Chapter 103 Dilemma

Chapter 103 Dilemma

Chapter 103 Dilemma (Two in One)

It’s Guo Jianming’s voice!
The doubts in Li Wuxiang's heart suddenly disappeared: "I am not fake, I am Li Wuxiang. Didn't you ask me to save you?"

After a long time, Li Wuxiang heard Guo Jianming say, "Oh, yes, I asked you to come. Come to me, come to me, quickly!"

He immediately shut his mouth. Guo Jianming really couldn't say "yes" - was it the evil ghost that Cheng Peixin was talking about?

After a while, another voice said, "Ignore him, don't talk! Come to me, to the left, and hold my hand!"

This sounds like something Lao Guo would say, but when Lao Guo said these words, he probably wouldn't have such a vicious smile on his face.

Li Wuxiang still ignored it, and the thing stopped talking. But the next moment, a hand touched the back of his hand: "Hurry! It's too late!"

Li Wuxiang remained motionless, letting the hand keep touching him. Something was slowly crawling on his back and head. They must be trying to make him reach out and touch them. There seemed to be an essential difference between being touched and actively touching.

Ordinary people might not be able to resist opening them. But for Li Wuxiang, this was nothing compared to the feeling of the tentacles wriggling inside his body, so he just stood there quietly. After about two quarters of an hour, the sound and touch slowly disappeared, and a burst of vicious and unwilling small shouts and curses passed by his ears, and finally it became completely quiet.

So Li Wuxiang said, "Old Guo, wait until midnight and I'll take you out."

"Why do you have to wait until midnight?"

"Ignore him!"

Li Wuxiang immediately closed his mouth which was about to open.

"Master, I understand. I will always be grateful for your kindness... Master, ignore anyone who asks you to reply. I understand!"

I really don’t know how Guo Jianming has managed to hold on here for so many days. This guy’s character must be much better than I originally thought.

So Li Wuxiang stopped talking and tried to breathe in and out in the complete darkness. The spiritual energy here was actually sufficient, but it was quite chaotic, but it was better than the one in the illusion of Ranshan. However, there was also a lot of resentment and yin energy in this spiritual energy. He only absorbed a little bit and immediately felt the breath in his body rushing left and right, which was very similar to the sign of being possessed by a demon as Zeng Jianqiu said, so he quickly stopped.

The wild gods and spirits in Lingshan seem to like the power of incense and vows. I wonder if this is related to the fact that they cannot practice breathing like outside, so they must rely on external forces. But will it not work if they are as powerful as the external evil? Or is there another reason?
When he thought of this, he suddenly had a guess in his mind - as he thought, "there seems to be an essential difference between touching and being touched"... Can actively touching something be considered a kind of willpower? However, it is an extremely weak one.

If the things in Lingshan are so eager for vows, then the environment there must be extremely harsh to an unimaginable degree!
He was thinking and waiting like this. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly saw a dim light on the left, like a person in deep water seeing a little light on the surface. He was counting his breaths. It seemed to be midnight. He said loudly, "Master Cheng?"

After a while, a faint voice was heard from outside. It sounded like Cheng Shengfei's, but it seemed to be far away from the bronze mirror.

Li Wuxiang didn't know if they were late, and was about to rush over. But he really didn't want to stay in this place any longer, so he immediately followed Cheng Peixin's instructions, holding the bronze mirror in one hand and aiming it at the light, while summoning the flying sword, and shattered the mirror with a ding.

Nothing happened and he was still in such darkness!

What happened outside? Li Wuxiang took a breath slowly, but the bloody smell immediately rushed into his body, and he quickly stopped pretending. Or...

"Master, we can talk to the outside world now. When are we going out?" Guo Jianming's voice rang out, weakly. "Ah, you don't have to reply to me. I'll just wait! Oh...it's really me. Can you see me? Oh, you can see me."

Li Wuxiang saw a figure in the dim light. It was like a reflection of someone in the water, with a very blurry face, swaying from near to far, but he could probably see the general shape of the person.

