The wind was blowing more and more violently, the clothes of Ghost Li and Jin Ping'er were rattling. They stood at the entrance of Zhenmo Ancient Cave, watching a huge and strangely shaped ominous spirit gradually appear in front of them.
Eyeballs the size of copper bells opened suddenly in the white air, with blood-red light shining faintly, the huge figure of the fierce spirit enveloped him, and his eyes fell on the two mortals standing below him.
"Who dares to come here?"
The voice of the fierce spirit suddenly sounded, powerful and deafening, as if the surrounding mountain walls were shaking.
However, after a while, the evil spirit seemed to have discovered something, he was taken aback for a moment, but his eyes turned to Jin Ping'er who was standing slightly behind beside Gui Li: "It's you again?"
Jin Ping'er smiled, charming and charming, and said: "Yes! It's me, we meet again."
The evil spirit let out an angry howl, and the sound echoed far away, as if his howling sound echoed far away in the deep ancient cave behind him: "Why did you come here again, don't you think it was not enough to disturb the goddess statue last time?"
Jin Ping'er was thinking about how to deal with this ominous spirit. Judging from the situation that day, this ominous spirit guarding Zhenmo Ancient Cave was definitely not easy to deal with. It's just that she was thinking about it, but there was still a smile on her face.
Jin Ping'er was about to speak when suddenly he heard Gui Li beside him saying: "Are you the black tiger among the seven heroes of the southern border who followed Linglong Mistress back then?"
Jin Ping'er was stunned, and turned to look at Gui Li, only to see Gui Li's expression was indifferent, looking at that huge, vicious figure.
Almost at the same time when Gui Li asked these words, that vicious spirit was involuntarily stunned for a moment, as if the name "Black Tiger" had hit him hard somewhere in his heart like a heavy punch.
Even if he turned into a fierce ghost, even if he was abandoned by the world and waited alone for thousands of years, he still had some memories, hidden deep in his heart...
"Who... are you?" The majestic and majestic voice seemed to suddenly become hoarse, completely different from the scene that just appeared.
Gui Li looked at the voice surrounded by eerie ghostly aura, his eyes flickered with complicated and difficult light, and he said slowly: "Among the seven people who followed the Linglong witch back then, the last five went back, and then established the five clans in Southern Xinjiang today. The remaining two are the two brothers who followed the Linglong witch for the longest time, Heihu and Heimu, but they did not come back. According to the legend of the ancient witch tribe, the eldest brother Heihu is loyal and brave, and the second brother Heimu is persistent. I see that you are extremely respectful to this statue, you have been so tenacious for thousands of years, and you have turned into a fierce spirit without regret, so I guess you are a black tiger, right?"
The fierce spirit remained silent for a long time, staring at Gui Li, under the fierce gaze, Gui Li showed no fear at all, and looked directly at him.
Slowly, the dark and white ghost energy around the evil spirit slowly surged, and the blood red color in the eyes of the evil spirit became more and more intense. , the temperature seems to be getting colder.
Xiao Hui, the monkey lying on Gui Li's shoulder, also seemed to be a little uneasy, and called out twice in a low voice.
"Who on earth are you that you know the past of the Wu Clan?" The angry voice of the ominous spirit seemed to suddenly change, and there was an indescribable coldness in his tone.
But Gui Li didn't seem to feel anything, just looked at the huge shadow, and said: "Most people in the world can't remember what happened so long ago, but there will still be legends in the end, handed down bit by bit."
He looked at the ominous spirit, and said word by word: "In today's Southern Xinjiang, descendants of the Wu tribe, there are still people who remember you!"
The ominous spirit's eyes were closed, and he never opened them for a long time.
Jin Ping'er stood at the back, frowning slightly, looked at the ominous spirit, then at Ghost Li next to her, she didn't know anything about these so-called exquisite statues of the ancient Wu tribe, but looking at that The fierce spirit's reaction, it is obvious that what Gui Li said is the truth. All along, she thought that there was no one in the Demon Cult who knew more about all kinds of strange things in the Hundred Thousand Mountains than she did, but unexpectedly, Ghost Li seemed to have hidden things that no one knew about.
Looking at the man's figure, she felt a little awe-inspiring in her heart, but her eyes seemed to be even colder.
For a long time, the wind was still blowing coldly. Above the head, black clouds billowed silently, the cold wind was bleak, and it was a desolate scene.
In this silence, suddenly, the ferocious black tiger suddenly raised its head, raised its head to the sky and roared, its voice was shrill, as if there were countless vicissitudes of the past, all in this roar. When the whistling sound was still faintly echoing in the distant mountains, he had already turned his head. The rumbling sound seemed to be the stirring of emotions, but it was suppressed after all.
