Instantly, fear surged in my heart like a rising tide. Subconsciously, I wanted to retreat, but I didn't know if it was because I was nervous or because the Jing Ghost had controlled my body, but I couldn't move. I could only watch the strange eyes of the Jing Ghost gazing at me. Then, he raised his thin, shriveled arm and reached for me.
I was three or four meters away from the well, and the Jing Ghost's arm was only half a meter long. The strange thing was that his body didn't move. He just lifted his arm, and he was right in front of me. His fingertips almost touched the bridge of my nose.
My years of cultivation and my Qi of Dao and Qi of witchcraft were completely useless at this moment. I was like an ordinary baby that stood there and watched as the well ghost approached. I allowed the tide of fear to drown me.
Right at this moment, there was a sudden explosion that sounded like a landslide — — — — — -
"Who hasn't died since ancient times?!"
It was Zhang Kanwen's voice!
His voice was very loud, and it didn't sound like a human's voice. His voice had a strange rhythm, and an unknown power rose. The Jing Ghost's hand froze on the tip of my nose.
I was shocked by the voice, and I pulled myself together. I dodged the Jing Ghost's bony fingers and glanced in front of me. Zhang Kanwen stood there with his hands clasped behind his back. He was wearing a white robe, and he looked like an elegant scholar. However, his mouth didn't move, and I didn't know why he was making that sonorous voice.
At this moment, a bright white light rose from the edge of the well. The white light was so strong that it lit up the entire cave. I didn't know when the Jing Ghost had stepped there, but his entire body was shrouded in the white light.
Just as my eyes were fixed on him, the Jing Ghost's feet on the edge of the well disappeared. The white light seemed to contain an extremely high temperature. It was like hot water melting snow, and it directly melted the Jing Ghost's body.
First, it was his feet, then his calves, then his waist, chest … When I finally reacted, the Jing Ghost's body was only left with his neck, head, and his arm, which was still in front of me.
As expected of the lineage of Mount Wen. Although I don't know what kind of power is contained in the phrase 'Since time immemorial, who hasn't died?', and I can't sense it either, but with just a glance, an ancient evil spirit that could injure a Heavenly Master couldn't resist at all. I know what kind of enormous power this is.
I exhaled in relief, and my fear disappeared. I moved my eyes away from the edge of the well and looked at the Jing Ghost's face.
The Jing Ghost didn't seem to notice that the white light was eroding his body. Or maybe he didn't have time to notice it. His two strange eyeballs were still staring at me. I could even see the reflection of my body in his black pupils. The two withered muscles on both sides of his cheeks moved. It looked like he was squeezing a smile. It was really strange.
Just as my eyes moved, his arm moved again. Just like before, he didn't care about the white light and continued to move his arm toward my face!
The fear that had disappeared reappeared, and it was getting thicker.
What does this old ghost want to do?
I didn't have time to think. The withered finger finally touched the tip of my nose. A cold, rotten aura spread, making me shiver.
Then, the finger slid down from the tip of my nose and gently touched my cheek. The cold, rotten aura seemed to have disappeared. I even felt a little warm.
While I was still frightened, a white light suddenly exploded in front of me. The Jing Ghost's head had disappeared. The white light moved along his shoulder, and the blackened, shriveled arm looked like a burning fuse. As the white light spread, it slowly disappeared in front of my eyes.
The last thing that disappeared was the Jing Ghost's finger that was still on my cheek.
After the Jing Ghost had completely disappeared, the white light on the edge of the well also disappeared. The stone room fell into darkness again. Only the searchlights that Han Wennan and I carried emitted two beams of light.
One beam of light shone on the edge of the well, while the other beam of light shone on me.
The two beams of light shone silently for more than ten seconds. Then, the light that shone on me finally moved away and turned to Zhang Kanwen. Han Wennan's voice rang out, "Brother … Brother Zhang, that thing, did you get rid of it?"
At this time, Zhang Kanwen recovered from his daze. After letting out a long sigh, he replied, "It can be considered … temporarily solved … Zhou Yi, how are you?
That thing didn't hurt you, right? "
As he said that, he lifted his feet and walked toward me.
I shivered and came back to my senses. The fear in my heart hadn't disappeared. The cold and rotten feeling on my face had yet to disappear. My voice was trembling. I took two deep breaths and said in a panic, "I … I don't know. I think … I think he touched me."
As soon as I said that, Zhang Kanwen had already walked in front of me. He reached out to take down the searchlight above my head and shone it on my cheek.
