situ Yingzhi, who is a zombie, can be regarded as a low-level creature equivalent to a pig and a dog.

"What a coincidence, the Sea of Death was originally used to deal with the other, more powerful monster..."

King Jiang Ming paused, and said lightly: "However, since they are all low-level races of the four evil realms, this seat will surrender you first."

Situ Yingzhi's pupils clenched - the next second, the heavy halberd came out of the sky and stabbed in front of him instantly!

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-boom!

The floor of the Liao family's villa shook violently, the furnishings smashed to the ground, and Chu He suddenly supported the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror by his hand.

"It wasn't like this last time I came to his house," Zhou Hui stroked his chin and looked around the hall: "Does Shakti have such a passionate hobby for mirrors?"

Chu He said with an expressionless face, "I don't know, it was you who had been with her, not me."

I saw that the hall, which covers an area of 200 square meters and is more than six meters high, is covered with black curtains, and there are countless huge mirrors hanging on the curtains. These mirrors cover all the ceilings and walls in the field of vision without leaving any gaps. No matter from which angle you look up, you can see thousands of countless people with the same expression, which is simply chilling.

Zhou Hui raised his head silently for a moment, and countless Zhou Hui around him also turned their eyes: "But, it's you who has a marriage contract with her."

"I'm just taking over." Chu He said coldly.

Zhou Hui: "…"

Zhou Hui scratched his hair and took a few steps around, as if trying to find the secret door hidden in the mirror. But this is actually in vain, because the light is bent repeatedly and extremely distorted under the reflection of hundreds of large mirrors, many things are difficult to find just a few steps away, and there is nothing but thousands of identical figures in the line of sight. something else.

This kind of environment is easy to collapse, and the weak psychological quality must have been scared crazy at this time. Chu He forcefully closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he lowered his eyes to avoid looking at the mirror, and asked, "Do you want to exit first?"

"No, if you don't deal with Shakti, the Quartet Walking Corpse Array can't be broken. Although I don't know why she is doing all these nonsense, it will be very troublesome if she accumulates too much death energy."

Zhou Hui walked around the hall, traversing the search channel among the overlapping mirrors, and said, "And she has collected so many corpses, and she has a trace of your soul, I'm worried..."

Before he finished speaking, a cold female voice suddenly sounded in all the mirrors at the same time: "You really favor one over the other, Zhou Hui. Why didn't you see you being so caring when I was dating?"

Chu He and Zhou Hui looked up at the same time, and in the countless huge mirrors, the Snow Mountain Goddess Shakti was wearing a black robe and long silver hair, looking down at them, with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

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Zhou Hui's first reaction was to look at Chu He's face, but he stopped again.

"Shakti..." He smiled slowly, and said, "How many years ago do you still remember, if it delays your finding a new boyfriend, how can I afford it?"

A woman's ruthlessness always stems from feelings. Once a man becomes ruthless, he will be surprisingly cold and hard.

Shakti didn't show a hurt expression, on the contrary, she laughed and seemed very happy: "You are still the same, even the tone of your speech has not changed... However, you actually admitted you and me in front of His Royal Highness the Phoenix Ming Dynasty. The relationship with the ex seems to be very confident in the new relationship, it's not easy."

She smiled and looked at Chu He. The latter's profile was as white and cold as an ice sculpture, without even a trace of superfluous expression: "The predecessor must be conscious of the predecessor."

"Oh—do you mean that I shouldn't come back? It's a pity that the suffering of reincarnation for thousands of years will one day be relieved. Compared to you, who was completely destroyed by the phoenix, the me who has regained the godhead will be stronger. "

Shaketi leaned down, countless images were condescending at the same time, and thousands of pairs of eyes met Chu He's eyes at close range. The scene was really creepy.

"The last time I killed you, your six senses were completely sealed, your mind was dizzy, you were like a walking corpse that was both tempting and criminal, but had no resistance. I asked you to stab yourself with a knife, and you just did it dumbly. - Now that I think about it, you were so much sexier back then than you are now."

Chu He said lightly: "I have so many black history, which one do you say?"

He has not recovered to the human body, and is still in the true state of the deity. The indescribable and indescribable appearance of the Phoenix Ming King faces the Snow Mountain Goddess at close range. The two faces, famous for their beauty, were almost facing each other, and they gave people a wonderful and eerie beauty in the battle of swords.

"Just 'so much'? Your whole being is made up of black history." However, Shakti immediately stood up and regained his condescending attitude, with a little gloating in his eyes.

"No matter how you hide it, you can't erase the origin, the unspeakable secrets, the secret repeated torture in your heart for thousands of years... I heard that King Peacock Ming once killed the thirty-third heaven to swallow the Buddha, so that he was punished by heaven. In the final analysis, you actually created irreversible cause and effect at the very beginning of everything that happened."

In the end, although she faced Chu He, she looked at Zhou Hui with a pointed gaze: "—No wonder you are willing to accept God's punishment for King Peacock Ming, because you know in your heart that you are the one who should be punished by God."

