novelaction Chapter 422 The Taoist Priest of Maoshan Who Passed Away
Chapter 422 The Taoist Priest of Maoshan Who Passed Away
Cao Erdan's carefully constructed formation might be destroyed by Huang Benchu.
He reached out and pushed Huang Benchu to the ground, where he rolled more than ten times before stopping.
Hearing Cao Erdan's call, Hua Ruyi knew that he had already prepared a plan, so she quickly moved closer to Cao Erdan.
However, these Yin-Yang Couple Corpse Demons are not ordinary zombies; they possess some intelligence.
Seeing the pattern formed by the red rope and talisman paper behind Cao Erdan, they sensed danger and didn't go over.
Seeing that everyone had run behind Cao Erdan, the two of them just stood a few feet away and shouted, without going any closer.
Seeing that the two zombies dared not approach, Cao Erdan became even more confident:
"Since they're afraid, the formation must be effective. We can definitely deal with them!"
He gestured to the warriors standing at the cave entrance:
"Everyone shout!"
"Woo-hoo... Ah, woo-hoo..."
Dozens of men shouted loudly, their voices causing dust to fall from the top of the cave.
The two zombies involuntarily turned around and looked towards the cave entrance.
Taking advantage of the two zombies' distraction, Cao Erdan swiftly leaped up and reached the female corpse.
With a swift kick, the female corpse was sent flying and landed within the red rope formation.
Cao Erdan followed and straddled her, pressing down hard.
He shouted:
"The Three Pure Ones are all above."
Thunder and lightning gods, heed my command!
Help me with heavenly fire and divine thunder.
Burn away evil spirits and demons.
Divine fire burns the corpse.
Burning ghosts won't harm people!
"May the Supreme Lord Laozi command this swiftly!"
With a whoosh, the talisman paper that had been laid out burst into flames.
The flames were a full ten feet tall.
Cao Erdan was also burned inside.
The crowd outside the circle gasped in surprise, calling out in unison, "Master Cao, come out quickly!"
Cao Erdan remained calm and tied a knot with a red rope on the female corpse, then jumped out of the ring of fire.
But there wasn't a single spark on his body.
It's not that he can ward off fire, but rather that the fire he controls with his magic is only effective against zombies and ghosts.
The female zombie rolled and struggled in the firelight, but could not break free from the red rope binding her.
She kicked and screamed wildly, sending chills down one's spine.
Upon hearing the female zombie's painful wails, the male zombie roared and jumped around outside.
However, there was a strong sense of fear in his eyes towards the talisman fire, and he dared not approach it at all.
The female zombie's body shrank smaller and smaller as it was burned by the talisman fire, and her voice became more and more miserable.
She tried to climb out, but the red rope tied around her waist seemed to have the strength of a thousand pounds, firmly binding her to the burning corpse array.
I can't climb out at all!
The male zombie was jumping around outside, his eyes never leaving the female corpse.
As he watched his wife's face gradually become distorted from the burns, he suddenly looked up to the sky and roared.
At this moment, Huang Benchu sneaked up from behind, jumped up and kicked the male zombie standing outside the circle into the firelight.
The male zombie wasn't bound by the red rope, so he could have easily broken free.
But he didn't turn around. Instead, he went straight over, hugged the female zombie, and sat down on the ground.
As the fire grew fiercer, the two zombies were soon reduced to ashes!
Huang Benchu shook his head and sighed:
"What is love in this world that makes people willing to die for each other? It's truly enviable!"
Hua Ruyi said, "Stop making such a fuss, quickly check if it's safe around you."
About ten people died just now. Although we won the battle, we are still shaken.
After looking around and finding nothing unusual, they calmed down.
Huang Benchu wondered, "Since it's the Tomb of the Divine Dragon, I thought the ancestors of the dragon race should be buried here. How come there are zombies?"
Cao Erdan carefully examined the surroundings and analyzed, "In my opinion, this pair of corpse demons were raised by a sorcerer. There is an environment for raising corpses here. So it is hard to determine whether this is the Divine Dragon Tomb."
