Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Military Commission Hospital, [-]th floor underground.

The ward was brightly lit, and all kinds of expensive and advanced medical equipment surrounded the bed, and all the data showed that the life signs of the person on the bed were already in critical condition.

——It was a white-haired old man, his eyes were closed tightly, bags under his eyes were obvious, his whole face hung down like dry bark, and he even looked a little scary.If he dyed his hair black, put on formal clothes, and dressed up a bit more energetically, many people across the country should recognize this face that often appears on news broadcasts; It's just a sad dying person.

Yu Jingzhong stood beside the hospital bed with a gloomy expression. A man who looked like an attending doctor came over, took off his mask and shook his head at him.

"The situation is very pessimistic. When I was evacuated from the upstairs ICU just now, I moved too fast and caused great harm to my condition..."

Yu Jingzhong couldn't help gnashing his teeth: "Didn't it mean that Feng Si went to Hell Road to find Demon Lord Fan Luo? Why did he suddenly appear in the hospital and directly find the ICU intensive care unit?!"

The attending doctor didn't dare to answer, only heard a hoarse and unpleasant voice from the corner of the ward: "That's a trick set up by Zhou Hui, deputy group leader Yang Jin. The fourth group leader of Feng has been with our demon since the matter of Peacock King Maha. Since His Highness turned his back on you, he has never set foot in the 'Four Evil Paths'...Zhou Hui released the news that Team Leader Feng Si had left, just to divert your attention."

"Yu Jingzhong" turned his head, and saw four unusually slender figures standing in the corner, wrapped from head to toe in thick gray robes, even their faces were hidden in huge hoods, and all they could see were their faces. Carrying a pure gold bell as big as a lantern, the hands exposed under the sleeves of the robe showed a wrinkled gray-white texture.

The person who spoke at the head seemed to be smiling, and said: "His Majesty Mozun was also very surprised when he heard the news, but after searching the nine heavens, ten places and four evil ways, there was no trace of the appearance of the phoenix... What a pity, we Master Mozun has always wanted to marry the leader of Fengsi Group in a serious way."

The corner of Yangjin Pingcuo's mouth twitched dryly, appearing on Jingzhong's face through a human skin mask, which looked quite strange.

"The fifth team can't stop Feng Si. You managed to subdue Shenwan Tiansi and make him a puppet, but now you have lost even this trump card... Everyone said that the leader of Feng Si's team is a man who has been raised for hundreds of years. Seriously injured patients who have not recovered, now it seems that a lean camel is bigger than a horse, what should I do?"

The man in gray said lightly: "Don't worry—"

As soon as the words were finished, the old man on the hospital bed suddenly burst into asthma, his body almost arched, and he spurted out big mouthfuls of blood under the breathing mask.The ward was suddenly in chaos, and the chief physician led several people to rush to the rescue. All the instruments were turned on at the same time, and a piercing siren sounded.

"Buddha's blood! Bring the Buddha's blood!" The director hissed and screamed, then snatched the blood bag from the rushing doctor, drew out the golden blood mixed with it, injected it, and put it all in after a few seconds The carotid artery of the elderly.The old man gasped violently for a while, but the intensity has been significantly reduced.After a while, he slowly calmed down, his life index recovered to a certain level, and the instrument stopped screaming.

"This, this is the last piece of Buddha's blood." The chief physician wiped his sweat and said in despair, "Half of the Buddha's blood was taken upstairs by you to deal with Team Leader Feng Si. Now this amount is not enough, far from enough ..."

Yangjin Pingcuo gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't you say that the things brought by Yu Jingzhong's little lover from Japan are also sacred objects? Does it have the effect of extending life?!"

Just as the man in gray was about to say something, the door of the ward was knocked twice, and then opened.A subordinate walked in quickly, leaned into Yangjin Pingcuo's ear and whispered: "Deputy group leader, it's not good, the fourth group leader of Feng took one soul and two souls from everyone, and the fifth group was wiped out..."

