noveltune Chapter 235 is another one?!
Chapter 235 is another one?!
Chapter 235 is more?! (4000 words)
Lu Yuan held a knife in one hand and made a hand seal with the other, chanting, "Where the Heavenly Gang points, the Earthly Fiends have no way out!"
"Where lightning strikes, paper and wood turn to dust!"
"Lend me your blade, and I'll sever your evil roots!"
"Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"
After Lu Yuan finished drinking, he suddenly spun the short knife, the tip pointing directly at the seam of the white coffin, and unexpectedly drew out a thin line of lightning.
The lightning bolt was as thin as a hair, yet extremely sharp and fast, and with a whoosh, it burrowed into the crack in the coffin.
The next instant, a piercing scream suddenly came from the white coffin.
The sound was neither human nor animal; it was more like a strange noise mixed together as cardboard was torn and bone fragments were twisted.
Immediately afterwards, the entire white coffin shook outwards with a "bang," and the coffin lid was forcibly pushed up by half a foot.
A half-paper, half-bone arm suddenly emerged from inside.
"It's a paper effigy causing trouble!"
Lin Zhaoxuan exclaimed in disbelief.
Lu Yuan remained expressionless, only shouting, "Don't let the lightning spell stop, keep suppressing it!"
Lin Zhaoxuan immediately gritted his teeth, the Thunder Token trembled again, and he chanted, "Nine Heavens Thunder Ancestor, decree to suppress demons and evil spirits!"
"Heavenly fire burns the body, earthly fire burns the bones!"
"Ray is coming!"
Before he could finish speaking, a low, muffled thunderclap suddenly rang out in mid-air.
It wasn't a sound from the clouds on the horizon, but rather as if someone had struck down a muffled thunderbolt right above everyone's heads.
The lightning struck just as it illuminated the red and white banners lining the stone path, and also the face that was finally half-revealed inside the white coffin.
That face was as white as paste, with a red "double happiness" character pasted on its forehead, but its mouth was split open to its ears, with black stitches running through the crack.
"Mother—"
Xu Erxiao's legs went weak at the sight.
Lu Yuan grabbed him and pulled him back, shouting sternly, "Don't look at his face, look at his feet!"
Xu Erxiao was startled and quickly looked down, only to find that a pair of embroidered shoes had appeared under the white coffin at some point.
The shoes are red with white uppers and two dried red velvet flowers adorning the toes.
The toe of the shoe was slowly turning towards the crowd.
"They're using the shoes as a guide!"
Lu Yuan saw through it immediately and said in a deep voice, "It wants to drag you into its 'marriage path,' to make you walk the path of ghost marriage with it!"
"Zhou Heng, slash the red thread with your sword, severing its path!"
"Cheng'an, get the black ash!"
"Second Brother, sprinkle the fire onto the red cloth on the left!"
Having been forced into a corner with no way out, the group immediately acted as Lu Yuan instructed.
With a loud shout, Zhou Heng drew his longsword, its light slicing straight through the red lines, severing three of the thin black and red ropes tied to the ground in one go.
As soon as the thread broke, the white coffin seemed to lose its support and tilted slightly.
Wang Chengan gritted his teeth, pulled out a small bag of black ash from his pocket, and threw it forward violently.
That black ash wasn't ordinary ash; it was collected ash from the bottom of incense burners, mixed with a small amount of charcoal, specifically used to suppress negative energy.
As soon as the ash was scattered, a thin layer of black mist immediately spread out on the ground, perfectly covering the embroidered shoes under the white coffin.
Xu Erxiao hurriedly stuffed the tinder and pine torch into a bundle of dry grass and threw it to the left of the red cloth.
As soon as the bundle of hay touched the red cloth, sparks immediately flew out, and flames shot up half a foot high in a flash.
The fire wasn't a big fire, but it was extremely strong, and it specifically burned the kind of red cloth that was soaked in dampness.
The red cloth, licked by the fire, immediately emitted a pungent, acrid smell, and the red shadow swayed along with it, emitting a shrill, shrill crying and laughing sound.
In an instant, the white coffin, the red demon, the copper bell, the yin poplar, and the soul-binding stone all began to stir.
