Chapter 36: The Second Soul
The fierce battle continued not far away, the crimson blood flowed everywhere, Li Mubai was torn and healed in the heat of the fire, and the terrible shouts echoed in the corridors of the entire underground palace. I couldn't imagine what they were going through, I just felt that their lives were fragile like ants, and I covered my ears to listen to the screams of death.
The shattered corpses were disgusting, the charred half-faced man rolled in the corner of my eye, and the bright red blood on the walls blinded me. The thunderstorm outside the dungeon seems to be just the tip of the iceberg in this purgatory on earth, and the slaughter of demons is a righteous punishment, and I don't sympathize with these people who deserve it. I can't imagine that I am so hard-hearted, and it takes more courage to watch these living beings disappear from my eyes.
At this moment I asked myself whether the loss of one life required the loss of more lives to make up for it, and the answer was no. But it is not contrary to justice, is this horrific massacre right or wrong? No one can give an answer.
Ji Han hid in the corner, everyone would be afraid of such a scene, I don't think he was cowardly like that, he was just defeated, defeated by his heart that was not strong enough, death is not terrible, maybe in this life, the only thing that can be determined from birth is death.
I didn't have time to make people feel more, the powerful shock wave wandered back and forth in the corridor, and the residual temperature after the fire burned made the air in the corridor start to become hot, I helped Ji Han up, there was no reason to retreat, I didn't sympathize with these criminals, I just hoped that every life could get a fair trial.
The thoughts in my heart have never been so strong, as if there is endless energy in my body. The strange power of the Baoyu Spirit Array was completely stimulated by me, and the little guy poked his head out of my backpack, it should have felt it, felt the unprecedented obsession in my heart. Ji Han staggered to endure the fear in his heart, and picked up his long sword from the pool of blood again.
Looking at each other, Ji Han and I didn't speak. I only heard the wailing in the dungeon rising again, the howling wind blowing, and Ji Han and I had already put life and death aside in the barrier.
"You're trying to stop me?"
In the flames, Li Mubai was already unrecognizable, and the meridians of his body were torn and then healed, like a messenger from hell, which made people fear and hate.
"Killing them won't solve the problem."
Li Mubai's eyes were full of anger, "Then kill both of you too!"
The evil fire rose again, my imperial qi condensed barrier, the strange power came out of my palm, unstoppable, and a great avenue was blown out of the sea of fire, Ji Han adjusted his breathing, and clenched the long sword with both hands, this is our only chance, only Ji Han's weird steps can get close to Li Mubai, and what I have to do is to condense a barrier that can protect Ji Han's body, this kind of barrier that is not centered on me I have never condensed.
The little guy stretched out his right hand, the glowing jade ring in his hand didn't seem to be its magic weapon, the little guy's expression was painful, it knew that I needed more energy to condense this barrier, just like I had devoured the Baoyu Spirit Array before.
At this point, we can only give it a go, Li Mubai's second soul is too evil, if we can't stop him and let him continue to slaughter without scruples, it may not only be these Taoist priests in the Jade Toad Palace who will suffer.
"Barrier, out!" The little guy and I used all the strength of our bodies to finally condense the barrier out of the body, Ji Han's eyes were closed, and he was making the final adjustments.
"How? You ready? ”
Ji Han nodded.
"I'll give you another ride," The strange power of the Baoyu Spirit Array was exerted to the extreme by me, and a small tornado formed in my palm, Ji Han was wrapped in the barrier, and the sea of fire roared through.
"Shocking, broken!"
"Are you awake?"
Li Mubai sat aside, the heavy rain had stopped, and the purgatory-like picture of the world just now was still in my mind. Ji Han was lying aside, the ancient sword in his hand had been broken, and the sunset was wantonly swaying on their faces after exhaustion.
The scripture building of the Jade Toad Palace was destroyed, the little guy was lying in my arms and sticking out his tongue tiredly, after the heavy rain, all the blood stains were completely washed away, and under the shade of the trees, the Jade Toad Palace was still as calm as ever.
"I didn't know he could be so powerful!"
I looked at Li Mubai's look of remorse, in fact, he couldn't help himself, he didn't know that there would be such a powerful evil spirit in his body, and he didn't even know what the evil spirit had done with his own body.
"It's okay, now you've defeated him and saved us." Ji Han got up sideways and gently patted Li Mubai's shoulder.
I remember that before I fell unconscious, I condensed the barrier and sent Ji Han to Li Mubai's side, and then Ji Han made a shocking move, and I was knocked out in the powerful shock wave, and then I didn't remember anything. Looking at the corners of Li Mubai and Ji Han's incomplete clothes, I can guess what happened after that, Ji Han's sword could not stop Li Mubai's evil fire, and at the moment when the evil spirit killed him, Li Mubai defeated him.
"Do you know why he's inside you?"
Li Mubai shook his head.
"At the moment of life and death, he asked me to sign a contract with him, and we shared the memory ....." Li Mubai choked up a little in his words, and then he took out a glass shard from his arms.
