Concubine Chongxi: Binding the Medicine Jar to the Master

Chapter 166 The Legend of the Tower of Nine Deaths

I don't know how long it took, but the two came to the edge of the primeval forest.

Standing here, one can clearly feel the eerie aura.

It's very dark there, the deeper you look, the darker it becomes.There are birds chirping, all of which are crows, hoarse and dry like the call of the dead.

The gloomy wind smelled of corruption and damp, mixed with miasma.Just a whiff of the miasma made people dizzy. Baili Jiuge and Ziqi hurriedly put the sachet given by Doctor Zhang on their necks, and then walked in cautiously.

Everywhere in this forest is filled with the breath of death, as if this is an ancient cemetery, those plants rely on the resentment of the undead to grow such a dark cage.

Under the feet, there are layers of dead branches and leaves; beside him, there are bones from time to time.The two knew that these were probably the people who died in the forest.

After going deep in this way for a while, Baili Jiuge remembered Luo Xia's words, saying that the most terrifying things in the death forest are miasma, poisonous snakes, and swamps.Now that she and Ziqi have a sachet to deal with miasma and a powder to deal with poisonous snakes, we must pay more attention to the swamp...

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, he heard Ziqi's screams.Baili Jiuge took a look, and saw that one of Ziqi's feet was slowly sinking!
Baili Jiuge was surprised: "Swamp?!" But he couldn't help being surprised, because the place where Yinqi stepped on looked like ordinary ground, with some broken branches and leaves piled up.

She said: "Don't move yet." Holding Ziqi's arm with one hand, she pulled Ziqi backwards out of the swamp, and the two of them also staggered two steps.

Baili Jiuge held Ziqi to stand firm, raised his small hand, and popped out eight feathers towards the eight sides in front of him.

I saw the eight feathers fell to the ground leisurely, and then they sank together, and they sank without a trace in a moment.

This made Baili Jiuge take a deep breath, and shouted: "You can't go ahead, it's all a swamp!"

Ziqi also pointed to one place and said, "Sister Heifeng, look there."

Looking at Baili Jiuge, his heart trembled again, and he saw a pool of swamp sludge under a tree not far in front, which was full of bones, and even stretched out a human hand!

The feeling of nausea permeated the heart and lungs, and Baili Jiuge said in a deep voice: "I think the people who died in this swamp all surfaced from there in the end. You can see that hand has stopped moving, it is clearly a new sinking not long ago. Yes, it’s suffocating in the end.”

Ziqi said: "Then what should we do, I don't want to go back the same way, I'm afraid that if time drags on for a long time, Senior Brother Ziqing, Master and Senior Brother Ziqian will not be able to hold on!"

Baili Jiuge clenched his lower lip, the anxiety in his heart was no less than that of Ziqi, but there is hope only if there is life, and before breaking into the Tower of Nine Deaths, he must not lose his life here because of anxiety.

So he said: "Ziqi, didn't I just tell you? I only want to win, not to die. The road ahead is considered impossible, so I can only take a detour. You follow me, and I use feathers to explore the way. "

Ziqi was about to agree, but suddenly he had an idea and clapped his hands happily, "Sister Heifeng, I thought of a good idea! Look, these trees won't sink into the swamp. It’s fine if you can’t leave? This is the benefit of practicing lightness kung fu.”

Because of Ziqi's words, Baili Jiuge's brows showed joy.that is!And this hand, isn't it?So he replied: "Okay, let's start from that tree and move towards the depths. Once we find the shadow of the tower, notify the other party immediately."

"Understood!" Ziqi said, his small body had already moved to the top of the tree, and without stepping on it, he jumped out with his strength, and then jumped up on the next tree, his agility seemed to be flying. Bird on the branch.

This is even more so for Baili Jiuge, who is as light as a swallow, rising and falling, the red dress is flying fiercely between vertical and horizontal, and the raised sleeves are burning red. The whole world, in this gloomy old forest, It is so beautiful and gorgeous!
The two of them walked fast like this, maintaining the regularity of alternating front and back, constantly exchanging eyes with each other, and countless ravens screamed hoarsely as they flew, and scattered black feathers.

