Chapter 12: The Ghost Spirit

Yi Xiaotian rolled down dozens of steps in a row in the dark cave, and finally with a muffled sound of "bang!" on his head, he stopped on the stone wall at the corner, and got up with his head in his hands, his eyes were full of stars, and he was in pain, "Oops!" A loud shout came out, and in an instant, the black light on the stone walls on both sides flashed, and suddenly lit up with rows of green candles, dense, obliquely extending down to the end of the eye, illuminating the entire tunnel, with the light of the candle fire, Yi Xiaotian looked up and looked at the entrance above, but it was a closed rock with black pressure, where else could there be any holes.

After the pain in his head subsided slightly, Yi Xiaotian also calmed down, thinking: It seems that the entrance to this cave really has to be half of the sunrise for a short moment before it can be opened, if this is the case, it will have to wait for a whole day to get out, it is better to take this time to explore downward, maybe there will be some surprises to discover. Although he pretended to think calmly like this, his feet were still a little trembling, for fear that if the hole did not appear tomorrow, and there was no other way out, he would not be trapped here for life and death, and he couldn't help but start to miss Wen You'er, Wang Erdan and others.

"Hmph! I haven't understood the grievances with that guy yet! I won't be trapped here!" Yi Xiaotian spoke loudly to himself, emboldened himself, and sang the mountain song he learned from Uncle Li at the top of his voice, and strode down along the secluded green road.

"Hey~~~ The moon comes out and is bright and bright~ Bright and bright~ I think of my brother in the deep mountains~ Brother walks like the moon in the sky~ My sister is like a small river flowing under the mountain, the water is clear and leisurely, ...... is clear~ Hey" The noisy singing stopped abruptly, and Yi Xiaotian also stopped and turned his head to look left. I saw that on the stone wall on the left side of the narrow tunnel here, there was a three-foot doorway, but the space in the doorway was relatively wide, more than one zhang long and wide, and there was still a faint green light and shadow flickering, but there was obviously a trace of paleness in the light, looking around inside, there was nothing in the stone room, and I don't know where the faint green and pale firelight came from.

Yi Xiaotian since yesterday by mistake hit this black lonely peak, the strange phenomena he has seen have been one after another, at this moment, even if he has the instinctive fear of the unknown, it is no strange, take a deep breath, is to raise his feet and step into the doorway, unexpectedly leaning into half of his body, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something hanging above his head, Yi Xiaotian suddenly looked up, only to see a miserable white skull floating above his head out of thin air, two deep dark eye holes, one white and one green, two strange flames burning. This time it really scared Yi Xiaotian half to death, "Ah ......" with a loud shout, he ran away, running down the narrow tunnel stone steps all the way, not daring to look back at all, but he didn't know that the skull head had been floating above his head and followed closely the moment he turned around.

Running all the way, Yi Xiaotian kept glancing at the left and right rear with the corner of his eye, but he also saw clearly the original two rows of dark green candle flames on the left and right, under each firelight, it was clearly a miserable white barrel bone, where was the white candle? Fortunately, there was no monster like the oozing floating skull head, Yi Xiaotian also gradually slowed down his pace, snorting and panting, and slowly walked down. The tunnel twists and turns, turns left and right, and passes through eight other doorways along the way, all of which are empty without exception, and they are all faint green light and shadow, in Yi Xiaotian's opinion, it is just the faint green light and shadow in each doorway, mixed with various colors of scarlet or earthy yellow, or blue or turquoise, which are different.

I don't know how much time I have walked, how far I have gone underground, and before I knew it, after turning another corner, the black stone steps that seemed to have no end under my feet suddenly stopped, and the entire narrow tunnel was also so far that there was no follow-up, a pure black stone sword, inserted into the black stone wall in front of him, most of the sword body was submerged in the wall, and the junction of the sword wall was smooth and seamless, and it was impossible to tell whether the sword entered the stone wall, or the stone sword was originally carved on the stone wall. At the end of the way, although there was a little frightening experience, but he never found any treasures, Yi Xiaotian was a little lost, tentatively holding the stone sword hilt with both hands, pulling and tossing for a long time without moving, without triggering any mechanism, and kicked the stone wall a few times, the touch was solid and thick, and he never heard the empty sound, and finally put his ear on the stone wall stupidly, except for the cold touch, but he couldn't hear any movement behind the wall, presumably it was really the end of the tunnel.

