Chapter 32: The Yin and Yang Road
All the demon souls were trapped in the demon net and couldn't get out, and they were all secretly shocked, knowing that they had encountered a powerful character, how dare they play any tricks, and they all kowtowed to the ground and begged for mercy.
Qi Lu scolded and said: "You evil animals, even if you become a lonely ghost, you will not change your demonic nature, if I didn't have some ability, I would have been killed by you a long time ago!" ”
Seeing that he was brave, Ah Xian was so frightened that his head was like pounding garlic. "The little one who has eyes and beads has collided with the mage, and I hope you will be merciful for the sake of our first offenders, and spare our lives."
"Hmph, let you go, and then let you harm others?" Qi Lu stepped forward with a sword, preparing to destroy these demon spirits.
"It's me who shouldn't hurt people, but this matter is done by me alone, and if I want to kill it, I have to listen to it. But my friends have endured so much suffering, and I hope that real people can open up and give them a chance to mend their ways. ”
Qi Lu thought that although this guy was treacherous, he was also quite righteous, and he couldn't help but feel a little more compassion in his heart, but he still said with anger on his face: "Do you still want to use rhetoric to coax us?" ”
"If a real person spares me and others, I am willing to tell you a big secret."
"What a secret, you might as well tell me about it. If it could atone for your sins, I would spare you. ”
"The location where the real person is now is the empty realm that has been left over from the ancients. If you don't have someone to guide you, it's hard to know the right path, and you'll end up in the Netherworld. ”
"Really?" Qi Lu was skeptical, he pointed his sword at the path leading to the depths of the dense forest behind Ah Xian and said, "You say this road is a dead end?" ”
"Yes." Ah Xian continued: "This road is just a way to confuse the souls of ordinary people. Along the way, there are many unjust souls like me who died in the flood of Jinshan, waiting day and night for the arrival of the living in order to find a suitable substitute, and at the end of the road is the ghost gate of the underworld. ”
Qi Lu asked again: "Is there no other way to go here?" ”
"Of course there is, but only spirits can see it, and living people can't see this way of life with their naked eyes."
"Where's the way to life?"
Ah Xian pointed to the southeast of the dead end and said, "Did the real person see the crooked neck tree?" ”
Qi Lu looked at it, and sure enough, he saw a willow tree with a crooked neck growing in the messy grass, crisscrossed with dry bark, like wrinkles on the old man's face.
Ah Xian said: "There is a hole under the tree, you put your hand into it and you will feel a protruding tree nodule, you pat it three times in a row, and then call to open the door, and you will see the way out." ”
Qi Lu laughed, "You demon is deceiving people again, I have also been to many empty realms, and I have never heard of such a thing!" ”
"If there is half a lie, the slave family wishes to never be reborn!" Seeing that Qi Lu didn't believe her words, Ah Xian hurriedly made a poisonous oath.
Lao Wu stepped forward and said, "Then I'll try it, if this woman deceives us, you will destroy them." ”
"Okay, be careful yourself." Qi Lu nodded in agreement.
Lao Wu stepped forward, took out a small flashlight and shone it into the hole, and sure enough, he saw a brown tree tumor inside, he swallowed his saliva, patted the tree tumor three times with his hand, and shouted: "Open the door!" ”
There was a loud bang in an instant, and the space in front of Lao Wu was distorted and gradually blurred, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly jumped away, for fear of falling for Ah Xian's trick.
Suddenly, it was as if two invisible doors had opened in front of everyone's eyes, and the withered horses were nowhere to be seen, and a path appeared on the grass in front of them.
The scenery in front of this new road is completely different from the gloomy environment when Qi Lu came, only to see that the road is lined with unknown gorgeous flowers, butterflies and wild bees shuttling in between. Only then did Qi Lu believe that the demon soul had not deceived him, so he recited a spell, and the golden net covering the demon soul suddenly disappeared.
Those demon spirits hurriedly came up and kowtowed to Qi Lu to thank him, and after Qi Lu withdrew his sword, he said, "Where does this road lead?" ”
"The Void of Ancient Relics."
Qi Lu couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard the woman's words, you must know that after the last battle between gods and demons, the heavenly realm has been destroyed and is not suitable for gods and demons to live in, and the few remaining empty realms have a safe shelter because of the protection of natural enchantments.
According to this woman, if this place is an empty realm, then there should also be gods living there, Qi Lu hurriedly asked her for details.
Ah Xian told the story, and Qi Lu realized that there was a big difference between the reality and what he thought in his heart.
It turned out that after the water flooded the Golden Mountain, the White Lady was suppressed by Fahai under the Leifeng Tower. She was anxious and worried about her infant child, so she forcibly used her magic to destroy Fata and escape.
But Leifeng Pagoda has a seal written by the Buddha himself, how can Bai Suzhen's mana shake half a point! Not only did she fail to fulfill her wish, but she was injured by the power of the seal, and her body was greatly injured.
But what everyone didn't expect was that the underground of the Leifeng Pagoda became the weakest link because there was no shroud of Buddhism. In the process of casting the spell, Bai Suzhen failed to damage the Lei Feng Pagoda in the slightest, but broke through a big hole in the ground.
