Chapter 17: The Unexpected
In an instant, the raging flames burned the heavenly official to a charcoal. The time was so short that Tang Ying didn't even have time to shout "no".
After completing the task, Suzaku circled and flew back to the top of Ming Chongyan's head. Ming Chongyan glanced at Tang Ying proudly, and then stretched out his hand towards the corpse that had fallen to the ground.
The black dead breath resembled five long snakes, snaking towards the corpse, dragging a translucent white shadow from the char. It didn't take long for the outline of the shadow's facial features to gradually become clear, and it was undoubtedly the heavenly official.
Tang Ying didn't expect that Ming Chongyan could restrain a dead person's undead so easily, nor did he expect that his strength was enough for mortals to see the spirit body.
After all, Tianguan was not an ordinary person, and he quickly figured out what was going on. He was afraid that he would be captured by Ming Chongyan, so he shouted loudly for Tang Ying to save him from the sea of suffering. But apart from using white fire, Tang Ying couldn't think of any good way for a while.
She shot out several flying needles with white fire one after another, slashing off the lifeless long snake that bound the soul of the heavenly official. Immediately afterwards, he began to meditate on Bai Ze's longevity technique as if he was "sick and rushed to the doctor". If she was a monk or a Taoist priest, she should at least know some of the supernatural spells, but unfortunately she had never learned them systematically, let alone had the opportunity to practice them, so she could only recite the most memorable immortal mantras.
There is nothing special about the spell. With the assistance of Bai Huo, Tang Ying could at most exorcise some evil spirits that occupied other people's bodies. Tianguan seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and his mouth also followed the words that he didn't know what Lu Dao was saying.
At this moment, something strange happened, Tang Ying's white fire turned out to be like a dead air, and the wisps entwined the soul of the heavenly official!
The white flame had never changed into such a form before, and Tang Ying didn't know what was going on with the Dao. However, Ming Chongyan's dead qi scrambled to flee from the Heavenly Official's soul, and did not even return to his body, but disappeared like a broken tail wriggling on the ground for a moment.
The Heavenly Official Soul was wrapped in the soft light of the white fire, nodded with a smile as if relieved, and then turned into a little light and disappeared into the white light.
Tang Ying stretched out his hand, wanting to manipulate the white flames that had turned into silk threads back to him. It's a pity that this is indeed an occasional phenomenon, the white fire turned into a silk thread, and with the disappearance of the heavenly official, it also turned into a ball of white light, which fell on the corpse of the heavenly official, and disappeared after a flash.
Ming Chongyan had seen white fire, but he had never seen or even heard that white fire could turn into silk threads and swim around at will. His gaze fell on Tianguan's corpse, and he suddenly gasped in shock.
The face of the corpse, which had been charred, suddenly seemed to be reborn from a cocoon, revealing a little bit of its original skin under the cracked skin.
What's going on?!
He asked himself loudly in his heart, and at the same time looked at Tang Ying nervously, fortunately...... She was still immersed in the shock of the white fire, and kept watching her hands and not notice the changes in the corpse.
Ming Chongyan hurriedly rolled up the sleeves of his robe and shot a large cloud of dead air at the corpse, so the charred version of the corpse finally turned into a puddle of flesh like the poor horse.
"You! How can you be so cruel! He's dead! Tang Ying was startled by his sudden violent behavior, and almost cried out to him hysterically.
Ming Chongyan was silent on the surface, but in fact, he was even more shocked than she was in his heart. He pretended to smile calmly and coldly, waved his sleeves to disperse the white tiger and the vermilion bird, and said to Tang Ying and Li Xian who were lying in the snow: "Today's incident is just a small lesson for you. If you want to survive, don't fight me again! Remember, you guys. With that, he spread his arms and flew into the night sky like a huge crow, and soon disappeared.
Li Xian hugged Tang Ying tightly, staring intently at the direction he flew away, and after a long time he coughed and cried, but he was still shocked and couldn't say a word completely.
Tang Ying looked at the shocking pieces of blood and flesh, and felt that his heartbeat was slowly returning to its usual frequency.
She didn't expect that Ming Chongyan could kill Tianguan with one move so easily, and she didn't expect him to stop so simply and let Li Xian go. Although he said that today was just a warning, she always felt that things were not so simple. At least, in her opinion, Ming Chongyan originally wanted to teach Li Xian a lesson today.
What changed Ming Chongyan's mind?
He had seen his own white fire hundreds of times, not to mention that he also had the same black fire, which was not surprising at all. The immortality spell didn't work against him at all, otherwise he would have been surrendered a long time ago...... What is it exactly? She eliminated many of the tricks she had used before, and all that was left was the short moment when the white fire turned into silk thread today.
This form is very similar to Ming Chongyan's dead air, the only difference is the color, right?
She reached out her hand, trying to conjure up the thread again. But she couldn't succeed, as if everything that had just happened was her delusion.
"Ah...... Ah Ying ...... "Li Xian's teeth chattered and called her. Only then did she think of the prince who had been neglected by herself, and hurriedly hugged him back and asked, "Xian'er, what are you hurt?" ”
Li Xian gasped for a moment before shaking his head, but his gaze was no longer as unruly as before, but completely filled with fear. Seeing him so pitiful, Tang Ying decided not to think about the strange place just now, and sent Li Xian back to the palace as soon as possible.
In this way, Li Xian was sent to the bed in the dormitory by her, but he still didn't let go, begging Tang Ying to stay with desperate eyes. Tang Ying was indeed afraid that the matter would not be over, so he sat on the edge of the bed to accompany him.
He lay on her lap like a wounded child, and he had to hold her hand to fall asleep.
Tang Ying leaned on the back of the bed, watching him gradually fall asleep, and began to feel tired. She looked down at him, and somehow remembered how Li Chunfeng coaxed her young to sleep every day twenty years ago. For a while, my heart was filled with a sweet and sour feeling. Yes, she has grown up to replace the role of the old grandfather and become someone else's dependence.
This realization was very important to her, and it made her suddenly change from a child to an adult.
She gently stroked Li Xian's head, full of mixed emotions for him. In terms of age, she can already be his mother, and in fact, they are husband and wife again......
In any case, she believes that this incident will definitely teach Li Xian a lesson. told him not to dare to fight Ming Chongyan's idea again for a while.
Seeing that they were about to leave for Luoyang, the eastern capital, Ming Chongyan should have no chance to hurt Li Xian under her surveillance.
Thinking about it, sleepiness weighed down her eyelids a little. She wanted to wonder why Ming Chongyan suddenly stopped, but in the next second, she was already asleep.
"Death and life, Ah Ying, death and life are ......" I don't know whose voice called her in her dream, but she was so tired that she didn't even have the strength to respond.