1. Cremation of the ancient furnace
The night covers the sky, and the drizzle is cold.
Lu Renjie slowly woke up from a mess of consciousness and found himself crawling in a cloud of mud, with rain drifting in the dark night.
"Where is this?"
"Am I not in the ambulance?"
Sitting up from the mud, Lu Renjie rubbed his groggy and painful temples, and endless questions filled his heart.
He is a mystery novel writer, forced to make a living, in recent years, often stay up late to write, tonight heart disease, just by the family to the ambulance lost consciousness, at this moment suddenly woke up, but did not expect to be alone in this rainy night mud soaking, it is incredible.
The doubtful thoughts had just arisen, and a strange memory suddenly roared like a surging tide, and the crazy impact merged into Lu Renjie's mind.
…… The great departure from the dynasty, twenty years of heavenly fortune.
Lu Renjie, twenty-one years old, his biological mother died of illness after giving birth to him, his father Lu Tianming was an ordinary demon arrester in Moyang County, five years ago in an operation to assist the demon slayer master to encircle and suppress the Tianshui River Demon, he inherited his father's errand and lived......
"Great departure? Demon Slayer? Demon Hunter? River...... River Demon? What's going on? How could such a strange memory pop up in my head...... Could it be that it was not rescued and worn...... Skipped? ”
Lu Renjie's heart suddenly pounded in surprise, and a series of question marks appeared in his mind.
Surprised, he quickly reached out to his waist to check, and sure enough, he touched a standard scabbard with a long and hard jaw that looked slippery and wet because it was covered with mud.
Then he touched each other's hands, and found that his hands were now slender and hard as iron, and their palms were wide and heavy, full of savage power that he had never experienced, and there was a layer of rough calluses between the palms of his hands and on the tiger's mouth that had been sharpened by years of sword practice.
Obviously, this is no longer the delicate, white, delicate and weak girlfriend he is familiar with.
Confirmed, it is indeed crossed.
“……”
Lu Renjie's whole heart sank, and he fell to the bottom, confused and flustered.
However, the frenzy of memories did not care about his interest and feelings at the moment, and after violently breaking through the portal of his mind, he drove straight in.
More and more strange and miserable memories flowed out of the darkness without light like a tide.
…… In this world, demons and monsters are rampant in the wild, rampant and abnormal, and the imperial courts of all dynasties have set up the Yamen of the Demon Slaying Division, which competes with the Criminal Department to deal with all cases involving demons and strange in the empire.
About ten years ago, there were more than 30 bizarre cases of children missing in the middle of the night in Moyang County, and the demon arresters and the county officials rushed out to investigate for many days, but they could not find any useful clues, and the two sides could only continue to strengthen their night patrol precautions.
Tonight, when Lu Renjie was patrolling in the rain in Dongcheng with a horse lantern, he accidentally bumped into a sneaky figure wearing a hat walking quietly alone on the street corner.
He fled, he chased.
Lu Renjie has followed his father to practice martial arts since he was a child, and his talent is quite good, although he lacks resources, but four months ago, he has also cultivated to the peak of the Nine Grades of Qixuan Condensation Realm, full of energy, strong physical fitness, the speed of the hat man is as fast as a rabbit, and he easily climbed out of the city wall in two steps, but he is still chased by him and has nowhere to hide, the hat man has no other way, after escaping into a dense forest on the outskirts of the city, he had to turn around suddenly, show his long sword and fight with him.
However, Lu Renjie is not only strong in his legs, but also ruthless and experienced in his hand work, and he has already practiced the first "Kill the Knife Intent" of the Demon Slaying Division to perfection, and the battle was divided after only three moves - his long knife penetrated into the heart of the hat man.
But what Lu Renjie didn't expect was that this guy laughed a few times before he died, and then spat out an extremely fishy and rich breath at him.
Lu Renjie couldn't avoid the distance of the face-to-face fight, and only vaguely took a shallow breath of fishy air, and his brain quickly became dizzy, and he stumbled for more than a dozen steps, and finally fell into the mud and passed out.
The memory came to an abrupt end, and the out-of-control surging frenzy in his mind finally pulled away, leaving Lu Renjie with a shock that could not be calmed down for a long time.
"The original owner was so violent, and he was sprayed to death by the thief in one breath, are the trolls in this world so powerful......
"Damn, it's just blood mold, how could you have crossed into such a dangerous world......"
“…… Alas, but it's good that I've picked up another life, and I can live again, no matter what, I should think about living well......"
Lu Renjie sat in the mud, sighed several times one after another, and finally had to accept the situation in front of him silently.
He decided to live according to the life trajectory of the original owner first, and then plan slowly for the future of life.
