Urban Witcher

The seven-tailed centipede had already understood human nature. Driven by Lao Guo, it climbed into the dug hole, coiled its body on a peach tree branch, and looked at the two with its upper body bent.

Ye Shaoyang sat cross-legged in front of the pit, and said to the seven-tailed centipede: "You have already understood the human nature, and you are only one step away from the human form. I can help you, but whether you can overcome the calamity or not depends on yourself."

If the evil thing has cultivated to a certain level, it needs to cross the tribulation to prove the way. If there is a mage to help, the difficulty will be less. It is also a tradition in the magic world that mages help evil things cross the catastrophe. It is not against the law of heaven. With the help of mages, evil things that cross the catastrophe are equivalent to having a name in the underworld. In the future, they will generally not choose evil cultivation again, which is considered one less trouble.

Hearing what Ye Shaoyang said, the seven-tailed centipede nodded its flat head, like a human nod.

Old Guo Hengshi looked a little worried, and said to the seven-tailed centipede: "You have to be patient, and you must persevere, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted, and no one will be able to help you."

The seven-tailed centipede nodded again.

Lao Guo looked at the time, and it was a few minutes before eleven o'clock, so he nodded to Ye Shaoyang. Eleven o'clock in the evening is the most yin time of the day, and crossing the calamity at this time can help the evil things reduce some pain.

Ye Shaoyang took out a purple talisman and was about to draw it when Lao Guo grabbed his wrist and said, "Use the dark gold talisman."

Ye Shaoyang was startled, and said, "Can you bear it?"

"It should work." Lao Guo looked at the seven-tailed centipede, breathed in and said, "I believe it."

The greater the damage suffered when crossing the catastrophe, the higher the upper limit of cultivation will be after successfully crossing the catastrophe, but the probability of failure will naturally be greater.

Ye Shaoyang saw that Lao Guo insisted, so he changed into a dark gold talisman, drew a burning sky talisman, activated it by chanting a mantra, and threw it into a peach tree branch.

A purple flame jumped up from the talisman and ignited the mahogany branch. The flame instantly wrapped the seven-tailed centipede in the middle, and began to erode wildly...

The seven-tailed centipede sprayed venom from its mouth, wrapped it around its body, and endured the burning of the Ziwei sky fire.

Under the raging fire, the venom of the seven-tailed centipede was quickly consumed, turning into black smoke, and the raging fire began to directly roast its body. The seven-tailed centipede unleashed its cultivation and struggled to resist... A few minutes later, the magic power of the Burning Heaven Talisman began to weaken, but this was only the beginning.

Lao Guo wiped off his sweat, and put the stacked three-knife yellow mounting paper in front of Ye Shaoyang. There were seventy-three pieces of yellow mounting paper in three stacks. Ye Shaoyang took out one and threw it into the fire. , fill in another sheet, and use yellow mounting paper to keep the flame going, which is also a tradition in the magic world:

Birds use hurricanes to overcome catastrophe, flying snakes attract thunder from the sky, and beasts use raging fire. Centipedes are relatively low-ranking beasts, and they need seventy-three pieces of yellow mounting paper to cross the catastrophe, even if one piece is missing.

The seven-tailed centipede began to twist and writhe in the flames, its skin and flesh were burned, and its venom flowed out. It resisted the fire and was soon evaporated...

Lao Guo clenched his fists tightly, sweat dripping from his forehead. Although he asked for the dark gold talisman, seeing the miserable state of the seven-tailed centipede, he no longer had confidence. I can't help at all, so I can only cheer for the seven-tailed centipede from the sidelines.

As the number of yellow mounting papers decreased one by one, this process lasted for almost half an hour. The seven-tailed centipede was drained of venom, and its body was burned by the sky fire. Not dead yet.

At the end, he didn't even move, and lay limply in the flames...

Lao Guo raised his heart to his throat, but he didn't dare to move, he could only watch helplessly.

Ye Shaoyang didn't know that the seven-tailed centipede had absolutely no energy. Anyway, his hands kept moving, filling in the yellow mounting paper one by one, until the last piece of yellow mounting paper was also burned to ashes, and the sky fire was extinguished. At this time, the seven-tailed centipede was completely covered by paper ashes , out of sight.

"Dead?" Lao Guo murmured, then sighed heavily.

"Crossing the catastrophe is destiny, it cannot be forced." Ye Shaoyang comforted.

"I know..." Lao Guo shook his head, feeling infinite regret in his heart, a bit regretful that Ye Shaoyang used the dark gold talisman.

However, at this moment, the paper dust suddenly flipped, and then a flat head came out. Lao Guo was overjoyed, and blew away the paper ashes, and the body of the seven-tailed centipede was revealed under the moonlight. The moment he saw it, even Ye Shaoyang trembled in his heart: the tentacles and arms and legs of the seven-tailed centipede, It had been completely burned, leaving only a bare rod, and it was also burned to a pitch black mass. It didn't look like a centipede at all.

But as long as there is a trace of breath, it is still alive.

Ye Shaoyang hurriedly took out a piece of yellow mounting paper, drew several strokes on it with a cinnabar pen, formed an octagonal astrolabe, and handed it to Lao Guo, who pricked his middle finger and pressed the blood in the middle of the octagon. handprint, and Ye Shaoyang handed the talisman paper to the seven-tailed centipede.

Although the seven-tailed centipede was dying, it still forcefully spit out a mouthful of black mucus in the middle of the talisman paper.

Ye Shaoyang lit this magic talisman, and said to the seven-tailed centipede: "You have succeeded in crossing the tribulation, and the power of the contract has also been formed. If you want to kill and practice evil cultivation in the future, you will suffer a hundred times the pain today."

The seven-tailed centipede was no longer able to nod.

Lao Guo immediately took out a wet towel soaked in alum water from his backpack, and went up to wrap the body of the seven-tailed centipede in the middle. The alum water can help the evil spirit nourish its soul and speed up recovery.

About a quarter of an hour later, a clear light rose from the middle of the wet towel, and gradually turned into a figure. It looked like a tall, thin man, dressed in black, with a flat head. Ye Shaoyang never thought that a person could look like an animal, but when he saw this guy in front of him, he immediately thought of three words: fine centipede.

The Centipede raised his hands, twisted his body, got up from the ground, and set his head at the correct angle. He bowed deeply to Ye Shaoyang, and said in a vague and rough voice: "Thank you, Archmage, for your fulfillment."

Ye Shaoyang said: "Don't thank me, this is your master, please repay him with a good performance in the future."

Centipede looked at Lao Guo without expressing much, but his eyes were full of gratitude and loyalty.

Ye Shaoyang said: "Give me a name."

Lao Guo scratched his head and murmured: "I really didn't think of a name... called Duoshou?"

"It's still a pickpocket, let's get another one." Ye Shaoyang rolled his eyes.

Lao Guo looked at the centipede spirit, thought for a while and said, "The name is just a code name. Its head is flat, so let's just call it flat head."

The centipede knelt on the ground and thanked him: "Thank you, master, for giving me the name."

The corner of Ye Shaoyang's mouth twitched, flat head... what kind of name is this, it sounds like a pervert. But since Lao Guo took it, there is nothing to say.

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