Spiritual Mountain (Two in One)

Chapter 104 Lingshan (two in one)

After a while, he heard a voice speaking almost close to his ear——

"Oh... you, the evil disciple who deceived your master and destroyed your ancestors, actually became the sect leader of Ranshan. I really hate it, hate it... but what will happen if you become the sect leader? Can you fight against my master? You still Don’t you want my help? Come on, please, please tell me!”

It really is Zhao Qi.

"Why are you here?"

"Why am I here?!" Zhao Qi's voice changed and became hoarse, like a person whose throat was broken by cigarette smoke. Li Wuxiang didn't know if this was because after becoming a ghost, his physical condition would remain the same as before his death - he screamed very miserably before he died.

"It's all thanks to you! I am a cultivator. When I die, I will naturally be here! I became your master's soldier! Now you are going to die too! It's worse than me, and I can't even keep my soul! Okay! Relieve your hatred! Happy!"

He wrapped his arms around his back even tighter, as if he wanted to strangle Li Wuxiang to death. But Li Wuxiang stood quietly and thought for a while: "A few days ago, a man named Sun Dihuang got out of the window on the wall and peeled off the skin on his face..."

"Yes! I did it! Haha, what am I now? A resentful ghost soldier! A skinned resentful ghost! Of course I am looking for someone with a lot of resentment! He hates you so much, so naturally I will fall in love with him! Just to go to the world of the living and have a look!”

"It was when Cheng Peixin invited the door god that night. Did you come out?"

"Yes, are you afraid? How much do you know? What you know is not what I taught you? But I didn't teach you that sometimes the dead are scarier than the living in this world! As long as there is a gap, I can come out , pestering you! There will be many people who hate you in the future! I can always find a suitable one to fall in love with..."

Zhao Qi cursed bitterly, chattered endlessly, and gritted his teeth, as if he had been holding back many words for a long time and was finally able to vent them out.

Li Wuxiang listened like this for a while and then said, "Master, I didn't expect you to be so miserable."

The sound stopped suddenly, and Li Wuxiang felt that the things on his back suddenly stopped and froze.

After a long time, I heard the voice again: "What did you say? Tell you, don't do this! Do you think I don't know that you hate us so much that you gnash your teeth? Haha, you like to lie to people, and now you feel like you have been lied to. What about your master’s plan? It’s useless now! Do you think you will be even worse in the future?”

Li Wuxiang sighed and shook his head: "I'm not saying you are miserable now, I mean, you have always been miserable."

"You know, I used to think you were a bad person, but these days when I came to Deyang and saw many things in Deyang, I realized... I can't seem to blame you. You are not a bad person, you are just a victim."

He paused for a moment, but Zhao Qi didn't say anything again.

Li Wuxiang sighed again: "The person who harmed you is Zhao Puppet. I know that you have always been a soft-hearted person... If you were born in the Chen family of Jinshui, you might be a kinder person than the people around you. But When you met Zhao Puppet when you were a child, he didn’t teach you anything. You don't know what you should do or what you shouldn't do, but you only know what will make him like it and what will make him dislike it. Zhao Puppet is like your father, who has the power of life and death over you. , he is the source of your fear.”

"You fart." Zhao Qi said, "My master is very good to me! Don't try to sow discord!"

Li Wuxiang sighed again: "Okay, it should be the same as for kittens and puppies. They always have to be fed, so cats and dogs regard this kind of feeding as a huge favor. Don't raise this kind of thing." If you have one, you will raise the other. When you are in a bad mood, you will beat and scold them. If you are really bored, you will even throw them away or kill them. Master, would you die for your own children, but would you die for your cats and dogs? ?”

After a while, Zhao Qi shouted loudly: "Rebellion against human ethics! Treacherous rebellion! Master's treatment of his disciples is a matter of course, and it has always been so... It's the same! It's the same for everyone, it's all--"

"You are different." Li Wuxiang said softly, "After you summoned Zhao Puppet, he wanted to kill me with a flying sword, but you stood in front of me. You would block a sword for me, but Zhao Puppet would not Block that sword for you. You are different from other masters."

