Chapter 21: The Evil Ghoul
The Western Regions is vast and sparsely populated, and when he enters here, the sea dragon realizes how naΓ―ve he is. When he was in the Central Plains, he once thought that as long as he entered the territory of the Western Regions, he would definitely find the small village that gave birth to him and raised him. But, when he got here, he knew he was wrong. The territory of the Western Regions is so large and vast that it is not inferior to that of the Central Plains. Moreover, it is sparsely populated, and most of the people have little understanding of the outside world like his original village. When he was in the Central Plains, he could still ask for directions, but when he got here, he could only grope on his own. Three days, it's been three days, the Western Regions Plateau seems to have no bounds, and he doesn't know now whether he is getting closer or farther away from Lianyun Mountain. On this vast plateau, he felt so small.
The sun is shining on the earth, because it is located on the plateau, during the day, the air is extremely hot, if it weren't for the sea dragon with a certain amount of mana, maybe he would have been sunburned by the sun. Taking out the water bag from the Qiankun ring and taking a sip, Hailong looked into the distance, secretly crying bitterly in his heart. He had already met four or five villages or tribes one after another, but the result of his inquiry was that no one knew about Lianyun Mountain at all. Now that he has gone deep into the Western Regions Plateau, although he can distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, he doesn't know how to go down.
Just when the sea dragon was confused, a figure came into his sight, the man was moving slowly, every few steps he would inevitably fall, but he would immediately get up again and continue to move forward, as if there was some obsession supporting his body. Suddenly seeing a human figure on this empty land, the sea dragon couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and his figure floated up and greeted the man. As he got closer, he saw the man's appearance clearly, it was a middle-aged man in his forties, he looked extremely embarrassed, his face was covered by unkempt weed-like hair, and the clothes on his body were ragged like when Hailong met the Yuhua sisters. His bare hands were covered with sunburn marks, and his skin was as dry as a dead tree.
Floating in front of the middle-aged man, Hailong asked, "Uncle, what's wrong with you?" The middle-aged man's appearance had already inspired his compassion.
The middle-aged man heard the human voice, raised his head suddenly, the sea dragon saw his appearance, and couldn't help but gasp, the middle-aged man's face was covered with rotten sores, and the dry yellow-brown marks looked extremely disgusting. There was no sparkle in his cloudy eyes, and when he saw the sea dragon, he suddenly shouted, "Get out, get out of the way, stay away from me." β
Hailong paused, subconsciously took a few steps back, and asked tentatively: "Uncle, what's wrong with you? Is there anything I can do to help you? I have water and food here." β
The middle-aged man's body trembled, and he shouted in his hoarse voice: "No, no, get out of here, quick, stay away from me, I don't need your help." Get out of here. His voice was full of desolation, looking at his miserable situation, Hailong couldn't help but think of his previous experience of being oppressed, and he couldn't care about taboos anymore, strode up to the middle-aged man, and stretched out his hand to grab him. The middle-aged man seemed to have seen something terrifying, and his body retreated violently, but he was obviously very weak, and he stumbled and fell to the ground suddenly, and the sea dragon's grasp naturally failed.
"Don't touch me, stay away from me, do you want to die?" the middle-aged man's voice became more and more poignant.
Hailong said suspiciously: "Uncle, I have no malicious intentions, I just want to help you! In this vast land, if you continue to walk, you will die." β
The middle-aged man's eyes showed a hint of desolation, and he muttered: "Die, yes, die, I just want to die! I've been poisoned by corpses, and it's very contagious, and I can't hurt you. If you get infected, you'll become like me. Leave me alone and get out of here. β
"Poison on the corpse, poison on the corpse? Uncle, can you tell me what's going on, maybe I can save you, I won't go over, just listen here." Here, you drink some water first. Don't worry, this hydration bag will be given to you, and I have many of the same, you don't have to mind. With that, he threw his hydration bag over.
