The female general giggled and glanced back. Her face was ferocious and terrifying. Her face was full of blood vessels and her muscles were all twisted at strange angles. She said, "You're a monster yourself. Why should you be afraid of monsters?"
The Carp Demon thought about it and shut its mouth. It knew that the woman in front of it was a famous Painted Skin Monster. It was often said that "Painted Skin Monsters" only had the shape of flesh and blood. They had to peel off human skin to cultivate. In the eyes of the Carp Demon, seeing a skinned person was just like seeing a shelled shrimp. There was nothing strange about it.
"My name is Liang Danhuo." After the skinned Painted Skin Monster was put aside to dry, she said, "You can call me Danhuo. What about you? What's your name? "
The Carp Demon was silent again.
"Am I beautiful?" Danhuo leaned on the couch and lazily pulled a cloth over her chest, revealing her bloody body. Her eyelids without eyelids were rolling around.
The Carp Demon looked for a while. Danhuo took out a box, opened it and ate the food inside. The Carp Demon looked around and Danhuo asked, "Do you want to eat?" As she spoke, she leaned over and opened the cage. The Carp Demon immediately looked around, wanting to take the opportunity to escape.
Danhuo said, "Don't run. In this world, where can you find more freedom than this?" As she spoke, she passed her snacks to it. The Carp Demon lowered its head and saw that it was a human pinky. It jumped in fright and trembled, "I … don't want to eat! Who are you? Where is this? "
"This is a monster's home." Danhuo said, "I'll bring you to meet the boss someday. Since you're here, don't leave. Looking at you, you must have suffered a lot. You're quite pitiful."
The Carp Demon: "…"
The Carp Demon suddenly wanted to cry out loud, even in front of a monster that ate people. At this moment, the bloody Painted Skin Monster didn't seem like a monster anymore. It was just a messenger sent by the heavens to save it.
At this moment, there was a pig's howl outside. The sky was dark. Danhuo said, "It's time to eat. Let's go."
As she spoke, Danhuo opened the wardrobe. It was full of neatly arranged human skins. She chose a woman's skin and put it on. and said to the Carp Demon, "Follow me. The house is big. Don't get lost and can't find you."
The carp demon was originally worried. When Danhuo opened the door, it was drizzling outside. He turned around and asked, "Aren't you hungry?"
The carp monster had nowhere else to go but to stay. It was hungry and its wounds were not healed yet. Finally, it changed its mind and followed behind Danhuo.
"I don't eat humans." This was the first thing the carp demon said to Danhuo after it arrived. "I'm a good demon."
Danhuo replied impatiently, "Even if you want to eat people, you don't have the ability to."
The Carp Demon followed Danhuo through the long corridor. This time, Danhuo changed into a woman who was more than fifty years old but still had her charm. She wore a bright red robe with her hands in her sleeves. The guards and servants of the house were actually afraid of Danhuo. They didn't dare to look at her directly when she walked past.
The carp demon noticed that the grass and trees here all looked very strange. The grapevines were twisting and turning in the image of a baring fangs and brandishing claws, and the grapes they bore were sometimes big and sometimes small. The leaves of the locust tree were full of sawtooth shapes. They were like monsters that chose people to eat in the dark.
There were ferocious reliefs on both sides of the corridor. The screens in the hall were murals of monsters eating people and dripping blood. The lights were bright, illuminating the house and giving it a strange feeling of another world.
In the depths of the hall, there were countless monsters roaring. Danhuo brought the Carp Demon into the hall. The monsters gathered and looked at her. The Carp Demon's heart thumped. It saw a terrifying monster that was emitting black gas sitting on the main seat in the hall!
It was An Lushan that was incomparably huge and billowing with black smoke!
The last time the Carp Demon saw An Lushan was when he entered the city. At that time, Hongjun and the others all came out to see An Lushan enter the city. The Carp Demon took the opportunity to inform Yang Guozhong. After passing the message, Yang Guozhong brought it out and ordered it to return first. An Lushan happened to pass by the city. The Carp Demon hid behind Yang Guozhong and looked at him from afar.
An Lushan was still tall and sturdy, but the flesh all over his body was charred black and gave off a rotten smell. The gold rings and tortoiseshell ornaments on his body flashed with an untimely light. It was as if gold, silver, and jewels had been thrown into a huge cesspool. An Lushan's body shook as it floated and sank.
