Chapter 62 The Ghost King Awakens

+++

date="2021-02-07"

title="Chapter 62 The Ghost King Awakens "

weight="127302"

series = ["Tianbao Fuyao Lu"]

mode = "manual"

+++

At dawn, Hongjun opened his eyes again and completely recovered his strength. The bed was warm and it seemed that someone had slept. The pillow still smelled of Li Jinglong's body, and there was a plum blossom on the pillow.

"Zhao Zilong." Hongjun sat up, took the plum blossom, and asked, "Did you pick it for me?"

The basin is hollow.

"Where is the fish?" Hongjun got up and looked around, but heard the excited voices of Li Jinglong and Morigen not far away.

He changed into a military uniform, for fear that the two might quarrel, but when he went into the hall, he shouted instantly.

Ah Tai wore a luxurious fur cloak, holding the cyan Fengshen fan, smiling and talking to Li Jinglong and Morigen, while the carp demon jumped on the table a few times and was listening happily. Behind Ah Tai in the hall, there is a Turkic youth with dark skin, messy hair, leather armor and several flying knives on his waist.

Hongjun thought that Ah Tai would yell "Hey Bae Monkey", but everyone was silent.

"Ah Tai!"

"Hongjun." Ah Tai uncharacteristically, laughed, with the joy of reunion in his eyes.

After a few breaths, he yelled "Hey Bae Monkey", and hugged Hongjun tightly.

Hongjun didn't expect Ah Tai to actually come. He was so excited that he didn't know what to say and said, "You are here! You are actually here!"

Ah Tai smiled and said, "The Exorcist is in trouble, how can he not come? Hongjun, this is my good buddy, Ashnajon, you two know each other, and both play with flying knives."

"Galasmi." The Turkic young man put his hand on his left chest and saluted Hongjun, meaning "hello", Hongjun hurriedly clasped his fists in return.

Li Jinglong said: "Now that there is still a lack of eternal thinking, everyone will be there."

"It's too far." Ah Tai said, "I suggest we act first, don't wait for him, just leave a letter."

It turned out that over a month ago, Ah Tai brought the appointment papers to gather the past tribes on the side of Guwu Sun Road. Just after twenty days after he settled down, he received the news from Li Jinglong's caravan, and immediately set off on his way. To Hexi.

After a pinch, Qiu Yongsi asked him to send the letter to the West Lake Villa. After the letter was delivered, he had to wait for it to be forwarded. Even if Qiu Yongsi flew over, it would not be possible to arrive before the beginning of spring.

"One is one," said Li Jinglong. "There are two more fresh troops, so I feel more relieved."

"Come and see." Ah Tai replied, "When I passed Yadan, I caught one of these."

Said that Ah Tai looked like he was free, shaking his fan, and leaving the hall with them, came to the school grounds.

"Hey, Spitfire." said the carp demon, "you still fan a fan in such a winter, isn't it cold?"

"This is demeanor." Ah Tai smiled reservedly and waved the Fengshen fan. The ring on his hand shone lightly. The wind suddenly became warmer, and a thousand heavy snow was rolled up.

"If you were there that day," Morigen said, "you don't have to be so tired from fighting with Xuannv."

When the autumn heat was heavy, a group of people sat waiting for Ah Tai to fan a cool breeze. With this reminder, Hongjun immediately realized that, yes! With Ah Tai here, you won't be afraid of the snowstorm!

"The Snow Demon is second." Ah Tai walked across the school field and came to a cage. Inside, squatted a man with ragged clothes, a hideous face, and a bit terrifying eyes.

"We caught him when we passed Yadan."

When Hongjun saw it, he knew it was a monster, but he didn't know what it was. When he saw it, the carp monster yelled in fright and shouted, "Snake!"

The monster was a sand snake, his eyes were straight at the crowd, and the snake core was thrown out from time to time, and his expression was rather sleepy. After all, winter is the season of dormancy, but by accident, Ah Tai caught him back and looked exhausted without eating or drinking for many days.