Yangjin Pingcuo's complexion changed drastically: "What did you say?!"

There was silence in the ward, and the air was so tense that it almost burst.

In this suffocating atmosphere, the man in gray suddenly sneered: "It doesn't matter, Phoenix Ming will leave it to us."

The four men in gray turned and walked towards the door at the same time. Under the light, it could be seen that their bodies emitted an extremely imperceptible gas, as if they were shrouded in faint black smoke.As they walked, they left wet black footprints on the ground, but they quickly dried out after being exposed to the air, leaving only a thin layer of gray particles like gravel.

"—How sure are you?" Yangjin Pingcuo raised his voice behind him.

"It's just a human body at the end of its strength, nothing terrible..." The man in gray didn't turn his head back, and quickly disappeared at the end of the dark corridor in the basement of the hospital. It's not too difficult."

·

As the man in gray left, the lingering smell of decay in the ward seemed to be washed away by the air a lot.

Yangjin Pingcuo took a deep breath, and looked back at the doctor who couldn't hide his worry and the dying old man on the hospital bed. The beeping sound of medical equipment seemed to make him particularly irritable.He habitually wanted to touch the cigarette, but stopped halfway through his hand.

He turned his head and ordered to his subordinates: "Bring Yan Lanyu."

The subordinates nodded and went away, and after a while, a wheelchair pushed in from the door.Yan Lanyu, who was unconscious, was placed on a wheelchair with her head tilted, her hair hanging down her eyes, and her face looked transparently white.

Yangjin Pingcuo looked at him coldly and said, "Wake him up."

The next hand pressed on a certain acupuncture point on Yan Lanyu's head, and pinched it with all his might.However, this usual method of waking up the dead was useless this time, and his subordinates pressed harder two or three times, Yan Lanyu finally twitched, and slowly opened her eyes.

Yangjin Pingcuo looked at him condescendingly and asked, "Are you awake?"

"..." Yan Lanyu leaned on the back of the chair, gasping for breath continuously due to the severe pain, and it took a long time to cough out the blood foam from the trachea, barely regaining her breathing.

"...you...who are you?" he asked intermittently.

"I'm Yu Jingzhong." Yangjin Pingcuo smiled and asked, "Why do you ask that?"

"Aren't you... who are you? Where is Yu Jingzhong?"

The smile on Yangjin Pingcuo's face disappeared.He stared at Yan Lanyu's haggard face, and asked for a long time: "No one recognized it, even Zhou Hui was just puzzled, only you saw me for the first time and something was wrong. How did I expose it? Or did I really sleep?" Feelings are different, can you recognize the genuine one at a glance?"

The corners of Yan Lanyu's chapped, bleeding lips curled up, and there was a hint of slyness in that smile: "No, I haven't slept." He said, "There is nothing between us...don't use me to insult Yu Jingzhong."

Yangjin Pingcuo finally realized where his mistake was.

He couldn't help but thumped the wall heavily - that was indeed the only, but very fatal mistake.

"So that's it, Yu Jingzhong..." He gritted his teeth, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a slightly smug smile on the young man's face out of the corner of his eye.

This young man who seems to be dying at any time, after being detained and tortured for so many days, still maintains this kind of spirit, and can gain such an upper hand in the tit-for-tat confrontation, which shows that he is really fearless now. not afraid.

——A person like Yan Lanyu really has no weakness when he regards death as home.

Yangjin Pingcuo knew that the situation could not go on like this, and he had to take the initiative back.

"Let's make a deal," he took a breath, and asked, "Do you know why everyone acts like Yu Jingzhong and you can relive old dreams?"

"..."

"Because Yu Jingzhong acted like this," he continued without waiting for Yan Lanyu's answer, "Because his performance made many people feel that there is indeed some past between you——Yu Jingzhong's sneaking into the Japanese Tantric sect to perform a mission failed. , was captured alive with his companions, and it was you who secretly let him go to save their lives. If the information that our high-level officials have is correct, you grew up in the Tantric sect, and you are the surname of the head of the sect, right? It is very unreasonable for people to risk their lives to let him go, and if Yu Jingzhong doesn't want to come up with a reason, there is no way to explain this matter."

