From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 199: The Immortal Alliance
It is said that a new store will be bustling for three days after its opening, but Yumu’s noodle shop was bustling for seven or eight days, and all the grass in the store was eaten up.

The effect of Wuzhi Mantou Fish is comparable to Zhidan. No one can say that it has bad effects after eating it. It made the fish mother very worried for a while.

The new store had just opened, so we couldn't close it down for restructuring immediately. So we urged our son to go back to Yatou Mountain to check on the grass in the fields to see if any were ripe so we could pick some quickly.

At the same time, he called Mu Lingge and quickly replenished the store's ingredients, such as spiritual rice, spiritual noodles, and spiritual vegetables, which were used in considerable quantities every day.

There are more monsters living in the inner city of Chaoju City than the half-demons in the outer city. Yu Shuyang estimated that there must be several million of them. There are more than 30 workshops in the city, and they are working non-stop every day.

There is a market between four or five workshops, which specializes in daily food business to facilitate the living expenses of the workshop's workers and chefs.

The Fish Mother Noodle House has become the canteen of several large workshops. Eating fish in sour soup noodles can increase spirituality, and the effect is best when eaten by fish monsters. Eating fish in Wuzhi steamed buns may increase strength and replenish blood.

It was a huge hit, and Yu Fu's ink shop was temporarily unable to open. He and his ten shrimp soldiers couldn't leave, so they could only ask Yu Shuyang to go back and tell Cao Qing to help keep an eye on it.

Yu Shuyang and Li Zhen returned to Yatou Mountain. This time, they did not take the main road out of the inner city, but passed through the outer city. They took the access control passage to Chaoju Cave.

Yatou Mountain and Qianzhang Cliff are both on the west side of Chaoju City, with Wohu Mountain as a barrier. From the Chaoju Cave Gate, you can go straight through Wohu Mountain, which saves time and effort.

This access passage is one-way. It comes out of the cave and leads to all directions. If you want to come in, you can only take the main road and enter from the boundary river.

"Look, there are not enough people. We need to think of a way. Where can we get some people?" Yu Shuyang couldn't help but sigh.
He had wanted to discuss this with Li Zhen for a long time, but he never found the time. These days he was helping out in the store, and Li Zhen was called away by his fiancée, so he didn't get to discuss it with him.

"Cousin, Lingge and I have discussed this matter. According to the rules of Chaoju City, recruiting apprentices is also possible, but there are restrictions on noodle shops.

"It's fine to send a few water spiders from Wuhui Cave to Yatou Mountain to help, but it's not appropriate for them to come to Chaoju City because the little spiders can't leave the nest," Li Zhen said.

His second brother Li Li inherited his mother's bloodline, and had to stay in Wuhui Cave until he reached the seventh level.

Or they may follow a giant spider spirit with high cultivation level. This is also a drawback of social insects, especially bees and ants. If they don't cultivate to become immortals, they simply cannot live alone.

"Then this will be troublesome. Do we have to wait until Uncle Mo raises the shrimp spirits and clam girls? How long will that take?" Yu Shuyang couldn't help but sigh.

“Cousin, there are actually some solutions. We can also go to Taodu Mountain to catch ghost servants, or go to the sea to catch wind slaves.

My uncle's family went to Taodu Mountain Islands to raise ghost spiders. I heard a few days ago that they saw the Dongyi people from Dongling Island going there to capture ghosts and refine them into ghost birds as servants.

However, ghost servants need to be fed with the death energy of the underworld frequently, and they can only speak bird sounds and ghost language, so it is quite troublesome to tame them.

Wind slaves are easy to catch but hard to train, and they are especially prone to escaping. Most of them are captured to refine treasures. Cousin, if you are impatient, you can also try these two methods."

Li Zhen racked his brains and came up with a solution. There has always been a shortage of manpower in the East China Sea. The reason why the East China Sea islands accepted the wild monsters that escaped from the inland of Kyushu in the early years was also for this reason.

