Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 186: Fighting
Zhao Yifu saw that the ghost wolf seemed to be interested in researching, so he chopped it with his knife.

It may sound presumptuous, but his method of research is to first chop with a knife to test the feel, and then see how the other person dies...

His sword strike had no physical strength to support it. In fact, it only had the strength of his mind and the Yin energy bursting out from the sword itself.

It can be said that this is the weakest sword he has ever swung after he mastered the sword technique.

But how to say it?

But unlike chopping with the physical body, his Yin Spirit swung the sword as if across the spatial dimension, and landed on the ghost wolf at the same time as it was chopped.

This also possesses the characteristics of the Yin God, which is that it will come as soon as the thought arises.

It was a little hard for him to imagine how terrifying this knife would become after he cultivated the Yang God and allowed his Yuan Shen to possess the attributes of a physical body.
"Ow~!"

The ghost wolf was struck.

Zhao Yifu felt a pure spiritual essence surging from above, but when it fed back into the killing knife, there was no resentment or hatred.

Even Zhao Yifu felt something similar to the nature of Master Wenheng...

He thought about it carefully, and then chopped the wolf soul with his knife.

The wolf soul howled again, but still did not die.

Its soul had obviously undergone a long period of worship and had become some kind of...divine spirit!
Zhao Yifu suddenly realized that this seemed similar to the incense and Shintoism!
The most successful figure in the incense-religious world he had ever come into contact with was Master Wenheng.

In ancient times, he was just a military general, but because of his unique personal charm, he became famous among the people, and was worshipped by generations of people and became a god of high status in heaven.

This ghost wolf reminded Zhao Yifu of the "totem" in shamanism and even the ancient culture of the Central Plains.

They are worshipped in the form of animals and are endowed with spirituality through faith.

He stabbed twice more and continued to comprehend the profound meaning from it.

I vaguely figured out some tricks of becoming a god through offering incense.

But he didn't care much about these tricks. After all, if he was not canonized by the Heavenly Court, no matter how much he was worshipped, he would just be a wild god. He might even be punished by heaven and disappear into thin air.

The ghost wolf was pinned down and stabbed by him, and was about to die.

Dense spiritual essence even floated in front of Zhao Yifu.

At this moment, a message of 'hunger' came from his ghost mask.

He suddenly understood.

The mouth on the ghost mask suddenly opened, and then siphoned all the scattered spiritual essence into its mouth.

It wasn't long before the entire ghost wolf was sucked clean, without a single bit left.

There is no doubt that the underworld would like this kind of "incense soul beast", but if such a totem beast spirit was sent to the underworld, Zhao Yifu was very worried that he would be called over to be awarded honors and promoted.

How is this possible!
It would be better to eat it yourself, which would also help you get promoted to a higher position as a ghost catcher.

Moreover, the spiritual essence of this totem beast spirit is very pure. It can be integrated into the Netherworld Messenger's Order without any refining, thereby improving its grade.

Similarly, feeding him some extremely pure spiritual essence could actually make his Shaoyang state soul advance a lot further.

Zhao Yifu touched the ghost mask that seemed to be still being chewed, and thought that this thing might not be a common treasure in the underworld?
At first he thought it was just a status symbol that allowed people in the mortal world to become ghost messengers.

Later, he realized that eating ghosts with a ghost mask could enhance his own spirit, and he thought it was a normal phenomenon in the underworld.

But now it seems that this is clearly the special function of the 'Order of the Underworld Messenger', which allows him to eat ghosts and strengthen himself in the world of the living!
"Where's my wolf? Where's my wolf?!"

Suddenly, an angry voice came from afar.

Zhao Yifu saw a familiar face, the Black Nether Wizard.

He walked barefoot all the way, and no one knew what method he used, but he managed to cross hundreds of miles of mountain roads and arrive here in a short time.

Zhao Yi Fu smiled, and the ghost mask on his face twitched... revealing a twitching smile, very ghostly.

He felt the need to play a trick on the wizard, so he lowered his voice and said, "I ate you. How's that?"

As he spoke, his Yin Spirit was already covered with a rather majestic layer of armor.