Without the protection of the Divine Fire, An Lushan's mortal body could not resist the corrosion of the Devil Qi. Now, his body was slowly rotting away.
A white light flashed and turned into a ring. It spread out in the dark space and buzzed as it shot into the distance.
Hongjun staggered and almost touched the ground. He immediately stretched out his hand and shouted, "Ahhh!"
He subconsciously reached out and grabbed another person's arm. He suddenly turned around and saw the unconscious Qiu Yongsi.
"Yongsi!" Hongjun shouted anxiously. For some reason, Qiu Yongsi was completely unconscious. The two of them used the momentum to slide quickly. Hongjun took out a flying knife and turned around to nail it into the ground. The flying knife clanged and could not be nailed down no matter what.
The world was empty. The only thing that existed was the cold ground beneath them, causing them to slide further and further away and faster. Hongjun repeatedly nailed the ground, only wanting to stop the speed of sliding as soon as possible. In the end, he was quick-witted. He combined the four flying knives into one and turned around to stab the ground.
There was a clear sound like silk tearing. After the Immortal Flying Knives combined into one, a crack three centimeters wide was drawn out like cutting tofu. However, it did not slow down the speed of sliding at all. Hongjun suddenly spun the Mo Sword again.
"Ding!" There was a clear sound. The Mo Sword flipped over and instantly stuck firmly in the crack with the back of the knife. Hongjun was stimulated by the resistance and almost threw himself and Qiu Yongsi out together.
Fortunately, his strength was very strong. If it were an ordinary person, the two of them weighed more than three hundred kilograms. Coupled with the momentum, they would definitely not be able to hold on and let go. Hongjun only felt a sharp pain in the veins on his shoulder and back. He hurriedly used the Five-colored Divine Light to protect his body and forcibly stopped the slide.
At this time, he looked back and finally understood where the chill came from. The place where he and Qiu Yongsi fell was on a piece of ten-thousand-year-old mysterious ice. This mysterious ice appeared at the peak of a ten-thousand-year-old mountain and sent the two of them down with a gentle and smooth slope.
Fifty feet below their feet was the edge of the mysterious ice. Beyond a ten-foot-long sharp corner, there was a bottomless abyss. Hongjun grabbed Qiu Yongsi with one hand and the Mo Sword with the other. They were nailed to the end of the mysterious ice wall. They could not go up or down even half an inch.
"Yongsi!" Hongjun shouted.
Qiu Yongsi did not move at all. Hongjun dragged him by the arm and he was unconscious.
Where is this? Hongjun vaguely remembered that before Qiu Yongsi entered the Dragon Subduing Pagoda, Xie Yu suddenly appeared and attacked them. The transmission formation seemed to have become unstable. With a loud noise, they were sent to this inexplicable place.
There was no sun, moon, or stars here. The ceiling seemed to be a void. In that void, there was a strange light flickering. There was no wind around. The whole world was strangely quiet.
This was the Dragon Subduing Pagoda. Hongjun thought for a while. He should be able to confirm it. There was a ten-thousand-year-old snowy mountain here. It was poles apart from his imagination. He did not know who built this pagoda. There was actually such a vast space inside!
Heaven and earth did not respond. What should he do?!
Hongjun saw that opposite the mysterious ice wall, there was a three-inch-long protruding cliff. He thought that he might be able to jump over it. However, the cliff was ten feet away from them … Alright, he would give it a try!
Hongjun took a deep breath and kicked off his wooden clogs. The clogs fell into the abyss and there was no sound for a long time.
Fortunately, he did not fall down like that. Otherwise, he would definitely be smashed to pieces … Hongjun was most depressed in his life because he could not fly like Qing Xiong and Chong Ming. Perhaps they did not want him to leave the Dazzling Gold Palace and deliberately did not teach him. However, this was simply adding to his worries.
He kicked a few times on the mysterious ice with his bare feet and began to swing Qiu Yongsi slightly. At the same time, he looked at the opposite cliff and swung his body together with Qiu Yongsi.
The glass bottle that contained Ye Ming's ashes happened to be in front of Qiu Yongsi's chest. At this moment, with the turbulent waves, it was swaying left and right from Qiu Yongsi's chest. More than half of the bottle's body was sticking out. As the swings grew larger, it kept tilting out and was on the verge of falling into the abyss.
