Ancient Demon Slayer Chapter 7

Feng Qianjun checked the bodies that were cut in half all over the ground. There were more than 20 bodies, all of which were cut in half by Blake in an instant. The blade was clean and sharp. However, these zombies were not dead. After their heads and bodies were separated, their broken arms were still moving and twitching, which made Feng Qianjun's scalp numb.

"Hey!" Feng Qianjun saw Leo chasing into the woods and immediately shouted, "Don't go!"

Leo turned around and said, "I have to go check on that ba5tard! I'm an exorcist, nothing will happen to me! You guys wait here!"

Feng Qianjun immediately put away his knife and was about to chase after him, but he heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance. He immediately dodged and hid in the bushes in order to launch a surprise attack if there was any unusual movement.

However, the people who came were a group of Jin soldiers. The leader was holding a torch. When they arrived at the center of the small battlefield, he immediately dismounted from his horse.

"There are also..." The captain's voice kept shaking, "Who killed him?"

"What's going on?" Feng Qianjun's voice came from behind, and he put a knife on his neck. The soldiers didn't expect that there was someone here! They shouted angrily: "Who is it?!"

"Tell me," Feng Qianjun said coldly, "Did the government know about this place's anomaly a long time ago?"

"These monsters... did you kill them all?" the captain panted, "How many more did you see?"

Feng Qianjun's wrist flicked slightly, cutting the captain's neck skin, blood splattered everywhere, and the captain immediately trembled with fear: "I'll tell you! I'll tell you! Don't kill me!"

Feng Qianjun asked, "When did it start? Let's talk as we walk!" Then he said to Leo's dog, "Blake, wait here."

"One...more than a month ago," the captain shuddered, "two civilians escaped from Longzhong Village and went to Maicheng to report to the authorities. The officials did not believe it and were afraid that it was a ploy by the Qin army to divert the officers and soldiers..."

Leo quickly followed the direction Blake left. After entering the woods, the path in the forest led to the deepest part of the mountain. After turning the hillside, there was a village below.

Leo: "???"

Are there any villages here?

There was no light at all, and the roosters were crowing, but the village was filled with a dead air. Leo lit up the heart lamp with his left hand and pushed open the door of a house with his right hand. There was no one or a corpse, as if the entire village had evacuated overnight.

Where are the people? Where did they go? Leo closed his eyes and looked in all four directions. Suddenly, he felt a flash of light.

He was now almost certain that the Heart Lamp was guiding him to Blake's location. Blake was indeed the guardian martial god chosen by the Heart Lamp, there was no mistake! Leo had more and more doubts in his heart, but only Blake himself could answer these questions for him.

The light appeared to the north, where there was another winding path leading to the high ground north of the village.

Leo quickly climbed up the high ground and saw a cemetery in front of him. The center of the cemetery had been dug open, revealing dozens of stone coffins with their lids removed. In the center was a stone platform, and in front of it stood a masked man in a black robe, who was one with the dark night.

On the stone platform, there lay a tall warrior nearly nine feet tall, wearing black iron armor and a face-covering iron helmet. Surrounding him were ghostly shadows, all of which were standing zombies!

The outer circle was a group of zombies wearing civilian clothes, and the inner circle was more than ten Jin soldiers. Seeing that, Leo almost immediately had a scene in his mind: this masked man was doing something mysterious here, turning all the villagers into "Ba". The Jin soldiers who came to investigate were inevitably transformed into Ba!

Thinking of the Ba that he encountered at night, Leo began to speculate that maybe it was their patrol soldiers... But everything has returned to silence, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has dried up. What is the origin of this masked man? What kind of magic is he using?

Suddenly, Leo had an idea and turned to the other side of the cemetery. He saw Blake kneeling on one knee behind a stone tablet, observing the situation. He made gestures to him to bow so as not to be discovered.

Leo hurriedly bent down and ran towards Blake under the cemetery's outer wall that was half a person's height.

