Chapter Thirty-Eight: Demon Fire
Ye Baiyu looked up at Xia Beifeng's figure hanging on the vine moving up a little bit, and slowly put down the hand that had been pressing on his side waist.
There was a large soaking mark on the dark clothes, and the piece of clothing was tightly attached to his body, and even the uneven skin under the clothes could be seen.
Xia Beifeng's figure gradually disappeared from Ye Baiyu's sight. It wasn't until they couldn't see each other at all that Ye Baiyu lowered his head again, looking at the green plants under his feet, and didn't know what he was thinking.
He sat motionless for a few minutes before the flames on his side shook slightly.
"Don't move...... Ye Baiyu looked down at the blood on his hands, "Good." β
The flame shook a few times again, and moved closer to Ye Baiyu's body.
"It's too close, get away." Ye Baiyu raised his head and looked at the flames, and said softly, "Or do you want to do something?" I don't think I finally have a chance to get rid of me. β
The flame jumped a few times and circled around Ye Baiyu twice, like a child who was eager to try.
"Stop dreaming." Ye Baiyu wiped the blood on his hands on the vines under him, and his eyes never left the blue flame, "You're still early." β
He said this with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, but there was no smile in his eyes. A pair of narrow phoenix eyes flashed brightly, even brighter than when he was not injured.
The flames floated in mid-air for a while, and the dancing blue glow illuminated the entire dim cavern, making the atmosphere more and more eerie.
It silently stayed in front of Ye Baiyu for a while, perhaps frightened by its eyes. Under Ye Baiyu's smiling gaze, the flame of the flame actually decreased little by little.
The flames eventually shrunk to the size of soybeans, emitting a faint blue light that could not even illuminate the rocks a meter away.
The surrounding light was getting dim and dim. The dark stone walls shimmered with water. From the depths of the cavern came some strange wind, like someone crying in a low voice.
Ye Baiyu lowered his head and exhaled softly.
The flame flickered twice more when it was the size of a sesame seed, and after Ye Baiyu breathed a sigh of relief, the fire suddenly expanded without warning, and in the blink of an eye, it was covered with a web of green vines. It even spreads up the rattan that leads to the top.
The blazing flames lit up the entire cavern as if it were daylight, bright and even a little dazzling.
Ye Baiyu sat in place, in the blue sea of fire, his waist was straight, he didn't even blink his eyes, and his long hair swayed gently with the breeze blowing from nowhere.
The green plants under him were constantly stained by the blue flames, and they continued to sprout and grow rapidly, always in a stalemate with the flames, evenly matched.
When the vine was touched by the flames, it was not like ordinary plants that were charred and blackened when they were exposed to the flames. Instead, a thin layer of hoarfrost quickly appeared on the surface of the green leaves, and then it turned black and withered little by little.
It looks more like a frostbitten plant.
Xia Beifeng, who had already climbed halfway, suddenly felt a little cold, he stopped his movements and glanced back below.
Looking down from above, Ye Baiyu's figure had been completely submerged in the blue flames.
Xia Beifeng hesitated for a while, and was hesitating whether to continue to go up to find the sparrow, or to look back to see what happened to Ye Baiyu, when he heard Ye Baiyu's voice ringing in his ears.
"Go up. Don't delay me. β
The voice didn't sound clear, even a little ethereal. Intermittent. So much so that Xia Beifeng carefully recalled it several times before he understood what Ye Baiyu meant.
He looked at the fire that was getting stronger and stronger under his feet, and then looked up at the glimmer of light, which he didn't know how high it was, shrugged helplessly, and continued to climb up with his head up.
Ye Baiyu, who was sitting in the fire, smiled softly.
The tongue of fire kept ****ing the corners of his clothes, but it never lit his clothes.
I don't know why. Every time the flame touched his body, it quickly shrank back, as if consciously avoiding something on his body.
Even so, the flames continued to try to pounce on him. Even if he couldn't hurt his body, he still refused to give up.
The vines crackled continuously. Countless black withered petals fell into the hole in the ground one after another.
Ye Baiyu's face became more and more pale, his lips were even a little blue, and the tips of his hair were gradually stained with a little white frost.
