Bite back

Jiang Luo takes out his stolen robe, which is unfolded to reveal a walking stick in the hand of the Godfather.

He whistled and draped the black robe over himself.

The brim of his hat fell to cover his brow and eyes, and finally the corners of his upturned lips.

*

Half an hour passed.

Hua Li was still sniffing the air.

It stood to reason that humans would have a smell unique to them that belonged to the scent of the living, but for the last half hour, the smell his sensitive nose had picked up had been patchy.

The breath of the two human beings faded, as if they had been covered up, were they dead, or had they left the cave?

Hua Li slowly walks through the hole in the ground, his emotions getting more and more irritated.

There was one other possibility, but he put it out of his mind without even thinking about it.

The blood of female Venomous Tail Scorpions is full of Yin energy, which can temporarily mask the scent of the living on humans.

But all the females in the cave were used for the master's soul, so that the master's mutilated soul could be more solid and fit the body of the idol better.

And where can a human go to get the blood and water of a female Poison Tail Scorpion?

Hua Li had just finished this thought when he realized that someone was approaching behind him, he turned back in an instant with alertness and saw the owner dressed in black robes and holding a walking stick in his hand.

There was still the scent of a female Poison Tail Scorpion on his master, Hua Li immediately said respectfully, "Master."

"Well," the master's tone was his usual carelessness, a sense of gut-wrenching danger hidden in the eyes of the bland word, "Hua Li , you haven't found the idol yet."

The master lowered his voice slightly, Hua Li should have noticed this detail, but he was at that moment scared stiff by the content of the master's words, he clenched his hands and whispered, "Yes."

The master seemed to chuckle a bit and added slowly, "Nor did he find the human you were looking for."

Hua Li : "...... Yes."

Jiang Luo under the black robe mimicked Chi You's tone as he gently gripped his walking stick, his slender fingers wrapped in black cloth rubbing the tip of the stick, his every move containing a deep meaning that one would not dare to look directly at. Slightly bored, he said, "And I have to clean up your mess."

"I'm sorry, Master," Hua Li said eagerly, "I don't know how that human was able to hide so well, her scent all but disappeared-"

Before he could finish, Jiang Luo held out a finger and placed it in front of his lips through his hat, "Shhh."

Hua Li shut up, beads of sweat already sliding down his temples.

"Come on, I'll take you to the idol," Jiang Luo said in an increasingly diffident manner, "After you see the idol, Hua Li, I hope you'll show me how much you've progressed over the years."

Hua Li's brow jumped as she stepped forward to follow Jiang Luo, "I will, Master."

He secretly decided that regardless of whether the idol offering was successful or not, he would not let his master do it and personally restrain the idol.

Jiang Luo was not at all alarmed as he led Hua Li in the direction of the idol.

When he lured away the idol, he used a rat made from a golden talisman on the Yin Yang Ring. The rat had never been retrieved by him, and was now leading the idol in their direction.

Jiang Luo's steps were unhurried and even a little condescending.

No one knows Chi You better than he does, and no one knows Chi You's character better than he does. As long as their voices were lowered, their postures a bit more casual, and their attitudes a bit more indifferent and light-hearted, no one would ever notice their similarities and differences from the outside.

Like Hua Li.

Hua Li hadn't seen Chi You for several years, and when he walked beside Jiang Luo, he felt nothing but cold sweat, but he would never have thought that underneath the black robe was in fact just a bold human being.

Hua Li was nervous, his voice tightened as he interrupted the silence, "Master, there are many other ghosts in the hole in the ground who want to become your men."

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, "Oh?"

"They're not very good, but they're good in numbers," Hua Li said, "and it's been a veritable haunted nest."

Jiang Luo's cane in his hand lurched, and then he didn't move, "Uh-huh."

Hua Li instead said more and more, "Master, do you want to take them?"

Hua Li introduced several of these powerful ghosts one by one.

Jiang Luo took it to heart and said slowly, "There's no rush."

Soon there was the sound of rumbling idol footsteps ahead of them.

Hua Li sighed, "Not bad for a master."

He intended to show his strength in front of his master who had been separated for several years. Thus, Hua Li flew to meet the Buddha statue before it could run in front of them.

