How did she become the scapegoat?
Zhou Suyao quickly looked around, and her fingertips quickly made hand gestures. A "Devil God Technique" fell silently, and the breath of life around her disappeared instantly - this was a life-saving method that the eldest brother gave her at the last minute, which could make the ghost soldiers ignore her temporarily.
When he turned around, he found that the other three were wearing an almost transparent gauze robe, which was almost impossible to detect without careful observation.
"What is this?" Zhou Suyao poked Mingluo's thin shirt curiously.
"The 'Yin Armor' woven from Yin insect silk," Qi Jie glanced at her, his tone carrying a subtle hint of inquiry, "not only can it conceal one's form and aura, but it can also resist attacks from Yin soldiers. The Yin Realm is a fixed exam question. Didn't your master prepare for it for you?"
"Haha, no." Zhou Suyao said with a fake smile, "I'm a child of a poor sect who has been raised early. I don't even have a storage bag, so how can I put all these precious things in it?"
While I was furiously scrolling through my mind, I was like, "What a stingy old man! He won't even give me something to save my life! After the exam, if I don't extort eight or ten baskets of osmanthus cakes from you, I'm not Zhou!"
Seeing her forcing a smile but secretly grinding her teeth, Qi Jie sighed almost inaudibly. With a slight movement of his fingertips, an extremely subtle self-defense technique silently struck her.
Zhou Suyao suddenly felt a warm current envelop her whole body. She looked up and met Mingluo's concerned gaze. She immediately understood and touchedly took Mingluo's arm: "My dear sister, I know you care about me the most. Let's go quickly. If we dawdle any longer, those old fogies outside will give us a failing grade!"
At the same time, outside the examination room.
The string of warm pearls on the wrist of Senior Brother Zhou Shanyuan suddenly became hot without warning. He lowered his head slightly and found that the mother beads on his bracelet had turned black.
Su Yao...how could she be in the underworld?
Zhou Shanyuan was puzzled. According to common sense, the exam scene was just an illusion of the candidates inside the spirit stone. Even if the scene showed the underworld, people would not really go to the underworld.
The pearl bracelet he tied around Su Yao's hand and the spirit stone bracelet on his wrist were a "mother and child bracelet" that communicated spiritual energy. Their spiritual powers were connected and intertwined. When the child bracelet was in the human world, the mother bracelet remained the same. If the child bracelet was outside the human world, the mother bracelet would glow gold or black. Gold indicated the celestial realm, while black, naturally, represented the underworld.
Could it be that the spirit stone today was too powerful, creating an illusion that could confuse even the magic weapon he had made with his own hands using the ancient spirit beads as materials?
Deep in the underworld.
The senior brother had told her that the exam questions in the underworld were nothing more than those two types, which in modern terms are called templates when facing exams. As Zhou Suyao walked, she recalled the fixed exam questions that the senior brother had told her a few days ago.
First go to the three pawnshops of the Ox-Head and Horse-Face and find an old lady in tattered clothes. She probably died unjustly and had a daughter who died unjustly. When she was seeking justice for her daughter, she was beaten to death by the yamen. So she wandered here all day long, asking the Ox-Head and Horse-Face to show mercy and let her return to the world of the living so that those evil people would get their comeuppance.
If there is no such old lady in the pawnshop, then you can go forward and catch up with the team of ghost soldiers. At the end of the team, you will see a man with a penetrating wound on his face. He was unable to see his relatives for the last time because of defending his country. His greatest wish in this life is to chop off as many enemy heads as possible and return to the emperor to receive the reward so that his relatives can live a good life.
What they have to do is to use spiritual arts to help the person they meet fulfill their deepest wishes, so that their souls can rest in peace and enter reincarnation peacefully.
It’s not that difficult.
Thinking of this, she even walked a lot more briskly.
But Qi Jie, who was following at the end, looked more and more ugly.
He was born with a supremely yang body, and was extremely sensitive to Yin energy. In past mock exams, Yin energy had been heavy, but never like this moment, like a maggot on the tarsal bone, madly and greedily sucking the pure Yang energy from his body. This feeling... it was as if he were in the netherworld.
