The Tale Never Ends Chapter 197 Li Shouzhong

Seeing this scene, I suddenly remembered that the old man Chen Yixuan had described it in a story: an elm grew on Li Shouzhong's tomb. However, it had never occurred to me that this elm was actually growing on the coffin!

This elm was sitting on the coffin, like a living person sitting on the hillside. The creeping roots of the tree wrapped around the whole coffin and then extended into the mud below it. One must know that the elm was in a tomb dark as h.e.l.l. However, it even managed to develop lots of branches that could even fully extend in the tomb! I observed the elm with my Spirit Sight and found that mixing with the dragon leys' Qi, a powerful stream of evil Qi filled the elm. So, the elm was leafy but had a black-purple body. When someone went forward to touch it, the elm even s.h.i.+vered and dodged him as if it were alive. After taking a closer look, I noticed that those crooked branches were all strangely shaped. Also, they had twisted with many vines, making an unspeakable weird and hideous scene.

This tree grew up in this place, and it could even move. Seeing this, the first thing that came to my mind was the Hydra Cypress described in "The Lost Tomb." But on second thought, the tree before me was not a cypress. It was an elm, a kind of shade-loving tree that had a strange appearance. That was why elms always played the role of monsters in many legends since ancient times. When seeing this creepy elm, Bian Dashou, me, and others were all stunned on the spot. At this time, Jia Huan whispered to Bian Dashou, "Sir... What should one do?"

Recovering from the shock, Bian Dashou also didn't know what to do next for the time being. At the moment, a doubt popped up in my mind. "Bian Dashou must know that the elm is the center of the dragon ley. This tree grows in the dragon ley's center and absorbs its essence. Thus, we only need to destroy this tree. I can come up with the solution even without using my Spirit Sight. So, does Bian Dashou really cannot think of that?" At first, I was puzzled. "Bian Dashou is Dragon-slaying Blade's user. In previous, I have seen him mount the clouds and ride the mist. But why does he act like a mortal now?"

After thinking for a long time, Bian Dashou finally made up his mind and ordered, "Chop it down!" Immediately, Jia Huan beckoned to the group of people behind them. All those villagers picked up the axes hanging behind on their waists and rushed to the strange elm. Meanwhile, the elm started to tremble as if it were an animal facing its prey.

When others saw the elm's leaves trembling, they became so afraid that they dared not go even half a step further. Watching this scene, Bian Dashou also did not know what to do. I frowned and pushed him from behind. Being suddenly pushed by me, Bian Dashou staggered forward. At once, he looked back but saw nothing. However, he instantly understood that I wanted him to cut the tree. After hesitating for a while, he finally nodded slightly at the invisible person behind him. Then, he turned around and walked toward the elm.

He randomly took an ax from the man. Without hesitation, Bian Dashou walked under the elm. He swung the ax and cut into the elm's trunk! This time, Bian Dashou hacked with a huge effort. After that, the elm seemed to suffer from a sharp pain, and so its whole crown began to tremble violently! The moment Bian Dashou cut into the trunk, in my Spirit Sight, I could see the dragon leys' Qi and the evil Qi in the elm pouring out from the cut of the trunk, just like the water flowing out from a broken bucket!

Once again, Bian Dashou swung the ax and chopped at the same place. The cut there became a few centimeters deeper. The dragon leys' Qi spewed out from the elm like the water from the fountain. In no time, it disappeared. Meanwhile, the tree withered from the top of branches at a fast speed. As Bian Dashou was chopping, the elm gradually shrank. The others saw that nothing happened to the old man after he cut the elm, so one after another, they too went forward to chop with their axes.

After a while, the group of people cut the elm in half! "Click!" The trunk tilted backward. Then, a large amount of the dragon leys' Qi leaking out from the cut surged out fast like a flood! Almost at speed visible to everyone's eyes, the entire stump left there, and the fallen tree trunk dried up. Finally, they turned into something like a pile of ash and never moved again.

Bian Dashou ordered some people to clean up the dead tree roots. After that, he spotted a wooden coffin placed there. It was neither old nor new. Waving his hand, Bian Dashou shouted, "Open the coffin!" At this point, I knew that a white snake would dart out from the coffin, if what Chen Yixuan said was right.

Sure enough, just as the cover of the coffin was pushed open, a white shadow directly shot up from the coffin and reached the top of the tomb. Then, it fell back into the coffin. Now everyone saw it clearly that the white shadow was actually a 33-centimeter-long white snake!

