Chapter 113

When the sunlight faded a little, Jitang called everyone to go to Ganri Peak to find his master.

Because Jitang came back, Master Wushu stopped seclusion and declined several Taoist conferences.

A group of younger generations saluted him, and he dismissed the disciples on duty in the hall and arranged for everyone to sit down.

Jitang directly took out the bamboo slips and books collected from the five sects. There were quite a lot of things, filling up an entire long table.

Master Wu Shu walked down from the upper seat and flipped through it casually.

She recounted what she had seen in the five sects. "The leaders of these five sects are all minions of the Black Lord. I don't know what level they are, but judging by the dark blue mist of the Duzhao Sect, they can't reach the Black Lord. There must be at least one level above them."

"That means it's below level two." Chu Jinhuai quickly sorted it out. "It seems that the tortoise shell we found a long time ago is the medium they use to activate all nine formations on the Jiuzhou Continent. Now that the medium is no longer effective, they are thinking about the Ten-Year Competition again."

Su Jinzhou: "The Ten-Year Competition is a major event among the young disciples in the world of cultivation. It's open to all of Kyushu and involves a large number of people. The Black Clothed Forces want to use these young people as blood sacrifices, which shows that they are determined to activate the nine formations. Once all the formations are activated, the people of Kyushu will suffer."

What exactly is the purpose of the black forces? This is what they want to know most, otherwise they will always be passive.

Ji Tang: "They appeared silently and have been slowly infiltrating for thousands of years." She said to the others, "Speaking of which, my senior brother and I first encountered them over two thousand years ago, on Haijin Yunjian Island in Haihe Province."

Huanmang immediately thought of a name: "Qiu Runfang?"

Ji Tang: "Yes, she disguised herself as an elder of the Wei Hai Palace, with the support of the black-clad forces behind her, and subtly poisoned the sturgeon shark king beast senior. After the king beast senior blew himself up, they set their sights on the sturgeon shark king beast senior's inheritance place. They took advantage of the sturgeon shark clan's extremely fast cultivation speed and tried every means to enter the inheritance place.

In the seas of the sturgeon shark clan, there's a coral cave where I found a tortoise shell. This means that the Black Forces had already begun deploying the Nine Formations in Jiuzhou since then. The Wei Hai Palace lost many disciples during that incident, and I now suspect it was also a blood sacrifice.

Su Jinzhou: "We've always had a preconceived notion that Qiu Runfang appeared in the Nightmare Fantasy Valley because you were able to open the Sturgeon Shark Clan's inheritance site. Now that I think about it, part of the reason is this, and part of the reason is that she discovered your value and perhaps told the Black Lord, so the Black Lord sent her to keep an eye on you. This also explains why she appeared next to Xue Mei.

If you are only considered the key to unlocking the inheritance land, there is no need to bother getting involved with Xue Mei. Furthermore, there are five sects involved, including the Wuwang Sect, and their masters are minions of the Black Lord.

With this said, the complicated thread gradually became clear.

Only when you look at them all together can you see that the black forces have invaded from all sides, and they are all more or less connected.

Chu Jinhuai spoke at this time: "Do you all still remember Yebaidu?"

Jitang told his master about Yebaidu.

Master Wu Shu, "The black-clad forces have also infiltrated Yewangchuan?"

Chu Jinhuai quickly bowed respectfully, "I'm still not sure. I didn't mention it before because I didn't connect this matter with the black forces. Ye Baidu said some time ago that Yewangchuan is not peaceful."

Having said this, several eyes fell on him.

Huanmang: When you asked us to go there, you didn’t tell us that Yewangchuan was not peaceful.

Chu Jinhuai coughed to cover it up, pretending he hadn't seen it. "In the past, more than half of the dead who entered the Night Forgetful River could successfully cross the Forgetful Sea and didn't have to go to the Realm of the Dead. But for a long time, the number of dead who can successfully cross the Forgetful Sea has been less than 30%. The Realm of the Dead has been igniting more and more Netherworld lights, and there are not enough ferrymen."

Huan Mang heard this and said, "It sounds like it has nothing to do with the black forces."

Chu Jinhuai, "But I suddenly thought of something. There are fewer and fewer dead people who successfully cross the sea. There are many souls in the realm of the dead, and it is very likely that they will be used by those with ulterior motives."

Huan Mang was puzzled: "Using the souls of the dead?"

Chu Jinhuai, "The dead souls gather, the resentment gathers, and the yin energy fills the sky. If you are careless, you may become a ready-made soul sacrifice."

"...What is soul sacrifice?" Huan Mang had never even heard of it.

In the past, Chu Jinhuai would probably have said, "The living shouldn't meddle with the dead." However, this matter was of great importance, so he explained seriously, "Soul sacrifice is more difficult to achieve than blood sacrifice. Blood sacrifice uses blood as a sacrifice. To put it simply, it uses the blood of animals, while to put it more difficultly, it uses monsters, human cultivators, demons, dragons..."

Huanmang stared.

"Well, in short, the blood sacrifice that the black-clad forces want to perform this time is to use the blood of human cultivators. The blood of ordinary people is different from the blood of cultivators. Cultivators practice for many years and their blood also has spiritual power, making them more suitable as sacrifices for blood sacrifices."

