Chapter Eighty-Seven: Phantom War
The moon shines like day, projected by the carved window lattice, and reflected on the face of Xia Qiu. She felt as if she had been hit hard in the back of her head, and there was a swelling pain. Gratgy, they opened their eyes and found themselves bound up in the chairs where the Blue Snake Xizhen had entertained them before.
She remembered that she had originally entered the catacombs with Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qianqi with them, in order to find the array elements that existed in the wooden city in the Strange Array, that is, the coffin that belonged to the Blue Snake Xizhen. But when Ouyang Xiaoleng proposed that the coffin needed to be destroyed, the blue snake Xizhen suddenly went against the norm. Then, a sudden strange wind lifted the white sand on the ground, and she lost consciousness.
She looked around, there was no one in the room, and there were no companions in sight, so why was she the only one left here? And who was the man who attacked them? Her mind was full of questions, but the first problem was that she needed to break free from the ropes that bound her first.
She tried to fight hard a few times, but the ropes that bound her hands and feet showed no sign of loosening, except for the pain of being strangled. Just when she was at a loss, she suddenly felt that someone had walked in, and she immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be still unconscious.
"Hey!" An unfamiliar voice said to her.
She mustered up the courage to open her eyes, a pair of dark green pupils were a few centimeters in front of her, it was a man dressed in white, a pair of bright eyes under the silkworm eyebrows were like two pools of autumn water, looking elegant and gentle. If it weren't for the fact that his face was too pale, he would really be a man like a full moon.
He reached out and summoned a long dagger, carefully cut the ropes tied to Xia Qiu's hands and feet, and then said to her, "You must stop Xi Zhen!" She agreed to Qingyun's conditions in order to save me, and what's the point of relying on her to sell her soul to prolong my life?! But she won't listen to my advice, so I beg you to stop her! ”
His words made Xia Qiu a little ignorant, but according to what he said, Blue Snake Xizhen did take refuge in Qingyun, but it seemed that she was also forced to do so, so she asked, "Who are you?" ”
"My name is Emperor Cang, I am the white oak tree you saw growing in the center of the city before, and I am also Xizhen's lover, she and I have been with each other for more than 4,000 years." Emperor Cang replied as he lifted Xia Qiu up from the ground.
Xia Qiu remembered that when they saw the white oak tree, it was on the verge of death, and asked, "Is it because the acid rain in their mouths made you like this?" ”
Emperor Cang replied sadly: "Exactly, the poison in me has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, but Qingyun told Xi Zhen that he has a way to detoxify, so she promised to make Mucheng a part of the strange array." ”
"It's despicable!"
Xia Qiu remembered that Ouyang Hongye had told her before how the city lord of Nanzhejiang was deceived by Qingyun and led to the death of the entire Nanzhejiang City, and she couldn't help but guess that this acid rain was also very likely to be Qingyun's ghost, and then used this to coerce the blue snake Xizhen to betray the demon world and become his pawn.
"Your companions are trapped in the maze created by Xi Zhen in the catacombs, their lives are in danger, because you are human, so she does not want to kill you, you should go and save them now!" After Emperor Cang finished speaking, he disappeared without a trace.
Xia Qiu remembered the path that the blue snake Xizhen had led them to before, and at the same time came to the stone wall in the back courtyard, and successfully found the place above the white oak tree on the stone wall at a forty-five degree angle to draw the shape of a full moon, and the stone wall really slid to one side, revealing the entrance to the catacomb.
As she walked alone in the circular tunnel, she could hear some noise, like the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and the low cry of a woman, mixed with the howl of a wild beast. The voices echoed around her, making the already dimly lit tunnel even more terrifying. When she finally walked to the open area, she found that this was still the pure white world, and there was no shadow of Ouyang Xiaoleng and them. Did Emperor Cang deceive her? Or did she fail to enter the maze created by the blue snake Xizhen?
She stumbled over to the coffin and pushed the lid off it with all her might. The bottom of the coffin is not visible, but a black hole leading to the unknown. She leaned down and saw that the hole was bottomless, but she did not hesitate, but plucked up the courage to climb into the coffin.
Falling, falling continuously, Xia Qiu felt that her body had become extremely heavy in this space, and her face fell to the ground at an extremely fast speed against the purple sky. As it passes through the clouds, it seems to be buffered and slows down slightly, but soon begins to fall again at a faster rate.
"Ah......h
Just when she thought she would be smashed to pieces, she was steadily caught by a force that rushed up, and that force flew into the air with her. She looked down and saw that it was a huge white dragon, which was carrying her through the air at a rapid speed, as if it was hiding from something.
Before she could react, an equally huge blue snake followed, and the white dragon couldn't dodge, and was hit hard by the blue snake, so she lost her balance and fell to the side, causing Xia Qiu to almost slide off it. The white dragon had just regained its balance when the blue snake chased after it and was about to hit it again.
"Grab my dragon horns and sit tight!" The white dragon shouted to Xia Qiu on his back, but it was the voice of a thousand horses.
At this moment, a peacock of unusual beauty suddenly rushed over, and at the same time as it passed the blue snake, it slashed its claws across the head of the blue snake. This blow may have hurt the blue snake's eyes, and it groaned and slowed down its pursuit of Xia Qiu and the white dragon.
They also took the opportunity to flee to the ground, and after the white dragon landed next to a white fox, he lowered his body and let Xia Qiu get off its back.
"It's okay, I caught her!" White Dragon said.
"Are you a thousand horses?" Xia Qiu asked with a gasp, she was still a little frightened, and she could even hear her own rapid heartbeat.
