Sky Lantern

"He's become infected!" said the black cat.

Wu Ci knew what "Infected" was; he had seen it when he searched for the term.

The wilderness outside Dark Star City is full of infected people. Because they have no intelligence and no life, or the nature of their life has changed, they are not afraid of the cold environment without the sun, nor are they afraid of severe natural disasters. They cannot be killed by ordinary methods. The only thing rooted in their obsession is destruction and killing.

Of course, it can be directly understood as a zombie with added bonuses or a cultivator who has become several times stronger after going astray.

Most of the matters handled by the Special Management Bureau are infection-related, and the spiritualists have been fighting against these things all the time.

The source of infection for the infected is unknown, but the infection is extremely strong. Once infected, they will lose their minds and transform into monsters, making it difficult to kill them with ordinary firearms.

But I didn't expect that the medium of infection was actually the evil energy encountered in the Qian Dynasty.

"Brother Aci, this space gap is about to collapse! You take the spirit stone and go first, I will help you get the evidence!" The black cat jumped out of Wu Ci's arms nimbly and pushed him towards the door anxiously.

Wu Ci, who was carrying the suitcase, did not move.

——An extremely oppressive gaze locked onto him

【Warning! Warning! Warning! 】

The simulator's gold lettering turned scarlet, pulsating across the screen in his view:

[Your Heroic Spirit "Du Nan Dao Jun. Chu Ci" has the talent "God's Favor (locked)" which attracts the accidental attention of a high-ranking unknown being.]

[“God’s Favor” has been unlocked]

[He shifts his gaze following Chu Ci’s connection]

【You have been discovered by Him!!!】

It was Tianzun... When Tianzun seized the authority of the Heavenly Dao, he saw Chuci, the heroic spirit who had pretended to be his favorite, outside the sky, and took notice of him through this connection!

Wu Ci froze in place. An invisible hand seemed to lift his chin and examine it carefully, then pinched his face to confirm the truth, and then...

...rub his dog head and leave happily?

He is pleased with you

[Your special hero "???.Wuci" has unlocked the talent "God's Blessing"]

Yan Gou Tianzun... is outrageous.

After discovering Chu Ci, he did not pursue the matter of Chu Ci killing his other followers. He directly promoted Chu Ci, the fake follower, to a regular follower, and also recruited Wu Ci, the spiritualist.

Without Miss Chen as a follower, it would be a good deal if I could just recruit two more, right?

No, according to Miss Chen's ability, she should have become a heroic spirit as well, so Tianzun earned two followers for free, and also snatched Sui Gu's Heavenly Dao and Xuanling positions!

If the Lord of Heaven is not happy, who will be happy?

But, how can I put it? Although it is good to save my life, Tianzun is a cult that is even more evil than the 12 Mysterious Spirits! Following Tianzun, I have no food to eat, and everyone wants to kill me.

He is a civil servant with a good family background, but he was directly assigned to the cult camp!

This way of recruiting is ridiculous. Other people are "immortals patting my head, tying my hair and granting me immortality", but the Heavenly Venerable actually stretches out his claws and rubs the dog's head and regards them as his own?

What a down-to-earth Husky award!

Wu Ci felt his forehead getting slightly hot, and then the simulator gave him a long list of prompts.

[Talent "Preaching" has been upgraded]

[Open the formation system]

[Already joined the camp: Tianji Dao. Tianzun Shenjue]

[Unlocked special skill: "Sacrifice to summon the gods"]

[Unlock the talent of the formation: "Stealing the way to receive life"]

[The Heavenly Way of the Supreme God has been increased, unlocking new talents for the formation: "Blood and Flesh Infusion"]

Are there any benefits for joining the church?

[Sacrifice to summon the gods] is the special skill that Tianjizi sacrificed 90 million Tianfen troops at the end of the Qian Dynasty in exchange for the descent of the gods. It is probably a special right that belongs to the gods and the direct descendants of the gods.