"Alas......" Yi Xiaotian sighed lightly, and was about to turn back, only to hear a "Zheng!" sound, the stone sword in front of him pulled out of the stone wall, quickly turned the sword body, and stabbed straight above Yi Xiaotian's head! Yi Xiaotian was startled, instinctively squatted down to dodge, looked up, couldn't believe the sight in front of him, and almost fainted. Above the head, a group of huge skull heads were lined up vertically from top to bottom, all gloomy and pale, and two strange flames were burning in the hollow eye holes of both of them, one green and one red, or one green and one white, or one green and one yellow...... Counting carefully, there were a total of nine skulls, all of which were floating in the air at the moment, and the flames in the eye holes were shining brighter and brighter, as if they were coldly confronted by the black stone sword, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

Yi Xiaotian's scalp was numb for a while, and he hurriedly squatted to the corner of the wall, not daring to come out, and quietly moved his steps against the stone wall, wanting to slip away, but unexpectedly, the nine skull heads on the top of his head also moved with his footsteps, always following closely, and the black stone sword was even more suspended in mid-air, tightly pressing the nine skull heads, and the sword body was gradually shrouded in a thin layer of black mist, faintly exuding a fierce momentum.

Suddenly, the nine skull heads in the eye hole of the fire flashed, suddenly changed the formation and flew out in all directions, surrounded by the black stone sword up and down, left and right, nine dark green fire ropes from the left eye of the nine skull heads, twisted and twisted with each other, forming a fire net, trapped the stone sword in the center of the fire net, and then, there were nine flames of various colors, from the nine skull heads right eye arrows shot out, all stabbed at the black stone sword, in the blink of an eye was about to touch the sword god, only to see that the black stone sword seemed to be unwilling to be caught, suddenly swirled, the black fog around the body suddenly thickened, Shengsheng bounced the nine rockets away, all kinds of sparks splashed。

Yi Xiaotian was hiding in the corner of the wall and could see his god, and suddenly, all kinds of sparks splashed down above his head, and he didn't have time to dodge at all, and his head and face fell on his body. "Ahh With such a strange scene in front of him, Yi Xiaotian didn't want to stay any longer, and walked quietly a few steps tentatively, seeing that the nine skull heads were no longer following him, he quickly pulled out his legs and ran, and without looking back, he ran back to the entrance of the tunnel in one breath, and sat on the stone steps limply, his mouth dry and panting.

Yi Xiaotian stubbornly guarded the stone wall at the original entrance, thinking that as soon as the entrance of the cave opened, he jumped out and did not enter this strange cave. Waiting and waiting, I don't know how long it has been, Yi Xiaotian is sleepy and bored, and he is a little inexplicably worried about the black stone sword, I don't know if he has fought the nine skull heads...... In his sleep, Yi Xiaotian saw that the black stone sword was majestic, and it cut through the dark green fire net and came out, the sword wind was everywhere, and the various fires in the heads of the nine skeletons were extinguished one by one, crackling and falling to the ground one after another, unable to roll down the corner of the wall, and then not moving......

In a daze, Yi Xiaotian felt a sinking in his arms, and a cold breath came, he opened his eyes and woke up, and when he buried his head, the black stone sword was quiet at this time, and he was lying in his arms. Another sudden strange thing frightened, frightened Yi Xiaotian hurriedly threw the stone sword in his arms to the ground, the stone sword fell straight to the ground, and after sliding down two steps heavily, he didn't move, Yi Xiaotian found that the black stone sword hilt was intact, but the sword body was cut off by the waist, and it was generally only a short half, and the whole body was dull and lifeless, obviously without the momentum of the previous volley dance.

