Chapter 22: The Netherworld's Visitor
1.
Yang Chenghuai glared at Hong Chen with a hideous face: "You have already come out of the nightmare, but you deliberately pretended not to wake up, just to seize this opportunity?!"
Hong Chen waved his hand, and the red ancient sword in his hand turned into a dazzling red light, and then disappeared without a trace. She slapped Lin Xiao on the shoulder, and the weight of her hand was so heavy that he bared his teeth and only inhaled cool air.
"Big brother, my cultivation is I don't know how many times higher than this one, even he can break free from the nightmare, do you actually think I won't be able to get out? When did the person in this heavy building become so innocent?"
The volume of Hong Chen's words was not loud, but the other two listened to it as loud as thunder in their ears. Lin Xiao looked at Yang Chenghuai, who looked uncertain in front of him, dumbfounded, and couldn't speak for a long time, before he held back a sentence: "You climbed two floors to come to me just to make me have a nightmare?"
This sentence still revealed a bit of ridicule and ridicule in a speechless tone, and Yang Chenghuai's cheeks twitched for a while, and his fists were pinched around his body with a "crackling" sound. He took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions briefly, didn't pay attention to Lin Xiao's words, but turned his head to Hong Chen and said, "Who are you?"
Lin Xiao automatically answered: "She is not a person. ”
Yang Chenghuai's eyes glared angrily: "I didn't ask you again!" After finishing speaking, he was speechless for a while, probably because he forgot what he wanted to ask after being stirred up by Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao asked faintly: "Do you want to ask her what is the word if she is not human?"
"Hey, which side are you standing on?" Hong Chen glared at him fiercely, if his eyes could kill, Lin Xiao had already been slashed by her at this time.
Yang Chenghuai also shouted: "Boy, shut up!" After finishing speaking, he paused for a moment, "What are the words that you are not human?"
"Poof~" Lin Xiao couldn't hold back and laughed.
Hong Chen stepped on his foot hard, but his face was full of smiles that could not be concealed.
The expression on Yang Chenghuai's face was so gloomy that he was almost dripping water, if it weren't for the fact that the dream tapir had been killed by Hong Chen, he really wanted to torture the two people in front of him who didn't take him seriously to death with a few nightmares now. Especially when these two people sang double reeds in front of him without hesitation-
Lin Xiao: "Do you think he's stupid?"
Hong Chen: "It's really stupid!"
Lin Xiao: "Are all the people in the first floor like this?"
Hong Chen: "Probably, it may be that all the ghost qi of cultivation has been blocked in my brain." ”
Lin Xiao: "I think he's so stupid, even if he tells him the truth, he shouldn't be ......"
Hong Chen: "That's right...... Then tell him. ”
Lin Xiao turned his gaze back to Yang Chenghuai, and his tone was full of the taste of charity: "She is a heartless person." ”
Yang Chenghuai was deliberately left aside, and he was already so angry that he thought to himself, no wonder he always heard his predecessors say that this guy was able to make a mess of the world at the beginning, and now it seems that even if he has no cultivation, he can talk about people to death with one mouth, and he is really an out-and-out master!
Yang Chenghuai is a figure in the current era of the first heavy building, he has never seen the period before the division of the seventh building, and naturally he has never seen what earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods the person in front of him who "cultivates as a bronze, but his mouth is a king".
All he is thinking about now is how to get out, and don't talk to Lin Xiao again, otherwise it will not be easy to cultivate for many years, and if he is buried here because he is angry, it will be a real blood loss!
Yang Chenghuai turned to Hong Chen, who was standing aside: "Even if you are a heartless person and can not be affected by the Nightmare Realm, then how do you know that I am from a heavy building?"
Hong Chen said with a smile: "If before the seven-story building was separated, the major interfaces were regarded as one, and with only one dream tapir, I really couldn't guess that you were the person of the Lethe River and the Netherworld." ”
"But since the separation of the Seven-Story Building, this creature is a specialty of your First Building, and you can't find it anywhere else. ”
Lin Xiao's eyes widened: "This species is so rare?!Then didn't you kill someone else's national treasure this time?"
Hong Chen was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "It seems to be ...... That's what happened. ”
"But what I'm more concerned about now is-" Hong Chen locked his gaze on Yang Chenghuai's face, "Who is so generous that he can invite the ghost envoy of Lethe River to come and kill in person?"
Yang Chenghuai raised his eyebrows: "You know again?"
