"Liya!"

I shouted at her and quickly reached out to grab her.

But as soon as I touched her, I felt that her body was sticky and slippery, and I couldn't hold it at all.

"Help me!" Lea's voice came from underwater, and the surface of the water began to gurgle and bubble.

I looked at Gao Hui, "You go to the shore first." ”

He nodded, and made his way to the shore with difficulty.

I took the copper coin sword and plunged into the water with a breath of breath, and I saw Liya struggling in the water with a frightened expression, and there was a black handprint on her right arm.

I took out the big seal and slapped it on the handprint, and at the same time dragged Liya up, and vaguely saw the shadow of a woman under her, which looked exactly like the female corpse that had just been fished out of the water.

She's looking for a substitute for the dead.

I bit the tip of my tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood on the tip of my tongue at her.

"Ahh She screamed in pain.

I took advantage of this opportunity to hit her in the head with a sword, pulling Liya out of the water, and in the process of struggling, the bamboo basket on Liya's waist suddenly opened, and her precious corpse worm rushed out and rushed straight towards the woman in the water.

But when he was about to wrap around the woman's neck, he stopped suddenly, his body trembled, and he actually returned to the bamboo basket again, and never came out again.

Liya was already choking on the water and coughing, I didn't care about the weirdness here, so I directly put Liya on my back and walked quickly to the shore.

Gao Hui hurriedly came up and pressed her chest, and after tossing for a long time, Liya spit out a few mouthfuls of water and eased up.

"Is there anything else that's uncomfortable?" I asked her.

She shook her head, folded her arms, and said, "I just walked into the middle of the river, and I heard a woman crying. ”

I glanced into the river, "Go find Li Jingzhi first." ”

This river is weird, so let's find Li Jingzhi first, and then deal with this matter.

We followed Li Jingzhi's corpse worm for most of the day, and then climbed over a hill and came to a big li, Li Jingzhi hid in the pile of rocks in the big li, his face was pale, and he was already out of breath and less in breath.

Liya took out a white porcelain bottle from her pocket, poured out four small pills, and put them in Li Jingzhi's mouth, letting him hold them under his tongue.

After about ten minutes, Li Jingzhi's breathing stabilized.

I thought for a moment and said, "You guys quit." ”

Liya and Li Jingzhi were stunned.

I analyzed: "Now that the four of us are all targets of assassination, this is the next day, and the situation will definitely become more and more tense in the future, and your lives will be in danger if you stay." ”

Seeing that they were about to refuse, I added: "Li Jingzhi's injury can't be delayed, and it's ......"

I looked at Liya and asked her seriously, "I will definitely not eat or drink in the next few days, and I will have to avoid the assassination of others, are you sure you can persevere?" ”

Li Jingzhi's eyes were complicated, he lowered his head and thought for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "You're right, let's quit." ”

"Senior brother, I don't want to ......" Liya didn't want to leave, but Li Jingzhi shook his head at her and didn't let her finish her words, "We are really not suitable." ”

Liya pouted, turned her back to us, and squatted on the ground sulking.

I knew in my heart that when Li Jingzhi and Liya came over, it must have been Li Tai who ordered them to participate.

Otherwise, Yimen is now considered a hegemon in the Dao, and as the leader of Yimen Wudao, there is really no need for them to take risks.

"I remember the rule was to quit halfway through and go back to the small building in the depression." Gao Hui frowned and said.

Li Jingzhi clutched his chest and said worriedly: "It's not good to go back, too many people are staring at the four of us this time." ”

I crouched down across from him and asked him, "Why would someone want to kill you and Liya?" ”

He was stunned for a moment, and even frowned and asked me, "You don't know the reason?" ”

When I asked this, I was also stunned, "What should I know?" ”

"When you get out of here, you can ask Xiao Yu." Li Jingzhi said.

As soon as he said this, my heart suddenly hung up, why did this matter still have anything to do with Xiao Yu?

After resting for more than an hour, we decided to take a detour back to the depression.

There is something evil about that river, and if you cross it again, something may happen.

