Chapter 123: Battle (2)

The tense battle began without me realizing it, but at this juncture, I was filled with some doubts in my heart, doubts about the soul.

Yes, even if you are a Taoist and have come into contact with many souls, you can never say that you understand all of them. For example, can souls inexplicably take on their own attributes after death? This is too general a statement, and people may not necessarily understand it. However, if we use examples from certain movies, many people will have an impression. For example, the little girl ghost in “Ghost Water Evil Spirit” must be accompanied by various water marks and water droplets because it died in a bucket on the roof. For example, in the movie “2002” there are also water ghosts and ghosts who were buried in a sea of fire. The ghosts who died in the fire harmed people as if they had been burned.

Of course, movies are exaggerated, but they also illustrate the fact that after death, the soul carries inexplicable attributes! But the specific reasons are not even clear to Taoists, and they can only tacitly acknowledge the existence of this rare fact.

The red-robed ghost is one such being, so Tao Bai’s battle with it is, as Cheng Qingge said, an encounter between water and fire.

At this moment, they were in a struggle, and the place where they were fighting must have been filled with a lot of steam, making it difficult to see the specific situation. What was very special was that Tao Bai had a special feeling about this red-robed ghost. No matter where it appeared, Tao Bai was able to appear in the corresponding place in time.

This is really a rival. I sighed, and I could only let this kind of thing distract me, because deep down in my heart, I had already thought of a way to fight to the extreme… And over there, besides Jueyuan, Chengqing, Chengzhen, and me, everyone else had already started!

It was almost a one-sided massacre, and even the moves of Brother Chengxin shocked me. He used a dazzling flying needle technique that reminded me of the movie “The Invincible” (Dongfang Buwei), but I didn’t dare to tell Brother Chengxin about it, for fear that he would strangle me.

The golden needles in his hands are not the real golden needles in the traditional sense, but golden needles condensed by his spiritual power. This skill makes me wonder where he learned it from. However, every vein has its own secrets and unique skills, so it is useless to ask.

Compared to the leisure of Jueyuan and I, Chengqing was much busier. He took out a tortoise shell and made complicated movements that I couldn’t understand. In the end, he was like a deity dancing in front of Chengzhen, stepping back and forth around Chengzhen in a way that I didn’t understand. When Chengqing’s face finally couldn’t hold out any longer, he suddenly shouted, “Chengzhen, close your eyes and feel carefully.”

At this moment, Chengzhen had already completed the fusion of his soul. After the snake had spread its body, it wrapped around Chengzhen, and finally formed a snake tattoo on Chengzhen’s body. The reason I could see it was because the snake tattoo was too obvious. The snake’s head was just between Chengzhen’s neck and left cheek. The snake’s body wrapped around Chengzhen’s neck like a necklace.

This kind of tattoo is not scary, but it adds a touch of the strange and mysterious to Chengzhen as a whole. To be honest, it’s not ugly.

I was already very confused about the fact that Chengzhen was able to merge his soul, and I never imagined that the merging of his soul and mine would be two completely different situations.

However, I can also understand that when the master passed down the chapter on merging souls to me, it was already discussed in the chapter on merging souls that there would be different manifestations of merging souls, although the essence is the same.

I didn’t have time to observe Chengzhen’s soul merging, when Chengqing suddenly pointed at Chengzhen’s spirit altar with two fingers after shouting. Chengzhen quickly closed his eyes as Chengqing said, and then Chengqing sat down on the ground, panting heavily. Chengzhen’s eyebrows kept twitching. In that moment, what did Chengzhen see and feel? I couldn’t know.

Ten black-robed people died in an instant under the combined efforts of everyone. The remaining ones were no longer to be feared. I don’t know if it was the effect of the pills of Brother Chengxin or the effect of the power of thought of Jueyuan, but at this time, I felt that everyone’s combat effectiveness had reached a new level!

The only thing that was troubling was Tao Bai’s side. His battle with the red-robed ghost was almost at a stalemate. The red-robed ghost seemed to deliberately not want to face Tao Bai head-on. Every time, it would sneak up and run away. According to its water attribute, it really can run very well!

In contrast, Tao Bai occasionally managed to hit the red-robed ghost, but most of the time he was being held back. The reason I judged this way was because I saw Tao Bai constantly forcing himself, and the red flames on his arms would go out and then light up again. By this time, I noticed that the red flames on Tao Bai’s arms were not as dazzling as the first two times, and seemed to be a bit dim.