Baili Jiuge always concentrates on Mercedes-Benz, with no distractions.

But at a certain moment, when she was about to step on a branch and jump up, she suddenly heard Ziqi exclaiming: "Sister Heifeng, stop!"

The sound came so suddenly that Baili Jiuge's heart beat wildly in fright.She forcibly stopped on the branch, and staggered two steps forward. She swept out a sleeve wind and hit the stone below, allowing the wind to bounce back on herself, which stopped the inertia.

Once she stood firm, she saw Zi Qi landed beside her, with a look of horror in his eyes.

"Sister Heifeng, you...look around."

Never heard Ziqi's tone of voice so fearful before, Baili Jiuge subconsciously held Ziqi's little hand and looked around.Seeing this, a breath of cold air suddenly sucked into the lungs, God!The two of them broke into the snake forest!
Surrounded by snakes, big ones, small ones, red ones, green ones... densely packed all over every tree, circling every branch, as if covering the sky and blocking out the sun, holding their heads up and spitting snake apricots , those terrifying eyes were all facing Baili Jiuge and Ziqi.

A feeling of chills suddenly swirled from the bottom of my heart, entangled Baili Jiuge's heart to death.She had never seen so many snakes, and they were all winding towards the place where she and Ziqi were standing, making her scalp tingle.

At this moment, Leng suddenly realized something, and his heart trembled again. Baili Jiuge lowered his head subconsciously, and sure enough, he and Ziqi's feet were already covered with snakes, and they were only a step away from their bodies!

"Damn it!" Thousands of feathers flew out suddenly, and all the snakes that approached the two of them were pierced in the eyes by the feathers, writhing in pain and falling down.

It was only then that the two discovered that the tree had already been covered with snakes, and now it was falling like rain.

However, Baili Jiuge has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he has also heard some mysterious things. It is said that snakes have spirituality, and if one is injured, the snakes will all come out to seek revenge.

As expected, the development of the matter was like this, but the snakes around seemed to be enraged, and they jumped towards the two of them.For a moment, the sky was blocked out, and Baili Jiuge could even see the venom spray and the silver fangs!
At the critical moment, Baili Jiuge's mind went blank, only the instinctive action remained, which was to sprinkle the snake-killing powder given by Doctor Zhang.But she didn't know what would happen next!

The next moment, I saw the snake closest to the two of them was twisted in pain, its body was still in mid-air after being dipped in the powder.A strange and unpleasant smell wafted from the snake.The snake, which was doused with the poisonous powder, let out an unpleasant cry, and its skin began to be ripped apart, dripping with blood, as if it had been eroded by water, and parts of its body split apart.

Baili Jiuge and Ziqi were shocked, and saw that after the other snakes smelled the smell, they borrowed their strength from the branches and leaves in mid-air, and stopped attacking Baili Jiuge and Ziqi, and instead moved towards the middle snake. The snake of medicine attacked.But the snake that was close to it came to bite with its mouth open, and ate its own companion on the spot.

"Baji" swallowed it in one gulp, and with a bang, his body was also bleeding, and his body was eaten by the attacking companion again...

The two watched this scene in horror. The group of snakes were crazily bloodthirsty. There were bursts of chewing sounds all around the two of them, followed by screams and the sound of flesh and blood. It becomes radioactive and continues in all directions.

Both of them were stunned, looking at the flesh and blood flying all over the world in shock, like a bright red rain, some splashed on their dresses, burning black holes in the fabric, and they forgot to avoid it.

Half a cup of tea, it took only half a cup of tea, and the surroundings fell into a strange dead silence.

Around, the snakes that were densely covering the sky and the sun just now are completely dead now.The bitten and tattered snake carcass fell to the ground and sank into the swamp, with a foul smell rising to the sky.

Baili Jiuge and Ziqi were stunned, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time!
This poison is not only passed on from flesh to blood, but also makes the spiritual snakes violent and bloodthirsty instantly.After the first snake was poisoned and festered, the same kind immediately rushed to suck it, and passed on one by one, the faster the snake was eaten, the faster it died.