In the early morning, Li Jinglong quickly ran out and came to the pagoda.
Qiu Qiu looked at the pagoda. The Dragon Subduing Pagoda was shrouded in the faint morning light. The demonic aura that was originally brought by Xie Yu had long disappeared.
"Did you see it?" Li Jinglong asked. "Who saw it?"
Qiu Qiu said, "It did go into the pagoda."
The last scene in Li Jinglong's memory of the night was that Xie Yu flew to the top of the pagoda and then disappeared.
"Xie Yu chased Yongsi into the pagoda." Atay said, "This is the only possibility."
Everyone was at a loss. Mo Rigen frowned and said, "Why did Xie Yu appear in Fu Yun Villa without the villa master noticing?"
"How … how could I know?" Qiu Qiu said, "Logically speaking, it shouldn't have come back! How can a prisoner escape from the prison and run inside? "
Li Jinglong said, "It knew that Qiu Yongsi's goal after getting the ashes was to send them back to the Dragon Subduing Pagoda. It was really careless this time."
It wasn't carelessness. Li Jinglong had also thought of this possibility. The best way to intercept the ashes was to ambush them on the path that they had to pass by and take a boat along the canal to Hangzhou. In fact, this was Li Jinglong's trap. After all, this way, they might be able to lure out Xie Yu and get rid of it completely.
They didn't expect that Xie Yu didn't appear on the way. When they were about to reach Hangzhou, Qiu Yongsi and Li Jinglong both felt that Xie Yu wouldn't come again after being severely injured last time. After entering Fu Yun Villa, Li Jinglong felt even safer. After all, this was the Dragon Subduing Immortal's house. How could Xie Yu dare to come again?!
If it was a normal day, Qiu Qiu wouldn't be so careless. However, he suddenly saw the son of his old friend. For a moment, all his thoughts were on this. He even thought that Xie Yu had been completely eliminated, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Thus, Li Jinglong finally failed miserably. The reason for his failure was that he was too smart for his own good. He was ruthlessly schemed against by Xie Yu.
"Forget it." Li Jinglong said, "There's no point in pursuing this anymore. Can you take us into the pagoda?"
Qiu Qiu replied, "I can't enter. Otherwise, once the path is opened, the flood dragons that have been waiting for a long time will attack crazily. They will take the opportunity to attack the entrance. I have to maintain the situation outside. However, I can send all of you in at once. Li Jinglong, don't forget one thing — the time inside the pagoda is different from the time outside the pagoda. "
With this reminder, Li Jinglong instantly thought of this serious problem.
"How long will it take to find Hongjun and Yongsi and complete the seal?" Li Jinglong asked.
"I don't know which floor of the pagoda they landed on." Qiu Qiu stroked his beard and said thoughtfully, "Logically speaking, they should be on the ninth floor. However, the magic power here is obviously chaotic. If you can't find them on the ninth floor after you enter, you will have to spend time searching from floor to floor. I can't estimate how long this will take."
"The size of each floor." Li Jinglong said, "Do it as soon as possible."
"There's no need to rush … Even if you delay for three days before entering, it will only be a quarter of an hour or two inside." Qiu Qiu said, "Think carefully first."
Qiu Qiu shook his sleeves. Bright lights crisscrossed and the hazy structure of each floor of the Dragon Subduing Pagoda appeared.
"The ninth floor is the smallest." Qiu Qiu said, "It has a radius of about one mu. It is where the Dragon Subduing Formation is located. It was also the residence of the Dragon God Ye Ming in the past."
Mo Rigen heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's easy to find."
"No." Qiu Qiu said again, "The eighth floor is nine mu in size."
Everyone: "…"
"The seventh floor is eighty-one mu." Atay muttered, "Almost one mu."
Qiu Qiu said, "That's right. The sixth floor is seven hundred and twenty-nine mu. The fifth floor … Wait a moment, let me calculate …" As he said this, he squatted down and picked up a branch to write and draw on the ground.
"Don't calculate …" Li Jinglong didn't want to hear this news.
"Let's just calculate." Qiu Qiu said, "Anyway, even if we calculate for a day and a night, the pagoda will still …"
Everyone lamented in their hearts, please let us go.
"Forty-three million and forty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-one mu of land."
