Chapter 4: Haunted by ghosts
Dongfang Changqing held the knife in one hand, and the true qi of the green dragon emerged from the inside of the knife body, slowly enveloping the entire knife body, and the green dragon climbed the outer edge of the long knife, looking eager to try. After a round of hard fighting, the true qi of the green dragon that Dongfang Changqing can urge is not weak but strong, which is really puzzling.
"Shangguan Hongriyou, I have to say that you are a little bit more powerful than you imagined, no wonder Your Majesty uses you so much. However, there was no end to it, and when General Ben used all his strength, the battle would soon come to an end. Dongfang Changqing raised his sword to the sky and issued a declaration of victory. But in a moment, the gloomy aura that shrouded his face was swept away, and he seemed to have changed into a different person, and a terrifying aura emanated from every pore of his body. Everyone present felt that their bodies were several times heavier than before, as if they were stuck in a quagmire and could not extricate themselves.
"The momentum he exudes is amazing! But it doesn't seem to belong to people. Shen Teng, who was not far from the eldest prince, spoke, he was still dressed as a firebird, his eyes flickered a little, as if he was thinking about something.
The eldest prince watched the battle anxiously, and said, "This battle is very important, and there is no room for loss, do you understand what this king means, Shen Teng?"
Shen Teng glanced deeply at the eldest prince who judged the two of them before and after, nodded and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, if General Shangguan falls behind, Shen will find a suitable time to help." ”
"You are the only one who knows the king's heart. The eldest prince stared intently at the battle situation, and the little yellow in the depths of his eyes showed his noble status as a member of the royal family. As a combination of the excellent genes of the Tuoba clan and the Murong clan, how could he be a fool who let the mermaids and fish the flesh of the fish! Now think about it, those who are ready to fool and manipulate him are really stupid. Including Shen Teng, including the queen mother, including his own uncle, and also the general Wang Shangguan Hongri, they were all played by this young man who had been trained by himself.
In his sight, Dongfang Changqing's beard was raised, and the aura rising in his body was entangled with each other and turned into a demon dragon that went straight into the air and rushed into the sea of clouds. The real and illusory green dragon was still lying on the blade, and at this moment, another black and purple demon dragon appeared, and it was really strange for Dongfang Changqing to turn into two dragons.
Shangguan Hongri's eyes narrowed, and he pursed his lips and said, "General Dongfang, this is also the true qi of the green dragon?"
Dongfang Changqing smiled slightly: "This is not the true qi of the green dragon, this is the demon dragon that sent you to the western sky!hahaha!" With his wild laughter, the evil dragon above his head spewed dragon breath, and the huge courtyard was immediately swept by the wind, "General Wang You, if you don't come to this troubled water, Your Majesty still maintains trust in you, and is even ready to entrust you with important tasks." Unfortunately, it's too late now, and you're going to pay for your ignorance. ”
Shangguan Hongri's face changed drastically, thinking about Tuoba Zichu, the prime minister of the left who is now sitting in the palace and sitting on the dragon chair, and then looking at his current embarrassed appearance, maybe he really made a wrong decision, maybe he would not have ended up in this field if he kept his neutral identity, but unfortunately, there has never been a regret in the world. The so-called water is difficult to recover, Shangguan Hongri has no way to retreat, and everyone present has no way to retreat, so they can only fight to the death.
A purple evil dragon set off a violent wind in the air, and a cyan dragon crouched on the blade and waited for an opportunity to move, Dongfang Changqing's skills were incredible, and his strength should not be underestimated. He's going to get serious, and he's going to show the strength he should have as the commander of the Praetorian Guard.
Shangguan Hongri looked very small in the wind, and the blood axe had a feeling of unstability in his hand for a while, Shangguan Hongri didn't know what kind of trick the other party used, but he knew that instead of sitting and waiting, it was better to take the initiative to attack, no matter what you do, cut two axes first.
Shangguan Hongri jumped on the spot, it was hard to imagine that his bloated figure could leap high like a monkey, and the heavy armor he wore on his body kept ringing in the wind after he took off. Shangguan Hongri's arms slashed from back to front, and the blood axe in his hand became dozens of times larger, as if he had the power to open the world.
"Roar, roar, Roar, Dongfang child, don't be fooling around there, let's take your life. Between life and death, he finally stopped caring about his identity and began to explode.
