Chapter 684: Victory or defeat is unpredictable
The star power dissipated, and I stood up with some difficulty, and Zhou Tianshi was still lying on the ground, coughing non-stop.
I felt that the residual mental power in his body was very scattered, and the essence flowing in the meridians became very weak.
Zhou Tianshi's self-cultivation is probably useless.
Originally, I wanted to walk up to Zhou Tianshi and go up the back of his neck, but as soon as I took a step towards him, the bones in my body seemed to be about to fall apart, and I didn't have any strength from head to toe.
I slowly leaned down and sat back on the floor, my forehead and back covered in sweat.
Zhou Tianshi lay on the ground and turned his face to me with some difficulty.
I didn't even bother to move my mouth now, and closed my eyes towards Zhou Tianshi, who coughed violently for a while, and then laughed: "Damn, I lost to a descendant!" ”
I slowed down, and then I replied to him with some difficulty: "You will kill yourself if you do too much injustice." ”
Zhou Tianshi's cultivation was abolished, but he looked very indifferent, and he raised the corners of his mouth at me: "Ahem...... I lost, but you can't capture me alive. ”
I said, "You don't have the strength to kill yourself now." ”
Zhou Tianshi was silent for a moment, and changed the topic very stiffly: "How much do you know about Luo Zhongxing?" ”
Supporting the ground, I slowly moved to the side of the pillar, leaned my back against the pillar, let out a long breath, and said, "More than you think." Now, I have a question for you, you can answer it or not, anyway, even if you don't say it now, we have a way to pry the answer out of your mouth. ”
Zhou Tianshi stared at me and didn't speak.
It took me a long time to adjust my breath until my breath stabilized a little, and then I asked him, "What are those bottles you are looking for?" Hasn't Luo Zhongxing been alive all the time? But you say, those bottles can bring him back to life. ”
After a period of silence, Zhou Tianshi finally responded to me: "Do you think Luo Zhongxing is really Luo Zhongxing...... cough cough cough ......"
I pondered for a while, and said half-to myself and half-inquiringly: "Actually, I was wondering a long time ago, could the so-called heart demon be a wisp of remnant soul projected onto him by the night demon, in the past three thousand years, as Wudang's cultivation has become higher and higher, this remnant soul has been nourished and has become stronger and stronger. In fact...... Wudang was not controlled by his own heart demon, but by the remnant soul of the night demon, in other words, Luo Zhongxing's purpose of opening the ghost gate was actually ...... I want to restore my mana. As soon as the ghost door opened, Luo Zhongxing was no longer Luo Zhongxing, and at that time, he completely became a night demon. ”
"It's very interesting," Zhou Tianshi said a little weakly, "This kind of thing, you go and ask Zhao Zongdian...... Ahem...... He had gone into the mound. ”
As soon as he said this, I also remembered that when we went deep into the Jizo tomb, we found traces of people opening it near the night mound, and Liang Houzai and I speculated that it must have been the master who had entered that place, and he was also the one who did his hands and feet in the night mound.
I stared into Zhou Tianshi's eyes and asked, "Luo Zhongxing got the bone pressing bottle, and he didn't need to open the ghost door, he could ...... Do you get all the Daredevil's mana? That's what you said before. ”
Zhou Tianshi bared his teeth: "I was looking for a bone pressure bottle, but I actually wanted to ...... Ahem...... Improve my own cultivation, hehe...... cough cough cough ...... Eating the bone meal in the bottle can improve your cultivation and double it...... Ahem...... No, twice as much. Now, those bottles belong to you, but that's Luo Zhongxing's bone meal, do you dare to eat it, hehe...... cough cough cough cough ......"
With a very violent cough, streams of blood continued to overflow from Zhou Tianshi's mouth.
I took a deep breath and said to him, "You didn't answer my question. ”
Zhou Tianshi kept staring at me, and after a long time, a very manic smile suddenly bloomed on his face: "You want to know the answer?" Then come to the underworld and find me. One final word...... cough cough cough ...... You're a good guy. ”
Hearing his words, I immediately understood his intentions, and struggled to crawl towards him, but just holding on to the ground twice made my bones ache.
At that time, I still had a trace of luck in my heart, I thought that Zhou Tianshi no longer had the strength to commit suicide, he even had a lot of effort to move, and he even had to use all his strength to speak, how could he commit suicide?
But I was wrong, and I had barely crawled out of this side when I saw him bite the tip of his tongue with the last of his strength, and a thick stream of blood trickled down the corner of his mouth and fell to the ground.
Zhou Tianshi kept looking at me with very proud eyes until the brilliance in his eyes disappeared and the focus of his pupils also dissipated.
Like the mercenary we found outside the Treasure Pavilion, Zhou Tianshi also had poison hidden in his tongue, and he died in front of me, but I had no power to stop him.
I lay down opposite Zhou Tianshi, watching the smile on his face gradually collapse, and the face that had been expressionless just now was finally completely covered with dead air.
It soon dawned on me that I was the one who lost this fight.
Zhou Tianshi said that he fought me with the determination of death, he didn't lie, he had been hiding his strength since the beginning of the fight, he wanted to consume my physical strength, until I couldn't stop him from cutting himself off.
He probably knew that he couldn't compete with Fan Tianyin when Tianyantong couldn't be used, and he had expected his defeat early on, but until the end, I couldn't capture him alive, and this was his victory.