As for [Stealing the Dao to Receive Life], Tianjizi also used it when he killed the dragon. It is used by Tianzun's disciples to steal the power of other mysterious and spiritual heavenly ways.

[Blood and Flesh Infusion] is amazing. It can consume blood and flesh and store it as vitality. When needed or when the body is disabled, this vitality can be used to restore one's own or other people's body tissues.

This is very good, Wu Ci thought: If I can't kill him with one blow, as long as he still has flesh and blood stored, or there is flesh and blood around that can be consumed, even if only a head is left, he can quickly reconstruct his body.

This was probably the method used by the Imperial Master of Tiande Temple to come out from the body of Xie Nanting, the abbot of Nanzhou.

The "Heavenly Scripture", which is a fusion of Wu Ci and Tiande Temple's skills, also has similar recovery skills, but it can only be used when a person dies with resentment, and it can only work on oneself. It has been thrown away by the formation talent "Blood and Flesh Infusion".

This means that Tianzun has truly completely mastered the Heavenly Dao of the skeleton, which is why he has gained the power of flesh and blood vitality and reproduction.

There is nothing to be afraid of Sui Gu who has been deprived of the Heavenly Dao. Tianzun has just left, and it is impossible for Sui Gu, a loser, to kill Wu Ci, the new follower.

So the only dangers are the evil spirit and the monks who become infected.

Wu Ci relaxed and finally shook his head at the black cat.

He really wanted Black Cat to die here, but Black Cat was a cadre of the Second Cult, and there would be more benefits if Black Cat was kept alive.

This is the contract certificate.

Wu Ci thought: In order to get this thing, I even risked being spotted by Tianzun and Sui Gu by wading through this muddy water. Now that I have been noticed, it would be a loss if I don't get it. It is too unsafe to let Black Cat get it.

He grabbed Black Cat's hand and said in a deep voice as if he was worried about Black Cat, "It's contagious. I'll let the Heroic Spirit go. He happens to be very good at dealing with this kind of thing."

"But that's Chu Ci, right? Although I don't know how you, Brother Aci, managed to successfully contract a Heroic Spirit that has a low degree of compatibility with me using the relevant certificates of the Heroic Spirit that I selected for you, but according to Chu Ci's personality, he probably won't listen to you too much."

Black Cat obviously knew Chu Ci's history and knew that the heroic spirit "Chu Ci" would not take action because of this. He did not care what "Chu Ci" would think after hearing this and directly exposed Wu Ci: "The killing of the Dragon King just now might not be to protect you, a spiritualist, but because of the old grudges of the common people in the Qian Dynasty because of the death of the Dragon King."

"He'll listen. He has something he wants to know."

Wu Ci rubbed the black cat's head and smiled gently. Under his puzzled gaze, he turned to "Chu Ci" and said, "Get it, otherwise..."

"Chu Ci" sighed helplessly, without saying anything more, he just immediately flashed forward, his figure dragging behind the afterimage of the golden spirit.

The Dragon-Slaying Sword rushed out and pierced into the pervasive black mist of evil energy!

The Buddha's light emitted by the flesh/lotus above could no longer suppress the evil spirit. The deformed monk completely lost his mind and became infected. "Chu Ci"'s dragon-slashing sword, which was a special attack against evil spirits, covered his spiritual power and blood energy and pierced his abdominal cavity with one sword!

The Wu Ci and "Chu Ci" perceptions were carried out simultaneously, and one could clearly feel the Slashing Dragon Sword breaking through the monk's flesh. The flesh was tough and dull, as if piercing a piece of gelatinized leather.

The internal organs in the monk's abdominal cavity also carry heat and rise to the outside, emitting a disgusting fishy smell.

It growled like a wild beast, and its opened abdominal cavity instantly split into five petals of bloody membrane in the shape of a calyx!

Chu Ci drew his sword and swung it across. The Dragon-Slaying Sword pierced into the monk's abdomen, enlarging the wound and destroying the vascular tissue of the heart. It then pulled open his neck and tore open his head, splitting the monk in half!

