Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 81 Yunyang's Abandoned Disciple
The Cloud Heaven Immortal Fire is a pure Yang elixir fire refined by the Great True Man Anli, who established the cauldron, subdued dragons and tigers, circulated the Qi and Sha, and drew water from Kan and filled fire.

The fire adhered to the outside of each flying sword. Although it was only a thin layer and barely visible to the naked eye, the black flames emitted by the Black-Hearted Young Master met their nemesis. Not only could they not melt the sword's edge, but they also vanished as soon as they encountered it.

One hundred and eighty-six flying swords of various lengths and colors, all at the Condensation-level, flew through the sky, forming a large circle in the air that enveloped the Black-Hearted Young Master, continuously thrusting inwards.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, the ruthless young master manipulated sixteen paper figures to fly and attack Yang Qisheng from a distance, while simultaneously releasing the vengeful ghosts and evil spirits from the ruthless lamp.

Whenever he killed someone, he would select those fierce ghosts and demons with great resentment and malevolence and put them into the lamp.

It can command these ghosts to do things, such as cursing from afar, transporting goods by a hundred ghosts, sending messages by voice, or sending people out to kill. As long as there is a light, all ghosts are subject to its control.

Disciples like him and the Soul-Crossing Prince, who had been learning magic from Cui Wushe from the very beginning, each possessed a similar magical artifact.

He had collected over five thousand fierce ghosts in that lamp, each more ruthless than the last, and now he released them all at once.

He also used magic to imbue these vengeful spirits with black flames, instantly creating an effect as if thick ink had been spilled in the air, with black flames spreading everywhere and ghosts wailing and howling.

Yang Qisheng dared not delay. He withdrew the Five Elements Sword Aura, wrapped up the sixteen paper figures, and strangled them into pieces.

The inner demon Xiaoqian flew up again: "Young master, I'm here to lend you a hand!"

She held the Three Corpse Staff in her hand, from which three streams of black and green flames spewed forth from the skull at the end of the staff. Within the flames were three human heads: one of Gao Bing, one of Gao Ding, and one of a young girl, all of which swelled to the size of a cartwheel.

She saw the sky full of fierce ghosts and was overcome with greed, wanting to devour some to increase her magical power.

Yang Qisheng shouted to stop her, telling her to attack the ruthless young master.

Although Xiaoqian was reluctant, she readily agreed.

Although her strength was lacking, the two Corpse Path treasures she possessed were truly formidable:
With his left hand, he pointed at the Nine-Headed Mirror in the air, shooting out a green beam of light that enveloped the Black-Hearted Prince. The beam of light was filled with countless insect-like shadows.

Holding the Three Corpse Staff in his right hand, he urged three corpse demons to fly and bite the Black-Hearted Young Master.

The ruthless young master realized that she was neither a ghost nor a demon god, and for a moment he didn't know what she was. He roared and shook out the Soul-Snatching Rope to try and capture her soul, but she swayed her body and disappeared into thin air, easily dodging the attack.

At this moment, Yang Qisheng took out the Soul-Ferrying Fan and unleashed a large swath of five-colored divine light, which enveloped the countless fierce ghosts and sucked them back into the fan.

Both the Soul-Crossing Fan and the Black Heart Lamp are magical artifacts used by ghost cultivators to raise and refine vengeful ghost servants. The Black Heart Lamp is more powerful than the Soul-Crossing Fan, as it can coat the surface of a vengeful ghost's body with black flames. As long as the vengeful ghost pounces on an enemy, it can burn the enemy to ashes.

Originally, the Soul-Crossing Fan couldn't contain the vengeful spirits released by the Black Heart Lamp, because the fan would be burned.

However, this fan had to be reforged by a great master, and it was also imbued with the Heavenly Flame. The black flames could not burn this fan. First, more than fifty fierce ghosts were wrapped in the five-colored divine light and forcibly pulled back into the fan. The black flames on their bodies were refined by the Heavenly Flame, burning with a sizzling sound, their bodies smoking, and they cried out in pain.

After the pain subsided, the black flames on their bodies were completely purified and eliminated, and they became like ordinary vengeful ghosts, standing blankly on the ridge inside the fan.

