Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 229

The White Crane Boy did not choose to stand passively under the altar to defend himself, but instead raised the trident high in both hands and took the initiative to stab forward.

The Gatekeeper Master's body slightly tilted, with his left wing across his body, intending to defend himself while making a move away from the opponent. He had no intention of getting involved too much at the moment, and the only thing in his eyes was his sealed magic weapon.

Because He has realized that although He still has an absolute advantage, He has been unable to break the impasse. If the situation continues to drag on, He has a bad feeling.

"Crack!"

The trident held in the White Crane Boy's left hand broke.

One reason is that the wings' defensive strength is too high, and the other is that Tongzi and Lin Shuyou's strength has increased recently. These two reasons together led to the death of the weapon that Ah You brought with him when he went to Jinling to attend university.

However, the gatekeeper who was about to pass by suddenly paused at this moment.

He lowered his head and spread his wings from in front of him.

There was a trident stuck in his chest.

The trident quickly turned into smoke and dissipated, but the wound left behind was real, and thick black blood continued to flow out of the wound.

He was hurt.

Perhaps, only beings of the same kind can be more familiar with each other and know what to do in order to truly hurt Him.

Anger was burning in Zhenjun's eyes.

But He still did not fight back against the boy, and continued to fly towards the altar.

The White Crane Boy narrowed his pupils and stepped forward, ready to stop him.

The young man's voice rang out in the boy's heart: "No need to stop, gather your strength for the next attack."

The boy slowed down, clenched his hands, and the two tridents condensed again.

Li Zhuiyuan jumped off the altar from the side.

The Gatekeeper ignored the young man and went straight to a stone pillar with talisman paper pasted on it and slapped it with one hand.

"Buzz!"

The expected scene of the stone pier cracking and the magical weapon emerging did not occur.

The first thing that caught my eye was a blinding white.

Perhaps it was not expected at all that the young man not only sealed the stone pillar in the first moment, but also set up a formation under the stone pillar in such a short time.

This time, the Gatekeeper didn't even have time to press down his wings, and his entire body was blown off the altar by a white light.

When he was still in mid-air, the White Crane Boy appeared and stabbed at him again with two tridents.

The Gatekeeper let out a low growl from his throat, twisted his body, and punched hard.

The boy crossed the two tridents and stabbed them into the arm of the True Lord who was swinging his fist, then slid his hands down and grabbed the opponent's arm.

The punch was powerful, but most of the force was absorbed by the boy. Not only that, the boy moved forward and condensed a trident in his right hand again, intending to stab the opponent's head.

"retreat."

The boy's warning came from the bottom of his heart.

I have to warn him, the boy is getting too excited.

The boy took the initiative to disperse the attack, kicked the True Lord with both feet, and flew backwards with the force.

The next moment, the two pairs of wings behind the True Lord quickly closed like a big clam, almost trapping the boy inside.

"Go to hell!"

The True Lord spread his wings again, ready to attack.

"boom!"

Runsheng's shovel came at this moment and hit the wings behind it heavily.

Zhenjun's body swayed forward and he turned back in shock. He didn't understand why this guy's attacks were getting stronger each time.

But when He was about to turn around to look for Runsheng, the resentful baby's nursery rhyme sounded again, and the ghost wall appeared again.

"Roar!"

Amid the roar, the confused perception was restored, but Runsheng also took this opportunity to retreat a distance and accumulate strength for the next attack.

The White Crane Boy advanced once again. The phantom of his trident magic could break through the defense of Zhenjun's wings. Every time he moved forward, he could add another layer of strength to Zhenjun.

Li Zhuiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, the foundation of the building blocks had been completed.

The next battle mode is to replicate the above cycle.

When Runsheng attacks, the boy prepares; when the boy attacks, Runsheng accumulates strength.

Tan Wenbin's deceptive little tricks were added in at the right time in the middle just to control the rhythm.

It is not appropriate to throw Yin Meng's poison canister at this time, as it will easily contaminate the battlefield where his side has an advantage.

However, her whip was not idle, and she kept swinging it, just to give Tongzi and Tan Wenbin leverage to adjust their tactical positions.

She didn't dare to hand the whip to Runsheng, because Runsheng was too heavy and his brute force was too great for her to pull him. Besides, Runsheng was still in the stage of accumulating strength and it was impossible for him to relieve the force at this moment.