Leo: "Who is he?"

Blake did not answer, but only frowned and watched the masked man who was casting a spell on the central stone platform. The man stood there motionless. There were groups of zombies all around, and it was completely silent. The situation was indescribably weird.

"What does he want to do?" Leo lowered his voice again.

"I don't know!" Blake replied irritably, "Shut up!"

Leo's doubts had reached their peak. He had no awareness of being an exorcist at all, and he didn't expect that he should be the one to answer other people's questions at this time.

"Then how long are we going to watch here?" Leo asked again.

Item: ...

Leo realized that if he asked again, he would probably get beaten, so he kept silent. But then he noticed a line of cinnabar characters on the stone tablet where the two were hiding. He reached out and touched the sunken characters, and recognized the six characters "Dajin Xiangyang Wang Wei".

Sima Wei? The person buried in this mausoleum is the King of Chu from the Sima royal family during the Eight Kings Rebellion?!

Leo immediately turned his gaze to the body lying flat on the stone platform, covered in armor. With such gorgeous black iron armor, it could not be a civilian. It must be Sima Wei's body!

But he had been dead for nearly a hundred years! His body hadn't decayed yet?

The caster raised his hands slightly, and Sima Wei's heavy body was lifted up in the air. At this moment, there was an invisible and powerful aura around him, which made Leo shiver. It was the so-called "cold wind". Only he, as an exorcist, knew that it was the effect of the resentment between heaven and earth flowing. Ordinary people felt this cold and evil aura, but they didn't know where it came from, so they could only describe it as "cold wind".

The gloomy wind was getting stronger and stronger. It was the resentment left in the world by the soldiers who died in battle and the civilians who died in the war within a radius of a hundred miles!

Leo suddenly realized the true intention of the spellcaster: what he was guiding was not the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the resentment of the dead after a great battle in Xiangyang City. He wanted to inject it into Sima Wei's body and revive the corpse.

Although he didn't know what the masked man's real purpose was, Leo knew he had to take action immediately because the spell had reached a critical juncture...

"Protector," Leo whispered, "we must go out and stop him immediately!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Leo was pinched by Blake's neck like a chicken.

"Go by yourself if you want to go." Blake whispered, "Don't expose my position. I'm not a guardian."

Leo gnashed his teeth, unable to speak, his eyes filled with grief and anguish, and he gestured to him, indicating that the situation was already quite serious. He thought, if you are not here to stop this true demon from causing harm to the world, what are you doing here? !

At this moment, the large force of Jin army arrived, followed by Feng Qianjun holding a knife in both hands. Feng Qianjun ran to the outskirts of the mausoleum, and the soldiers of Jin army, holding torches, rushed to the outskirts of the mausoleum with great momentum, nearly fifty people.

Blake immediately let go of Leo, and they both gestured to the newcomer at the same time, but it was too late. The Jin army captain trembled with fear and shouted, which immediately attracted the attention of the masked man.

"Who are you?" The captain was obviously out of breath and shouted tremblingly, "Hurry up and surrender!"

The captain of the Jin army did not see the warnings from Blake and Leo, but Feng Qianjun did. He immediately rolled over, found cover and hid behind the outer wall of the cemetery, indicating what to do.

Blake immediately waved his hand and grabbed Leo who was about to rush out. Then the "monster" in front of the stone platform in the center of the cemetery sneered and said something in a deep voice. Before Leo could hear clearly, nearly a hundred zombie villagers who had been transformed into "Ba" rushed towards the Jin army!

"Charge!" the captain shouted, leading his men to charge on foot, each wielding a knife, quickly taking the zombie's head, and the rotten blood was scattered everywhere. Leo glanced at Feng Qianjun not far away. Feng Qianjun hid behind the wall, pointed at himself, and nodded to Leo, meaning that he taught him.

