Chapter Eighty-Five: The Resurrection of the Corpse Beast
The next day, the rain stopped, and the colorful light reflected the clouds. Mo Wuya walked out of the bamboo forest alone and headed northwest. She didn't know if she could find Fei Wuji when she went to Qin State, and she would probably miss it too. In fact, waiting in Kong Wan'er's bamboo house is the most likely to wait. But the attack that happened last night made Mo Wuya faintly feel that there were people here who did not welcome her, and this was just a warning, if she didn't leave, it was likely that other things would continue to happen. In order not to involve others, Mo Wuya had no choice but to say goodbye, perhaps this is the best choice.
On this day, Mo Wuya passed by Yancheng, which is an important town of Chu State, located on the side of the Han River, and is the northern gateway of its capital - Yingdu, which is no less important than Yingdu, and becomes Yanying. After the construction of successive Chu kings, Yancheng was already a large city, with a large population, prosperous commerce, and strong walls.
However, it did not have any attraction to Mo Wuya, and she planned to bypass Yancheng, go straight to the direction of Jingshan, and then go all the way north through Hangu Pass to reach the Qin State.
Mo Wuya traveled for another day, and Jing Mountain was not far ahead. Seeing the dust on the official road ahead, Mo Wuya became alert. The dust was getting closer and closer, and it turned out to be a chariot speeding in front, and a dozen flying horses were chasing after it. Mo Wuya took a closer look, and it turned out that the person in the car was Bo Yao. Bo Yao also happened to see Mo Wuya, only to see that his hands holding the mast suddenly let go, and then he jumped up, jumped off the car, rolled on the ground several times, and gnawed a few mouthfuls of dirt before stopping. He crawled to Mo Wuya's feet and cried, "Madam, help." Before the words were finished, the dozen or so black horses had approached, and the people who were doing it were wearing red-striped armor on a black background, a white-tasseled helmet, a black mask on their faces, and a halberd in their hands. Seeing Bo Yao jump out of the car and climb in front of a woman, they didn't stop at all, and the halberd went straight to Bo Yao and Mo Wuya. Seeing the situation, Mo Wuya grabbed Bo Yao's belt with one hand, exerted force with both feet, jumped high, and slashed the dragon tendons in the air, hitting the eyebrows of the three people in front in a row, and the three of them fell to the ground in an instant.
Mo Wuya landed next to a big tree with Bo Yao in his hand and asked, "Who are they, and why are they chasing you?" ”
"No...... I don't know, ah! Not again. Bo Yao immediately hid behind Mo Wuya.
Those black-robed masked men were very taken aback when they saw Mo Wuya kill his three companions with one move, and they couldn't help but feel palpitations. They turned their horses around and rushed over, stopping less than two feet away from Mo Wuya. One of the halberds is pointed directly at Bo Yao, which means that we only need him and have nothing to do with anyone else.
Mo Wuya chuckled and said, "This is my friend, who are you, why are you chasing him?" ”
Hearing Mo Wuya say this, the few people glanced at each other, and suddenly rushed over. Mo Wuya mentioned Bo Yao again, and threw it out, Bo Yao felt that his eyes were suddenly blocked by leaves, and then some branches cut his mouth, nose and face, and the pain was leisurely. Then he felt himself falling again, and for a moment he didn't know where he was, and he shouted and closed his eyes. Suddenly, Bo Yao felt that he had landed on a log, and he subconsciously hugged his hands tightly to make sure that he was no longer shaking, and then he opened his eyes, and it turned out that he had landed on a thick branch.
After settling down a little, he heard the sound of a fight under the tree. He brushed aside the leaves and saw Mo Wuya fighting five black-robed masked men, while the others fell to the ground motionless. I saw that Mo Wuya's dragon tendon slashing time was short, like a spiritual snake in her hand, following Mo Wuya's figure, walking between the five people. Although the halberd in the hands of the five people was wielded like a windmill, it couldn't touch Mo Wuya a little. Bo Yao's eyes widened, as long as Mo Wuya flashed past someone, that person would then fall from his horse and fall to the ground. In less than a moment, the five black-robed masked men died under their horses.