"Catching wind slaves, catching ghost servants..., it's not impossible. But if we want to catch them, where should we start?" Yu Shuyang asked after thinking for a moment.

He wants to train two more alchemy boys in the future, and one of them must be a wind spirit. It would also be nice to try catching the wind.

"I don't know about catching ghost servants. I have to ask my cousin. But catching wind slaves is easy. The Mu family has a special wind-catching boat." Li Zhen said.

The two chatted all the way, walking along the mountain road, returning to Qianzhang Cliff from the west, and happened to pass by the peach and willow forest where the Book Fairy Water Monkey lived.

There are no mountains or water here, but a huge pit of more than 100 kilometers, in which grow the roots of ghosts: ghost-faced peach trees and ghost willows.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey is a water ghost transformed into a ghost ape. He has no relatives and usually stays in the peach and willow forest. He doesn't like to socialize with outsiders.

It is winter now, and the Chinese New Year will be here in about twenty days. The grass and trees are withering, but the roots of ghosts are not affected and are growing at the best time.

There were a few black and gray mixed-haired monkeys in the willow forest, picking cotton from the ghost willow trees. When they saw a strange monster passing by, they squeaked.

In an instant, dozens of mixed-haired monkeys were attracted, all staring at Yu Shuyang and Li Zhen. Soon the Shuxianshui monkey came.

He knew Li Zhen, and then he squeaked twice, dispersing the group of mixed-haired monkeys, and then walked over.

"Li Dalang, who did you offend? Why did you get attacked secretly? Why did you get resentful by someone? You will be in trouble.

"Wait a moment, I've sent the monkey cubs out to pick peach leaves. You can take them home and take a bath with them to get rid of the bad luck," said the Narcissus ghost monkey.

Yu Shuyang and Li Zhen looked at each other and couldn't help but wonder who had done it.

"Shuxian, am I the only one who has this trick, or are we both infected with ghost resentment?" Li Zhen asked uncertainly.

The Shuxian Water Monkey is as tall as an adult, covered with black hair all over its body, with facial features like a human, and normal fingers and toes.

He stared at Yu Shuyang carefully, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "I think this guy looks a lot like Brother Yu from Yatou Mountain?"

"Shuxian, this is my second uncle's biological son, not an outsider. Just say whatever you want to say." Li Zhen explained from the side.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey nodded and said, "He has a pure aura that cannot be harmed by bad luck or discouragement.

Moreover, I think he has some good karma. I heard that the human race in Jiuzhou has a kind of lucky official who can help the dead to be reborn.

"You are blessed with good karma. Do you also know how to reach the afterlife?"

Yu Shuyang nodded in agreement. He didn't know what Shuxian Shuihouzi was going to do, and he had no interest in talking to him. But he didn't want to offend him either, because after all, Yu Fu's real calligraphy still depended on his help.

"I am your father's equal, so I will call you my nephew, since you know how to communicate with the dead and save the souls.

If you have some free time recently, come to my forest and perform a ritual to help the deceased souls to be reborn. It should be good for you, right?"

The Book Fairy Water Monkey spoke in a negotiating tone and was very friendly.

"Shuxian, I wonder how many souls need to be liberated so I can prepare in advance." Yu Shuyang asked.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey blinked his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking. After about a cup of tea, he finally spoke.

"My dear nephew, I can take you to the forest to have a look, but you have to promise me not to tell anyone. If this gets out of hand, it will not benefit anyone.

"Li Dalang, go back and take a bath to get rid of the bad luck. You can't go down if you're haunted by ghosts, or they'll provoke a riot and kill you," said the Book Fairy Water Monkey.

Seeing this, Yu Shuyang didn't want Li Zhen to go along, so he said, "Cousin, go back first to get rid of your bad luck. I'll go to Wuhui Cave to find you later."

Li Zhen was not worried about his cousin. This time, his mind was full of ghost resentment. He kept wondering in his heart who wanted to harm him.