I think, maybe at the beginning of the fight, Zhou Tianshi still had a trace of luck, maybe at that time, he also wanted to take a gamble, maybe he could get rid of me smoothly and leave the hall in front of him.
I struggled to move and sat up again against the stone pillar.
The formation in the main hall has not been broken yet, the effectiveness of the third formation is still there, the fog surrounds me, and the voice of the second master breaks through the dense fog and reaches my ears from the side of the temple gate: "There is a way, how is it inside?" I felt like the other telekinesis was gone. ”
I really didn't have the strength to respond to him, so I leaned my head on the stone pillar, closed my eyes, and waited for my spirit and strength to regain little by little.
Later, I seemed to be asleep, but I was half asleep, and I could roughly hear the shouts of the second master outside the main hall.
I don't know how long it took, but I finally regained some strength, and then I opened my eyes, held on to the stone pillar, stood up with some difficulty, pinched my fingerprints, and closed the third array eye.
Since the other six formation eyes in the big array had all been abolished, as soon as the third formation eye was closed, the formation was also broken, and the fog in the main hall also faded and dissipated at a very fast speed.
The second master rushed to my side, I let out a long breath and smiled at them, Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang came up for the first time, and helped me steady from left to right.
My breath was still a little empty, and I didn't really want to speak, so I just raised my chin towards Zhou Tianshi.
Yan Xiaotian also ran over at this time, and when he saw Zhou Tianshi's corpse at a glance, he almost exclaimed and asked me, "Elder Wei is Zhou Tianshi?" ”
I nodded.
Xian'er and Luo Fei had already arrived in front of me, and both of them were repeatedly scanning me to see if I was hurt.
The second master said to me: "There is a way, you go and rest first, since Zhou Tianshi is dead, leave the rest to us." ”
I waved my hand with some difficulty: "It's not over yet." Alas, get me something to eat, I'm really hungry. ”
Yan Xiaotian didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly went to the door to greet him, and asked people to bring water and food, and I also found out that in addition to the second master, many Baiwu Mountain disciples also came, but none of these people entered the main hall.
Luo Fei brought me a spacious chair to sit down, and soon water and food were brought in, and I took a few sips of water before eating slowly.
After eating, I regained some of my strength and spirit, and during this time, Yan Xiaotian had been squatting next to Elder Wei's corpse, with a very complicated expression on his face.
I think Yan Xiaotian's state of mind at the moment is also mixed.
Liang Houzai handed me the canned beef with the lid open and asked me, "How are you recovering now?" ”
I said, "It's okay to speak normally." ”
After I said this, the second master, Yan Xiaotian, and Liu Shangang all came over.
Yan Xiaotian asked me: "The hall was full of fog just now, what happened at that time, tell me." ”
I knew that they would have to ask this question sooner or later, so I smiled, took a sip of water, and then gave a summary of what had just happened, but I didn't say everything thoroughly, and somewhat concealed something.
I just told Yan Xiaotian that Zhou Tianshi was looking for the bone pressure bottle just to let Luo Zhongxing "come back to life", but I didn't tell them that eating the bone powder in the bottle can greatly improve their cultivation. In addition, I didn't mention that Yatsuka was touched by his uncle.
After I finished speaking, Liang Houzai, Liu Shangang, Xian'er, Luo Fei, the four of them didn't ask anything more, Yan Xiaotian and Second Master Yan asked me what I meant by "bringing Luo Zhongxing back to life", and Yan Xiaotian asked me how I concluded that Old Man Wei was Zhou Tianshi.
Yan Xiaotian didn't seem to be very interested in Luo Zhongxing's affairs, but he was curious to know how I determined Old Man Wei's identity.
For the first question, I can't answer it, and I can only tell Yan Xiaotian and Second Master Yan truthfully, and I don't know what Zhou Tianshi means.
As for the second question, in fact, before I met Old Man Wei, I really didn't know that he was Zhou Tianshi.
I told Yan Xiaotian that in fact, when I caught Cai Chun, I had already judged that Ye Fanxin was not Zhou Tianshi, and Cai Chun had told us at that time that there were nine people lurking in Baiwu Mountain, among which Ye Fanxin's name appeared, but Li Bingshen's name did not appear.
You must know that Li Bingshen is wearing a jade bracelet that is the same as Cai Chun, that thing is used to hide his cultivation, Li Bingshen is already very suspicious, and he should not have many cultivators as Baiwu Mountain beginner disciples, but he wants to deliberately hide his cultivation, which is enough to show that he has a problem.
In fact, I once suspected that Li Bingshen was Zhou Tianshi.
When I was able to return to the main hall from the Treasure Pavilion, I thought about a question, with Zhou Tianshi's caution, it was unlikely that he himself would enter our field of vision.
Ye Fanxin, Cai Chun, Li Bingshen, these three were my key suspects, among them, Ye Fanxin and Cai Chun's names are on the list of nine people, I think that since Zhou Tianshi can tamper with his memory, it is impossible for his name to appear in this list, and he will not let Cai Chun know who the real mastermind is. Therefore, anyone who appears in the list of nine people cannot be Zhou Tianshi.
It is precisely for this reason that Li Bingshen has become the most suspicious person, but in the final analysis, the reason why I doubt him is because every time he appears, his body is full of all kinds of question marks, which makes people have to be suspicious.