Chapter 236: Rope Son

Chapter 236 Rope Son

Listening to two voices coming from somewhere unknown, Li Huowang, who was almost prostrating on the ground, twitched his eyes slightly and began to ponder the meaning behind their words.

"Cultivating the Dao? Is this man a Taoist? Is he debating the Dao with another person?"

"He doesn't look like the Taoists in my memory, at least the Taoists I know don't cultivate 'One'."

While Li Huowang pondered, the discussion over there continued, the girl's voice carrying a hint of disdain.

"What nonsense is this? Your mother carried you for ten months and gave birth to this fat meat boy, yet now you discard all this flesh? Aren't you tired?"

"Not so, not so! Do you think the seven emotions and three corpses upon us now, and this mortal flesh, belong to us? Wrong! They all have owners! Even our life and death have owners! These are all lent to us by Him!"

"All have owners?"

"Yes! The pain on our bodies, the smiles on our faces, our past lives, and our future lives. All have owners!"

"Think about it, carrying these owned things on your body forever, is that good? These are shackles! So we must cast away those things that have owners!"

"The Great Dao has fifty, Heaven derives forty-nine, Man escapes one, only thus can we become That One!"

Subsequently, the girl's voice asked a question on behalf of the eavesdropping Li Huowang. "And after becoming One?"

"Hehe! After becoming One, we owe no one, naturally we go free. Beyond the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements."

"What... exactly are they talking about? What has owners, what is One." Frowning tightly, Li Huowang pondered, trying to grasp their meaning.

"All have owners? Is the owner of all pain Ba Hui? Is the owner of joy the God of Double Happiness?" Li Huowang immediately recalled the giant cauldron before. "So they are sacrificing to the Master of Death?"

Thinking for a long while, Li Huowang shook his head vigorously, casting aside all the messy thoughts.

"No, wait, Li Huowang, don't let them confuse you, perhaps this is just what they believe, what they believe isn't necessarily true, maybe these two are like Dan Yangzi, thinking they understand everything, but actually know nothing!"

"None of this is what you should consider now, you should consider, since I am lost and met these two, what should I do next to get myself out of this predicament!"

"Should I step out directly and clarify things with them?"

Li Huowang thought of this question almost instantly. Regardless, even if it was just a thought, given the unknown strength of the other party, this was too rash.

Turning his head to look at the darkness around again, another idea quietly arose in Li Huowang's heart. "Use my perception ability to follow them from afar, leave together with them?"

"No, this idea is worse than the previous one!"

Just as Li Huowang was figuring out how to use these two to escape, he felt someone pulling his sleeve. "Li... Senior Brother Li.."!

"Shh! Don't speak!"

Li Huowang was very angry in his heart at this moment, if the two people far away discovered this, the only chance to escape this place would be gone.

"Senior Brother Li, someone is holding my arm, clearly there is no one on my left!" At this moment, Sun Baolu was almost crying out loud.

Li Huowang's heart skipped a beat, using his left hand along Sun Baolu's clothes, sliding slowly over.

Immediately after, he touched a very rough hand.

The instant Li Huowang grasped that thing, that hand flipped over, grabbing Li Huowang and dragging him toward the darkness.

With a "clang", Li Huowang instantly drew his sword and slashed fiercely towards that side.

Sensing movement nearby, Chun Xiaoman immediately took out a fluorescent stone.

"Whoosh!" Greenish light illuminated the surroundings, yet there was no abnormality. There was nothing around.

Just as Li Huowang looked around with a fluctuating expression, a young Taoist with sunken cheeks, wearing a yellow robe, rushed clumsily into the fluorescence.

He wore a yellow Taoist robe, black cloth shoes on his feet, and a Taoist hat printed with a Tai Chi diagram on his head.

Compared to Dan Yangzi, this person looked more like the Taoists in Li Huowang's impression.

Seeing each other, both parties paused simultaneously, but soon the Taoist opened his mouth full of rotten teeth and said: "Retreat quickly, Rope Son is coming to chase us!"

Li Huowang remembered that voice, it was one of the voices speaking just now!

His appearance was far younger than his voice suggested.

When seeing this person rush hurriedly into the darkness, Li Huowang and others hurriedly followed.

Regardless of what Rope Son in his mouth was, since it was in this ghostly place, it must be something bad.

Compared to that person, Li Huowang and his group were obviously slower, because they had to drag a Black Tai Sui weighing hundreds of jin.

Just as Li Huowang was considering whether this Taoist was using them as a shield, he suddenly rushed back.

Pressing two fingers together against his mouth and biting hard, using the blood-dripping index and middle fingers, he began drawing talismans in the air. "Put away the light quickly!"

Looking at his thin back, Li Huowang hesitated for a second, then signaled the others, and they all stuffed the fluorescent stones into their bosoms.

In the pitch blackness, the Taoist's chanting entered everyone's ears.

This chant was special, unlike Buddhist sutras nor Taoist spells, as if it belonged to a completely different system.

"Om Bu Zha Ah Bu Jiu Zhen Tie! Ju Lun Tuo Zheng Guang Ji Tie! Miao Ying Tong Ling Tian Jiang Ling Ji Ji Tie!"

When the chant ended, a sense of pressure came, Li Huowang instantly got goosebumps all over, something indescribable swept across his body.

Immediately after he felt his body temperature dropping rapidly, "Shh~" the Taoist's hush made everyone stop in their tracks.

Li Huowang felt something furry burrowing between his legs, feeling its trembling reaction, he understood it was Mantou.

It was afraid, afraid of something approaching.

Li Huowang felt the ground begin to tremble, something huge in the darkness was approaching him.

Gradually the vibration grew closer, close enough for Li Huowang to see some huge outlines through the blurred darkness.

"Hoo~" A gust of hot air blew up Li Huowang's hair, smelling the nauseating stench, obviously this was exhaled from something's nose!

Suddenly, a rusty weight fell from the darkness above to Li Huowang's front, following the weight was a binding rope, and the rope was tied to a pair of cloth shoes.

Cloth shoes? Just as Li Huowang realized this, the weight pulled the cloth shoes plummeting down suddenly.

"Swish!" A tongue stretched out, a red-clothed female corpse with an extremely tragic death image suddenly fell before Li Huowang.

The two were very close, so close that there was only a short inch between their eyes.

(End of Chapter)