The Ascension of Ghosts

Lu Sheng was unmoved, he just lifted the hanging pot, and stroked Guo Qian's arm, black blood oozed out, but the wound healed in a blink of an eye, he had to swing his sword one after another, scratching wounds all over Guo Qian's body, once the black blood As it oozes out, Guo Qian's swollen body shrinks a little, and once it heals, it starts to swell again.

The sound of the piano became more and more urgent and sharp, as if being urged by an invisible whip. Guo Qian's face was distorted and ferocious, and suddenly he punched the ground heavily, and roared: "Lu Sheng! Why are you hesitating!"

Lu Sheng pierced his shoulder with a sword, and said in a cold voice: "Guo Qian, you have committed a bloody debt, and now you want to die, how can it be so easy?"

Black blood gushed out and stained Lu Sheng's body, staining his light blue gown brilliantly.

Guo Qian propped himself up on the ground and knelt up, with a hunched tall body, and suddenly dug two fingers into the wound on his shoulder with his backhand, tearing the healing wound even more fiercely, and the blood gushed out like a fountain, soaking through his clothes, but he Unmoved, he just smiled miserably: "Lu Sheng, Baoyang...you are always soft-hearted..."

Lu Sheng looked at him with a straight face, but didn't speak.At that time, Baili Xiao suddenly let go of the string, and the feathered arrow whizzed through the vast wasteland, and shot towards the willow forest.

The sound of the piano suddenly stopped, and a white figure rose from the willow forest. He easily raised his hand, flicked away the feather arrow, and then galloped towards Lu Sheng and the others. Those who could avoid it were rare among hundreds of people. However, the figure of that person was erratic, and he avoided it every time. Then he stood still two feet away in front of Lu Sheng and the other three.

The cloud-white monk's robe, the giant clam Buddha beads, and the coquettish and sinister smile are none other than the elusive Monk Guiye. He holds a matouqin in his left hand, and a tiger-skin kitten in his right hand. He couldn't move, he could only blink his dark gold pupils and meow at Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng didn't understand, but he didn't dare to act rashly. He suddenly pressed Guo Qian's shoulders, put the hanging pot in front of his neck, and said coldly, "It really was you, Gui Ye. On the ninth day of June, you were in the Western Regions. What is the guardian looking for?"

Gui Ye giggled, looked at him with half-closed eyes, his eyes were as sharp and cold as needles, and said softly: "So you never revealed half of your friendship?"

Lu Sheng was caught off guard by his teasing, his ears turned red, but he became annoyed immediately. It wasn't that Xie Rong didn't say anything, but... There were so many things that Lu Sheng didn't have time to ask.

He still had a straight face, thinking about the cause and effect, and said coldly: "You and... Xie Rong suddenly stopped fighting because the thing escaped, and the fight was useless. So... that thing didn't run away at that time , but possessed Guo Qian."

Gui Ye put down the motouqin, still holding the tiger-striped kitten, found a protruding rock and sat down, took out a rope twisted from beef tendon, and tied it up slowly, while laughing: "No."

Lu Sheng was slightly stunned. He was confident that although his guess was not right, he was not far away. Now that Gui Ye denied it, he was naturally a little surprised, and couldn't help asking: "How do you say that?"

Ghost Leaf tied up the tiger-striped kitten, threw it at his feet, and then said with a smile, "It's not possession, but parasitism."

He pointed at Guo Qian. At this time, Guo Qian was huge, but he lost his mind and fell to the ground. On the contrary, he revealed a strange and peaceful atmosphere. It feeds on death energy and uses killing intent as its nest. It can heal the wounds of the host and improve its strength. Only those with great merit can take it as their own. This fool in the Central Plains is a fool."

Lu Sheng's face became more and more gloomy, and he asked again in a cold voice: "Holy thing? I'm afraid it's an evil thing. It disturbs people's mind and kills innocent people indiscriminately."

Gui Ye licked his lips, snorted again, and said, "It's just that he doesn't obey the will of God and insists on suppressing it. What's wrong with following his heart like a monk?"

He stretched himself, and then said again: "Guo Qian, wake up quickly, you still need to kill more people to nourish the holy things, the two people in front of you are left for you to kill, but this cat demon has to stay, so it's easy to teach , can also be a guardian animal.”

The tiger-striped kitten stared wide-eyed, struggled vigorously, meowed, but was bound extremely tightly, with only one tail slapping a little futile dust.

Bailixiao opened his bow and shot again, but Guiye didn't dodge, stretched out two fingers to clamp the feather arrow, stuck out his tongue and licked the cold and sharp arrow cluster slowly, drawing deep bloodstains on the tongue surface, the blood The dripping drips dyed the monk's lips even more bright red and glaring. He smiled and said, "Fortunately, I will keep you two to feed the worms. Otherwise, I will spare your life just because the blades are facing each other." yes."

