The Ascension of Ghosts

As soon as the attendant finished speaking, there was an uproar in the hall, and Lu Sheng saw several guests in the front row stumbled back in shock, and kicked over the food table with a bang.

There was a continuous howl in the distance, the sound was shrill, as sharp as a long needle suddenly pierced into the ear.

She Qingrong swept her eyes and shouted angrily: "What are you arguing about! With Mr. Xie here, I will definitely let that beast go and never return today!"

The commotion in the room was immediately suppressed by her majestic voice. The old man who had been talking a lot earlier lay down on the ground and picked up the Tongtian Crown and put it on. He hurriedly laughed and said, "Madam She is right, and she is right! It's because of our concern that it's messed up. Thank you." With the master here, my Dawangzhuang will definitely win a big victory today!"

Everyone suddenly stopped their flustered movements, as if they were still, kneeling or standing, or lying down or sitting, all looking at Lu Sheng.The expressions are either praying or yearning, and so on.

Lu Sheng stood up and looked up to hear howls in the distance. He had followed Wei Su to walk in the mountains, but this roar was no stranger to him. He couldn't bear it anymore and blurted out: "But a mere wild wolf can make a fire. Drive away, why are you so panicked?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, the faces of all the guests changed again when she came down from She Qingrong. She Qingrong raised her eyebrows and shouted: "Who are you?! Linghu Feiyu, who exactly are you inviting here!"

Lu Sheng became more and more confused. This Dawangzhuang and Yizhuang were acting out of order. At one time, he was invited here, and he was treated as the guest without knowing his name, but at another time, he came to ask him who he was.

Linghu Feiyu strode forward, knelt in front of She Qingrong and said tremblingly: "Madam, there are thousands of miles around, only this kind of grace is like the light of day, and the humble official will definitely not be mistaken."

She Qingrong sneered and said, "You never misunderstood, could this gentleman have misunderstood? He actually treated the thousand-year-old ground wolf as an ordinary animal. Could it be that he stole his teacher's favor?"

When Lu Sheng heard the word "wolf for a thousand years", he was immediately vigilant, and he dared not speak again, but secretly complained in his heart: "...why happened to encounter these strange and inexplicable events again, or is it that everyone in Hezhuang Are you confused?"

On the other side, She Qingrong's skirt was already dragging to the ground, Shi Shiran turned around, and said to Lu Sheng: "Mr. Xie, this is the end of the matter, so there is no need to waste your words. If you can repel the wolf, you can protect Dawangzhuang from Nanjing." , I have a big thank you. If not... I will eat you as a snack!"

The surrounding guests also surrounded him, with hostile expressions on their faces, they all shouted: "That's right, tear him apart and eat him up!"

Someone also said: "...leave me with a hand."

After all, Lu Sheng was young and vigorous, so excited by these words, he pushed the hilt of the sword away with his thumb, revealing about an inch of the blade, and said angrily, "Bold! I am Naiyu..."

He hadn't spoken the word "Habayashi Guard" yet, but the encirclement led by She Qingrong suddenly backed away by more than a foot, everyone showed panic, and Lu Sheng felt that these people were too timid.

He still drew his sword and shouted: "I am Habayashi..."

This time, they still couldn't speak well, so the crowd screamed miserably, and the cowards turned around and ran away, rushing out of the banquet hall, but bumped into an invisible barrier at the door, and fell back into the hall.There were more than a hundred people in the hall, like birds trapped in a cage, jumping up and down, pushing and running around without thinking, in a mess.

As for the attendants and musicians outside the hall, they have long since fled without a trace.

She Qingrong's face turned pale, and her hairpins were messed up in the crowd's collision, but she still shouted sharply: "Don't run away! Don't run away! If you dare to run away, you will be beheaded immediately! Someone, kill this imposter, and reward him with water from Nanming Well Three feet!"

Lu Sheng couldn't understand what she said, so he stared blankly at the sword in his hand. Although this sword was unparalleled in sharpness, how could it drive these hundreds of guests into madness?Could it be that Xie Rong did something wrong?

He was in a daze when suddenly a gust of wind hit his head, but it was Linghu Feiyu leaping into the air, his dark clothes fluttering like a dark cloud, waving a long wrist-thick whip with shining blue light in his hand, galloping like lightning He slashed at Lu Sheng's head.

Lu Sheng's footsteps were steady, and he avoided the vital point with a few steps. He raised his hand and raised the long sword obliquely, but felt that the blade was slightly blocked, and then he slashed down smoothly and soundlessly, easily cutting the long whip in half.

