"Oh, luckily I have sharp eyes!" Deng Chanyu's peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a "broken wooden board" and picked it up to confirm that it was the official writing tablet used by the Emperor of Yan during his morning audience.
Even though Emperor Yan won't go to the Crown Jewels Palace for ten thousand yuan will, it's always good to get everything.
He examined it twice more carefully, confirming there were no omissions, and then he left.
"Rogue, where do you run?!" Zhao Da threw the Heaven and Earth Circle, a creature with six legs and two wings, entirely black like a wild wolf's ghost that he had killed with one strike.
More ghostly beasts emerged from all sides, and there were some humanoid illusory figures with blood-red eyes in the distance. They are the souls of humans who were born here and died here, filled with hatred for the living.
Daji and her companions were undoubtedly surrounded.
Xiao Qingluan transformed into the original form of the Qingluan Bird, flying mid-air and exhaling scorching-hot flames towards all around.
Daji somewhat understood the concept of a Summoner, utilizing the same characteristics of her Ghouls and the Underworld to call forth six fierce animal souls that form "Chong Yun Xiao" (Rising to the Heavens). Although Daibai Goou does not excel in combat, he too protects Daji at this moment. Furthermore, she consecrates thirty-six paper puppets with strength comparable to that of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Cooperating with Nezha, Chong Yun Xiao constantly disrupts the enemy's encirclement, allowing room for retreat for their own side. Di ting relays information about the enemy to the female host.
Daji bent her bow and aimed an arrow. Nezha, who received her signal, also took out his bow and arrows. They both aimed at a single direction. In the next instant, the arrows cut through numerous obstacles and targeted a white gown, adorned with a month-long appearance, graceful and leisurely, a woman even in death who still exudes an air of luxury with every movement of her hands and feet.
Nezha's powerful arrows quickly followed, tracing stars and moons in the blink of an eye to reach the woman. With little reaction, she raised a round ring-like weapon as clear and translucent as moonlight, casually tapping it outward.
"A crisp 'crack' sound."
The power of the heaven-shaking arrows was enormous, and the woman was somewhat arrogant. Although the arrow was deflected, the moonlight essence in her hand also scattered with it, scattering light that enveloped a thousand zhang in range. Many souls stood amidst the serene moonlight, and their ferocity and killing aura involuntarily dissipated by half, causing several breaches to appear in the encirclement.
Daji's setting sun arrows are subtle yet ruthless, with an even stronger resolve to battle the heavens and earth like the Wizards.
With the moonlight ring shattered, the woman was depleted of strength. Faced with a stronger arrow, she could not resist at all. It seemed that with a sigh, her body turned into a beam of pure white moonlight, merging with the sky's light column and vanishing into thin air.
"Let's go quickly!"
Daji and Nezha each retrieved their arrows, and at this moment, the arrows were covered in ice. Although it wasn't cold, this ice gave off a tranquil and peaceful ambiance.
The woman's strength far surpassed theirs, and now, by exploiting a weakness and pushing back this enemy, Daji wasted no more time. She seized the opportunity to quickly retreat with the two kids before their encirclement of souls could fully form.
"A ghost that uses moonlight as a weapon?" When Deng Chanyu found them, the three were hiding in a valley. Daji used paper puppets to block the Yang Qi from their bodies, dodging the pursuit of numerous ghostly beasts and spirits.
Daji said, "Yes, she is a very beautiful and well-mannered woman. Her dress suggests she is already married."
She emphasized "very pretty" and "after marriage" in her tone. Deng Chanyu pretended not to catch the Caozhi implication, and asked, "Is it the Moon Goddess Changxi? Is that her Moon Essence Wheel?"
Daji hedged: "I'm not a reincarnation of an ancient powerful being. How could I know such a level of gods and goddesses?"
Deng Chanyu scratched her head, she has heard similar rumors too, she is very suspicious that it was spread out by Zhenyunzi! This cheap big brother worries that his side's origin is too low, which would lower his level.
"I can't explain it in one or two sentences. In fact, I just recently..."
She left her words ambiguous, allowing for interpretation any way you like.
Deng Chanyu is not a reincarnation of a great being, from her original form, she can be considered a 'der'! She is just an ordinary military commander.
From the perspective of the Phoenix, that origin is indeed high enough.
Is this thing easy to explain? You never know, talking about it might reveal something about Long Ji's side. Deng Chanyu isn't mentally prepared yet; for now, the main strategy is to stall.
"H hacking cough, that seems to be a ghost of Changxi who is not your opportunity?"
"Definitely not. What would I do with a female ghost?"
"Then let's not linger with her. Let's just go around and get out of here."
The Moon Essence Wheel is indeed a high-level primordial treasure, but the celestial secrets surrounding the Sun Star and the Yin Star are too numerous. Wu Tian, now the supreme ruler of the three realms, has not seen him occupy the Sun Star, and he has also left the Yin Star to Chang'e and Jade Rabbit. At most, he sent a lickie-goo A Wugong, with no other heavenly army dispatched.
Why doesn't he occupy these two stars that serve as celestial beacons to tour the primordial chaos? Wu Tian is worried about something?
Wu Tian stopped advancing, Deng Chanyu won't get herself into trouble for a primordial treasure like the Moon Essence Wheel. She only wants to see what she can get out of it, and avoiding trouble with Xih and other entanglements is better.
They traveled thousands of miles and arrived at a gathering place for the Yin Earth people. Daji felt that the opportunity she sought was somewhere in the back mountains of this place, and it seems that it has not yet emerged into the world.
They observed from a distance. Every village of the Yin Earth people had a kind of fire called Yin Fire, similar to a campfire, burning day and night in the village center. The flames roared, providing limited light and supposedly offering protection to the human race against invasions by ghostly beings from the outside world.
The range of the Yin Fire was limited, so they had to maintain their own tribe at a smaller scale. Whenever the population exceeded a certain limit, they would separate far away from each other to avoid attracting the spirits due to an excessive concentration of human vitality.
Overall, their current living conditions are very poor, barely surviving.
The Yin Earth people have spawned over ten tribes, but the total population is only around ten thousand. This is less in number, but if all of them were to work for the underworld, their productivity would undoubtedly improve.
Through a clichéd rescue scene, they saved a hunter from within the tribe and were then introduced to the tribe's shaman doctor, an old man with an aura of Yin energy and a face as stiff as wood.
The old man asked, "Are you outsiders? From where did you come, and where are you heading?"
The leader of the outsiders, Deng Chanyu, said, "We have recently gained some enlightenment and plan to invite the old man and the esteemed people in our tribe to serve as officials in the underworld."
"Haha," the old man even as he laughed, his facial expression was extremely rigid: "Do you know why we have fallen to such a state? We are sinners. Before we can atone for our sins, we cannot leave the Yin Earth."
The old man told Deng Chanyu a simple story.
In the past, Shennong found fire and taught the people in his tribe to use it. This was undoubtedly a great good in the later era. However, at that time, many of the tribespeople opposed it. They believed that fire was something used by Tian Di (the supreme god) and immortals, and if humans were to steal fire, they would incur divine punishment in the future.
At that time, Fu Xi had not yet awakened his memories of a past life. As the leader of the tribe, he made the decision to banish all those who opposed the use of fire.
You're not worried about being involved, right? Okay, he banished these stubborn people to the dark Yin Earth, and they never came back. Ironically, these former opponents now have to rely on the Yin Fire to fend off those ghosts from the outside world.
