Chapter 8: The Praying Mantis
The wild dog Taoist followed the ghost, one foot deep and one foot shallow towards the depths of the dead river.
Because it had just rained heavily, the already soft land was even more muddy at the moment, but somehow, since the meeting between Ghost Li and Qin Wuyan and Jin Zhu'er just now, he insisted on refusing to fly with the magic weapon anymore, but walked on the ground.
It seems that he, like the golden bottle, is faintly concerned about something.
Changed to rì, even if the wild dog Taoist didn't scold, at least he complained, but at this moment, he seemed to be a little absent-minded, he didn't say a word, and silently followed behind Ghost Li, which made Ghost Li a little strange.
The ghost looked at the wild dog Taoist who was a little distracted, lowered his voice, and said lightly: "What's wrong with him?"
This seemed to be a bit of a self-talk, because there was no one around except the cold swamp pond and aquatic plants, except for the monkey Ash lying on his shoulder.
That is, Xiao Ash, who seemed to be drowsy and sleepy just now, but after listening to Ghost Li's question, he suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something, and immediately became excited, and his extremely clever eyes swirled, Huo Di jumped off Ghost Li's shoulders and began to dance.
This strange behavior made even the wild dog Taoist who followed behind him startled and looked at it.
I saw that Xiao Gray looked quite excited, grinned and squeaked, waved at the ghost, and after a while, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly jumped to the side, picked up some water from the small pond next to him, but poured it on his monkey head, and then pointed to the sky, jumping.
The eyes of the wild dog Taoist were straight, and he walked to the side of the ghost and said, "What's the matter, this, this monkey is crazy?"
Ghost Li frowned, and then whispered to Xiao Ash, "It's raining?"
Little Ash was overjoyed, nodded again and again, and then casually folded off the leaves of the plant that I don't know what it was, picked it to the top of its head, as if to cover something, and made a twisting gesture, twisting its body around, and then as if doing a play, the leaves changed from the right hand to the left hand, and from the left hand to the right hand.
The wild dog looked at it, and suddenly for no reason his heart was weak, staring at the strange monkey, and said to the ghost: "Crazy, crazy, this monkey must be crazy." ”
At this moment, Monkey Ash reached out and threw the leaves in his hand, jumped back on Ghost Li's shoulders three times and twice, and then pointed in the direction of the road behind them, squeaking and squeaking.
The ghost groaned for a moment, then slowly turned around and looked at the wild dog Taoist.
The wild dog Taoist forced a smile and said, "You, what do you see me doing?"
Ghost Li glanced at the package behind him, and said lightly: "When it rained just now, did you lend the umbrella to the ......" Speaking of this, he frowned slightly, glanced at Xiao Ash, thought about it, and then said: "You lent the umbrella to the little girl who looked at it to cover the rain?"
"Squeak......
Before the wild dog Taoist could speak, the monkey Xiao Gray on the ghost Li's shoulder had already jumped up with a scream, so excited that the smile on the monkey's face almost narrowed his eyes.
The wild dog Taoist face was red and white, his expression was extremely embarrassed, and he suddenly pointed at the ghost and said loudly: "Stinky boy, sue you, your Taoist master is like a murderer, and there are not a thousand but eight ......hundred who died in my hands."
Ghost Li glanced at him, but he didn't pay any attention to his appearance, turned around and walked away, and said lightly: "You killed a thousand or eight hundred people, what does it have to do with me?"
The wild dog Taoist was suffocated, and he couldn't continue to say what he was supposed to be magnificent, so he only listened to the ghost in front of him and slowly said: "Besides, whether you kill a thousand people or eight hundred, what does it have to do with you lending an umbrella to that little girl?"
At this point, he stopped and glanced back at the Wild Dog Daoist.
The wild dog was taken aback, as if facing a great enemy, and said, "You, what are you going to do...... No, what to say?"
Ghost Li looked him up and down, suddenly smiled, and said, "But today's incident has surprised me again since you were in the Necromantic Abyss!"
He turned and walked slowly, his voice getting lower, but the wild dog heard it clearly.