Leo thought of the zombies whose heads were smashed under the cliff, so he stopped and said to Blake: "Cut off their heads."

After saying that, Leo appeared from behind the stone tablet and shouted, "Monster! Kill him!" He ran a few steps and realized that he had no weapon. He turned around and ran to the captain, shouting, "Lend me a sword!"

Feng Qianjun also chased after him with a knife in hand, shouting, "Quickly retreat! Don't cause more trouble!"

Leo suddenly saw a shovel for digging soil in the cemetery, and thought to himself, great! He immediately followed the soldiers, swung the shovel, and hit a zombie on the head.

Blake's eyes stayed on the masked man, not paying any attention to the zombies. The next moment, the man standing in front of the stone platform raised his hand, and Blake immediately flew out, first stepped on a stone coffin, turned around, came to Leo, and kicked Feng Qianjun who was standing beside him. Then he lifted the nearly 200-jin stone coffin lid with one hand and pressed it in front of himself and Leo.

As soon as Feng Qianjun turned his head, he was kicked to the side. Leo was confused. He looked up and saw the black-robed masked man raised his hand and pressed it towards the void. It was like a water wave. Black fire flashed in his hand and hundreds of black fire meteor bombs were sprayed at the Jin army guards fighting the zombies. The soldiers howled in pain and rolled on the ground when the black fire touched their bodies.

The lid of the sarcophagus was hit and shattered. Blake was shocked by the huge force. He bent down slightly, drew his sword, turned into a shadow, and shot straight to the altar in the center of the stone platform!

Too fast! Really too fast! Leo was still holding the shovel. In the blink of an eye, only himself, Blake and Feng Qianjun were left standing in the cemetery. The others had fallen to the ground one after another.

"Brother Feng!" Leo shouted, "Where are you from?!"

Feng Qianjun shouted: "Don't touch them!"

The black fire began to burn people as soon as it touched them. Leo didn't dare to touch him. Feng Qianjun stood up and shouted, "Behind you!"

All the Jin army was knocked down, but there were still many zombies left, and they surrounded Leo.

"Glow!" Feng Qianjun swung his knife, chopped off the heads of two zombies, and shouted, "They are afraid of light!"

At this moment, Blake rushed onto the stone platform in one step, and swung his sword with an arc of light. The masked man immediately raised his hand, and a dagger appeared in his right sleeve. He blocked Blake with a clang. The dagger flashed with poisoned shell color. Blake did not give him any chance to fight back, and stabbed the man's throat with a sword!

"Good skills." The masked man kept one hand pointed at Sima Wei's body on the stone platform, and the other hand struggled to deal with Blake's sword. In an instant, he had broken three moves in a row. Seeing that he could not resist, the masked man suddenly flew up, raised his body, and actually flew up! Blake suddenly stepped back and looked up at a height of ten feet. He saw that the masked man did not dare to fly far, and his left hand was always pointed at Sima Wei's body, guiding the invisible resentment to be injected into the dead body.

Blake watched the masked man's every move, only to see the enemy's right sleeve shake, and the dagger disappeared, replaced by a small iron crossbow. A sharp arrow appeared on the crossbow, flashing with cold light. It was looking down from above, and was actually trying to shoot Blake to death.

At the same time, Feng Qianjun broke through the encirclement and ran towards Leo who was surrounded by zombies.

Leo: "Why did you bring so many soldiers here?"

Feng Qianjun: "They know the way themselves, what can I do? Why do you have to meddle in their affairs?"

Leo raised his hand and shouted: "This is my job! How can it be considered meddling in other people's business?!"

In an instant, a heart lamp glowed in Leo's hand. As the bright white light shone, the zombies immediately wailed and scattered.

When the masked man saw the white light bursting and his zombie being restrained, he no longer cared about Blake and turned to look.

"Kill them!" Feng Qianjun shouted, "Hurry up!"

