Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 35: Corpse Fire Burns the Sea of ​​Bitterness

Jing Lei described the general's tomb as terrifying, but Yang Qisheng and Huo Yaoguang could not leave because their fellow disciples were trapped there.

Even if they couldn't rescue Xue Yan, they had to at least get a general idea of ​​the situation here and then find a way to go back and get help.

The two men sent Jing Lei and his son away and prepared to go down to the tomb to investigate again.

Yang Qisheng said to Huo Yaoguang, "If the demon corpse had a physical form, we could fight it to the death with flying swords and magic. Even if we were defeated, we could seize the opportunity to retreat and avoid being killed here. But he uses curses, which are invisible and intangible. They can make people sick and even bring bad luck. This is difficult to deal with."

Huo Yaoguang said proudly, "We are the orthodox Xuan Sect. Our hearts and swords are united. Our primordial spirits are guarded within. We are immune to all evil. Why should we be afraid of him?"

Yang Qisheng waved his hand and advised her, "That's true, but we haven't set up the furnace and cauldron yet. Without the protection of the Gangsha, we can't activate the Zhoutian Fire that can refine the devil. We don't know the situation below, so if we rush in like this, if the other party's curse power is much stronger than ours, we will probably encounter an accident. You know, Senior Brother Xue Yan is at the same level as us, and his life and death are in danger now, so we have to be more careful."

Huo Yaoguang thought what he said made sense, but he still refused to accept it. "If you're worried about that, let's split up. You wait outside, and I'll go check out the situation down there. If it's safe, I'll let you go down."

There was a hint of sarcasm in her words.

Yang Qisheng wasn't angry, but smiled and said, "I'm not afraid. It's just that when faced with unforeseen dangers, I have to be as fully prepared as possible."

Huo Yaoguang was a little impatient: "Then please ask Brother Yang to teach me how to be most fully prepared."

Yang Qisheng asked, "Junior sister, have you learned the Lingbao Sutra for Saving People?"

Huo Yaoguang was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I haven't heard of it."

Her mind also contained the spiritual consciousness left by her master Zhongfu Sanren, but it was only infused with the "Lingbao Five Talismans Sutra" and the "Dongshen Purple and Green Sword Sutra", without the content of the "Lingbao Saving People Sutra".

"I was fortunate enough to learn this from my master. It's mainly used to convert all kinds of demons and devils. It includes a secret method to break the curse of evil spirits!"

"So that's how it is!" Huo Yaoguang was delighted to hear that. She also knew that it was very dangerous down there. After all, Xue Yan's talent and strength were top-notch. Even he was trapped in there, so she didn't dare to be too arrogant. It was just that she had previously thought that Yang Qisheng didn't even have the courage to go down and explore, so she couldn't help but look down on him.

Now that she heard Yang Qisheng had a better method, she knew she had wrongly blamed her senior brother, and she quickly bowed and admitted her mistake: "Since senior brother has such a wonderful method, from now on, I will obey your orders. I dare not disobey you!"

Yang Qisheng told her not to do so, as the situation was urgent. He quickly communicated with Mingyi Zhenren in his mind and selected a "Lingbao Disaster Relief Method" to practice based on the current situation.

Those who could enter Taiyi Palace were all geniuses, and the two of them mastered the technique in about the time it took to eat a meal.

Even after mastering this spell, Yang Qisheng still asked Huo Yaoguang to stay outside. "You preside over the Lingbao Altar outside. I'll go down and check on the situation. If anything goes wrong, you can still support me from outside. At worst, we can go get reinforcements. If we're both trapped, we can only release sword energy like Senior Brother Xue did and call for help."

Huo Yaoguang did not insist, but said with a firm look, "Brother, don't worry. I will definitely preside over the altar well. You must also be very careful."

She first went outside to look for an ancient tree that was over a hundred years old, and broke off a branch facing the sun; then she used her sword energy to dig three feet into the ground and dug out a rock covered with thick soil; then she pressed the stone into a bowl and went to the stream to get fresh water... There were five things in total, which were made of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth. She put the five spiritual talismans into them, and after a little sacrifice and refining, she arranged them at the entrance of the ancient tomb.

She sat cross-legged in the formation, using the "Great Method for Eliminating Disasters and Misfortunes" that she had just cultivated to set up an altar, emitting spiritual light and protecting Yang Qisheng from a distance.

At this time, Yang Qisheng was already trying to find a door to a deeper part of the tomb.

He first used the essence of Wu Earth to penetrate deep into the stone wall to check the situation behind it.

He soon found that there was a hollow space behind one of the stone walls. Since he couldn't find a way to open it, he raised his hand and shot out ten Qingyang sword energies.

Wood can overcome earth. Ten green sword energies penetrated deeply into the rock. With a light shout from Yang Qisheng, the stone wall that was more than a foot thick was shattered by the sword energy and scattered into rubble all over the ground.

There was a pitch-black corridor ahead. Yang Qisheng used the earth-attributed Huafeng sword energy to protect his body, transforming it into a yellow light that covered himself from head to toe. He then used the golden-attributed sharp sword energy to clear a path outside and flew into the endless darkness.

In a blink of an eye, they arrived at another tomb chamber. This one was larger than the one at the entrance. There were six sarcophagi arranged in a circle, like a blooming chrysanthemum.

In the center of the sarcophagus, there is a stone platform with a large sea lamp on it.

The base of the sea lamp is made of many small copper figures, kneeling on the ground with their hands raised upwards, supporting a large copper pot filled with lamp oil.

There was no wick in the oil, only three bean-sized spots of light floating up and down like fireflies.

The copper lamp's light was dim, but Yang Qisheng, with his night vision and the sharp sword energy, could see everything clearly. Each dot of light was a small figure, floating in a lake or ocean, paddling constantly, doing its best to keep its head above water.