“...... I can't believe that you will do this heroic thing to save beauty!"
The wild dog Taoist froze in place, suddenly a little distracted, and when he came back to his senses, the ghost Li had already taken Xiao Ash far away, and almost his figure disappeared into the fog in front of him.
The wild dog Taoist looked in that direction, suddenly jumped like thunder, and stomped his feet: "Phew! Lao Tzu has always been a bad embryo, and he has never done that kind of thing in his life, and besides, that chick can be called beautiful...... Ugh!"
The wild dog Taoist reached out and scratched his head, suddenly frowned and stopped, and after a while, he seemed to say to himself: "That chick is actually okay to look ......"
After saying that, the wild dog Taoist himself seemed to be stunned, suddenly shook his head violently, cursed in a low voice, and strode in the direction where the ghost Li was walking, and soon disappeared into the fog that was getting thicker and thicker at night.
There was a quiet all around, only to see that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the darkness was coming, gradually drowning in a qiē.
The other end of the dead ze.
Yu Yangzi, the master of the Demon Sect's Immortal Hall, was dressed in white, standing with his hands in his hands, looking at the sky with his head held high. The night breeze in the swamp blew, blowing up his clothes and fluttering slightly, looking extraordinary, like an immortal.
Except for his left hand, the sleeves of his shirt are empty, which adds a bit of inexplicable funny.
That was the sign that in the battle of Qingyun Mountain that year, he was unfortunately injured under the world's first strange sword, Zhu Xian.
The night breeze was slightly cool, and the air seemed to be moist with the heavy rain just now, and the darkness filled the surroundings, but only his figure was still standing there, unruly and conspicuous.
In the darkness behind him, there was a faint sound of breathing, it was his doorman hidden in the darkness, patiently waiting for his orders in the darkness.
The Demon Sect Immortal Hall rose eight hundred years ago, and it was passed on to Yuyangzi's generation, which is already the seventh generation, and has a long history, but no one knows better than Yuyangzi himself that behind this infinite scenery, the crisis faced by the Immortal Hall.
There is no successor!
Ten years ago, in the Qingyun War, Yuyangzi was jointly promoted by the other three major factions of the Demon Sect as the presiding person, which was the most prosperous and peak moment of the Immortal Hall's reputation among the Demon Sect in the past hundreds of years.
At that time, Yuyangzi was full of pride, and there were more than a dozen proud masters in his hands, all of which he had painstakingly cultivated in the past hundred years.
At that time, Yu Yangzi really thought that there was nothing in this world that could stop him, as long as he defeated the old Qingyun Gate in one fell swoop, the reputation of the Immortal Hall would naturally deter the Demon Sect, and with his own strength supplemented by the help of his masters, the Immortal Hall would be the second Blood Refining Hall in eight hundred years, and he would also become the second black-hearted old man!
It's just that this kind of beautiful dream has come to naught on Qingyun Mountain, under the sword of Zhu Xian!
He himself lost a left hand in the Zhuxian Sword Formation, not to mention the great loss of Dao Xing, because the Immortal Hall was the presiding faction, and the masters under the seat were naturally ranked in the first line of the decisive battle, and the first hard consumption of the elders of Tongtian Peak and Qingyunmen went to half of it.
Later, the Zhuxian Sword Array was launched, and the remaining masters of the Immortal Hall were killed and wounded, and there were only one or two people who escaped, and it could almost be said that the entire army was wiped out.
In this world, everything is easy to get, but the most difficult thing to get is talents, especially talents who can be completely trusted by themselves!
In the past ten years, Yuyangzi has worked hard, and Changshengtang has slowly risen again, but in Yuyangzi's heart, the shadow is getting bigger and bigger.
Qingyun's first battle almost completely destroyed the main combat power of the Immortal Hall, over the years, if it weren't for Yuyangzi's own cultivation being too high, shocking the surrounding enemies, especially seven years ago, he took the opportunity to make a decision, regardless of the opposition of his subordinates, and forcibly moved the main hall to a remote place called the Death Swamp, away from the sphere of influence of the other three major factions, otherwise the consequences would be, I am afraid that it is not yet known.
