Kou Xuanling raised the lantern in his hand and walked in the dark corridor, asking Zhang Qiudao: "Why did you bring me here?"
Zhang Qiudao was behind him, half hidden and half visible under the influence of light and shadow. He said, "I heard that the source of the resentment is likely hiding in the basement, so we must first find the source and seal it up."
Kou Xuanling turned around, with the lantern hanging in front of Zhang Qiudao. He asked with a vigilant look on his face: "Where did you get this information?"
"The ghosts in the house, if you trade with them, they will tell you everything they know. They are greedy."
Kou Xuanling smiled and said, "Don't believe ghosts. How do you know that ghosts are telling the truth? They are greedy and will flock to you as long as there is profit. But if you put profit in front of him and he doesn't have a bargaining chip to cooperate in the transaction, he is likely to forge a bargaining chip. After all, you have to verify the authenticity of your bargaining chip yourself."
Zhang Qiudao was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "You are right." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a tall, thin black figure suddenly appear behind Kou Xuanling: "Old Kou, there is someone standing behind you."
Kou Xuanling turned sideways with the lantern in his hand, and indeed saw a tall black figure standing one meter behind him. The figure stood quietly behind him, looking at him without saying a word. Kou Xuanling felt that he had no intention of hurting him, so was he asking for something? He asked, "Who are you?" He took a step forward, and just as his back foot landed, a tall black figure suddenly rushed out from the side, bumped into Kou Xuanling, grabbed his neck, and lifted him up.
Everything happened in an instant, leaving people unable to react. The lantern rolled to the ground, with mottled light and shadow. Kou Xuanling grabbed the ghost hand that was pinching his neck, trying to pry it open but unable to do so. He panted hard and looked at Zhang Qiudao who was standing next to him.
But Zhang Qiudao stood by with his arms folded, watching, with no intention of taking action, and his expression was very cold. Kou Xuanling stared at Zhang Qiudao in disbelief: "You-you are not Zhang Qiudao!! Who are you?"
Zhang Qiudao bent down and picked up the lantern that had fallen to his feet. A little bit of the liquid inside, which was either kerosene or corpse oil, had spilled out, but fortunately there was still half of it left. He opened the glass cover and adjusted the wick, and the flame became much brighter. He looked at Kou Xuanling, who was being strangled by the neck, with his feet off the ground but looking normal, and the black, thin ghost figure standing quietly and intimidatingly. He stepped back a few steps, leaned against the wall, and his eyes fell on the bright flame of the lantern.
He said: "Legend has it that there are mirage ghosts in the sea, which are transformed from shipwreck victims. Mirage ghosts are good at creating illusions, transforming into familiar people, teasing and playing tricks on others. When they are frightened to the point of their liver and gallbladder bursting, they will eat their brains and internal organs. Their behavior is terrible."
Kou Xuanling's fear and surprise all disappeared. He stopped struggling and asked doubtfully, "How did you find out that I'm wrong? My illusion should be able to confuse you and make you believe it completely."
"If you pretend to be Zhang Qiudao, I might reluctantly believe you. But you can pretend to be someone else, but you want me to pretend to be 'Zhang Qiudao'. Are you too confident or stupid?" The lantern glass reflected the face of the person in front of him. It was Kou Xuanling's face. Seeing that his face had changed back, Kou Xuanling touched it and said, "Sure enough, my face is the most handsome."
Kou Xuanling was unhappy: "Reluctantly? If I didn't suddenly want to see you become another person, and I became you to tease you, you would never recognize me. Don't brag!"
Kou Xuanling: "Your illusion can't confuse me, do you know why?"
'Kou Xuanling' - should be called a mirage ghost, mirage ghost: "Why?"
"Because I knew from the beginning that you were a fake. The moves you used when fighting me were exactly the same as mine." So if he couldn't recognize me, he would not be wronged even if he was killed. At the beginning, the mirage ghost did change into Zhang Qiudao's appearance to deceive him, but because the opponent's moves were the same as his own during the fight, Kou Xuanling was wary of him.
As expected, the fake Zhang Qiudao later invited him to the basement of the old house and attacked him on the way. He created an illusion to make him think that he was Zhang Qiudao, and the other party changed into his own appearance, led him into the dark corridor of the basement, and ate him after playing with him.