Sand Snake's voice was low and dumb, and he replied: "You promised not to kill me."

Ah Tai said gracefully: "You also promised to be honest and tell them, what did you hear?"

"The war dead ghoul king has fallen into their hands." The sand snake looked at Hongjun with fear in his eyes, and said, "They found the life of White Deer, and the Demon King asked the plague god to use White Deer's mana as soon as possible to gather. Fight the army of dead ghouls, ready to send troops at any time to assist the present-day demons and kill the emperor in the world, that's it."

"Wait!" Hongjun was shocked and trembled, "Say it again?!"

Sand Snake raised his eyes and looked at Hongjun.

It turned out that the sand snake's former residence was not far from the general tomb of Yadan. Twenty years ago, it was successful in cultivation. When the Profound Girl and the Plague God arrived, it was incorporated into the Demon King and became a messenger. After that, after a few moments, they reported a letter, and by the way, they helped Xuannv buy some sesame seeds from the Shazhou Night Market to run errands for the two big monsters.

The Plague God was originally from it, and was sent by the Demon King to stay here, while the Xuan Nu was a native monster.

"Wow." Hongjun said, "So the monster still has a household registration?"

"Xuannv was not like this before." The sand snake looked at Hongjun. Among the crowd, only Hongjun could feel a little cordial, but he was very energetic but very majestic. He thought it might have something to do with the demon, but it wittyly shut up Asked and said, "Later, everyone heard that her temperament changed drastically."

"Everyone?" Morigen frowned. "How many monsters do you have?"

"They were transferred away the year before last." Sand Snake said, "birds and beasts, flying in the sky, swimming in the water, I know a lot about it."

"Where did you go?" Li Jinglong suddenly felt in trouble.

Sand Snake replied: "I don't know, they were all transferred away by the Demon King for the demon to drive them?"

Ah Tai only asked briefly about the origin that day, but he didn't expect to be intermittently, and was even more inquisitive by Li Jinglong.

"How did they contact?" Li Jinglong asked again.

"Through a painted wall of Mogao Grottoes." Sand Snake replied.

Everyone: "!!!"

Ah Tai held his forehead and patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder, meaning that I couldn't force a confession. You have to come.

Li Jinglong couldn't take care of the things next to him anymore, and asked five to ten, Sand Snake was very cooperative, almost always answering questions-on the painting wall, the form of the Demon King was the shadow of a dragon. This conspiracy has been planned since 20 years ago. Zhang Hao first came to Dunhuang and found a mysterious woman living in seclusion at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain. Eighteen years ago, the two demons worked together to catch a spirit beast. Legend has it that this spirit beast lived in a mural in Mogao Grottoes. Every once in a while, they will come to the world to give birth.

The Plague God and the Profound Girl, when it left the Mogao Grotto and was born into the world, successfully intercepted it, polluted it with demonic energy, and continued to refine it.

"White Deer." Morigen murmured, and glanced at Li Jinglong.

"That beauty you were looking for?" Ah Tai asked unexpectedly.

The carp demon reminded: "Now I have become a man."

"Don't mention it." Morigen said with a hand on his forehead, "Lu Xu is unclear about his life or death. How can he be bothered about whether he is a man or a woman now?"

"I don't know what it is." Sand Snake replied, "But the god of plague was beaten in embarrassment that day. I remember clearly that he asked me to find a helper..."

While hunting the White Deer, the God of Plague obviously ran into a formidable opponent, who beat him hard enough. And the white deer caught back also had a small problem-the body escaped, only the pure spirit body. Morigen said immediately: "The white deer who has lost their body, if they don't have a place to live, will soon return to Tianmai."

"Later, the plague god and the mysterious girl controlled the white deer, corroded its body with demonic energy, and then used its mana to drive and fight the dead ghouls one by one..."

However, it took an extremely long time to completely demonize the white deer. This process lasted for nearly ten years. After the white deer turned into a black deer, it took another eight years to assimilate the big and small corpse kings who fought against the dead. It was finally confirmed that Liu Fei and his team were the only ones who were able to get out of the coffin willingly, driven by the two monsters.

