Chapter 51
Even so, Xie was still worried. After thinking about it, he finally took a lot of talisman paper from home and went out.
"By the way, I took your jade pendant and burned it with ghost fire. I found a spirit living inside it, which is why you had that dream that day."
"This kind of thing is more popular in Southeast Asia. Taoists here don't like to do it anymore. It seems Xie Lingsong really put a lot of effort into leaving a message for you."
Xie looked at the jade pendant in his hand and thought of the dream that night.
Their formation was only a little short of finishing touches, and it would be finished in about half an hour. Xie Que was flustered, and Jing Xiebai could see that something was on his mind, so he urged everyone to speed up, and finally they finished the formation before eleven o'clock.
"Xiao Jing, we old bones won't get involved in what happens next," a white-haired old man said with a smile. Xie had only met him a few times, but he didn't seem to like him. He had always given him the cold shoulder during their previous encounters.
Jing Xiebai also laughed: "Uncle Zhao, thank you so much for your help this time. I won't bother you with the rest. Leave it to us young people."
"Little Jing is really awesome. We old folks will give our seats to you." The man didn't stay long and immediately took his things and left the community. However, within a few minutes, only Xie Que and Jing Xie Bai were left in the community.
"Go check the sewers?"
Jing Xiebai raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course."
Xie nodded and walked ahead alone.
The lights in the old neighborhood had been broken for several years. The pale moonlight made the whole world gray. Occasionally, there were a few creaking sounds of doors opening, and then the whole place quickly returned to dead silence.
"Do you feel something is wrong?" Xie suddenly spoke.
Jing Xiebai quickly followed him, and the two stopped beside a crooked tree. The surroundings were so quiet that they could hear the sound of mosquitoes flying by in the summer.
"It's a bit too quiet." Jing Xiebai clapped his hands to kill the mosquitoes that flew past him, and continued to walk forward with Xie Que, "Let's go to the sewer first, there are too many mosquitoes here."
Xie Que said as he walked: "Am I too sensitive? I always have a bad feeling."
"Don't scare me, you have a special physique." Jing Xiebai waved his hand to drive away the swarm of mosquitoes in front of him. "What you say is likely to come true. Since you said so, we are destined to have a tough battle tonight."
Xie was frightened by his words. He nervously grabbed his arm and asked, "Really? How about calling someone to guard the area?"
Jing Xiebai was amused by him: "Don't worry, there are many ghost exorcists arranged around here, they will appear when the formation is activated."
Xie Que felt relieved after hearing him say that. Seeing that they had already reached the sewer, he no longer cared about other things.
The sewer was surrounded by weeds and piles of garbage, emitting a foul odor.
They had just walked past a garbage dump and there was a smell on their bodies. Xie frowned and took out tools to open the sewer outlet. The stench spread all at once, making it impossible for him to open his eyes.
"Why is it so smelly?" Xie pinched his nose and looked down. All kinds of garbage were floating on the black water. He turned on the flashlight and noticed animal fur floating in it.
"What is this?" Xie picked up a long branch from the side, lifted the thing up and found that it was cat hair.
There were a dozen or so cat furs in the sewer, most of them were small and thin, probably stray cats nearby.
Xie Que threw the branch to the ground and squatted down to vomit. Jing Xiebai carefully examined the cat's body with a flashlight, frowned and said, "This cat has been cursed."
"Curse?"
"Yes." Jing Xiebai spread out the cat's corpse and pointed it at Xie Que with a branch. "There are undigested talismans in its stomach. Someone is using these cats to cast evil spells and gain cultivation."
"Chen Shan? Why is he doing this?" Xie had just finished vomiting when he looked up and saw the corpses and squatted down to vomit again.
"Chen Shan must have been forced into a corner. It seems he has been coming out in the middle of the night these days to kill cats." Jing Xiebai piled the cat corpses aside. Just as he was about to pull Xie Que to wash his hands, he heard a very slight "ding--" sound.
He and Xie Que looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
In order to prevent the formation from being accidentally destroyed, they specially put some thought into the original formation so that it would make a sound to remind them as long as the formation was destroyed.
"No way..." Xie looked down at the faintly visible formation pattern on the ground, and the panic in his heart reached its peak.