After a quarter of an hour, Qiu Qiu said.
"It's okay …" Li Jinglong almost fell over and said, "It's about the size of Huainan Dao."
"How is it okay!" Everyone said frantically.
To find two people in an area of more than forty million mu of land was like finding a needle in a haystack! Qiu Qiu said again, "Let's be optimistic. They might not necessarily fall on the ninth floor."
Li Jinglong had already prepared for the worst. After all, he would always meet the unluckiest of all the countless hypotheses.
"Brother Yongsi will also look for the ninth floor, right?" Lu Xu said, "We just need to …"
"Don't count on him." Qiu Qiu said, "He has never been below the seventh floor."
Everyone: "…"
"Not only him, even I haven't been there before!" Qiu Qiu said.
Everyone was silent for a long time. Li Jinglong asked, "What about the time inside the pagoda? What's the situation? "
"It's hard to say." Qiu Qiu said, "The last time Yongsi went in, one day inside the pagoda was equivalent to more than a month outside the pagoda. That's about forty days. This depends on how much Ye Ming's soul power can help. Right now, I think that one day inside the pagoda is equivalent to one month outside the pagoda. "
Li Jinglong looked at everyone and said, "If the time drags on, I'm afraid there will be changes. An Lushan is still in Fanyang. I don't know when he will make a move. I'll go into the pagoda now …"
Qiu Qiu frowned deeply. He wanted to say something but stopped.
Mo Rigen finally said, "Senior, if you have something to say, I think you should just say it all at once."
Li Jinglong was stunned. Qiu Qiu sighed and said, "Ever since Xie Yu stole Ye Ming's bones, the passageways from the eighth floor to the second floor have all been opened. Many flood dragons who wanted to escape have all rushed to the ninth floor. I'm afraid that if you go in alone, you will be attacked by a group."
Ashina Chong hesitated and said, "Then how did you get in and out?"
"When Ye Ming was still alive, Venerable Subduing Dragon could enter and leave at will." Qiu Qiu said, "After Ye Ming died, as his soul power became weaker and weaker, the flood dragons began to attack me. Until twenty years ago, when I went in to pick up Yongsi, I had already escaped in a hurry. "
"Wait …" Lu Xu didn't quite understand and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Li Jinglong signaled with his eyes not to ask too much. After pondering for a moment, he keenly sensed the crux of the problem.
"The flood dragons in the pagoda won't attack Yongsi?" Li Jinglong asked.
Qiu Qiu's eyes were filled with admiration. He nodded and said, "He was born in the pagoda. At that time, he was still a child. The flood dragons … might be lenient and not kill him."
Everyone seemed to understand something, but they remained silent. Qiu Qiu said, "If Yongsi and Hongjun are not there when you enter the ninth floor, you might be attacked."
Li Jinglong was at his wit's end. Xie Yu's plan was really a freak combination of factors, but it was also perfect.
"The Divine Fire Ring is in Li Guinian's hands." Li Jinglong looked at Atay and suddenly said.
Atay nodded and said, "I gave it to him before I left."
Li Jinglong asked, "Are you sure?"
"Very sure." Atay replied.
When he left Chang 'an, Li Jinglong made two preparations. He was on guard against Xie Yu following him down to Hangzhou, and he was also on guard against Xie Yu returning to Chang' an when the Exorcism Division left. Thus, he left Li Guinian in Chang 'an as a spy. Once Xie Yu dared to appear, he would make arrangements.
However, the danger outside the pagoda was no longer Xie Yu. Because if he went in to find someone, it might take three months to half a year to come out. Li Jinglong was most worried about An Lushan. If he did something during this time, the entire Exorcism Division would not be able to defend against him if they were all in the pagoda.
This was an extremely difficult choice. Li Jinglong thought about it again and again, then looked at everyone.
"Lu Xu's dream power can fight against Tianma." Li Jinglong said, "Although it's still not as good as the Mind Lamp's power, it can more or less have some effect."
"Yes." Mo Rigen said, "Lu Xu and I will stay outside."
Trandol said, "I'll go back to Chang 'an. In any case, I can help you pass on some information."
Li Jinglong looked at Atay and Trandol again. He thought for a moment and said, "Atay, you stay outside the pagoda and move with them. Ashina Chong, follow me into the pagoda. We'll split up like this. Everyone, hurry up and move! "