The sound of a violent fight soon came from the front.

Jiang Luo slowly walks up, pausing in the darkness to slowly and methodically watch the fight between Hua Li and the idol.

The idol was an evil god, although it hadn't been resurrected, its strength was not to be underestimated. If Hua Li and Teng Bi were to face the idol together, they would naturally be able to win easily. However, Hua Li will have to deal with the idol alone, so it is inevitable that she will be a bit weak.

But even with all this strain, he didn't dare show a single point of retreat for fear of completely disappointing his master.

The two inhuman things fought back and forth. Jiang Luo stood in the darkness and watched for a moment, revealing a big, silent laugh.

He left the place quietly, taking this moment to meet the ghosts who wanted to be under Chi You.

Chi You's time as the Godfather was very short, and he only spent a few moments in the hole in the ground. But his aura and appearance were already very intimidating, Jiang Luo was wearing a black robe, supporting a walking stick, the yin and yang ring was slightly hot, along the way, I do not know how many evil creatures in the moment they saw him to retreat three times.

He walked to the familiar fork in the four-way street.

According to Hua Li, except for the first one, the other three openings are filled with vicious ghosts.

Jiang Luo flicked his robe and walked in slowly.

*

Chi You is still soaking in the pool water.

Time passed by, and the corners of his mouth got higher and higher, and it was at that moment that he read Liao Si's thoughts.

Liao Si said, "Master, are you there?"

If it were normal, Chi You wouldn't have responded to such a question, but he was in such a good mood today that he rarely answered back, "What?"

Liao Si quickly returned, "I've chosen one of the twenty-two contestants to be my new body."

Chi You lazily said, "Who."

"Jiang Luo," Liao Si exclaimed gleefully, "Master, he's perfect for being my next body!"

In an unoccupied house in the village of Deep Earth, Liao Si looked eagerly at the bagua instrument on the table.

Inside the Eight Trigrams Instrument, twenty-two hairs infused with air were tearing each other apart, and at this point, only two hairs were left still violently fighting against each other.

One is Qi Ye's hair and one is Jiang Luo's hair.

"Of course, I've found you another new body for you, or a new puppet," Liao Si casually fiddled with Qi Ye's hair and grinned, "This one has a nice spirit body, you'll like it a lot."

Chi You said, "No."

Liao Si froze, then cried falsely, "Master, why?"

"Except for Jiang Luo," Chi You said slowly, "everyone else is fine."

Liao Si said sadly, "Okay, I get it."

After the short conversation ended, Chi You's fingertips continued to slowly tap on the stone wall.

Why not Jiang Luo?

Because he really couldn't imagine what the black-haired youth's eyes, which were bright and contained fire, would become if they were replaced by another person.

Angry, defiant, provocative, the tail of his eyes swept over Chi You, the kind of look that could easily arouse his interest.

The evil spirit laughed.

Ah, it's almost time too.

He'll be ready to go after his little prey in no time.

*

Satisfied, Jiang Luo returned to the spot where Hua Li had fought the idol.

When he arrived, the battle was already over. Hua Li, though somewhat reluctantly, had managed to restrain the idol in the end, spelling out a lose-lose ending.

He paid a heavy price for this, with several broken bones, blood wetting the soil, and his whole body lying on the ground unable to move a finger, similar to Teng Bi's previous misery.

Hua Li breathed a real sigh of relief at the sight of her master's black robes as she approached, "Master."

He coughed and said with difficulty, "I suppressed the idol."

The Lord looked toward the idol.

The idol lay on the ground, without the slightest movement. There were several spider-like cracks on the stone-like body, and one of the biggest cracks was right on the idol's head, almost piercing through the idol's head.

Hua Li spat out a mouthful of blood, "Master ......"

"I see," his master said in a low, slow voice, "that you have done well."

The laughter in his voice was getting deeper and deeper, and the tone that belonged to Jiang Luo was getting thicker and thicker, and he was still learning the tone of Chi You, saying incongruously, "You're really great."

Hua Li's eyes widened violently.

The man clad in black robes stepped in front of him, the hand wrapped in black cloth clutched a walking stick while the other hand was wrapped around a whip made of runes, the black robed man crouched down on one knee and gently wrapped the whip around Hua Li's neck.

