Chapter 274: Ghost Baby Makes Trouble in the Mountain
The noise at the mountain gate was getting louder and louder. In order to prevent it from attracting more people, Li Daoxuan first ordered the disciples of Longhu Mountain to be on guard all around, and then he and his junior sister stepped forward and came to the side of the corpse.
The belly of the female corpse was still wriggling, as if it had sensed Li Daoxuan's prying eyes, and it was wriggling even more violently. Low roars could be heard faintly all around.
Li Daoxuan opened his divine eyes and looked at the belly of the female corpse.
In the belly, there was a baby surrounded by black air and dirty blood. He was looking at Li Daoxuan coldly with his black and white eyes. There was a bit of ferocity and a hint of fear in his eyes.
Apparently he realized that the guy with three eyes in front of him seemed difficult to deal with.
Liu Bihen was about to draw out the Lilong Sword, and wisps of sharp sword energy rippled out from the sheath, causing her long black hair to flutter slightly.
Li Daoxuan stopped her.
"Who are you looking for in Longhu Mountain?"
Li Daoxuan took a step forward, and the third eye between his eyebrows emitted a brilliant golden light that could subdue demons. He was ready to strike, locking his sight on the ghost baby in the belly of the female corpse from a distance, and demanded, with a voice as loud as thunder.
According to the previous descriptions of the disciples, the appearance of this female corpse was very strange. Li Daoxuan vaguely felt that there might be some unknown secrets behind it.
At the same time, his divine eye did not see the woman's soul. He didn't know whether it dissipated in the sunlight or was swallowed by the ghost baby.
All in all, this ghost baby of unknown origin must be hiding some secret.
The ghost baby stared at the golden light between Li Daoxuan's eyebrows, and the fear in his eyes became more and more intense. After a while, he suddenly spoke.
In other words, it was not him who was speaking, but the woman who was hanged to death who suddenly spoke.
"There are people on Longhu Mountain who are willing to kill me and my mother..."
Because of hanging, her throat became hoarse and sharp, sounding like a wild cat that had been screaming for days and nights.
When Li Daoxuan heard this, his expression froze slightly.
It was obvious that it was the ghost baby who was speaking. He was just expressing his own thoughts through the mouth of the female corpse.
Recalling what his disciples had said before, that this woman came to Mount Longhu to find a Taoist priest who had defiled her but had not taken responsibility, Li Daoxuan secretly wondered if this was a revenge drama.
Is there really a villain in Longhu Mountain?
He continued to ask: "Then tell me, who is the Taoist priest who killed you and your mother?"
The ghost baby hesitated for a moment and was slow to speak.
Seeing this scene, Li Daoxuan activated his heavenly eye without hesitation, shooting out a ray of golden light to subdue demons.
whoosh!
The golden light was like a raging fire, piercing directly through the abdomen of the female corpse and leaving a charred hole in the ghost baby's chest. The extremely strong and masculine power of subduing demons burned the ghost baby so much that it screamed continuously.
Li Daoxuan said coldly: "Tell me who is the Taoist priest who hurt you, and I may be able to help you. Otherwise, it will not just be the chest that will be shot through next."
With his current level of cultivation, the demon-subduing golden light of Erlang's Heavenly Eye is no longer something that ordinary ghosts can withstand. This ghost baby actually endured it, and although it looked very painful, the evil spirit on its body was still heavy, which showed that it had become a powerful force.
Ordinary Yin Shen realm masters would probably find it difficult to deal with him.
The ghost baby hesitated for a moment, perhaps because he was afraid of Li Daoxuan's golden light that could subdue demons, and he finally began to loosen up.
"That Taoist priest...is called Zhang Qianyang!"
Li Daoxuan was stunned for a moment, and even Liu Bihen was slightly startled.
Master?
How is this possible!
He took a step forward and was about to continue questioning when the sky suddenly darkened and then a deafening thunder sounded.
boom!
A golden bolt of lightning fell and struck the female corpse.
The terrifying power of thunder directly shattered the body of the female corpse, and even the old pine tree where she hanged herself was blown into pieces. The surrounding grass and trees were ignited by the lightning and fire, and the fire spread rapidly.
The outer disciples of Mount Longhu were startled and started shouting that the fire was breaking out.
Li Daoxuan's eyes were gloomy. He stretched out his hand, and a red light flowed around his body, emitting hot currents like a furnace.
The fire element magical power of the Great Five Elements Escape Technique!
The next moment, the burning thunder and fire flew towards his hands, like starlight, and gathered into a winding three-foot fire dragon. As Li Daoxuan gently squeezed it, it turned into ashes and disappeared.
"Master, you have good tactics, nephew."
Zhang Jiuxiao appeared beside Li Daoxuan at some point, with fluttering hair and eyes as sharp as lightning.
"It's a pity that the techniques used are not from Longhu Mountain. Could it be that the techniques from Longhu Mountain are not in my nephew's eyes?"
Li Daoxuan looked at him and did not answer. Instead, he asked, "Master, you usually stay in seclusion, why did you come so quickly today?"
The other party's attack just now seemed to be in a hurry to kill the ghost baby, but the strange thing was that the Taoist priest mentioned by the ghost baby was not Zhang Tiande as Li Daoxuan guessed, but his own master!
Would Zhang Jiuxiao be so kind?
Li Daoxuan immediately sensed something was wrong. He was afraid that Zhang Jiuxiao was afraid that he would continue the investigation and find out the Taoist's true identity from the ghost baby!
It’s a pity that now that the ghost baby has turned to ashes, the truth is no longer known.