Kou Xuanling raised the lantern to illuminate the scattered bones in the corner. These bones were all people who had mistakenly entered and were deceived and eaten by the mirage ghosts. The so-called mirage ghosts were originally the resentment of the shipwreck victims who refused to reincarnate, entangled together, melted and devoured each other to form things that looked like large clams. Because they were good at creating illusions and often appeared in the sea, they were called mirage ghosts.
In ancient times, ships encountered mermaids when crossing the sea. In foreign legends, sailors encountered sea monsters. Ships hit reefs and crews died in shipwrecks. In fact, they just encountered mirage ghosts. Indulging in the illusion created by mirage ghosts, they thought they were in a land of comfort and gold, and they were actually being swallowed by the sea. If someone passed by, they would see the ship slowly sinking into the sea, while the crew members looked like they were sleeping with smiles on their faces. When the crew's body touched the water, the mirage ghosts would dig open their chests and heads and eat their internal organs and brain marrow.
After the ghost was exposed, he stopped pretending: "I thought I had fooled you, Heavenly Master." He pried open the wrist of the evil ghost that was pinching his neck, jumped to the ground, and his appearance changed from Kou Xuanling to Zhang Qiudao, and then to the appearance of other Heavenly Masters, including Chen Yang and Mao Xiaoying. He said: "Your companions all believe me and have no doubts."
Hearing this, Kou Xuanling was shocked in his heart, but his face remained calm: "Have you seen other people?"
The mirage ghost nodded: "I have. They all believe me, without any doubt. Except for you, I shouldn't have changed into your appearance to trick you. No one knows myself better than myself. This is my fault, so you exposed it. You don't feel fear, and the internal organs and brains without fear are not delicious. Now you can leave here, and I won't eat you."
Kou Xuanling drew out his peach wood sword: "If you don't eat me, I will kill you."
The mirage ghost laughed: "Wait until you find me." Kou Xuanling swung his sword and chopped it, but missed it and passed through the mirage ghost. Mirage ghost: "Since I am a mirage ghost, I naturally have no entity." As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared into the corridor, without a trace.
Kou Xuanling held the sword with his backhand, only to find it difficult. He had no idea where the source of the resentment was, and now a mirage ghost had appeared. Unless he could find the mirage ghost's true form, he would not be able to hurt him anyway, and he might even be entangled and killed. That thing could also transform into any familiar or unfamiliar person, making it hard to guard against.
"By the way," the mirage ghost suddenly appeared at the exit of the corridor: "Aren't you looking for the source of resentment? The sixth house is where you can find what you want. But now it depends on whether you can get out." He snapped his fingers, and the walls on both sides of the corridor suddenly broke into countless ghost hands, and the mirage ghost smiled very proudly: "Bye."
Kou Xuanling swung his peach wood sword to cut off the ghost hand that was grabbing him from behind, but countless ghost hands continued to break through the stone bricks and grab his hands and feet on the walls on both sides and above his head. Even if he was powerful, he was temporarily constrained.
Suddenly, two ghost hands grabbed his ankles. Just as Kou Xuanling was about to chop them off, his right arm was grabbed and his peach wood sword was snatched away. His ankles were grabbed and dragged, and his upper body was unstable, so he fell backwards and hit the wall, where he was locked by countless ghost hands. They tightened and tightened, almost breaking his ribs and squeezing out his internal organs. They dragged him into the wall as they tightened.
The peach wood sword was taken away and thrown on the ground. With his whole body tied up, his magic weapon taken away, and trapped in danger, Kou Xuanling suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He bit his tongue and sprayed blood without caring about the pain. All the ghost hands that were touched by the blood were corroded to white bones, and the corridor was instantly filled with the howling of ghosts. His feet were untied in an instant, and his toes touched the peach wood sword, which was pushed against the instep and thrown in front of him. He pinched the magic formula with his left hand, broke free from the ghost hand, grabbed the falling peach wood sword, and cut off the ghost hand that trapped the upper body with his backhand.
Kou Xuanling did a backflip and landed on the ground, inserting the peach wood sword into the stone bricks on the ground. The stone bricks were easily cut like tofu under the peach wood sword. He held the sword handle with his left hand, wiped the blood from the tip of his tongue on his forehead with his right hand, and drew a talisman on the blade of the peach wood sword: "Heaven and Earth Mysterious Sect, the root of all Qi. ... Ghosts and demons are frightened, and spirits and monsters are incarnated... Golden light appears quickly, covering my body!"