After a while, Zhao Qi sneered: "You are lying again, you like to lie the most! I know you hate us so much that you gnash your teeth, hehe, I too -"

"What I hate is Zhao Puppet, but I don't hate you." Li Wuxiang sighed, "Zhao Puppet killed so many innocent children in order to refine Taiyi, which is an unforgivable crime. And you...you went to find Zhao Puppet." You have to find a reason to comfort yourself when you choose Yangshou, saying that it is for the good of everyone. After I came to Deyang, I realized that these things were regarded as normal by many people. Maybe you thought you were only doing it a little at the time. It’s a bit too much.”

"So, I just said that you are also a victim of this world. Victims inflict harm on others, which makes people feel pity and pitiful. But there is no hate... During the few days when you and I were master and apprentice, you once wanted to use me to make the decision. Sacrifice? But then you softened up. You didn't harm me, and I didn't harm you. It's Zhao Puppet who doesn't care about you, and I understand that your resentment is actually against him. . But you don’t dare to face him, that’s why you hate him so much.”

Zhao Qi was silent and motionless on his back.

"So...is your current situation very bad?" Li Wuxiang asked, "When he was alive, Zhao Kui treated you like that. He was not you. He would definitely be on guard against you having grudges...What do you usually do as his ghost soldier?"

Zhao Qi said in a hissing voice: "Do you think I don't know what you want to do? You want to drag me to deal with him!"

"Then, is your current situation very bad?"

After a while: "Humph, is there anything good to say about Lingshan?"

Li Wuxiang was silent for a while: "It should be Zhao Kui who asked Cheng Peixin to trap me in here, intending to refine me to death. But Master, you have been talking to me these days, do you really just want to see how miserable I will die?"

"Let's get rid of Zhao Kui together." Li Wuxiang said softly, "You blocked a sword for me that day. Now, I will give you Zhao Kui's ancient cave."

"Give it to me? Haha, you give it to me? Dream well!"

Li Wuxiang suddenly felt his body lighten, the feeling of being entangled disappeared, and there was no more whispering in his ears.

But he did not think of calling the evil spirit again, but felt the slowly warming temperature in the mirror and waited patiently.

He thought Zhao Qi was like a child who had not grown up before, and now that he was a ghost, it seemed the same.

…

There was a pool of blood on the ground made up of various twisted limbs and broken bones and flesh. A black and red shriveled human figure covered with mud and sand crawled out of the blood pool, and immediately heard the endless wailing that filled the whole world.

Screams, roars, crying, and laughter, these sounds came out from the endless sea of ​​corpses and blood, gathered under the sky tightly pressed by red clouds, and rolled and echoed like thunder.

Zhao Qi sat next to the blood pool, and all kinds of twisted limbs immediately stretched out from the ground under him to climb on him - some were just skinned, but the flesh and blood were still there, some were completely rotten, with maggots crawling in between, and some were only bones left, pale and fragile, and it was unknown how long they had been decaying.

These arms were scrambling to scratch his legs, tearing off the flesh and blood on his legs piece by piece, and then retracting to the ground. In just a few breaths, Zhao Qi's legs began to show white bones.

But he ignored these things, just stretched out his hand to grab an arm that looked full of flesh and blood on the ground and pulled it hard - the things under the arm were pulled up by him, and there was also a bloody corpse, but it was limp and powerless, and the body below the arm was a kind of almost transparent blood color, as if it was about to disappear.

Zhao Qi opened his mouth, and the skin and muscles on his cheeks immediately cracked, revealing black teeth. He tore and swallowed on the arm, and a weak scream came from the almost transparent body. When he swallowed the whole arm into his stomach, the pale body gradually turned into a pool of blood and water that seeped into the flesh and blood ground, and the torn off parts of his legs grew back again.

He gritted his teeth and chewed the flesh and blood in his mouth, but he could not feel any temperature or taste.

"Is the current situation bad?" He couldn't help laughing. What is good? This world of corpses and blood is filled with lonely ghosts like him.

When he was still alive, he felt that the world was not good - the sect was too decadent, the spiritual energy was too thin, and the qualifications were too poor. He had to work very hard to make a little progress, but he still didn't meet the master's eyes. At that time, he felt that his situation was not good.

