Chapter 74: Daozang Ghosts and Gods, Zhang Family

The ceremony at the Cangbing Cave ended.

Everyone went back to their own homes. On the way to the flight, Xu Yang went home carrying a Qiankun bag that was stuffed to the brim.

There are two acres of Yin soil, with an area of ​​two acres and a thickness of one foot; if you want stronger spiritual power, you can reduce the area and make the Yin soil thicker.

Xu Yang planned to build one and a half acres of land into the ghost cave, and keep the other half acre for research.

Passing by the Soldier Cave.

The entrance of the cave is ordinary, but the inside is a different world.

"Perhaps this is the real immortal cave." Xu Yang thought.

This kind of cave is where the immortals in mythology live. It looks like an ordinary cave from the outside, but it may be a paradise inside.

Come to a dark and secluded corner and jump into the stream.

Wow!

The iron plate on the waist glowed with light, and the water flow tore a crack.

Xu Yang entered the Water Palace.

The abundant Guishui essence makes one's mind clear. Baizhu has been waiting in the cave for a long time.

"Master!" Bai Zhu came forward, with a voluptuous figure, moist red lips, and soft black hair as if she had just been bathed, with a fragrance like lotus.

Bai Zhu looked at Xu Yang with her big, watery eyes and asked anxiously, "Master, did you succeed?"

"Of course!" Xu Yang smiled and untied several Qiankun bags on his waist. "Come here, I'll recover my true energy first."

The water palace was filled with essence and the candlelight flickered. Half an hour later, Xu Yang was refreshed and full of true energy.

Then he took out the Yin Soil and studied it. The Yin Soil looked like white jade fragments and carried a cold breath.

This thing has a strong Taiyin power, a part of Guishui essence, and even earth essence, which basically covers the mainstream cultivation essence of the Fire Kingdom.

In addition, there is a mysterious force that cannot be identified.

"This power should be related to the underworld." Xu Yang thought, there was no other explanation for the sense of familiarity that could be felt by the bardo body, except that the underworld was related to death.

Return to Yizhuang.

Everyone was so tired that they almost fell down.

During these three days, they created zombies day and night, and their true energy could not recover.

"Thank you all for your hard work." Xu Yang took out the medicine bottle and asked Qingping to distribute it to everyone.

Everyone dispersed, and Xu Yang stood with his hands behind his back, thinking about the gains and losses.

The loss of one hundred and sixty quick-growing zombies cost approximately one thousand six hundred taels, plus energy and personnel costs, rounded up to two thousand.

The two thousand were not wasted, as they brought a total of fifteen hundred merits. The total merits he had were one thousand seven hundred and thirty, which was equivalent to one hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver.

It is enough for the charity home to use for decades.

In addition, there is the corpse of the golden-eyed eagle, and there will be one more zombie in the charity cemetery.

"Since Yin soil cannot be studied, let's ignore it for now and use its Taiyin power to practice first."

"It's time to prepare for an accelerated breakthrough."

Xu Yang opened the French book and sensed it with his spiritual sense.

In addition to secret techniques, there are also weapons, elixirs, formations and various strange materials.

These things are relatively basic, and many are products of the various county palaces, with France serving as a platform for their transactions.

"Three Yin Pills, Yellow Spring River Pills, Guishui Pills, Daozang Ghost Pills..."

Xu Yang looked at the rows of elixir information. These were all elixirs suitable for practicing in the Zhenqi stage.

The essence of true qi is the movement of the river cart. Ordinary elixirs forcefully infuse essence and qi to promote the growth of Taoism. Advanced elixirs increase the speed of the river cart, or start from promoting the transformation of the river cart, which gives a state.

In addition to elixirs that can maintain this state, another way is the formation.

Xu Yang took a fancy to the Taoist Ghost Pill, which was made from ghost tears as the main ingredient. After taking the pill, the speed of the river cart would double and last for ten days.

The disadvantage is that it is easy to be affected by resentment and fall into hallucinations.

"I possess the Three Secret Yin Bodies, so I am not afraid of hallucinations. However, this elixir is too expensive. It is sold in bottles at a minimum of one. One elixir requires ten merits, and there are ten elixir in a bottle." Xu Yang felt a toothache as he watched.

He did notice that the fundamental skills or secret techniques of each sect were often priced low and could be exchanged for fifty or one hundred merits.

But once you enter this system, the resources for cultivation will become expensive. You are treated like a pig and have no choice but to buy them.

"How about learning alchemy by yourself?"

This thought flashed through Xu Yang's mind, but he dismissed it the next moment.

The way of alchemy is not to learn the alchemy technique and then add the medicine prescription. One alchemy technique requires 200 merits, and the medicine prescription needs to be purchased separately, which is very expensive.

Different prescriptions have different orders. Any mistake will result in a poisonous pill, and the same fate will befall those strange-looking disciples of Huangya Temple.

The initial investment is huge, or it takes decades to accumulate slowly.

At present, I have already invested a lot in the zombie method. If I learn another alchemy method, I estimate that I will not have time in a day, and the more than a thousand merits will be used up soon.