The one who has the most free time is Li Zhuiyuan.

He found that he really didn't need to do anything now. If he did, it would not only fail to add icing on the cake, but would disrupt the existing rhythm.

It’s not that the Gatekeeper hadn’t thought about attacking targets that looked weaker. If he did so at the beginning, there would be a great chance that he would kill one or two first. But now, every time he had such an intention, the young man would notice it in advance, and the pace of the siege would speed up accordingly, suppressing him back.

With the red line connection, the team coordination has been improved to a very smooth level, and this is the effect that Li Zhuiyuan has always been pursuing.

A team should act like a team and should release the feeling of taking advantage of the minority by virtue of their numbers. It shouldn't be that only one or two people work hard while the rest are accessories or cheerleaders.

The Gatekeeper roared in frustration. If he could do it again, he would take out the magic weapon from the stone pillar as soon as he woke up, and then kill the seemingly idle boy at all costs!
Even though the young man is standing outside the battlefield and seems to be doing nothing, every time he has other ideas in his mind and wants to change the current situation, the young man's eyes will change immediately, and then the people besieging him will immediately change their deployment.

Runsheng's momentum was building up higher and higher. Now, every time he swung his shovel down, Zhenjun no longer dared to simply block it with his wings as before, but had to actively avoid it.

But even if the attack missed, Runsheng would quickly get close to the opponent and make sure to find a point to exert force, and then he would retreat after he had exerted the force.

For this reason, Runsheng did not hesitate to exchange a few punches and kicks with Zhenjun. Even though each time aggravated his injuries and made him bleed more, the next time, Runsheng's momentum could still be raised to a higher level.

Facing such an opponent is absolutely despairing, because you cannot judge where his limit is. He is like a tireless wave, washing against the beach and rocks again and again.

In short, either you have the absolute strength to crush him with one blow, or you have a way to interrupt him, otherwise, you are destined to be exhausted to death by him.

This is probably the feeling that Uncle Qin’s true strength gives people.

When the Baijia Town on Chongming Island faced Uncle Qin, they probably felt the same despair.

One person is worth thousands of troops and can challenge an entire force alone.

Perhaps, we really have to thank this gatekeeper. He provided an extremely suitable template, which is strong but not excessive. It is simply the perfect whetstone for Runsheng.

At the same time, Li Zhuiyuan also noticed that the boy fought for a long time before he found the time to stick three incense sticks on his head to ask for directions, which meant that the time for each stage was extended a lot.

This is because the boy had left a lot of divine power in Lin Shuyou's body before, and Li Zhuiyuan forcefully gave half of the gift package to Ah You, which meant that Ah You had a large amount of surplus divine power in his body, which could be drawn and used after the boy's arrival. It was like having a spare fuel tank, and the endurance was enhanced.

Yin Meng was smiling, dancing happily with two whips in her left and right hands.

Before, she was just a battlefield poisoner;
Now, she is a battlefield dispatcher.

She has decided that after returning from this wave, she will hone her whipping skills and also make the whip longer.

Sure enough, Runsheng was right. Xiaoyuan was smart and it was enough to listen to Xiaoyuan. In the past, she never expected that she would be able to do this kind of job one day.

It can be said that except for the Gatekeeper who was in great pain, the entire team became more proficient through running-in during this stage.

Although Li Zhuiyuan did not directly intervene in the battle, he did not do nothing. The young man kept his hands behind his back and kept making hand seals.

There were a total of eight stone statues on both sides, which trembled slightly from time to time.

But a commotion of this magnitude is not worth mentioning at all in such a lively situation.

After a long period of fierce tug-of-war, it will enter a long period of decline.

Often at this time, changes are most likely to occur, and some cards that were originally reluctant to be used will be forced to be released.

"Slow down the pace, don't overdo it, hold back!"

The boy's voice appeared in his companions' hearts, pouring a basin of cold water on them in time.

Sure enough, the Gatekeeper suddenly knelt down and covered his entire body with his wings. A sharp and harsh sound of bones rubbing against each other came from inside him. When he spread his wings again and stood up, his entire body had expanded by twice as much as before.

