dragon hunter

Chapter 165 Human Skin Lantern
The Dong mother-in-law walks in the dense forest like a ghost, and the sound of "dong dong dong" rattles is hollow and strange.

We followed behind quietly, the temperature was low at midnight, and a gust of night wind blew by, I tightened my collar.

"Fatty Wang, is he still sleeping?" I rubbed my hands and asked in a low voice.

"Sleeping soundly, snoring loudly, I pushed him, but he didn't wake up." Mr. Lai smiled helplessly.

"You bastard, you really came here to play in the mountains and rivers." I muttered, but I knew that Fatty Wang was virtuous, so I didn't bother to argue with him.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, there was a faint whining sound in the depths of the dense forest, which sounded like a ghost crying.

"What's the matter?" I frowned, the whining sound was full of ghosts, if ordinary people heard it, they would probably run away.

A dim red light lit up in the depths of the woods, flickering from left to right, erratic, looking ghostly.

There were more and more ghost cries, more and more red lights appeared in the dense forest ahead, floating around like will-o'-the-wisps.

As soon as my arm tightened, a hand suddenly grabbed my arm, which startled me. I almost had a reflex, and a piece of talisman paper slapped me.

"It's not right. When I look at those things, they look like a very evil thing." Mr. Lai said in a solemn voice.

"Brother, don't be surprised, I was shocked just now." I saw that Mr. Lai was holding my arm, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

"The dance of demons is really that kind of evil thing." Mr. Lai squinted his eyes and looked ahead.

The red light spots on the opposite side drifted closer and closer, and I could see clearly that they were red lanterns floating on the ground.

"Isn't it just some lanterns, even if they are stained by ghosts, throwing two talisman papers over will destroy them." I was a little bit disapproving of Mr. Lai's prudence.

"That's not an ordinary lantern. Have you ever heard of a human skin lantern?" Mr. Lai took out a copper coin sword and stared straight ahead.

My heart skipped a beat, of course I've heard of this kind of evil stuff.

When I was a child, my second uncle often told some scary ghost stories, including the story about a human skin lantern, which was very scary and bloody.

"Bone sky lanterns, human skin lanterns, people see detours, ghosts worry." I muttered to myself.

What I said just now was a common saying circulated in the circle of physiognomists. It can be regarded as a talk from experience, which means that the human skin lantern is evil, even experienced seniors, it is best not to provoke this thing.

"You can't hide, be smart for a while, don't be reckless, no matter what you encounter, you must be calm." Mr. Lai solemnly explained.

With a solemn face, I nodded, and quickly formed a seal with my hands, blessing myself with the seal of dispelling evil spirits.

Ghost cries came from all directions, and there were whispers mixed in, as if there were many people whispering in their ears.

I silently recited the mantra of purifying my heart, and the whispers in my ears suddenly weakened a lot, but the ghost cries became louder and louder.

The horror of human-skin lanterns lies not only in the fact that the lantern itself has a strong evil spirit, and if it touches it, it will shorten your life and fortune, but also in the fact that once the lanterns are formed into a formation, they will produce endless illusions.

"I died so badly, you live with me..." A ghostly cry came from behind, the voice was very close, as if it was right next to the ear.

I turned around in horror, and saw a bloody face, a pair of miserable white eyes, so close at hand, it was not too intrusive.

The woman with disheveled hair opened her mouth and bit my neck with blood on her teeth.

I took a step back and threw a piece of burning talisman. The red fire light drifted across, and as soon as it touched the terrifying face, the opponent's figure turned into a puff of green smoke and dissipated.

"I was fooled, it was an illusion!" I frowned, feeling that I had overreacted just now.

"Don't be careless, true and false, some things you think are illusions can just kill you." Mr. Lai imparted experience.

A red lantern dangled and floated over. What covered the surface of the lantern was not red paper, but a piece of human skin as thin as cicada's wings.

I tentatively threw two flaming talisman papers. It is the first time I come into contact with this evil thing, it is better to be cautious.

"Hehehe!" A woman's evil laughter came from the human skin lantern.

Before the burning talisman paper approached, a pale arm stretched out from the top of the lantern, with thin and long black nails, and with a stroke in the void, the two talisman papers scattered into countless sparks.

A chill rose from my back, the human skin lantern was indeed evil, completely different from some evil spirits I encountered before.

From all directions, evil laughter came, and more human skin lanterns shuttled through the dense forest, forming a circle, shrinking smaller and smaller.

There was a bead of sweat on my forehead, hanging on the tip of my nose, I didn’t have time to wipe it off, my eyes were fixed on the nearest lantern, and my hand was touching the Gouyu sword stuck in my waist.

The hand is cold and warm, although the Gouyu Sword is smaller than ordinary daggers, but the evil-fighting effect of this treasure is incomparable to a hundred daggers put together.

At the end of the Gouyu sword, there is a red silk thread. I tied the thread to my middle finger. This jade sword can not only cut, but also be thrown as a throwing knife in a critical situation.

The nearest human skin lantern floated over with a ghostly smile, and its pale arms kept waving on the top of the lantern.

"Leave it to me from behind, and you are careful in front." Mr. Lai's calm voice came from behind.