And here? There is not even a possible "good". Those things on the ground are the same as himself. They died and couldn't go to the netherworld, or they were unwilling to go to the netherworld and came to Lingshan. But here, if you want to become "good", you can only rely on incense and vows. Without the power of vows, you will become weaker and weaker, until you can't stand up, fall down, and gradually turn into blood and evil like these things under you.

These things below tore his flesh and blood, and he also devoured them, accustomed to it, and didn't care. Because this flesh and blood is useless, it only allows him to barely look like a human being. Without the nourishment of the power of will, it makes no difference whether it is wrapped in flesh and blood or just a skeleton.

He is just... is...

That sentence jumped out of his head again, "cat and dog", a dog - the master occupied the ancient cave, and some former fellow disciples still remembered him. Although he could not get offerings from them because of his identity as the Kitchen God, he still gained something because of the ancient cave, which prevented him from gradually weakening like himself.

And he himself... If Cheng Peixin had not opened the sacred mountain a few days ago and he had seized the opportunity to catch Sun Dihuang, he would have almost turned into blood and evil spirit today!

Hate, hate... He gritted his teeth and turned his head to look not far away -

Everything was wrapped in a thick bloody darkness. Only when the clouds on the top of the sky became slightly thinner could he glimpse the outline not far away. It was also a mountain of corpses, pus and blood flowing, and the stench was overwhelming, but the flesh and blood of the mountain was at least solidified, so the people living in the cave on the mountain didn't have to eat each other like him and the many resentful ghosts in this sacred mountain to fill the emptiness in their stomachs that could never be satisfied.

Master... Master... Is he good to me? He killed me, but brought me to be a ghost soldier.

But why didn't he let me live in it too?

Because there were still some incense and remnants in the ancient cave?

What if I was the master? Am I a good master?

Zhao Qi thought of the pill he gave to Li Wuxiang. That's right, I'm a good master! I can't bear to eat it myself! I want to refine him, but I can't bear to do it! I don't beat him or scold him, so I'm naturally a good master! I haven't harmed him!

I wanted to be a good master from the beginning!

Something popped up in his confused mind - a young man was sitting at the door waiting, standing in front of him respectfully, and laying a clean towel for him... It's great, Zhao Qi thought, this is a master and a disciple, how great it is! Yes, he hasn't harmed me either!

"Master!" He turned and howled towards the ancient cave, "Master! I'm hungry! Hungry! Master! Let me go to the netherworld! I'm hungry!"

No one paid any attention to him, so he used his hands and feet to crawl towards the ancient cave, wailing: "Master! Give me something to eat! Master!"

When he was about to climb to the entrance of the cave, a piece of human skin suddenly flew out of the dark cave and pulled him back with a snap: "Beast! Guard it well! You will have a bite when things are done! You stupid thing, don't you want revenge? You created the karma yourself, so you have to suffer it!"

Zhao Qi rolled back to the blood puddle and immediately closed his mouth.

The words took root in his head-"I'll give you Zhao Kui's ancient cave"!

Give it to you, give it to you, give it to you!

Zhao Qi reached into the blood puddle and slowly pulled it to both sides as if he wanted to tear the invisible blood apart.

Countless bubbles gurgled out of the blood, and the flesh on his body began to peel off, revealing a pale skeleton. He immediately put his mouth close to it and ate the fallen flesh back into his mouth.

The bubbles became more violent, and tiny sounds rose from the blood puddle.

The voice of Zhao Kui in the ancient cave was shouting again: "Is he still in there?"

Zhao Qi smiled with a cracked mouth: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Keep an eye on him!" Zhao Kui's voice lowered again, "The suffering you are going through now is for your master to teach you a lesson. When you refine him, there will naturally be people who worship him every day. When your master becomes a true god, he will call you into the ancient cave!"

"Okay! Master! Hahaha!" Zhao Qi laughed, "Go into the ancient cave!"

He spread his hands apart, and all the flesh on his body turned into pus and blood. A pale skeleton fell to the ground with a crash -

A human figure suddenly emerged from the blood puddle.