Ordinary Cultivation of Immortals in Shushan

Chapter 171
Mang Mountain is south of the Yellow River and north of Luoyang.Although it is not as towering as Songshan Mountain in Zhongyue, it is not as steep and steep as Huashan Mountain in Xiyue.

But the mountain is meandering and stretching, looking from mid-air, the momentum is extremely majestic, like a giant dragon lying on the mountain, resting on the mountain and kicking the river.Therefore, from ancient to modern times, many mortal emperors, generals and ministers were buried here.

When Meng Qiu came, it was just as the sun was setting in the west, and it was dark.Only at the foot of the mountain, the sad wind is already felt, the green catalpa is shaking down, and there are broken monuments, graves and hills everywhere.Occasionally, a few old crows would climb up the tree with their mouths, and foxes and rabbits would be seen haunting them. It was desolate.

But in this area, the fields are full of wild cultivation, and there are many thatched roof tile houses, gathered in twos and threes, occasionally twilight shines through, and when you get close, it is indeed inhabited by strangers.

This scene is completely different from what was expected before.Meng Qiu originally thought that Xu Wan, the sage of the underworld, was the suzerain of ghosts, a well-known master of earth immortals, and there should be no one living here.

He concealed his figure and walked further up, until he reached a height of more than a thousand feet, only to see a gray mist blocking the way forward.Can't help thinking: "It turns out that rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests."

Before touching the mist, there was a gust of cold air, not only the hands and feet were cold, but also the heart.

Meng Qiuyun had enough eyesight to see that the mist was no different from the clouds used by other sects or experts to cover the caves, except that various ghosts floated in it from time to time.

Every time it passes, there will be trails of black smoke left and mixed together, so the color of the fog will also turn from white to gray.

"It seems that I have never heard of any powerful magic circles in the lineage of Mangshan ghosts." Meng Qiu thought about it secretly, but he didn't dare to step into it easily.

The guardian circle is one of the most powerful methods of a sect, and it is related to the life and death of the sect, so it only falls into it, and ordinary monks cannot resist it at all.

In Zhushan Sect and Qinghe Island in the South China Sea, Meng Qiu was able to overpower the crowd with the few and block the strong with the weak, but he didn't dare to break into the opponent's formation.

Underworld Saint Xu Wan is famous, even if the guardian circle is not as good as Wutai and Huashan, but it must not be underestimated.

It's just that if you don't go in, you will be in trouble if you want to take revenge on Xu Wan and the ghost girl Qiao Qiao.You can't sit back and wait for the rabbit, so you have to wait until the year of the monkey?
Meng Qiu thought for a while, turned around and went down the mountain, and arrived in the outskirts of Luoyang in a short while.When he first came out of the rivers and lakes, he came here.

At that time, millions of people in the surrounding area were all robbed by Xu Wan, the sage of the underworld, and brought back to Mangshan Mountain and turned into ghost soldiers and ghost soldiers.With a radius of thousands of miles, towns and villages were destroyed, houses collapsed and wells collapsed, and fields were barren.

But now, more than ten years later, the appearance has completely changed.The villages and towns that were dilapidated back then have long since been restored to their original state, passing by low and low, and all houses and courtyards are popular.

There is no open space around, but there is arable land, all planted with crops and vegetables, thriving.

Meng Qiu felt a little strange, and thought to himself: "Could it be that Xu Wan has changed his nature? He won't be slain by people."

Seeing this situation, he was a little uncertain about the situation, and prepared to go to Zhongnan Mountain to meet his first friend after practicing Taoism, Huang Qian from Mingyi Cave of Juechen Cliff.

Just as soon as he set off, he flew not far away, but when he bent down, he saw a black cloud floating above the wild forest below.

He went down invisibility, and before he saw anyone, he heard a strange laugh of "磔磔", and someone said in a high-pitched voice:
"My luck is really good. I bumped into a pair of wild mandarin ducks here. I deserve credit for nothing."

Meng Qiu saw that in a small open space in the forest, there were two teenagers, a boy and a girl, their faces were full of horror, hugging each other, trembling.

Opposite him was a pale, bony demon, standing on a black cloud, dressed in sackcloth, with paper money hanging from his temples, holding an iron fork with black smoke in one hand, standing upright.

Just as the clouds were rising in the four mountains, the moon was dark and the sky was overcast at midnight, the cool wind was whistling, the branches were whistling, the monster's eyes were green, and his eyes flickered like will-o'-the-wisps, faintly visible, indescribably eerie.

"Ghost... What a ghost..." The boy screamed, shivering and protecting the girl beside him.

The demon seemed to enjoy this scene very much, he floated down slowly on the cloud, shook the iron fork in his hand, laughed a few more times, and said:
"The two of you should have heard the government's announcement that you are not allowed to stay in the wild at night, otherwise life or death will be irrelevant.

