Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 79 The Heartless Second Young Master

What this demon said is true. Let alone a hundred strands of Yuan Qi, even if you gave her a thousand strands of Yuan Qi, with Yang Qisheng's current cultivation level, it would be a piece of cake to subdue her.

To deal with the ruthless young master, it wouldn't hurt to appropriately enhance her strength.

However, she has become too powerful, and it will take more effort to control her in the future.

However, compared to eliminating the scourge of the wicked young master, this little trouble is nothing.

"Alright, I'll give you twelve strands of Yuan Qi and see just how far you can go!"

Xiaoqian was overjoyed to have finally persuaded him, and knelt down with her hands clasped, saying, "This servant thanks you for your great kindness, young master! I will certainly help you achieve your wish!"

Yang Qisheng drew twelve streams of elixir energy from the Five Elements Divine Fire Furnace within his abdomen and sent them over. Xiaoqian opened her mouth and swallowed them, then shrank her entire body into a ball of five-colored light, which flashed a few times before disappearing.

A moment later, Xiaoqian reappeared, her body now even more refined, standing there as if she were a living person.

Yang Qisheng looked at her and shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid I still can't fool the eyes of the Ghost Sword Immortal."

Xiaoqian said confidently, "That's why we still need to borrow your Three Corpse Staff, young master."

Yang Qisheng took out the Three Corpse Staff and handed it to her.

Xiaoqian took the staff and put it back, overjoyed. She waved it a few times and suddenly stuck it into the stone in front of the altar. She then exhaled a breath of five-colored true energy and poured it into the skull at the end of the staff.

The staff was touched, and black energy surged within the skull, while emerald flames shot out from its eye sockets and mouth.

Each wisp of black smoke and green flame revealed a human head: an old man, an old woman, or a young girl, some laughing, some angry, some twisted and ferocious, floating up and down.

Xiaoqian leaped away, first heading towards the old man, who opened his mouth and swallowed her, then shrank back into his skeleton.

After a while, Xiaoqian reappeared and was put back into the old woman's mouth, and the old woman put her back into the skeleton.

A moment later, she reappeared and put herself into the girl's mouth.

This was repeated three times before she reappeared before the altar, picked up her staff, and as she waved it, the three heads reappeared.

This time, the old man lunged at Gao Bing, and the old woman lunged at Gao Ding.

Just as the two were about to cast a spell to resist, they met the gazes of the two corpse demon heads. A flash of green light appeared in their pupils, and they fell into an illusion, ceasing their struggle and revealing a foolish smile on their faces.

The old man and the old woman lunged at the two men's chests, their mouths gaping wide, splitting open from their ears, their teeth sharp and piercing deep into their chest muscles and ribs, drinking their lifeblood in large gulps.

The two men experienced no pain; their life essence was quickly drained by the corpse demon, leaving them like two persimmons whose juice had been sucked dry. Their muscles contracted, their skin wrinkled, and they tightly wrapped themselves around their skeletons, becoming two zombies.

Yang Qisheng said, "The souls of these two people are restricted by their master and are covered with soul lamps. Once they die, their master will know."

Xiaoqian laughed and said, "Who said they're dead?"

With a flick of the Three Corpse Staff, the old man's and old woman's heads rolled in the black smoke and green flames, and in an instant fell to the ground, transforming into the two brothers, Gao Bing and Gao Ding, exactly as they had been in life.

Yang Qisheng didn't say anything more. In fact, he knew at least two ways to kill the Gao brothers, Gao Bing and Gao Ding, without the ruthless young master finding out.

One method is the orthodox Xuanmen technique, which is recorded in the Lingbao Duren Jing. It can use talismans as a substitute to transfer the ghostly restrictions to the body. In this way, even if a person dies for many years, the soul lamp on the Black Heart Prince's side will still be as bright as ever.

However, to create a talisman that can replace a living person, he would need to reach at least the Refining Qi stage.

It is said that when a person is born, the spirit comes from the heavens and the form comes from the earth. The primordial spirit is born from the pure air of the heavens, and the physical form is formed from the turbid air of the earth.

The name "Lingbao" signifies the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment through merging with the heavens, and physical treasure through matching the earth. It represents the sublimation of form and spirit in harmony with heaven and earth, transcending the ordinary and entering sainthood.

Practitioners gather the vital energy from the heavens and the inauspicious energy from the earth, thus aligning themselves with heaven and earth and elevating their cultivation methods.

The talisman that can replace a living person must also match heaven and earth, and obtain the interaction of the two energies of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends in order to form a true talisman.

Yang Qisheng is currently in the Refining Demon stage, and the talismans he creates only have the form but not the spirit. They can only be used temporarily as substitute talismans to attract the opponent's magic attacks during battles, but they cannot deceive the Soul Lamp's lock.

In addition, another method is the Three Corpse Path technique.

Yang Qisheng's Three Corpse Daoist techniques were all derived from the Lingbao Duren Jing (Scripture of Salvation of the Spiritual Treasure), combined with the Three Corpse Staff and the Nine-Headed Mirror, as well as from his battles with his master Wen Yan and Chu Hanfeng. They were incomplete.

As expected of a demon, Xiaoqian quickly came up with a solution and put it into action.

The three corpses on the staff were not simply created by killing three people and imprisoning their heads and souls on it.

The three corpse demons were created by the successive leaders of the Three Corpse Path by extracting the three corpse gods from other people's bodies and refining them together.

Even for cultivators, severing the Three Corpses is extremely difficult. Naturally, the Three Corpses Path cannot directly extract the Three Corpse Gods from a person's body. They use extremely evil secret methods to refine the entire person, merging their spirit, blood, three souls, and seven spirits with the Three Corpse Gods. Then, they use magic to extract the three souls separately, which are devoured by the three poisonous snakes on the staff. The remaining seven spirits are matched and separated with the Three Corpse Gods, creating these three corpse demons. They manifest as an old man, an old woman, and a young girl.