When the light shone on my face, I instantly squinted. My vision was slowly filled with light, as though the white light had reappeared in front of me.
I didn't know why, but the panic in my heart suddenly calmed down.
Zhang Kanwen's voice rang out. He let out a sigh of relief. "You should be fine. That evil spirit didn't have time to hurt you."
Didn't have time?
I thought back carefully. At that time, Jing Gui's finger had slid from the tip of my pen to my cheek, and it had stayed on my cheek for a while. Judging from his ability to injure Yan Nantian with one glance, he could have crushed me into minced meat during that time. How could it be that he didn't have time?
Even if he had been attacked by the white light and couldn't use his full power, as long as he had used one percent of his power, I wouldn't have been able to resist him.
I understood that Jing Gui didn't have the intention to attack me at all. That was why I was unharmed at that moment!
Why didn't he attack me?
Why did he reach out and touch my cheek?
Also, Zhang Kanwen was the one who attacked him, and Zhang Kanwen was standing next to the well, very close to him. Why did he give up what was close to him and reach out to me?
Also, there was the corrosion of the white light. Although I didn't know what the white light was, and I didn't know if Jing Gui would feel pain, but Jing Gui's body was slowly disappearing into thin air. If he was a human, he would definitely be in great pain, right?
At that time, he didn't think of a way to save himself. Instead, he endured the pain and danger just to touch me?
No matter how I thought about it, it was really strange. I was dumbfounded and couldn't say a word. Zhang Kanwen and Han Wennan had recovered their composure. They discussed for a while and then used the searchlight to search for Zhang Kanwen's ancestor's ashes in the altar.
I shook my head a few times to get rid of the strange feeling in my heart. Then, I walked over and helped her.
Earlier, when we were in this cave, we only noticed the altar and the vast mountain walls around it. We didn't notice that there were piles of gray powder at regular intervals below the mountain walls.
Of course, even if we had noticed them, we wouldn't have thought that they were ashes.
In fact, they were the ashes of Wen Shan's disciples from one thousand years ago until now. According to Zhang Kanwen, this place was the holy land of Wen Shan's disciples. As long as their disciples didn't die tragically outside, they would come here when their lives were about to end. They would descend to the cave where the Tai Sui and the True Dragon Vein were. They would disperse their energy and fuse it with the unformed True Dragon Vein.
Then, he dragged his broken body and walked into the cave in the dark. He walked all the way to the altar and drank a mouthful of water from the round well. He walked to the bottom of the mountain wall and sat down cross-legged. Then, a ball of Heart Flame would gush out and incinerate his body.
After listening to him, I was shocked. Wen Shan's disciples had been working hard for the True Dragon Vein for more than one thousand years.
Even though time had passed and the Mongolian Empire had disappeared in less than a hundred years, the common people of Huaiyou had risen up and rebuilt the Nine Cauldrons. Even after hundreds of years of humiliation, until the birth of China, Wen Shan's disciples were still working hard. Maybe they had forgotten what their hard work meant, but there was no doubt that they had used their flesh and blood to pass on the pride of the past!
I turned to look at Han Wennan, who was busy collecting the ashes. I didn't want to give up.
Minister Wen had worked hard for his entire life and Wen Shan's disciples had guarded the True Dragon Vein for a thousand years. Were we going to give it to the Han family?
The True Dragon's Vein had yet to take shape. The situation that Minister Wen had painstakingly laid out to revitalize the Southern Dragon had yet to take shape. The mission that Wen Shan's lineage had to defend two years ago had yet to be completed. Once the House of Han obtained the True Dragon's Vein, it would be used by the Metaphysics Association. This semi-finished True Dragon's Vein would never be fully formed!
Perhaps from the looks of it now, it didn't matter if the True Dragon Vein was formed or not, especially to me. The incomplete True Dragon Vein was even beneficial to me. The remaining half of Tai Sui's corpse was enough for me to absorb sufficient Shaman Qi.
However, I was unwilling. It wasn't for myself, but for Wen Tianxiang and Wen Shan's disciples.
I quietly collected the ashes. My mind was churning as I tried to find a way to stop the Han family and the Metaphysics Society.
However, even after I finished collecting the ashes in the cave, I was still at a loss.
With my power, I couldn't stop the current situation. From another aspect, it was because I had taken the True Dragon Vein from the Metaphysics Society that the Metaphysics Society was willing to pay any price to find a new True Dragon Vein. That was why they were supporting the Han family.