Chapter 26

"Chao Ghost!!"

Lin Heier roared, waking everyone except Wu Pifu.

She stood beside Wu Pifu and said loudly, "Many of them are Chao Ghosts, all wandering ghosts killed by those paper effigies, or people killed by horse bandits who turned into paper effigies. Either it's an illusion, or their strength is very weak. Don't be deceived."

Chao Ghost, the Chao Ghost in "the tiger acts as a tiger's helper."

Everyone felt a little relieved, but looking at the stiff and terrifying humanoids appearing densely from the mist, everyone still felt cold in their hearts.

Amida was burying his head in making the launcher. The entire launcher was more than eight meters long and divided into four parts. In order to be able to send Wu Pifu to a height of fifty meters with these simple materials, Amida adopted a combined propulsion structure. Because it was bamboo, it had great toughness, and combined with vines, it created a structure similar to a spring. Four sets of projects pushed in sequence, and finally, it could throw objects to a very long distance and a very high height, but accuracy could not be achieved.

And this set of equipment also had a disadvantage, that is, it occupied a huge area. Not only did it occupy most of the courtyard, but it also needed to use vines to connect to the walls of the surrounding buildings. The complexity was amazing for people of this era.

This was the critical moment for the manufacture of this set of equipment. Amida didn't look up and shouted to the others, "Give me an hour, no, fifty minutes is fine, and I will have it made immediately!"

Everyone looked at Wu Pifu again, but he just looked up at the air, still maintaining a cross-legged posture without saying a word, his body slightly adjusting to a degree invisible to everyone.

At this point, the situation was very clear. Amida and Wu Pifu would not take action. Only Lin Heier, Xu Rongyu, and Xu Shilan were the combat power at this time.

Lin Heier naturally took the lead. She stepped on the ground, and under the operation of the lotus footwork, she crossed the half-court like flowing water. She took a torch in one hand and stood in front of everyone. Then, Xu Shilan followed closely, also taking a torch in each hand and standing at the front of the courtyard.

Xu Rongyu's face was pale. At this time, it was impossible to lose face. Although his hands and feet were shaking constantly, he stood beside the two women.

Fortunately, the layout of the entire righteous manor was favorable to them. The main building was a single-opening mouth-shaped building complex, with buildings on the left and right behind, and only a courtyard in front facing the woods. This was also the reason why everyone guarded this righteous manor without leaving.

At this moment, the three stood in front of the entrance of the righteous manor's main building with six torches. Facing them were dense stiff humanoids. Lin Heier's face was firm. She took the lead and greeted them with torches, waving the torches at the first few humanoids.

The firelight shone and dispersed the mist, and once this mist was lost, the humanoids immediately dissipated like clouds and smoke.

"It really is an illusion!" Lin Heier was energetic and shouted in a delicate voice.

The other two were also energetic, each waving torches at the humanoids.

For a time, countless humanoids dissipated in front of the six torches, but the mist was endless, and the humanoids were endless. These humanoids still rushed forward in that terrifying posture. Gradually, the speed at which Xu Shilan and Xu Rongyu waved their torches began to drop, and both felt their arms sore and weak.

Just then, Lin Heier's face changed drastically, and she shouted to the two, "Be careful!"

Under the roar, the two immediately felt a cold breath rushing toward them. In this mist, a half-human, half-paper thing suddenly flashed out and rolled toward the two. Seeing that the two were about to be rolled in, Xu Rongyu suddenly threw Xu Shilan down, and then one of his thighs was rolled by this thing, and his whole body was hung in the air and dragged away.

Seeing that Xu Rongyu was about to be dragged into the mist, suddenly at this moment, a roar exploded and spread, like thunder and whistling. Everyone felt their ears ringing constantly. In a trance, it seemed that a blood-red red tiger was roaring to the sky in this righteous manor.

With the spread of this sound, the mist disappeared completely in an instant, and the thousands of Chao Ghost humanoids also disappeared. Lin Heier and Xu Shilan then saw a paper effigy rolling Xu Rongyu's leg and about to fly away.

Lin Heier stepped on the ground and rushed to the side of the paper effigy. She waved the two torches in her hand in turn, burning the paper effigy until it squeaked. It could only drop Xu Rongyu and float away alone. And once it was out of Lin Heier's torch, the flames on its body immediately began to turn green and then disappeared.

At the same time, dozens of paper effigies floated in and out from the woods, and a half-paper, half-flesh thing stepped out of the woods step by step. Lin Heier saw clearly that this half-paper, half-flesh thing was revealing Xu Zhenshan's appearance!

Just then, the surrounding mist swept over again, and the thousands of Chao Ghost humanoids appeared again and rushed toward the three.

Lin Heier waved the torches repeatedly to drive away the Chao Ghosts, while Xu Shilan rushed to Xu Rongyu and pulled him up. She didn't care whether he was dead or alive, dragged him, and ran toward the righteous manor. The three fought and walked, and soon came to the righteous manor's courtyard. They crossed a line of spread firewood. These firewood were also sprinkled with a little oil. Lin Heier guarded behind Xu Shilan. After Xu Shilan dragged Xu Rongyu into the firewood boundary, she immediately threw the torch at the firewood pile.