Presumably it was broken by a heavy blow in the battle with the nine skull heads, Yi Xiaotian took two steps forward, picked up the black stone sword again, with a little gratitude and sadness, carefully stroked the broken wound, and did not notice that the hole behind him had been opened, and a black figure walked in quietly. I saw that the man was dressed in black and pants, with a black hood and a mask, tightly wrapping his entire body, revealing only a pair of slender eyes, looking at Yi Xiaotian's back, the blood-red essence in his pupils flashed, and his body flickered, turning into a black light, and swishing into the depths of the tunnel against the top wall of the tunnel. Yi Xiaotian vaguely felt a stream of air blowing above his head, turned around and saw that the hole had been wide open, his nerves instantly tensed, and he turned around and ran away with the half-handled stone sword in his arms, for fear that the hole would close again, and he couldn't go out, just ran out of two steps, he felt that the neckline on his neck was tight, and he was lifted off the ground with his feet in general, and he teleported straight out of the hole, and the neckline was loosened, and he fell to the ground like a dog eating。 Yi Xiaotian instinctively turned over and bounced up, took a few steps back, looked nervously at the man in black in front of him and asked, "You...... What ......do you want to do?" out of the corner of his eye, he quietly looked around, and found that at this time, he was out of the Jiu Lao Cave, on the semi-circular stone platform yesterday, and the ground in the center of the circle was tightly sealed, where was there still a trace of the cave entrance?

The man in black didn't seem to have any malicious intent, squatted there and continued to stare at Yi Xiaotian for a while, before he slowly stood up, unhurriedly took off a tight black coat, a hood and a mask, his upper body was naked, only a pair of wide shorts were left on his lower body, and his medium-long hair was scattered over his shoulders. Yi Xiaotian looked at the face in front of him, his brows furrowed, and he tried to recall, the feeling of déjà vu was very strong.

But the middle-aged man took the lead in opening his mouth: "Little ghost, your name is Yi Xiaotian, right? You and I, in the Jiazhou Market, have seen it more than once, hahahaha!"

Hearing the middle-aged man say this, Yi Xiaotian was also stunned, his hands loosened, and the half-handled stone sword that had been holding tightly in his arms also fell to the ground, and asked in surprise, "You, are you that bookstall vendor!?you, why are you here?!"

"Hahahaha, little ghost, I'm waiting for you here. The middle-aged man winked at Yi Xiaotian, with obvious excitement and provocation in his tone.

Yi Xiaotian was stunned, unable to figure out his clue in the clouds, glanced at the shattered skull and skull, and then looked at the half of the stone sword under his feet, and asked again in a daze, "Wait, wait for me?"

The middle-aged man sighed, "Alas, creation is really fair, heh." There was a sarcasm in his tone. The left hand waved down slightly, and a wave of qi suddenly surged under his feet, rolling away all the skull fragments of the white flowers, scattering into the abyss, and his right hand stretched out into a claw and sucked it, and the half-handled black stone sword was sucked into his hand, and then continued to speak unhurriedly, as if he was talking to Yi Xiaotian, and as if he was talking to himself; "Little ghost, you are indeed stupid, but I may be the only one in this world, I am a ghost, and I can see your chaotic demon fate that has not been encountered for 10,000 years...... The so-called gods and gods are equal, and this is really the case. Your innate qualifications are no different from waste in cultivation, but God has given you that chaotic numerology, and countless heaven and earth mysteries, elemental and strange spirits will meet one after another in your fate, creating and making people, and creating and making people......"

