Because it was a "bronze statue" that became spirit, when Tong Chen's body was pierced, it did not make a "pop" sound like a flesh and blood body, but made a sound like broken metal.
"You..." At that moment, Tong Chen looked down at his abdomen with an unbelievable look on his face, and said in his mouth, "This is..."
< p> Before he even had time to say a complete sentence, Huang Donglai and Xie Run also came to kill him.I saw them charging into the room from both sides behind Sun Yixie, one splashing venom on his face, and the other flying palms in the air.
Xie Run's palm wind is not bad, even if the palm force of a person with high internal strength can't cause much damage to Tong Chen, but Huang Donglai's face splashing thing is not easy to deal with, then It was the corrosive liquid he prepared, and it was quite unpleasant for Tong Chen to get on it.
Bah--
"Ah-"
After a breath, the sound of acid being poured on his face and Tong Chen's screams sounded one after another. , under the severe pain, the demon covered his face and retreated quickly, as if he wanted to run away.
How could Sun Yixie let him get away? At that time, he held the trident and continued to push forward. Tong Chen took a few steps back, and Sun Yixie advanced a few steps, just to prevent the guy from pulling the trident head out of his abdomen.
"You bastards..." Tongchen was really seriously injured at this moment, because the poison Huang Donglai poured was more powerful than lime powder, and it blinded him directly, so He could only close his eyes tightly and curse through gritted teeth, "How could my hundreds of years of Taoism... be in the hands of ordinary people like you!"
At this point, he shouted angrily. There was a sound, followed by a finger kneading gesture and a mantra in his mouth: "The divine power of the Corpse Ancestor, the ghostly energy protecting the essence... break!"
He performed this technique, but he did not attack the enemy in front of him. What harm was caused? On the contrary, as soon as the word "break" was spoken, his own head was broken off.
Tong Chen... was certainly not committing suicide. After his head was separated from his body, before it hit the ground, it turned into a puff of black smoke, rolled up and ran away, and got into the floor in the blink of an eye. in the gap.
And his body slowly hardened within a few seconds after he broke away, and in an instant it became a metal lump with a texture similar to copper.
"Huh?" Sun Yixie quickly understood what Tongchen had done. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this goblin a gecko? Can he run away even if he is missing everything from the neck down?"
p>"Stop talking nonsense and chase him quickly. If he recovers in a while, we will be in serious trouble." Huang Donglai had already arrived at the place where the black smoke disappeared and began to stamp on the ground, looking for anyone. There are no secret doors.
What he said is indeed correct. The success of the surprise attack just now was due to great chance. Firstly, because the other party underestimated the despicableness of Brother Sun, and secondly, because Tongchen never expected that Sun The weapon in Yi Xie's hand is so powerful.
However, such an opportunity... will not come twice; Tongchen is already frightened now, and if he is prepared, he will never show similar flaws again.
Of course, okayThe news is that after the attack just now, Tong Chen was really badly injured.
Since Sun Yixie's trident was also made of meteorite, Tongchen had no defense ability when he was stabbed by this thing. If he had hesitated for a moment just now, he might have fallen directly here. .
The reason Tongchen was able to survive was because he used a special method passed down from his corpse-destroying ancestor. This method allowed him to save most of his Taoism and body by giving up The soul and the only remaining head.
Now Tongchen's body has turned into a piece of scrap metal again, and it will be useless even if he takes it back; his Taoism and magic power are also greatly damaged, although he can still "change" into a A complete human form, but the power of this form is only about 30% compared to when he was at his peak.
What’s even more unfortunate is that the only remaining head of Tongchen’s “golden body” was splashed in the eye by Huang Donglai with acid... Although this kind of injury is not irreversible for monsters, But that also takes time.
Therefore, in the subsequent battle, Tongchen, who was already greatly weakened, had to face the dilemma of being "unable to see and could only rely on hearing and spiritual senses to fight."
Bang-bang--
Bang--
Dong-dong-dong...
Stomped several different places with his feet. After the place, Huang Donglai found a hollow floor underneath. He immediately said: "This is it. There must be some mechanism nearby that can open it. You can try to find if there is a rotating vase or vase in this room." Are there those calligraphy and paintings on the wall behind..."
Huh... bang bang bang...
Before Huang Donglai had finished speaking, Sun Yixie took the three-pointed The halberd poked, picked, swept and pried, directly lifting and chopping up the floor.
