Chapter 45: The Black Stone Circle
The road ahead is confused, and the chasing soldiers are rampant.
Shuli had no choice but to follow the beasts into the miasma.
As soon as their feet stepped onto the path lined with black stones, stepping on the ochre gravel, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in their hearts, as if the song seemed to drill into their hearts, reminding them of countless warm pasts.
Shuli recalled the happy times when he and his junior brothers and sisters went to school, practiced literature and practiced martial arts with all the junior brothers and sisters at the Scholar House in the Mountain of No Return; the fire monkey unconsciously remembered those who purchased and returned to the temple in Qingping Town, and Yifeng and Xiugu surrounded him and played with him; Xiugu remembered the warm and stern reprimand and clumsy comfort of the senior brother to her; Yifeng remembered the scene when the master was chattering in Wuweitang, and everyone lowered their heads and teased each other with their eyes.
The warmth in the hearts of Yifeng and the others now, like soaking in a hot spring in the cold winter, the song has become soothing and gentle at this time, like a piece of soft silk, wrapping their hearts, gently rubbing them, and pulling them forward.
Unconsciously, several of them had walked dozens of feet away from the boundary to the depths of the miasma, but at this time, they were all staring at each other, as if a layer of mist had been covered in their eyes, and their bodies were like wooden people, walking forward unconsciously.
"Boom!"
There was a strange noise, and it turned out to be Shuli walking forward stiffly, not paying attention to his feet, and kicked a black stone, suddenly waking up.
What's even stranger is that he felt the strangeness of his feet, not like he was kicking on a hard stone, but on a soft and sturdy body!
He looked down at the stone he had been kicked, the black stone was still glowing red, but it flashed twice rapidly, and he blinked his eyes as if humanized!
What happened even more stunned was the black stone gurgling around, the red glow clinging to the ground, and then the ochre-colored gravel parted on both sides, and at the same time, the black stone burrowed rapidly into the ground!
In the blink of an eye, the black stone disappeared, and the road was missing a gap.
Not only that, but the other black stones that were still quietly glowing red just now seemed to have been affected by something, and they also imitated this stone, and drilled into the ground with a turn of their faces, and in a few breaths, all the black stones drilled into the ground and disappeared!
After the black stones fled, Yifeng and the others came to their senses one after another, but they looked around in a daze, not knowing what was going on.
The surrounding miasma seemed to be dispelled because of the red glow of the black stone, but at this moment, the miasma seemed to have gotten some precious opportunity, the miasma was surging, and it seemed to be very excited to rush towards them, and the track of the road that had just been dispelled by the black stone was gradually filled and bridged by the miasma.
They stood in the middle of the miasma, and because of the sudden disappearance of the path track, they no longer knew which direction they were coming from.
They were joined in a panic by the beasts that had just come in together, and at this moment the beasts roared and roared, and they seemed to know better the power of this poisonous miasma, and they all whimpered in panic and scurried around.
Some of the beasts that had rushed into the miasma in a panic began to flee with their heads in their heads, but they began to stop slowly after a few steps, as if there was an unbearable weight pressing on them.
Then Yifeng saw a scene that made his scalp tingle, those beasts that rushed into the miasma, and finally stood in the miasma, maintaining the posture of escaping, but the body began to grow strange black hair rapidly!
Fire Monkey, Shuli and the others suddenly shuddered, and Xiu Gu had tears in her eyes, almost crying.
At this time, only the eyes of those monsters could move, but it could only watch as the black hair quickly grew on its body, and the strange and intense itching and severe pain made it want to let go of its voice and moan and wail, but it just couldn't make a sound, and its face was distorted and hideous, and in this soft song, it was even more weird and terrifying.
In just a few breaths, the monster's whole body was covered with black hair, and even its eyes were buried by black hair, and then there was a strange clicking sound, and the monsters covered by black hair, regardless of size, whether they were wolves, insects, tigers, leopards or purple-eyed monkeys, were squeezed by black hair, and black hair seemed to have great strength, forcibly squeezing their bones, and then rolling up their bodies, slowly squeezing into a strange ball, which looked like black stones.
Black stone!
The fire monkey Shuli saw this scene, and his hair stood up, isn't this state the black stone that has just split the poisonous miasma?!
Except that there is no red light, it is almost identical.
At this moment, the black mass glowed faintly red, and if you followed their body shape just now, the red glow was their eyes!
"Shhhh
Yifeng and his brothers and sisters gasped at the same time.
But apparently they have only begun to form at this moment, and they have not yet had the effect of dispelling the poisonous miasma, and the poisonous miasma on both sides is still surging over, rushing towards the people and beasts in the original path.
They suddenly panicked, this strange poisonous miasma can make people grow black hair, and it is forced to be crushed into a stone! The bones of the body are all crushed! It is so terrifying, who is not panicked!
