Chapter 020 In the open and secret struggle
Elder Ma walked to the rock wall on the west side of the platform and lifted up a small iron cage. Inside was a six-legged beetle. The beetle was only three inches long and emitted a blue light. It was Ling Ying.
He ordered the purple-clothed disciple to open the small iron cage, reach out and pinch out the spirit firefly, put it in the palm of his hand. He gently whispered it with the pad of his thumb, and said with a smile: "This little thing is the most powerful."
The Lingying in the palm of the hand curled up, and the two tentacles on its head swayed from time to time, looking very lazy.
Lingying possesses spiritual power and is a spiritual beast. It is lazy and restless. But if it flies with all its strength, its speed can chase light and lightning.
Fireflies flap their wings and fly quickly, covering more than 40,000 miles day and night, making them ideal for transmitting urgent information. For thousands of years, humans have tried every means to domesticate fireflies, but they have never been able to do so.
It wasn't until more than a hundred years ago that it was discovered that Lingying was obsessed with a kind of grass called "blue ice grass" and had to eat it when he saw it.
One plant of blue ice grass has two leaves. These two leaves are poisonous and are antidotes to each other. If you eat two leaves in succession, there is no harm. But if you eat one of them and do not eat the other within a day, the poison will develop.
Death.
From this, humans came up with the idea of using blue ice grass as bait to lure fireflies to send messages.
Both parties to the summons each hold two leaves of the same blue ice plant. When one party needs to summons, Lingying is asked to eat one.
Ling Ying's ability to perceive blue ice grass is incredible. She can know it even though she is thousands of miles away.
After eating this piece, in order not to die, I have to fly high and go to the other side to eat another piece, so that the message can be conveyed.
After a firefly eats two blue ice grass leaves, it will be satisfied and sleep soundly for as long as half a year or as long as a year. During this period, even if it is lured with blue ice grass again, it will not wake up.
Lingying only thrives on Cangling Mountain in Shuzhou, the Great Hong Kingdom, and blue ice grass only grows on the top of Cangling Mountain. Both are very rare and valuable.
Therefore, those who can afford the Lingying messenger must have strong financial resources. Small gangs and small factions can only use fast horses or carrier pigeons to communicate.
Elder Ma gave Mu Xiu instructions for a long time before he felt relieved.
At noon that day, elders Qi, Huang, Ma and Yan Ruojuan entered a secret room deep in the cave.
In the secret room, lying on the stone platform in the middle, was a man of twenty-one or twelve years old, who was the Second Young Master Guo.
His face was pale, his muscles were stiff, and his heartbeat was less than half that of a normal person. He was actually a "living dead".
A sword hit his chest, penetrating his heart and lungs, and was a fatal injury that was difficult to save.
At this time, the wound was filled with golden light, which was an extremely profound life-saving spell cast by Elder Huang. Although it could not be saved, it could keep him alive.
Mr. Guo held the "Recovery Bead" in his mouth and spread nearly a hundred kilograms of "Magic Saliva Grass" under his body. He tied a red rope to his neck, left wrist, and right ankle. These three red ropes cost five
The "soul-binding red silk ribbon" bought with one hundred thousand taels of silver, and a flesh-colored stick-like object placed on the chest and abdomen, is the "flesh peach wood".
Not far from the stone platform, there was a man sitting cross-legged on the spot. He was bare-chested and only wore a pair of black silk pants. He was thin and had a feminine appearance. His muscles were trembling all over his body, his mouth was tightly closed, and his eyes were beating, making him look particularly excited.
He is a supporter of Second Young Master Guo, and he is also the person who will sacrifice his life to save Second Young Master Guo.
This technique of "Huameng Linghun" draws out the soul of the original body and introduces it into the host body.
After the host body accepts the soul, it will have the memory and cultivation of the original body, but the body shape and appearance will be the fusion of the original body and the host body. Therefore, the three elders selected one from more than 300 disciples who has the same appearance as Mr. Guo
The person with the closest body shape is regarded as the host body.
There is a tuanpu in the east, west, south and north corners of the secret room. Four people, Qi, Huang, Ma and Yan, are all sitting cross-legged on the tuanpu, surrounding the second young master Guo in the center, and the dedicated man is in front of Elder Qi.
Elder Qi said solemnly: "The time has come. Don't worry, your loyalty can be seen from the sun and the moon. My master, I will never forget you."
The man nodded, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and waited for death.
Elder Qi made six seals with both hands, and black mist surged out of his right hand. He used a spell called "Soul-stealing Ghost Hand". He made a claw with his right palm and slammed it down on the man's Tianling Cap.
, then lifted it up, and a gray shadow came out.
The man's soul had been taken away, his body tilted and he fell to the ground.
Then, Qi, Huang, Ma and Yan pressed their hand seals at the same time and began to perform "Hua Meng Luo Hun". As Elder Ma said, this "Hua Meng Luo Hun" move is extremely complicated and can be divided into "front, middle".
, "after" three stages. Among them, the "previous" stage requires a lot of mudras.
Among the four, Elder Qi has the most profound cultivation. He has reached the third level of Purple Gold Realm and needs to complete 225 seals.
The two elders of Ephedra are a little behind, both are at the second level of Purple Gold Realm. They need to complete 191 seals and 178 seals respectively. Yan Ruojuan is only at the first level of Lanxia. There is a huge difference between them and the first three.
, but also have to seal seventy-two seals.
The four people must complete these 666 seals in one go, with every seal being good and every seal being correct, so that the spell can be effective.
After a cup of tea, all four of them completed their hand seals, and a ray of green and red light emerged from their bodies. The four rays of light converged in the air, forming a scorching ball of light.
The ball of light moved slowly until it stopped three feet above Mr. Guo's body. Suddenly, two rays of light shot out, one connected to Mr. Guo and the other connected to the peach tree.
Qi, Huang, Ma, and Yan all closed their eyes and concentrated, clasped their hands, raised their middle and ten fingers to the sky, and continued to guide the spells, while the spiritual energy in their bodies could not help but flow out.
Yan Ruojuan's spiritual energy was the thinnest. After a while, she felt out of breath, but she gritted her teeth and persisted.
Suddenly, the Second Young Master's body twitched, his mouth opened, and blood poured out, forming a stream of blood in mid-air that slowly climbed up along the light.
Blood kept pouring out of his mouth and merged into the floating blood flow. The blood flow became thicker and thicker, entered the ball of light, turned around and flowed towards the fleshy peach tree along another line of light.
With the constant infusion of blood, the peach wood gradually changed from its original ivory color to pink, and finally to blood red.
The second young master's body quickly shrank and shriveled due to the continuous loss of blood, and soon turned into a mummy.
The last gray shadow emerged from the mummy, followed the light and flew into the light ball, and then turned into the peach wood.
Yan Ruojuan's heart skipped a beat. She knew that the blood and soul of the second young master had been drawn out. His body was dead and there was no way back.
Elder Qi shouted: "It's done, let's move to the 'middle' stage!" As he said that, the four of them released their hands at the same time, and the light and ball of light disappeared immediately. The eight hands danced together, and then they made fingerprints.
However, just as the four of them were forming seals and casting spells, Mu Xiu quietly returned to his room and wrote on a narrow strip of paper with his special fine brush: "Come quickly to Hulugu Valley, Hualing County, Huzhou, and visit Hua Meng
The "Guide the Soul" has been launched at noon on May 12th. Time is tight, so we can send an elite team to attack from the northwest valley mouth at night. This may block the spell and kill the leader of the thief."
Chapter completed!