novelaction Chapter 224
Chapter 224
With the light, the road in the cave no longer seemed so difficult.
Hearing the sound of water dripping by his ears, and realizing it was blood, Qi Yi felt a lingering fishy smell in his nose.
In fact, there was. Ever since that little Wu hit his stepfather on the head in the early morning, the smell of blood has been lingering around him, but he has gotten used to it over time.
The cave was shining with blood. Qi Yi followed behind his master and felt that the master looked like he was wearing a red wedding dress.
"looking at what?"
Yan Congzhi suddenly asked.
"I……"
Qi Yi was speechless for a moment. He quickly stuck his head out to look forward and found that he had reached the end.
He had been to this place before, and it was here that he met the mountain ghost in the shape of a girl.
It turned out that there was a very rough statue in the shadowy place - standing on a stone platform, sitting, half a person tall. The edges were not polished and looked not very smooth, with five hearts facing the sky, sharp edges and corners, a wide jaw and thick lips in the middle of the face, drooping eyebrows, and long hair wrapped around layers of hems and hanging down to the ground.
But the overall look always gave Qi Yi a weird sense of disharmony.
“This is a…
"The statue of the goddess?"
Yan Congzhi nodded.
Although there may be omissions in the blank carving, if you look closely at the clothes, abdomen, throat and wrists, you can still see that he is not the male figure with a full forehead and a square chin that is commonly seen in Buddhist scriptures in ordinary temples.
Yan Congzhi waited for the young man to have a complete look, then stood in front of him and sent out a palm strike. The whole sculpture burst apart like a rockfall. Qi Yi suddenly heard a loud noise and subconsciously grabbed his master's clothes, but immediately let go.
Behind the statue was a smaller passage that could only accommodate one person. Yan Congzhi looked at Qi Yi, and the young man hurriedly followed.
This time it made no difference whether there was light or not.
The narrow cave made Qi feel cramped as soon as he walked in. The stone walls on both sides did not look artificially carved and were severely eroded by wind, with wrinkles that seemed to have accumulated for tens of millions of years.
Qi Yi finally followed his master to take the last step, but he didn't expect that there was no road outside the cave. Yan Congzhi lifted Qi Yi's collar and summoned the ancient sword under his feet, and the two of them floated above the huge pit.
"This is……"
Qi Yi held the hilt of the sword, facing a colorful painting.
The huge pit was filled with Buddhist scriptures, as if the two of them had suddenly broken into the library of a certain immortal cultivation sect. The bottom of the pit was shining with bright starlight, and thousands of works gathered there, each of which seemed to be a peerless secret method that could be passed down through the ages.
A smooth hand suddenly brushed across Qi Yi's face, and the scenery in front of him suddenly changed as the fingers moved.
Where are the numerous scriptures?
The background is made up of white bones of varying shades, both large and small, with the smaller ones being more numerous, piled up into high hills, with bright red stumps and broken limbs on top like petals on a snack, strung together in circles.
“It’s a corpse pit.”
At this moment, Yan Congzhi stretched out his long arm and drew a longbow out of thin air. A golden arrow with starlight shot out. Before Qi Yi could react, his eyes followed the arrow into the pit of corpses, and he saw a piece of red suddenly dodged and let out a sharp scream!
That's a mountain ghost!
Qi Yi's hands, which were tightly holding the hilt of the sword, were sweating. When he was looking into the pit, the red eyes were also motionlessly hidden in the bones and flesh, observing the two uninvited guests, without him noticing anything.
The mountain ghost was shot in the side of the eye, and the resentment of the infant spirit that had not yet been digested and absorbed escaped. Originally, it should have been able to break through again and reach a higher level after a full meal. Then it could go to the towns and villages to pick up some snacks to eat. There would be no opponent for it within a few hundred miles. Even if there were truly capable monks, it would be able to give it a try.
The person in front of it had obviously ruined its good deeds, and it seemed that he was extremely powerful.
Seeing this, the mountain ghost pulled away and twisted it. It was as if there were centipedes in the bone mountain, and blood and flesh were scattered like rain. It wanted to take this opportunity to confuse the audience and reluctantly give up the treasure cave and escape. Yan Congzhi crossed his palms, and a round light golden shield rose above the ancient sword. Suddenly, there was a layer of golden mist in front of Qi Yi, and his vision became unclear.
The young man stretched out his hand forward, and a drop of blood splashed on his fingertips through the mist.
Yan Congzhi glanced at him, and the boy immediately pulled his hand back, rubbed the blood on his fingertips on his coat, and dared not move again.