The slightly civilized beasts, too, had been stirred up by the scene they had just stirred up their instinctive fear, screaming and roaring, and running towards the road that had not yet been overrun by the miasma, and bursts of ochre-colored grit stirred up behind them.
The fire monkey looked left and right, quickly pointed to the road on the right that seemed to be bridging slowly, and said, "Go this way!"
Yifeng and the others didn't say a word, and immediately followed the fire monkey to flee over there.
After escaping for half an hour, the miasma was only a gap for one person to pass through, and the viscous miasma shook slightly with their running, still stubbornly squeezing towards the middle, and they could only be forced to line up and run forward frantically.
Suddenly, the fire monkey at the front of the four people running stopped and saw a large circle surrounded by a large number of black stones suddenly appeared in front of them, and the black stones glowed with a faint red light, driving the poisonous miasma outside.
The black stone circle is at least dozens of zhang straight, covering a large area, and inside the circle is a hillside, which is also covered with ochre gravel, but at this time it looks like a red armor on the ground.
On the side of the hill, there was a huge black hole, from which a faint singing voice could be heard.
"Second Senior Brother, let's go in!"
Xiu Gu looked at the viscous miasma that was slowly squeezing over in horror, and sneered silently at her like a faceless gray monster.
Some of the alien beasts that followed them in this direction obviously had no concerns, and their survival instinct caused them to rush directly into the black stone circle that seemed to be safe for the time being.
There was no time for hesitation, and the fire monkey was the first to leap over the black stones in front of him and leap into the circle. Yifeng and the three of them also followed the senior brother in.
It was only then that Yifeng gasped for breath and slowly put Monk Qingning on the ground.
Originally, according to the cultivation of the Buddha power realm of Yifeng, it was not particularly difficult to run with a person on his back, but after running for most of the day, he broke out and fled in such a terrifying and panicked place for a short time, and his spiritual power did not work well, and he was also a little tired.
The fire monkey urged the fire dragon ball to resist the enemy twice before, and at this moment there was less than one-third of the spiritual power left, and Xiu Gu's cultivation was originally the lowest, and at this moment, she was frightened by the poisonous miasma and the black stone monster, and she was also out of breath.
It may seem that the best should be Shuli, but he resisted more than a dozen Taoist priests alone in front of Qingping Temple before, and his spiritual power was also consumed a lot, and his body was injured.
Now the most comfortable is Monk Qingning, he only has his last breath left, and he has no consciousness.
For him, the fire monkey and others offended Qingping Temple, and also attracted the Nine Dragons Temple, and also provoked the black-clothed man who didn't know the details.
But they must save him, because the Qingning monk is the hope of all the monks in Qingping Town, and if someone else is allowed to manage the monks in Qingping Town, then he may become the second Qingfa monk again, and continue to collude with the government, squeeze tenants, loot money, and expand wildly.
Once that time comes, hundreds of peasant households will once again become the rustic stones they trread under their feet to scavenge the people's fat and ointment, and finally the peasant households and the common people will not be able to survive the miserable fate of being separated from their wives and families.
Perhaps, only by letting the monk Qingning govern Qingping Temple with his philosophy, reduce taxes, and seek Buddha, can the Buddhist temple truly return to purity and purify all sentient beings.
Several people sat around the unconscious monk Qingning, and the faint singing continued to penetrate their ears, but after what had just happened, they had unconsciously activated their spiritual power, guarding the dantian and the divine court, and not allowing the singing to take advantage of it.
I was recruited by singing before, but most of them still didn't have a sense of vigilance against singing, so I was inexplicably tricked.
Even so, their current situation is still not optimistic, and they have fallen into an even more embarrassing situation, surrounded by the miasma here, except for a dark hole behind them, there is no way to go to the sky and no way to go down.
At this moment, suddenly, on the way they had just come, there was a sound of close footsteps! There were at least a dozen people!
The fire monkey and the others stood up abruptly and looked out of the circle vigilantly.
I only heard the sound of whirring, and outside the circle, where they had just come, in the gray miasma, a person was holding a huge object, and ran over step by step.
When they got closer, the fire monkey and others saw clearly, a Taoist priest was holding a huge black and white gourd, and a cyan wind erupted from the gourd's mouth, barely blowing the sticky poisonous miasma away a person's width, and the people behind immediately ran and squeezed over, running forward one by one, and after a while, they jumped and appeared in the black stone circle.
When they saw the situation in the circle clearly, although Wu Daochang's face was tired, when he saw the fire monkey and the others, he still gritted his teeth and smiled, and the others took out their weapons one after another and confronted the fire monkey and the others from afar.
Before they could speak, there were a few more shouts and curses from the miasma behind them, and then both of them looked curiously into the miasma.
I saw a few black-clothed people holding black stones that glowed red from somewhere, scolding and scolding.
After a while, several black-clothed people jumped into the black stone circle, threw the red light and black stone into the miasma, clapped their hands, and looked into the circle, and the three groups of people were stunned.