Chapter 13: The Octopus Guard
Along the stairs, I came to the fourth floor of the ancient tower in a few arrow steps, and as soon as I collapsed into the fourth floor of the ancient tower, a flame flew past my ears, and then there was a sound of baking, and four fish-billed beast-like braziers were instantly ignited.
I glanced at the surroundings by the light of the brazier, and the first thing that caught my eye was a golden and splendid hall, which looked very majestic, and there was a stone chair sitting in front of the hall, and after a glance, I didn't find anything unusual, but there was an extremely uneasy sense of oppression in my heart, and I don't know where this sense of oppression came from.
Suddenly, a huge column of water fell from the sky above the main hall, and I quickly ran towards the height of the main hall, and finally stood on the top of a stone sculpture. In an instant, most of the main hall had been flooded by the flowing water that fell from the sky, but the strange thing was that the water had already submerged the brazier of the fish-billed beast, but the fire in the brazier could not be extinguished, as if it continued to burn in the air, which was extremely strange.
Just as I was looking at the vision of water and fire in front of me in amazement, several white figures appeared in the water for no reason, and their movement speed was also very fast.
"Water ghosts?" I couldn't help but cry out.
"Whatever, if it's really some water ghosts, it's easy to deal with, since it's a seal set by Di Ting, it shouldn't be a dead hand on mortals. "I meditated on myself to give myself courage.
Soon, the water coming out of the column was up to my waist! I asserted that at the current rate of the water, a few breaths at most, the hall would be completely submerged, and I would either abandon my mission or drown alive.
At this moment, my submerged feet were dragged into the water by something, because I was standing on the top of the stone sculpture, and my foundation was unstable, and I was dragged into the water at once, and my whole body was completely immersed in the water in an instant.
After falling into the water, I struggled to the surface of the water with all my strength, and in the process of struggling, I clearly saw that there were seven or eight water ghosts in shawls, stretching out their white hands and holding me firmly!
Obviously, they wanted me to suffocate in the water, but for now, in order to survive, I had to break free of the water demons that were holding me, but the more I struggled, the stronger the hands that grabbed me.
No, I can't just give up, if I give up now, then breaking the seal will fail, and Zuo Yingqiu will also be trapped here forever, this is not my original intention. As I held my breath in the water for longer and longer, my brain consciousness began to blur, because the moment I fell into the water, I instinctively held my breath so as not to choke to death immediately, but now it is the limit!
Wow, I couldn't hold it back, I opened my mouth wide and was ready to choke on the water, but the moment I opened my mouth, I was able to breathe freely in the water, and the water I inhaled didn't know where to go after entering my mouth!
By the way, it is the power of the remnant soul of the fish's gills, the power that the fish gave me when I subdued the water ghost in Shuangyan Pond, and it plays a role in the water at this time!
I patted my head, and then suddenly realized: "I use the power of the remnant soul on weekdays, how can I forget that the power of the remnant soul can allow me to breathe freely in the water." ”
Since I can breathe in the water, then these seven or eight water ghosts will be easily solved, and I will quickly use the remnant soul power in my body to my fingertips and shoot at those water ghosts who have grabbed me.
"Bumper"
One after another of mana shot from my fingertips, small pillars of water with a little blistering, galloped towards these water ghosts. In an instant, these water ghosts were repelled at full speed and disappeared without a trace.
After the water ghost disappeared, I instinctively maintained a high degree of vigilance, because the fourth floor of the ancient tower was by no means so easy for me to pass the level, and besides, the octopus guard that the black ghost said had not yet appeared, and a bigger battle was still waiting for me.
Sure enough, the submerged hall was boiled, countless bubbles rose from the bottom of the hall, and a black shadow rushed directly to the direction of the stone chair, and finally sat on the stone chair.
I fixed my eyes and saw that it was a monster with a fish head and a human body, and it was not difficult to see that his fish head was exactly the same as an octopus, he should be the helpless guard of Pochen and Nangong Xiangyue. It's just that the top of the head of this octopus keeps changing color, and the palm of the head is squeezing outward from time to time, but it is finally blocked back by the scalp of the octopus guard.
After I drove the remnant soul power to check, I found that the top of the head of the octopus keeper turned out to be a lot of unjust souls that had been devoured by him, but these unjust souls were very pitiful, and the octopus keeper would never die for a day, and these people would never get the opportunity to be reincarnated, and could only be sealed alive in their fish brains.
"Hahaha, you have mediocre qualifications, and you can actually come to the fourth floor of the ancient tower? This is a big surprise to me, but that's it, before you go up to the next level, Lao Tzu's good days of being served by others will be over, and you will have to complete the mission and report back to the underworld!" After a burst of laughter, the octopus guard was the first to speak to me, but his arrogance was too arrogant.
