Chapter 43: The Great War of the Demonic (Part 2)(1/2)
Since it was a "bronze statue" that became a spirit, Tong Chen's body did not make a "poof" sound like a flesh-and-blood body when it was pierced, but made a metal-breaking movement.
"You..." At that moment, Tong Chen looked down at his abdomen with an incredible expression and said, "You are..."
Before he could even say a complete word, Huang Donglai and Xie Run also arrived.
They rushed into the room from both sides behind Sun Yixie, one splashed the face of venom and the other flew into the air.
It's okay for Xie Run's palm wind to say that even the palm power that the person with high internal strength can't cause much damage to Tong Chen, but Huang Donglai's face-splashing thing is difficult to deal with. It's a corrosive liquid he made, which is very difficult for Tong Chen.
Scream-
"ah--"
After a breath, the sound of acid pouring on his face and Tong Chen's screams rang one after another. With severe pain, the demon Tao covered his face and retreated quickly, as if he was about to run away.
How could Sun Yixie let him escape? He held the trident and continued to push forward. Tong Chen took a few steps back, and Sun Yixie stepped forward a few points, just not allowing the guy to pull the head of the halberd out of his abdomen.
"You bastards..." Tong Chen was really hurt at this moment, because the venom poured by Huang Donglai was even more cruel than lime powder, so he blinded him directly, so he could only close his eyes and grit his teeth and curse, "The Taoist practice of hundreds of years... can't be trapped in the hands of you ordinary people!"
At this point, he shouted angrily, then pointed at the fingertips and chanted the mantra: "The power of the corpse ancestor, the divine energy protects the primordial power...break!"
His sermon was used, but it did not cause any damage to the enemy in front of him. On the contrary, as soon as the word "broken" was released, his own head was broken.
Tong Chen... Of course, he was not committing suicide. After his head broke from his body, it turned into a stream of black smoke before it landed on the ground, and ran away in a flash. In a blink of an eye, he drilled into the gap on the floor.
His body slowly hardened within a few seconds after he left, and in a blink of an eye it turned into a metal bump with a texture similar to copper.
"Wow?" Sun Yixie quickly understood what Tong Chen did. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this fairy a gecko? Can you run away if you leave your neck?"
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and chase after him. If he recovers in a while, we will suffer a heavy blow." Huang Donglai had already arrived at the place where the black smoke disappeared and began to stamp the ground with his feet to find out if there was any secret door of the mechanism.
What he said is indeed correct. It is very accidental to succeed in this raid just now. First, because the other party underestimated Brother Sun's despicableness, and second, because Tong Chen never expected that the weapon in Sun Yixi would be so powerful.
However, there will be no second chance like this. Now Tong Chen is already afraid of being beaten. With the precaution, he will never reveal similar flaws again.
Of course, the good news is that after the attack just now, Tong Chen was really injured a little badly.
Since Sun Yixie's trident was also made of meteorites outside the sky, Tong Chen did not have any defense ability when he was stabbed by this thing. If he had hesitated for a moment just now, he would have fallen here directly.
The reason why Tong Chen survived was because he used a special magic trick passed down from the ancestor of the corpse-killing corpse. This magic trick allowed him to save his soul and his only remaining head by giving up most of his Taoist practices and body.
Now Tong Chen's body has become a piece of scrap iron again, and even if he takes it back, it will be useless; his Taoist practice and magic power are also greatly damaged. Although he can still "change" into a complete human form, the power of this form is only about 30% left compared to when he was in his prime.
What's even more unlucky is that Tong Chen's only remaining head, which was splashed with acid, was also splashed by Huang Donglai with acid... Although this kind of injury is not unrecoverable for monsters, it also takes time.
Therefore, in the subsequent battle, Tong Chen, who had already lost his strength, had to face the dilemma of "not being able to see things, but being able to fight only by hearing and spiritual sense."
Bang bang-
Bang--
Dong-dong-dong...
After stamping a few different places with his feet, Huang Donglai found a hollow floor underneath. He immediately said, "It's here. There must be some mechanism nearby that can be opened. You can try to find out if there are any rotating vases in this room, and whether the calligraphy and paintings on the wall are behind..."