Yan Congzhi stepped out of the shield and floated in the air without any support. His clothes rustled and his whole body was glowing, as if he was a true god descending to earth.
Qi Yi's eyes widened as he watched his new master spread his sleeves, drew his bow, and shot three arrows in a row!
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
The sharp arrow was like a rainbow piercing the sun, carrying a force of ten thousand pounds and going straight through the pit of corpses. The mountain ghost was nailed directly to the arrow and was pressed under the bones of tens of thousands of people.
Yan Congzhi calmly put away his bow and arrow, watching a wisp of gray smoke slowly rising from the pit of corpses.
The gray smoke did not make any attacking moves, but slowly transformed into the appearance of a statue - the same one that was smashed when it came in.
Qi Yi only heard a burst of Buddhist chanting in his ears: "Who are you, my friend, disturbing my meditation?"
The vision changed again. Qi Yi looked at the scenery in front of him that seemed to be covered by fog. The scene outside the protective shield turned into the solemn Great Hall of the Buddha, and the sound of Sanskrit filled his ears.
Yan Congzhi did not hesitate. He flipped his hand and a thunder talisman flew out. The dazzling light penetrated all obstacles. In an instant, the lightning fell, and the statue was hit and suddenly changed. It drilled in front of Qi Yi's protective shield like a loach.
The smoke reshaped itself, and in its place was the little girl with twinkling pigtails and sparkling eyes.
The girl's eyes were filled with tears and her face was bloodshot. She raised one hand anxiously in front of Qi Yi, and her tender voice contained hope:
"Brother, save me, I know I was wrong, please don't kill me!"
Qi Yi looked at the pair of eyes with distinct black and white and thought of his sister again.
On the night when she was born, the soft, pink sister opened her red and swollen eyes and looked at him with a wrinkled face.
Qi Yi stretched out his hand, and the girl excitedly moved closer to the protective shield. She didn't care that her palm was filled with gray air, and she just said anxiously: "Save me, brother, brother! Pull me!"
Yan Congzhi held the talisman in one hand and stood in front of the protective shield, watching the young man slowly sit up from the ancient sword and stretch out his hand——
He grabbed the willow branch hanging around his waist.
"You should die as a token of your sin!"
The young man's hand moved first, and the willow branch filled with power was thrown out of the shield. Green starlight fell into the girl's hair. The mountain ghost was caught off guard and retreated half a step, but was still burned on the face.
"you--"
The shrill voice suddenly stopped. Qi Yi felt a flash of light and then darkness in front of him. When he opened his eyes again, the mountain ghost had been struck to pieces by Yan Congzhi's lightning technique. In front of him, there was only a thin mist that disappeared into the air.
The great disaster that had harmed all directions was put to an end here.
Yan Congzhi walked out of the fog, with piles of white bones under his feet. The sky above the cave was bright, and a huge hole suddenly leaked in the glow of morning light.
The corpse pit that had been accumulated for who knows how many years was once again exposed to the sun. Yan Congzhi folded paper with one hand, and in a moment, countless gold coins and ingots spontaneously ignited on the corpse pit without wind. Qi Yi seemed to hear the cries of countless children.
The sound gradually weakened, and the chill that had been like a thorn in the side of the body was gradually dispelled.
The light golden protective shield disappeared with the wind, and fresh air began to flow. Qi stood up unsteadily, then knelt deeply, and bowed three times to the master in front of him.
"We have avenged our great hatred. Let's kneel down to thank our master. No matter how many difficulties and obstacles we encounter in the future, as long as I can be of use, I will not hesitate to die."
Yan Congzhi looked at the ragged young man, not knowing what he was thinking. He just opened his lips lightly and changed the name of the new disciple according to the rules:
"Once you join my sect, you will not change your surname. You..."
Qi Yi raised his head and said, "My biological father died young. I fled from She County and settled here. 'Qi' is my stepfather's surname, and my real surname is 'Ni'."
Yan Congzhi nodded, looked at the night view of the 100-mile long river outside the cave entrance, and said:
"From Shexian to here, all prefectures and counties are located in the south of the mountain, which is in line with the place name."
"I want you to change your name to 'Ni Yangzhou', not forgetting your roots, not being unworthy, and fulfilling the wishes of your family. Do you have any doubts?"
The young man looked at the Taoist priest in the golden light, with the soft morning light pouring in from behind him. He lowered his head and responded in a low voice:
"——I have no other intentions, Yangzhou, I will obey the master's orders."