The broken long whip was about four feet long, twisted and struggled like a living thing in mid-air, and then suddenly exploded, turning into blue feathers all over the sky, flying down one after another.

Linghu Feiyu let out a scream, his complexion was as pale as gold paper, and he fell to the ground with the remaining half of the long whip, as if he had been severely injured, struggling and writhing in pain, but others didn't dare to touch him, instead they got farther and farther away up.Linghu Feiyu struggled for a while and then became silent. Lu Sheng kicked him forward but there was no response, but his breath was weak, life and death were uncertain.

Lu Sheng frowned, but he heard She Qingrong yell, "Shoot the arrow!"

Without thinking, he jumped up, overturned the white jade food table and hid behind him, a burst of dense rain of white feather arrows hit the food table, under the force, the food table was shattered into countless cracks.With such power, why should he be afraid of a lone wolf?

When he was wondering, suddenly a long and mournful howl sounded in his ears. It was far away in the sky before, but now this sound seemed to be close to his ears, which shocked Lu Sheng.He clasped the hilt of his sword tightly, and suppressed the icy fear that suddenly rose from his heart. Ordinary beasts would never have such a breathtaking ability. But he had no idea what kind of monster it was.At this time, he couldn't help sighing: "It would be great if Xie Rong was invited here."

Lu Sheng was feeling annoyed, but he noticed that the ground began to tremble slightly without knowing when it started. The roar of the beast was very close at hand, and it was as clear as an iron brush rubbing against his ear. To pierce the lungs, if it is an ordinary person, I am afraid that the heart will be terrified and the limbs will be weak.

The people in that hall were already terrified, and they had long since neglected to attack Lu Sheng, and She Qingrong was nowhere to be seen.Among the crowd, some actually had tails covered with thin scales, or animal ears covered with fluff growing on their heads, or an arm turned into wings, screaming and howling, the noise was deafening, but they couldn't suppress the noise at all. Howling wolves.

Lu Sheng was afraid in his heart, gritted his teeth, and his wrist trembled. The sharp sword shone like stars under the light of the hall. A majestic killing intent was born.

The chaos of monsters, snakes, insects, rats and ants must be eradicated to protect the safety of the people.

Lu Sheng stood up from behind the food table. A six-legged lizard as tall as a person was rushing towards him. Its body was gray and white. It opened its mouth with fine sharp teeth, and sprayed out a dark, poisonous mist. Before it got close, Lu Sheng When he felt the stench coming, his chest felt tight and his mind became dizzy.

He held his breath to avoid the poisonous mist and rushed forward, and slashed down with the sword with his backhand, which was soundless and without any sense of stagnation, as if cutting into a piece of fine oil and cutting the lizard in half.

Once the move was successful, the murderous intent in his heart became more and more intoxicating. Lu Sheng looked at the strange and strange things in front of him, and suddenly raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "So there really are monsters in this world, so Lu will be a real person to exorcise monsters today."

Holding the magic weapon in his hand, he was omnipotent, and killed several monsters one after another. His fighting spirit was so high that the trembling wolf howl could not be heard at all. On the contrary, the shaking of the ground became more and more intense, and the guests who turned into monsters finally bumped into each other. After breaking through the invisible barrier of the hall, they fled towards the courtyard in all directions, screaming, "Water is coming! Water is coming!"

Just as Lu Sheng was about to chase it out, his left wrist tightened, but it was tightly entangled by a blue snake's tail. He cut off the snake's tail with a backhand sword, and strode out of the banquet hall.

The monsters fled in a hurry as if being chased by evil gods. A half-human, half-beast guest tripped over the threshold, perhaps too frightened to struggle, and without hesitation, Lu Sheng raised his sword and chopped off the guest's head. Jian Feng was not in time, and suddenly heard a deafening roar, and a ball of fire exploded in front of his eyes.

As the heat hit his face, Lu Sheng closed his eyes and dodged unconsciously. When he opened his eyes again, there was no half-human, half-animal monster in front of him. Only a palm-sized tiger-striped cat emerged from a pile of clothes, bowed He raised his back and yelled at Lu Sheng Mimi.

Lu Sheng frowned, and let the cat run away in panic, but just looked at a flame that looked like a one-legged crane that suddenly appeared in the air, "Xie Rong?"

However, the fire bird appeared translucent, dissipated, and said in a low voice: "The water is coming... hold on for a while, and my young master will come..." Then disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, Lu Sheng seemed to be waking up from a dream. Just now, he heard the howling of wolves again, but this time it was mixed with the sound of crashing waves.He looked up to the west, and the original bright moonlight was blocked by a sudden mountain peak. If he looked carefully, the towering shadow was not a mountain peak, but an extremely tall and huge wave heading towards Dawangzhuang. Howl rushed.