The entire stone path seemed to be on fire, but it wasn't fire; it was the backlash of the Yin energy forced out.
In the midst of this chaos, Lu Yuan suddenly shouted, "Seal off!"
Lu Yuan suddenly flung the "Imperial Edict" character piece into the air, then flipped his right palm outward, his five fingers together, and the back of his hand taut.
This move is a highly refined sealing technique in Taoism, called "Heaven-Turning and Killing Palm".
The formula is simple, yet incredibly imposing: "The Heavenly Gate closes, the Earthly Gate shuts!!"
"The Yin Soul is locked away, the Yang Energy is blocked!!"
"With my hand in hand, no evil spirits may enter!"
"Supreme Lord, may this order be fulfilled immediately!"
As the last word was uttered, it was as if something invisible pressed down on his palm.
The "敕" character in the air suddenly exploded, turning into strands of fine golden light that scattered into the surroundings.
The golden light fell on the stone path, like an extremely thin net that instantly spread out to cover half a zhang (approximately 3.3 meters).
The paper hand that had just emerged from the white coffin was about to grab something when it was twisted by the fine golden net, breaking two fingers with a sickening "crack" sound.
The paper face suddenly tilted to one side, and two streams of red water suddenly gushed from its black eye sockets.
"There's a chance!"
Upon seeing this, Zhou Heng's spirits lifted, and he brandished his sword, ready to step forward.
Lu Yuan shouted sternly, "Don't get close! It's not quite dead yet!"
Sure enough, the white coffin suddenly flipped upwards, and the bottom of the coffin bulged up like the belly of a snake.
The next moment, a dark shadow darted out of the coffin and rushed straight at Song Qinghe, who was closest to it!
The dark figure moved with incredible speed, like a charred rag or a shapeless hand, drawing a chilling gust of wind through the air before instantly reaching Song Qinghe's chest.
Song Qinghe's face turned deathly pale. She barely had time to react and instinctively raised the Tai Chi Sealing Disc.
"Buzz"
The sealing disc trembled violently.
The black and white jade pieces suddenly spun faster, and the surface of the plate resembled a small yin-yang vortex, forcefully pulling the black shadow away by half an inch.
Even so, Song Qinghe was still hit in the chest by that cold wind, and she took two steps back, a trickle of blood immediately seeping from the corner of her lips.
"Junior Sister!"
Lin Zhaoxuan's eyes turned red, and he shook the thunderous command, about to unleash another round of thunder magic.
But the thing inside the white coffin had already used this attack to completely tear itself apart.
The coffin lid shattered with a "crack," scattering paper and wood everywhere.
What crawled out was not a complete corpse, but two intertwined shadowy figures.
A white blob, a red blob.
His skin was as white as a skeleton draped in mourning cloth, and his face was covered in undried paper pulp!
Her hands were as red as a female demon draped in a bridal veil, with ten scarlet fingers that were long and sharp like knives.
They were one in front of the other, as if they were never meant to be together, but were forcibly bound together in the same coffin by some evil magic, and only now have they finally broken free of their restraints.
This is the true motive behind the "red and white roads side by side".
Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan's eyes flashed with coldness, and he almost immediately shouted, "It's done!"
"They're using the white coffin as a pretext to escape!"
"Lin Zhaoxuan, he was struck white by lightning!"
"Zhou Heng, cut down the red hand with your sword!"
"Song Qinghe, use the Sealing Disc to suppress their soul gates!"
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"Cheng'an, Erxiao, don't let the red cloth rise again!"
Although everyone was in a sorry state, they knew that if they couldn't hold on, they would all perish here today, so they immediately fought desperately.
Lin Zhaoxuan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his whole body seemed to be illuminated by lightning and fire.
He held the Thunder Token horizontally in front of his chest with his left hand, and pressed two fingers of his right hand vertically onto the token, his voice as clear as metal and stone: "Here dwells the Heavenly Venerable of Universal Transformation and Responding to the Origin of Thunder!"
"Thunderous command, all evil vanquished!"
"When the vital energy returns to its original state, all evil spirits vanish!"
"Imperial Edict!"
