Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 174 Becoming a Ghost King
"Tianxing, May 13th, [-]th year.

"I admit, I'm afraid of death.

"Even after practicing the Forbidden Technique of Zhaoming, I am still afraid of bumping into an enemy that is difficult to deal with, causing myself to completely disappear in this world.

"So in the past few years, I have created several clones one after another and scattered them in various areas of Jiaodong Province.

"They mixed in with the crowd and lived independently.

"Unless someone has a stronger attainment than me in the 'way of cause and effect', no one will be able to detect the relationship between these clones and me.

"But having a double does not mean absolute security.

"Also, I'm tired of living in hiding.

"I had to find a way to make myself stronger.

"At this time, I suddenly remembered that when I defeated '梼杌', I obtained an important piece of information from its memory through the soul-searching spell - if the 'Vicious God' wants to be promoted to the 'Ghost King', it needs to use One hundred thousand living souls are sacrificed.

"I thought, if I could become the legendary ghost king, maybe I would no longer be afraid of Emperor Tianxing and the saints of the Daqi Dynasty!

"..."

"The ninth day of the first month of the 15th year of Tianxing.

"My experiment was successful.

"I took the nine water snakes in the Yi River, used the "Zhaoming Forbidden Technique" and the Bagua circle, combined them into one, and transformed them into a giant monster.

"As the saying goes, the formation of gossip is formed with sincerity, and it will be psychic for a long time; when it encounters prosperity, it will become auspicious; when it encounters decline, it will be disaster.

"The current Daqi Dynasty seems to be peaceful, but in fact there are hidden dangers——

"The royal family, big families, and big sects occupy more than [-]% of the cultivation resources, but the low-level monks have to do their best to do the task for a small 'Jingxin Pill', and they will go crazy during the cultivation process if they are not careful; Ghosts and ghosts are rampant in the area, harming the people, but the royal relatives and bureaucrats in the capital are still immersed in a comfortable environment, and even try their best to embezzle supplies...

"The resentment among the people is enough to breed a powerful ghost at the level of a 'fierce god'.

"This snake demon is the product of the combination of the essence of the Kan and Li hexagrams and the resentment of the world. The Kan hexagram has four short pictures and one long picture; the Li hexagram has two short pictures and two long pictures, a total of nine pictures. The nine heads of the snake demon correspond exactly to each other.

"Kan is black in color because of water, so the five heads are good at using water, and they are black; Li is red in color because of fire, so the four heads are good at using fire, and they are red.

"I named it 'Nine Baby'.

"It is my most proud work after 'Snow Girl', and it will also be an important tool for me to promote 'Ghost King'.

"...

"Tianxing 15th June [-]st.

"The plan to become the 'ghost king' failed.

"I discovered that becoming a 'Ghost King' not only requires the sacrifice of a hundred thousand living souls, but also requires a special ceremony.

"The 'Nine Infant Snake Demon' that I worked so hard to create was also defeated by the Grand Master of Qi, and he sealed it underground in Qingzhou Mansion with a magic circle.

"It's not easy to create another evil spirit like 'Nine Infants' - because it will not only consume my strength, but also need to accumulate enough resentment among the people. The resentment accumulated in Qingzhou Prefecture is obviously not enough to create two' Nine Baby Snake Demon' is a 'fierce god' level ghost with huge lethality.

"I have to find a way to unseal it and release it again."

"...

"The eighth day of November in the 16th year of Tianxing.

"The Grand Master of Qi deserves to be a strong man who became holy with the talisman. I spent three years, but I still haven't found a way to break the sealing formation.

"...

"Tianxing, May 17th, [-]th year.

"Jia Boming, the governor of the Exorcist Department of Anqiu County, was injured during a mission to kill ghosts, so he wrote a letter to beg for bones, and returned home after his official post.

"One of my avatars found him, trying to get some information about the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' sealing formation from him.

"But because he swore an oath of secrecy when he took office, he refused to open his mouth to death.

"Of course, such small problems don't bother me.

"I turned him into my puppet by virtue of the 'puppet' spell, and naturally inherited all his memories.