After two miscellaneous monkeys brought a basket of Ghost Face Peach leaves, he put them into his magic bag and returned to the No Return Cave on Thousand Barrier Cliff. Yu Shuyang followed the Book Fairy Water Monkey. As soon as they entered the large pit in the forest, they felt a dark, deathly aura. It was the same feeling they had felt with the Death Demon at the Red Clay Temple. The Netherworld Death Fire was exactly like this.

There are half peach trees and half willow trees in the forest. The Yinmian Ghost Willow is not much different from ordinary willow trees except that it looks ghostly.

The Ghost Face Peach Tree is different. There is a scar on the tree, and the eyebrows, eyes and nose are clearly visible. The clearer it becomes as you go deeper, it looks like a complete human face.

Shuxian Shuihouzi walked in front at the intersection of the peach tree and the willow tree. Yu Shuyang didn't dare to run around, so he also walked on this line.

He practiced the Yin-Yang sword art of killing, and was familiar with the Yin-Yang diagram. The peaches and willows planted in the big pit were like a semicircle of Yin and Yang, and the intersection was just like the arc of Yin and Yang.

"My dear nephew, since I have invited you here, I will not hide anything from you. I was originally cultivating in the Taodu Islands. When I was going through the fifth level of thunder tribulation, I was almost burned to death by lightning and fire.

He was rescued by a passing immortal. A few days ago, the Five Black Boys went to Qianzhang Cliff. Later, he heard that the Li family bought an island in the Three Immortals Islands.

It's nothing to tell you about this. That Fang Xian is the heir of the Fire Crow Palace in the Immortal Alliance. He asked me to come here and create a ghost place.

Helping an immortal from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance to overcome the tribulation. Everything was fine originally. Decades ago, the immortal ascended to heaven and returned to the Three Immortals Island.

I don’t know why, but the forest can gather the dead souls on the island. Logically, all the ghosts in the East China Sea should be attracted to Taodu Mountain.

In recent years, ghosts from the five islands and eight cities have come here through the earth veins. You don’t know it, but it makes me very worried.

Now, relying on the blessed land formation, I can temporarily trap all the dead souls, but if they accumulate for a few more decades, I am afraid that my peach forest will not be able to contain them anymore."

Shuxianshui Monkey had a look of sorrow on his face. When the ghosts first gathered, he was complacent and used them to breed ghost monkeys. Dozens of mixed-haired monkeys in the forest were raised by him.

Unexpectedly, as more and more ghosts gathered, he knew that there was trouble. He lived in the Taodu Mountain Islands, but he knew how powerful the hundreds of ghosts roaming at night were.

As more and more dead souls gathered, not only could he not cultivate ghost beasts, he had to find a way to suppress them. The dead souls turned into ghosts and monsters, and they went through the nine tribulations like the goblins, and were able to start practicing.

By then, the ghosts will devour ghosts and become more powerful as they practice. The result will inevitably be a riot among the ghosts, which will then break through the formation of the blessed land, causing a catastrophe of hundreds of ghosts parading at night.

"Shuxian, since this matter involves the immortals of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, why not report it to them and the matter will be resolved.

Why should we act rashly? Perhaps this is the work of an immortal." Yu Shuyang evaded the question.

After listening to the story told by the Fairy Water Monkey, he didn't want to get involved in this matter. Ever since the incident with the Five Black Boys, Yu Shuyang had no good impression of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey sighed deeply and said, "My dear nephew, I have just told you so much, but I have no intention of harming you.

At the beginning, I thought so too, so I sent flying talismans to the two immortals, but there was no news, so the matter was left here.

It was a few days ago when five black boys came here to take away the Big Sun Fire Crow, and I mustered up the courage to stop them and ask them a few questions.

The two immortals went to a secret place in the universe, and no one knows when they will come back. The gathering of the dead souls is not something that the immortals can do, so I have to find a way to solve it myself.