Baili Xiao sneered and said, "If you are an enemy and you can still survive, what's the point?"

Gui Ye giggled and said: "The little monk will break your bones every day, and then treat them carefully. After you are cured, you will be interrupted. I will ask you to beg the little monk to take your life every day."

Hearing this, Baili Xiao's face was inevitably pale, but he lifted his bow and arrow again, but Lu Sheng grabbed his wrist immediately, and Guo Qian on the other side suddenly opened his eyes, which were dark and dull, and his body, which was a head taller than everyone else, seemed like Strong and strong like cast iron, with loose black hair, grinning with a sneer, he roared in a low voice: "Kill—"

Baili Xiao hurriedly drew out his saber and said, "Brother Lu, I'll block it, hurry up and get some help!"

Lu Sheng smiled wryly in his heart, Mulan Castle had been killed to the point where nine rooms were empty, but where are they going to send reinforcements now?

The two scattered and fled to both ends. Seeing this, Guo Qian simply hugged a section of stone pillar exposed to the ground. Unable to dodge in time, he was hit on the back by the stone pillar, and immediately his body flew up and fell, his sternum was broken, and he spewed a mouthful of blood, lying on the ground unable to move.

Seeing this, Lu Sheng was frightened and angry, and he couldn't care less about protecting himself. A silver lightning flashed from the hanging pot, slashed towards Guo Qian, and shouted sharply, "Guo Qian! You have to make more mistakes!"

Ghost Ye looked at Xuanhu, his eyes were burning, he was about to get up, but he sat back patiently, and muttered: "Never mind, whatever, it's just a dying person. When you die, Xuan Hu won't have to look for you anymore. "

Guo Qian chuckled, hugged the stone pillar with both hands and waved it easily, the hanging pot hit the stone with a bang, Lu Sheng's arm went numb, and he staggered back half a step.The hanging pot can cut evil things, but not ordinary things. This is the result of Lu Sheng's transformation after Xie Rong was asked. Now it seems that it may not be a good thing.

Lu Sheng missed the blow, Guo Qian didn't take the opportunity to chase after him, but still held up the stone pillar, trying to smash Baili Xiao who fell on the ground into meat sauce.In desperation, Lu Sheng flew up and kicked Guo Qian's lower back hard. He felt as if he had kicked an iron plate, and the shock force penetrated through the moccasin boots, causing his ankle to burst with pain.

Guo Qian involuntarily leaned half a step to the side, Baili Xiao tried his best to turn over and dodge, the stone pillar smashed beside him, smashing the mud into a big pit, and cracked many lines like spider webs around it.

This time Guo Qian was furious, threw the stone pillar, grabbed Lu Sheng's ankle with his backhand, and lifted him upside down.

Lu Sheng didn't dare to hesitate at all. When he kicked Guo Qian away, he took out the jade talisman and crushed it hard, but his ankle tightened suddenly.

In an instant, the sky and the earth seemed to darken suddenly, all the light was absorbed on the jade talisman in Lu Sheng's hand, and a little light ball was dazzling.Guo Qian was illuminated by the white light, suddenly let out an ear-piercing roar, and threw Lu Sheng far away.

Gui Ye also yelled badly, took out the vajra, and rushed towards him, but was also bounced by the white light, and his body flew away immediately, and fell into the salix forest with a blood line far away without moving.

However, Lu Sheng seemed to be falling into a white mist, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, his body was ups and downs, and gradually seemed to fall into someone's arms.

The white mist gradually dissipated, and it was only then that Lu Sheng realized that he was really in Xie Rong's arms. Xie Rong's clothes were the same as when he danced to meet the gods that day. Like an immortal, his long, thick black hair is like black jade, obediently draped behind his back, with clean white light lingering all over his body, his brows are serene, his beauty is extraordinary.

Lu Sheng murmured: "Ah Rong..."

Xie Rong smiled softly, gently put him down and stood firm, then raised a slender finger like a white jade carving, and made a gesture of silence.

Then the figure rose lightly, while the white clothes were spread out, he gestured again, turned around and stepped on, the silver runes around his body lingered and expanded, spreading layers of silver light like a bright moon, shining around.

Yellow sand wasteland, gray-white rocks, blood-red corpses, gray-brown sand willows, withered mounds...all of them are shrouded in the soft moonlight, exuding a quiet and serene atmosphere.

