I will Bury the Gods Chapter 66: : Enchanted
The clouds are spread in the sky like burnt charcoal, and the white snow floats from them.
On the top of a solitary cliff, the five-flowered hall surrounded by buildings was quickly covered with light white. A flock of crows flew over the sky, not daring to stay near this hall. Only a lonely ghost vulture was there. Hovering in the sky.
Tired from flying, the ghost eagle stopped on the ridge of the black five-flowered hall, its pupils looked down at the jagged mountain coldly, outside the mountain wall covered with coniferous pine, a line of maids in crimson dresses walked slowly. When they came, they were suffering from cold sores and carried lanterns in their hands—not paper lanterns with a wooden frame, but animal bones with fire burning inside, and the hollow eye sockets of the animal skulls were shining brightly.
Walking along the way, their bodies were frozen stiff, and the blood in their bodies seemed to stop flowing, and the swings of their arms and legs were all based on their body's intuition.
Finally they came to the front of the main hall. The towering stone walls on both sides blocked part of the wind. They breathed a sigh of relief and were about to move forward quickly. He looked at them without saying a word.
The hearts of the maids who had just fallen were raised again, and they hurriedly blessed themselves and saluted the old witch who was depressed.
"How are the festival preparations going?"
The old witch opened her mouth, her cane shook, and the wooden plaques hanging on it collided with each other, making a crisp sound.
The maids stumbled and talked for a while, indicating that everything was going well, then praised the old witch, and finally wished her a long life together before entering the house to keep warm.
There is a wooden sign at the door of the house, and the wooden sign says "Snake Mausoleum".
In the main hall, a delicate girl came out and came to the side of the old witch. She looked at the direction where the maids disappeared, and said contemptuously: "A group of village girls who can't speak clearly... well, living with them The hall is really annoying, he can't do things smoothly, and he is noisier than a crow when he talks in private."
The old witch didn't speak, and stepped on the broken stone floor, she came to the edge of the cliff, looked at the snow falling below the high cliff, and didn't say a word.
The girl also followed her and looked down. Although she couldn't see clearly, she knew that there was a small cold pool under the mountain. , it is said that there lived a two-headed python there. According to records, this lonely mountain hall that was originally haunted and uninhabited was originally built for the two-headed python in the cold pool. The hilt of the sword, and the cliff as the body of the sword firmly nailed the monster here.
Of course, all these are legends in the village below, and no one knows the truth.
The old witch firmly believed in this legend. She brought her disciples all the way to this barren mountain with harsh environment, and she has settled here for half a year.
"That legend can't be false. There are often young children playing in the water and women making clothes by the pool, and nothing has happened. What's more, so many sacrifices and bait have been used in the past six months. I haven't even seen a live fish...Master, the divination can't be wrong, right?" the girl said cautiously with a bitter face.
The girl's name is Cheng Rong. She was born well, she quarreled with her mother, rebelled and left home. She thought that after ten and a half months, she would go home when she saw her family posting missing person notices all over the street. Yue, not only did not see the family looking for him, but also accidentally learned the news that his father had taken a new concubine.
She was very angry. After a month, she had spent a lot of money because of her extravagance, and she was embarrassed to go home like this. Just as she was hesitating, a physiognomist found her and asked her how she was recently. It's not a nightmare, the physicist also accurately described the scene of the dream - a ghostly sedan chair that no one carries floats over a grave mound full of plant ash, the curtain is lifted by thin hands, and the bone bride under the red veil quietly walks Stare at her.
She turned pale with fright, and felt that she had met an expert, so she hurriedly asked why.
The fortune teller said that she was tainted with evil spirits, and before long, the bone bride would **** her away, and she would become a skull on a sedan chair, and be carried to the underworld by the little ghosts.
She was completely frightened, it was a big deal, she immediately took out all the money on her body, and asked the fortune teller if it was enough, but the fortune teller refused, saying that money can't solve it, he has the ability to see through evil spirits, but he can't. The ability to exorcise evil spirits.
When Cheng Rong was at his wit's end, he begged him to find a way, but the physicist hesitated and said that he was willing to take her to see an expert, but only had to pay the price. Cheng Rong quickly asked about the price, and the physicist told her that the expert still lacked a disciple.
This is not a price, this is clearly a blessing, she agreed without hesitation.
This expert is the old woman in front of her. The old woman is an old witch who has lived for more than a hundred years, and her mana is unfathomable.
But this old lady didn't teach her any practical skills. The only good thing is that nightmares really don't happen often.
She looked at the old woman, waiting for her answer.
