by Zhi Bai
With the strength of the three of them, what problem would it be if they wanted to break open an ordinary gate? However, the last person who just entered the room, Du Shoushou, turned his head and kicked the door, but was actually blown back by the force of the wooden door, and nearly knocked over the Tan Taiche who was closest to him. Tan Taiche reached out to help him, and with his other hand, he pulled out his long blade from his waist. From supporting Du Shoushou to brandishing his blade, his movements were fluid and fluid.
A ray of blade light was thrown out from the long blade and hit the wooden door ruthlessly. With a crack, the wooden door was broken into pieces. However, the branches behind the wooden door had already formed a net, blocking the entrance. Not only that, the tree continued to extend outwards and then wrapped downwards, forming a large green canopy that completely covered the entire small courtyard.
Tan Taiche's face changed, the blade tip once again extended out, releasing a crackling sound, it was the blazing Cultivation Power.
He tilted his hand upwards, and the blade light hacked at the treetop in midair like a flaming dragon. The flower blossoms that looked like miserable white faces gathered over, and as the saber light hacked down on them, fragmented petals flew everywhere. The scariest part was that after those flowers were shattered, blood continued to drip down from them. There was a fishy smell in the blood that entered his nose.
This slash was sharp enough, but other than breaking a few petals, it had no other use. Those incomplete white flowers looked like incomplete human faces, which were even more terrifying.
"F * ck!"
Du Shoushou scolded, he did not have the mood to keep his own magical equipment secret. Summoning out the Triton, he jumped up and struck towards the branches. The Triton released a ball of blue light, and the Qi exploded one by one, as if dozens of fireworks were ignited on the treetop. Triton was a fallen Purple-Rank, and at the very least, a weapon at the peak of the Golden-Rank. Even if Du Shoushou was not able to fully utilize its power, this full powered strike was still strong enough.
However, after cutting off some branches and petals, there was no other reaction. The branches intertwined like snakes and soon became thicker and sturdier.
The three of them heard a voice at the same time and turned around at the same time.
However, Du Shoushou and An Zheng had an extremely tacit understanding, the two of them spread out and formed a position with Tan Taiche. Unknowingly, even Tan Taiche had become part of the Iron Triangle of defense.
The door opened.
However, it was not the courtyard door that was opened, but the room's door. The few rooms that looked very ordinary seemed even more eerie in this gloomy environment. At this moment, the darkness was no different from the darkness of the night. The door suddenly opened by itself, and the three of them had the illusion that a ghost or something would float out of it in the next second.
But there was nothing.
Tan Taiche turned around and looked at the closed courtyard gate, then lowered his head and thought: "I really want to see what exactly is going on inside."
He kept his long blade and looked at An Zheng: "What about you?"
Of course, An Zheng could understand Tan Taiche's thoughts, because he thought the same. Tan Taiche had run his own business for more than ten years. With such a large scale, it would be strange if he did not have a few outstanding magical equipment. An Zheng still had Bronze Bell s with him, plus the eight Holy Fish Scale s, he also wanted to go in and take a look. As for Du Shoushou, don't forget that he almost had a complete set of Peak Golden-Rank tools with him.
"I'll be in front."
An Zheng said before he began to walk forward.
"Follow me."
Tan Taiche took a step first and walked to the very front. An Zheng was sure that Tan Taiche's cultivation was worst off due to his Captive Stage, so it was more appropriate for him to be at the front. No one knew what kind of secrets or dangers were hidden in this house. Being in the middle to protect Du Shoushou, could also be considered to be his best choice.
As the three of them entered the room, Tan Taiche snapped his fingers, and a dozen or so pearls flew out from his body, emitting an especially bright yet not dazzling white light. With a twist of his finger, the bead automatically separated. Each of the four pearls around his body floated into the air, shining clearly in front, back, left, and right.
"Don't follow too closely, take care of yourself if you need anything."
Tan Taiche said before he began to walk forward.
Du Shoushou had a large heart to begin with, the furnishings in the house were extremely simple, he started to become interested in the four beads floating beside him.
"So beautiful."
He praised sincerely.
An Zheng said: "If you knew the origin of this pearl, you wouldn't have liked it so much … This is the Orb of the Mermaid … There were many demonic beasts living in the East China Sea, and the Mermaid was one of them. It was just that they were not as beautiful as the legends said. All of them had green faces and fangs; they were extremely ugly. The reason why he called them mermaids was because their backs looked really nice. Just turn your head and you'll puke. Therefore, in the East China Sea, he also called this thing a fish demon. The fish demon is also a type of demon beast, their inner cores can emit light for a long time. "
Tan Taiche walked in front and said: "Good eyesight."
An Zheng said: "I am pointing at this to make a fortune."
Tan Taiche laughed: "How much money will I give you? Can you come to my shop to be a manager?"
An Zheng: "Half of it."
Tan Taiche replied: "Forty percent at most."
An Zheng was startled for a moment. "You're actually still serious about talking about this with me. With your wealth, forty percent of it is also worth as much as a nation."