Well, it was not exactly the same as a white snake because it had a dragon head, just like what was described in the story! From time to time, the half-snake, half-dragon creature would stick out its scarlet forked tongue! Just as I had expected, it hadn't turned into a dragon and still had some snake nature! At this time, Bian Dashou was no longer a good-for-nothing. He reached into the coffin and grabbed the dragon-snake creature in his hands! Right now, I could see that the two eyes of the creature were truly different. The left eye was like a burning torch, which ran down everyone before it with radiating vigor. But its right eye could only look at one direction, which was exactly the same as the ordinary snake eyes.

Bian Dashou beckoned. Then, Jia Huan came forward and handed him a brocade box. Cautiously, he reached out to stuff the white snake into the box and lock it up. After that, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, I did not put my mind at ease at this time because everything was exactly like what Chen Yixuan had said. Accidently, I looked down into the coffin and saw that the body was quickly growing new black hair! "Holy sh*t! A fu*king real black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+!" I cried out in my heart.

At this time, some other people also saw the change of the body in the coffin. Uttering a heartrending cry, someone said, "S-s-s-sir! Look!" With this, he pointed to the coffin. Bian Dashou instantly looked down to check and was shocked! In an advanced state of decay, the corpse was already out of shape. But now, it was covered with a layer of newly grown black hair! Like a beast, there was no hairless place on the body from head to toe! In horror, Bian Dashou said, "Hurry up! Carry it out and burn it!"

However, staring at each other, none of those villagers moved. They were afraid, of course. Also, the corpse made them sick. The stench of the liquid from the decayed body and the pile of rotten meat in the coffin was overpowering. But then, Jia Huan urged them. "Why are you still in a daze? Be quick!" Then, a villager whispered to the people beside him. "Let's quickly get this dead body out. I heard that when a corpse grows the long black hair, it will come back to life soon! If we do this later, we are all going to die from its bite!" As he said that, they rolled up their sleeves and reached into the coffin.

Just when the two villagers put their hands into the coffin, something unforeseen suddenly happened! The black-haired body in the coffin moved all of a sudden. The rigid dead body made a few crack sounds, and unexpectedly it swiftly grabbed the hand that reached into the coffin! "Ow!" Screaming, the villager was much frightened and fell to the ground. His arms slipped out of the corpse's grasp when he fell down. But to everyone's surprise, the hairy black hand caught his arm again like pincers. Thus, the villager who fell behind with his hand pulled the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+ up. Now that it was sitting in the coffin!

Almost instantaneously, I heard the howls of terror from all the people in the field! Sitting in the coffin, the Jiangs.h.i.+ was covered with black hair, including his face. Under the black hair, its two rows of fangs that it bared were faintly visible. There were no eyeb.a.l.l.s in its eye sockets! "Ka! Ka! Ka!" Along with a cold feeling it brought, the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+ made several sounds which were much more terrible than the sounds the mouse made when it was grinding the teeth!

Everything happened within a second. Before everyone could react, they saw the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+ raise its head, open its mouth and bite the villager's arm in pa.s.sing! The villager was in shock. After this bite, his long scream turned into a row of shrill cries! In no time, shreds of black color began to spread along the person's arm from the place where he was bitten! The sharp-sighted Bian Dashou was quick with his hands. He swung the ax in his hand and cut at the villager's arm at this crucial moment. "Click!" After a crisp sound, his forearm was separated from his body! Then, the villager whose arm was cut kicked his legs and fainted because of the great pain.

By this time, screaming, all the people in the tomb rushed to get outside of the tomb madly. Only Bian Dashou and the fainted villager with the broken arm were left there!

Bian Dashou turned around to look at the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+ sitting in the coffin, but now it had already stood up! It was gnawing the villager's forearm in his black claws. At this time, the forearm had turned entirely black and rotted. It was eating with appet.i.te when the black blood of the forearm was still dripping! Bian Dashou's face became ghastly pale. He was about to escape. However, the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+, which was standing in the coffin, seemed to be irritated! "Aoao!" It howled. This hoa.r.s.e sound was as unpleasant as the vomiting sound made by the throat that was smoked by 20 cigarettes. Unconsciously, Bian Dashou turned around. Then, he saw a black shadow flew over his head with winds carrying an offensive smell of blood. "Plop!" The black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+ fell to the tomb's gate. It blocked Bian Dashou's way out!