From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

According to him, when he went to Nanzhai to investigate, he also heard from the villagers of Qinghe Village about the cunning monkeys in the Pingshan area that were as cunning as humans.

Legend has it that these monkeys lived on Ping Mountain thousands of years ago. Later, when emperors of successive dynasties wanted to refine elixirs, these monkeys moved to the forest at the foot of Ping Mountain. After the emperors passed away, these monkeys slowly moved up Ping Mountain, but they were afraid of the poisonous creatures in the mountain and never dared to get close.

"It seems that the three young heroes have eliminated the Earth Dragon King in the mountains, and one of the Ink Pipas on the mountaintop has also died, which has made these monkeys want to take back Ping Mountain."

Chen Yulou then said to Jiang Liu and the other two, "According to the Southern Village, there is an old white ape in the monkey troop that has lived for hundreds of years. It is extremely cunning, and the other monkeys all obey its orders to rob passersby. It even sends the monkey troop to steal food and wine from small villages. It must be quite a spirit."

An old white ape that has lived for hundreds of years?

Considering that the great Gu master had not said that the old white ape had done anything harmful, and that the information Chen Yulou had gathered proved that the group of white apes had only been robbing and stealing from villages, Jiang Liu did not intend to target the old white ape. If they encountered it later, and the ape had indeed gained sentience, he might be able to subdue it as well.

After all, it's not good to let a clever ape run rampant in the mountains and rob people...

# Chapter 163 It really is a case of resurrection through a corpse

"Roar!"

Just as Chen Yulou revealed the origin of the monkey in the mountains and ordered people to dispose of the gibbon's corpse, a mournful cry came from the mountaintop.

Everyone hurriedly looked in the direction of the sound.

A black dot appeared on the right side of the mountain peak, which only Jiang Liu could clearly see. There were actually two figures in the black dot.

A creature resembling a human, covered in white fur, with arms that extended past its knees, and estimated to be two meters tall, was a white ape.

The other creature was entirely black, with a pair of giant claws and a barb on its back, tightly clamped to the white ape's chest. It looked as if the white ape had descended from the sky carrying a black pipa, like a celestial being descending to earth.

pat!

The two inhuman beings smashed an ancient pine tree at the bottleneck of Bottle Mountain and fell at an angle towards Bottle Mountain, with no trees or vines below to cushion the fall.

"President Chen, please nod. My eyes are sharp, and I saw those things clearly. One of them was the ink pipa."

Since the remaining Gongmo Pipa had fallen off the cliff with the white ape, Jiang Liu and the others naturally had to go and check it to make sure it was really dead.

"Those three young heroes, please be careful on your journey."

Chen Yulou knew in his heart that after these three left, they would probably not see him again unless something unexpected happened. Fortunately, the six-winged centipede in the mountain had been eliminated by these three, which could be considered as helping them.

After descending the mountain, Jiang Liu located the north side of the sloping Ping Mountain, calculated the distance, and led Lu Jin and Li Muxuan to a hillside about 100 meters high, where they split up to search.

In the end, Lu Jin was the first to find the old white ape that had been smashed into a pulp.

The male Mo Pipa was still able to move because the old white ape acted as a cushion. However, it had fallen from a mountain that was eight or nine hundred meters high without any cushioning. Even with the old white ape as a cushion, the scorpion legs underneath it were all broken, and its carapace was cracked. It was already exhaling more and inhaling less. Even if left unattended, it would not live for long.

"That saves us a lot of trouble."

Lu Jin breathed a sigh of relief. It was one thing to go into the underground palace yesterday, but it could be considered an abandoned house built by the ancients. And the "barbican" under Ping Mountain could be considered a formation set up by some ancient supernatural being to resurrect a corpse, so it could not be considered a tomb.

If he were to enter the tomb of the Yuan Dynasty general with Chen Yulou and the others, he would truly be considered to have one foot in the ranks of "tomb raiders".

Now, the remaining black pipa is fighting with the white ape in the mountains, and both are injured. But there is no need for him to tarnish the reputation of the Xuanmen disciples.

"Chen Yulou might have been right. After we eliminated the Earth Dragon King, one of the female Mo Pipas died. The monkeys in the mountains had designs on Ping Mountain, but who knew that the male Mo Pipas mistook the old white ape for the murderer of his wife and started fighting with him."

