Cultivation of Immortality: Start by Improving Spiritual Root Qualifications

Chapter 889: The plan is made, Li takes the place of Tao!
Soon, the carriage slowly approached.

Zhou Xun's eyes narrowed slightly, and his consciousness swept over quietly, and he was shocked.

The aura of the person in the sedan chair was only that of a third-grade upper-grade person, which seemed inconsistent with the reputation of the Ghost King of the Holy Hall in the rumors.

However, before he could think about it carefully, there was a commotion in front of him.

I saw the Black Bone King stride forward, and the white bone armor collided with each other, making a crisp sound.
He walked straight to the sedan chair, bowed slightly, and spoke with a rare hint of respect:

"Greetings, Lord Blood Moon King!"

The group of ghosts behind him all knelt down with their heads lowered, as if even their breathing had stopped.

The curtain of the sedan chair moved without wind, and a bloody figure stepped out slowly.

The man was thin, wearing a dark red robe, his face was as pale as paper, only his eyes were shining with an eerie red light, as if there was a sea of ​​blood surging.

He raised his hand slightly, his voice hoarse but revealing an unquestionable majesty:

"No need to be so polite, brother."

"Brother?" Zhou Xun was stunned.

This Blood Moon King is actually the Blood Bone King’s younger brother!
What was strange was that the Blood Bone King, a dignified fourth-rank ghost king, was now half a step behind, with a respectful attitude, and was led by the Blood Moon King.

It seems that the status of the Holy Temple in the ghost clan is indeed extraordinary.
"In this case, the fact that the disciples of the Holy Hall can contact the Holy Mountain is most likely true!"

Zhou Xun had some ideas about the next plan.

At this time, the Blood Moon King walked slowly and calmly towards the city. Wherever he passed, wisps of black mist seeped out of the ground and condensed into a lotus-shaped phantom, which then dissipated in the gloomy wind in an instant.

The Blood and Bone King followed closely behind, and they finally entered the city together.

After the two ghost kings and their subordinates all entered the city, Zhou Xun and others set off again.

"This is the power of the Ghost King, it's really shocking!" Zhou Xun sighed.

"Lord Heifu is very powerful, and he will definitely advance to the level of Ghost King in the future!" Yin Jiu flattered.

"Then I'll take your good words, haha!" Zhou Xun smiled heartily.

Soon, the caravan arrived at the city gate.

There are two teams of ghost guards here. The leader is wearing bone armor and his cultivation has reached the upper level of the second level, which is no lower than Zhou Xun at this time.

"stop!"

The leading ghost general shouted coldly and blocked the caravan's way with the bone spear in his hand.

His scarlet eyes scanned everyone, and his gaze lingered on Zhou Xun's disguised "Hei Fu" for a moment. His nose moved slightly, as if he was sniffing something.

Yin Jiu hurried forward and said with an apologetic smile, "Sir, we are from the Yin's Chamber of Commerce in Holy Axe City. We have come specially to deliver the offerings for the lords in the city."

"Shut up!" The Skeleton-Armored Ghost General interrupted.
"The city lord has ordered that all people entering the city must be strictly checked. Let me check them carefully!"

"Sir, wait a minute!" Yin Jiu suddenly shouted, and took out a heavy cloth bag from his arms. The bag was slightly opened, revealing the holy coins inside that glowed dimly.
"This is a small token of our appreciation. Please give us some convenience."

The Bone Armor Ghost General's eyes lit up and his expression became much better:
"It turns out to be the Yin's Chamber of Commerce. They are an old friend of our Bloodbone City. Let's go in!"

The caravan slowly entered the city. Zhou Xun sent a message: "How dare these devils ask for bribes so blatantly?"

Yin Jiu heard this and responded:

"It is rumored that most of the Blood Bone King's resources are used to support the Blood Moon King's cultivation. The soldiers under his command are not able to provide enough food, so he allowed them to raise their own food and wages!"

