Chapter Eighteen: Dragon and Tiger Pill

  Lan sister woke up and fainted again, scaring me half to death. This is too dangerous for Lan sister, I have a very bad premonition that if we stay here any longer, Lan sister will surely die. Thinking of Xue sister who is still between life and death, I became even more restless. Taking a deep breath, I packed my things and decided to head down the mountain. Lan sister cannot die here.

  This cave also has a mechanism inside, and at the entrance, there is a stone tiger head. As long as you turn the tiger head around, the stone wall will open. Fortunately, I have Kou Qianzhi's memory, otherwise, I wouldn't know how to get out of here.

  As soon as I stepped out, a gust of cold mountain wind made me shiver. The temperature outside the cave was several degrees lower than inside, this is really terrible, isn't it adding insult to injury? I quickened my pace, but after just a few steps, the Heaven's Spirit Sword in my hand suddenly rang out with a "ding" and started shaking violently, making me jump in fright, almost dropping the sword.

  "Treasured sword, indeed a treasured sword!" Just then, a cry of surprise rose up beside my ear, making my hair stand on end. How could there still be someone? I had just thought to turn around, but from behind me came a wave of pain, followed by a miserable scream.

  "Who are you?" I heard a miserable cry and immediately turned around, but saw a middle-aged man on fire, wailing and rolling on the ground.

  "Amulet, what kind of person are you?" The man shouted at me after putting out the fire on his body. His face was extremely ugly and his knife-like eyes kept sweeping over my body.

  "You, you're not human" Seeing the burn marks on his body constantly disappearing, I knew it was bad. This is absolutely not a person. Taking a closer look, I discovered that this person doesn't even have a shadow.

  It is said that ghosts have no shadows.

  "Just know, put down the things in the cave and get out" As I exposed his identity, that person not only didn't panic, but instead had an arrogant expression, looking up with a domineering attitude and shouting loudly.

  I pinched the Tianling Treasure Sword in my hand, not intending to put it down at all. Humph, what if I wasn't human? If I were still an ordinary university student a few days ago, I might have been scared shitless, but after seeing too many unbelievable things these past few days, seeing just one ghost wouldn't scare me, at most I'd only be a little afraid.

  "Kid, if you don't want to die, put down the stuff. That's not something you can take lightly. Do you want to live or die? Seeing that I wasn't intimidated, the man continued to threaten me. Perhaps to match his terrifying tone, a gust of eerie wind suddenly blew through the valley, making it look even more frightening."

  But the yin wind had no effect on me at all, because as soon as the wind blew onto my body, I felt a warmth in my chest, and the cold and heat cancelled each other out, nothing happened. At this moment, I also remembered that I still had a protective charm given by Fatso, with the protective charm, my confidence grew even stronger, because I remembered Fatso saying that this protective charm was made with all his might and Chicken Brother's full strength, ordinary little ghosts couldn't get close to me.

  "Hmm" Just as I was about to engage in a fierce battle with this ghost, Lan sister suddenly started trembling uncontrollably behind me, as if she had cramps.

  "Damn it, I forgot about this!" I exclaimed. I remembered what Fatso said, that the amulet only works for one person, so that cold wind had an effect on Lan Jie directly. Thinking about Lan Jie's current situation, no, no, I didn't dare to think about it anymore. I quickly took off the amulet and stuffed it into Lan Jie's body.

  The amulet was close to my body, and Lan Jie immediately stopped trembling. Even her breathing became much more stable. As for me, I clearly felt a sense of extreme danger, the cold wind blowing on my skin really had the feeling of being cut by a knife, making people feel very annoyed and uneasy.

  "Ding" I knew that if I didn't do something about it now, I would become more and more restless and anxious, and that's when the enemy would get the upper hand. So my subconscious mind drew out the Tianling Treasure Sword. As soon as the sword was unsheathed, strangely, all the eerie feelings brought by the dark wind disappeared.

  "What a great sword, what a great sword! It was truly worth waiting twenty years for. Twenty years!" The man's eyes widened as Tian Ling emerged from its scabbard, and an intangible pressure washed over him, leaving him greatly shaken. However, he grew even more excited because this was exactly what he had been waiting twenty years for.