"Hurry, go back!" He and Jing Xiebai ran forward suddenly. At once, many exorcists appeared from the dark and gathered downstairs where Chen Shan was.
Xie took a quick look and estimated that there were more than 30 exorcists here, which was all the force they could send.
Jing Xiebai quickly calmed down. He waved to Jing Yucheng who was on guard beside him, indicating that he should take his men to guard the formation.
"The formation has been destroyed. If they can't defend it, we'll be finished." The calmness on Jing Xiebai's face completely disappeared, replaced by a frightening calmness.
"No matter what, you can't release Taotie this time." Xie Que suddenly spoke, his eyes stayed in front of him, and he didn't even look at Jing Xiebai.
"Winning in this way that hurts yourself is no different from losing in my heart."
Xie turned around and looked at Jing Xiebai. The cold moon was reflected in his black eyes. There was no expression on his face, but it made Jing Xiebai feel unprecedented peace of mind.
He had been walking alone for so long, and finally he had someone to rely on.
"Okay." Jing Xiebai laughed, pulled Xie Que into his arms, and lowered his voice, "After we deal with Chen Shan this time, can you agree to one request of mine?"
Xie frowned and was interrupted before he could say anything.
"After all this time, you're just going to send me off with a hundred thousand dollars, isn't that unreasonable?"
"You said one hundred thousand at the beginning," Xie reminded.
Jing Xiebai pretended not to hear Xie Que's reminder and focused on Chen Shan's movements.
The users of that building had moved away two days ago. From Xie Que's perspective, the area was shrouded in thick black air. Looking closely, he could see that the black air was moving downwards.
"Here they come." Jing Xiebai stood up straight, holding Youzhong in his right hand, and took a step forward to block everyone else behind him.
“Tick-tick, tick-tick…”
Chen Shan's steps were very slow, and as he got closer, Xie couldn't help but get nervous.
The moon was briefly obscured by dark clouds for a moment. When the clouds moved away, everyone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when they saw Chen Shan's appearance.
In the photos taken a few days ago, Chen Shan already looked like an old man, but now he has turned into a rotten corpse!
Many insects gathered around him, and the foul-smelling corpse fluid fell to the ground, but was soon covered by dense flying insects.
"Hehehe." Chen Shan couldn't help laughing when he saw Xie Que and Jing Xiebai standing in front of him.
The debt owed a hundred years ago finally has to be repaid a hundred years later.
Jing Xiebai said nothing more, raised Youzhong and swung it towards Chen Shan.
Chen Shan was emitting black energy all over his body. He raised his hand to catch the sword, and reached out to Jing Xiebai's shoulder with his other hand.
"Xie Que!" Jing Xiebai turned his body to the side, revealing Xie Que who was holding the talisman paper behind him.
"Be careful." Xie Que pasted a series of talismans on Chen Shan's right hand and took a big step back. Jing Xiebai turned his right hand and waved it at Chen Shan again.
The light from the formation beneath their feet grew dimmer and dimmer, but Xie noticed that many evil spirits were approaching them.
The other exorcists were busy reinforcing the formation, but Xie looked at Jing Xiebai who was struggling on the side and felt something was wrong.
Chen Shan had just come down from upstairs, but their formation was not set up in that area.
Who destroyed the formation?
No! It's a trick!
"Jing Xiebai!"
"Huh?" Jing Xiebai held the sword in both hands and barely blocked Chen Shan's attack. He looked back at Xie Que, sweat pouring down his face. He did not have the upper hand in this battle.
"Do you know which formation Chen Shan destroyed?" Xie took advantage of the stalemate between the two and threw a lot of talismans at Chen Shan.
The talisman paper was soaked with corpse fluid and emitted a faint glow.
"What's wrong?" Jing Xiebai and Xie Que coordinated their attack. "It should be the southwest corner. I can feel it."
When setting up the formation, he dripped a drop of blood at the center of the formation to connect himself with the formation. This was a small habit of his, and he didn't expect it to be so useful.
Xie took off the life-protecting amulet and left it to Jing Xiebai: "Something is wrong. Chen Shan has a backup plan. I'll go and take a look." After saying that, he immediately ran to the southwest corner, leaving Jing Xiebai and Chen Shan to fight.
Xie ran very fast, the wind whistled past his ears, and his heartbeat and footsteps intertwined into a passionate symphony.
