Forbidden City

Chapter 165 Falling off a cliff
Su Yang said: "We are still on the outskirts of the mountain. Although there is no danger here, we may sometimes encounter some snakes, insects, rats and ants. Be careful where you step."

Soon, there was no road under our feet, and we were surrounded by dense plants and weeds as tall as a person. We cleared them with swords and moved forward slowly. During the period, we encountered two snakes and a few rabbits. Everyone It was a false alarm, and nothing happened.

I have never climbed a mountain in the middle of the night, and it was pitch black all around, and the chirping of some night insects came from the mountain from time to time, which was very scary. Along the way, my mood was never relaxed at all.

Xinxin, on the other hand, is not afraid at all, she seems to like the dark very much, jumping and jumping all the way, I asked her to restrain herself, so she became obedient, otherwise they would see the clues.

As we walked further into the mountains, the cold wind became stronger and stronger. Although we had prepared for it, it was still a bit cold.Uncle Hua took out a few talismans from his bag, and said: "These fire talismans can be used to keep warm, everyone will use them first, and we will rest when we enter the deep mountains."

Sure enough, after the talisman was attached to my body, I felt a burst of warm current drill into my body along the surface of the skin, and I soon stopped feeling cold.

"Little girl, don't you want a talisman?" Uncle Hua looked at Xinxin.

"I don't want it, I'm not cold." Xinxin rejected the talisman in Huafu's hand. I understood that Xinxin's half-human, half-ghost physique is neither afraid of heat nor cold.

Uncle Hua looked at Xinxin strangely, and said, "Among us, only you wear the least clothes. You look ruddy and there is nothing unusual about it. Are you really not cold?"

"I'm not cold! I'm not cold at all, don't worry about me if you're dissatisfied, I'm not afraid of cold by nature." Xinxin said, making a face for Uncle Hua.

I smiled in embarrassment, rubbed my hands together, and said, "Uncle Hua, don't worry, Xinxin has the amulet my master gave her on her body, so she won't be afraid of the cold, let's go."

Uncle Hua had the original expression on his face, and didn't ask any more questions.I think these two people are most likely from Qingfengguan. Obviously, Ling Zhi didn't tell them that Xinxin is half human and half ghost.

We walked all the way, and after more than two hours, we came to a forest. The cold weather left these trees bare, many of them were dead, and there were yellow weeds everywhere.

From time to time, a gust of cold wind whizzed past, and suddenly yellow leaves flew around and hit us. This situation was a bit scary and very uncomfortable.

We set up the tent, and then took some broken wood into the tent with a sword, lit it with weeds, and surrounded it in a circle to warm up. We planned to rest here for the night.

Dinner is very simple, it is some fast food, we chat while eating.

Su Yang said: "After going out of this woods, it is the entrance of Broken Soul Cliff. Uncle Hua and Uncle Dong have been here once before, and they know it better. Uncle Hua, please tell everyone about the situation here, all of us It’s good to be prepared.”

Uncle Hua took a sip of water, nodded, and said, "There is no danger around here. After leaving the woods, we will be at Broken Soul Cliff. Our destination is to go to the opposite side of the cliff. The two sides of the cliff are connected by suspension bridges. Very safe. On the opposite side of the cliff is a big mountain. In the middle of the mountain is a passage leading to the deep mountain. This passage is very narrow, only more than three meters wide, and it twists and turns and spreads forward. It takes about an hour to walk out. The passage There are probably more than 100 ghosts inside. Once you pass through the passage, it is a ghost land, and there are ghosts everywhere. A few years ago, Uncle Dong and I almost couldn’t get out of it.”

More than 100 ghosts?I gasped and said in surprise, "There are so many ghosts? Are we going to kill these ghosts and get in?"

Uncle Hua smiled and said: "You don't have to worry. Although there are many ghosts in the passage, they are all low-level yellow ghosts and green ghosts. We have spirit pearls to protect us. Those ghosts dare not approach us. What we are worried about is , if there are orange or red ghosts inside, it will be a little troublesome, because the passage is narrow, the fighting method is not convenient at all, and it will have a great impact on us, so everyone prepares in advance tonight, rest early, tomorrow morning, it is Yin Qi When we are the weakest, we will act again. Let Su Yang watch the night tonight."

