111 Chapter 111
Over the past one or two hundred years, the Yinshi Ghost Forest has been flooded with zombies, and an outbreak occurs every once in a while. Basically, everyone is used to it, so when the flying boat was blocked by a dense group of zombies, everyone did not panic, but just looked at the Taoist Master Xu Hengzi beside them.
Xu Hengzi glared back fiercely: "What are you doing? Do you still want me to jump down to clear the way for you?"
"What else? Do you think anyone else among the three of us has this ability besides you?" Ning Shu opened his big eyes with an innocent look on his face.
Ji Chuanbai's cultivation has regressed to the Qi training stage, Zi Qiu is in the late foundation building stage but has little practical experience, Ning Shu is in the middle foundation building stage and has zero practical experience. Xu Hengzi is the only capable fighter in the entire flying boat.
Xu Hengzi:......
With a deep sigh, he resigned himself to his fate and jumped off the immortal boat, starting to make his way through the vast sea of corpses.
These consciousnessless zombies were no match for a Spiritual Transformation Stage master, but the stench of corpses made Xu Hengzi feel dizzy. He didn't know how long he had been struggling in the sea of corpses and blood before he finally couldn't hold back any longer and spoke:
"Hasn't he arrived yet? Where the hell is Song Yunting living?!"
The Yinshi Ghost Forest was filled with locust trees that blocked out the sun and black, smoky, poisonous miasma. Ning Shu piloted the flying boat to chase after Xu Hengzi, staying a short distance behind him. He was busy avoiding the trees while checking the map.
"The map that senior gave me is too simple, and there are corpses everywhere. How can I find the way?"
Just when everyone didn't know what to do, the zombies that had been rushing towards the flying boat suddenly quieted down, and then they dispersed in an orderly manner, as if they had suddenly regained consciousness.
"Oh no! The drought demon is coming, you guys should hide quickly!" Xu Hengzi gave a warning, swung the whisk in his hand and was about to take action.
"Are you the ones who sent us a message asking for something... to interview us?" A pleasant female voice suddenly came over. Two figures came together on the road where the zombies were scattered. The woman was petite and looked like a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. The man was strong and his movements were stiff. His skin was pale and he didn't look like an ordinary person.
Ning Shu: ...
Although it was expected, this scene is too much like Beauty and the Beast, right?
"Hello, I'm Ning Shu. I'm very sorry to disturb your meditation. Actually, we came here because..." Ning Shu complained briefly in her heart and immediately went forward to introduce her purpose. Although Zi Qiu and Ji Chuanbai who were following behind her tried very hard to restrain themselves, their eyes still couldn't help but wander around that man (?).
His skin was so pale that not a trace of blood was left, his eyes were dark without whites, his deep black lips were slightly open revealing jagged and sharp teeth, and every strange feature revealed the identity of this male cultivator - a thousand-year-old drought demon.
Well, it seems that the love in this documentary will leave a curious impression on the audience no matter what. Ning Shu patted Zi Qiu's shoulder sympathetically.
So the female cultivator and her Hanba lover also looked at the young couple. The female cultivator did not mind their slightly rude staring, but smiled apologetically:
"Sorry, did I scare you? My husband can only escape the pursuit of the Heavenly Dao by relying on the dense Yin Qi above the Yin Shi Ghost Forest, so we have no choice but to live here all year round."
The drought demon is an evil creature that is not tolerated by the world. As long as it appears in the world, the heaven will send down thunder to kill it. If the couple does not want to live underground all day, then this forest of ghosts and corpses where there is no sunlight all year round is indeed their only place to live.
Hearing the words of the female cultivator, Ji Chuanbai's face showed a conflicted look. After a long pause, he finally spoke: "I don't mean to offend you, but why exactly did this senior..."
"You want to ask why he became like this?" The female cultivator giggled and moved closer to Song Yunting's pale neck. The sweet smile on her face looked very strange in such a gloomy environment. However, she herself was still unaware of it, and a shy blush appeared on her face.
"I turned Song Lang into this because human lifespan is too short. I wanted to be with Song Lang forever..."
Xu Hengzi certainly couldn't bear to see the disciples of Tianyan Sect being harmed like this, and he immediately lost his temper: "You poisonous..."