There was no street light in the southwest corner. The homeless man living there had turned on a dim, warm yellow light. A dark shadow stood there, quietly watching Xie Que getting closer and closer.
"I didn't expect you to find me." An old voice sounded.
Xie stopped and gasped for breath: "Li Mohan, you lost again."
The man smiled lightly and walked out of the darkness.
"It's you?!" Xie widened his eyes at the person in front of him.
"Heh, I'm really not used to this body."
The body Chen Shan used was the body of Uncle Zhao who had previously set up the formation with them. It seemed that he took action after Uncle Zhao left.
"You've known this would happen for a long time." Xie Que said coldly, injecting spiritual power into the talisman paper and slowly approaching Chen Shan. "You've been severely affected by the backlash, and you've spent a lot of effort to forge a fake Chen Shan. Let me guess, you're staying here because you can't walk anymore?"
Li Mohan didn't say anything. He looked Xie Que up and down, as if he remembered something.
"In my previous life, I also lost to you. Ha, Xie Lingsong, I won't lose forever."
"What?" Xie frowned, and suddenly a bad premonition arose in his heart. He subconsciously turned his head and looked back, and saw a black cat rushing towards him.
not good!
He reacted extremely quickly, squatting down and rolling to the side while throwing out the talisman paper.
The talisman hit the black cat, causing it to let out a sharp meow.
Xie Que looked up and saw that Li Mohan had already run out of the area. He looked at the formation that was getting darker under his feet and made a quick decision.
"Abandon the formation and track Chen Shan."
The ghost exorcists guarding the nearby formation quickly reacted and rushed after them, their equipment in hand. The formation quickly broke apart, and more and more wandering spirits gathered towards them.
Chen Shan didn't run very far, but when Xie caught up with him, he was holding several books of evil magic in his hands and smiling crazily.
"Li Mohan!"
"Hahaha." Li Mohan laughed out loud as he watched Xie Que approaching, but his face was filled with sadness. "After so many years, I didn't expect that we would end up like this."
"The path you choose has nothing to do with me."
Xie looked at the book of evil magic in his hand and winked at Jing Yucheng beside him.
Li Mohan was completely out of ammunition and food, and the book of sorcery in his hand was his last trump card. He looked at Xie Que with a mocking smile on his face.
"You don't think this is the end, do you?"
"What do you mean?"
"If the exorcists behind you get hold of the book of evil arts, will they go astray?"
Xie frowned and was about to rush forward to snatch it away when he was stopped by someone.
"You can try it."
Jing Xiebai leaned on Xie Que, blood was constantly flowing from his chest, staining half of Xie Que's shoulder red, but there was no sign of fatigue on his face.
"Are you okay?" Xie Que quickly reached out to support Jing Xiebai, his tone concerned.
"It's okay." Jing Xiebai handed the blood-stained talisman paper to Xie Que and walked forward with his sword.
"Li Mohan, let's save the following for the next life."
Jing Xiebai released Youzhong and summoned Taotie.
"you!"
"fine."
Taotie stood in front of the group and roared at Li Mohan. The roar resounded through the sky, startling the surrounding exorcists and wandering spirits and making them take a step back.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect that the head of the Jing family would actually cooperate with the ferocious beast."
Li Mohan seemed to have accepted this outcome. He looked at Xie Que through Taotie, with an indescribable emotion in his eyes.
………
At dawn that day, Xie Que and Jing Xiebai knocked on the door of a temple.
There was only one abbot in the temple who was over fifty years old. He smiled at the two of them and took the book of evil magic from their hands.
The sun rose from behind thick clouds, painting the sea of clouds into a golden oil painting. The temple was quiet, and the rich aroma of agarwood wafted from the house, soothing the anxious hearts of passersby.
Xie Que and Jing Xiebai stood outside the temple and watched the sunrise together.
"What are we going to do next?" Jing Xiebai leaned down slightly, put his hand on Xie Que's shoulder, and stared at him closely.
"Do I still owe you a request?" Xie didn't turn around, but the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
"Let's fall in love, bastard." Jing Xiebai's tone was ambiguous, and the distance between them was constantly narrowing. From a distance, it looked like they were kissing.
"OK."
Xie tilted his head and kissed him.
From now on, let’s walk together.
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