Chapter 244: Li Xuanyuan's First Appearance, Heart-Locking Chain

"I'm so sorry about throwing my helmet at you last time! It seems this helmet is quite hard."

"You still know that?"

"then."

"what?"

Cao Yanbing threw the helmet to Xia Ling and motioned for her to get in the car.

"Do you like staying in this damn place? I'll give you a ride, but you better sit tight!"

“Woooooo ...

Cao Yanbing drove the motorcycle at full speed.

"I say, do all the streets and houses here really exist?"

Xia Ling in the back seat asked loudly.

"Ah, all reflections of the human social environment will appear here. They are indeed visible and tangible. The underworld is equivalent to an independent world, and it is far more vast than the human world. Ghosts and dead spirits are aliens in the human world, but in the underworld, they are the most common and ordinary creatures."

“No wonder there are so many different architectural styles here!”

"You seem to understand it very well~~ But it is still different from reality! For example, here!"

Cao Yanbing sprinted at full speed towards a dead end.

"Stop!! That's a dead end!!"

"Crash into it!"

Xia Ling closed her eyes directly. She seemed to have seen the scene of being smashed to pieces.

As a result, the wall in front of them suddenly turned into a huge black hole. The two rode the motorcycle directly through the black hole and returned to the human world.

“Everything in front of me was so familiar.”

“It feels so strange at this moment.”

"What is illusion and what is reality"

“I have no definition anymore.”

Li Ye was still observing everything in secret, and everything was similar to the plot of the original novel.

"The show is about to begin!"

Two months later.
In the human world, Xia Ling’s workplace.

"Xiao Xia, you're not coming tomorrow, right?"

"That's right, you're going to start school! Come on, work hard!"

"Well, thank you, Mr. Liu, I will work harder!"

"Come on, Xiao Xia! Everyone in the company is optimistic about you!"

"thank you all!"

"Come back and continue working after you graduate!"

School is about to start, Xia Ling's internship has ended, and she is saying goodbye to people in the company.

Two months have passed since that incident, and except that Xia Ling's hair has grown a little, everything is still the same.
"Ok!"

The busy life continues, and she still plays the role of a passer-by in life
In front of a bookstore, Xia Ling stopped and looked, and saw a sign on the bookstore: 20% off today, ghost stories.

From then on, Xia Ling knew that the middle of the main road next to Shuang Guifang was the gate of hell. Maybe she could go in again, but she didn't want to try it again.
It turns out that Xia Ling has always been a person who doesn't believe in evil, a staunch atheist, and a staunch materialist fighter, but now she is obsessed with ghost magazines.
"Huh! How come I have a guardian spirit? Otherwise, why can't I see it?"

Xia Ling, lying on the sofa, raised her legs, revealing her white and tender thighs.

"Hurry up and obey the command! Guardian spirit, please show up immediately!"

Xia Ling casually recited a spell, speaking confidently, trying to summon the guardian spirit.

Suddenly, a huge figure appeared in front of Xia Ling. He was wearing a white robe, silver armor with a tiger head pattern, a Fang Tian Hua Ji on his shoulder, a Zhui Ri Divine Bow on his back, and a quiver on his waist. He had a handsome and resolute face, eyes like bright stars, and made people feel good at first sight.

Then it disappeared in an instant, and before Xia Ling could even see it clearly, it disappeared.

"Ah! What was that just now?!!!"

"Is that my guardian spirit? I just saw a shadow and it disappeared!"

In fact, Li Ye suddenly got in a playful mood and summoned Xue Rengui to amuse Xia Ling.

"I really have a guardian spirit? But why did it disappear again?"

"Grumpy"

"Hate it! I didn't ask you, why did you make a sound?"

"How lame! Hey, let's go buy some midnight snacks."

Xia Ling touched her deflated stomach and decided to go buy something to eat.

A sports car is speeding on the road.

There was a man and a woman in the car.

"Haha!! Night racing is so exciting!!"

The man driving the car had a hideous look on his face, with a perverted and indulgent smile on his face.

"How dare you say that? Last time I almost killed a college student!"

