The Dragon

Chapter 7: Ksitigarbha

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Gu Fuyou and the other two didn't want to get involved with Zuo Tianlang and were planning to follow the crowd and leave quietly.

Unfortunately, Si Miao's three-legged crow was too eye-catching, and Zuo Tianlang saw the three of them out of the corner of his eye.

Zuo Tianlang said in a light voice with disdain: "Oh, aren't these the Gu family brothers and sisters?"

Gu Fuyou looked over and saw Zuo Tianlang coming over on his flying horse: "Why don't you see Gu Ren? You don't even have the guts to come to Xianluo, but you sent two useless people instead."

Perhaps it was because he had an indecent smile on his face that made his tone seem extremely frivolous.

Gu Fuyou frowned and looked unhappy.

Gu Ren, whose courtesy name is Shuangqing, is her elder brother.

Zuo Tianlang had fought with Gu Shuangqing several times, and he was defeated every time. He was proud and refused to accept defeat. Whenever he saw someone from the Gu family, he would say something sarcastic.

Gu Fuyou looked at him coldly: "My brother doesn't need to hunt spirit beasts or curry favor with others. He is also gifted and does not need external help to cultivate. Naturally, he would not come to Xianluo."

Zuo Tianlang could tell that Gu Fuyou was mocking him, his face darkened and he was about to lose his temper.

The earth suddenly shook and everyone looked down.

The ground is cracked, and something huge is about to break out of the ground.

Previously, many spirit beasts were scared out by the starry sky. There was a scene of thousands of beasts galloping in the wilderness. The land was broken into pieces and many spirit beasts fell from the cracks in the ground.

As the huge monster crawled out, or it would be more accurate to say jumped out.

Gu Fuyou and others finally saw the whole thing and their eyes widened.

The creature is earthy yellow all over, as if it is covered with mud. If you look closely, you can see many skeletons of spiritual beasts and dead branches of trees in the "mud", and there is a patch of moss growing on the top of its head.

Its entire body looks like a whale in the sea. It leaps into the air with a posture quite similar to that of a whale leaping through the waves.

This creature was extremely large, as big as a small mountain. It soared into the air, blocking out the sky and the sun. It let out a roar that echoed through the sky and was deafening.

When Zuo Tianlang saw this thing, his eyes lit up. He was too lazy to settle the score with Gu Fuyou, so he turned the car around and rushed straight towards the thing.

Gu Fuyou was also itching to look at this thing: "I didn't expect Zuo Tianlang to bombard it so randomly that he actually blew up the Ksitigarbha. It's really a blind cat catching a dead mouse!"

The so-called Ksitigarbha is the skeletons of countless spiritual beasts and the dead branches and leaves of spiritual plants that sank into the ground. After years of decay and rotting, they mixed together and formed spiritual creatures with spiritual intelligence. Although they are dead things that came together to form, they are not living things but are better than living things.

It can be said that it absorbs the essence of all things and obtains the mystery of heaven and earth.

It is rare to find a Ksitigarbha within a thousand miles, even after thousands of years.

Ksitigarbha meat is an excellent material for refining weapons or elixirs. A fingernail-sized piece of Ksitigarbha meat can be sold for tens of thousands of spirit stones, and the older the Ksitigarbha is, the more valuable it is.

Just like agarwood, which is formed by the condensation of decaying trees, the longer it grows, the more expensive it becomes.

Just when Gu Fuyou was thinking about whether to secretly dig a piece, he saw Zuo Tianlang and his men holding a coiled rope and throwing it at Dizang.

This coil of rope has sharp blades at both ends and can be extended to any length.

One end of the blade has barbs, which will expand and hook onto the bones once it pierces into the gaps in the spirit beast's bones. The other end of the blade pierces into the rock, and the spirit beast will struggle and bleed to death, but will find it difficult to escape. It has always been used to capture large spirit beasts.

There are many ropes tied around Dizang's body. Zuo Tianlang has a big appetite. He not only wants to get a piece of Dizang's meat, he wants to capture the whole Dizang.

Seeing Ksitigarbha roaring to the sky after being blown up by the starry sky scattered by Zuo Tianlang, Gu Fuyou's eyelids twitched and he silently gave up the idea of going over to cut off a piece of his flesh.

This Ksitigarbha, as the gathering place of all spirits underground, has the ability to decompose the corpses of spiritual beasts and plants and transform them into spiritual power to supply back to the earth.

