Chapter 54: Is it fun to earn blood money? (32) It actually...
Bai Ma screamed and fell down. When her back was only a few meters away from the ground, Zhu Mengwei cast a spell in time to catch her and let her land steadily.
Elizabeth and Fredis were not so lucky. With two thuds, both of them fell to the ground. Although they did not feel any pain, Fredis was covered with a layer of burnt ash, which was a miserable sight.
Si Ling, Zhu Mengwei and Li Qi were spiritual beings. Although they were out of control when they first fell, they quickly stabilized their bodies and slowly descended into the underground space.
What he saw was not the wine cellar Elizabeth had mentioned, but an empty room. Judging from the location, it was still more than ten meters away from the wine cellar.
Si Ling saw a metal door facing her direction and silently recited "Seeing Through the Netherworld" again, but this time her intention was not to look for living beings. She saw a long and narrow corridor behind the door, which should lead to the wine cellar.
Si Ling took a deep breath and walked towards the metal door.
When he was still a few steps away from the door, a "crackling" sound burst out in the green light. A tingling sensation like an electric shock made Si Ling step back, and the golden light and the sound disappeared immediately.
"What is that?" Bai Ma asked in surprise.
Si Ling raised her hand, tentatively extending it forward. "Sizzle!" A green light and a sound reappeared half an inch in front of her palm. She shifted her palm horizontally, and it moved with her, like a curved membrane.
Si Ling's breath hitched. "It's a barrier," she muttered, then cast a spell with her backhand. Black mist quickly transformed into an arrow that struck the membrane, but the moment the tip of the arrow touched Harima...
With a "whoosh" sound, the spell was absorbed by the film and disappeared silently.
Si Ling's eyebrows twitched slightly, feeling fresh.
While magic in the world has mutual promotion and restraint based on the Five Elements and their uses, for example, this confinement barrier naturally restrains most offensive spells, but when the power gap is too great, this restraint disappears - just like theoretically, water restrains fire, but pouring a cup of water on a fire...it won't put out the blaze, it will only give rise to the saying "a drop in the bucket".
Therefore, when Si Ling's cultivation reached 2,000 to 3,000, the confinement barriers of the mortal cultivators were basically ineffective against her. When her cultivation exceeded ten thousand, the demons in the underworld did not dare to fight her.
The fact that she had never seen King Yama in tens of thousands of years was also somewhat related to this strength - for both of them, meeting each other would be a bit awkward, and everyone would feel relaxed if they didn't see each other, as the saying goes, kings don't meet kings.
But now, a barrier in the human world actually dispelled her spell.
Si Ling thought carefully and guessed that this barrier contained most of the cultivation of Gongbu's most proud disciples. The spell he casually cast was too perfunctory, so he solemnly stepped back a few steps and carefully adjusted his breathing and luck again.
She held her palms facing each other in front of her, and a ball of black smoke quickly condensed between her palms. When the black ball reached the size of a football, Si Ling turned her right hand and threw the black smoke towards the film again.
The black smoke quickly reshaped in the air again, transforming into a sharp silver spear that pierced the barrier.
"Wow--" The moment the tip of the gun touched the film, the spell was completely dissipated again.
"Crack." Some tiny cracks appeared on the film, which was a sign of breaking, but it was not shattered directly in the end.
...What mortal barrier could withstand two of her spells?
Damn it!
——The evil ghost Si Ling exclaimed in his heart that it was outrageous.
The remaining few looked at each other in bewilderment. Although none of them knew the true depth of Si Ling's cultivation, they vaguely knew it was "very deep." Now that Si Ling's spells were blocked, they were all very uneasy.
The room fell into silence for a moment, but the silence did not last long before the doorknob was turned.
The man, the ghost, the monsters, and the gods all looked over. The person who opened the door was none other than Jianzan, whom Si Ling had met in the lounge before. Jianzan respectfully stepped back half a step after opening the door, and an old, thin figure emerged from behind him.
"Gongbu." Si Ling's eyebrows twitched, and he had no doubt about the answer.
Gongbu seemed not to see her and only looked at Baima. When his eyes met Zhu Mengwei and Li Qi beside her, Gongbu narrowed his eyes and finally laughed: "Oh, my daughter, haha..."
Bai Ma glared at him silently. At first, everyone thought Gongbu's smile was a self-deprecating joke about the sudden rift between father and daughter, but soon they realized that he was laughing with great joy, even his complexion had turned a little red. Bai Ma couldn't help but frown. Gongbu smiled and shook his head, "That's great, Bai Ma. Out of my fatherly love for you, I was originally sorry for what was about to happen, but now you have eliminated that regret for me."
He paused, looked at Bai Ma sincerely and said, "You are indeed the child who satisfies me the most."
“Shut the f**k up!!!” Bai Ma, who was wearing an elegant long dress, blurted out a curse that was totally inconsistent with her image. She strode forward, obviously wanting to argue with Gongbu, but then, the person who appeared behind Gongbu made her pupils tremble, and she stopped in shock, “You…”
A woman in ethnic costume was carried in by Dunzhu. Although she was middle-aged, she still had a good figure and a well-maintained face. However, her hands were tied behind her back and her mouth was stuffed with white cloth.
When she saw Bai Ma, she struggled hard and tried to shout something.