Xie Rong's face was calm and holy, with a slight movement of her finger, a bell rang in the sky and the earth, it was so clear and pure that it shocked the soul.Lu Sheng only felt a sledgehammer hit hard, and his breath was also suffocated, so he couldn't bear it, and knelt on the ground on one knee.

Guo Qian felt as if he had been hit hard, his tall body slumped to his knees, amidst hoarse growls, suddenly bleeding from the seven orifices continued, and a stench radiated out. Xie Rong flipped his palm again, and the silver light became more dazzling, The stench was also eliminated.

Xie Rong's expression was indifferent, as if possessed by a god, once again showing the appearance of being neither a man nor a ghost, nor a man nor a woman. The sleeves of his robe fluttered with the talisman patterns, his left hand pointed with a sword, his right hand held a flower, and suddenly turned and fell back to the ground .

Jingle Bell--

The bell rang again, and the sky and the earth changed color.

Guo Qian suddenly let out a deafening roar, twisting and terrifying tendons burst out from under his brown skin, as if the roots of a tree were like countless strange insects, they bulged until the skin cracked, and came out through his body. The crimson lump of flesh looks like a mass of tree roots, or a heart covered with fluff, shrinking from time to time, dripping with blood.

After the last root was stripped from Guo Qian's face, and a burst of blood splashed out, the man couldn't even utter a scream, and fell to the ground without a sound, his life and death unknown.

The lump of strange flesh seemed to have eyes, hovering in mid-air to spy around, and then picked Lu Sheng, and rushed towards him.

Lu Sheng was horrified, he frantically tried to block with his sword, but Xie Rong suddenly opened his eyes, and pinched a complicated formula with both hands, as if a thousand lotus petals were blooming layer by layer, with dazzling light and shadow, making people dizzy.

The runes around his body disappeared without a trace in an instant, and almost at the same time, runes emitting silver light appeared around the strange flesh, surrounded and tightened layer by layer.The strange flesh rushed left and right in the cage like a trapped animal, but there was nothing he could do, the roots of his body were trembling with anger.

However, the rune was still spinning and tightening, and finally turned into a fist-sized silver ball of light. When Xie Rong waved, it flew back obediently and landed in his hand.

Holding the silver ball of light, he turned around again, walked in front of Lu Sheng, and gently stroked Lu Sheng's cheek with a finger that seemed to be emitting silver light. The bell rang for the third time, and Xie Rong immediately disappeared like a wind. Come, leave no trace.

The dark sky was shrouded by the scorching sun again, and the surroundings were bright and dazzling, and the previous abnormalities could not be seen at all.

Only the blood on the ground and the sound of panting in pain one after another reminded Lu Sheng that from the beginning to the end, all the tragedies were real, and nothing could be faked.

He came back to his senses, didn't dare to delay, endured the injury on his foot, and first went to Shaliu Forest to check the enemy's situation, but the ghost leaf had disappeared, presumably he had escaped.Lu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and hurried to untie the tendon rope that bound the tiger-striped kitten.

The kitten was free, but it still meowed at Lu Sheng, bowing its head and arching his fingers.Lu Sheng was stunned for a while, and said in a daze, "Could it be that this is not Yan Xiu, it's really a cat?"

The kitten screamed so anxiously that it kept lowering its head. Lu Sheng then gently stroked the top of its head to the back of its neck. Sure enough, he felt something strange, and hurriedly peeled off the fur. There was a silver needle stuck in his neck, he didn't dare to move it, so he had to ask first: "Take it, take it out?"

The kitten raised its paw, and patted Lu Sheng's wrist with its pad, to reassure him not to be afraid, but to act boldly.Encouraged, Lu Sheng pinched the tail of the needle and pulled out the silver needle in one breath.

The kitten let out a breath of relief immediately, fell on the ground and rolled over twice, then changed back to Yan Xiu's appearance, stood up tremblingly, with a pale face and weak feet, touched the back of the neck and sighed: " Careless, careless, ashamed and ashamed."

Lu Sheng was concerned about Baili Xiao and Guo Qian, so he could only say: "Let's talk about it when we go back, first help me save people."

Yan Xiuying saw that Lu Sheng's foot was injured again, so he simply hugged him horizontally. Lu Sheng was stunned, first looked around, and saw that there was no one else, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Yan Xiu was of medium stature, not much stronger than Lu Sheng, but he held him with ease, and walked towards Baili Xiao, smiling, "If you are in a hurry, you will not care about it if you know it."

Lu Sheng was also relieved, and supported Yan Xiu's hand and knelt down on one knee beside Bailixiao. Bailixiao was covered in blood, frowning and moaning in pain. When he saw Lu Sheng approaching, he showed a wry smile on his pale face, and said softly : "Brother Lu..."