Bai Suzhen hurriedly took advantage of the unpreparedness of the gods guarding the Dharma Tower to sneak into the bottom of the cave, and immediately found that there was a long and winding tunnel connected to the bottom of the cave, and the exit of this tunnel was the entrance to the current empty realm.
For unknown reasons, this empty realm has been uninhabited, as if it had long been forgotten by the Three Realms, and has been quietly hidden in the depths of the West Lake, waiting for its first new masters.
Bai Suzhen, who escaped from Leifeng Tower, found that there was nothing wrong in the world, and she heard that her son had already died, and her husband Xu Xian was nowhere to be found, presumably he had already returned to the underworld.
In despair, she came to live in this empty realm with Xiaoqing and the water demons who were cultivating in the West Lake. It's quiet and pleasant, and it's a good place for monsters to practice. At the same time, the many demon souls who died when the water flooded the golden mountain also came here under Xiaoqing's guidance, avoiding the tragic ending of wandering in the earthly world and causing their souls to be scattered.
The demon spirits and the living monsters lived on one side, but they were all right, and it wasn't until today that the arrival of Qi Lu broke the peace here.
After Qi Lu listened to the fish demon's story, he hurriedly took Xu Xian's hand and said, "Master Xu, you will be able to meet your lady soon!" As he spoke, he was overjoyed, and unconsciously imitated Xu Xian's ancient tone.
Xu Xian's face also kept changing, and he couldn't suppress his excitement for a long time, and finally he folded his palms and recited the Buddha's name.
Qi Lu was embarrassed, and he said to these demon spirits: "You retreat for the time being, and when I return to this world, I will make a water and land conference for you to surpass you." ”
Xu Xian sighed lightly, stepped forward and said, "Alas, these monsters are cursed by this god because of me, and the little physiology should turn them in now." ”
"Help, how do you save it?" Lao Wu turned around and said angrily, in their current situation, they don't have the financial resources and manpower to hold a water and land conference to surpass these demon souls.
"I have my own way to save them, Mr. Wu, can you lend me your short knife?"
Lao Wu was stunned when he heard this, but he still handed him his short knife.
Those demon spirits hurriedly stepped forward and thanked Xu Xian. Xu Xian sat down cross-legged and said, "Calm down and recite the Sutra of Past Lives with me." ”
"Does this work?" Although the demon souls were hesitant, they still sat cross-legged on the ground like Xu Xian and recited the "Sutra of Death" with him. 》
Halfway through the reading of the scriptures, Xu Xian slashed his left palm with a short knife, and the blood suddenly flowed to the ground like a spring, turning into a pool of blood on the ground.
Qi Lu was shocked, he glanced at Lao Wu and said, "He doesn't want to use the method of blood sacrifice to surpass the undead, right?" ”
Lao Wu replied: "It's possible, if he can't resolve the predicament later, we will disperse the unjust soul, lest this guy lose his life." ”
Originally, the blood sacrifice used its own blood as a sacrifice for the undead to appease their resentment, and then the caster used his own mana to forcibly open the door to the six realms of reincarnation, so as to guide the undead to reincarnate smoothly.
It seems that this ritual is very simple and does not require complicated procedures, but there is also a major drawback. That is, if the caster's mana is not strong enough, it will make the undead who have eaten blood more tyrannical, and devour the caster in turn, making him one of the undead.
Qi Lu could hear Xu Xian's chanting sound spreading towards heaven and earth like a tide, this voice was high and low, pleasant to the ear, like a lullaby pointing directly to people's hearts.
Suddenly, it was dark, and I saw a cloudy wind coming from all directions. Out of these winds emerged countless unjust spirits, not all of them humanoid, but all of them were clad in bloodstained armor. Qi Lu knew that they were the many water demons who died when the water flooded the Golden Mountain, so he hurriedly pinched his hands into a trick and waited for them to prevent them from being unfavorable to Xu Xian.
These demon spirits came from all directions, and let out a soul-stirring cry, which made people feel creepy. They gathered around the edge of the pit, and the demon spirits who had begun to chant with Xu Xian had already preemptively sucked the blood on the ground.
Qi Lu only felt the cold to his bones, but Xu Xian was unmoved, and still chanted the mantra. At this time, he was in the face of treasure, and there was a Buddha light on the top of his head, as if the Buddha had descended to the earth.
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky spread out in all directions, and a crack opened in the middle, and a dazzling light fell directly on the spirits of these demon spirits, and their ethereal bodies reflected in the light of the light.
Light and shadow rise and fall in an instant, intertwined, as if presenting endless hope. Then these demon spirits all appeared in their original forms, and they bowed to Xu Xian and the three of them, and they scrambled towards the place where the light source was.
When all the demon spirits flew into the crack, the low-pressure clouds gathered again, and the sky and the earth were dark grayish-brown.
"The Gate of Reincarnation?" Qi Lu was full of emotion, "I didn't expect you to be able to use your own strength to open this connecting road to the other side." ”
Lao Wu was also impressed by Xu Xian at this time, and he didn't dare to underestimate him anymore.
Xu Xian stood up as if nothing had happened, patted off the dirt on his body and said, "The ritual is over, we can go, right?" ”
"Okay, let's accompany you to Bai Suzhen." Qi Lu and Lao Wu followed him like obedient followers.