Zhou Hui frowned slightly, feeling the obvious hint in her words, and looked at Chu He suspiciously after a while.

Chu He stood there motionless.

His face was slightly sideways, his hair was blocking his eyes, and he couldn't see what his expression was at the moment; but his teeth were clenched so tightly that even his jawbone showed a bloodless whiteness and stiffness.

"Do you want to kill me again, Shakti?" After a long time, he finally opened his mouth and sneered: "If you are so strong, why would you ask Demon Venerable to borrow this thousand-degree mirror world? The essence of serenity. It's still the same as it was back then."

Unexpectedly, Shakti didn't care - or when Chu He lost control of himself and said this sentence, he had actually fallen into a disadvantaged position.

She even shook her head jokingly and said, "I didn't expect you to even recognize the world of the thousand-degree mirror, it's so rare, this is one of the most secret treasures of Ashura... How many treasures did the Demon Venerable show you? , I can't even imagine how strong his desire to conquer you is, haha—"

As she said that, she glanced at Zhou Hui with great interest.

Chu He looked around, and countless identical faces looked back at him.

He finally knew why Mozun's strength was so strong the last time he met, and his strength recovered even faster than when he sacrificed with blood from his heart - it really has nothing to do with Maha, but because he made a deal with the Snow Mountain Goddess.

He lent the secret treasure of the Asura Dao to the thousand-degree realm, and the Snow Mountain Goddess, driven by a strong sense of revenge, must have also exchanged something important.

"Then Demon Venerable knows that you are going to use it to kill me?" Chu He said coldly: "—If the Thousand Degrees Realm breaks down, what will you pay for it?"

The Snow Mountain Goddess's eyes narrowed, and then she saw Chu He stepped forward, hurricanes were everywhere, the white robe swiped and spread into the wind, and the phoenix long spear was wrapped in lightning and slashed at countless mirrors!

The Snow Mountain Goddess uttered a sharp long howl in an instant!

- During the earthquake, hundreds of heavy mirrors moved and flipped, and more mirrors fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, dividing the entire space into several pieces.

And the electric light of the Phoenix spear is reflected thousands of times and interwoven into a net of snow light enough to burn the retina; then in the overlapping layers of space, it is instantly thrown into the alien void, turning into a dazzling light arc.

Zhou Hui's complexion changed drastically, but there was no time to catch up in the overlapping space. Several giant mirrors fell from the sky, cutting off the road ahead, trapping him in place.

"—Feng Si!"

"You should thank me," Shakti's voice sounded from behind: "As an ex, you are really benevolent and righteous to your old lover."

Zhou Hui looked back at her: "What the hell are you trying to do?!"

Shakti calmly sat down in the mirror. Her red lips and plump breasts stood tall, and her snow-white legs were exposed under the black robe. She was extremely charming and seductive, but Zhou Hui's gaze was as icy as ever.

"It's really hurtful. It was a waste of time for the Phoenix King Ming to care about the part of our relationship. Did you know that what he saw in the mirror was you and me together?"

Zhou Hui laughed incredulously: "Stop joking, this is his most secret fear?"

His attitude made Shaktiwei unhappy: "Why not?"

"The dignified phoenix Ming Wang, the ancient divine bird, almost became a Buddha. He stayed in the 33rd heaven for tens of thousands of years, and once swept through the sea of blood until it became empty. Tell me how many years ago he still held on to that little thing and didn't let go?" Like listening to a joke, Zhou Hui leaned on the mirror and stared at the goddess condescendingly: "It's almost as if he has grudges in his heart, but fear... You underestimate him too much."

Shakti stared at Zhou Hui without moving.

In front of Zhou Hui, she seemed to have lost her momentum and handle to press Chu He step by step.

"...I should have known earlier that in your heart, the Phoenix King is a flawless phantom on the altar, and you can't pretend to see his true dark side no matter what... well, don't you believe it?"

Shakti stretched out her hand in the mirror, and her image in the opposite giant mirror suddenly disappeared. The darkness quickly swirled, opening an invisible giant mouth from the light projection, swallowing every mirror in this small space.

Zhou Hui turned around abruptly, and in the dark and empty alien space, everything seemed to have disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, a soft white light suddenly appeared not far away, magnifying and fading like a blooming lotus flower, and a majestic Buddhist hall in the thirty-three layers of heaven appeared in the light.

Zhou Hui's pupils opened slightly.

—In the empty hall, I saw a young figure in a white cassock, with a tender and calm face, kneeling under the splendid lotus seat of the Buddha.

That is the young Phoenix Ming Wang.

"—Even in the Thirty-Three Heavens, not many people know about it."

Shakti leaned out of the darkness and leaned beside Zhou Hui's ear, his charming voice almost dripping with water: "Take a good look, the darkest secret of the Phoenix King... After reading it, you will know why he is afraid of you leaving. already."