Chapter 56: The Qiang Flute's Sound Awakens the Blood Dragon

  The flute's clear and crisp sound is extremely joyful, but it also seems a bit distant, like a woman standing on top of a high mountain, calling out to her loved one in the distance to hurry back home. It gives people a feeling that is both distant and yet seems to strike at the heart, a moving and ethereal sensation.

  The flute sound became low and gentle, like a lovesick woman sitting by the window, whispering to herself, or like a lover blowing air into her ear, with a feeling that was extremely wonderful.

  Then the sound became high-pitched, but this high-pitch was not a sharpness of the sound, rather it gave people a hollow and dreamy feeling, as if it were an ancient call, like calling out to something...

  The beautiful flute sound knocks on the heart, directly pointing to the human heart. Liu Yi listened in a daze and thought: "This melody should only exist in heaven, how can it be heard several times in the world?"

  Suddenly before his eyes, it seemed that the figure of his father appeared walking in the dark forest, swinging a sword to cut through thorns, and moving forward with his back to him...

  Professor Zhou Tao, hiding not far away, whispered to himself: "The sound of the qiang flute is really a wonderful and beautiful melody. But I don't know what identity this flute player has."

  Suddenly... the rhythm of the flute accelerates... a dense, rhythmic sound of fingers hitting the holes can be faintly heard, giving off an ancient murderous intent, like a monk rapidly striking a wooden fish drum, evoking a sense of galloping horses and clashing steel, and subtly hinting at the presence of a dragon's roar within the flute's melody...

  Liu Yi felt something was off and immediately covered his ears. Malacca saw him doing this and, although he didn't know what Liu Yi was doing, also covered his own ears in imitation.

  The flute sound became more and more dense, like raindrops quickly hitting the window, and also like a swordsman swiftly dancing sword flowers in the air...

  Look again at the Ma family soldiers on the altar, each and every one of them looks like a fool, following the flute sound they dance with their hands and feet, humming in their mouths, don't know what they are saying, it seems that the mysterious woman's tune can make people hallucinate.

  Liu Yi, who was meticulous and had a premonition, fortunately plugged his ears in advance and was not affected too much.

  The melody played by the mysterious woman was actually the long-lost "For You, I Cry" of the ancient Qiang tribe. This song was composed by Bi Zhe, a great Qiang musician, after the Battle of Qiangguo, and it contained thoughts of the deceased General Liu Heng, as well as hatred for the enemy who killed his people, and also carried the joyful feeling of revenge on the battlefield. The three emotions intertwined, making the song rich in emotion. Moreover, the song also subtly conveyed a sense of sorrow and helplessness at the separation of life and death.

  The foreign wizard standing on the stone pillar and stone disc looked at the Ma family army below, which seemed to be in a frenzy, and his eyebrows were knotted into a line.

  All I heard was her letting out a sharp, ear-piercing howl, like a wolf that had lost its mother wailing for its parent, mournful and sorrowful, harshly squeezing into the beautiful flute sound, as if wanting to tear it apart, making it extremely discordant.

  The sound of flutes, whistling sounds, and the murmurs of Ma's army blended together, echoing throughout the entire Stone Forest...

  Stalemate for a long time, with neither side gaining the upper hand——

  Suddenly---the flute sound stopped abruptly as if it had been pinched off.

  Then---the wailing of the foreign wizard also came to an abrupt halt.

  At this time - under the altar all members of Ma's army fell limp to the ground.

  Then - the surroundings fell into silence, a cold meaning spread in the air.

  Liu Yi touched his arm and found a layer of goosebumps had formed.

  Just as he was wondering why this situation had occurred, a faint sound of water came, like some creature swimming in the water. Liu Yi looked around for the person playing the flute but to no avail. Upon hearing this strange noise, he turned his head towards the stone pillar.

  But the face of the foreign witch, reflected in the firelight and visible through the telescope, looked a bit anxious. She was seen to crouch down, stretch out her hand towards the resurrection pool, apparently wanting to scoop up the black wooden box.

  "Whoosh...... Bang......"

  A black wooden box burst out of the water and flew into the air.

  Then a huge skull emerged from the black water of the resurrection pool.

  When the foreign witch saw the box flying up, she felt something was wrong and quickly flipped backwards from the stone plate, falling down from a height of ten meters. An ordinary person would have been smashed to death, but this witch was highly skilled. As she fell, she pulled out a thin rope with a small suction cup on top, which instantly sucked onto the stone pillar. Then, she was seen pulling herself up the rope and quickly sliding down the pillar.

  She raised her head and gazed into the sky, suddenly exclaiming: "Blood Dragon!"

  The black wooden box fell to the ground with a loud crash, shattering into pieces beneath the altar. Even the skeleton inside was not spared, and as it shattered, a black bead rolled out from the clenched fist of the skeleton's hand and came to rest beside Ma Liuji, who was hiding behind the soldier's statue. He quickly reached out and grabbed the bead in his hand.

  In fact, the appearance of monsters did not attract Malacca, but he was very interested in the black wooden box that Ma's army shouted. Seeing the box flying towards him, he had already made preparations to pick up the treasure. And beside him, Liu Yi was staring at the giant snake head on the resurrection pool in surprise.

  The snake's body was as thick as a water bucket, its head about the size of three footballs, flesh-colored, with a mouth that stretched and shrunk, spitting out blood-red tendrils, a pair of yellow-black triangular eyes, exuding an icy, ominous aura.