This armor coverage rate has exceeded the level when he first became a ghost general. After eating a totem beast, his ghost general grade directly rose by one level!
At this moment, Zhao Yifu in front of Hei Ming was a living ghost general from the underworld.

When Hei Ming saw Zhao Yifu's attire, his boiled egg-like head seemed to smoke.

He said, "Sir, when did my Lingguang sect ever offend the underworld?"

Zhao Yifu chuckled and said, "When did I offend you?"

"You, the Lingling Sect, are preventing the dead souls from returning to reincarnation. You say you don't offend?"

Hei Ming immediately argued, "That's just a mortal showing filial piety by offering incense to the ancestral spirits. It doesn't violate the laws of heaven."

Zhao Yifu said calmly, "That's why I ignored you before, but now it's different."

Hei Ming's expression changed immediately when he heard this, and he felt that something very bad was about to happen.

Zhao Yifu hid here for a moment and didn't say anything else. He just looked at Hei Ming with a gloomy look and said, "You Linggan Sect are also afraid of heaven's punishment, right?"

Having said that, he disappeared.

This time he came directly to Tianyuan City.

Naturally, there were many wealthy families gathered in Tianyuan City on this day.

He thought that after cleaning up the place, he could go back and end the night.

But what he didn't expect was that he had left Tianyuan City to the end because it was more convenient to concentrate the target here, but when he really arrived here, he found that there was no target anywhere.
When I came to Tianyuan City before, I could see the prosperity of incense burning, the spiritual light shining, and the fragrance everywhere. But now, I see that there is only incense but no spiritual light.

Not only are the ancestral spirits of more than three generations gone, but even the newly offered tablets have no souls left.

It was as if someone had already cleaned this place before him.

Zhao Yifu immediately thought of the totem beast spirit, and suddenly realized that some existences had already known about the changes in the world and had begun to take action in advance.

At this moment, a dark passage opened beside him.

Bai Wuchang appeared beside him.

"Brother Zhao, you're here too?"

Zhao Yifu asked in surprise, "Lord Wuchang, why are you here?"

Bai Wuchang walked out, followed closely by Hei Wuchang!

When he met him earlier, the Black Impermanence wanted him to offer his sword, but now he politely saluted with his fists clasped.

Zhao Yifu was not surprised, as the main purpose of his Yin Shen state was to maintain a mentality of "not being surprised by anything".

Bai Wuchang said, "Since the Emperor of Heaven has given his order, we must obey. However, upon arriving in the mortal realm, we discovered that the countless spirits that once resided here have been taken away like leeks."

Zhao Yifu said calmly, "It was done by the inspirational shaman."

Hei Wuchang snorted angrily and said, "Who else could it be? It's a pity that we don't have enough manpower."

Zhao Yifu asked, "Lord Black Impermanence, could it be that you have been guiding people somewhere else before?"

Hei Wuchang said, "Indeed, we worked so hard to guide one place, and then three or four remaining spirits were taken away by others. They seem to be able to sense our movements. It's really abominable."

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "I did kill a totem beast spirit in the village earlier. That totem beast spirit was devouring the resident spirit."

Hei Wuchang snorted coldly upon hearing this: "I was wondering why the sacrificial method was spread everywhere. It turns out it's for the purpose of raising these totem beast spirits."

"In that case, as long as we kill these totem beast spirits, we can complete the mission."

Bai Wuchang said, "However, we cannot stay in the mortal world for long. Brother Zhao will stay in the mortal world for a long time. If you need us, you can light the talisman to invite us to appear."

Zhao Yifu immediately clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, both gods."

It seems that I need to prepare more talismans for summoning gods in the future.

He couldn't use this thing to ask the ancestor to come down to earth, at most he could only possess his body.

But it is different to invite the Black and White Impermanence. They are already in the human world and are guaranteed to come as soon as you invite them.

The two gods originally wanted to extradite the spirits residing in Tianyuan City, but now they have come to nothing and they chatted with Zhao Yifu for a few minutes before leaving.

Zhao Yifu stopped them and said, "Two gods, take care."

Black and White Impermanence stopped and asked in confusion, "What else do you want, brother?"

Zhao Yifu said seriously, "May I ask who this person in Yin Yang Tian is?"

Black Wuchang spoke frankly. "That's not something you can touch yet, so there's no need to say more."