The old woman shook the staff in her hand, and the wooden pieces hanging on it kept making noises.
"I've done divination more than 1,300 times, and I can't be wrong... The giant python, the red-toothed lizard, and the six-clawed snow-scaled snake are all recorded in the black scroll that stole divinity. Demon, only by obtaining them can we complete the ultimate revelation in the black scroll."
The old lady stretched out her wrinkled fingers with long fingernails, hung down to the pool water below, and continued: "The giant python recorded in the black scroll is sleeping here. There is no sleep in the world that cannot be awakened. Temptation... I have a hunch that today will be the day it wakes up."
"But the previous five sacrifices all failed, this time..." There were other strange emotions in the girl's worried words.
"This time, I sensed the coming of destiny."
The old witch shook her staff and began to chant spells in awe. The girl listened impatiently, but her mind was always thinking about the sacrifice.
——The sacrifice was a young girl who was about her age.
Things have to start from one month.
The old witch held five sacrificial ceremonies in succession, all of which ended in failure. When winter came, they were discussing whether to leave this poor country, but a strange thing happened in the village.
It was the night when the fifth sacrificial ceremony ended. The young girl who was used as a sacrificial ceremony was taken out of the coffin and thrown into the cold pool after the spell and formation took effect. ——The demon python does not want such a sacrifice.
In the past five months, I have tried living sacrifices, and I have tried dead sacrifices, but they all ended without a problem. Desperate, the old witch made an exception and prayed to the sky using a forbidden ritual.
Prayer really works.
Just as they were about to call it a day, they unexpectedly discovered that there was another person in the coffin that should have been empty. It was a girl about the same age as Cheng Rong, wearing a white dress, with an unbelievably pretty face.
The girl quietly closed her eyes, folded her hands on her lower abdomen, her posture was soft and elegant, her waist-length hair was very black, like a stretch of deep night. She came from nowhere, as if she was dead or sleeping.
The old witch had never seen such a situation before. Looking at the elegant and beautiful girl in the coffin, her face turned pale, and she quickly ordered the craftsmen to nail the coffin boards firmly, and sealed it with a spell note.
Afterwards, the old witch calculated for several days, and finally made a bold inference——she was the best sacrifice bestowed by the heavens.
Cheng Rong didn't agree with Master's opinion, she thought it was something more precious than the two-headed boa constrictor, and taking her as a sacrifice even meant giving up everything.
The only basis for this opinion is the girl's appearance.
She thought she had a good posture at first, but when she saw the little girl, she was so ashamed that she felt violent—she wanted to pull out the dagger and slash that face that was so perfect that everyone who saw it would feel sorry for her. Then she tore off her clothes, and cut that graceful undulating body to pieces...
But thoughts are just thoughts. Master regards the girl who descended that day as very important and will not allow anyone to approach her.
Cheng Rong prayed that the ceremony would be successful, because once it was successful, she would be able to leave this backcountry where food was scarce, and at the same time, that girl who was so beautiful that she hated her would also become the big snake's meal.
Heavy snow is rolling towards the cold pool. This Five-Flower Palace seems to be tired of the black lion. It closed its eyes on the top of the mountain. The village surrounded by earthen walls is vast.
Recently, a lot of birds have been flying over the village, and I don't know where they came from, but they can withstand the cold.
The night fell quietly.
On a snowy night with no night and no stars, the door of the Sheling Wooden Hall opened, and the old witch came out. Cheng Rong followed her, followed by several accompanying people, each with spells, Then there are the maids who carry the lamps. These maids are all widows in the village, and they are more or less sick.
Today's cold pool is covered with a thin layer of ice.
The ceremony begins.
Many villagers in the village came to watch habitually. After the first five failures, they didn't believe that any big snake could be summoned from the pool of water, but they were still very interested in this wonderful sacrifice.
The old witch drew a pentagram with a stone on the mud in front of the pool. Inside the skull lamp, the lamp flame floated up and hovered at the corners of the pentagram, burning steadily without support.
Cheng Rong put on a maiden costume and danced a sacrificial dance in the flames.
There is a temporary wooden pavilion by the pool. The dark coffin is placed in the pavilion stably, and there are two young girls who are used as sacrifices next to them. The tears turned to frost.
Cheng Rong finished the dance, and the old witch chanted the spell to the end, and the flames swayed up to the sky.
Two attendants went to pry off the nails at the four corners of the wooden coffin. The coffin board was removed, and the quiet face of the girl in the white skirt was clearly visible. She was barely breathing, but her body showed no sign of decay. It seemed that she was just dormant in winter.
