Facing the Thunder is not a wise choice.
Wind and fire, thunder and lightning, all turned into blazing lights and roars, engulfing people in an instant.
I don’t know how long.
"Taoist priest."
"Daoshi Li!"
Li Changan gradually woke up after calling him repeatedly.
But what I woke up with was dizziness in my head, tingling in my body, and soreness in my eyes.
He opened his eyes slightly.
What you see is a dark and narrow space, and an even smaller circle of dim sky.
There are "snowflakes" scattered in the sky.
The gray color fell on the cheek, as light as nothing and melted instantly.
The floating appearance reminds people of the paper ashes blown up by the wind in front of the grave.
And what kind of ashes is this "ash snow"?
The Taoist priest was feeling dizzy, so this thought only surfaced for a moment, and then sank into the depths of his hazy mind.
The calls in my ears kept ringing.
But now the Taoist priest is not only dizzy but also has tinnitus.
I couldn't hear a word clearly, I just felt noisy.
So he just lay there in shock, staring at the sky for a while.
Until there was some movement in my arms.
He froze again to react.
Then he took out Yumei, who had been protecting him in his arms, and looked around for a while.
At this time, the female swordsman was no longer beautiful, her whole face was gray, her eyebrows and hair were curled and fluffy, her eyes were closed tightly and she was crying.
He was holding it in his hand, like a milk cat that hadn't opened its eyes yet, and his hands and feet were pulling blindly. It was obvious that the person was still confused.
But it's okay.
Still alive.
They were not treated as monsters and killed by the divine thunder.
Li Changan casually threw her under the wall and stood up unsteadily with his sword in hand.
Look around.
Surrounded by stone walls, there are ruined plank roads and neat grottoes.
Is this the bottom of the Dionysian kiln?
The Taoist priest looked towards the center.
as expected.
There was a small mound made of rubble, broken bricks and other debris. There was a statue of a god lying on the mound... No, it was something like cinders stuck together, black and twisted, barely maintaining its former shape. But it is full of holes, as if it will collapse anytime and anywhere.
Dionysian statue?
Li Changan was surprised.
Why...yes.
As expected, thunder is ruthless and will ward off any evil.
Although Dionysus did not say it explicitly, the Taoist priests were somewhat aware of it.
Just imagine, a god who is about to disappear and return to heaven and earth has the energy to frequently send people into and out of illusions? How can it protect the temple's tiny space from the drastic changes in the fantasy world?
Nothing else.
It's just because he took the demon's wish that he regarded as unclean and had accumulated illusions for hundreds of years.
The incense of demons is so easy to use. It is inevitably infected by demon poison and riddled with resentment. But now it is burned by thunder and fire, and even the statue of the god is out of shape.
But fortunately, Dionysus is the righteous god, and the thunder and fire did not burn his true spirit.
Take a closer look.
There was a layer of hazy light on the riddled statue of the god, which changed erratically and vaguely transformed into a vague face.
His face looked anxious, as if he was shouting something.
It's a pity that the Taoist priest still has tinnitus and can't hear clearly at all.
I had no choice but to step forward and get closer to read his lips.
He said:
Be careful!
…………
The dark bottom of the well shrouded in gray snow.
The Taoist priest's hair stood on end instantly.
Feeling something in his heart, he raised his eyelids.
In the peripheral vision.
Something broke through the gray snow and rushed towards me.
Sideways, horizontal sword.
Clang!
The Taoist priest felt his wrist tremble.
Before his eyes he saw half of the sword blade spinning and flying out.
This sword has been with him through life and death, and has gone through hard battles. It has already been scarred, and it is expected that it will break.
But not now! Not this place!
It's killing me.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed again, amidst the flying gray snow, a second attack followed closely.
Li Changan had no choice but to cross his arms to protect his chest, betting his flesh and blood on the attack that could break steel.
Good thing.
A familiar smell suddenly approached behind me.
A plain hand is clasped on the shoulder.
Li Changan breathed a sigh of relief.
His body immediately flew back.
Naturally, the attack was in vain. It was just a thunderbolt in the air, tearing up the gray snow in the sky.