The golden light curse uttered, ghosts and gods cried, thunder and lightning thundered, mountains and rivers shook. All things were awe-inspiring and majestic, and the dignity of Tao remained the same.
“The sky is falling and the earth is turning upside down!”
Instantly, the sky shook, sand and rocks rolled, ghosts cried and wolves howled. The ground surface split in all directions with the peach wood sword and Kou Xuanling as the center, forming a spider web-like pattern that quickly and without omission covered the entire corridor. Thunder and lightning flashed in each deep crack, and sparks of electricity burned all the ghost hands in the wall. The corridor soon returned to silence, and the ghosts that escaped quickly all fled, while those that escaped slowly were all burned.
Kou Xuanling put away the peach wood sword and sighed, "I didn't expect that the Golden Light Mantra plus the Heaven-shaking and Earth-shattering move would be so useful." Before, he usually used the Five Thunder Spirit Talisman and borrowed the Lightning Wood to complete the Heaven-shaking and Earth-shattering move. This time, he used the Golden Light Mantra directly, and its power was no less powerful than the Lightning Wood.
"The sixth house?" Kou Xuanling picked up the intact lantern and walked towards the entrance of the corridor while thinking about the sixth house mentioned by the mirage ghost. "Let's go and take a look."
At the same time, when Mao Zhen spread his hands and leaned against the door, two ghost hands suddenly broke through the door, grabbed his head and dragged him behind the door. Chen Yang reacted quickly and took off the long whip wrapped around his waist and buckled it on the ghost hands. The yang energy on the copper coin burned the two ghost hands to white bones, but the ghost hands still did not let go. The sound of stone-soled shoes rubbing against the ground outside was getting closer and closer, indicating that the axe ghost had discovered that they were hiding here.
Chen Yang: "Seek the truth!"
Zhang Qiudao used the Seven Star Sword to cut off the two ghost hands against the door panel, and the three people fled from the door panel at the same time. The next moment, the door panel was split open by a huge axe. The axe ghost appeared at the door and was furious when he saw the four people in front of him. Chen Yang flipped the table in front of him and threw it over to buy time for everyone, while the axe ghost directly split the table in half.
Chen Yang: "Jump out the window, run from the window."
Mao Xiaoying pushed open the window and faced the human head lantern that was eavesdropping on the window. They looked at each other in bewilderment. The human head lantern reacted, quickly swung itself out and screamed: "The Heavenly Master is here!!"
Mao Xiaoying cursed and found that the scream of the human head lantern attracted the attention of other human heads. These human head lanterns looked over and whispered. The whisper of one human head lantern was like the sound of a mosquito flapping its wings. It could not be heard from a distance. The whisper of a group of human head lanterns was like the buzzing sound of a group of mosquitoes. Soon, all the ghosts in the Yin house knew that four heavenly masters appeared in the sixth house.
Mao Xiaoying pulled down the head lantern in front of him and threw it at the axe ghost behind him. The axe chopped it over, and the scream of the head lantern stopped abruptly. He shouted: "Ghosts from other places are all coming here."
Chen Yang jumped onto the windowsill and saw a large number of ghosts pouring in from the door of the fourth house, including the hostess of the nameless house in front. Zhang Qiudao also rushed over. He did not see the ghosts of Wubei Mausoleum, but this made him even more worried. He said, "The ghosts buried alive in Wubei Mausoleum are elusive and often appear suddenly from the walls, underground or ceiling. They are hard to guard against and very annoying."
Chen Yang: "The ghost hand that suddenly appeared just now?"
Zhang Qiu said, "There is no ghost in the tomb."
Chen Yang: "Jump down, go to the first floor from here, and then run away. The ghosts won't arrive that fast, so run before they get there."
Mao Zhen was dealing with the axe ghost alone. Hearing this, he jumped and shouted, "We can't leave the sixth house. If you leave now, it will be difficult to find him later. He will definitely come to the sixth house. You wait for a while. We can hide in the basement first."
"Basement?" Chen Yang turned around and used the copper coin whip to wrap around the axe ghost's axe, then was dragged over and used the same trick to lift the axe ghost's hood. The copper coin whip released the axe and turned it into a copper coin sword. He held the hilt with both hands and stabbed it into the axe ghost's head.
