Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 24: The evil forces attack the mountain and counterattack
Late at night, Chixin Watch.

A young and handsome Taoist was lying on a rattan chair, reciting Taoist scriptures under a lamp.

The scriptures flow in my heart, so even when I face life and death, I remain calm and at peace, and I am not startled by the changes.

There is a chessboard on the ground next to the Taoist's rattan chair.

At this moment, it is not the black and white chessboard that is fighting each other, but the gold, silver and brass heavenly soldiers and generals who are fighting in formation and practicing tactics.

After refining the Bag of Hundred Ghosts, combined with the power of thousands of lights in Ishihara County, the fusion of yin and yang, the Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals Technique was almost at the peak of its powers.

Now there are not only two golden-armored divine generals and forty-seven silver-armored heavenly soldiers, but also four hundred and forty-one bronze-armored war ghosts behind the silver-armored heavenly soldiers.

This is the limit of this spell, but it is not the limit of the ghost soldiers and souls in the Chixin Temple. There are more than a thousand ghost soldiers in the bag of a hundred ghosts alone. After all of them are transformed, the 441 bronze-armored war ghosts have half more reinforcements, and there are even some left.

What's more, after the Chixin Taoist temple was established, the entire temple naturally began to attract wandering ghosts from all around to gather.

In fact, this is one of the normal ways for Taoist temples to receive evil spirits, instead of converting them all at once in water and land Taoist temples like in Lucheng.

Tao follows nature, and Lu Cheng's conversion had some meaning of verifying with force.

Although there is still some soul left, the divine power is not enough to keep the heavenly soldiers and generals visible for long. The current state of excitement consumes the inner strength of the temple and cannot be sustained.

However, Lu Cheng did not think that those casual cultivators in Southern Border could understand this mysterious magic, and would have too much patience to wait - Chen Qingfeng could not understand the key points, and even if there were Foundation Establishment Realm Gu Masters, the relevant Taoist knowledge accumulation might not be enough.

"Master, I see the light in your room is still on. I cooked you a bowl of hot noodle soup and sent one to Chen Xianshi first."

At this time, the voice of woman He Lan was heard outside the door.

"Manager He, please send it in."

After a series of hard battles, Lu Cheng's magic power has been purified a lot, his meridians have expanded, his spiritual awareness has improved, and the burden on his internal organs is no longer as heavy as before, so Lu Cheng can now eat normally. Although he is not hungry, the hot soup egg noodles cooked by Manager He Lan tastes very good.

If you feel tired of reading at midnight, you must try it.

Because he predicted that the local monks nearby would not give up after the battle of Shilipo, Lu Cheng had clearly told the local people "not to go to Chixin Temple to burn incense in the next two months". At the same time, he also sent the maids and boys in the temple back home temporarily, and suspended classes in the temple.

But He Lan refused to leave. She held her two children and said that she would rather die in the temple.

Lu Cheng knew that she was afraid, so he dug a cellar in a remote place in the temple and asked He Lan to take Gousheng and Erya to hide in the cellar at night to avoid being affected by the upcoming battle.

He shone the red divine light from his palm on the egg noodles and found no reaction to the poison, so Lu Cheng picked up his chopsticks and started to eat heartily:

Green and white chopped green onions, two plump poached eggs, and noodles with sesame oil. Eating this bowl of noodles when you are tired of reading late at night can really cure three thousand heart ailments.

Lu Cheng finished his meal with a huff and drank the noodle soup as well. Then he put the bowl on the table beside him. Seeing that He Lan had not left, he looked worried.

The young Taoist thought about it for a moment and knew what was going on.

So, he said in a gentle and comforting voice:
"Manager He, don't worry, the matter will be resolved within the next seven days. After this battle, you can have a good rest for a while."

After this battle, there should be few cultivators left among the nearly hundred years of cultivators accumulated within dozens of miles of Shiyuan County. The matter is of course over. As for how the Gushen Cult will react afterwards, that is not something He Lan needs to worry about. Even Lu Cheng himself is far away from that level.

"It is our Xu family who has caused trouble for you, Master. We, the Xu family, will never be able to repay your kindness even if we work like slaves for you."

He Lan felt relieved when she heard this, and then she started crying and knelt down to kowtow.

Lu Cheng was too lazy to get up, so he asked her to kowtow a few times to make herself feel better, then he waved his hand and sent her back to her room to sleep.