Right now, if you don't obey the order, you should be dealt with by our Mangshan Holy Cult. Even if I take you away, it's not a violation of the rules. "

After finishing speaking, he shook the demon fork in his hand, and a blood-melting cold flame flew out, slowly rushing towards the two people below.

With teardrops in the girl's eyes, she choked up and said, "Good brother, I'm the one who killed you."

"Why are you crying!" the young boy said with a stiff neck, "Don't you always suspect that I am not sincere to you? Now that you die together, your wish will be fulfilled, and we will be together with you in the next life, so don't worry about it anymore."

"Do you still want to be reincarnated? If it falls into my hands, the soul will not even want to escape." The demon speeded up Leng Yan, and when he saw the top of the two people's heads, he was about to fall.

The two hugged each other tightly, closing their eyes and waiting to die, but unexpectedly after a while, there was no movement.

He opened his eyes furtively, but the cold flame was no longer visible above his head, and the monster and the black cloud had disappeared, only the dark moon and stars were in the sky, and the old crows croaked in the cool wind.

The two looked at each other, still in shock, they didn't dare to explore what happened, and they didn't care to pick up the luggage that was left in the dust, staggered out of the woods, and rushed back and forth.

After they left, two figures suddenly appeared in the open space, one was Meng Qiu, and the other was a monster who was as dazed as a stone sculpture, who had just disappeared from the side.

Meng Qiu stretched out his finger, released the confinement spell, and asked, "Are you from the Mang Mountain Ghost Kingdom? Tell me, why are you arbitrarily kidnapping people?"

The demon stopped being frightened, looked at the other party secretly, and said: "The immortal came from somewhere else, maybe he doesn't know much about the situation of this generation.

A few years ago, the Underworld Sage and the Celestial Master had already agreed that in this area, the imperial court governs the day and the ghost kingdom governs the night.

As for the man and woman just now, they left the territory marked by the village and town in the middle of the night and landed in the countryside. They should have been disposed of by us at will. "

"Huh?" Meng Qiu was a little strange, and asked: "There is still this rule, can you tell me what is going on in detail?"

"I don't know much about it." The demon bent down and said cautiously: "I only know that more than ten years ago, this place was originally under the jurisdiction of the ghost country. Suddenly one day, the underworld sage ordered that we are not allowed to come and go during the day, and we are not allowed to enter the village within one mile at night.

At that time, there were very few people here, and there was an urgent shortage of flesh and soul for refining treasures. Many companions I knew were unwilling and secretly sneaked into big towns to collect ghosts.

I thought it was done in a concealed manner, but I didn't want them all to be discovered afterwards. Ming Sheng was merciless, and grabbed them all and put them in the demon banner, obliterating his mind.

At that time, many people were terrified, and then they gradually got news from living people, saying that the imperial court had dispatched a celestial master with profound magic power, who had negotiated such a condition with Ming Sheng. "

"Isn't the imperial court always able to recruit some low-level monks who have lost their way forward? When did such a powerful person come into being? It is not easy for this celestial master to force Xu Wan, the sage of the underworld, to bow his head."

Meng Qiu thought for a moment, then asked: "More than ten years ago, the millions of mortals in this place were arrested by the Underworld Sage to serve as Yin soldiers. Why is it that not long ago, and there are people everywhere again? Don't you really follow the rules so that you don't scare them away?"

The demon said: "Millions of mortals have indeed disappeared in a short period of time. Many people know about it, and it has been spread by word of mouth.

In addition, the ferocity of this place is not worse than back then.Although we can't enter the town, there are heretic cultivators everywhere here, helping us to seduce mortals to go out at night, or simply draw out their souls and trade them. "

Speaking of this, the demon smiled wryly, and said: "But seniors don't know, I heard that the imperial court felt that there was a disaster here, so they exempted [-]% of the tax for ordinary people here.

With just this small benefit, within ten years, the place was filled with mortals who came from all directions, and people planted land to open up wasteland everywhere.

After all, being more cautious, living in a village or town does not necessarily mean you will die; while in other places, a little more excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes can kill your family. "

"The common people are more afraid of heavy gifts than evil ghosts." Meng Qiu was silent, and after a long time sighed, he said: "A tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger! The sages are sincere and do not deceive me."

The demon nodded accordingly, with a look of sympathy.

Meng Qiu's heart moved, and he asked, "Do you know where Xu Wan, the sage of the underworld, is? Where is that ghost girl, Qiao Qiao?"

The monster's body shook, and the orthodox cultivator who dared to call the holy name of the underworld was determined to be a man of the heavens and the earth.

He bent even lower, and said: "Immortal, forgive me. I'm just a young man on a tour, how can I know the whereabouts of the leader and the princess."

"Then what's the use of you?" Meng Qiu flicked out a lightning bolt, about to kill him.

"Immortal, spare me!" The demon yelled loudly, shook the ghost fork, and saw a bloody light rise up, turned into more than seven or eight cold flames to meet him, and continued:
"I'm also a commoner here. I suffered misfortune more than 20 years ago, and thousands of my compatriots were trained to become ghosts by the Underworld Sage. The immortals spare me!"