At night, Xinxin and I slept in a tent, and everyone else was in a tent.I posted a lot of talismans in the tent, just because I was afraid that lonely ghosts would also make trouble.

In the night in the mountains, the calls of birds and beasts came from time to time, which was very scary, but Xinxin was very excited all night, and pulled me, asking me to tell him a story.I didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, I was soundly asleep, and Mu Yi dragged me up.After we had a simple breakfast, we got ready and went out of the grove.

After leaving the small forest, 200 meters away, there is a cliff. On the edge of the cliff, there is a towering century-old pine with lush branches and leaves, which is evergreen all the year round. It looks particularly abrupt on this bare mountain.

From afar, I felt a gust of Yin Qi coming towards me, which made people very uncomfortable. It seemed that these cold breaths came from the bottom of the cliff.

We quickly walked to the edge of the cliff and saw a huge stone tablet next to the old pine tree, which was more than three meters high. On the stone tablet were engraved with three characters: Broken Soul Cliff.

The handwriting was a little fuzzy, a corner of the stele was missing, and there were a few tiny cracks on the surface, obviously the stele was quite old.

In front of the stele is a suspension bridge leading to the opposite side.On the other side of the road was a mountain hundreds of meters high, and the whole mountain seemed to be split in half by something, leaving only a passage for people to walk on.

The suspension bridge is linked together by huge iron chains, the bridge deck is very thick planks, and the bottom is unfathomable cliffs.

Su Yang said: "Everyone, don't worry, there is absolutely no danger in this suspension bridge. The stele in front of you is the soul-suppressing stone. It was set up by the master of Daoist Qingfeng back then. There is a formation in it, and ordinary ghosts cannot cross it. But , Those ghosts can sense the coming of humans, so once they pass by, we will be in danger in all likelihood, everyone must be careful and be prepared to fight."

Su Yang stepped onto the suspension bridge first, Uncle Hua and Uncle Dong were in the middle, and Mu Yi and I followed behind.Walking on the suspension bridge, the entire suspension bridge is very stable, with only a little shaking, but we are all cautious, holding on to the huge iron chain and walking forward step by step.

I looked down the cliff, and it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything, like a bottomless abyss.On the suspension bridge, I felt that the cold air here came from the bottom of the cliff.

The distance to the opposite side is more than 300 meters, and we are not worried about ghosts coming, because it is daytime, although there is no sunlight, but the lethality is very powerful.

A few minutes later, we finally reached the end of the suspension bridge, only seven or eight meters away from the narrow passage, Su Yang said: "Everyone, get ready and do it at any time! Remember, if you see any ghost, you must kill it, don't be soft-hearted! "

Everyone prepared props for killing ghosts, and I had dozens of talismans in my hand and hundreds more in my bag.And Xinxin didn't hold anything in her hands, she was not afraid of ghosts, and low-level ghosts would never hurt her at all.

I looked at the very quiet passage in the dark hole opposite, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.At this time, Su Yang took out the Lingyuan Bead, handed it to Xinxin, and said: "Miss Xinxin, Mr. Yu said that you don't know how to teach the law, so you hold this bead, and we will protect you, no matter what terrible things happen , don’t leave our ten-meter range, this bead will protect everyone.”

"Okay, okay." Xinxin seemed to be very happy with this job. She took the box, opened the box, and reached for the Yuan Lingzhu inside. He yelled, with horror on his face.Just throw the box out.

What the hell!

The box fell at my feet and the beads rolled out of it...

I rushed to the bead in a hurry, but... the bead rolled down the gap between the planks of the bridge and fell into the unfathomable cliff.

Everyone froze on the spot, their expressions froze.

Xinxin got into big trouble!Without the Spirit Orb, we lose our protection!I remembered that Xinxin is half-human, half-ghost. Although the Tianlong jade pendant helped her suppress the yin energy in her body, even holding the ghost-exorcism talisman in her hand could not hurt her, but this Lingyuan bead is a Taoist treasure, so it hurt her. Xinxin, Xinxin threw it away on reflex.

(End of this chapter)