Hong Chen's gaze became sharper and sharper: "Not only do I know that you are a ghost envoy, but I also know that your sister, Shencha, must be nearby." ”
Lin Xiao exclaimed: "Under the Nine Shadows, the ghost makes the gods send!"
"Although I haven't known the current situation of the Seven-Story Building for a long time, I still know that every generation of 'ghosts and gods' in the underworld is accompanied by strange beasts. Hong Chen added with a smile.
"Ghost envoy?" Lin Xiao looked at Yang Chenghuai twice, "You shouldn't be called Yang Chenghuai, right?"
"What do you say?" Hong Chen glanced at him.
"Nonsense! How can there be such a dirty turtle name. ”
"......" Hong Chen was speechless for a moment, leaving only a white eye that almost rolled to his heels.
Yang Chenghuai smiled sheepishly: "My real name is indeed not called Yang Chenghuai, I also said it just now, this is just a fake identity I made in order to lurk around you." As for who my name is, I don't think you two dying people need to know!"
"The one who is about to die?" Lin Xiao smiled: "You have no opinion on blowing this in front of me, but ......" said and pointed to Hong Chen beside him, "...... Even if other girls have a lower sense of existence because they talk less than me, don't think she doesn't exist!"
The smile on Yang Chenghuai's face became more and more gloomy: "You don't really think that if you have a nightmare, it will really be your home field, right?"
Lin Xiao's face changed slightly: "You just lied to me?!"
"What did he lie to you?" Hong Chenqi said.
Lin Xiao stared at the sinister smile on Yang Chenghuai's face: "After I woke up, I found that the entire dormitory was lifeless like a morgue, and no matter how much trouble we made, my roommates didn't wake up." You told me you used the incense on them in advance, but that's not the case, right?"
Hong Chen only felt that his heart skipped a beat in an instant, and he said in a deep voice: "You have set up a ghost domain around here?!"
"Ghost Domain?" This time it was Lin Xiao's turn to look dazed, "What the hell is this......?" You've moved your Netherworld to our school?"
Hong Chen explained: "The so-called 'ghost domain' - according to the popular interpretation of the people, it is 'the underworld' or 'the place where ghosts gather'. Among the special enchantments practiced by the people of the first floor, there is one called the Ghost Domain. This enchantment is a unique space formed by the caster's condensation of his own ghostly energy to attract evil spirits and gather the surrounding evil energy. ”
"The ghost realm is usually attached to the scene of reality, and the gods and ghosts are unaware of everything, and the only flaw is that it will silence the things that contain the breath of life in the real scene. However, because the ghost domain is only most effective at night, and in the dead of night, those who enter this domain are often unable to perceive the subtle changes in the surrounding environment for the first time, and when they really react, they have already been invaded by the evil qi of yin ghosts, and the yang energy is completely lost and died. ”
Yang Chenghuai clapped his hands and smiled: "It is worthy of being a sword spirit with successful cultivation, and it is really well-informed." I admit that I've been patiently talking nonsense with you here for so long, and I am indeed delaying time, in addition to getting out, but also to let the ghost qi penetrate into your body a little more!"
"Calculate now," Yang Chenghuai pinched his fingers in a pretentious manner, "It seems that the time is almost over......
Before the words fell, Lin Xiao only felt that an extremely cold breath suddenly rose from the meridian bone marrow, like thousands of small needles pricking in his body, and suddenly his whole body was stiff, and the blood on his face was lost, only to feel that his throat was sweet, and the next moment a mouthful of blood would spurt out.
Hong Chen was startled, his fingers were fast, he sealed several acupoints on his chest, and asked in a low voice, "Can you be lucky?"
Lin Xiao felt dizzy after vomiting blood, his mouth was full of bloody and irritating smells, his ears were buzzing, and his face was pale: "I'm afraid I can't...... One luck ...... It hurts!"
Hong Chen's face was gloomy as if it was dripping water, she helped Lin Xiao to sit down on the spot, and when she stood up again, the red light flashed in her palm, and the crimson ancient sword was once again held in her hand.
"Remove the Ghost Domain, now! now! immediately!"
Yang Chenghuai smacked his lips and said, "Oh, the spirit is not affected by the ghost domain, but I forgot about it." But it doesn't matter, it's much easier to deal with you alone. As he spoke, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, Lin Xiao only felt that an invisible big hand grabbed his back at once, directly picked him up in place and pulled him back, pressing him against the wall.