Lu Sheng hurriedly told him to silence, took out the wound medicine and treated his wound hastily.

Yan Xiu, on the other hand, was ordered to check on Guo Qian, and suddenly he let out a little surprise, and said strangely: "This evildoer is still angry."

As soon as the words fell, there was an earth-shattering howl suddenly from the pool of blood. Guo Qian raised his hand and slapped Yan Xiu down fiercely, knocking Yan Xiu back to his original shape. The thread was thrown far away and fell to the ground with a splash.

Guo Qian supported the ground, stood up slowly, and shouted in a low voice: "Kill!"

His whole body was blood red, his flesh was fuzzy and festered, the left half of his face seemed to have been peeled off, his gums and sharp teeth were exposed, he was as ferocious as a purgatory Shura, he was panting heavily, his eyes were bloodshot, and he glared at Lu Sheng viciously, his eyes seemed like He is as vicious as a wounded beast.

Lu Sheng grabbed the hanging pot, moved to Bailixiao to block it, and still tried to call out: "Guo Qian, Guo Qian, do you recognize me?"

Guo Qian supported the ground with one hand, bent his knees, and was about to pounce, but suddenly turned his head and roared in pain and anger towards the corpse forest. Lu Sheng followed his gaze subconsciously, but saw the corpse under the orange sunset Thick black smoke came out of the forest, and there were red tongues of flames constantly moving. No one knew who set fire to the whole forest of corpses. When the wind direction changed, there was a strong, nauseating stench.

Guo Qian was extremely furious, and said inarticulately: "Once the defense line is breached, how can we resist... the enemy..."

He stopped caring about Lu Sheng, and his huge body suddenly accelerated, rushing towards the place where the flames were burning the most.

Lu Sheng stayed where he was, and was in a dilemma for a while, with corpses lying around, one of Baili Xiao and Yan Xiu was seriously injured, and the other didn't know whether he was alive or dead. where have you been?"

Then he laughed again, cut off a strip of cloth from the corner of his clothes, tightly bound his sprained and swollen ankle, limped to pick up the tiger-striped kitten and stuffed it into his arms, then helped Baili Xiao to bring him back city.Baili Xiao refused, and only said: "Brother Lu, you go back to the city to call for someone, and I'm afraid you won't be far away with me, I'll wait for you here."

Lu Sheng lowered his face and said, "There are corpses everywhere, which can attract wild wolves and vultures at any time. Do you want to keep them and feed them to the wolves?"

Bailixiao sighed: "I'm dragging it down, I'm afraid none of them can leave... Why don't Brother Lu go and come back quickly and call for some help."

The two were arguing, but a gust of wind blew overhead, accompanied by the loud noise of the wide wings fanning the wind, from far to near in a blink of an eye, a huge shadow like a mountain fell on the ground beside it, and smoke and dust rose into the sky.

When the smoke cleared away, Lu Shengmo turned his face to look, but saw a gigantic mallard sitting on the ground, bowing its head obediently, and sitting on the back was a young man in a tea-white gauze robe, with his long hair tied back Neat, with a green veiled hat that shades the sun, a layer of tulle that is as hazy as a light mist hangs down from the veiled hat, and the cold sight is clearly visible through the tulle.

Lu Sheng's heart was beating like a drum, his eyes were hot, and he murmured: "Ah, Ah Rong——" Then his throat choked up, and he couldn't say another word.

Bailixiao was so terrified that his face turned pale, and he grabbed Lu Sheng's sleeve and tremblingly said: "Lu, brother Lu, this, what kind of monster is this..."

The mallard heard it, turned its round black eyes, glared at Bailixiao and yelled twice, Bailixiao was seriously injured, and was frightened by this, and passed out.

Xie Rong landed lightly and walked towards Lu Sheng. Lu Sheng's mind was agitated, and he stepped on the ground with his injured foot, and his body was distorted in pain, and he was about to fall to the ground.

Xie Rong didn't care about maintaining her graceful posture, she ran a few steps in a hurry, took Lu Sheng into her arms, and angrily said: "You idiot! It's only been a few days since I saw you, and you've made yourself into a mess again. If you don't know If you repent, you might as well cut off your legs and lock them up."

Lu Sheng said in a low voice, "It's not just a few days...more than half a month."

Xie Rong was also stunned, the frost on her face finally faded, she showed a slight smile, stroked a strand of hair hanging on Lu Sheng's forehead, "Miss me?"

Lu Sheng didn't say a word, just leaned against Xie Rong's arms, his eyes rolled around, but he refused to look at him, except for his ears that were suspiciously red.Seeing that he was unwilling to speak, Xie Rong raised her hand and put it into his skirt.