Immediately, raging flames burned in the courtyard, completely blocking the only entrance outside the righteous manor building complex, and those Chao Ghost humanoids dared not cross this fire line at all, only daring to make ghost cries and howls four or five meters outside the fire line. At the same time, they were constantly changing their images, from human forms to various limb-missing, terrifying dead people, or turning into fierce ghosts with green faces and fangs. Outside the entire fire line, it was as terrifying as hell.

Lin Heier didn't look at the terrifying scenes outside the fire line. She ran to Xu Rongyu's side in a few steps and turned his face out. She saw Xu Rongyu's face was iron-blue, but his eyeballs were still moving, and his teeth were biting hard. Obviously, his life was still preserved.

Lin Heier breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Shilan also stood up panting. She looked at the fire line with worry and said, "I could only collect so much firewood these days, and the oil is not enough. It will burn for twenty minutes at most, and then the flames will go out..."

The two looked at Amida at the same time. Amida was tying the launcher to the surrounding walls. Looking at it, it was estimated that it would take a while to finish, while Wu Pifu on the other side was still in a cross-legged posture, looking motionless. Only Lin Heier's face was happy, but then she was worried again.

Wu Pifu's lower body sat down half a step further, and he was one step closer to achieving the Sitting Lotus Jin. This speed was simply incredible, but even so, it was impossible for him to achieve it within twenty minutes.

Lin Heier was silent for a while, then said decisively, "If it doesn't work, just burn this building directly to drag out the last time... Do human efforts, obey heaven's will!"

Just when Lin Heier and Xu Shilan were worried, Xu Rongyu was in a semi-comatose state, Amida was focused on the final manufacturing and debugging of the launcher, and Wu Pifu was pouring all his attention into practicing the Sitting Lotus Jin, the thing with Xu Zhenshan's face and half-paper, half-flesh body came to the fire line.

"Rongyu, why lock your father outside? Father has already attained the Dao, and I am here to take you to the Heavenly Realm!"

The half-paper effigy's head was flesh, the neck to the chest was paper, the arms were flesh, and the lower body was paper. The image was indescribably strange and terrifying. The words spit out from its mouth also seemed to carry some kind of magic. Just hearing it in the ears of everyone present made goosebumps rise all over their bodies, just like scraping the glass surface with the sharpest iron wire.

Xu Rongyu screamed and covered his ears. Strands of blood seeped out from his ears. Although Xu Shilan's situation was slightly better, she also showed pain and covered her ears.

Everyone saw the half-paper effigy approach the fire line. It opened its mouth to inhale, and its thin paper body actually expanded like a balloon, and then it flicked its hand and hit the flames. With a crisp sound, its palm hit the flames, and the flames immediately turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Not good!"

Lin Heier's face changed greatly. She immediately took off the red soft spear from behind her waist, shook it hard, turned it into a long spear form, and then pointed it directly at the green flames, while An Jin erupted and passed along the red soft spear into the flames.

Sure enough, they were mutually reinforcing and restraining. This An Jin erupted, and as soon as it met the flames, it immediately stimulated the flames to surge, driving away the green color and restoring the orange-yellow flame appearance.

The half-paper effigy looked at Lin Heier with those dull dead eyes, and then the half-paper effigy actually said, "So it is the Yellow Lotus Holy Mother in person. The Old Mother still misses you, saying that I must take you back, and you can definitely become a maid under the Old Mother's seat."

Lin Heier felt cold in her heart, but her hands didn't stop. The red soft spear shook and pierced into the flames again. An Jin erupted again, and the orange-yellow flames immediately surged, making the nearby Chao Ghosts disappear in a large area. Only the half-paper effigy stood in place without hindrance.

At this time, dozens of other paper effigies floated to the fire line. They flew around, moaning and calling, and the half-paper effigy raised its arm again. Its palm seemed to be holding a very heavy stone tablet. Between lifting light as if heavy, it slapped the red soft spear with a palm.

The two fought a round in the flames. Lin Heier immediately erupted with An Jin, and the red soft spear in her hand extended forward, but the counter-shock force returned from this red soft spear was not the expected An Jin counter-shock force, but a cold breath. In an instant, her arms holding the spear were like being frozen by cold ice. Her arms could no longer hold the red soft spear, and her whole body rolled backward, rolling at least seven or eight meters away.

Blood sprayed all the way, and it condensed into cold ice before it landed. On the road where Lin Heier rolled, the ground was full of blood-colored ice dregs.

The half-paper effigy severely injured Lin Heier with one blow. It slapped the fire line with another tablet-shattering palm. A large area of the fire line turned green and then went out and disappeared. Then the half-paper effigy stepped into the courtyard and reached out to grab Lin Heier, who was rolling on the ground.

"My life is over..." Lin Heier's whole body was stiff at this time. That strange cold air froze her Qi and blood operation. For a time, she couldn't move, and could only close her eyes and wait for death.

At this critical moment, another roar like thunder and whistling exploded. A figure crossed Xu Shilan, Xu Rongyu, and Lin Heier, and almost flashed between the half-paper effigy and Lin Heier in one breath.

"Sitting Lotus Jin!"

The figure crossed his legs and sat, one palm supporting the waist, one palm supporting the sky, facing the tablet-shattering hand of the half-paper effigy that changed from a claw to a palm!

(End of chapter)