He was wearing only a single coat, which looked cold, but a little bead of sweat oozed from his forehead.
The wind howled upwards from the ground, and with a biting chill as it passed the flames, swept over the surrounding stone walls and continued to rise.
The moist stone walls soon formed a thin layer of ice, and the transparent ice reflected the blue luster, making the small space even brighter.
Ye Baiyu looked at the flames in front of him, and a few beads of sweat fell on his forehead. Beads of sweat fell down the bridge of his nose and dripped on the placket of his clothes, quickly forming a crystal ice particle.
His breathing was slow and long, and the white gas that came out of his mouth spread into the air, turning into white particles above the flame, falling one after another in the burning flame.
The flames burned more and more, but the vines under Ye Baiyu grew more and more slowly, and even some of the young shoots were frozen in a thin layer of ice and turned into specimens before they could grow leaves.
Little by little, the whitening ice ballast spread to Ye Baiyu's feet, freezing his trouser legs with the vines on the ground, and then continued to extend towards his body.
Ye Baiyu didn't pay attention to what was happening around him, but closed his eyes, as if he was listening to someone talking, and the expression on his face softened for a moment.
The whitening ice particles climbed up his waist, and the large water mark on his waist quickly turned into thin ice. The ice shimmered red, like a ripe pomegranate, glittering in the light of the leaping fire.
"I'm not cold." He said softly, "Don't worry, I'm fine." β
When he said this, his eyebrows were also covered with a layer of gray frost, making him look like an old man with gray eyebrows.
"Huh...... In this way, you don't want me when I'm old? Ye Baiyu said with a chuckle, his eyes were still closed, and there were a little white ice ballast hanging on his eyelashes. The smile on his face became more and more warm, "Don't worry, even if I am old, I am also a very handsome old man, otherwise what if you run away with someone else?" You say, don't you? β
After saying this, he reached out and pressed the wound on his side of his waist, and jumped up with a frown.
"We'll talk about that later. Clean up these disobedient little cubs first. β
The green vines have completely stopped growing and are no longer budding and growing leaves. And the originally emerald green and soft net under Ye Baiyu's feet had completely turned into a crystal clear green ice cube, and even made a small cracking sound under the pressure of his movements.
He opened his eyes, pressed the wound on his waist with one hand, and patted the corner of his clothes with the other.
The fine ice ballast "screeched" down and fell onto the ice under his feet, quickly merging with the ice.
And the thickness of the ice cubes is constantly increasing.
"Kids, I'm going to tell you something." Ye Baiyu looked at the blue flames surrounding him and sighed. said lightly: "Don't say it's you, even if your grandfather comes, the final outcome is this." β
After he said this, he stomped his foot hard.
The thick layer of ice beneath his feet cracked rapidly with his movements, and the vines that were frozen in the ice shattered into pieces of ice together, falling deeper into the abyss.
The raging flames suddenly gathered, and they rushed towards Ye Baiyu like an outlaw.
The ice under Ye Baiyu's feet quickly melted into a puddle of water.
The puddle of water was steaming white. As soon as it comes into contact with the ice next to it, it quickly melts into water. Gradually expanding its scope.
The water shimmered with a little orange, and as the water gathered more and more, the orange-red thing slowly revealed its original appearance.
It was a vague shadow of flames, hidden beneath that layer of clear water, disappearing from time to time.
It's like something from another world.
"Tut-tut......" Ye Baiyu shook his head and looked at the more and more stagnant water under his feet, and sighed very regretfully: "The children are so naΓ―ve. Seriously, I'm very reluctant to you, but it's a pity! β
The increasing number of people on the earth refers to the occasional performance of the goddess apparition in the river. As for the blue fire, it was quickly squeezed into the corners by the water on the ground, and scattered scattered on the surrounding stone walls.
Ye Baiyu's feet are like a spring.
The tiny flames ignored this, and they floated into the air once more. Gathered into a ball and swooped down towards Ye Baiyu.
The vines under Ye Baiyu's feet let out a deearing tearing sound, and finally broke apart under the repeated tossing of the frozen fire and boiling water bubbles.