Zhang Jiuxiao looked at him and said calmly, "Your master has come to me three times to help you get the Wordless Heavenly Book."
"I asked him to exchange it with the Yangping Zhidu seal, but he was unwilling to do so. It seems that you, his disciple, may not be very important to him."
Li Daoxuan sneered and said, "I may not be able to read the Wordless Heavenly Book, but Master can use the Yangping Zhidu Seal. Uncle Master, there is no need to test it. This deal is not worthwhile."
After a pause, he said, "Why was Master so anxious to kill that ghost just now? Now that he is dead and there is no evidence, wouldn't it be a waste of my Master's reputation?"
Many outer disciples heard what the ghost baby said just now, and there is no guarantee that they will not spread it secretly. As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, and people's words are scary. This kind of gossip spreads very quickly.
Especially at this critical moment when the next successor to the Heavenly Master is to be selected, this move is even more intriguing.
Zhang Jiuxiao glanced at him and said calmly, "My nephew, you still have too little experience. Do you really think that ghost is dead?"
Li Daoxuan was slightly stunned.
But Zhang Jiuxiao said nothing more. He looked at Li Daoxuan deeply, then turned into a flash of lightning and disappeared with a loud bang.
Li Daoxuan frowned. What did Zhang Jiuxiao mean by that?
He looked at the woman's body that had turned into ashes. Could the ghost baby survive under such powerful thunder?
For some reason, he always had a bad feeling in his heart.
…
As time passed, Li Daoxuan quickly understood what Zhang Jiuxiao meant.
The ghost baby was indeed not dead. The next day , he swaggered back and possessed a woman again. This time, without any excuses, she hanged herself. Then her belly swelled rapidly and she let out strange cries, like a night owl.
No matter how Li Daoxuan asked, he only said one thing: the person who harmed him was Zhang Qianyang.
This time, Li Daoxuan used the golden light of demon-subduing to burn through it and turned it into ashes.
But on the third day, the ghost baby appeared again.
Another woman was hanged on Longhu Mountain. Li Daoxuan took her away with the Three Realms Gourd, but he found that the moment he put the body into the gourd, the ghost baby in her belly disappeared.
Only an empty corpse was left.
Next, it was like a nightmare. Every day a hanged female corpse would appear on Longhu Mountain, with a bulging belly, shouting Zhang Qianyang's name loudly.
Li Daoxuan and others tried various methods, whether it was burning, chopping with swords, suppressing with talismans, or imprisoning with formations, but nothing worked.
The ghost baby seemed to have some kind of innate magical power that allowed it to disappear into thin air. Although it was only at the Yin Shen realm, it was at the pinnacle of escape techniques. Even Li Daoxuan's divine eyes could not see how he escaped.
For a time, the huge Taoist ancestral temple, the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion, was thrown into panic by a ghost.
Zhang Qianyang had been guarding the old Taoist's bed. After hearing about this, he also tried to subdue the ghost baby. However, even though he temporarily trapped the ghost baby with the Tiangang Demon Subduing Formation, the ghost baby disappeared out of thin air after a while.
It was as if it had never appeared in this world.
One day, two days, three days...seven days!
For seven whole days, a hanged female corpse appeared on Longhu Mountain every day, shouting Zhang Qianyang's name loudly.
At the beginning, no one believed it and thought it was just slander, but slowly, people started to talk about it.
If there wasn't so much resentment, how could such a powerful ghost be born?
Maybe Second Brother really did some bad things outside over the years?
Three people make a tiger. Li Daoxuan gradually discovered that some disciples began to look at their master with evasive eyes and were no longer as enthusiastic as at the beginning.
Wu Dabao and others saw this and were anxious, but there was nothing they could do.
However, the person involved, Zhang Qianyang, was concentrating on how to wake up the old Taoist priest. After finding out it was useless last time, he no longer paid attention to the matter. He read ancient books every day and had not slept for seven days and seven nights.
Li Daoxuan was as calm as ever. He practiced as usual every day, took care of the old master, and remained calm in the face of emergencies, as if nothing had happened.
Wu Dabao was so angry that he wanted to hit the master and disciple with his apprentice's precious stick.
…
In Li Daoxuan's room.
Wu Dabao came to see him for the fourth time.
"Nephew, this matter concerns my reputation. It also happens to be a critical time when the master is in a coma and the successor to the Heavenly Master needs to be selected. If it is not handled properly, it will easily have a bad impact!"
He spoke from the bottom of his heart for a long time, hoping that Li Daoxuan could come up with a solution.
In fact, he himself did not realize that since the trip to the Yellow Springs Realm, he, as a senior uncle, had developed a sense of dependence on this young nephew and had blind faith in him.
Even a terrifying ghost like the Empty-Dull Ghost King fell into the hands of his nephew. Is there anything in this world that he can't do?
Li Daoxuan just shook his head and smiled bitterly without saying a word.
Wu Dabao finally left in disappointment.
Not long after, Master's Sister Liu Ningyan also came to visit.
She didn't mention it directly, but through her words, she was asking Li Daoxuan in a roundabout way whether he had any way to deal with it. If so, she would fully cooperate.
Li Daoxuan just told his master to be patient and then sent her away.
He sighed softly. It was not that he didn't want to help, but the matter was strange and he was still waiting for news.
About half an hour later, Elder Zhenlian came hurriedly to find Li Daoxuan.
He didn't even have time to have a cup of tea. He immediately took out a list from his arms and handed it to Li Daoxuan with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
"Nephew, I finally have some clues on the matter you asked me to investigate!"