"Thank you!"
The vicious spirit stared at Gui Li for a long time, then suddenly lowered his head slightly, and said like this.
With no expression on his face, Gui Li slowly took half a step back, closed his eyes and bowed slightly, as a return of the gift.
The evil spirit nodded, his voice gradually calmed down, and said: "I never imagined that there are still people in this world who remember the empress and us, hey, but when we followed the witch empress to go deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where did we think about the eternal beauty? "
The eyes of the fierce spirit slowly turned to the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, on top of the exquisite statue of witches and goddesses, his eyes instantly became gentler, and even his voice seemed to be much lighter: "But You came here, presumably you didn’t come here on purpose to say these words to me, who is neither a human nor a ghost?”
Gui Li was silent for a moment, and said: "Yes, before I came here, although I have heard the legend about Linglong Mistress and the seven of you, I don't know your current situation, and I don't know that you will be here..."
He raised his head, looked at the fierce spirit, and said slowly: "I came here for the beast god in this cave."
The huge figure of the ominous spirit was shocked, and even he seemed to be afraid of that name.
However, the vicious spirit's eyes did not turn around, but still stayed on the statue, and said, "What are you looking for him for?"
Gui Li said indifferently: "We need to find him, and then kill him."
The vicious spirit suddenly turned back, stared at Gui Li, and said slowly: "Just the two of you?"
Gui Li nodded slowly, said: "Yes."
The speed of the white ghostly aura around the evil spirit seemed to suddenly increase, and his figure seemed to be a little blurred, and after a while, he said coldly: "Yes, the beast god is indeed in the ancient cave of suppressing demons. "
Jin Ping'er's body shook, and a gleam of joy could not help but flash across her face. Gui Li didn't show much joy, he still looked at that fierce spirit.
The ominous spirit was also looking at him, and suddenly said: "I think your clothes should not be from the southern border, but from the middle land, right?"
Gui Li nodded and said, "Exactly."
The evil spirit pondered for a moment, in the gloomy atmosphere, he seemed to see his expression changing, and said: "Do you know why I guarded the entrance of this cave before?"
Gui Li said: "I don't know."
The evil spirit said: "Of course I want to protect the goddess statue, but other than that, I am here to guard. Firstly, I will not allow external forces to revive this evildoer, and secondly, I don't want ignorant people to enter and die. Do you understand?"
Gui Li nodded.
The evil spirit smiled miserably, and said: "But after all, I have failed my mother's trust. I was... deceived by that beast, and I made a big mistake. The evildoer was resurrected, and the world was devastated..." After speaking, his voice gradually dropped Going down, afterward, the vicious spirit seemed to have regained his composure, and said again: "I was already in despair, and I thought there would be no one in the world who could stop this evildoer from harming the common people. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, he was seriously injured and returned. It's beyond my expectation that there are experts who can seriously injure him."
The corners of Gui Li's eyes twitched slightly, then he sneered suddenly, and said: "You don't have to pay too much attention, although the Beast God is defeated, the person who defeated him may not be better off!"
The evil spirit was slightly stunned, not sure what Gui Li's words meant, but at the moment he didn't bother to delve into it, and said: "It's best to get rid of this evil, I have had this heart for thousands of years, I only hate that even if he didn't wake up that day At the same time, I also can't help him. You come from Middle Earth, maybe you can do it, but it's unknown. If it really succeeds... "
The ghostly aura all over his body suddenly disappeared, his eyes widened, and he said loudly: "I thank you here on behalf of my mother!"
After saying that, he moved his body slowly and made way for a path, revealing the deep and bottomless ancient cave behind him.
Gui Li stared into the depths of the cave, turned his eyes away, and took a deep look at the ominous spirit, who was also staring at him.
Gui Li nodded slowly, didn't say anything more, and walked in slowly. When passing by Ji Ling's side, the monkey Xiao Hui who was lying on his shoulder suddenly raised his head, and looked at Ji Ling's huge body curiously, without blinking his three eyes.
That fierce spirit suddenly shouted at Gui Li's back: "There is one more thing, you have to be careful. The Beast God didn't come back alone that day, besides the evil beast Glutton beside him, there was also a monster with extremely high morals, You must be careful."
Gui Li paused for a moment, and said: "As far as I know, all the thirteen monsters under his command have been wiped out."
The vicious spirit shook his head and said, "It's not one of the thirteen monsters. Even I have never seen that monster before. You must be careful."