In reality, the Three Corpses have no form and can manifest in any form.

The reason it looks the way it does now is because before Yang Qisheng entered the General's Tomb, Shi Wenyan had just used this staff to kill three unorthodox sword immortals, who happened to be a family: an old man, an old woman, and a young girl.

Now, Xiaoqian used it to kill Gao Bing and Gao Ding, and two of their corpses took on the appearances of these two people.

Although Gao Bing and Gao Ding are dead, their primordial spirits and seven souls have transformed into two corpses, and each of their three souls is ruled by a poisonous snake. They have a mysterious connection with the Black Heart Prince's soul lamp, and as fellow corpses and ghosts, the lamp over there has not been extinguished.

The Gao Bing and Gao Ding that appeared this time were exactly the same as when they were alive. Even Yang Qisheng, if he didn't have a natural connection with his inner demons, wouldn't be able to tell that they were fake at first glance.

He had Xiaoqian stay in front of the altar, and then used his magic to send the two girls who had been kidnapped back to town. He found a security escort agency, gave them silver, and asked them to escort them home.

Then they returned to set up the altar.

He laid down a Nine Palaces, Eight Trigrams, Qimen Dunjia, and Five Elements formation around the altar, which was much more powerful and elaborate than the one he had set up with Huo Yaoguang at the General's Tomb.

After dark, let Xiaoqian use the Three Corpse Staff to let the Black-Hearted Young Master sense it.

The Three Corpse Staff countered the Soul Lamp, indicating that Gao Bing and Gao Ding's souls were damaged and their lives were hanging by a thread.

At midnight, eight faint gong sounds echoed in the air, shaking one's soul as if something in the darkness was trying to lure them over to investigate.

Two paper sedan chairs flew in, identical in design to the original Soul-Crossing Prince, each carried by eight paper figures.

They floated in lightly and landed on the ground, and then two young men stepped out of the sedan chair.

He was dressed in black and wore a black hat. He was thin and gaunt. At his waist hung a small glass lamp, the flame of which was black with a purple outer flame, hanging like a jade pendant.

He was dressed in white, wearing a white hat, with a short knife slung across his waist; he looked quite ordinary.

The paper figures parted to the left and right, and the two figures floated lightly to the front of the altar.

"Gao Bing" and "Gao Ding" came over, knelt down and bowed, saying, "Master, Senior Uncle."

The ruthless young master frowned and looked around: "What's going on? We were fighting with someone with your second senior uncle when we suddenly sensed something was wrong here?"

Gao Bing knelt on the ground and said, "It's Huai Ling Temple. They discovered that we were using the 'Three Manifestations of Fierce Ghosts' technique to curse and kill the workers in the temple, create disaster, and sacrifice a large number of living people to break our spell."

The ruthless young master chuckled: "They've only been supporting three dead ghosts from the previous dynasty and four beasts from the mountains. What means do they have to break our magic?"

The heartbroken young master in white said from the side, "They also have the Wind and Fire Emperor. Junior brother, you should not underestimate them."

"That guy surnamed Gao is nothing but a dead sword immortal. Does he even deserve to be called an emperor?" The Black-Hearted Young Master stopped mocking the Wind and Fire Emperor and asked what else had happened.

"Gao Bing" said, "They fought us from afar, cursing us in return. A demon god also came. I saw a fox, a snake, a black bear, and a wild boar riding on a demonic wind, which broke many branches of the trees here. We were no match for them. They said they had set up a Four Spirits Formation around here, completely sealing off this area and preventing us from leaving. We could only ask you for help."

"What a load of rubbish, the Four Spirits Formation! It's clearly the Four Demons Formation!" The Black-Hearted Young Master looked around but couldn't see any trace of a formation.

Even the Broken Heart Prince couldn't see any signs: "The Divine Skill Sect has thousands of branches, some strong and some weak, and many of them have high magical power. We can't let our guard down."

The ruthless young master took the Black Heart Lamp from his waist, made a hand seal with his left hand, and made the lamp float above his fingers. The wick inside surged and contracted like a human heart, emitting a halo of light each time.

Holding the lamp, he flew eastward from where he had come from. The faint dark light spread outwards like ripples on water. Suddenly, something seemed to be touched where he passed, and five-colored light and shadow appeared.

"As expected, there is a demonic formation here!" The Black-Hearted Young Master pointed with his hand, and the lamp emitted a dark and malevolent light that shot straight towards a certain direction.

A beam of azure light rose from the flat ground, and within the light appeared a young sword immortal dressed in azure robes.

This was the illusion created by Yang Qisheng using the Five Elements Formation. The young sword immortal was naturally his shadow, standing over ten zhang tall, reaching the sky and the earth.

The ruthless young master thought it was a demon god from Huailing Temple, because he heard the other party say that he had set up the "Four Spirits Formation", which meant that there must be a demon god in the east, and the blue light and blue aura matched.

But he immediately realized that it was just a shadow, not the demon god that had been lying in ambush, not even a clone, and it was righteous and not evil, without a trace of demonic aura.

"wrong……"

His shouts sounded wrong, and the Broken Heart Prince was still in front of the altar. He could see him more clearly by the light of the Black Heart Lamp. He thought it was a demon god incarnate using incense to manifest himself out of thin air. He pointed and released the Broken Heart Knife from his waist.

Just then, behind Gao Bing, a "poisonous snake" silently emerged from his sleeve, stretched out in the wind, and transformed into the Three Corpse Staff.

He plunged the staff deep into the Broken Heart Prince's lower back, and it emerged from his chest!

(End of this chapter)