"Just for fun, the ancient Qiang City first master has used all his skill to play with the shadowy arts, but never bothered with his own ancestral tomb. The only time he used a bit of it was to create a shadow that made the dead feel alive." Lao Gong spoke in a more peculiar tone.
It's hard to tell if he's angry or...
Envy?
Perhaps both?
"Old Gong, calm down first. You need to decide what to do next. Qiu Ji, the apprentice of the former master, has no useful methods. Since we've come in here, all we've seen are the immortal corpses being dug for their elixirs and their heads cut off. Then encountering this palace maid corpse is like a headless fly; we have no proper way to handle it."
Si Yan has a better control of emotions, and she opens her mouth in a deep voice, her charming face full of seriousness.
"Of course he's useless... He just crossed a few mountains that he should have crossed himself, and he thinks his master will be laughing in nine pits. He's just a complete waste of time." Old Gong rolled his eyes.
"So, you need to figure something out. We all depend on you. Sister Lu wouldn't want you to be so irritable, would she?" Si Yan spoke again.
"Oh... I... Sister Lu... Yes, I am a high person, a high person... I am steady..."
In fact, ghosts don't breathe, but Old Gong still took a deep breath as if to stabilize his emotions.
"She's scared of the Gao Tian sword, she dares not face us directly. Where can she go? She wasn't deliberately coming to kill this unlucky ghost; it's just that he happened to be hiding on the path she was trying to escape..."
"Previously, master hit his apprentice to his master, and his master to his master's ancestor... She went to find her own husband!"
Old Gong hit the nail on the head!
"My expression changed, and Si Yan also looked extremely serious."
In fact, we are all at a loss when faced with the palace maid corpse. She just doesn't want to be hurt, which doesn't mean that Si Yan and I can eliminate her. In fact, we are also afraid of eliminating her for fear of causing the appearance of the imperial corpse.
If she were to directly bring out the imperial corpse, then it might as well have been better to take decisive action earlier.
"Oh! I said where is Elder Two, he must be guarding the coffin of the imperial corpse. He must have guessed that things would become extremely serious! That's why, your previous actions were already very heavy-handed, and nothing happened!"
Old Gong's words further pointed out the key issue.
I and Si Yan let out a slight sigh of relief.
"To find Ji Kuai, he must be elsewhere. This place is sealed with stone slabs, and the palace maid corpse is wandering around. He just left the palace maid corpse and took away the ritual object to silence mouths, but this doesn't mean he can control the palace maid corpse. He will definitely find a way to take the corpse pill, as he has taken away so many heads. He must also plant medicine. He has to stay here."
Old Gong's analytical abilities have always exceeded everyone else.
"Old brat, he knows a bit of feng shui and a bit of Taoism, managed to evade the pursuit and assassination from the Ba Zhai, and thinks that no one in this world can deal with him? He makes a mess everywhere he goes?"
After speaking, Old Gong said, "I will go with the dean of the ghost institute to bring everyone else back. You guys go ahead and see if you can meet up with Elder Two."
I and Si Yan nodded simultaneously.
Old Gong floated off in another direction.
I and Si Yan returned to the original path.
As we exited the pavilion, we indeed saw a figure standing still by the pond in front. It was Liu Yujie, who was holding a sword in his hand. The whole aura of the person exuded a sense of solemnity and danger.
Just then, neither I nor Si Yan saw the palace maid corpse or the white coffin that had previously hovered above the water.
Liu Yujie's hair was slightly disheveled, and the hair on his temples was whiter.
He was the one most affected by emotions, and even from a distance, the tangible aura of killing was extremely strong.
There is something else on the surface of the pond...
There, a piece of talisman cloth was floating!
The talisman cloth was quite large, at least two meters long and one meter wide. The characters drawn on it were not the incantation for suppressing spirits, but a different kind of script that I had never seen before.
"The palace maid corpse appears everywhere, and the imperial corpse refuses to enter the Yinlong Water. I'll temporarily subdue it under the water for now. Otherwise, your big commotion earlier would have already caused it to break out of its coffin."
"Think about how the ancient Qiang City dominates one area, but it is messed up by a traitor from a mountain hermitage!"
Liu Yujie's voice trembled, and the sense of killing intent was even more intense and full.
I looked at Si Yan, but for a moment, we didn't know how to answer.
In fact, is Ji Kuai strong?
To an ordinary Taoist, he is that strong, as he has a reputation in the Yin-Yang realm. He is the first person below a true immortal.
However, for the ancient Qiang City, he is really not enough to look at.
He succeeded in combining feng shui and yin-yang arts, taking the initiative, killing the former master underestimating him, hiding from the true immortal and not appearing, stealing corpses to plant medicine, and coincidentally opening a water outlet. Then, by taking advantage of the special breathing technique of the Ba Zhai lineage and walking an unusual path, he entered Xuan Ming Mountain a step ahead.
With every step, he stepped on the weak point of the ancient Qiang City, and with every step, he brought endless troubles to the ancient Qiang City...
Ji Kuai may not be strong, but he is like a flea, sucking blood at key places and making people unable to stop him.
"Old Gong has already figured out what he is doing. We just need to find him again! Master Liu, please take care!" I bowed and said in a deep voice.
The body of the former master and the numerous elder statesmen in succession was damaged so much that it was not inferior to the true immortal chief of the Shixie Monastery being destroyed. This is a significant injury to Daoxin.
Once one reaches a certain level of cultivation, the greatest fear is the inner demon.
"I... I'm fine." Liu Yujie shook his head. Looking directly at the talisman floating on the surface of the pond, he spoke in a hoarse voice: "The imperial corpse cannot come out for now. With the absence of the former master, there is no way to bring it back to the city of Qiang. The palace maid corpse was forced to change into a zombie or hound by you guys, and she will not be able to calm down without a ritual object. It seems that Ji Kuai did not just release her with the talisman, but also took away the ritual object used to silence her mouth."
"To capture him alive and retrieve the silencing ritual object to stabilize the situation here, the ancient Qiang City will not allow such a person, or even such a troublesome and wicked Daoist sect to exist!" Liu Yujie's words were exceptionally decisive and certain!
The Ba Zhai has already become a thorn in the eyes of everyone.
Just then, no one has been particularly decisive about going to eliminate it!
Ji Kuai is a traitor, but he really bit into the flesh of the ancient Qiang City and also angered the pure yang observatory!
The Ba Zhai could not have expected that, having just suffered a loss at Tiecha Mountain, they would also offend the ancient Qiang City to the point of an eternal enmity!
At this critical moment, Old Gong has returned.
Wu Jinluan and the others were reduced to seven, with two of them having died.
Qiu Ji looked extremely disheveled, and Liu Ziyu also had a pale face, with a look of frustration and helplessness.
"Qiu Ji, you must be steady. Help Master Luo Xian Shen and Si Yan True Immortal to find Ji Kuai's whereabouts. I will be here, and the underwater corpse won't cause any bigger disturbance. As long as the imperial corpse doesn't break through the coffin, the palace maid corpse will stay here." Li Yujie's words gave Qiu Ji a sense of hope.
But he shook his head again, speaking in a hoarse voice: "It's impossible... Beyond the area of the underground tomb, there are places where the burial image of the mountain on Mount Shange has a layout. This is the kind of situation where one hair moves and the whole body moves. Old Gongshu just explained to me about the situation... Ji Kuai can't hide in any location on the mountain! Unless he knows sorcery as well, which is even more impossible!"