My dear nephew, although I am a ghost who has become a spirit, I do not practice the ghost magic of the underworld. If I practice by devouring the souls of the dead, I will destroy my own practice.

The next time I break through the fourth level of tribulation, it will be my death. My dear nephew, please save me."

After the Book Fairy Water Monkey finished speaking, his face was full of sorrow. If it weren't for the ghosts crying bitterly, there would be no ghost tears flowing, otherwise he would have been crying this time.

For a moment, Yu Shuyang was also confused by Shuxianshuihouzi and couldn't help laughing, but he didn't dare to agree to him now.

"Shuxian, I don't practice the method of Fuguan. To perform the ritual of transcending the dead, I have to prepare incense and money in advance to ask the gods to perform the magic.

Do you think this will work? I'll take a look at the dead souls and then go back to make some preparations. I can't guarantee how many souls I can help to liberate, but I can't guarantee it."

Yu Shuyang naturally didn't dare to agree without hesitation. He thought that after returning, he would have to discuss it with his junior brother Li Taiping before coming to help the deceased souls.

When Shuxian Shuihouzi heard Yu Shuyang say this, he had no choice but to open the door to his blessed land.

The sky in this blessed land was pitch black, filled with the aura of death, and a group of wandering ghosts formed seventy or eighty isolated peaks.

The ghosts wailed incessantly, gathering into a gust of ghostly and deadly wind. This wind roamed back and forth among the peaks, impacting the magical restrictions on the isolated peak.

The Book Fairy Water Monkey was worried that the ghosts would devour each other and that the ghost beasts would multiply and become difficult to control, so he used the Yinshan magic ban to suppress all the wandering ghosts.

He originally thought that turning the ghosts into a ghost mountain would be a good thing, but he was a book fairy, and it was good enough that he could write a few real words to scare the ghosts away.

He didn't dare to ask for help from demons and fairies, and he had some vague suspicions about the ghosts from the five islands and eight cities gathering here.

When the members of the demon fairy family died, their ghosts would sleep peacefully in the clan land and would not gather here. Moreover, looking at the human-shaped ghosts, he knew that they could not be the souls of monsters.

Although he is not a flesh and blood body, he can reproduce offspring. After all, he is a fifth-grade demon fairy and knows a lot about half-demons.

These ghosts gathered here, I think they should be half-demons. Their souls gathered here, and after a long time, the clan spirit and fortune will inevitably gather here.

His plan was to drive away all the dead souls and slowly encroach upon the fortune and spirit of the half-demons. The Book Fairy could not devour ghosts, but it could also devour luck.

Yu Shuyang took a few glances and had an idea in his mind. He believed that the art of salvation could accumulate good karma, and with the protection of virtue, the thunder tribulation could be weakened tenfold after breaking through the fifth level.

The thunder tribulation among the nine tribulations of cultivation is to pass through it by hearing the sound of thunder, while when breaking through to the fifth level, one passes through it by being struck by lightning. The difference between the two is extremely large.

Madam Wushuang's father, the Little Green Snake of the South China Sea, was smashed into pieces when he was undergoing a thunder tribulation. And the lord of the mermaids, the Shadowless Dragon King of the South China Sea, was also burned to ashes by the fire of tribulation when he broke through to the third level.

"Shuxian, how many ghosts are there in this ghost mountain?" Yu Shuyang asked.

"There must be at least three or four hundred thousand dead souls in this ghost mountain." said the Book Fairy Water Monkey.

Yu Shuyang nodded after hearing this. Last time he went to the underworld to help the deceased ghosts to be reborn, he had a place in the underworld where he could directly send the dead souls there.

It is not necessary to ask Xuanming Wenquxingjun to come and save the people like last time, but we have to hide it from Shuxianshuihouzi. When the time comes, we can ask the gods to cast spells to save a few people and cover it up.

"Then I'll go back and prepare. This will require a lot of money and offerings."

　I have a rhinitis and a headache that makes it difficult for me to type. When I woke up this morning I thought I had a cold.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)