(18) Strange dried corpses

Everyone quickly chased after them, and after chasing them for fifty or sixty meters, three forks suddenly appeared. The dumb man led everyone into one of them without hesitation, but this fork in the road was a little narrow, and it was impossible to expand the mixed element four-elephant array. Xiao Qingfeng immediately made adjustments quickly, and had no choice but to adopt a single formation. Let the mute track the smell in front, followed by the little Taoist, Mengshan turtle, Xiao Qingfeng, doll, prodigal son, and lone wolf, and change the meditation to cover behind the palace, so that you can take care of both ends in case of accidents.

After tracking more than 100 meters in the narrow space, a downward passage appeared in front of it, and a relatively spacious passage began to appear after descending for a while. Although the dumb man said that the direction of tracking was correct, everyone did not find any clues about each other, let alone find the laughing Maitreya.

Just when everyone was slowly getting more and more agitated, they arrived at a huge cave hall in front of them, and this cave hall was even bigger than the one just now. After entering, Xiao Qingfeng asked everyone to rearrange into a mixed four-elephant formation, so that everyone could take a break, while he and the dumb man were ready to search around first. In order to see the entire cave hall more clearly, Xiao Qingfeng shot out three time-delay light bullets one after another, and suddenly the entire cave hall was as bright as day, much stronger than relying solely on the pure yang beads of the little Taoist priest and everyone's strong flashlight.

Just as the two of them were about to start searching around, they suddenly shouted "not good" quietly. I saw a giant python similar to the one just now flying out from both sides of the cave hall, dark green, with a body of about seventeen or eighteen centimeters in diameter and a length of almost ten meters. I saw that these two giant pythons attacked Jingxin at the same time, and Jingxin was startled, and two shadowless flying needles shot out in an instant. At the same time, the Mengshan Turtle and the Little Taoist Priest on the left and right also jumped up and launched a fierce attack on the two sudden giant pythons. It's just that these two giant pythons seem to know their power, and they actually make a false move, turn around, and when they retreat, they use their tails to probe into the middle of the Mixed Yuan Four Elephant Array and roll up the prodigal son and the doll. Amid the terrifying screams of the prodigal son and the doll, two pythons soared into the air and fled towards another fork in the road.

And this is not the end, before everyone can really react completely, I don't know where seven or eight slightly smaller pythons came out, and they met Xiao Qingfeng and Jingxin, who caught up with the rescue. Xiao Qingfeng struck several powerful Tiangang palms one after another, shaking these pythons and fleeing in all directions, and the shadowless flying needle of meditation also stabbed them fiercely without hesitation. At this time, Mengshan Turtle and Little Taoist priest also surrounded them, and were about to give them a heavy hand.

But seeing that the two giant pythons had escaped cunningly, Xiao Qingfeng hurriedly stopped the two, he really didn't want to have too much grudge with the other party when the three of them had no exact news. After all, now that his side is obviously at a disadvantage, he can't be too impulsive no matter what, otherwise he will lose everything if he is not careful.

It is also strange to say that these injured pythons also seem to have spirituality, and seeing that the other party does not want to kill them all, they slowly drag their long bodies, which have been seriously injured, and retreat with the two predatory pythons.

Xiao Qingfeng calmed down a little and said: "It seems that we have encountered a really powerful opponent today, you see that even these cold-blooded animals have been trained by him to be so alert, and even know the strategy of attacking the one he rescued and taking advantage of the weakness, it can be seen how wise and supernatural the main messenger behind this is." ”

The little Taoist priest was puzzled and said, "Why, Master Hou, do you think there will be any masters in this." No, I knew at a glance that no outsiders had ever entered this place for more than 100 years, and I still had this confidence. As for what kind of people with profound skills can live for hundreds of years, I think they are all deceiving children to play, which is naturally not in line with the way of heaven at all. ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "It can't be that there is also a fairy family with boundless mana living here, but it is not like it." Generally speaking, this kind of immortal family is the most taboo to be disturbed by others, you think about it back then, when so many soldiers and treasures came in, it seems that he did not expel or kill them all, which can be seen from the neatly stacked weapons and armor and iron pot stone stoves in several places. ”

