Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 208: Under Xiangyang City
Zhao Yifu didn't know what was under the ground of Xiangyang City. It seemed that something had sealed it down there.

But he certainly has a way to find his target.

He suddenly closed the Ghost Gate, which made the existence that attracted the ghosts here disappear. Many ghosts who were halfway there could only walk back in a daze.

Zhao Yifu's Yang Shen followed them and even penetrated directly into the ground and moved downwards through the soil.

The ghost was moving very fast in the mud. Fortunately, Zhao Yifu was a yang spirit. If his physical body had not learned earth escape technique, he would not have been able to catch up.

He didn't know how long he had been walking when he heard some rumbling vibrations. At first, they were not loud, but gradually became a roar.

Could it be an underground waterfall?

His guess was correct. The Yang God passed through a layer of earth and came to an underground riverbed. The rushing underground river suddenly broke down, and then a spectacular underground waterfall appeared.

He followed the water flow to the bottom of the waterfall and found that there was a passage behind the waterfall.

When Zhao Yifu saw this passage blocked by the waterfall, he knew that this was where he was going.

He even vaguely knew what this place was for...

The passage continued to go deeper and gradually became a regular circular tunnel.

There are already very clear traces of artificial axe carving here, and the entire cave is painted with many unique hieroglyphs with some kind of red pigment.

Zhao Yifu suspected that these pictographic symbols were related to the shamanistic culture of the northern grasslands... no, they were almost definitely related.

The effect is to create an atmosphere similar to the Yellow Springs Road.

That’s right, this is a man-made Yellow Springs Road!
But soon he saw some cracks and collapses. Obviously, as time went by, this artificial Yellow Springs Road had been severely damaged due to disrepair.

Yes, if not, how could so many ghosts come out from here?

Then he continued to go deeper, passed through the collapsed tunnel and came to another huge internal space.

The situation is different here.

In Zhao Yifu's eyes, in the pitch-black underground caverns, only the souls of the dead emitted a green fluorescent light. This faint light was like a lantern, illuminating a corner of a huge stone tower in the dark space...

Soul Locking Tower.

Zhao Yifu understood the purpose of this tower, which should be used to gather and suppress the souls of the dead.

But... this thing must have been added with some materials when it was built. Zhao Yifu only felt a strong sense of gloom and resentment lingering throughout the entire cave.

Zhao Yifu's Yangshen divine consciousness swept over, and the surrounding ghosts all avoided it.

For these cold ghosts, Zhao Yifu's spiritual thoughts were too hot and they could not adapt to this temperature.

The next moment, he suddenly stopped because he found that there were corpses lying all over the ground in front of the stone tower.

These corpses are strange. They are obviously lifeless but look lifelike.

Zhao Yifu could even tell the time of death of these corpses... a hundred years ago!
They all died a hundred years ago.

They have existed for hundreds of years without decaying, simply because there is no sign of life within the stone tower, not even microorganisms.

These corpses were all dressed in animal skins and bones, and they all looked like shamans.

Moreover, judging from the majesty of his corpse after his death, it seems that he must have been no ordinary person when he was alive.

But now they are all dead, a total of six great wizards, all died in front of this stone tower.

Zhao Yifu looked at the layout of the stone tower and knew that it should be a place used to imprison or even tame the undead.

It's just a shame that something obviously went wrong here.

I just don't know where they went wrong...

Zhao Yifu's Yang Shen stood in front of the stone tower with some hesitation. Since this stone tower existed to imprison something, wouldn't he be in trouble if he went in rashly?

He wandered in front of the stone tower for a while, and suddenly thought of a way to enter the palace and came up with a plan.

To be safe, he simply retreated outside the cave, and then used space extension to return to the bottom of the stone tower, and then walked step by step to the front of the stone tower... This stone tower has no door, but there are obvious cracks on it, as if it had once endured a severe shock.

Zhao Yifu controlled the 'Boundless Universe Technique' to extend the space into the crevice, while also carefully reinforcing the space.

That's right, his 'Boundless Universe Technique' has reached the second stage: space sealing.

From another perspective, isn't this just reinforcing the space?

