"Ms. Qiu Shui is very insightful."

Nogizaka Bunzang on the other side was also surprised when he saw Master Zhao's Void Talisman, but he didn't think it was that great. At most, it was just a weird spell. So he waved his sword and shouted:

"You are just playing tricks on me. I will kill him with one blow!"

As a military expert and the descendant of Tsukahara Bokuden, Nogizaka Bunzo's swordsmanship skills were naturally extraordinary. Everyone saw him leap up, and the sword in his hand had already chopped within four feet of Zhao Shixia. It was only a few feet away from Zhao Shixia's so-called "three feet in front of him".

So fast!

Seeing Nogizaka Bunzo's skills, everyone present was amazed again.

Fuzugawa Saneya is good at wind breathing, and his speed is unique among the Demon Slayer Corps. But even he feels that Nogizaka Bunzo is three points faster than him.

However, facing Nogizaka Bunzo's skill, Zhao Shixia's expression was still calm. He flicked his two fingers lightly, and the golden talisman turned into a stream of light, instantly blocking Nogizaka Bunzo's sword. As the two came into contact, the golden talisman suddenly exploded, and the residual power of the explosion not only interrupted Nogizaka Bunzo's offensive, but also forced him to retreat again and again.

With such fast sword skills, he still couldn't get within three feet of him?

While everyone was thinking this, Nogizaka Bunzo regrouped and swung his sword again to chop at Zhao Shixia's neck. Perhaps because he felt Zhao Shixia's contempt, Nogizaka Bunzo's sword was faster, more accurate, and more ruthless than the previous one.

However, such a fierce sword skill still failed to break the defense of Zhao Shixia's talisman. Zhao Shixia lightly drew a finger in the air, and another talisman turned into a stream of light, blocking the blade of Nogizaka Bunzo's sword.

In this way, Nogizaka Bunzo continued to display fierce sword skills, each move aimed directly at Zhao Shixia's vital points. But facing such an attack, Zhao Shixia did not even dodge. He just pointed two fingers to draw talismans and easily blocked Nogizaka Bunzo's attack. At this stage of the battle, anyone could see that the gap in strength between Nogizaka Bunzo and Zhao Shixia was too big.

Seeing Master Zhao's performance, Butterfly couldn't help but sigh:

"As expected, he is invincible within three feet of me!"

Judging from the strength that Master Zhao has shown at this moment, he is no worse than Yoriichi Tsugikoku back then. Such strength is already the top existence in the Demon Slayer world. At least with Shinobu Kocho's current strength, without the help of Uchiha Izumi's chakra, she is no match for Master Zhao.

Like Shinobu Kocho, Fushigawa Shima, who had just wanted to challenge Master Zhao, had completely given up the idea of challenging him. If we really want to talk about his strength, he is only on par with Nogizaka Bunzo, or even a little worse. After all, Fushigawa Shima is not even 20 years old this year, while Nogizaka Bunzo is in his prime.

Nogizaka Bunzo, who was stronger than himself, tried his best but failed to get within three feet of Zhao Shixia. If he went in, the situation would not be much better. So at this time, Fushigawa Shiya was no longer dissatisfied with Zhao Shixia's reputation of "three feet in front of him, invincible in the world".

Just when everyone thought that Master Zhao would win the battle with his absolute strength, Nogizaka Bunzo suddenly roared wildly. Then, in the surprised eyes of everyone, Nogizaka Bunzo's originally tall and strong body swelled up again. Not only that, even his eyes turned scarlet, and his whole body exuded a violent and bloodthirsty aura.

"What is this? Why does this guy's aura suddenly become so ghost-like?"

As a swordsman who has been fighting against demons for a long time, Fushigawa Shima immediately sensed the strange aura of Nogizaka Bunzo, which was exactly the same as that of a man-eating demon. In response, Arisugawa Shusui explained:

"This is the result of the military's secret research, demonization!"

Ghost?

"Demons have almost immortal lives and master all kinds of weird blood demon arts. Naturally, the crazy people in the military would want to use this power on the battlefield. However, although the power of demons is strong, their weakness of fearing sunlight greatly limits their role on the battlefield. So while the military is trying to overcome the weakness of demons, they also began experiments on demonization."

"They carefully select soldiers with strong wills and inject them with special serums. These serums can help soldiers gain the power of ghosts in a short period of time, making these soldiers nearly immortal warriors, invincible on the battlefield. But the price is that every time these soldiers become ghosts, they will be closer to ghosts, until they become ghosts completely!"