Yan Lanyu closed her eyes, which meant she didn't want to listen anymore, but Yang Jin didn't stop, her voice was so calm that it was even cruel: "Actually, Yu Jingzhong should be able to think of other excuses, and I don't know why he chose this one. It stands to reason that this reason does not make him face very much, so I think this reason should be his subconscious reaction, maybe he really hopes so in his heart..."

The boy moved and turned his head away.

Tears seeped out of his tightly closed eyelashes little by little, and fell silently down his pale and haggard cheeks.

"Let's make a deal. I don't ask much. You are still so young. The last thing is my little compensation for you."

Yangjin Pingcuo pointed back to the hospital bed and said: "This man is our leader. We must keep his life at all costs now to ensure that the power of our faction can be completely transferred. Aida Yoshi said you are the Japanese Onmyo One of the most talented of the new generation, can you see what else can be done? If you can do something, I will let you see Jingzhong for the last time... Yes, he is not dead yet."

Yan Lanyu's body seemed to vibrate slightly, and she opened her eyes.

Under the light, his eyelids are thin, and the tip of his tail is slightly raised, showing a very soft arc. His tears are like a smudge of rouge in an ink painting.Yangjin Pingcuo stared at him a little fascinated, a little unbearable flashed in his heart for a moment, but then he changed his mind, no matter who came to kill such a life, it would be very difficult to do so.

"...His soul is gone..." Yan Lanyu said softly, "There is no other way...I can't do anything."

Yangjin Pingcuo frowned and asked: "Is there really no other way? The fragment you are wearing—"

"That can only exorcise evil spirits and subdue demons, it cannot live and die intermittently, let alone just a fragment. To save his life, unless there are tears shed by the phoenix on the seat of the righteous god, or the blood shed by the Buddha under the heart of Lian Hairen... ...almost impossible."

After Yan Lanyu finished speaking, she started coughing again, this time it was heavier than before, almost bending her whole body, bright red blood spattered continuously from her nose and throat, and there were spots of blood foam all over her palms.Yangjin Pingcuo took a look at his shoulder, and knew that he was really dying. This young man had reached the end of his life.

Yangjin Pingcuo was a little hesitant, but after a while he still beckoned to his subordinates, and said in a deep voice, "...send him to the prison room, let him have one last look at Yu Jingzhong."

The subordinate nodded and asked, "What about you?"

Yangjin Pingcuo pondered for a while, and said to himself: "Lianhai's benevolent heart...the blood shed willingly."

"Bring me another human skin mask from my closet," he said suddenly, "it's the one I made recently—the one in the human form of Team Leader Feng Si."

The subordinate nodded and answered yes, then pushed Yan Lanyu's wheelchair out the door.

·

The corridor outside the ward was very dark, probably because it tried not to attract attention, and many corners were not lit.The temperature on the fourth basement floor was very low, Yan Lanyu shivered in a daze, and his subordinates couldn't bear it when they saw it, so they thought about taking off their coats and putting them on him.

"You are so beautiful. If you want to, you will be able to live a good life. Why don't you want to hang yourself on this tree? You will lose your life."

The subordinate muttered something, shook his head and sighed, and stopped in front of an iron door at the end of the corridor: "Here we are."

It was originally an aisle leading to the power distribution room, but it was completely blocked by iron fences. It was so dark that it was almost impossible to see anything, and the smell of dust was everywhere.Yan Lanyu pinched her palms to force herself to wake up, staring closely at the subordinate who pressed the combination lock with her back turned to her, not even letting go of his slightest elbow movement; after a moment of password input confirmation, the iron door clicked open.

The subordinates turned around and pushed Yan Lanyu into the guard room, saying, "Here, here it is."