Tan Taiche said: "You are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and with your talent in cultivation, your future achievements will definitely not be low. At that time, you might even be able to step into the Sky Realm. With your eyesight, how much wealth can you bring to me? "Even though the 40% I have right now is not a small amount, compared to the wealth you bring me in the next 100 years, it's nothing."
Du Shoushou: "I finally know why your business is doing so well."
An Zheng said: "We should first resolve this matter before us. The door will not be shut for no reason, nor will it open for no reason. No one knows what will happen to them. If they are alive, let's go out and talk about other things. "
Tan Taiche asked curiously: "At your age, how can you have such good eyesight?"
An Zheng replied: "It's natural."
Tan Taiche laughed, he did not take it seriously. He walked in front carefully while An Zheng and Du Shoushou maintained a distance between them and followed behind him. After walking for only a few meters, they reached the end of the room. There was a wall. But the strange thing was, when Tan Taiche walked to the wall, a hole automatically opened up in it. He looked inside. Inside was a flight of steps that seemed to lead directly to the area. One step at a time, there was no end in sight.
"Master seems to welcome us!"
Tan Taiche laughed and said, as though he did not care. He pointed forward and more than ten fish demon cores flew out and floated in front of him. Below, there was nothing … There were only steps, descending from the sky. Everything around them was empty. If you accidentally fall down the stairs, you might fall into some kind of nothingness and never come out.
The three of them continued to walk forward. An Zheng counted the steps, and after walking up to 600 steps, a weak light seemed to appear in front of them. Although the surroundings looked quite scary, they didn't encounter any dangers along the way. Tan Taiche waved at him from the front and walked in first. An Zheng and Du Shoushou followed closely behind, discovering an empty area on the ground.
The place was huge, so big that one couldn't see the edges of it. The lights f
lickered on and off, but none of them were extinguished.
An Zheng said: "Master is indeed very hospitable."
At this moment, the lights in front of them suddenly lit up, followed by waves of music. The music was gentle and soothing, making people feel relaxed upon hearing it. An Zheng was worried about what demon note it was, but nothing happened after a while. The three of them continued to walk in a zigzag pattern. After walking for about ten meters, they passed through a thin layer of fog and saw another door.
The door was open, but the mist seemed thicker. The music grew clearer and clearer, as if it were very close. Tan Taiche flung his sleeves and released a burst of energy. The mist dissipated, but he was still unable to see what was going on inside.
"Should we enter?"
he asked.
Du Shoushou became bolder and replied: "If we don't go in, are we just going to dawdle?"
Tan Taiche turned around and looked at him with a complicated expression.
Du Shoushou laughed embarrassedly: "This atmosphere is pretty scary, I was just joking."
Tan Taiche sighed: "Then, I won't dawdle and directly go in?"
Du Shoushou said as he tidied up the place, "Come in, come in."
Then, Tan Taiche walked in with a whoosh. An Zheng turned his head and looked at Du Shoushou with a similar complicated expression and followed him in. Du Shoushou couldn't wait to be the first one to rush in, how could he be willing to fall behind, and rush in right after An Zheng.
Another layer of mist appeared, but it was very shallow. After walking for a few meters, the mist dissipated. A large stage appeared in front of him, with a curtain pulled over it. The music came from behind the stage curtain, but the area was still empty. It was just like walking around in the wilderness at night. Suddenly, he saw a huge stage in front of him, giving him a creepy feeling.
"Master is not only hospitable, but also very generous."
Tan Taiche stood there and looked at the stage: "You want to invite us to listen to the show?"
Just as he finished speaking, the red curtain suddenly opened. There was no one on the stage, but the instruments were available. The drumstick floated, then dropped to the floor and began to beat the drum itself. The lute, the zither, the flute, all kinds of musical instruments were making wonderful sounds, but there was no one around. Those instruments were neatly placed there, as if they had just been tidied up by someone. The music was melodious and even Tan Taiche felt that it was the most beautiful melody he had heard in his entire life.
He had originally thought that no one would come out, but not long after, a group of people wearing strange dresses came out in a line. Then the two of them, one on one, held hands and danced in a strange dance, moving quickly.
If people look better, the dance should be pleasing to the eyes. However, it was a group of skeletons that were happily dancing. No matter how bright their dresses or clothes were, they couldn't conceal their true nature.
Du Shoushou swallowed his saliva with difficulty: "This is... "What dance?"
Tan Taiche was stunned for a while: "It looks like a kind of dance for the overseas natives. When I was going out to sea, I went to a place where the people were very backward and lived in tribal groups. They couldn't say a single word, but when dancing in this manner, everyone would shout in unison … Latin, Latin. With such a large movement range, it's suitable for losing weight. How about you go up and jump for a bit? "
Du Shoushou lowered his head to look at his crotch, and hesitated for a moment. Ding? "Mine is fine, there's no need …"
Chapter 240 - Canvas of the Golden Oracle Bone Beast
The skeleton was nothing more than a skeleton.
