Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Ancestral Hall Is Strange
Closed Moon Shy Flower Beauty,
Smile deeply.
Laughing, how many years has that young man been drunk?
"How long do you want to pinch it?"
Peony opened her eyes slightly and looked at the blue brick and stone slabs on the ground. Between the two small red flowers on his face, a faint smile appeared.
"Uh... Are you feeling better?"
"Well..."
Peony nodded slightly: "It's much better." ”
"Oh well. ”
Xia Xun retracted his hands.
"I think you'll just wait outside for me for a while. I can feel the presence of that "corpse grass", and I believe it won't be long before it comes out. ”
The words are jerky, maybe it's the embarrassment brought about by the lonely man and widow who can't kiss him, right?
"But the wind has already drained inside. ”
Peony lowered her eyebrows and thought for a while, before continuing to say quietly: "I think it's better to go in with you... Otherwise, if you want to solve the "twelve earthly branches", I'm afraid you will have to work hard. ”
"I'm going to go in..."
Xia Xun has figured out the character of peony. I knew I couldn't persuade her. knew that he couldn't be persuaded, so after he had no choice but to say a word, he didn't plan to continue to dissuade him.
"Uh..."
"Then when you go in, if you want to feel wrong or scared, you have to say something. If it's like that, it scares me... Otherwise, if you are scared out of anything, Pavilion Master Cao and Grandpa Zhi will kill me..."Xia Xun looked at Peony with a serious face. Said solemnly like an adult educating a child.
When Peony heard this, she immediately pursed her mouth, raised her head, looked at Xia Xun's gaze with resentment, and said stiffly: "It was windy in it just now, but I was just cold!
Xia Xun smiled angrily: "Okay, it's cold." ”
Then he shook his head again and turned back. At the same time, his face became solemn again: "Then this time I can really go in..."
"Well... Let's go. ”
Same as before, not the same.
It was the girl who turned the finger that poked the back into a palm that pushed the back.
As if to show that he was not afraid, he pushed Xia Xun's back and walked into the ancestral hall...
"You're not afraid?"
"Don't be afraid!"
“......”
In fact, it would be a lie to say that the girl's mind was not afraid at this time. But after that catharsis and appeasement, it can be regarded as alleviating some of the fear in her heart.
Without it...
This has nothing to do with people's cultivation and Taoism, but has to do with people's psychological quality.
No matter how high your realm is, when you see this terrifying and weird corpse in the ancestral hall, you will inevitably tremble a little, and even retreat from your mind. Not to mention that I have to walk in this place where corpses are everywhere and corpses are full of oil.
Only some people who are as cold-blooded as ice, or as calm as water, can look down on this.
For example, Xia Xun at this moment...
After entering the ancestral hall, he suddenly seemed to have found something important. I didn't go to look for the trace of the "corpse grass", but came to a corpse outside the red flag...
He took out a knife from his arms, casually threw away the corpse's henchmen, and carefully tossed the internal organs in his abdomen...
It's disgusting, but I look at it carefully.
I really don't know, is he ruthless, or fearless...
"The internal organs are only smashed, and they are not decomposed, no wonder they don't smell fishy... The limbs and throats were deliberately cut open and the blood was drained..."
Saying that, Xia Xun picked up the knife and put it in front of his eyes and looked at it: "There are still some residues in the stomach, they should have been fed some herbs before they died." These herbs are estimated to be able to decompose the water, oil, and blood of human corpses... Otherwise, the uncorrupted human corpse will not remove the blood oil on its own..."
The more Xia Xun spoke, the more confused he became, and he looked at the knife carefully and fell into thought: "Herbs that can disperse water... What is it?"
Peony padded her little feet, looked at the knife over Xia Xun's shoulder, sniffed her nose, and said faintly: "Goat horns, horseshoe gold, back mother flowers, east sunflower fruits, and coffin wood." This is a burial recipe, specially used to dry the corpse..."
"You can smell it..."
Xia Xun was very surprised, this corpse had been put away for almost half a month, and the peony could smell clearly, which was incredible.
