Chapter 72: Desperate Situation
Lu Yi was holding a standard tiger-head golden spear of the Yulin Army, and was sandwiched between Yinyuan and Yinqi on the left and right. His face twitched and he felt helpless.
These two cowardly guys don't look like an emperor or a prince at all.
Xianyu Pavilion was also covered by a rain of arrows from the Imperial Guards and the Yulin Army.
Dense arrows smeared with black dog blood and boy's urine fell down with sharp whistling sounds, shattering the blood mist surrounding Xianyu Pavilion. The green bird and other strange figures in the blood mist retreated one after another.
In Xianyu Pavilion, Qi Lu, Liu Wu, He Jun and others cheered in unison.
While everyone was cheering, someone in the Xianyu Pavilion was cursing loudly - dense arrows also fell on the pillars and roof tiles of the Xianyu Pavilion, making the Xianyu Pavilion make a "ding-dang-dang" sound.
Fortunately, the tiles of Xianyu Pavilion are all made of fine copper and then painted in tile-colored paint.
The armor-piercing arrows fell, leaving pits on the fine copper tiles, but they could not be penetrated for a while.
But it is conceivable that once the rain of arrows lasts long enough and the roof tiles are broken, the people in Xianyu Pavilion will be shot into sieves by the arrows before they are killed by the female ghost.
But at this juncture, who cares about the lives of these 'baits'?
The Queen Mother's crisp laughter spread in all directions: "Sister Qi Fei, if you have any tricks, just use them."
Lu Yi felt a sudden chill on the back of his neck. As soon as the Queen Mother said this, an inexplicable premonition of danger surged into his heart.
He grabbed Yinyuan and Yinqi and quickly took several steps back towards the large objects in the curtain.
Yu Changle hurriedly followed. Yu Sandou, who was standing next to the empress dowager, opened his eyes and looked at Lu Yi in surprise - behind the curtain, only a few people knew what these big things were.
Lu Yi definitely didn't know the details of these big guys. He actually led Yin Yuan and Yin Qi to retreat over there. Yu Sandou couldn't help but mutter to himself: "What a clever little guy."
As soon as the Queen Mother finished her words, Concubine Qi's sharp laughter spread across most of the imperial city: "As you wish."
Large patches of red light, like blood, fell from the sky.
Dozens of red lanterns suddenly appeared in the air, with blood-red flames lingering in the lanterns, as if real blood was spraying down. The light passed through the void, and people could actually hear a faint "swish" sound breaking through the air.
Outside the city wall in the northwest corner of the imperial city, in the houses where servants and menial workers lived, large amounts of blood shot up into the sky, shouts of killing shook the sky, and flames shot straight into the sky. Rays of blood that could be seen by the naked eye continued to rise from that direction and flew towards the direction of the lake.
Countless blood lights continued to pour into the red lantern, and then turned into more than a dozen blood-colored light pillars as thick as water tanks, falling straight onto the green bird in the blood mist.
In a split second, the originally translucent green bird figure suddenly became as solid as a flesh and blood body.
Countless arrows stained with black dog blood and boy's urine fell down. The solid Green Bird just clapped her hands lightly, and a white gas explosion with a diameter of dozens of feet appeared in front of her. The terrifying explosive force broke tens of thousands of arrows into pieces in mid-air. She shook her body and easily rushed into the Xianyu Pavilion.
Qi Lu was so frightened that he screamed in pain.
He Jun knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Lu Que desperately: "I just bought a share in that Yahang... I never interfere with the daily operations!"
Liu Wu was even more decisive. He used the secret treasure and, after being sucked to the point of skin and bones, he jumped up with all his strength and rushed towards the frozen lake outside.
Green Bird laughed strangely, and a blood mist enveloped the entire Xianyu Pavilion.
Qi Lu, He Jun, Liu Wu, Liu Wu's seven sisters, seven brothers-in-law, and all the elders of Liu Village, all froze at the same time and turned into mummies in the blood mist.
