Chapter 37: Chaos in the Candle Dragon Ghost Cave
Hearing the series of footsteps, Zhu Huai immediately looked back and confirmed that the statue placed in the shrine behind him still had black hair and golden eyes. Only then did Zhu Huai breathe a sigh of relief.
Although Xiang Liu's actions were extremely evil and nearly cost Zhu Huai his life, and Zhu Huai was furious with him and wanted to smother him in a sack and beat him up, he would not expose Xiang Liu's past in front of outsiders.
Just think about it, if the shrine still looked like Xiangliu at this time, the Taoist priest who came to help would realize that this thing would be a disaster the moment he saw it.
This is definitely a powerful ghost among the ghosts. Colleagues, follow me! Quickly break the shrine and eliminate this evil for the people!
So should Zhu Huai stop it or not?
Although they might not be able to recognize who Xiangliu was wearing a mask, the extremely pure and ferocious ghost energy emanating from the shrine could not be faked at all.
Zhu Huai's mind moved, and he thought of the three ordinary people he had rescued before. They should have seen Xiangliu's appearance, but from the perspective of mortals, perhaps what they saw was completely different from the Heavenly Master, and they could not remember everything clearly.
Thinking of this, Zhu Huai reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief. He vaguely stood in front of the shrine, and saw several sullen-looking Heavenly Masters huddled together and rushing towards him.
The moment they saw Zhu Huai, two people paused slightly. One of them was Liu Song, the second uncle of Liu Mingyue and Liu Tianshan.
That’s right, the ones who rushed here were of course the Taoist priests from the Liu and Zhu families.
It's just that the two groups dislike each other. Although they seem to be friendly on the surface, there are actually undercurrents. They look at each other with some inexplicable anger in their eyes. Looking at this scene, Zhu Huai was a little surprised. What was going on?
But the actual situation was much simpler than Zhu Huai thought.
The Liu family said, "Why are you here too? It's been a long time since I've seen so many Heavenly Masters in the ghost den. I heard that the Heavenly Master of the Zhu family wasn't very skilled, so he let the evil ghosts escape and nearly killed several ordinary people."
The Zhu family said, "Didn't your Liu family also lose people in the ghost den? If you say they are not good at learning, then the several Heavenly Masters who escaped into the ghost den seem to be the descendants of the Liu family."
The Liu family: "If you hadn't interfered, how could such an accident have happened? Perhaps you would have captured the evil ghost and completed your mission and returned."
Zhu's family: "If you can't manage yourselves, how can you manage others catching ghosts?"
The Liu family and the Zhu family were arguing with each other for a long time, and it was the younger generations who were talking.
The old Taoist priests who led the team expressed themselves very calmly. What was the big deal if the young people just had a few words?
They dealt with all the evil spirits they encountered along the way, but what puzzled the two groups of people was that the number of evil spirits on the road was extremely small, as if they had been driven away by something.
When they arrived in front of the shrine, Liu Song saw Zhu Huai at first sight. At that moment, he paused and his expression became serious. He walked up to Zhu Huai and said respectfully, "Liu Song, the heir of the Liu family, pays homage to the wife of the ancestor."
For a moment, Zhu Huai felt like an ancestor from a feudal society, traveling back hundreds of years.
According to his generation, Liu Song's attitude was normal, but Zhu Huai still felt a hint of invisible pressure.
He nodded. Seeing this scene, the others were silent for a moment. Zhu Yun's eyes flashed. He had black hair, clear eyes, and a face like autumn water. He had a handsome appearance.
But in the eyes of others, this guy is notoriously stubborn. Because the Zhu family's sacrifice to the gods once saved his life, Zhu Yun is a fanatical believer in the sacrifice and is considered a well-known figure in the Zhu family.
He had just visited the Liu family's ancestral hall not long ago, hoping to invite his adopted wife back to the Liu family and ask him to save the life of the god he believed in.
Although Zhu Yun was slapped away by Liu Xiang and vomited countless mouthfuls of blood in one breath.
But he did not give up after being rescued by the Zhu family's secret technique. At this moment, he saw the Liu family's adopted wife with his own eyes. At this moment, Zhu Yun, as the number one fanatical believer in the worship of gods, even had the idea of kidnapping Zhu Huai.
Of course, this is just a fantasy, and even Zhu Yun himself knows what consequences this will cause.