On the way, I asked Liya, "Why do you raise corpse worms understand human speech?" ”

She patted the bamboo basket on her waist and said, "Because they feed on human flesh and souls, especially ghosts, they will naturally have brains when they eat too much." ”

I listened with a chill in my heart.

Liya explained: "We don't feed corpse worms to kill innocents indiscriminately, ghosts are evil ghosts, as for corpses, they are all bought at a high price, and with the consent of the owner, their souls will be exceeded, and the corpses will be given to corpse worms." ”

I nodded, she had said it before.

Li Jingzhi was weak, Gao Hui and I took turns to support him, and the four of them walked cautiously in the mountains and forests.

"Wait." Li Jingzhi said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" I looked around nervously.

He touched the bamboo basket on his waist and said, "Qian, there are people ten steps away." ”

I told them to hide, and walked over with a machete in one hand and a copper coin sword in the other.

In the past, I saw three men and two women surrounding two old Taoist priests in their fifties, threatening them to hand over the souls they had received.

The two old Taoist priests were obviously injured, and they trembled and gave them the black beads in their pockets.

After getting the black beads, several people turned around to leave, but they didn't want a well-dressed woman among them to suddenly say, "These are two living souls." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and when I reacted to her words, my back was cold.

She was going to kill these two old Taoist priests and take their souls.

She slowly walked towards the two old Taoist priests, and the hand that was originally in her sleeve was raised, and it turned out to be exactly the same as Zhao Rou's hand.

There was no meat to be seen, just a layer of dry skin wrapped around the bones.

She sneered, her figure flickered, and suddenly disappeared strangely, leaving only a shadow in place.

In the blink of an eye, she appeared behind the two old Taoist priests, grabbed them with five fingers, and grabbed them directly on top of their heads.

The two old Taoist priests twitched all over, and they had no power to fight back, and after a while, they rolled their eyes and slowly stuck out their tongues.

The woman lifted it up, and pulled the souls of the two out of her body.

The two old Taoist priests writhed on the ground a few times, but there was no movement.

I hid behind the grass and didn't dare to move, I originally wanted to save people, but as soon as I saw her body, I knew that I was not an opponent, plus they were ghost people, so it was not easy to mess with.

The woman dragged the souls of the two out, and the person next to her immediately sent two soul suppression talismans to seal the souls.

The woman walked slowly to the shadow, her dark eyes disappeared for a moment, then returned to normal, and then left with the men.

And when she left this time, the souls of the earth followed her.

"That's what they're trying to kill me for." Gao Hui didn't know when he came behind me and suddenly spoke.

I was so frightened that I almost slashed at it.

Hearing his words, I was stunned, "In order to make you like that woman?" ”

It turned out that the person who wanted to kill Gao Hui turned out to be the owner of Yimen.

Gao Hui shook his head, "No, they just want the soul in my body, control him, and seal it in the body of another living person." ”

Zhao Rou became that virtuous, also because she sealed other people's souls in her body?

"What's the difference between this and raising a little ghost?" I asked, puzzled.

He was silent for a long time and explained to me: "Raising a ghost is only a contractual relationship, it is a contract worker, if the ghost is too strong, the master will not be able to control it; Sealing the soul directly into the body like this, in an old saying, is to sell yourself into slavery, and if something happens to the master, the soul in the body will be scattered. ”

“…… Oh. I answered, I really wanted to tell him that I didn't have to be so straightforward, I am not the fool I used to be, I know the basics.

Afraid of revealing the location, we didn't dare to touch the bodies of the two old men, and after making sure that there was no one around, we helped Li Jingzhi to walk back.

On the way, Li Jingzhi frowned and said, "I really don't care about those two old Taoist priests?" ”

I didn't speak, if I had gone up and buried them before, let them go decently, but now I don't know how many people are staring at me in the dark, I'm really afraid of death.

We made a detour until the second half of the night, and then returned to the depression from the persimmon forest in the north, and when we walked to the small building, I saw the fire in it, and the smell of meat wafting out.