  Feeling the pitiful gaze of the man in front of me, a fire of anger ignited within my heart, just like when someone was about to snatch away your beloved thing in childhood. Although I had only possessed the Tianling Treasure Sword for a few hours, I already felt an extremely strong sense of possession towards it. You want to rob me of my things? You're looking for death.

  A loud "bang" rang out, and although I was burning with anger, I didn't lose my composure. I wasn't foolish enough to charge forward with my sword and engage in a fierce battle. Instead, I used Lan Jie's handgun, which she had used the previous night to deal with those evil cultivators from the Three Gods Sect. I was certain that it contained Red Sky Bullets, effective against ghosts and monsters.

  The first shot was indeed the Akatsuki bullet, but my marksmanship was too poor. At a distance of less than ten meters from one person and one ghost, I only hit his arm, but even so, the ghost's arm flew out, and the wound was still smoking at this time.

  "You, you dare to hurt me...." The male ghost was suddenly furious, for twenty years, he had not felt any pain.

  "Bang, bang, bang!" My response was gunfire. Hum, what the hell, dare to hurt you, I'm going to kill you!

  Gunshots rang out continuously, but at this time the male ghost was already prepared. In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared from his original position, and I didn't hit him at all.

  I put away my gun since I couldn't see any ghostly figure, I wasn't trained for this and shooting was already extremely strenuous, the recoil had numbed my wrist, if I continued like this, I'd cripple myself without the male ghost even needing to lift a finger.

  The male ghost didn't wait for long before launching an attack, and I also don't know why my sixth sense became extremely sharp at this time. I just felt that the airflow behind me had changed a bit, so I determined that the male ghost was attacking from behind. Without saying another word, I counterattacked with a sword in hand.

  The "Tianling Sword" slashed through, leaving a trail of black smoke in the air, but the male ghost still didn't see it.

  What I didn't know was that the male ghost hiding in the tree was sweating profusely, he wasn't an ordinary little ghost. He had a deep understanding of mysticism when he was alive, Buddhism, Taoism, and witchcraft, he had some accomplishments. When he died, his resentment was extremely great, so as soon as he became a ghost, he was a very fierce vengeful spirit. The damage from the Red Sky Bullet earlier could be said to be negligible, at this time his arm had already grown back, but the Tianling Sword just now posed a huge threat to him, that intangible sword energy kept invading through the wound, devouring his yin energy, and it took him a lot of effort to expel that sword energy.

  "It seems that I still have to make some effort" The male ghost's eyes became extremely resentful, and after this battle, he would have to spend several years recovering. However, thinking about the treasure sword in that person's hand, his heart was once again filled with a burning fire, and he had a premonition that he must get that sword no matter what.

  A burst of dark energy exploded in front of me, sending me stumbling backward as the air currents buffeted me. Just then, branches on the ground began to float in mid-air like sharp arrows and shot towards me one after another. I swung my sword to deflect them, but I'm not a kung fu master, and with someone on my back, it wasn't long before I was covered in cuts and bruises.

  "The Despicable" male ghost changed his strategy, leaving me almost no room to parry, and the continuous sword swings were extremely exhausting. In less than a minute, I was panting like an ox.

  "No, I can't go on like this. If I do, I'll definitely die. I won't let myself die here." I've spent so much time and effort to get here. Lan Jie almost lost her life too, I won't allow myself to die here either. My mind is racing fast, but reality is that I can't think of any way out.

  "In the cave, he didn't dare to come in" Just at this critical moment, Lan sister woke up and weakly said in my ear, one sentence made me suddenly enlightened, Ah, yes, he must not be able to enter the cave, if he could, he would have entered long ago.

  With this goal in mind, I rushed towards the cave, which was less than twenty meters away from me. I could quickly rush in, and the male ghost also thought of my plan, suddenly becoming anxious. He didn't want to miss such a good opportunity, so he instantly transformed into a black smoke and rushed towards me.

  "Boom!" Just as I was about to hit the stone wall, the nine diagrams on the stone wall each emitted a golden light, forming an eight trigram diagram in mid-air. This eight trigram diagram looked more like a door, blocking me and the male ghost. The male ghost crashed into the eight trigram diagram and almost had his soul scattered.

  When I turned back, the male ghost was still wailing on the ground, and his shadow had become very faint, as if it were about to dissipate. Unlike earlier, he no longer looked like a real person.