Wait until you land and stand firm.
"I owe you another life."
He thanked Yu Mei sincerely.
But Yu Mei only narrowed her eyes with tears, her face full of confusion.
Li Changan laughed dumbly.
I thought that the other party was just like me, suffering from dizziness, eye pain, and deafness.
So I simply nodded my thanks.
He immediately looked towards where he came from with cold eyes.
The attacker had already revealed himself.
…………
It was a mass of rotten meat, a huge, conscious, and mobile mass of rotten meat that almost filled half of the kiln shaft. Its entire exterior was scorched and cracked with countless cracks, like countless mouths that were constantly opening and closing in the wriggling motion. It spat out rancid blood and sharp flesh thorns.
At this moment and here, what else could it be but corpse evil?
Daoshi suddenly felt a headache.
The illusion was burned to ashes, why wasn't the culprit burned away?
However, although this thing showed its teeth and claws and looked very fierce at first glance, it only stood there to confront him and did not rush to pursue it. It seemed...
While Li Changan was making calculations, Yumei suddenly stepped out from beside him and headed straight towards the opposite side with a strong momentum.
The Taoist priest was startled and quickly grabbed her.
He asked anxiously: "Do you still have magic power?"
Yumei blinked his eyes, put his ears close, and shouted:
"What did you say?"
Oh, forget that she is also half-deaf.
So the Taoist priest also put his head towards me, the two of them were rubbing their necks, and they started yelling at each other.
"I said, do you still have mana?!"
"No!"
"Where's the talisman weapon?!"
"used up!"
"me too!"
The Taoist priest also pointed to the broken sword in his hand.
Yu Mei somewhat understood what Li Changan meant, but she was still unwilling to give in.
"Should we let it go?!"
"Don't be afraid!"
The Taoist priest opened his voice and was not afraid of the other person listening.
"The corpse evil relies on resentment and corpses, but the area has been raided by Yu Mei. Where can these things be found? Let's retreat for the time being and wait until tomorrow to recover some mana and then finish it off. Isn't it better than risking our lives now?!"
This is the truth, but Yu Mei has a stubborn temper, and he is particularly unwilling to stare at the corpse that is still stabbed in place.
Li Changan still needs further persuasion.
"Little Huailing, what Taoist Li said is absolutely true. This monster is just a piece of rotten flesh that is just hanging on. It's not worth risking your life for."
The words didn't hit my ears, but rang directly in my mind.
Li Changan was not surprised but overjoyed.
"Bacchus?"
"It's just a little god."
Yu Mei did not respond, but his eyebrows could not help but express joy.
She had also seen the state of Dionysus before. A thin soul was wrapped around the rotten stone statue, and it looked like it would disappear when the wind blew. It was very miserable.
But now that he can use the sound transmission method, his soul state should be much better.
So Li Changan asked: "How does it feel to be struck by lightning?"
Dionysus laughed.
"It's like strong wine passing through the throat, so painful! So happy!"
As he spoke, he changed the subject.
"But Taoist, you have something to say."
"Which sentence?"
"Why wait until the next day to eliminate the remnants? I'm sorry to you two, but this last step is disrespectful to me."
He frowned: "What do you want to do?"
Li Changan was also surprised.
He glanced at the corpse on the spot pretending to be a sea urchin, and then looked at the remnant spirit-like Dionysus on the stone statue.
No words left his mouth: What can you do?
Dionysus didn't rush to answer and asked Li Changan instead.
"Do you remember what I said once, Taoist?"
You are so clueless, how can a Taoist understand?
But this time.
Li Changan's tinnitus has gradually subsided.
He suddenly heard some subtle rumbling sounds coming from the surroundings, and the ground began to tremble slightly. Wind from nowhere rushed in, carrying a faint mellow fragrance.
At the same time.
The zombie became more and more restless, waving its flesh thorns frequently, as if the insect's tentacles were catching something.
soon.
All its fleshy thorns shrank abruptly.
Li Changan was excited and immediately prepared for the attack.
The next second.