He tried to use the Quan Yang Jue to expel the coldness, but just as the spiritual power gathered at his fingertips—
"puff!"
A mouthful of black blood suddenly spurted out! Qi Jie's eyes went dark, and he stumbled. He forced himself to shout, "Stop! Don't go any further!"
The three of them looked back in surprise.
Zhou Suyao reacted the fastest, dashing behind him in a flash. Without hesitation, she pressed her palm's spiritual power against his back, attempting to force out the accumulated coldness within him. Qi Shuobei also immediately supported his brother, his expression grave. "What's wrong? Your Yang body..."
"This place... is not right!" Qi Jie wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gently brushed Zhou Suyao's hand away with his backhand. His voice was a little weak but with unquestionable persistence, "Madam Zhou... save your energy... This place is dangerous, don't waste your spiritual power on me..."
He took a deep breath, forced himself to stand upright, a flicker of determination in his eyes. With a shove of air, a pure white flute, with bamboo-green holes and a pure gold Qilin inlaid on the tail, appeared in his hand.
Zhou Suyao's eyes widened instantly—the Qilin artifact? The Qi family's most precious treasure from Second Senior Brother's gossip! The Pure Yang treasure! The Pure Yang treasure! The Qi family actually brought this thing in as "exam stationery"?!
Then she thought of her cheap master...forget it, comparing yourself with others will only make you angry.
Before she could finish her complaints, a sharp and murderous flute sound suddenly rang out, piercing her soul!
“Woo——!”
Zhou Suyao and Ming Luo were caught off guard, their eardrums aching from the shock, and they instinctively covered their ears. By the time they had barely adjusted to the devilish sound, and when they looked up again, their blood had nearly frozen—
Before them, densely packed! Countless evil spirits, with hideous faces and thick, inky black auras wrapped around them, were swarming in front of them! A thin golden barrier was the only barrier! Those sharp, pitch-black claws were less than an inch away from Zhou Suyao's eyes!
"Holy shit!" Zhou Suyao's scalp exploded and she screamed.
"The Qilin Flute... can illuminate illusions." Qi Jie's voice was filled with suppressed gasps. "We... have been surrounded for a long time!"
"What, what should I do?!" Ming Luo's voice was shaking.
No one answered. Despair, like an icy tide, instantly engulfed the four of them.
Swish——!
A ghost's sharp claws fiercely slashed across the barrier! A subtle but terrifying cracking sound was heard, and a hideous crack suddenly appeared on the barrier!
The Yin Qi rushed in like a poisonous snake, madly pouring in through the cracks! Qi Jie groaned, as if an invisible giant hand was strangling his throat. His face was as pale as paper. He was affected by this evil Yin Qi and soon realized that he was surging with uncontrollable evil spirits in his heart.
"We can't wait any longer!" Zhou Suyao's voice trembled. "Once the barrier breaks, we're all finished!"
"Are you asking us to rush out? But there are evil spirits everywhere outside, and rushing out will also lead to death!" Qi Shuobei's forehead was covered with cold sweat.
Click…click…click——
The next moment, the cracking sound was no longer singular, but continuous, like the disintegration of ice. Spider-web-like cracks instantly covered the entire golden barrier.
Even though they still thought this was just a test, the fear of death still shrouded everyone's heart.
However, just as the golden barrier completely shattered and countless evil spirits rushed in screaming,
The inconspicuous pearl bracelet on Zhou Suyao's wrist suddenly burst out with a burning warm current, and a vast and majestic torrent of spiritual power exploded.
Buzz——!!!
Like an invisible giant hammer, the evil spirits at the front were instantly shattered to dust before they could even scream. Those further away were also violently blown away by this terrifying force.
Zhou Suyao felt as if she subconsciously used this powerful spiritual power that had not yet dissipated to form seals with her hands at lightning speed, shouting:
"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes—the gate to the afterlife is open!"
Outside the illusion.