"You don't understand. The way of cultivation and the path to longevity are ultimately the way of self. One must look inside oneself. Not to mention that I have this much magical power in this world, even if I were in that world, in my own country, I would still be brave enough to do what is right and I would do my best to save two innocent children. It doesn't make sense that after traveling through time, I would end up going back in time."

After talking to himself, Lu Cheng continued to read the Taoist scripture in his hand, combining the insights and experiences of his previous life to form his own understanding of Taoism.

After reading the book and combining it with the memories of his previous life, Lu Cheng vaguely felt that there seemed to be a gap in the history of this world and even the history of the immortal cultivation world. It seemed that something major happened many years ago, which made the immortal cultivation world at that time completely different from the immortal cultivation world now.

On the other side, in the forest at night, the remnants of the four main families of Li, Tu, Zou and You were taking out what little money and property they had left to entertain the wandering cultivators from southern Xinjiang who had gathered from within a radius of dozens of miles.

Further south of the Southern Xinjiang Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty's border government is the country of a hundred thousand mountains. The most powerful sects there are the Gushen Sect and the Burning Wood Mountain Sect. There is no room for the survival of sects between the two major sects, so there are mostly independent cultivators. At most, they are from very small sects, or family inheritances. The number of people will not be too large otherwise they cannot be supported.

"Hahahahaha."

A disheveled woman ran out from the shadows in the forest and tried to escape, but she was quickly caught up and pinned down, with loud laughter coming from all around.

Wine, meat, and women are all the remnants of the four main families, Li, Tu, Zou, and You, can offer now. Without the presence of cultivators from their own families, these former local dignitaries can only allow those wandering cultivators to humiliate their wives, sisters, and daughters, and they dare not say a word or get angry.

The young, beautiful and sexy Li Qing was also targeted, but she was a cultivator herself and had her senior brother Zou Hu always by her side. Those young cultivators who practiced evil methods did not dare to really take any action for a while, but their glances seemed to have stripped Li Qing naked.

"Can these people really help us break through Chixin Temple?" Zou Hu asked with a frown beside Li Qing.

"Let's bear with it for now. They are also helpers. Even if they can block the sword light of the demon, it will be good. What we really rely on is that old man Ruan and that Taoist Zuo. Their cultivation is not inferior to Master. Together with the Gu King, we will definitely be able to break through the Red Heart Temple and take back Shiyuan County."

While whispering, Zou Hu and Li Qing both looked towards the chief in the forest.

"Humph, I was thinking of finding an opportunity to fight with Li Laogui again, but I didn't expect him to die so soon. I actually have to avenge him with my own hands. Life is really unpredictable."

The person sitting at the head of the forest was a gaunt old man with sunken eyes and a green glow in his eyes.

I saw that this person had a head full of short gray hair that was stuck together in clumps. Around his neck he wore a necklace made of a dozen pieces of translucent amber. Each piece of translucent amber contained a spider, scorpion, giant mosquito or other insect, giving people a weird and ominous feeling.

Next to him sat a young girl in armor, pouring wine for him. Behind him, in the forest, stood rows of nearly two hundred men and women wearing masks with talisman cloths and holding talisman-wrapped long swords. However, these men and women looked dull, as if they were not alive.

Ruan Cai, a talented Gu Master from Southern Xinjiang, has been competing with Li Jiuyou since he was young. However, his tribe, apart from some ancestral Gu techniques, does not have the Taoist Qi training and corpse refining techniques like the Li family. Therefore, he lost more than he won in the early battles with Li Jiuyou.

Later, people like Tu Hong, You Pozi, and Zou Shepo gathered around Li Jiuyou. Together, they controlled the population of more than 5,000 households in Shiyuan County and enjoyed their support as they pleased. Ruan Cai could only survive with his tribe in the miasma-filled mountains.

But when Li Jiuyou was alive, he also admitted that Ruan Cai was a genius in the art of witchcraft. If he had not learned more profound skills from his family, he would probably not be his opponent.

In recent years, Zou Shepo heard that this person, in order to practice witchcraft, led his people to massacre another tribe in the mountains. It seemed that they were the half-Witch, half-human creatures behind.

Combine a living person with a Gu worm. The Gu worm will no longer bite back easily after being fed with the blood and essence of the person. With the blessing of the Gu worm, the person will be extremely powerful and will ignore the pain. Add to that the long sword weapon with the talisman attached...

Thinking of the Black Centipede King hiding in the jungle behind her, Zou Shepo felt a little relieved.