Yang Chenghuai's move was to provoke Hong Chen, as long as she was messed up, she would definitely show flaws. At that time, even if she is capable, in the ghost domain she has laid down, she can only be caught in the end.
Hong Chen looked at Yang Chenghuai coldly, and suddenly, a sweet smile appeared on his face.
Yang Chenghuai couldn't help but be stunned, and an indescribable fear suddenly came to his heart at this moment.
The flowers blooming on the other side of the Santu River are the most beautiful scenery of the entire Yizhong Building. However, if you are deceived by the appearance of the flower on the other side and touch its body, you will be burned by the karmic fire contained in its flower.
Yang Chenghuai subconsciously felt that his current behavior was like a person who tried his best to touch the flowers on the other side.
Hong Chen said quietly: "I hope that when you talk later, you will be able to be as tough as you are now!"
2.
The aura around Yang Chenghuai's body became more and more gloomy, and under the reflection of the faint blue candle flame in the room, it could be clearly seen that with the condensation of the breath, the skin and flesh on his face full of stubble actually appeared one crack after another, and then fell off layer by layer, but instead of revealing flesh and blood, another slightly handsome face appeared.
"Human skin/mask?" Hong Chen said in surprise: "It seems that your ability to pretend to be a ghost is far better than your ability to fight!"
"Yang Chenghuai" said gloomily: "Lethe River Netherworld, the ghost makes Yun Mengze, please advise!"
"Yun Mengze?" Hong Chen frowned and repeated.
Before he finished speaking, Yun Mengze raised his right hand, and the green and faint sigil with the sound of ghost crying split into four in mid-air, turning into four green flames that directly blocked Hong Chen's upper and lower movements. As long as she blocks, at least one of the four sigils will hit her.
Hong Chen held the long sword in his hand, and the sword intent naturally rose, and when the four runes reached the position in front of her, they stopped in mid-air, as if they had hit an invisible wall.
Yun Mengze's pupils shrank slightly, and there was a faint hint of horror in his eyes. He sealed with one hand, and four wisps of ghostly fire hovered around Hong Chen, condensing into a ring of fire to enclose her.
Although the color of that layer of flame was bright, the firepower was restrained, and there was no outward release, which showed that Yun Mengze's control over this spell had reached the point of perfection.
Hong Chen still stood motionless, the tip of the long sword in his right hand pointed vertically to the ground, and his left hand was behind his back, twisting a sword trick. The red ancient sword trembled lightly in her hand, and the sword qi on the blade lingered, making a slight humming sound, ready to attack.
The temperature in the ghost domain slowly rose, and the yin spirits gathered around gradually appeared under the pressure of the high temperature of the ghostly fire, reflecting the four areas into a green patch. Suddenly, seeing the magic seal in Yun Mengze's hand, the ring of fire around Hong Chen suddenly locked and spread, enveloping her whole person in flames.
Yin spirits of all sizes roared, and they all pounced on the green flame that had been wrapped into a ball. Yun Mengze sneered, and was waiting to complete the last strangulation again, and the next moment, the smile on his face directly froze.
But I saw that the green flame appeared at some point, and those flames went from point to line and then to the surface, and instantly swallowed up the green flame, becoming a red fireball.
The red flame had an extremely strong attachment, and it immediately ignited all the yin spirits gathered in the ghost domain, and in an instant, the sound of devil crying was loud, as if the sound of thousands of sharp nails scraping on the glass made people's ears hurt to hear it.
Yun Mengze was shocked, and was about to go to the direction where Hong Chen was to make another enchantment, but when he sealed it, he was shocked to find that his sigil had also turned into the color of a red flame at some point.
The red fireball parted from it, and Hong Chen walked out with a long sword in his hand and stepped on the flames, really like the flowers on the other side of the Santu River. She raised her sword and pointed forward, and the sword qi on the blade was as red as blood.
At the beginning of the slender hand, with a move of "Chaotic Red Flying Twilight", the shadow of the long sword turned into a red mang in the sky, like a red glow in the twilight, and swept towards Yun Mengze with an incomparably violent sword aura.
Yun Mengze seemed to be stunned, and the sword qi directly hit him with lightning speed. I heard a crisp sound, as if the cotton silk was being torn, and everything in the dormitory suddenly tore apart, and the surrounding area became the scene of the school gymnasium.
