Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 174: Beidi Evil Ghost, Tianpeng Divine Curse

Those ghost Bodhisattvas appeared in the stone forest before, so it is impossible for them not to come into this underground snake god's lair.

Ran Qing said: "We need to be more cautious from now on..."

The four continued to move forward, as there was no way back now.

Compared to the snake god corpses wandering in the stone forest on the ground, the witch underground is obviously easier to deal with.

Ran Qing was even prepared to face that group of porcelain white Bodhisattvas.

But the rest of the journey was peaceful. The four of them and the dog walked in the dark with backpacks on their backs for another half an hour, and their feet were already sore.

But we didn't encounter any monsters in the following caves.

There are no magicians and no strange Bodhisattva statues.

Even the extra figure in the team disappeared at some point.

They seemed to have suddenly arrived in a world without evil monsters, and only a cold wind was blowing in the cave.

Little Mianhua said anxiously, "How long will it take to walk through this cave?"

It is not surprising that the space inside the cave is huge. In the Rhinoceros Cave that I passed by before, there was also a cave hall with a space that was creepy.

But that part of the journey was not very long. Later on, we had to climb up a slope and go down a cliff. The terrain of the cave was very complicated.

But the cave they were in at this moment was flat, clean, empty and silent.

There is no damp water vapor common in caves, no stalactites dripping from the cave ceiling, no underground rivers, and no rugged terrain.

They seemed to have come to an endless dark square, and no matter how they walked, they could not reach the edge of the square.

This situation of walking forward with the vision always empty and dark, without any reference points, makes people feel depressed and suffocated.

If it weren't for the gloomy fate card that constantly guided him, Ran Qing suspected that he would be crushed by the endless darkness.

There is a huge psychological pressure in moving forward in such a dark underground cave.

I have no idea what is waiting for me in front of me, or whether there is something else following me in the darkness behind me.

I even doubted that I would ever reach the end and be trapped in darkness forever...

Ran Qing shook his head violently, exhaled forcefully, and murmured, "The Yin-Yang Evil may be causing trouble again."

The half-hour journey was strangely peaceful, which made him feel uneasy.

Several people subconsciously shortened the distance between each other and became more cautious and alert to their surroundings.

But at this moment, Ran Qing saw something in the darkness.

He was stunned for a moment, then took a quick step forward.

I saw a dark cliff in front of me, and many pale soul flags standing beside the cliff.

The soul flags made of cloth hung limply on the ground. Although there were gusts of cold wind in the cave, the wind was too weak to blow away these heavy soul flags.

On each soul banner, there are many characters written in messy cursive.

This handwriting is obviously consistent with the handwriting of Taoist Zhang on the inscription outside.

When a few people approached, under the pale light of the flashlight, they saw the messy words on the soul flag hanging on the ground were written in cinnabar.

Long Zongshu whispered: "Tianpeng Tianpeng, Jiuyuan evil boy."

"Wuding Dusi, Gao Diao Beiweng."

"Seven political powers and eight spiritual beings, the most powerful and fierce..."

After Long Zongshu muttered a few words in a low voice, he looked at Ran Qing: "It seems to be a spell to summon gods and suppress evil."

However, the three people present had no knowledge of Xuanmen spiritual practice and could not tell what kind of spell it was.

Just from looking at these arrays of soul flags, the battle that took place deep in this nest must have been extremely ferocious.

That Taoist Zhang is even more ferocious than I imagined... "There's a corpse ahead!"

Little Cotton suddenly spoke, and everyone immediately passed through the soul flags and came to the edge of the cliff.

Sure enough, I saw a bunch of strange corpses standing stiffly beside the cliff.

These corpses were all wearing old and broken armor, clearly soldiers from hundreds of years ago.

When they were alive, they must have followed Taoist Zhang into the depths of the underground snake god's lair.

But their bodies remained where they were, standing stiffly like statues.

But not zombies.

A deep black color covered their skin all over their bodies, and their corpses became shriveled and shrunken, and their color was pitch black.

They stood there stiffly, as if frozen, emitting a faint sweet and fishy odor.

They were just dried black specimens that any child could kick to pieces.

Mo Li whispered, "They're poisoned...stay away from them."

The strange snake venom was so strong that it turned these soldiers into such a miserable, shriveled and black state that they no longer looked like human beings.

Even after hundreds of years, the toxins still seemed to remain on the corpse, and a faint sweet and fishy odor could be smelled if you got a little closer.

Ran Qing and the others didn't dare to get close.

And walk to the side of the cliff and look down.

I saw a huge nest below.

Rotten dead trees piled up in the big hole at the bottom of the cliff, clearly a giant animal's nest.

And in the center of the nest, curled up was the corpse of a huge giant snake.

The corpse was badly damaged, with many parts even broken and damaged, revealing the dry and hollow interior.

A pitch-black coffin was quietly placed next to the giant snake's corpse. A bronze eternal lamp was burning on the coffin. The silently burning flame emitted a faint halo, illuminating an area of ​​about ten meters around the coffin.

This also illuminated a corner of the huge snake corpse in the darkness.

Ran Qing and the others who saw this scene on the cliff were all stiff and their hands and feet were cold.

They stared at the huge snake corpse in the nest below, and even their breathing seemed to stop.

...The corpse of that giant snake actually returned to the underground cave?

Is there another entrance and exit to this underground cave?

Several people stood stiffly on the cliff, not daring to move, for fear that the huge monster snake in the darkness would "wake up" and pounce on them in the next second.

But at this moment, two sneaky little figures appeared.

Two very common mountain macaques appeared stealthily next to the huge snake corpse.

The strange coffin and the huge shriveled snake corpse seemed unable to scare them.

This clever yet servile mountain macaque ran to the coffin as if it was familiar with the place, stood under the light of the eternal lamp, and reached out to grab the crack of the giant snake's body.

The next second, the two monkeys broke off a piece of snake scale.

The huge snake monster's corpse was like a Chinese medicinal herb that had been dried out of all its moisture. The macaques easily broke off a few pieces, making crisp sounds.

Then, under the astonished gaze of Ran Qing and the other three, the two macaques actually picked up the shriveled giant snake corpse and stuffed it into their mouths.

Crack--Crack--

The crisp sound of two macaques chewing on the giant snake's corpse spread in the darkness, which was extremely harsh.

Ran Qing and the others were all stunned, looking at the scene in disbelief.

Was the giant snake's body really dried up?
But if the giant snake's body had dried up, then what was wriggling on the ground outside?
(End of this chapter)