Leo was no longer in danger, but he held the shovel in his right hand and raised the heart lamp in his left hand, intending to use the shovel to hit the zombies on the head, but when the white light shone on them, the zombies instinctively scattered and Leo swung the shovel to hit them, but it was nothing. In the end, wherever he chased them, the zombies would run away in a hurry, so he couldn't catch any of them. The cemetery suddenly became a mess, like a wolf among a flock of sheep, with chickens and dogs flying everywhere.

"I can't hit it!" Leo said angrily. Just as he was about to stop the heart lamp, Feng Qianjun ran to the earth wall and shouted, "Come over here quickly!"

The scene became very strange. A young man held up a shovel, his left hand glowing, and drove a large group of zombies to the west of the cemetery. The zombies were so crowded that they squeezed through the narrow path in front of the two earth walls and passed through one by one in a noisy manner. Feng Qianjun shouted, "Listen to my command, charge!"

Leo began to run. The group of zombies, chased by the heart lamp, suddenly sped up. The moment they rushed through the narrow passage, Feng Qianjun took a deep breath, closed his eyes, shouted angrily, held the sword across his shoulder, dived forward, and rushed towards the zombie team, gathering all his internal strength!

The blade flashed, and with a "swish" sound, it cut off the heads of nearly sixty zombies. When it arrived in front of Leo, Leo showed a shocked expression, but Feng Qianjun turned his wrist slightly, deviating a very small angle, and the blade passed by Leo's nose less than three inches away from his face, bringing a gust of cold wind.

Leo: ...

Feng Qianjun moved his wrist and swung the knife, and the remaining rotten blood on the ring-handled knife was shaken off completely, but the cold light of the blade was still visible.

"Great knife skills." When Leo saw the blade coming back along his neck, he thought his head would fall to the ground with it. He said with lingering fear, "Great."

"Thank you for letting me take advantage of the magic weapon." Feng Qianjun was unprepared and was caught off guard by the zombies. Now that he knew the details, he would not fail again. He immediately turned around and ran towards Blake.

Blake stared at the masked man. This time the masked man seemed to be afraid and wanted to end the battle quickly. He pulled the trigger and six hidden arrows flew out. Blake was waiting for this moment. He shook the sword in his hand and six "ding ding ding" sounds were heard in a row, which actually blocked all the hidden arrows as heavy as cow hair!

"You..." The masked man was stunned for a moment, then Blake leaped onto the stone platform, turned around, and slashed at the masked man's left hand with a sword. Feng Qianjun rushed over immediately, stepped onto the stone pillar beside the platform in two steps, and slashed at the masked man's neck with his sword!

However, the black robe of the masked man was torn apart with a swish, and there was nothing inside. Then the cloth strip made another light sound, rolled in the air, and returned to its original shape. The man withdrew, and the mask fell off, revealing his true face.

Blake only cut the man's sleeve with his sword, and Feng Qianjun only picked up his mask with his knife. The mask fell to the ground with a clang, and the two men fell to the ground. Leo ran to the stone platform, facing the high place.

The man showed a calm face, looked down at the three people, and sneered.

"What kind of monster is this?" Feng Qianjun frowned.

Leo said blankly: "I don't know. No one here knows him, so why would he wear a mask?"

The man's voice was sharp and his face was pale. He asked coldly, "Who are you?"

Leo said: "Who are you!"

The man asked suspiciously: "Who are you?"

Leo: "Tell me who you are first! What do you want to do?"

"He's stalling for time!" Blake saw that he was about to start talking nonsense like "Who are you?" and "Who are you again?", so he immediately opened his mouth to stop him and shouted, "Don't get involved with him!"

Leo was awakened by this sentence. His left hand was covered with white light. He pointed it towards the sky and shouted: "Die!"

Leo tried his best, and the light of his heart lamp suddenly burst out and shot out, turning into countless light points that spread out like a galaxy, but the man let out a sharp laugh.