It's just that he was still surprised and puzzled, Xia Xun continued to ask: "You mean to say that this person is going to be buried in the mausoleum after drying his body like the Son of Heaven was buried?"
"I think the other hypothesis is more likely..."
Peony pointed to a red flag nearby: "When this recipe was first written, it was written by a corpse chaser in the Western Regions. Since those archmages have laid an enchantment here, they should have valued these corpses very much, and they probably wanted to transport them somewhere. ”
Xia Xun thought about it, then shook his head and denied Peony's statement: "Impossible... They had planned so secretly. If they want to take away these corpses, it will inevitably alarm a lot of people, so this is not their purpose. ”
Peony nodded in agreement: "That's right..."
"Forget it, I can't run anyway. Let those elders worry when they return to the city..."Xia Xun wiped the knife with a rag and put it back in his arms. After that, he turned his head again and inspected the red flags placed around him.
Looking at it, he flicked his sleeve casually.
"Brush...", a cold light came out of his hand!
"Phew!"
The cold light was just a foot away from his hand, and the two red flags near him bloomed red at the same time. I saw that with a "bang", the cold light disappeared, and a copper coin fell to the ground in four minutes...
"Uh..."
A chic handshake of his fingers was played to a tiger's head. Although he had expected it, Xia Xun still looked a little embarrassed, and he scraped the bridge of his nose helplessly: "It seems that I still have to break it..."
"Hehe..."
Ling Ling laughed, and Peony covered her mouth with her little hand and said with a smile: "You have to dismantle these twelve flags for a long time..."
"Uh... Hehe" Xia Xun followed with an embarrassed smirk...
He knew that Peony had been preventing Peony from coming to the ancestral hall before he teased him.
Although, this enchantment is not a sophisticated means, and it is only used by ordinary cultivators to defend against ordinary mortals. It's just that Xia Xun is actually in such an out-of-body realm, not much different from ordinary people, so it will take a lot of effort to solve the formation. In addition, the flagpole of the sacrificial array is not ordinary, if you really want to solve it, I'm afraid you will really have to use it for another hour...
Looking at Xia Xun's embarrassed smirk, Peony Lingling couldn't stop laughing: "It's better for me to come, do you want to break the formation or destroy the formation?"
Xia Xun looked at the corpses piled up around him strangely, then turned his head to look at the peony that was covering his mouth and smiling, and asked for no reason, "Aren't you scared?"
"Huh?"
Peony was asked inexplicably: "Don't be afraid... Why do you suddenly ask that?"
“......”
A girl's heart, sure enough, a needle under the sea.
I was scared half to death a while ago, but now I can still laugh so innocently in the face of the human corpses around me. If it weren't for the normal words of her words, Xia Xun would have thought that she was scared stupid...
This submarine needle is really unpredictable.
"No, just asking. ”
Xia Xun shrugged helplessly and smiled, turned back to the original topic and continued: "I think it's better to dissolve the formation, lest it be discovered by those archmages when the time comes, and it will not be good to startle the snake." ”
"Then you're not allowed to laugh..."
Although I don't know what Xia Xun laughed at, Peony always felt weird.
"Oh" Xia Xun was also obedient, and the strange smile said no, no, after responding, like a painted face, he directly changed his indifferent expression.
Seeing this, Peony smiled proudly and took out the grass that had called birds before from her waist bag. She raised her hands and held the grass to her chest...
The glow of green light then dispersed...
"Wrap!" whispered!
"Broken, broken..."
With a soft drink of peony, a gust of spring breeze burst out from around the peony and swept through the ancestral hall. Immediately afterwards, twelve green vines broke through the ground and grew from the ground of the twelve red flags at the same time. Like twelve green snakes, tightly wrapped around the flags of various places.
When the red flag is completely entangled, the green vine no longer grows.
The spring breeze dissipates...
"Alright. ”
"Huh?"
Xia Xun was a little difficult to be confident: "It's that simple?"
There was a lot of surprise that peony brought him tonight...
