After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1233 Torture Chamber

Is there still a ghost in this dark room?
He exclaimed, walked around, and then stopped in the corner of the dark room and looked down at something: "There is another surprise here."

He Lingchuan walked closer and saw that it was a wooden birdcage.

At least the appearance is very similar to a birdcage, but there are no pillars, no water trough or feeding trough inside, only a grille and a small door.

Dong Rui also came over to take a look: "This is a cage made of seabed wood."

The seabed wood can be a home for souls. Just for this reason, this so-called "birdcage" is extraordinary.

Fu Liushan raised the bell and brought it close to the cage, and it rang twice again.

"Come out." He put away the bell. "I won't hurt you. I just want to ask you something."

The cage was quiet and seemed empty at first glance.

Fu Liushan took out a stick of incense, lit it, and blew the smoke into the cage.

A vague shadow seemed to appear in the smoke.

"Show your true colors! Don't refuse a toast and then drink a forfeit!" Fu Liushan pointed the shining cigarette butt at the shadow, "I don't want to punish you like the Ghost King Xuanlu did."

Upon hearing the words "Xuanlu Ghost King", the shadow moved a few times, finally crawled out from the bottom of the cage and gathered into a human shape.

It took a few deep puffs and the smoke was completely sucked away.

The incense specially made by Fu Liushan can be a tonic for weak ghosts, helping them to stabilize their human form.

The shadow took shape and looked like a man in his twenties, but he looked haggard and had a hollow space below his right shoulder.

It turned out to be a ghost with a broken arm.

Fu Liushan was also a chatty person: "Such a big cage, how can you live alone?"

The armless ghost spoke, his voice hoarse: "There were more than thirty just now."

"It's really crowded. Where are they?"

"They were eaten." The armless ghost took two steps forward. "They were originally Xuan Lu's food reserve. Before the ghost king escaped, he asked the ghost slaves to catch them and feed them to him to replenish his strength."

Dong Rui raised his eyebrows: "The Ghost King escaped? Are you sure?"

"Its vitality was severely damaged, and it only had a little ghost energy left. I have never seen it so weak, and it even needed the ghost slave to hold it in a box." The ghost with the broken arm said, "It didn't run away, so is it waiting for you to come and take it away?"

“It took all the other souls in the cage for nourishment, why did it miss you?” Is this a trap left by the Ghost King?

"I have lived in this cage for too long, longer than any other unlucky ghost. I know how to disperse my soul, so I can deceive the ghost slaves for a while." The ghost with the broken arm said hoarsely, "Xuan Lu was too anxious to escape, and he ate all the captives here in a hurry without taking a closer look before leaving. I have waited for eighty years for such an opportunity!"

"Eighty years?" Even He Lingchuan was somewhat moved. "You have been in this cage for eighty years?"

"It's more than just 'wait'?" The broken-armed ghost gnashed his teeth. Before this, Lingguang had only heard of "ghost grinding teeth", but today he finally had the honor of seeing it, "In as much as a month, or as little as ten days, Xuanlu would catch me and torture me, either gouging out my eyes, chopping off my hands, or pulling out my muscles, there are all kinds of ways!"

"Then heal me. As soon as my injuries heal, I will be tortured again!" The armless ghost grabbed the grille with veins popping out on the back of his hand. "Eighty years! I have been like this for eighty years! Five days ago, Xuan Lu put my arm into a millstone and spent two hours grinding it into powder!"

"It loves the wailing of humans or ghosts!"

Fu Liushan couldn't help but ask: "It particularly likes to torture you, why?"

The Ghost King Xuanlu specially kept a ghost and tortured it for eighty years?
This is not love, this is hate.

"It hates me to the bone." The armless ghost said, "It hates my ancestors to the bone!"

"Who are your ancestors?"

"Eighty years ago, I was doing small business in Yaopo and had already married and had children. Although my life was ordinary, how could I expect anything in such a chaotic world?" The ghost with the broken arm whispered, "One night, the ghost king Xuanlu sneaked in and killed my whole family. He ate the souls of my wife and children in front of me. He said that my ancestor had betrayed him, and when he was at the end of his rope, he chopped off his head to show his merit!"

"It searched for more than 200 years and finally found the descendants of the traitor. After it killed me, it imprisoned my soul and brought it back, torturing me in various ways. I begged it to give me a quick death, but the Ghost King Xuanlu said that as long as it was there, I would suffer, and it would not be early or late."

He Lingchuan understood it when he heard this. Three hundred years ago, Wang Xuanlu fled into the Howling Forest, but he did not die at the hands of Bao Ning, but was beheaded by his subordinates. With his character, he would become a ghost after his death, so of course he would never forget revenge.

All of Bao Ning's descendants were killed by it, so how could the subordinate who betrayed him escape?
The Ghost King hated him even more, and therefore wanted to torture his descendants endlessly.

"Do you know how desperate I was?" The armless ghost grabbed the grille and shouted, "Later, I didn't even want to die. I swore that one day I would take revenge. I would chop off its head like my ancestors did!"

Fu Liushan took out the treasured pestle and said, "We can do this for you. You should seek liberation the most."

He is a heavenly master, and it is his duty to convert ghosts.

"Wait, wait!" The armless ghost waved his hands quickly, "I can help you catch up with the Xuanlu Ghost King!"

"You're stuck here, how can you help?"

"I know its aura best. I can track every place it has been in three hours!" The Armless Ghost tried to prove his worth. "Besides, I heard a lot of secrets from its subordinates torturing prisoners here. A lot! They never avoid me. They think I can't get out."

"For example?"

"For example, this place was once a fairy's cave. The dark room we are in was once a fairy's torture chamber, filled with various torture instruments..."

"Wait a minute." Dong Rui was surprised and interrupted, "Is this the immortal's torture chamber? What do you mean, the immortal is torturing others?"

"Yes, that should be what they mean. I heard them say that when the Ghost King Xuanlu first discovered this place, there were already all kinds of torture instruments here, but they were very large and didn't look like they were for humans. Also, there were a lot of corpses tied up here, some with their chests cut open, and some with their heads chopped off, but they were quite large, and they didn't look like..."

Dong Rui thought it spoke too slowly: "Don't you look like a human?"

"Yes, they don't look like humans."

Dong Rui's eyes showed a bit of fanaticism: "Does it look like the two skeletons outside that were pierced by the sword on the wall?"

"Uh, or, maybe."

He Lingchuan and Fu Liushan looked at each other in bewilderment:
What does this mean? The immortals living in this cave tortured the demons?

The title of "immortal" sounds very Taoist. However, in ancient times, the war between immortals and demons had already reached a fever pitch. Both sides were so bloodthirsty that they would use any means possible.
The devil is ruthless, but are immortals very loving?

(End of this chapter)