Hearing this, Zhou Xun couldn't help but sigh.
Unexpectedly, this kind of bribery objectively exists, whether in the past life or this life, in the world of immortals or in the world of ghosts!

Soon, as the team entered, the entire city was in sight.
The scenery of Blood Bone City is completely different from that of the cities in the human world. The streets are paved with gray-white stones, and the buildings on both sides are shaped like the skulls of giant beasts.
Dried heads of ghost beasts are hung under the eaves.

There were translucent resentful souls floating in the air, wailing silently, but they were imprisoned by the blood-colored runes on the city wall and could not escape.

Yin Jiu, the manager of the caravan, approached Zhou Xun and whispered, "Master Heifu has just arrived in Bloodbone City, so why not stay at our Yin's Trading Company for a while? The Soul Devouring Ceremony will be held soon, and the Holy Hall will select ghost generals at that time. This may be helpful to you, Master."

His face was gray, and the poisonous black lines had spread to his neck, but he still forced himself to please.

Zhou Xun pretended to ponder, but his peripheral vision locked onto the back of the Blood Moon King in the distance, and he said calmly: "Okay, that's troublesome!"

"It's our pleasure!"

For chambers of commerce like theirs, if they could make friends with some experts, their business would be much safer.

The Blood Moon King and the Blood Bone King stepped into the palace located in the center of the Blood Bone City one after another.
The palace door closed silently behind them.
The dome in the hall is more than twenty feet high.
Hundreds of skulls were hung above, with ghostly green flames dancing in their eye sockets, making the entire hall look eerie and terrifying.

Dark red lines can be vaguely seen on the animal bone tiles on the ground.

"Brother, I have been ordered to come back this time to hold the Soul Devouring Ceremony. In addition to selecting four third-level ghost kings to enter the outer hall,"

"I still need to recruit twenty second-level ghost generals as followers. When I am promoted to the fourth level in the future, they will follow me to various places in the town."

The Blood and Bone King stood at the bottom of the stairs, his voice as dull as thunder:
"It's just a second-level soldier, why bother with so much? It's better to directly recruit them from the city guards..."

"No!" Blood Moon King suddenly interrupted, his eyes blazing with blood.
"What I want is a fierce wolf that can devour its master and seize the throne, not a lackey that wags its tail and begs for mercy. How can those useless people who take bribes and embezzle money leave the town?"

He raised his hand and a picture suddenly appeared in the air, and the scene of the ghost general demanding bribes at the city gate just now suddenly emerged!
Blood Bone King looked at these scenes with an embarrassed expression.
"This is not to support your practice!"

"Then let's do it my way."

"Ten days later, a life and death platform will be set up in the city square." The Blood Moon King showed a bloodthirsty look.
"The rules are as follows: two people fight each other, the winner lives, and the loser dies. The last twenty people standing will be the team I will lead in the future!"

A few days later, the news of the Soul-Eating Ceremony spread throughout the Bloodbone City like a plague.

On the street, the ghosts were whispering to each other.
"I heard that Lord Blood Moon King will be in charge of this ceremony personally. The winner will not only be able to enter the holy hall, but will also be rewarded with the 'Soul Devouring Pill'!" a ghost soldier whispered.

"Oh, you have to be alive to get it!" Another person sneered.
"The rules are 'The winner lives, the loser dies'. There's no chance to surrender. Anyway, I'm not going. I'll stay in this Blood and Bone City and live happily!"

Zhou Xun stood on the attic of Yin's Trading Company, looking solemnly at the life and death stage being built in the square in the distance.

"Master Heifu, this 'Soul Devouring Ceremony' is so cruel, why don't you stay in my Yin's Chamber of Commerce?"

"Our president likes masters like you the most. If we can get his support, we will have the opportunity to achieve the position of Ghost King in the future. There is really no need to work so hard!"