But Bai Wuchang spoke tactfully. He asked, "Brother, do you have any concerns?"

Zhao Yifu said, "That person is in the Yin-Yang Heaven. I dare not come down."

Bai Wuchang frowned immediately when he heard it.

He remembered the time when they were together to encircle and suppress a Ghost Emperor who was about to transform, but they failed because of the manipulation by the existence in the Yin-Yang Sky.

Hei Wuchang asked bluntly: "Is it targeting you?"

Zhao Yifu nodded.

Bai Wuchang sighed and said, "That's troublesome."

"The ghost master in Yin Yang Heaven has only recently emerged, but every time he shows up, he causes us a lot of trouble."

"It seems to be able to connect to the eternal grudge beneath the Eighteen Layers of Hell, and can easily create terrifying ghosts at the level of Ghost King..."

Zhao Yifu asked in surprise, "If that's the case, why can't the underworld wipe it out?"

Hei Wuchang said, "But it's hiding in the Yin-Yang Heaven. This Yin-Yang Heaven is called the gap between the world of the living and the underworld, but it's actually an extremely vast space."

"When ghosts and gods from the underworld enter the Yin-Yang Heaven, it is like a fish out of water. It is extremely difficult to catch them."

Bai Wuchang said, "But don't worry, my dear brother. It's not that powerful. Once you have a Ghost General-level armor, you will be able to pass through the Yin-Yang Heaven easily without fear."

Zhao Yifu made a decision immediately after hearing this. In this case, he had to hunt down those totem beasts.

As for how to hunt?

That’s easy, just find a wizard.

However, he was curious about the ghost master, so he asked, "Excuse me, two gods, do you know the origin of that ghost master?"

Hei Wuchang said, "I know that. I heard that it was a treacherous minister who caused cholera throughout the world a hundred years ago. After his death, he was deeply sinful and unwilling to die in vain, so he wanted to return to the world of the living to continue to cause trouble for the world."

"At that time, there were still occasional news about the Emperor of Dongyue. I heard that it was the Emperor of Dongyue who 'forced his sick body' to block it in the Yin-Yang Heaven."

"After that, there was no news from the Emperor, and it could only wander in the Yin and Yang Heaven."

Zhao Yifu's brows twitched when he heard this, and his spirit collapsed without a trace.

Black and White Impermanence looked at each other, wondering if they had said anything wrong. Zhao Yifu felt a little lost after his Yin-Soul returned. He thought of the gaze from the Yin-Yang Heaven and slowly connected the cause and effect he knew.

The Great Emperor Dongyue would be finished sooner or later. All the gods in the world, big and small, knew this, but judging from everyone's reactions, they probably didn't expect him to end so soon.

In other words, at least before the ancestor went to visit, everyone felt that this generation of Emperor Dongyue could at least hold on for a while.

Therefore, Emperor Dongyue should not be able to do it in the 'near future'.

Considering that immortals and gods have a very different concept of time from ordinary people, it shouldn't be too much to magnify this "recent period" to a span of a hundred years, right?
At least Bai Wuchang's words proved that the Emperor Dongyue was still in charge a hundred years ago. At least this emperor who controlled yin and yang prevented the ghost master from returning to the human world.

Then there was no news from Him...

Is it possible that the Emperor was already in a state of irreversible despair at that time, and the Ghost Master became the last straw that broke the camel's back, killing the Emperor of Dongyue?

As for the identity of that ghost master...

When Zhao Yifu heard key words such as "a hundred years ago", "cholera throughout the world", and "traitor", he had basically determined the other party's identity in his mind.

Isn’t it his unfortunate previous leader, Taoist Yuanxiu?

Zhao Yifu pondered secretly and thought it was very possible.

He almost wanted to go back to Yin Yang Heaven to find out the truth.

But he was also worried that Taoist Yuanxiu might have been possessed by a demon and wouldn't recognize people.

He could only decide to continue to cause trouble for the totem beast.

It just so happened that he knew a wizard was left alone...

After getting out of the prison, he walked quickly outside.

This place is a small valley somewhere at the Difei Mountain Pass. The people who came down the mountain with him stopped here to clean up.