Yang Qisheng waved his fan repeatedly, and the five-colored divine light swept away all the fierce ghosts.

The ruthless young master could not withstand the relentless attacks of the Myriad Swords Gourd, and with Xiaoqian manipulating two Corpse Path magic treasures to assist him from the side, the flying swords finally broke through his defenses and pierced his body.

His physical body had long since perished, and his primordial spirit, which had been formed from black flames, was pierced by a flurry of swords and cut into countless pieces, all of which were large and small black fireballs, rolling up and down, and trying to reassemble.

Yang Qisheng waved the Soul-Crossing Fan at him, using the Five-Colored Divine Light to engulf all the fireballs, and then forcibly pulled them back into the treasure fan.

A sword imbued with malevolent energy can sever the primordial spirit and sever the soul.

When the Black-Hearted Young Master's body was torn apart by Yang Qisheng's Five Elements Sword Fiend, his soul was already damaged. Now, with his mind distracted by the chaotic swords of the Myriad Swords Gourd, an ordinary unorthodox cultivator would have already been annihilated.

Their ghost cultivators possessed extraordinary souls. They endured the agony of having their bodies and souls shattered twice, and were further tempered by the Cloud Heaven Immortal Fire when they entered the fan. In the end, they were able to reform into human form within the fan, though they had become much dimmer and weaker.

Yang Qisheng didn't have time to pay attention to him, because he could already sense that another master of the Ghost Path was coming from the east!
He vigorously waved his fan, and with Xiaoqian's help, he managed to collect the remaining evil spirits flying around in all directions. Fortunately, he had set up the Five Elements Qimen Formation in advance; otherwise, these evil spirits would have scattered in all directions, and he would not have been able to collect them all, and many of them would have certainly roamed the human world.

Just as I got my hands on the Black Heart Lamp and the Soul-Stealing Rope, the enemy arrived.

Another paper sedan chair flew swiftly from the dark eastern sky.

This sedan chair was much larger than the ones before it, with the area of ​​at least one room. There were a total of sixteen people carrying the sedan chair. They were not paper figures, but wooden puppets, carved from thousand-year-old sandalwood and then refined through secret methods of the ghost path! Their entire bodies were pitch black, except for the green light flashing in their eyes.

Sixteen wooden figures carrying a sedan chair flew over at lightning speed. Yang Qisheng guessed that the last Empty Prince had arrived.

His arrangement was originally intended for the three young masters. He had successfully eliminated the first two, but the third one came on his own initiative. Naturally, he had no reason to avoid a battle and directly opened the main gate in the east to let the other party in.

The sedan chair entered the formation and hovered in the night sky, stopping quietly. The wooden figures remained motionless, with only the colorful paper tassels on the outside of the sedan chair swaying in the night wind.

Yang Qisheng hovered opposite him, riding a five-colored sword light, and asked loudly, "Are you the Empty Void Prince?"

"It's me." The other person countered, "My two junior brothers have already lost their lives at your hands?"

"Not bad!"

The other party paused for a moment: "You are from Taiyi Palace. Taiyi Palace is still raising ghosts around them, and you are a disciple of Dayou Zhenren."

He mistook Xiaoqian for a ghost.

Yang Qisheng denied it: "Dayou Zhenren is my senior uncle." He was unwilling to waste any more words with the other party. Now that the real person had been identified, the two sides were determined to fight to the death and show their true strength directly. He first released five sword auras with his right hand. After splitting into forty-five colorful lights, they flew towards the other party in the air.

"Five Elements Combined Refinement! Taiyi Dividing Light!" The opponent, from the Yunyang Sect, immediately revealed the sword technique he was using. Then, the sedan curtain fluttered, and a sword light shot out from inside. The sword light was pure white sword energy, wrapped in a layer of blackish-gray sword aura. It was more than three zhang long. It swept through the air to meet Yang Qisheng's forty-five sword lights and shattered them all, scattering them into a large patch of colorful light.

Good heavens, this guy is much more powerful than the Black-Hearted Young Master! Yang Qisheng was shocked and immediately realized he needed to activate the Myriad Swords Gourd.

More than a hundred colorful light swords shot through the air, aiming at the flying sword of the Void Prince.