"Roar!!!" Unexpectedly, the female cultivator didn't say anything. Instead, Hanba became unhappy. He growled at Xu Hengzi as a warning, and then spoke haltingly: "Don't... scold... Xiaoying..."
"Song Lang, I'm worried about you too, don't be like this~" Xiaoying reached out and gently stroked Song Yunting's chest to comfort him, then explained to a few people: "I forgot to tell you, Song Lang volunteered to accompany me, I didn't hurt him!"
Song Yunting's pale hand with black nails gently covered Xiaoying's hand, and Xiaoying also had a sweet and happy look on her face. They looked like a young couple who had a ghost marriage.
Kikawa Kashiwa: ...
Ziqiu:......
Good, what a bizarre love! Is this the value of a thousand years of companionship?
Seeing that the two sticky people over there seemed to be about to do something more extreme, Ning Shu had to interrupt awkwardly: "Ahem! We are here to interview you two. It's a bit noisy here and the radio is not good. Can you take us to a quieter place for the interview?"
So, under the guidance of the couple, Ning Shu and his group walked for about a quarter of an hour and finally arrived at a place that could barely be called a residence.
This is a very simple wooden house. It is obviously built with local locust wood. There is even a small courtyard outside surrounded by bone-shaped branches. There are some lifelike things such as clotheslines and firewood piles in it. But the scene is too weird. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a haunted room in a horror movie where people will die if they live in it.
Along the way, Ning Shu and the others had briefly learned about the couple's basic situation. Now, seeing such a courtyard, Zi Qiu raised the Spirit Shadow Stone to take pictures while timidly asking, "Sister Xiaoying, is it really okay for you to live here for a long time?"
After all, this doesn't look like a place suitable for living. Wouldn't it be too much of a sacrifice to live here for the rest of your life?
Hearing this, Xiaoying took Ziqiu's hand and led her into the yard. "No, look, there's a barrier in this yard that Song Lang made himself. It's actually very comfortable to live in!"
Ning Shu and the others also followed him into the courtyard. They indeed felt the air around them become fresher. Although this was the deepest part of the Yinshi Ghost Forest, the air was no different from that of the outside world. It was obvious how much effort Song Yunting had put into this.
"Even so, it's not easy for you..." Zi Qiu looked at the yard of only a dozen square meters and couldn't help but admire it. "You can make such a huge sacrifice to stay together forever. I really can't compare to you..."
He is indeed a ruthless man who can turn his lover into a drought demon with his own hands. Although Zi Qiu does not understand, he expresses his respect.
"Sister Xiaoying, how do you keep your relationship so good? Do you have any secrets to share with us?" Ning Shu was very curious about the couple and couldn't wait to start the interview.
"Hmm... I don't think there's any secret..." Xiaoying frowned and thought for a while, but still couldn't answer the question: "I'm just very happy with Song Lang. So many years have passed without me noticing. What's the secret..."
"Eh? Aren't you even arguing?" Ning Shu asked in disbelief.
"Of course not. If you don't believe me, ask Song Lang." Xiaoying said as she looked at the thousand-year-old drought demon on the side.
"No...no...don't make noise..." Hanba tried for a long time and finally stammered out a few words.
Ning Shu: ...
That's really believable.
"Ahem! Anyway, we have finally come here and there is no need to leave in a hurry. I wonder if it would be convenient for you two to let us stay here for a few days to shoot?" Ning Shu changed the topic.
Song Yunting and Xiaoying were very happy to have someone staying there, and the others had no objections. So after getting the owner's consent, Ning Shu installed spirit shadow stones in the house and yard, and began to record the daily life of this special couple.
Although there is no sunlight here, the young couple still lives a life of working from sunrise to sunset according to the clock.
Every morning, Song Yunting would get up while Xiaoying was still sleeping. He would silently clean the room and yard, strengthen the barrier in the yard to filter out the negative energy, go out on patrol and drive away the zombies and evil spirits wandering around. He did every job skillfully and meticulously.
"I can't...take action...and disturb Xiaoying...from resting..."