The woman next to him frowned slightly and couldn't help but scold him.

It seems like he is a rich second-generation who is out looking for excitement.

"It's okay if you bump into me. Don't you want to think about who my father is?"

The man didn't care at all. In his eyes, human life was not worth mentioning and was regarded as worthless.

"No problem is a problem if it can be solved with money!"

"That's right! Your father is rich! Otherwise I wouldn't fall for a loser like you!"

"Tsk! So you're after my family's money!!!"

The man had a gloomy expression on his face. He glanced at the woman in the passenger seat and gritted his teeth.

"I'm just kidding, baby, don't be angry!"

When the woman realized that something was wrong, she quickly gave in and apologized to the man.

"Go away!"

"Okay. I'll leave it to you tonight, okay?"

The woman smiled coquettishly, her eyes seductive, and rubbed the man's arm with her knee.

Seeing this, the man's expression changed from gloomy to cheerful, and he said with a lewd smile:

“That sounds like a sentence.”

What they didn't know was that in the middle of the street not far in front of them, on the path they and Xia Ling had to pass, a huge figure stood proudly, in a virtual form, like a ghost descending to the earth.

A huge but silent wave of spiritual power surged out, and all electronic equipment on the surrounding streets instantly failed, including all monitoring facilities at the intersection.

“Why are all the restaurants closed?”

Xia Ling went out to buy a midnight snack but came back empty-handed. All the restaurants were closed and she was left wandering alone on the empty streets.

On the street not far from her, a sports car was moving crookedly, knocking down a number of traffic facilities.

"You bastard! You bit me and it hurts! Watch the road!"

"Oh, who would be on the road in the middle of the night?"

"Be careful!! There's someone here!!"

"Huh?"

The man saw Xia Ling in front of him and was terrified. He quickly shouted:
“Get out of my way!!!”

“Didi di di di di!!!”

The horns kept blaring.

Xia Ling turned her head and saw a sports car rushing towards her at lightning speed.

His pupils constricted, his soul flew away for a moment, and his brain went blank.

"Is my life over just like that?"

"I can not be reconciled."

"Master, it's not over yet."

A gentle and soft voice came to Xia Ling's ears, like a spring breeze.

Li Ye felt the burst of pure yang spiritual power in Xia Ling's body, and his heart was relieved and his tense spirit gradually relaxed.

A stream of extremely pure and yang spiritual energy gushed out and tightly wrapped Xia Ling's body. A tall and handsome figure appeared in front of Xia Ling, carrying a huge gourd on his back and with chains wrapped around his body.

Although he knew that Li Xuanyuan would save Xia Ling, he was unsure about what would happen if it didn't happen. If Xia Ling died because of his intervention, not only would the plot be difficult to advance, but he would also feel guilty. So he asked Xue Rengui to guard the middle of the road early on. Once Li Xuanyuan had an accident, Xue Rengui would take action on his behalf to protect Xia Ling.

But fortunately, the development of things did not deviate from the plot.

"Boom!"

An invisible wall seemed to appear in front of Xia Ling, blocking the impact of the sports car.

"Huh!?"

"Am I dead?"

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded.

The shock wave caused by the explosion spread out in all directions, and the invisible wall in front of Xia Ling blocked all the flames, shock waves and other damage that could endanger Xia Ling's safety and health, leaving Xia Ling unharmed.

"What's with that noise!? Was there a car accident?"

"That sports car hit the gas tank!"

"My God!"

The loud noise of the sports car explosion attracted the attention of people around.

Xia Ling was also stunned. The sports car that hit her had turned into a ball of fire.

"The car is burnt like this! The people inside are definitely beyond saving!"

"Call an ambulance first!"

Xia Ling suddenly reacted and immediately decided to run away.

"Run away!"

Then he immediately turned around and ran towards his home.

"call"

"what"

“It’s here!”

"My guardian spirit has appeared!!! I. I. really have a guardian spirit!!!"

While running, Xia Ling's heart was pounding, and her heart rate reached an alarming level. She didn't know if it was caused by the fast running or because she was too excited.

