Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 173 Ghost Car
Jiufeng!

This name is no stranger to the common people of the Jingchu generation.As the saying goes, "the nine-headed bird in the sky, the Hubei man on the ground", the phoenix was the totem worshiped by the Chu people in those days. In Qu Yuan's "Li Sao", the description of the phoenix was mentioned many times, and in "Shan Hai Jing· There are more records in the Great Wilderness Northern Classic: "In the Great Wilderness, there is a mountain called the Arctic Cabinet. The sea water flows northward. There are nine gods, human faces and bird bodies, called Jiufeng."

My throat rolled, and my hands couldn't help but sweat.The phoenix is ​​a legendary bird, and the Jiufeng is the top creature in Chu mythology. Is the nine-headed strange bird in front of me really the legendary Jiufeng?

"quack……"

The eight birds on the periphery of the nine-headed bird raised their heads high and made a shrill sound. The human face in the middle of it looked at me fixedly, with a strange look in its green eyes, which made me panic. .

"Gah... man... all men with a heart should die!"

A sharp cry came from the face of the middle-aged woman, and as her voice fell, all the eight raised bird heads stared at me suddenly, and a total of eighteen eyes looked at me. This kind of scene scared me My back is cold.

I tightened the Quexie sword in my hand, and now I was stared at by the nine-headed bird.The only doubt in my heart is that Jiufeng is a divine bird, and it should be an auspicious beast, but the nine-headed strange bird in front of me is clearly a peerless and fierce bird. If the human face in the middle is not wrong, it should be It was transformed by the middle-aged woman in Ding Man's story. Is this resentful creature really Jiufeng?
boom!
The nine-headed monster bird flapped its huge wings, setting off bursts of smoke and dust, and its calf-sized body began to gradually fly up under the flapping of its wings.I was terrified, it would be troublesome to let this bird fly into the sky, and flying creatures have a natural advantage over land creatures.I gritted my teeth and decided to make the first move.I kicked my legs on the ground and shot towards the nine-headed bird.

Whoosh!
The nine-headed bird also saw me rushing towards me. It gave up and continued to lift off, flapping its wings, and its huge body glides towards me directly in mid-air.Eight sharp beaks and a pair of sharp claws under the body rushed towards me.

My eyes narrowed slightly, and when I was about to collide with the nine-headed bird, I jumped with both feet, and threw my whole body to the side, avoiding the attack.The nine-headed bird's sharp claws struck the ground and made two huge deep pits, and the eight bird's heads also pecked deep marks on the ground.Taking advantage of this opportunity, I turned around and slashed at its ass with a sword. Immediately, the gray feathers flew wildly. I cut a finger-deep wound on the bird, but it was nothing compared to the calf-sized body. .

"Gah... damn man!"

The woman in the middle let out a venomous scream. The whole bird turned around and stopped flying at all. The two bird claws moved directly on the ground, and the whole huge body slammed into me.

Keng!
I blocked the attack of a bird's beak with my sword, and the sword body was trembling, but at this moment, the remaining seven bird's heads attacked me from all directions.In my panic, I quickly swung my sword to resist.Between the flashes of lightning, I swung two bird heads in a row, and even almost cut off one of them, but the other five beaks pecked off a piece of meat on my thigh, shoulder, and chest respectively. The pain almost made me faint, and the blood in the five holes flowed out.

The so-called two fists are difficult for the fourth hand, not to mention that I have to block the opponent's eight bird heads with a sword, which is really amazingly difficult.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the dense forest full of trees not far away, and my heart skipped a beat. After avoiding another attack by the strange bird, I went straight to the woods. According to my idea, as long as I entered the woods, the nine-headed bird It must be difficult for my body to rotate freely, and then it will be time for me to take the opportunity to attack.

But to my disappointment, when the nine-headed bird saw me running away, it only chased me a little bit, and after an angry roar, it turned back and continued to attack the light curtain that emanated from the stone formation.This just gave me a little breathing time,

"Xue'er, what is this nine-headed bird? Is it really Jiufeng? And what kind of use does this stone formation have, which makes this bird so crazy." I saw that the stone formation was already irresistible. The attack of the nine-headed strange bird caused the light curtain to sway, and in the large formation, several stone pillars burst directly, turning into a cloud of stone powder and scattered with the wind.

Xue'er finally spoke, she seemed to hesitate before saying: "I don't know, I just vaguely remember that I came here with Brother Shengzhi a long time ago, and he wanted to pull out this evil sword at that time, but he After pulling it out, he put the sword back quickly, and he seemed to have told me that there was something under the formation."

I said speechlessly: "Then you still let me draw the sword. This bird is attacking the formation so frantically. I'm afraid the things below have something to do with it."

I tore off a few pieces of cloth and re-bandaged the wound. I saw several stone pillars cracking in the big formation not far away, and the nine-headed bird made a cheerful cry. Destroy this light curtain.

"Wait a minute, you use the talisman against souls and evil spirits to deal with it, it should be effective." Xue'er said suddenly.

I was stunned, and quickly said: "What did you say? Although this bird looks strange, it is indeed a physical creature, not a soul. The ghost exorcism charm has no effect on creatures at all."