Cheng Rong gave her a jealous look, praying that she would be eaten by a big snake.
Her prayer really came into effect, the ice trembled and shattered, the water seemed to be boiling, and the land was gurgling with heat. Many maids and villagers were frightened and flew back, only the old witch showed a frenzied expression look.
The sacrifice has taken effect, and this god-given girl is indeed the best sacrifice!
Cheng Rong had wanted to see the big snake's true face for a long time, but when it came to a critical moment, she flinched instead... The legend of Heijuan was true, and she saw the majestic head emerging from the deep pool.
A... no, two giant pythons with heads bigger than hers just broke through the water and jumped up. Bloodworms were absorbed on their half-rotten heads, and hot air was blowing out from their open jaws. Turning around, he stared at the girl in the coffin, as if looking at the most precious treasure in the world.
The five black-clothed killers who were standing in formation immediately dispersed. They held special instruments and covered the two-headed python.
The two-headed python realized that it was ambushed, let out a low growl, and also attacked the jumping attacker. The magic weapon and true energy were invincible over the cold pool. Soon, one of the huge snake heads was cut off by the magic circle. Down, the pool water was dyed crimson.
Cheng Rong couldn't help calling it wonderful, as expected of preparing for the attack for several months, such a terrifying monster has no strength to fight back under the control of the magic circle!
The other head was still fighting stubbornly. It growled and screamed, and it seemed that it was doomed.
Just when Cheng Rong felt that everything was safe, the pond water began to shake. The previous decline of the giant snake seemed to be camouflaged. Its back rubbed against the stone wall in the water, making a sharp sound. It raised its giant head like a whip and hammer, tearing up the formation they had worked so hard to arrange!
What's going on here?
Facing the sudden change, not to mention Cheng Rong, even the old witch was frightened. How could this monster be so much stronger than imagined...
The giant snake broke free from the cold pool, and its rotten body twisted to see the light of day again. The old witch wanted to escape, but her body was quickly entangled. , squeezed into plasma.
The killers selected by the five clans looked at each other and fled in all directions. Then they turned into distorted corpses and fell.
The villagers and maids fled in fright. The snowy road was slippery, and countless people fell to the ground and trampled on each other.
Cheng Rong also wanted to escape, but she was the closest to the big snake among the living people, her knees were so frightened that she couldn't move, she wanted to call for help, but she was afraid of alarming the demon.
What this group of people don't know is that this giant double-headed snake is not a forked head, but a head and a tail. The head at the tail is a curse issued by the person who sealed it back then. Divided half of the giant snake's strength, they moved forward together, wrapping its entire body around the stone pillar at the bottom of the pool, preventing it from leaving the pool.
Now that one of the giant snake's heads has been cut off, there is no longer any strength to restrain it. It will break free from the body wrapped around the stone pillar, and finally leave the cold pool where it has been imprisoned for many years.
Cheng Rong looked at it in fear, the giant snake's mandible twisted, and hot air spewed out from it, but it didn't look at the frightened girl at all, but stared at the pitch-black coffin, as if looking at it. Think about the world's hardest puzzles.
The giant snake is rotten and ugly, and there are many blood worms piercing into the scales on both sides of the body. Its neck is bulging like a hump, and the mandible connected by cartilage and ligaments is twisting.
Cheng Rong watched this unforgettable scene-the wooden pavilion was lit by the collapsed lamp, illuminating the forehead scales of the ugly giant snake. The girl in the coffin did not die, but she was awakened. Looking at the burning fire around him and the snake with its huge mouth wide open, his eyes were blank.
At the moment of life and death, the girl in Cheng Rong's eyes is more beautiful than real, so this nightmarish scene is like an ancient painting that has been handed down for thousands of years. .
Cheng Rong's fear miraculously dissipated, and she couldn't wait to see this girl be torn apart by the ugly giant snake, swallowed, and watched the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in this life be destroyed!
The giant snake lived up to her expectations, its head shrunk and shot out like an arrow, swallowing it in one gulp.
Cheng Rong was so excited that he almost screamed!
But soon, she froze.
The coffin was obviously crushed by the giant snake, but the girl inside disappeared strangely. Cheng Rong looked up and down quickly, and then she saw a white skirt fluttering on the forehead of the big python. Girl, the girl's body is extremely stable, even though the snake's head swayed around, she would not fall off. She lowered her head, showing a puzzled look, then inserted the sword neatly, and cut upwards.
