Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1305: Head Falling

Lu Ning just realized that this was a matter of tourist habits.

For a long time, if tourists are given some abilities when the distribution center opens, then this ability is basically at their fingertips, and at most tourists can adapt to it according to their own habits.

Tourists are good at learning or gaining power in scenes, and of course they take what they learn that they can use. There are very few scenes that give tourists some power in the middle of the scene, so Lu Ning subconsciously thinks that the rewards from the distribution center can be used, but this is not the case.

"Thank you very much. I wonder what you are going to do next? There are many monsters in this mountain. One of them is enough to stop you. What if there are more?"

Xuan Yangzi shook his head repeatedly and said, "Even so, I have to get the job done. I will settle accounts with Teng Liuyun later. If I don't do what I should do, how can I find out the weakness of that guy? Thank you for your help this time, young lady. Things may change, and we will meet again if we are destined to do so!"

After saying that, Xuan Yangzi dived into the mountains. His method of hiding his body was also mysterious, and Lu Ning soon lost sight of him.

She turned over the thin booklet in her hand and finally understood why Xuan Yangzi ran so fast.

A book of ghost paintings.

It's not that Lu Ning couldn't understand it, it's just that the characters were too ugly. She needed to combine the equally ugly paintings next to them and the context to guess what they meant. And luckily it was her who was a tourist. If someone else had read the original version, they probably wouldn't have been able to understand it at all.

"This guy doesn't look like a Taoist priest at all." Lu Ning found it a little funny.

The title of this book is "Xuan Yang Zi Ling Xian Miao Lu" written in a crappy font on the cover (because it was so ugly, Lu Ning thought it was some special symbolic text at first). There are only twelve chapters in total, and the paper and ink used are not very good. The content of the book is also pieced together and has no system.

But what was recorded in it were twelve standard methods. They were not magical powers that could reach the heavens and the earth, but they were very useful to Lu Ning. The twelve chapters talked about: painting on the wall to make a door, kneading soil to make food, borrowing objects with ropes, burning stones to turn into gold, hiding at a gap, making paper to curse people, using spirit beasts to use their eyes, using talisman ash to remove poison, moving mountains with five ghosts, huge and vague space, traveling thousands of miles, and changing one's position.

There are some problems.

From what Lu Ning had seen, these were all unorthodox methods, basically stealing, cheating, cursing, etc. Of course, she could have chosen not to use them this way, but Xuan Yangzi's origins were even more unclear. Which regular Taoist temple taught these things?

That being said, Lu Ning still started to learn. The above spells are not easy to learn, and the last few stronger ones require high-quality materials to make props before they can be used. No wonder Xuan Yangzi was chased by demons and ran everywhere.

After spending some time memorizing the first two chapters, Lu Ning continued her exploration. She quickly entered the deep mountain area and found two mountain strongholds.

This time she carefully observed the situation inside the village and finally found some clues.

These tribes in the mountains make a living by hunting. After skinning and removing the meat of large prey, they usually string the skulls together with wooden stakes and stick them outside as a threat. Some villages also have human heads outside, which are the result of fighting between villages.

But since they were meant to serve as a warning, no one had carefully arranged the stakes, they just poked them wherever they were needed. However, Lu Ning discovered that the layout of the stakes in the two villages he had observed was basically the same.

This is obviously someone's guidance behind the scenes.

What is the purpose of these wooden stakes? To contact the demons, or simply to surrender to the demons? Lu Ning couldn't judge. Her demon eyes couldn't work on dead objects. She couldn't tell whether these wooden stakes carried the breath of demons, unless demons had come into contact with them recently.

Obviously, no.

Lu Ning closed her eyes slightly and used her demon eyes to observe the surrounding mountains and forests. She even felt the desire to jump into the stream and go deeper along the river.

Drowned Shadow was originally a water demon, so it was not surprising that he had such a desire. Deep in the water, there might be something that Lu Ning wanted to know.

However, Lu Ning opened her eyes immediately, and that impulse instantly disappeared.

She would not follow the demon's feeling, otherwise she would be led into the demon's base camp. It was enough for her to know where the clues were. She had her own way to investigate.

Night had fallen, and Lu Ning felt raindrops falling on his head again, so he found a shallow pit on the mountain wall to take shelter from the rain and rest.

A sudden rain in the mountains is not a comfortable environment. Lu Ning didn't sleep very deeply to begin with, and suddenly she felt something in the middle of the night. She immediately stood up and looked around, and found that a blue and green air current was slowly passing by under the mountain.