——I saw a person leaning against the wall, half lying and half sitting on the ground. Although he couldn't see his face clearly in the dark, Yan Lanyu instantly recognized this figure exactly as he remembered.

He burst into tears, but there was no sound at all. There seemed to be some sore lump in his throat, and he couldn't even make a sobbing sound.

The subordinate seemed to be very emotional, wanted to say something but didn't say it out, and finally just shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, Deputy, we just follow orders, that...you guys talk slowly, I won't bother you." He turned around while talking Exit the guard room, close the iron door, and the combination lock clicks and locks.

Yu Jingzhong on the ground moved, until the figure of his subordinate disappeared at the end of the corridor, then he sighed and said, "...Little brother, I am sorry for you..."

Yan Lanyu had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.From when he was still in Japan two years ago, he took advantage of the snowy night to secretly let go of this foreign agent who met once, to two years of keeping his illusory promises, constantly polishing his most subtle and fragile hopes, and then repeating his hopes To the cycle of disappointment, and finally completely wiped away all beliefs in the dark days and nights... He has been waiting for this sentence, the only one in his short life of more than ten years, and the last one who refuses to give up Wait, that's the sentence.

However, after hearing these words, he did not lose his temper, nor burst into tears, nor even the tingling and unspeakable sourness that had been repeated hundreds or thousands of times.

Yan Lanyu took a deep and thorough breath, feeling the severe pain caused by the air in her lungs, so that her voice was very hoarse: "No...it doesn't matter."

Yu Jingzhong moved a little closer, and Yan Lanyu saw blood all over his body through the weak light, but most of it had dried up, and I don't know what happened.Yu Jingzhong noticed his gaze, but he didn't explain his injury too much. He reached out and touched Yan Lanyu's pulse and the temperature behind his ears, and said, "You must get treatment immediately, and the situation can't be dragged on any longer. Why did you come here ? Are they trying to kill you too?"

Yan Lanyu didn't answer.

"Listen," Yu Jingzhong said, "I have some information to tell you. This is something they have tortured me for a long time. After you listen to it, you can tell them little by little when you go back. You must hold it well until Zhou Hui finds out. I will come to save you after everything happens. Zhou Hui is the commander of the first group of six teams under our special department. As long as you meet him, you will be able to survive. Tell him this is my last order, and you must let him You live..."

"It's useless..." Yan Lanyu said softly, "Don't bother, it's useless."

Yu Jingzhong grabbed the armrest of his wheelchair, as if he wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yan Lanyu's slight but undeniable voice: "I am an onmyoji, I know it myself...don't bother, don't make me talk too much .You tell me the reason of the matter first, how did it become like this? Why did they pretend to be you?"

They stalemate for a few seconds, Yu Jingzhong let out a long breath, and said dejectedly: "...In the faction of the Military Commission, a faction that is hostile to us, one of their bosses is about to die."

Yan Lanyu listened quietly.

"But the opposing force is not ready for the handover. Once the powerful boss dies, their entire system is in danger of collapse. In order to continue that person's life, they must use our special resources, so I became their roadblock."

"A month ago when I learned that you came to City H, I wanted to take this opportunity to take you over, so I secretly sent Zhou Hui; who knew that the other party took advantage of Zhou Hui's absence in Beijing to sneak in and join forces with the so-called 'four The power of Demon Lord in Evil Dao subdued Shenwan Tiansi, the leader of the fifth group who was unwilling to be manipulated by them, and instigated the deputy leader Yangjin Pingcuo to drive the whole group to rebel, and imprisoned me here by pretending to be me. "

Yu Jingzhong didn't waste time explaining why a deputy team leader can drive the entire team to rebel, but the team leader himself has no appeal.

"They haven't killed me because I still know a lot of information they want. Without this information, Yangjin Pingcuo can't always replace me without revealing the truth." He paused and said: "—but once the other party If the plan is successful, if the boss comes back to life, our special department will be suppressed in a mess, and all six groups will fall apart. It doesn't matter if you kill me at any time, because no one will doubt Yangjin Pingcuo again. It's a fake."