The thunder light didn't stop, it crashed into the cold flames, and there were a few crackling sounds, the flames disappeared, and it didn't stop, hitting the ghost fork raised by the demon.

With a bang, an electric light flashed on the ghost fork, and it immediately changed from pitch black to slightly grayish gray.

Meng Qiu said: "Look at the fork in your hand, there are more than a dozen human lives. Since you are also a human being, why do you want to kill your compatriots?"

The demon hurriedly threw the iron fork on the ground, plopped down on his knees, and argued: "Although I used to be a human, I have turned into a ghost now, and I am no longer a compatriot with humans.

They are not of the same clan, and in accordance with the rules set by Mingsheng and Tianshi, it is only natural for me to kill them. "

Meng Qiu sneered: "You are not human, but I am. I am strong and you are weak, so killing you is only right and proper."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to defend, he flicked his fingers again, and a bolt of thunder fell on the monster's body, and with a single snap, his body and spirit were wiped out.

After killing the demon, Meng Qiu was about to leave, but suddenly sensed that something happened not far away. The boy and girl who had been let go just now were stopped by a demon again.

He couldn't help getting angry, released the Qingxuan sword, and struck from a distance, taking the life of the demon three miles away.

Now that he was in charge, he might as well be a good man to the end and escort them closely behind, but there was a ghost blocking the way, so he took the first step to arrest them without saying a word.

However, in a short distance of more than ten miles, until the two of them entered the town, they encountered five ghosts one after another, and one of them was wandering outside the town, as if waiting for a rabbit.

Meng Qiu put them all in a bag, brought them back to the forest just now, dragged them out, and tortured them one by one.

After questioning, it turned out that this group of ghosts were all among the millions of people who were harmed by the Underworld Saint Xu Wan more than 20 years ago.

Back then, the people in this place were deceived, and they went to Mount Mang in groups, and they were tortured when they were alive, until the vitality of their bodies was cut off, and then they escaped and became ghosts.

Those who couldn't bear it dissipated into the world; those with good qualifications had long served in the Yin army, or became the leaders of various places;

All the ghosts are the same word, and this area is thousands of miles away. After more than ten years of evolution, humans and ghosts have already coexisted.During the day it is a human world, at night it becomes a kingdom of ghosts.

Even if Meng Qiu wanted to change, there were tens of thousands of wandering souls. It would be too slow for him to catch them all by himself. It would be better to get rid of the bottom line and deal with Xu Wan directly, once and for all.

It's a pity that he spent several nights, captured more than a hundred ghosts, and tortured them repeatedly, but none of them knew the movements of Xu Wan and the ghost girl Qiaoqiao.

On this day, Meng Qiu was about to give up, and went directly to Mang Mountain, shouting in front of him, when suddenly the sky darkened, revealing a different ghost from before.

This ghost still had a skinny and pale face, but his body was already covered with silk clothes, and the law enforcement weapon in his hand had turned into a two-foot-long hemp banner, with strangely patterned monster charms painted on it, blood-stained.

Seeing Meng Qiu, he yelled: "I am a lieutenant colonel of the ghost army. These days, you are a Taoist. You don't follow the rules. You kill ghost soldiers at will here, and disturb the things that Mingsheng told you?"

Before he finished speaking, he shook the magic weapon, and a green firefly-like firefly flew up from the streamer, and immediately the dark wind roiled, and there were many ghostly shadows.

On each point of the green firefly, there is a ferocious ghost head, which is as big as a skip, in various shapes and shapes, and is very fierce, with bloody mouths open, teeth overlapping, making all kinds of terrible ghost whistles, and flying forward like raging waves.

Meng Qiu stood still, waiting for the ghost qi to come to him, he also felt the cold qi encroaching on his muscles.Then he flicked his long sleeves, a clear light flew out, and he rushed forward to intercept the ghost head.

After looking up and down, the realm is still only practicing Qi, so he said: "Are you the leader of these people? Then you must know Xu Wan's whereabouts. Tell me where he is, and I will kill you faster, so as not to suffer from the fire."

Seeing him lightly catching the blow from his own magic weapon, the demon ghost couldn't help being suffocated by fierce flames, but he believed that the ghost body was different from others.

Before the other party finished speaking, he was furious again, let out a stern whistle, and shook the demon flag in his hand again and again, hundreds of evil spirits trained with fierce souls breathed out green flames, gritted their teeth and stuck out their tongues.

Meng Qiu smiled softly: "Forget it, if you don't say anything, then I'll kill more and force him out."

If you hit the small ones, the big ones will come, and if you hit the big ones, the old ones will naturally come back.

He shook his hands and shot out two divine thunders, one fell into the evil spirit, the other galloped to the edge of the evil spirit, they both exploded, but there was a flash of lightning, followed by a loud explosion, the place was suddenly empty, as if there had never been anything else.

(End of this chapter)