Although Xiaolizhuang and Dawangzhuang are close to the big river, winter is the dry season, and the huge waves come really strangely.

Lu Sheng had no time to think about it, and immediately turned around and ran in the opposite direction. Along the way, he saw birds and beasts bustling with each other, all fleeing in panic, and there was no one else but him. to this indiscriminate disaster.

After running for an unknown amount of time, a high mountain suddenly appeared in front of him with a steep slope. Lu Sheng rushed and climbed to the top of the mountain surrounded by birds and beasts.Suddenly there were bursts of crying behind him, and Lu Sheng looked back in panic, only to see the dark water waves chasing after him, but countless human figures emerged from the water waves, changing endlessly from time to time, condensing She Qingrong, Linghu Fei, etc. Yu waited for the faces of the people in Dawangzhuang to come, and countless sharp claws formed by the black water stretched forward, stretched out of the water, and grabbed Lu Sheng, crying: "Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie, I am waiting for you as a guest. How could you leave me and escape alone?"

Several wild boars and wild mice that fell behind were grabbed by the sharp claws, struggling and crying, but they were still pulled into the water and disappeared.

Lu Sheng's heart became more and more frightened, but he tripped over a withered tree root and fell to the ground. Suddenly, he was stomped on by some unknown beast. His sharp claws scratched his back, and he almost broke his ribs under the pressure. He was depressed. syncope.

Finally, a big wave beat down hard, barely passing Lu Sheng's feet, shaking the ground and shaking the mountain, and huge boulders rolled down from the top of the mountain.Some wild beasts were caught off guard, and were also shocked to fall and roll, screaming miserably, while falling into the black water, sank in a blink of an eye, and never came up again.

Lu Sheng hugged a section of the tree root tightly, and then casually caught the hairball that rolled down in front of him and put it on the tree root. It was another tiger cat, and he didn't bother to check carefully to see if it was the same one in the banquet hall.The sharp claws made of black water protruded from the water like countless demon vines. When they saw a living thing, they grabbed it and dragged it into the water. Once they got close, it was extremely cold. Lu Sheng felt the cold approaching, so he swung his sword and chopped it down.

With a slash, a sharp cry resounded through the night sky: "Mr. Xie! You are so ruthless! You are so ruthless! I hate you! I hate you!"

The black water was cut open but never disappeared. Instead, it wrapped around the sword like a rope and spread towards the hilt.

Lu Sheng was so horrified that his scalp exploded, but he still refused to let go of the hilt of his sword. While hesitating, the collar at the back of his neck suddenly tightened, and his body flew into the air. In someone's generous and firm arms.

Lu Sheng raised his head, and saw a unparalleled face shining like a pearl in the boundless darkness. He was cold and resolute, with a tall and stalwart figure, eyes as clear as stars, and a snow-white Taoist robe, which was fluttering in the howling night wind. Flying, like a god in heaven, a cyclist on a mountain top, untainted by the mortal aura.

Lu Sheng unconsciously asked, "Xie Rong, am I dreaming?" Then he took a deep breath and grinned, "My back hurts, I'm afraid it's not a dream... If it's not a dream, it's terrible. I'm afraid this monstrous flood If we want to submerge Jianye, we should quickly go to the city to warn... But this flood is too strange..."

He muttered to himself for a while, but Xie Rong had stepped over the cliff and stood on a huge banyan tree. The banyan tree was less than a foot away from the ground, but its air roots were entangled, forming a suspended platform.Xie Rong threw him onto the platform. Lu Sheng was caught off guard, and the wound on his back opened again. He groaned in pain, turned over and said angrily, "You can't... be gentle."

Xie Rong ignored him, just stood on the branch and looked down the mountain.

Lu Sheng could only grumble and stand up, muttering and complaining, while standing beside Xie Rong, he felt as if someone had strangled his throat, unable to utter a sound.

There is a vast ocean below the mountain, black water rippling, boundless, shadows on the water surface, there are countless shadows, like sharp claws and demon vines, like ghost shadows, dragging struggling living creatures, and disappearing into the water without a trace.

The sound of the wind whistling and the sound of the water turbulent, like a hundred ghosts howling, made people's hearts even colder.

Above the boundless black water, a round of bright moon is like an ice wheel and jade plate, but it has a strange blue color, scatters the icy brilliance, and dyes everything with a layer of creepy cold light, faintly blue, as if exuding a breath of death.