"Why bother? Are you stupid?" Sun Yixie said with a smile.
"Damn." Huang Donglai curled his lips, "I'm such a smart guy, but you killed me before I could even show off."
Hearing this conversation , Xie Run also has to admire them - even at this moment, they can still make jokes there, they are really generous.
Now that the floor has been pried open, the next thing is simple.
The three of them took torches and looked down, and found a fairly spacious secret passage. After a little hesitation, they filed in.
The road spiraled downwards and became wider and wider. It was unknown how deep it went. Just when the three of them began to suspect that they had fallen into some kind of trap, the secret passage just arrived. head.
For a moment, the three people's eyes suddenly became clear.
It turns out that the end of this secret passage is actually connected to a huge underground cave. Inside this cave, it has a high roof, wide edges, numerous stone pillars, bones all over the ground, and phosphorus fire.
When they arrived here, the three of them no longer needed any torches for lighting, because it was brighter here than above.
They looked around through the light of the phosphorus fire, and soon they were deep in the cave.He saw a strange stone shaped like a giant hand, and in the "palm" of the stone hand, there was a person lying there. It was none other than Lei Buji.
Buji has never woken up since he fell under the illusion when he was looking for firewood. He has always been imprisoned in a nightmare by Tongchen and cannot wake up by his own strength, so he Just kept lying there.
According to Tong Chen's original plan, he planned to catch all four of Lei Buji, Xie Run, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, and then throw them into the "hand" together. Start doing it.
But now his plan undoubtedly had some accidents, because he did not expect that the other three guys would be so difficult to catch.
"Be careful, the demon is probably ambushing nearby." Huang Donglai reminded.
Sun Yixie responded: "Don't worry, I have nothing but two words - caution." As he said that, he clenched the trident tighter.
Xie Run was staring at the skeletons on the ground at this time and said: "Strange... why are there so many dead people here? It seems that there are at least a thousand corpses. There are so many people on this island. "
In fact, if the three of them had been willing to listen to the story of the boatman Wang Sanliu, they might have guessed that these corpses were not the victims of Tong Chen's men, but those of that year. The person killed by the corpse ancestor.
In addition, there is another detail that they did not notice: all the corpses here are more or less partially buried in the soil, some have their lower bodies still in the soil, and some are lying sideways. There are still some with only one foot or arm still buried in the soil.
The parts of them that are exposed on the surface of the soil, or their postures, look like they are "struggling to climb up from under the soil."
This... is actually a sign of "loose seal".
Originally, there was no such cave in this place, but after Yelu Baoqi’s group died here more than two hundred years ago, the huge “stone hand” stretched out from the bottom of the river. The demon power and resentment pouring out of its surface slowly expanded, forming this hole.
Thirty years ago, after Tong Chen felt the power here, he dug a tunnel and studied the situation here for a while. Then he took the "four thieves" who were killed by him and several others. The corpses of ten people in the world were moved down, placed on the "hand" and sacrificed.
It was also from that time on that the ground of the cave seemed to be planted with crops, and corpses began to "pop" out.
To this day, after thirty years of slowly "crawling", it seems that those corpses are finally almost completely out of the soil, except for the last little bit...
And With this little bit of help, as long as Tong Chen successfully offers the "four living sacrifices" today, he should be able to do it.
Once Tongchen succeeds, all the demonic powers left behind by the dead ancestor will be absorbed by Tongchen, and his Taoism will skyrocket by then; and these people who were suppressed under the island in the middle of the lake will be absorbed by Tongchen. The walking dead will also be released and flock to XiOn both sides of the river, lives were lost.
Of course... the life and death of the common people is not what Tong Chen cares about.
"Brother Xie, please pay attention." Seeing that Xie Run had taken the lead in the direction of Shi Shou, Huang Donglai reminded him again.
"It's easy to say, you two wise brothers, please follow me closely." Xie Run also responded and stepped forward to lead the way.
At this moment, Xie Run became more and more courageous.
Fear, in the final analysis, mainly comes from the "unknown"; as long as you understand the characteristics of those so-called scary things, your fear will be reduced by most of it. If you know how to deal with it, Their methods will make you even less afraid.
Therefore, after getting rid of Kong Hengji and severely injuring Tongchen, Xie Run has established a psychological defense line - even for mortals like them who do not understand magic, demons and ghosts are not Invincible.
With this idea, Xie Run was fearless.
He took the lead again and soon reached the "stone hand".