With such injuries, an ordinary person would have died long ago, but the monk seemed to be unable to be killed by conventional means and still retained the ability to move. The golden arms wrapped in black mist behind him swung, and the calyx-shaped flesh membrane on his body opened up, revealing a crack in the center that looked like a female reproductive organ, revealing a vicious saw-like tube, which suddenly expanded and gathered from all directions, making it impossible to avoid! It seemed to want to kill Chu Ci completely!

"Chu Ci" entered the state of leptonization, and its body exploded into gorgeous golden particles. It did not advance but retreated, ignoring obstacles and moving forward.

In an instant, he reached into the heart of the monk who had transformed into a strange and evil monster.

The black phantom sphere was attached to the monk's spine, beating in the center of his body instead of his heart.

The Dragon Slayer Sword blocked the illusory black ball, pushing away the struggling flesh petals that were rushing towards him again, and nailing all the limbs of those waste things to the floor to prevent regeneration.

"Chu Ci"'s white hands, which seemed only able to hold a book, were wrapped in blood and spiritual power to temporarily block out the evil spirit, and tightly grasped the spine to prevent the monk from escaping.

Black Cat explained to Wu Ci, "It's [vitality turned into flesh]. It's the remnant of the authority of the First Cult that worships the Lord God. The vitality absorbed can be extracted and reconstructed into flesh when it is useful. If all the flesh and blood in his body cannot be wiped out directly, he will be immortal before the vitality is used up."

Is that so? It is quite similar to the [Blood and Flesh] he just got, but it should be a few levels lower than [Blood and Flesh].

What this means is that the physical attack of the normal attack is ineffective and only magic attack can be used?

Wu Ci felt the remaining spiritual energy in his body.

There was not much spiritual power left. He originally had enough spiritual power to support the Heroic Spirit's activities for two hours, but the test of the Heroic Spirit's level assessment in the morning plus the consumption of killing the Dragon King just now, even if he recovered a little in the middle of these two things, there were only about 40 minutes left for the Heroic Spirit to appear in the world.

If you want to use the spells in the later part of "Heavenly Famine Sutra", the spiritual energy consumed will reduce this time.

But I was very hesitant. I decided to choose a small spell that only required the consumption of spiritual energy and did not require too much sacrifice.

What could wipe out all the flesh and blood in an instant?

fire?

There is indeed a fire-related spell in the "Heavenly Scripture" called "Ignition".

It was adapted by Wu Ci using the flesh and blood vitality techniques of Tiande Temple and Taoist spells.

The fire is ignited at the fingertips through blood to purify the evil energy. As long as there is flesh and blood, it can burn. If there is demonic energy, blood, and evil intentions of living beings, the flame will burn faster and the damage caused by the burning will be more serious.

The origin of this spell was because he had thought about it last week. If he couldn't stand the evil spirit any more, he could use this fire to ignite his body, burn himself, and purify and disinfect his blood vessels and internal organs at high temperature. Even if it couldn't be eradicated, it would at least make him feel better.

Therefore, this fire is actually used by Wu Ci to burn himself.

"It's okay for you to use it." He chuckled and said to the black cat, "Do you want to see the sky lantern?"

The black cat, whose head was being rubbed, tilted its head in confusion. Just as he was about to say that he couldn't understand Wu Ci's sudden incoherence, he saw flames burning at the fingertips of "Chu Ci" not far away.

The orange-red flame as small as the candlelight ignited the flesh and blood, and a huge flame shot up into the sky from the inside of the monk whose spine he had grabbed!

——Buzz!

A burning sound like the flapping of bees' wings quickly came from the air, and a huge and weird flame expanded instantly, bursting out madly from every pore of the monk, his expanded skin and flesh, and from his rotten facial features!