The demons marched through the mountains without any cover. Such a large-scale operation must be led by demons above the level of demon generals, otherwise the demons themselves would not be able to organize themselves.

Lu Ning didn't need to think too much and immediately squatted back on the rock wall. She knew very well that her current level was not enough to do the big thing of slaying demons and eliminating evil, so the best thing to do now was to hide.

Relying on the "hiding in the gaps" that she had just learned and was still not very good, she tried her best to reduce the possibility of being discovered. But soon, she didn't have to worry about this anymore.

A black wind came down from the sky, one stream split into two and blew towards the tail end of the torrent, while the other stream hit the torrent directly.

"Hey, little monsters, Si Yi from the Demon Suppression Bureau is here, why don't you run?" Lin Xiyin appeared from the wind with a smile, holding a few green pills between his fingers and instantly throwing them around!

The green pill exploded in the air, igniting balls of green fire. The surrounding demons were burned and howled like ghosts and wolves, but they all rushed up fiercely, as if they wanted to win by numbers.

Ning Ke was not worried about Lin Xiyin, she was very cautious in judging her own strength, and she was completely different from Ning Ke. She was willing to intercept other monsters because she had the ability to do so.

At this moment, there was only one target in her eyes, which was the giant ape-like demon who was also targeting her among the flood of demons.

The appearance of a demon like mandrill is quite varied. The one in front of us has green skin all over, arms that are thick beyond the knees, a sturdy physique, and fangs protruding from its mouth, with even traces of flesh and blood hanging on them.

Next to this demon general, there were several earth demons gathered together. They were guarding the baboon with hard rocks, but Ning Ke only took a glance at them.

"Three seconds."

As the compass closed in her palm, a golden light appeared in the air. The mandrill had already jumped into the air, and the heads of those demons had been chopped off by the golden light.

"You can actually react by instinct." Ning Ke sneered, "Your intuition is very accurate."

  "Haha, the demon-suppressing officer..." The mandrill spread a pair of wings like a roc in the air, gathered the two kinds of demonic energy of water and wood in his hands, and smashed it down from the sky!

Ning Ke snorted and swung her fist to meet the attack. The mask immediately wrapped around her arm and she punched the mandrill back into the sky.

"This bastard is as strong as me?" The mask said with bared teeth, "Give me something to eat! Otherwise I will chew your bones into pieces!"

"Shut up." Ning Ke stuffed a handful of pills into Guimian's mouth, "I can regenerate, and I will follow your orders." "That's what you said!"

Ghost Face grinned and expanded his muscles a little more, then he once again faced the attacking mandrill.

Both of them were powerful demons. With Ning Ke's permission, Ghost Face was completely unrestrained in his strength. The mandrill was also a monster with two legs. Every time he punched, it brought the power of water and wood, which was endless. The two demons exchanged more than ten punches. Ghost Face, relying on Ning Ke's supplement, also gained a little advantage.

At this time, no other demons dared to approach here. They were born with spirits and naturally knew the principles of strength and weakness. They all ran towards Lin Xiyin. Lin Xiyin was not afraid either. She tore open a piece of paper talisman and blew it into the wind. It immediately turned into a dozen strong men in yellow robes and black scarves, holding multi-section staffs, and beat the demons. Although she couldn't kill the demons, she kept them away for a while.

At the same time, a red shadow passed by in the sky, and Lin Xiyin's pupils became bloodshot, and even began to overflow from her eyes. Her eyes were not hindered by the night, and in the time it took to stop the demon, she had already counted the number of all the demons present.

"One hundred and twenty-eight." Lin Xiyin's thumb slid down from her throat, leaving a cut through which golden light was faintly visible. A brilliant golden pistol was pulled out from her throat. The gun body was covered with demonic patterns, and faint golden-red blood color could be seen, as if it was a weapon nurtured by her body.

"Use your blood and essence to refine your heart and destroy your lifespan; stab the demons and monsters and kill the evil spirits!" Lin Xiyin laughed loudly and threw the pistol. The demon closest to him was pierced through the body immediately, and his whole body turned into gold and shattered into pieces and died.

For a moment, the demons just gathered around and didn't dare to approach. Most of them also knew the magic of this weapon. Its attack range was not wide, but its lethality was not something these demons could resist. Unless the demon general came in person, they would die if they touched it.

But what about the demon general?

The demon general was being pulled down by the ghost mask and thrown to the ground.

