When they saw the mountains and the buildings, even those who had previously claimed to be calm and composed became nervous and quickened their soon they were standing on the hillside, about two hundred steps away from Yufeng Temple.
Green bricks and green tiles, towering buildings, white cranes spreading their wings, white walls like snow, and the wisps of white smoke floating out of the Taoist temple make people sigh at its mystery and greatness.
Ye Tian asked about his plan to move forward, and two Miao people acted as the vanguard and went towards the Taoist temple.
The others were cautious and alert, watching over there.
The two Miao people who served as the vanguard were obviously the most alert and brave in the team, equivalent to the vanguard in the siege force.
Yin Xiu could tell from the rhythm and pace of their footsteps, as well as their steady and even breathing.
They stopped in front of the Taoist temple and glanced over here, as if asking for orders.
Aoki Bo waved his hand, and the two men held the knife with one hand and pushed the door with the other.
Even though they were two hundred steps away, when the door was pushed, the people here seemed to have heard the creaking of the wooden door, as well as the sound of the doorknob stained with green copper rust gently hitting the door.
Bai Fenghuang tightly grasped the sleeves on both sides, clenched her teeth slightly, and waited to see the situation over there.
Then the two Miao people looked at each other and stepped in almost at the same time.
Nothing happened.
It seemed that there was neither a trap nor any barrier or ferocious beast guarding the Taoist temple, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
Ye Tianwen was full of confidence: "If so, we have completed the first step."
"Yes."
Aoki Bo also smiled, "Everything is difficult at the beginning. You have to push the door open before you can enter the hall."
"Hey, we haven't entered the Taoist temple yet."
Grandma Lin reminded everyone with a serious face, "This is just the beginning. The big ship is entering the shallows, and there can be no mistakes."
"I see."
Ye Tian nodded heavily and ordered everyone to move over there.
The white phoenix was in high spirits, twisting and swaying as it walked forward, and it felt as if every step was on clouds.
Yin Xiu on the side had a blank expression on his face and just followed the crowd.
"Master, you don't seem very happy?" asked Bai Fenghuang.
"What should I be happy about?"
Yin Xiu spread his hands, "This is none of my business. If you see your annoying neighbor win the lottery, do you have to go up and congratulate him?"
"Hate?"
Bai Fenghuang pouted, "Master, you don't hate me too, do you?"
Originally, she was still frustrated and depressed because she was one of the people who "harmed" Yin Xiu. However, after Yin Xiu's words comforted her, Bai Fenghuang now just chatted with him happily without any grudges.
"you?"
Yin Xiu glared at her, got close to her face and said, "Aren't you annoying enough?"
"Humph!"
Bai Fenghuang turned her head away and whispered, "Men never speak the truth. They are so close to each other, yet they say they hate others."
She was just thinking about how to plead for Yin Xiu and ask Lin Po to quickly remove the poisonous insect from his body, but Yin Xiu gently pulled her skirt.
Bai Fenghuang blushed and glared at Yin Xiu, "Are you still so indecent at this time?"
"It's not improper, it's very serious. It concerns our lives."
Yin Xiu stopped Bai Fenghuang and whispered, "Didn't you notice that the two Miao people who went in first haven't come out yet?"
"what?"
Bai Fenghuang also realized the problem.
Logically speaking, they were scouts, and after opening the door, even if they needed to investigate further inside, they would definitely leave someone behind to support the front and back.
But the two of them seemed to disappear without a trace as soon as they entered the door and never came out again.
This is Yufeng Temple, not their home, how could they be so casual?
Ye Tianwen certainly noticed the problem, and they stopped in front of the gate of Yufeng Temple.
By this time they could see through the door into the courtyard.
It was exactly the same scene as in Yin Xiu's dream, even the few fallen leaves on the ground seemed to have not changed their positions.
Someone shouted a few times inside, calling the names of the two Miao people from before, but all he got was an echo, nothing else.
Grandma Lin winked at the side again, and another woman came out.
Yin Xiu had seen her in the team before. She seemed to be older and taller than Bai Fenghuang and the others. Her face was covered with a veil, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
Since he had never spoken to her, Yin Xiu didn't pay much attention to her.
Until the woman came out and took out a bundle of ropes from her waist and shoulders, with a shiny dart on top of the ropes.
It seems that this woman is an expert in using long weapons.
"Her name is Aya."
