Chapter 36: Shattering Illusions - The Cleansing of Mind by the Sound of Om
Night Walker 36
"What to do, can I just let these bronze corpses slaughter here?" I asked myself. Feeling around my body, I found that the travel bag seemed to be placed on the altar, and in my hand, except for the golden knife, there was no other magical tool.
"It looks like tonight is going to be hell here." I sighed.
At this time, a copper corpse had already jumped in front of Wang Changlao, an iron hand poked out and deeply inserted into Wang Changlao's body. With a lift, it tore Wang Changlao into pieces. A section of shiny internal organs still hung from the copper corpse's arm stretched forward. Even I, who often dealt with dead people, couldn't help but cover my stomach and vomit at this shocking scene.
"It's over, the new Miao king is dead too. Let's escape first, as long as we leave the green hills behind, we won't have to worry about not having firewood to burn." Just as he was thinking of pulling his second brother away, he suddenly remembered that his fifth brother was still in the back. He turned around to look and saw that his fifth brother, who seemed to be oblivious to life or death, was still sitting there meditating, as if everything before him was just a distant hum."
Worrying about the safety of Lao Wu, a copper corpse was also found sitting on the ground, shouting and stretching out both hands, jumping up and flying past Lao Wu.
"No, Fifth Brother, run quickly!" I shouted loudly.
But then the copper corpse suddenly turned into a person dressed as an onmyodo, and upon closer inspection, it was unexpectedly Muyun Feng. He stood beside the fifth brother and laughed 'hee hee', saying: "Ghost Dao Ren, you're also afraid? So you're also afraid!"
"Is it you? Haven't you died yet? You were clearly beheaded by me just now." I said.
"Hmph, everything before was just an illusion I used, did you really think you could defeat me? Look, the Snake Spirit Pearl is still in my hands." He said with a smirk, and then pulled out the Snake Spirit Pearl from his pocket.
"Actually, I was under your illusion all along. It seems that I underestimated you, Muyun Feng." I said, just as I was about to raise the golden knife to strike at Muyun Feng, but found that the heavy golden knife couldn't be lifted at all.
"It's strange, if I was under an illusion before, how can I be so weak now? Is it...?" Suddenly, something seemed to click in his mind. At this moment, Mu Yunfeng transformed back into a copper corpse and stretched out his hand towards the fifth brother.
"It's strange, if I was under an illusion before, how come I'm so out of energy now? Is it...?" It seemed like he suddenly understood something in his heart. At this time, Mu Yun Feng actually transformed back into a copper corpse and stretched out his hand to grab the fifth brother.
Just as I was about to remind my fifth brother, I saw that Old Five, who had been meditating for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, took out the wooden fish, and started beating it wildly with a "bang bang bang" sound, while continuously chanting in a low voice.
Closing my eyes, I already understood that everyone had fallen under the illusion. Listening to the sound of the mantra coming from the horizon, my heart quickly calmed down. The wailing sounds around me gradually stopped as well after my heart became calm.
After the surroundings quieted down, I opened my eyes to see that all the warriors on the field had collapsed to the ground, some clutching their stomachs and others with their mouths agape, looking extremely painful. Those copper corpses were still lying on the ground, not having engaged in the fierce slaughter as they had appeared to do earlier in the illusion.
At this time, the second brother also woke up from the illusion. The others, because they had no cultivation, were unable to calm down for a while and were still trapped in the illusion, suffering mental torture.
It seems that in just a few minutes, everyone has been greatly injured. And Wu Di's wooden fish is now being beaten even more rapidly, with him loudly reciting the Great Compassion Mantra to try and awaken the others from their illusion.
"Big brother, take a look." Following the second brother's pointing direction, I saw that from the crowd of people on the other side, several men with long knives in their hands came out, smiling at the corners of their mouths as they walked towards us. It was estimated that they wanted to take advantage of our people being under an illusion and come over to chop us up like watermelons.
"What should we do? Big brother." The second brother also knew their purpose.
I stroked the golden dagger and whispered to him: "The other side should still think we're all under the illusion. Wait for the opportunity to act, protect Wang Changlao and Fifth Brother."
At this time, the second brother pretended to still be under the illusion, but secretly opened his eyes to look at those people. The bright knives were shining with a cold light, and slowly approached with the newcomers.
Last night, I fought with Mu Yun Feng's corpse and consumed too much of my physical strength. Adding to that, I was just hit by an illusion technique earlier, so now I don't have much energy left. If it were normal times, I wouldn't need to pretend to be in such a sorry state, I would've already charged over and killed them. So for now, I can only pretend to be on guard against their moves, then counterattack with a sneak strike.
The approaching person was almost upon them, the heavy and steady footsteps clearly audible to their ears. It was clear that this was an expert from outside the family. To their surprise, he wasn't heading for them, but instead walked directly to Fifth Brother's side. It seemed they knew what Fifth Brother was up to and wanted to take him out first, thereby preventing them from escaping the illusion, before taking care of the rest of them one by one.
"What a vicious tactic." I sighed inwardly, "But if it were me, I would have done the same thing too."
All he saw was that man slowly raising the long knife in his hand, preparing to chop towards Seventh Brother. Just as it seemed like the blade would fall, Fifth Brother would be accompanying Yan Wang.
Just as I was about to make a final dash, two gunshots suddenly rang out from outside the arena. The man's knife hadn't even reached the top of his head when he fell heavily to the ground. Several more shots were fired, and all the intruders fell down.
"Ah, it's Fourth Brother." I said happily in my heart.
The fourth brother was unknown hiding in a dark corner, estimated to have exceeded the range that the illusion could affect.
My heart was greatly delighted, since the fourth brother didn't fall under the illusion, we are now safe. However, he fired his gun at this time, which is also too hasty, in case the bullet flew out, Old Five would be finished().
The gunshot from the scene caused a considerable commotion on the other side. That Onmyouji, I suppose his illusion magic was also reaching its limit. Finally, after several minutes, with Lao Wu's help, everyone who had been affected by the illusion magic woke up.
Wang Zhanglao dragged his tired body, looking at the corpse on the ground, and walked over to ask me what had happened. I roughly told him about the whole process of everyone being affected by the illusion. He was shocked and sat on the ground for a long time, not recovering from his astonishment.
The other side, knowing that we had set up an ambush, used a wall of people to tightly surround the yin-yang master in the crowd. It seems that the position where this yin-yang master is located has already exceeded the range of my fourth brother's shot, otherwise he wouldn't have let him live until now. But earlier, I don't know why my fourth brother didn't use his gun to get rid of Mu Yunfeng, that old villain, perhaps it was because he had full confidence in me, this big brother, and wanted to reappear at the crucial moment. Now, having exposed the target, it's not so easy to launch a sneak attack again.