The stench of burnt flesh and blood protein spread out, and the fat was roasted into a sticky yellow grease. The monk's skin was instantly stretched out by the expanding heat of the flames, and was inflated like a human skin balloon with grease on the surface!

The flaming balloon screamed and rose like a Kongming lantern along with the heat inside!

"In ancient times, there was a form of punishment called lighting a sky lantern, or pouring wax on a person."

“It can be done in two different ways.”

"Usually, the guilty person's clothes were stripped off first, and then his body was wrapped in flammable linen and soaked in oil. At night, his head and feet were tied to a tall wooden pole and ignited from bottom to top, just like the witch trials in the Middle Ages. The burning flames could illuminate the entire execution square.

There is another method that I prefer. It is to drill a small hole in the prisoner's head, pour lamp oil into the hole, and then light it, and watch the prisoner being slowly tortured to death in extreme pain.

Compared to a raging fire burning all over the body, this method seems to be more painful and cruel. "

"Chu Ci" withdrew his hand, squinted his eyes and blew out the flames on his fingertips, then turned the Dragon-Slaying Sword, and the gorgeous feather pen protected by the water flow fell into his hand.

"It's a pity that the conditions are limited and we can't follow the regulations." Wu Ci had a gentle smile on his face and slowly took the contract certificate sent by "Chu Ci" using the Dragon Slaying Sword to control the water flow. "However, like a candle, it is blown in the wind and the direction is guided, but the flame does not go out. Isn't it like holding a candle in the wind? Rising to the sky and reaching the pinnacle is the pinnacle of perfection."

The black cat looked up at the human skin sky lantern that was being burned to ashes by the flames, its round cat pupils facing the flames, and it smiled widely, laughing and clapping its hands, "Fun! Fun! Brother A-Nian, you are really awesome! I want to learn how to do this too. I want to try... I can't light a fire, so I'll try to light their souls!"

He seemed to be mentally unstable. He became crazy when talking about having fun. He bit his finger, laughed and threw out a handful of soul beads that were contaminated by his blood.

The believers who were lucky enough to survive and who were unable to escape because Wu Ci had locked the door beforehand began to scream!

Their souls escaped from their bodies, twisting and revealing expressions of hideous pain.

Their souls were crushed and fused into a larger bead.

Black Cat was afraid of dirtying the sweater that Wu Ci had put on him earlier, so he rolled up his sleeves with one hand and carefully rubbed his bloody hand on his jeans to clean it. Then, like a child showing off his toys, he pulled up the hand that was not holding the box of Wu Ci and placed the clean soul bead in his hand.

It was crystal clear, and there were souls twisted and compressed into beads, wriggling in pain inside.

"Just crush it. I'll light it for you. The first light will be for you, Brother A'ci." Black Cat felt a little embarrassed and bit his lips to prevent his excited mouth from rising too high. However, his sparkling eyes could not hide his secret joy that he was very satisfied with his behavior.

He was not going crazy for no reason. He wanted to play even though he knew that the space was going to collapse soon.

Black Cat was afraid that if any of these believers returned alive, or got out alive and were caught by the law enforcement team, their witchcraft would be exposed.

However, he was worried that Wu Ci's spiritual power had been used up and it would be difficult to take action, and he insisted on being respectful and not talking to him. In order to ensure Wu Ci's respectability, he used this absurd and ridiculous method to get rid of these believers.

The black cat must be thinking that what he did was very smart and is secretly feeling happy about helping him, right?

Tsk, the child's thoughts, when it comes to the original body, the black cat has really become a hopeless fool.

Wu Ci saved his spiritual energy and took back "Chu Ci", then with a gentle smile he crushed the soul in his hand that the black cat had joyfully offered to him.

Just like the Kongming lanterns released into the night sky, the burning fireman balloons were also released, colliding on the ceiling, and being blocked together, burning into a sea of ​​fire in the sky.

It was as if magma was surging above the head, the ceiling was bright, and the golden flesh/lotus was still emitting Buddha's light, but it gradually dimmed under the burning flames and the invasion of evil spirits, and turned into ashes, severing the connection with the bones.