Hong Chen frowned slightly, and his luck slid away a few steps to push himself out of the danger range. Yun Mengze's figure was twisted to pieces after colliding with that sword qi, and pieces of paper with gold leaf flew around - it turned out to be just a paper figure made of paper money.
Yun Mengze's real body was standing not far away, his face was like gold paper, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand, snapped his fingers, and all the lights in the gymnasium lit up together, illuminating the room as if it were day.
"In the face of danger, he can calmly perform the teleportation charm superimposed puppet technique at the last moment, in the end, he is a person who can become a ghost envoy, his skills are really extraordinary!" Hong Chen had already put away the long sword in his hand, and was looking back and forth at Yun Mengze with a smile.
"Anyway, if you light so many lights, you're not afraid that the patrolling security guards will find out, or be photographed by the surveillance?"
"I've laid an enchantment that non-cultivators can't notice. ”
Yun Mengze looked at Hong Chen, who was nonchalant: "If I have just completed the last seal, you may not be able to win against me!"
"Fool, you!" A familiar lazy voice suddenly came from behind him, Yun Mengze was startled, and when he turned his head, he saw that Lin Xiao had walked to his side, putting his arm on his shoulder, and his tone was like a family routine: "You have been pretending to be an ordinary person for so long, have you ever played a game?"
"Played. Yun Mengze replied subconsciously.
"Then who have you ever seen who is full of anger and still puts small moves one by one?
Yun Mengze turned his head to look at Hong Chen in amazement, Hong Chen was dumbfounded for a long time, and then replied: "The words are not coarse." Then he asked, "Wait a minute...... Why did you get out?"
Lin Xiao said: "You ask me, who am I asking? Originally, that ghost qi was about to torture me crazy, but that feeling didn't last long, and suddenly disappeared." I said, there shouldn't be a time limit for this ghost, right?
"Get out and play, play too much of the game, you!" Hong Chen scolded with a smile: "And if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, 'limited skills' refers to the limit of the number of skills and not the limit of time, are there any cultures in the end?!"
Yun Mengze shook his head and said, "Impossible, as long as I don't remove the ghost domain, the oppression of the ghost qi on you will always exist...... But why?"
Hong Chen said, "Then aren't you lifted now?"
Lin Xiao also shook his head: "When the two of you were still fighting in the dormitory, he shouldn't have been relieved, but I was already out of trouble at that time." ”
Hong Chen and Yun Mengze looked at him in disbelief.
Lin Xiao was furious by them, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand that had been behind his back, and Hong Chen found that a long sword with a pitch-black body was held in his hand, and the blade of that sword was engraved with scarlet runes, exuding a fierce and strange ominous aura. "I think it has something to do with it. ”
"This is ......" Hong Chen couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "Biluo!"
3.
"Biluo?!"
Yun Mengze's eyes also widened in shock, "I'll just say how many people can fall from the entire seven-story building, it turns out that you are the sword demon lord in the legendary Ethereal City!"
Lin Xiao was said with a blank face: "I don't know if it was before, anyway, now-absolutely not!"
"You wait a minute. Hong Chen was surprised, "Listen to what you mean...... How did you find him when you killed him?
Yun Mengze said: "The 'ghost envoy of the first floor' must all know that they are all people who work for the Soul Chasing Pavilion. Three months ago, someone went to the pavilion to meet the pavilion master and applied for a red soul chasing order, and the object was him. ”
Hong Chen made a "stop" gesture: "I'm sorry, interrupt a little, let me ask you, see if my guess is correct—that Yun Mengyao in the foreign language department of the dormitory next door to me, could she be your sister?"
Yun Mengze nodded: "Yes, it turns out that you have already noticed it." ”
"Then why are you the only one who changed your name......
"I'll ask you, eldest sister, is it okay to prioritize everything, is it time for gossip now!" Lin Xiao turned his head and glanced at Hong Chen, and continued angrily: "Who will explain to me what this 'Soul Chasing Pavilion' is first?"
"The Soul Chasing Pavilion is an organization composed of masters of a heavy building, similar to the 'Yipintang' organized by the royal family of the Western Xia Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the core is composed of three people - the pavilion master, as well as the 'ghost envoy Shencha' under the seat. Hong Chen explained, "The most important point is that before the separation of the Seven Stories Building, the Soul Chasing Pavilion was the most powerful intelligence agency and assassination organization in the whole world. ”
"Why?"