After talking nonsense for a long time, Yi Xiaotian didn't understand a word, but he only understood a sentence, that is, the person in front of him seemed to be called a ghost Lingzi. After Ghost Lingzi sighed, he saw Yi Xiaotian's confused expression, sighed again, took a few deep breaths, tried to calm down the jealousy in his heart, forced himself to be patient, and continued to preach to Yi Xiaotian in more simple and easy-to-understand words: "The black lonely peak here is called Jiulao Peak, and the cave you entered by mistake is called Jiulao Cave. According to legend, in ancient times, on the land of Kyushu, the world was chaotic and mutaly, all kinds of monsters and monsters were rampant, and the ancestors and tribes struggled to survive and were almost extinct...... It wasn't until the birth of a strange person in the tribe, because he ranked ninth in the clan, and his descendants were all honored as the nine elders, who penetrated the mysteries of heaven and earth, controlled the elemental spiritual power, and destroyed the demons of the eight directions and recast the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, and the human tribe became the primate of all things, ruling the continent and multiplying. However, the good times did not last long, hundreds of years later, because the nine elders spied too many mysteries in the past, killed countless creatures, and distorted the natural order, which eventually attracted the wrath of the gods, and frequently descended on the heavens, for a time, on the land of Kyushu, meteorites, tsunamis, plagues, storms, and all kinds of natural disasters came surgingly, although the nine elders cultivated, they were not hurt at all, but most of the mortals of the ancestors were killed and injured, and the mourning was all over the wilderness......"

Yi Xiaotian listened attentively, and when he saw that the ghost spirit son was halfway through the story, he stopped talking, and couldn't help blurting out: "What happened to the ancestors? And what about the nine elders?"

Ghost Lingzi squinted and glanced at Yi Xiaotian, swallowed a mouthful of saliva in his throat, and continued: "Later? Later, the nine elders sacrificed their lives to take righteousness, killed themselves here, and all the elemental spiritual power in the body was dispersed, leaving only the physical body to transform into this peak, hidden in the world. ”

It was the first time Yi Xiaotian heard such a bizarre legend, half of him was surprised and frightened, half of him was suspicious, he squatted down and beat on the black rock ground, how could he not see the slightest connection with the flesh and bones of the human body. Ghost Lingzi understood Yi Xiaotian's suspicious expression, and as soon as his right hand was released, the half of the black stone sword flew out of his hand and stabbed straight into Yi Xiaotian's chest!

Before he had time to feel the pain, the black stone broken sword had completely submerged into his body, and Yi Xiaotian covered his chest with both hands, but the skin on his chest was intact, and there was no discomfort. Yi Xiaotian was stunned, dumbfounded, and looked at the ghost Lingzi with wide eyes, not daring to move at all.

Seeing Yi Xiaotian's stupid appearance, the ghost spirit son was angry again, and said angrily, "Hmph, the black stone sword and the nine skulls are respectively transformed by the righteous and evil spiritual power in the nine elders' bodies, and they are sealed in the nine old caves, and they have restrained each other for countless years, and they have long since worn out the evil spirits. Now it seems that the stone sword has won a thrilling victory, and it is also a chance to recognize you as the master. ”

"Recognize me as the master?" Yi Xiaotian was simply cloudy.

"Boy, let me ask you, are you willing to be an ugly mountain man on that Emei Mountain for the rest of your life?"

Yi Xiaotian's eyes were timid, but he didn't dodge it, and also stared at the eyes of the ghost spirit, which were a pair of clear and revealing eyes, without the slightest bloodshot impurities, except for a faint red glow in the center of the double pupils, as if piercing his heart. "No. Yi Xiaotian blinked his dry eyes, and opened them again for a moment, the red light flashed, resolute and resolute.

Ghost Lingzi suddenly laughed, "Hahahaha! The kid is not a waste! Hurry back, this Nine Old Lonely Peak is about to dissipate, alas......"

Looking around him, the black mist gradually shrouded him, and the rocky ground beneath his feet gradually became transparent and illusory, as if it was vaporizing and evaporating. Yi Xiaotian was also extremely nervous, but he still resisted the urge to pull his legs and run down the peak, and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Master, please take me as an apprentice!"

Ghost Lingzi flew up with a kick, the wind swept through his legs, Yi Xiaotian flew straight out of more than ten zhang, and fell softly on the ridge and dangerous road when he came, and when he got up and looked back, the sea of clouds was empty, the black lonely peak was gone, and a gust of mountain wind swept by, bringing Ghost Lingzi's voice: "Yi Xiaotian, you and I have no master-apprentice fate, and today's matter must not be mentioned to anyone again, when it is useful, I will look for you." The black stone broken sword has been integrated into your body, and you can find the innate avenue if you want to keep the hollow. Go, go. ”