Therefore, you should first consider breaking through the foundation. After the foundation is established, it will not be too late to learn other schools.

Xu Yang plans to exchange two bottles, for a total of two hundred merits.

Next is the formation.

"The Yellow Springs Ghost Cave Formation is pretty good."

This formation requires five Yin objects as the center of the formation. These objects can be used as a defensive formation or to conceal the Taoist temple. The center of the formation gathers extremely high concentrations of Taiyin power.

About six hundred merits.

With a change of mind, the one thousand seven hundred and thirty merits became nine hundred and thirty.

"Eight hundred merits are gone?"

Xu Yang said in surprise.

Cultivation is indeed extremely resource-intensive. If I hadn't used cheats and had so many soldiers, it would have taken me at least ten years to accumulate these eight hundred merits.

Closing the French book, Xu Yang flew to the ghost cave and spread the Yin soil in the cave.

"This place has more mushrooms and peas, and less willow trees."

In the dim cave, at the edge of the blood-red altar, Xu Yang gave instructions to the Banyan God.

"Yes!!"

Things are simple after that.

Alchemy Eye Eagle's corpse to practice fundamental skills.

Occasionally take the time to replenish instant zombies.

The people below each do their own work, and occasionally go to the mountains to catch monsters.

The next day.

Phew! !

The kingfisher flew so fast, like a beam of green light cutting through the azure sky, and landed steadily on the eaves.

"Is Taoist Master Xu Yang here?"

The kingfisher's voice is like an oriole.

Xu Yang jumped onto the eaves and bowed, "Your Excellency, I am Xu Yang."

The kingfisher stretched out its claws, and two bottles of elixirs appeared out of thin air.

"Messenger, are there only elixirs? What about the formation?" Xu Yang asked curiously.

The kingfisher gave Xu Yang a charming look, and at that moment, there was a hint of charm in it.

"Do you think you can build the formation yourself after you give it the blueprint? That will take a long time. When they are ready, they will come to build the formation. It will take about ten days for them to come down and build the formation."

"May I ask where you are from?"

"Sanjun County Palace."

"I see. Thank you for your guidance, messenger."

Xu Yang nodded. The Sanjun County Palace had a rather diverse school of thought and many miscellaneous techniques, which were mainly divided into three categories: ghosts, monsters, and corpses.

The嵯'e County Palace is a sect founded by orthodox disciples of the Heche Palace. The methods they learn are relatively advanced, such as alchemy, talismans, and formations.

The Chechi Palace is good at Yin Lei, and the Dijie County is governed by the three major county palaces, and the county magistrate is from the Sage County Palace.

If you want to climb up in the future, you will have to deal with them.

……

Deep mountains and forests, dark caves.

"What? Dead? All dead?"

Inside the cave, Zhang Zheng was furious. Thunder rumbled in the cave and purple lightning flashed in the sky.

The spider spirit trembled beside, not daring to make a sound.

"What happened? Have you found out?" Zhang Zheng looked at the spider spirit beside him. Zhang Zheng was extremely heartbroken by the death of two great foundation-building demons.

The spider spirit in front of him was just a foundation-building fighter. Her level was very poor and she was not capable of taking on the main responsibility. If she could not control a large number of spiders to steal corpses, he would have killed this thing long ago.

The spider spirit seemed to understand her situation. She lowered her head and dared not speak, fearing that her anger would affect her.

The human in front of him was even more brutal than this so-called demon.

"Both great monsters were besieged and killed by the cultivators. Master Golden Eyed Eagle tried to escape, but was stopped and killed by a cultivator named Xu Yang."

"Xu Yang?" Hearing Xu Yang's name, Zhang Zheng recalled an incident that happened in the past.

He remembered this guy Xu Yang.

This person was not cooperative with the Xinrencao matter at first. I wanted to send someone to assassinate him, but I didn't expect to be killed by this guy. I happened to meet Bailong that day.

"I didn't expect this person to have grown to this level, Spider Spirit, what is his level of cultivation?"

"He has reached great perfection in true Qi. It is rumored that this person controls a huge number of zombies, occupying half of Quhuang County."

Hearing this, Zhang Zheng's eyes lit up.

I've investigated Xu Yang's background before. It turns out that he has no sect or school and relies entirely on his ability to drive corpses.

So if we capture this person, perhaps we can collect people's hearts through him.

Zhang Zheng looked at the spider spirit and said, "Send a spider to investigate. I want to visit this person in person."

This person is good at driving corpses. He has achieved great success in cultivating true Qi, so his body must be weak. If you get close to his body, you can control him.

"By the way, send a letter over, remember not to be discovered."

"Yes!!"

The spider spirit immediately went down the mountain.

Zhang Zheng came to another cave hall, where dozens of corpses were placed, and blood had coagulated on the ground into a dark brown color.

There are strange grasses growing on the ground.

There is still a shortage of some human heart grass, so the Zhang family members are divided into small groups and each is allocated a certain amount. When a certain amount is reached, they will take the initiative to return to the Zhang family.

This will prevent the traitor in Chechi Palace from knowing the information.

All in all, we have learned a lot of lessons this time.

