Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 58 Mushroom Corpse
Jing Han never thought that these Taoist sword masters could kill his general father. Instead, these people would be killed by his general father.

Yang Qisheng didn't let him run around, fearing that he would be harmed by the corpse ghosts. In fact, he was more worried about Yang Qisheng running around.

He doesn't care about other people, but Yang Qisheng is the best person to him besides his "biological father" and "adoptive father". He wants to protect him and plead for him when the general wants to kill him.

Therefore, he was afraid that Yang Qisheng would suddenly burst out with a sword light and fly away, so he grabbed Yang Qisheng's big hand with his small hand and refused to let go.

"The Taoist priest from Huailing Temple." Yang Qisheng muttered to himself. He seemed to have heard this from the villagers the last time he came here.

A hundred years ago, Taoist temples and palaces were everywhere. After the Universal Grand Ceremony, the immortals retreated into seclusion, no longer daring to expand their influence in the mortal world. Emperor Taizu ordered all the Taoist temples to be converted to other uses.

A hundred years later, after many changes, only a few sorcerers who roamed the world and made a living by defrauding people occasionally appeared.

"I wonder which sect the Taoist priests in Huailing Temple belong to and established their own temple in the human world."

Jing Han heard this and raised his head and said, "I heard them say that they belong to the Divine Power Sect."

"The Divine Power Sect?" Yang Qisheng didn't have the spiritual clone of Mingyi Zhenren in Niwan Palace, so he could only ask Liu Hanzhang beside him, "Brother, do you know this sect?"

"The Divine Power School...tracing its origins back to the Cave God lineage, but it's become widespread in the human world, incorporating so many other things, and has spawned numerous offshoots. Well, it's a mess," Liu Hanzhang said. "This school of thought usually sets up shrines at home, dedicated to a particular deity, or even demons. They offer incense and fire, and when needed, they call upon the deity to perform tasks for them, or even possess them directly."

Yang Qisheng roughly knew what was going on. It was similar to the spirit writing and shamanism in his previous life.

"So are they good or evil?"

Liu Hanzhang smiled faintly and shook his head: "As long as they can offer sacrifices to the gods and pray to the gods, they can call themselves the Divine Power Sect. In the world of the mortals, whether they are good or bad depends entirely on how they act. I don't understand this Huailing Temple."

As the three of them were talking, a cave door appeared at the end of the passage ahead. The two stone doors were tightly closed, and strange talismans were carved on the door panels.

"There are a lot of zombies in here, but they are afraid of me." Jing Han ran towards the stone gate, knelt down in front of the door, put his hands together, prayed a few words, and the stone gate opened automatically.

When the stone door opened, there were indeed many zombies in armor inside. They were tall, wearing steel helmets and iron armor, holding long swords in their hands, the kind that gripped the handles with both hands. When they saw strangers coming in, they rushed over shouting loudly.

Jing Han stood up, drew the short knife from his waist for protection, and said crisply, "You dare to hurt me? My father will punish you. Quickly retreat!"

The zombies had wrinkled black skin on their faces, protruding fangs, and black eyes. They roared loudly at Jing Han, but seemed to be really afraid of him. They retreated and made way for him.

Yang Qisheng and Liu Hanzhang followed Jing Han into the stone chamber.

This tomb chamber has five doors, one of which is the one they came from. There are two doors on each side, and two more in the front. However, they are not arranged left and right, but up and down, one on top and one on the bottom. The one on top needs to be climbed up from the stairs on the left and right.

Jing Han directly chose the one below, and knelt in front of the door to pray. The stone door opened, and a road appeared behind it.

The three of them entered the passage and walked for a while, descending continuously, and soon saw another portal.

"My father is in there." Jing Han wanted to tell Yang Qisheng not to draw his sword against his father, but he knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he let it go. He planned to persuade his father to show mercy after Yang Qisheng and the other man were knocked down by his father.

"There's a lot of negative energy behind this," said Liu Hanzhang.

Yang Qisheng also felt it. He concentrated and was on guard. Ten sword auras had already condensed at his fingertips, ready to kill the enemy immediately if he found something wrong.

The stone door opened, and it was empty inside.

"There is a dark haze here. I'm leading the way ahead. You must be careful, junior brother." Liu Hanzhang made hand gestures and used the method of dispelling clouds and fog to clear away the dark haze.

They can still see clearly in pure darkness, but if there is a haze covering it, it is no longer possible and they have to cast a spell to clear it away.

He used magic to force the dark haze in the room to the area near the wall before he stepped in.

Jing Han had already knelt in the center of the stone chamber to pray, but even after praying many times, his general father never showed up.

"What's going on? I saw him right here in this stone chamber. I really saw my father." Jing Han's tone was filled with panic, afraid that Yang Qisheng would think he was lying. "I swear, I really saw him. My father was so tall, wearing armor, holding a big sword, and his feet were floating off the ground. He told me that if anyone bullied me again, he would chop off their head with his sword."

"I know, I know you didn't lie to me." Yang Qisheng looked at the black haze surging around him, "There's something strange here."