The blue-robed Taoist sitting next to Ruan Chai is a wandering Taoist named Zuo. He has not taken action yet, but since he can hang out with Ruan Chai, he is obviously not a good person.

"Three days later, we will attack the mountain together and capture the Chixin Temple. The Taoist's body will belong to you, Master Ruan, and his books will belong to you, Taoist Zuo. As for us, we only want Shiyuan County."

The Taoist priest of Chixin Temple was a disciple of the ancestor of Huoyun Mansion. The scattered cultivators from Southern Xinjiang who were around him did not know about this, but the two in front of them knew it. Otherwise, after taking over Chixin Temple, how could these two be willing to leave?

"Master Chi Shen Zi, I have already heard of his legend before I entered the Dao. It's a pity that I have to fight with his disciples now. If it weren't for the fact that I, Zuo Yin Fu, don't have a good Taoist inheritance and my skills have reached a bottleneck, I really don't want to do this."

The blue-robed Taoist priest surnamed Zuo at the banquet twisted his beard with his hands. If he had not held a white-haired girl in his arms at this moment, he would have really seemed to be a complete Taoist, devoted to Taoism. Zou Shepo, Ruan Cai, and Zuo Yinfu all spoke in a low voice, and set up restrictions around them. After the battle three days later, some people would always be left behind for the sword cultivators of Huoyun Mansion to kill. Now, the wandering cultivators from Southern Xinjiang who were enjoying themselves while drinking were the best sacrifices.

In addition, the Li, Tu, Zou, and You families can also send out some more people to be killed by the cultivators of Huoyun Mansion. Anyway, in addition to the main lineage, many branches of the four families also stayed in Shiyuan County and accepted the benefits given by Lu Cheng.

In the eyes of the four main families, this was tantamount to betrayal.

…………

Three days passed in a flash.

Seeing that no more independent cultivators came to share a piece of the pie, Zou Shepo and Ruan Cai immediately decided to besiege Chixin Temple, as any delay would lead to changes.

Three nights later.

A group of evil cultivators and a group of armed disciples from the four sects came to the outside of Chixin Temple. For some reason, they felt that this dilapidated Taoist temple in front of them was extremely disgusting and an eyesore.

This is a matter of course. How can someone who likes to go out at night like to visit the temple of the Red Heart God?
"Burn it clean with fire, so we won't get ambushed when we go in."

"on!"

"Master Ruan, please wait."

Many of the independent cultivators from southern Xinjiang who came with them did not have much magical power, but they had committed many murders and arson.

Now when they heard that there was a place where they could be used, they all flew there enthusiastically.

"The Fire God's Flame Curse!"

A man with a red scarf tied on his forehead was holding a torch. He chanted some incantations and used his magical power to spray the torch.

call.

Like a fire dragon, a large flame flew out and crashed into the dilapidated Taoist temple in the night.

Some people even lit torches and threw them inside.

"what!"

The man with a red scarf on his forehead was breathing fire when suddenly a powerful arrow carrying a ray of golden light shot straight into his mouth and out through his neck.

The man fell to the ground with his head raised, without being able to cast any other spells.

At the same time, the fire dragon that was about to fall into the Taoist temple was extinguished silently. The torches thrown into the Taoist temple also went out naturally after burning for a while.

At the same time, a scarlet fire and thunder domain rose from the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple below is in tatters and has not been renovated for many years. It is a small temple with only a few dilapidated houses on four walls. However, the Dharma domain that supports it is magnificent, with glazed roof tiles, carved corridors and murals, pavilions, towers, and exquisite rockery. It is solemn and magnificent, and the atmosphere is gorgeous like the residence of immortals.

Li Meng, dressed in golden armor, stood in the middle of the pavilion, holding a bow and drawing an arrow. The sharp arrow that just killed the man who cast the fire spell was shot by him.

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

Ruan Cai waved his hand angrily, and the group of poisonous people he led started to rush towards the Taoist temple in front of them with long swords in hand.

Although the projection of the magic domain in the air is magnificent, the foundation stone underneath is just a dilapidated Taoist temple after all. If it is demolished, the illusion will be broken.

"Unfortunately, I haven't yet mastered the arrow formation with my Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals Technique. Otherwise, your Gu people would not be enough for me to kill with two waves of arrow rain."

It takes more than a day or two to learn archery, especially after becoming a ghost, the learning ability is greatly reduced. The reason why Li Meng is good at archery is because he was the best hunter in the vicinity when he was alive.

