At last the sky was twilight. The blood was still, and the night had come.
Gu Mang stopped on the roof of the imperial palace.
From his standing position, he could see that the light was flowing in the tower, and the practitioners of Chonghua and Liaoguo were fighting at the high wall. Spiritual incantations were striking with dazzling brilliance, and he looked at them from afar. Just like thousands of fireworks in a flash, they were magnificent and unspeakable.
The sound of the explosion came from afar along with the east wind, shouting and crying broke through the flames of gunfire, and reached Gu Mang's ears. But Gu Mang knew that the war situation on that side had nothing to do with him at this time.
He looked down at the compass he was holding. The leaves were pointing to the central room of the imperial palace. There was a bright light in that room, and the sound of a guqin was soft and crumbly.
"It looks like this is the place."
It may be difficult for others to defend against Liaoguo, but it was easy for Gu Mang. Although he lost the memory of five years in Liaoguo, when the Guoshi tempered him, he burned black magic spells into his bones. Even if he didn't remember anything, these techniques could be easily used.
Just a few simple demonic spells, all the practitioners in the courtyard fell asleep. Gu Mang gently jumped off the roof beam and fell into the courtyard, only to find that there were not many people left here, and almost all of them were ordinary practitioners with shallow accomplishments. These people could report to each other. It might not be enough for him to play with one finger.
Gu Mang pasted his finger to one of the small practitioner's necks to test. As expected, his spiritual power was very low.
There was a chill in his eyes.
According to the compass, the spirit of the blood demon beast was in this room.
Liaoguo doesn't take it away immediately. Obviously, it's just because the seal
of Chen Tang hadn't been completely untied. Before then, Liao Jun dared not take it out of Daze.
But such an important spirit was here. Why were there so few guards around and with such low magic?
Just thinking about it, Gu Mang suddenly heard a low singing voice from a man in the room. "Five years a sword changes in spring and autumn, ten years a sword goes against the vicissitudes of life. This sword can cut off the water, and it's difficult to cut off your heart in your whole life."
In the yard, the pines and bamboos were swaying, the moon was white, and the wind was clear. In the distance, there were many battles, killing and shouting. But in the Lord Eunuch's house, the sound of a guqin was ethereal, and it was hard to choose. It was like a long floating dust blown by the wind. It was endless and infinite. That wall of blood flowed into a river. The atmosphere of this wall of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting was strange for a while.
There was no room to keep the precepts. The continuous guqin sound, the lone brave man who stabbed people in the night, and the lyrics that he heard vaguely.
Gu Mang suddenly felt that he was very familiar with all these things, as if he had seen similar a situation somewhere But the war was pressing and he had no time to think.
His eyes were dark, and there was a lot of light in his eyes. In a low voice, he said, "The devil's heart is calling to me…"
Although Liaoguo's little cultivators had not been hardened, their mental skills would make them accumulate some evil spirit, and those little cultivators were easy to manipulate. At the command of Gu Mang, the Liaoguo practitioners who had been living in a nightmare opened their eyes one after another, and their eyes were shining with a dark blue luster.
"Go!"
Those Liaoguo small soldiers immediately burst up. More than ten people in a row, suddenly hit the main house door!!
Only to make a loud bang, the door was broken. Splashing dust, Gu Mang saw the house full of dead eunuch's family members, hung about like wind bells.
In the deepest part of the dead man's wind chime, a man in a white and gold robe was sitting with his back to him. Under his fine white fingers, there was a lying man's leather guqin. The nine eyes inlaid on the organ were moving smoothly.
Almost at once, Gu Mang felt a cold sense of bone marrow surging from the bottom of his feet, suddenly attacking his whole body. In a flash, he remembered where he had seen such a situation——
Li Qingqian, the sword devil, in a dreamland of memories!
At that time, at Murong Chuyi's home, Gu Mang didn't see the illusion directly, but later Mo Xi used his technique to recreate Li Qingqian's experience. Gu Mang knew that Li Qingqian had gone into Liaoguo's Guoshi Hall in order to avenge Hong Shao. At that time, he was just as alone with an empty garrison. The man who played the guqin turned around, wearing a golden flowing mask, and showed his white teeth to him.
It was just like a repeat of that memory, but the Guoshi Hall was replaced by the residence of the eunuch.
Liaoguo's Guoshi turned his head, raised his face covered in gold, and grinned. "Long time no see, General Gu."
Even if his five-year memory was incomplete, Gu Mang still hadn't forgotten the person who once took him to the secret chamber and re-hardened his bones.
The person who personally guarded the spirit of the blood demon beast…
It was the national teacher of Liaoguo.
No wonder, Liaoguo's master's own body technique was extremely unpredictable. If it was him, it didn't need any other guards at all.
"Someone told me that you were arrested by the emperor of Chonghua for black devil testing, and now you have broken your heart and body. At present, it seems that Jiang Fuli has brought you up very well," said the Guoshi. "He's given birth to a meddlesome hand - you're still here."