Si Ling therefore easily guessed her identity: "Dawa."
Dawa was extremely excited. The white cloth was stuffed tightly in her mouth, but it was pushed out after her hard struggle.
She took a deep breath, and then asked angrily: "Bai Ma, how could you betray your father! Your master!"
ah? ? ?
——Everyone in the barrier had the same expression.
Except Baima himself.
The moment she heard these words, all the emotions on Baima's face vanished. She wasn't shocked, nor was she particularly sad. Even the anger she had felt towards Gongbu just now was gone. She simply stared at her mother in silence for a moment, then sneered, "Mom, if reincarnation really exists," she shook her head repeatedly, "I must have owed you something in my past life."
Dawa was nearly mad. As Baima stared at her in silence, her questions never ceased. After this sentence, her questions turned into a vicious curse: "If there is reincarnation, you will definitely go to hell! The mirror of karma will see through your sins, and Yama will torture you! You will be boiled in a copper pot and have your eyes pecked out by an iron eagle!"
"Enough!" Bai Ma's voice drowned out her, shouting hysterically, "Then die! Let's die together! Let's see who goes to hell!!!"
Oh, actually everyone will go to hell - Si Ling thought so, but of course she didn't say it out loud.
She looked at Bai Ma, this young and outstanding girl who was only in her twenties. Even among humans, she was very young, but throughout the entire process that Si Ling had been interacting with her, her calmness and composure was always far beyond her age.
Even when she thought Si Ling was going to kill her, she remained elegant and calm.
But now, just because of a few words from her mother, she broke down and lost control.
Si Ling pondered for a moment, then told Bai Ma in a voice that was neither too loud nor too low: "Alright, calm down. When they are all dead, I will personally go talk to the King of Hell and ask him to deal with your parents. He will have to give me this face."
This time, everyone outside the barrier was stunned, and Dawa stopped cursing. She looked at Si Ling, trying to judge whether her words were true or not.
Gongbu laughed and said, "Haha, you are quite arrogant! Wait till I refine you all, and then we'll see if Yama the Magic King will come to avenge you!"
As he spoke, he sat cross-legged on the ground with the help of Jianzan and Dunzhu. After sitting firmly, he immediately put his hands together, closed his eyes, and waited for the spell to be cast.
Jianzan walked towards Dawa and drew the dagger from his waist.
Dawa's pupils shrank suddenly. Even though she had just cursed Baima for his infidelity, she was still terrified at the threat of death. She took a step back, her heel accidentally stepping on the hem of her robe, causing her to fall down, but she still struggled to dodge backwards: "No... Don't..."
"I'm sorry, Master's wife." Gyaltsen approached, a look of guilt in his eyes. "For Master's great cause, you must dedicate yourself. You will reach a realm of bliss, a land of ultimate bliss, where all your wishes will be fulfilled."
When Si Ling heard this, the veins on his forehead started throbbing.
She had heard of the religious concept of "the realm of bliss". Without considering whether it was inconsistent with her understanding of the three realms of reincarnation, even in the religious field... it didn't have this kind of explanation!
That should be a pure land, a pure and noble place, where only the spiritual power that transcends the mundane can reach and find peace.
But in Jianzan’s words, this pure land seemed to be portrayed as a place to satisfy greed, used to paint a rosy picture for disciples who were unwilling to die... ?
A cult is indeed a cult.
Si Ling curled his lips in disdain, but Bai Ma beside him panicked. She rushed towards Dawa and Jianzan. If Zhu Mengwei and Li Qi hadn't stopped her in time, she would have rushed towards the barrier: "Let her go! What are you doing, bastard! You are betraying your master and ancestors!"
Si Ling fully understood Bai Ma's feelings, but she had no intention of saying anything more about it. She just looked at Gongbu who was meditating.
What exactly does he want to do?
While Si Ling was distracted, Bai Ma suddenly made a sharp explosion. Si Ling turned his head and saw that Bai Ma had fainted. Zhu Mengwei and Li Qi were holding her body together and helping her to a place away from the barrier.
She looked at Dawa again, only to see that Dawa's throat had been cut by Jianzan. He fell powerlessly to the ground, with blood all over the floor. However, Dawa was still alive, twitching in a pool of blood with his eyes wide open.
Then, Si Ling quickly realized that Dawa's throat hadn't simply been slit—if that had been the case, she would have lost consciousness and gone into shock within two or three minutes from the combined effects of excessive blood loss and lack of oxygen. But Dawa continued to twitch, her mouth wide open, trying to breathe. The blood flowed rapidly only for the first dozen or so seconds, then slowly, so slowly that Si Ling could clearly see drops of blood dripping from the wound. Meanwhile, the slow bleeding showed no sign of stopping completely.
"You..." Si Ling gasped and stared at Gongbu in shock, "How dare you create a living nightmare!"
The so-called "Building Life Nightmare" is a very unfamiliar term even to Si Ling. Her memory of this secret technique still remains at the time when it was first born in the world.
At that time, due to the extreme cruelty of this secret technique, a great uproar broke out in Fengdu. In the end, even the King of Hell seemed to find it intolerable and went to the Heavenly Palace to personally meet with the Emperor of Heaven, begging him to send a thunderbolt to kill the practitioner who created this technique.
But it has been passed down.
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