Perhaps feeling the sincerity of the sea dragon from the heart, the middle-aged man seemed to be much calmer, he was indeed thirsty, grabbed the water bag, and drank it gurgling, half a bag of water quickly entered his stomach. The wheezing voice gradually stabilized, and the middle-aged man moved his body back a few more times, glanced at Hailong with some gratitude, and said, "Young man, thank you." You're a good person. β
The first time Hailong heard someone call himself a good person, a strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart, he was not a nosy person, but he was recalled by a middle-aged man before, so he made up his mind to help him. He smiled slightly and said, "Uncle, tell me what's going on." I'm not an ordinary person, maybe I can really help you. In order to show his strength, the sea dragon waved his left hand and used blood gossip to emit a red energy, which suddenly blew up a shallow pit one or two feet deep on the ground not far away.
The middle-aged man looked at the sea dragon in surprise and said, "You, what are you?" Okay, I'm dying anyway, so I'll tell you about it." But promise me that as soon as you have heard my story, you will knock me into the pit with the light you have just glewed, and then bury me with earth, preferably with fire first, if possible. β
From the middle-aged man's tone, Hailong heard his fear of corpse poison, and said noncommittally: "You tell your business first, and then I will naturally help you." β
The middle-aged man pulled down his hair to block the terrifying face, and said hoarsely: "My name is Shasi, and I am from a small tribe dozens of miles away from here. We live by grazing cattle on the Western Plateau, and although we live in poverty, we live happily. I have a beautiful wife and two children, one twenty-three and the other seventeen. They are my greatest pride. However, our family's happy life was ruined a few days ago. That day, my eldest son, for some reason, came back late from grazing, and when he came back, his face was gray and blue. At the time, I thought he was tired and didn't pay much attention to it. After he came back, he was stupid and stupid, and went to rest without eating. Something terrible happened in the middle of the night, and I was awakened from my sleep by a scream that came from my tent for two children, and my wife and I hurried over. I saw a terrible scene, my eldest child grabbed the child's body hard, he didn't know when he had grown fangs, and bit hard on his brother's throat, the skin on his face had festered, and the yellow liquid was constantly dripping, and the child who was bitten by him had already died when I arrived. I was so frightened that I didn't know what was going on, while my wife was screaming for help. The eldest stood there, staring blankly at me motionless. At the cries of his wife, the chieftain and the people of the tribe rushed over, and the chieftain was very knowledgeable, and as soon as he saw the appearance of my eldest son, he knew that he had been poisoned. The corpse poison is extremely terrifying, and it has the property of being contagious. In our tribe, everyone has a very good relationship, and no one knows how to deal with this. The wife was so loving that she rushed into the tent and called her eldest son's name with tears in her eyes. Suddenly, my eldest son pounced on his mother, and no one came to stop him, and he had already bitten his wife's throat. My heart was broken, and in that moment, my heart was broken. I'm so miserable, my home, my home! I know, it's all over. I picked up a wooden stick and struck at my eldest son, hoping that he would let go of my wife, and in the process of fighting, my eldest son bit me on the hand, and my wife was already dying. I had practiced some tricks before, and I had some strength, and I used all my strength to finally tie up my eldest son. I know that if he is allowed to go crazy, I am afraid that the whole tribe will be destroyed at his hands. At this time, Xiao'er's dead body also began to convulse, and it seemed that he was about to turn into a zombie. For the sake of the tribe, I have only one choice. I gritted my teeth and tied my two sons and wife together. And set their corpses on fire with his own hands, you know, the best way to deal with zombies is to completely destroy their bodies. The fire has devoured all my relatives, my teeth have bitten out blood, my whole body is constantly twitching, my heart is dripping blood! Only at this moment, I found the bite wound on my hand, I know that I am also infected with corpse poison, in order not to disturb everyone, I want to rush into the fire and go with my relatives. However, they didn't let me die, and pulled me hard. The chief also comforted me, saying that if I was bitten a little, it might not be okay. However, I knew he was just comforting me. As long as the corpse poison is contaminated a little, it will immediately spread throughout the body, although I am not dead, I still have consciousness, but the corpse poison on my body is impossible to expel it. The next day, I ran out while no one was looking, I just wanted to run away, I didn't want to bother anyone! I hated it, I hated the zombie who bit my eldest son, he ruined our family, I have been out for three days, I don't know why, I am not dead, young man, kill me, kill me. I'm in so much pain, help me end my life. β
