Chapter 177 I dare not speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven

Chapter 177 I dare not speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven

Chapter 177 I dare not speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven

Chen Shi was walking with difficulty in the swamp. There were many people like him around him. Half of their bodies were stuck in the swamp. They had to try their best to pull their legs out, and it took them half a day to take a single step.

Not far away, there was a man who was walking when his leg fell into the swamp. He reached out to fish it out, and after groping for a long time, he finally found his leg.

After fixing his legs, he continued on his way.

Chen Shi and the people in the swamp didn't know where their destination was, but everyone was moving forward in a daze, as if there was a voice calling them and guiding them in the direction.

There is a light blue flame in the water next to it, which is difficult to find without careful observation.

Chen Shi saw a woman who was touched by the blue fire. The burning place was like a wick, and the woman was the lamp oil, which shrank as it burned.

The woman did not cry out in pain, her body became smaller and smaller until it was finally burned out.

"Maybe it's a flame that can ignite the soul." Chen Shi thought to himself.

Where there is this blue flame, there is often a white flower, like a lotus, but there is no other color except white, and no fragrance can be smelled.

Chen Shi looked around and felt sad: "I'm dead."

The old beggar was too powerful; he died with just one tap of his finger.

Facing an existence of this level, all resistance is futile.

This was the second death he had ever experienced.

But according to Grandma Sha, this should be her eleventh death.

He had died ten times before this.

In the previous ten times, it was Grandpa, Grandma Sha and Hei Guo who rescued me from the underworld.

"Grandpa is dead, and Granny Sha is fighting with others. No one knows that I am dead." His face was gloomy.

Chen Shi couldn't help but follow the vague call and move forward. He also struggled to lift his legs and walked out step by step.

He couldn't resist the call and could only carefully avoid the light blue flames to avoid being burned to ashes.

He saw an acquaintance, his eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "Wu Daozheng, Master Wu Hall!"

Among the army of ghosts there was a man of burly build, it was Wu Daozheng, the leader of the Tianmu Society, who was also walking in the swamp.

Chen Shi was very excited to see an acquaintance, and tried to get closer to Wu Daozheng. However, Wu Daozheng looked dull, with blood all over his face, and seemed to have no impression of him.

"How come you died too?"

Chen Shi was very familiar with the situation. He raised his hand and touched Wu Daozheng's head. He found that his skull was sunken due to a blow. He smiled and said, "Do you have a wound on your head? Were you beaten to death? You are very tall. I would miss you if I hit you. Were you beaten to death when you were kneeling? Don't you recognize me? I am Chen Shi! Chen Shi, the scholar coach of Hongshan Hall. I was the one who took down the Caisheng Hall of your Tianmu Society... You are so noble!"

Chen Shi was angry that the ghost ignored him.

Wu Dao seemed to be stunned, and walked forward in a daze.

Most ghosts are like him, none are as lively as Chen Shi.

Suddenly, a strange sound came from the air, as if someone was chanting a spell, and then the sky cracked open, revealing round holes.

Chen Shi looked up and saw small boats hanging out of the caves.

The small boat was only six or seven feet long and a foot wide. It was hung on a rope and slowly lowered.

Then, heads popped out from those round holes. They were boys and girls. They looked around and found that there was no danger. Then they slowly slid down along the ropes, not daring to make any sound, and landed on the small boats silently.

The small boat could just accommodate one person and had oars. They carefully slid the oars in the swamp, avoiding ghosts like Chen Shi, controlling the boat and sailing to the side of blue flames.

Chen Shi struggled forward while looking around, and saw some children accidentally touched the light blue flame, and their souls were ignited. After a while, their souls were burned out, and only a skeleton was left on the boat.

Some of the boats avoided the flames and sailed to the white lotus. They carefully picked the white lotus, and then turned around and rowed back the same way in ecstasy.

"They are people from the mortal world!"

Chen Shi realized that these young men and women were living people in the world of the living. Because the boys' yang essence had not been lost and the girls' yin essence had not been broken, they were able to resist the invasion of the yin energy in the underworld.

Some monks who practice magic related to the soul will let young men and women go to the underworld to search for treasures.

In order to find the Three Lives Stone, Grandma Sha sent her son Xiang Tianyu into the underworld, but her son never returned.

"It could be a wealthy family or a famous sect that sent people into the underworld to steal white lotus!"

Chen Shi saw a girl of about twelve or thirteen rowing past him and shouted, "Girl, save me!"

His throat felt burning. When he opened his mouth to speak, a hoarse sound came out of his throat, like a ghost talking, which no living person could understand.

"help me."

He held out his hand to the girl.