Hua Ruyi, who grew up in the Daliang Mountains, shook her head and said:
"I haven't heard of any other mysterious tombs in the Liangshan Mountains. If it's not the Divine Dragon Tomb, whose tomb is it?"
"Let's move in, everyone be careful."
The appearance of the zombies further fueled Cao Erdan's desire to explore the cave.
They lit torches and continued on their way.
As you go further in, the space becomes even wider.
The cave is over ten zhang high and its width is invisible.
A few hundred meters further in, a stone gate suddenly appeared ahead, about three zhang high.
In front of the door sat a skeleton dressed in Taoist robes.
He looked like he had been dead for many years; the clothes on his body were peeling off piece by piece from the heat of the torch, and had already weathered away.
Cao Erdan looked around and saw pots and pans, an alchemy furnace, and the humiliation he had suffered, all in front of this gate.
Looking at the gate again, it was tightly closed, with many marks of being hacked and chiseled on it.
Cao Erdan nodded in agreement: "That's right!"
Huang Benchu and Hua Ruyi hurriedly looked at Cao Erdan.
Cao Erdan pointed at the Taoist priest who had passed away and said:
"Judging from the posture in which this person passed away, he was a disciple of the Maoshan School."
So the corpse demon at the entrance was created by him to prevent others from entering!
I surmise that he also wanted to enter the Dragon Tomb, but was unable to find a way to do so.
But he didn't want anyone else to come in, so he created corpse demons to act as watchdogs.
He spent his entire life here, but failed to open the stone door, and eventually died here.
"Huh? Could he be the legendary Qingyi Daoist that my grandfather talked about?"
Hua Ruyi recalled a past event.
When I was a child, my grandfather told me that many years ago, a Taoist priest from Maoshan traveled to Daliang City and heard about the legend of the Dragon God's Tomb. So he went into the mountains to find the Dragon God's Tomb.
However, when he was blocked by the people of Shenghuo Village, he used his magic to summon many zombies from the cemetery to attack them.
The warriors of his tribe chased after him, pursuing him deep into the mountains, but they could no longer find him.
Everyone thought he had escaped from the mountains.
It looks like this is the skeleton in front of us.
After all, there aren't many people who can command the dead to serve them.
Cao Erdan looked at the stone gate and said, "This Taoist priest is very capable, but he spent his whole life trying to open the stone gate. This shows how difficult it is to enter this Taoist gate!"
Hua Ruyi said, "I've heard the elders say that to enter the Dragon Tomb, you must have a dragon-shaped jade pendant!"
Upon hearing this, Cao Erdan immediately took out the dragon-shaped blood jade.
He asked Hua Ruyi, "How should I use it?"
Hua Ruyi looked at the huge stone gate, which was covered with moss.
"Everyone, look around and see if there's a keyhole on this door."
A dozen burly men stepped forward and used their blades to clean the moss off the stone gate.
But after searching for a long time, I still couldn't find the keyhole.
These burly men then used the tips of their knives and spears to pry open the door.
But even though the swords broke and the spears snapped, the stone gate remained completely still.
Huang Benchu shook his head: "Using brute force like this definitely won't work. This old Taoist is a reclusive master, and he has been studying here for many years without being able to open it. It definitely won't be opened so easily."
Cao Erdan used his divine eyes to see through things and looked towards the stone gate.
However, the stone was extremely dense, and trying to see through it would require a great deal of mental energy.
However, Cao Erdan still stared intently inside, only to find that the stone gate was three zhang thick, and beyond that, it was pitch black, like an abyss.
It is three zhang high, three zhang wide, and three zhang thick.
This is a square stone.
There are no hinges or tracks at all. Although it's shaped like a door, it doesn't open in any direction.
Instead, it requires tremendous force to push it inwards.
Based on the assumption that a square stone weighs two to three tons, this ten-meter square boulder would weigh at least twenty tons.
This is absolutely beyond the capabilities of human beings!
Looking further to both sides, the mountains are thick and there are no other passages to go any further in.