Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Night fell.

At this time, Li Guanqi was in the midst of a vast mountain range.

The mountains echoed with the roars of beasts, for this world was teeming with monstrous creatures.

If he were to encounter a Tier 1 demonic beast at this moment, it would be manageable, but a Tier 2 beast would be dangerous.

A Tier 2 demonic beast is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment cultivator among humans.

Fortunately, he spotted a dilapidated temple on a distant mountain peak.

Seeing the temple, Li Guanqi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At least he had a place to rest for the night. He glanced at the map in his jade scroll.

He wouldn't reach Xingyun Town until tomorrow night at the earliest.

The temple's匾额 (biǎn é, horizontal inscribed board above a door) was long gone, and its dilapidated state suggested it had been abandoned for a long time.

Creak…

In the quiet night, the sound of the young man pushing open the door was particularly jarring.

However, Li Guanqi had long adapted to the darkness and felt little discomfort in the night.

The courtyard was full of枯叶 (kū yè, withered leaves) and cobwebs.

Raising his hand, he used his sword scabbard to sweep away the cobwebs and entered the temple.

Crack! Crack!

Stepping on the dry leaves, Li Guanqi walked in with a calm expression.

But the temple was incredibly dilapidated, with several Buddha statues broken and missing halves of their bodies.

However, the gold lacquer on the statues had been completely scraped off.

Although Li Guanqi didn't believe in gods or Buddhas, as he was borrowing the space for the night, he bowed and recited a Buddhist prayer.

He gathered some dry branches from around the area and returned to the temple.

He started a bonfire in the courtyard, took out some jerky and water from his storage bag.

After eating and drinking his fill, Li Guanqi placed the broken incense table from the entrance at the doorway and simply lay down on it to sleep.

The only sound in the quiet, dilapidated temple was the crackling of the fire.

Just as Li Guanqi closed his eyes, he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind coming from outside the door.

He wanted to activate his Mind's Eye, but he found that he couldn't see the outside world no matter what he tried!

This startled him, as he had only closed his eyes for less than ten breaths.

Crackle!

The sound of the burning firewood still echoed clearly in his ears.

He tried to get up, but found that he couldn't move at all!!

Cold sweat instantly soaked his back, and the cold wind made the hairs on his body stand on end.

"What's going on…"

At that moment, he couldn't help but feel panicked.

Because he had never encountered such a strange situation before.

No matter how hard he tried, his eyelids felt as if they had been pressed shut and he couldn't open them.

He was clearly awake, able to sense the cold wind around him, the sound of the bonfire, and even the smell of the burning smoke.

But he just couldn't move his body at all!

Suddenly!!

Lying on his side, Li Guanqi suddenly saw a disheveled woman in white in front of him!!

The sudden appearance of this woman made Li Guanqi's hair stand on end, and he broke out in goosebumps all over his body!

He saw the woman approaching Li Guanqi very slowly.

It felt as if the woman was sticking to the bottom of the incense table he was lying on and slowly poking her head out.

This terrifying feeling made him shudder.

Gradually, the woman slowly stood up.

Climbing onto the incense table, she pressed her entire body onto him!!

The woman's body felt as light as a feather, but it felt more like a weight pressing down on Li Guanqi's heart.

He could even smell a strange scent on the woman's hair.

His body, which was already unable to move, became even heavier.

Lying on his side, Li Guanqi couldn't move at all. He could only 'watch' as the woman climbed on top of him.

Swish!

The woman's hair brushed past Li Guanqi's neck, and the realistic sensation of her hair touching his face startled him immensely.

"This feeling… is too real… What exactly is going on!!"

Immediately after, before Li Guanqi could react, he suddenly felt something touch his neck.

"Tongue… tongue!"

The soft touch had no warmth, and was even a little cold.

The woman's tongue was extremely long, almost the length of an adult's forearm.

Like a wild cat's tongue, it had some small barbs.

The tongue licked Li Guanqi's neck all the way to the base of his ear!

The clear and realistic sensation made him feel as if a chill had exploded in his head!!

"Move!! Move!"

"Move, damn it!!!"

Boom!!

Driven by Li Guanqi's powerful will, the Nine Revolutions Xing Lei Scripture suddenly began to circulate within his body.

The lightning-attribute Primordial Qi in his dantian suddenly circulated throughout his body.

Poof!

A soft sound rang in Li Guanqi's mind, as if some kind of seal had been broken.

Li Guanqi's right hand seemed to be covered in a layer of purple lightning.

His left hand slammed the table, and he instantly flipped over.

His right hand moved as fast as lightning, grabbing the woman's neck and pinning her under him!!

Bang!!

The incense table shattered!

The woman's wild ghost soul was actually pinned under the young man!

"Ah!!"

The ghost's scream echoed through the empty ancient temple.

A yellow talisman suddenly appeared in Li Guanqi's left hand, and as his Primordial Qi surged, the talisman suddenly burst into a green flame.

Moreover, the flame contained some lightning power.

"Manifestation Talisman! Manifest!"

Whoosh!

The green flame instantly drilled into the female ghost's body, and her body gradually changed from illusory to solid!

Li Guanqi frowned slightly, and as the power of lightning surged in his right hand, he said in a deep voice: "Where did you come from, you wandering soul, daring to absorb human yang energy!"

At this time, the female ghost's disheveled hair spread out, revealing an extremely beautiful face.

It's just that this face was a little too pale.

The woman tilted her head at this time, and her eyes were full of shame and anger as she glanced at the young man.

Li Guanqi straddled the woman's chest, and at this time, the female ghost was manifested by the talisman and was no different from a human.

This posture was inevitably a little awkward.

"Cough cough…"

After Li Guanqi got up, his right hand still didn't mean to let go.

Whoosh!

"Soul Binding Talisman!"

After the talisman was burned, it turned into a golden rope that bound the woman tightly, and one end of the rope was wrapped around Li Guanqi's wrist.

As long as the Primordial Qi in Li Guanqi's body was still there, this rope would not be easily broken.

At this time, Li Guanqi looked at the woman and asked in a deep voice: "Recently, many murders have occurred in Xingyun Town, are they related to you?"

The woman knelt on the ground and looked at the young man with frightened eyes, and her voice was actually very ethereal as she said: "Immortal Master… no… it wasn't done by this little woman, please investigate."

"I… I only wait for people to stay in this dilapidated temple, and absorb a little yang energy to maintain my soul."

"I have never killed anyone! Please spare me, Immortal Master."

"I have never left this mountain in the past twenty years!"

Li Guanqi frowned, and under the gaze of his Mind's Eye, he found that the woman did not have any emotional fluctuations when she said these words, and it did not seem like she was lying.

"Why should I believe that you have never left this mountain in the past twenty years?"

Hearing this, the woman looked tangled, but as a Primordial Qi containing lightning passed through the rope, she hesitated for a long time and still said softly: "Because… this little woman's bones are behind this mountain…"

"So… I can't leave the ten-mile radius of my bones, once I leave, I… I will be destroyed!"

Li Guanqi hesitated for a moment and still said: "Take me there!"