The sea dragon's eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice, "Are there zombies around your village? Could it be ghouls?" If it's an ordinary zombie, it's impossible for your eldest child to return to the tribe after being bitten to death. It must be a ghoul. Hmph, I'll go back to the tribe with you, and I'll help you kill that ghoul to get revenge. "When I was in Lianyun Mountain, Hailong once heard Lingyu talk about ghouls. The so-called ghouls are actually human beings, but in order to pursue mana cultivation, they use specific methods to turn themselves into zombie-like creatures, but they have intelligence. For ghouls, the anger of the living and the subordinates of zombies are their support, this kind of evil cultivator, even people in the evil path do not despise fighting against them, the biggest advantage of cultivating ghouls is that they can achieve a not weak cultivation in just a few decades. Only the most evil people will choose this cultivation method, once the ghouls' cultivation is advanced to a certain level, it will inevitably cause the destruction of living beings, and the spread of corpse poison is likely to bring devastating disasters to ordinary people. Shasi's story filled Hailong's heart with anger, and he recklessly agreed to avenge him, at this time, he didn't consider whether his cultivation was enough to fight the ghouls.
Sha Si paused for a moment and muttered, "No, I can't go back, I've become like this now, if I go back, I'll infect everyone with corpse poison." I can't go back. Thank you, young man, if you can, just help me to get revenge. If you go all the way west from here, you'll see our tribe, and the ghouls you're talking about are probably nearby. With that, he grabbed a sharp stone from the ground and stabbed it into his throat. A yellow-green liquid flowed out of the wound, and little by little, life quickly detached from Shasi's body. Saji looked at the sea dragon, although he was about to leave this world, but he had received the promise of the sea dragon, and there was a look of satisfaction in his eyes. With the hope of revenge, he has no regrets. The body fell to the ground with a bang, and he went.
The sea dragon Mu Ran stood there, in fact, he had enough time to stop the sauce just now, but he didn't do that. Shasi's body has been completely eroded by corpse poison, and even if the Heavenly Dao Venerable is here, he may not be able to save him. Moreover, what can he do if he is alive? His most cherished relatives are dead, and it is better to let them meet him underground than to let him live alone.
A layer of faint cyan light appeared around the sea dragon's body, and red pillars of light continued to rush out of the blood gossip, and the body of Sha Si was buried deep in the ground by the sea dragon, and a new loess suddenly appeared on this vast plateau. Pulling out the small iron rod from his bosom, the sea dragon took a deep breath, urged his mana to the limit, and turned into a phantom and galloped away in the direction pointed by the sand division. In the air, a crystal droplet of water floated. The drops of water fell into the loess and quickly seeped in, and everything returned to calm, and the majestic breeze caressed it, bringing a bit of gloom. Perhaps, in a few years, on this embryonic loess, there will be plants taking root and sprouting. The great sentiment of sacrificing oneself will nourish them to thrive.
The mana in his body was running fiercely, and the mixed energy had been urged to the limit by the sea dragon, and the ground under his feet was passing rapidly, with deep sadness and strong killing intent, he soon saw a tribe composed of hundreds of tents, the tribe was surrounded by countless sharp fences, and hundreds of zombies were trying to rush into the fence around them, and inside the fence, people were using various tools that could be used to make weapons to poke out from the fence to block the impact of zombies. However, those zombies have no life, let alone what death is, and with their stronger than ordinary people and indestructible bodies, they are still constantly impacting. After all, the people of the tribe have limited physical strength, and although they take turns to block it, judging from their tired appearance, the zombies will break through the barrier sooner or later. At that time, all the people here will become like them. Seeing this scene, the sea dragon couldn't help but boil his blood, he knew that the ghouls hidden nearby did not let this tribe go, he came.