Bai Fenghuang introduced her to Yin Xiu in a low voice: "She is Grandma Lin's granddaughter."
"But I think they don't talk much."
"Mrs. Lin is like this to everyone. Everyone is afraid of her, and she doesn't like to talk to others, even her own granddaughter."
"What a weird guy." Yin Xiu sighed.
As if hearing Yin Xiu's voice, the woman turned around and glared at Yin Xiu.
However, Grandma Lin didn't care and just urged Aya with her eyes.
Aya nodded, groaned, and flicked her wrist forward. The long rope in her hand shot into the door like a snake.
Crackling, crackling.
She danced the rope like a living snake, sweeping every inch of floor tiles and door frames carefully, and only retracted the rope after knocking once.
Then she shook her head at Grandma Lin, indicating that there seemed to be no mechanisms or secret passages inside.
So, where did the two scouts go?
Mrs. Lin glanced at Yin Xiu.
When Yin Xiu was wondering whether Lin Po was going to ask him to take action again, he saw Lin Po take out a small bamboo tube from her pocket.
If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a poisonous insect.
As Grandma Lin opened the bamboo tube, a lizard with a red head crawled out and landed in Grandma Lin's hands.
Grandma Lin approached the lizard and muttered some kind of dialect-like spell. Then the lizard seemed to understand and slipped down from Grandma Lin's hand and drilled inside.
At the same time, Lin Po's cloudy eyes suddenly changed shape, from the original round shape to a slender shape, and at the same time were stained with a touch of earth yellow.
Yin Xiu, who was standing behind her, could already feel the changes in Grandma Lin.
She seemed to have communicated with the lizard and was using it to explore everything inside the Taoist temple.
After a long time, the lizard returned, the red on its head faded, turning into the same color as its body, and it drilled back into Lin Po's bamboo tube.
Grandma Lin sighed, her body stiffened for a moment, and then she began to breathe heavily.
Aoki Bo stared at the changes in his partner, his eyes fixed.
After her breathing calmed down, he asked, "How is it?"
Grandma Lin shook her head. "It's too normal. Everything seems too normal to make me feel something is wrong."
What she meant was that neither the bodies of the two scouts nor anything else was found.
"What should we do?" Ye Tian asked with a frown, "Why don't we just go in, I can't wait any longer."
"I agree too."
Yin Xiu suddenly raised his hand. "I think it's no different to wait a day or a month, just to waste time here."
"What's wrong with you?"
Grandma Lin glared at him and said, "Just wait here. We'll call you if anything happens."
"But I feel that waiting here is actually the most ineffective and stupid thing to do."
Ignoring Bai Fenghuang's sneaky tug at his clothes, Yin Xiu directly asked Ye Tianwen, "If you want to know what happened in the Taoist temple, you have to go inside and take a look, that's all.
You sent other people there before, but they failed to do it, so now you are the only one who goes in, because those two people don’t know what the current situation is, right?
Maybe if we get in as soon as possible, we can still rescue them?"
"We?" Ye Tian asked with a complicated expression.
"Yes, that's us."
Yin Xiu said seriously, "Since you guys don't want to go in, I have to go in too, and I can't wait any longer. There are things in there that I want to know."
"Pills and scriptures?" Aoki Bo asked vigilantly.
"It's not about that, but you wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
Yin Xiu started to walk forward, leaving Bai Fenghuang standing there in a daze, at a loss as to what to do.
"Yin Xiu!"
Grandma Lin walked out and was about to stand between Ye Tianwen and him, but was stopped by Ye Tianwen.
"Mother-in-law, he's right. No matter what's inside, we have to go in."
"But..." Grandma Lin was still hesitating.
"Even if it's a sea of fire and a mountain of swords, it's the same."
Ye Tianwen grinned, revealing his full white teeth, "We came to Yufeng Temple with so much trouble, isn't it just to enter it and find out the truth of the legend?"
When Mrs. Lin heard this, she had no choice but to give up and step aside.
Then Ye Tianwen stretched out his hand towards Yin Xiu and asked, "Together?"
"I have no objection."
Yoon-soo grinned.
The two walked forward together, and just as they were about to go in, they heard a thunderbolt from the blue.
boom!
Behind the crowd, dust was flying and black air filled the middle of the pit.
Yoon Soo's eyes widened and his palms began to sweat slightly.
Because the one who appeared here was no one else but the Zombie King, Emperor Chongluo!