Huh...smack...smack...
Before Huang Donglai could finish his words, Sun Yixiu poked and picked the trident, swept and pried it, and directly chopped the floor.
"Why are you stupid?" Sun Yixie smiled.
"Damn." Huang Donglai curled his lips, "I'm such a wise pussy, you've been fooled by you before I even pretended."
Hearing this conversation, Xie Run had to admire them - even at such a moment, they could still make jokes with them, and they were really impressed.
Since the floor has been pried open, the next thing is simple.
The three of them took the torch and found a relatively spacious secret passage. After hesitating for a moment, they entered one after another.
The path circled downwards and became wider and wider. I don’t know how deep I walked. Just when the three of them began to suspect that they had entered a trap, the secret passage just came to an end.
For a moment, the three of them suddenly became clear.
It turned out that at the end of this secret passage, there was a huge underground cave connected. Inside the cave, the top was high and the edge was wide, with stone pillars standing on it, bones were everywhere on the ground, and the fire was filled with phosphorus.
When they arrived here, the three of them didn't need any torches to light them, because they were brighter than the top.
They looked around with the light of the phosphorus fire, and soon they saw a strange stone shaped like a giant hand in the depths of the cave. In the "palm" of the stone hand, there was a person lying at this moment, not someone else, but the thunder Buji.
Since he was found in the illusion, Buji has never woken up. He was always imprisoned by Tong Chen in a nightmare and could not wake up with his own strength, so he has been lying there.
According to Tong Chen's original plan, he planned to catch Lei Buji, Xie Run, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, and then throw it on the "hand" together, and then start the practice.
But his plan is undoubtedly unexpected, because he did not expect that the other three people would be so difficult to catch.
"Be careful, the demon path is likely to be ambushing nearby." Huang Donglai reminded.
Sun Yixie responded: "Don't worry, I have nothing else, just two words - caution." As he said that, the trident in his hand was tighter.
Xie Run was staring at the bones on the ground and said, "Strange... Why are there so many dead people here? It seems that there are at least thousands of corpses. Are there so many people coming to this island?"
In fact, if the three of them were willing to listen to the story of Wang Sanliu, they might have guessed that these corpses were not victims of Tong Chen's men, but the one who was killed by the ancestor of the corpse-destroying corpse.
In addition, there was another detail they did not notice: some of the corpses here were buried in the soil, some were still in the soil with their lower body, some were lying sideways in the soil, and some were left with only one foot or an arm still buried in the soil.
The parts of their exposed surfaces, or their postures, look like they are "struggling to climb up from the ground".
This... is actually a sign of "the seal is loose".
Originally, there was no such cave in this place at all, but after Yelu Baoqi and his group died near this place more than two hundred years ago, the huge "stone hand" stretched out from the bottom of the river. The demonic power and resentment poured out on its surface slowly expanded, which led to the formation of this cave.
Thirty years ago, after feeling the power here, Tong Chen hit a tunnel and studied the situation here for a little while. Then he moved the bodies of the "Four Thieves" who were killed by him and dozens of people from the martial arts world, and put them on the "hand" to sacrifice them.
It was also from then on that, the ground of the cave began to "rip" the corpses out as if they had planted crops.
Until today, after slowly "climbing" for thirty years, the corpses finally seemed to be about to completely escape from the soil, just a little bit short of...
As long as Tong Chen successfully presented the "Four Live Sacrifices" today, it should be done.
Once Tong Chen succeeds, all the demonic powers left by the ancestor of the corpse will be absorbed by Tong Chen, and his Taoist practice will soar into the sky; and these walking corpses under the island in the middle of the lake will be released and rushed to both sides of the river, causing disaster.
Of course... the life and death of the people is not what Tong Chen cares about.
"Brother Xie, please be a little more amazing." Seeing that Xie Run had already taken the lead in heading towards the stone hand, Huang Donglai reminded him again.
"Okay, two brothers, please follow me closely." Xie Run also responded and walked forward to lead the way.
At this moment, Xie Run's courage became increasingly bold.
