Chapter 33: The Day Comes
At the last moment, Lin Shouxi's heart calmed down.
He stretched out his palm, five fingers, pressed down, and shouted: "Heartless!" Sink! β
The unintentional curse planted in Xiao He's body suddenly attacked, like a pair of hands pressing her shoulders and sinking down, she snorted miserably, the meditative posture could not be maintained, she lost her balance, fell to the ground, and groaned in pain, and the shortness of this body just helped her avoid the fatal knife.
Lin Shouxi unleashed the spell while walking forward, and his body almost flew out.
Dingββ
The blade slammed into Qing Ming, and the second knife of the headless demon was intercepted in mid-air by Lin Shouxi.
Xiao He opened her eyes and saw the scene in front of her, and her hair stood on end, and she realized that when she walked on the edge of death, Lin Shouxi had already fought with the headless ghost.
The headless ghosts were very powerful, stronger than all the monsters they encountered, and Lin Shouxi slashed out a few swords, all of which had the feeling of a mortal slashing the mountains with a sword.
After he was shaken away by three consecutive swords, he no longer had any delusions, picked up Xiao He's petite body, pinched the water split, and jumped back into the pool in front of him.
The mighty headless demon seemed to have lost its bearings, its bulky body swaying in place like a tumbler, turning to the sleeping evil spirits in the stone trough.
Then, as if it had received some order, it also jumped into the pool and chased after it.
This ritual lasted for an unknown amount of time, and finally pieced together eighteen corpses, and now there are only two corpses, how can it give up easily?
"Evil spirits...... There are evil spirits in the pond! Xiao He's faint back came from behind.
"Evil Spirit ......"
Lin Shouxi remembered what Xiao He had said to him.
Human cultivators have two biggest enemies in this world, one is the dragon corpse and the other is the evil spirit, the dragon corpse is buried deep in the earth, and the evil spirit is mostly hidden in the sea. They are hidden creatures left over from ancient times, and they are formidably powerful.
Unexpectedly, they had just escaped from the mouth of the dragon corpse, and suddenly fell into the trap of the evil spirit.
Lin Shouxi didn't dare to imagine what would happen if he reacted slowly.
The crisis was far from being touched, the water behind it was split, and the headless demon was like a fish in water after entering the dark river, and it brought a series of dense bubbles and chased after it at high speed.
Lin Shouxi's true qi was rapidly consumed, and the feeling of exhaustion drilled out of his body, eating away at his spirit.
In the dark river, Lin Shouxi was caught up several times, he brandished his sword and collided with its bone blade, although he barely took it, but the aftermath of the bone blade still left many wounds on his body.
Lin Shouxi didn't know how he survived, the moment he rushed out of the dark river, he only felt that his internal organs were about to be shaken and displaced.
He went out from the other side of the river.
Xiao He was carrying him was also uncomfortable, the girl's delicate face was frighteningly white, the previous water trick was broken many times, and her body was also soaked by the river, shivering with cold.
At this time, when she finally left the river, she opened her pale eyes with her delicate eyelashes.
Then, she and Lin Shouxi saw the most desperate picture they had seen in their lives-
Heavy snow was falling at the outlet of the dark river, and the river ahead was frozen, forming a vast ice field. In the ice field filled with bitter cold winds, there were mountains of bonesβthe huge body of a dragon corpse. It hung a huge head made of silver, its red eyes burned in the cold wind, its ugly heart beating unhurriedly, and the sound of drums echoed almost to their ears.
It seemed to know that they were going to come out of here, and it was waiting here!
The evil spirit approached from behind, the dragon corpse was like a mountain in front of him, he was exhausted, Xiao He was seriously injured and dying, and there was no room for struggle.
The wheels of fate are pressing down on them in the form of mortal enemies, and they are about to crush them into pulp.
Out of the depth of misfortune comes bliss!
The line of despair also snapped at the extreme, and in the dark night of the storm and snow, the first rays of light seeped out from the east.
The light was like a sharp sword splitting the heavens and the earth, drawing the boundary between morning and dusk, surging over the hazy ridges of the mountain ridges, and every piece of snow reflected the light, revealing a faint gold, and the tense confrontation between the open world seemed extremely quiet. But this is not a confrontation between the dragon corpse and Lin Shouxi, but ......
The pupils of the dragon corpse crossed Lin Shouxi's body and looked at the evil ghost behind him who was holding a bone knife piercing his head.
Evil spirits and dragon corpses are humanity's worst enemies, but they are also undying enemies!