Ning Ke and Ghost Face's attack didn't give the mandrill too many opportunities. Although they attacked with both hands, the offensive styles of one man and one demon were completely different. The mandrill could sense that it didn't matter if he lost to Ghost Face for a while. What he was afraid of was the demon-suppressing officer who was aiming at his neck.

The mandrill is a mountain spirit demon. Although it has the appearance of an ape, it actually does not have the fatal weaknesses of ordinary animals. But it knows instinctively that if its head is chopped off, it will probably die.

If it wasn't naturally ferocious, it would have run away. Ning Ke's suppression was gradually suffocating it. Every golden light would linger in the air for a long time after it was swung out. If the mandrill occasionally touched it, it would be left with a scar.

At this point, it realized that it had been completely separated from its subordinates. Even if it wanted to eat a few of them to increase its strength, it had no chance. This demon-suppressing officer looked young, but he was very experienced!

"Silly monkey, where are you looking?"

  Ghost Face laughed loudly and grabbed the mandrill's hand with one hand, but the muscles in his forearm suddenly bulged, and a shrunken fist grew out and hit the mandrill's face directly!

"Gah?"

The mandrill had thick skin and flesh, so it was not affected by the punch. However, its vision was also blocked. It was not the kind of monster that relied on its eyes for power, so it would not be able to see if it was blocked. At that moment, the cold murderous intent had already emerged.

It hurriedly poured its demonic power into its neck, and then immediately let it explode, blowing its own head off. The head flew into the sky and fell into the mountains.

The head and the body, as long as they are not chopped off by the demon-suppressing officer, no matter which one is left, it will have a chance to start over!

However, just as the head was falling, it saw a person standing in a depression in the rock wall on the mountain!

Now the mandrill was dumbfounded. With its ability as a water and wood demon, it would not be difficult for it to escape with its head under the cover of the trees in the forest, but it had to land on the ground and touch the grass and trees!

It has already seen the man gripping the hilt of the sword and making a gesture to gather strength!

  If his head was gone, the only part of him left would be his body, but next to his body was that weird demon-suppressing officer!

The mandrill's head was swallowed up by an icy storm before it could come up with any countermeasures. In order to ensure the effect, Lu Ning used the innate purple energy this time. Although it might not be enough to deal with a complete mandrill, a head was enough to destroy it.

On the other side, the body instinctively reacted and immediately grew a second head. The ghost face laughed when he saw it: "You threw away one head and another grew. Take off your pants and fart!"

Ning Ke's sword followed instantly and chopped it off before it fully grew out.

As if it was a curse, the mandrill twitched, and its body fell down with a loud bang.

When the demons saw that the demon general was dead, they immediately became chaotic. The demons were really weak without a leader. Before Ning Ke and Lin Xiyin took action, they killed more than a dozen of them in a fight. The rest ran away, some were still fighting, and some were hiding. Lin Xiyin whistled and commanded Dingshou Hou to stab a few more demons to death, and the rest scattered.

"Awesome, awesome." Lin Xiyin walked to Ning Ke's side with a smile and said, "You killed a demon general in a single fight. Now I believe in your strength."

"Someone is helping." Ning Ke said.

"Hmm? Let me take a look." Lin Xiyin glanced around and immediately saw Lu Ning on the mountain.

At the same time as being seen, Lu Ning also saw the red shadow. She raised her hand to greet him, but in a moment, Heifeng and two demon-suppressing officers appeared in front of her.

"Isn't this the little girl who caused trouble for the ginseng spirit?" Lin Xiyin looked at Lu Ning with interest.

"You are not much older than her." Ning Ke reminded.

"Nice to meet you again." Lu Ning said to Ning Ke.

"Huh? Do you know each other?" Lin Xiyin asked curiously.

"She was also present at Zhenjian Villa." Ning Ke replied, while glancing at Lu Ning.

"Turns out he's an unlucky kid." Lin Xiyin nodded.

"Are you two here because of the monsters in the mountains?" Lu Ning asked.

"Yes. There is trouble in the southern border and demons are active. The Demon Suppression Bureau should come here to patrol and the demon army that just formed must be dispersed." Ning Ke said.

"You two are extremely powerful." Lu Ning said.

"Not really. The demon general only has some small demons under his command. Even if ordinary troops come, they can kill them all." Lin Xiyin waved her hand and pointed at the traces left beside her and said, "I was wondering, but I didn't expect that the one with the innate true energy was you? Whether it's luck or talent, you are pretty good. Do you want to be a demon-suppressing officer for fun?"