I stepped on the Kuai Dou step, arousing the yang fire in my shoulders, and the sudden exuberant yang energy dispelled the evil and cold air around me.

The Gouyu sword in my hand is connected with my heart, a hot current flowed from the shoulder into the Gouyu sword, and the small emerald green sword let out a clear cry.

The human skin lantern in front of me suddenly accelerated, that pale arm stretched out towards me, the slender black nails were so sharp that it made people feel chilling.

There was a chuckle from behind, something seemed to touch my neck, and I was shocked, and I subconsciously wanted to turn around.

"Fake, with me here, you don't have to worry about what's behind you." Mr. Lai said in a sharp tone.

My heart settled down instantly, I clenched my teeth, and slashed at the pale arm with a sword.

When the emerald green Gouyu sword slashed across the pale arm, a foot of red glow suddenly spewed out, and the scorching yang energy chopped the pale arm into two pieces.

I felt the heat in my body continuously gushing out. I struck while the iron was hot, and swung my sword with my backhand, slashing towards the human skin lantern.

The Gouyu sword was extremely sharp, and the yang energy in the body was drawn out from the tip of the sword, like a sharp red sword, cutting off the human skin lantern in half.

Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, a group of green will-o'-the-wisps flew out of the broken lantern and burrowed towards my eyebrows.

Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough, took out a piece of yellow talisman paper and threw it out, extinguishing the dying will-o'-the-wisp.

I didn't feel very lucky to have wiped out a human skin lantern, because there were more lanterns around, and a lot of yang energy in my body was consumed just now, so the situation is still not optimistic.

There are even more worrying things. These human skin lanterns will not appear out of thin air. There must be a lantern bearer hiding behind them. This is the serious trouble.

"The five elements of the human skin lantern belong to fire, and the four spirits can be arranged?" Mr. Lai's voice sounded a little tired.

There are five types of four-spirit formations, corresponding to the five elements, which belong to the entry-level exorcism formation. Among them, the four-spirit Canglan formation belongs to water. I have seen the arrangement method in the Broken Physiognomy.

"It's okay to set up the formation, but I'm afraid there is no chance." I stared at the three human skin lanterns floating to this side, feeling heavy in my heart, full of pressure.

"You must try it, otherwise you can only wait for death." Mr. Lai said decisively.

A flash of determination flashed in my eyes, I took out a few pieces of yellow talisman paper, and threw them on the ground according to the fixed position.

Before the corner of the formation was set up, the three human skin lanterns had already surrounded them, and ghostly cries were floating around.

The top of the leading human skin lantern was broken, extruding a woman's head, with long hair covering her face, and her eyes were sinister and vicious.

The woman opened her mouth and let out a piercing scream that hurt my eardrums and made it hard to concentrate.

The two lanterns at the back accelerated, pale arms stretched out from the top of the lanterns, and their sharp nails grabbed at my neck.

I bit my tongue hard, spewed a mouthful of pure Yang blood, and sprayed it towards the nearest lantern. With a chichi sound, the lantern emitted a puff of black smoke and fell to the ground.

A black shadow flashed in front of my eyes, my neck quickly leaned back, and another lantern was already approaching, and the sharp nails missed my neck by only one centimeter.

The woman's head on the other side kept screaming, which made people feel depressed and wanted to vomit.

"Call your sister, go to hell!" I couldn't bear it any longer, I dodged the lantern beside me in embarrassment, and threw the hook jade sword at the same time.

The emerald green Gouyu sword, with an afterimage, passed through the human skin lantern, and the fireworks splashed in all directions. When the lantern exploded, it burned the woman's head into coke.

As soon as I lifted the red thread in my hand, the Gouyu sword flew back. The moment I caught the Gouyu sword, I slanted sideways, and the yang energy in my body surged out, splitting the human skin lantern beside me, including the pale arm, into two.

In less than 1 minute, the three lanterns were solved, and I didn't even have time to catch my breath, so I hurriedly continued to arrange the four spirits.

From time to time there was the sound of fighting behind me, and Mr. Lai's heavy panting. Seeing a few more lanterns surrounding me, a trace of anxiety flashed in my eyes.

"My side is almost ready, hurry up." Mr. Lai said hoarsely.

I was refreshed, and I didn't expect that Mr. Lai's side had already completed half of it.

"Immediately, there is one last point left." I speeded up my progress, and suddenly there was a cold feeling around me.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bluish-purple face, and leaned over, it was a wronged soul that appeared out of thin air.

I didn't want to pay attention to it at first, because I thought it was an illusion, but there was a warning sign in my heart, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I subconsciously swung the jade hook sword.

With a muffled snort, black smoke rose from that figure, and he quickly backed away, obviously injured by Gou Yujian.

"It's not an illusion." I cried out inwardly, and hurriedly threw the last talisman paper in my hand on the ground, and the four spirits' Canglan Formation was completed.

A blue water mist rose out of nowhere in the forest, and Xuanwu's phantom appeared in the water mist, and the human skin lanterns around were a little commotion, and retreated extremely quickly.

"I want to run, but it's too late." A sneer came from behind, and Mr. Lai quickly chanted a spell to activate the formation.

Blue water mist swept around, Xuanwu Xuying raised his head high, opened his mouth wide, and let out a silent roar.

(End of this chapter)