Although this is not a big array, it is still a formation. Peony just said a word, and he couldn't breathe and was relieved. Isn't that too easy?
"Well, it's not that hard. Peony smiled in reply, as if it were just a trivial matter.
"The person who sets up the formation is not a master of the formation line. And I'm just covering up the formation, and if it is to destroy the formation, it may take some time. ”
Xia Xun was embarrassed and inferior when he heard this, and at the same time raised his feet and walked to the depths of the ancestral hall.
"It seems that your exercises are not from the Heavenly Bloodline, but from the bloodline?"
"Well, it's passed on by Mr., Mr. said that I have been related to herbs since I was a child, so I let me inherit the Penglai Apricot Forest..."
"Oh, it turned out to be Penglai Immortal. No wonder it's so sharp..."
"Actually, it's not very sharp..."
"Isn't that sharp?"
"Well, it's not sharp. ”
“......”
The two walked inside the ancestral hall and chattered softly. The small voice echoed in this ancestral hall full of corpses.
No matter how you look at it, this picture looks so awkward...
The corpse qi gathered in the ancestral hall had already been discharged by the gust of wind just now, so it didn't feel dull here. It's just the corpse oil and corpse water flowing on the ground, which makes people inevitably step on it. It's wet and sticky and slippery, until people lift their feet, and they no longer want to fall.
It's disgusting...
But no matter how disgusting it is, you still have to go...
After a while, the two came to the center of the ancestral hall and laughed in front of the Buddha statue. The human corpses here are the most densely piled up, layered on top of each other, and the base is nearly half a person high. Corpse oil, corpse water, layer by layer, slowly flowed down...
"The corpse grass should be inside, I hope it doesn't hide too deeply..."
"Silk... Silk..."
Xia Xun vigorously tore off the cuffs of two pieces of green cloth and wrapped them in his hands.
"You'd better stand back..."
With that, Xia Xun began to move away the human corpses stacked in front of him.
There are not too many corpses, twenty-seven or eight, but they are very disgusting and infiltrating. There is no moisture, no elasticity, hard, greasy, like salted fish that has been marinated and dried for a long time.
With such disgusting and tiring physical work, of course Xia Xun would not let Peony take a hand. Therefore, Peony became an idler for a while. Cowering and following behind Xia Xun, he stopped and walked, looking around.
Gradually, about a stick of incense passed.
As Xia Xun moved more and more corpses, the corpse mountain in front of him was also cleared out of a small open space. Only a human corpse was left piled at the bottom...
"It's disgusting..."
"Uh... It's disgusting..."
"You're going to pick it by hand?"
"Gollum..."
But I saw that on the tongue of the man's corpse, there was a small clover of grass. The fingers are tall and green, with distinct leaf patterns. You can also feel the music that the corpse water is crumbling under the grass and the bricks and stones under the skull. An ordinary piece of green grass, accompanied by a purple-black hideous face and tongue, looks extremely weird and disgusting.
Looking at the tongue and grass that were sticking out, Xia Xunsheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Then is there a better way?"
"Use this..."
Peony took out a small medicine plier and a handkerchief from her waist bag and handed them to Xia Xun.
Xia Xun took it and muttered, "This is no different from picking by hand..."
"It's better than bare hands. Peony laughed.
Forehead...
It's better, but it's just better.
I saw that Xia Xun took the medicine pliers, gently clamped the grass bottom stem, and gradually pulled it up...
"Shhhhh
It's disgusting...
The grass rhizome grows strongly. Under Xia Xun's pulling, the black tongue connected to the grass root was torn out by the grass root solidly, leaving a pitch-black hollow.
A shriveled tongue is hanging on the grass roots and dangling... Rock...
From time to time a few drops of green oil...
"Hurry up and clean it up, wrap it up..."Peony turned her face in disgust and frowned.
"Oh"
Xia Xun also knew that it was disgusting, so he quickly rubbed the grass roots on the ground. After carefully rubbing it clean, he wrapped the grass in a handkerchief.
"Alright, let's go. ”
Xia Xun put away the small package, turned to Peony and said.
"Yes"