Before he finished speaking, the blue-white lightning at his fingertips transformed into a straight line, slashing down diagonally and striking the white demon's shoulder.
Bai Sha's body jolted violently, and half of his shoulder bone immediately turned black. The paper-like skin cracked inch by inch, revealing the yellowish-black bone underneath.
At almost the same time, Zhou Heng also drew his sword, his longsword slashing diagonally, not aiming to behead or sever the body, but only to strike at Hong Sha's wrists.
The red demon was most afraid of having its hand severed by the sword technique. Upon seeing the sword coming, it immediately screamed and withdrew its hand!
With a flick of his fingers in mid-air, he actually pulled up two red cloths, attempting to wrap them around Zhou Heng's sword.
Zhou Heng had been suppressed too much along the way, and now he was desperate, letting out a low growl: "Cut it off for me!"
With a flick of his wrist, he pressed down with the sword, actually prying open the two red cloths and the malevolent energy behind them by half a foot.
Seeing that they had held firm, Song Qinghe gritted her teeth, pressed the sealing disc to her chest, made a sword gesture with two fingers, wiped the edge of the disc, and whispered urgently, "Yin and Yang separate, evil energy returns to Yin!"
"Tai Chi Wheel, seal my form!"
"Charge!"
The Tai Chi Sealing Plate lit up immediately, and the black and white halo spread out again.
This time, it was no longer just for protection, but directly aimed at the Soul Gate where the white and red evil spirits were entangled.
The two evil spirits were pressed down from all sides by thunder, lightning, sword, and disc, and immediately began to struggle fiercely.
The white demon wanted to retreat, and the red demon wanted to pounce, but they were both connected by a very faint and thin black line.
Like a rope of cause and effect pulled from the depths of the stone path, tightly binding them and preventing them from breaking apart.
Lu Yuan noticed it at a glance.
"There's something else beneath the Soul-Tethering Stone."
His eyes were extremely cold.
"It's not the two evil spirits themselves; someone has tied their souls to the hearth of the furnace!"
"No wonder they didn't disperse; the real hook was underneath."
After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he suddenly reached out and pulled out a small bag from his pocket.
When the package was shaken open, it contained half a bag of black rice, a handful of cinnabar, and a small pinch of burnt locust wood ash.
"Lin Zhaoxuan!"
He shouted sternly, "Give me three breaths of lightning fire, don't let it stop!"
Lin Zhaoxuan didn't say a word. He directly raised the command to summon lightning and chanted the lightning incantation again, forcibly suppressing the two evil spirits on the spot.
Taking advantage of this moment, Lu Yuan quickly kneaded the black rice, cinnabar, and locust ash in his palm, and with a rub of his hands, he actually made a ball of black and red mud.
With a flick of his finger, the mud ball flew up and exploded in mid-air when it was struck by lightning.
What exploded was not smoke, but a cloud of extremely fine black sand, mixed with vermilion, which landed precisely on the black lines on the two demons and the edge of the stone path after it dispersed.
Lu Yuan hissed, "Black rice seals the road, cinnabar severs the contract!"
"The ashes of the locust tree will wipe out the entire family; all the dark lines will be severed!"
"Those who borrowed the earth's veins, human energy, or soul fire, return them to me tonight!"
"break!"
As the last word "broken" was uttered, the black sand suddenly sank.
The black thread that had always bound the White and Red Duo was suddenly snapped as if by something extremely heavy, and with a "crack," it shattered completely.
The White Demon and the Red Demon simultaneously let out an extremely strange shriek.
The shriek was neither like a human voice nor like the cry of a beast; rather, it sounded like the cracking of two coffin lids being ripped open at the same time in the frigid wind.
Immediately, the white demon's head split open first, and the red demon's shoulder collapsed halfway. Its body scattered, turning into clumps of white paper ash and red cloth flakes, which flew and swirled in the air.
Before everyone could catch their breath, a "thump" suddenly came from the depths of the stone passage.
The sound was extremely deep, like someone striking an empty gong underground.
Immediately afterwards, the entire Savage Valley swayed slightly.
The copper bells on the poplar trees rang in unison.