After he came out of seclusion, he immediately gathered everyone and said, "Hei Ming has already left Wutong Villa. I'm going to stop him. You guys can go now to accomplish your mission."

Wen Sheng said uncomfortably, "But our things are not yet completed. If we go now, I'm afraid it won't be complete."

This is a pursuit of perfection.

Zhao Yifu said unhappily, "I'm not asking you to deal with any powerful cultivators. I'm just trying to fool some mortals. Do you really need to use any earth-shattering methods?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, oh yes!
In fact, all their previous preparations were based on the Dark Nether Wizard who could control the giant wolf spirit beast as their imaginary enemy, and they just thought that they had to fool him as well.

But now...

Everyone looked at each other, then ran out quickly...

Let’s go play games!
There are only so many mortals like us, so be quick or you will miss out!
Zhao Yifu, seeing this, advised with concern, "Don't cause any loss of life. For cultivators like us, it's better to avoid such karma and sin."

Huigu glanced at him, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Zhao Yi Fu looked back at her and told her to keep the unpleasant words to herself and not say them out loud.

"Come on, follow me to stop that Dark Wizard."

The rest of the sentence was said to the five Sword Sect disciples around him.

These five guys are so boring, they don't join in the fun at all, so they can only be taken out for a fight.

The five Sword Sect disciples nodded woodenly, then followed Zhao Yi Fu step by step.

Thinking about the figure of Sect Master Xuanfeng, and then looking at these five dull ones, Zhao Yifu really felt sorry for Sect Master Xuanfeng.

It seems that the Chunyang Sword Sect has no successor.

Zhao Yifu took the people with him and went to rob people.

In fact, they stopped the Black Nether Wizard outside the Wutong Forest!

Separated by a forest, this darkness can no longer return.

"It's you!"

"I thought we were done with our feud."

Hei Ming said with a twitching face.

He looked timid but fierce on the outside, and looked uneasily in the direction of Wutong Villa.

Zhao Yifu stood in front of him and said with a look of looking for trouble: "That was yesterday. Now I just want to cause trouble for you."

"It's also to let you know that our Chivalrous Alliance is already giving you enough respect by not causing trouble for you. How dare you cause trouble for the Chivalrous Alliance?"

"I will not let you have an easy time!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he said to the five Sword Sect disciples on his left and right: "Go!"

Then the five disciples of the Chunyang Sword Sect really rushed forward and were very obedient.

At this moment, invisible sword energy, sword aura, and sword light of various colors were flying around. Zhao Yifu discovered that these five guys could actually be quite brilliant when they really started fighting.

But unfortunately, Hei Ming’s cultivation level is higher.

With five swords coming out at the same time, he only needed to fly his scimitar up and down to break all the attacks of the five swords.

This is Hei Ming controlling the sword with his divine consciousness. Unless the five people from the Sword Sect can also control the sword, it cannot be broken.

Then Zhao Yi Fu was surprised to find that these five people actually activated their swords with extremely pure will and completed the momentum of controlling the swords!
Five sword lights flew through the air, causing Hei Ming to be confused for a moment.

The oil stains on his body suddenly began to wriggle like a living thing, and actually split into several tentacles to resist the flying sword attacks of the Sword Sect disciples.

When Zhao Yifu saw this scene, he knew that Hei Ming was definitely not a simple person.

As expected, it was not difficult for the Black Nether Wizard to resist the five swords of the Sword Sect. He quickly opened a pocket and took out the familiar pure white giant wolf.

"The beast-taming bag uses the method of expanding space to create a space that is most suitable for spirit beasts to live in and accommodate them."

Huigu suddenly explained from the side.

Zhao Yifu nodded when he heard this. He reached his left hand into his right sleeve and took out a tiger cat.

Then he threw the tiger cat out. The little tiger grew quickly and had become a mighty and majestic tiger when it landed on the ground.

The two spirit beasts started fighting each other, and the sound of collision produced billowing smoke and dust.

Zhao Yifu thought it was quite interesting. It was really rare to have this kind of "battle" feeling.

Seeing this, Hei Ming seemed to have anticipated that Zhao Yifu would use the tiger to fight the white wolf. He took out a beast taming bag and poured out the contents...