A crest slowly rises in the middle of the black water, supporting a huge monster with a long snout, four claws, and an iron tail. With the bright moon behind it, it slowly reveals its figure. It is actually a giant wolf with iron gray head and body. His icy blue eyes were condensed like frost, and he raised his head to the bright moon and screamed mournfully.

Accompanied by the howling of wolves, the crest of the black water rises again, gradually higher than the mountain, and beats around, the turbulent waves hit the shore, slowly surge, the water level rises slowly, has submerged half of the mountain peak, and is slowly submerging towards the top of the mountain .

Lu Sheng tremblingly said, "What kind of monster is this...?"

Xie Rong said: "Land wolf."

Lu Sheng said angrily: "What kind of monster is the ground wolf!"

Xie Rong slowly tidied up the wide sleeves, stroked them flat, and said with a sneer, "Ignorant boy, what are you so proud of?"

Lu Sheng choked. He had experienced nine deaths and had seen this monstrous scene. Now that his mind was in confusion, he couldn't keep his sense of normalcy. It is underground, shaped like a dog, it can hide from the ground, and it is good at building and digging crypts. If you see it, you will be in trouble."

Lu Sheng wondered, "This is clearly a water beast that manipulates black water, why isn't it called a water wolf?"

Xie Rong's gestures stagnated, and he was speechless for a while.This Habayashiro didn't take the saying that seeing it will bring disaster to his heart at all, instead he discussed the characteristics of this monster with him.

But he still said: "The flood is not controlled by this monster, but it was dug out by him."

Lu Sheng felt relieved, and quickly asked: "Xie Rong, since you know the ins and outs, what can you do to solve it?"

Xie Rong continued to straighten her clothes, pulled off the silk ribbon that tied her hair, and any long hair fluttered slowly in the night wind, making this young man look like an exiled immortal, graceful and unparalleled in style.

He held the plain white silk belt between his two fingers and let it ignite spontaneously in the wind, turning into flying ash and flying around, but there was a slight stern expression between his brows, "This monster has dug through Nanming, but it's a bit tricky."

Nanmingzhe, Tianchi also.

Inheriting the spirit of heaven and earth, condensing the essence of the four seas, concentrating to absorb Kunpeng, and overflowing to swallow the eight wildernesses.

Lu Sheng had only seen it in the book of strange things, and it was just an ordinary person's delusion. At this moment, he felt dizzy, his eyes were dimmed, and he said in a daze, "In this world... there is really Nanming?"

Xie Rong said: "There is no Nanming in the world, it's just that this wolf has cultivated for more than a thousand years, and can penetrate the void and penetrate the realm, so digging a well through the ground and penetrating the Nanming has caused this disaster for no reason. Woe."

Lu Sheng said: "The top priority is how to put an end to the disaster, Xie Rong, I will do my best."

Xie Rong put his hands behind his back and said, "What can you do, if not..." He suddenly stopped talking, glanced at Lu Sheng thoughtfully, and suddenly smiled, a clear and shallow smile, like a white flower blooming on the boundless black water.Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, but then he heard Xie Rong change the subject, "Forget it, go back to Jianye quickly and stay in my residence, my servants will naturally know how to deal with it."

He pointed behind Lu Sheng, and Lu Sheng followed where he pointed, but saw that the fly ash from the burning silk belt had condensed into a narrow road, crossing the vast black water, leading to nowhere.Some shrewd animals had already jumped onto the passage and fled all the way.

Lu Sheng didn't bother to marvel at his miraculous spells, but asked, "If I leave, do you want to deal with it alone?"

Xie Rong said: "Naturally."

Lu Sheng said, "I'll stay and help you."

Xie Rong shook her head and said: "Half a finger can't help, it's easy to leave."

Lu Sheng hesitated, "I, I won't go."

Xie Rongxiu frowned slightly, "If I stay here, I don't have time to take care of it. Ten deaths and nine lives."

Lu Sheng gasped, but he became more determined: "Then I won't leave."

Xie Rong couldn't help laughing and said: "You kid, do you think you are a hero?"

Lu Sheng resolutely said: "If it's so dangerous, you can't just leave you alone... On the way to Huangquan, it's good to have someone to accompany you."

Xie Rong's face was weirded by what he said, she paused for a moment, and then she took off a string of blue and gold beads from her wrist, the beads were no more than the size of soybeans, but they were all carefully carved into the shape of half-open flower buds, I don't know What kind of stone is it? There are golden brilliance shining in the blue color, which looks very luxurious and compelling.

Xie Rong put the beads on Lu Sheng's right wrist, and said: "Although you want to seek death, don't get me involved, stay on the banyan tree and don't leave."

