Volume 1 Chapter 83: The Ghostly Encirclement
The little nun was frightened by Xiao Guazi's action, and quickly stood aside, waving her hands and shouting: "I don't want to call you Niangniang, I have a name, the master gave me a Buddhist name, Lingzhi!"
"You can just call me Master Lingzhi!"
Little Guazi bowed and stood up, thinking to himself, "With your figure, skin and appearance, you will be the empress sooner or later. It doesn't matter whether you call me the empress sooner or later."
Little Melon Seed smiled and said to him: "I would like to thank Lady Lingzhi for rescuing me. If it weren't for Lady Lingzhi's timely help, I'm afraid I would have died here tonight."
"Oh, I told you I won't call you Niangniang anymore!" The little nun Lingzhi said helplessly, "And it wasn't me who saved you, it was my master who did it."
At this moment, a middle-aged woman jumped out from the air and slapped down with one hand. The three monk-like ghosts were immediately put into the Buddhist beads with screams.
The woman was also dressed as a nun. She put away the Buddhist beads in her hand, then walked over with a cold face and said in a cold voice: "This donor is frightened. The evil karma has been eliminated. The donor can leave on his own. It is best not to come here in the future."
How could Xiao Guazi let Lingzhi leave? He bowed without changing his expression and said with a smile: "Thank you for saving my life, Master. May I know your Dharma name and where you live?"
Without waiting for the middle-aged woman to answer, Lingzhi hurriedly said with a smile: "My master's Dharma name is Jikong, which is a very domineering name!
We live in Lingshan Temple not far away. We came down the mountain because we saw the evil creatures trying to harm people again. Fortunately, my master arrived in time, otherwise you would have really died!"
"Lingzhi!" Master Jikong called out in a bad mood, obviously disliking Lingzhi's blunt words, and then said to Xiao Guazi with a cold face: "You can't stay in Lingfo Temple for long at night, donor, please leave quickly!"
Lingzhi stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, and quickly ran behind Master Jikong, acting like a little girl.
Just as Master Jikong was about to leave, Little Guazi quickly said, "To be honest, I had a friend with me on this trip, and he was also captured by that evil monk. I hope Master Jikong will have mercy on me and save my friend."
As Xiao Guazi pointed to the place where the Great Sun Dynasty army was stationed, Master Jikong frowned and looked in the direction Xiao Guazi pointed for a long time before slowly saying, "That's right, there is indeed a lot of ghost energy surrounding this direction!"
Xiao Guazi laughed and led the way. As long as they entered the military camp, it would be impossible for the two nuns to leave even if they had wings.
Wu Guotao was still on high alert. After a while, the team that had gone out to look for Xiao Guazi came back. Wu Guotao hurriedly asked, "Did you find Eunuch Li?"
The soldiers replied, "We didn't see anything unusual around us, and we didn't even see the shadow of Eunuch Li."
Wu Guotao frowned upon hearing this and murmured, "That's impossible. There are so many troops all around. Where can Eunuch Li go?"
"Ah~ there's a ghost!"
At this moment, a soldier standing guard in front let out a scream and then hurriedly ran in the direction where everyone was.
Soon more screams were heard, and it was obvious that there were abnormalities at every sentry post.
"Help! There's a ghost!"
“Monks, all monks!”
Wu Guotao shouted, "Why are you all yelling and shouting? Are the enemy coming to attack us?"
At this moment, a soldier came running over and reported: "No, General, these are really ghosts, all monks, they are floating, without bodies!"
Wu Guotao frowned and rushed towards the commotion at high speed. In the crowd, he saw a large number of monks with illusory figures and tattered clothes floating towards him in the distance. Their faces were rotten and bloodstained, and there was a foul smell coming from them.
At a glance, there were at least several thousand of them, blocking the road ahead. The scene looked extremely creepy, and it was no wonder that the soldiers were afraid.
Wu Guotao's scalp was tingling, but he forced himself to cheer up and shouted, "We have more than 200,000 troops, are we afraid of a few thousand ghost monks? We are really scaring ourselves!
Soldiers, take up your weapons and follow me to kill these evil monks!"
Wu Guotao drew the sword from his waist, led the charge, and killed these evil monks.
Upon hearing this, many of the soldiers behind him picked up their weapons and rushed forward, hoping to defeat these evil monks with their numbers.
But Wu Guotao in front rushed to the front of these ghost monks and chopped down with his sword, but the sword went through the ghost monks' bodies and hit nothing.
The next moment, before Wu Guotao could react, four or five ghost monks lifted him up and slammed him to the ground.
Wu Guotao was nearly knocked unconscious by the blow, but before he could recover, he was lifted high up by these evil monks again.
Wu Guotao was so frightened that he was shaking all over. If he was hit again, his life would be over.
When the soldiers who were about to charge from a distance saw this scene, they were so scared that they immediately retreated and dared not move forward.
Are you kidding? This is a ghost. We mortals can't even touch it. How can we fight it?
Just as Wu Guotao was about to be smashed down again, a loud shout came from the sky: "How dare you, you evil creature!"
