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Late at night, at the Ghost Lantern Town Inn.

With no more troublemakers to resist, Ghost Lantern Temple was left with only Fu Yu, Lei Xing, Xie Xu, and others to guard it, waiting for the main force of the Anshun County Demon Slaying Division to arrive.

As for Muyang?

He then went down the mountain with Lu Zongsong and arrived at the inn where they were resting.

The reason is simple: to help Lu Zongsong complete his mission, so I plan to accompany him to Medicine King Valley tomorrow.

"Could he really be that kind?"

In a superior room, Xiao Cui sat opposite Gu Lingyun, rubbing her cheeks which were still slightly swollen, and asked doubtfully.

To her surprise, Gu Lingyun not only didn't complain with her, but also advised her, "Alright, Xiao Cui, he didn't know us at the time, so he hit us a little too hard. We're all colleagues in the Demon Slayer Division, so don't take it to heart."

Xiao Cui: ? ? ?

Miss, why are you taking his side?

Xiao Cui didn't understand, but as a qualified servant, she could only helplessly shut her mouth.

Meanwhile, Mu Yang, who was being discussed by the two, was finalizing tomorrow's itinerary with Lu Zongsong.

After setting the time, Lu Zongsong silently got up and left.

After Lu Zongsong left, Mu Yang immediately locked the door and then focused his attention on the day's gains.

First and foremost are the various sizes of sleeve pockets.

The two greatest insights were undoubtedly gained from Jingchan and Mingjing.

Both are small sleeve pouches of the fifth rank, both are blue in quality, and are about sixty feet square, with a volume of approximately eight thousand cubic meters.

In addition, there were more than twenty fourth-tier sleeve pockets of varying sizes.

These were confiscated from some monks at the Ghost Lantern Temple who were unable to keep their sleeve pouches safe.

Among these items were a considerable amount of money, silver, pills, and precious medicines, but few were of high quality.

Mu Yang glanced at it and then prepared to go back to exchange it for a reward.

After that, came the gains in martial arts.

The martial arts of the Ghost Lantern Temple lineage were collected in great detail because Mu Yang had swept through their scripture pavilion.

The book includes "The Method of Building the Dantian with Ghost Lamp", "The Method of Opening the Meridians with Ghost Lamp", and "The Method of Opening the Acupoints with Ghost Lamp".

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[Hozuki True Qi (White): When using Yin-attribute True Qi to activate martial arts techniques, the power is slightly increased.]

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[Hozuki's Great Meridians (White): After opening four great meridians with Hozuki's true energy, one's resistance to Yin-attribute true energy and Yin Qi is slightly increased. If all twelve great meridians are opened, this attribute will automatically be upgraded to blue.]

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【Hozuki Body Aperture (Blue): After opening the body apertures with Hozuki's true energy, the corrosive effect of ghosts on oneself is greatly reduced. If all body apertures are opened, an additional entry will be obtained -- Hozuki Body (Blue).

③ Ghost Lantern Body (Blue): By stimulating the five major body acupoints with Ghost Lantern's true energy, a large amount of true energy is consumed, resulting in a significant increase in the effects of the Ghost Lantern Body acupoint attributes.

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Hozuki's True Qi is an extremely rare type of Yin-attribute True Qi.

Although it cannot compare to the true Yin energy exerted by ghosts in terms of coldness, for most martial artists, the damage caused by Yin-attribute true energy entering the body is not small.

Besides the basic Hozuki set, Mu Yang also found the Hozuki Temple's signature martial art in Jing Chan's sleeve pocket—

The Body of the Ghost Lamp Buddha!

A martial art that involves transforming one's own acupoints into places to accommodate ghosts.

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[Equipable Item: Ghost Lamp Buddha Body (Awakening Martial Arts)]

[Rank: Rank 6]

【Equipment Effect: ①Perfect (White): The proficiency of the Ghost Lantern Buddha Body reaches the perfect level.

② Horizontal Training Affinity (Blue): Greatly increases affinity with horizontal training martial arts, accelerating the training speed of horizontal training martial arts.

③ Ghost Cave (Blue): Transforms one's five major body acupoints into special ghost caves that can perfectly contain ghosts. There is no need to dissipate the true energy within the body acupoints, and one can have 100% control over all ghosts residing within the ghost cave.