Not to mention kidnapping the Liu family's wife who was offered as a sacrifice to the gods in front of the Liu family, even if he showed the slightest disrespect to Zhu Huai now, Liu Song would just skin him alive.
Zhu Huai didn't know what Zhu Yun was thinking, but he felt as if someone was staring at him. He couldn't help but look up and recognized the face.
Zhu family? Zhu Huai thought, they seemed to have come to the Liu family specifically to look for him... Thinking of this, Zhu Huai silently looked away. He had no interest in the worship of gods of other families.
It was also because of this glance that the little mermaid lying on Zhu Huai's shoulder slowly raised her face and looked towards Zhu Yun.
At that moment, Zhu Yun felt as if a bad omen had bitten him, as if he was falling into the abyss.
It was as if an extremely cold gaze, like boundless frost, fell on him, freezing his soul. Although Liu Xiang only glanced at him, it made this ant in front of the dragon tremble.
He quickly withdrew his gaze, and the offensive thoughts in his mind slowly subsided.
Liu Song's attitude remained respectful. The other juniors following behind him had never seen this Heavenly Master like this. They looked at Zhu Huai with some curiosity, and then retreated under the gaze of those bright black eyes.
Liu Song's attitude was still very respectful. He said, "Reporting to the wife, the ghosts and evil spirits are causing chaos. We have killed all the evil spirits we encountered along the way, but the whereabouts of Liu Mingyue and Liu Tianshan are still unknown."
Zhu Huai only then noticed that Liu Song had some injuries on his body. The journey here hadn't been easy, and his eyes were filled with worry. Liu Tianshan and Liu Mingyue were close to him, so it was normal for Liu Song to be worried about them.
Logically speaking, these two people and the rest of the Zhu family shouldn't be in trouble easily, but unfortunately they were facing Xiangliu.
He had no mercy, and certainly no regard for ants. Liu Tianshan and Liu Mingyue were simply swept by the tail of the tornado and nearly died.
Zhu Huai couldn't say that it was the Liu family's ancestor who beat his younger generation. He remembered that he had just seen them in the illusion, so they should be nearby.
Following Zhu Huai's guidance, the group searched around and soon found several unconscious Heavenly Masters. However, they seemed to be entangled in faint red lines, which even penetrated into their eye sockets and grew densely, like hyperplastic blood vessels.
Liu Song had never seen such a strange thing before. He reached out to pull it out, but was almost burned by the heat brought by the blood line, and even his fingers were almost broken. Liu Song took a deep breath, and a solemn look flashed across his eyes: "What a terrifying evil spirit!"
Zhu Yun on the side also had a look of surprise in his eyes. The Zhu family members were also wrapped with these hideous red lines, like tarsal ulcers, wantonly destroying the body of the Heavenly Master. Their minds and souls were dragged into a certain illusion, their bodies turned into nutrients, and slowly withered in their own dreams.
Zhu Yun was shocked and angry, "What a vicious method! Who did this?"
Zhu Huai's gaze fell on Liu Xiang, and then turned back without a trace.
"That's right, this is the most twisted and terrifying evil spirit I have ever seen." Liu Song couldn't help but say: "Such a strong evil spirit is unheard of and unseen."
His eyes flickered slightly, and he used various methods to try to expel the red lines from Liu Tianshan and Liu Mingyue, but no matter what he did, he could not do it. Liu Song took a deep breath and said, "Such a strong and overbearing ghost energy may only be dispelled by offering sacrifices to the gods."
But their current situation is already very dangerous. If they act rashly again, they may lose their lives on the road before they have time to ask for permission to offer sacrifices to the gods.
Zhu Huai said, "Let me try."
He took a step forward, reached out his hand and slowly pulled out the red strings that were entangled around several people.
The hideous blood vessels that had seemed extremely brutal and heartless just now seemed to soften under Zhu Huai's fingertips, turning into a ball of soft tentacles that were as soft as silk, trembling with the warmth of his fingertips.
Zhu Huai only felt the touch under his hand was hot and slippery. After he slowly pulled it out, a large cluster of blood was also pulled out.
The painful expressions on Liu Tianshan and Liu Mingyue's faces suddenly became relieved. Zhu Yun, who was standing by, saw this and came over and said respectfully, "If you spare my life, the Zhu family will surely be rewarded."