"Ahh The red light of the blood gossip flashed, the three zombies were blown to pieces, the sea dragon flew up, and the small iron rod that became larger suddenly swung out, and the surging power suddenly burst out, and the heads of seven or eight zombies exploded in a yellow-green liquid. Without a head, they could only fall to the ground unwillingly, but even so, they continued to twitch. The sea dragon has completely entered a state of madness, the small iron rod and blood gossip in his hand exert a powerful power, the number of more than a hundred zombies in his madness continues to decrease sharply, and the people in the tribe suddenly lose their pressure, and they all look at the dreamlike blue figure in surprise.
Although he only had the cultivation of Fuhu in the early stage, it was enough to deal with this ordinary zombie, and as the number of zombies decreased, affected by the ferocious aura in the blood gossip, the sea dragon was full of huge killing power. At this moment, an angry roar sounded, and the remaining thirty or so zombies jumped back one by one, and a huge evil aura permeated the air, and the sea dragon suddenly felt a depression in his chest, and said in his heart: It's coming. Yes, he judged very correctly, a tall figure, approaching quickly from a short distance at a speed of tens of meters per jump. He is the ghoul that the sea dragon is looking for.
This ghoul was originally a big thief in the Central Plains, because he would kill all the robbers every time he robbed and caused public outrage, in the case of not being able to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, he fled to the Western Regions with good skills, and then inadvertently got a book about the cultivation of ghouls, the book did not explain the harm of cultivating ghouls, under the great joy, he rashly chose to cultivate. A few years have passed, and although his strength has become several times stronger than before, he has also become like a zombie, and there is no trace of human beings on his body. At the same time, due to the cultivation of ghouls, he has become more ferocious, in order to get more powerful power to turn back to the Central Plains to wreak havoc, he still keeps cultivating, so far, there has been a ten-year cultivation period. Recently, he found that his cultivation has always stagnated, and he has never been able to break through to the realm of corpse pills, knowing that it is because he does not suck the qi of living people, so he aims at the tribe closest to him, as long as he reaches the realm of corpse pills, he can spit out mist-like corpse poison to attack the enemy, and his strength has greatly increased. During the peep, he kills Sasha's eldest son......
Seeing the enemy approaching, the sea dragon cautiously took out the phantom dragon from his arms, turned back and shouted at the tribesmen, "You all go back to your tents, I am enough here." β
"Is it enough to have you?" An unusually ugly voice rang out, and the ghoul stood twenty meters away in front of the sea dragon. On the surface, he was not as disgusting as the other zombies, wearing a gray-black robe, long yellow hair hanging down his shoulders, his exposed hands were thin, his long nails shimmered green, and the aura of danger constantly emanated from him.
Hailong's heart sank, and he shouted, "Listen to the order, check." The yellow light flashed away, the ghoul's body trembled slightly, and a light yellow light flashed in front of the sea dragon's eyes. He couldn't help but gasp, this ghoul has reached the realm equivalent to Dao Gu, although he definitely can't fly, but it is two realms higher than himself, is that what he can deal with?
The ghoul was a little surprised and said: "It turns out that you are a cultivator, no wonder you dare to meddle with the old man's affairs, but it seems that you don't have any advanced cultivation." I cultivate ghouls, and the target is the ordinary people in this tribe, and I don't want to be enemies with your cultivators, so I will leave immediately, and I will treat it as if nothing happened before. Otherwise, don't blame me for being unkind. "Although his body has turned into a zombie, he is very shrewd, knowing that the ghouls who cultivate by themselves will never provoke people who cultivate the truth, and once the master of cultivation comes, then he will only have the end of complete destruction.