However, just a month ago, the increasingly fierce infighting in the Demon Sect came to an abrupt end, and the last powerful small and medium-sized sect Blood Refining Hall was finally subdued by the Ghost King Sect.
All the people stood in line, and after a short and suffocating calm, Yu Yangzi intuitively expected that what would follow would soon be a fierce infighting that would break out directly among the four major factions of the Demon Sect.
After all, in the hearts of countless Demon Sect disciples, the figure of the black-hearted old man who dominated the Demon Sect and dominated the world eight hundred years ago is already an eternal legend!
But legends are legends, at this moment, it is extremely unfavorable to the Immortal Hall and even Yuyangzi. Limited by strength, Changshengtang was powerless in the internal struggle for the small and medium-sized faction valves, so the strength of the other side opened up a gap with the other three major factions, Yuyangzi was so worried about this that he could hardly sleep at night.
At this time, as if God had opened his eyes, by the side of the Immortal Hall, a strange sign of the birth of a strange treasure suddenly appeared in the swamp of death.
Yuyangzi was pleasantly surprised, if he could really get a strange treasure like Qingyunmen's "Zhuxian Ancient Sword", there would be no problem with Changshengtang's self-protection first, and then Xu Tu would develop, and he might not be able to turn over after rì.
Under such circumstances, the Immortal Hall regarded the strange treasures in the dead as a thing in its pocket, and would never allow others to touch them. But I don't know who leaked the news, this news has only been within a few rì, and it has already spread all over the world, and suddenly the world is looking sideways, and the masters of good and evil have gathered to die.
Yuyangzi was shocked and angry, but at this moment, he was no longer allowed to retreat, so he used all the strength of the Changshengtang and arranged it in the Death Ze, while trying his best to find the whereabouts of the strange treasure, and on the other hand, he was responsible for sniping and killing foreign enemies. In these dozens of years, there were no less than dozens of people who were secretly killed by the Immortal Hall in the Dead Ze, including both righteous path scattered immortals and masters of other sects of the Demon Sect.
For the sake of the life and death of this sect, Yuyangzi has already disregarded a qiē!
This night, Yuyangzi received a secret report from his subordinates that near the "bottomless pit" on the periphery of Death Ze in front of him, a group of righteous people were stationed there, preparing to spend the night there. And in the next wave of spy returns, Yuyangzi's face became colder, and he already understood in his heart who it was.
It was the most elite group of young disciples under the Qingyun Sect, there should have been only a dozen people, but when he heard the spies' report, the number of people in that group at this time had actually reached dozens of people, and among them were monks and people in the clothes of the Incense Valley, Yuyangzi frowned, took a deep breath, and stared into the distance, as if waiting for something.
In the middle of the night, a slight footstep suddenly sounded in the darkness behind him, and a middle-aged man who looked thin walked out and came to Yuyangzi's side, Yuyangzi immediately turned to face him, obviously this person's identity is not ordinary.
This middle-aged man's name is Meng Ji, and he is one of the best masters under the Yuyangzi of the Immortal Hall, and he is also one of the few remaining masters of the Immortal Hall after the first battle of Qingyun Mountain, so he is even more respected by the Yuyangzi. At this moment, Yu Yangzi couldn't make up his mind, and he also wanted to wait for this person to come back.
Meng Ji saluted Yuyangzi, Yuyangzi shook his head slightly, and said, "Forget it, don't be polite, what's the matter?"
This sentence was a question without a beginning or an end, but Meng Ji obviously knew the meaning of Yuyangzi's question, and said in a low voice: "The subordinates have already taken people to search the area of Heishuigou and Baima River on the other side of Death Ze, and they have not found that the people of the Ghost King Sect, the Ten Thousand Poison Sect and the Hehuan Sect have entered in a big way, and there are only a few small faction characters who are lonely, and the subordinates have directly solved it." ”
Yuyangzi shook his head, showed a smile on his face for the first time, and nodded: "Okay! In this way, we don't have to worry about the future, tonight we will go all out to raid those young people who don't know the height of the sky, Tianyin Temple, and Incense Valley, and get rid of these people first, and the righteous path will no longer be able to compete with us!"
