Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 81 War Preparation
Three days later, in the afternoon, people started to come up the mountain. They all knew Xu Xianren's identity and behaved very respectfully. Feng Ji examined them one by one, asked each of them about their magical powers, and assigned them to teams.

Of course, it was not a team like the garrison troops, but something he came up with himself - everyone could see that Xu Xian was extremely angry, and he had asked people to go out and die one by one to explore the way out, just thinking of it as a joke, thinking that if he had figured out the methods of the demon in the cave, he could deal with it personally.

But now, seeing him meditating gloomily for the whole day, Feng Ji knew that he was serious. They couldn't defeat the demon just by lining up to die. These people had to work together.

Forming a pill is a hurdle that few people in the martial arts world can pass, not even Xu Xianren. The demon in the cave is probably as strong as him, or even weaker. He was injured before, and he doesn't have as many supplements as Xu Xianren. As long as we are well organized, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with him.

This lasted all night, and by the next morning, when the sun was just beginning to rise, there were more than fifty people on the mountain. Feng Ji had a good memory, and he checked them one by one, and finally found that the swordsman named Lao Guo had not returned.

He felt that the man was not brave enough to run away. Maybe he was delayed by something on the way, or he would return today. So he walked to Xu Xianren and stood two steps away. He said softly: "Master, most of the people are here. These people are probably the slightly famous people in the Jianghu near Deyang. If we look further up, we will have to look for the sects around Deyang. I think the immortal probably doesn't want the news to spread too widely. What do you think we should do now?"

After a while, Xu Xianren opened his eyes and exhaled.

He looked at the people in front of him quietly for a while, then touched the board in his sleeve and said, "The demon here is very clever. I guess his true form is a painted skin ghost, a kind of evil ghost."

"It was evening when we came to Ran Mountain. He has not left the cave for the past few days. There is no one around. It must be that his Taoism is not good enough and he is afraid of the sun. As you can understand, he is at the level of Qi Refining and has not yet formed a pill."

"This evil ghost is good at using chain knives and can send flying needles and stones, but he has used up all the flying needles. He has a magical power, which is to harm people with human skin, but he has to get close to them. He also has another magical power, which is to hide his body." He put his feet on the ground and stood up straight. "Now, many masters have gathered near Deyang, and they should all know my identity. I am in this state now because of the evil ghost. So, tell me what you plan to do. I only want one result - to keep him sane."

He was not as frivolous as before, and these newcomers had never seen what he had done before, so they were very enthusiastic in offering suggestions. In less than two quarters of an hour, Feng Ji had turned their chatter into a strategy.

The plan was simple. The first step was to force the demon out of the cave. Fire and poison had been tried before, but they didn't work. Now we know that the demon is afraid of sunlight. With so many people, some working on the construction and some on guard, it would only take half an hour to dig the cave entrance to a point where sunlight could directly shine into the bottom of the cave.

If the demons showed up and resisted, that would be the best case scenario - even if Xu Xianren was besieged by so many people, he would end up dead, not to mention that the demons had been seriously injured by magic weapons before.

But before that, someone suggested that they could build a fire in the cave and burn it for a few hours. Most of these Jianghu people knew some medicine and stone techniques, and some of them also made elixirs. Each of them had some unique methods to turn ordinary fire into a more blazing elixir fire. After living for so long, they had never heard of any demon that was not afraid of elixir fire.

After a brief hesitation, Xu Xianren nodded slightly: "Okay. Let's start the Dan Fire. I want to see if the evil ghost is afraid."

……

Li Wuxiang heard their plan clearly. If he was to ask if he was afraid or not, he was.

Because the piece of paper is still in the hole.

When he entered the paper, he first placed the paper on a flat stone, then pried off another slightly larger stone and temporarily propped it up with a broken brick. Then he held the brick and loosened his grip, and the slightly larger stone pressed down the broken brick and touched the paper. He and the broken brick immediately entered the illusion, and the paper was sandwiched between the two stones. With the stone pressing down, he was not afraid of the previous fire poison. But if, as they said, the whole cave was set on fire and burned for several hours, I am afraid that the stone would also be burned red, and the bamboo paper might also be burned.

And if he showed up at this moment, to be honest, with the fifty or so people outside, plus Xu Xianren who had become honest, he really would not be a match for him.

But, since these outsiders have come, since they are both near Deyang, Lao Guo should come back even if he has to travel between two families.

Li Wuxiang finished his training in the illusion, stood up and let out a light breath.

He had damaged some of his internal organs in the past few days, but he finally opened up all the meridians necessary for the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter.

In terms of the cultivation of this technique, he had just established his foundation. He still had a huge amount of incense and vows left by Zhao Kui in his body, so he wanted to refine these vows to replenish the spiritual energy needed for the foundation-building stage and rush to the Qi-refining stage.

But the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter was indeed difficult to practice. He refined all those vows, only to find that it barely made up for the energy needed to build the foundation, and it was even a little short of the energy required to refine qi... No wonder Zeng Jianqiu said that it took him several years to build the foundation!
It was very uncomfortable to practice the technique but not to improve but to regress. But what comforted him was that with the feedback from the foundation-building True Immortal Body Dao Chapter in his body, the skin that Guang Chanzi cultivated had become quite strong - the scars had recovered as before, and even if he cut it with a dagger, it would only leave a shallow wound, just like cutting a thin layer of tanned leather.

At this time, the outsiders were preparing to build a fire. Before anyone stepped into the cave, Li Wuxiang escaped from the illusion and shouted, "Xu Xianren!"

Xu Xianren had a blank expression on his face, but he raised his hand and the people outside the cave immediately stepped back a few steps.

"Aren't you afraid of burning the treasure by setting it on fire like this? You can see it, it's just a thin piece of paper." Li Wuxiang took a few steps outside so that the people outside could see him. "The spell written on the paper is the spell to enter the illusion. If you really burn it with me, the treasure inside will be gone for you."

Xu Xianren exhaled slowly: "Okay, you kill yourself, and I won't burn you."

Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious? Look, I made you so angry, but you know nothing about me. This kind of revenge is meaningless. Why don't you let me tell you about my origins first, so that you can slowly recall them later. When I was born, there was a white rainbow in the sky piercing the sun, and purple air came from the east..."

"Are you waiting for someone?" Xu Xianren interrupted him, "That swordsman? The swordsman you stabbed before? Oh, I remember, you two came here together. What kind of helpers can he call for you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a female voice shouting from far behind: "Back off!"

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