Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 164 Risky Array of Root Praying, Sharp skill of Fire Spirit
“Brother Hao Ning? The following two things are all about you.” Long Fei didn’t wait for Liu Shuai’s response. He coughed a bit and moved on, “Please make me two promises. First, if one day you meet Yufei’s soul sparkle, manage to save him. If you don’t…then it’s all destined.” Long Fei said with a quiver in his voice. He feared that Liu Shuai was still skeptical about his words, then added, “Liu Shuai, don’t doubt me. You can rethink about it yourself. Even a small Dragon God like me would care so much about the life I bestow, let alone that you’re Master Yunzhongzi’s son in his previous incarnation. How could he be indifferent to you?”

“I…” Liu Shuai wiped his tears in silence, “I see.”

“Brother Hao Ning,” Long Fei, hearing the answer from Liu Shuai’s mouth, let go of his burden and continued, “Another thing is, do please go to Ms. Ren with the ring of Soul Cutter. She will understand me. You must talk to her yourself. Tell her that I asked you to go for her. Maybe she was the only one in the world who could ever figure the stuff out for you. You tell her that Yufei doubted that between the ring and macro—”

At that point, Long Fei’s body had a sudden shake. The body had articulated clearly, while then blood spurted from his mouth at each word he uttered and pushed it back to his throat. Long Fei got agitated and tried more urgently to speak, for which he threw up even more blood. The red blood overflowed around his body and turned into colorless water. The water originally shed only, but the array made by Xiao Hong collected them back to Long Fei’s body. So that Long Fei threw up blood and converged his body at the same time. However, his body seemed badly injured. The color of the whole body was fading, which indicated that he would regress to the state of soul-dispersing soon.

“What’s it?” Xiao Hong squinted at Long Fei’s condition and frowned, “Why does Long Fei’s spirit begin to dissolve so drastically all in a sudden?”

Reminded by Xiao Hong, Hao Ning instantly peered outside. He saw those guys had finished the array, the three of whom had stuck a small flag into the earth separately. They danced around the array stomping weird steps and murmured with their eyes closed.

“This…” Hao Ning asked Xiao Hong in uncertainty, “is it Root Praying Method?”

“Yes, telling from their steps.” Xiao Hong watched and pondered, “But too odd. In my memory, the Root Praying Method is mainly run by one person with other members acting as assistants. But you looked at the three. They all look like the main actors of root praying. Somewhat strange.

“Is it possible that they have three people dancing together so that it works out more effectively?” Hao Ning speculated.

“Eh…” Xiao Hong, gazing at Hao Ning, was about to burst into laughter but he held it back, “As far as I know, Root Praying Method needs one person to take the position of invoking the souls. If several guys fill in together, I don’t suppose it will work out quite well. But you see the world so large. Maybe there exists something I haven’t learned yet?”

“Ah.” Hao Ning understood that Xiao Hong was saving his face. He told Hao Ning that he was just making delusions following a simple logic of addition in a way not embarrassing Hao Ning. Hao Ning held gratitude for him which was accompanied by some doubt, “But why does the witchcraft they use have such a huge impact on Long Fei in Virtualised Reality?”

Xiao Hong nodded also, stated his skepticism, “Your question makes sense. Zhou Yuan’s Virtualised Reality isn’t that easy to break into. We must have overlooked some details.”

Then he turned his eyes to Long Fei who was almost transparent now. In no more time, they could already see vaguely the dragon’s tendon buried into Long Fei’s body by Nezha just now.

“No!’ Xiao Hong found the situation really urgent. He put out the bamboo leaf connected to Long Fei’s life, made a grasp in the air in the direction of Long Fei, made a fluent and varied gesture and pointed to the bamboo leaf, “Graft flowers on a tree—Now!”

Then they saw the bamboo leaf trembled in the air. Long Fei’s body stopped turning colorless, while the floating leaf did instead.

“It may work out by using the soul inside the leaf to take the place of Long Fei.” Xiao Hong seemed to have worn a lot after finishing his gesture. He wiped the sweat but shook his head, “Pitiful that Long Fei can’t use it to save himself out again.”

Then they scrutinized the bamboo leaf once more. Though having suffered some damage just now, it stayed still in the air, seemingly safe and sound. It didn’t have a look of being affected by the Root Praying Method of the outsiders.

“How can your bamboo leaf be so miraculous?” Zhou Yuan was bewildered, “When I followed Mr. Zhang, he didn’t apparently mention a treasure like this? To say the least, there isn’t any documentation recording the special power of Avalokitesvara’s purple bamboo forest, is there? ”

“How can the power of Budda’s purple bamboo forest be easily documented? Meanwhile, the leaf here is not a common one. On the opposite, it’s an elite from the forest in Avalokitesvara’s Mountain Lojia. In that year when Uncle Sun sent Uncle Black Bear to Mountain Lojia,” Xiao Hong, seeing the circumstance go under control, explained with an aftershock, “he expected to be rewarded with the elite bamboo leaf for his credit of finding the guardian of the mountain. While Avalokitesvara didn’t fulfill his prospect. I didn’t suppose such good luck of Long Fei, which brought him this guarding leaf made by Brother Zhang directly just for his cutting bamboo work of only a few days. I used to think that Brother Zhang was being unfair. While with an eye to the current situation, I presume he had his own consideration.”