But when the flesh thorns suddenly swelled, they did not attack the Taoist priest and Yumei. Instead, they propped up the flesh balls and jumped up.
However.
The moment it jumped up.
The subtle rumbling sound suddenly amplified, and a majestic amber water column poured out from a certain abandoned hole in the stone wall, knocking the corpse head-on.
Not only that, in the parts of the corpse that were contaminated by water, the flesh and blood dissolved little by little and turned into wisps of smoke.
The Taoist priest was stunned.
groundwater?
No.
A strong aroma of wine rushes into the nose.
It's wine!
And it’s good wine!
"All the sorrow and resentment in the world can be washed away with wine."
Dionysus laughed heartily.
"Qiu Lubai."
"Bamboo leaves are green."
"Kunlun brew."
"Ningyue Shuang."
…
Every time he spoke a name, a stream of good wine poured out of the cave.
Er.
Hundreds of caves spit out hundreds of kinds of fine wine. Clear, bright red, sweet, mellow... the vastness fills the kiln well.
Drunken waves pile up, and the aroma of wine swirls.
His laugh was so free.
"Everyone, drink hard!"
…………
Every wine lover has probably had the dream of wandering in the sea of wine and drinking to his heart's content.
But the Taoist priest can responsibly say that everything is too much, and he really doesn't want to go through this experience again.
Especially the other "drinking buddy" - Zhi Ni, it was like falling into a pool of sulfuric acid, struggling and trembling violently, but being tightly bound to the bottom of the kiln by the clear water flow of wine, repeatedly grinding away layers of flesh and blood and melting blood. .
So when the two of them were carried up to the entrance of the kiln by a wave of wine, the Dionysian laughed:
"How does the fine wine I have in stock taste?"
Li Changan helped Yu Mei, who was dizzy, and replied angrily.
"Strong enough."
Dionysus then laughed again, but not a few times.
"Huh? This monster is quite vicious."
The Taoist priest's heart skipped a beat.
Not finished yet?
Quickly look into the wine cellar.
The water flow formed by the fine wine is still distinct, washing away the corpse repeatedly.
But the evil corpse actually poked out its slender flesh thorns, penetrated the stone wall of the wine cellar, and pulled itself upwards. Although the flesh thorn was quickly dissolved by the wine, before it was broken, it had already poked out the second one... just like that, it was washed away, squeezed, and melted, and moved up bit by bit.
Even if there is no balance between good and evil, the Taoist priest can't help but sigh at the opponent's tenacity to survive.
"Bacchus?"
Li Changan called again, but this time there was no response for a long time.
On the contrary, it is in the divine kiln.
As the corpse floats up little by little, the wash of the water against it is gradually weakening, and the originally distinct wine slowly mixes, and the kiln becomes turbid and dark, so that the body of the corpse gradually becomes blurred and indistinct. See.
"Plop."
Li Changan turned his head and saw Yu Mei's back as he dived down with a sword.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"
The Taoist priest laughed angrily, why are these two acting like this? !
He shook his head.
He picked up the broken sword blade, cut off his robe and wrapped it around several times to use it as a handle.
Jump into the wine.
…………
Li Changan has poor water quality.
When he dived down, Yu Mei was already fighting with the corpse.
She wasn't a completely reckless person. She didn't directly go up to fight him hand to hand. Instead, she relied on her flexible body to swim around the corpse and kept cutting off the flesh thorns protruding from the corpse.
This method is very effective.
Forced Zhi Ni had no place to borrow strength, but he sank a little further.
After the wine melted away, the original behemoth now seemed to be smaller in size than a curled-up woman.
Li Changan breathed a sigh of relief and was about to dive down to take pictures of the gourd.
But both he and Yu Mei misjudged the ferociousness of the corpse.
Notice.
The flesh and blood on the outside is actually the corpse of a demon controlled by resentment, but the body is actually still the little girl.
Suddenly.
The corpse evil turned all the demon flesh and blood into spikes and shot them out.
It was as if a flesh-and-blood flower of thorns had bloomed in the dim kiln.