After spending a few days together, Yin Jiu got to know Zhou Xun's personality better and spoke more boldly.

Zhou Xun shook his head.

"If you lose your courageous and diligent heart, it will be impossible to become a ghost king. Besides, in my opinion, those people are nothing but chickens and dogs!"

Hearing this, Yin Jiu stopped persuading him.

Back to the room,

Zhou Xun scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense, and after confirming that no one was spying, he waved his sleeves and set up a soundproofing barrier.

Then take out the wooden sign.

"Buzz!"

Two figures suddenly appeared, they were Lu Changan and the Blood Demon Ancestor!

As soon as Lu Changan appeared, he frowned and said, "The ghost energy here... is stronger than last time."

The Blood Demon Patriarch grinned and licked his lips with his scarlet tongue: "Yes, it's a good place."

Zhou Xun said in a deep voice: "Two seniors, this is inside Blood Bone City, and the situation is now clear."

He quickly told the information he had obtained in the past few days.

"Holy Mountain?" Lu Changan muttered the name.

"If there really is a way out of the ghost world, it must be here!"

"So, Brother Zhou, what you mean is that you want to use the identity of the Blood Moon King's follower to enter the Holy Hall, and then take the opportunity to enter the Holy Mountain?" "Yes and no!" Zhou Xun continued:

"I plan to directly replace the Blood Moon King. I heard that the Holy Temple has obtained a place to go to the Holy Mountain for baptism!"

Lu Changan understood immediately.
Zhou Xun had done the same thing in order to obtain the Tianyuan Spirit Armor, and finally tricked him out. If it weren't for the Blood Demon Ancestor's knowledge,

The two sides are really going to fight to the death!

Hearing this, the Blood Demon Ancestor laughed loudly: "What a good plan of using a substitute for a dead person. You are very familiar with it!"

Zhou Xun has done this kind of thing several times!
"Although the Blood Moon King is only a third-grade upper-grade one, since he has been cultivated by the Holy Hall, he must have a life-saving trump card."

Lu Chang'an suddenly took out a bronze compass from his arms, on which was engraved the map of the twenty-eight constellations.

"This is the sealing disk I got back then. It can imprison all objects with spiritual power within a space!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, you have a fourth-order superior physique. By then, I will have sealed you and the Blood Moon King with this plate, and then I will capture it alive and take away all the treasures on it. This way, we will be safe!"

"With this treasure, great things can be expected!"

A few days later, a shrill bone flute sound suddenly came from outside the window.

Zhou Xun opened the window and saw a tide of ghosts surging on the street. Countless pale arms stretched out from the ground, holding up an altar made of skulls and slowly rising up.

In the center of the altar stood a three-meter-high bronze ghost gate, with sticky blood plasma oozing out from the crack of the gate.

"The life and death stage has opened ahead of time!" Yin Jiu rushed in in a panic.

"I just received news that the Blood Moon King wants to select followers!"

The sound of the bone flute became more and more shrill, and Zhou Xun followed the tide of ghosts to the square in the center of the city.

Yin Jiu shouted behind him: "My Lord, be careful, the altar will absorb the souls of the defeated!"

In the square, more than 600 ghost monks have gathered.

They have various shapes, some have bony spurs like swords, some have chains of rotten flesh wrapped around their bodies, and some even have multiple heads, which is really weird!

"All applicants, come forward!"

A general wearing a bronze ghost mask shouted.

He struck the ground with the bone staff in his hand, and hundreds of bloody cracks immediately appeared. A blood spider as big as a palm crawled out of each crack.

Zhou Xun took the one that belonged to him, and the number "A79" was clearly branded on the spider's abdomen.

"In the first round, there will be a free-for-all until there are only eighty people left on the stage!"

The ghost-faced general waved his bone staff with a grim smile, and four bone platforms suddenly rose from the ground of the square, each of which was engraved with a hideous ghost face totem.