"Yes, I really do have a guardian spirit. Then, I have to go find Cao Yanbing. Only he knows what I should do next."

Xia Ling made up her mind and decided to find Cao Yanbing. She went back to pack her luggage and rushed to Luosha Street overnight.

“The luggage is so heavy!”

"My name is Xia Ling, please take care of me!"

"???"

"Haha, sultry guy, we meet again!"

"Who let you in?"

"Huh? You don't wear glasses now?"

"I've changed to wearing contact lenses, don't change the subject"

"Xiaoliang, can you help me take down my luggage~~?"

"it is good"

"I want you to teach me how to communicate with the guardian spirit, so I decided to live with you temporarily!"

"no way!"

Cao Yanbing refused without even thinking. "I will pay the rent! It will definitely be higher than the market price!"

Xia Ling seemed to be sure of victory, and calmly said something that Cao Yanbing could not refuse.

"make a deal!"

Sure enough, when Cao Yanbing heard that there was money to be made, he agreed immediately without saying a word.

"Hey Hey hey"

Cao Xuanliang on the side was speechless. He didn't expect Cao Yanbing to perform a Sichuan Opera face-changing on him.

So, Xia Ling successfully moved into the Zhenhun Street
In the human world, the mirror looks inside.

A large group of inspectors are constantly busy.

One of the victims of the sports car explosion that just happened was the son of a local tycoon. As the only son in the family, his father doted on him extremely. Now he has died in the fire. His father used his connections to put pressure on the Inspector General, demanding a thorough investigation to find the murderer.

This case is indeed bizarre, because the location where the sports car exploded was an open space, and the reason for the explosion was that the sports car did hit something, but there was clearly nothing there that could cause the sports car to hit and explode. In addition, more than ten minutes before the sports car exploded, the surveillance and electronic facilities in the entire area all failed, and the scene of the sports car explosion was not recorded.

The Mirror Inspectors kept checking the surveillance footage from a period before the surveillance failed.

"There's a clue!"

A mirror inspector shouted.

"what happened?"

When the leader at the side heard the Mirror Inspector shouting, he couldn't help but walk over to him.

"Chief, look! Around the crime scene, one minute before the surveillance equipment failed, there was a figure in white."

The inspector pointed at the white figure in the surveillance screen and said.

Then, the white figure raised his head towards the surveillance camera, but his face could not be seen clearly, as if he was in chaos and haze.

"What's going on? I can't see clearly."

There was nothing wrong with the picture on the side, but the face of the man in white could not be seen clearly, as if it was covered by a layer of fog.

The man in white seemed to smile at the surveillance camera, and then all the surveillance equipment failed.

"It seems that the key to this case lies with him."

The director looked at the mysterious white figure in the picture with a serious expression.

At this moment, there was a sudden urgent phone call. The director quickly answered the phone. When he heard the voice from the other end of the phone, his expression became more solemn.

Soon, he put down the phone and said to all the inspectors present:
"From now on, stop investigating this case immediately and pretend it never happened."

After saying this, he immediately turned and left, leaving the inspectors looking at each other in bewilderment.

In the human world, inside a mysterious building somewhere.

In the darkness, more than a dozen figures stood scattered around.

"There is a large amount of spiritual energy remaining at the crime scene. All electronic equipment malfunctioned because of the overwhelming spiritual energy impact."

"There is also a large amount of spiritual energy left in that sports car. It must have hit the materialized guardian spirit and caused the explosion."

A powerful voice sounded, and a dozen other figures nodded slightly, agreeing with what the voice said.

"This case was indeed committed by a spirit-hosting person. However, the spiritual power that caused the sports car to explode was pure and masculine, while the spiritual power that caused the monitoring equipment to malfunction was violent and powerful. At the same time, its strength was far greater than that of the pure and masculine spiritual power. There should be two people involved. Moreover, the spirit-hosting person who caused the monitoring equipment to malfunction must be at a very high level in the hell realm and is very powerful."

At this time, another voice was heard, a hoarse female voice.