There were many people sitting in the open space outside the small building, and when they saw us coming, someone kindly reminded us: "The people in the building are very powerful." ”

"You wait here, I'll go in and have a look." I walked to the door of the small building, and I couldn't help but swallow my saliva.

There were three strong men sitting in the building, roasting rabbit meat while roasting the fire.

There was no blood in the house, no rabbit fur, and the meat was still neatly cut.

They didn't catch it themselves.

The bearded man near the door saw me and grinned, "What's the matter?" Want to come over for meat? ”

He looked me up and down, licking the corners of his mouth, as if he was measuring something.

I held the machete across my chest, "Leave the meat, get out." ”

"Yo, the little girl is quite horizontal." After the beard finished speaking, his face instantly turned cold, and he got up and said, "Let's stay and eat meat together." ”

As he spoke, he hurried towards me.

I went up with my knife and only hit him twice, and I could see that he was a practitioner.

"Slept with ghosts? Who the hell are you? The bearded man suddenly asked in a cold voice.

I chuckled in my heart, when I met such a Taoist priest, he was the first to see this.

I clenched the copper coin sword in my right hand, and the little thin dragon on my wrist was faintly hot, gritted my teeth and rushed forward, no longer giving him a chance to speak.

I felt that the copper coin sword in my hand was getting lighter and lighter, but it hit him like a thousand pounds, and it slapped on his arm, and there was a bruise and scar in an instant.

I knocked him backwards and hit the wall, and I slashed the machete across his neck with my left hand.

"I'll go!" He shouted.

I made a move, the machete had already cut through his skin, and in a few seconds later, he was going to report to the underworld.

The moment I stopped, I woke up like a dream, and my heart trembled, I just wanted to scare him, but I didn't want to move seriously.

The other two strong men wanted to rush up, but he didn't let them, he said, "Let's go now, and give you the house and food." ”

"Let them both go out first." I said coldly.

He winked at the other two strong men, who glared at me fiercely and walked out of the house.

I shouted to Lea and waited until they were inside the house before letting the beard out.

He didn't play tricks, he walked out directly, and when he was at the door, he suddenly stopped and said, "You are Yu Lu, they have already found it, you be careful." ”

After saying that, he led the other two strong men away.

I stood at the door with mixed feelings, who were they in his mouth?

"Yu Yang......" Li Jingzhi suddenly called me.

I came back to my senses, closed the door, and then used a wooden top, my eyes swept over Li Jingzhi, who wanted to speak, stopped on Gao Hui, and asked him, "How do you inform Tianji Pavilion to take people back?" ”

He walked around the room, stopped at the corner of the Kun position, and scratched on the ground with his hand.

I stepped forward to see him pull the dirt open, revealing the Bagua diagram of King Wen carved on the floor.

He took out a golden talisman from his pocket, sat cross-legged on the gossip diagram, pinched the talisman paper in one hand, and took out a jade bell with the other, reciting the mantra rattle.

Liya whispered: "He is a monk, among young Taoists like us, he is considered to be the top, every monk will have a life-saving bell, as long as the bell is urged, the people of Tianji Pavilion will know." ”

I squatted to the side, and suddenly I couldn't figure out what Tianji Pavilion was going to do.

At first, I thought they were doing it for the good of these poor Taoists, but now they have gotten this place and are killing each other.

Saying that they are not good, but they really provide convenience for many Taoist priests.

After a while, the golden talisman in Gao Hui's hand suddenly burned, and the bell in his hand rang twice.

When the rune paper was burned, he exhaled and said, "In two hours, they will come." ”

I finally reassured, sat down at the fire, picked up the uncooked rabbit meat with my beard and roasted it.

During this period, Li Jingzhi kept looking at me, and when I looked over, he hurriedly looked away.

Asked if he was okay, he shook his head and said it was fine.

After that, they still looked at me like that.

I'm a little impatient, just say something, what's the point of hiding?

"If you have something to say, say it." I said.