Lu Sheng was used to his venomous tongue, so he didn't refute. He just smiled wryly, "...I remember."

Xie Rong grabbed it out of thin air again, and suddenly there was a golden longbow in his hand, the whole body was shining golden, and three cyan-purple feathered arrows were handed over to Lu Sheng, "If you have spare power, look for the ground wolf. There is an abnormality- —As for any abnormality, you will know it when you see it. If you find it, use this bow and arrow to kill it. If you can’t find it... just let fate."

Lu Sheng caught the bow and arrow, and said with a bitter face: "Xie Rong, you are so depressed, even I can't raise my fighting spirit."

Xie Rong said: "I know."

Then he turned around and jumped down, standing on the flat ground outside the banyan tree.

Lu Sheng said: "What do you know, why do I not know at all..."

He was babbling, and suddenly there was no sound.

Xie Rong made a gesture at this moment.

The left palm is raised above the head, the palm is facing the sky, and the sword finger of the right hand is placed across the chest. He has slender limbs, and his fingers are also exceptionally slender. It looks like beautiful jade with clouds wrapped around it.

Then he waved his left palm down, drew a half circle with his right hand in front of his chest, and flung it outwards, the sleeves of his robe fluttered, as if bringing out the sound of wind and thunder, Xie Rong took a step forward.

boom--

It was clearly soft mud, but there was a loud noise that made the mountain tremble.

Lu Sheng couldn't make a sound at all, he just stared blankly at the flawless white figure dancing under the moon, only to feel that as he raised his hands and feet, bursts of bells rang from the depths of his soul, The shock made him numb all over, unable to move.

But his eyes seemed to be glued to Xie Rong's body, chasing him around, and his Taoist clothes turned into flowing clouds and wandered freely.

Lu Sheng couldn't move his whole body, but his mind was exceptionally clear. When Xie Rong turned around and took another step, he finally came to his senses.

Xie Rong stepped on the Big Dipper Step...

Qixingbu, also known as Yubu, is said to have been created by Yu, the great sage of flood control. After thousands of years, it was inherited and carried forward by Taoism.

Lu Sheng once saw a Taoist priest in Wuchen Temple doing a funeral ceremony. Although the ceremony was solemn, the steps were weird and strange, and it was very difficult.However, the steps taken by this noble young man with outstanding manners in front of him are somewhat specious. Every movement of his hands and feet is graceful and holy, like a goddess dancing with fragrant flowers falling.

Lu Sheng stared at the dancing figure, his body was light but powerful, his rise was breezy, his fall was thunderous, his long sleeves fluttered, his clothes were like clouds, and his black hair fluttered.

Xie Rong was originally born handsome and beautiful, but at this moment, her face looked more and more empty, not like a human expression, without desire, thought, sadness or joy, neither male nor female, it was like the face of a god or Buddha.

A sense of boundless coercion radiated from the dancer in white. Lu Sheng felt his back go cold, the bow and arrow fell to his feet, his body was stiff, cold sweat rolled down, his soul was shocked, and he almost curled up in fear.

The power of the gods is like a prison, Wei Wei is heavy and heavy; the grace of the gods is like the sea, vast and vast.

This is by no means a dance of the secular world, nor a dance of ordinary people, but to please the gods with one's own body, and to communicate with the will of heaven through rhythm.

This is called the dance to welcome the gods.

boom--

boom--

boom--

Xie Rong stepped forward, turned her palms, and danced.

Sweat trickled down his cheeks as white as jade.

Amidst the shocking sound, the momentum of the waves rushing straight into the sky shrank, and even the blue-gray moonlight seemed to gradually turn back to a bright silver light.

On Xie Rong's original plain white robe, cuffs, collar, belt, hem and hanging belt, silver lines were slowly revealed, like complex runes made of silver threads.

The silver light flickered, making him even less popular, and dancing with him, the light and shadow became brighter and brighter.

In a trance, Lu Sheng heard a deep and beautiful voice singing slowly, the voice was as silky as thread, and it touched the hearts of the people.

There is the sea in the east, and there are only drowning cockroaches.

Chi dragons flow side by side, only up and down.

Fog and rain are promiscuous, only white glue.

……

The generation of water cannot be touched, and the depth is unfathomable.

Tianbai Haohao, Han Ningning only.

The silver light on Xie Rong's sleeve became more and more radiant, separated from the robe, turned into countless silver threads, surrounded him, and condensed into eight different patterns.

The author has something to say: There is a sea in the east... A few words, from "The Songs of Chu·Da Zhao"