Li Muxuan guessed the reason why Mo Pipa and the old white ape were fighting on the mountaintop. He chuckled, drew the laurel staff from his back, and smashed Mo Pipa's head, letting it breathe its last. Then he extended a magnetic field, grabbed its scorpion tail, and lifted it upside down. It really did look like a pipa carved from black jade.

"We've eliminated two of the three poisonous creatures, leaving only the Xuanjiao Serpent. Let's search the underground palace and the mountains again."

Jiang Liu led the two back to the vicinity of the underground palace entrance at the foot of Ping Mountain. He temporarily placed the bamboo cage behind him into the alchemy furnace, and Li Muxuan also put the corpse of Mo Pipa inside. They then covered it with grass and wood to prevent it from being discovered by the soldiers who were carrying funerary objects nearby.

"Won't we be discovered?"

Lu Jin was somewhat worried.

"It's alright."

Jiang Liu said, "I already told Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai about this alchemy furnace yesterday. They won't move it. Even if one of them is greedy, with their strength and the rugged roads here, how could they possibly move this 3,600-jin alchemy furnace?"

Li Muxuan also said, "If they dare, we don't need to be afraid. With Chen Yulou's influence, we can easily control Luo Laowai and make his men obediently return the items."

Immediately, the three split up. Jiang Liu went back into the underground palace to investigate, Lu Jin searched the mountains and forests, and Li Muxuan continued to circle Ping Mountain twice to see if there were any other gaps or cracks.

Jiang Liu entered the underground palace again, only to find that most people were searching around the bottom of the bottle. The higher he went, the fewer people there were. When he reached the open space outside the Wuliang Hall, he found no one there, but instead saw eight corpses dressed in military uniforms with pale faces. A look of vigilance immediately appeared in his eyes.

Gathering his Qi, Jiang Liu walked lightly to the tightly closed door of the Boundless Palace, gently pushed it open, and through the crack, saw Luo Laowai sitting cross-legged in the place where the alchemy furnace had been.

"Have you obtained Qi?"

Sensing the aura emanating from Luo Laowai, Jiang Liu was surprised and suspected that the extraordinary person who had set up the traps and formations of the barbican might actually have succeeded in "reincarnation".

"Since you're here, why bother with all this sneaking around?"

Luo Laowai opened his eyes, but instead of the usual black pupils, they were an eerie white, emanating a faint gray-black aura.

Jiang Liu pushed open the door and walked in confidently, asking, "You're not Luo Laowai, are you? Are you related to the builders of the Wengcheng and this Wuliang Hall? Or are you the builders?"

"Quite smart."

Luo Laowai slowly got up, his mouth stretched to the back of his ears, and wisps of black Qi flames emanated from his body. His white pupils turned into vertical pupils and he kept sticking out a forked snake tongue, as if he was sensing Jiang Liu's information.

"not human?"

Feeling the black aura emanating from Luo Laowai, which was chilling and bone-piercing, Jiang Liu raised an eyebrow. He hadn't expected that the Wuliang Palace and the barbican under Ping Mountain were actually established under the leadership of a snake demon.

"Of course I am human, but I encountered some problems in my cultivation, which led to my spirit becoming entangled with that of a snake monster in Ping Mountain when the formation was activated and my soul was reassembled."

Old Luo flicked his tongue, seemingly having already determined Jiang Liu's strength by the scent emanating from his body. His vertical pupils were much more serious than before. "But the most important thing is that Ping Mountain cracked due to earthquakes, wind and rain erosion, and the hundreds of insects in the mountain gnawed at the rocks, causing the energy pattern to break and the formation to malfunction..."

"Forget it, it's all in the past; there's no point in dwelling on it."

At this point, Luo Laowai flicked his forked tongue again and chuckled sinisterly, "Young man, judging from your cultivation, it seems you've mastered the martial arts of 'Reversing the Eight Directions'? To have reached this level is quite impressive."

"It can't compare to your method of resurrecting a body, senior."

Jiang Liu stared directly at the other person.