Zhao Yifu entered the stone tower while expanding the space... or rather, he used the space he was in to invade the stone tower. In essence, his yang spirit was still outside the stone tower space!

This move was really interesting. Zhao Yifu discovered that at least in the mortal world, there was no blockade of space, which allowed him to perform his tricks to the fullest.

However, the space here is actually much better than that in the palace. At least his spiritual sense can enter the interior of the stone tower to explore.

In the darkness, he seemed to see endless starlight.

He unexpectedly discovered that the space here was also distorted to a certain extent.

However, this distortion was not one that he manipulated delicately, but rather a 'brick-flying' twist formed by some kind of formation or similar means.

The time and space here are very abnormal, but Zhao Yifu feels somewhat familiar, as if he is connected to the Yin-Yang Heaven.

But there is a difference. It seems that this place only captures a corner of the Yin-Yang sky, and is mixed with some other things.

After discovering the similarities between this place and Yin Yang Tian, ​​Zhao Yifu was no longer afraid.

He walked in the space inside the stone tower, and the extended space also made him feel at ease.

Suddenly, he felt something blocking his way.

After a closer look, I found that it was a wandering ghost... No, it was a wandering evil spirit!

What surprised Zhao Yifu was that the image of this evil spirit was somewhat familiar to him... Thinking about it carefully, it was one of the wizards who died outside the tower!

But the evil spirit did not discover him.

This might be related to his existence in another dimension, which the evil spirit's perception ability cannot transcend...

Before he could finish his thought, he saw the evil spirit that was originally floating in the space in an unconscious state suddenly turned its head and looked straight at him!

Zhao Yifu was shocked, but he was not afraid.

He believed that his "Boundless Universe Technique" was magical enough that the evil spirit could not cross the space to truly discover him.

however……

The evil ghost really discovered something and pounced on him like a tiger.

Zhao Yifu was startled, but he was not worried.

After all, he has the cultivation of Yangshen, the top of the human world. What if this evil ghost pounces on him?

He remained determined in his heart.

As the evil spirit pounced, it naturally encountered the space distorted by the 'Boundless Universe Technique'.

It seemed to be very close to Zhao Yifu, but in fact, this one-foot distance was thousands of meters away!

So the evil ghost flying in the air looked like it was drifting slowly in slow motion.

Zhao Yifu was so close to the evil spirit that he could even see its pale and distorted face with blood oozing from all seven orifices...

"Bang!"

There was a crisp sound.

Zhao Yifu finally couldn't hold back and took action first. The main reason was that this ugly face was directly pressed against his face. It had no lethality, but it gave him a strong sense of psychological oppression!

He always felt like he was about to be kissed...

The sharp corner of "Encouraging Learning" hit the ghost's forehead hard, knocking its head open.

At the same time, the magical suppressive power of the Yuanshen caused the ghost's lips to tremble uncontrollably...

It was about to be endorsed, but it seemed that its soul was strong enough and was resisting this force.

Zhao Yifu didn't give in, so he took the opportunity to pull out his killing knife and stabbed it hard.

"Stab!"

The killing knife pierced through the evil ghost's body, and then there was a sound of iron burning flesh.

The resentful energy within the Killing Blade exploded, attempting to plunder the resentment within the evil spirit. However, the resentful energy within the evil spirit spontaneously resisted, and the two sides began to clash and quickly cancel each other out.

After a period of stalemate, the evil ghost finally couldn't hold on any longer and slowly collapsed.

Zhao Yifu felt the remaining resentment in the killing knife, and without hesitation, he chopped the evil spirit to death with one blow.

The killing knife took away the last bit of resentment and hatred from the evil spirit, and at the same time cut off all the thoughts that maintained its physical form.

Its body quickly dissipated into a spirit particle state, while its true spirit completely turned into a blank slate, and then quickly flew away and disappeared.

This true spirit that has been completely washed clean will return to the True Spirit River and become the most primitive state. When it enters the world again, it can only start from the lowest life form, plants, insects and fish.

It will take who knows how many years and reincarnations before one can accumulate spiritual energy again and become a human being again...but by that time, it will no longer have anything to do with what is happening now.