If this man is really Lao Guo, he is very different from the last time I saw him. He used to be in his thirties, with a dark complexion. But now his face is of different shades, probably covered in blood. I don't know if it was caused by the yin energy and resentment here, or if it was scratched when he couldn't stand it anymore.

Does nodding count as a response? Li Wuxiang didn't try, and just said, "If you can be patient, wait a little longer. There may be some trouble."

The method that Cheng Peixin suggested to break the spell didn't work, and until the dim light disappeared, all he could hear was Cheng Shengfei's distant whisper - two ideas popped up in Li Wuxiang's mind, but neither of them was a good one.

He counted his breaths for another day and night, ignoring any voice that spoke to him.

Finally, the dim light reappeared. But this time it was not the green light like last time, but a dim red. He did not speak to the outside, but listened carefully - there was no human voice, but a crackling sound, very subtle and irregular, as if many children were playing with firecrackers at random.

Li Wuxiang remained silent until nearly a quarter of an hour later, when the light, shadow and sound completely disappeared.

"Old Guo, wait a moment." Li Wuxiang whispered, "I still need to figure something out."

When the light appeared for the third time, it was the same as the second time, a dim red, and still with a slight, irregular crackling sound.

But there's one difference - it's getting hot in here.

In fact, Li Wuxiang had felt it yesterday, and thought it was due to his own impatience. But today, the heat was more obvious, reminding him of the summer in his previous life.

In the past two days, Guo Jianming didn't talk much, only occasionally shouting a few words when he was driven crazy by certain sounds. But his voice was weak and it was obvious that he was almost exhausted. And today, when Li Wuxiang asked him a question again, he didn't respond.

Maybe he was dead, but Li Wuxiang was not sure whether dying here was different from dying outside. Logically speaking, his body was not very sensitive to temperature changes, and most of it depended on the moisture in his skin. Now he himself felt hot and unbearable, which was unbearable for a living person like Guo Jianming.

By the fourth time the light appeared, it was almost scorching hot inside. Li Wuxiang could almost feel his skin rapidly dehydrating and drying out.

So he opened his mouth and asked loudly:

"Master Cheng!"

"When did you invite Zhao Kui down?"

No response.

But Li Wuxiang already understood that he had made a serious mistake. No, it was not a serious mistake, but a small oversight that led to serious consequences. And this oversight was precisely because of his unique background and past.

Zeng Jianqiu told him that once you leave Jinshui, don't trust the practitioners in the Jianghu. These days, Li Wuxiang thought of a sentence from his previous life - what is the Jianghu? Where there are people is the Jianghu.

It was a pity that he himself regarded this definition of people as "loose cultivators in the Jianghu", and unconsciously excluded the people of the Thirty-Six Sects. Or perhaps, there was also the reason of Cheng Shengfei. This girl's temperament was very similar to Zeng Jianqiu. That kind of vigorous vitality and rare kindness made Cheng Peixin look dim - so he relaxed his vigilance against the chief monk.

If the bronze mirror was in someone else's hands, I would never feel comfortable entering the mirror to save Guo Jianming.

But four days ago, it seemed like all the reasons were asking me to take the initiative to agree to this matter -

Zhao Kui and Waixie are in Lingshan, and I would like to explore Lingshan.

Compared with the people in this world, although he was considered a bit indifferent and cold in his previous life, by the standards of this world, he was actually considered very sentimental, so he would not take it for granted that Guo Jianming would be dissolved in the mirror.

I don't know much about the magic of cultivation in this world. If Cheng Peixin has behaved quite trustworthy these days, then when she tells me how to enter and exit the bronze mirror, even if it's just made up, I won't have too many doubts.

The first two points were the most fatal, and were simply bait tailor-made for him. The only people in the world who knew these two points were Xue Baoping, Zeng Jianqiu, and Zhao Kui.

And...recently, after experiencing a series of fierce fights, he had thought about how others would treat him.

My current cultivation level is not very high, but it is actually very troublesome to ask for death.

The method that could kill ordinary practitioners would only hurt himself. Even if he was trapped by some powerful spell, he could still escape into the illusion of Ranshan. If he wanted to completely destroy it, the most convenient method he could think of was to burn it - find a place where he couldn't escape into the illusion, burn the skin first, leaving only the golden entanglement, and then it would be easy to deal with.