"What do you mean by 'borrowing a corpse to return to life'? It's just possession." Luo Laowai chuckled self-deprecatingly. "You're the real expert. You've even cultivated a new method that I don't know about, which allows you to reverse the cultivation of the nine orifices."

Besides, it seems he has the fate of a child, cultivating the five internal organs and the five elements of Qi.

The mind refines essence into qi, the heart monkey refines qi into spirit, and your original spirit is refined to return to emptiness, while the metal god has the intention to cast a tripod and establish a furnace, and the wood mother cultivates the body medicine... Tsk tsk! This is the first time I have seen such a peculiar child's fate, except that one of the five gods is missing, and the yellow woman is missing.

Although the Four Gods are present and can refine the earth element of the spleen, it's still not quite there yet...

# Chapter 164 "Emperor Taizong of Tang Returns to the Underworld"

Jiang Liu could tell that the spirit that had taken over Luo Laowai's body wasn't saying that he was doomed to fail in his cultivation of the Great Dao without Huang Po; it was just that it felt his special ability as a child of destiny was somewhat mediocre.

She could have been a complete deity of the five internal organs, but she ended up as a yellow woman. For a cultivator who pursues perfection, this always creates some unease.

"Heaven and earth are inherently incomplete; what's wrong with lacking one element?"

Furthermore.

Jiang Liu's "Investiture of the Gods" ability is different from that of an ordinary child. If he wants Huang Po to be born, it is not difficult; he just needs to grant her the title afterward.

But he wouldn't tell the person in front of him that.

What kind of talk is that?

To everyone's surprise, Luo Laowai became anxious and lectured, "Young man, the purpose of cultivation is to achieve perfection. If there are imperfections, how can one achieve perfection?"

"My destiny as a child of immortality is missing a Yellow Woman, which will affect my cultivation?" Jiang Liu asked rhetorically.

"Not at all."

Old Luo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, "These days, young people really don't know how to respect their elders at all. By my reckoning, I'm over eight hundred years old."

“The time of death doesn’t count,” Jiang Liu said.

"Then I'm 103 years old too!"

Luo Laowai said firmly, "Older than you!"

[He's a rascal... no, we can't draw that conclusion yet, we need to observe further, but we absolutely have to get rid of this thing!]

There is no other reason.

There are still eight corpses lying outside the Wuliang Hall!

Although those eight people were not innocent civilians, if this thing were to escape, the people of Old Bear Ridge would probably suffer!

Jiang Liu thought to himself, but said with a smile, "Yes, yes, of course you are the greatest, senior. I just don't know what you are doing possessing this warlord?"

"Naturally, I want to see the methods used hundreds of years later."

The other person finished speaking.

A thin film, burning like a flame, instantly covered Jiang Liu's entire body. With a single step, he appeared before Luo Laowai in an instant, his five fingers spreading wide, pressing down on Luo Laowai's face as if Mount Tai were pressing down on him.

Sneak attack!

Tai Chi!

Block and strike!

Boom!

In a single blow, Jiang Liu slammed the back of Luo Laowai's head into the ground, creating a crater. He then used his inverted magnetic field to invade Luo's brain, binding the special energy that could be entangled by the magnetic field and attempting to pull it out.

"Quite stubborn!"

Jiang Liu had been preparing for this moment to have a verbal exchange with "Luo Laowai"!

Souls and spirits also have magnetic fields, and through human magnetic induction, they can be bound! Jiang Liu cannot bind the souls of the living, but he can bind the spirits of the dead!

The Method of Spirit Binding —

He won't!

Therefore, he relied on his profound skills to grind the bricks, performing operations similar to Feng Baobao's powerful brick-lifting technique.

However, the spirit attached to Luo Laowai was too stubborn and could not be moved in a short time.

"Are all the young people these days so cunning? Your cultivation is already on par with the older generation, and you still resort to sneak attacks?" Old Luo's face was contorted with rage as he desperately resisted Jiang Liu's magnetic field, cursing viciously, "Have you no shame?"

"I'm really sorry."

As he spoke, Jiang Liuxin, his mind, his will, the Golden Lord, and the Wooden Mother possessed him, helping him to circulate his Qi throughout his body. He even added a little effort, and said with a small hum, "Was my master ever a member of the Quanxing Sect?"