197, Ghost

Today is the day of the Xuanmen internal competition. According to the previous rules, the president who organized this Xuanmen exchange conference must be present to announce the rules of this internal competition.

But when all the people who wanted to participate in the competition gathered, Xiao Yan did not show up.

"Did Mr. Xiao remember the time wrong? Do you want to find someone to contact Mr. Xiao?"

"Such an important day, even Mr. Xiao can't just not come."

On the departing cruise ship, some talented people were whispering there, unable to hold their breath, and they also complained about Xiao Yan in their words.

"I'm sorry everyone, Mr. Xiao is not feeling well, so he asked me to read out the rules of this internal competition on his behalf."

A young man appeared in a hurry, and everyone recognized him. He was Fu Xiao, Xiao Yan's direct disciple.

"Mr. Xiao is old. If it is because of physical reasons, we can understand."

After listening to Fu Xiao's explanation, those who complained privately just now were the first to stand up and express their understanding.

"I wonder how old Xiao is doing? Is he in any trouble?"

"Yes, I have a hundred-year-old wild ginseng here. If old Xiao needs it, I am willing to offer it at any time. Old Xiao is an old senior of our Xuanmen."

These words were recognized by many people. Everyone enthusiastically expressed their respect and concern for Xiao Yan to Fu Xiao. Only a few people stood in their original positions. Among these people, except Yan Chu, they all came from large clans or large sects. Xiao Yan has a lot of prestige in Xuanmen, and they don't need to curry favor with him like this.

In the final analysis, although Xiao Yan is powerful, he is just a casual cultivator. His sect was founded by him. In terms of foundation, it is not as good as the orderly inherited sects such as Maoshan Sect and Laoshan Sect, and even slightly inferior to Yan Chu's line.

It is said that once Xiao Yan dies, his sect will decline, but now Xiao Yan is still alive. As his direct disciples, Fu Xiao and others are still sought after by some casual cultivators or people from some small sects in Xuanmen.

Looking at his appearance at this time, he seems to be enjoying it.

"My master is fine. He just caught a cold before, so he had to miss this event. He asked me to apologize to you on his behalf."

Fu Xiao's words attracted many people's gratitude and praise. Xiao Yan has a very high status in the hearts of casual cultivators. His existence proves that even without the support of the clan, he can still make a name for himself with his talent and hard work. Moreover, even at Xiao Yan's status, he is still so respectful and treats them, the newcomers of Xuanmen, with such sincere respect. He is really worthy of being the old predecessor of Xuanmen and a truly respected elder.

Looking at the respect and excitement in the eyes of most people, Fu Xiao flashed a trace of disdain in his heart, and then read out the content and rules of the competition according to the process of this competition.

There are a total of 19 contestants in this competition, plus two ordinary people brought by each contestant, a total of 57 people. These people will be taken by cruise ship to a deserted island where a formation has been set up long ago. They can bring enough food and drinking water.

Whoever can get out of the formation first will be the final winner.

As for the people who set up the formation on the deserted island, they are the respected predecessors in the Xuanmen. They will also closely observe the competition situation and take timely action to stop it if there is any danger.

Players can also choose to give up voluntarily. Players who give up and players who are rescued in danger are also equivalent to losing the qualification for the competition.

This test is more difficult than before, because in addition to themselves, they have to protect two ordinary people, which is not a one plus one difficulty.

The island of the competition is under the name of the Yu family. The Yu family originally bought this land to develop it into a resort, but for some unknown reason, this plan was temporarily shelved. Now there is no one on the island except for half of the buildings.

The players were sent to the deserted island by the cruise ship. When they enter the specified range, the formation will be opened. As for other people who do not participate in the competition, they will stay on the shore where the cruise ship is docked.

If you want the formation to stop, either wait for seven days to pass, or someone will appear to crack the formation in advance.

All monks are on guard, taking the ordinary people they need to protect, and step into the formation.

This formation was set up by Xiao Yan, with other Xuanmen seniors as assistants. According to the previous rules, only Xiao Yan, the president of the exchange meeting, knew how to open the formation and the location of the eye of the formation. Today, he was not present, so Fu Xiao opened the formation on his behalf.