The Guoshi spoke, glancing at the practitioners controlled by Gu Mang.
"Tut, tut, look how skillful your black magic is. It's a pity. " He took back his eyes, repeatedly balked at the mask Gu Mang wore, and smiled. "Your home country doesn't recognize you. It's been so long since you came back home, and only when you wear a mask can you be worthy of the service of valuing Chonghua."
Gu Mang didn't want to rub his lips with him at all. He quickly looked around the room and saw the silver and white puppy lying beside the guqin.
Maybe it was the thick black devil smell on him, which he could feel almost immediately - this seemingly humble dog beast was just a ghost of blood demon… Sealed!
Gu Mang's pupil color went dark. In deep voice he said, "Scattered array!"
The ten little practitioners he controlled scattered in the room to attack and surround the Guoshi. Gu Mang knew that their psychic power was low, so he twisted his fingertips and gathered a bunch of evil charms surrounded by black air, which scattered into their bodies. All of a sudden, the little practitioners burst into a low roar, and the surrounding spiritual power suddenly increased! They roared toward the Guoshi.
The Guoshi was not a fuel-efficient lamp either. He held up the guqin, and his fingertips were flowing with water. He faced these minor soldiers and said:
"At least we've been working together for five years. So we meet again. You don't want to say a few words. You just want to fight." After a pause, he smiled sweetly and said to General Gu, "General Gu is so impatient now. Who is used to you?"
"You can manage it?"
"Aiyo." The Guoshi smiled more and more. "His mouth is still very hard. The spy said that you have recovered your memory. It doesn't look like it was fake at all. However, after you returned to Chonghua, you completely forgot what you have done in Liaoguo. I am also very surprised. Do you forget how you used to advise me and fight for our army?"
"..."
"Have you forgotten how many people of Chonghua died in your hands and how many victories you led our people to fight?"
Gu Mang raised his hand and polished the knife in his palm inch by inch. When his fingers passed by, the knife spattered with little spiritual flowers. The knife light reflected Gu Mang's cold eyes, and Gu Mang said, "What I don't remember, I don't want to answer to you. But I'd like to say one thing."
"What?"
"Under normal circumstances, you can never talk so much nonsense."
The last word sound just fell, and the human figure already quickly skimmed over to the Guoshi like the cheetah! Only a clank was heard, the strings of the instrument were rattling. The nine eyed instrument immediately opened a golden array and collided with Gu Mang's knife. In an instant, the sparks burst, the magic and the martial arts were in unison, and the pupils of both of them were reflected by the fierce confrontation and collision.
Sure enough...
Under the attack, Gu Mang could feel the obvious fatigue of the Guoshi. In order to recover the spirit of the blood demon beast as soon as possible, the Guoshi had been playing the nine-eyed piano for two days and nights. Although he was still strong, his spiritual power was not as good as usual, so he deliberately delayed and intended to accumulate some energy.
How could Gu Mang let him succeed? He immediately attacked the Guoshi like the wind and snow, and drove the minor practitioners to cooperate with him. For a while, the Imperial Guard's house was overcast and the devil stopped.
The Guoshi praised, "Good skill."
As he turned the strings, he saw that Gu Mang had cut off again. The Guoshi shouted, "Shuanghan9, come forth!"
As his voice fell, the nine eyes of the guqin suddenly opened again. Gu Mang only felt that there was a change at his feet, and immediately jumped up. But almost at the same time, dozens of ice thorns with broken hair were pulled out, and the place where Gu Mang was just standing was stabbed. If Gu Mang was a little slower, he might have been stabbed into a sieve.
Gu Mang did not dare slack off. The whole man was more and more nervous.
His blue eyes were staring at every move of the Guoshi.
Nine-eyed guqin… Nine-eyed guqin…
He tried to remember, tried to think of more details about the magic instrument. He had worked with Liao Ren in Liaoguo for five years. He should know very clearly about what this guqin could do…
"Uh!"
But if he thought about it carefully, the pain in his bone marrow would shoot to his brain. The sound of the spiritual instrument stabbed him like a sharp knife, which made him soaked in cold sweat.
Nine-eyed guqin.
Clank! There are two notes of double strings again. The Guoshi drew the strings to promote the pillar, but when he saw ice suddenly smashing the bricks and stones on the ground, he immediately cut through the three slow minor soldiers! All of a sudden, dirty blood flew up and splashed onto Gu Mang's body. The heavy smell of blood stimulated Gu Mang's brain all of a sudden.
Nine-eyed guqin…
A few fragmentary fragments flashed in his confused mind!
It was in Liaoguo's main hall that the Guoshi played the guqin with a smile. "This spiritual weapon is made by me. It has nine eyes. The owner of each eye had a great ability. Some of them could communicate with the spirits of gods and beasts, and some could attack with ice stabs… With this guqin, it's like those nine masters are always with me, far better than ordinary attendants."