The nine black iron nails on the surface of the Soul-Binding Stone simultaneously oozed traces of dark red liquid.
Lu Yuan's expression changed drastically, and he looked up abruptly.
"not good."
"This is not the end."
"They knocked open that deeper door underneath."
The moment Lu Yuan finished speaking, the chill that had just been suppressed suddenly rose again like a tide, slowly seeping up from the cracks in the rocks, the tree roots, and under the red cloth.
The white and red demons, who had been crushed by the combined force of lightning, talisman net, and sealing disc, had clearly turned into ashes and rags that scattered in the air, but those ashes did not die immediately after landing.
Instead, it seemed to have its own direction, climbing along the black soil strand by strand towards the Soul-Binding Stone.
"They haven't completely dispersed yet!"
Wang Chengan's voice was strained.
Lu Yuan didn't answer, but stared intently at the nine black iron nails on the surface of the Soul-Binding Stone.
Those nails, which were originally just tarnished, now looked as if they had been pushed up from the ground by something.
A thin ring of dark red seeped from the edge of the nail head, like blood, or like the juice seeping from rust.
What's even stranger is that the nail didn't move, but the stone was vibrating slightly.
It doesn't shake randomly; it moves rhythmically, one beat at a time.
It sounded like someone was tapping the stone slabs with the back of their hand below, thump, thump, thump, extremely slow and heavy, making the whole stone path feel numb.
Lin Zhaoxuan's chest heaved, but his face was extremely pale: "Brother Lu, down there—is something really about to come out?"
Lu Yuan slowly exhaled, his voice low: "I'm not coming out."
"It's something that shouldn't have been suppressed down there in the first place; it's been held back by this bureau for too long."
"The moment the Red and White Duo broke through, it was as if the threshold that was pressing down on the outside had been lifted."
"What we're hearing now is that the furnace core has awakened."
Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill run down their necks, as if an icy hand was stroking down their spines.
Song Qinghe clutched her chest, the dull pain from being grazed by the gust of wind still lingering, and a trace of blood on her lips stood out starkly against her pale face.
She glanced down at the Tai Chi Sealing Disc in her hand and noticed that the black and white jade pieces were spinning faster than before, and even the fine copper patterns on the edge of the disc were getting slightly warm.
"Fellow Daoist Lu————"
Her voice was a little weak: "This plate—is getting hot."
Lu Yuan glanced at it, his brows furrowing slightly.
"This indicates that the yin energy in this place is rising, and the sealing plate has been affected by it first."
"Don't let it stick to your chest anymore, take it out and let it hang there."
Song Qinghe immediately obeyed and held the sealing disc in her palm, three inches away from her body, not daring to get any closer.
Zhou Heng then held his sword horizontally in front of him, staring at the open space between the Soul-Binding Stone and the Yin Yang. His voice was hard due to tension: "Fellow Daoist Lu, according to you, the heart of the furnace is under this stone."
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"Were those two evil creatures there to open the door for the furnace core?"
Lu Yuan nodded.
"almost."
"The Red and White Duo were originally intended for the opening moves."
"The white demon attracts souls, the red demon disturbs the mind; first, it scatters the eyes, ears, and spirits of the living!!"
"Borrow a coffin, borrow shoes, borrow the road for a joyous funeral, and drag the person in."
"They may not amount to much, but they are best suited to be the 'keys' in this kind of nurturing environment."
"Now that the key is broken, the door will naturally rattle."
At this point, Lu Yuan suddenly raised his hand, palm down, and gently pressed it against the ground.
"Don't stand still, take three steps back."
Everyone was taken aback, but they all knew that this was not the time to ask questions, so they immediately stepped back.
The instant their toes left their original positions, a small bulge suddenly appeared on the patch of black soil in front of them.
The little package was very thin and short, like something was burrowing underground.
The next moment, the small package suddenly split open, and a pale hand slowly emerged from the soil.
The fingers were long and thin, the skin like rotten hemp paper, but the nails were unusually intact, sharp, and bluish-black.
As soon as his hand appeared, it gripped the ground, as if trying to pull himself out of the soil.
"besides?!!!"
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