Xue'er didn't answer, and in desperation, I could only rush towards the nine-headed bird again, I couldn't just watch it destroy the formation.It's just that what I didn't hear was that Xue'er in my mind sighed quietly: "My memory, did you seal it for me? Brother Shengzhi."

I stared with bated breath and approached quietly. The nine-headed strange bird was excitedly attacking the formation at the moment, completely unaware that I was attacking him again.It didn't find me with one of its heads until I jumped behind it, but I couldn't allow it to react at this time. I jumped up from the ground and jumped onto it from behind .

I roared, but the evil sword in my hand slashed towards the neck of the woman's face in the middle. This face is definitely its vital part.The sharp sword pierced into the flesh, but it was a pity that there was no single sword to cut it off. Instead, the stimulating nine-headed bird screamed, and the other eight heads turned their necks to attack me.

I bent my feet and stuck my whole body on its back, while avoiding the opponent's blow.

"Fool, use a talisman!" Xue'er yelled in my head.

I struggled in my heart, but in the end I chose to believe what Xueer said. I grabbed the feathers of the bird with one hand, took out a large handful of yellow paper talismans from my pocket with the other, and stuck them on the nine-headed bird with all my might. At the same time, I began to chant A spell to exorcise ghosts.

There was a sharp pain, I couldn't dodge it, and a bird's head pierced my shoulder again.But I forcibly held back and kept chanting the mantra, and as my mantra fell, the talisman attached to the back of the nine-headed bird began to glow white.

"Gah!"

The nine-headed bird screamed in pain and shriek at the same time, and the woman in the middle had the sharpest face. Her mouth kept uttering human curses, which was very ear-piercing.But as the talisman took effect, her body began to shake violently, and all nine heads stopped attacking me for a while.

I was overjoyed in my heart, although I wondered why the ghost-exorcism talisman that was specially designed to deal with souls could cause harm to the nine-headed bird, but I couldn't care about it at this time.Seeing its painful appearance, I was full of energy, and the pain on my body was temporarily forgotten by me.

Right now, I am standing on the back of the Nine-Headed Bird, chanting the exorcism spell in my mouth non-stop, and at the same time, the Quexie Sword in my hand is flickering coldly, and I cut down on the nine slender necks.The divine sword pierced the body, and the woman's face in the middle of the nine-headed bird let out a scream and was cut off by me. At this time, the remaining eight heads became much weaker all of a sudden.I was determined in my heart that at this time, naturally, there should be no benevolence of a woman, the sharp sword in my hand swished, and the remaining eight heads were chopped off to the ground with a few swishing sounds.

With a kick of my legs, I jumped up from the bird's back, fell aside and watched the bird's body crash to the ground in front of me, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

All nine heads were cut off by me, this monster should be dead now and can't die anymore.

"Xue'er, this nine-headed bird is obviously a physical body, why does the ghost exorcist work on her? Could it be that she is possessed by an evil spirit? But it's not right, what evil spirit can control such a powerful monster .” I took a deep breath and asked Xueer.

Xue'er hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "It should be a remnant soul of that thing under the formation."

I was stunned, and exclaimed in shock: "That's not right, this woman's face is obviously the woman who was killed five years ago, how could it be related to the things under this big formation, and it is obviously an entity?"

But before Xueer answered me, the things in front of her eyes suddenly changed. The pile of bird heads and bodies that fell on the ground changed again, and a puff of gray mist rose up, just like countless times before. As demonstrated before, they gathered together again, and the gray bird began to condense the shape of a bird's head at a speed visible to the naked eye.

I opened my mouth wide, and the hairs on my body stood up one by one. Aren't nine heads not enough?Is this guy going to grow a tenth head again? My God, this bird must not be the nine phoenix in Chu mythology, and that kind of fetish is definitely not as evil as the one I saw before.

When the gray mist dissipated and the things below appeared in front of me again, I was dumbfounded and trembled all over my body.The creature that appeared in front of me was the size of a yellow ox this time. It was covered with dense gray scales and feathers, and ten slender necks grew out of the front.

The eight surrounding necks have the same bird heads as before, and the middle neck also has the face of the middle-aged woman, but the newly grown neck does not have any head, and the neck is broken from the middle. , the wound was not cut neatly, as if bitten off by something, black blood flowed out from the wound, dripping onto the ground, looking glaring and penetrating.

With ten heads and one body, one head was broken and blood was dripping continuously.

This time I finally recognized what the creature in front of me was. I shivered and said slowly, "Ghost car!"

Ghost car!

There are not uncommon records about ghost cars in Chinese history. I remember that I have seen things about ghost cars in several ancient books.In "Youyang Zazu" by Duan Chengshi in the Tang Dynasty, the ghost car bird is recorded. According to legend, this bird originally had ten heads, which can absorb people's souls. One of the heads was eaten by a tengu.And in Song Dynasty Zhou Mi's "Qi Dong Ye Yu" also said that the ghost car bird was eaten by a tengu, and blood was dripping from the broken neck, and the place where the blood flowed would bring disaster.

Monsters like ghost cars have always been active in Chinese folklore, and they are notoriously fierce. I really didn't expect that the evil bird that appeared in front of me was actually a ghost car...

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