"That place, if I remember correctly, is near the entrance to Rakshasa Street."

Hearing this, the sturdy man nodded, and the powerful voice came out again:
"That's right, mother-in-law. The entrance to Luosha Street is in the middle of the road not far away."

"So, is this incident related to the Rakshasa Street Soul-Suppressing General?"

"It should be related. We found out that a woman was near the explosion site some time before the sports car exploded. That woman had entered Luosha Street, and Luosha Street Soul Suppression General Cao Yanbing personally escorted her out of Luosha Street."

"It seems that this explosion case is closely related to this woman. What is her identity and background?"

"We have found out that she is just an ordinary girl with outstanding looks. Her family background is very ordinary and there has never been a spirit-hosting person in her family. Apart from the fact that she accidentally entered Luosha Street some time ago, there is nothing special about her."

"By the way, she seems to have received a spiritual message from Gui Fu San Tong!"

"Oh? Gui Fu San Tong? The spiritual envoy who is famous in the underworld?"

"Yes! He is also responsible for recruiting new students for Dead Soul Island."

"Being able to receive and read Gui Fu San Tong's spiritual message, it seems that this woman is a spirit host."

"From this point of view, it is very likely that the dandy was racing in the middle of the night and accidentally hit the woman. The guardian spirit came to protect the master, causing the sports car to explode."

"Indeed, this is the most reasonable and most likely scenario."

"By the way, the woman named Xia Ling seems to have entered Luosha Street again and has not left yet."

"In that case, there is no need to investigate this matter any further. You should keep an eye on that woman. When she leaves Luosha Street, see if you can recruit her into the underworld! The underworld is in great need of people right now."

"That's it, let's adjourn the meeting."

Then, the old woman-like figure slowly walked away with a cane.

After she left, people in the room whispered:
"It's getting harder and harder to do work in the underworld nowadays!"

"Who says it's not true? Since ten years ago, there have been more and more dead souls and evil spirits wandering around in the human world."

“I don’t know what the reason is.”

After Xia Ling entered Rakshasa Street, Cao Yanbing also taught Xia Ling diligently and responsibly to cultivate spiritual power and awaken the guardian spirit.

Sit cross-legged with eyes closed, put aside all distracting thoughts, enter into meditation, and use the breathing method of the whole body.

Focus your energy into the Qi storage, and raise your Qi to store your true Qi.

Then use your mind to lift the air and store it, allowing it to rise and fill your brain.

Concentrate your mind, close your eyes and meditate, silently praying for his soul to appear.

Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.

Suddenly, Xia Ling seemed to have come to a place full of darkness. Iron chains stretched across the space, as if to lock up some demons and monsters inside.

"Xia Ling."

A voice suddenly broke the silence around. Xia Ling looked back and saw a pale big hand stretched out from the dense iron chains, as if trying to grab Xia Ling.

"Huh!!!"

Xia Ling suddenly came to her senses and had already exited her meditation state.

"What? You saw a lot of big chains?"

"Then I vaguely heard someone calling me, and I was so scared that I opened my eyes immediately."

“Then nothing was left.”

"No wonder you can't communicate with your guardian spirit"

"That's a heart-locking chain!"

"Seal your guardian spirit!"

"What!?"

"I don't know who cast the curse before, but..."

"The only one who can unlock the seal is you, the spirit host!"

"Since the guardian spirits cannot communicate, then..."

"Just make your spiritual power strong enough to unlock the heart-locking chain."

"How long will that take?"

"Five years!?"

"Oh, at least."

"You've only been here a few weeks, but you can already capture the spiritual energy field."

"If it weren't for the Heart-Locking Chain, you would have been able to communicate with the Guardian Spirit."

"However, since the outcome of the Heart Lock Chain is determined by humans, as long as your spiritual power is stronger than the barrier, you will naturally be able to break through the Heart Lock Chain barrier, communicate with the guardian spirit, and find a way to unlock the seal."

"Five years is my estimate of your current ability. You should know that being able to achieve this number is already very good. You should be content."

"Is there really no other way? Five years is a very long time."

