Star Trace Gate

Chapter 781: Five ghosts from Xiangbian, seem to come from hell

Dusk, the hour of Hai.

The majestic and magnificent Xiji Mountain, which rises straight into the sea of ​​clouds, looks as if an immortal had casually sprinkled a touch of red color on it, making the eternal snow in the mountains shine like a galaxy, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.

Ren Ye was standing about five miles away from the "Dadao Bridge", gazing into the distance with the snow and frost flying in the mountains on his face.

The rules of heaven are explained very clearly. If you want to enter Xiji Mountain, you must cross the Avenue Bridge.

But at this moment, on the highway bridge that was about ten miles long, there was a scene of surging divine light and surging aura.

The Little Bad King spread his senses a little and judged in his heart that there were at least six or seven people with magical powers fighting on the bridge, and it must be a life-and-death battle with no room for retreat.

Is it because when people with supernatural powers meet here, they all look like a "boy who brings wealth", so they can't suppress the murderous intent in their hearts?

Shit, isn't it too early to fight now?

The master and the disciple stood on a small hill, gazing into the distance and waiting for about half an incense stick of time before they saw the divine rainbow light on the bridge fade away and the atmosphere returned to calm.

After entering the third level, Ren Ye's divine sense, vision, and experience in fighting with others have all undergone very obvious qualitative changes. But just now when he was watching the battle, he could only feel the violent and surging divine aura on the avenue bridge, but did not get a glimpse of the specific situation of the battle...

There should be a large formation with considerable divine power on the bridge, which blocks the prying eyes of the outside world.

"Whoosh!"

After the movement on the bridge disappeared, a familiar breath rushed back from the distance.

Ren also stepped forward to meet him, and asked in a voice transmission: "Brother Feng, what's the situation ahead...?"

"Damn it, a coward who is afraid of death has met a funeral procession - how unlucky." Although Feng Rende had not been to school for a few days, he was a genius at making allegorical sayings: "Brother Liu, let's go back 20 or 30 miles and find a secluded place to talk."

When Ren Ye heard this, although he was confused, he still respected Feng Rende's opinion. He picked up the little one with one hand, turned around and went back the way he came.

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About a quarter of an hour later, the two adults and one child stopped behind a hillside sheltered from the wind.

This place is only a stone's throw away from Xiji Mountain. The eternal snow in the mountains causes the temperature to drop sharply at dusk. Even someone with an extremely strong body like Ren Ye can clearly feel the bone-chilling cold.

Feng Rende's eyebrows were frosted with breath, but when he turned his head to look at the little kid, he found that the child was still like a lively donkey, biting on a pancake and drinking Nana, and didn't seem to be affected by the cold.

He was a little surprised in his heart, thinking: "Why does this child seem to have returned home, without any chill at all?"

"Brother Feng, what exactly happened ahead?" Ren also asked.

"Alas, I am such a short-lived puke who has encountered syphilis - what bad luck." Feng Rende kept shaking his head, speaking out philosophy: "I am afraid it will be very difficult for us to cross this bridge of sin. Damn it, I really can't understand why the emperor would let those five ugly monsters who did so many evil things into his house...!"

"The Bridge of Sin?! Isn't it called the Avenue Bridge?" Ren Ye asked instinctively.

Feng Rende was slightly stunned, then he replied, "In my mission, this bridge is called the Guilty Heart Bridge. We, the Blood Guides, accept the Heavenly Dao mission from the descendants of the 81 Clans. It may also be that the ancient calendars of the 81 Clans are different, so the name of this bridge is also different."

"Oh, that's right." Ren nodded thoughtfully, and then said again: "Brother, continue talking about the bridge."

At this point, he immediately added: "Oh, you'd better not use allegorical sayings... My brain is frozen and I can't react sometimes. What are you talking about?"

