Start slaying demons from the proficiency panel.

Although he couldn't defeat a fourth-rank Buddhist or Taoist, escaping wouldn't be too difficult for him. But it might not be so easy for Ren Qianxing and his group.

However, it is quite mysterious. The eminent monks of Dalingyin Temple have always been the least concerned with worldly possessions and material temptations. Could they also fall into depravity halfway through their lives?

Zhengwu immediately shouted, "Don't talk nonsense! Master Chanhui is someone who can attain the first-grade holy monk status. How could he possibly fall halfway through?"

Shen Congyun silently reached into his robes and took out a human skin mask, putting it on his face, along with a wig.

Ren Qianxing asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

Shen Congyun replied, "We'll act according to the situation. If anything seems amiss, I'll use my shrinking technique to escape. For now, I'll change my appearance to avoid Master Chanhui from truly falling into depravity and becoming a demon, and then searching for me to silence me after seeing my true face."

When he said this, he even made a noticeable change to his voice. He really had a clever idea and his disguise was quite complete.

Click click click!

Then, a series of cracking sounds came from Shen Congyun's bones. His height began to shrink, becoming at least four inches shorter than before, and his back began to hunch.

Ning Xiu: "..."

Ren Qianxing: "..."

Xia Yunsi: "..."

Good heavens! Ning Xiu exclaimed, just as Xia Yunsi had said on the way, this guy is really both cautious and cunning.

The fact that he was willing to go to Yunxia Mountain with Ren Qianxing this time, in Ning Xiu's words, might mean that Ren Qianxing had actually shielded him from an atomic bomb once. Otherwise, how could such a great favor have made Shen Congyun willing to leave Shenjia Town?

Looking at the village with the Spirit Eye Observation Technique, one can immediately see that the entire village is shrouded in evil energy. The energy is so strong that it has even condensed into a jet-black first-grade black lotus platform in the sky above the village.

This lotus platform slowly floated and rotated above the village, absorbing the evil energy emanating from the village with every breath, thereby growing stronger.

"This..." Ning Xiu's eyes widened in astonishment. This is damn solid evidence. There's no doubt that Master Chanhui has truly fallen from grace.

How could any high-ranking Buddhist or Taoist monk of the fourth rank not notice the terrible situation that had occurred in the eighteen villages? The evidence of who the mastermind was is irrefutable, so there's no need to say more.

Even though Ren Qianxing and his companions didn't possess any special eye techniques like the Spiritual Eye Observation Technique, they could still clearly sense that something was amiss in the atmosphere of the village.

"Such a strong sense of evil," Shen Congyun said.

As the group entered the village, they could hear faint chanting coming from all directions, with a toothless old woman sitting under a big tree at the village entrance reciting scriptures.

Children with longevity locks around their necks were chanting, and some young adults were also chanting; they looked no different from being possessed by demons.

Each time they chanted the sutra, the black lotus platform above the village would grow a little larger, but no one knew what the purpose of the black lotus platform was.

"Don't go to Yunxia Temple yet. Someone needs to come down from the mountain and report the situation here to the department. I'm afraid the situation in Yunxia Mountain is beyond what we can handle," Ning Xiu said with a serious expression.

"Okay, leave this to me, I'll go right away." Shen Congyun agreed instantly, and with a leap, he prepared to use the Shrinking Earth Technique to leave the place.

But Ren Qianxing grabbed him and said, "No, these villagers are possessed by the scriptures. Your musical abilities can help them recover. Just send your senior sister to deliver the message. You can't leave."

Shen Congyun's expression immediately fell: "I'm just a ninth-rank musician, my abilities are still weak."

"Don't worry about this so much. Go and try to find a villager to play a flute for him." Ren Qianxing turned to Xia Yunsi and said, "Senior sister, I'll trouble you to go out and make the trip."

Xia Yunsi nodded: "Okay."

After saying that, she rode the black tiger back the way she came and sped away from the mountains.

"I'll go find some villagers and ask them what's going on." Ning Xiu jumped off the back of the Iron-Eating Beast and headed towards a house not far away.