Jing said: "According to Brother Wolf, it has only been one hundred and seventy or eighty years since the defeat of the Sect Army, maybe there are really people who can live until now." Isn't it said that Wudang Zhang Zhenren lived to be one hundred and fifty or sixty years old, and there are also legends that he lived for more than two hundred years. Of course, this is just a legend and not enough evidence, but there are real cases of people who lived to be 134 years old. ”

Before Jing Xin finished speaking, the strange little Taoist priest coldly interrupted her words: "My Nangong Miss, you do the math, even if he came in at the age of twenty, he will be two hundred younger now!"

Seeing the little Taoist's strange and stubborn temper coming up, Jing Xin smiled disappreciatively and didn't say anything more. However, Xiao Qingfeng glared at the little Taoist priest fiercely, and the little Taoist priest immediately thought that the three brothers had not yet been settled, and he really shouldn't be so serious. Seeing Xiao Qingfeng's stern gaze, he was so frightened that he quickly stepped aside, not daring to say anything.

Xiao Qingfeng calmly analyzed it again, and said slowly: "I seem to have a faint feeling that the other party doesn't seem to have much malice. Because since there is any so-called 'Wanlong', if the other party wants to take everyone down in one fell swoop, only "Wanlong" needs to come out together. There is no need for any "Wanlong" at all, it is the giant python that plundered the three of them just now, dozens of them rushed up, and our big guys are probably not spared. ”

Because after two confrontations, he knew that the python in it should have a certain spirituality, and a certain Taoism, which is by no means comparable to an ordinary python. In addition, looking at their color, it can be judged that these pythons are very likely to have a certain amount of poison, but even if they are injured and flee, they do not spray venom much. So he vaguely felt that it seemed that the main messenger behind the other party should not have too much malice. But why did they snatch three people twice in a row?

Just when Xiao Qingfeng calmly analyzed and pondered, everyone couldn't help but exclaim. I saw that a dark green round bead the size of a ping-pong ball slowly rose in the center of the cave hall, and this bead emitted a strange dark green light, and the entire hall was suddenly filled with dark green light. At the same time as this strange dark green bead rose, dozens of giant pythons of slightly different sizes of sea bowls slowly crawled out of the large and small caves around the cave hall, and even the pythons that had just been injured before were among them. Not only that, but even behind them, thousands of ordinary small snakes swarmed out.

Seeing this, Xiao Qingfeng naturally didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly re-arranged the Mixed Yuan Four Elephant Array with everyone, Xiao Qingfeng, Jing Xin, Mengshan Turtle, and Little Taoist all raised their skills to the highest level in an instant, and suddenly formed a strong aura Xuanmen Gang Qi circle around the entire Mixed Yuan Four Elephant Array.

It's just that unexpectedly, a flamethrower suddenly appeared in the hand of the lone wolf who had just been replaced inside, and of course, no one had the heart to ask him where he had conjured it at this time. Only the dumb man seemed to be stunned, stunned by the lone wolf's side, and even the lone wolf's continuous cries did not seem to be heard.

I don't know if these giant pythons and the thousands of little snakes were a little afraid of the powerful aura of this Mixed Element Four Elephant Array, or what reason, they suddenly all stopped at a distance of seven or eight meters from everyone. The sharp-eyed Mengshan turtle suddenly saw that in a corner behind the group of snakes, there were three people lying quietly, laughing Maitreya, the doll, and the prodigal son. Under his reminder, everyone saw that the three of them seemed to still have a normal breath, but they had already fainted. At this time, everyone couldn't help but glance at each other, believing Xiao Qingfeng's analysis just now. Although they are in danger now, they don't have the terrifying feeling they had when they were first snatched away. Everyone was secretly glad that if this kind of scene really made the three of them see it when they woke up, they would probably have fainted with fright.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the giant pythons and small snakes surrounding outside still didn't seem to have the intention of attacking. Xiao Qingfeng used code words to make everyone relax a little, don't keep being so tense, just secretly ready to attack at any time.

