Chapter 26

"Chang Ghost!!"

Lin Heier gave a roar, waking everyone except Wu Pifu.

She stood beside Wu Pifu and said loudly: "Many of them are Chang Ghosts, all wandering ghosts killed by those paper effigies, or crowds killed by bandits who turned into paper effigies. Either they are illusions, or their strength is very weak. Don't be deceived."

Chang Ghost, the Chang Ghost in "the tiger helps the evil."

Everyone felt slightly relieved, but looking at the dense, stiff, and terrifying humanoids appearing from the mist, everyone's hearts were still terrified.

Amadai 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 send Wu Pifu to a height of fifty meters with these simple materials, Amadai 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 engineering pushed in sequence, eventually being able to throw objects to a very far distance and a very high height, but the accuracy really couldn't be achieved.

And this set of equipment had another disadvantage: it occupied a huge area. Not only did it occupy most of the courtyard, but it also needed to be connected to the walls of the surrounding buildings with vines. Its complexity could be called a work of ghosts and gods for people of this era.

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

Everyone looked at Wu Pifu again. He just looked up at the air, still maintaining a straddling posture without a word, his body slightly adjusting to a degree invisible to everyone.

At this point, the situation was very clear. Neither Amadai nor Wu Pifu would take action. Only Lin Heier, Xu Rongyu, and Xu Shilan were the combat power at this time.

Lin Heier naturally took the lead. With a step, her lotus footwork operated, and she slid across the half-field 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 dam field.

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

Fortunately, the layout of the entire righteous manor was favorable to them. The main building was a "mouth"-shaped building complex with a single opening. Behind, left, and right were buildings. Only the front dam field faced the woods, which was why everyone guarded this righteous manor without leaving.

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

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

"It really is an illusion!" Lin Heier was energized and shouted.

The other two were also energized, each waving their 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 decrease, and both felt their arms sore and weak.

Just at this moment, 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 towards them. In this mist, a half-human, half-paper thing suddenly flashed, rolling towards 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 mid-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 like 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, along with the thousands of Chang Ghost humanoids. Lin Heier and Xu Shilan then saw a paper effigy rolling Xu Rongyu's leg and about to fly away.

Lin Heier stepped and rushed to the side of the paper effigy, waving the two torches in her hand in turn, burning the paper effigy until it squeaked, and it could only drop Xu Rongyu and float away alone. And once it escaped from 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 at this moment, the surrounding mist swept over again, and the thousands of Chang Ghosts appeared again and rushed towards the three.

Lin Heier waved the torches repeatedly to disperse the Chang Ghosts, while Xu Shilan rushed to Xu Rongyu and pulled him up, not caring whether he was alive or dead, dragging him and running towards the righteous manor. The three fought and walked, and soon arrived at the righteous manor's dam field. They crossed a line of laid 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, the raging flames burned on the dam field, completely blocking the only entrance outside the righteous manor's building complex. And those Chang Ghost humanoids didn't dare to 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-deficient, terrifying dead people, or turning into green-faced and fanged evil ghosts. The outside of the entire fire line was as terrifying as hell.

Lin Heier didn't look at the terrifying scene outside the fire line. She ran to Xu Rongyu's side in a few steps and turned his face over, only to see Xu Rongyu's face was pale, but his eyeballs were still moving, and his teeth were biting tightly, 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: "I could only collect this much firewood these past few 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 Amadai at the same time. Amadai was tying the launcher to the surrounding walls. Looking at it, it would take a while to finish making it. On the other side, Wu Pifu was still in a straddling posture, looking as if he was motionless. Only Lin Heier's face was happy, but then she was worried again.

Wu Pifu's lower body straddled down by half again, closer to achieving the Lotus-Sitting Force. This speed was simply incredible, but even so, he couldn't achieve it within twenty minutes.

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

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

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

The half-paper effigy's head was flesh, the neck to the chest was paper, the arms turned into flesh again, and the lower body was paper. The image was indescribably grotesque and terrifying. The words spit out from its mouth also seemed to carry some kind of magic. Just listening to it, everyone present had goosebumps, just like using the sharpest iron wire to scrape the surface of glass.

Xu Rongyu screamed and covered his ears, and 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 this half-paper effigy approach the fire line. It opened its mouth to inhale, and its thin paper body actually expanded like a balloon. Then it flicked its hand and hit the flame. With a crisp sound, its palm hit the flame, and the flame immediately turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Not good!"

Lin Heier's face changed drastically. She immediately took the red soft spear from behind her waist, shook it hard, turned it into a long spear form, and then pointed it straight at the green flame, while the hidden force erupted and passed along the red soft spear into the flame.

Sure enough, they were mutually reinforcing and restraining. This hidden force erupted, and as soon as it met the flame, it stimulated the flame to soar, driving away the green color and restoring the orange flame appearance.

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

Lin Heier's heart turned cold, but her hands didn't stop. The red soft spear shook and stabbed into the flame again, and the hidden force erupted again. The orange flame soared immediately, making the nearby Chang Ghosts disappear in a large area. Only the half-paper effigy stood in place unharmed.

At this time, the remaining dozens of paper effigies floated to the front of the fire line. They flew around, moaning and calling. The half-paper effigy raised its arm again, its palm seeming to hold a very heavy stone tablet, lifting the heavy as if it were light, and slapped the red soft spear with one palm.

The two fought a move in this flame. Lin Heier immediately erupted with hidden force, and the red soft spear in her hand extended forward, but what vibrated back from this red soft spear was not the expected hidden force counter-shock, but a cold breath. In an instant, her arms holding the spear were like being frozen by cold ice, and her arms could no longer hold the red soft spear, and she herself rolled backwards for at least seven or eight meters.

Blood sprayed all the way, and it turned into ice before it even 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 a tablet-shattering palm again. A large area of the fire line turned green completely, and then it extinguished and disappeared. And this half-paper effigy strode into the dam field and reached out to grab Lin Heier, who was lying on the ground.

"My life is over..." Lin Heier's whole body was stiff at this time. That strange cold air froze her true qi and blood operation, and for a moment 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.

"Lotus-Sitting Force!"

The figure's legs crossed and straddled, one palm supporting the waist, one palm supporting the sky, facing the half-paper effigy's tablet-shattering palm that changed from a claw to a palm!

(End of chapter)