Yu Jingzhong sighed and said: "So my hope of surviving is really very slim. It mainly depends on how long I can delay... I originally wanted to kill you for a while, but now I see you, it doesn't matter anymore .God was kind to me and gave me one last chance before I died."

Yan Lanyu panted and smiled slightly.

"On the contrary, I think God treats me kindly..." He said softly, "I think it's worth it now."

He grabbed the armrest of the wheelchair and stood up slowly and with difficulty.The moment he landed, he staggered, and Yu Jingzhong rushed over to support him, wondering: "What are you going to do?!"

"..." Yan Lanyu waved her hand to signal him not to ask, then broke free from the support, and staggered to the iron gate.

He was already barely able to stand, and when viewed from the side, his already pretty girlish cheeks were pitifully thinner.But in that thin body, there was a terrifying, desperate courage, which turned into an extremely strong force to support his spine, supporting him to stand still and not to fall.

He stared at the iron fence, swallowed sweet saliva, stretched out his hand in the next second and twisted his shoulder joint, his whole body shrunk out of thin air, and half of his body "slid" like a snake across the iron bars that were only a few inches apart Gap!

Yu Jingzhong said in astonishment: "—Bone shrinking?!"

Yan Lanyu's chest was stuck in the middle of the iron fence, and she took a breath in excruciating pain - for a few seconds he couldn't bear the heart-piercing pain, but then he raised his good hand and helped him On one shoulder, "Kara!" was also twisted away with a crisp sound, and amidst the terrible collision and friction of bones, it was squeezed out of the iron door little by little!

With a plop, Yan Lanyu fell to the ground, and Yu Jingzhong rushed forward and grabbed the iron door tightly, with such force that even his fingers were convulsing violently.

Yan Lanyu panted for a while, signaled Yu Jingzhong not to speak, then got up staggeringly, gritted her teeth, bumped her shoulder against the wall, and twisted with a click.

It can be seen that he is very used to this process of dislocation and reconnection. He gritted his teeth and raised his elbow and moved it a few times. Feeling that his fingers slowly regained consciousness, he went to the code lock and entered the code one by one for a few seconds. Then the iron door opened with a click.

Yu Jingzhong rushed out, hugged Yan Lanyu who was falling down the wall, and slowly knelt down on the ground trembling.He felt that his eye sockets were very hot, and even his breathing was hot and sour; while the body in his arms was very, very cold, and the bones were hard in his hands. It seemed that an infinite chill was coming out from the bone marrow, and it was swallowing quickly. The last pitiful life of a teenager.

"No...it doesn't hurt," Yan Lanyu said in a daze, "don't...don't cry, don't cry..."

He seemed to want to stretch out his hand, but he quickly dropped it, and Yu Jingzhong firmly grasped it in his palm.This senior agent, who has been up and down in the sea of ​​spies for more than ten years, trembled all over, pressed his face tightly against the boy's neck, and his mind was completely blank.

Yan Lanyu's consciousness was already very drowsy.He only felt cold, as if the whole body was mutilated and incomplete, the kind of cold that was exposed to the cold wind.He wanted to ask Yu Jingzhong to hug him a little tighter, but in fact, even if he was so close to his flesh and blood, he couldn't feel it anymore.

"Quick... let's go..." He said intermittently with his eyes scattered.

"Quick... you... hurry up..."

Yu Jingzhong panted heavily, raised his head, and looked at the deep and secluded underground corridor.After a while, he gritted his teeth and got up, carried the boy on his shoulders, and walked forward unsteadily.

Chapter 23 Zhou Hui's breathing became heavier, and he suddenly remembered that as a monster, he saw King Phoenix Ming for the first time

The same inpatient building, ICU monitoring floor.

Chu He supported his body with a longbow, sat heavily on the ground, and wiped his waist with his hand.

