Chapter 251: The ancestor is back, this fight is impossible
The night is as deep as water.
Two figures silently avoided the capital's defense line and rushed towards the imperial mausoleum.
The imperial mausoleum is located on Longshou Mountain in the western suburbs of the capital. It is the resting place of emperors of all dynasties. It is strictly guarded and magnificent on weekdays.
However, when Xiao Yu and Ajiu arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw a scene that looked like a ghost town on earth.
The once solemn and majestic imperial mausoleum was now shrouded in a thick, impenetrable black mist. Within the mist, countless suffering souls could be heard wailing faintly. Their shrill cries carried far away on the chilling wind, sending chills down one's spine.
"Such a heavy resentment." Xiao Yu frowned and protected Ajiu behind him.
The two looked at each other and plunged into the black fog.
As soon as we stepped into the territory of the imperial mausoleum, the temperature around us suddenly dropped.
The surrounding trees had long since withered and died, transformed into ghostly figures with bared fangs and claws. The ground was covered with a thick layer of dead leaves, which made a crisp "crunching" sound when stepped on, which was particularly jarring in the dead silence.
"Something is coming." Xiao Yu suddenly stopped and grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist.
I saw several stiff figures slowly walking out from the black fog ahead.
They wore the standard armor of the mausoleum guards, but it had long been stained with black blood. Their skin was a deadly gray, and their eyes were hollow and lifeless.
Their movements were slow and stiff, and their joints made a teeth-grinding clacking sound with every step.
"roar."
One of the "zombies" discovered Xiao Yu and Ajiu, two strangers, and let out a roar from its throat before rushing towards them.
"careful."
Xiao Yu pushed Ajiu back and went forward to meet him.
"Clang."
The long sword was unsheathed and instantly slashed across the zombie's neck.
However, a strange scene happened.
Although the zombie's head was cut off by a sword and fell to the ground, the headless body just shook and still stretched out its sharp claws to grab Xiao Yu.
"These things have no vital points." Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed.
More and more zombies emerged from the black fog from all directions and surrounded them.
"Brother Xiongxiong, use the talisman." Ajiu reminded hurriedly.
Xiao Yu reached into his arms and took out a "Divine Thunder to Destroy Evil" talisman, then flicked it with his finger.
The talisman spontaneously combusted without fire, turning into a golden lightning that instantly hit the headless zombie in the front.
I saw billowing black smoke coming out of the zombie's body, and it melted away bit by bit in the golden lightning, and finally turned into black ash and scattered on the ground.
One talisman purified a monster.
"roar."
Amidst the shrill roars, one after another the tomb guards who were corroded by the evil spirit turned into ashes.
"Brother Xiongxiong, there are three more hiding behind the corner on the left." Ajiu's voice was urgent, following Xiao Yu closely.
"knew."
Xiao Yu responded and swung his sword backhandedly. The sharp sword energy cut the three zombies behind him, who had just poked their heads out, into two pieces.
But even if they were cut in half, their upper bodies were still crawling on the ground, stretching out their sharp claws to grab their ankles.
"What a trouble." Xiao Yu frowned, took out another talisman and threw it out.
boom.
Another flash of lightning passed by, completely purifying the broken body parts.
"Ajiu, follow me closely." He said in a deep voice, "Xuan Yi's talismans are running low. We must break out as soon as possible."
"Yeah." Jiu nodded vigorously, his little face tense with nervousness.
The dead leaves underfoot mixed with the black ashes, giving off a sickening odor.
I don't know how long I killed, but suddenly the view became clear.
A wide and straight white marble road appeared in front of them, and at the end of the road was a towering main hall of the underground palace.
On both sides of the stone path, every ten feet there stands a huge stone statue three feet high. These stone statues are all human-shaped, wearing armor and holding weapons, and are carved to look lifelike.
They were the most outstanding emperors in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They were carved into stone statues by later generations and placed here. They will shine together with the imperial tombs and guard the dragon vein of the Xiao family forever.