  I've never had dealings with ghosts and monsters, so I don't know what they're capable of. I'm afraid this male ghost might have some kind of suicidal magic trick up his sleeve, so I didn't dare try to take advantage of him while he was ill. Instead, I opened the stone wall again and entered the mountain cave.

  "Lan sister, Lan sister, how are you?" I asked repeatedly as I brought her into the cave and placed her on a stone bed.

  Lan sister just woke up, her body was still very weak, and her face looked as bad as someone who had been seriously ill. Seeing me constantly asking questions, she could only point to the water bottle on my backpack and asked for some water to drink first.

  "Don't ask anymore, I'm not dead yet," Lan said somewhat displeased. The man in front of her had calmed down a lot compared to the previous two days, but was still not calm enough and lacked experience. If his brother were here, he wouldn't be standing there asking questions, but would be doing something instead.

  "That's good, that's good. Sister Lan, you rest first and let me think about how to deal with the ghost at the door. I'll take you down the mountain and take you to the hospital." I didn't feel any displeasure from Sister Lan at all, but when she said she wasn't dead, I was extremely excited.

  When Lan heard my words, she fell silent. "Take you away, take you to the hospital," how familiar this conversation is! In those years at a foreign mercenary training base, her brother also said the same thing to her. When everyone else gave up on her, only her brother hugged her and said to her, "Little Lan, don't be afraid, brother is here, brother will take you to the hospital, you'll get better."

  "No need, I don't want to go anymore, you can rest now." Lan sister suddenly spoke up and shocked me.

  "Why, Lan sister, you still have a high fever, this won't do" I hastily called out, her high fever hadn't receded at all, and if it continued like this she could burn to death.

  "What's wrong, the one outside is obviously a powerful and evil ghost, you can't beat him at all. Are you trying to get me killed by taking me out?" Lan suddenly became cold as ice.

  Lan's words were even colder than the gloomy wind just now, like a knife inserted into my heart. I really couldn't believe that Lan would say such things. "Lan, I...I" For a moment, I was speechless.

  "What's wrong, I was right, huh? You bring me the gourd on the table." Seeing my pitiful expression about to cry, a different expression flashed in Lan's eyes, but she quickly shifted her gaze away from me. When she saw the gourd I had abandoned on the table, her eyes lit up and asked me to give it to her.

  "Lan sister, what do you want to do with that? It's a medicinal pill, but it's been over a thousand years and has already turned into a few mud balls." I don't know why Lan sister wants that broken gourd, it's something I abandoned, okay.

  "No nonsense, bring it to me. You said it yourself, the treasure is mine for half. You took the treasured sword, can't you give me the immortal elixir? Are you going to swallow it all by yourself?" Lan sister's face fell as soon as I mentioned that gourd.

  "No, I didn't think of monopolizing it. This cave doesn't just have one sword and this gourd, there's also the Taoist sect... Ah yes, bamboo slips! Sister Lan, if you want it, I'll give you this precious sword." After hearing Sister Lan's words, I felt even more distressed and hastily explained that although I was reluctant to part with it, if Sister Lan wanted it, I would still have to send out the Tianling Sword.

  "No, I use a gun, not a sword. You want me to fight others with a sword? Isn't that a curse on me? You talk too much, give me the gourd."

  Poisonous tongue, such a poisonous tongue, I've never seen Lan Jie like this before, it's so unfamiliar.

  "Here, take it, your elixir." With a sigh, I handed the gourd on the stone table to Lan and sat down beside her without saying another word.

  Taking the gourd, Lan sister first placed the muddy pellet-like dan medicine in her hand and played with it for a while. Then, her eyes slowly scanned around before placing it on Lin Hao's body. "Lin Hao, this must be the legendary blessed place of ancient times. Cultivating here will bring you immense benefits. The few diagrams at the entrance seem to be an array, which is why that male ghost can't enter. This place is extremely remote and you now have abundant resources, so you can cultivate here in peace for a long time. Remember, you must cultivate well."

  "Lan sister, what are you saying? Ah, what are you doing? Don't eat it, don't eat it!" Hearing Lan sister's faint voice made me stunned, and when I looked up, I was even more shocked, because I saw Lan sister swallow the mud balls from the gourd.

  "Aunt Lan wants to commit suicide" was my first reaction.