At the same time, the skin on the wings completely fell off, and the wing bones pierced into the huge body with a "swish", supplementing the internal structure and re-coordinated and supported the whole person.

What changes is the body's physique, and the skin becomes thin and transparent due to the stretching.

A red fireball ignited in its abdomen, and the flames passed through its body and illuminated the entire temple.

In an instant, the depressing and gloomy atmosphere in the temple was swept away, replaced by a sense of sacred majesty.

That ball of fire is the source of His divine power.

Strictly speaking, the White Crane Boy and the two generals Zengshen are now in this state. They only have the original divine power but no physical body.

Every time they sense that the medium is in possession of the spirit, they will allocate a portion of their divine power to descend upon the medium and attach themselves to the medium to slay demons and eliminate evil.

There is a reward for every effort. Consuming some of the original divine power will further enrich your merits. In essence, this is actually a kind of business, with capital and returns.

However, officials and generals generally did not regard mediums as human beings, and they used and consumed their bodies at will in order to cut costs.

However, the heritage represented by the Gatekeeper has long been lost in the long river of history and sunk to the bottom of the sea. There is no medium in the world who can speak to him anymore.

This means that the little bit of origin he retains can only be consumed but not replenished.

He petrified and sealed himself in order to protect and preserve this bit of original fire so that it would not be completely annihilated.

Now, He couldn't care about anything else.

Li Zhuiyuan carefully observed the ball of red flame. From the current perspective, the Gatekeeper was not a Yin God in the traditional sense. He had a physical body, but he was not a medium.

Combined with the fact that the other eight stone statues here all have the surname Yao, it is not difficult to guess that the inheritance of the medium of the Yin God was limited to one family. Therefore, this gatekeeper should also have the surname Yao, and is most likely the most respected and oldest ancestor of this family.

This is completely different from the inheritance of today's officials, generals and eight generals. Although it is inevitable that there will be a larger proportion of members of a certain surname or family in a temple, the temples are relatively independent of each other, and any family can invite the Yin gods to come down.

The "Lord Yin Shen" in the past was the patriarch with a physical body, while the current Lord Yin Shen is the former Ghost King. Not only does he not have a physical body, he has also long since severed all ties with the mundane world.

In the past it was family inheritance, now it is temple inheritance.

The ceiling in the past was very obvious, and now the upper limit and strength of the Yin God are obviously higher.

The changes are huge, but if you look down from the top of this ecological niche, you will find that all these changes are aimed at reducing the power in the middle and strengthening one's own vertical management capabilities.

Li Zhuiyuan now couldn't help but wonder, is the "Dizang Temple" on the plaque real or fake?
If this is true, it means that the Yin God inheritance system such as the Eight Generals and the Official Generals did not appear too late and was not old enough, but was interrupted and corrected in history.

So who shuffled the cards?
"You guys...are guilty of death!"

The dull sound echoed in the temple, and it alone was enough to make people's eardrums hurt.

The eyes of the Gatekeeper were bloodshot. He now urgently wanted to kill and trample to death all those ants who had surrounded and suppressed him for such a long time!
Runsheng and Baihe Tongzi were waiting for the boy's order. They also had their trump cards to use and were confident that they could regain their previous suppressive rhythm after using them.

However, Li Zhuiyuan did not issue such an order.

Li Zhuiyuan was already very satisfied that he could force the Gatekeeper to this point. If he added more, he would lose money due to the additional costs.

Li Zhuiyuan placed his hands, which were hidden behind his back, in front of him, crossed his fingers, and arched them upwards.

"Click... click... click..."

A series of stone peeling sounds were heard, and the eight stone sculptures of the Yao family mediums all fell off, revealing the corpses sealed inside.

Li Zhuiyuan had already completed the preliminary preparations.

With his current abilities, it is really difficult for him to control eight puppets to fight at once. If he really does this, his eyes will bleed and he will be overdrawn, and the effect will be very low.

However, if you just control the eight of them to do some simple basic actions, then there shouldn't be any big problems.

Li Zhuiyuan now wants to give it a try, using the "Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" to guide and activate his puppet.