No matter how agile Yu Mei was, how could she dodge such a dense attack? She could only barely protect her vital points before she was stabbed through her body by a sharp knife, and was violently thrown against the stone wall, and then she fainted.
This really caught Li Changan off guard.
Mainly because no one told him, would the life transformed from a plant into an animal be drowned?
The corpse evil quickly retracted the spikes, and the flesh and blood merged to re-cover the body corroded by the wine.
Li Changan discovered that after a brief burst, its body had shrunk by a large margin, and it must have no energy left to launch the attack just now.
But... the Taoist priest hesitated for a while, and finally bypassed the corpse and dived in the direction where the eyebrows were lowered.
Ever since.
There is no obstacle in front of the zombies.
It climbed up step by step according to its consistent rhythm, resisting the corrosion of wine.
When it was about to climb out of the "thick acid pool", only a thin layer of flesh and blood was left on its body. In the last step, it threw out all the last flesh and blood without hesitation, even the few remaining pieces of flesh and blood outside the kiln. On top of the fallen stone pillar, the body whose skin has been corroded away and whose fascia and muscles have been exposed must be pulled out of the "abyss".
this moment.
It's like an evil spirit crawling out of hell.
About to return to the world.
But also at this moment. .
Suddenly a loud voice came:
"Ah uh~"
A fat guy with a strong body and shiny hair turned out!
All four hooves came out together, carrying a huge weight of about 600 kilograms, and stuck firmly on "Amei's" little face as big as a palm.
Collapse~
The last flesh thorn was overwhelmed and broke on the spot.
The evil ghost who saw the light of day was kicked back to hell by the donkey's hooves!
The Taoist priest Gurulu spit out a string of bubbles.
"What a donkey!"
…………
When Li Changan came up to the surface with his eyebrows raised.
The long gray snow finally fell.
The sky cleared away the dust and revealed its true appearance.
But I saw layers of clouds and mountains outlining the golden edge, as if the heavy rain had stopped, but the eyes were not dark, probably because a huge hole was opening in the clouds, and the bright sunlight poured down from it, casting on the ruins of the remote temple. , plunged into the deep kiln shaft, and opened up a passage of light in the dead and dark accumulated wine.
Li Changan looked down along the light.
In the turbid wine, at the end of the beam, there was a small figure slowly sinking.
But with the occasional slight tremor, the Taoist priest knew that everything was not over yet.
"Bacchus?"
Still no response.
So the Taoist priest rubbed the top of the head of the donkey who was having fun in the wine, put the eyebrows on the donkey's back, and then took out the dagger from her hand.
Take a deep breath.
Return and dive.
…
The bottom of the kiln was quiet, without a trace of ripples.
The skylight filtering through the wine waves reflected on Amei.
What the Taoist priest saw in front of him was a terrifying demon with his skin peeled off, his hands and feet melted, and his bones and flesh covered in flesh. But what came to his mind was the innocent and charming girl in the Yu family's shop back then.
But soon.
He laughed at himself, laughing at himself for being pretentious.
Just as he was about to approach with his sword, Amei suddenly opened his eyes, or rather, two dead gray eyeballs were pointed at him in the sockets of his eyelids that had melted away.
Then the remaining flesh and blood on his body trembled, ready to move.
Seeing this scene, Li Changan was not surprised at all.
If I had known that it was ferocious and tenacious, it would not give up and wait for death until the end of its life. And who knows if it would have a way to escape and ascend to heaven?
The Taoist priest was about to make a move, but suddenly, from behind Zhi Ni, in the darkness at the end of the light, a pair of arms stretched out and wrapped around Zhi Ni's body.
Immediately afterwards.
The owner of the arm emerged.
Like calcined coal, it is full of dense holes.
It is the stone statue of Dionysus, or in other words, Dionysus.
He was in a very bad state. His soul, which was entrusted to the statue, was originally bright and dim, and now it was even more scattered.
Dionysus is fading.
The drink he had just called to resolve his grudges was the last song he had prepared for himself, but it fell short. It is expected that Dionysus has absorbed the demon's incense. No, he should have continued to live without interruption from the beginning.