Zhou Shanyuan felt a piercing pain in his wrist! The spiritual stone bracelet that served as the mother chain suddenly turned black and hot, emitting a pungent burnt smell!
"Zheng!" Several spirit stones couldn't bear it and exploded directly.
Zhou Shanyuan stared at the shattered bracelet, his face pale and his fingertips cold. The spiritual power of the mother chain beads was instantly drained. What on earth was Su Yao experiencing in there?
He closed his eyes, his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, the panic of losing something important had never been so clear.
At the same time, in the underworld.
The gate to rebirth, shimmering with golden light, suddenly opened.
The ghosts that had been blown away, as if inspired, rose to their feet in strange, stiff movements, rushing towards the door that represented liberation. Even the shattered bones and flesh on the ground began to wriggle, forming humanoid shapes, struggling to crawl towards the golden light.
The leading evil spirit was about to step into the gate of rebirth.
"stop!!!"
A shrill and resentful scream pierced through the air like an ice cone.
Behind the four people, a woman surrounded by a black and red aura that was ten times thicker than that of ordinary evil spirits and almost sticky suddenly appeared out of thin air. Her long hair was flying, her eyes were red, and two lines of blood and tears were winding down. She stared at the door to the afterlife.
The evil spirits rushing towards the door suddenly froze, slowly turning around like puppets, their blood-red eyes fixed on Zhou Suyao and the other three. Their surging resentment intensified a hundredfold.
"Not good!" Zhou Suyao was terrified and forced herself to calm down and maintain the seal.
But it's too late!
The closest evil ghost, under the control of the female ghost, turned into a black light, and its sharp claws tore through the protective barrier that Zhou Suyao had hastily set up, and grabbed her shoulder with incredible precision.
“Sizzle!”
Severe pain hit! Zhou Suyao's hand trembled, and the output of spiritual power suddenly stopped.
boom!
The gate to the afterlife, having lost its spiritual support, suddenly closed! The huge backlash force was like a heavy hammer, hitting Zhou Suyao's heart fiercely!
“Puff!” A mouthful of boiling hot blood spurted out from his heart.
In a life-or-death situation, the instinct for survival trumps all else. Zhou Suyao endured the excruciating pain and dizziness, and at the moment the blood mist erupted, she pressed her hands together again. A weak yet resilient spiritual barrier instantly opened, barely enveloping the four of them!
Her face was firm and the seriousness revealed in her eyes and eyebrows made people admire her.
However, only she knew that at this moment, her mind was frantically scrolling through her mind: Awesome! Zhou Suyao, you are so awesome! Such reaction speed! Such a strong will to survive! Are you a genius?!
Looking at the dense group of evil spirits outside the barrier, which were controlled by the female ghost and surrounded them again, as well as the blood-tear female ghost emitting a terrifying aura, Zhou Suyao still had blood on the corner of her mouth, but she tried her best to squeeze out an extremely serious expression and asked sternly:
"Who are you?! Why are you trying to kill us all?!"
"I...?" The ghost girl tilted her head, tears of blood running down her pale cheeks. Her voice was erratic, with a kind of innocent cruelty, "I didn't... want to kill you..."
"Then what are you doing now?!" Qi Shuobei shouted angrily.
"That's a good question..." The ghost girl suddenly giggled, her laughter sharp and piercing, and tears and blood flowed even more fiercely, "But... I really... didn't want to kill you..."
Her voice suddenly rose, became hysterical, and filled with endless resentment:
"I didn't mean to kill you! But you guys! Why did you want to put us to death?!"
As the last word fell, the black and red turbid air around her exploded, like a huge mouth of the abyss ready to devour anyone, carrying with it countless controlled evil spirits, and rushing madly towards the last barrier of the four people!
The shadow of despair completely enveloped the four of them!
Zhou Suyao looked at the face that was distorted and magnified in the foul air, dripping with blood and tears. Only a dull, powerless and sad thought remained in her heart:
"Big sister! Have some sense! How come this blame... is being pinned squarely on me?!"
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