④ Ghostly Enclosure (Blue): For each ghost placed within the Ghost Cave, varying amounts of physique bonus are granted based on the ghost's strength.

[Permanent fixation conditions: Equip this item for 100 days, or slay any sixth-tier or higher-grade monster while equipping this item.]

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In normal cultivation of the "Ghost Lamp Buddha Body," because it requires transforming one's own body's acupoints into ghost points, true qi cannot be stored within these acupoints.

However, the term "ghost cave" can obviously avoid this drawback.

Not only does it not require dissipating one's true energy, but it also grants complete control over ghosts, eliminating the risk of being corrupted by them.

However, ghosts are rare, even weak ones are uncommon, let alone powerful ones.

Even with his ability to summon water spirits, collecting ghosts is still not easy for him.

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【Water Ghost (Blue): Can consume true energy to transform female drowned corpses who meet the conditions of Yin year, Yin month, Yin day, and Yin hour, and whose soul strength is sufficient, into Water Ghosts for the user to control. The more suitable the conditions are, the higher the quality of the transformed Water Ghost. The maximum strength depends on the soul strength of the controller.

Current number of Water Spirits: 0.

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Mu Yang decided to wait and see before deciding whether to equip himself with this martial art.

After that, Mu Yang glanced at Jing Chan's other martial arts techniques.

That is, the "Ghost Fusion Technique" and his self-created "Ghost Lantern Dragon Subduing Method".

The "Ghost Fusion Technique" is quite effective, perfectly compensating for the weakness of weak ghosts, allowing powerful ghosts to be cultivated from them.

The only constraint is that an extremely large number of ghosts are required.

He couldn't possibly be like Jingchan, using that Yin-Nourishing Prison to insanely create ghosts by taking human lives.

First, he's not that beastly; second, there's absolutely no need for it.

He has many ways to become stronger; there's no need for this.

The effect of "Ghost Lantern Dragon Subduing Technique" is similar to that of "Ghost Lantern Buddha Body," both involving transforming the body's orifices into ghost caves to accommodate ghosts.

The only difference is that it no longer accommodates hundreds of ghosts, but only cultivates one person and one dragon.

By nurturing the two ghosts to their fullest potential, they finally condensed a Dharma image called Subduing Dragon, transforming them from purely sinister ghosts into a unique being that is half ghost and half Buddha.

Whether it will succeed or not, Mu Yang was unsure, but judging from Jing Chan's notes, at least that was his idea.

Because he hasn't cultivated to that level yet, the current limit of this martial art is still only to accommodate one human and one dragon, two ghosts.

It is even more difficult to cultivate than "The Body of the Ghost Lamp Buddha" because of its higher restrictions and the requirement of having a dragon or ghost.

Mu Yang hadn't originally planned to use it, but after seeing its effects, he changed his mind.

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[Equipable Item: Ghost Lantern Dragon Subduing Technique (Awakening Martial Arts)]

[Rank: Rank 6]

【Equipment Effect: ①Perfect (White): The proficiency of the Ghost Lantern Dragon Subduing Technique has reached the perfect level.

② Horizontal Training Affinity (Blue): Greatly increases affinity with horizontal training martial arts, accelerating the training speed of horizontal training martial arts.

③ Ghost King Body (Blue): Centered on the five major ghost acupoints, it attaches ghost kings that cannot exist in the ghost acupoints to the body surface. The stronger one's physique and the thicker one's blood and qi, the more ghost kings one can bear, and one can control all the ghost kings attached to the body surface with 100% control.

④ Subduing Dragon Dharma Image (Purple): If you gather a humanoid ghost king with a sixth-order perfect cultivation and a dragon ghost king with a sixth-order perfect cultivation, you can fuse them to sublimate into a Subduing Dragon Dharma Image. The Dharma Image can be summoned to fight independently, or it can attach to a body to obtain the power of the Subduing Dragon Dharma Image (after attaching to a sixth-order perfect cultivation, it can increase strength by 5000 million jin).

Note: The cultivation level of the Dragon Subduing Dharma Form can be increased by absorbing the Yin energy dissipated by ghosts.

[Permanent fixation conditions: Equip this item for two years, or slay any sixth-tier or higher-grade monster while equipping this item.]

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