The girdle was already tight, but it was even more shocking when it was soaked in blood. The golden phoenix pattern was particularly eye-catching in the blood.He raised his breath and took a few breaths. He felt a sharp pain where he was hit by the demon pestle. It must be that his internal organs were damaged.

Everyone in the fifth group was deprived of one soul and two souls, and lay down in every corner of the entire floor like a vegetable.Shenwan Tiansi was dying lying on the side, unconscious, Chuhe spent five seconds praying that he was not dead, and then pulled out the pure blue long arrow nailed in his abdomen, and immediately there was a splash of water on the arrow. Blood.

The material of this long arrow is phoenix bone, there are twelve in total, the twelve bones that were really drawn from the body of the original phoenix.Zhou Hui cut off eleven of them in a row during the melee between gods and demons in the early years, and he grabbed the last one before it was off the string, and it was preserved until today.

Later, Chuhe also considered refining the pure green arrow, but he could no longer bear the pain of bone cramps, so he never put it into action.It was later learned by Zhou Hui that in order to please him, this person hunted down several top monsters in the sea of ​​blood, took out eleven bones and gave them to him.

Strictly speaking, their relationship at that time hadn't reached the stage where the word "send" could be used. If you have to say it, "present" is more appropriate.Chuhe used these eleven magic bones to recast the pure green arrow. Although the hardness was still quite different from that of the phoenix bone, and it did not have the magic power to purify and calm the soul, it has been used until today.

Thinking about it now, from the moment he used the magic bone as a weapon, he had already deviated from the constraints of the way of heaven.But at that time, why did he still accept Zhou Hui's gift?

Because the man who staggered over with the devil's bone in his hands looked miserable?Or is it because his expression like presenting a treasure is too silly?

Chu He let out a breath, nailed the long arrow to the ground and stood up.

——At this moment, a soft bell rang outside the hall.

Chuhe froze for a moment, and then another burst of bells rang like gurgling water, jumping towards the sound of the wind.

The sound is very comfortable, like wind chimes singing on the grass, birds flying in the sun, and the heart is filled with joy and relaxation.He wanted to look back, but his whole body was so comfortable that even his bones were so comfortable that he couldn't help but kneel down and sit down.

Immediately afterwards, the sun faded, dark clouds floated in, lightning pierced the sky, and heavy rain poured down.The ringing of the bell was accompanied by the cold water whip and the strong wind. Chu He tried to stand up in pain, but was forced back by heavy pressure. He felt that he was the only one left in the world. The endless beatings splashed blood dripping all over his body.

Chuhe gasped, and suddenly realized what it was—an illusion!

Golden Bell Illusion!

Chuhe grabbed the pure blue phoenix bone arrow that he pulled out from Shenwan Tiansi just now, gritted his teeth and pierced it into his palm.The palm was pierced immediately, and the mind was cleared in the severe pain, and the hallucinations fell layer by layer like an ebb tide, and the messy scene in the ICU hall was restored.He looked back suddenly, only to see four gray figures standing behind him!

He had seen these people beside the Demon Lord, he could recognize them without looking, and he immediately knew why Shen Wantiansi was so thoroughly made into a puppet—these were the Four Demon Elders, each of whom was a legend. A figure at the level of King Shura, with the golden bell in his hand, creates the illusion of heavenly demons, which can make gods and Buddhas get lost in the ringtone!

When Shenwan Tiansi met them, he must have gone through a bloody battle, but he was exhausted very quickly and was captured, the whole process didn't even have time to call for help.If it hadn't been pierced by the phoenix bone, he might have died in battle in a puppet state or died of a mental breakdown. The best ending would have been lost in illusions for the rest of his life. Zhou Hui had no choice but to put him in a mental hospital.

Chuhe was so angry that he backed up suddenly.However, the other party moved faster than him, and the four of them threw heavy golden bells as big as lanterns at the same time, and they jingled in mid-air, turning into a giant net that covered the sky and covered him!

"you--"

"Please come with us, His Royal Highness Phoenix Ming." The leading demon said in a deep voice, "We will bring you back to the realm of hell. We have mixed with the affairs of the human world for this purpose."