It took a long time before he said, "You are already about to enter the evil path." ”

I was going to give him the roasted meat, but when I heard him say this, I stopped and said, "What do you mean?" ”

He was silent again.

The physical and mental pressure of the past few days has already weighed me down, and now I have to endure his inexplicable accusations, I am really impatient.

I took a deep breath, suppressed my temper, and tried to make my tone better, "Li Jingzhi, what do you mean by that?" How do you conclude that I have fallen into the wrong way? ”

It's the first time I've faced such a dilemma alone.

In the past, Yang Hao or Xiao Yu were by my side.

He said: "When the ghost road kills people, you don't care, when you robbed the house just now, you were so ruthless, if the bearded man didn't shout, according to your posture, you would have wiped the other party's neck." ”

"So, I fell into the evil way?" I laughed angrily.

He said with certainty: "A thousand years ago, the Yin Dragon method of destroying the Yu family was vicious, killing people without blinking, and he forcibly created a place of life and death with countless unjust souls, I used to see that you still have the kindness of human nature, but today I find that your kindness is gradually disappearing." ”

I stood up and gritted my teeth to look at him, angry and angry, but more of a sense of powerlessness.

I'm not good at arguing, and I can talk nonsense when I'm happy, but I'm really angry and don't want to say a word.

"Whatever you want." I stared at him for a long time, held back the words, and sat in the corner.

He said a lot, and the core meaning was that I had become bad, and I was kind enough to treat him as a donkey's liver and lungs, and I didn't give him rabbit meat.

I grunted and gnawed on the meat.

After a few bites, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, this rabbit meat was marinated and had a salty taste.

Just as I was thinking about this, someone suddenly knocked on the door, and I was shocked and immediately stood up.

Glancing at Gao Hui, he walked over and opened the door, and it turned out to be a Taoist priest sitting on the depression.

"Something awesome is coming." The Taoist priest at the head turned pale and said.

When I looked out the door, I saw that the depression was surrounded by ghosts, and even the forest could not be seen, and it was pitch black as far as the eye could see.

The moonlight is not shining through, and the meadow that is being touched by the moonlight is shrinking.

Lia said, "Come into the house and hide." ”

Gao Hui stood in the doorway, looking at me.

I didn't want to agree, after all, Du Laosan said that there were people who wanted to kill us and infiltrated the Taoist priests.

Besides, the Taoist priests who came here all have some skills, so they won't be scared like this.

But just as I was about to open my mouth, I found that Li Jingzhi was staring at me, and that look, as if I said no, I really fell into the evil way.

I sighed in my heart and said helplessly, "You decide." ”

In the end, seven Taoist priests entered.

I stepped back into the corner and looked out the window.

"Oops, one more person." Suddenly, someone screamed.

I was startled, frowned and looked over, and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old female Taoist priest cowering at the base of the wall, in a cold sweat, stammering, "More...... Individual. ”

Gao Hui looked around, "It's not much, there are seven people coming in, and there are a total of eleven people in the room." ”

The female Taoist priest pointed to the fire with a trembling finger, "There were five people sitting next to the fire just now, and that person kept tilting his head and looking at her. ”

The female Taoist priest looked at me.

I felt a chill in my heart, and I specially counted the number of people by the fire, and there were only four.

I quietly pinched the natal talisman in my palm, pretended not to care, and said, "You are eighty percent wrong, not only four." ”

She crossed her arms and didn't speak again, squatting in the corner tremblingly.

Liya was originally going to come to look for me, but Li Jingzhi stopped her halfway and didn't let her come.

I tugged at the corners of my mouth, but I didn't say anything.

Gao Hui walked up to me and said, "Don't be afraid. ”

I shook my head, "Don't be afraid, how long will it take for the people from Tianji Pavilion to come over?" ”

He glanced at the watch on his wrist, "There are still an hour and forty-two minutes left." ”

I looked up and sighed, feeling like time was passing so slowly for the first time.

"Don't come here!" The female Taoist priest squatting at the base of the wall suddenly shouted, rolling on the ground with her head in her arms, I wanted to rush over, but was pulled by Gao Hui.

