Chapter 8: The Blood Pool, the Jade Tree, and the Hanging Coffin
In the dormitory deep in the underground palace, Nie Xiaoqian held her cheeks with one hand, leaned her whole body on the table, sighed lightly from time to time, and looked bored.
Beside her, the Rakshasa ghost kept his eyes slightly squinted, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate. The small fan of Qingluo in her hand shook slightly, the incense mist of Rui Brain was filled, and the fireworks in the beast's head became uncertain.
As soon as Xiao Qian stood up, Rakshasa's body immediately tensed, and when she saw Xiao Qian sit down again, the Qingluo fan in Rakshasa slowly shook again, showing a hint of pride on her face.
"Grandma, she really loves me!" Xiao Qian suddenly said without a beginning or an end, as if she was saying to the Rakshasa ghost, and as if she was talking to herself: "Not only did she tell me all the secrets in the Holy Sect, but also, as long as I asked for something, she obeyed me in everything!"
Rakshasa snorted, glanced at her, and turned his back, unwilling to deal with her.
"Then can you guess why I betrayed her since she loves me so much?"
Xiao Qian smiled brightly and slowly stood up.
"You've really done something to eat inside and out! Before, I used to say to my grandmother, you little demon maid is not trustworthy, look, look, today it has come true. Rakshasa Huo Ran stood up, scolded and said: "However, don't be too proud, grandma doesn't really feel sorry for you, just because you are the furnace chosen by the spirit of the treasure tree, the future concubine, she indulges you like this." If you know you've betrayed her, don't expect her to remember her old love. ”
"The Spirit of the Treasure Tree, Furnace Ding, Hahaha, Rakshasa, Rakshasa, you are really stupid!" Xiao Qian couldn't stop laughing for a while, and then said coldly: "Where is there any spirit of the treasure tree, where is there any Ming King born? Everything is just the old witch talking to herself, have you ever seen the manifestation of the treasure tree? Did the Holy Religion doctrine mention that King Ming was born in the treasure tree?"
"This?" The Rakshasa was speechless, so he had to ask rhetorically, "Then how do you prove that what you said is true, and if Grandma lies to us, what good will this matter do to her?"
"Proof, of course I can't prove it, and I don't need to prove it, as for what the benefits are, you should ask her? That old witch's scheming is deeper than the sea, and I don't know what she wants to do. However, it's true that you say that I am the furnace ding, but unfortunately, I am not the furnace of King Ming, but her furnace ding, and she wants to take away me. ”
Nie Xiaoqian finally told Rakshasa the secret.
A person's coveting of himself, even if that person hides it well, will be detected a little, through continuous temptation over the years, Xiaoqian has basically confirmed, or grandma also found out that Xiaoqian saw her thoughts, or maybe something big will come true, she no longer hides it.
"I was almost deceived by you, you are just a ghost thing, Lord Baoshu Wang was a master of the Yang God hundreds of years ago, she will take you away?
Rakshasa sneered.
"Believe it or not, it's up to you, anyway, I told you about it, I'm afraid that after I was taken away by my grandmother, she knew that I had said this to you today, and then you, an insider, would be ruthlessly exterminated!" Nie Xiaoqian spread her jade hands and said indifferently.
"You want to harm me!" Rakshasa Ghost Jade's face was cold, and his face was annoyed.
"Hehe, you believe me, don't you think you're stupid? How does it feel to pretend to be crazy and stupid for so many years?" Xiao Qian laughed, and suddenly whispered in Rakshasa's ear: "Don't think that the old witch can't see that you are pretending to be stupid, now, we are the people of the same boat, the spirit of the treasure tree is fake, and the birth of King Ming is also fake, the old witch's plan is indeed true, if she really does what she wants to do, I will be taken away, and you will also be destroyed, such an ending, is it what you want to see?"
Rakshasa's face changed several times, and he was just about to agree, when he suddenly heard some noise under the floor, and couldn't help shouting: "Who is it?"
The bluestone floor slowly parted, and below it were layers of stone steps, and on the stone steps, two scholars were walking up from inside.
I saw that the person in front of him had an indifferent face, his hands couldn't help clapping his hands hard, and he exclaimed: "Wonderful, really wonderful, Miss Nie's scheming and wrist are really impressive!"
The other three people present all heard a kind of self-deprecation in his words.
"Childe, you listen to my explanation......" Seeing Li Ji suddenly appear here, Nie Xiaoqian's face turned pale and said eagerly.
"Zhong Xuan, this is the Nie girl you believe in?" Ning Caichen sighed and said no more.
When they entered through the palace gate, they found that there were secret passages inside. Some of the secret passages are still connected to the upper level, they walked for a long time, and suddenly heard someone talking above, and wanted to stop to listen to the information, but unexpectedly they heard that there was no tree demon, and there was also the secret of this Nie girl.
Just now, the two of them suddenly heard their voices getting smaller and smaller underground, thinking that the trace had been discovered, but they didn't know that it was Xiao Qian whispering in the Rakshasa ear.
Rakshasa's eyes swept over Li Ji and Nie Xiaoqian's bodies, and suddenly smiled coquettishly: "Hehe, it turned out that Xiaoqian's lover was found, and you betrayed grandma for him?"
"Shut up!" Li Ji shouted coldly.
"Yo, your temper is not small!" Rakshasa turned red, and his body took a few steps back, with a faint chill in his eyes.
"Childe, Xiaoqian didn't mean to ......" Nie Xiaoqian got up and stepped forward, and before she finished speaking, she felt a gust of wind coming behind her.