Lin Shouxi was still desperate for the strength of the evil spirit before, but now its strength has become the hope of his own life.
It doesn't get any better opportunity than this.
The moment the dragon corpse's eyes locked on the evil spirit, he held Xiao He's thigh, lowered his body, and used his last strength to run out wildly and escape from this bloody battlefield.
There was a crashing sound behind him, and the ice beneath his feet began to crumble.
The dragon corpse and the evil spirit fought fiercely, and this was the ripple left by their impact.
Lin Shouxi carried Xiao He on his back, pinched the spell to ward off the cold, crossed the ice field, and climbed to the cliff in front of him.
After distancing himself from them, Lin Shouxi took a breath, the black qi pill turned smoothly, quickly absorbing the true qi around him, regaining his strength, he put Xiao He down, touched her forehead and neck, and crossed some true qi for her.
Xiao He's recovery was acceptable, but her body still didn't have much strength, she leaned on Lin Shouxi, her chest rose and fell weakly, and her eyes were fluttering.
"Are you alright?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"It's fine." Xiao He responded, she rubbed her heart, and asked, "Just now, why did I suddenly feel so much pain here?" β
"Did the injury happen again?" Of course, Lin Shouxi would not tell her about the unintentional curse.
"Maybe ......" Xiao He was not sure.
"This sudden heartache saved your life." Lin Shouxi rejoiced and said: "This is also an opportunity. β
Xiao He shook her head gently, she raised her head, and looked at Lin Shouxi with clear eyes, "Thanks to you, good luck is only temporary, and without a senior brother to rescue me, it will be a dead end anyway, Xiao He...... will repay the senior brother. β
She told a lot of lies to Lin Shouxi, and wanted to express her gratitude sincerely at the moment, but she didn't know how to express it concretely for a while.
It was the first time she had drawn warmth from another person.
This kind of warmth is not the warmth of hot blood splashed on the tender skin when killing demons, but the warmth of spring breeze and night rain.
Her heart had been closed for too long, like a boundless snow forest infested with fierce beasts, never waiting for the light to illuminate, and now more than ten years later, finally a glimmer of light trekked through the boundless darkness and penetrated through the bottom of her eyebrows. She deliberately avoided it many times, but she couldn't turn a blind eye to it.
My aunt said that when she grows up, she is destined to climb to the top of that snow-capped mountain, and then there will be countless people in the world who will worship under her pomegranate skirt and admire her peerless beauty, but those are false, they just admire her beauty and strength in vain, and people like her will have no chance of true love for the rest of their lives.
She thought so, too.
But at this moment, she covered her true face with phantom feathers, and in the eyes of others, she was just a slightly delicate girl, and similarly, she was seriously injured, and the so-called power no longer existed, but he still ran away with his back, running from the long night to the moment when the dawn broke through the sky, and the moment the golden light came, she even had the urge to cry.
She was illuminated.
The only fly in the ointment is that Lin Shouxi is not looking at her at the moment, but watching the battle on the ice field.
The battle between evil spirits and dragon corpses.
The dragon corpse crushed the headless evil spirit in terms of size and strength, the only advantage of the evil spirit was its speed, it shook the bone knife, sliding and jumping at high speed on the ice, and the light dragged up by the blade was also silver-gray, and the sword moves it slashed out were extremely weird, not at all like a human can perform an action, and it seemed to know that the heart was the key point of the dragon corpse, and the steel knife attacked at that place, but it was stopped in the middle of the road, smashed back to the ice.
It is like a meat bullet, bouncing back and forth between the ice and the white bones, although it is extremely flexible, but it is not as powerful as the dragon corpse with the naked eye, if it moves a little slower, I am afraid that it will have been crushed into flesh by the dragon bones.
But Rao was so nimble that it was a blur of flesh and blood a few times, and it looked like a lump of flesh that had been chopped up and kneaded.
However, this also confirms the powerful vitality of the evil spirit, which does not seem to be easier to kill than a dragon corpse.
This evil spirit is so powerful, what kind of terrifying existence should the sleeping one in the stone chamber be?
"Aren't evil spirits dwelling in the deep sea, why do they also have pools of evil?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Wuzhu Lake is not far from the sea, and it is very likely that it sneaked through an underground river."
Xiao He explained: "Most of the evil spirits live in the deep sea, because the evil gods they believe in are sealed in the deep sea, but there are always those who turn away......
"Evil gods?"
"Well, the three evil gods, they are unknowable and invisible beings, and no one knows who sealed them, or the higher beings, or themselves." Xiao He coughed a few times and said.
