Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 356: Catching Corpses (Sorry, dear readers, I caught a cold yesterday. Please take care of your health)

Changing customs and practices, replacing earth burial with sky burial, does bring many benefits. It not only allows the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace to raise a large number of poisonous insects, but also cuts off the possibility of many demon cultivators stealing corpses and refining zombies.

But everything has its pros and cons. This custom spread to the common people. Many landlords and officials, after donating money to temples and Taoist temples, would often ask the temples to sky bury the bodies in nearby mass graves, based on the principle that the money had already been spent. This would not only avoid the occurrence of plagues, but also accumulate merits for themselves.

The temple priests and Taoist priests of loyal temples in various places would often agree to this request because of the large amount of incense donations.

Today, the temple paid some idle men to dig out many corpses from the mass grave and sent them to the temple for the sky burial ritual.

The golden silkworm Gu is the most vicious insect in the world. The most feral ones do not eat vegetarian food, but only meat. They even want the freshest blood, like a ghost or a demon.

If mortals dare to feed these golden silkworm Gu their rotten corpses, they would not mind using those mortals as blood sacrifices or blood food.

However, the number of golden silkworm Gu raised by Lu Cheng was too large, and they were distributed all over the world in batches. There were always those who were already old or had a strong taste and liked to taste this.

It’s similar to how ordinary people like to eat dirty things, such as pig intestines and offal.

In essence, the taste buds on the tongue gradually degenerate with age, and if you want to taste delicious food, you need stronger stimulation.

The golden silkworm Gu that is refined with the Yinshan Patriarch's method will basically not have this problem, because the poisonous golden silkworms in the swarm are old and will be eaten by other Gu worms if they fly a little slower, thus keeping the swarm young forever.

Unless Lu Cheng had the intention to kill, he would always follow the principle of leaving a way out for everything. He would rather reduce the combat effectiveness of the insect swarm than use this method to stimulate potential. The entire golden silkworm Gu was undergoing normal metabolism of new and old.

Those poisonous insects with strong taste and slow flying speed do not mind sky burying these decaying corpses.

"At that time, the Heavenly Venerable Savior of Suffering filled the ten directions, and with his mighty power, he rescued all living beings from their lost paths. Living beings were unaware of this, like a blind man seeing the sun and the moon..."

The temple priest, with several disciples behind him, dressed in robes, chanted the "Wonderful Sutra for the Salvation of Suffering" during the ceremony. After the sky burial is over, they will also light firewood for the final purification.

But this time, something seems unusual.

"Master, Master, look!"

A young disciple watched the golden swarm of insects flying down and devouring the corpses. However, there was a corpse among which the swarm of insects did not fall. Golden poisonous insects were flying around, but there was nothing around the corpse.

The temple keeper was helped up by his disciple. He looked from a distance and was a little confused when he saw the corpse. After a moment, his face suddenly changed. He stretched out his hand to cover the disciple's eyes and said:

"Let's go, let's go quickly!"

"Master, shouldn't we light the firewood?"

"Be careful with your words, and leave quickly."

Until late at night, when the silver moon rose high in the sky.

The corpse suddenly opened its eyes, turned over and looked around at the mess and the piles of firewood.

As his palm turned slightly, a ball of black and red flame rose up.

The corpse demon originally wanted to set this place on fire, so it was normal for a temple to suddenly catch fire.

But after thinking for a moment, the ten-thousand-year-old corpse demon finally turned into a black rainbow, soared into the sky, and flew away.

This thousand-year-old corpse demon, which came from the Tianhai Cave Heaven, was hit by a sword from Taoist Tongxuan of Lucheng, which damaged its vitality. It originally just wanted to find a vein with enough Yin energy and corpse energy to recuperate and recover its vitality, but it didn't expect that the world would change and someone would dig it out again.

Because he was in the process of practicing martial arts at that time, the Wanzai Corpse Demon was not worried that mortals could harm his body, so he just lay there like a corpse, practicing his profound skills silently until the sky turned night and the moon was high in the sky.

"Changing customs? You're really fucking sick. If you don't bury people in peace, and then feed them to worms, will you be at peace?"

Wanzai Corpse Demon rode a black cloud, wandering in the sky and calculating, and soon found a secret ice cave in the ice and snow of the Far North.

"The power of the earth's Yin is concentrated here, and although the corpse energy is less, it is still useful."

