2. Barren Mountain House

"Enter...... , even if there is a sea of swords and fires ahead, we have to break through, and retreating now is to cut off the life of the junior brother," Zhang Lingxiao made a decision with pride, giving Zhang Lingyun a firmer belief.

Every brother in the Taiping Palace is indispensable, since he knows that there is a way to save people in front of him, he will never give up this hope, Zhang Lingyun stepped on the uneven stone steps and continued to move forward, and after a while, there was a fork in the corridor in front of him, and the guide charm did not hesitate to drift slowly to the side, and the two followed the direction of the talisman to continue to go straight.

A faint smell of blood came to his face, and the side proved that he was moving in the right direction, Zhang Lingyun brushed his sleeves and covered his nose to speed up his pace, and it didn't take long to see a person falling to the ground and crawling towards them.

"Save ...... , please, save ...... I...... ,”

The face of the person in front of him was covered with blood and he couldn't see his appearance clearly, Zhang Lingyun could only distinguish the identity of the woman in front of him from her trembling voice, this person was prostrate on the ground and his legs were cut off from his knees, and a long blood mark dragged out behind the woman, and he was waving his arms to ask for help at this time.

Before the woman's words fell, a black shadow popped out in the distance, and the speed was fast towards the bloody man, Zhang Lingyun threw out a talisman An invisible talisman barrier stood prominently, like a transparent giant wall in front of him, the black shadow was extremely fast and approached in front of him, "Bang~," a huge spiritual impact sounded, the black shadow was bounced out by the talisman barrier, and the body flipped a few times in the air before unloading the impact, and finally landed firmly on the ground.

Zhang Lingyun felt a fierce whirlwind sweeping across the opposite side, and was about to output spiritual power to strengthen the defensive ability of the talisman, when he felt that the thick talisman barrier instantly exploded into fragments, slowly turning into dust, and at the same time, the whirlwind swept away the bloody people and black shadows on the ground, leaving only a dazzling trail of dragging blood.

"Chasing?" Zhang Lingxiao wanted to ask for the opinion of his junior brother, but turned his head and found that he had disappeared in place, "Alas~," he couldn't help but hold his forehead and sighed deeply, not knowing where he should go at this time.

"That's a lot of speed...... , I added three talismans and didn't catch up, senior brother...... Can you see what it is?" Zhang Lingyun picked up the Divine Talisman and returned in an instant, panting heavily, looking at the complaining senior brother in surprise.

"It's like a long worm just now, I'm not very sure," Zhang Lingxiao didn't want to teach his junior brother how to avoid risks at this time, but instead dispelled his junior brother's fighting spirit, so he had to secretly suppress the anger in his heart.

"Senior brother, the direction pointed by Fu Zheng is the same as the direction in which the long worm escaped, shall we still chase it?" Zhang Lingyun had lingering palpitations about cold-blooded animals, and was ready to hand over the decision to the palm of his senior brother's hand.

The two of them discussed for a short time and decided to move on, more than a hundred steps, a huge eerie dragon carved stone door appeared in front of them, and blood continued to drip between the cracks of the stone door, and the two of them pulled the pull ring and opened the stone door forcefully.

"Gala...... As the sound of the mechanism starting, the heavy stone door slowly opened, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, Zhang Lingyun was almost stunned by this sudden blood qi, and couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose with his sleeves.

The huge brazier on the four top beams and stone pillars emitted a flickering flame, the pitch-black hall was as bright as day in an instant, the surrounding stone walls seemed to have been carefully polished and very smooth, a layer of thick mist condensed above the dome of the main hall, making people unable to estimate the height of the stone hall here, the ground of the main hall was covered with blood, and twenty or thirty corpses were lying in the center.

"Senior brother has come back to his senses, be careful that there are walking corpses in here," Zhang Lingyun pointed to the hill made of people on the ground, raised his eyebrows lightly, and gestured at the neck from left to right with his backhand, making a gesture that might be killed.