In the sight of everyone, Fu Xiao took out seven pieces of jade and placed them in seven corresponding positions. Soon, all the participants in the competition noticed that their environment had changed. Fu Xiao and others who were originally standing not far away seemed to be separated from them into two worlds. On the other side, the already desolate unfinished buildings became even more bizarre and gloomy.

*****

"Ahem, are you done?"

Fu Xiao entered a claustrophobic room. In the empty bedroom, there was a bed surrounded by curtains. He could only hear the sound of someone in the bed, but could not see the situation of the person in the bed.

"Everything is done, Master, do you really not need to find a doctor for you?"

Fu Xiao looked at the position of the bed with a little doubt, as if he wanted to see the situation inside through the curtains.

"No need, I know my body naturally, you go down."

The person in the curtain coughed a few times. Fu Xiao boldly wanted to step forward to take a look, but felt an inexplicable pressure. His face immediately turned pale, he lowered his head and said yes, and respectfully withdrew.

After walking out of the door, Fu Xiao wiped the sweat from his forehead. Everyone praised their master as a good master with a kind personality. Only the brothers knew how unkind and unstable his master's personality was.

But who knows that none of their senior brothers have any talent for cultivation? People think they are lucky to be able to worship a Taoist master as their teacher. Now these rich and generous lives are given by their master. No matter how dissatisfied they are, they still have no talent. I can only endure it in my heart and pray that he can live longer.

After the door was closed, the originally closed curtain was lifted, revealing the skinny face covered with black spots. His eyeballs were cloudy and glowing yellow-green, and he looked more like an evil ghost than a living person.

This Xiao Yan is completely different from the one who appeared in the banquet hall three days ago.

"Hehe, it's been fourteen years. Fourteen years ago, your parents ruined my good deeds. Fourteen years later, you came to ruin my good deeds again. This time, I will definitely crush you to ashes."

His voice was rough, like the sound of sandpaper being rubbed, and every word was as hard to squeeze out from the gaps between his teeth.

Xiao Yan pressed the switch on the bedside, and there was a faint sound of gears turning in the room. Tens of seconds later, the bed he was lying on suddenly began to sink. When everything returned to calm, he had already changed to another room.

The talismans around it, the altar in the middle of the room, and the big black urn.

This great figure in Xuanmen who was praised by everyone, surprisingly sent Li Guihongnu to kill Yan Chu's men that day.

*****

As soon as they entered the resort, the monks separated. In the subsequent competition, they were also competitors.

I don’t know what benefits the Cheng family gave the female monk. The other party actually had the confidence to entrust Cheng Yuanyuan to Yan Chu, and she separated from Yan Chu with another ordinary person who needed her protection. In other words, now Yan Chu There are three people who need protection.

Most of the formations on the island are relatively basic mystery formations or phantom formations. However, because they are combination formations, they can sometimes make people confused, especially when bringing ordinary people with them. After entering the formation, Yan Chu and the others reunited with other teams midway. Many teams were disgraced. Obviously, these days in the formation were not particularly easy.

In addition, there were actually a few virtuous ghosts placed in the formation, which were distributed throughout the resort.

The headless female corpse who has been looking for her own head, was tragically disfigured and committed suicide, the female ghost who hates all men, and the perverted ghost who has a lustful nature and never changes her ways...

Yan Chu had many ways to save his life, and with Lin Yuan as a cheating device that could communicate with other ghosts, the group of four people and one ghost was relatively safe.

Six days have passed in the blink of an eye, and one more day will be the seventh day, but the formation has not been broken yet. It seems that no player has found the position of the formation eye.

"Little Master, do we really not want to find the formation?"

Cheng Yuanyuan saw that Yan Chu had been in a calm state since he entered the formation. Except for taking action when encountering danger, he had never actively looked for the formation. The competition is more like coming to the Du family.

"This formation has no formation holes to break it."

Yan Chu glanced at the sky and deduce the time. It was almost here.

"No formation eyes?"

Yu Yu was a little confused. Those masters were all highly respected, so they wouldn't play tricks on them. How could they win a game without formations?