The formation of a Ksitigarbha is extremely difficult, and in some places Ksitigarbha is regarded as the patron saint of the land.

Even if monks hunt for Ksitigarbha meat, they would only dig out a small piece and still have to be respectful and grateful for the gift from heaven and earth.

After digging it up, you have to bow and say sorry.

Zuo Tianlang, on the other hand, not only wanted to capture Dizang, but also beat it to death. He probably wanted to blow it into small pieces for easier transportation.

You have to know that since this thing has intelligence, it has a temper.

Although Dizang has a gentle temperament, he did not take the initiative to attack the monk even when he was broken out of the ground by Zuo Tianlang's baby's breath. However, it is hard to say whether Dizang will fight back if Zuo Tianlang continues to beat him like this.

Not to mention how high the cultivation level of the Thousand-Year-Old Ksitigarbha is, just the pressure of his size is enough to overwhelm everyone.

Gu Fuyou pushed Simiao and said to her, "We should stay away from him. This young man will cause trouble sooner or later."

Si Miao and Gu Huaiyou both nodded in agreement and turned to the east.

There are three layers in Xianluo: inner, middle and outer. Young disciples like them can only wander around in the outer layer. After entering the middle layer, even those in the Nascent Soul stage can hardly be safe. As for the inner layer, even the ancestors of the Spirit Severing Stage will not easily set foot in it.

The further you go in, the more dangerous it becomes.

The scenery in Xianluo is different from the outside world and follows certain rules.

The climate and topography here are strange and bizarre. The sun and the moon can be in the same sky, winter and summer are side by side, ice and fire are hidden in one mountain, and the deep sea appears at the end of the desert. These are all wonders in this fairyland.

The three of them came to a withered forest not far from the wilderness. A group of monks were searching in the forest, looking for rare flowers and plants, rare animals and birds. Suddenly, they saw the three people coming and suddenly became alert, fearing that they were here to steal treasures.

After taking a closer look, I felt relieved, because it turned out that we were from the same school.

This group of cultivators are also disciples of Xuanmiao Sect.

Gu Fuyou had a headache, he sighed deeply in his heart, and knocked his head on Si Miao's back.

Behind him is Zuo Tianlang, and in front is Yuan Changsui.

I didn't check the almanac, so it's bad luck to go out.

Gu Fuyou was just about to ask Si Miao to choose another place to stay when he suddenly heard a panicked shout.

The Xuanmiaomen looked behind them one by one, pointed at the sky, and were stunned: "What is that thing!"

Gu Fuyou felt a gust of wind behind her, like the strong wind from a giant flying in the air. She turned around suddenly and saw Dizang leaping and roaring towards her.

There was still a rope hanging on its body. It was probably irritated by Zuo Tianlang's baby's breath, and it used its huge body to pull the rope out of the ground.

Zuo Tianlang and a few others stood on Dizang's back holding the coiled rope and attacked him, determined to capture him.

Gu Fuyou took a deep breath and said, "Go!"

Before Ksitigarbha gets angry, no matter how big a piece of meat you dig out of it, it will ignore you. But when it gets angry, it doesn't matter whether you are a human or a ghost, a god or a demon, it will kill you first.

When Ksitigarbha moves, he is like a pufferfish, turning the world into rivers. Suddenly he jumps from the earth into the air, flies for a distance, and suddenly falls back into the ground, swimming for a distance.

When Ksitigarbha entered the ground, many clods of earth were stirred up and shot out in all directions like thunder.

Before the three-legged crow landed on the ground, it soared into the sky again, trying to escape from the place of trouble, but rocks and dirt fell like rain and hit the three-legged crow's wings.

It wailed and fell.

Gu Huaiyou shouted, "Si Miao, Ah Man."

Also fell down.

The three-legged crow was injured and immediately shrank to the length of a forearm and was held in Si Miao's arms.

Gu Huaiyou asked the two, "Are you injured?"

Gu Fuyou replied: "No."

I got up and continued to run. The ground was collapsing under my feet and rocks were falling from above. It was not safe to walk or fly.

After a brief thought, Gu Fuyou decided to walk. It’s not that walking is a fast way to escape. In terms of speed, flying with a sword is naturally faster. However, this speed is nothing in front of Dizang who can jump three thousand feet.

Their cultivation is too low, and they cannot completely avoid Dizang by flying with swords.

The quickest and most convenient way to escape is to find a teleportation array that can take you a thousand miles in one step.

