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 muttered, "This is..."
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 was okay. Even the full palm force of a person with high internal strength could not cause much damage to Tong Chen, but the thing Huang Donglai splashed on his face was not easy to deal with. It was a corrosive liquid he prepared. , for Tongchen, this is quite unpleasant.
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 was about 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..." Tong Chen 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. , gnashing his teeth and cursing, "How can my hundreds of years of practice... be in the hands of ordinary people like you!"
At this point, he shouted angrily, and then he made a kneading gesture with his fingers and chanted a curse: "The power of the Corpse Ancestor, the mysterious energy to protect the soul... break!"
He performed this technique, but it did not cause any harm to the enemy in front of him. On the contrary, as soon as the word "break" was uttered, 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, getting into the cracks in the floor in the blink of an eye.
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 Tong Chen had done. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this goblin a gecko? Can he run away even if his body is missing from the neck down?"
"Stop talking nonsense and chase after 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 to look for any hidden doors. .
What he said was indeed correct. The success of the surprise attack just now was due to great chance. One was because the other party underestimated Brother Sun's despicableness, and the other was because Tong Chen never expected the weapon in Sun Yi Xie's hands. It will be so powerful.
However, such an opportunity... will not come twice; Tong Chen is already frightened now, and with preparedness, he will never show similar flaws again.
Of course, the good 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 when he was stabbed by this thing. If he had hesitated for a moment just now, he might have fallen directly here.
The reason why Tongchen was able to survive was because he used a special method passed down from his corpse-killing ancestor. This method allowed him to sacrifice most of his Taoism and body to preserve his soul and the only remaining one. head.
Now Tongchen's body has turned back into a piece of scrap metal. Even if he takes it back, it will be useless. His Taoism and magic power have also been greatly damaged. Although he can still "transform" into a complete human form, this form His strength 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 with acid by Huang Donglai... Although this kind of injury is not irreversible for the monster, it still takes time.
Therefore, in the subsequent battles, 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——
boom--
Dong-dong-dong...
After stamping on several different places with his feet, 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 it in this room." Is there a rotating vase, and is there something behind those calligraphy and paintings on the wall..."
Huh... bang bang bang bang...
Before Huang Donglai finished speaking, Sun Yixie used the trident to poke, pick, sweep and pry the floor directly.
"Why bother? Are you stupid?" Sun Yixiao said with a smile.
"Damn." Huang Donglai curled his lips, "I'm such a smart guy, but you destroyed me before I could even show off."
After hearing this conversation, Xie Run couldn't help but admire them - even at this moment, they were still making jokes, they were so generous.
Now that the floor has been pried open, the next thing is simple.
The three of them looked down with torches and found a fairly spacious secret passage. After a little hesitation, they filed in.
The path 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 path just reached its end.
For a moment, the three people's eyes suddenly became clear.
It turns out that the end of this secret passage is connected to a huge underground cave. Inside this cave, the roof is high and the edges are wide. There are many stone pillars, bones are all over the ground, and the ground is full of 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 by the light of the phosphorus fire, and soon saw a strange stone shaped like a giant hand deep in the cave. In the "palm" of the stone hand, there was a person lying, not someone else, but Na Lei Bu Ji.
Ever since he fell under the illusion when he was looking for firewood, Buji has never woken up. He has been imprisoned in a nightmare by Tongchen and cannot wake up on his own, so he has been 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 throw them all into the "hand", and then start the process.
But now his plan undoubtedly had some accidents, because he didn't expect the other three guys to be so difficult to catch.
"Be careful, the demon is probably ambushing nearby." Huang Donglai reminded.
Sun Yixie responded: "Don't worry, there's nothing more to me than just two words - caution." As he said that, he clenched the trident tighter.
At this time, Xie Run stared at the skeletons on the ground and said: "Strange...why are there so many dead people here? It seems that there are at least a thousand corpses. Can there be 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 before, they might have guessed that these corpses were not the victims of Tong Chen's men, but the people killed by the corpse ancestor back then.
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, some are lying sideways in the soil, and some have only the remains of their bodies. A foot or an arm was still buried in the soil.
The parts of them that are exposed above the soil, or their postures, all look like they are "struggling to climb up from under the soil."
This... is actually a sign of "loosening the 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, and the demonic power and demonic power poured out from its surface. Resentment 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 corpses of the "four thieves" who were killed by him and dozens of people in the world. He moved it down, put it on the "hand" and sacrificed it.
It was also from that time that corpses began to "pop out" on the ground of the cave, as if crops were planted there.
To this day, after slowly "crawling" for thirty years, it seems that those corpses are finally almost completely out of the soil, just a little bit away...
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 soar to the sky; and these walking corpses suppressed under the island in the center of the lake will also be released, Flooded to both sides of the Shihe River, causing chaos.
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.
"That's easy to say. You two worthy brothers, follow me closely." Xie Run also responded and stepped forward to lead the way.
By this time, Xie Run was becoming more and more courageous.
In the final analysis, fear 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 them, it will be even worse. No longer afraid.
Therefore, after getting rid of Kong Hengji and severely injuring Tongchen, Xie Run had already established a psychological defense line - even for mortals like them who did not understand magic, demons and ghosts were not invincible.