"There are blood-guiding people blocking the avenue bridge, and they are not small." Feng Rende looked at Ren Ye solemnly, and said word by word: "They are called - Xiangbian Five Ghosts, five dwarfs, and quintuplets with the same appearance. These five people are notorious in Jiuli. Before... I really didn't expect, nor had I heard... that they also got the opportunity in the Emperor's Tomb."

"The five ghosts from Xiangbian should have been blocking the bridge for a few days. Just now, the divine light on the bridge was surging, and the aura was surging. That means a blood guide wanted to go to Xiji Mountain to complete a mission, but was stopped by them for a whole day. So in anger, they forcibly attacked the bridge, but...but the result...Alas!" Old Feng sighed, his eyes filled with regret, and said: "Three blood guides joined forces to attack the bridge, but one died, one was captured alive, and the other was seriously injured and retreated. In order to ensure that he would not be regarded as prey by others, the retreating person used the shrinking talisman to escape all the way. At this moment, he may be very far away from here."

The Great Emperor bestowed 990 blood guides on the Nine Li people, but only the 99 people with the most blood guides were able to enter the Emperor's tomb. At the time, there were hundreds of people gathered at the Xiliang Tianjiao Gathering, but less than one-tenth of them were able to enter this place.

In other words, only leading figures such as Liao Ting of the Hidden Immortal Sect were finally qualified to enter the Emperor's Tomb.

Situ Ye, who was known as the number one of the younger generation in Xiliang, died at the beginning, and the three golden flowers were also captured alive after they left the meeting. In other words, before the Emperor's Tomb was opened, there had been a great battle of elimination, and those who could finally enter this place were all the best among the geniuses. It would be impossible to reach this step just by luck.

Although three people attacking the bridge were at a disadvantage, who among those who could enter this place didn't have some life-saving cards? Even if they couldn't win, it would still be easy to escape. It wouldn't be a complete collapse within a stick of incense...

"What are the origins of these five ghosts from Xiangbian? Their magical powers are so strong that they can kill one person, seriously injure another, and capture another alive within the time of one stick of incense?" Ren was a little surprised.

"Speaking of the Five Ghosts of Xiangbian, they are almost household names in the southern part of Jiuli. Their reputations even surpass those of many sixth-rank clan leaders and kings who practice seclusion and cultivate themselves." Feng Rende paused for a moment and then sighed, "To be honest, these five dwarfs who committed numerous evil deeds were born in humble families and had extremely miserable lives."

The Emperor's Tomb emphasizes the great road battle, and only after burying all the companions can one inherit the military master. To put it bluntly, the rules of heaven here are to persuade people to kill. And these five bastards guarded the bridge into the mountain, and their intention was nothing more than to kill people, cut off other people's opportunities, and steal other people's blood to improve themselves.

So when Ren comes here and meets these five people, he will inevitably become their opponent.

As the old saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy is the key to victory in every battle, so Ren also listened to Feng Rende's words and asked patiently: "Tell me about their origins and magical powers in detail."

"The origins of the Five Ghosts have long been no secret in the south. The biological father of the five of them is the abbot of the Tiantong Temple in Xiang State. The Tiantong Temple was previously the national temple of Xiang State, and was favored by the royal family and the gentry, and was very popular..." Feng Rende told the story.

Ren Ye was excited and envious when he heard this: "You mean, the abbot of this national temple not only broke the precepts, but also gave birth to five children in one go? How come he gets all the good things?"

"Not only did he give birth to five cubs, but you can also guess who he gave birth to them with." Feng Rende was also excited when he talked about gossip.

"There are so many possibilities. How can I guess?"

"He fathered these five children together with the Queen of Xiang."

"Ah?!" Ren Ye was shocked again when he heard this: "He is cheating on the King of Xiang?!"

"That's right. The queen of Xiang is stunningly beautiful, a beauty gifted by God. And this abbot, who is highly respected by the people, pretends to be a compassionate sage in front of people during the day, but sneaks into the palace at night to taste the cherry mouth that only the king can taste, shoots his gun into the dragon road, and enjoys the gentle carcass..." Feng Rende has some talent as a colorful writer, and his story is vivid.