The other great king was still asleep, but the Demon King couldn't wait, and ordered Xuan Nu and the Plague God to regain Hexi as soon as possible, especially to get rid of the thorn in Geshu Han.

So Xuan-nv asked Liu Fei to lead the ar of ghouls and act alone. It was expected that Liu Fei was awakened by Chang Lang's accidental hitting. Then, Xuan-nv was furious and personally summoned a cloud of black fog from the mural, vowing to Capture Liu Fei back alive. Immediately afterwards, on the road, found the other half of Bailu who was reborn 18 years ago!

"Where is Lu Xu?" Morigen trembled.

"I...I don't know what method they used." Sand snake replied, "Anyway, after she went back, she was injured. You beat her, right?"

The Sand Snake observed the crowd, but could not get an answer, and said: "Later they went to Yadan, and the spirit beast woke up the ghost king. He was gathering one hundred thousand dead ghouls and preparing to send troops to Yumen Pass..."

"What?!" everyone shouted.

Li Jinglong realized the seriousness and looked at Ah Tai. Ah Tai helplessly stretched his hands and said, "When I heard the news earlier, I hurried over."

Hongjun suddenly heard that the most troublesome war dead ghoul king was leaving the coffin, and his skills were still better than Liu Fei. He immediately thought of the ghoul slaughter city, the guard in front of Yumen Pass, and his uncle! Immediately, his heart was filled with fear, as if he had seen the horror of wolves.

"What to do?" Hongjun trembled.

Li Jinglong promptly said: "When will the troops be dispatched?"

"The day after tomorrow? Yesterday? The day before yesterday?" The Sand Snake held his finger. He didn't know how to count days in winter, and said, "They asked me to report to the Demon King because they found out..."

"Okay." Ah Tai said, "That's it."

Li Jinglong was taken aback and looked at Ah Tai, but Ah Tai said, "A surprise attack is coming."

Li Jinglong nodded and immediately turned back to the hall and said, "Combat meeting! Hurry!"

Li Jinglong rushed into the hall and said to the guard: "Inform General Jia and all the lieutenants, emergency military situation, immediately!"

The Turkic youth who called Ashnajon patted Hongjun on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry."

As soon as Li Jinglong reacted, Hongjun felt like he hadn't been for a long time, and all his worries disappeared in an instant. This time he didn't even say "Trust me", but replaced comfort with practical actions.

Hongjun nodded, then looked at the sand snake demon in the cage.

"Let me go," Sand Snake said, "You promised to let me go!"

Ashnajon drew a flying knife and looked at the sand snake. Hongjun said hurriedly, "Don't kill him."

Ashnajon took the flying knife back again. Hongjun didn't dare to call the shots. He saw the sand snake looking at himself pitifully and said, "I'll ask Changshi."

"Great King," said the Sand Snake Monster, "I really don't have any false words!"

"I'm not a great king." Hongjun replied, turning around and looking for Li Jinglong. At that time, the mansion master came and went, full of Yumen and closed the guard. While wearing armor, Li Jinglong explained to everyone what he had drawn from the captives, and pointed out the marching route, and asked Jia Zhou to arrange for guarding the post to prevent surprise attacks.

"Impossible!" Jia Zhou said, "We have a beacon tower, but we haven't reported, how could a surprise attack happen?"

"The other party has monsters that can control the wind and snow." Li Jinglong said, "Your men can't burn beacon smoke at all."

Jia Zhou was quiet for an instant. Li Jinglong sat down, took the armor and boots handed over by the soldiers, and said: "Send two thousand people to me, prepare to bring ropes and strong crossbows, and lie in ambush on the Qilian Valley. They are... , This and here." Li Jinglong clicked on a few places and said: "They are the only way to go."

Jia Zhou acted decisively and shouted: "Go! Go all! Send five thousand elite soldiers to Li Changshi!"