If it were a one-on-one fight, neither of them could match the Void Prince's sword. However, with more than 180 swords clashing continuously, clanging and banging, sparks flew everywhere. The Void Prince's sword could not maintain its footing and was repeatedly slashed and retreated. In an instant, it retreated to the front of the sedan chair, and the sword aura surrounding the flying sword almost dissipated.

An exclamation of surprise came from inside the sedan chair: "It's actually the Cloud Heaven Immortal Fire! Although you're not a disciple of True Person Dayou, you have a close relationship with him. He actually managed to forge such a magic weapon for you."

As they spoke, eight more flying swords shot out from the sedan chair, joining the previous flying sword that blocked the gourd.

"To have received such favor from the Great Master of Great Abundance, you must be a disciple of the Master of Brightness!"

Yunyang Sect and Taiyi Palace both belong to the orthodox Xuanmen sect and have a close relationship. Kongxu Gongzi was originally a direct disciple of Yunyang Sect and had cultivated in Yunyang Mountain for many years. He was very familiar with the interpersonal relationships of Taiyi Palace.

He had already refined ten pure yang sword auras, which were extremely powerful. He was about to refine them into a powerful energy, but because he was obsessed with women, he neglected the alchemy furnace, causing the elixir energy to be mixed with yin dregs, making it impossible for him to refine the pure yang sword energy.

However, these ten sword strikes were already at the perfect level, far surpassing the flying swords that had been cultivated for many years by unorthodox sects.

After becoming an apprentice of Cui Wushe, he received guidance from this ghost judge and went to Xiandu Mountain to find nine immortal swords. He then incorporated the pure yang sword energy into each of them and used a secret ghost method to add a layer of yin ghost energy on the outside.

Now, possessing the strengths of both the righteous and the evil paths, with inner yang and outer yin, he has forged the Nine Swords of Emptiness, whose power surpasses many sword energies!

If these flying swords inside the Myriad Swords Gourd were in the hands of their original owner, most of them would have broken if they clashed with the Nine Swords of Emptiness.

When the Great Master Dayou forged this magic weapon, he did not simply place the sword inside the gourd. Instead, he placed an earth fire furnace in the lower part of the gourd and a heaven fire cauldron in the upper part. With the cauldron and furnace complete, he used a talisman array to make the qi flow and form a cycle of fire. It was ingenious and cleverly arranged. All the flying swords placed inside would be tempered day and night by the heavenly fire, which would remove impurities and continuously refine them. They would also be imbued with the heavenly fire.

Master Dayou once told Yang Qisheng that if he ever obtained a sword from another sect, he should not refine and use it directly, so as not to pollute his inner energy. Instead, he should put it into a gourd and then leave it alone. The gourd could "refine" the sword on its own, and when he needed to use it, he could manipulate the gourd by making hand seals.

Therefore, although these flying swords were of far inferior quality to the Nine Swords of Emptiness, they were still a force to be reckoned with. Relying on their large numbers, they managed to fight to a standstill for a time!

Yang Qisheng also unleashed his sword energy once more, and a total of more than two hundred colorful sword lights intertwined, fighting with various colors of light and flame, as brilliant as a star rain, illuminating the night sky with bizarre and beautiful light.

Xiaoqian also attacked from the side, wielding the Nine-Headed Mirror and the Three Corpse Staff. She couldn't withstand a single blow from the Void Prince and could only rely on the properties of the two Corpse Path Treasures to harass him continuously.

Since the Pure Yang Pill Furnace was leaked, the Empty Void Prince has become reckless and indulged in women. The Three Corpses and Nine Worms in his body were already active, and they were stirred up by the two magic treasures, causing them to erupt.

"This junior disciple of Taiyi Palace is not very skilled, yet he raises such an evil ghost and uses such wicked corpse magic!" Young Master Kongxu thought in surprise. "It is said that True Man Mingyi is unrestrained and unconventional in his actions. It seems that his reputation is well-deserved. He actually allows his disciple to practice evil magic. If he were a disciple of True Man Wuwang, he would probably have been struck dead by a divine thunderbolt from the heavens long ago!"

(End of this chapter)