If the spirit medium can be successfully summoned, it means that there is an inevitable connection between this inheritance buried under the sea and the current officials and generals!
The eight Yao family puppets all spread out their left hands, clenched their right fists, raised their feet, and kicked!
Everything happened very quickly. As soon as the gatekeeper played his trump card and used the source of his divine power, the stone statues on the other side fell off and started to possess everyone!

In an instant, the red flame in the Gatekeeper's body flew out in eight parts and fell into the bodies of the eight Yao family puppets respectively.

Li Zhuiyuan's face immediately showed pain. It was too stressful to control eight people to complete the spirit possession.

But there was also shock in the boy's eyes. It was actually... the inheritance was the same!
"No!"

The Gatekeeper obviously did not expect such a strange situation. His descendants who were buried with him after death actually came to snatch the little porridge left in his ancestor's bowl.

He couldn't even eat enough of this amount, and he had been hiding and sealing it. Now that so much of it was shared out at once, he couldn't even maintain his tall body.

The figure of the Gatekeeper began to shrink, and the wing bones that had previously pierced into his body now became sharp blades that disrupted his body.

In just a few breaths, the Gatekeeper recovered to his original size, and the wings that were once considered a powerful defense now pierced through his body, turning him into a hedgehog.

Li Zhuiyuan immediately stopped controlling the eight puppets and blood started flowing from his nose.

Naturally, his companions would not miss this great opportunity. The first one was Runsheng. After accumulating strength layer by layer, he launched his strongest shovel except for the one with full valve opening.

"Snapped!"

The shovel hit Zhenjun's back, causing a large dent on his back. His entire body was flattened, making his already messy body even more messy.

The White Crane Boy leaped forward, and in the air he spit at the trident in his hand that was condensed by magic. A stream of real fire attached to it, and then it shot towards the top of the True Lord's head, from top to bottom, and pierced into it fiercely!
Without the protection of wings, Yin Meng's poison jars finally had room to work. He threw out a string of poison jars, which broke open above his head with a whip, and poisonous fog descended, covering Zhenjun completely.

"what……"

Zhenjun raised his head and let out a painful wail.

At this moment, confusion appeared in his eyes, and then he became clear again. The power that originally controlled and bewitched him retreated, and it was exactly the same thing that happened on the island before.

He looked around and paused at the young man: "You are not... a Bodhisattva..."

Until his death, he could not understand why the boy could use such incredible means, but he also confirmed that the boy was not Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Finally, His gaze fixed on the White Crane Boy.

The boy closed his eyes. He had stabbed the hardest with the spear before, but now, he didn't want to look the other person in the eye.

The Gatekeeper raised his hand, which had melted most of the way, with great difficulty, inserted it into his abdomen, and took out a ball of divine power source as faint as a candle flame. He handed it in the direction of the White Crane Boy and sang hoarsely:

"Evil demons and monsters... can only be killed, not saved~"

The boy opened his eyes and looked at this scene. Then, his vertical pupils disappeared and he ran away.

Lin Shuyou looked at the scene in front of him, and immediately looked at Brother Xiaoyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Take it.”

"Oh."

Lin Shuyou walked forward, stretched out his hand, and took the flame from Zhenjun.

There was no burning sensation, but it was very hot. Lin Shuyou gritted his teeth to prevent himself from crying out. After the flame penetrated his body, a red mark appeared on the back of his hand.

Half of the Gatekeeper's head had melted, and the remaining part of his head lost its support and drooped down:
"It seems...something happened... in the nunnery..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Well, otherwise I wouldn't be here."

"It was me...I didn't...guard the door properly..."

"Clap!"

The head fell off, and the remaining body melted into corpse water.

Lin Shuyou looked at the red mark on the back of his hand with a complicated and solemn expression.

Tan Wenbin came over, bumped into Ah You, and said:

"Ah, you are really smart this time, you managed to force the boy down.

If you ask me, this boy is really something. He always likes to be distracted at critical moments. This time, he was actually frightened by the aura of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, whose authenticity is unknown. Hasn't he heard the story of the real and fake Leiyin Temple? "

"Brother Binbin."

"Well, Brother Xiaoyuan?"

"I think the boy must have truly sensed the aura of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva on the bridge earlier."

When Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou heard this, their eyes widened immediately.

And Li Zhuiyuan's next words made the four people present shudder.

“Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva… is in here.”

(End of this chapter)