Chapter 3 Stop the Devil's Way
At midnight, the moon was as bright as a slight whisper, covering the entire earth with a layer of white frost. From time to time, birds were surprised and slammed up, and then silently; occasionally, night owls were mixed with rattles, rattled, like children crying at night, which was creepy.
After leaving Chenjia Village, walk north along the path in the northeast corner, there are a few large willow trees, slantingly slanted there, until two miles away, empty and far apart, making it appear more lonely and remote.
The northernmost part is an old willow tree with a crooked neck. Three people are surrounded by the thickness of the tree. The leaves are all taken away by the winter wind, bare. Only some thick branches are left, and they are stuck there dryly. When the wind blows through the tree, it is like a thin big hand counting on the branches, the sound is messy and boring and monotonous.
Go up the trunk, and divide it into three places more than meter high. One of them stretches westward and turns crooked to the top of the path. One of them hugs the thickness, less than three meters, and forks again. One of them just crosses directly above the path.
Loess half-lying on the trunk of a tree, holding a dagger that was more than an inch long in his right hand, and a wooden man in his left hand, which was cut and carved from time to time.
Looking closer, the wooden villain had a palm-sized slap, all with all limbs, straight legs, and drooping arms close to each other, but his facial features were incomplete, and he looked a little bit tidy.
After carving for a while, he seemed not very satisfied. Huangtu shook his head and leaned slightly to the side. The wood chips on his pants and shirt fell to the ground.
Loess raised his hand and let the cold moonlight shine on the wooden villain. He looked carefully with the moonlight. He blew the remaining wood chips, bit the dagger in his mouth, rubbed his right hand with some sweat stains on his shirt, and when the touch became astringent, he picked up the dagger again.
The bright dagger flew up and down in his hands, showing extremely superb carving methods; in less than half a stick of incense, the villain's facial features were roughly formed.
If you look closely, the proportion of the facial features and heads of the villain is very different from that of the real person, especially the two ears, which extend from the temple to the chin, almost covering the entire layer, making it look particularly weird. The eyes are protruding and the eyelids are not visible. The nose is only a little small, almost invisible, and the mouth is just a small slit, better than nothing.
Huangtu put away his dagger, rubbed his left thumb back and forth from the wooden little man's head a few times, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He stood up, shook the wood chips off, grabbed the little man, and turned his eyes to the end of the path.
"According to the old lady, the ghost entered the village from this direction; the class at the beginning of the morning session also confirmed that evil came from the northeast, but it did not specify the specific time... Why did it reach midnight and there was no shadow? Is there something wrong with the hexagram?"
After lunch, Huangtu wanted to go back to the temple to make more preparations, but he was entangled by Wen Jingjing to do his homework, but it was evening in the blink of an eye. He secretly started a class while he was having a small explanation.
Wen Jingjing saw that Huangtu was willing to study honestly and seemed to be much more skilled when doing homework than she thought, so she immediately smiled and praised him. Later, she even cooked herself and fryed a side dish for Huangtu.
It is hard to refuse the kindness, and the little girl's craftsmanship is indeed better than the blue, and her cooking skills are even better than her mother. It makes people's appetites wider. Huangtu and Wen Guangcai praised each other repeatedly, making the little girl's wonderful eyes bent into a crescent moon.
After dinner, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening. Huangtu said goodbye early.
After returning to the temple, he counted the treasure bags of Ruyi, and then he hurried to Chenjiapo.
There are more than 30 miles of roads from the town to Chenjiapo, mostly mountain roads, which are rugged and difficult to walk. However, after practicing land flying techniques by Loess, they arrived in less than an hour. After finding a suitable location, they immediately started to set up arrays and draw talismans to prepare for the trap.
As a result, I felt a little depressed that I had been waiting for three hours since then, but I still didn't see my opponent.
Huangtu looked around for a while, but there was no sign of the enemy. He held the tree trunk with his back hand, pushed his legs and raised his waist. When he stood up, he immediately showed his body with a tiger-back and bear-waisted waist, strong and burly, just like a bronze and iron cast.
It was nearly three months, and it was still cold.
The whole field is still hazy, everything is silent, without a single figure, the wheat fields are dark green and black and purple, and occasionally trees stand, and they are listless, making them look particularly boring.
Originally, Jiuteng Town belongs to a hilly area. You can see the undulating mountains in the distance by looking at the sun, but at this moment, the night covers everything. The whole field is like a scroll dyed by night ink, dark and silent.
Huangtu lifted his toes and looked away with no gains. He stretched his waist a little boredly, shook his arms twice, and sat back to his original place.
Relying on his back is a bit tired. Huangtu simply sat across the tree trunk, his upper body standing upright, and his feet swam in the air. Although he was not attached to him, it had no effect on him and was still stable.