Zhu Huai looked at him and suddenly asked, "Are you the one who came to the Liu family and asked to see me?"
Zhu Yun's back tensed, and he calmed himself down and said, "It was me, but I didn't mean to offend the wife, but I have something to ask of you."
Under his gaze, the stern and solemn wife-wives-religious master in front of him looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze. Zhu Huai asked curiously, "Did your wife-wives-religious master ask you to come here?"
Zhu Yun's throat cracked slightly, and he felt a heavy pressure. It was back again, that feeling of being watched, of not even being able to control his own life or death. The sacrificial wife before him was truly unfathomable. And rightly so. If they could be accompanied by a sacrificial deity, how could those gifted adopted children be anything but ordinary people?
Zhu Yun hesitated for a moment, but still revealed some of the current situation of the Zhu family's sacrificial deity: "The sacrificial deity has something to ask of him, and he... needs the help of a foster child like you."
Zhu Huai breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just to help with the treatment, it would be fine. However, he had nothing to do with the Zhu family's sacrificial gods, and Liu Xiang was such a domineering person that he would never allow his adopted son to come into contact with other sacrificial gods. Therefore, Zhu Huai had no interest in getting involved in these matters.
"Besides me, there must be other adopted children like me." Zhu Huai said, "Didn't you ask them for help?"
Zhu Yun said, "Master Zhu Huai, you don't know that your talent is different from that of ordinary people. People like you are rare, and there are only a few who can help our family's gods."
They either stayed away from the world or lived in seclusion, not wanting to be disturbed. The gods who served their wives were even more difficult to deal with than the others. Compared to them, gods like Liu Xiang, who rarely appeared in the world, could be considered to be indifferent to the world.
Since the Liu family started to worship Liu Xiang as a god, Liu Xiang has only appeared in front of other people once, and that time, he appeared in the form of a mermaid.
Zhu Huai understood what Zhu Yun meant, so, these people treated him and Liu Xiang as soft persimmons?
Moreover, Liu Xiang's real body has never left the Liu family. What appears in the eyes of others is only Liu Xiang's water incarnation.
Of course, the gap between the incarnation and the original body is huge. After thinking this through, Zhu Huai said: "Since this is the case, I hope that the Zhu family can worship the gods and rest in peace as soon as possible."
He took a step back, drew out the blood from Zhu's family members, and then turned and left, leaving only a fleeting look of loss on Zhu Yun's face.
Liu Song followed behind Zhu Huai, and with no one else around, his words were even more straightforward:
"Lord Zhu Huai, the blood threads that just parasitized Liu Tianshan and Liu Mingyue are extremely strange. I suspect that an extremely powerful ghost or god may have appeared in the ghost den."
A look of worry appeared on his face. "When ghosts and gods appear in the world, there will definitely be a great disaster. If this is really the case, then there may be chaos among the major families again."
Zhu Huai looked at the little mermaid on his shoulder and thought, if Liu Song knew that the terrifying ghost he was talking about was his ancestor, he might be scared to death.
Zhu Huai didn't know what to do with Xiangliu. He was clearly the incarnation of Liu Xiang, so why did he seem to be able to easily control other clones and even betray the original?
Is there such a huge difference in strength between clones?
Just as they were about to leave the ghost den, Zhu Huai saw a stream of blood rising into the sky in the distance. The boundless evil energy came with rolling blood, tearing half of the sky of the ghost den into pieces.
In the very center of the blood column, a figure wearing a gorgeous crown and with half of his face covered by blood walked out of the black fog. He seemed to be a ghost god who controlled all ghosts. The entire ghost den was messed up by him. The voice laughed arrogantly in the very center of the blood column.
Zhu Huai's eyes were filled with red. The figure seemed to have sensed something and looked towards him from afar. Then, Zhu Huai seemed to hear him say word by word: "Wait for me to come find you, my dear."
The next second, the figure was engulfed in a bloody mist. Endless evil spirits surged in that direction, as if paying homage.
"This, this is the ghost born from the ghost den?!"
Liu Song had no idea what was happening. Mortals couldn't look directly at ghosts and gods. Even as the Liu family's Heavenly Master, he was still just a mortal in front of Xiang Liu. The blood on Liu Song's face was almost completely consumed. Zhu Huai's heart trembled slightly, and he suddenly felt that disaster was about to happen.