  What is the Blood Dragon, it's clearly a flesh-colored giant python. The python shook its head and swung its tail, opening its bloody basin-like mouth, with a row of sharp teeth inside, estimated to be around 30 or 40 in number, two upper and lower fangs in the mouth were bright red, looking extremely frightening.

  When the snake's head emerged, Liu Yi felt that the chill was even more intense. It turned out that this breath was actually emitted from the body of this snake, but it was unknown how many years the snake had lived to emit such an icy aura.

  Liu Yi thought: "Could it be that the mysterious woman's melody is actually summoning this strange snake? The ancient Qiang insect language technique is indeed powerful!"

  Malacca stared at the pearl for half a day, feeling that this pearl was nothing special except for its black luster, and didn't know if it was valuable or not. Anyway, it's better than nothing, so he put it in his pocket.

  Malacca hid the pearl, looked up at the altar of the Resurrection Festival, and when he saw the big snake head, he immediately raised the Desert Eagle in his hand to shoot. He was caught by Liu Yi's quick eyes and hands, who whispered: "You want to die? Take a closer look first!"

  ……

  The foreign witch, who was in a state of astonishment, was awakened by the sound of Kuroki's coffin being shattered. She saw that she had flipped over several times and landed behind the fragments of the coffin. Looking at the thing she had tried so hard to get, it had been smashed into pieces, making her look a bit angry, with flames shooting out of her eyes.

  She was seen crouching on the ground, picking up a broken piece of wood, looking at it, and then a joyful expression appeared on her face. She took out a black bag from her body, quickly gathered the broken wood into the bag, and then tied the bag to her waist.

  After doing all this, he finally stood up and looked towards the Revival Pool. He saw that the flesh-colored serpent had its head stuck to the stone wall of the Revival Pool, swimming in circles, and its entire body gradually appeared.

  The snake's entire body is flesh-colored, with scales the size of fists on its left and right sides. Its tail is a white bony structure that forks into two prongs with hooks at the ends. The overall appearance is majestic but frightening.

  It's obvious that the two Ma family members who went to explore the Revival Pool earlier were hooked into the water with this guy's tail hook and then eaten.

  Liu Yi said in a low voice: "It is, this is a hook snake!"

  "What is that thing?"

  "In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is said that there is a snake called the Hooked Snake, which is several meters long, with a forked tail and a hook on its back. It often hooks people and cattle from the shore to devour them, extremely ferocious. Once I was browsing through an illustrated edition of the Classic of Mountains and Seas in a bookstore, and there was a picture of this snake, which looked almost identical to the one we have now. This shows that we are not the first ones to see this kind of snake."

  Suddenly, the flute sound started again, and the hooked snakes that had formed a circle on the altar of revival raised their heads. The foreign witch suddenly fell to the ground with all fours, like a wolf, and ran, grabbing a member of the Ma family army from the ground along the way. She quickly arrived at the altar, swiftly cutting off the poor man's arm with her half-moon black knife, and the miserable cry accompanied by fresh blood splashed onto the altar.

  The fresh blood fell to the ground, came into contact with the powder sprinkled by the foreign witch on the altar before, and a strange reaction occurred. Suddenly, a thick fog rose, and inside the five-colored fog, there was actually a faint scent of realgar emanating from it.

  Only red, yellow, black, white and purple smoke mixed together, looking extremely eerie. When the thick fog rose, the foreign wizard drilled into the thick fog, and no human figure could be seen again.

  Liu Yi took advantage of this gap and rushed out from his hiding place, quickly running to Keke Mu's side, intending to rescue him.

  The hook snake spat out its tongue, lying on the resurrection pool, stretching and shrinking its head to explore downwards, as if it was quite wary of the five-colored thick fog. The flute sound suddenly became urgent, as if urging the big snake to attack quickly, but seeing that the big snake was a bit hesitant, it lifted its head, looked around, as if looking for other targets, and found Liu Yi not far away, who was holding up his butt, preparing to lift the cork wood from the ground.

  Only to see the hook snake's body suddenly tense up, looking like it was over 10 meters long, its tail kicked against the edge of the Revival Pool and shot towards Liu Yi like an arrow. Ma Liujia let out a startled cry beside him, and the Desert Eagle in his hand roared with anger, directly hitting the scales on the hook snake's body in mid-air, instantly producing a "ding-dang" sound.

  The scales on the python's body were as hard as steel plates, and bullets couldn't penetrate them.

  Liu Yi heard the exclamation of Ma Liuqi, and saw him looking up at the sky in horror. Knowing something was wrong, he threw the wooden staff in his hand at Ma Liuqi, rolled to the left, dodged from his original position, and rolled to the middle bonfire. He quickly took out a black obsidian sword from his bosom. The big snake missed its target, flew over from the sky, turned its head back, looked back, and saw Liu Yi who had just stood up. It opened its mouth wide in surprise, as if it was very surprised. Time seemed to stand still, then we saw its body fall down, and with a loud crash, it fell from the sky, instantly producing a deafening roar, stirring up countless dust particles.

  This time he can't help but throw this big snake heavily!

  The mysterious woman hiding in the stone forest, seeing Liu Yi by the bonfire, holding a black obsidian sword, with an air of not retreating, elegant and handsome, eager to try, couldn't help but be stunned, and even forgot to play the flute placed on her jade lips.

  Perhaps, the shrine maiden's heart also has a spring.