I frowned slightly. Even if I am stupid, I can see where the problem is. The red-robed ghost is doing this on purpose. It has seen Tao Bai’s weakness. His pure yang energy, or fire energy, is not infinite after leaving the body. It is not as powerful as Tao Bai’s, but it is better at being endless. It is just delaying. It wants to exhaust Tao Bai’s energy before…

I was about to remind Tao Bai, but at that moment, Lu Shan, who had just finished fighting, stood next to me with a dripping bone knife in his hand and said, “Xiao Bai knows it. There’s no need to remind him. It’s just that this guy hasn’t angered him yet, and Xiao Bai hasn’t used his full strength.”

I looked at Lu Shan in surprise, but he raised the dripping bone knife and said to me, “Look at this dream world. We will bleed when we are injured, and we will see blood when we kill ghosts. This dreamer doesn’t know how to make a beautiful dream to comfort the suffering souls here. Instead, he dreams of this world in such a cruel and violent way. It seems that he can’t leave it.”

I naturally know that the manifestation of a wounded soul is nothing more than the soul becoming dim, and in severe cases, it can’t even condense. There is no such thing as the kind of wounds and bleeding that can be seen in the world of the living. But isn’t this something that I already knew when I came here? It’s just in that dream world that exists.

But why is Lushan saying this at this time? In fact, there is only one purpose, to change the subject!

He’s still being like that. If he doesn’t want to talk, I won’t ask. I’m being sensible and keeping quiet. But I don’t want to bear it. At this time, Chengzhen opened his eyes. There was an expression of disbelief in his eyes. Then Chengzhen moved. He took a step and his figure blurred and disappeared. When he appeared again he was already about 20 meters away from us, holding a magic disk in his hand, as well as a magic chessboard that had appeared out of nowhere. The chessboard was embroidered with a map of the mountains and rivers, looking extremely gorgeous, and there was a faint aura flowing around it, giving it a kind of majestic air.

I knew at a glance that this was the treasure passed down in the Li family. I had the tiger claw and the agarwood beads, so didn’t the Xiangzi lineage have anything that could be used as a bargaining chip?

It was only the speed after the soul was combined that shocked me. Even if the stupid tiger had a wind attribute, it couldn’t reach the level of Chengzhen. This was a hundred times more powerful than the light skills performed on TV.

I was stunned as I watched Chengzhen’s sometimes visible, sometimes invisible figure, but I didn’t know when Chengqing had walked up to my side. He was still calm and indifferent, as if the sky had fallen and he was unmoved. He said to me, “Do you know why Chengzhen chose the snake that looks like it would only be cute when he chose to merge his soul?”

I shook my head. Many times, I was too busy to notice. It was only at this moment that I realized that I had been too insensitive to my fellow students.

“Snakes are the most sensitive creatures to changes in climate, terrain and feng shui, not to mention the soul of such a demon snake? I don’t know why it didn’t choose the path of turning into a dragon, or if it had the ambition to become a dragon. But you have to know that dragons move the clouds, tigers create the wind, and dragons and tigers actually have the ability to stir up or change the feng shui. This demon snake soul also has this ability, and it is of great help to Chengzhen’s feng shui formation.” Cheng Qing stood next to me and talked to me.

Over there, Tao Bai’s panting voice rang in our ears. Just now, he had refused Xiao Chengqian’s offer to help, and had only replied to Xiao Chengqian with a faint “I’m not too amazing right now.”

The figure of the red-robed ghost also appeared. It looked slightly tired, but it was in much better condition than Tao Bai. At least on the surface, I didn’t see how badly the ghost was injured.

Trust is what I should give to Tao Bai. Even now, I am clenching my fists, and my fingernails are piercing the flesh of my palms, causing pain.

“Actually, I can probably imagine this, but at this speed?” I asked Cheng Qingge to distract myself, and in fact, this was also my concern.

“Her speed is very simple. She has merged her soul. In fact, she is walking like a snake. It’s a cute snake walking. How long is the body of that cute snake? How far can she step in one step? Although the form of her soul merging is mainly based on her form, we have accepted our own soul merging, so we naturally know what some soul merging can do, although not all of it. This is what Chengzhen told me not long after he got the cute snake.” Chengqing said calmly.

I nodded, thinking of Silly Tiger. This guy, not to mention letting me know what it can do, even if it has a little reaction, it has also nourished me for more than 20 years before it appeared.

This guy, what kind of trauma did he suffer in the past? How was he abused by my master?

I thought to myself with a smile, and just then, a sudden change occurred. In the midst of this, a flag suddenly appeared for no apparent reason. As the wind blew, the flag grew larger and larger. When it reached a certain size, it finally stopped, and the flag fluttered in the wind. On it was the magnificent landscape painting…

“How dare you!” The red-robed ghost, who had been deliberately fighting Tao Bai, suddenly became furious!