Episode 164: Hell
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In Lanruo Temple, after Jiang Chen and Yan Chixia peeled and roasted the roe deer, they originally wanted to wait for Ning Caichen to come back before starting, but Ning Caichen had not returned for a long time, and seeing that it was about to be over, Jiang Chen had to take out some good wine from the watch space and eat and drink with Yan Chixia.
The fragrant barbecue, with the good wine that has been brewed for a long time, the two sat opposite each other, talking about martial arts, and they were happy, and before they knew it, it was evening, seeing that Ning Caichen had not returned, Yan Chixia couldn't help laughing and said: "Little brother, I see that your scholar friend is already a ghost now, aren't you worried that he will be eaten alive by those demons and monsters in this mountain?"
"Ha!" Jiang Chen Gu chuckled to himself: "Everyone has their own fate, as the so-called, it is a blessing or a curse, and it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, although I am his friend, but after all, it is not him, how do I know whether this is a curse or a blessing for him?" Although he knew that Ning Caichen would inevitably meet Xiao Qian, and he would also encounter the thousand-year-old tree demon grandma forcing Xiao Qian to marry, although it was thrilling, but there was no worry about his life. This is the beginning of the relationship between the two, but from the beginning, it was destined to be a fruitless relationship.
"You're pretty open-minded. As Yan Chixia spoke, she couldn't help but sigh in her mouth: "Alas, it's a pity, Brother Xiahou can't see it until he dies, otherwise, with his martial arts, although this world is big, where is there no place where he is at ease, fame and fortune are not shallow, and it is not shallow!"
While the two were talking and laughing, they suddenly saw Ning Caichen walking back from the outside in despair, Jiang Chen saw this, and couldn't help but smile and asked: "Brother Ning, why haven't you seen you for a day, you have lost seven souls in three souls, what's the matter, is it that Jibaozhai's account is not coming back?"
"It's not. Ning Caichen's face was full of frustration, and he said gloomily: "It's Miss Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian, she is going to get married, and her family has to force her to marry a Montenegrin master she doesn't like." Speaking of this, he seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly knelt down in front of Jiang Chen and Yan Chixia, and pleaded: "Daoist Zhiqiu, I know that you and the bearded man are both capable people, can you help Miss Xiaoqian, I beg you." ”
"Xiaoqian?" Hearing this, before Jiang Chen could speak, Yan Chixia couldn't help but sneer: "Marry?Apart from the three of us, there is no fourth living person in this vicinity?Where did the girl get married?!"
Ning Caichen was originally a scholar, and he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but when he heard this, his face was immediately unconvinced, and he retorted in his mouth: "Bearded, you don't want to talk nonsense, Xiaoqian's house is behind Lanruo Temple, and I went there just now!"
"You've already been there, so why haven't you been killed by a female ghost yet?" Yan Chixia had a short temper, and immediately snorted coldly: "Do you know that behind Lanruo Temple is a mass grave!"
"Mass grave?!" Ning Caichen heard this, and the whole person couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
Yan Chixia snorted coldly, turned around and paced two steps, then sighed, and said: "Lanruo Temple has been abandoned for many years, although it is near the mountain road, but because of the mass grave, few people will pass by here, and the moaning and shouting you hear at night are actually all lonely ghosts." ”
"Lonely Soul Wild Ghost?" Ning Caichen's face was shocked for a while, but soon, he calmed down and forcibly retorted: "I don't believe it!"
"Don't believe it?!" Yan Chixia shouted in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, then I'll take you to the hell!" As he spoke, he grabbed Ning Caichen's arm and pulled him to the back of Lanruo Temple.
"Wait for me!" Seeing this, Jiang Chen hurriedly followed, this big night, although the danger outside was undecided, he didn't want to stay alone in Lanruo Temple, in case the thousand-year-old tree demon came to the door, Yan Chixia was not there, he really might not be able to deal with it alone.
The three of them walked out of Lanruo Temple, and Ning Caichen walked in front angrily with a lantern, just because he had always firmly believed: "There are no monsters there, only Xiaoqian's family." ”
Yan Chixia followed behind him, her face full of contempt and sneer, but because he already knew that Xiao Qian, whom Ning Caichen met, was the most favored female ghost under the thousand-year-old tree demon, and in the past few years, he didn't know how many lives he had killed for the thousand-year-old tree demon, and he knew that the so-called Xiaoqian's home was just a mass grave.