Gui Li nodded slowly, and continued walking towards the depths of the ancient cave.
Afterwards, Jin Ping'er also followed slowly, and the figures of the two and the monkey slowly melted into the darkness, swaying forward in the depths of the shadows, slowly, but finally they were no longer seen.
The ghostly aura of that ominous body gradually became blurred, but his huge eyes kept staring at the darkness deep in the cave. Suddenly, he uttered a thunderous roar towards the deepest and darkest place, and the roar burst out like a torrent, even the cold wind flowed back against it, the extremely hard rock wall There was a bang, like the sky falling apart!
Amidst the howling sound, the huge body of the fierce spirit slowly disappeared into the darkness...
However, at the same time that the evil spirit disappeared, he didn't notice that outside Zhenmogu Cave, behind the statue, there was a black figure faintly flashing. The sacred artifact of the five clans, the black wood that resurrected the beast god.
The black and wide robes covered Heimu's whole body as before, exuding a cold air, but in his eyes, there were extremely complex gazes, looking at the depths of the ancient cave of suppressing demons. When that ominous spirit who was also his former elder brother disappeared, he slowly withdrew his gaze, and when he reappeared, it fell on the statue of the exquisite witch beside him.
In the howling wind, he seemed to be whispering too: "Your Majesty..."
At the same time, in the distance from the scorched black mountain peak where Zhenmo Ancient Cave was located, under the vast black forest, a team of more than a dozen people slowly walked out. The first person was a beautiful woman dressed in white clothes like snow, holding a blue Tianya fairy sword in her hand, her face was as clear as frost, but there seemed to be some unspeakable sadness and vicissitudes in her eyes. The scorched black mountain peaks in the distance overlook...
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Zhongtu, thirty miles outside Heyang city.
On the avenue, after so long, most of the refugees who fled have returned to their hometown in the south. This place is not far from the foot of Qingyun Mountain, but people in ragged clothes can still be seen trudging hard from time to time. However, there have been more small merchants and peddlers coming and going, and they are much better than when the catastrophe happened a few months ago.
"Immortal pointing out, let's see your half-life count..." Suddenly, a loud yell sounded on the road, breaking the silence here, and it was very ear-piercing.
"Wealth luck, official luck, marriage, whereabouts; Fengshui, facial features, character testing, bone touching, everything is perfect, and everything is perfect. Come, come, one person only needs five taels of silver! It's cheap..."
Zhou Yixian, holding a bamboo pole with a signboard "Immortal Guides the Way", walked over with big strides, shouting all the way, and all the passers-by looked sideways.
The wild dog Taoist who was following him did not speak, and carried all the luggage as usual.
On the contrary, Xiaohuan behind him seemed to be startled for a moment, raised his head from a black book without a letter cover in his hand that he had been looking at carefully all the way, and said in a little astonishment: "Grandpa, what did you just say? Silver one?"
Zhou Yixian turned his head, chuckled, and stretched out five fingers like a fairy descended from heaven, and said solemnly: "Five taels of silver."
Xiaohuan frowned, and said: "But yesterday you only asked for three taels of silver! Also, what happened to you these days, three days ago we were still fine as before, and every customer who looked at us received five taels of silver." Money and silver, but you are good. These days you are jumping up and down. Five cents rose to one tael. After a day, it became two taels. The day before, it became three taels. Today is good, you just call it It's five taels..."
Xiaohuan walked up to Zhou Yixian, looked him up and down carefully, Zhou Yixian was a little scared by her, took a step back and coughed dryly, "What are you looking at, little girl?"
Xiaohuan ignored him, but stretched out his hand towards Zhou Yixian's forehead, Zhou Yixian was startled, took another step back and let him go, saying: "What are you doing so magically?"
Xiaohuan let out a "bah" and said, "You are the one who is supernatural! I just want to see if you have a fever, your brain is burning and confused!"
As she said that, she turned to Taoist Wild Dog who was following behind her and asked, "Master Taoist, do you think my grandfather has become a little confused recently?"
Because it was daytime now, Daoist Wild Dog wore cloth strips on his face as usual, but his eyes were shining brightly, when asked by Xiaohuan at this moment, he laughed twice, then immediately nodded and said: " He, uh, I mean senior is old, so it's inevitable that he's a little..."
"fart!"
Zhou Yixian jumped up in front, furious.
Xiaohuan gave him a blank look, and said: "Grandpa, what are you doing so excitedly, I think what the Taoist said makes sense. Seeing how you look these days, I'm afraid you are really a little confused."