Pressing the anxiety, taking out the dagger from his pocket, ready to continue carving.
"Hmm? Come!"
He had just adjusted his gesture of holding the knife and suddenly felt a cold breath. This breath came along the breeze, with blood mixed in the anger, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Huangtu's gentle eyes instantly turned as sharp as a knife. He put away the dagger and the wooden villain, slapped the tree trunk with both hands, and soared into the air. His burly body was not as clumsy as a swallow, and stood firmly on the trunk, straight as a pine tree, and was full of energy. At some point, there was a long peach wood sword in his right hand, and three waxy paper talismans were sandwiched between his left fingers.
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At the end of the path, a figure gathered and dispersed, walking slanted, like a bamboo pole, with ghost energy all over the body. Two thin claws held an old hen, biting bites and biting, and their mouths were covered with blood.
Looking closely, what came was a fierce ghost who had just crawled out of the tomb.
The ghost's feet do not touch the ground, floating around, making a sound of swallowing from time to time, just like grinding teeth in the middle of the night, especially harsh.
When the ghost entered a hundred steps, Huangtu sneered, jumped off the tree trunk, landed steadily on the ground, blocking the middle of the path.
"The person who comes will stop!" Huangtu issued a cold warning, "Where are you going back and forth, the world is not where you can stay, so go back quickly!"
The evil ghost was moving forward, but was startled by the appearance of the loess. His body was paused. When a gust of wind blew, it seemed to be about to fall. He finally stabilized his body and looked at it with his eyes. When he saw clearly that it was a human blocking the road, he suddenly started to scream. The black air around his body changed, and a faint sound of ghost crying came out.
The evil ghost grabbed the dead chicken and held it to his mouth, gnawing it in a daze, and the sound of swallowing came from the sound of sniffling.
Chicken blood splattered everywhere, chicken feathers flew around, landing on the ground, rolling along the road towards the loess.
"Ha~ Cough~ Oh~ Ha, I can find a place without any effort when I find it. The ghost family is about to find a new person to fill the stomach, and you are consciously delivering it to your door!"
With a strange scream, the evil ghost's body suddenly rose up and instantly turned into a telephone pole. His body and limbs were like bamboo poles, and there was a white head on his head, like a head pole pole parading on the street.
A gloomy aura surged out of the evil ghost, turning into ghost faces, and pounced on the loess with its teeth and claws.
The yellow earth's face did not change color, with his left hand pointing like a sword, and his right hand waved the peach wood sword and slashed in the air. Light yellow lights surged out from the tip of the sword, intertwined into a net bag. With his low shout, the light net flew out and hit the ghost face.
When the two sides met, they made a sound like the lights went out, and both returned invisible.
The evil ghost was blocked and screamed, and closed his arms and pinched the remaining half of the hen, splashing blood and flesh, and rushed towards the loess with big steps, bringing a bloody and cold breath.
As my hair flew around, I saw a pale and rotten face, with beads on my left eye, and only a black hole on my right eye. My nose collapsed and my mouth cracked to my neck, which was extremely terrifying.
"Ignorance, the ghost family crushes your head!"
The two ghost claws grew rapidly, turning into two black poisonous snakes, and they took the lead in grabbing Huangtu's head.
"When I break you, the ghost creature!"
Huang Tu sneered slightly, put away his long sword to protect his chest, shook his left hand and threw out a sallow paper talisman. The paper talisman flew out two meters and turned into a ball of flame. Then he split into three with a bang, becoming the three talents of heaven, earth, man and faced the two ghost claws.
The two ghost claws collided with the talisman, making a muffled sound, and three balls of flames were dispersed by the yin energy, split into pieces and disappeared invisible; the evil ghost screamed, and the two ghost claws were hit by the snake and shrunk back.
This did not stop the evil ghost from moving forward. The lengthened and twisted ghost body soon reached the vicinity of the crooked willow tree, with its head high above, almost touching the horizontal branches.
"You have annoyed the Ghost Family, and today you will be forced to corpse in the wilderness!"
The evil ghost was blocked again and suddenly became a little angry and started to clamor. Tornados rolled up around him, and the weeds leaked out, dead trees broke branches, and mud and dust flew.
"You are a little dead soul, and you dare to be arrogant! You are confused and hurting people's lives, and your sins are unforgivable! Today is the time when your soul is gone!"
The loess always stood in the middle of the road, without giving in a single step. Seeing his opponent rampant, he shouted sternly.
When the ghost heard this, he screamed, bent down and bowed, letting his hands cross the tree trunk, and stretched out his hands to pinch the yellow earth's neck. The disheveled head also came forward, opened its big mouth, revealing its pale and sharp fangs, and wanted to gnaw the yellow earth's head.
ps: Please give me some advice.
Chapter completed!