He suspected that Yan Chu's ability was not up to par, but he was too embarrassed to admit it, so he said this.

"Actually, we have gained quite a lot from this trip. This is the first time I have seen a female ghost in my life."

Yu Yu's temperament is narcissistic and stinky. It's rare to hear him comforting someone: "It's been six days anyway. In one more day, we can leave this place."

In the resort, except for the poor food and accommodation, there were no other shortcomings. On the contrary, they also gained a lot of knowledge during this trip. It turns out that there are really so many things in the world that they can't usually see, but they can't see them. Something that really exists.

Cheng Yuanyuan also comforted Yan Chu. Anyway, no one else has broken the formation now, and he is not ashamed at all.

Yan Chu smiled and did not tell them that when he said there was no formation eye, it was not because he had not found the formation eye. What he meant just now was that the formation eye had not yet appeared in the formation. .

"call--"

There was a gust of cold wind, and Yu Yu felt a chill on his neck. He subconsciously wiped the back of his neck, but it felt sticky to the touch.

When I looked down, I saw it was dark red.

"Tick tock, tick tock..."

A dripping sound sounded from behind him, as if something was dripping from the ceiling.

Yu Yu slowly raised his head, his eyes getting bigger and bigger. He opened his mouth and stretched out his hand stiffly to tug Yan Chu beside him. He was speechless and pointed his other hand high in the direction of the ceiling.

Looking at him like this, he was so frightened that he couldn't even react by screaming.

"ah--"

In terms of screaming fighting power, no one is as strong as a girl. Cheng Yuanyuan and Lin Yang looked up and saw the female ghost adhering to the ceiling like a lizard, with all the bones in her body as if broken and reorganized. They couldn't help but tear up. He shouted at the top of his lungs.

Yan Chu felt that it was not his illusion. When Cheng Yuanyuan screamed, the female ghost was subconsciously stunned for a second, which shows the penetrating power of this voice.

However, Cheng Yuanyuan was scared, but Yu Yu was not so nervous. The man who was scared to death just now still had the courage to protect Cheng Yuanyuan behind him.

While doing this action, he did not forget to push Yan Chu and let him push forward.

"So many."

Lin Yang looked around. There was originally a monster on the top of the ceiling. I don’t know when, more and more such ghosts appeared in the house, with the same hideous faces and distorted bodies. Looking at their eyes, it’s like looking at some cold food.

"Go to that circle, don’t come out."

Yan Chu calculated the time and the person behind the scenes should take action. Sure enough, he didn’t panic at all. According to the previous setting, he asked Lin Yang and the other two to stand in the formation he set.

"Wow--"

The first female ghost jumped down from the ceiling, her sharp claws flashed a cold light, and turned to Yan Chu. After her, other ghosts began to move, some attacking Yan Chu, and some attacking Lin Yang and others hiding in the protective circle.

"What, what's going on?"

Yu Yu's teeth were shivering. Even though those ghosts couldn't touch them, watching those ghosts with extremely terrifying looks attacking them fiercely, every ghost face was close at hand, as if they would be torn apart and eaten in the next second, such a scene still made several people unable to accept it.

"Didn't we agree that it was just a test? Looking at the postures of these ghosts, they seem to be here to kill people."

At the beginning of the game, it was said that this was just a competition within the Xuanmen, but how could there be so many ghosts in a competition at once?

Before this, they had only experienced a few lonely ghosts, and they almost didn't waste any effort to drive those ghosts away.

The talismans produced by the system are too precious. Yan Chu will not use them unless a heavyweight ghost appears. Thanks to the previous inventory and the financial support provided by the Yu family and the Cheng family, Yan Chu drew a lot of talismans and made a lot of magic tools in just a few days. Now it is more than enough to deal with it.

"Little Master, why don't we admit defeat."

Yu Yu looked at Cheng Yuanyuan, who was already scared and pale, and couldn't help but speak. The current situation is obviously not good for them. Looking at the endless stream of ghosts, killing one will come with a pair, killing a pair will come with a group, and there is a trend of killing more and more.