Zhou Yixian seemed to particularly dislike the word "old fool", and was even more annoyed, "What do you two guys know? How old are you, how much do you know about human relationships? I'm not..."
Xiaohuan snapped up, "Really, then tell me, why are you trying to increase the price?"
Zhou Yixian snorted, waved the fairy pointing bamboo pole in his hand, pointed at the scattered pedestrians around, and said: "Look at these people, and those people we met along the way, are they all people who are fleeing? ?”
Xiaohuan nodded and said, "That's right, everyone is the same! Including us."
Zhou Yixian choked for a moment, his old face blushed slightly, and then acted like he didn't hear it.
Xiaohuan said again: "Since they are all refugees and left their homes, I don't think there are many people who think about looking at the photos. I was thinking about whether the price should be reduced, but grandpa, you are fine. Desperately raise the price."
Zhou Yixian put his hands behind his back, put the bamboo pole behind him, and said with a sneer, "According to what you said, I was wrong, but look at these few days, are there fewer or more people looking for us?"
Xiaohuan was stunned for a moment and frowned, but Daoist Wild Dog interjected beside him and said, "Speaking of which, it seems that there are indeed more people looking at spectators these days!"
Zhou Yixian snorted again, with a smug look on his face, and said to Xiaohuan: "You are so young, what can you know? Let me tell you, in the face of great disasters, everyone leaves their homes, so it may not be interesting." The meaning is similar. But this time is very different. The catastrophe is so great that it is rare in ten thousand years. Doesn't it mean that everyone is flocking to point out the maze for them?"
Xiaohuan lowered her head in thought, and after a long time, slowly shook her head and sighed, but there was a trace of bewilderment on her face.
Daoist Wild Dog was still a little confused, so he couldn't help but said, "Then why do you keep raising the price tag?"
Immortal Zhou rolled his eyes and said, "How can I teach you such profound knowledge!"
Daoist Wild Dog hit a nail, Na Na flinched back, but Xiaohuan sighed beside him and said, "I understand this somewhat now."
Daoist Wild Dog and Zhou Yixian were both taken aback, Zhou Yixian said: "Oh, why don't you tell me?"
Xiaohuan shrugged his shoulders, and said lightly: "It's just that you expected that everyone in the world is in panic, and they don't care about their own lives, and how many people pity their belongings? On the contrary, the higher your money is, the more ordinary you are. The common people think that this is a person with profound morals and extraordinary behavior... I didn't believe these things at first. I thought that even an idiot could see such a trick, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, there are still many people who can't see it. "
Zhou Yixian shook his head and said, "You are wrong, Xiaohuan."
Xiaohuan was stunned, and said, "What?"
Zhou Yixian said: "You are right in what you said earlier, it's just the last sentence, but it's not that they can't see it, it's just that they can't see it."
Daoist Yegou was confused and said, "What can't you see?"
Zhou Yixian glanced at the shambling people around him, and said: "How can there be all dull people in the world, it's just a matter of life and death, but I don't know how many people refuse to believe in themselves, and would rather listen to others' comfort. I pointed out the maze for them, and most of what I said and said was about the half life in the future, which will be much better than the current situation. With this statement, they can feel at ease after paying the silver taels."
Xiaohuan suddenly said: "Grandpa, did you really say it from physiognomy, or did you just say it to them?"
Zhou Yixian smiled slightly and said, "I'm talking nonsense."
Xiaohuan and Taoist Yegou looked at each other, and were speechless for a moment.
Zhou Yixian looked up at the sky, looked at the long sky, stared at it for a long time, and said leisurely: "Such a catastrophe, but one but not two, otherwise the law of heaven will not allow it."
Having said that, he turned around and smiled and said, "Since this is the case, life in the future will naturally be much better than the life of not knowing life and death now, and I am not a liar! On the contrary, the old man came all the way to comfort and advise Countless displaced people, not to mention how many people have been revived by the words of the old man, revived from the ashes, how can these merits and virtues be achieved by those monks and priests who huddled in temples all day long and chanted scriptures and recited Buddha?"
He stretched out his hand and patted Xiaohuan's head, his face was fairy-like, righteous and awe-inspiring, full of the old man's feelings of compassion and saving the world, the tragedy of going to hell alone to save the common people, just to collect so much white money, is also the place of righteousness, Not accepting it is not enough to save people, and accepting it is an act of great mercy and vicissitudes of righteousness.
He then sighed, "Life is so lonely..."
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There was no sound for a while, and there was silence all around.
Zhou Yixian frowned, turned his gaze away from the sky high above, and lowered his head to look around.
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"Hey, you two, what are you doing so fast..."