On the stage, there were at least a dozen skeletons wearing colorful dresses dancing happily and intensely. This was a dance that no one had ever seen before. Even if An Zheng had extraordinary experience, he was the one who said he had seen it before. The first money he made after leaving the Tantai Clan was when he went overseas on a big ship. He exchanged it for a large amount of jewelry and jades from the natives, using only some porcelain and tea leaves.
Tan Taiche managed this kind of business for two whole years. In the end, because of the large number of people who followed him, the local people became more shrewd and did not earn much anymore, so he used the huge amount of money he received in these two years as his auction house. One of the crystal skulls from an overseas tribe was sold for millions of silver taels in one go, and this time, the door was opened.
Therefore, Tan Taiche's experience could not be compared with ordinary people. Later on, because the business in Da Xi became bigger and bigger, it attracted the attention of those big families, and the Tantai Clan was no exception. In order to prevent the Tantai Clan from seizing the wealth that he had earned by working hard for more than ten years, Tan Taiche started to use the remote control. He worked in the State of Yan's Punishment Department alone and almost never returned to Da Xi.
However, Tan Taiche naturally had his own methods of control, so he would definitely not casually spread them out.
"What the hell is this place?"
Du Shoushou was startled for a moment, then lowered his head to look at good old man Mao'er. good old man also seemed to have recovered from the shock quite a bit, as he poked her head out of Du Shoushou's embrace and looked at the dancing skeletons. After waiting for a while, it suddenly raised its head and called out towards the stage.
A meow sounded.
The skeletons on the stage suddenly exploded. Each and every one of them had a hideous look on their faces. Like ghosts, they floated down from the stage and pounced on the three of them.
"Charm!"
The long blade in Tan Taiche's hand swept out, the blazing blade light swept all the skeletons in all directions. But a moment later, the skeletons scattered on the ground started to piece together again, and continued to move towards An Zheng and the others. However, even after throwing himself forward a few times, it was blocked by Tan Taiche's blade edge. These skeletons didn't have very strong attack power, but it didn't matter how they were attacked. If they didn't die, then it would be very troublesome. Especially those mournful howls, which seemed to be able to pierce through the eardrums and bore into the brain, which made people even more irritable.
Du Shoushou used his Triton to push back the skeleton while asking, "What is Heart's Charm?"
Tan Taiche hacked apart six to seven skeletons in front of him with a single slash. "If I haven't guessed wrong, we're currently in someone's midst of psychokinesis."
An Zheng said: "This kind of thing is not scary even if we understand it. Right now, we are in someone's fantasy world, and the more stubborn one is, the more real this world is. But this is an illusion after all, so it's not a big threat to us. Generally speaking, the heart and soul are formed after the death of a powerful cultivator. In other words, his grudges form an illusory world. "
Tan Taiche looked at An Zheng with admiration: "The truth is so impressive that others would look at you in a new light. You even know this?"
An Zheng shrugged his shoulders. "But the scariest part about the charm of heart is that..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the skeletons suddenly stopped their assault. Instead, they exploded one by one and shattered into pieces on the ground. Moments later, the skeletons began to regroup, and all the bones rearranged themselves. In the blink of an eye, a bone beast over ten meters long appeared in front of the three of them. This bone beast looked extremely ferocious as it lowered its head to look down on them. It opened its mouth and let out a roar as it spewed out a fierce, fishy wind.
Du Shoushou felt like he was about to be blown away, using the Triton s to poke the ground to ensure that he wasn't blown away.
"What's going on?"
Du Shoushou shouted.
An Zheng rubbed his brow: "The scariest thing about charms is... The person who has formed the Heart of Charm is not dead yet. "
Du Shoushou's f
ace suddenly became ugly: "So that's why we're almost in their dreams?"
An Zheng acknowledged: "That's about right, but if it's a dream, it's still okay, because dreams are not controlled, they can't even control the person who dreams. But the charm of the heart is different. I have never heard of anyone entering the charm of the living. We may be the first batch, but we may also be the last batch. "
Du Shoushou: "What do you mean?"
"If we find this man alive, then kill him, and he won't be able to continue harming us. If we were killed by him, there would be more of us in the future. This was the charm of his heart, and he could control it as he wished. In other words, he was the ruler here. He can conjure anything, he can create anything, and we can't. "Unless …"
Tan Taiche said: "Unless one of us has a stronger state of mind than the other."
He took a deep breath and leaped forward. The long blade drew a long tail of flame in the air and then hacked down on the body of the bone beast. A ball of faint blue light appeared outside the Bone Beast's body, blocking the blade light like a shield. Soon after, the Bone Beast appeared and wrapped around Tan Taiche like a thread. It was so densely packed that it could not be hidden.
Tan Taiche's blade kept descending, and the surrounding silk threads broke again and again, without end. An Zheng and Du Shoushou looked at each other. The two could tell what the other meant from their eyes, and then, they rushed over to their left and right.
The Bronze Bell flew out and waves of sound waves rippled out, causing the black threads to retreat like duckweed on a wave. As Du Shoushou brandished his Triton, a wave of golden light, like that of a mad demon, hacked apart a few of the threads. The two of them rushed forward from the left and right, and helped protect Tan Taiche.