Chapter 59: Light Emerges from Darkness
The anti-soul butterfly in Wang Hao's eyes disappeared, and dark purple corpse spots quickly appeared on his right arm, starting from the tip of his index finger, and the solid body gradually rotted and stinked, turning into muddy minced meat.
The tension and soft muscles of his skin were no longer able to restrain his nails, and those well-trimmed nails were cocked, yellow pus flowed from between his fingers, and then withered along with his nails. This trend of decay was unstoppable, spreading down the right shoulder to the boy's whole body, Wang Hao watched indifferently as his body festered and decomposed, the muscles on his cheeks and lips softened and fell, revealing his white teeth and cheekbones, the dark eyes became cloudy and pale, as if they had been poured into white mud and sand, and fell out of the socket due to the decay and erosion of the eyelids, and were hung and swayed in the air by the optic nerve with difficulty; the long black hair that the boy loved so much withered and withered and turned into a black foul-smelling liquid; the liquefied brain slowly flowed out from the seam between the skull and the spine, and the optic nerve finally became a rootless treeThe two cracked and deflated eyeballs fell, fell to the ground and shattered, and the internal organs flowed out of the hem of the robe, but the intestines still hung on the hip bone, refusing to leave the body for which it had been dedicated for so long.
The gradually decomposing body could no longer bear the wide robe, and the scarlet hanfu was soaked in foul-smelling corpse fluid, becoming heavy, just like the responsibility of the living.
The cloth shoes that hung from the rotting muscles of their feet were filled with minced meat, and they also swayed, trying to get out of here and return to the embrace of the earth.
【…… It's funny. 】
The skeleton's mandibles open and close, making a hollow tapping sound.
But you forgot, Princess Undead. There are some things that even death can't take away. 】
Like bones, like will.
[It just so happens that even death can't make me succumb. 】
The skeleton flicked its hands to shake off the rotten flesh that remained, the skeleton kicked and danced and kicked off the cloth shoes hanging from its feet, and the skeleton sprouted horns and cascading bony crowns.
The skeleton unbuckled its belt, and it undressed, revealing a heart of crystals glowing a soft blue light from its ribcage.
Rancid flesh and unidentified fluid fell from the skeleton's body, and the skeleton lifted its intestines in front of it, gladly rattling, and then let go of its phalanges.
[Fortunately, we haven't eaten for a long time...... Otherwise, it's embarrassing to have filth in your intestines. 】
Behind the skeleton spread a pair of skeleton wings, its lower limbs changed into hideous bones with anti-joints, the long tail extending from its spine swayed wantonly behind it, and two clusters of turquoise flames lit up in the skeletal eye sockets as white as jade.
The filth is pure, and the light comes out of the darkness.
The two long horns of the skeleton curled like argali's sheep on the sides of its forehead, and the remaining eight rose to the sky, like a dark crown.
[Now, let's talk about it seriously...... The question of compensation. 】
The skull, full of holy beauty, raised its hand and rubbed its mandible, and the flames in its eyes were aimed at Yuyuko of Saigyoji Temple.
[The price of the next body is very expensive. 】
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Wang. ”
Yuyuko of Xixing Temple owes herself, and her beautiful face is full of apologies. She took out a branch from the wide sleeve of her kimono, and it had no green leaves and red flowers on it, it was black and dead, but it was as sharp as fangs and claws, as if it had been forged from cast iron.
"This is the branch that the Westward Demon has shed, so let's use it as a gift for destroying your body. ”
[Well, if that's the case, it's pretty much the same.] 】
The skeleton nodded, and he vibrated the bone wings behind him, and approached the undead princess, reaching for the iron branch.
The white jade-like skeletal hand gently gripped the top half of the iron branch, and it didn't worry about being hurt by the sharp bifurcation. The white and delicate hand of Yuyuko of the Saikyo Temple is held in the lower half of the iron branch, and she will not actually be injured by the Westward Demon, but out of the subconscious of avoiding damage, she still holds the root of the branch that is not so sharp and thorny.
This scene is like that depicted in some religious paintings, with a white bone symbolizing death receiving a blackened branch from the hand of a bright woman, as if it were a handover between life and death.
However, they knew in their hearts that this was nothing more than a trade between dead things and dead things.
It's not just life that's glamorous, death also has its own quiet beauty.
Yuyuko of Xixing Temple let go of his hand and asked Wang Yu to take the branch away. The skeleton casually observed the section of the branch before tucking it into the ring. The ring of the reincarnation is not only touchable by the person, but also can adapt to the body of the reincarnation in various forms, which is very convenient.
[Speaking of which, your court master is like this on weekdays...... Unrestrained and honest?]
"Ahaha, the little demon dream is not usually like this, if it is why it has become the way it is, it is probably because the moon in the sky has changed somewhat. The connection between the ghost and the night and the moon is quite strong. ”
[Even if she's only half a ghost?]
"Even if the little demon dream is only half a ghost. Yuyuko of Saigo Temple nodded. "And the moon is no less important to youkai than the sun is to humans, isn't even a fox demon like Lan who has achieved cultivation also affected by the moon?"
[Actually, I don't think Yakumo Blue will be affected at all under normal circumstances, and the nine-tailed fox is not a fox demon, there are some subtle differences in this. 】
Even though most of the monsters' cultivation and enlightenment are inseparable from the moon, such things as the spirit wolf howling the moon, the spirit ape looking at the moon, and the spirit snake swallowing the moon have not been less since ancient times, but to say that the descendants of the Tu Shan clan like Yayun Lan will also be affected by the pseudo-moon made by Bayun Yonglin, Wang Yu is the first to disbelieve it.
The Eight Achievements were done on purpose by the Monster Sage, but why?
If it weren't for the fact that there was no flesh and blood now, Wang Hao would definitely frown. The scheming of these aunts and aunts in Gensokyo is by no means something he can figure out thoroughly in just one or two years, in fact, the intention of Yuyuzi of Xixing Temple to give him a broken branch of the Xixing Demon is why he has no clue at all, this truncated branch is by no means falling off naturally, that incision is obviously a sharp weapon, and the posture that the undead princess took out of her sleeve also seems to have been prepared for a long time, just waiting for Wang Yu to ask for it...... It's paradoxical.
[Speaking of which, isn't the undead princess worried about her court master? neither the nine-tailed fox nor the god of the moon rabbit are good opponents. 】
"Don't worry, I've known Lan for a long time, she won't hurt the little demon dream. Yuyuko shook her head slowly. "And the other little rabbit, I can feel that she is a very good person, and Yumu will not get hurt. ”