As he got closer, Xie Run discovered that the traveler who had been missing for a long time fell next to this strange rock; unfortunately... he was already dead, and his death state was like that of only skin and bones. The state of the head.
This businessman is indeed unlucky. If you say he is a bad person, he is not bad. He is just bad-mouthed and a bit poor... As a sacrifice, he is worse than the scholar. But his vitality is obviously not as strong as the four Jianghu people present. The living sacrifice ceremony can be done with him or without him.
So, when the severely injured Tong Chen escaped back to this cave, the first thing he did was to drink the foot merchant as a "blood bottle".
"Oh, it's too late again." Judging from the dead state of this foot trader, Xie Run no longer has to check whether he is breathing or heartbeating. If it weren't for those clothes, Xie Run I'm afraid I won't even be able to identify whose body this is.
However, Sun Yixie still approached and started "touching the body" without saying anything.
When Xie Run saw his move, his first reaction was: isn't it? Judging from your clothes, you should be quite rich. Why don't you let go of a dead man's belongings?
But a few seconds later, Sun Yixie did not take out the money from the other party, but found a road guide.
There is a rule in the Great Emperor's Dynasty: Anyone who wants to stay hundreds of miles away from their place of residence must be issued by the local government with an official document similar to a letter of introduction/pass. This is called "Lu Yin". "; If you arrive at your destination for errands and it is found that there are no road signs, or the content on the road signs does not match the actual situation, you can be punished according to the law.
Of course, for people in the world and some rich and powerful people, this regulation is in vain.
As for the Jianghu people, many of them are "home from all over the world", and the people in the yamen can't control you bunch of blind people; as for the rich and powerful people, it's too late for the grassroots yamen to curry favor with them, why? I would investigate for such a trivial matter.them? To take a step back, even if such people are really caught, they can get away with just a little money.
Only ordinary people, such as this foot trader, who rely on their own feet and strength to do business all over the world, still have to abide by this rule.
"Oh...it turns out his name is Yu Qing." Sun Yixie said and closed the road.
Before Xie Run could figure out what Sun Yixie was doing, on the other side, Huang Donglai had already removed Lei Buji from the stone hand and shouted: "Hey, come on, he I'm still angry!"
Xie Run and Sun Yixie heard the sound and immediately came over. They saw that Lei Buji had his eyes closed, his face was pale, he was covered in cold sweat, and his expression was very painful. , but at least... he is still alive, and his breathing and heartbeat are still normal.
"No Ji, no Ji!" Huang Donglai patted Lei Buji's face a few times and called him twice more, but the latter was still in the same state and did not wake up.
"Mom, let me do it!" Sun Yixie said, taking off his pants again, "Watch me wake him up with my urine!"
"Okay, okay, okay ...Brother Xie, don't be too busy taking it off, let me try." Xie Run quickly stopped Sun Yixie, then he took out a small medicine bottle from his arms and poured out a pill. , took it in his hand, put it under Lei Buji's nose and shook it.
The one he took out was a good thing, a secret elixir made by Yiyong Escort Bureau - Daigo Dan.
Just one sniff of this medicine can help those who have been numbed by the sweat medicine to wake up quickly. It can also be swallowed in an emergency to alleviate the toxicity of some common poisons.
However, Lei Buji did not wake up immediately after smelling the Daigo Pill. On the contrary, the expression on his face became even more painful.
Actually... this is a sign that he is about to wake up on his own.
But the other three people didn't know. Seeing that the situation seemed to be getting worse, Sun Yixie became anxious again. He rushed forward again, and there were two big mouths, and he He yelled back: "Buji! You can't die!"
He had the second half of the sentence he was holding back, which was - if you die, your father will definitely come. Kill us.
Fortunately, Lei Buji opened his eyes at this time.
Because he was slapped twice by Brother Sun just after he woke up, Lei Buji sat up in agitation: "Drink-Brother Sun, what are you doing?"
p>"I'm saving your life!" Sun Yixie said confidently.
"Huh?" Lei Buji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then instinctively looked around.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t see it, he was shocked when he saw it.
"Wow! Where is this?" When Lei Buji said this, he suddenly remembered the fantasy he had just experienced, "Wait...am I still having a nightmare?" ?"
"Wake up." Huang Donglai said in a long voice, "But the reality is not optimistic..." He paused and stood up.It’s not advisable to stay here for a long time. We’d better retreat first and wait until we get out...”