Soon after, a golden light was emitted, and the ghost monks who were holding Wu Guotao were so frightened that they immediately ran away in all directions. Poor Wu Guotao naturally fell down again without the support of these ghost monks.
But at this moment, Master Jikong leaped up, caught Wu Guotao in the air, did a 360-degree spin on the ground, and then stabilized her body.
"So beautiful~" Wu Guotao, who was in the arms of Master Jikong, stared at the delicate face in front of him and said it involuntarily.
Upon hearing this, Master Jikong blushed. Little Melon Seed jumped out and shouted, "General Wu, I am a monk. You must be responsible for saying such frivolous words to me!"
Lingzhi also ran over at this time, covering her mouth and exclaimed: "Wow~ Master, this is the first time I hear someone praise you like this!"
Master Jikong wanted to kill someone at this time. What are these people doing? I am just saving innocent people whose lives are at stake. Why make such a fuss?
The key point is that we are facing a powerful enemy and thousands of ghosts in front of us. You are focusing on the wrong thing!
Master Jikong quickly let go of Wu Guotao, then rushed forward with Buddhist beads in her hand, and fought with these ghost monks.
Faced with the situation just now, Master Jikong would rather fight with these thousands of ghost monks than stay there in embarrassment.
Time passed minute by minute, and Master Jikong was the only one fighting madly in the whole arena. At the beginning, she was brave and invincible. After entering the arena, she killed crazily and killed more than a dozen ghost monks in a row.
But as time went on, Master Jikong began to show signs of fatigue, and these ghost monks attacked like crazy, completely losing their fear and dread of the golden light as they did in the past.
Suddenly, a ghost monk opened his bloody mouth and bit Master Jiemie's right arm, and a large amount of black smoke immediately came out.
"Ah~!" Master Jiemie screamed, broke free and quickly took a few steps back, coming to Xiaoguazi and the others. At this time, she was already sweating profusely and her breathing became disordered. She was obviously exhausted and under a great pressure.
Wu Guotao couldn't help but ask: "Master, are you okay?"
Lingzhi finally reacted and asked, "Master, why are these ghost monks so strange today? They don't even leave when they see you!"
Master Jikong had a gloomy face. Seeing these ghost monks in the distance rushing towards them again, she immediately said in a deep voice: "Retreat quickly!"
"No way, we can't win?" Seeing that the situation was not right, Xiao Guazi ran the fastest, followed by the soldiers, and then Wu Guotao, Master Jiemie and others.
These ghost monks killed people along the way, and they retreated all the way until they reached the carriage where Xiang Yun was. Only then did Xiao Guazi and others finally stop and stop running away.
When Master Jikong saw this, she shouted, "Keep going. Are you going to die here?"
Little Guazi quickly blocked the carriage with his body and shouted, "We can't retreat, His Majesty is still inside!"
Nun Jiemie obviously hadn't realized what the word "Your Majesty" meant, and she only heard Wu Guotao beside her shouting, "Soldiers, it's time to fight these ghosts to the death. Protect His Majesty, kill!"
All the soldiers mustered up their courage, picked up their weapons and prepared to charge forward.
But Master Jiemie would not just stand by and watch. She cursed in her heart and rushed forward again with the Buddhist beads in her hand.
But she was already a strong bow and a crossbow. Before she could even take two moves, she was hit on the chest by a ghost claw. She immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood and was knocked away.
The Buddhist beads in her hand were also broken, the beads scattered everywhere, and the golden light on them also dissipated.
"Master!" Lingzhi screamed and hurriedly tried to go up and support Master Jikong, but she didn't know if it was a coincidence or not, Master Jikong was flying towards the direction where Wu Guotao was.
Wu Guotao caught it and actually caught Master Jikong steadily. With an embarrassed look on his face, he quickly lowered his head and saw that Master Jikong had blood on the corner of her mouth and had fainted.
Lingzhi, who had rushed over, was a little at a loss when seeing this scene, not knowing whether he should go forward to help his master.
"Kill them, I smell a delicious scent!"
"They smell so good. I'm so hungry. They must be delicious!"
"Go ahead, bring them all back to the temple and enjoy them slowly!"
At this moment, these ghost monks rushed up one by one, shouting in shrill voices. Suddenly, many soldiers of the Lieyang Army were lifted up high by these ghost monks, causing a lot of fear and screams.
Little Guazi was so scared that he was trembling with fear and kept backing away. Then his body hit the carriage and he had nowhere to retreat.
“Cough, cough!”
Suddenly, Xiang Yun's painful cough was heard in the carriage, and it was obvious that he was still very weak. Xiao Guazi heard it and wanted to get on the carriage to check on Xiang Yun's body, but his legs were so weak that he could not move at all.
Xiang Yun's extremely weak voice came from the carriage again: "What's going on? Why is it so noisy outside?"
Xiang Yun waited in the carriage for a while, but still no one answered him. He couldn't help but frown and shouted unhappily: "Little melon seed~Little melon seed!"
Xiang Yun's tone was obviously a little impatient. Just as he was about to go out and take a look, Xiao Guazi's trembling voice came from outside the carriage: "Your Majesty, you'd better come out and take a look yourself. I don't know how to explain it to you!"
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