Two hundred Gu masters, who were extremely powerful and ignored their injuries, rushed into the temple by knocking on the door or climbing over the wall. A group of golden, silver and bronze lights gathered and appeared. Tu Nuhu led the heavenly soldiers in silver and bronze armor, roaring and fighting with the Gu masters.

On one side are the people who make Gu, who only obey the Gu master's orders and have no idea of ​​life or death.

On one side are the heavenly soldiers and generals blessed by divine magic, who are not afraid of life or death.

When a Gu master chopped down a bronze-armored heavenly soldier, two other bronze-armored heavenly soldiers would chop off his head with axes.

However, what spurted out from the broken part was not blood, but a frantically dancing poisonous centipede. It would continue to attack, bite one or two bronze-armored heavenly soldiers to death, and then be hacked to death by more bronze-armored heavenly soldiers.

The Taoist military techniques of both sides have reached the limit that can be achieved by cultivators in the Qi training realm. The problem is that the number of heavenly soldiers and generals is twice as many as that of the Gu people, and the silver-armored heavenly soldiers and gold-armored generals are much stronger than the bronze-armored heavenly soldiers.

"How is this possible? My two hundred Gu people can easily deal with a 2,000-man Tang Dynasty army. What's going on?"

Ruan Cai was obsessed with witchcraft all his life. He refused to believe that all his life's hard work could not break into a small Taoist temple.

Is it true that witchcraft is so much worse than the authentic magic of Xuanmen?
This is impossible.

This is absolutely impossible!
"Old Ruan, we don't have to fight him head-on. This Taoist temple is not big. If he takes care of the front, he won't be able to take care of the back. Our people will attack from all sides. As long as we kill the person in charge of the formation, the formation will naturally break."

Zuo Yinfu was well aware of the power of his family's formation and was not surprised by the current battle situation. He came to Ruan Cai's ear and whispered this.

After receiving no response, he directly ordered his men to attack the Taoist temple.

"You have all seen the magic of the people in the temple. Let's attack the temple together. Everyone has a chance to snatch the martial arts manual of Huoyun Mansion. If I snatch it, you don't have to worry about it. But if you are lucky enough to get it, you can come to me to exchange it for elixirs to improve your martial arts or other items you want. I just need to copy a copy of the manual."

Originally, seeing how powerful the magic of the abbot of Chixin Temple was, many people around had already considered retreating.

But when Zuo Yinfu stood up and said these words to everyone, everyone present became excited at once.

Who among those who practice magic doesn’t want to increase their power? Who doesn’t want to live forever?
It’s just that there is no such opportunity on ordinary days. Now that the opportunity is in front of us, it seems that we should fight for it even if it costs our life!
Zuo Yinfu saw the fanatical expressions on the faces of the crowd and nodded secretly. Then he waved his hand and led everyone to surround the entire Chixin Temple from all sides, waiting for orders to attack together.

"kill!"

On the other side, the battle between the heavenly soldiers and the Gu people and the armed disciples of the four families who came later also entered a stalemate.

The second-order, medium-grade Yimu Xuanguan Formation set up by Chen Qingfeng absorbed the wood energy of the surrounding mountains and forests and pushed it into the Chixin Temple's Taoist temple, adding fuel to the fire and thunder domain, increasing its power.

However, in order to regain their family property, the descendants of the four main families, Li, Tu, Zou and You, also gave their all this time. They prepared a lot of black dog blood and boy's urine and poured them on Tu Nuhu, Zou Xiong, Zou Yong and other heavenly soldiers and generals. It was like encountering concentrated sulfuric acid. Many of the heavenly soldiers and generals had their bodies corroded, revealing half of their skull-like faces, but they still fought bravely and did not retreat.

People in southern Xinjiang are good at nourishing yin, and knowing this knowledge can be considered as self-healing of long-term illnesses, but that’s all they are.

Yin spirits are restrained by black dog blood and boy's urine. Lu Cheng's Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals Method is essentially a method to control ghosts, but Chixin God is a fire and thunder god, and his divine power naturally has a yang and warm aura, which greatly enhances the resistance of Tu Nuhu, Zou Xiong, and Zou Yong to this type of resistance.

On the contrary, the evil soldiers, at the cost of refining living people half to death, gained immense strength and the ability to ignore pain, but reduced their own blood and spirit to the lowest level, and were naturally restrained by the Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals' method, not to mention that this was their home ground.

As time went by, more and more casualties were suffered by the evil poisonous soldiers and the children of the four families.

(End of this chapter)