"They are coming for the two of you. Do you think admitting defeat will work?"

Yan Chu waved the peach wood sword and killed several ghosts that had completely lost their minds and said.

Combined with the memory of the original body, he has completely understood the ins and outs of this matter.

The four people who died in the previous life all had special fates, and the two most special ones were the original body and Cheng Yuanyuan.

The original body was born with the Sky Eye, and Cheng Yuanyuan also accidentally opened her spiritual orifice in that car accident. That is to say, among the four people, the two men and women with six Yang attributes all have the Sky Eye.

Six Yin men and women plus six Yang men and women, as long as they form a pair, they will be the Twelve-Character Blood Evil. If the soul of one of the four pairs is refined into a life bead, the owner of the life bead is likely to have the fate of these men and women with unique talents, especially the Sky Eye of the Six Yang men and women, which is also likely to be inherited.

This practice is extremely insidious and vicious, because those who are born with the Sky Eye are often the favorites of heaven. Refining such a son of destiny is to be an enemy of heaven. Therefore, even those who know the existence of such a vicious formation as the Twelve-Character Blood Evil dare not try it easily.

However, there are exceptions to everything. What if the deadline is approaching?

Looking at your increasingly declining body, there is a chance that may make you regain your youth and have the Sky Eye that everyone expects. Wouldn't you be tempted?

In the previous life, Cheng Yuanyuan opened her heavenly eyes, and because she had to deal with her original body, she contacted many people in the Xuanmen. After all, she was still young and could not hide things. It was normal for the person behind the scenes to notice it.

As for the heavenly eyes of the original body, the person behind the scenes should know it, but he was not sure whether the other party was a six-yang body. Killing him was just a double insurance for Yu Yu and Cheng Yuanyuan.

As for this time, the soul of the little ghost girl Lin Yuan and the evil ghost Hongnv have been separated for so long, no one knows whether there will be any sequelae after the re-integration. The person behind the scenes is also unsure of his horoscope, but who made Cheng Yuanyuan not open her heavenly eyes in this life? It was a pity to simply use her six-yang girl and Yu Yu, the six-yin man, to refine the life beads.

I am afraid that it is still the same as in the previous life. Both of them are the targets of the person behind the scenes.

This year is quite special. The four consecutive lunar eclipses that may only occur once every few hundred years will occur this year, that is, there will be four total lunar eclipses in two years. This year and next year are also the days with the heaviest yin energy that are seen in hundreds of years.

The last total lunar eclipse was the day of Yu Yu's car accident, and the second total lunar eclipse this year is today.

If Yan Chu calculated correctly, there will be a seven-star alignment tonight. The person behind the scenes wants to refine the life bead, and today is the best time. If you miss today, you will have to wait for nearly a year. I don't know if the person behind the scenes still has so much time.

"Little Master, what do you mean by this?"

Cheng Yuanyuan widened her eyes. What do you mean by coming for them?

"Hehehe, cough cough."

A hunched, skinny and ugly old man came in. His head was bald, with only a few white hairs.

His eyes were gloomy, and there was a dark aura behind him, and he looked at the person in front of him with hatred. The red girl who was injured by Yan Chu last time was following behind him. In just three days, the red girl not only Instead of being weak, the ghostly aura became more and more intense, turning black into a ball of ink. Even before he got close, ordinary people like Lin Yang already felt it was difficult to breathe.

"Who are you......"

Yu Yu and Cheng Yuanyuan looked at the old man who suddenly appeared for a long time, and finally recognized his identity.

"Are you Master Xiao Yanxiao?"

How is it possible? Master Xiao is obviously much younger and more upright than the old man in front of him. Could it be that his previous appearance was all performed by him?

"It's too late. After today, you will all die, but don't worry, I will refine you into my life beads. When the time comes, you will bear every karma for me. When I break the void, that is you Days of relief.”

Xiao Yan smiled brilliantly, because his body was broken, and his laughter was like a bellows with a broken pipe, and air began to leak from the throat.

"Xiao Yuan, that's Xiao Yuan too. What did you do to my sister? You killed him."