Chuhe slammed into the ground suddenly, the golden net covered his body, and then it became invisible and strangled into his body.The man in gray also knew that he had been dragged down by Shenwan Tiansi to the point where he had basically lost his fighting power, so he didn't have any fear at all, and the two of them walked over and pressed on his wrist.

"Master Mozun is waiting for you in the sea of ​​blood..."

Chu He grabbed them one by one with each hand, staggered up and retreated violently, and said sharply: "Fan Luo wants to see me, let him come by himself! What are you guys?!"

As he said that, he stretched out his hand into the void, and the long spear lying in the gravel flew towards the sky in the distance, and he grabbed it in his hand, and instantly swept the two men in gray away with his backhand!

Asura kings have a very high status in the "Four Evil Realms", and there are four of them together. I have probably never heard the phrase "what is it".The two people who hadn't fallen rushed up immediately, and said in a gloomy voice: "His Royal Highness, the Mozun wanted you to go back alive, but he didn't say that he must live intact - your real body is indeed worthy of fear, But can you still get angry now?"

Chuhe's ears were bleeding, but he didn't hear what he said clearly.But immediately afterward, the next move of the man in gray was to stretch out his hand and grab it in the air——

Corresponding to this movement, the golden net that was deeply trapped in his body before suddenly tightened!

Chu He let out a cry of pain that he couldn't even hear. The pain was so severe that it could drive people crazy. In an instant, he grabbed the spear and slashed out with extreme violence. In just one stroke, the man in gray clothes who was closest to him was completely covered from shoulder to upper arm. Cut it down!

——The bell rang from the depths of his body, and in the exploding mist of blood, Chu He's sanity suddenly froze.

He seemed to have suddenly moved from reality to illusion, and in front of him was no longer a messy hospital building, nor was it the gray-clothed Asura who rushed up viciously.

He didn't even feel any pain. The blood that burst out when the spear was struck, like the weird red ink on the canvas, faded away in groups, revealing a faint white light all over the mountains and plains.

— Am I dead?

Standing in the open space, Chu He raised his head, only to see the boundless and distant long wind whistling across the sky.

"His Royal Highness," came a cautious voice behind him: "What are you doing here?"

Chu He turned his head, his eyes were still very slack, and he slowly focused after a while, and recognized that behind him was 33 Chongtian towering and resplendent Buddhist hall, standing on the steps of the Buddhist hall was a little monk with clear eyebrows, respectfully He looked at himself respectfully.

He subconsciously asked, "Where's Zhou Hui?"

"What Zhou Hui?" The little novice looked at him strangely, and said, "Your Highness, you came out of the Buddhist hall just now and stopped here. Did you have an epiphany?"

"...No...No," Chu He shook his head blankly and said, "No."

He turned his head again, raised his hand to look at it, and felt in a trance that he was facing a very urgent situation just now, but as long as he thought about it, he began to feel dizzy.

At this time, a beast roar suddenly sounded from the back hall of the Buddhist hall. It was inaudible because of the distance, but it was faintly very shrill and sharp.After howling for dozens of seconds, I suddenly heard "Boom!" There was a loud metal impact, and the ground under my feet shook a few times before stopping.

"...what's the voice behind?"

The little novice seemed to be even more strange: "Don't you know, Your Highness King Ming? The Buddha descended into the sea of ​​blood to teach the Dharma to save all living beings. All the demons bowed their heads to the lotus seat, but there was a low-level monster who refused to kneel down. Because it disrespected the Buddha, Right now, he has been captured to the 33rd heaven, and he is going to take his heart and refine his bones to frighten all living beings in the demonic way."

The little novice smiled again, and said: "This monster is unruly and unruly. It has been tortured with swords and axes, and it refuses to convert to the way of heaven. It is still dying for two days. The Buddha put it in a vajra bell. You just heard Perhaps it was the sound of it hitting the bell jar desperately."