Zhao Yi Fu watched his true spirit dissipate, and then looked at the spirit particles and spiritual essence that were about to dissipate in front of him... He could absorb these things, which were excellent nutrients for the primordial spirit.

But after all, he has already achieved Yang Shen, so it is of no use to him.

Thinking of the "trickster" on the Naihe Bridge, Zhao Yifu's heart moved and he stirred the killing knife.

The spiritual essence that was about to dissipate gathered together again and formed a piece of extremely smelly meat in front of him.

Old Yin fairy meat.

Zhao Yi Fu put the old Yin Immortal Meat into the Netherworld Messenger's Order, and then gathered his sleeves and looked at the other two evil spirits that were attracted into this space, just like the joy of an old farmer when he saw the best leek seedlings.

The clap of "Encouraging Learning" is like the hand grabbing the chive leaves; the knife of killing is like the sickle of harvest...

"Click, click~"

Two pieces of old Yinxian meat fell to the ground, emitting a strong stench.

Of course, Yang Shen couldn't smell it, so he picked up the two pieces of old Yinxian meat in front of him with a smile, just like an old farmer harvesting, and stuffed them into his sleeves.

A stronger aura of resentment emanated from the killing knife, but the joy of harvest clearly outweighed the imposed hatred.

He held a knife in one hand and the iron chain of "Encouraging Learning" in the other, and scanned the dark stone tower space with a sharp gaze... There are six corpses outside, so doesn't that mean there should be six evil spirits here as well?

Ordinary evil spirits cannot drop Old Yinxian meat, but the quality of these six evil spirits is very high.

Zhao Yifu searched and searched, and after going deeper into the interior of the stone tower for a distance, he finally found the target.

But it’s a bit far away…

Zhao Yifu started "Encouraging Learning" without thinking!
He swung the chain in his hand and threw "Encouraging Learning" out, and suddenly crossed the space to grab a fierce ghost, and then pulled it back fiercely when its lips trembled and it was confused for a moment... He raised his hand and chopped it down with a knife.

Another piece of old Yinxian meat fell to the ground, and another resentment joined the killing knife.

Zhao Yifu was now purely pursuing efficiency, so he did not use resentment to offset resentment. Instead, he prepared to cut the remaining good leeks in one go and then slowly "wash the knife" later.

Following the same method, he quietly approached another evil spirit, then pulled it down with the "Encouragement to Study" and then killed it with the Killing Knife.

The knife fell with extraordinary speed.

The remaining evil ghost finally realized that something was wrong. It seemed that it could not sense Zhao Yifu, who was hiding in another space, from a certain distance. To it, it was as if a scary ghost-eating ghost suddenly appeared in this space... All of a sudden, all its companions disappeared. It was so scary that it scared the hell out of it.

It desperately flew towards the inside of the stone tower, but unfortunately it didn't know the true location of the "ghost". Suddenly, a "metal book" with a chain flew out from somewhere in space, and then wrapped around the neck of the evil ghost, dragging it back in a state of terror...

My goodness, when Zhao Yi Fu dragged the evil ghost back, he was shocked to find that most of the resentment and hatred in his body had dissipated, and the rest was filled with fear.

It was for this reason that he simply slashed his knife and cut off all the remaining hatred in his body, leaving only a 'coward'.

This strange change made Zhao Yifu feel quite puzzled. The ghost would not even resist, because the resentment and hatred that originally occupied all its emotions were replaced by fear.

It has terrible power but only trembles.

It looked as if Zhao Yifu had done something immoral to it, and it was incomprehensible no matter how you looked at it.

So he pulled up this coward who had only strength in his body, opened the passage to the underworld, and threw him into the underworld.

However, he didn't know that his casual action caused a disturbance in the space inside the stone tower.

This stone tower is used to seal away ghosts, and he used the "Boundless Universe Technique" to distort and extend the space to enter, which was actually a sneaky way to drill a passage in this stone tower.

And now he has even opened the Netherworld Passage... Although he opened the Netherworld Passage in his own space, it has undoubtedly also touched upon some existence that is truly suppressed in this stone tower.