Meng Ji didn't seem to be happy on his face, but he was a little worried, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Door master, but three years ago, the secret whistle near Dawang Village sent back news, it seems that Ghost Li and Qin Wuyan have arrived near Death Ze, and the Golden Bottle of the Hehuan Sect has always been fluctuating, we must not be on guard!"
The muscles on Yuyangzi's face trembled, revealing resentment, and said hatefully: "How can I not know this! Those people in the righteous path just want that treasure, but the Ten Thousand Poison Sect and the Ghost King Sect want my life!"
Meng Ji's body was shocked, and he didn't know what he was thinking, his face was uncertain, and he said in a low voice: "Door master, what should we do?"
Yu Yangzi snorted, took a deep breath, slowed down, and said, "Now, we have no way back. Taking advantage of the fact that the Ten Thousand Poison Sect, the Ghost King Sect and the Hehuan Sect have not yet arrived, we will first solve these little cubs of the righteous path, and then go all out to search for the strange treasure, once we get it, it seems that this must be an unearthly treasure from the omen of the previous rìzi, and we are not afraid of the other three factions!"
Meng Ji bowed his head and said, "The master of the door is high. ”
Yu Yangzi nodded slightly, then turned around, calmed down, stretched out his only right hand now, and waved forward heavily in the night, suddenly the shadows in the darkness were crowded, and after a while, a large number of Immortal Hall disciples appeared, and rushed towards the direction of Yu Yangzi's finger with ease.
The night is vast, bleak and murderous!
Swamp of death, bottomless pit.
This piece of land looks like a flat land in the daytime, but for some reason it has such a strange name, unless it is a villager who has lived near the dead river for many years, only to know that in the land in this area, a large piece of land in the middle looks the same as the surrounding area, it is all overgrown with grass, but in fact it is a huge bottomless mud pit, and the silt suction is extremely strong, if ordinary people accidentally step in, it will be sucked down in a moment, and it will rot silently in the deep swamp from then on.
The reason why the dead river got its name is also in the swamp, and there are countless places that kill people in invisible horrors!
However, these young people on the right path are clearly not comparable to ordinary people.
Qingyunmen and his group of more than a dozen people walked a few times in the dead ze, and met the disciples sent by Tianyin Temple and Incense Valley before and after, and the three parties would be united, but there were acquaintances here.
Tianyin Temple is still headed by Faxiang and Fashan, and among the disciples of Incense Valley, there are also Li Xun and Yan Hong, but after meeting, the relationship between them is not very different. The disciples of Qingyunmen, led by Xiao Yicai, got along harmoniously with the people of Tianyin Temple, talking and laughing, but the Incense Valley and his party were a little estranged from these two major sects, and seemed to have deliberately kept a distance.
In the meantime, it is subtle, everyone knows what they know, but on the surface, they are still polite, and the three righteous path giants are still working together to kill demons and eliminate demons for the justice and morality of the world!
That night they stayed near the bottomless pit. After lighting a bonfire and repeatedly telling the juniors and sisters not to move around at will, Xiao Yicai invited Li Xun of Tianyin Temple and Incense Valley to the side and discussed softly.
At this moment, Li Xun frowned slightly, and there was a hint of disdain in his eyes, but he still maintained a kind appearance on his face, and said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Xiao, are you too worried?"
Xiao Yicai smiled slightly and said, "Senior Brother Li, please speak! ”
Seeing that Xiao Yicai and Fa Xiang's eyes were all looking at him, Li Xun paused for a moment, and then said: "I thought that since my three factions entered Ze, the momentum has been like a bamboo, and the disciples sent by the Immortal Hall have been repeatedly defeated by us. Moreover, since the battle of Qingyun Mountain that year, the deaths and injuries of the masters of the Immortal Hall, except for one Yuyangzi who is still struggling to support the overall situation, the rest are not to worry about at all. Senior Brother Xiao said that tonight is full of dangers, isn't it too much?"