Lin Shouxi imagined the fear from the deep sea, and couldn't help but feel a sense of depression, and his heartbeat accelerated a little.
"Is my sister resting?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Hmm." Xiao He nodded.
Lin Shouxi squatted down, Xiao He obediently lay on his back, his hands around his neck, his slender legs clamped his waist, Lin Shouxi carried her on his back and continued to move in the direction of the white wall, and after running out of the road for a while, a terrible scream came from the distant ice field behind him.
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He glanced back together.
On the ice field shrouded in shimmering light, the figure of the white bone dragon corpse was illuminated into a pitch-black silhouette, only the pair of pupils seemed to jump out of the red sun of the mountains, as if it would never be extinguished, and the headless evil spirit like a mass of flesh had been held in its mouth, and the sharp teeth closed, and the plasma-like thing burst out, and the body of the evil spirit was torn apart.
This is the epitome of thousands of years of earthly struggle.
I don't know if the dragon corpse continued to chase after them, but thankfully, they had managed to get enough distance.
Lin Shouxi ran into the forest with Xiao He on his back, and through this forest, the white wall as high as a hill finally appeared in their sight, and before they knew it, they had crossed such a long distance and came to the edge of this cage.
The sky is already light, and after the long night, the stone gate should be opened.
Lin Shouxi's position at the moment was skewed, and he had to walk west along the stone wall for a while to reach the stone gate.
"Someone!" Xiao He said.
Lin Shouxi's sense of hearing was not as sharp as Xiao He's, and he realized that the two disciples in the bushes in front of him were also running.
Coincidentally, it was Wang Erguan and Ji Luoyang.
They didn't know where they had fallen, their bodies were soaked, and there was even algae wrapped around their trouser legs.
"What the hell is that thing, is it that important, I almost lost my life trying to pick it up!" Wang Erguan complained loudly.
"Of course it is." Ji Luoyang said coldly: "You don't understand its value at all. β
"I don't think it's unusual, you're used to being poor, you can use any cheats as a treasure." Wang Erguan was dismissive.
Ji Luoyang said coldly: "If I hadn't protected you along the way, I would have died countless times." β
"It's like I didn't make a difference." Wang Erguan said with a big grin: "If you have the ability, you will kill me, so there will be no proof of death." β
Ji Luoyang stared at him, furious, "Are you really looking for death?" β
"Heh, I don't think you're necessarily my opponent." Wang Erguan said: "Now you are half a realm lower than me. β
"You ......" Ji Luoyang said gloomily: "I hope you will abide by the agreement." β
"Let's get out first...... Wang Erguan gasped, he suddenly turned his head, "Who is behind?!" β
Turning his head, he saw that Lin Shouxi was indeed carrying Xiao He on his back, and he and Ji Luoyang were both startled.
"What's wrong with you? Miss Xiaohe, she ......, "Wang Erguan is puzzled, thinking that this is a critical juncture, you still have time to be in love here?"
"Senior sister is injured." Lin Shouxi quickly explained, "The dragon corpse is still chasing us. β
"Dragon corpse ......," Wang Erguan stood on tiptoe, "Is it running over here?" β
"It should be soon." Lin Shouxi said.
Without saying anything more, the four of them fled together in the direction of the stone gate.
The conversation between Fang Cai Wang Erguan and Ji Luoyang obviously hides some secrets, but now is definitely not the time to ask.
Running all the way along the white wall, the two finally came to the outside of the stone gate.
The most terrifying thing for them has finally happened.
The stone door didn't open!
Tomorrow is already bright, it stands to reason that the evil pool demon extermination has ended, Yun Zhenren should open the stone door to welcome them back, and then untie the waist card, and distribute rewards according to the color shade.
But the door was still closed.
All the surviving disciples gathered at the door, looking at them in horror.
"Door...... The door didn't open. β
Ah Shi saw Lin Shouxi and weakly stated this obvious reality.
"How so?" Lin Shouxi was also confused, "Has this happened before?" β
"Occasionally." Ah Shi said: "If Yun Zhenren has other things to delay, he will open the door later, after all, the evil pool is not a big deal. β
"......" Lin Shouxi took a deep breath, he looked at the tall and heavy stone gate, and knew that this door could only be solved by spells, and it was definitely not something that could be pushed open by manpower.
"What now?"
Many of the disciples who had been rescued by Lin Shouxi knew his strength and looked at him in unison, as if they had regarded him as an opinion leader.
Lin Shouxi felt everyone's gaze, and countless plans flashed in his mind, such as luring dragon corpses to collide and the like, but they were all vetoed by him one by one.
He felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
"Xiao He?" Lin Shouxi asked Xiao He's opinion.
Xiao He also shook her head, she didn't know how to open the stone door from this side.
Silence is hopeless.
They seemed to have fallen off the cliff in unison, still in the process of falling, but falling to the bottom of the valley and shattering their bones was already an inevitable future.
The only way to survive seems to be to pray that Yun Zhenren can open this stone door at the last moment.
But then the sound of the earth trembling behind him approached, and the possibility became more and more remote.
Lin Shouxi tried his best to take Xiao He to escape from the clutches of the dragon corpse and evil spirits, but now, all the previous efforts seemed to be meaningless.
In desperation, many disciples either slammed the door with both hands with all their might, slapping the flesh and blood into a blur, or slammed the door sideways, causing blood, or began to flee along the white wall, hoping to escape.
Wang Erguan also rushed to the heavy division's door, pressed his hands on the door, and pushed with all his might.
There is no better way.
"Come and help!"
Ji Luoyang also rushed to Wang Erguan's side and helped push the door.
"You can't open the door." Some of the disciples shook their heads and sighed.
"How do you know if you don't try? Let's try it out...... The dragon corpse is near, and we don't have time to run anymore! Ji Luoyang's voice seemed generous, but it also showed a trembling of needless struggle.
"I really can't push it away...... Wang Erguan tried it for a while and said.
Ji Luoyang also pushed the door with all his might, but the door was like a mountain, and it didn't move at all.
The world still needs infinite generations of children and grandchildren to move mountains, where can it be directly pushed away by small manpower?
The swamp rippled, the rocks cracked, the dragon corpse got closer and closer, and the earth roared, and many disciples couldn't even stand still.
Lin Shouxi couldn't help but think of the scene where the evil spirit was bitten and exploded.
Xiao He got off his back and came to the door, she drew spells with her fingers, and kept trying.
Lin Shouxi also walked to her side, put his hands on the door, reversed the black pill, and pushed with all his might.
The body is approaching the limit, and in the body, there seems to be a black phoenix opening its eyes and pumping the true qi to his arm at an exponential speed, and in an instant, his strength has also reached the limit, but these powers still seem to be insufficient compared to this stone gate.
The rest of the disciples didn't have any more choice, they followed the four Chosen Ones to push the door with all their might, death was approaching, and the last of the strength in their bones was squeezed out, and they all pressed against the door in front of them.
They want to use human power to create unimaginable miracles together.
It seems that the heavens have mercy, and a miracle has really happened!
The door moved!
The heavy, moving sound of the door ringing in everyone's ears!
They thought they had misheard.
But the gap in front of them is really getting bigger, and this hill-like stone door is shaken by them!
The teenagers didn't have time to cheer, they looked at Lin Shouxi who pushed the door with all their might, and hope ignited in their hearts, and they riveted their strength together, shouting loudly, and trying their best to expand this gap.
The huge figure of the dragon corpse appeared behind him, its red eyes indifferent, not moved by the efforts of the teenagers, and walked towards them mercilessly.
A dark shadow pressed down from behind him, obscuring the early morning sunlight.
Everyone felt it.
The dragon corpse raised its claws and slapped it down as if it were about to crush an ant.
It was also at this moment that the gate was violently pushed open, so that the disciples who had tried their best almost fell over.
There are also disciples who failed to escape the kick of the dragon corpse at the moment when hope bloomed, and were ruthlessly trampled into meat sauce.
Lin Shouxi and the others crossed the gate.
The dragon corpse is shorter than the extremely tall white wall, but taller than the gate. It slammed into the wall, which shook slightly, but was not shaken by it.
It can't be chased anymore.
Lin Shouxi and the others rushed through the gate in unison, and they also saw a shocked and speechless face.
It was Yun Zhenren's face.
Yun Zhenren, who was dressed in a black robe, stood at the door, he raised his hand, as if he was about to draw a talisman to open the door and let them in.
But Yun Zhenren never imagined that the door would open by itself, and even it was pushed open from that side!
This shattered the common sense of his centuries-old monasticism.
Of course, he couldn't delve into the reason for it now, because he also saw the towering white bones, and saw the tumor heart beating in the bones.
"Dragon corpse...... The dragon corpse in the pool actually woke up? β
Yun Zhenren looked at the disciples who had fallen to the ground, almost all of them were injured, and many of them had exhausted their strength and fainted.
What the hell did they encounter in the Pool?!
The disciples have all crossed the line of life and death, and the next thing is that Yun Zhenren should have a headache.