Before even entering the house, Ning Xiu could already hear the sound of chanting coming from inside. He stepped inside, and an old woman who had been chanting immediately stopped, looking at Ning Xiu with some confusion.

It's been a long time since the Demon-Subduing Officer has come to my village.

"Auntie, did you send these scriptures from Yunxia Temple?" Ning Xiu asked, sitting down on a chair.

"Yes, they were all personally delivered by the monks. Reciting them every day is good for your health."

Ning Xiu used his spiritual eye technique to observe the other party. The evil aura surrounding this person was so strong that it even formed a blurry human shape. He was clinging to the old woman's neck and hanging behind her.

This posture makes it look exactly like the other person is carrying someone on their back. It's extremely rare for evil energy to condense into such an image.

"Auntie, besides distributing this Avici Sutra, has Yunxia Temple done anything else?"

The image of the Demon-Subduing Commander is highly trustworthy in the hearts of the people of the Shang Dynasty.

So when Ning Xiu asked, the old woman didn't suspect anything and told him directly.

"I heard that Yunxia Temple has built a Ten Thousand Buddha Cave. The monks there told us that we could move our ancestors' memorial tablets to the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave. They would chant sutras there every day, and the ancestors who moved into the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave would all have the potential to become Buddhas. This way, they could protect their descendants, ensuring they live long and blessed lives."

Ning Xiu asked, "Auntie, have your family's ancestral tablets been moved there?"

"Yes, we invited them last month."

Ning Xiu frowned, momentarily unable to understand what Master Chan Hui was trying to do.

However, it is certain that if his plan is completed, the villagers of all eighteen villages in Yunxia Mountain will be greatly affected.

"Now we can only hope that Xia Yunsi will quickly notify the top three experts of the Demon Subduing Division to handle this matter," Ning Xiu thought to himself.

Master Chan Hui was originally a fourth-grade Buddhist and Taoist master, and no one knew whether he had made any breakthroughs during his years in Yunxia Mountain.

Once Master Chanhui breaks through, he will be in the third rank of Buddhism and Taoism, a gap that Ningxiu would find difficult to overcome.

Therefore, even though Ning Xiu had many tricks up his sleeve, he dared not rashly challenge Master Chan Hui, because the possibility of something going wrong was really high.

Upon leaving the house and returning to where Ren Qianxing and the others were, Ren Qianxing immediately asked, "Brother Ning, did you gain anything?"

"This matter is rather strange. Yunxia Temple has set up some kind of Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, claiming that they have invited the ancestral tablets of villagers from the eighteen villages to it. Zhengwu, do you know what the meaning behind this is?"

Zhengwu was clearly still reeling from the shock of the possibility that Master Chanhui had fallen from grace halfway through his studies. Hearing Ningxiu's question, he could only shake his head and say, "I don't know either. I've never heard of such a thing before."

"Sigh, what a series of unexpected events," Ren Qianxing sighed.

High-ranking monks of the fourth rank in Buddhism and Taoism are considered the backbone of the human race. The fact that such a master has fallen from grace halfway through his life will be a huge loss for the Great Lingyin Temple, the Demon Subduing Division, and the Great Shang Dynasty.

【055】Who secretly established the underworld and whose ghostly soldiers borrowed the passage?

into the night.

After dark, Ning Xiu and his companions did not choose to spend the night in the village, but instead rested in a small temple near the village.

Yunxia Mountain was established by the eminent monks of Dalingyin Temple. Later, Master Chanhui came here to build a temple and take charge, and the Buddhist and Taoist culture of the eighteen villages of Yunxia Mountain became very strong.

Almost every mountain path between villages has a temple enshrining a Buddha statue. Even the stone lanterns used for lighting the roads are in the style of Buddhism and Taoism.

Because of the matter of Master Chanhui, Zhengwu felt extremely heavy-hearted and became depressed, still unable to accept that the other party had fallen halfway through his life.

Ning Xiu stared at the Buddha statue in the temple and remained silent. They had only escorted Zheng Wu to Yunxia Mountain to visit Master Chan Hui; who could have imagined that something like this would happen?