On the map, draw a red line from Yadan, pass through the northwestern route of Qilian Mountains through the southwest, pass through Yumen Pass, and finally enter Yumen County.

Ah Tai pondered: "They came from Yadan. Let's rush over now. If there are no accidents, they will be able to arrive first. But 200,000 dead ghoul cavalry, how do you deal with it?"

Li Jinglong said: "I'll talk about the battle plan soon."

"The snake demon..." Hongjun asked, pointing away.

"Let's go back and put it back." Li Jinglong put on his armor, walked out of the hall quickly, and replied, "The Exorcist listens to orders!"

Ah Tai and Morigen answered immediately, and Hongjun replied: "Yes!"

Li Jinglong looked back at Hongjun and said, "Either you stay and stay with your uncle..."

"I have to go with Chang Shi." Hongjun sorted the flying knives and said back to Jia Zhou, "Uncle, don't worry."

Morigen and Li Jinglong looked at each other, and Li Jinglong nodded slightly, imperceptibly.

Jia Zhou said: "Go, come back safely."

Li Jinglong, Hongjun, Ah Tai, Morigen, and the Turkic youth came out of the mansion, stepped on their horses, and went out of the city.

However, out of the city, Li Jinglong restrained his horse in the wasteland, seeming to ponder.

Hongjun: "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"Will it be a spy?" Ah Tai naturally expected that there would be such a stop, so he turned his horse's head around, and everyone had a second small meeting.

Hongjun: "..."

Hongjun watched this scene a lot, and immediately understood Li Jinglong's appearance without a teacher, he was made for the sand snake monster! Xindao, you two are too cunning!

"I don't think so." Li Jinglong replied.

Morigen said: "I don't think it is like it. When Chang Shi asked, he was very scared."

Ah Tai pondered, "Yeah" and said, "I didn't expect it to be so scared."

"What are you afraid of?" Hongjun asked, "I didn't find it at all."

"You." Ashnajon said suddenly.

Hongjun: "???"

Ah Tai stopped him with a look and smiled: "Hongjun, you can call him Qiong. He is very similar to you, and he likes to tell the truth."

"In your words, I am the heart of a child." Ashnajon said leisurely.

"Why are you afraid of me?" Hongjun asked.

"Okay." Li Jinglong stopped the discussion and said, "Then, everyone will act together and explore first."

Everyone answered and set off.

The carp demon said behind Hongjun again: "It is afraid of you, just like I am afraid of cats."

Only when Hongjun remembered that his father was a peacock and his adoptive father was a phoenix, snakes seemed to have a natural fear of powerful avian monsters, so he stopped asking more questions.

With a whistle, Ah Tai smiled at Hongjun and said, "Hongjun! Throw Zhao Zilong over."

The carp demon said: "Spitfire! What do you want to do?!"

Ah Tai replied: "I haven't seen you for so long, I miss the boss's hairy legs. Come and caress me."

Everyone laughed. Hongjun expected Ah Tai to play with Zhao Zilong, so he threw the carp monster over, and Ah Tai grabbed the carp monster and ran to the front.

The wind gradually got stronger, and the riders left Yumen County and galloped on the plain. Hongjun only felt that the horses he was riding were running very slowly, far less than the previous horse Shenjun. However, when he had a nightmare, he chopped and chopped and killed him cleanly, and he felt guilty.

"Is it better?" Li Jinglong rode his horse and came to Hongjun's side.

Hongjun nodded, and Li Jinglong asked again: "Shall I take you?"

Hongjun waved his hand to indicate that it was OK. Morigen's words last night more or less untied his heart knot. Although the "Demon Seed" matter still made him doubtful, he still felt weird when he saw Li Jinglong, but At least facing Li Jinglong's anxiety, it has already eased a lot.

"Want to stay in Yumen?" Li Jinglong asked again.

Others, consciously or unconsciously, speeded up and left them at the end, as if they had negotiated well, leaving them a chance to speak.

Hongjun tilted his head, looked at Li Jinglong, and replied, "I don't want to."