He looked at the little mermaid on his shoulder: "What are you going to do?"
Liu Xiang: “…”
Zhu Huai: "Speak up! Don't act like that guy isn't you!"
Zhu Huai wanted to pick up the mermaid and shake her to question her. The little mermaid was held in his hand and spit out a bubble after a while.
He said: "My heart has woken up, and after being asleep for so long, the first thing I will do when I wake up... is to eat."
"Eat?" Zhu Huai had a bad feeling. Could it be that Xiangliu wanted to break through the ghost den and go up there to kill people?
"I don't eat humans." The little mermaid swung his tail and said seriously, "As a sacrifice to the gods, my food is evil spirits, resentment, and the black air in the ghost den."
"So, perhaps the current mind wants to replenish its strength, so it goes on a killing spree in the ghost den."
The little mermaid added, "However, although there are many evil ghosts in the ghost den, the ghost king among them may flee at the sight of the enemy. It will indeed take some effort to devour the entire ghost den."
As Liu Xiang spoke, he sighed, not knowing what he remembered. Perhaps he remembered the experience of chasing the Ghost King in the ghost den and being forced to eat those evil ghosts that were ugly in appearance and had a disgusting taste.
So... what Xiangliu wants to do now is to go on a killing spree in the den of ghosts?
Can this be considered a kind of devouring evolution? The ghost that is left at the end of the fight will be the king of ghosts among ghost kings, the god of ghosts among ghost gods.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhu Huai asked, "Are you okay?"
Before Liu Xiang could answer, he saw a shrill wailing coming from the blood column rising into the sky in the distance. The ghosts turned into black mist in the blood and were then swallowed by the omnipresent fire evil.
Xiangliu's extremely arrogant laughter was heard, and the blood light emanating from his body was like a black hole of a strange color that swallowed everything.
In the darkness, some terrifying existences were finally alarmed, and figures that covered the sky and the sun rushed out one after another. The ghost king in the ghost den rushed towards Xiangliu. Such a scene was almost doomsday.
Zhu Huai's heart tensed up, as if he had sensed something. The figure glanced in his direction, and then began to fight with several ghost kings under Zhu Huai's gaze.
In front of Zhu Huai, a red dragon with a black and red body, scales shining and burning like fire, and huge horns on its head roared and fought with the monsters around it, and blood fell like a blood rain.
The Candle Dragon looked extremely majestic and overbearing, as if it were a myth or legend that should not exist.
A sound like wild laughter came out from his body, and the heart that ran out of Liu Xiang's body was also extremely ferocious. It bit off the Ghost King's head in one bite, tore the other's body into pieces, and then swallowed it in big mouthfuls.
The others were trembling in the face of such a battle, but Zhu Huai's eyes lit up inexplicably as he watched the scene. He was the only one who could see the scene clearly. He said, "Prime Minister Liu, your true form is actually a dragon."
"Yeah." Liu Xiang said, "Do you like it?"
Zhu Huai's heart was pounding, and he said, "Let's go first."
The ghost den was almost torn into pieces by Zhulong. Xiangliu fought against nine people alone. His dragon body was extremely dazzling. The fire around him was like blood pouring on the glittering scales, reflecting a sparkling luster.
He devoured the fresh food in big mouthfuls. In such a fierce battle, the other ghost kings finally began to feel afraid and fled after screaming.
The ghost den was in complete chaos.
Zhu Huai left the ghost cave and saw the bright sky. At this moment, he seemed to have finally breathed in fresh air. What on earth did Xiang Liu want to do?
Zhu Huai was silent for a moment. Although he didn't want to say this, the first thing Xiangliu did after escaping from the trap and killing people to his heart's content was to come find him, right?
…His butt suddenly started to hurt reflexively, and his chest hurt even more.
The shadow of death lingered. Zhu Huai fiercely picked up the little mermaid and said to him, "Think of a way to solve this problem quickly!"
The little mermaid raised her face to look at him, and Zhu Huai said seriously: "Did you hear me? Take care of your own heart. I have finally been reborn once, but I will not die again in your hands!"
The little mermaid's tail was poked, and its long fish tail swayed. Zhu Huai looked very cute when he was angry. Thinking of this, the mermaid came forward and kissed Zhu Huai on the face.
Zhu Huai: "..." He didn't want to talk to the fish anymore.
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