Before Brother Huang finished speaking, suddenly, the entire cave became phosphorescent and a demonic wind suddenly rose.
The voice of Tong Chen came like an echo: "Want to leave? It's not that easy! "
The light followed the sound, and a giant shadow suddenly appeared.
In the blink of an eye, a "Lingbao Tianzun" five feet tall and protected by divine light appeared out of thin air. He stood between the four of them and the exit of the cave.
“The Great Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is here, you ordinary people, why don’t you kneel down quickly? "In the dazzling "divine light", the Heavenly Lord spoke condescendingly.
But Sun Yixie and the others knew very well, how could this be the real Lingbao Heavenly Lord? Listen to the voice I knew it was an illusion created by Tong Chen.
“Kneel down, mother! Do you think we are mentally retarded? Huang Donglai immediately cursed, "Are you the only one who wants to pay tribute to the Qing Emperor?" Then I am still the old immortal Xudong. ”
“That’s right! Sun Yixie also added, "It's all an illusion!" Don't scare us! If you dare, come out and fight me again! ”
Needless to say, Xie Run, but Lei Buji, who had just woken up, didn’t know what had happened before. When he saw the illusion and looked at the reactions of the two eldest brothers, he was like I was shocked, thinking that my two brothers jumped on the heads of gods? How long have I been unconscious?
"Bold! "Tong Chen didn't talk nonsense to them this time. After shouting violently, he unleashed his demonic power and released a strong wind.
This is not the inner power of the palm wind, but a magic spell. Once the wind pressure arrives, , and knocked all four of them to the ground. Even Xie Run, who had practiced his skills very steadily, couldn't stand.
But... that's all, this evil wind did not stop him. The four of them caused too much damage.
As mentioned above, Tongchen is not a monster that is particularly good at fighting directly, so he can only do this. If it were replaced now, Those really powerful monsters can easily kill dozens of adults by showing their true colors without using magic.
It can be said that when facing this Taoist Tongchen, as long as you don't reveal your spirit. If there is a flaw, there is a way to deal with it.
“Don’t worry about the big one, find his true identity! It’s certainly not far away! "Xie Run still has a clear mind. After all, he is a veteran of the martial arts world; his martial arts experience tells him that the more a person reaches the end of his strength, the more he will spare no effort to magnify his strongest side in front of others.
The same principle applies to monsters.
If Tong Chen really had the ability to kill them instantly, he would have done it long ago. Now he just blows the wind and makes two yelps, and he has transformed into such a big golden light. The shining fairy came to dazzle everyone, which showed that he was really weak.
“No need to look for it! This is my true form! "Tong Chen was obviously anxious. He used the mouth of the false god to say something again, and once again set off a wave of wind and pressure.
His guilty behavior was naturallySun Yixie's suspicion was instantly aroused. In less than five seconds, Sun Yixie figured out: wherever the wind blows, his true body is hidden in the opposite direction.
So, Sun Yixie squinted his eyes and glanced there... Sure enough, he saw behind the dazzling divine light, in the most backlit and darkest corner, there were puffs of black smoke. Things linger in the shadows.
"Color! Cover me!" Sun Yixie roared immediately and rushed towards that place.
When Huang Donglai heard this, he blurted out: "What? Cover you? Should I cover you with my head?"
Before he finished speaking, Tongchen set off another demonic wind, and this time, He concentrated his strength and turned the large-scale wind pressure into a wind blade aimed at only one point, and struck Huang Donglai's head without hesitation.
"Oops! I'm going to die!" Huang Donglai saw the attack coming. Unable to use his skills, he couldn't dodge for a moment. He could only protect his head with his hands and screamed in surprise.
As a result, just when the wind blade was about to touch him...
When——
When——
When— —
There were three more bells ringing, faintly.
This time, the sound came very close, as if it was coming from the tunnel at the entrance of the cave.
The bell rang, the illusion collapsed, the wind blade also turned into nothing, Huang Donglai seemed to have escaped a disaster.
After a breath, I saw...a Taoist priest who looked no more than 20 years old and wore a silver Taoist robe appeared at the entrance of the cave; in his hand, he also held a small clock and a matching clock. hammer.
"Monster... You dare to impersonate Taoist Yuchen, you are so brave!" The Taoist priest walked into the cave and shouted in a deep voice.
As he spoke, his eyes moved, and his first glance was towards the place where Tong Chen’s true body was hiding.