With a decision, he got up and walked a few steps away, picking up the horse lantern that had fallen in the mud, the glass lampshade was still intact, and a pale yellow light came out when the mud was wiped clean.
By the light of the light, he successfully found the body of the man with a hat by the yellow bush two feet away.
At this moment, the other party no longer swung a sword to fight him like before, but honestly lay down to be examined, and Lu Renjie finally saw the other party's appearance clearly.
This is a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old, born with skin as white as snow, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and a charming and bewitching silhouette that is better than many young women.
The reason why he can be sure that the other party is a man is because Lu Renjie has both hands up and down and checks it very carefully - the upper road is flat and there are no peaks, and the lower road is flat and there are no hills and rifts.
“…… It's a man...... It's a pity, I'm still so young, I can't do anything with such a delicate and delicate appearance, I prefer to be a sneaky night thief, I don't cooperate with the inspection, forget it, and dare to draw a sword to attack the sheriff, no wonder I go in with a white knife and a red knife comes out ......"
With a muffled pop, Lu Renjie pulled the saber out of the opponent's cavity and put it into the scabbard.
He then skillfully untied a slender copper rope around his waist and tied up the corpse, preparing to drag it back to the Demon Hunter's Yamen to check it out to see if he could confirm the specific identity of the thief.
This copper rope is a standard magic weapon issued by the Demon Slayer Division to the demon hunters, forged by the talisman master of the Daomen Qiyao Palace, and engraved with Taoist runes on it, when it is close to the demon that is not enough to hide its own breath, it will glow blue, and at the same time has a certain way to suppress yin and evil.
At this moment, the young man is dead, and the copper rope binds his corpse but still does not react, which is enough to show that the other party is not a monster.
"Wow!"
Suddenly, there was a short and terrifying crow cry in the dense forest on the side, and an unknown black shadow suddenly jumped up from the forest, and Lu Renjie, who was still looking down curiously at the delicate appearance while carrying the corpse, felt a void in his heart, his body shook violently, and he instinctively let go of the copper rope in his hand, and quickly pressed the handle of the knife on his waist to concentrate on guard.
However, at this moment of high concentration, his spirit was inexplicably in a trance, and a strange vision suddenly appeared in front of him.
He saw endless white bones rolling in his field of vision, and in the blink of an eye, he paved out the land for thousands of miles, built thousands of feet of high mountains, and purple-red rivers of blood meandered and rushed on the white bone land, like thousands of dragons and snakes swimming in the mighty ground, shaking the soul......
The blood river was filled with rolling crimson fog barriers and converged towards the sky, forming huge scarlet blood clouds, and thousands of blazing white lightning bolts were like endless roots falling from the sky like a giant thunder tree, piercing through the clouds and hovering in mid-air.
At the end of each of these silver bolts of lightning, there was a dry corpse hanging from the head like a hanging!
The yellow-robed emperor, the lotus crown immortal dao, the nine-headed dragon, the blue-armored demon Jiao, the red-haired rakshasa ......
It seems that all the sinful and transcendent beings who have existed in this world are now hanging their corpses here, receiving the eternal judgment of this purgatory!
Lu Renjie was stunned by this sudden hell scene.
Like this magnificent, exaggerated and realistic scene, he has only seen it on the screen of a movie theater in two lifetimes.
His stunned gaze slowly moved, and soon he saw that under the endless hanging corpse electric rope, above the blood river of the Ten Thousand Miles of Bone Mountain, there was also a huge purple-red furnace suspended out of thin air, and the tripod's body was covered with many subtle irregular scratches, as if it had experienced countless violent impacts in the long river of time.
In the center of the furnace is a bleak blue ghost fire floating, slowly and silently, like a pair of terrifying eyes of a terrible ghost, quietly staring at the landing man.
Burn the corpses of the souls, burn the fate of this life, and seize the opportunity of this life!
The moment he looked at the ghost fire, Lu Renjie suddenly realized that such an idea appeared in his mind uncontrollably.
Before he had time to ponder the meaning of this sentence, a living phantom had already appeared in front of him out of thin air, and then fell straight into the furnace, and the ghost fire of the ghost forest immediately burst into flames, and the tongue of fire swallowed silently, soaring, and in the blink of an eye, the phantom was completely submerged and devoured.
Lu Renjie was surprised to find that the face of the phantom of the burned soul in front of him looked bewitching and evil, and the outline was eight or nine points like the charming young man who died under his knife.
It's just that what makes him feel incomprehensible is that this phantom has a pair of pointed fox ears, his eyes are red like blood, his pupils are narrow and evil, and there are mottled crystal spots in his pupils.
What the hell is this...... It's a monster?
But why didn't I use the Demon-Killing Copper Rope to tie up his corpse and there was no response?
For a while, Lu Renjie's heart was full of suspicions.