Ye Baiyu grabbed a broken vine at his hand and hung it in the air, looking up at the flames above his head.
The last dying throes of the flame slammed into a pool of glittering water on the stone wall, dissipating as the shattered ice ballast.
Several translucent blue fish fell from mid-air, writhing their bodies as they fell, just like ordinary fish out of water.
Ye Baiyu stretched out his hand and caught the translucent fish.
The fish struggled in the palm of his hand, their tails and fins flapping each other and making small sounds.
At first, they could twist their bodies and jump a few times, and then the amplitude of their movements gradually decreased, and finally they could only lie weakly in Ye Baiyu's palms with their mouths open, panting heavily.
The fish's eyes were a little darker, shimmering dark blue, like small sapphires.
And now, there was a faint pleading emotion in the glittering sapphire.
Ye Baiyu looked down at the pitiful little fish in his palm, and smiled at them "gently".
The fish, which was on the verge of death, saw his smile, and out of nowhere did he get the strength, and struggled again.
It's just that at this time they no longer have the strength to jump up, so they can only slap their tails a few times to show that they are still alive.
Of course, those few strokes were not much different from tickling for Ye Baiyu.
"Say hello to your father and tell him not to die in the next life, but also to teach the child well, so that the child should not die casually." Ye Baiyu smiled and said to the fish in his palm.
With that, he clenched his fists tightly, looked up at the top, and his gaze fell on a raised rock.
In his slowly drooping fist, several blue ice particles fell from between his fingers and fell into the bottomless darkness.
Ye Baiyu took a deep breath, circled the vine in his hand around his wrist a few times, shook his body a few times, and finally swung it vigorously and landed on a slightly raised rock.
"Come on." He looked at the black abyss under his feet and whispered, "Let me see what other tricks you can show me." β
A cold wind blew again from the depths of the cavern beneath his feet. The wind blows on people's bodies, and the cold air seems to penetrate into the bones, which is not inferior to the cold wind in the ice and snow just now, and even makes people feel a little colder.
The corners of Ye Baiyu's clothes flew up and down with the gust of wind for a while, faintly revealing the large wound on his waist.
The wound didn't look as terrifying as before, but it was still oozing blood, and there was still a little red ice ballast, which hurt just by looking at it.
When the wind from the depths of the cavern stopped, an eerie laugh came from deeper.
The laughter was indistinguishable from whether it was a man or a woman, and it sounded more like a crowd laughing in unison. After the empty cave was reprocessed, after the tone change, it sounded more and more infiltrating, constantly echoing in the cave.
Ye Baiyu took out a piece of rune paper from his pocket, shook it twice, and after a little spark flashed on the rune paper, he let go and let the rune paper fall on its own.
After the rune paper fell into the air, it quickly burned, and soon turned into a few gray bits of paper ash, and fell down in a fluttering manner.
The time for the firelight to light up was only a dozen seconds, but this was enough for Ye Baiyu to see the scene below.
Someone is climbing up into the depths of the cave.
The group of "people" densely packed the rock wall, one by one with their heads tilted, their empty eyes staring closely at Ye Baiyu above, and climbing up side by side.
The appearance of these "people" is even more mixed with the crowd seen above. The people above still have at least a few rags hanging from their bodies, and these people don't even have a thread on them.
Even if they don't have any clothes, some people don't even have all the flesh and skin on their bodies, and they don't know how many rotten wounds on their bodies, revealing the bones underneath; There are also many missing arms and legs, and I don't know how they all climbed up.
Ye Baiyu leaned back against the damp rock behind him, lowered his head and looked at the darkness under his feet, and suddenly missed the little fish he had just strangled.
Whether you listen to it or not, at least you can still shine a light!
Ye Baiyu sighed, took out another piece of rune paper, lit it, and threw it down.
The "people" below moved extremely fast, and they were not far from Ye Baiyu's position for such a short time.
Ye Baiyu could even smell the disgusting smell of decay on their bodies.
(To be continued.) )
PS: It's really not good these days, I'll try to adjust it......
The update will be guaranteed, and the previous interruption will also be made up
It would probably be better to start a new volume at the end of the third volume......
Let's hope