He stumbled and stopped Xu Hengzi's move to attack directly, and used the level suppression between zombies to drive it away in Ji Chuanbai's shooting, and then carefully approached an evil spirit from behind. His already stiff body parts made such movements even look a bit funny. With sharp teeth and sharp claws, the unfortunate evil spirit was torn into pieces before it could even make a sound.
"Cultivators don't need sleep at all, even if they are woken up..." Xu Hengzi felt that Song Yunting's behavior was totally unnecessary, but after glancing at his disciple's suggestive look, he chose to curl his lips and said nothing more.
Ji Chuanbai cleared his throat awkwardly, then quickly walked up holding the Spirit Shadow Stone to change the subject: "Senior Brother Song, what are you doing?"
"Looking for... flowers... that are only found here... and are very... precious..." Song Yunting, buried in the grass, didn't even raise his head, but bent over as he searched all the way.
"Flowers? Precious ones? What kind of flowers?" Ji Chuanbai only had a vague idea of what he heard.
"Could it be the Blood Ash Nether Flower that only grows in gloomy and evil places?" Taoist Master Xu Hengzi instantly became alert. "I heard that this flower needs to be nourished by bone-eroding Yin energy for ten thousand years before it blooms. It's an innate treasure in ancient legends that can help cultivators return to life and avoid heavenly calamity! So it grows here!"
You should know that the higher the level of cultivation, the more severe the heavenly tribulation. From the Spirit Transformation Realm onwards, every heavenly tribulation is a life-or-death experience. If you can obtain one of these ancient divine objects, the sect will have one more powerful cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage or even the Mahayana Stage!
"Beautiful flowers... red... very precious... hard to find..." Song Yunting's language ability was not enough to explain it clearly. He just kept emphasizing the preciousness of the flowers while searching.
Xu Hengzi, who was immersed in the sweet dream of a pie falling from the sky, also changed from his previous disdain to full of enthusiasm: "We will help you find it! You lead the way, no matter how difficult it is, we will find it!"
So this "treasure hunting team" embarked on the arduous journey to find the Blood Cinders and Youtan. Along the way, they waded through poisonous pools with bursts of black smoke, fought against the sharp and roaring evil spirits, and passed through thorns covered with poisonous thorns. When Song Yunting finally stopped, the time had changed from early morning to noon.
"Huh... Huh... How much further is it..." Xu Hengzi's clothes were torn to shreds by thorns, and his ears were buzzing from the female ghost's roar. Along the way, he not only had to keep up with the speed of Hanba, but also had to protect his fragile apprentice at all times. He was almost exhausted after persisting until now.
On the contrary, Ji Chuanbai was too weak to take any action, so he just followed behind and acted as a photographer. Apart from being a little tired from walking, he suffered no other injuries.
Song Yunting, who was walking in the front, also had his clothes torn to pieces by thorns and monsters. However, Hanba's body was tough and tireless, so he didn't suffer much along the way. Instead, his pale face was stained with a childlike joy. He opened his arms towards a small patch of grass and said, "Here... the flowers... are beautiful..."
"Found it? Really found it?" Xu Hengzi was overjoyed, and with the last bit of strength he took a few steps and ran to Song Yunting's side.
On the dark blue grass with scary shapes, there are a few small red flowers waving in the wind. Each flower is only the size of a finger joint, with neither spiritual energy nor strange appearance. It looks like a strange little flower that can bloom in the Yinshi Ghost Forest, no different from the other thorns and trees here.
Xu Hengzi:......
Fury of being fooled ignited in his heart. He rushed over and grabbed Song Yunting's sleeve. "Where are the precious flowers you promised me? Are you kidding me?"
Song Yunting's dark eyes blinked repeatedly, and it was impossible to tell whether he was doing it on purpose or if he really didn't understand: "Beautiful... Xiaoying likes it... Hard to find... Precious..."
Xu Hengzi:......
Kikawa Kashiwa: ...
Senior Brother Song, it's hard for me not to suspect that you did it on purpose. Could it be that you agreed to let us follow you out just to ask us to help you find flowers?
【Author’s words】
Xuhengzi: I'm going to fight you love-brained people!!! [Angry]
In fact, this couple is both curious and pure love. Although Hanba doesn't look very smart, he actually has his own ideas and is not a puppet.
Song Yunting: In order to stay with Xiaoying forever, I will stop being a human being! [OK]
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