And below the surface of the oil, there were dense black shadows, like water ghosts looking for substitutes, grabbing their lower bodies and dragging them to the bottom of the pot.

The little people were screaming loudly, the sound was smaller than that of a mosquito, but Yang Qisheng could hear it clearly. They were shouting for help.

Xue Yan was not among the three, so Yang Qisheng decided to rescue them first and ask them for more information about this place.

However, if he wanted to save people, he couldn't just do it casually. If he reached out to grab them, he would definitely trigger the formation. Not only would he fail to save them, he would also be trapped and become one of them.

Yang Qisheng pinched the Lingbao Jue with his left hand and the sword Jue with his right hand, performing the "Lingbao Disaster Relief Method".

He first separated out a Qingyang sword energy. Among the five spiritual treasure talismans, the Qingyang talisman represents the vitality of the East, and is most effective against evil spells such as corpses, ghosts, and undead spirits.

Then, he extracted a bit of blood from his middle finger and threw it into the sword energy. The sword energy quickly transformed into a small green figure about a foot tall.

This little man looked exactly like Yang Qisheng, and was covered in a halo that could ward off misfortune. He flew straight above the oil lamp.

The three little men in the lamp were trapped in the oil, as if they were in the sea, with the ocean on all sides and no end in sight. They could not see Yang Qisheng himself, but suddenly they saw a divine man with green light falling from the sky, and they excitedly shouted for help.

The green-glowing figure asked, "What are your names? What sects do you belong to?"

The first Taoist with a long beard replied, "My surname is Wang, my name is Hu Yue, and my cave is located above Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Wuku River. This one is my disciple Tu Yanzhou, and I'll let the other Taoist friend speak for himself."

The third one was a middle-aged man. "My name is Lu Shuangjie, and my nickname is the Gambling Sword Immortal. I have no fixed place to live, and every casino in the world is my home!"

As they spoke, the green light figure spit out three balls of green light. Inside each ball of green light was a Qingyang divine talisman. The names of the three people were shown on the talismans. Each of them hung down a thread of light thinner than a hair until it reached in front of the three people.

"Hurry up and grab it, I'll pull you up!"

The three of them hurriedly reached out to grab the light thread, which contracted and pulled them upwards. The shadowy water ghosts in the oil refused to let go, grabbing them by the legs and waists, frantically saying, "Don't leave! Stay with us! Why should we be trapped here while you can leave? If we die, we die together!"

The green light figure said, "Don't pay any attention to them. Focus your mind and don't be distracted."

The three did as they were told. The threads of light gathered more and more, and the water ghosts became mere human-shaped shadows, unable to leave the oil surface. As the three were forcibly pulled out, they fell back into the oil. As they floated to the surface, they stamped their feet, beat their chests, and cried and cursed loudly: "Why? Why can you leave alive! We will only die here forever!"

The three people were terrified and dared not respond. As the light threads disappeared, they each entered a ball of green light.

At this moment, the formation attached to the oil lamp was triggered, and circles of ripples emerged on the surface of the oil. Ripples on the surface of ordinary liquids usually spread out from the inside to the outside, but the ripples on the oil lamp rose from the edge of the copper pot and contracted inward in circles, as if time was flowing backwards and the image was played upside down!
Circles of opposing ripples created a huge suction force, trying to suck the little green man above, along with the three rescued people, back into the oil.

The green figure had a cloak made of spiritual light that could ward off evil on his body. He quickly took it off and threw it down, then opened his mouth and sucked hard, sucking all the green light balls that wrapped the three people into his mouth. Then he rolled up his body and turned into a ball of light, flying quickly towards Yang Qisheng's right hand, which was holding the sword technique.

After the cloak transformed from the spiritual light of disaster relief fell into the oil, the oil surface was calm for a short time, and then began to react violently, shooting out twelve oil columns like fountains. The shadow water ghosts in the oil rose with the oil columns, and with their cries, the oil columns burned violently. The burning flames were not orange, but green, and instantly illuminated the entire tomb in green.

Yang Qisheng retreated quickly, summoning with his hands at the same time. The ball of green light flew after him, and when it was halfway, green corpse fire suddenly burned on the surface.

He made a prompt decision, slashed with his sword finger, and with a sharp "bang", the green ball exploded with green fire.

The three people rolled out and as soon as they landed on the ground, green flames started burning on their bodies, as if they were covered with grease. The green flames wrapped them from head to toe and burned violently.

They struggled to run towards Yang Qisheng, shouting loudly: "Save me! Fellow Daoist, help me..."

Yang Qisheng frowned, he knew that this was an evil method from the Upper Corpse Path among the Three Corpse Paths, called the Corpse Fire Disintegration Method.

The people trapped in it will glow from their bodies as they burn their own essence. Once it is burned out, they will die, and their spirits and souls will sink into the oil and become vengeful ghosts.

Previously, it seemed that the three of them still had plenty of light on their bodies, proving that their vital energy was not greatly depleted. Moreover, all three of them were masters in the Anlu Liansha period. When they escaped from the sea of ​​corpse oil, they would be pursued by the corpse fire, like a cancer attached to the bones, burning their entire bodies. However, with their skills, as long as they concentrated their minds and used their internal energy to resist, they would not be seriously hurt for a while.

When facing this evil practice, the calmer you are, the less harm you will suffer; the more panicked you are, the more you will fall into the evil's trap.

Obviously, these three people were terrified. Surrounded by the corpse fire, they could only scream for help. However, they didn't know that the more scared they were and the more confused they were, the faster the corpse fire would burn, and the more it would burn their bones and internal organs!
(End of this chapter)