He had tried it these past two days - here, he could neither enter the Ranshan Illusion nor the Broken Bricks, let alone face his opponent. The only one who knew the secret of the Ranshan Illusion and the Broken Bricks was Zhao Kui.

As for the present, he guessed that the dim red light he had seen for three consecutive days was the fire, and the crackling sounds were the sounds of the flames burning.

One thing that can be confirmed is that this fire will not make the temperature here become extremely high in the end, but will slowly dry itself out in order to preserve the piece of paper containing the illusion of Ranshan in the body.

Li Wuxiang sighed. Did Cheng Peixin invite Zhao Kui when she invited the door gods on the first night? After all, many spirits possessed her at that time.

But this is a bit wrong, the current Zhao Kui is a fake Kitchen God, Cheng Peixin did not worship the Kitchen God... etc. Zhao Kui once asked me to record him in the tablet of the ancestors of Ranshan, so it seems that I can also ask him to come down if I set up his tablet for worship.

There must be some other reason that made Cheng Peixin know that Zhao Kui was dead, and for another reason, she gave him a sacrifice.

Li Wuxiang felt that the saying had come true: after hunting wild geese for a lifetime, he was blinded by wild geese. Since he came to this world, he had always been the one to deceive people with information asymmetry, but now he was deceived, and he was deceived twice by the same method - the last time it was Zhao Xi, and this time it was Cheng Peixin.

Is this a match made in heaven? But now, he didn't have the slightest feeling of sympathy in his heart - Zhao Kui was a big scourge, he must be eradicated, immediately, the sooner the better!

He was going to call for the outer evil. Under the current circumstances, the outer evil could not guarantee that he would die like a cocoon, so he felt that there must be some other way to escape - otherwise, a land sword immortal who was tricked into coming here would also be roasted to death like this?

But just as he was about to open his mouth, that voice came again - "Please beg me, please, please beg me, and I will help you!"

After the first day, the evil spirits no longer disguised themselves as Guo Jianming, but revealed their true colors and tried to trick him into paying attention to them.

Some threatened viciously, some expressed how pitiful they were in a mournful and gentle voice, and some, like this voice, told themselves directly to "ask for it" - this should be the way to gain more power of wishes.

Before, this voice was mixed with many other voices. Li Wuxiang could hear it, but he didn't care. He just thought it was a ghost talking nonsense.

But now he heard this voice again, and was suddenly stunned——

"I'll help you"?
From the first day he entered the mirror, he never mentioned that he was in trouble, but said that he came to save Guo Jianming. Because the mirror broke on the second day and he couldn't get out, he just said that he had some more things to think about.

"I'll help you", where does this sentence come from?

Since he had already planned to ask the evil spirit for help, Li Wuxiang decided to take the risk. He immediately answered the voice: "Who are you? How can you help me?"

The whispering voices around him stopped immediately, and he then felt that many things that had been surrounding him these days were rapidly fading away, as if they had lost interest in him the moment he answered that voice.

Then he felt his body sink slightly, as if something had crawled onto his back - Li Wuxiang immediately let the flying sword circle around himself, and at the same time immediately touched his back, but he felt nothing.

But he felt that weight, very light, like an extremely tight piece of clothing wrapped around his back, fitting tightly, entwining his limbs, pressing against his neck and the back of his head, and he couldn't get rid of it.

According to this feeling... there should be a human figure on the back.

Then, he felt a sticky and slightly rough touch on his back, like... peeled flesh mixed with a lot of sand and gravel.

Li Wuxiang retracted his flying sword and slowly straightened his body.

He stood there in silence for a moment, sighed, and laughed again.

"Are all the people in Ranshan so hard to kill? Now, should I call you Master, or should you call me Sect Master?"

　I suddenly felt that Li Wuxiang might have been a young man who yearned for a petty bourgeois life after work in his previous life. Because I found that he liked to say things like "I am currently stationed in Deyang" and "I am currently stationed in Feiyun Temple". Is this "stationed" equivalent to the popular tune of "I am currently based in Shanghai" in the past two years?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)