Zombies are the sons of the earth, and the corpse monsters of thousands of years flew down and dived into the ice cave.

But soon, the corpse demon discovered traces of human monks' formations in the ice cave.

At the same time, inside the ice cave.

A Taoist priest in white clothes and an old man with white hair and eyebrows were pressing their hands together, exchanging their magic power and vital energy.

"Master, how are your internal injuries?"

If there were any mid- to high-level cultivators from the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace present here, they would be able to immediately recognize that the Taoist in white sitting cross-legged on the ice and snow was the third disciple of Huang Longzi, Master Ou Bai.

Just looking at his magical power and demeanor at this moment, it is obvious that his magical power has greatly improved.

"It's all right now, thanks to you for finding the Wanzai Yuying for me to rebuild my body. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to feel the pain even if I wanted to. Be careful!"

Suddenly, the Snow God old man's expression changed, he pressed his palm downwards, and the Huitian Bing Jue was suddenly activated.

A piece of light blue ice crystal instantly froze the master and disciple. The next moment, a monk in a tattered gray-black robe emerged from the ground and struck the light blue ice crystal with his palm. The ice crystal shattered into pieces with a loud bang, but it also removed most of the corpse palm power, allowing Ou Bai and Old Man Snow God to escape.

The black-robed monk who launched the sneak attack also revealed his face, which was half a face of dry bones and half a plump human face.

"Ok?"

The corpse demon didn't expect that his sneak attack would not kill a single human cultivator.

A cultivator in the early stage of Nascent Soul, a Dharmakaya Nascent Soul cultivator who achieved his success with the help of treasures, used the method of ice Taoism to perfection, and used magic power that was far inferior to his own to neutralize his attacks.

This is because the Wanzai corpse demon does not recognize the Old Snow God. In a sense, the Old Snow God is the Huang Longzi of the previous generation of the Tongxuan Realm.

He led the Snow God Palace and almost unified the magic world. Later, in pursuit of immortality, he placed his soul outside, and it has survived to this day until Ou Bai accidentally inherited the Snow God Palace's Taoist tradition.

In the era of Old Man Snow God, the accumulated Taoism in Tongxuan Realm was not enough to produce a Nascent Soul cultivator. Huang Longzi, who was born in his era, could only sigh helplessly.

The old Snow God was able to use the method of entrusting souls to survive until today, and finally trained disciples and refined their Nascent Souls. The difficulty of this was no less than that of Huang Longzi cultivating the first Nascent Soul of Tongxuan.

"Ahem, ahem... corpse demon?"

Ou Bai and Old Snow God flew backwards in the air. When they saw the Wanzai corpse demon, both of them looked a little ugly.

When you are at home, disaster may come from the sky. How could this unfathomable corpse demon be attracted inexplicably?

"Senior, do you want the spiritual energy of the Xuanyin earth veins here? If so, there is no need to take action at all. We can just retreat as master and disciple."

After a brief thought, the old Snow God said this with a salute.

"No need. Compared to the Xuanyin earth veins here, I am more interested in your Nascent Souls!"

It was at this moment that the Wanzai Corpse Demon had already advanced to a relatively close distance in his physical body, shrinking the distance to an inch, almost like a magical power of space.

The next moment, the fist shadows were like collapsing mountains, shocking people. The fist power was superimposed layer by layer, whistling down towards Ou Bai below. The momentum was so huge that the wind and snow were stirred up all around.

At the same time, in the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace thousands of miles away.

In front of Lu Cheng was a Qiankun bag with the ban already opened. Inside was a number of magic weapons and Taoist books. However, at this moment, Lu Cheng was playing with five small black arrows:

The nail-head arrow book is an extremely precious sixth-rank medium-grade rare treasure. Once the birth date, hair and nails fall into the hands of the owner, if the owner's spiritual consciousness is not enough or there is no magic weapon to protect the soul, he may die unclearly at any time.

Its real purpose is to be used by high-level monks to curse low-level monks. As long as the monk's Qi is obtained, even if they are tens or hundreds of millions of miles away, one arrow will kill their soul, and there is no way to dispel the spell, which will lead to certain death, unless the person who cast the spell can be quickly killed.

"There are still many restrictions. To obtain the other party's birth date or hair, nails and other possessions, the other party must not have any magic weapon to protect the soul. But it is still an extremely powerful special magic weapon." Jindan Zhenren's body is flawless and can control the growth and shedding of hair and nails all over the body. Unless it is like Master Huang Longzi, who uses it as a token of love, it is unlikely that even a Jindan Zhenren would have his hair and nails taken by others without knowing it.