At night, the moon is high in the sky and the wind is cold.

The water in the canal seemed to calm down.

call! !

Above the water, several spiders the size of human heads tread through the water.

"Hmm? Is there a demonic aura?"

Below the cave, Xu Yang, who was practicing, suddenly opened his eyes and sensed the evil spirit above.

The divine consciousness scanned the outside world through the water palace and found several small spiders walking.

These spiders were not wandering around aimlessly. Instead, they were heading towards the charity cemetery as if they were being commanded by someone.

Xu Yang did not rush out, but followed from a distance, covering his figure with dark fog.

As he had expected, the spider's destination was Yizhuang.

Arrived near the charity cemetery.

call! !

A gust of cold wind blew, and the black fog gathered into a locust wood ghost.

The guards of the charity cemetery did not disappoint him and discovered the little spider in an instant.

boom! !

The next moment, the little spider exploded, leaving only a stone slab covered with words in its place.

Just as Huaimu Gui was about to pick up the thing, a person suddenly appeared in front of him.

"You guys go back." Xu Yang picked up the slate and waved his hand.

There were only a few lines of text written on the stone slab.

"I was promoted to the ninth rank that day. If you work for me, I will ensure your prosperity and wealth. Otherwise, I will kill your entire family. I will pay you a visit tomorrow!"

Just a few words reveal countless information.

Zhang Zheng is not dead yet?
Xu Yang thought to himself that something was wrong. He was indeed involved in the struggle among the upper class and was being targeted by the Zhang family.

Do you want to report it yourself?

But who should they report to? This time, the Zhang family acted very covertly, and there is no public evidence to prove that the Zhang family collected the human heart grass.

What kind of evidence can a mere slate serve? Besides, Zhang Zheng's reappearance proves that he has served his sentence. It is not illegal for him to come here, and he is not a fugitive from the imperial court.

Even the Sanjun Palace, which has a grudge against the Chechi Palace, cannot stop a person who has not made any mistakes.

In other words, Zhang Zheng appeared here openly, and no one could do anything to him.

If he took the initiative to expose Zhang Zheng's whereabouts, perhaps Quhuang County could be quieter, but Yi Zhuang would offend the Zhang family.

The Zhang family's Xinrencao plan should be very important, and it is said to be related to the ancestor of the Zhang family.

In the struggle among the upper class, he, a ninth-rank official, is just an ant. If he is wiped out by them personally, no one will avenge him.

Xu Yang thought about it for a long time and finally decided not to make it public.

He rubbed his brows and said, "Forget it, let's take it one step at a time."

First, find out what the person's situation is, and then make a decision, whether to break up with him or join other forces to hedge.

At least he doesn't want to deal with people from the Zhang family.

If one wants to join a powerful force, it will at least be the ones like the嵯EGong Palace or the SanJun Palace. If one joins a force like the CheChi Palace, one will never be able to rise in his life unless his surname is Zhang.

Ten days later, people from Sanjun Palace came to build the formation. If it doesn't work, they can show their great Taiyin method and join Sanjun County Palace. Isn't that better than Chechi Palace?

Otherwise, people would call him "Eunuch Taoist Priest", which is a very ugly nickname.

He put away the slate and went home, pretending not to know that there were still spiders watching him.

After returning home.

"Qingping, put away all the paper money and other things in the house."

"Yes!"

……

"What's this person's reaction?" Zhang Zheng asked.

“This person did not make it public.”

"He knows how to handle the current situation, and he is a talent." Zhang Zheng sneered. This delivery of the letter was also a test. If this person did not know his own abilities, then he would kill people to establish his authority.

Although this person's cultivation level is not high, he controls half of the county's territory, making him an excellent target for control.

…………

Outside Dijie County, beneath the night sky, is a mass grave with scattered tombstones and phosphorous sparks.

Thick fog was floating between the mass graves.

Kingfishers flew into the fog.

Wow! !

The scenery changed drastically, and before us was a bustling market.

The crowds were huge and crowded.

The sounds of peddlers and hawkers were endless.

If the sun in the sky had not been a green lantern, the kingfisher would have thought it was a city on earth.

A Taoist priest in a white robe walked out of the teahouse next door.

This person is Bai Long.

"Xu Yang of Quhuang County intends to exchange for the Yellow Spring Ghost Den Formation." Kingfisher said directly.

"Oh?" Hearing this familiar name, Bai Long remembered that this was the person who successfully practiced the Taiyin Method.

A formation with six hundred merits, this formation requires a Yin object with extremely strong Yin energy to suppress it... Has this person grown to this level?

"Messenger, tell me about this person."

Kingfisher told what he had seen and heard. These rumors were not secrets. As the leader of the Dharma Assembly, there were rumors in the four counties, but the versions were different.

I heard that this person released more than a hundred zombies to kill demons, or some plant zombies.

Bai Long's calm expression was somewhat moved.

This person has become stronger again.

"Uncle Zhigang should be very interested in this person." Bai Long turned to Kingfisher and said, "The messenger can go back first. I will send... No, I will go there myself in a few days."

(End of this chapter)