"Why?" Li Jinglong asked again.

"I'm afraid to miss you." When Hongjun saw Ah Tai go and return today, he suddenly gave up the idea. He once thought that their departure was a farewell, but those who left would always come back with new friends.

Li Jinglong said again, "But there is your uncle here."

Hongjun slowed down and crossed the creek with Li Jinglong, then speeded up again, thought about it, and replied, "The northwest is too cold to live in."

Li Jinglong laughed and said, "Then tell it by yourself, but I won't say it, otherwise your uncle will hate me and recruit another enemy."

When Hongjun thought of Chongming, he also laughed.

"Come here." Li Jinglong reached out to Hongjun again and said, "I will take you."

A dream suddenly appeared in Hongjun's mind. The nine-year-old Li Jinglong was waiting in the alley, reaching out to him and leading him into the Exorcism Division.

He held his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he would be lost, but he led him into the magic circle that was never recovered, and eventually made him lose everything he once had...

Hongjun: "Drive!"

Li Jinglong shouted from behind and said, "Wait!"

Li Jinglong flicked his horse's rein and followed closely.

Ahead, Ah Tai rode a horse, along with Morigen and Ashnajon along the foot of the mountain towards the northwestern Qilian Mountains.

Ashnajon looked back from time to time, only to see Hongjun and Li Jinglong on the wasteland, one after the other, becoming two small black spots in the world.

"Don't look at it." Ah Tai smiled, "I have a master."

Ashnajon immediately replied casually: "You people in the Central Plains have this rule? Whoever sees it first is who?"

Morigen was startled, and then realized that he couldn't help being funny.

Ah Tai said to Morigen: "Don't laugh, Morigen, I haven't laughed at your destined male daughter-in-law yet."

Morigen's smile stopped abruptly, his face flushed, and then his brows wrinkled again.

"In your Exorcist Division, it seems that each has its own troubles," Ashnajon said.

Ah Tai casually said, "No? Now I am going to save Morigen's lover."

"Not yet." Morigen replied, "Don't talk nonsense."

Ashnajon said again: "The ‘Magic Seed’ you mentioned is on the kid playing with the knife behind?"

"Don't tease him." Ah Tai replied with a serious expression, "Joan, I don't care how you want to play on weekdays, don't touch Hongjun."

Ashnajon smiled indifferently and said, "If he wants to follow me, why should he find someone else?"

Morigen replied, "Do you have a heart lamp with a long history? You can't restrain the devilish energy in Hongjun's body."

Ah Tai pondered and said, "Morigen, it's a big deal. Are you sure that Hongjun is really what the snake demon said?"

The carp monster exposed half of the fish head from Ah Tai's arms, always looking at Ashnajon and listening to the conversation.

"Before you arrived, we had already fought hard once." Morigen replied, "Hongjun was in a nightmare, seeing the death of his parents, the magic seed was aroused."

The carp demon suddenly said: "Does the heart lamp really have the ability to dispel the devilish energy? Alas, our family Hongjun, why is it so pitiful?"

"Leave it to Chang Shi." Morigen said helplessly, "Look at his luck."

The carp demon said again: "Look at his luck? Are you serious? This is not a good thing!"

Everyone: "..."

"Why do you say that?" Ashnajon asked without understanding.

When Ah Tai was asked impatiently, he simply explained: "The'monster' in Hongjun's body may only be dispelled by the heart lamp in Li Jinglong's body. Today we are discussing this. After this war, Li Jinglong will Go to Yaojin Palace in Taihang Mountain to see if there is a solution."

Ashnajon thought for a while and sang: "In the dark grassland, my beloved girl, a lamp lighted for me, can call dawn—drive!"

It was a song of the Turkic people. Ashnajon's meaning is obvious. Love can dispel darkness.

Ah Tai couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head and said, "He doesn't understand."