Then Xiao Qingfeng condensed the Yuan and concentrated his mind, and used the condensed Yuan Shen to carefully search for the location of the other party's head. A quarter of an hour passed, and Xiao Qingfeng finally slowly locked on the location of the other party's leader. On the stone wall above the place where the three of them were lying quietly, there was a huge Buddha shrine faintly. This shrine is about five meters above the ground, and it is from there that all the instructions must be issued in some special way.

After determining the location of the other party's head, Xiao Qingfeng had a little bottom in his heart. He then used secret words to urgently discuss with Jing Xin, Mengshan Turtle, and Little Daoist how to take down the other party's head in one fell swoop, so as to force the other party to release everyone and leave this ghost place safely.

However, at this moment, I saw that from behind the lying position of the three of them, three giant pythons the size of buckets slowly crawled out, and the dark green scale armor on their bodies flashed faintly from time to time.

I saw that these three giant pythons climbed to the side of the three of them respectively, and then turned their heads and erected their heads more than a meter long, all looking up at the location of the hidden Buddha shrine that Xiao Qingfeng had discovered. At this time, the huge Buddhist shrine that was originally hidden in the stone wall slowly and automatically protruded from the inside to the outside. As the light veil covered outside slowly fell, I vaguely saw a child-sized dried corpse sitting on a lotus seat as white as jade. This dry corpse was dressed in a Xuanqing Taoist costume, and a blooming lotus flower was also embroidered on the chest of the Taoist costume.

It's just that this dark blue Dao is equipped with such a white and flawless blooming lotus, which makes people feel indescribably weird. In addition, this sitting corpse is like a skeleton, with a dry human skin on the outside, and there seems to be no muscle fiber tissue inside, and even the internal organs are invisible, which makes people feel even more creepy.

That's when something even weirder happened. The doll slowly stood upright on its own, and slowly climbed onto the giant python beside it with a blank expression. The python continued to slowly rise little by little, until the doll's face stopped when it came to face to face with the dried corpse. At this moment, the eyes of the dried corpse moved, and then hair slowly grew on the head of the light protrusion.

At the same time, the doll's hair was disappearing out of thin air. Not only that, but at this time, the back of the doll's neck began to grow turquoise fur, and the originally delicate skin instantly turned into the appearance of bark. Seeing this, Jingxin couldn't stand it anymore and began to vomit with a wow.

But Xiao Qingfeng and the others still didn't dare to move, because they knew that if they moved at this time, then the doll's primordial spirit would be completely dispersed, and they would never recover. The only thing that can save her now is this spell that far surpasses their dry corpses and they take the initiative to give up on her, otherwise there will be nothing to do. At this moment, even Xiao Qingfeng, who had always been calm, suddenly sweated profusely and became at a loss.

Just when the doll was transforming little by little, this dry corpse slowly grew a big face with Chinese characters the size of an ordinary person, with a dignified appearance and attentive eyes, and even smiled weirdly at everyone.

"Soul Shifting Dafa!" the little Taoist priest suddenly screamed.

After Xiao Qingfeng heard this, his whole body suddenly shook, and he immediately woke up from the panic just now, as if he suddenly remembered something. I saw him pressing his palms on the back of his meditation, and with the Tiangang sound emitted by the nine-layer innate Qi Tiangang Gong, he shouted violently: "Nine Needles of Soul Fixing!"

I saw that when I heard the words, I also screamed, and then my hands were raised, and nine extra-large silver needles shot out, all of which were nailed into the nine big holes behind the doll. Sure enough, the face of the dried corpse who was smiling strangely suddenly froze. But the situation around was even more dangerous, and I saw that all the pythons and small snakes began to stir wildly and slowly swarmed.

At this point, Xiao Qingfeng shouted again: "Tiangang booms!"

