Chapter 35 Crouching Dragon and Phoenix

"Junior...Junior Master, could it be that...you are overthinking it?" Ni Jinxuan was a little scared and reached out to grab the edge of Lin Du's cloak.

Yuan Ye and Yan Qing shook their heads at the same time, and then looked at Lin Du at the same time.

"Young Master's suspicion is not an empty speculation." Yan Qing is older than all of them, and is a member of a small family in Zhongzhou. He has read a lot of books since he was young. Although he is a sword cultivator, his thinking is much more organized than his two junior brothers and sisters.

After the small world collapsed, it wandered in the void and entered this world through a space collision, where it was discovered by a sect in Zhongzhou. And because the discoverer happened to be a cultivator from a large sect, several sects worked together to develop it, and the rest of the sects would pay some rent as offerings, so it became a secret realm for the disciples of the Zhongzhou sects to train.

This small world is a well-known secret place with a low loss rate for low-level monks.

He pursed his lips and said, "As far as I know, in seven battles, the casualties were less than 200 people, and many of them died clearly not in the desert."

Lin Du was naturally sensitive to numbers and could almost remember everything she saw at a glance, while Yan Qing was more mature and quickly caught up with her thinking.

"It is very likely that something went wrong with the people who left earlier."

Lin Du added, "Or to put it another way, there is something fishy among those who left."

Yuan Ye took a deep breath and widened his eyes, "Is there a ghost?"

"Incarnation." Yan Qing added, "When the flesh and blood are eaten by the willow monster, the soul will also be scattered. There is a secret technique about willow branches, called willow branches turning into bones, which can make willow branches replace broken bones for people. It is recorded in ancient books that willow monsters with deep cultivation can turn into flesh and blood. After eating a person, the willow branches can turn into the body of the person eaten."

What was eaten by the willow monster was a human, and although what was vomited out was exactly the same, it was actually a ghost.

This is a big game.

The resentment of the ghosts caused the red willow to become a monster, and the growing resentment nurtured the willow monster. The ghosts below also took advantage of the willow monster to eat people, drilled into the body that grew out of the willow branches, and changed into a new identity.

The gate opened and carried the human form of the Zhongzhou disciples out. Anyway, the willow monster only eats humans and does not eat the disciples' tokens and storage rings.

Lin Du and Yan Qing looked at each other and saw the deep thoughts in each other's eyes.

Yuan Ye swore, "I wanted to play a song to pray for their souls to rest in peace."

Lin Du lowered his eyes, "It's not impossible, let's go down and take a look."

Yuan Ye let out a cry and slowed down his erhu playing.

Ni Jinxuan was a little worried, "Master Junior, you don't look well, let's take a break first."

"Before all those gang members come to cause trouble, let's go straight to the first scene, otherwise those who come to watch the excitement and get a piece of the pie may step on these skulls and break them..."

As Lin Du spoke, he glanced at the scattered black dots in the distance, which were moving towards here rapidly like ants.

Yan Qing also agreed, "I'll go down first, little master uncle, you be careful."

Lin Du sneered, "I'm not made of paper, don't worry."

Yuan Ye whispered, "Master Junior can even uproot the thousand-year-old willow monster."

Lin Du held his forehead and said, "It's not that I don't have it... Never mind."

Yan Qing was the first to jump down with a knife in hand, followed closely by Lin Du. Ni Jinxuan grabbed her cloak and jumped down after her. Yuan Ye shook his head, muttered something, and also jumped down.

The pit was extremely deep, and even though the four people used their spiritual power to slow down when they fell, their joints were still painful from the vibration.

As soon as he landed, Lin Du frowned, "Such a heavy yin energy."

The evil spirit in her bones had not yet dissipated. She couldn't help but pull her cloak, but it was useless.

An ice cube remains an ice cube even if you cover it up.

There was indeed something like a city underground. The place where they landed was like a central square of a city. In the middle was a table for offerings, and in front of the table sat a skeleton devoutly. The flesh had dissolved, but the skeleton was still in the state of meditating.

Lin Du took a quick look and saw that it was probably an altar.

The altar was surrounded by the bones of hundreds of deceased people.

"So many people passed away here?" Ni Jinxuan breathed softly. She didn't look down just now, so she felt a little scared when she saw so many white bones.