In the final analysis, fear mainly comes from the "unknown"; those so-called terrifying things, as long as you understand their characteristics, the fear will be reduced immediately. If you know how to deal with them, you will not be afraid.
Therefore, after getting rid of Kong Hengji and severely attacking Tong Chen, Xie Run had already established a psychological defense line - even for mortals like them who do not understand magic, demons and monsters are not invincible.
With this idea, Xie Run was fearless.
He took the lead again and soon came under the "stone hand".
When he approached, Xie Run discovered that the traveler who had been missing for a long time was lying next to this strange rock; it was a pity... he was dead, and his death was in a state where only skin and bones were left.
This peddler is indeed unlucky. If he is bad, he is not bad. He is just a bit poor... As a sacrifice, he is stronger than the scholar, but his vitality is obviously not as strong as the four people present. He can be with him or not.
Therefore, when Tong Chen, who was severely injured, escaped back to this cave, the first thing he did was to drink this businessman as a "blood bottle".
"Oh, I'm one step late again." With the death of this peddler, Xie Run didn't have to check whether he was breathing or heartbeat. If it weren't for the clothes, Xie Run wouldn't recognize who the body was.
However, Sun Yixie still came over and started to "touch the corpse" without saying a word.
When Xie Run saw his behavior, his first reaction was: No? You should be quite rich in clothes and dressing. Why don’t you even let go of the property of a dead person?
But a few seconds later, Sun Yixie did not take out money from the other party, but found a lure.
There is a rule in the Dazhong Dynasty: Anyone who wants to stay away from their residence a hundred miles away from their residence must send a document similar to an introduction letter/pass from the local government. This is called "road quotation"; if you go to the destination to do business, if you are found to have no road quotation, or the contents on the road quotation are not in line with the actual situation, you can punish the crime according to the law.
Of course, for people in the world and some wealthy and powerful people, this regulation is useless.
Many of the people in the martial arts world are "all over the world for their families", and the people in the yamen cannot control you, such blind people; and the rich and powerful people, the grassroots yamen are too late to curry favor with them, so how could they investigate them because of such trivial matters? Let’s take a step back, even if such people are really caught, some money can be sent over.
Only ordinary people, such as this peddler, rely on their own feet and strength to trade back and forth across the country, still have to abide by this rule.
"Oh... it turns out that his name is Yu Qing." Sun Yixie said, and then pulled the road away.
Xie Run hadn't figured out what Sun Yixie was doing yet. On the other hand, Huang Donglai had already moved Lei Buji from the stone hand and shouted: "Hey, come quickly, he's still angry!"
Xie Run and Sun Yixie heard the sound and immediately came over. They saw that Lei Buji's eyes were closed, his face was pale, his body was covered in cold sweat, and his expression was very painful, but at least... he was still alive, and his breathing and heartbeat were normal.
"No, no, no!" Huang Donglai gently patted Lei Buji's face a few times and called him twice, but the latter was still in the same state and did not wake up.
"Mom, let me do it!" Sun Yixie said, and wanted to take off her pants again, "Look at me to wake him up with urine!"
"Okay... Brother, don't be busy taking it off first, let me try." Xie Run quickly stopped Sun Yixie again. Then he took out a small medicine bottle from his arms, poured out a pill from the bottle, held it in his hand, and put it under Lei Buji's nose and shook it.
The one he took out was a good thing, the only secret elixir made by Yiyong Escort Agency - Daigo Pill.
Just smell this medicine, which can help those who are numbed by sweating drugs to wake up quickly, and can also be swallowed in an emergency to relieve the toxicity of some ordinary poisons.
However, Lei Buji did not wake up immediately after smelling the Daihu 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 by himself.
But the other three people didn't know. Seeing that the situation seemed to get worse and worse, Sun Yixie became anxious again. He stepped forward again, and just had two big mouths. He yelled while thrusting: "No! You can't die!"
He still kept the second half of the sentence and didn't shout it out, that is - if you die, your father will definitely come and kill us.
Fortunately, Lei Buji opened his eyes at this time.
To be continued...