There was another dull impact, and the entire Buddhist hall hummed slightly amidst the vibrations.

King Fenghuang Ming frowned and asked, "What kind of monster is it?"

The little monk lowered his head, as if a little afraid: "I... I don't know."

In the next second, he felt his clothes flapping in the breeze, and when he looked up, he saw King Fenghuang Ming passing by, walking towards the apse.

His long hair was tied up and fell on the snow-white cassock, and the sleeves of his robe seemed to be filled with the fragrance of lotus flowers when he walked.His figure is thin and slender, and when he walks, his shadow is reflected on the golden bricks of the Buddhist hall, and just one glance is enough to make one's heart sway.

The little novice couldn't help holding his breath.

The back hall of the Buddhist hall is filled with smoke, and a huge diamond bell is buckled in the middle, and the vibration and roar come from behind the bell.

This clock will ring 99 times every four hours, and each time is like the wrath of the gods of the nine heavens and ten earths. The vast and endless shocks will turn everything in the clock into dust.Since ancient times, all monks who have committed serious crimes will be suppressed under the vajra bell, and then when the big bell rings, even if the monk has a vajra indestructible body, he will be trapped inside and his bones will be broken, and he will be shocked to death.

King Phoenix Ming lifted the bell cover.

There is another layer of iron bars under the Vajra Bell, which is upside down on the ground like a giant cage, and there is a monster more than nine feet tall crouching inside the cage.

It looked like a lion and a tiger, with many festers on its body, its four claws exposed thick white bones due to struggle, and its mane was covered with rotten flesh and blood.Probably because it bit itself while enduring the pain, its fangs were covered with blackened solidified flesh, looking hideous and embarrassing; only a pair of green animal pupils were extremely gloomy, staring at King Phoenix Ming, making a groaning sound. Willingly growl.

King Phoenix Ming stared at it and asked, "Why don't you kneel?"

The monster roared angrily, rushed forward and slammed into the iron cage!

At that moment, its fangs were only a few inches away from Phoenix's slender eyelashes, but Fenghuang Mingwang did not take a step back, and repeated: "Why don't you kneel?"

The monster stared at him, exhaled for a long time, and finally let out a hoarse and rough voice: "...Why did you kneel down?"

Fenghuang said: "I don't need it. Why didn't you kneel when facing the Buddha in the sea of ​​blood?"

One person and one beast looked at each other across the iron cage. After a long while, the monster finally backed away slowly, half squatting and half sitting on the ground with its bloody hind legs, and said proudly: "I don't believe in heaven, why should I kneel!"

"If you don't believe it, you will die, your soul will be scattered and you will never be reborn, so you don't believe it?"

The monster said: "I don't believe it."

King Fenghuang Ming stared at it quietly, and suddenly stretched out his hand for a while, and the giant cage disintegrated and collapsed.

The monster got up suddenly, took two unbelievable steps, but stopped suddenly at the edge of the iron cage, as if wondering if there was any conspiracy inside.Under its suspicious and vigilant eyes, King Phoenix Ming didn't explain much, turned around and walked out of the back hall, saying, "Let's go."

"...Why?" The monster couldn't help but snapped and asked, "Why did you let me go?"

King Fenghuang Ming walked out of the apse without looking back, his snow-white robes meandering down, every step seemed to be like a boundless lotus blooming.The nine layers of jade steps in front of him can't be seen down, and farther away, the magnificent temple stretches straight into the sky, hidden in the misty clouds. "No reason," his voice came in the wind, "let's go."

The monster stared blankly at his back, until King Fenghuang walked a long way, then suddenly jumped out of the threshold with all his strength, all the way down.While running wildly, a lot of minced meat and blood were shaken from its body, and splashed all the way along the jade steps, but it didn't seem to notice it.

It jumped high like a black shooting star. Phoenix turned its head and stretched out its hand to block it, but the monster broke through the invisible barrier with lightning speed, and fell straight down in front of King Phoenix Ming: "Wait—— "

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In the hospital, four golden bells