"Ling Yun, let's see if there are any living people, it's good to save one. ”

The two searched the grounds and found no survivors, instead finding many corpses showing signs of being eaten, and a few missing limbs and some flesh.

"Senior brother, this sad woman seems to be the one who has just been swept away. ”

Zhang Lingyun turned over the woman's corpse, only to see that her eyes were wide open and she looked dead, her head and neck were only connected by palm-sized flesh, and the bloody head was clearly visible even the neck bone, Zhang Lingyun couldn't help but start swallowing saliva to prevent himself from spitting out because of this terrifying scene.

Zhang Lingxiao felt a strange sound, several Divine Fire Talismans pinched in his hands to guard the surroundings, and moved closer to the direction of the junior brother in a soft voice, making a silent movement and pulling the junior brother to move towards the edge of the main hall.

"Shhh...... Zhang Lingyun was reminded by his senior brother, and he also noticed a strange sound above his head, and the two of them slowly moved back to back to the edge of the stone wall.

At this time, a shadow more than ten meters long spiraled down from the vault, and the action of the black shadow dispersed the true body of the cloud and mist giant snake appeared, this snake body was as transparent as jade, and the bones and blood in the body could be clearly seen from the outside, the red pupils did not have the slightest ripple, and the scales on the body did not have half of the luster at all.

"Eh, I'll go, what kind of powerful puppet is this? I can't even afford to inject some spiritual power," Zhang Lingyun was shocked by the fact that he was shocked by the hand of the Divine Fire Talisman with his back against the stone wall, and secretly pinched his fingers to release the spiritual power in his body to stir up the spiritual energy, and only after repeating it several times did he dare to confirm the identity of the giant snake.

"Be careful," Zhang Lingxiao stretched out his hand to pull his junior brother back, avoiding the sneak attack of the snake tail in time, and threw out a few Divine Fire Talismans with his backhand to hit the giant snake directly, and the runes emitted a faint red light, which was attached to the head and neck of the giant snake like lightning.

The Divine Fire Talisman that found the target instantly burst into scorching flames, "Zila~, Zila...... The giant snake was successfully attacked by Zhang Lingxiao without defense, the huge and white snake body was burned out of black spots by the scorching flames of the Divine Fire Fu, the giant snake sensed that the danger was approaching and immediately entered a state of madness, and kept twisting and flipping its body against the smooth stone wall, and under the continuous efforts of the giant snake, it really rubbed off the talisman to relieve the crisis, and the giant snake did not dare to move forward rashly and was forced to retreat again and again.

"Despicable villain, see that grandpa will first break your corpse into ten thousand pieces, and then dig up your ancestral grave and whip the corpse!" Zhang Lingyun didn't like cold-blooded animals, his hair stood on end, and he was angry but he didn't dare to do it rashly, so he had to hide behind the senior brother and speak quickly.

Zhang Lingxiao stayed away from his junior brother and pinched out the breath charm and applied it to his chest, "Click~, click...... The white arms were bruised, the fists were clenched and the finger bones were pinched, and the figure instantly increased to reveal the mighty and domineering spirit of the strong, and a fierce cold light flashed in his eyes.

Sensing the inevitability of a big battle, the giant snake decided to preemptively open its bloody mouth, and the viscous liquid that spewed out rushed in the direction of Zhang Lingyun.

"It's all like this, and I know how to pick soft persimmons and pinch them, it's okay!"

Zhang Lingyun, who gritted his teeth, did not dodge, pinched out the talisman to block in front of him, waved his hand and threw out the Divine Fire Talisman, and a red light flashed through the talisman and approached the door of the giant snake.

It's a pity that the same attack didn't work, although the giant snake that had been guarded for a long time was huge, but its body was flexible and twisted to avoid the attack of the talisman, but it never thought that this talisman could track the target with the caster's mind, and even had the tenacity to not give up until the goal was reached, the giant snake felt the power of the talisman and didn't want to be hurt again, and twisted this huge body to dodge around, and had no time to care about other existences.

