The tension in the field suddenly heightened as I found out from Wu Jinlun the previous situation.
Wei Youming, Old Gong, Si Yan, and the three spirits who had gone mad in their pursuit were engaged in a fierce battle with the undead. Both Si Yan and Old Gong were at a disadvantage, and for a moment, there was no way to break the deadlock, even with danger looming.
He had no other choice. The other gentlemen, all of them carrying bottles of Tian Gongquan Spring Water, had no choice but to take it out and pour it into the ancestral master Taoist of the Li family.
Tian Gongquan extinguished the three spirits of the Triad, and the master Taoist of the Li family, who is a descendant of Liu family, intervened to subdue the three corpses that had gone mad with fire.
They then immediately buried the bodies and sealed them.
As for me, Ji Kuixuan was originally a defeated opponent under my command, and Wu Jinluan knows this. Si Yan also knows, so they don't have much concern about my safety.
The Li family's ancestral master thought it would be more stable to suppress the corpses first, so he did not come to find me immediately.
With these words, Wu Jinluan sighed faintly, "Indeed, even with some of Ding Ruipo's things, Ji Kuixuan was no match for Master Luo. He ended up with a severed head and body. Where is his soul now?"
Wu Jinluan's emotions have relaxed a lot.
"Right, where is the ghost's soul attached to him?" Qiu Ji immediately asked me.
"The soul, it looked like Ji Kuixuan might lose and almost occupy Ji Kuixuan's body. When I was suppressing Ji Kuixuan, I sensed the presence of soul dissipation, and together with Ji Kuixuan, they were erased." I answered.
"Whew..." Qiu Ji patted his chest: "That's good... That's good..."
"Ji Kuixuan's soul scattered and dispersed, so from his body..." Si Yan spoke at just the right moment. I only noticed then that the veil on her face had disappeared at some point; her face looked slightly serious, with her brows slightly knitted.
"He doesn't have a cure for the poison, and this person's fate is too good. If he's not destroyed, there must be great hidden dangers. We cannot leave such a major hazard just to find the exact location of Baizhai. He probably knows everything about the ancient Qiang City very well." I replied honestly.
These few words conveyed some key information but did not delve into too much of the background and context.
Li Zizhuo walked over to the ancestral master of the Li family and whispered to him, telling him everything he knew.
During this time, the yin and yang masters were continuously piling up stones to completely seal the tomb.
After Li Zizhuo finished speaking, the ancestral master of the Li family nodded slightly and said, "Master Luo's actions are reasonable. Indeed, he has eliminated a person who poses a threat to my ancient Qiang City and removed a potential hazard."
"He dug out the master and the spirit pills of several long elders, cut several heads, and these faces, more or less, I have all seen."
"We need to take them down, find the remaining heads, and retrieve the spirit pills."
The ancestral master of the Li family's tone was very calm.
"The spirit pills are here." I took the spirit pills out of my pocket.
There were seven in total, enough to fill both hands.
The sunlight shining on these spirit pills gave off an even more vibrant feeling of vitality, making me feel like my injuries weren't as painful.
Wu Jinluan's eyes widened, and so did the others. They swallowed saliva continuously, their eyes filled with a hint of longing.
Qiu Ji walked up to me and took the spirit pills, his demeanor showing great respect.
"We still need to find something to suppress the corpse of the beast," the ancestral master of the Li family continued, "otherwise, we cannot suppress the transformed Empress Wu's corpse. The corpse has transformed into a vampire. The vampire has become an empress and is guarded by the emperor's corpse. If we don't resolve this trouble, we will need real people escorting us, and we will be constantly hindered by the transformed Empress Wu. We also need to have a real person watching over the emperor's corpse."
Li Zizhuo reacted quickly. He hurried over to Ji Kuixuan's corpse and squatted down, beginning to search for something.
"Er... I'm not sure what the suppressing object looks like..." Li Zizhuo looked up, looking a bit embarrassed.
Qiu Ji put away the spirit pills and went to search for it on Ji Kuixuan's corpse together.
They quickly found a small seal, about the size of an infant's fist, square at the bottom, with a coiled dragon on top. It was not made of jade but seemed to be some kind of earth material, heavy yet exquisitely crafted.
This is exactly what Old Gong had mentioned earlier: using a heavy earthen object to suppress the Empress Wu's body with heavy yin and heavy water.
Everything after that became much simpler.
Qiu Ji, Li Zizhuo, and the ancestral master of the Li family returned to the Xuanming Mountain to suppress the Empress Wu's corpse, return the spirit pills, and by the way, find out where those heads that were cut off were.
Of course, before they left, they removed the faces from Ji Kuixuan's body, leaving it in a state of many holes and wounds, looking quite pitiful.
The ancestral master of the Li family clearly showed some reluctance and did not want Wu Jinluan and the others to follow in.
We returned to the foot of the mountain and rested in the row of houses.
Before we knew it, several days had passed.
The people from the ancient Qiang City never returned, and I have been meditating to recover my body these few days, without using my life force to summon the thunderbolt. The consumption of the four gods' incantation is simply depleting my potential, and amazingly, I am recovering slower.
According to Old Gong, life energy is just pulling a bit of your fate from your body, making you look older. However, it takes some time to see the effects. Monks in their forties or fifties are still quite robust.
Potential, on the other hand, needs to be properly replenished.
During my previous encounters, I rarely used the four gods' incantation to exhaust my life force, but this time, I used it too heavily.
Old Gong also complained to me that I gave away all seven spirit pills? With no one seeing our fight, I could have kept at least two. That wouldn't have been a big deal.
Moreover, it was Wu Jinluan who made the guarantee before; he was the one who said he would never touch the spirit pills in the body of the immortal corpse.
Wu Jinluan had also left a hand, saying that it was just within the body. I didn't expect him to be so honest and give away all seven of them.
Old Gong's complaints continued endlessly, and he kept telling me that a person's luck is finite. It's understandable to lose the spirit pills when encountering them for the first time. But losing so many when encountering them again is just too bad. He said that being too sincere in life generally means you've used up your luck.
He was too repetitive, it made my head buzz with his chatter.
Fortunately, Wei Youming came out once, and he didn't say anything to me. He merely said to Old Gong, "You're sick."
This silenced Old Gong, who now ceased his chatter and muttered to himself without daring to say more…
On the fifth day, the people from the ancient Qiang City finally returned.
Li Yujie was also among them, which meant that the Empress Wu's corpse in the pavilions had been repressed!
Even, Qiu Ji's aura was different, as if he had skillfully used the technique of Burial Shadow Gazing at the Mountain, which had further elevated his level.
This is originally a good thing, but I always feel a bit stuffy in my heart, as if something else would happen eventually.
In addition, the ancestral master of the Li family asked me to do something.