I don't know how long it took before Baili Jiuge said a word: "Why is this medicine so overbearing? A small packet of poisonous powder killed tens of thousands of poisonous snakes in a short time. I really didn't expect that the imperial doctor would be so overbearing. Give us this medicine, thanks to him being able to develop it!"

Ziqi was also shocked in his heart, but he thought that it would be fine to get out of trouble anyway, so he said, "Isn't that good? If we want to be destroyed, we have to uproot and cut off our children and grandchildren! In this way, our way forward will be smoothed out, and we will soon be near death." tower?"

makes sense.Baili Jiuge smiled brightly, thinking of nothing useless, quickly collected the medicine powder, and moved on with Ziqi.

This time, thanks to the sachet and snake-killing powder given by the imperial doctor Zhang, Baili Jiuge and Ziqi did not take as much effort as expected.

After bumping for more than half an hour, the two finally saw a tall black building deep in the forest.

It seemed to be a tower, which seemed to grow out of hell, full of terror and death.But for the two of them, as long as they can find the Tower of Nine Deaths, they will be one step closer to their goal!
So they rushed over so excitedly, both of them were out of breath, and when they reached the tower, they stopped to adjust their breathing, and saw that the word "Nine Deaths" was indeed engraved on the tower.

What surprised the two of them was that they weren't the only two of them here, there was a large group of men who looked like vagrants or bonus hunters.

At this moment, they were chattering around together, as if they were going to enter the Tower of Nine Deaths, Baili Jiuge also heard someone saying: "It's hard to find this tower, it looks quite scary, since everyone If you want to break into the top floor to see the respect of the gods, then brothers, let’s break in together. I heard that there are many traps in this tower, and if you are not careful, you will die."

Baili Jiuge and Ziqi couldn't help but exchanged glances.What are these people talking about?To see the majesty of the gods?How is this going……

Baili Jiuge hurried forward, cupped his hands, and asked with a smile: "Brothers, you just said that there are gods living in this tower?" I wondered why no one had heard such a rumor before. How about it?Mo Li didn't know either.Could it be that the people who entered the tower in the past and wanted to meet the gods all entered but never exited?

At this moment, these Jianghu people looked at Baili Jiuge, and saw that she was a woman, although she was so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off her.But with such a slender figure, I am afraid that a gust of wind can blow her down... Someone impatiently waved her hand and said: "Where did you come from, little girl, she ran to this place when she got impatient, there is no you here!" Fuck off now!"

Baili Jiuge was neither angry nor annoyed. With a big smile, he raised a handful of feathers casually, and with a light flick, he drew a beautiful line in the air, and danced out the outline of a phoenix...

This made everyone look surprised. The white feathers and the outline of the phoenix made of feathers reminded them of a famous woman in the rivers and lakes...

"My name is Heifeng, Heifeng from one of the seven places in the Valley of Flowers." Baili Jiuge smiled, facing everyone's shocked eyes, raised his hand and collected his feathers.

"Brothers, do you still want to drive me away? We are all from the Jianghu, so why don't you let me hear it too, where did you hear the rumors about the Tower of Nine Deaths?"

Everyone was awakened by this bright voice, and slowly came back to their senses, looking at Baili Jiuge's face, they still seemed a little fascinated.

Someone explained: "We are all desperadoes wandering around the world and have no ambitions. Later, I heard that there is a tower on the outskirts of Luoyi, the capital of the Heluo Kingdom. Someone broke into the top of the tower more than ten years ago. Seeing the god who is in charge of life and death, I will live forever! Who would not want such a good thing? We also came, but it was very strenuous just passing through this forest. We also saw a lot of people's bones along the way. I'm afraid this tower is more like a cemetery, and it's a miracle that one out of a thousand people can reach the top floor!"