"Okay, great." Bo Yao couldn't help but shout. Then I saw a halberd shooting at me, and it turned out that there was still a living mouth. Bo Yao was stunned for a moment, and froze on the branch with his mouth open.
There was a piercing sound, and Bo Yao's hair fell apart, and a few strands slowly fell from the tree. Bo Yao shrunk his neck and raised his head, brushed away his scattered long hair with one hand, touched his ears, nose, mouth and face, and felt it, and said in his heart: "Thank God, I'm not dead yet." Then he saw that the dragon tendons were wrapped around the halberd, blocking the castration of the halberd, otherwise, his head would have already moved.
When Bo Yao was still rejoicing, he heard Mo Wuya shouting, "Be careful of the top." She had come to Bo Ya's side, her palms pushed upward. Bo Yao looked up and saw a black shadow coming down like Mount Tai pressing down. Then he heard a loud bang, and the branch on which Bo Yao was crawling broke, and he screamed and fell. Before he could reach the ground, Bo Yao's body stopped, and he watched Mo Wuya and a black-robed masked man fall relatively quickly with their palms.
It turned out that after Mo Wuya killed the black-robed masked people, he found that another person threw a halberd at Bo Ya, and at the same time flew towards him, intending to kill Bo Ya. Mo Wuya first used the dragon tendon to block the halberd, and at the same time flew in front of Bo Yao, facing the black-robed masked man with both palms. Due to the strength of the two palms, the branches under Mo Wuya's feet broke, and Bo Ya also fell. In order not to get Bo Ya injured, Mo Wuya commanded the dragon tendon to catch Bo Ya in mid-air, and she herself fell.
As soon as Mo Wuya's feet landed, he sank into the dirt and didn't reach his knees. The black-robed masked man above slapped down, Mo Wuya grabbed his wrist and pulled it down, and then her right foot was forced, and she pulled it out of the deeply buried soil, and her toes were lifted above her head, just kicking the forehead of the black-robed masked man. The force of this kick was so great that the black-robed masked man went out sideways, and fell heavily to the ground not far away, coincidentally not far from Bo Yao.
Bo Yao was watching the battle intently, when he suddenly saw the black-robed masked man flying over, staring at him with a pair of fireball-like eyes, and he was really taken aback. However, he immediately realized that your opponent was Mo Wuya, and he had just been beaten down, so what else was there to fear. As soon as he thought of this, the black-robed masked man suddenly jumped up, and grabbed Bo Ya's neck with both hands. Bo Yao suddenly closed his eyes in fright, and then his body shook violently, falling from the dragon tendon and falling to the ground, and then he heard a poof, and a stream of black blood spurted out and sprinkled on Bo Yao's face.
Bo Yao slowly opened his eyes and saw that the dragon tendon slash had pierced through the front chest of the black-robed masked man, revealing his head from the back. Bo Yao stood up and patted the dirt on his body, but fortunately he was fine.
Mo Wuya withdrew the dragon tendon slash and confirmed that there was no danger. Bo Yao rushed over and bowed and saluted: "Thank you Madame for coming to the rescue, Bo Yao should remember it in your heart and never forget it." ”
"Who are these people? Why are you being hunted down? Mo Wuya asked again.
Bo Yao said: "I really don't know, these people, these people are ghosts. When Bo Yao looked at these black-robed masked men, he looked extremely frightened.
"These people are ghosts?" Mo Wuya didn't believe it at all: "Where did you meet them?" ”
Bo Yao first settled down before he said: "I was ordered by the king to go to Jingshan to look for jade, but I didn't expect that not long after I entered Jingshan, I found a lot of corpses in a mountain col, and at the end of the mountain col a cave from time to time there were fires, and some people kept carrying these corpses into the cave, and after a while, they were carried out of the cave again. I think this matter is a bit mysterious, and I plan to check it out. But as soon as I entered the col, I was found, and some of the corpses stood up and chased after me. I had no choice but to quit first, and then find a way to find out later. I didn't expect those corpses to chase after me, and my emperor was even killed by them. Fortunately, I was agile, took the reins, drove myself, and escaped. I happened to meet my wife on the way, and if I didn't come to my rescue, I was afraid that my life would be dead. ”
"You said there was a corpse resurrected?" Mo Wuya asked emphatically.