Even though the red girl has completely lost her former appearance, as a twin brother and sister born from the same compatriot, Lin Yang still feels the spiritual bond. When she saw the completely unconscious ghost behind Xiao Yan, her heart throbbed. .

"Haha, that's right."

Xiao Yan glanced at Lin Yuan, and he recognized it. That was the boy who ran away with the little girl when he wanted to adopt Lin Yuan. If it hadn't been for him, he wouldn't have ruined more children later. Kung Fu, there is enough time to take Lin Yang to other more secluded places, so as not to deal with the little girl on the spot just because he has to catch up with Yin Shari.

"hateful."

Lin Yang rushed forward without thinking, wanting to cut the vicious old man into pieces, but before he could get close, the red girl was faster, and like a flash of light, she slammed Lin Yang into the wall.

With a "bang", Lin Yang hit the wall and fell heavily to the ground.

"You have to know that I spent a lot of effort to refine this evil girl."

"To refine the life beads, you need to use the most sinister and evil ghosts. She was only ten years old at that time, and her flesh was still tender. I cut off her flesh piece by piece. The scream was so beautiful."

I don't know when, the sky was suddenly covered by shadows. Xiao Yan's back was facing the light, and his body was covered with shadows, which made him look even more ghostly and sinister. He smiled ferociously, and at the same time, he seemed to be nostalgic and talked about how he had refined Lin Yuan. Made into a ghost.

"How many films did I take at that time? One thousand, two thousand. Time passed so long that I forgot about it, but I still remember that she kept shouting, Brother, I'm in pain, come and save me. , Brother, brother, how desperate. What I want is her despair. I told her that her brother didn’t want her anymore. Her brother thought she was a burden and sold her to me. I hung her life and cut her into pieces. The skeleton used the best medicine and kept her under the moonlight for ten days. On the evil day, she breathed her last. "

The more Xiao Yan talked about it, the happier he became, and he even started to dance: "This is my most satisfying work. It is worthy of being called the Six Yin Women. It is also a Yin evil that is born and a Yin evil that dies on the day. It brings together sadness and resentment, increasing evil and hatred, and the most evil is evil." , extremely evil, hahaha.”

He looked at the red girl beside him, his eyes full of affection, and then his face gradually darkened, and he looked at Yan Chu: "It's all your fault. I made the wrong destiny ghost at that time, and let her separate one body and two souls. When I figure out how to reunite them, you let your troublesome parents rescue her. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have waited until today."

The world is so big that it is easy to find men and women with six yin and six yang, but those who were born on the Yin evil day and were still young are very rare. Yan Chu ruined his great opportunity. Otherwise, fourteen years later, he would have already formed Twelve words of blood evil, successfully achieved enlightenment.

"Ah-ah-ah-I'm going to kill you."

Lin Yang was going crazy. He couldn't imagine how desperate his sister was before she died. He couldn't care less about the pain in his body and rushed towards Xiao Yan again and again, only to be swatted away by the red girl again and again.

"Xiaoyuan, I am the elder brother. Do you still remember that when your parents passed away, your elder brother said that he would protect you well? I will remember this sentence for my whole life. It is my fault. I should not have lost you." Yes, look at me, look at me."

Lin Yang's teeth were knocked out and he spat out mouthfuls of blood. Yan Chu was too tired to deal with the endless ghosts and monsters and couldn't take care of him for the time being.

The red girl whom he called Little Yuan was not moved by his words at all. Over more than ten years, she had long become a ghost without any emotions or thoughts, devouring so many people and ghosts, and was even more eroded by those resentments. Lost his mind.

Yu Yu and Cheng Yuanyuan were almost dumbfounded. They never imagined that Xiao Yan would be such a pervert.

How old was Lin Yuancai in his mouth? Just listening to his description, you can feel the pain and despair of the little girl at that time.

"A devil like you wants to prove the Tao. I'm afraid God will chop you to death first." Yu Yu asked Cheng Yuanyuan to stand still and rushed out of the protective circle. Yan Chu was around his neck. Although he was afraid of the talisman cards given to him, as well as the talismans and magic weapons that Yan Chu had given him before, he also knew that Yan Chu's strength alone might not be enough now, and he still had to save himself.