More than 600 ghosts were led by the blood spiders and divided into four teams.

Group A, where Zhou Xun was, was driven to the high platform on the east side.

"start!"

Following an order, a blood-red light curtain suddenly descended from the sky above the platform.

Almost in an instant, the three ghost cultivators beside him were biting each other, and black blood spurted out from between their fangs.

Zhou Xun had no intention of taking action, so he dodged a few times and came to the corner.

At this moment, a bone knife stabbed from behind.

"You're looking for death, there's nothing I can do!"

Zhou Xun sneered, dodged to the side, and pretended to be flustered and swung his fist. The wind from his fist brushed the attacker's horn, but secretly injected a wisp of ghost energy into his meridians.

The ghost cultivator suddenly twitched all over and was split into two halves by the huge axe that came at him from the side.

The smell of blood made the ghosts even more violent.

Zhou Xun shuttled through the melee like a fish, and each move he made was just right to cause the other ghost cultivators to kill each other.

He caught a glimpse of the Blood Moon King leaning lazily on the bone handrail in the stands, watching the fight!

After a cup of tea,
"stop!"

The light curtain suddenly descended.

There were only twenty figures left on the platform.

Zhou Xun's robe was deliberately torn into several pieces, and his face was smeared with other people's black blood, making him look extremely embarrassed and not so eye-catching!

Soon the second round will begin, and they will fight against each other in pairs.
Each person will do it twice, and the final twenty winners will be decided.

The drawing of lots was done in front of the altar.

Blood oozed out of the bronze ghost gate, condensing into eighty blood cards. The card Zhou Xun grabbed had the words "Ghost Month" on it.
"Heifu vs. Guiyue!"

The Ghost-faced General's announcement is over.
A ghost walked out from the ghost group. He was nine feet tall, covered in blue-gray bone armor, with white bone spurs sticking out of his joints.

The most horrifying thing is that its head has three faces, and each face is laughing in a different tone.

"The Yaksha clan."

Gui Yue opened his arm, his palm cracked open, full of sharp teeth, "I will swallow your soul"

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Xun had already appeared behind him.

The right hand disguised as a ghost claw seemed to be pressing lightly on the opponent's back, but in fact it was secretly using the "shock" technique.

Guiyue's bone armor suddenly exploded, and his three faces twisted at the same time.

Zhou Xun took the opportunity to stab it in the head with a spear, killing it instantly!
Clear applause came from the stands. The Blood Moon King had sat up straight without anyone noticing, his scarlet eyes shining brightly.

"This guy is good!"

Soon, Zhou Xun ushered in the second game.
"Round three, Hei Fu versus Long Tuan!"

The opponent who came on stage this time was like an iron tower, more than two meters tall. He carried a huge bronze axe on his shoulder, with undried internal organs still hanging on the axe blade, which were obviously left over from the previous opponent!
"I'll use your skull for wine!"

When Long Tu'an's giant axe fell, Zhou Xun deliberately slowed down by half a beat.

The axe blew past the corner of his clothes, leaving a shallow wound.

The moment the black blood gushed out, Zhou Xun suddenly jumped up, and pointed his hands out like a butterfly flying through flowers.
"Boom!"

Long Tuan's huge body suddenly stiffened and he fell to the ground!

Then he was terrified and begged for mercy:
"Spare my life, I admit defeat, I surrender!"

Zhou Xun showed no mercy.

From the rules designed by the Blood Moon King, we know that he is an extremely bloodthirsty person.

What's more, they are facing the ghost tribe.
He immediately stabbed the spear in his hand into Long Tuan's brain, killing him with one strike again!
After doing all this, he clasped his fists towards the stands and said, "I was lucky."

The whole place was dead silent.

The Blood Moon King stood up slowly, the corners of his robe moving without wind.

"Interesting, what's your name?"

"Heifu."

"Very good, you are selected. In three days, follow me back to the temple!"

(End of this chapter)