"Yes, it's true."
Mo Wuya thought for a moment, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that they are ...... No way. ”
Mo Wuya came to the side of a corpse, and used the dragon tendon to pick open the mask on the corpse, revealing a completely distorted face, with ravines on it, black as charcoal, and his facial features were wrapped in those ravines, and he could no longer see the appearance of a human being.
"Corpse beast pawn?" Mo Wuya said softly.
"What, corpse beast pawn?" Bo Yao almost sat on the ground.
"Impossible. Childe's defeat is dead, and the corpse beast pawns should all disappear. Mo Wuya said secretly, and then suddenly asked Bo Yao: "Where did you find these corpses resurrected?" ”
"It's in the Jingshan Shili Mountain Pass." Bo Yao said.
"Take me there." Mo Wuya was a little anxious: "The resurrection of the corpse beast pawn is not trivial, and it must be investigated." ”
"I ...... I'm not going. Bo Yao refused, even though he admired Mo Wuya's beauty, but in order to survive, he would rather abandon everything. It was horrible and I never wanted to go there in my life. ”
Mo Wuya looked at Bo Yao's appearance, he was completely frightened, and he didn't have his usual spirit at all. Mo Wuya sighed and said, "Since this is the case, then you go back to Yingdu first, and tell the king about the Jingshan corpse beast pawn, so that he can deal with it as soon as possible." ”
"Do you want the king to send troops to encircle and suppress Jingshan?"
"Then let the king decide."
"Okay, then I'll go back to Yingdu now." Bo Yao didn't want to stay here for a moment.
"Wait." Mo Wuya called Bo Ya.
Bo Ya's legs trembled, he thought that Mo Wuya had repented, if he made a move, he would be like a chick waiting to be slaughtered in front of Mo Wuya. "Husband...... Madame, what's the matter? ”
"The corpse beast pawn has the ability to resurrect, you can help me burn these corpses before leaving."
Bo Yao breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be hard work.
A thick puff of black smoke rose into the air, and even if the wind blew, the smoke could not disperse.
Bo Yao didn't mention it even when he returned to Ying. Jing Mountain, because the mountain is full of wattles, so it is called Jing Mountain. The mountains are rich in jade, and the princes are famous. There is a jade rock in the mountain, during the Warring States period, Bian He, a native of Chu State, found the jade here, and later generations called He's Bi.
Mo Wuya came to the foot of Jing Mountain alone, and there was a mountain road leading directly to the mountain. "This is the road to the col that Bo Ya said." Mo Wuya walked along this mountain road for less than half a day, and a mountain col appeared in front of him, like a wound in Jingshan. The col was surrounded by rocks and vegetation, but there was not a single corpse inside. Mo Wuya observed that around the col, there was no burning cave as Bo Ya said.
"Isn't it here?" Mo Wuya searched around again, but there were no other cols. At this time, the sun is setting, and the warm sunlight shines on the mountains of Jingshan. Mo Wuya is looking for the northwest of the mountain col, standing on a mountain rock and looking around, if he can't find it again, he can only go back and ask Bo Yao again. The moment she turned around, a glimmer of light suddenly flashed, fleeting. Mo Wuya looked back and looked again, everything was as usual in the col, and there was nothing abnormal. "Am I mistaken? No, it won't. Mo Wuya stood on the rock, turned around slowly, a faint yellow light slowly shone into her eyes, and when Mo Wuya stopped moving and turned back slightly, the light disappeared again. Why is that? Where did that light come from, and why can I only see it when I'm sideways? Mo Wuya slowly turned around again, and the yellow light appeared again, this time she was sure that the light was coming from the south-east direction of the mountain col.
After determining where the light came from, Mo Wuya jumped off the boulder and walked into the mountain pass. She searched as she went, for fear of missing the light source. Because, Mo Wuya determined the direction of the light source, but she couldn't determine the specific location and distance, so she could only walk step by step, looking for it one by one, so as not to miss it.