At the same time, Taoist Xu was also certain that Huang Longzi would not have any precious sixth-level magic weapon to protect the soul. In fact, Huang Longzi did not have it.

At this moment, outside the palace, many golden fist-sized poisonous insects flew in like golden stars.

Hissing.

"...You guys, encountered a sixth-level corpse demon!?"

It is good to have some old guys in a tribe. At least, Lu Cheng can have simple communication with these old golden silkworm Gu. However, it is totally impossible with those young golden silkworm Gu. Their minds are full of simple and pure desires like eating, fighting, fighting, eating, etc.

In the far north, the vast ice field is covered in silver, a dazzling white.

The air was filled with a biting chill, as if even the breath could condense into ice.

The sixth-level talisman in Ou Bai's hand glowed with a sky-blue light, and the flying sword that seemed like an ice crystal drew lightning-like tracks in the air. The tip of the sword made a whistling sound, and it changed continuously and slashed down like lightning.

The old Snow God behind him closed his eyes and concentrated. The Huitian Bing Jue formed swirling air vortices around him. The cold air sometimes condensed into shields and sometimes dispersed into spears, protecting them from the evil aura of corpse demons.

Fortunately, the master and disciple have been together for hundreds of years, accumulated a deep friendship, and are able to help each other wholeheartedly. Otherwise, in this situation, if only one of them had other thoughts, they might have died at this moment.

"Roar!"

The Wanzai corpse demon practices both magic and body, so it is of course not easy to find a magic weapon suitable for it.

The violent roar echoed on the ice field. It used its claws, fists and elbows to counter Ou Bai's sword light. Ou Bai even had to avoid its sharp edge. The flying sword burst into cold flames during the violent collision.

"It's cultivating both the magic and the body, it's too fast, its attacks are too heavy, and it's a zombie, which is different from the Nascent Soul Body cultivators. The Nascent Soul Body cultivators at least have to worry about not being able to recover from internal and external injuries, but this corpse demon is going crazy and doesn't care about anything at all."

Such a thought flashed through Ou Bai's mind, and he suddenly threw the talisman into the ground. Rumbling, the glacier that rolled up into the sky was like a huge tsunami. It had a huge range, covered a wide area, and had great power. The spreading cold air could even freeze the soul.

However, the corpse demon that was the target was suddenly thrown into the ground.

The next moment, when it appeared, it was already behind Ou Bai and Old Snow God. Old Snow God suddenly turned around and slapped his palm, with an ice-blue rune on the palm of his hand.

The two palms hit each other, crack.

The right arm of the old Snow God suddenly broke, and even under the suppression of powerful magic power, several acupoints on his right arm exploded, spurting out gray-black poisonous blood.

However, the figure of the ten thousand year old corpse demon suddenly retreated in a blue light.

"Hahahaha, I want to see how many arms you still have left to break!"

The Wanzai Corpse Demon fell back and disappeared, laughing wildly. Its luck had not been good since it met the young Taoist priest. Now it had finally returned to the scene it was familiar with. As long as it devoured the Nascent Souls of the two people in front of it, its internal injuries could be recovered in a very short time.

The expression of the old Snow God seemed particularly solemn in the wind and snow. His spells were like a blizzard in a polar winter, ruthlessly devouring everything around him.

No matter if he is injured, has lost his mana, or anything else, the old Snow God can always exert his combat power to the highest level.

After living in the Snow Soul Pearl for so many years, his greatest gain is this heart of Taoism as pure as ice.

"Boy, I'm afraid we can't escape this time. I will use all my strength to activate the Return to Heaven Ice Art and trap this monster for some time. You try your best to escape to the direction of the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace. The Heaven and Earth Demon Palace is now the largest sect in Tongxuan, and they should be able to protect you.

If your escape method is fast enough, you may be able to bring in reinforcements to save me."

"..."

Ou Bai practiced Taoism under the tutelage of Huang Longzi in the Palace of Incarnation of Ten Thousand Beasts for decades. Later, he found the Snow Soul Pearl in the ruins of the previous Snow God Palace and inherited the legacy of the Snow God. He achieved the Nascent Soul stage when he was over 400 years old. Such talent and opportunity are rare in the world of immortal cultivation.