He shook his head at me.

"She's over there, didn't you kill her?" The female Taoist priest was crying and rolling around on the ground.

The Taoist priest who had come in with her went to help, only to see the female Taoist priest suddenly jump up from the ground and knock them on the fire with her head.

The piles of wood were knocked apart, the door slammed open, and a gust of wind blew in from outside, extinguishing the fire.

The room immediately went dark.

The woman screamed with her head in her hands, and ran out of the room, submerging into the darkness that was slowly approaching the small building.

I only heard her terrible screams in the dark, one by one, as if they were smashing into my heart.

Gao Hui stood in front of me, his arms outstretched, looking up at the roof, and exclaiming, "Come out!" ”

A phantom figure came out of him, his right hand slammed into the scattered firewood, and then swung it violently to the northwest corner.

The pile of wood smashed into the earth-colored jacketed Taoist priest in the northwest corner.

Then I remembered that from the moment I entered the house, he was standing there with his head bowed.

He slowly raised his head and looked at me expressionlessly, still carrying the firewood of Mars on his body, and did not move.

"Ugh!"

When all the firewood was gone, he suddenly stood on tiptoe and reached out to his eyes with two hands.

Seeing that his hand was about to pick into his eyes, I hurriedly ran over, but it was still a step too late, and he pulled out his eyeballs and threw them at my feet.

He said slowly: "If you have eyes but no beads, it is better to be blind." ”

I stopped halfway through, and somehow felt something familiar with it.

"There's a guy behind him." As Liya spoke, she flashed a flashlight over the man's face.

I felt a pang in my heart, there was a face behind his head, no eyeballs, and two eyes were a bloody hole.

But in the blink of an eye, that face was gone.

The earth-colored robed Taoist priest suddenly reached out to cover his eyes, and wailed in pain: "Where are my eyes? As he shouted, he fell to the ground and curled up in pain in the corner.

"He's still in the house, and he's taking out his natal talisman." Gao Hui said.

I opened my eyes, but when I looked around the room, I couldn't see anything, and my eyes skimmed over my right wrist, and I scratched the little thin dragon and wiped the blood on my eyebrows.

When I opened my eyes again, I finally saw a faint yin aura in the room.

When I looked at Riya, my eyes shrank, and the face actually appeared at the back of her head, and Liya's hands were trembling and lifting up.

I directly smeared the blood on my right wrist on the copper coin sword, and threw the copper coin sword directly at that face, and at the same time the person rushed over,

The face quickly avoided and disappeared again, and I took Liya in the corner, picked up the copper coin sword, and stared cautiously around.

Liya's voice trembled violently, "Why didn't the corpse worm react?" ”

I didn't care about talking to her, and with a sound in my heart, I drew a blood talisman on the copper coin sword with the blood on my right wrist, and drew a yin and yang diagram on the ground with a machete, pointed to the sky with the sword, silently recited the thunder mantra, and shouted: "Urgent as a law!" ”

A weak dragon roar sounded in my ears, mixed with thunder, and the room suddenly brightened, and I saw the bloody face by the door, and took two steps forward, swinging my sword and slashing at it.

A thunderbolt struck that face, and with a bang, the face was directly on fire, and it had burned without a trace between breaths.

I breathed a sigh of relief, the smell of blood welling up in my throat, and at the same time, my right leg was getting more and more painful, and I couldn't help but get down on one knee.

Before I could get up, the helpless darkness approached suddenly, and the wind suddenly rose on all sides, making the small building clang.

"Where is Xiao Yu?" An old voice came from the darkness, and it sounded familiar.

I stood up with my sword in hand, walked to the door, and looked into the darkness as if a man was standing inside, hunched over, like an old man.

"Who are you? Why look for him? I asked coldly.

The voice became more and more floating, and the person inside was gone, "Where is Xiao Yu?" ”

I boldly walked out of the house, braving the strong wind, and struggling into the darkness, "Who the hell are you?" ”

The voice was so familiar, but for a moment, I couldn't remember who it was.