"Oh!"
Green Bird's satisfied sigh resounded throughout the imperial city; even half of the people in Wuyinfang and Kunpengfang outside heard her sigh.
Lu Yi's eyes suddenly widened.
He saw that within the green bird's solid body, a flickering light that looked exactly like the green bird's body disappeared out of thin air. In the void, from an unpredictable place, an unpredictable light suddenly descended and plunged into the green bird's "body".
The green bird's body turned into a blood-red cocoon of light, which was squirming as if it was gestating something.
An incomparable amount of blood, evil, and mysterious energy gushed out from the light cocoon. In Lu Yi's vision, this evil energy with mixed attributes was like the Milky Way rolling back, roaring out of the light cocoon and rising into the sky.
Countless streams of blood spurted out from the red lantern and continuously injected into the light cocoon.
I don’t know how many people died before such a huge amount of blood, essence and souls were injected into the light cocoon.
The light cocoon squirmed violently, and in just three breaths, it suddenly exploded, and the green bird reappeared in front of everyone.
But the green bird at this moment...
Once upon a time, the original Green Bird, even after becoming a female ghost, still carried a trace of the innocence of a girl. Even after becoming a female ghost who hunts souls and kills people for revenge, the former touch of cuteness and innocence still existed in her face and expression.
This is a bit obscure and difficult to understand.
In short, when Lu Yi saw Lu Que before, he could feel that this was a "once living human girl" who had turned into a female ghost.
And at this moment, the green bird reappeared.
Lu Yu felt that...her essence was no longer human.
High above, indifferent, like a god standing in the clouds overlooking the mortal world...
Countless strange thoughts came to Lu Yu's mind.
Possession and resurrection does not seem to be the case. How can the green bird have a physical body?
Reborn by taking over another body? That doesn't seem like it. To take over another body, you have to have a body first...
Green Bird lowered her head and looked at her hands which had solidified into solid objects, white and delicate like jade. She chuckled softly, and her body turned into a wisp of green smoke. In the blink of an eye, she crossed the lake from Xianyu Pavilion and rushed to the team of imperial guards lined up by the lake.
The Dayin Imperial Guards under Le Wu's control still have some combat effectiveness.
As Greenbird rushed over, more than a dozen long spears covered in blood and urine stabbed into her body fiercely.
Green Bird clapped his hands together, and with a loud bang, more than a dozen steel spears shattered into pieces, with fragments flying everywhere, instantly killing hundreds of heavily armored imperial guards in the surrounding area.
A blood mist rolled down from the sky.
Green Bird pulled the blood mist with both hands, and cold light flashed in the blood mist, condensing into one hundred and eight blood-red flying swords about one foot long, with cold light flashing all over.
The green bird let out a long cry, and the flying swords flew into the air and turned into countless cold lights that fell in all directions.
The sound of "puffing" continued to be heard. The three thousand imperial guards arrayed by the lakeside were swept away by the sword lights falling from the sky in the blink of an eye. Three thousand heads flew into the sky, streams of hot blood spurted out from their necks, and were sucked clean by the green bird in one gulp.
These imperial guards are all eight-foot strong men. The weakest of them has the cultivation level of Pei Yuan, with sufficient essence and blood. Both their blood, energy and soul are much stronger than ordinary people.
Green Bird sucked the blood and souls of three thousand strong men of the Imperial Guards dry in one gulp, and the evil spirit on her became even more powerful.
With a joyous roar, Green Bird stepped onto the footpath on the shore, with flying swords lingering around him, and rushed straight towards the curtain where the Queen Mother was with a tremendous murderous aura.
Another three thousand imperial guards went up to meet them.
With a flash of sword light, three thousand imperial guards fell to the ground with blood splattered.
Green Bird walked forward for another few dozen feet, and the three thousand imperial guards lined up on the shore were killed by the thunder-like sword light before they could even fire an arrow.
The sound of heads breaking could be heard continuously, and battalions of imperial guards fell to the ground one after another.