"Seven Treasures Glass Cup!" I looked at the glass fragment in Li Mubai's hand in surprise.
"This was given to him by Ren Yaoyao before his death."
At the beginning of the inspiration, the powerful power of the fairy filled the entire space, and under the sunset, we vaguely seemed to see some pictures from the bottom of Li Mubai's heart.
A little boy sat lonely on the edge of a field, and in the golden wheat field he seemed to be expecting something. Not far away came the sound of a stream, and on the shore were green willows, and a few small birds were chirping in the branches. Suddenly the clouds were thick, and the little boy's eyes were dark, and he reached out and groped, fell and then got up again, stumbling as if he were looking for something important to him.
"Are you looking for this?" The crisp sound of the bell echoed in the little boy's ears, and he couldn't see the girl's appearance clearly.
The little girl put a quaint compass into the little boy's hand.
"Are you waiting for someone?"
The little boy shook his head, the girl shook her hand in front of the boy's eyes, the boy's eyes were glazed, and the girl knew that the lonely little boy in front of her was blind.
"Is your home nearby? Why have I never met you? ”
The boy shook his head again, he didn't seem to like to communicate with people.
"My name is Ren Yaoyao, what's your name?"
"Li Mubai!"
Suddenly, the picture froze, and the light flashed again, and in the dark mountains, there was the little boy again, he was ragged and covered with blood. Thunder rolled under the crimson moonlight, but the little boy was not afraid, and countless terrifying eyes in the jungle were staring at the little boy. Black pythons, vultures, wolves, and some terrifying monsters we have never seen and cannot name, are trying to get closer to the little boy who can't see anything.
"I'm looking for a girl, have you seen her?"
The little boy had a compass in his hand, and his powerful aura pressed those fierce beasts to dare not get any closer.
"Have you seen her?" The little boy asked again, and the compass turned, and a dark golden light shone on the boy's face. The vultures in the sky were so frightened that they quickly left, and several wolves also roared and did not dare to step forward, only the black python and the fierce beasts whose names we could not name continued to approach.
The little boy moved suddenly, the golden light outside the compass increased greatly, and the vicious black python struck suddenly, although the little boy's eyes could not see, but his hearing was unusually good, and he dodged the black python's attack with a light flash. The bull's eyes on the side of the armor were black, I had never seen such a fierce beast, even if it was not recorded in ancient books.
"I'm looking for someone, I don't want to kill!"
The beasts, led by the ox, seemed to understand the boy's words, and their eyes were fixed on the little boy, and then they retreated little by little, and finally disappeared into the dark night. Only the black python was left, I don't know what it was holding onto, and the scales expanded again, taking off to attack, the little boy did not dodge this time, only to see the compass in his hand increased in starlight, almost in an instant, the black python was torn apart, and the crimson blood splashed the little boy's face.
Under the cover of night, the little boy continued to move forward, and I don't know how long it was, but the picture was frozen again. This time the boy has grown into a teenager, his blind eyes seem to have regained his sight, at the foot of Da Min Mountain, next to the thunder pond in Tangxi, the girl is shaking a crisp bell, just like at the beginning of the picture, the boy is looking for his compass again.
"Yaoyao, have you seen my compass?"
The girl shook her head.
"I remember my compass was still there when we came here in the morning!"
"If you lose a broken compass, you lose it, what's there to find."
The boy looked at the girl, and the girl's gaze was a little evasive.
"Did you say you hid my compass?"
The girl sat on the bluestone slab, "Every time your compass flashes you have to leave, every time I have been sitting here waiting for you since I was a child, do you know what I will see when I look at the sunset on the horizon alone?" ”
The boy shook his head.
"I would see a little boy who couldn't see anything clearly, sitting by the edge of a golden wheat field, sitting from sunrise to sunset every day."
The boy seemed to be very touched, and he sat down next to the girl and put his hand around the girl's waist. "If I could, I'd rather go back to my childhood, do nothing every day, just sit alone on the edge of the field, and then prick up my ears to listen to that familiar sound of bells."
"Let's go, get out of here, and go to a place where no one knows us, where you don't need your compass anymore, and I don't need to be with those beasts anymore."
The boy was silent for a long time, "Give me two more years, just two years, and when I expose their conspiracy, we'll leave, okay?" ”
"Intrigues, secrets, one after the other, I've had enough of all these years." The girl suddenly sobbed, "Li Muqing, let's break up, don't come to me again in the future." ”
The boy lowered his head, he may have thought of such an ending, he is not a qualified lover, and he can't give everything the girl wants.
"Okay," the boy turned to leave, "remember to take care of yourself, I will always carry the bell you gave." ”
The boy didn't look back, and the girl cried heartbreakingly.
The picture freezes, Li Mubai covers his chest with his hands, it is a pain from his heart, although Li Mubai knows that this pain does not belong to him, but he is willing to bear it for him.