Snow fell again, and everyone gathered at the foot of Qilian Mountain. Morigen threw a leather armor at Hongjun, and Hongjun put it on and moved his arms. Ah Tai waved his fan and the strong wind whipped up and sent the five people up to a cliff on the top of the mountain. On the cliff there was a small wooden house that monitors military affairs. Standing here and looking out, you can see the end of the Great Wall under the sunset.

From the beginning of Liaodong, the Great Wall winds through the Bohai Sea, Lukou, Hebei, Jinyang, Guanzhong... vast and vast, passing through nearly a hundred counties, connecting Qin Shiming, Moon and Han Shiguan, connecting the ancient times, The immortal deeds of the emperors who appeared on the stage, connected the songs of the five beasts tossing outside the Great Wall, connected the vast land of China with time, and reached here, extended to the vast land in the winter, and finally returned nothingness.

There was a pungent corpse breath in the wind, even Hongjun could smell it, it was already very obvious.

"Where is the ambush?" Ah Tai asked.

The setting sun shines across the Great Wall from the northwest to the mountains. Li Jinglong was holding a wisdom sword and wearing armor, pointing towards the distance, motioning everyone to look.

There are abandoned ancient beacon towers on both sides of the mountain range. The soldiers sent by Jia Zhou moved faster than them. They have dropped hooks from the heights, lurking on both sides of the mountain range, shooting out more than ten tough ropes, and falling to everyone. On the cliff.

Morigen changed to Chang Lang, biting the rope, twisting around the big stone, and whispered: "The army of war dead ghouls is approaching here. Where did Liu Fei go?"

In fact, Liu Fei bid farewell to them after solving the day of Hongjun's enchantment and left. Li Jinglong didn't care about finding his whereabouts, but guessed that he was mostly lying in ambush nearby. Or follow the army of dead ghouls and watch the action.

"I'll rely on you later." Li Jinglong said, "Hongjun, as soon as the war dead ghoul army passes here, you use a flying knife to cut off the snow peaks on both sides."

Hongjun stood in front of the cliff with his palms open, and the four swordsmen were combined into one, Modao appeared and nodded.

Ashnajon was very surprised and looked at Hongjun.

"Can you use it?" Chang Lang asked worriedly.

Hongjun replied: "It has been fully recovered, everyone don't need to worry."

Li Jinglong observed the nearby terrain for a while, and said: "There are several places on the cliff where you can use your strength to settle down. I will trouble you later."

Everyone nodded and looked into the distance, the setting sun was like blood, little by little toward the horizon, gradually sinking. A black wave appeared on the horizon, and there seemed to be thousands of troops and horses coming towards the end of the Great Wall.

A full 200,000 battle dead ghoul army! On the deserted Gobi, the army rushed to the Great Wall like a tide, and smashed into it!

Ah Tai was dumbfounded, but Ashnajon laughed and said, "This group of monsters doesn't intend to avoid others."

"Two hundred thousand army." Morigen said, "No matter what county town, when the iron hoof arrives, it will be crushed to death."

Li Jinglong said suddenly: "Hongjun."

Hongjun turned his head and looked at Li Jinglong.

The light of the setting sun shone in front of the two, on Li Jinglong's handsome side face, he seemed to have something to say, and looked at Hongjun.

"They are here!" Morigen interrupted Li Jinglong's unspoken words.

Hongjun immediately looked towards the valley, and saw that the army of war dead ghouls crashed into a large piece of the Great Wall and swarmed in from the gap. The forward was already mighty and rushed into the gorge. Then the world changed color, and a cold wind surged in. Accompanied by the strong wind, it is the overwhelming blizzard!

"It's not time yet!" Li Jinglong grasped Hongjun's hand tightly, and the ground kept shaking. More and more cavalry poured into the valley, and everyone on the cliff held their breath.

Chang Lang let out a low growl, and his pupils shrank instantly. With the last gleam of dim sunlight, he saw the two horses in the main army crossing the Great Wall.

One of the horses is riding a tall warrior, the warrior is covered with iron armor. On the other horse, riding a thin young man in a black scout uniform was Lu Xu!