At this point, Arisugawa Shusui looked at the almost insane Nogizaka Bunzo and said:

"It seems that this guy must be a special soldier who received the demon serum."

Chapter 143 The Strongest Zombie - Ba

Nogizaka Bunzo originally gave people a very manic feeling, and now after entering the demon state, he has completely lost his sanity and turned into a monster that is more terrifying than a real demon.

Facing the powerful Zhao Shixia, his eyes were full of desire for killing. He took a deep breath and then raised the sword in his hand. The blade, which was already more than one meter long, was now reflecting scarlet light under Nogizaka Bunzo's blood demon technique.

Coming?

Just as everyone was thinking this, Nogizaka Bunzo suddenly disappeared. When everyone noticed him again, his huge body had actually come behind Zhao Shixia. The sword in his hand rolled up a red airflow, trying to tear Zhao Shixia to pieces.

This speed is too fast!

Seeing Nogizaka Bunzo coming behind Zhao Shixia in the blink of an eye, Kocho Shinobu was shocked. She didn't expect that the demonization potion of the military could provide such a terrible increase in strength. Judging from Nogizaka Bunzo's current performance, he is not inferior to the Upper One Kokushibo.

Facing the strength displayed by Nogizaka Bunzang at this time, Zhao Shixia no longer had the composure he had just had. Shortly after Nogizaka Bunzang appeared behind him, Zhao Shixia jumped up and dodged Nogizaka Bunzang's slash. Then he put his right hand together to form a sword, and instantly drew thirteen talismans in the air, and hit Nogizaka Bunzang directly.

Facing the stream of light transformed from the thirteen talismans, Nogizaka Bunzang's scarlet sword turned into flashes of light, easily smashing the thirteen talismans into pieces. Then the sword light turned, rolling up a cloud of dust, and slashed straight towards Zhao Shixia's neck.

Seeing that the thirteen talismans were unable to do anything to Nogizaka Bunzo, Master Zhao's expression became more and more solemn. He paced to avoid Nogizaka Bunzo's attacks, and his fingers drew talismans faster and faster. In a flash, everyone saw hundreds of golden talismans surrounding Master Zhao, dyeing everything around him golden.

Seeing that he couldn't do anything to Zhao Shixia, Nogizaka Bunzo became more and more violent. Just when everyone was worried that Nogizaka Bunzo would go crazy because of the ghost transformation and completely turn into a fierce ghost, the 365 talismans around Zhao Shixia had already gathered and turned into a golden vortex under Zhao Shixia's guidance, pouring straight towards Nogizaka Bunzo.

Seeing this, Nogizaka Bunzo immediately held his sword across his body to block Zhao Shixia's attack. But just as Nogizaka Bunzo's attention was attracted by the talisman in front of him, Zhao Shixia himself had already circled behind Nogizaka Bunzo.

Before Nogizaka Bunzang could react, Master Zhao pointed at Nogizaka Bunzang's head. Then a golden talisman followed Master Zhao's finger and entered Nogizaka Bunzang's body. The violent Nogizaka Bunzang immediately became listless and uncontrollably exited the ghost state. Finally, he collapsed to the ground and fainted.

When everyone saw Nogizaka Fumzo being subdued, they knew that the fight was over.

Although the fight was over, the shock that Nogizaka Bunzo's transformation into a demon brought to everyone lingered for a long time.

Fuzugawa Saneya snorted coldly, then shouted angrily at Arisugawa Shusui:

"I was wondering why there are so many demons in this world that we can never kill them all! It seems that among the hundreds of demons killed by our Demon Slayer Corps every year, many of them are experimental subjects of people like you!"

Facing the question from Fuzugawa Saneya, Arisugawa Shusui explained:

"They are the military's experiments, not ours."

"Is there any difference? Hasn't the military always followed the lead of the royal family?"

"Who says the military follows the orders of the royal family? Have you forgotten that it is a tradition of our military to defeat the superiors?"

While Fushigawa Saneya and Arisugawa Shusui were arguing, Kocho Shinobu also came to Nogizaka Bunzo and carefully checked his physical condition. Zhao Shixia asked:

"Does your country's military possess this kind of demonic ability?"

Kocho Shinobu shook her head and said:

"Definitely not, otherwise your Shenzhou would have been conquered long ago. And even if it is a demon transformation ability, there should be huge side effects. Otherwise, this Nogizaka Bunzo should have activated this demon transformation ability at the beginning of the battle."