In contrast, Jiang Chen, who was walking at the back, seemed much calmer, but he was also calculating in his heart, and he was afraid that this trip would not be too calm.
After a while, the three of them passed through a huge banyan forest, which was full of banyan trees in different postures, covering the sky and the sun, and the moonlight could not penetrate it, which looked particularly eerie.
"This is the old monster's body, fortunately, this old monster's cultivation is not at home, and he can't completely refine the body, otherwise, every banyan tree here will be our enemy!" Yan Chixia couldn't help but sigh, and as she spoke, she unconsciously raised a bit of sword intent.
Jiang Chen naturally knew that the grandmother was a thousand-year-old tree demon, and its body was a big banyan tree, which could stretch infinitely in all directions, and its pillar roots and branches were intertwined, resembling a dense jungle, known as "a forest of single trees", however, the body of this monster was so huge, it was naturally driven to move, on the contrary, if this monster could really drive such a large body, then its cultivation would be so powerful that it would be boundless, and when the time came, not to mention that he and Yan Chixia were combined, even if it was two more people, I was afraid that it would only be for kneeling.
Although this tree demon grandma has a thousand years of cultivation, although it is difficult to be eliminated because of the immovable body, because he himself is greatly restricted, not to mention Yan Chixia, even if he is not sure of winning, he still has some confidence in self-preservation.
"Huh, I just came out of Xiaoqian's house, why can't I find it now?" Ning Caichen searched among the bushes, but couldn't find a place, and he was wondering.
"Look. Jiang Chen suddenly opened his mouth and pointed not far ahead, but saw that between the grass and trees, there were crooked tombstones everywhere, and on the ground, there were even some dry bones directly exposed outside the wilderness.
Ning Caichen looked around in a trance, looked around by the moonlight, looked at the tombstones and dry bones one by one, and couldn't help but be stunned in place.
Yan Chixia sneered to herself, and stretched out her hand to remove a piece of miscellaneous wood: "Come and see for yourself!"
Under the cover of that piece of miscellaneous wood, there is a tombstone, which is already covered with moss, and it is engraved with the words "The Tomb of His Beloved Daughter Nie Xiaoqian", Ning Caichen saw it, and suddenly felt like a lightning strike, and the whole person was completely stunned on the spot, he subconsciously stretched out his hand and touched the cold tombstone, how he hoped that this was just a dream of his, so that he did not have to accept this cruel reality.
"How is it, do you believe it now?" Although she knew that it was cruel to break a person's illusion, Yan Chixia had to do it, because if she didn't wake up from this dream, she would have to pay the price with her life.
Ning Caichen muttered, "She's a ghost, so why doesn't she harm me?"
"Silly boy, not all ghosts are harmful. Jiang Chen stepped forward, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and sighed in his mouth: "After all, ghosts are transformed after death, people are divided into good and bad people, and ghosts are naturally divided into good ghosts and evil ghosts. ”
"Really?" Ning Caichen laughed at himself: "It turns out that I still have value on my body that can be used by others?"
"Only the devil knows this. Yan Chixia said: "All in all, ghosts are the same as people, for the sake of interests, use each other, Brother Ning, I advise you to sober up early, don't be obsessed anymore, and wait for dawn early tomorrow morning, you can leave here quickly." ”
"What about you?" Ning Caichen looked at Jiang Chen again: "There is also Daoist Zhiqiu, aren't you leaving?"
"Don't go. Yan Chixia said: "The human world is too complicated, it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong, and with ghosts, it is black and white, and it is clear." ”
"I'm not leaving. Jiang Chen said: "I want to stay and help Yan Daxia destroy the thousand-year-old demon entrenched here, so as not to cause trouble to the world in the future." ”
While the three of them were talking, they didn't realize that the atmosphere around them had changed silently, and then, the night wind whistled by, rolling up a large cloud that obscured the bright moon in the sky, and for a moment, there was a drowsiness between heaven and earth (to be continued. )