The tens of thousands of imperial guards around and the tens of thousands of Yulin soldiers brought into the imperial city by Yinyuan were so frightened that their faces were distorted and there was no trace of blood on their faces.
Green Bird was so ferocious that three thousand people were killed in the blink of an eye. With so many imperial guards and imperial guards present, could they withstand a few of her swords?
Yinqi screamed: "My holy water that can subdue demons and monsters!"
In front of the curtain, dozens of strong and powerful imperial guards roared in unison. They grabbed long-handled dung ladles, scooped up ladles of indescribable mixed liquid from the water tank, and strode out shouting, rushing towards the green bird.
When they were still more than ten feet away from the green bird, these strong men waved their hands fiercely, and a large amount of mixed liquid fell on the green bird's head.
Greenbird giggled and waved her hands. The heavy shields equipped by the slain imperial guards on the ground flew up one after another, blocking the spilled mixed liquid.
Not a single drop of the mixed liquid could touch the greenfinch's body.
Before dozens of strong men from the imperial guards could escape, they were cut in half by a flash of swords, and lay on the ground screaming and wailing, struggling for their lives.
Being cut in half would not kill a person immediately, but the pain and despair would make these strong men roll and twitch on the ground, howling as if they were in hell, causing the last bit of morale of the Imperial Guards and Yulin Army near and far to collapse immediately.
With a shout, no one knew who took the lead, but the five imperial guards blocking Green Bird's front suddenly collapsed and fled in all directions.
But they were surrounded by blood mist, and no matter which direction they ran, they could not run more than two hundred feet before they crashed into the blood mist.
In the blood mist, the shrill cries of countless women were heard, and bloody hands stretched out from the blood mist, dragging the imperial guards who had bumped into them into the blood mist.
Then a strange sucking sound was heard, and then large pieces of dry bones were sprinkled out from the blood mist.
The Imperial Guards and Yulin Army, who were fleeing in panic, were stunned.
Unable to win or escape, they were actually in a desperate situation.
Behind the curtain, the empress dowager, who had originally had a rosy and excited face, became stiff and pale. She slapped Le Wu on the back of his head and said in a hoarse voice: "Awu, look at these useless people under you!"
Le Wu had a sense of responsibility as a general. He quickly defended his soldiers: "Sister, you guys are good at fighting and killing, but fighting with ghosts... Dayin has been established for more than 1,800 years. Who has ever fought with ghosts? Who?"
"It's not that we are useless, it's, it's, it's, it's... this enemy is too difficult to deal with!"
The blood mist rolled around, and a terrible chill blew over with a howling sound.
Under dozens of large water tanks, small charcoal stoves were extinguished at the same time. The mixed liquid in the water tanks was icy cold and froze into ice cubes in just a few breaths.
With a 'crackling' sound, the water tank continued to break, and the ice cubes formed by the mixed liquid rolled to the ground one after another, no longer having any effect.
The blood mist stopped a hundred feet away from the curtain.
On the shore, monks and Taoists were killed or wounded. Only hundreds of the luckiest masters gathered tremblingly beside the curtain.
"Sister Queen Mother, now we can have a good intimate time."
"Green Bird has already achieved enlightenment. If I kill you, I will be free of all my worries and become a ghost immortal!"
Concubine Qi walked out slowly from the blood mist.
She looked at the people in the curtain and smiled sweetly, "By the way, King Lan Cang, haven't you always admired me? Then, tonight, your life will belong to me, okay?"
King Lancang grabbed Lu Yi and said tremblingly with a pale face: "Name your price. As long as I can get out alive tonight, I will give you whatever you want!"
Yin Yuan also grabbed Lu Yu's arm, trembling like a sieve: "Lu Yu, if you can keep me safe tonight, I will make you a marquis, a marquis... Your uncle Lu Yu is the Marquis of Tian'en, I will make you... make you... the Marquis of Tianyang!"
Tian Yang Hou?
Lu Yu's face darkened slightly.