Yes.
Gu Mang vaguely remembered that the Guoshi of Liaoguo had such abnormal ability. He could seal a person's skill in his eyes and then embed it in the nineeyed guqin.
"These nine eyes were not always with me. If I find a more capable practitioner, I will discard the most useless one and replace it with a new one." In his memory, the Guoshi smiled coldly. "In such a cycle, the nine-eyed guqin will only grow stronger with the years, until it is invincible..."
Suddenly, dozens of ice blades pierced through the bricks, stabbed the last few minor soldiers to death, and then went straight after Gu Mang.
Gu Mang jumped up to the beams and columns. He took a slow breath, and his eyes swept quickly from below - the blood demon beast was firmly protected by the Guoshi behind the array, so he could not catch it with his soul rope. He closed his eyes and heard another change in the tone of the Guoshi's guqin.
This tune was infinitely devilish. It looked like a dance of fierce ghosts and a mess of demons.
Gu Mang murmured. He only felt that the evil spirit in his heart was rolling and surging, and all of them are picked out by the sound of the spiritual instrument. At this time, the Guoshi chuckled.
"General Gu, I told you as early as five years ago that when you nodded your head and promised to infuse your whole body with black demons, you would be a monster without being possessed. I'm the only one in Kyushu who can accommodate you."
Gu Mang was half kneeling on the beam, supporting the beam column with one hand, gritting his teeth and gasping for breath.
"You think I don't have a few bodyguards around, just because I can do it? Not so. In fact, I've been waiting for you. Although someone told me that you would never come to the front line if you were seriously injured - but the facts prove that they despised Jiang Fuli's medical skills and your heart too much."
The Guoshi spoke, and sat down beside Jingchen.
"I had a hunch that you will come. Before I dawdled with you to delay time, not to accumulate spiritual power, but to let you use more moves to mobilize the demonic breath in your body." Under his words, the sound of the guqin under the hand became more and more treacherous. It was almost like a pair of invisible deer bone claws, which stripped the evil spirit in Gu Mang's bone layer by layer.
Luring the devil out of the body.
The Guoshi said with a smile, "Gu Mang, your persistence is too meaningless. Why not live as you wish?"
After that, a tune turned up, forcing Gu Mang to scream. He curled up in pain, and fell off the beam with a heavy "bang" sound. The sound of flesh and blood hitting the ground was very painful to listen to.
Gu Mang gasped heavily. His face was white. He looked up at the direction of the guqin.
"Stop playing..."
His lips trembled, and sweat ran down his forehead.
"Stop playing… Please… Please - "
The last inch of mourning fell, but suddenly saw the cold light. Gu Mang even jumped from the ground, and rushed to the array when the Guoshi was relaxed.
"Yongye, quell the spirit!!!"
With a loud shout, the knife erupted into a fierce glow like nightfall. Gu Mang poured all his spiritual energy into it and stabbed the Guoshi's array.
Gold and black were interlaced, and the spiritual energy trembled.
The battle of power was only a short moment. After a moment, the array made by the nine-eyed guqin made a dangerous click, and then it exploded into pieces of smoke!
Gu Mang held the rope at his waist, and his eyes were sharp as knives. He started to curl up at Jingchen, the blood demon beast in the corner.
The Guoshi's face changed abruptly. Even behind his mask, Gu Mang could see how ferocious his expression was at the moment. He gritted his teeth and said, "Gu Mang -! You..."
What are you?
It was true he was devastated by the black devil. It was also true he could lose his mind at any time.
It was Gu Mang who was as determined as iron and could suppress the inhuman suffering. He didn't pretend to be weak and seize the opportunity to search for the soul. He really resisted his suffering and broke the array. At that time, the Guoshi didn't know what words to use to curse him.
He wanted to fight him, but Gu Mang was not so easy to deal with as an opponent. He had bound the spirit remnants into his spatial bag. He staggered to his feet, rubbed the bloody corners of his lips, and stared at the Guoshi with his eyes burning. A fierce and triumphant smile broke out on the face tortured by evil spirits.
"The land of Kyushu doesn't allow me to be unimportant. What's important is, brother, this world can't accommodate you."
After saying that, he jumped up and quickly withdrew to the direction of the
Chonghua army with the ghost of the blood demon.
Was that enough?
The Guoshi's eyes were almost quenched with fire. He flicked his fingers and shouted, "Piaoxue, come forth!"10
The third eye of the nine-eyed guqin suddenly opened wide. The Guoshi was surrounded by heavy wind and snow. He stepped out of the house. When he raised his hand, there was a sound of thunder and a herald hit the ground.
Within a moment, dozens of elite black devil soldiers rushed to the ground and knelt down. "Guoshi!"
"At the service of the Guoshi!"
Liaoguo's Guoshi said, "The ghost of the blood demon beast was taken away by Gu. In the direction of the outskirts of the city gate, you can find him by following the smell of blood demon beast - follow me!"