"boom!"

Zhao Yifu's Yang Shen felt dizzy, and it seemed that some ferocious beast suddenly awakened in front of him.

A huge black shadow suddenly filled the entire space and then rushed towards him.

Zhao Yifu was frightened by this and wanted to shrink back immediately.

However, before he could control the space to shrink back to its original position, the black shadow released boundless magic power, instantly puncturing the space where he was, exposing him and the Netherworld passage around him in this space.

This was definitely beyond Zhao Yifu's expectations.

But at this moment he no longer had the idea of ​​shrinking his head. Instead, he closed the passage to the underworld and slashed back fiercely with a knife.

This horrible thing must not be allowed out. God knows what will happen if it gets outside.

At the same time, he was also amazed. How could these Inspirational Wizards be so good? They actually came to Xiangyang City to build a stone tower to suppress the terrifying monsters, even at the cost of their own lives?
This was beyond Zhao Yifu's general understanding of the wizarding community. Was he really narrow-minded?

But it was not right, because when he killed the six evil spirits before, he could clearly feel that they were indeed carrying a lot of sins... It was obvious that these were not good people who would sacrifice themselves to suppress the devil?

Zhao Yifu felt the coldness coming towards him, and his Yang Shen suddenly activated the resentment and extremely yin energy on the killing knife, and then a cold sharpness suddenly burst out on the blade, and he attacked fiercely.

The being with a huge body did not seem to have any fighting skills. The seemingly overwhelming magic power was broken by Zhao Yifu with a single sword, and then fiercely inserted into his chest.

"what!!"

The other party let out a sound of surprise and anger.

Zhao Yifu felt strange after hearing this. This voice sounded like a human voice?
But at this time he had no time to think about it. He felt an unparalleled force of resentment and hatred rushing towards him from the Killing Knife, which quickly offset the resentment and hatred that had been accumulated on the Killing Knife.

Zhao Yifu was horrified by this, because the hatred and resentment transmitted by the opponent was so great that it was exhausted in a short period of time and the killing knife was counterattacked...

Zhao Yifu felt that the killing knife could no longer bear the pressure.

Because the resentment and hatred are too strong and too much, it cannot withstand it alone.

At this moment, he felt a sense of 'help' coming from the blade.

For the first time, Zhao Yifu felt that his killing knife also had its own consciousness.

Compared to the Pure Yang Demon Subduing Sword, which looks glorious and righteous on the outside but is actually crazy and hysterical on the inside, this Killing Knife looks as cold as a demon on the outside but has a hidden heat on the inside.

Yes, the core of this killing knife is actually the yang iron that he accidentally refined with pure yang fire. He created it with a fiery heart and a fiery method, so it is naturally hot.

Zhao Yifu's Yang Spirit suddenly lit up, and then ignited the heat in the killing knife.

At this moment, the influence of the resentment was completely suppressed. Under this intense heat, the Killing Blade even began to seize the opponent's resentment and then offset it with the opponent's resentment...

Good man, this is a case of "returning the favor in your own way".

This is also closely related to Zhao Yifu's understanding of his own strength.

But this is not without consumption, Zhao Yifu's own Yang Shen power is constantly being depleted.

The hatred and resentment from the other party was so strong that it even felt like it existed before time, making him feel creepy all the time.

Perhaps insisting on doing so at this moment was just self-deception, but he couldn't imagine what would happen if he couldn't hold on.

At this time, he really regretted that he had trusted the earth to open the passage to the underworld here. He was definitely too proud of himself.

However, just when he was feeling regretful and exhausted, the pressure exerted on him by the other party suddenly eased.

In a few breaths, all his pressure disappeared, as if that existence had collapsed first?
But how is this possible!

In any case, Zhao Yifu felt that it was impossible. He could feel that the other party's power was vast and far beyond his reach.

"Ugh……"

A long sigh came from the depths of the darkness.

"Who are you!"

Zhao Yifu's yang spirit had completely fallen into the space of this tower, so his expression was very solemn.

The man said calmly, "Mu Lu."

　First of all, I will take a day off tomorrow to go out and play with my wife and children.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)