He angrily rebuked: "Ghoul, you dare to do harm to the world here, aren't you afraid of being punished by heaven? β
The ghoul laughed loudly, "For the heavens, it depends on you, looking at your appearance, I'm afraid that even Yuanying hasn't yet, how can you fight me." Well, sucking the anger of a cultivator is better than hundreds of human beings. Since you sent it to the door, then the old man is welcome. As soon as he finished speaking, his tall body flew straight towards the sea dragon, and although he seemed to be clumsy, he was very fast. Almost in the blink of an eye, he was already in front of the sea dragon. The sea dragon didn't dare to be careless, and when he raised his hand, there was a red light. A foot-diameter red glow shot heavily into the center of the ghoul's chest. With a loud bang, the ghoul's body was thrown away, and the sea dragon was suddenly overjoyed, he didn't expect that it would be so easy to succeed. However, when the ghoul figure stabilized, the sea dragon's heart sank into the valley. The invincible blood gossip against ordinary zombies actually lost its effect, and although the clothes on the ghoul chest were torn through a big hole, the iron-black skin inside was undamaged.
"Hehe, Xiao, do you want to hurt my iron body with your magic weapon? I think you're looking for death. Although we ghouls can't use magic weapons like you cultivators, our bodies are unbreakable. I'm here to see how many times your red light can be emitted. As he spoke, his body brought up a phantom and rushed up again.
The sea dragon felt a pang in his heart, this time he did not use blood gossip, but directly used the small iron rod to slash at the ghoul, the ghoul smiled, stretched out his thin big hand and grabbed the head of the small iron rod. However, this time he miscalculated. Except for the sea dragon, anyone who faces the small iron rod will be ten thousand pounds of strength. With a bang, the ghoul's body was smashed into the earth, and the sound of bones breaking was clearly heard.
Splitting the ghoul into the dirt with a stick, the sea dragon was suddenly excited, "What the fuck is not broken, I haven't been flattened yet." "Actually, if he catches up with the ghoul at this time and gives the ghoul another head blow, he can really take his life under the ghoul's carelessness, but in addition to being proud, the sea dragon misjudged, and this mistake almost cost him his life.
With a loud bang, the position where the ghoul was smashed into the ground exploded violently, a large cloud of dust blocked the sea dragon's vision, and his chest hurt, his body retreated violently, and the blue light in front of him continued to flicker. The sound of Titicaca rang out repeatedly, and under the huge momentum, the sea dragon smashed a large fence and rolled on the ground several times before stabilizing its body. He watched horrified as the ghouls slowly leapt towards him from the dust, one of his right arms hanging by his side, apparently dead. The ghouls' red eyes flashed fiercely, and he had become berserk.
The star-blue armor on the sea dragon's body was much darker than before, and it used its own energy to protect the sea dragon's body, otherwise, just the ghoul's full force blow just now could have completely killed him. The part of the chest that was hit happened to be the heart, and the anti-sky mirror emitted a warm energy to protect the sea dragon's body from the inside, otherwise, if it was only with the star blue armor, although the sea dragon would not die, it would definitely lose the power to resist at this time. Before he had time to think about it, he hurriedly used the blood gossip to send out a red light to shake the rushing ghoul back, rolled on the ground and stood up. The Star Blue Armor had extracted a large amount of sea dragon's mana from the defense just now, and coupled with the consumption when dealing with zombies before, a sense of weakness continued to invade the sea dragon's body.