"But even so, this ability is too terrifying."

Although he defeated the demonized Nogizaka Bunzo, Zhao Shixia did not feel any joy in his heart. Because he knew what this demonization technology would mean to Shenzhou once it was used on the battlefield. At the critical moment of the war, perhaps only three or five such demonized soldiers could decide the outcome of a war. It is conceivable that in the future, a large number of soldiers and civilians in Shenzhou will die at the hands of such demonized soldiers.

There was also Beimingyu Xingming who had similar thoughts. As a Buddhist monk, Beimingyu Xingming also chanted "Amitabha, good, good" when he thought of the scene of demon soldiers killing people on the battlefield in the future.

On the second day, Nogizaka Bunzo finally woke up from his coma. However, after waking up, he became very weak. He got out of bed and took two steps before he started sweating. It was obvious that the demon transformation ability was consumed too much, so that the originally strong Nogizaka Bunzo looked like he was exhausted.

Not only did his body become weak, Nogizaka Bunzo's spirit also became depressed. Obviously, as a military man, he could not tolerate losing to the lowly Shenzhou people. Noticing his physical condition, everyone stayed in Songjiang Prefecture for a few more days. When he was almost recovered, they took a boat west to Jingzhou Prefecture, preparing to take the railway to Guanzhong in this thoroughfare of nine provinces.

After half a month of traveling, they finally arrived at Yongzhou Prefecture in the Sanqin area, and found Liu Yuxuan, who had been waiting for them for several days, in the agreed inn.

Just like Rengoku Makijuro described, Liu Yuxuan, who was not yet 30, already had gray hair, which made her look very strange in the crowd. Her clothes were also very similar to Zhao Shixia's, with obvious patches on her dark clothes, and the corners of her clothes looked old and dirty. It was obvious that she was very poor as a young widow, and she could not afford to buy new clothes.

But compared to her clothes, what really amazed people was Liu Yuxuan's temperament. Standing at the door of the inn, she held an ancient long sword in her hand, her handsome face was full of indifference, and her long hair as crystal as ice and snow made Liu Yuxuan's temperament as extraordinary as a snow mountain goddess.

Seeing everyone coming, Liu Yuxuan didn't deliberately put on a smile, but greeted Zhao Shixia calmly:

"Brother Zhao, long time no see."

"Junior Sister Liu, long time no see."

Master Zhao cupped his hands, and then introduced Shinobu Kocho and the others to Liu Yuxuan one by one. Hearing that Shinobu Kocho and the other two were from the Demon Slayer Corps, Liu Yuxuan just nodded slightly. As for Arisugawa Shusui and Nogizaka Bunzo, she didn't even look at them, which made Nogizaka Bunzo feel very unhappy.

After everyone had finished introducing themselves, Liu Yuxuan began to explain the recent developments in Guanzhong:

"Since the turmoil in Guanzhong in the late Qing Dynasty, various situations have occurred more and more around the Mausoleum of the First Emperor. Obviously, the war has disturbed the earth veins in Guanzhong. The First Emperor, who has been buried for more than 2,000 years, may really be reborn as a zombie!"

As he spoke, Liu Yuxuan introduced the history of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor to everyone.

What surprised everyone was that the history of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was also related to the Louguan Dao of the Taiqing School.

It turns out that more than 2,000 years ago, after the Taoist ancestor preached in Guanzhong, the Taiqing School of Louguan Dao had close ties with the Qin royal family. Later, when the first emperor Ying Zheng ascended the throne, it was the masters of the Taiqing School who presided over the construction of the first emperor's mausoleum.

In order to allow the Emperor to become an immortal after his death, the Taiqing Sect arranged an unprecedented formation in the Emperor's Mausoleum by relying on the long-term observation of the stars and the mountains, rivers, sun and moon. By simulating the stars and the mountains, the Emperor's body could continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, thus coming back to life and becoming an immortal!

Of course, most of the so-called corpse transformation into immortality is just a scam. Many tombs of emperors and generals in Shenzhou are decorated with strange arrays, but these arrays not only fail to help the dead come back to life, but instead turn the corpses in the tombs into various tricky zombies. The Shenzhou Taoist sect encounters such corpse transformation every few years, and many Taoist masters have died because of it.

"It is said that the master who arranged the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was Lu Sheng, Xu Fu's senior fellow disciple in the Taiqing Sect. Although his cultivation was not high, he was particularly good at celestial formations. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor built by him was highly valued by the First Emperor. But because of this, the First Emperor was worried that Lu Sheng would reveal the situation in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, so he killed him when he burned books and buried scholars."