"Think brute force works? You're so innocent and cute. Dongfang Changqing raised his sword to the sky, and the purple dragon suspended in the air rushed into the clouds, and the white clouds instantly turned black, lightning and thunder, and the wind roared. At the same time, the shocking sound of a real dragon roar came from above the nine heavens, and lightning slashed down one after another, and a huge dragon head appeared from the clouds, biting the double axes swung by Shangguan Hongri in one bite.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!" The thunder and lightning swam, the dense clouds turned black, and the huge body of the purple dragon loomed in the clouds. The huge scale armor reflected the light of lightning, the sharp dragon claws seemed to be able to grasp the sun and the moon, the dragon's tail swayed, and the huge and beautiful body loomed among the clouds with the electric light that streaked across the sky from time to time.
The exposed dragon head is exactly the same as the legend, and the color of the scale armor gradually lightens from the neck upwards, from dark purple to bronze, and the color is the lightest when it reaches the dragon's horns, which is similar to yellow. The huge undulating scales were like a long mirror, and the open mouth was emitting hot air, which was really too real, not like a dead thing condensed by air, but like a real living thing.
A strange smile appeared on Dongfang Changqing's face: "You, no matter how strong you are, what can you do! This is an evil dragon that only the top immortals can kill, can you be stronger than those heavenly immortals!hahaha!" If Shen Fei heard this, he would definitely not be surprised, Dongfang Changqing, as a high-level figure of the Empire, the Tongtian Sect, and the Killer Group, also had the martial strength of a martial artist, the assassination technique of the killer, and the Dao technique of the Tongtian Sect, his strength was unfathomable.
Now this one in the sky is actually the evil dragon he summoned through the demon art of the Tongtian Sect, and as soon as it appears, it is full of yin qi and demonic energy. Even the monks in the Lingyin Temple were shocked, but the Pure Spirit Monk, who was the presiding, locked them all in the room at the moment, preaching the scriptures and knocking on the wooden fish for them, it seemed that the presiding monk had no intention of participating in the battle between the high-level people of the country?
As a creature that has lived from the beginning of Pangu to the present day, its ability to fight alone is the strongest among all spirit beasts. Dragons are divided into dragons, fire dragons, celestial dragons, and poisonous dragons, and even many subfamilies can be subdivided downward, and their strength is proportional to their longevity, and the longer the dragon lives, the larger the volume and the stronger the destructive power.
Although the poisonous dragon in front of him is hovering above the clouds, and his body is looming, he can take care of the head and tail at a glance, and it can be seen that the lifespan will not exceed a hundred years.
The evil dragon bit Shangguan Hongri's double axe, and the thunder and lightning split made Shangguan Hongri cry out in pain and twitch, the evil dragon shook his head, and Shangguan Hongri was thrown out with an axe. People, crashed into the wall on the west side of the prince's mansion, and the axe, inserted into the ground, was embarrassed. Shangguan Hongri got up several times, but he didn't succeed, and his body leaned forward and vomited blood.
The evil dragon shuttled among the clouds, the huge dragon head swooped down from a high place, Shangguan Hongri's eyes narrowed, his teeth clenched, and he touched the pool of blood with one hand and shouted: "Explosion!" The blood axe was released, and he left the ground and rushed towards the evil dragon, growing a hundred times in the wind, and the slashing dragon head could not hurt the other party, and the internal light was great, and it exploded with a "boom".
"It is worthy of being a great general king who is decisive and unparalleled in battle, and he feels that the enemy is powerful, and he would rather sacrifice the blood axe that has been with him for many years, which is really remarkable. Shen Teng looked at the height, watching the explosion of the pair of axes form an increasingly fierce impact current in the sky and gradually submerge the dragon's head, and nodded knowingly, "The Great General Wang is worthy of being a generation of heroes, but it's a pity that the enemy is by no means easy, and the one named Dongfang Changqing is really powerful." ”
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a dragon groan, and the dragon pierced through the shockwave formed by the explosion of the blood axe with a scorching dragon breath. The dragon's breath descended from the Nine Heavens, turning the Praetorian Guard soldiers closest to Shangguan Hongri into ashes, and those people died without even having the ability to scream. Shangguan Hongri crawled and fled, and all the armor on his body was discarded in the process of dodging all the way, revealing a dark black warrior outfit.
He finally pulled out the scimitar he was carrying at his waist, and when the knife was unsheathed, everyone present immediately felt the temperature around them drop suddenly, and felt the gloomy sky become even darker. Shangguan Hongri rarely used this knife, because once it was used, it would mean that the evil will would erode his consciousness again.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and any power in the world, even if it is obtained in a down-to-earth manner, will pay a price. In the course of his conquest of the north and the south, Shangguan Hongri gained a lot of cultivation methods of the Saiwai peoples, and mixed them together to create a set of miraculous skills -- the name of which is called ghost refining! It is a practice that only a person like him, who has been dealing with blood and human life for a long time, can practice.