When Ren Ye heard this, he suddenly felt that it was a bit far-fetched: "Is the queen just addicted? Why would she, the mistress of a country, fall in love with a monk?!"

"You don't know, the queen was born into a famous family, the eldest daughter of a thousand-year-old family in Xiangbian. But for some reason, after she married the king, she never gave birth to an heir, so she was neglected. The queen saw that young concubines entered the palace and were favored, while she had a cold bed and could not see the king for a year or two. So, she became discouraged and believed in Buddhism. She often went to Tiantong Temple to pray for blessings and listen to the master's preaching of Buddhism and lectures on scriptures."

"To put it bluntly, I'm too rich, but empty inside, and I'm in urgent need of finding a belief." Ren also interjected.

"That's right, that's right. Because the queen is of a noble status, every time she goes to the temple to pray, the abbot must accompany her in person, preach the sutras to comfort her, and give her advice. In this way, a single man and a single woman, whispering in each other's ears... isn't that like a gun coming out of the dragon's way?" Feng Rende nodded and said, "Although the abbot is nearly fifty years old, he is a virgin, and he has a handsome appearance and vigorous blood like a dragon and elephant. I guess... he must have the strong and strong advantages that make the queen nostalgic and obsessed."

"Yes, you and I have the same opinion." Ren nodded.

"Hehe..." Feng Rende smiled obscenely, and continued to narrate: "The two of them had frequent affairs, so naturally the queen became pregnant soon. According to outsiders, when the old monk learned that the queen was pregnant, he was extremely frightened, fearing that the king would cruelly execute him if he knew about it. At the same time, he was also greedy for his reputation in Xiang State, so he persuaded the queen to secretly take medicine and secretly abort the child..."

"The fetus in the queen's belly is the Five Ghosts of Xiangbian."

"However, the queen also had her own plans. She had not been able to get pregnant since she entered the palace. In addition, not long before she became pregnant, it was the New Year's Day in Xiangbian, and the king had sex with her after getting drunk. According to the time and past experience... although the fetus in her belly is definitely the old monk's, from the perspective of outsiders, it may also be the king's."

"Oh, I understand. The little fairy cheated on the king, not only did she cuckold him, but she also forced him to have five sons?" Ren Ye asked in return.

"That's right." Feng Rende nodded. "The queen thought she could pin the child on the king, so she was reluctant to have an abortion. But the old monk was nervous. He felt that it was not reliable to ask the king to help him raise five children... In addition, the queen was reluctant to have an abortion, which made him suspect that the queen might kill him to silence him."

"If this woman really kills him, then the affair will no longer be known to others."

"So, after thinking hard, the monk disappeared overnight. No one knows where he fled to. Although this move would cause him to lose the reputation he had accumulated over decades, this is how the world is. People's hearts are hard to predict, and everything is absurd and dirty. As long as the monk is alive and the temple is still there, he can continue to sit on the high platform and preach Buddhism after changing his name, fooling the people with the appearance of enlightenment."

"The monk ran away, and the queen gave birth to five children in October. Unexpectedly, when the five fetuses were born, they were extremely ugly, with deformed flesh and bones..." Feng Rende sighed, "There is no need to use blood tests to identify these five children, nor do we need to order people to use supernatural methods to investigate. We only need to take a look and we will know...that they are definitely not the king's children."

"The queen was born into a prominent family, and she was guilty of her crime, so she kept finding excuses to stay at home to take care of her pregnancy, and she gave birth at home. In the palace, the king learned the good news that the queen was about to give birth, and rushed over in his carriage, but the queen's family was already in despair. Because after the king saw the five children, he would know that the children were definitely not his, or he would order a master to use supernatural methods to test them. When the matter was exposed, the king would be angry and it would be no problem to exterminate their entire family..."