The human's face was revealed from the black robe, and the human with stern but not too extravagant features smiled and said, "Didn't you say you could kill me easily?"

Hua Li was shocked and angry, bracing her paws on the ground and forcing herself to get up, "You-"

Jiang Luo tightened the rope, let out a "shhh" and said softly, "Hua Li, I really have to thank you, if not for you, I don't know how I would have taken revenge on this idol."

Hua Li was yanked back down to the ground, his face turning blue as he looked at Jiang Luo with a look of hatred that wanted to pull out his bones.

Jiang Luo still didn't think it was enough, and laughed in a low voice, "You can't even distinguish between your master and someone else's impersonated master, I see that you don't have much loyalty to Chi You either. Why don't you abandon the darkness and become a pathfinding dog in my hands?"

Slightly mocking words, returning Hua Li's previous sarcastic remarks about Teng Bi.

Hua Li's chest choked as his sharp nails dug into the flesh of his palms, and his anger caused him to spit out another mouthful of blood.

Jiang Luo wrapped Hua Li with the Si Snake, got up and walked to the idol.

He took the dagger made of golden talisman and stabbed it into the idol's left leg without hesitation, five holes in a row wasn't enough, and then another five without blinking.

The idol seemed to still feel pain, his baby-like shrill voice echoed through the cave, but his mouth was in the shape of a smile tightly closed when he even screamed. Jiang Luo noticed and muttered as he held his dagger close to the idol's mouth, "Are you hiding something else in your mouth?"

He pried open the idol's mouth with force, and it slowly opened, revealing an oval heart-like stone inside.

Jiang Luo carefully took the stone out and placed it under the golden light to examine it carefully.

The stone was covered with several thin, protruding threads, like the veins and sinews wrapped around a heart. Jiang Luo wondered if this was the heart of the idol.

He puts this away and pulls on the whip that binds Hua Li, dragging him to Chi You.

Hua Li's injuries were worsened by the rocks along the way, and the mask on his face was about to fall off as Hua Li gasped and cursed weakly, "Vile humans!"

Jiang Luo smiled brightly at him sideways and dragged him harder across the ground.

*

When they arrived, Chi You was coming out of the water.

The pale, elegant villain was naked, the ghostly tattoos on his back hideously vivid. He heard a voice and looked back languidly.

He saw his man in a sorry state being dragged to him by Jiang Luo by the neck.

The evil spirit raised his eyebrows slightly and smothered a laugh, "Hua Li, I've told you before, you'll get bitten back if you underestimate him."

With his words, a layer of black mist wrapped around the evil spirit, and when it dispersed, the evil spirit put on that familiar three-piece suit again.

Hua Li mortified, "Master, I know I'm wrong."

Shining his shoes, the evil spirit walked towards Jiang Luo step by step, stopping five steps away, he asked with interest, "You want to trade Hua Li's life for yours?"

"No," the dark-haired youth said coldly, "I'll trade his life for Teng Bi's."

The evil spirit then showed a few moments of surprise.

He stretched out his hand, and the black mist clutched Teng Bi's neck and brought it to him. The unconscious Teng Bi barely opened his half-swollen eyes and looked at Jiang Luo through the blur of blood.

"Quickly, friend," he said with force, but in an extraordinarily small voice, "run."

The Evil Ghost said with a sigh, "Seeing him in this state, isn't student Jiang saddened?"

Jiang Luo said flatly, "It's okay. But I want him who can live, not half-dead like this."

The evil spirit murmured, "You want to take him?"

"Why," Jiang Luo laughed, "he's one of yours, why would I take him? I'm just using this guy's life."

He tugged on the rope in his hand, and Hua Li, who was being strangled, grunted. Jiang Luo looked straight at Chi You and sneered, "It's your turn to bring him back to life. As for where he goes, why should I care?"

Chi You's palms tightened, and he said without skipping a beat, "What about the fact that I'm inclined to kill him."

"Then kill." Jiang Luo said without hesitation.

The evil spirit gave a little surprised "uh-huh".

The black-haired youth revealed a smile as he stroked Hua Li's hair like a puppy and said with a smirk, "Unless, of course, you want to lose both of your right-hand men at the same time."