"Hey, I feel like you need to change your pants any minute now."
Ye Tianwen frowned and asked, "Is this guy very powerful?"
Yin Xiu glanced at him, and then realized that Ye Tianwen could not see the black energy on Emperor Zhongluo.
So he handed over two grapefruit leaves and said, "Look for yourself."
Ye Tianwen rubbed his eyes half-believingly, and after blinking, veins popped out on his forehead.
"Hanba?"
He pointed over there and asked Yin Xiu.
"Yes, the most powerful zombie, Emperor Chongluo."
Yin Xiu smiled bitterly, "Now you should know why Bai Fenghuang and the others are so nervous, right?"
While the two were talking, Grandma Lin had already begun asking everyone to move behind her and Aoki Bo.
Bai Fenghuang took out the talisman paper that Yin Xiu taught her, but the sweat on her palms had begun to make the cinnabar on the talisman moist.
"Why are you here?"
Yin Xiu and Emperor Chong Luo spoke at the same time, questioning each other.
“I’m here for tourism.”
Yin Xiu smiled and secretly grabbed the talisman paper in his hand.
"I thought you were dead last time."
There was anger in Emperor Chongluo's voice.
For some reason, he was unable to kill anyone the last two times, whether it was the swordsman or Yin Xiu in front of him, both of them were knocked off the cliff into the stream, but they did not die.
Do I really have to suck them dry face to face before I can feel at ease and stop them from haunting me?
This time, Emperor Chongluo has made up his mind to grind Yin Xiu to ashes.
"So what are you doing here?"
Yin Xiu asked him, "Are you planning to put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha right away? Are you coming here to repent?"
"To take your life."
Emperor Zhongluo laughed so loudly that everyone's eardrums almost trembled, "And these people, they must all die too."
"Only by yourself?"
Even if the emperor were to capture himself, the people here would die countless times. However, Yin Xiu still said this deliberately in order to influence his mood.
Moreover, they have two great masters of the realm of synesthesia, as well as two wizards from the Miao village to help them. Even if they are not a match for Emperor Zhongluo, it does not seem to be a difficult task to fight him temporarily.
However, Emperor Zhongluo sneered, "One? Do you think I can't do anything now that it's noon?"
"Well?"
Yin Xiu looked up, but the scorching sun was still hanging in the sky, making it impossible for him to open his eyes.
However, as Emperor Zhongluo pointed at the sun, as if passing judgment on it, black spots visible to the naked eye began to appear on the sun.
The true way of the Tao: Swallow the sky and seize the sun!
It was like a solar eclipse that only happens once in a thousand years. The sun was covered by a piece of black paper cutting, as if someone had used a handkerchief or a pair of scissors to completely remove the glowing piece from the sun.
Then the day turned into night, and darkness covered everything around.
Grandma Lin frowned even more deeply. This was a godly skill, how could they have ever seen it before?
If they didn't know that Hanba was not a god, they would even doubt whether it was Emperor Chongluo who caused the sun to die?
In the darkness, it was like spring grass breaking through the ground. They could hear the vibration and tearing sounds coming from the ground beneath their feet. Countless zombies were breaking through the ground, emerging from under the dust and gathering around Emperor Chongluo.
The air all around was filled with the white breath of zombies and their eerie and terrifying gasping sounds.
Before it got completely dark, Bai Fenghuang ran to Yin Xiu, grabbed his hand and said, "Master, what do you think we should do?"
"What else can be done?"
Yin Xiu used the Five Ghosts to Bring Wealth and grabbed the Chaofeng Sword in his hand.
As he twisted the hilt of the sword, flames wrapped around the sword wind, illuminating the surrounding darkness.
Seeing the fire, the people, feeling uneasy, began to move towards it.
Emperor Zhongluo looked at Yin Xiu and just laughed disdainfully: "A tiny spark dares to compete with the sun and the moon?"
"So you are ignorant."
Yin Xiu signaled everyone to step back, then swung the Chaofeng Sword forward.
"A little spark can start a prairie fire!"
"The Dragon God has issued an order, the Wind God has borrowed the power, and it is urgent!"
The true yang life fire gushed out from the sword, accompanied by a burst of strong wind, and the sea of fire covered the emperor Chongluo and a group of zombies.
When Emperor Zhongluo came out of the sea of fire, the last Miao man passed through the gate and ran into Yufeng Temple. (End of this chapter)