The next moment, a three-meter-long snake swam out. When it raised its head and spit out its tongue, green poisonous smoke could be seen coming out from both sides.

This thing looks difficult to deal with.

He didn't want to let his cat deal with it.

But just as he was hesitating, Yiyi, who had vaguely guessed his thoughts, suddenly jumped out of his arms and went straight to the big snake.

Three zhang is ten meters!
The ten-meter-long snake was about fifty to sixty centimeters thick, and Yiyi looked extremely small in front of it.

Zhao Yifu had already reached into his sleeve, ready to draw his knife and overturn the table at any time.

But then, he didn't expect that Yiyi's performance would surprise him so much.

It was so agile that no matter how terrifying the giant snake was, it was unable to catch it.

Even the extremely fast snake kiss attack was easily dodged by Yiyi.

He even took this opportunity to jump onto the snake's head and gouged out one of its yellow eyeballs with one claw!
The giant snake shook its head in pain, trying to shake off the small thing on its head.

But the cat's sharp claws gripped the snake's scales tightly to stabilize its body, and it even quickly changed its position when the snake shook its head, gouging out the giant snake's other eyeball!
Wow, this kind of agility and balance is simply amazing.

The giant snake rolled over in pain, but Yiyi didn't give up. She opened her mouth and spit out a mouthful of enchanting red flame at the snake's head.

This is its innate flame, the flame it spits out is very hot and extremely aggressive.

The giant snake didn't even have time to spit out the poisonous smoke in its mouth before it was completely burned by the flames.

It felt a terrible headache, but couldn't shake Yiyi off. Then, it swung its tail hard at her...

Seeing this, Yiyi jumped up lightly, just avoiding the tail swing.

however……

"boom!"

The snake's tail hit the giant snake's head uncontrollably, and the giant snake fell to the ground.

The whole thing happened in a flash. Yiyi landed gracefully and lightly, then tilted her head slightly to look at him, like a young girl still eager to continue the fight...

Zhao Yi Fu quickly slid and created an icy path under his feet. He quickly came to Yi Yi and grabbed her neck and pulled her back into his arms.

"You little guy, why did you run out by yourself?"

He felt a little worried, wondering if this little thing had grown crooked.

Yiyi was still a little unconvinced, but once she fell into Zhao Yifu's arms and was rubbed a few times by him, she immediately meowed and was intoxicated.

While Zhao Yifu was "punishing" the kitten, he tilted his head and looked at Hei Ming, as if asking: What other methods do you have?
Hei Ming was quite angry when he saw this. He then took out an unremarkable bowl and tapped it lightly with his hand.

The next moment, an indescribable stench emanated from the bowl, as if it contained a rotting corpse.

Seeing Zhao Yifu pause, Hui Gu immediately warned him, "Young Master, be careful. The other party is trying to stimulate the corpse poison. This method is very vicious."

Zhao Yifu understood immediately after hearing this. He looked at his maid in surprise and thought to himself: She knows so much.

Then he took out a jade bottle from his sleeve and crushed it, revealing a precious pill inside.

It was the 'Du'e Po'miasa Pill' that he had previously refined by hand!
Although this elixir is not perfect in the eyes of the alchemy master of his own sect, Hei Ming is not an expert in using poison.

I saw the mist of elixir rising from the precious pill, which actually suppressed the evil in the bowl and prevented it from spreading out.

This is the power of the precious pill. Just taking it out can be used as a means. It can be called a magic weapon specifically for breaking poison attacks.

Hei Ming was greatly surprised and immediately took out a bell and started shaking it.

The bells rang rapidly and loudly, but seemed to have no effect.

Hui Gu only thought for a moment before speaking quickly, "This is the 'alarm bell'. When one person shakes it, many others resonate."

"He's informed his accomplices. It seems he thinks you're a bit of a problem."

Zhao Yifu didn't mind hearing this. He had been fighting with Hei Ming until now but still couldn't force out the other's totem beast... He now wondered if Hei Ming had no other totem beasts?
Then let's see if other wizards have such things.

Zhao Yifu simply treated wizards as mines.

He seemed incredibly daring, but in fact, after seeing many cultivators, he suddenly realized that his Shaoyang Yuanshen was actually quite powerful in the cultivation world...

(End of this chapter)