The col is waist-high with weeds and interspersed with some unknown dwarf trees, covered with spikes, and it is difficult to imagine how difficult it can be. Mo Wuya slashed the dragon tendon into a short knife, cut through the thorns, and searched from the northwest side of the col to the end of the southeast side, but still found nothing. For most of the past few days, in order to find the corpse beast pawn, Mo Wuya was really physically and mentally exhausted, her mouth was dry, and she was about to give up. However, it is often the case that when a person is about to despair, one step further will lead to new discoveries, new hopes.
Mo Wuya stood at the end of the col, with a mess of wild grass and towering cliffs in front of him. She was tired and wanted to rest on the rocks for a while, she picked up the weeds, and a scruffy woman figure appeared in front of her. Mo Wuya fixed his eyes and looked at it, isn't this himself? In Jingshan for half a day, I didn't expect to become like this. It turned out that in front of Mo Wuya was a piece of white jade as smooth as a mirror, and her figure was reflected on it, as well as a sun that was about to set. The yellow light that flashed just now is the sunlight reflected by this piece of jade, and to be able to see this reflection is only when the sun is about to set, standing on the northwest side of the mountain col, the height is appropriate, the angle is moderate, and the wind just blows away the weeds in front of the jade mirror stone. At that time, Mo Wuya happened to be standing on the rocks on the northwest side of the col, and at the moment when she turned around to look at it, a gust of wind blew, and she happened to see the light.
Mo Wuya looked at himself in the jade mirror, combed his unkempt hair, smiled slightly, and sighed self-deprecatingly, "If Wuxian sees himself like this, he should laugh at me."
Mo Wuya found that this jade mirror stone was the only one hanging alone in the entire mountain col, "Could it be that there is something behind here, could it be the cave that Bo Yao said?" She thought about pushing away the jade mirror stone to see what was going on. Suddenly, Mo Wuya felt strangely quiet around him, and the sound of birds and insects chirping in the mountains disappeared, and even the sound of the mountain wind stopped. Mo Wuya turned around abruptly and saw ten black-robed masked men standing in the barren grass not far behind her, exactly the same outfits as those chasing and killing Bo Yao. However, now these skills should be even more profound, and she didn't know when they came behind Mo Wuya.
Mo Wuya guessed that these ten black-robed masked men were likely to be corpse beast pawns, and she secretly slashed the dragon tendons out to deal with the attack that would come at any time. The ten black-robed masked men stood there, silent. A gust of wind blew, and the long sword suddenly came out of its sheath and hit it instantly. Mo Wuya's dragon tendons turned into a sword and shield, blocking the incoming sword, and at the same time, he used a thousand leaps to kick the ten black-robed masked people more than two feet away. Mo Wuya didn't give them a chance to breathe, and immediately after that, he attacked, and the dragon tendon slashed into a long sword, stabbing the neck of the person in the middle. The man in the middle swung his sword to block, and as soon as the other people landed, they got up and attacked Mo Wuya from above. Mo Wuya was in mid-air, the dragon tendon slashed against the person in the middle, his body flipped, he jumped out of a thousand leaps, kicked the person from above, and then recycled the dragon tendon slash, drawing a circle of light in the air, and the necks of the five black-robed masked people broke and fell to the ground.
Mo Wuya landed on a mountain rock, his clothes fluttering, showing a sassy and heroic appearance. She looked down at the five black-robed masked men below, a contemptuous smile on her face, and she had nothing to say to the corpse beast pawn. Mo Wuya suddenly dodged and approached one of the black-robed masked men, and in less than two rounds, Mo Wuya's dragon tendons slashed through his neck, and the man fell to the ground. Immediately after, Mo Wuya had already turned behind the second black-robed masked man, and the dragon tendon slashed through his neck, and the third, fourth, and fifth, she used the same move to instantly eliminate the remaining few black-robed masked people.
Mo Wuya breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at the corpses and beasts around him. At this time, the sun had set, the sky was dark, Mo Wuya walked to the jade mirror stone again, and just stretched out his hand to remove it, when she felt a muffled sound behind her head, the mountain stone shook, she fell, and the sky became dark.