Sometimes Shangguan Hongri can't help but wonder, is this the gathering of those dead beings to take revenge on themselves, and one day they will occupy their bodies and replace themselves as the new Shangguan Hongri to control the world?
Because of the special features of this exercise, Shangguan Hongri will not use it until the critical moment. When he fought against Shen Fei before, it was just a small test, using the five ghosts as the carrier, and using them to perform ghost refining, at this moment, the five ghosts are dead, and he is going to do it himself, using his own flesh and blood as the carrier!
Shangguan Hongri is a subordinate person, and Shangguan Hongri is also a talented person. He once had ideals, boasted of being talented, and was familiar with military books, but he had no choice but to fall into the middle of his family's path and was depressed, and suffered humiliation and cold eyes.
He didn't admit defeat, he was unwilling to be a mortal for the rest of his life, and began to tie up the superior like a dog, and finally got the favor of the Murong clan and married Queen Murong's personal maid, so his fate was rewritten.
Shangguan Hongri deeply knows that it is impossible not to work hard, and he also knows that there is no free lunch in the world, and all the rewards are proportional to the pay, and there is a need to pay a price, and the greater the cost, the more the return.
Shangguan Hongri finally grasped the hilt of the knife and used the ghost refining. At this moment, the sky and the earth were covered in a cold frost, and even the lightning and thunder and the breath of the demon dragon were eclipsed.
A looming ghost baby appeared at the end of the sky, smiling and staring at all beings.
"Kill them all! Shangguan Hongri raised his knife, and Long Yan, who devoured countless lives, was blocked alive.
"Ghost Baby Fighting Dragon, there's a good show now!" Shen Teng looked smiling, and after the ghost baby appeared, his expression was no longer as serious as before.
The eldest prince was puzzled: "Is the ghost baby very powerful, can fight with the dragon?"
Shen Teng explained: "In the land of Kyushu, there are only two sects that can resist ghosts, one is the Demon Sect Worship Ghost Sect, which practices the method of cultivating the Tao with ghosts, and the other is the Miaojiang Witch Sect, which practices the method of haunting ghosts. The ghost baby summoned by Shangguan Hongri is obviously the ghost control technique of the Miaojiang Wumen, and the little ghost was raised by him since he was a child, and the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose seals are all opened, proving that he has absorbed a lot of yin energy, and he should have the power to fight with this young dragon. ”
"What do you say, that beast in the sky is just a hatchling?"
"Your Highness, don't be surprised, the dragon is an ancient divine beast, its size is as huge as a mountain, this one can take care of both the head and the tail at a glance, but I am afraid that the beast spirit is not more than a hundred. ”
"It's unbelievable, I didn't think that General Dongfang would be able to summon the true dragon. ”
"Hehe, yes, how can he, as a mortal, summon and control a dragon!" Shen Teng's words had a profound meaning, but it was a pity that the eldest prince who did not understand this way could not understand, and looked at the battle situation by himself.
The situation on the battlefield has been staggered several times, and the killer features of the two have come out frequently, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.
From a distance, the dark purple evil dragon coiled directly above the prince's mansion and swallowed the clouds, and a huge ghost baby stood up to the sky and appeared behind the evil dragon, looking at it with a cruel smile.
Shangguan Hongri's detonation of the blood axe failed to block the dragon's breath, and after drawing out the scimitar, it blocked the dragon's breath. At the same time, the aura on his body changed greatly, and his oily and tiled face was almost instantly covered with a layer of haze, and the iron and iron seemed to have been poisoned, and the luster on his face was completely gone, and he was lifeless.
As Shen Teng said, the trick that Shangguan Hongri is using now is born from Miao Jiang's witchcraft ghosts, and he combines the witchcraft in the remnants with the exercises he has practiced for many years to obtain such a spell, which is not orthodox witchcraft in itself, and it is extremely harmful to the body. In fact, the so-called ghost haunting is to keep ghosts in captivity with their own bodies. Note that it is also a ghost raising technique, and it has an essential difference from the practice of worshipping ghosts, that is, in order to achieve the ultimate in strength, the little ghosts in captivity have their spirituality, and they can accumulate over time and open their spiritual wisdom, according to the Miao Jiang Wu clan, it will eventually grow and evolve into a ghost king.
In the early stage of ghost haunting, you need to raise ghosts, extract ghost qi from a large number of newly dead lifeforms, and gather them in a certain part of the body. As the ghost qi gathers more and more, it will gradually form an entity, and at this time, the cultivator can guide it out and place it in an artifact. Shangguan Hongri placed the ghost thing he had refined on top of a ghost knife that was also snatched from the Miaojiang Wu Clan.