"Idiot, I'm not a Ba." The man was unharmed. He raised his right hand, and black fire burst out from his hand, pressing down on the three people on the ground, exploding with a loud bang!

Leo did not expect that this demon was not afraid of the light of the heart lamp at all. Feng Qianjun and Blake turned around at the same time and rushed towards Leo. Blake first kicked Feng Qianjun away, then put one hand on Leo's waist, rolled him on the ground, and hid behind the stone platform. The three of them avoided the black fire, Blake pushed Leo behind the stone pillar, and turned around and rushed out.

At this moment, a rooster finally crowed in the distance. The man in black laughed wildly and said arrogantly: "It's done---"

Immediately afterwards, on the central stone platform, Sima Wei's corpse suddenly exploded with black flames that shot out from the gaps in his armor. Then, it flashed on the spot and rose into the sky along with his armor, turning into black light and flying towards the northwest.

The sky in the east was turning pale. The man in black freed his other hand, shook both hands, and slowly lowered the crossbow in his left hand and the dagger in his right hand to the ground, heading towards Blake. He didn't even take Leo and Feng Qianjun seriously and focused on dealing with Blake.

"He has no legs," Feng Qianjun said from behind the pillar, "Is he a ghost? How do we deal with him?"

Leo: "I don't know..."

Feng Qianjun: "Aren't you an exorcist?"

Leo: "The key is that I don't know what he is!"

Leo kept thinking. He had never seen such a monster in ancient books. Blake shook his sword and said in a deep voice: "What are you?"

"I don't know either." said the pale-faced man in black. "It doesn't matter. Take it."

The man in black rushed towards Blake in an instant and swung his dagger. Blake blocked it immediately, but this guy could actually fly in the air, moving around like a ghost, with his dagger flying around and creating countless phantoms, coupled with a powerful crossbow in his left hand. No matter how Blake tried to kill him, he could only cut through the black robe on this monster and could not hurt him at all.

Seeing that the opponent was really difficult to deal with, Feng Qianjun had no choice but to rush out again with a long knife in hand.

There must be a way... Leo kept activating the Heart Lamp, wondering if it would work to burn him directly on his face? The Heart Lamp in his hand was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, constantly changing, and suddenly he discovered something - the iron sword in Blake's hand actually began to flash with the movements of Leo activating the Heart Lamp!

Blake also noticed it and took a quick glance at Leo in his busy schedule.

"Sword!" Blake shouted.

At this moment, Feng Qianjun had rushed up and cut the lower body of the man in black. Black fire suddenly erupted from under his robe, sweeping across the central area of   the cemetery.

Leo immediately raised his left hand, bowed and pressed towards Blake from a distance.

The next moment, the iron sword in Blake's hand burst out with dazzling white light, colliding with the black flames, like the scorching sun melting blood, expelling the black flames completely!

The man in black was startled and was about to dodge by raising his head, but Feng Qianjun jumped into the air on the stone pillar behind him and chopped him down on the head, forcing him back to the ground. Blake held the sword with both hands, swung it, and a shining arc of light appeared. He turned around, stepped sideways, and stabbed with his backhand sword.

The man in black was pierced through the chest by the long sword with the power of the heart lamp. He immediately screamed and trembled wildly.

"Why, I would be illuminated by this light..." The black flame under the black man's robe instantly turned into white fire, erupting in all directions and burning into ashes.

"I don't know." The three answered in unison.

Leo added: "Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you. You can only blame yourself for your bad luck."

There was a loud bang and the man in black was burned into countless points of light. He disappeared in a flash and his black robe fell to the ground. It automatically caught fire and burned fiercely. In the end, dust returned to dust and nothing was left.

The red sun rose at the end of Longzhong Mountain, illuminating the cemetery in the mountain. The wailing of the Jin army gradually stopped. Leo became more confused and looked up at Blake. Blake bent down and picked up the mask dropped by the black-robed man.