This is the core area of the imperial mausoleum.
"We're here." Xiao Yu exhaled a breath, his palms feeling numb.
Ajiu also breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, the feeling of being spied on and called in his heart became stronger and stronger.
The white light emitted by the soul-calming jade on the chest also became brighter.
The two of them did not stop and stepped onto the sacred path.
The moment their feet stepped on the first white jade slab.
“Crack…Crack…”
A teeth-grinding sound of stones rubbing against each other suddenly rang out.
Xiao Yu's pupils suddenly shrank. He pulled Ajiu behind him, held the sword across his chest, and looked vigilantly at the source of the sound.
I saw that the stone statues of the former emperor on both sides of the sacred road actually moved.
Two scarlet lights appeared in his eye sockets, and the arm that was holding the weapon slowly raised up, making a "clicking" sound.
"This... these stone men are alive too." Ajiu said in a low voice while hiding behind Xiao Yu.
"Something's wrong." Xiao Yu's face looked a little serious.
The aura emanating from these stone statues is completely different from that of the zombies.
"Brother Xiongxiong." Ah Jiu's voice suddenly came, "They... they are not dirty things."
"What's the meaning."
"I can see," Ah Jiu urged his divine pupils diligently, carefully observing the slowly "awakening" stone statues. "They don't have the black energy of those zombies. Instead... they have a very faint, but very pure dragon energy, a bit like the one you have, Brother Xiong Xiong. However, their dragon energy seems to be entangled by a layer of red silk thread."
Dragon energy, red silk thread.
Xiao Yu's heart sank suddenly.
These stone statues are not dead objects contaminated by evil spirits. In their bodies reside the true spirits of the former emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but these spirits are controlled by evil magic.
"Boom." There was a loud noise.
The stone statue closest to them suddenly took a step forward, and the huge stone axe in its hand chopped down on their heads with a whistling sound.
Xiao Yu put his arm around Ajiu's waist, stepped on the ground, and floated back several feet like a ghost, narrowly avoiding the thundering attack.
“Boom.”
The stone axe hit the white jade slab hard, instantly creating a huge hole and scattering gravel everywhere.
Following the movement of the first stone statue, all the stone statues on both sides of the sacred path began to move in unison.
They walked down from the stone foundation with heavy steps, pointing the stone swords, stone spears and stone halberds in their hands at Xiao Yu and Ajiu. Their movements seemed slow, but they were secretly forming a formation to completely block the two's retreat.
"Ancestors' Formation." Xiao Yu squeezed out these four words with difficulty from between his teeth.
This was a legendary formation found only in the royal secrets, said to summon the power of the heroic spirits of ancestors to slay all enemies. He had always believed it was just an exaggerated legend, but he had never expected to witness it with his own eyes today, and in the form of an enemy.
"Brother Xiongxiong, what should we do?" Ajiu grabbed his clothes nervously.
"Don't be afraid," Xiao Yu took a deep breath, "Follow me closely, we'll rush over."
Before he finished speaking, he had already taken the initiative to attack.
His figure was as fast as lightning and his sword shone like a dragon.
The breakthrough point he chose was a stone statue holding a stone spear on the left side of the formation.
However, just as his sword was about to touch the stone statue, he saw the statue's face clearly.
It was a dignified yet familiar face, with sword-like brows reaching deep into his temples, a face imbued with dignity without even anger. It was none other than Xiao Yan, the founder of the Xiao family and the first Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as depicted in historical records.
Xiao Yu's heart trembled suddenly.
The hand holding the sword involuntarily paused for a moment.
It was this moment of hesitation that made him miss the best opportunity to fight.
The stone statue of Taizu thrust out the stone spear in its hand, with the tip of the spear pointing directly at Xiao Yu's throat.
At the same time, the stone statues on the left and right sides also launched attacks at the same time. The stone knives and stone spears blocked all his space for dodging from two tricky angles.
This is a fatal blow.
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