He looked at Liu Hanzhang, and Liu Hanzhang happened to look at him. They both knew that what Jing Han saw must be an illusion.

This fact was a bit cruel to Jing Han. Liu Hanzhang was at a loss and asked Yang Qisheng to make the decision. Yang Qisheng decided to tell Jing Han: "He should know the truth."

Liu Hanzhang nodded and put away his spell, allowing the evil black haze to fill the entire room again.

"Pray again, and your father should come out."

Jing Han knelt down and prayed sincerely as he was told. Sure enough, he soon jumped up and pointed forward: "Daddy! Daddy! Immortal Yang, my daddy has appeared!"

He ran forward quickly, but the tall general was still three meters away. He ran as hard as he could, shouting, "Daddy! Wait for me! Daddy! Daddy! Don't you want me anymore?"

Yang Qisheng did not see a mighty ancient general. What he saw were two people, two knights, a man and a woman, standing side by side, looking at him with smiles on their faces.

Although he knew it was fake, he still couldn't help but choked up and called out, "Dad, Mom."

What he saw was his father Yang Tianque and his mother Zhao Ruolan.

Although he was reincarnated with his memories, his parents really spoiled him. They wouldn't let him pick the stars if he wanted the sun, and wouldn't let him grab the moon if he wanted the stars.

After cultivating immortality, he knew that after a person dies, their soul usually dissipates quickly. Only those with great obsession or resentment will turn into ghosts and exist for a long time.

However, all the evil spirits can harm the soul. If an ordinary person is hit by a flying sword of the Liansha level, his soul will be shattered and dissipated on the spot, without even the chance to become a ghost.

"I will take good care of myself and the Yang family, and I will make sure they prosper and flourish."

Yang Qisheng knew that this was just an illusion, and he could not possibly mistake it for reality. He just seemed to see the portraits of his parents, and recalled them sadly. Then he used Taoist magic to dispel the evil black haze.

All the illusions disappeared. Jing Han ran three steps away, fell to the ground, and cried out in a sobbing voice: "Daddy, don't go! Daddy, where have you been?"

Yang Qisheng saw that Liu Hanzhang's eyes were also red on the other side. He didn't know what he saw. Although he was curious, he didn't ask. He just went over and pulled Jing Han up: "What you saw just now was all an illusion. There is a dark haze in this place. Whatever you miss most in your heart is what you will see."

"No, I saw my daddy, wuwuwa..." Jing Han couldn't accept the cruel truth and burst into tears.

Yang Qisheng stopped trying to coax him, letting him vent his pain. He then turned to Liu Hanzhang and said, "There's no way this is a single stone chamber that creates illusions. There must be other passages. Let's look for them."

The two used Wu Earth Qi to search and soon found that there was nothing behind the wall. Liu Hanzhang shot out a lightning sword and shattered the stone wall in one fell swoop.

Going further in, there is a larger stone chamber. This stone chamber is different from other places. There are many eternal lamps on the walls, and the flames are always burning, making the room as bright as day.

There is a large stone bed in the middle, covered with very strange "flowers". Looking closely, they are all fungi, but they are colorful, red, blue, yellow and purple, competing for beauty. Some are full of "red flowers" as big as little fingers, some are hung with snow-white hollow umbrella nets, some are many "lamp beads" emitting blue light, and some are clusters of "flowers" like yellow wheat ears.

A large number of mushrooms grow together layer upon layer, like a flower bed.

In the middle of these "flowers" lay an extremely beautiful female corpse. She was neatly dressed, wearing a golden crown made up of many birds on her head and a bright red robe on her body. She looked like a bride getting married.

But the embroidery on the robe was not of dragons or phoenixes, but of various poisonous snakes, some with horns, some with crowns, densely packed, coiled around the body, which was really shocking.

"Why is there a female corpse here? Could it be the general's wife?"

Liu Hanzhang and Yang Qisheng couldn't guess the identity of the female corpse. Yang Qisheng said, "No matter what, we can be sure that the three souls of this female corpse have not left her body and are still inside her body. She has been nurtured by the evil spirits for five hundred years and has become a demon corpse. We don't need to worry about who she is, just destroy her!"

"Junior brother, you are right!" Liu Hanzhang nodded.

Just as the two brothers were about to take action, a cold wind suddenly blew up in the room, and all the eternal lamps turned from orange to green. Then the surrounding walls cracked and corpses of demons flew out one after another.

These demon corpses were all female, twenty-two in total, all wrapped in a ball of green corpse fire, holding iron rods in their hands, and whistling as they attacked the two men.

Yang Qisheng understood it this time: "Brother, be careful, this is the Three Corpses Dao's method of refining corpses and returning to life!"

He released ten sharp sword rays, each of which condensed into a three-foot-long flying sword, stabbing at a demon corpse. The demon corpse used the iron rod in its hand to hit it, making a tinkling sound and sparks flying.

Some of the demon corpses opened their mouths and spewed out streams of emerald green corpse fire, some shot out rays of corpse-transforming divine light from their iron rods, some had emerald fire crows fly out of their ears, and some ejected water snakes from their nostrils.

(End of this chapter)