After all, Xiaoshui is no longer there, so why should the gods of Xiaoshui covet to survive?
The Dionysian turned to face the Taoist priest. He had no energy left to transmit the message, but why speak at this moment?
Li Changan brushed the blade of the sword with his fingers.
"Slay the demon."
Yingying clear light emerges.
The Taoist sword struck him down.
…………
It's sunny after the rain and the sun is clear.
Li Changan pulled out the last weed, straightened his back and stretched his muscles, looking around at the fruits of his labor.
The remote courtyard, the large locust tree with sparse branches and leaves, the wisteria that once withered and then sprouted new buds, and a small tomb have all been roughly tidied up, and they still vaguely look like they used to.
Yu Mei brought out soup made from wild grains and wild vegetables, and filled it with three portions in a broken bowl that he found somewhere. The two of them and one donkey gathered around the stone pier to slurp the soup.
Li Changan lowered his head and blew hot air:
"Now that the demons have been eliminated, what are your future plans?"
Unexpectedly, a casual question resulted in a long silence.
"Who said all monsters are dead?" Yu Mei pointed at herself coldly, "Isn't there another one?"
Li Changan was startled and quickly looked up, only to see Yumei's lips smiling. When he saw the Taoist priest's surprised and panicked look, he even laughed wildly.
Well, it seems that after wiping Yu Zhenren's butt, she became a lot more cheerful. She used to be cold and could not even show her expression, but now she has learned to joke.
Li Changan had no choice but to let Yumei smile slowly by himself, and continued to eat. Tsk, as expected, it was bitter and hard.
Yumei smiled enough and finally remembered to answer the Taoist priest's question.
"The illusion is shattered. Although I am no longer the eyebrow of Xiaoshui, I am still the sophora spirit in front of the real person's grave."
"The world is vast and the world is prosperous. Don't you want to see it with your own eyes?"
"Open your eyes and tell lies." Yu Mei rolled his eyes at the Taoist priest, "It's still a chaotic time outside, where is the prosperity? What's so interesting about corpses everywhere?"
After speaking, she interrupted the topic rudely and handed over a pamphlet.
Li Changan took it. The binding was rough and there were small words "A Collection of Miscellaneous Spells" on the cover.
"This is?"
"It's for you."
"I haven't received Lushan's punishment, so what's the use?"
"It doesn't matter, this is a collection of talismans circulated in the world compiled by real people. They are all golden spells and evil-proof talismans. There is no need to accept any family's responsibilities. I will give them to you to save you from claiming to be a Taoist but always borrowing other people's talismans. Talisman."
Taoist priests are thick-skinned.
"Thank you."
But it's disrespectful.
Yu Mei handed over another brochure.
It is much thinner than "Small Collection", and there is no name on the cover, but Li Changan looks more and more familiar as he looks at it. Isn't this...
"right."
"This is the magic weapon used by real people to detain demons and create illusions. Although it is incomplete, it is still valuable. If you leave it here, it will only attract covetous people."
"If possible, please return it to Lushan."
"If it's inconvenient."
Yu Mei paused.
"Just do whatever you want."
"That's okay." Li Changan accepted it as usual, "Any other instructions?"
Yumei smiled and shook his head, tucking the hair from his brow behind his ears.
"When will the Taoist priest set off?"
Li Changan finished the soup in two or three mouthfuls.
"Now."
…
There is no need to mention any more gossip, it is time for Li Changan to finally make his way home.
He led the donkey and gently closed the courtyard door.
After walking a hundred steps, I suddenly felt something in my heart and looked back.
But I saw little bits and pieces of clear light floating in the small courtyard, and the light condensed and merged into the tall tree on the high wall.
Immediately afterwards.
But seeing the lively new buds sprouting from the branches of the locust tree, the new buds stretched into leaves, and strings of light yellow flowers bloomed between the branches and leaves. It seemed that time had passed, and the locust tree became full of branches in the blink of an eye, with a delicate fragrance swaying.
The wind blew through the branches.
It was vaguely like waving goodbye.