Zhang Lingxiao had this opportunity, how could he miss it, the Lingxiao sword in his hand was stabbed directly at the skull of the giant snake, and the silver light flashed in the sky when the giant snake dodged the red rune paper with all its might, and a sword mark suddenly appeared on the neck of the giant snake, and at this time, a black mist spread out from the crack in the stone wall, and it repeatedly broke like a soap bubble attached to the giant snake's scar.

Zhang Lingyun felt that the aura in this semi-enclosed hall fluctuated abnormally, and as the black mist dissipated, the wound on the neck of the giant snake miraculously recovered as before, and the giant snake was no longer flexible after the fierce attack just now.

"Boom~," Zhang Lingyun saw the opportunity to guide the talisman to successfully hit the slow-moving giant snake, and the divine fire talisman hit the head of the giant snake, and the dry and greasy snake head burned instantaneously like a torch stained with kerosene.

"Shhh...... The giant snake was frightened and resentful, and sent out a wave of invisible spiritual impact, Zhang Lingxiao brandished the Lingxiao sword and inserted it into the stone slab, so as to avoid the layers of spiritual power impact that would knock the two of them out.

The giant serpent couldn't stand the scorching flames of the Divine Fire Talisman, and twisted its body frantically to hit everything it saw, even the stone pillars that supported the dome were not spared, and the stone walls wrapped around the outer walls of the stone pillars were cracked by the impact, and the broken scattered stones flew everywhere, stirring up dust all over the room.

"Oh yes, yes yes~, senior brother, let's slay demons and eliminate demons! The master will definitely be proud of us," Zhang Lingyun is naughty and mischievous on weekdays, but he is also eager to be recognized and praised by his master, and now he finally has such a good opportunity The excitement is overflowing, and he dances and pulls the senior brother in circles.

"We're also doing this for the people," Zhang Lingxiao smiled smugly, "Hmm...... "There was a squeezing and kneading pain in his arm.

"Division...... Brother?"

Zhang Lingyun's smile stopped abruptly, before he could figure out his senior brother's injury, a powerful spiritual power fluctuation came from the direction of the dead snake just now, and this time the spiritual power was more condensed and powerful than before.

The dust settled, "Hiss~, hiss...... The giant snake made a warning sound, the appearance of the giant snake in front of him was very different from before, the dull scales were glowing with a faint green light at this time, the tail grew a cold hideous spike, the huge triangular snake mouth protruded from the half-meter-long fangs, and the red pupils revealed pity and disdain for Zhang Lingyun and the others.

"Senior brother is not afraid, this is just the complete body of the giant snake. ”

Zhang Lingxiao is a big disciple of the Taiping Palace, although he is not the most proud disciple of Shizun, he is also very important, he once followed Zhang Shanxing (Shizun) down the mountain to kill demons, and he is more aware of the changes between demon beasts.

"Senior brother, it's so strong, if we can't beat it, it's not a shame!"

The hideous and evil giant snake in front of him brought Zhang Lingyun an unprecedented sense of crisis, he was very self-aware, as far as the snake demon puppet in front of him was comparable to the Jindan period, it was not something that two monks in the foundation building period could defeat, but the sense of honor as an immortal cultivator made him unable to retreat, so he had to say hello to the senior brother first, in case he was defeated and fled, he would save his tongue, if he even lost his own life, it would be empty talk to talk about killing demons and destroying demons.

"Hehe, Lingyun remember, if there is a lack of spiritual power during the battle, retreat in time and not fall in love with the battle, the senior brother will be the queen of your palace," Zhang Lingxiao did not use any high-sounding words to persuade the junior brother to fight with all his might, but just tried his best to give a guarantee.

The kind of affectionate and righteous people recorded in books, who can prevent disasters for their brothers, are in front of him, Zhang Lingyun looked at the senior brother who was almost the same age as himself, and there was an indescribable touch in his heart.

The giant snake that turned into a complete body exuded a huge coercion, and its body flickered and disappeared in place, Zhang Lingxiao felt that the danger was coming, and stabbed behind him with a backhand sword, Zhang Lingyun instantly sacrificed a talisman to block in front of him, wanting to help the senior brother share some dangers, but the arrogant and unruly giant snake did not dodge and was ready to resist Zhang Lingxiao's attack.