Hearing Xiao Qingfeng's command, Mengshan Turtle and the little Taoist priest each took out a palm with a sad expression and pressed it on Xiao Qingfeng's left and right waists at the same time. Seeing it quietly, he didn't dare to hesitate, and his body fell behind Xiao Qingfeng, and his palms pressed on his vest at the same time. At the same time, the other palm of Mengshan Turtle and Little Taoist Priest pressed on the left and right waist eyes of Jingxin. I saw that Xiao Qingfeng's clothes were getting more and more inflated, his hands were in a translucent state of warm jade, and a blazing Tiangang air flow gradually emitted around the four of them.

The lone wolf glanced at the four of them, smiled miserably, and shouted: "That's it, that's it, it's okay for our brothers to go on the road together, and we won't be alone on the Huangquan Road! If you are brothers, you should live together, and if you die, you will die together! Happy, I hope we will still be brothers in the next life!" I saw him pick up the flamethrower, open the safe, and be about to fire. He was still holding a high explosive device in his hand, and he had come out of nowhere.

However, at this imminent critical juncture, something unexpected happened again. The dumb man who has been not quite right since he entered the cave, has been even more stunned after the appearance of this dry corpse, and has been staring directly at the dry corpse. Everyone thought that he was scared stupid or that some nerve was short-circuited, but in the end, everyone was prepared for the worst anyway, so naturally they didn't care too much about him.

But just then, something strange happened. I saw the dumb man screaming, rushing out frantically, stepping on the pythons everywhere and rushing directly to the bottom of the Buddhist shrine. When he got to the bottom, he jumped up again, stepped on the head of the huge python, jumped straight to the Buddha altar, and punched and kicked the dried corpses inside.

Seeing him like this, not only did the big guy be confused, but even those pythons seemed to be shocked by his crazy behavior, and even let him rush to the Buddha shrine without any hindrance.

Just when both sides were stunned, they only heard a few ugly strange sounds coming from the body of the dried corpse, and suddenly stretched out two really skinny arms, and hugged the mute tightly, and the mute also hugged him tightly. This person was a corpse, and at the same time let out a strange whimper, hugged his head and cried. At this moment, the doll slowly fell to their side.

Seeing this strange situation, Xiao Qingfeng smiled slightly, and hurriedly signaled the four of them to slowly start to collect their work at the same time. Everyone looked at the two forgetful performers on the shrine in amazement, and they all stayed there for a while. But the lone wolf hurried and secretly put away his secret weapons that everyone had never seen before. It's just that I don't know what happened to the doll on the altar now, but in this case, who wouldn't dare to rush up and disturb this pair of strange performers who forgot their feelings.

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Mengshan Turtle whispered: "Look, how is the face of this dried corpse exactly the same as the face of the second brother!"

Hearing him say this, everyone looked at it, isn't it? The face shape, eyebrows, eyes, mouth shape, and beard of the two are almost identical, and even the face of this dry corpse is much more powerful and handsome than that of the mute.

The little Taoist priest said: "The two of them shouldn't be twins, my lord!"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Fuck off, you've only known your second brother for a day, why do you say such bastard things." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Qingfeng suddenly remembered that in the early years in the mute's house, he had inadvertently seen a notebook left by his mute father. It records the true life story of the mute man and how he became mute, and he took this opportunity to briefly tell everyone about it.

It turned out that the mute's great-grandfather had participated in the White Lotus Uprising in the Xianfeng period, and he had also served as the chief protector of the Dharma. It's just that in the later stage of the teaching army, due to the short-sightedness of the leadership and the lack of certain correct beliefs, coupled with the increasing corruption of self-righteousness, it gradually lost the most fundamental popular support. In addition, they only knew how to fool the congregation and the people nearby, and finally led to a vigorous uprising that gradually embarked on the road of defeat and extinction.

At the last critical moment of the teaching army, the mute great-grandfather was ordered to lead three thousand old brothers who had made a blood oath to escape into the mountains, in order to move back, and never disappeared. Until the complete destruction of the cult army, there was no news of him and his old brothers. Everyone thinks that in fact, they should all die in the final battle.