Although I was a little nervous in my heart, I still pretended to say: "Your good days when you meet my uncle are naturally over, prepare to die, stinky octopus monster!"
The octopus keeper leaped to my side, and the silhouette of the guard's palms was even more evident as he approached the soul that was swallowed by him, and they let out a terrible cry that made people feel pity.
"Before you start, correct your wrong words and deeds, remember that I am the Yin Evil Divine General of the underworld, and I am here to guard the things in the tower by the orders of the divine beasts, not an octopus monster, please call me the octopus guard, understand?"
Before I could react, the octopus guard suddenly summoned a spear out of thin air, and before I could react, the spear snapped and struck me on the left cheek, slamming into the ground with a painful pain.
I stroked my injured face, stood up staggering on the ground, glared at the guard viciously, and said, "You are a piece of garbage with a fish's head, since you attacked Lao Tzu, it seems that you are impatient." I swallowed the pain in my cheeks and clenched my teeth to utter the words.
"Ben will advise you to admit defeat, although you are lucky to be able to come to the fourth floor of the ancient tower, except for your own cleverness, it seems that you have nothing extraordinary! The octopus guard waved his spear at a forty-five degree angle with some contempt and looked at me and preached.
", the master is here to save people, you want to send me away with just a few words, ridiculous, you disgusting monster, the master will definitely kill you today!" After saying that, I controlled the power of the remnant soul in my body and put on a fighting look.
"Look for death!"
After the octopus keeper finished speaking, he swung his long snatch at me again, and I dodged sideways, and the octopus guard split into the air! Because the octopus guard was more ruthless against me, I didn't dare to underestimate the enemy at this time, and controlled the remnant soul power swimming in my body, and also launched a counterattack against the octopus guard.
I rushed to the octopus guard with an arrow step, punched him with my left hand, and punched him in the lower abdomen, trying to control it with the power of the remnant soul, but the power of the remnant soul seemed to be insufficient for the defender in front of me. The guard's body was not half unusual, but instinctively took a step back, keeping a relatively safe distance from me.
"Wow wow" As the octopus guard retreated, a cry came from his body, and it was the devoured souls crying. I frowned and watched what was happening in front of me.
"You think you can hurt me, and to tell you the truth, no matter how much you hurt, it is these souls in me that can bear the damage. ”
After saying that, the octopus guard couldn't help but laugh again, and his laughter was full of arrogance and disdain.
All ghosts must have weaknesses, but the octopus guard in front of him is not controlled by the power of the remnant soul and the attack is ineffective. I thought a little flustered, but the Octopus Keeper seemed to get impatient, and his laughter stopped abruptly, and he swung his spear to attack me again.
I didn't have time to dodge, I went head-on, the octopus guard is worthy of the guard arranged by the underworld, he is indeed too strong, I was easily pressed to the ground by his easy gun handle, the pain instantly spread all over my body, and I couldn't move at all at this moment.
"Do you want to admit defeat?" the Octopus Keeper asked me again.
"Never, never admit defeat!" I stammered out the words, struggling at the same time.
"Hard mouth!"
With that, the Octopus Keeper let go of the handle of his gun and kicked me in the waist. After being kicked by him, I flew several meters in the air and smashed into the foot of the wall of the main hall, if it wasn't for the foot of the wall blocking me, I guess I would have flown farther, and the pain also entered my brain again.
I thought that the Sanskrit golden body and remnant soul power that the old monk gave me would help me block some damage. But at this time, I realized that I didn't even seem to have the power to drive them away, after receiving a heavy blow, the power of swimming in my body seemed to be weakening, and the power of Fan Wenjin's body and the remnant soul were also repelling each other at the moment, they were no longer compatible, what was going on?
The octopus guard's kick made the corners of my mouth and nostrils slowly flow bright red blood, and I wanted to stand up, but my body didn't obey the call at this time.
The guard moved his big and powerful soles and walked slowly towards me, and I watched in despair as he approached little by little, not knowing what would happen next.
After he got closer, he lifted me up from the ground, pressed me against the wall, and said: "Boy, your injuries will recover immediately after you get out of the tower, why bother to be twisted like this, how many people have wanted to get the things in this tower for thousands of years, but none of them can succeed! Even your Yang Shi's Broken Dust and Nangong Xiangyue, these two Dao people with unique skills can't cross the level of Ben Jiang, you are a little hairy child who has not dried up, it is even more impossible, Ben Jiang advises you to get out of the tower as soon as possible, so as to avoid the pain of skin and flesh." ”
"Don't compare me with the evil ways like Nangong and Pochen, although I am not good, I am not as bad as them, and I don't want to get what you said about the bullshit in the tower. I'm here today just to break the seal and save a friend who is trapped here!" I replied weakly to the guards.