At the same time, streaks of white light lit up at the same time. They started from the mouth of the snake, passed across the body, and passed along the scales and muscle texture without any hindrance. Wherever the sword light passed, everything was cut open up!
The dying scream of the giant snake was as stern as a knife cutting through the eardrum. Then, its body out of the water exploded along the lines of the sword light, twisting and hitting the shore, and died tragically. The broken body was like a plate. Nicely sliced eels.
The young girl landed lightly, looking at the dark blade in her hand, frowning slightly, she wiped away the blood on the sword, put the sword back into its sheath, and looked at the village shrouded in snowy night, her figure was colder than the wind and snow.
Mu Shijing looked around, and finally walked towards Cheng Rong. Cheng Rong's heart was tense, and his whole body was cold.
But to her surprise, the words of this cold girl who swung the sword to kill the giant snake were as gentle as the wind.
"Where is this place?" She asked softly, as if she was just an ordinary lost person.
Cheng Rong swallowed, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and murmured: "This is... Sanjie Mountain, Tibetan Snake Village..."
Mu Shijing nodded slightly.
Looking at the snow falling in the sky, she murmured, "Is this... my hometown?"
Hometown?
Cheng Rong was puzzled, wondering if she was a village girl in the village? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it...or is she a monster in the mountains?
The dazed emotion in Mu Shijing's eyes dissipated.
In the coffin, she had a very long dream. In the dream, she vaguely remembered something... She remembered that she was from this world, and she used to practice and live in a courtyard.
After leaving the courtyard, she went to a white sea. It is said that it was the corpse of a demon **** who had been cut into three pieces—the demon **** happened to break through the barrier of another world before he died, and his head stuck in the outside world. , so its corpse just happened to become one of the passages connecting the two worlds.
The only fly in the ointment is that the Demon God seems to be the Space-Time Demon God.
It took her several months to cross the white sea, but from the outside world, it was nearly a thousand years apart...
Thousands of years.
Mu Shijing has a slight insight into his own life experience, but the mystery shrouded in his heart is even heavier.
The girl in the white skirt stood in the snow, looked at the stone tablet with the word "Tibetan Snake" on it, and said, "From now on, this place can be called Tibetan Village."
Cheng Rong was stunned for a long time before realizing that she was joking, and quickly squeezed out an insincere smile.
Mu Shijing raised his head, looked at the dark five-flower hall on the hillside, and asked, "Are you from the Devil's Cult?"
"No, it's not..." Cheng Rong immediately vetoed it.
"So what are you doing?"
Mu Shijing walked towards the wooden pavilion, the wooden pavilion had been burned by flames, emitting black smoke, pus dripped out from the broken body of the big snake, white snow fell on it and quickly became dirty.
"We...we are holding a ceremony to revive you!" Cheng Rong said in a hurry.
"Really?" Mu Shijing said lightly.
She didn't seem to care about the dirty smell on the ground. She bent down and gathered a pair of little girls. They were used by the old witch to assist the living sacrifices. Still breathing, unconscious. Mu Shijing shook his head and sighed softly.
"Using a young girl as a living sacrifice to lure a giant snake down the pond, you... aren't you from the Demon Sect?" Mu Shijing looked at her, with interrogation in his beautiful eyes.
Cheng Rong was so frightened that her face turned pale. She knelt on the ground and told the whole story like beans poured out of a bamboo tube, and then she began to cry about how she was deceived by the fortune-teller and abducted to this poor place. She hoped that this fairy could save her. Go out by yourself and so on.
Mu Shijing listened for a while, and roughly understood what happened.
"Well~IndoMTL.com~I see." Mu Shijing said softly.
She carried the little girl and walked towards the hall above. After the little girl was settled, she asked Cheng Rong for a brand new attire.
When she came out again, the tall girl had already changed into a dark black dress. The upper skirt and the lower skirt had no pattern except for a little cyan at the piping. Although the fabric was plain, it couldn't conceal the dignified and elegant temperament , and made her skin look as tender as new silk. She seemed to have stepped out of an ancient painting.
Cheng Rong was fascinated. She once went to the king's banquet with her father and saw the legendary princess who was as beautiful as a flower. At that time, she hated her beauty for a long time. ...
The girl who is as beautiful as the child of God looked at her calmly and said:
"Since you were abducted by them, I don't blame you. Rest for two days, cut out the heart of the big snake, and let's go back."
"Go back?" Cheng Rong asked in surprise: "Where are we going back... this sister, I don't know, but according to my observation for half a year, we seem to be really... a demon."
"Then go to the Demon Gate." Mu Shijing said.