"Poof~," Zhang Lingxiao almost used the strength of the sword to eat, but he didn't expect to be shocked by the rebound of the strong snake body of the giant snake, Zhang Lingxiao turned around and took a few steps back to stabilize his body, the giant snake twisted his figure and threw out the snake tail with hideous spikes, and went straight to Zhang Lingxiao's waist and abdomen, Zhang Lingxiao stabilized his body and failed to meet it head-on, and was thrown by the snake tail and smashed to the wall, at the critical moment Zhang Lingyun pinched out the magic talisman and disappeared into the body, caught the senior brother in the air and flipped to the direction of the gate.

The giant snake reflected extremely fast and flashed, the huge snake body blocked the gate firmly, opened its bloody mouth to swallow the two people who were about to run away, Zhang Lingxiao pushed his junior brother out of the battlefield with a backhand, and after throwing out a few yellow thunder charms, he also left the battlefield.

"Click~," the aura condensed from all directions, and formed a thick cloud in the semi-enclosed stone room, accompanied by a deafening roar, the majestic lightning suddenly slashed, and the giant snake was frightened stupidly by the sudden arrival of the sky, and froze in place and didn't know how to dodge, where the thunder and lightning fell, the smoke and flying stones gradually became invisible, only the snake shadow of the giant snake kept churning.

"Ling Yun, how many red talismans do you have?"

"Three, I should be able to draw another one,"

Zhang Lingyun took out the red rune paper to calm down and stabilize his breath, cut his fingers with his fingernails and injected spiritual power to draw a thunder talisman, threw the talisman attached to the four stone pillars that supported the main hall, and pulled the senior brother to hide by the stone gate on the other side and wait quietly.

The dust dissipated, and the giant snake dragged its broken body towards the two of them, Zhang Lingyun pinched his fingers and pinched the trick to trigger the talisman, "Boom~, click~," The Divine Fire Talisman and the Thunder Charm erupted at the same time, the invisible aura fluctuations continued to impact the main hall, the ground trembled and made a loud sound of stone slabs shattering, the stone pillars supporting the main hall were overwhelmed and broken, the already dilapidated walls collapsed, the vault of the main hall fell from a high place and the stone pillars collapsed, huge stones kept falling, and the giant snake was stunned by the sudden change and was stunned in place, and it took a while to react and constantly twist and swing its body to dodge the flying stones.

Zhang Lingyun didn't wait for the development of the situation and pulled the senior brother into an open stone door, in front of him was a bottomless road, "Bang, click~, click~," the two seemed to trigger some kind of mechanism, and the torches hanging on the wall automatically ignited flames, and quickly spread to illuminate the road ahead.

"Yo roar~, senior brother, the guide talisman is ahead, it's really an endless road, haha, haha," Zhang Lingyun's face turned pale and he fell to the ground after a bleak laugh, just now the talisman cast almost exhausted the spiritual power in his body.

"Now that we have no way out, there may be an opportunity to move forward," Zhang Lingxiao sat down next to his junior brother, and turned out a fist-sized oiled paper bag in the Qiankun bag and stuffed it into his junior hand.

"Wow~, senior brother is the best,"

Zhang Lingyun opened the oil paper, there were more than a dozen exquisite dim sum in it, although they were educated as orphans, but the cultivators were pure and had few desires to practice and were extremely boring, dim sum was considered a luxury in the Taiping Palace, Zhang Lingyun carefully pinched a piece of peach blossom crisp and put it in his mouth, savoring its deliciousness, showing a happy and satisfied look on his face.

"How do you eat only one piece?"

"Senior brother bought it for everyone to eat, my skin is not so thick, so it's good," Zhang Lingyun carefully wrapped the dim sum and put it back in his senior brother's hand, patted the dust on his body and embarked on the journey again.

The two of them walked along the bright corridor, and about half an hour, they passed through a stone door.