"Friend, is it a friend of the dead soul? The seals in this mass grave mountain are all harmful ghosts, if they are really ghosts with good intentions, the seal has no effect on them, you kid is actually in the company of evil things!" asked the octopus guard with some differences.
"Since I am not defeated by you, no matter what you say, it is a big truth, although I am •••••• way"
"Ahh
Before I could say anything, the guard who was holding me screamed, and he let go of my hand, and I slipped down the wall and barely got a foothold.
The guard pinched his injured hand, looked at me with a puzzled expression, and said, "How can your blood hurt me?"
My eyes widened to see that it was me who was talking to the Shogun when blood from the corner of my mouth was running down the back of his hand. At this time, the back of the octopus guard's hand showed signs of flame burning, and a large hole was burned by the flames in the middle of the huge palm, and I was happy in my heart, it turned out that this monster was afraid of my blood, and I couldn't help but show a wicked smile at the corner of my mouth.
Seeing that the flames were burning faster and faster, the guard directly cast a spell from his wrist and cut off his right hand!
I bit my finger, blood trickling down my fingertips, and I raised my hand to sprinkle the blood in my hand. Although the guard dodged the situation, he couldn't avoid it completely effectively due to the excessive blood splashing, and a drop of blood the size of a spitting star was scattered on his shoulder, and the moment the blood dropped, a little spark with black smoke appeared on his shoulder again. The blood was like raindrops falling into the sand, burrowing into the guard's body, and he endured the pain again, and buckled a lump of flesh from his shoulder! The smug look he had just now was gone, and the rest was the sound of pain.
Although the power in my body can't defeat Zhang Shoujiang, he is afraid of my blood, so I still have hope, thinking of this, I was happy in my heart, and once again waved the blood of my fingertips and sprinkled it towards the guard.
"That's it, boy, you win, you go to the fifth floor. The guard held his injured hand and preached to me.
How could it be possible! The octopus guards, who were helpless even Pochen and Nangong Xiangyue, were defeated in my hands!
I couldn't hide the joy in my heart, and said to the guard: "Octopus guard, I said what I want to do, and no one can stop it. ”
However, after I said this, I regretted it a little, what if I provoked him and broke the net with me, after all, I don't know how strong my blood is.
Fortunately, the guard did not get angry at my words, and after waving a tentacle on the top of his head, he spoke: "Boy, do you know what kind of blood flows in your body?"
By the way, the faceless ghost and the strange fish in Shuangyan Pond also said that there was a problem with my blood, what was going on?, I couldn't help but look at the guard with an expectant look, hoping that he would give me an answer.
But the guard general did not give me an answer, but said: "At this moment, I am powerless to block your way, but as the guard of the artifact, I still have good words to persuade you, the things in the tower are taken, the seal will be broken, and the ghosts and ghosts of the mass burial mountain will return to the world, and the chaos will be in trouble, and it is not too late for you to leave now!"
The guard wanted to stop me from going to the tower one last time, but at this time, I only had one thought in my heart, that is, to hurry up to the fifth layer of the ancient tower, not to get any artifact he said in his mouth, but to break through the seal and rescue Zuo Yingqiu as soon as possible.
"Woe to the common people, the ghosts trapped in the mountains are all controlled by headless ghosts, and they are sealed here by some bullshit, so they can't be reincarnated as humans!
I shouted at the defeated man in front of me, and the reason why I dared to scold him like this was because he said that he was powerless to stop me from going, so I was still afraid of a bird!
"Although I sucked souls and imprisoned them in my body, these souls that I sucked were all ruthless in the yang world, and each soul killed many innocent lives, even if they were reincarnated as humans, it would be a bully on the one side of the scourge. The guard argued.
"That's enough, I don't want to listen to your nonsense, open the way to the fifth layer. I yelled at the Octopus Keeper again, impatiently.
"Hey, it's hard to disobey your destiny!"
The Octopus Keeper sighed and shook his head, he raised his hand and waved his sleeve, and in an instant, a pillar of light rose from the ground and soared into the sky.
"You walk into the center of the pillar of light, turn left and right three times, and you will reach the top of the fifth floor!" the octopus guard looked at me like a scoundrel.
Without hesitation, I strode towards the center of the pillar of light, and did as the octopus shogun said, and in an instant my body became extremely light, like a feather blown away by a strong wind, floating along the pillar of light.
After floating in the pillar of light for a while, the pillar of light lost its original light, and I fell to the ground with it.
Because it should have reached the fifth floor of the tower, that is, the top of the tower.
The fifth-story tower was pitch black all around, and the old monk's eyes that opened to me seemed to have lost their effectiveness here, and I still couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly. The octopus guard on the fourth floor has already beaten me half to death, and I don't know what ghosts are in the fifth-layer tower, but I conclude that his mana should be above the octopus guard, because judging from my experience in entering the tower, every time I go up to the tower, the ghosts guarding the town will be a lot stronger, and I don't know if my blood is useful to the ghosts on the fifth floor.