"The original name of the first building was Lethe River Netherworld, and most of the people who lived there were monks who were well versed in the methods of ghosts, and they were best at concealing disguises, illusion mazes, and gathering evil spirits, so they were suitable for espionage and assassination. ”
"What the hell is that red soul chasing order?"
Yun Mengze said: "You can understand the soul chasing order as the kind of 'reward order' or 'hunting and killing order' on the rivers and lakes. If someone wants to entrust us with the hand of the Soul Chaser Pavilion to kill someone, they must first apply for the Soul Chaser Order, and it can only be considered effective if the Pavilion Master approves it. ”
"The Soul Chasing Order is divided into red and white, and the red Soul Chasing Order is aimed at extremely important roles, so important that it requires the ghost to send a shot, and sometimes even the pavilion master himself has to settle it. ”
Lin Xiao was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time, and only after a while did he say quietly: "What are you kidding...... Where did I get such a big face?!"
"The most bizarre thing about this is not here. Yun Mengze continued: "After I succeeded as the ghost envoy, I once looked through all the mission files recorded in the Soul Chasing Pavilion, and found that in the more than 1,000 years since the separation of the Seven-Story Building, due to the inability to communicate between the various floors, the Soul Chasing Pavilion has never taken over the Soul Chasing Order applied for by other floors, let alone the red level. ”
Hong Chen said: "Since you have already applied for the Soul Chasing Order, then there is no reason why you don't know who he is?"
"The soul chase only provided a photo, not a name. Yun Mengze said.
Lin Xiao was stunned and asked, "I don't even have a name, how did you find me?"
Hong Chen was also stunned: "I don't even have a name, why is such a hasty soul chasing order at the red level?"
"It's not easy to find you, it's not enough to perceive your dreams through the tapir. Yun Mengze replied: "As for why this soul chasing order is at the red level, the mysterious person who came to apply left some words for the pavilion master, and I won't say anything complicated, one of which is that the relationship between you and the sword idiot Ye Wuxin is extraordinary......"
"Sword idiot Ye Wuxin?" Lin Xiao was stunned, "Who is it?"
Hong Chen rolled his eyes: "It's your Teacher Xiaoye!"
"Isn't her name Ye Xin?" Lin Xiao couldn't react for a while.
"People can't hide their identities and change their names—just like him!" Hong Chen stretched out his hand and pointed at Yun Mengze.
Yun Mengze continued: "Our Pavilion Master believes that this mission should be related to the incident when the sword idiot slashed the void on the Quadruple Building Wasteland more than ten years ago, and he told me and my sister not to slack off. You should know the rest of the story. ”
Lin Xiao asked, "What you said is true?"
Yun Mengze nodded: "There is no lie." ”
"Aren't all killers loyal to their mission?" Lin Xiao looked at the other party suspiciously, "Why are you so honest with me?"
"If you are really the Sword Demon Deity, I am afraid that if I kill you, Ethereal City will not allow the Soul Chaser Pavilion to exist in this world anymore. Yun Mengze said, "Although I'm not afraid of death, I have to think about my sister!"
Lin Xiao nodded: "Okay, I'll trust you, and by the way, I'll ask you one last question - who is the person who applied for the red soul chasing order to reward me?"
Yun Mengze said: "When I was in the Soul Chasing Pavilion, I tried that person's skills, although there were many hidden points in his moves, and I couldn't see his details, but I noticed that what he cultivated was a kind of true qi that was extremely strong and yang. In our first building, there is no such number one person. ”
Hong Chen asked in surprise, "Is he from another floor?"
Yun Mengze nodded: "And if my judgment is not wrong, it should be your four-story building people." ”
"Quadruple Building?" Hong Chen frowned, "Could it be them......?"
Lin Xiao asked, "What did you think of?"
Hong Chen replied: "In the Quadruple Building, whether it is the Immortal Sect or the Sword Sect, most of the cultivation of True Qi is a combination of Yin and Yang, and there are very few exercises that are extremely rigid to Yang and Yin to Soft—only two are exceptions. ”
Lin Xiao suddenly had a bad premonition: "Which two are they?"
"The representative of the most yin and the softest is the Taiyin Immortal Alliance founded by the Yin Rutan of the Illusory Void Valley, and the representative of the most yang and the strongest is ......"
Hong Chen met Lin Xiao's gaze and said four words:
"Purple Sun Divine Sect!"
【To be continued】