With this idea, Xie Run was fearless.
He took the lead again and soon reached the "stone hand".
When he got closer, Xie Run discovered that the traveler who had been missing for a long time was lying next to this strange rock; unfortunately... he was already dead, with only skin and bones left.
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 stronger than the scholar, but his vitality is obviously not as good as the one present. The four people in the world are so rich that the living sacrifice ceremony can be done with or without him.
Therefore, 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." With the death of this foot trader, Xie Run didn't have to check whether he was still breathing or heartbeating. If it weren't for those clothes, Xie Run wouldn't even be able to recognize him. Whose body is this?
However, Sun Yixie still approached and started "touching the body" without saying a word.
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 Dashuo 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, which is called a "road guide"; when you arrive at your destination, you will do things. , if it is found that there is no road guide, or the content on the road guide 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, so how can they investigate 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's still alive!"
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 was still alive, and his breathing and heartbeat were still there. It's 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.
"Fuck you, let me do it!" Sun Yixie said, taking off his pants again, "Watch me wake him up with my urine!"
"Okay, okay...Xian brother, don't be too busy taking off your clothes first, let me try." Xie Run quickly stopped Sun Yixie again, and then he took out a small medicine bottle from his arms and poured some water from the bottle. He took out a pill, held it in his hand, put it under Lei Buji's nose and shook it.
The one he took out was a good thing, the Yiyong Escort's unique secret elixir - Daigo Dan.
Just one sniff of this medicine can help those who have been numbed by the sweat medicine to wake up quickly, and 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.
In fact... this is a sign that he is about to wake up on his own.
But the other three people didn't know it. Seeing that the situation seemed to be getting worse, Sun Yixie became anxious again. He rushed forward again and slapped the two big mouths, shouting back and forth: "No." Taboo! You can’t die!”
He held back the second half of the sentence before shouting it out, which was - if you die, your father will definitely come and hack us to death.
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?"
"I'm saving your life!" Sun Yixie said confidently.
"Ah?" 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 suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's evacuate first and wait until we get out..." …”
Before Brother Huang finished speaking, suddenly, the entire cave was filled with phosphorescent light and a demonic wind suddenly rose.
Tong Chen's voice came like an echo: "Want to leave? It's not that easy!"
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, standing between the four people 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 Prime Minister of Heaven spoke condescendingly.
But Sun Yixie and the others knew very well, how could this be the real Lingbao Tianzun? Listening to the voice, you knew it was an illusion conjured by Tong Chen.
"Kneel down, mother! Do you think we are mentally retarded?" Huang Donglai immediately scolded, "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! You can't scare us! Come out and fight me again if you dare!"
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 shocked. Are you guys jumping on the heads of gods? How long have I been unconscious?
"Bold!" Tong Chen didn't talk nonsense to them this time. After shouting loudly, he unleashed his demonic power and released a strong wind.
This is not the internal power of the palm wind, but a magic spell. As soon as the wind pressure arrives, all four of them are knocked to the ground. Even Xie Run, who has practiced the lower body kung fu quite steadily, cannot stand.
But... that's all. This demonic wind did not cause much harm to the four of them.
As mentioned above, Tongchen is not a monster that is particularly good at fighting directly, so he can only do this to this extent; if it were replaced by those really powerful monsters now, even if he does not use magic, he will just show his true form and fight hand-to-hand. Can easily kill dozens of adults.
It can be said that facing this Taoist Tongchen, as long as you don't show any mental flaws, you will have a way to deal with him.
"Don't worry about the big one, find his real body quickly! He must not be far away!" Xie Run's mind is still clear. After all, he is a veteran of the martial arts world; his experience in the martial arts world tells him that the more a person reaches the end of his power, the better he will be. Spare no effort to magnify your strongest side in front of others.
This principle applies to monsters as well.
If Tong Chen really had the strength to kill them instantly, he would have done it long ago. Now he just blows the wind, makes two yelps, and conjures up such a big golden god to dazzle everyone. It shows that he is actually 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 pressure.
His guilty behavior immediately aroused Sun Yixie's suspicion. In less than five seconds, Sun Yixie figured out: wherever the wind blew, his true body was hidden in the opposite direction.
So, Sun Yixie squinted his eyes and glanced there... Sure enough, he saw something like black smoke entrenched in the shadows behind the dazzling divine light, in the darkest and backlit corner.
"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, Tong Chen set off another gust of demonic wind. This time, he concentrated his strength and turned the large-scale wind pressure into a wind blade that targeted only one point, and struck Huang Donglai's head impartially. go.
"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 shock.
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 shattered, the wind blade also turned into nothing, Huang Donglai almost escaped a disaster.
After a breath, I saw... a Taoist priest who looked like he was in his early twenties and wearing a silver robe appeared at the entrance of the cave; in his hand, he also held a small clock and the matching bell hammer.
"Monster... You dare to pretend to be Taoist Lord Yuchen, you are so brave!" The Taoist priest walked into the cave and shouted in a deep voice.
While speaking, his eyes moved, and his first glance was towards the place where Tong Chen's true body was hiding.