He overcame his fear and swung the copper coin sword to kill the ghosts. Because of the protection of the talisman, the ghosts couldn't do anything to him for a while, but he killed several of them.

Seeing this, Cheng Yuanyuan also rushed out of the protection circle with a hardened heart. She couldn't let the young master deal with the old pervert alone.

"You don't know what you can do."

Xiao Yan's eyes were as cold as a venomous snake. This was the formation he set up, and it was also his territory. These people wanted to fight him here, which was simply a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

"I don't understand. Since you chose to refine the life ghost at that time, it means that your time was coming to an end. Why did you extend your life for another ten years?"

Yan Chu split the ghosts that entangled him and asked Xiao Yan before the ghosts got close.

"Haha, since you are about to die, I will let you be a ghost who knows."

Xiao Yan coughed a few times, hunched over and smiled, "This is all thanks to my dozens of good disciples. They have continuously passed on their luck to me, and most of the karma they created by changing their fate against the will of heaven has been transferred to this half-finished life bead. The reason why they have made no achievements in metaphysics in these years is all because of this."

"Despicable, aren't they your disciples?"

Cheng Yuanyuan couldn't help spitting at him. She had heard from her father before that although Master Xiao was very famous in the Xuanmen, his disciples were only average in qualifications.

But even so, he still patiently taught them, which was also a good story in the Xuanmen. Everyone envied his disciples who had poor qualifications but had a good teacher like him, and they wished they could replace him.

If those disciples who respected him and those who admired him knew what he did, I wonder what they would think.

"After I prove my Dao, they, as my disciples, have nothing to ask for. This is just an advance payment for the glory in the future. It is their honor."

Xiao Yan didn't think so. Anyway, after today, they would all die. At that time, he would still be the senior respected by everyone, and his disciples would respect him as always.

At that time, he would be the only one in the entire Xuanmen.

"Xiao Yan."

An old and deep voice sounded from behind him. Xiao Yan's pupils shrank and he turned his head. He didn't know when, all the leading figures of the Xuan world who participated or did not participate in the Xuanmen Exchange Conference this time appeared behind him, and the leader was the old Taoist.

"Uncle Master."

Yan Chu saluted the old Taoist respectfully, his eyes slightly red.

"It's been fourteen years. I have been looking for the murderer for fourteen years. I didn't expect it to be you."

The old Taoist raised his head and howled, but tears fell from the corners of his eyes. Today, he can finally avenge his brothers and sisters.

"So this kid is your nephew. If I had known this, I wouldn't have missed so many years."

Xiao Yan really didn't expect that the two young monks he asked Hong Nu to kill were actually fellow disciples of the old Taoist. If he knew, he wouldn't have to look for Yan Chu for so long.

It turned out that the old Taoist was seriously injured because of Xiao Yan.

The old Taoist's master said that there were two dead knots in his life, all of which were verified on Xiao Yan. Today, even if he lost his life, he would keep Xiao Yan.

"Xiao Yan, don't be stubborn. You have violated the taboo of Xuanmen by using the souls of ordinary people as life beads and raising evil spirits."

Several old predecessors of Xuanmen were found by the old Taoist. Thanks to Yan Chu's advance notice, he also understood the life and death barrier in time and saw the letter.

This was Yan Chu's second-hand preparation, and he didn't expect it to come in handy.

"You want to keep me, just right, I think my ghost's resentment is not heavy enough, so you can feed my baby."

Xiao Yan was shocked for only a moment, looking at those so-called upright masters who were pretending to be so arrogant, laughing, and forming a formation with both hands, suddenly, the sky was covered and hundreds of ghosts wailed.

He chose this place as the place for the assessment, of course, for his purpose.

It turned out that the reason why the Yu family stopped the development of this resort was because a mass grave was found under this deserted island, that is, there were countless wronged souls here.

As the formation was officially activated, countless ghosts flew to the red woman floating behind Xiao Yan. Her ghost aura was so strong that those masters of the Xuanmen couldn't help but tremble with fear.