In a corner of the temple, Ning Xiu's iron-eating beast sat by the wall, its back against the wall, leisurely munching on the tender bamboo shoots and green bamboo that Ning Xiu had picked for it.

Yunxia Mountain is a place where bamboo forests grow densely, so it is not difficult to get some bamboo and bamboo shoots.

If Ning Xiu weren't worried about what might happen if he let this iron-eating beast forage outside at night, he would have liked to let it roam freely in the wild.

The night was deep and quiet, and no one wanted to chat; everyone went about their own cultivation.

……

Well!

As the numerous candles in the temple suddenly began to flicker violently, Ning Xiu's eyes snapped open.

He sensed several indescribable mysterious auras approaching.

Even with Ning Xiu's strength, he was unable to judge the depth of those auras, which instantly made Ning Xiu wary.

"Ren Qianxing, Zhengwu, Shen Congyun, wake up," Ning Xiu immediately whispered.

However, the three of them sat there as if they were asleep, without any reaction whatsoever.

Ning Xiu was puzzled. He got up and went over to push Ren Qianxing's body, but unexpectedly, Ren Qianxing fell to the ground as if he had fainted.

"What's going on?" Ning Xiu asked in surprise, but at this moment, the auras outside were getting closer and closer.

With no other option, Ning Xiu picked up the Thunder Hammer, walked to the temple entrance, and peered out to look around.

Then, in the dim night, five slender figures suddenly appeared at the end of the mountain path outside the temple.

As the five figures gradually approached, Ning Xiu began to hear some low, murmuring murmurs.

It feels like there are many people whispering around you, but you can never quite make out what they are saying.

As the five figures drew closer, Ning Xiu was finally able to see their appearance clearly.

They were all strange people with narrow shoulders, slender limbs like bamboo poles, and a height of ten feet.

They were dressed in gray robes, wearing straw hats and wooden clogs, and a white mist followed them as they moved, making them extremely mysterious.

Even more bizarrely, these people did not move forward on their legs, but rather their feet floated a few inches off the ground, a truly horrifying sight.

"Hold your breath, don't breathe."

Just then, a familiar voice came from behind Ning Xiu.

Although he didn't understand the specifics, Ning Xiu immediately did as instructed and held his breath.

Jingle Bell!Jingle Bell!

Behind the five strange men, a dozen or so male and female phantoms followed on foot, like a procession always following behind them.

After the sound of bells, which seemed to come from nowhere, gradually faded, the figures of those strange men disappeared at the end of the mountain path.

Ning Xiu turned around and saw Shen Congyun standing behind him; it was he who had just given the warning.

"Your strength is indeed more than just the ninth rank of the Music Dao. You were awake the whole time, weren't you?"

"Yes." Shen Congyun nodded in agreement.

"What's the deal with those five people who just walked by?" Ning Xiu asked.

Looking in the direction the five strange men had left, Shen Congyun explained, "That was the path of the Yin soldiers. Where the Yin soldiers go, they are most afraid of the presence of living people. If you disturb them, even if your lifespan is not yet over, you may have your soul taken away. You saw the phantoms behind those Yin soldiers just now, right? Those are the souls of the people who were taken away by them."

When ghostly soldiers pass by, those with weaker souls will fall into a coma without realizing it, but they will wake up after a while; this has no lasting impact.

"Why are there ghost soldiers in Yunxia Mountain?" Ning Xiu frowned; this was not a good omen.

"The Shang emperor has always strictly prohibited the establishment of a Yin Division to supervise the underworld and to allow the Yin gods to govern it. After death, the souls of all people are allowed to dissipate naturally within seven days, in accordance with the natural order of heaven. It seems that someone has broken the rules and established their own Yin Division in Yunxia Mountain."

Shen Congyun said calmly, "If this news gets back to Chaotiandu, it will probably cause a huge uproar."

The underworld has the authority to manage the souls of the dead, and if it grows too large, it will become something like Fengdu or the Underworld.