Liu Yuxuan said:

"We can't guarantee whether the mausoleum built by Lu Sheng can really make the First Emperor's corpse reincarnate into an immortal, but judging from the recent situation around the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, the Feng Shui veins around the Mausoleum of the First Emperor have been destroyed. Even if the original Mausoleum of the First Emperor could make people become immortals, the current Mausoleum of the First Emperor can only turn the First Emperor into an unprecedented zombie."

Hearing this, Master Zhao, who was born in the Maoshan Sect, analyzed as a zombie expert:

"Ordinary zombies buried underground for a hundred years are already very terrifying. If they are combined with formations to absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth, such zombies can even compete with Taoist masters. The First Emperor has been buried in the mausoleum for more than two thousand years, and the spiritual power of heaven and earth he has absorbed is definitely huge! If such a zombie is really resurrected, it may become the most terrifying existence of all zombies, Ba!"

"Ba? What is that?" After hearing Shinobu Kocho's translation, Fushigi asked in confusion.

"Ba, also known as Hanba and Nvba, is the most powerful and terrifying zombie in legends." Zhao Shixia explained:

"Unlike traditional zombies that are full of gloom and afraid of sunlight, Ba, the king of zombies, is not only not afraid of the sun, but can even emit extreme light and heat. The power of this light and heat is comparable to that of a second sun, and it even has the terrifying power to change the sky and cause a severe drought in the world."

"Legend has it that the daughter of Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi became Ba. It was with Ba's power that Huangdi was able to defeat Chiyou's zombie rain master Fengbo and unify the many tribes of China for the first time. But because Ba's power was too terrifying, it constantly brought extreme temperatures to the world, causing large-scale droughts, and Huangdi had to execute his own daughter himself."

"But what Huangdi didn't expect was that even with the gathering of many powerful ancient people, they still couldn't do anything to Ba. Because the temperature around Ba was comparable to the sun, any object close to her would turn into ashes. So there was really no other way, and finally Huangdi led everyone to force Ba into the East China Sea, and relied on the power of the sea water to slowly extinguish the high temperature on Ba's body, and finally she died."

Chapter 144: Mausoleum of the First Emperor

"In short, we must never let the First Emperor be resurrected, right?"

Fushigawa Miyabi nodded, indicating that although he didn't understand things like Huangdi and Hanba, he knew the most important meaning.

Shinobu Kocho, who had been translating for Fuzugawa Shinobu, breathed a sigh of relief and asked:

"Can we use the methods of the Shenzhou Dao Sect to strengthen the seal of the First Emperor?"

After hearing Kocho Shinobu's question, Liu Yuxuan and Zhao Shixia focused their attention on Zhang Taihua, the youngest of the sects. After all, among all the sects in Shenzhou Dao, Longhushan is the best at suppressing zombies and demons. When facing the field he is best at, Zhang Taihua also tilted his head, shook his braids, and talked freely:

"Without killing the zombies, there are generally two ways to suppress the zombies that haven't broken through the mausoleum. One is to use the Yin-Yang magic to modify the Feng Shui veins, turning the terrain that originally bred zombies into a land-binding state, so that the zombies can be trapped in the veins and unable to break free, thus achieving the purpose of suppression."

"However, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor occupies a very large area, and it is in harmony with the Feng Shui veins of the Guanzhong area. It is not easy to destroy the Feng Shui here, at least we can't do it. So the only method we can use is the second one, which is to enter the interior of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor and destroy the Feng Shui inside the mausoleum. It would be best if we could set up a spell around the coffin of the First Emperor, which would definitely ensure that the First Emperor would be sealed for another 1,800 years."

After listening to Zhang Taihua's introduction to the methods of suppressing zombies, everyone knew that they had to go to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. However, another problem arose before everyone. The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was buried deep underground, and even the tomb raiders who were good at digging holes could not dig in. How could they enter the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor?

Even if you enter the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the environment inside the mausoleum is very cruel. Not only is it dark and oxygen-deficient, but the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is also filled with a large amount of mercury. After evaporating for two thousand years, this mercury has already penetrated into every corner of the tomb. Therefore, anyone who enters the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor will face mercury poisoning formed by the evaporation of mercury.