She remembered an elder saying that there were countless formations in this fairyland, and that a formation might be hidden in every flower and leaf, most of which were teleportation formations.

This place is connected in all directions, and spiritual energy flows very fast, going in all directions like tentacles. There must be a teleportation array here.

Gu Fuyou asked Si Miao and Gu Huaiyou to deal with the falling rocks above their heads while jumping on the shattered land while looking for the formation.

The annoying thing was that although she knew whether there was a teleportation formation here, she didn't know where it was exactly, so she could only look for it bit by bit.

The Dizang was swimming in the soil, fighting with Zuo Tianlang and others, not far from them. If the Dizang jumped over, he could crush all three of them to death.

While Gu Fuyou was looking for the formation, he kept repeating to Dizang in his mind, "Don't come over."

Things don't always go as planned.

Yuan Changsui was standing by and picked up a baby's breath from Zuo Tianlang's bag from somewhere and threw it to Dizang, perhaps trying to help him or something.

But he didn't know how to use this magic weapon. When he threw the Baby's Gypsophila out, it didn't scatter. It hit Ksitigarbha and bounced back. Then the mother and child were separated and exploded in series.

As the saying goes, enemies always meet.

Gu Fuyou was close by and was concentrating on finding the formation. She didn't expect that the baby's breath would explode next to her. She didn't have time to dodge and sparks exploded on her left.

She was knocked to the ground by the force, her ears buzzing. She staggered to her feet in a daze, feeling a burning pain on her forehead and her hands covered in blood.

Gu Fuyou glared at Yuan Changsui and shouted, "You did it on purpose!"

Yuan Changsui didn't know whether he was stunned by the explosion of Mantianxing or by seeing his teammate accidentally hit, and he stared at Gu Fuyou in a daze.

Before Gu Fuyou could slap back twice, Dizang suddenly roared again.

Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly.

It was not known whether Dizang's attention was attracted by the sound of the baby's breath or something else, but he suddenly turned around and leaped towards this side. His body rose from the soil into the air, and he opened his big mouth and fell towards Gu Fuyou again.

Judging from the posture, it seemed that it was going to eat the two of them alive.

Gu Fuyou was unable to move due to the pressure of the falling giant. She caught a glimpse of two figures from the corner of her eye. They were Si Miao and Gu Huaiyou, one on her left and one on her right. They reached out and pushed her away at the critical moment.

This Ksitigarbha is huge. Si Miao and Gu Huaiyu use magic to protect her from leaving with the wind. Gu Fuyou almost brushes the corner of Ksitigarbha's mouth.

Si Miao and Gu Huaiyou were not so lucky. Because they pushed Gu Fuyou away, they were unable to escape immediately and were bitten by Dizang.

After biting the man, Dizang jumped into the earth, breaking the ground around him into pieces.

"Brother! Si Miao!"

Gu Fuyou grabbed the protruding corner of Dizang's mouth with his backhand, leaned beside Dizang, and fell to the ground.

This Ksitigarbha has no sharp teeth, no stomach, and cannot digest food. Although the two people are not in danger for a while after entering Ksitigarbha's mouth, if they stay in there for too long, they will be poisoned by breathing too much rotten miasma. They have to find a way to rescue them.

Gu Fuyou groped for the storage bag at his waist with one hand to see if there was any useful talisman.

Unexpectedly, the hand that was holding the corner of Dizang's mouth loosened. It was not because she loosened her hand, but the flesh on the outside of Dizang was soft, and a piece of meat could be peeled off with a little force.

She accidentally pulled the flesh off the corner of Dizang's mouth. With nothing to hold on to, her body was immediately knocked against the earth wall by the downward wind.

As luck would have it, the teleportation formation she had been looking for for a long time was right on the earth wall, and she then found a spirit stone in her storage bag.

If the teleportation formation is compared to a door, the spirit stone filled with spiritual power is the key.

She didn't even have time to determine the distance and direction of the teleportation formation.

There was a flash of inspiration, and the formation was activated.

The shadow changes shape and moves, one step covers a thousand miles.

Gu Fuyou blinked, and when he fell from the sky, he was no longer in the abyss created by Dizang's collision, but was in a place surrounded by darkness, with a round, bright white sky above his head.

This place is like the bottom of a well.

Gu Fuyou fell on solid ground, but he didn't feel any pain. He touched his body and found it was soft and warm.