"So, I learned from his memory that the Grand Master of Qi divided the formation diagram of the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' sealing formation into eight parts, and hid them in the Exorcism Division Yamen in the eight counties of Qingzhou Prefecture. As for the specific hidden Where it is, only the governors of the exorcism departments of the counties know.

"It gave me a bit of a headache.

"The exorcism department's office belongs to the key area of ​​concern of the Daqi court, and the governors of the counties must have been under the watchful eye of the department's secret technique for a long time.

"I definitely can't kill them at will and turn them into puppets like I am doing now.

"I have to think of a way that is sufficiently concealed to find out where these eight formations are hidden."

"...

"Tianxing 18th October [-]th.

"Today, when my avatar was wandering in Xunliu Street, Yishui County, I found an entertainer playing with mice. This gave me a new inspiration in my mind.

"According to Cui Mingbo's memory, the governors of each county need to strengthen the seal of the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' every three years. During this process, they will definitely take out the formation map left by the national teacher .

"I just need to make some mice, spiders, ants and other species into my puppets, let them sneak into the Exorcism Office, observe every move of the governors anytime, anywhere, maybe I can follow them and find the hidden location of the array .

"Because I control these puppets through the 'line of cause and effect', no one will find their abnormalities.

"So, I turned this mouse-playing artist into my avatar, and asked him to take the puppets to the Exorcist Yamen in various counties and follow the governors of the counties.

"After a period of time, through the eyes of these mice, I discovered that the map of Mengyin County was hidden in a secret room under the public kitchen—you only need to tap a specific floor tile three times to enter the secret room.

"Of course, the entrance to this secret room will authenticate the intruder.

"Breakthrough is definitely not an option.

"Because the formation at the entrance of the secret room was arranged by the national teacher himself. If you force your way in, it will definitely be known to the national teacher.

"But that doesn't bother me.

"In the Dao of Karma, the name is a symbol that symbolizes everyone's identity. I can temporarily borrow someone else's name by virtue of Karma.

"More than 40 years ago, I borrowed the name of my neighbor Wu Qilang and spent the night with his wife - although I did not change my appearance, the beautiful woman firmly believed that I was his husband.

"So, in the same way, I temporarily borrowed the identity of the governor of Mengyin County, sneaked into the secret room, and saw the seal array.

"However, in order to prevent being discovered by the national teacher, I did not take this formation map with me, but just kept its contents firmly in my mind.

"I think, then I can use the same method to see the rest of the array.

"............

"Tianxing 23, May [-]th.

"As of today, I have used the same method to see the contents of eight formations.

"After knowing the formation diagram, it will be much easier to crack the sealing formation.

"In addition, the way of talismans and the way of cause and effect have many things in common.

"Just give me a little more time, and I can release the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' from the ground, and let it bring me a hundred thousand souls.

"At the same time, based on the memory left by '梼杌', I basically restored the process of the promotion ceremony of 'Ghost King' - I need to find a sufficiently hidden place to build an altar and hold the ceremony.

"I set this location at Yishan.

"Yishan, in everyone's perception, is the domain of Xuenv.

"But Xuenv is my creation, and Yishan is naturally my territory.

"According to the memory of '梼杌', during the process of building the altar, a large amount of Yin Qi will spread to the outside world, causing the nearby residents to be eroded by the Yin Qi and turn into ghosts.

"However, as long as I build the altar in Yishan and use the technique of karma, I can mislead others into thinking that the spread of yin energy is caused by the improvement of Snow Maiden's strength.

"Before becoming the ghost king, I had to hide myself in the dark.

"..."

"July 23th in the [-]rd year of Tianxing.

"Today, Shi Lei, a thousand household in Laizhou Prefecture, wanted to send someone to investigate the massacre at the foot of Mount Lao in the first year of Tianxing.

"As the real murderer of the massacre, I must not let him know the truth.

"I used the 'Abduction' spell to set the result of 'the monks involved in the investigation of the case will be seriously injured on the way and have to give up the mission'.

"Thus, the monks who accepted the task lost their way after setting off, and entered the lair of the ghost 'fallen head people'. When they came out, they were all seriously injured and dying.

"There is an effect first, and then there is a cause—this is the power of the 'Abduction Technique'.

"The person who created this spell is really a genius.