Although Shinobu Kocho and others are also masters, no matter how skilled they are, they cannot survive in such a dark, oxygen-deficient environment filled with mercury poison, not to mention that they cannot even enter the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

While everyone was worried, Arisugawa Shusui in the crowd chuckled and said:

"In fact, these problems are easy to solve. Our Sugawa family once studied under the great Onmyoji Abe Haruaki, and among the Onmyoji they mastered, there is a spell that can teleport within a range of ten kilometers. In addition, there are also spells that can allow people to survive in harsh environments."

After hearing Arisugawa Shusui's description, everyone present was shocked. Especially the three people who came from the Shenzhou Dao Sect. They never expected that Yin-Yang magic, a branch of Taoism, could have such magical powers. And Fuzugawa Saneya, who came from a humble background, was a little dissatisfied after being surprised:

"Is Onmyoji so magical? Then why don't we see any Onmyoji when we are killing demons in the Demon Slayer Corps?"

"In fact, before the creation of your Demon Slayer Corps, we Onmyoji were responsible for killing demons." Arisugawa Shusui explained:

"The three legendary demons in our country, Tamamonomae, Shuten-douji, and Daitengu, were all sealed by our Onmyoji. Especially Shuten-douji, who claimed to create a kingdom of demons during the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. In order to seal him, the Onmyojis used every possible means. The spells that I'm using now, which can teleport and survive in harsh environments, were all created to deal with Shuten-douji."

Hearing Arisugawa Shusui talking about the three great demons, Kocho Shinobu couldn't help but become interested and asked curiously:

"What on earth did Shuten-doji do to force the Onmyoji to create such a miraculous spell?"

In response, Arisugawa Qiusui looked at Zhao Shixia and the others and said:

"Come to think of it, this matter is also related to your Shenzhou."

"It's related to us?" Zhang Taihua asked puzzledly.

"Yes, don't the nobles in your Shenzhou always like to build luxurious tombs? Not only do they bury a lot of luxury goods in the tombs, some princes and nobles also like to build the tombs into a small underground world. I hope that after they become zombies, they can continue to enjoy wealth and glory in the underground world." Arisugawa Akisui said:

"Shuten-douji was inspired by you nobles and princes to build a huge underground space under our country. In this underground world without sunlight, demons can live freely like normal humans. So the Onmyoji at that time called this underground world the ghost world. Shuten-douji also used the ghost world to conquer almost all the demons in the country at that time and became the leader of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, the undisputed king of all demons."

"It is also because of the ghost world that the Onmyojis of the past could not do anything to Shuten Douji, even if they mastered the most powerful spells. Because the ghost world is deep underground, ordinary people can't get in. And even if they get in, they will suffocate to death due to the lack of oxygen in the ghost world."

Hearing this, Kocho Shinobu nodded and said:

“I see, that’s why Onmyoji created a spell that allows one to sneak underground and move freely! But then again, does that ghost world still exist? If you really want to say it, putting all the ghosts in the underground world can also be a way to deal with them!”

Arisugawa Autumn Waterway:

"Of course the ghost world exists, but in order to prevent the ghosts in the ghost world from rushing out of the underworld and harming the world, the Onmyoji has set up a large number of barriers in the ghost world. Now the evil ghosts inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in. It's because too many Onmyojis died in the battle of the ghost world in the past, and the barriers that seal the ghost world usually need to be maintained, so the work of killing evil ghosts has been gradually taken over by your Demon Slayer Corps."

After hearing Arisugawa Shusui's explanation, Fushigawa Sane nodded slightly, and he barely understood the reason why Onmyoji had gone into seclusion in the modern era. Then, the path to the underworld on the island of grief:

"In short, now that we have a way to enter the Mausoleum of the First Emperor and continue our activities there, let's quickly prepare to suppress the First Emperor! If the First Emperor is really turned into a horrible zombie for two thousand years, by then, not to mention Shenzhou, the eight hundred li Qinchuan land will surely be devastated."

So everyone, under the leadership of Liu Yuxuan, stayed in a local inn. After recuperating for two days, everyone, under the leadership of Liu Yuxuan, came to a small barren hill. Looking down, Liu Yuxuan said calmly:

"The Mausoleum of the First Emperor is right below here."

As Liu Yuxuan said this, Hu Die Ren couldn't help but look around. She saw that the land of Sanqin was covered with loess, there were not even a few trees on the ridges, and the air was full of dust. It was really hard to imagine that this was the fertile land of Guanzhong, the foundation of the emperor. She couldn't help but think of Zhang Yanghao's words and sighed:

"It is sad that the palaces of the Qin and Han dynasties have all turned to dust."

As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Yuxuan on the side said:

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