But at the same time, the balance between the two sides was broken and the vibrations in the space became more severe.

The bodies of the people in the Twilight Bar in the surface world are becoming more and more solid. The law enforcement officers are circling around like flies, unable to leave as if they were trapped in a ghost wall. The inner world where Wu Ci is located begins to collapse bit by bit because of the evil spirit.

The entrance and exit were completely locked with a chain, and the space was distorted and looked a bit dangerous.

Wu Ci certainly would not put himself in danger, so he punched the chained glass door and broke it, saying to the black cat, "Let's go."

The black cat seemed a little moved, and successfully understood that Wu Ci was worried about the danger here and wanted him to leave first, so he jumped out directly from the broken hole.

His body twisted and disappeared in space, then became illusory and successfully returned to the surface world.

The sudden appearance of the black cat successfully attracted the attention of the law enforcement team members who had been unable to find their target. Everyone looked at the black cat with fear and vigilance.

However, Black Cat is a sensible kid. He always cares about his dignity, which Wu Ci cares about, especially when he is under the attention of so many people.

He used his elbow to smash the glass door open, creating a wide hole that was wide enough for a person to pass through by raising his head. He even smashed an irregular circle above the hole. Combined with the collapsed space behind it and the pervasive demonic energy, the circular hole was like the halo behind the head of a holy spirit when it walked on earth.

Seeing that the black cat was fine and that he had already prepared a dignified appearance for him, Wu Ci nodded, straightened his collar, and walked out of the glass door with satisfaction.

I came up with this urgently to test the waters for the Chuuni Diary. I have just collected a new pre-collection of a short story with a dark B heroine, "The Bad Me is the Villain". The title and subject may be changed later. Please collect it in the column~

In the melodramatic romance novel of forced love, "Mr. Bai Loves His Little Maid Thing", the adopted daughter of the Bai family is an unlovable, useless vase.

An orphan who is not talkative and not as pretty and lovely as the heroine. He is frighteningly gloomy every day. He is also jealous of the hero's preference for the heroine and always targets the heroine on various occasions.

The male protagonist continues to keep her just to make the real female protagonist jealous.

Huai Xu who came from the book: I understand the truth, but am I just an ordinary cannon fodder villain? Why do the male and female protagonists get the bloody and forced love script, while I get the dark and cruel script.

Yes, that's right. Huai Xu discovered that the original owner was the private soldier raised by the male protagonist and her adoptive father, the famous head of the Bai family. He was specifically responsible for doing dirty work for them. He accidentally died while assassinating a target and was resurrected by her.

It's too dangerous, we can't do this job!

As soon as he got the first task, Huai Xu threw it away on the spot and ate an ice cream.

The next day's news:

[A business tycoon suspected of illegal crimes was involved in a series of car accidents under the protection of bodyguards. There were no clues left at the scene, only a passerby eating ice cream]

Huai Xu, who received a reward from the head of the Bai family for no apparent reason, spent his salary on a shopping spree in the mall.

[The stock market manipulator who caused the financial environment to collapse drastically participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Empire Mall today. The mall's ceiling lights collapsed and his body was torn into pieces. There were no clues at the scene, only passers-by carrying handbags passing by.]

The head of the Bai family raised his narrow eyes and said, "You did a great job. You actually guessed my next mission in advance."

[Very satisfying! All members of the famous black gang died tragically at the place where they were stationed]

Huai Xu ate a box of octopus balls with an expressionless face, was idle all day, and inexplicably completed a series of tasks.

Not long after, Huai Xu discovered that she had destroyed the book so much that only the title marks were left.

She shifted her gaze to the head of the Bai family who always gave her tasks, and thought that the young and handsome head of the Bai family had written her name on the inheritance rights of all the inheritance, but she didn't know how many years it would take for him to die.

Huai Xu tentatively lifted the candied haws in his hand and took a bite...