"Yeah, I'm talking about myself.

"...

"The eighth day of September in the 23rd year of Tianxing.

"My avatar of the old man in Yishui County suddenly discovered today that there is a small official named Gu Xu in the Yamen of the Exorcist Department of Yishui. I'm about to reach the perfection of the first level of cultivation—even I myself didn't have such a frightening speed of cultivation back then.

"Besides, he also improved a lot of talismans and spells in private.

"This level of comprehension can only be described as outrageous.

"I even think that even if he is asked to practice "Forbidden Art of Zhaoming", he might be able to play some new tricks."

"...

"September 23th, [-]rd year of Tianxing.

"The yin energy in the Yishan area became more and more intense, gradually alarming the imperial court.

"In order to prevent the sage from knowing the situation here and interfering with my promotion plan, I set up a ban in Yishan to block the secrets of this place.

"From now on, all celestial mysteries and divination techniques will not be able to accurately predict the situation in Yishan.

"Besides, I also used the 'Abduction' spell to keep hindering and delaying the capital's support to Qingzhou Prefecture.

"Anyway, the bureaucrats of the Daqi Dynasty are already corrupt enough - it is normal for them to dawdle.

"...

"The 23rd year of Tianxing, the second day of October.

"Controlling too many puppets is also a burden on my spirit.

"Sometimes it's hard for me to fully control their instincts.

"For example, the rats and bugs I hid in the Exorcism Department back then would eat books if I wasn't paying attention.

"Recently, monks from the Yishui Exorcist Department found that the books in the library were gnawed by rats, so they called a group of scholars from the county school to copy the contents of these damaged books.

"They also called that kid Gu Xu as a helper.

"That kid is very observant.

"I must not let him notice the slightest abnormality in the damaged books.

"...

"October 23th, [-]rd year of Tianxing.

"Today, two guys who got in the way came up Yishan.

"One person has a faint dragon aura, so if nothing else happens, he should be the prince of the Great Qi Dynasty; the other person seems to be his entourage.

"The two sneaked into Yishan all the way and came to the vicinity of the black altar. As expected, they regarded the black altar as the creation of Snow Maiden.

"I have to figure out a way to get these two out as soon as possible.

"However, I can't let them die here - if this prince really dies on my chassis, then Emperor Tianxing will have a one-thousandth chance of discovering my existence.

"Although the possibility is very low, but in the process of being promoted to 'Ghost King', I will not allow any accidents to happen.

"Thus, I used the 'Abduction' spell to set the result that 'they will bump into the Snow Maiden, have a fierce battle, get injured, and finally be rescued by a mysterious strongman'.

"It doesn't matter to me what the process is like.

"It's just that I didn't expect that in order to achieve the result set by the 'Abduction' spell, He Yiqun, the junior brother of the Grand Master of Qi, who has been traveling all over the world and not caring about world affairs, would change his nature and rely on his magical power of 'shrinking the ground into an inch', Became the savior of the prince and his entourage!
"It really surprised me!
"It seems that as my strength gradually improves, my attainments in the 'Way of Cause and Effect' are also constantly improving!"

"...

"The first day of the first month of the 24th year of Tianxing.

"That young man named Gu Xu successfully climbed to the top of Mount Lao and got my inheritance.

"Prince Daqi, the children of the family, are not his opponents.

"It seems that I still underestimated his cultivation potential.

"...

"The sixth day of the first month of the 24th year of Tianxing.

"In order to prevent someone from shattering the void and escaping during the ceremony, I sealed off the space in Qingzhou Mansion in advance. All those who want to escape will eventually come near the black altar.

"In addition, I have also blocked the secrets within the entire Qingzhou Prefecture, and all secret deduction and divination spells will be completely ineffective.

"In a short period of time, even the Luosi capital of the Exorcism Department could not perceive the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' breaking out.

"Although the shielding time will not last long.

"But I believe that before the saints notice the anomaly in Qingzhou Mansion, the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' is enough to help me obtain a sacrifice of [-] living souls.

"...

"The seventh day of the first month of the 24th year of Tianxing.

"all the best.

"The seal of the 'Nine Baby Snake Demon' has been lifted.

"The ceremony may begin.

"..."

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