The axe ghost screamed and swung the axe towards his head, instantly chopping off half of his head. Chen Yang landed lightly, returned to the window and saw this scene and said, "I finally know why his head is so small." Then he jumped down and said, "Let's go to the basement."
Chen Yang and the other four entered through the first floor window, and Mao Zhen led them to find the entrance to the basement. During this time, the others suspiciously asked him how he knew so much, and Mao Zhen said: "Didn't you say before that I was locked up for more than 20 years and only sneaked out recently? I was locked up in a tomb in the basement of the sixth house."
Groups of ghosts were wandering outside, and the axe ghost on the third floor was also running downstairs. The evil ghosts imprisoned in the houses on both sides smelled the smell of living souls and revelry, and scratched the walls one after another, making a harsh and unpleasant sound that almost made people vomit.
When the four of them ran around the corner, they bumped into someone. When they showed their magic weapons, they found that the person was Kou Xuanling. When Kou Xuanling saw Chen Yang and the other three, he was surprised and said, "You are really here?!"
Chen Yang didn't understand what he meant for the time being, and just pulled him and ran: "Let's talk later, hide now." Mao Zhen led the way in front, and when the ghosts kicked open the door of the sixth house and broke in and released other evil ghosts, they entered the basement, closed the door and hid.
After Chen Yang calmed down his disordered breathing, he immediately asked Kou Xuanling: "What did you mean by that sentence just now? Did someone tell you our whereabouts?"
Kou Xuanling nodded and shook his head: "After I met the mirage ghost and exposed his scam, he told me that the source of the resentment was in the sixth house and asked me to come and find him. He also said that he had appeared beside you, but none of you recognized him. So I guess he should have led you to the sixth house and happened to meet you when he came here."
Hearing this, Chen Yang and the others looked at Mao Zhen with suspicion. Mao Zhen was originally looking at the familiar corridor in the basement. When he came to his senses, he happened to hear what Kou Xuanling said. He saw Chen Yang and the others' suspicion and said immediately, "I am not a mirage ghost. Even if I am a mirage ghost, it doesn't make sense for me to know so much about my own affairs."
Seeing that the doubts of several people were still not dispelled, he continued: "I was really buried in the grave under the sixth house. I was buried for more than 20 years and my connection with my body was cut off. I always thought I was dead. If it wasn't for the living soul that came in, I would have taken you to see my bones long ago."
Chen Yang suddenly said: "He is not a mirage."
Kou Xuanling: "Why? How can you be sure?"
Chen Yang: "He used Taoist magic when fighting the axe ghost just now. If it was a mirage ghost, he would definitely not know Taoist magic."
Kou Xuanling suddenly realized: "So that's it. But the ghost stories in the graveyard cannot be trusted. What if he imitates them to deceive us?"
"You're right about one thing. Ghosts can't be trusted." Chen Yang turned away from Kou Xuanling and took a defensive stance. Zhang Qiudao and Mao Xiaoying pointed their magic weapons at him at the same time. Chen Yang said, "So you are the mirage ghost!"
Kou Xuanling's expression was stiff, and then he was full of doubts: "Why?"
"Why do you suspect you?" Chen Yang: "Because you didn't ask Mao Zhen who he was. When you saw him and heard his explanation, you didn't show any doubt at all."
Kou Xuanling was puzzled. Zhang Qiudao said, "Before this, the Heavenly Masters who came in didn't know Mao Zhen. So if it was the real Kou Xuanling, he definitely didn't know Mao Zhen."
Kou Xuanling suddenly realized: "So that's it." He used Kou Xuanling's face to show a sly smile, "It's been exposed. Let's play it again next time."
Zhang Qiudao, who was closest to him, tried to grab him, but he passed right through his body. Looking back, Zhang Qiudao frowned: "Illusion?"
The mirage ghost said: "The source of the resentment is really in the sixth house, he didn't lie to you." He pointed at Mao Zhen, his smile becoming more and more weird: "But do you really believe him? He tells lies all the time, good children can't believe him. In addition, do you believe that the people around you are really your former companions and not ghosts?" After saying that, he quickly disappeared in front of everyone.
The author has something to say: Second update tonight.
This chapter should be finished tomorrow.