Just as I was muttering, a blue light suddenly appeared.
A behemoth, glowing blue phantom beast appeared in front of me. I looked at the scene in amazement, waiting for it to attack, because I felt that only by defeating it could I break through the seal.
But this behemoth phantom beast didn't make any attack on me, but I took the lead in a fighting posture, waiting to fight him.
After half a ring, the giant beast took the lead in speaking: "The cycle of cause and effect, a hundred trials and tried, the time has finally come, fish gills, fish gills, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd? Don't you know the consequences of all this?"
What cause and effect? What gills? I looked like I was ready to fight, and I looked warily at the phantom beast in front of me.
"Are you a Divine Beast?" I asked.
"Fish gills, fish gills, you let me tell you what is good. ”
The phantom beast in front of me didn't answer my question, just called the name of the gills vigorously. Di Ting and the gills of the fish are the yin of the underworld, it is not difficult to guess that they know this, but when I got the power of the remnant soul in my body, the strange fish in Shuangyan Pond repeatedly told me not to tell others, otherwise there will be a big disaster, but now the phantom of Di Ting has been calling the name of the gills, could it be that he has already sensed the power in my body, so it will be like this!
"You're the first person to be able to reach the fifth floor, I have a few words of advice here, I wonder if the boy would like to hear it?"
"I don't want to hear any advice, I just want to break through the seal and take my friends. I raised my hands high and squeezed the blood from my fingertips to preach to the Phantom Monster.
"You just asked me if I was a Diting Divine Beast, yes, I'm a doppelganger phantom of Diting. Don't worry, my doppelganger phantom doesn't have any attack power, and the eight-whisker lock soul chapter with the indestructible body of King Kong can be repelled by you, so you don't have to worry. ”
I thought there would be a vicious fight, but I didn't expect that Di Ting actually had no attack power, which made my hanging heart relax a little.
"Young man, if you break through the seal today and release the demons and evil that are suppressed here, you will contribute to a big mistake, I am the phantom of the Difu Diting, although I am not an ancient god, but I also belong to the divine beast that maintains the peace and soul of the earth, and I hope that the young man will retreat quickly today, and do not fall into the shoes of others, so as not to regret it too late!"
"You are exactly the same as the guard downstairs, I have worked hard to come to you, I just want to save my friend, I don't care about the rest, if Lord Di really wants to stop me from breaking the seal, please let my friend go, let him go out with me. After saying that, I bowed respectfully to Di Ting.
"I set the seal back then, even if my deity is here, I can only destroy it, but all ghosts with evil thoughts will never leave without breaking the seal. Bi Di listened and shook the beast's head.
"A ghost creature with evil thoughts? Although my ghost slave Zuo Yingqiu is a ghost, he has never harmed a person, why can he only enter but not leave? Since you are afraid that I will make a big mistake, why don't you come to stop it! When you enter the tower, why do you pretend to tell me that you have waited for me for hundreds of years, and if you want to break through the seal, you must enter the tower to defeat you, and set up a gray vortex to take me into the tower, what do you want?"
I couldn't hold back the anger in my heart, and let out a series of questioning voices, looking at the phantom beast in front of me.
"Whether the demon Zuo Yingqiu has harmed people, you can know as soon as you ask, as for you saying that I have waited for you for hundreds of years and teleported you to the tower, it is even more nonsense, because you and I have never met before!"
After saying that, the phantom disappeared instantly, leaving behind a crescent blood jade about the size of a fist in the place where it disappeared, and the blood jade emitted a blood-red light to the surroundings.
"Hey, wait, you haven't told me how to break the seal, how can you just say go. ”
I yelled into the air, but I didn't reply to my message, and it was empty all around, except for me and the crescent blood jade that still glowed.
I looked around with the light of the blood jade, but the darkness around me seemed to have no end in sight!
After looking at it, I reached for the Blood Jade, and it seemed that the thing in the tower that the Octopus Keeper and the black-clad ghost were talking about was this!
As soon as my hand touched the blood jade, a cold and piercing sensation instantly entered my palm, as if a warm palm suddenly grasped a piece of cold ice.
Sure enough, it's a good thing, no wonder the octopus guard said that how many people have wanted to get the things in this tower for thousands of years, although I don't know the role of this jade for the time being, but even Pochen and Nangong Xiangyue want to get something, it must be a good thing!
After the blood jade was grabbed by me, the light disappeared instantly, and the entire ancient tower suddenly swayed, it seems that the ancient tower is about to collapse!
As soon as I got out of the tower, the ancient tower collapsed with a bang under my feet, and the ancient tower the size of a water cup did not splash much mud and sand, but only shattered into gray sand.