Hearing this, Baili Jiuge frowned... More than ten years ago, someone broke into the top floor of the tower, saw the god in charge of life and death, and lived forever... These desperadoes said so.But how can there be any gods in this world?How can there be immortality?On the contrary, these people don't even know that this place is actually a stronghold of the Yin Yang family!That Long'er, I don't know which one of the Yin-Yang Nine Spirit Lords, lives on the top of this tower!
Can't help looking at the top of the tower, the top of the tower is obviously very high, but it still can't pierce the hundred-foot-high thousand-year-old trees. The whole tower is in this dense environment, which looks extremely scary and gloomy.

But Ziqi jumped in front of those desperadoes, and said sharply: "Uncles, don't you know that this tower is inherently dangerous? Could it be that you don't even care about your life for the unreasonable pursuit of immortality? It's ridiculous!"

Everyone's face darkened a lot because of Ziqi's words, and who is really not afraid of death?Most of them were still afraid, so some people began to back off and chatter, but thinking that they had already wasted so much effort to pass through the forest of death, and now that they finally reached the bottom of the tower, wouldn't it be too bad if they didn't go in?

After discussing for a while, the group of desperadoes finally decided to go into the tower together, secretly planning in their hearts that they could take advantage of the crowd to protect themselves, and if they encountered a mechanism, they would push the people next to them out to block them.

So, everyone climbed up the stairs and walked towards the closed black iron gate, each with their own ghosts in their hearts.

Baili Jiuge and Ziqi exchanged glances, followed them, and followed the group of people to the gate of the Tower of Nine Deaths.

This gate is very high, with eighteen rivets nailed on it, all of which are rusty, and a lot of moss has grown on the entire gate.

Someone tried knocking on the door, "Yes, is there anyone?"

No one answered, and across a large door, the other side was like a silent tomb, only the cold and frightening breath was escaping, making people feel frizzy in their hearts.

Some people are impatient and really can't bear such silent fear, they simply rush to the door, use their internal strength, and want to smash the door and go in.Unexpectedly, as soon as he pushed his palm, he realized that the door was ajar.

So, a few people pushed the door open with force from left to right!
With the dim light coming in from outside, the lobby on the first floor suddenly became very bright.Around the entire hall, at intervals of three feet, there was a torch hanging, no less than [-] in total, lighting up every corner of the hall.

Such a dazzling light made Baili Jiuge squint his eyes involuntarily, held Ziqi's hand, and after his eyes got used to the brightness, he took a look at Ziqi, only to find that those men had already entered the tower one after another up.

"Let's go." Baili Jiuge smiled fearlessly, and entered with Ziqi, his two white hands tightly entwined all the time.

When the two of them crossed the threshold, there was no one behind them, and they continued to walk forward. Suddenly, they heard the sound of friction at high speed behind them.

Quickly turned his head to look, the door was actually closed heavily!

A burst of coldness hit Baili Jiuge's heart in an instant, and now he understood that once the Tower of Nine Deaths entered, there would be no way out, and he could only risk his life to win a chance!
At this moment, someone regretted it because of fear, and shouted in despair: "I won't climb this tower anymore! Let me out! Let me out!" While shouting, he rushed to the gate, ruthlessly Slam the door hard.

Then the next moment, a terrible scene caused an uproar.

I saw dozens of thick thorns protruding from the door suddenly, piercing through the man's palm!He screamed in pain, but then, his chest, abdomen, legs, arms, even his mouth and two eyes were all pierced by thick iron thorns in an instant!
This scene came so suddenly, in the blink of an eye, a living man was crucified to death on the big iron gate, bleeding profusely.

Even these desperadoes, who were used to bloodshed and killing, were so frightened that their legs became weak and their eyes were filled with terror.

Someone panicked and yelled frantically: "Damn it! Since you can't go back, then charge forward, and if you have the ability, shoot me to death with an arrow!" Charge towards the stairway door at the other end of the hall go.

After that, more than a dozen people rushed over and shouted: "Shoot if you can, no one can stop me from living forever!"

But what no one expected was that just as the person's voice fell, there seemed to be some slight noises in the walls of the hall.

In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired on the wall!
(End of this chapter)