She used the light from above to see clearly below her body, which was all white and rising and falling.

Her eyes moved upwards and met a pair of round brown animal eyes. She was stunned for a moment, and then woke up to the snoring of the wild animal.

It's like escaping from the tiger's den and entering the wolf's lair.

She fell into the snow bear's lair and into its belly.

Gu Fuyou's brain exploded and he reached into the storage bag in a panic, but the more anxious he became, the harder it was to find the talisman.

She swore with tears in her heart that when she had time, she would organize the storage bags and sort them into categories.

She finally found a wind talisman before the snow bear's paw came at her. She threw the talisman away and shouted, "Wind!"

Gu Fuyou's feet created wind, lifting her into the air and straight up to the cave entrance.

Gu Fuyou jumped out and looked back, only to find that this was a snowy forest.

The place where she had just landed was at the bottom of a tree hole so big that it took more than ten people to hug it.

Before I could appreciate it, a roar was heard from the tree hole and a snow bear jumped out.

Gu Fuyou turned around and ran away, shouting as he ran: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to drop it at your house!"

Gu Fuyou thought that the snow bear was upset because its sweet dream was disturbed, or it was hungry after hibernating for a long time, and when she delivered the goods to its door, it chased her relentlessly.

Gu Fuyou complained that her luck was so bad. It was bad enough that she had poor aptitude, but why was her luck getting worse and worse

Gu Fuyou looked around and saw the pine forest in the snow, each tree was tall and strong, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.

There’s no way you can outrun it, this snow bear is at least in the foundation-building stage.

The only chance of survival is to take the initiative to attack. Fortunately, this kind of spiritual beast did not develop spiritual intelligence when it was practicing Qi and building its foundation.

In short, they have no brains and are easier to deceive.

Gu Fuyou found a stack of talismans and stuck one on her when she ran past a tree. When she went around another tree, she stuck another one on her. The snow bear also followed her.

She ran around the area and pasted talismans on all the surrounding trees.

Fortunately, he usually jumps around, and even planned to practice external training for a while. After practicing a few times, he is considered agile, otherwise he would have been caught by the snow bear long ago.

After sticking the stickers, Gu Fuyou stood still, turned around and faced the snow bear that was attacking him, and shouted, "Trip!"

The pattern painted in the center of the talisman on the surrounding pine trees was like a closed eye. As soon as Gu Fuyou finished speaking, his eyes opened, and a red line shot out from the center of his eyeballs, tightly wrapping around the snow bear.

The snow bear naturally struggled hard, but the line was so thin and tough that it couldn't be broken. The more the snow bear struggled, the tighter the line became, almost clamping down on its flesh.

The snow bear was so ferocious and brutal, and had such great strength, that it uprooted the towering pine trees.

Gu Fuyou took a step back vigilantly. She had originally wanted to kill the snow bear and take his inner elixir, but now it seemed better to leave first. Saving her life was the most important thing.

Gu Fuyou was dizzy and exhausted at this time. He couldn't even remember to use the talisman. He walked slowly and had not walked far when he heard a loud noise behind him.

She looked back and saw that the snow bear had been exhausted and fell to the ground. The uprooted pine tree fell down and pressed on it. Blood was flowing in the snow, and the red line had cut into the snow bear's flesh and bones.

Gu Fuyou hesitated for a moment, but decided to go back and get his inner elixir. After all, it was not easy to kill him.

She walked back and saw from a distance that the snow bear was already dying. She took out a talisman, gave it the final blow, and was about to dig out its inner elixir.

There was a roar from deep in the forest, and it made Gu Fuyou's heart skip a beat.

She looked towards the roar, staggered back, and fell to the ground.

Another snow bear came from the direction where the person had just escaped. It was bigger, stronger, and more ferocious. When it stood up, it was more than ten feet tall.

Gu Fuyou looked at the dead snow bear. Could it be a cub?! He then looked at the roaring snow bear. Could it be its mother?!

As soon as one wave subsides, another one rises.

Gu Fuyou thought it was all over, he should not have come back, he was so unlucky that even drinking water got stuck in his teeth.

Its mother must be in the Qigong or Jindan stage. She really has no strength left, and even if she had strength she couldn't defeat this spirit beast.

There is no other way. I don’t want to die.

With a determined heart, he circled his fingers, used the last bit of his spiritual power to form a formation, and shouted to the sky: "Nanzhu Jun, help me!"