Xia Ling walked up to Cao Yanbing, grabbed his shoulders and cried.

"go away"

"If Sister Xia Ling eats a spiritual locust branch, her spiritual power will also increase!"

At this time, Cao Xuanliang, who had been in a daze, suddenly spoke.

"real?!"

When Xia Ling heard what Cao Xuanliang said, she turned around in surprise and asked Cao Xuanliang for confirmation.

"The locust tree is one of the rare tree species in Zhenhun Street. It is a sacred tree that has grown for countless years. It can absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and transform it into its own nutrition. Not only humans, but also evil spirits will have their spiritual power greatly increased if they are absorbed by them. Therefore, many evil spirits want to get it. This is also the fundamental reason why there are so many evil spirits in Luosha Street."

"boom!"

Before Cao Xuanliang could finish his words, Cao Yanbing punched Cao Xuanliang on the head, then grabbed the back of Cao Xuanliang's neck and lifted him up.

"You talk too much."

“It hurts!!”

"Xia Ling, listen to me carefully"

"If you take the Sophora japonica branch, what's the difference between you and an evil spirit? As the Soul-Calming General and the guardian of the Sophora japonica tree, I will never allow this to happen!"

"If you knowingly break the law, I will treat you like an evil spirit."

"Execute him on the spot!"

Cao Yanbing's tone was serious and his expression was solemn. He was not joking at all. Xia Ling was also intimidated by his serious expression and dared not have any improper thoughts about Ling Huaizhi anymore.

"In short, I advise you to leave as soon as possible. Nowadays, evil spirits are everywhere and ferocious beasts appear frequently. How can a spirit host without the protection of a guardian spirit survive in this place of tigers and wolves?"

Huangfu Longdou: What are you talking about?

"I didn't expect Xiaoliang's cooking skills are so good! He's still so young."

"I can't help it. My brother never does housework, cooking and washing clothes, so I have to do it myself."

"This scumbag!"

"Strange, it's already this late and my brother hasn't come back yet"

"Woo woo. Don't wait for that guy, let's eat!"

“Wouldn’t this be a bad idea?”

Suddenly, Cao Xuanliang seemed to sense something and let out an "oh".

"Sister Ling, please eat your meal first."

"Ok?"

"I have to go out. No. 45, Luosha Street."

“Qingguo Lane, near Xiaoshuwan”

"There is evil spirit!"

Immediately, Cao Xuanliang left the Cao family residence and went to No. 45 Luosha Street.

Li Ye hid in the dark, observing everything, thinking:

"Two hours ago, Cao Yanbing's motorcycle was stolen. Cao Yanbing was looking for his motorcycle on the street. Now the mountain spiders are causing trouble, and Cao Xuanliang has also been attracted there. Now, only Xia Ling is left here. If I remember correctly, Hellkamp is coming."

No. 45 Luosha Street, Qingguo Lane, Xiaoshuwan.

A group of half-dressed and tattered evil spirits followed a giant spider evil spirit.

Cao Xuanliang defeated countless evil spirits along the way and finally came to the mountain spider.

"No wonder it's so huge, it turns out to be a mountain spider!"

Its body was huge, its carapace was as hard as rock, and it shone with a dim light, as if blending in with the surrounding environment, making it difficult to detect.

It has eight sturdy legs, each of which is covered with sharp thorns, as sharp as a blade. At the end of each leg is a pair of sharp claws, which can easily grab and tear prey.

The head of the mountain spider monster is extremely ferocious, with a pair of huge compound eyes that flash with a dark green light and can clearly capture any moving object in a dark environment. Its mouthparts are composed of several pairs of strong chelicerae, and the ends of the chelicerae drip with strong venom. Once bitten, the prey will have no hope of survival.

Its abdomen was swollen, and it was faintly emitting some deep red light, which were the venom glands in its body and the countless spiderlings that were hatching. Whenever it caught prey, it would inject the prey with poison and wrap it in sticky spider silk, slowly digesting it and providing nutrition for its upcoming offspring.

(End of this chapter)