"yes, it's a little ...... to see you," Bai Long replied with a wink.
"We are now in the maze created by the blue snake Xizhen, and it is said that it is a maze, but this place is already big enough to be called a world." As soon as the white fox beside him spoke, Xia Qiu heard that it was Ouyang Xiaoleng, and he continued to explain, "The law of this world she created is that all the monsters in this world will only exist in their own bodies, so we can't maintain our human form. ”
"Haha, even that monster that is neither yin nor yang has shown its original form!" Bai Long teased on the side.
The peacock that had helped the white dragon earlier also landed, raised its arrogant head and glanced at the white dragon contemptuously, and roared, "Stupid dragon, if I hadn't stopped that blue snake just now, you would have fallen to death this ugly girl you loved!" Don't thank me yet?! ”
Since he couldn't maintain his human form, Ling Yu could no longer hide his male identity, and he had already told Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qianqi the truth just now.
Xia Qiu suddenly remembered the last time she was hiding in Qingyun's dungeon in Chiremir, she had used her soul to find the exit of the maze created by the Rakshasa Mother, so she asked, "Can I use my soul to find the exit like last time?" ”
"It's useless, the passage connecting this world and the real world is the Blue Snake Xizhen itself. She will not hesitate to use herself as an exit from the maze to prevent us from destroying the coffin, which means we can't get out of here unless we kill her! Even if he turned back into a white fox, Ouyang Xiaoleng was still expressionless.
"She did this to save Emperor Cang!" Xia Qiu responded.
"Who is Emperor Cang?" Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qianqi asked in unison.
Xia Qiu replied: "It's the white oak tree in the middle of the city, he released me and asked me to come to you to stop the blue snake Xizhen together." They had been lovers for 4,000 years, but because of acid rain, he was poisoned and his life was in danger, and Qingyun took advantage of this opportunity to appear on the condition of saving Emperor Cang to force her to agree to help him. ”
"This adversary!" Ouyang Xiaoleng's teeth clenched together with anger, gurgling.
"Stop chatting, she's relieved!" Lingyu reminded.
They looked up and saw the blue snake rushing towards them.
"Get out of the way!"
Ouyang Xiaoleng shouted, and everyone quickly hid to both sides when they heard the sound. The blue serpent slammed into the ground, she had lost her mind, and therefore no pain, straightened up and shook her head, ready to launch the next round of attacks.
Although Ouyang Xiaoleng's body was a huge white fox, it was still far from the size of the blue snake's body, and the same was true of Spirit Feather's body.
In this space, the only one who can compete with the blue snake in size is Qianqi. Transformed into a white dragon, he was surrounded by an amber demonic cyclone, the scales on his body glittered in the sun, and the dragon horns on his head and the dragon whiskers on both sides of his cheeks were majestic, just like the legendary beasts. He stood in front of everyone, ready to meet the challenge of the blue snake alone, and the demonic power of the two giant beasts collided with each other, and fire was born in the friction.
Xia Qiu remembered Emperor Cang's entrustment, so he shouted loudly to the huge blue snake: "Xizhen, stop!" Emperor Cang asked us to stop you from helping Qingyun, he didn't want to rely on you to sell his soul to prolong his life! ”
Blue Snake seemed to listen to her words, hesitated for a moment, but still made up her mind to fight them to the death, she said: "One wrong step, one wrong step, now I have no way out!" I must let Emperor Cang live, this is what I owe him! ”
"There is no need to persuade her anymore, since she has taken refuge in Qingyun, she is our enemy! I've never heard of a dragon losing to a snake, so let me take her toe! ”
The white dragon turned around and said a word to Xia Qiu, then rushed forward and entwined with the blue snake. He was not afraid of the fangs of the blue snake Xizhen, because the dragon blood in his body should be able to automatically neutralize her snake venom, and he should not be below her in terms of strength, he was originally full of confidence in himself. But he only ignored one point, that is, Blue Snake Xizhen's cultivation time and actual combat experience were far beyond his reach.
During the struggle, the blue snake suddenly flew into the air with the white dragon, and when it didn't react, it rushed to the ground again, and then the blue snake relied on the tenacity of its body to land the white dragon's abdomen downward. The impact was so powerful that Qianqi only felt that his entire body was about to be torn apart, a piercing pain spread from his abdomen, and a mouthful of dragon blood spurted out of his mouth.
"Thousand Riders!"
Xia Qiu summoned the plum blade and ran towards the direction where the white dragon had fallen, but the blue snake turned around and intercepted them.
"Xia Qiu, you go and see the situation of Qianqi!"
Ouyang Xiaoleng pounced on the blue snake as he spoke, and he and Ling Yu cooperated with each other, striking east and west. Ling Yu was responsible for diverting the attention of the blue snake, and then Ouyang Xiaoleng attacked. In the blink of an eye, the silver, blue, and colorful demonic power whirlwinds around their bodies were entwined.
Although the white fox incarnated by Ouyang Xiaoleng and the peacock incarnated by Lingyu had successfully cooperated several times before, because the blue snake was so huge and had snake scales to protect its body, the white fox's attack did not cause much trauma to her. Soon, when he and the peacock were tired from their constant moves, the blue snake mastered the rhythm of the battle again, and the fangs almost injured the white fox and the peacock several times.
This is really an embarrassing battle, maybe because the size difference is too great, maybe because the demon power and actual combat ability are not as good as the opponent, but the bigger reason may be the Blue Snake's decision to save his lover Emperor Cang and would rather fall into the dark.