But at this moment, Ou Bai's teeth were gritting. After all these years of getting along, the two of them were both teacher and friend. Such a friendship far exceeded the relationship between many masters and apprentices, and fathers and sons in this world. He also knew that bringing back reinforcements was just an excuse for the old Snow God to make him leave decisively.

Once he escaped, the old Snow God would be left alone to face this ten-thousand-year-old corpse demon. It wouldn't take long for him to be killed.

"Okay, let's go!"

Just when the old Snow God was using all his magic power to restrain the ten-thousand-year-old corpse demon for a moment.

Ou Bai behind him suddenly flew up and swung his flying sword. The flying sword rolled up a violent sword force that covered half of the sky and earth like a polar storm, and pounced towards the corpse demon. The momentum was extremely terrifying!
"Ou Bai, you!?"

"Master, let's die here together today! This demon corpse has a lot of magical power. Without your guidance, I am not sure I can come back to seek revenge on it."

With the master and disciple working together and determined to fight to the death, they were unable to defeat the ten thousand year old corpse demon. It was at this time that they finally got the upper hand.

When the three of them had no time to pay attention, a faint golden light flickered in the sky in all directions.

Lu Cheng, Huang Longzi, Madam Baoxiang, the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger, except for the alchemy maniac Huo Xiu who holds a special status in the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace, it can be said that all the Nascent Soul True Lords are present.

At this moment, Lu Cheng waved the Samsara Banner in his hand, freezing the space between the square and the circle, entering the illusion, and hiding himself and others.

When the Wheel of Reincarnation Banner was still the Yin-Yang Banner, it already had the effect of a sixth-order invisibility talisman. Now, the power of this banner is growing day by day, and the power of Lu Cheng's Illusion Sun Technique is also increasing year by year as his spiritual cultivation level improves.

"Today, we must completely suppress this demon corpse no matter what. Otherwise, we will be trapped in the Demon Palace and unable to rest in peace."

"Yuhong, Yuxue, let the two of you take action first."

Madam Baoxiang has been living deep in the palace all this time. Although she doesn't like fighting, she seldom has the opportunity to do so. At this moment, she said this while holding a long red whip magic weapon.

"Yes, mother."

Sisters Xiao Yuhong and Xiao Yuxue took a step forward and each performed a spell to inject spiritual power into their own magic weapon, the Demon Refining Pagoda.

At this moment, the pagoda was rising in the wind, showing a grand and solemn appearance. In the two lowest pagodas, the Kuiniu Demon King and Taoist Xu were struggling and roaring, trying to escape from this treasure.

However, it was just a waste of effort. The Xiao sisters were already female fairies with excellent aptitude for cultivation. They also had the guidance and care of their parents and husbands, so they devoted themselves wholeheartedly to refining this pagoda.

Now the Demon Refining Pagoda can almost penetrate the Qi, so that the Qi of the demons in each floor of the tower can restrain each other. The more they struggle and exert their strength, the more demonic power and magic power will be invested in the pagoda, increasing the power of this magic weapon.

Of course, if the Demon Refining Pagoda is severely damaged in a fight with a master, it is not impossible to break the restriction and let them escape.

At the same time, on the ice and snow, the more the Wan Zai Corpse Demon fought, the more frightened he became. It was obvious that he already had an absolute advantage and could kill the master and disciple at any time. It was just a matter of paying a price. If he wanted to pay a smaller price, he could just keep on wasting time.

However, a shadow of impending disaster weighed on one's soul.

"No... this feeling is..."

Suddenly raising his head, Wanzai Corpse Demon saw a huge golden tower falling on his head, and the magic-refining light spread out, covering and suppressing him.

"Ah! Lu Cheng, you thief again!"

In the eyes of Wanzai Corpse Demon, all the treasures in the Tianhai Cave belong to him.

As a result, after Lu Cheng went there, all the spiritual inheritances in the seven demon tombs disappeared. How could it let Lu Cheng go?

Similarly, the cultivators of the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace also know very well how precious the seven primordial spirit inheritances are, so as to eliminate the Ten Thousand Years Corpse Demon as soon as possible, even if they let it leak these things, it would be a great harm to the Heaven and Earth Demon Palace.

Boom.

The instantaneous escape speed of the corpse demon who practiced both magic and body was astonishing. Although the attack from the Demon Refining Pagoda was unexpected, it was undoubtedly unable to cover it.

(End of this chapter)