When Yuan Ye fell down, he didn't stand firmly and fell directly into the arms of a skeleton with a thud. Then there was a loud bang, and the skeletons scattered around like dominoes. The neat rows of sitting skeletons began to collapse and scatter one after another.

Lin Du, who saw this scene, said:

What the fuck did I just say?

Yan Qing was checking the things on the altar table. When he heard the noise, he turned around and closed his eyes silently.

Is this the descendant of the royal family?

The young man fell forward in front of the sternum, his hands still holding the two halves of the humerus. When he looked up, he knew that he was in big trouble.

"Little... Little Master, I am like that, my legs are a little weak, but it doesn't matter, we can just count them as before, look at how neat this skull is..."

Lin Du nodded, "If you put your skull on it, it will be just as neat."

Yuan Ye climbed up with great difficulty, with a bitter face, "I was wrong, look, aren't there still a few left?

Yan Qing walked to the skeleton that was obviously in the dominant position in front of the altar. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the skeleton fell apart.

It was a little bit sudden and fleeting.

Lin Du raised his hand and pressed his brow. There were four people in total, and a pair of sleeping dragons and phoenixes appeared.

Yan Qing was silent for a moment, then silently withdrew his hand, "Do you believe me when I say I haven't met Junior Master yet?"

Lin Du nodded perfunctorily, "I believe you if you say so."

Yan Qing felt a little aggrieved, "I really didn't encounter it."

There was another "baa la la" sound. Lin Du frowned and looked in the direction of the sound, thinking that it was another Sleeping Dragon or Phoenix that had been hit.

But no.

Lin Du's eyes gradually became serious.

Yan Qing seemed to have found some theoretical support and said loudly, "Look, Junior Master, I said..."

Before he could finish his words, another skeleton fell to the ground.

Yan Qing's voice trembled, as if the teacher had forcibly cut off the tune of the erhu.

Lin Du narrowed his eyes, "It can't be that your voice is too loud and frightened this skeleton."

As soon as she finished speaking, another skeleton fell to the ground.

Ni Jinxuan's eyes widened, her voice trembling, "Uncle Junior Master... Ghost, the ghost hasn't been dispersed yet?"

"What are you afraid of? We are cultivators, we kill ghosts. Unless they also become ghost cultivators, otherwise it is the ghosts who are afraid of us." Lin Du's head hurt. He had calculated too much before. He glanced at the timid rabbit's confused look and slowed down his voice.

"Even if they are ghost cultivators, the Heavenly Dao suppresses those in the Qin Heart Realm. The four of us are all in the Qin Heart Realm, so we are the ones who can defeat them collectively."

As Lin Du was speaking, there were several sounds of bones falling. Of the originally intact skeletons, only twenty were left.

She suddenly realized something, "Yuan Ye, go touch those remaining bones."

Yuan Ye let out an "ah" and didn't understand what was going on, but he still went over and touched it.

Not scattered.

"Push harder."

Yuan Ye slapped the skull in the face.

The bone pattern remains motionless.

Instead, Yuan Ye cried out and blew on his red hands.

"Have you found it?" Lin Du said.

"Found it." Yan Qing replied, looking at the skeletons that were still sitting.

"What did you find?" Yuan Ye looked innocent.

"Count the skulls scattered on the ground, Yuanye." Lin Du said.

Yuan Ye obediently counted the total number of skulls.

"One hundred and ninety-six... one hundred and ninety-seven, including the ones on the altar, a total of one hundred and ninety-seven, Junior Master." Yuan Ye's face suddenly froze as he spoke, "This number sounds a bit familiar, Junior Master?"

Lin Du lowered his eyes and chuckled, "Yeah, it sounds familiar."

The one hundred and ninety-seven scattered bones are because the ghosts of the bones are no longer in this world and are no longer maintained by the power of the ghosts, so they are scattered.

There were also 197 skeletons at the roots of the willow tree.

In other words, a total of one hundred and ninety-seven ghosts walked out of the small world and mingled in the world they were in.

If Lin Du had not broken the formation today, this time, perhaps twenty more ghosts would have followed them out.

Ghosts roam the human world and are resurrected through evil means.

Previously I thought it was a ferocious willow that ate people, but now that I have dug it up I understand what it is.

It is never Willow that is vicious, it is people.