“Cutting bamboos?” Liu Shuai glanced at Hao Ning, “Wasn’t it the time when we met Zhang Chi Hang? He captured Long Fei and made him cut bamboos. Why does it look like an award rather than a punishment now?”

“Punishment or award, it depends on not the stuff itself, but the heart of the people involved.” Xiao Hong smiled without a judgement, “You call it an award. But who can affirm that if Long Fei dared to engage himself in such risky circumstance all because of the protection of the leaf? And is that why he gets trapped into such a disaster today?”

Hearing Xiao Hong’s speech, Hao Ning came to realize that Avalokitesvara who acted easily and casually without getting himself involved in the stuff of others, did everything as if out of his heart, but actually, he was always causing unexpected outcomes by his random decision. He pondered but didn’t figure it out. So, he fell into silence.

“Big bro, it’s seemingly going wrong!” One of the dancing guys said, “I feel the soul was locked by something. It’s already hard to draw even a little more of it.”

“I see. They have adepts as well.” The experienced big bro wasn’t surprised at all. He pondered and said, “Add two more members. I don’t believe they’ll hold it with our strength doubling.”

“Yes!” As he spoke, another two men also put out a small flat separately, stuck it into the earth and entered the circle to dance the weird steps with the other three.

“What’s going on!” Liu Shuai shrieked abruptly.

As the three evolved to five, the bamboo leaf trembled as if winnowing the chaff. It looked like being sucked forcefully, and on the leaf appeared vaguely some cracks.

Xiao Hong, at the sight of that, hastily drew a circle in the air with his fingertip, which sparkled faintly flakes there. But when the circle was finished, inside the circle a ground stroke into the air with a bamboo forest cultivated there. It was nothing but the purple bamboo forest of Avalokitesvara settled in the South Sea.

Xiao Hong led with his hand, and within the earth came out a thin thread transparent and shiny. It flew from the earth into the chest of Xiao Hong, then went out through the middle of his brows and entered the bamboo leaf. So that the leaf got stable.

“No way! The Root Praying Method can never be so powerful as it is!” Xiao Hong, after getting connected to the bamboo leaf by the thread, sat down with his legs crossed and sensed for a few minutes. His brows crumpled and he said, “Their Root Praying Method is at least score times more powerful than what I learned before. But how?”

“Score times?” Hao Ning questioned, “Why? Even if the five people dance together, they get power five times stronger at most. Where does the score times come from?”

“I don’t know, Brother Hao Ning.” Xiao Hong closed his eyes and uttered, “We’ve underrated our enemies. Brother Ling Zhu Zi!” As he called out, Xiao Hong cast a spark of his consciousness into the middle of Nezha’s brows, “If I am defeated later, do that.” Finishing it, he closed his eyes again and contemplated the spell, speechless.

“Big Bro!” Their rivals seemed a bit tired, “It’s not going well. Looks like some other stressful opponents have taken their parts. We’re struggling now!”

“Even when equipped with Root Praying multiplied by 16 times?” Then the Big Bro’s eyesight was somewhat stirred, “What elites are they in the end?”

“Big bro, how about we stop here?” Another guy asked tentatively, “They’re so powerful. Maybe we couldn’t afford to offend them.”

“Nonsense!” The big bro stared at him, “At whom in the world have we Split Sect ever flinched? All entre the array with me! I don’t believe that we’ll fail!”

At his order, another man put out a small flag with him and they stuck them into the earth. On the ground, there were seven small flags in total fluttering in the wind. The wind blew into the hall, and Xiao Hong got a tingle in his heart, “Eh? Is that—”

At that moment Xiao Hong went absent and was about to disarm. He hurriedly calmed down and stopped wandering.

After the seven danced together, Xiao Hong screamed, “How that! It was fortified by thousand times!”

With a boom, Xiao Hong and the leaf disappeared together. Meanwhile, the fire-fringed circle faded away, too, losing the support of Xiao Hong’s power.

All came about in such a sudden. Before Hao Ning and others recomposed themselves, Xiao Hong had already appeared in front of the several guys. While the leaf had landed lightly at the center of the seven flags, still.

“You are…?” The big bro didn’t recognize Xiao Hong at first sight. It was reasonable because Xiao Hong looked literally like a young clerk in his suit, who would ever recognize him? But when seeing the pile of fluttering bamboo leaves coming from the array, his cheek turned pale and withdrew a step backwards, “What’s your relationship with Ava…with the great spirit?”

“Yuck!” Xiao Hong sighed secretly. He was only trying to save Long Fei’s life, so naturally, he didn’t exert his forte. But since he’d shown up and didn’t fear the gang in front of him, besides, he used to be a bald offender who even dared to have a taste of Tang Sanzang’s flesh, so how might he even care about the several slight men here?”

“Who the hell are you?” Another guy who failed to see the truth shouted, “How dare you remain silent at my big bro’s question?”

“Shit! Want to notify your comrades?” Xiao Hong’s eyes flashed and pointed at the sky. They saw a red glimmer broke out above Dragon King Temple, which was shaped as a sphere covered the temple. In no time, with some crackles, several tiny spots appeared in the red light. They touched the light and burst into flame, then all faded away. Apparently, they were trying to notify their mates outside but were blocked by the light.

“The Great Seal of Samadhi True Fire!” The big bro shrieked, “You’re an Innate Fire Spirit!”

The rest, who heard their big bro’s word, couldn’t help with being stunned, and the buzz arose among them.

“What to do now, big bro?” One of them asked quietly, “Shall we retreat?”