The girl should be a child from a poor family. Her clothes were rough and tattered, and she had two buns on her head tied with white ribbons. There was a red dot on her forehead, at the position of the third eye between her eyebrows.

She had a paper talisman hanging around her waist. Although she didn't understand the ghost words, when she saw Chen Shi reaching out his hand to her as if asking for help, she understood what Chen Shi meant.

Her boat stopped under a rope. She reached out her hand and tried to grab Chen Shi and pull him onto the boat from the mud, but the two were still two or three steps apart.

When the boys and girls on the other boats saw this, they waved their hands at her, signaling that she could not save the ghost and should leave quickly while no one noticed.

The girl with a pigtail hesitated, grabbed the rope with one hand and stretched out the other hand, waiting for Chen Shi to come over.

Just then, there was a vibration in the sky.

The girl with the pigtail bun had a sudden change of expression. She threw the white lotus to Chen Shi, grabbed the rope and pulled it hard. Someone in the round hole immediately pulled the rope and lifted her and the boat upwards.

"Eat it!"

The girl with a pigtail lowered her voice and said, "I'll save you next time I come over!"

Chen Shi caught Bai Lian, and saw the girl and the boat being pulled into the round hole. The round hole closed and disappeared.

In other round holes, people were also pulling the ropes hard, pulling the boys and girls up into the sky.

Suddenly, one of the children lost his grip on the rope and fell into the swamp with a loud splash.

In the swamp, all the ghosts suddenly stopped and stood still.

The ropes that were pulling the boys and girls suddenly accelerated and pulled them upwards at a rapid speed, as if something horrible was about to happen!

Chen Shi also looked up, and saw a pair of huge eyes suddenly appear in the sky, as if the sky had split open, the two eyes opened, the eyeballs rolled around, searching for the source of the sound. Then the sky lowered, gradually revealing a huge face, a green-faced, fang-toothed ghost with pointed ears, looking down, and from a distance, it seemed almost stuck to the swamp.

The giant goblin stretched out his hand, picked up the child who had fallen into the swamp, and put him into his mouth, as if he was tasting a rare delicacy in the world.

The giant goblin ate the child, stretched out his fingers, and counted the white lotuses in the swamp one by one.

Upon seeing this, Chen Shi hurriedly stuffed the white lotus that the girl with the pigtail bun threw to him into his mouth, chewed it hard, and swallowed it whole, his heart pounding.

The giant ghost counted for a while and found that there were a lot fewer of them. He let out an angry roar, which almost scared all the ghosts in the swamp to death. Some ghosts were directly killed and fell in the swamp and were swallowed by the swamp.

Chen Shi calmed his soul and found that the ghosts that were shocked to death fell down and soon turned into a pool of water, igniting a light blue flame.

Where there are many dead ghosts, a puddle of water will form, and between the light blue flames, white lotuses will gradually reveal their pointed corners.

Chen Shi was slightly startled: "The ghosts in the swamp will turn into nutrients when they die, turning into water to nourish the lotus! This is a breeding ground for ghosts, a place to grow white lotus!"

This place is very different from the underworld in ancient legends!
All the ghosts in the swamp will become nutrients for the growth of white lotus!

The giant ghost gradually rose up again, merged with the sky, disappeared, and closed its eyes.

After a while, snoring sounds came from the sky. Chen Shi waited for a moment, but saw a crack suddenly appeared in the sky. The ghost secretly opened his eyes, and his eyeballs rolled in the crack, secretly looking at his own paddy fields, for fear that someone would steal the white lotus he planted.

After a while, the eye slowly closed. Snoring began to rise in the sky.

The noise gradually became lighter, and the ghost must have fallen asleep.

Chen Shi calmed himself down and caught a glimpse of a small boat not far away, so he walked towards the boat.

At this moment, he felt that his body was much lighter and he could easily pull his legs and feet out of the swamp!

"It's the effect of the white lotus!"

He suddenly realized that by eating the white lotus, his soul had become stronger!
That kind of strange and vague calling seemed to have lost a lot of appeal to him.

"White Lotus is a good thing!"

Chen Shi climbed onto the boat and looked at the other white lotuses in the swamp. He rowed the boat and the boat moved across the swamp toward the white lotuses.

He has become a ghost and is not afraid of the negative energy in the underworld.

Chen Shi plucked a lotus flower and ate it whole. As expected, he felt his soul became stronger.

He rowed the boat, picking white lotus and eating them along the way. He felt his soul becoming stronger and stronger. In a short moment, after eating dozens of white lotus, he felt his body become extremely light. He could even float on the water by stepping on the swamp.