Xiao Yicai pondered for a moment and said, "What Senior Brother Li said is indeed reasonable. But in the Demon Sect Immortal Hall, the door master Yuyangzi is extremely high, and we should not be underestimated with him alone, in addition, the Immortal Hall has been ranked among the four major sects of the Demon Sect since its rise, and it has been eight hundred years, the so-called hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, and they are determined to get this dead Ze Strange Treasure, it is inevitable that the dog will jump off the wall in a hurry, we better be careful!"
Fa Xiang nodded and said, "What Senior Brother Xiao said is reasonable, we really have to be careful. ”
Li Xun saw that the two of them were talking like this, so he couldn't say anything, but he was arrogant, and the look in his eyes was still a little revealed, and he said lightly: "Then according to what the two senior brothers said, what should we do tonight?"
Fa Xiang looked at his god, stunned for a moment, turned his head and glanced at Xiao Yicai, but saw that Xiao Yicai acted as if nothing had happened, as if he hadn't seen anything, and still smiled: "Senior Brother Li really knows clearly, with his brother's high talent, he has achieved great success, and Senior Brother Li should be the first to remember." ”
Li Xun smiled slightly, but he didn't thank him humbly.
Fa Xiang looked at Xiao Yicai's angry face from the side, and suddenly passed the figure of the young man called "Zhang Xiaofan" back then, if he was here today, how good would it be......
He sighed softly for no reason in his heart, and then heard Xiao Yicai start to arrange in a low voice, and hurriedly listened attentively, only to hear Xiao Yicai lower his voice and say softly:
"Two senior brothers, let's ...... tonight"
The night sè seems to be a little deeper.
The night in the Death Swamp seems to be shrouded in black clouds, perhaps due to the mist rising from this huge swamp every night.
The night sky was gray and misty, not to mention the moon, not even half a star could be seen.
Near the bottomless pit, where the young disciples of the righteous path slept overnight, except for a few remnants of the ashes of the campfire that were struggling and burning, everything was quiet, and there was no sound at all.
Faintly looking in the darkness, those righteous path disciples curled up in their clothes and quilts, covering their whole bodies tightly, after all, the young people did not practice enough, and they could not withstand the bone-chilling night cold in this dead water.
The disciples of the Immortal Hall silently surrounded this group of people from all directions, and in the dark, quietly waiting for Yu Yangzi's order.
Yuyangzi slowly stretched out his only right hand.
Meng Ji, who was standing beside him, suddenly whispered, "Door master." ”
Yu Yangzi's hand paused, slightly dissatisfied, but after all, Meng Ji's status in his heart was not low, so he still resisted xìngzi and asked, "What's wrong?"
Meng Ji seemed to feel Yuyangzi's dissatisfaction, and after hesitating for a moment, he still said, "Sect Master, look at these righteous people, why don't they even have a night vigil?"
Yu Yangzi was stunned for a moment, and then said: "These yellow-haired boys, they are arrogant, I have even used these rì to underestimate the enemy, they have long thought that we are vulnerable, and they don't take us seriously at all, and it is not surprising that there is no vigil!"
Meng Ji's face moved, and finally fell silent.
Yu Yangzi didn't pay attention to him anymore, flipped his right hand, and saw a strange black and white mirror appear in his hand, and then flew into the air, sliding a dazzling light in the night.
All the people of the Immortal Hall shouted at the same time, spreading far away in the night, swarming up, with boundless killing intent!
In that fragile afterglow, there was a faint desolation.
The last bit of ash is quietly extinguished at this moment!
Darkness Floods!
A moment later, there was a crisp and sharp sound, and the sonorous dragon groaned.
A blue light, a blue light, a golden light, a white light, a blue light.
Five brilliant and dazzling strange lights, in the darkness of that night, like a sharp sword piercing the sky, appeared in the deepest part of the darkness and rushed towards those Immortal Hall disciples.
And behind them, more dazzling lights appeared, one after another.
Yuyangzi saw it in her eyes, and her face changed greatly!
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