She couldn't dodge, and was hit in the back by the man's palm, and the person who sneaked up on it was the Rakshasa ghost woman.
"Miss Nie, are you okay!" Li Ji saw that Nie Xiaoqian's face was getting more and more pale, and he couldn't help but ask with concern.
"Thank you Gongzi for your concern, the concubine is fine!" Xiao Qian smiled weakly, stood up forcefully, turned her head to Rakshasa and asked, "It's all decided before, why are you ......?"
Rakshasa laughed and said: "Xiaoqian, you can't blame me for this, if you want to blame them, I have already promised you." As soon as they came, it reminded me of a way to break the game. You and the two people who infiltrated the underground palace should cooperate inside and outside, wanting to destroy the Holy Sect Treasure Tree and prevent the birth of King Ming, but when I stopped it, I shot too hard, and the two of them died, and your soul was scattered. In this way, although I will be punished, I will not fall into a mortal situation.
Don't blame me for having to be on her side, the most important thing is that I have been following her for hundreds of years, and I know her better than all of you, I don't believe you can fight her, even if you add one more Yan Chixia, it won't work!"
"Is it? Although Senior Brother Yan can't deal with the King of the Treasure Tree, the magic weapon given by Senior Brother Yan can accept you. Alas, the villain will die forever for talking too much, and you can't blame me for that!"
When Li Ji saw that Nie Xiaoqian was attacked, he had already quietly walked behind Rakshasa. When the rakshasa was proud, he put a sword bag in his hand and put the rakshasa into the bag.
"What the hell is this?ah, let me out, Xiaoqian, what happened before, I promised, I promised, let me out!" Rakshasa kept struggling in the bag, as if he was suffering unbearable pain, and Li Ji held the rope buckle tightly.
Fortunately, he had tested this sword bag method of collecting demons on that black crow many times, and this time he used it, but it was also smooth.
After a while, the movement in the sword bag gradually subsided, and the shape of the previous bulging bag also became shriveled, Li Ji let go of his strangled hands, opened the rope buckle and saw that there was only a pool of clear water in the bag.
"It's strange, why didn't that hateful black crow turn into clear water before?" Ning Caichen asked suspiciously, with a slight pity in his tone.
"That crow has just opened his spiritual wisdom, and his hands are not stained with human blood, but this Rakshasa ghost eats people's hearts and livers, and kills people without calculation, and if he enters this sword bag, the outcome will naturally be different!" Li Ji explained, and said with a smile: "We can find out that the secret path still relies on its playfulness, where does the second brother have such a deep grudge? Now that I think about it, that little demon has just enlightened his spiritual wisdom and is easy to manipulate, it is the real henchman of the Treasure Tree King, and you two should not know where the secret passage here is!"
"Well, Childe is right. This secret passage should only be known to Grandma and the black crow, before I only knew that this black crow was the eyes and ears of Grandma, but I didn't know that there was such a deep connection. Nie Xiaoqian nodded, afraid that Li Ji still had a mustard, and wanted to explain again, but Li Ji diverted the topic: "Miss Nie, we know the secret way, and you know where the human blood treasure tree is, since everyone has the same purpose, we should cooperate sincerely, please Miss Nie lead the way for us, this matter is sooner rather than later, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us!"
"Okay!" Nie Xiaoqian sighed and said no more.
The three of them then walked down the stone steps, guided by Nie Xiaoqian, and soon came to the lower floor of His Royal Highness King Ming.
"This is where the shadow of the tree was last seen. At that time, I only saw the reflection on the black screen, but there was no door to enter, I didn't expect this entrance to be underground, grandma is really careful, if it weren't for the black crow's first wisdom, I don't know the severity, I'm afraid we really can't find here!"
Li Ji also secretly said in his heart that he was lucky.
Pushing away the bluestone slab on it, a bloody breath came to her nose, Nie Xiaoqian was okay, she was a ghost and had no sense of smell, but Li Ji and Ning Caichen felt slightly uncomfortable.
In front of them was a huge pool of blood.
The pool of red blood was churning, and occasionally there was a gurgling sound of boiling water.
In the center of the blood pool is a jade treasure tree, with ochre-colored coral branches and green leaves as green as jade.
There is a hanging coffin hanging above the blood pool, and there seems to be no corpse in it, only one by one, there are scriptures, magic weapons and clothes, which should be the relics of someone's life.
The aura on the jade tree and the blood in the pool continued to surge, and finally converged in the hanging coffin.
And the utensils inside also seemed to have spirits, and after absorbing the blood and aura, they gradually turned into a cloud of white smoke.
The white mist converged in the hanging coffin, slowly revealing a faint figure that was about to take shape.
"Is that figure the Ming King of your Ming Sect?" asked Li Ji towards Nie Xiaoqian.
He vaguely heard before that what Nie Xiaoqian said to Rakshasa was that Baoshu and King Ming were fake.
But Xiaoqian also said before that she was not a person with them, and she didn't know anything about Mingjiao.
Now, he can't tell which sentence Nie Xiaoqian said is true and which is false.
"He still doesn't believe me after all!" Nie Xiaoqian smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I don't know if this is King Ming, but is there any point in pursuing these now? Purifying the blood pool, destroying the human blood treasure tree, and smashing the hanging coffin is what we should do!"
"That's right!" Li Ji smiled helplessly.
Ning Caichen looked at the two of them from the side, a little speechless in his heart. He took the sword bag from Li Ji's hand and threw it into the blood pool, and saw that the blood qi stopped surging upward, and they all gathered towards the sword bag.