The ghoul rubbed his beaten chest and said hatefully: "You dare to cut off my arm, if I don't tear you apart and feed the zombies today, I won't be a ghoul." The figure suddenly accelerated, and the ghoul exerted his cultivation to the limit, and for a while, the sea dragon only felt that there were ghoul shadows in all directions, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all. Unable to find the exact line of attack of the ghouls, he had to wave the small iron rod in his hand indiscriminately, but how could this hit the ghouls? Just as he panicked, a sharp yin wind suddenly came from the back of his head, and before the sea dragon could dodge, the ghouls' claws had already grabbed his head. In his mind, the sea dragon was defended by star blue armor, but there was nothing on his head, which was his best target.
In the midst of the crisis, the Anti-Heaven Mirror played the role of its immortal weapon, although the cultivation of the sea dragon was far from enough to drive it, but its own defense power was fully displayed. The silver light flashed, and the ghoul only felt that he had caught a hard iron ball, and a burning sensation passed into his body along the palm of his hand, and the immortal qi was his guest star, and he immediately opened his palm with a scream. How could the sea dragon let go of such an opportunity, grabbed the small iron rod with both hands and picked it up vigorously, and with a bang, he immediately knocked the ghoul out of the tribe. In fact, if he was replaced by a cultivator in the Dao Consolidation Period, even if he had the protection of the Anti-Heaven Mirror, the Sea Dragon would still be hit hard. After all, he can't exert one-thousandth of the ability of the Anti-Heaven Mirror, but the ghoul is unlucky because the corpse qi is most afraid of the fairy qi and the Buddha qi, and these two kinds of energy sea dragon have in the body, and under the sudden erosion, he suddenly changed from an absolute upper hand to a lower wind. Although the ghoul was eroded by the immortal qi, this time he did not collide with the small iron rod, but flew out with the powerful impact of the small iron rod, and fell straight out of a hundred meters before stopping. The nails he had clenched were all gone, and his entire arm was glowing silver.
Hailong was overjoyed in his heart, and said secretly: This anti-sky mirror is really a treasure, if there is no it, the old man will return to his place. Since the Anti-Heaven Mirror can protect his body, what else do he have to worry about? Thinking of this, he scattered all the remaining mana in his body, and quickly chased after the ghoul with a small iron rod.
The ghoul tried his best to use his corpse qi to fight against the fairy qi, but fortunately he was only a little contaminated, otherwise, he would have already turned into ashes at this time. But even so, his speed of movement was much slower, he didn't dare to attack the sea dragon, he roared in pain, turned around and ran. The remaining zombies lost the ghouls' grip and staggered in place one by one, bewildered.
The speed of the ghouls is indeed astonishing, and the sea dragon pursues it with all its might, but it never gets close. With a move in his heart, Hai Long took out a teacup from the Qiankun Ring, which was one of the items he purchased when he was in Tongyuan City, and he was going back to give gifts. With his left hand, he suddenly increased his speed, narrowed the distance between himself and the ghoul a few meters, and used the stone-throwing stunt of his childhood play with the "little ghost", and smashed the teacup into the ghoul's feet. The ghoul was jumping forward and fast, and he thought that he could catch up with him if he only disturbed the pace under his feet.
With a click, the teacup turned into a pile of fragments, and although the sea dragon injected mana into it, it was still in vain to meet the ghoul's steely defenses, and it didn't affect his speed at all. Looking at the ghoul who was pulling the distance again, the sea dragon gritted his teeth, pulled out a stream of remaining mana, and violently injected it into the blood gossip, resolutely attacking the ghouls' feet for the second time. Blood gossip is a magic weapon after all, and although its power cannot hurt ghouls, its impact is strong enough. With a bang, the ghoul's legs were shaken and fluttered, and under the effect of the momentum, his body suddenly turned into the sky. The sea dragon let out a long roar and floated up, clenching the small iron rod in both hands, as if opening the heavens and the earth, and bombarded the ghoul in the chest. The ghoul's rushing body was suddenly blasted into the ground. Naturally, the sea dragon would not make the same mistake a second time, and smashed the ghoul head with another stick, and the splattered flesh and blood were all blocked by the blue light emitted by the star blue armor, failing to contaminate his body.