He can even condense his magical power and create a gust of cold wind with a wave of his hand!
Chen Shi continued to pick white lotuses. After eating hundreds of them, he felt his soul become stable and he even felt like he had a physical body.

There is also a strange power flowing in his body. This power is the power of the soul, which repairs the damaged parts of his soul and nourishes and strengthens his spirit.

"If I keep eating like this, I'm afraid I'll soon become a ghost king! Hey, weird, what is this thing..."

After Chen Shi ate the lotus, he saw the soul power flowing in his body and rushing to his limbs and bones, but something blocked the flow of soul power at his forehead.

He supported the side of the boat with both hands, leaned over and looked at the water surface.

His reflection was seen on the water surface. From his eyebrows inward, about three inches deep into his brain, there were densely packed talismans and seals, forming a heavenly palace structure. Thousands of gods were sitting in that talisman palace, as if they were suppressing something!
Chen Shi was about to take a closer look when he suddenly saw a narrow pair of eyelids suddenly open in the sky behind his reflection on the water!

"The ghost is awake?!"

Chen Shi was horrified and dared not move.

The eyelid gradually opened, and snoring sounds were still heard in the air, but they became louder and louder.

The eyeballs under his eyelids were motionless, as if staring at the thief who was stealing the white lotus.

Chen Shi held the side of the boat tightly with both hands, and his thighs were gradually tensing.

Suddenly, the ghost's face sank and he roared, "Lotus thief!"

Chen Shi rushed forward without thinking.

He stepped on the dark wind without touching the ground. With one step he covered a distance of sixty to seventy feet. He galloped and roared, and in an instant he covered two to three miles.

The giant ghost fell from the sky with a bang, stepped on the swamp, was thousands of feet tall, stepped on the magic flame, held a steel fork in his hand, and the fork head was emitting balls of ghost fire that flew around it.

It took a step forward and caught up with Chen Shi. It raised its fork and stabbed Chen Shi, shouting, "You stole my white lotus and I'll turn you into manure!"

Just as Chen Shi was about to be stabbed to death by it, suddenly a rumbling sound was heard. The giant ghost saw from afar a mountain covered with black smoke and black fire running towards him. The next moment, it hit him and he fell backwards.

It turned over and swung the steel fork at the huge monster. Suddenly, when it saw the appearance of the monster clearly, it was horrified. It jumped into the sky, concealed its tracks, and disappeared.

It was Hei Guo who rushed over. After forcing the giant ghost back, he immediately crawled down, wagging his tail so loudly that countless ghosts were blown away. With a shy smile on his face, he sideways looked at Chen Shi, waiting for him to climb onto his back.

Chen Shi climbed onto its back and said, "Black Pot, did Granny Sha ask you to come to me?"

Black Pot nodded, stepped on the swamp, and ran towards the fire.

Chen Shi looked back at the swampland full of white lotuses and thought to himself, "This is a good place. I must remember it and come back to steal next time."

He thought of the girl with a pigtail and the white lotus she threw to him, and thought, "I must repay this kindness. It's strange, why would they risk their lives to go to the underworld to steal the white lotus? If a cultivator like me steals the white lotus, he could die at any time, let alone them?"

He could see that the young man and woman who stole the white lotus had no cultivation and would die in the underworld if they were not careful. Even if they did not die, if they went to the underworld a few more times, their bodies would be corroded by the Yin energy and they would die and would not live long.

Is it necessary to take such a big risk to steal white lotus?

He was a little confused.

"Also, why are the talismans in my soul so similar to the ones that sealed Uncle Xiaowu? Could it be my grandfather's doing? What did my grandfather seal in my head?"

Chen Shi was puzzled, his grandfather had never mentioned this matter!
"The little boy drove a small boat and secretly picked white lotuses. He dared not speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven."

Fenghuang Ridge of Henggong Mountain is the main altar of Taiping Gate. Several girls gathered together, including the girl with a pigtail.

"I finally picked a Resurrection Lotus, but you gave it to a little ghost!"

A fat woman from the Taiping Gate kicked the girl with the pigtails to the ground, whipped her hard with a whip, and shouted, "You want to save a ghost? Save yourself first! If you don't pick the Resurrection Lotus, don't even think about eating tonight. Starve!"

The girl with pigtails was curled up in the corner. Another girl came up to her, took out a steamed bun from her bosom, and said, "Little Dingxiang, this is what I saved. Eat it and fill your stomach."

Little Dingxiang shook her head: "You eat, I'm not hungry."

Her stomach growled with hunger, and she thought, "Next time I go to the underworld, will he still be there? I should have time to rescue him."

(End of this chapter)