"Soul sacrifice uses the souls of the dead as sacrifices, which is one of the difficulties. After all, the blood of cultivators is easier to obtain than the souls of the dead." Chu Jinhuai said of the soul sacrifice, "Soul sacrifice requires a huge number of souls of the dead, which is the second difficulty.

Normally, more than half of the souls that enter the Night Forgetful River will successfully cross the Forgetful Sea, without having to go to the Realm of the Dead. The Realm of the Dead also doesn't gather a large number of souls. Without the prerequisite of the Soul Sacrifice, it naturally cannot be performed."

Huan Mang: "Has the Realm of the Dead never seen a large number of dead souls gather there?"

Chu Jinhuai shook his head cautiously, "This is the first time."

Huan Mang: "According to you, there is also a difficulty level three?"

Chu Jinhuai: "Yes. Soul Sacrifice is a forbidden technique, originating from Yewangchuan. There are very few people in the cultivation world who know about Soul Sacrifice, and my father is one of them."

Jitang looked at him.

So he knew Ye Baidu, and it was not necessarily the case that he had said before, that Shadow's cultivation was at the Void Stage, that he could cut through the void and travel back and forth to Yewangchuan, and that he was the messenger between Ye Baidu and the Sturgeon Shark King Beast.

Now that I think about it, how could Shadow alone be able to establish connections in a place like Yewangchuan? It's not a place where social etiquette is important.

Chu Jinhuai's ability to interact with Ye Wangchuan was likely due to his connections with the Lord of Dengtian City. This explains why he was able to grasp so much about Ye Wangchuan's situation and understand the Soul Sacrifice so well.

Chu Jinhuai felt a chill when Jitang looked at him, but Jitang didn't say a word, so he had no idea what Jitang was thinking.

He had no choice but to continue, "To perform this forbidden technique, a medium must be used. I don't know what it is exactly, but one thing is certain, it is a magical weapon."

Huanmang's face darkened instantly.

They took out a magic weapon that looked like a pearl from the dragon's body. It was a treasure that contained fairy energy.

The treasure was together with Qiu Runfang's residual soul, and it must be related to the Lord in Black. Now with the addition of the immortal artifact medium of soul sacrifice, he had to think more.

"Blood sacrifice, soul sacrifice, both must be stopped." Master Wu Shu said at this time, "Does the young city lord know the current situation of the souls in the realm of the dead?"

Chu Jinhuai was annoyed. "I didn't connect this matter with the black forces before, so I didn't pay much attention to it. I only thought about it deeply today. I am ashamed of myself!"

Master Wu Shu said, "Without further delay, Jinzhou, you and Jitang should go to Yewangchuan and explain things to the ferryman to confirm the current situation of the Realm of the Dead. Although the Realm of the Dead has never had much contact with the outside world, this matter is of great importance, and they can naturally distinguish the interests involved."

As for the blood sacrifice, I'll first contact the trusted sects and palaces, and have them study these bamboo slips together. I just took a look and saw that many of them mentioned blood sacrifice. With these, we can make some preparations in advance."

Both of them: "Yes."

Chu Jinhuai took the initiative to say: "Junior has some understanding of Ye Wangchuan. This time I will go with Immortal Venerable and Nightmare Venerable, and I can also help a little."

Huan Mang was not far behind, "Jiu Xiao and I will go too!" Just kidding, they were the only three of them in the Fusion Stage. Who knew they would be targeted by the Black Lord any moment? Following Xuan Zong was good, but how could it be as safe as following Su Jin Zhou and Ji Tang?

Jiuxiao, who had been silent all this time, bowed and expressed his attitude.

Huan Mang did not mention Jiujun this time, nor did he plan to take Jiujun with him. Jiujun was not targeted by the black-clothed lord and was safe in Su Xuanzong.

Master Wu Shu nodded and said, "In that case, you two can go together so that we can look after each other."

Huan Mang laughed dryly. Master Wu Shu was being too polite. With the Immortal Lord and the Nightmare Lord around, they were the ones who were protected.

Su Jinzhou cut through the void and went in first, followed closely by several others.

Just like last time, as soon as Ye Wangchuan came in, the deathly aura gathered instantly and surrounded them.

Su Jinzhou used his spiritual power to protect the few people.

Chu Jinhuai looked into the distance and did not see Ye Baidu.

Su Jinzhou nodded slightly to Jitang and walked towards the ferry.

There were many empty small boats moored at the ferry, and their group of five used two boats.

Huan Mang was the first to board the boat and turned around to call Chu Jinhuai and Jiuxiao.

He still had some self-awareness. Even if Su Jinzhou rowed the boat, he would only row for Ji Tang. He was very kind to use his spiritual power to protect the three of them.

The three of them, tall and strong, were squeezed into a small boat that was taking up a lot of water and was shaking. It looked like it would sink at any moment.

Ji Tang was still in the mood to joke, "I'm curious, what would happen if you fell into the Forgotten Sea?"

Huanmang and Jiuxiao suddenly became nervous.

Chu Jinhuai: "...I haven't heard of anyone falling in." As he said this, he rowed more carefully.

There were no ripples in the Forgotten Sea, only two or three dark black lines appeared when the oars cut through the sea surface. Before the oars were put into the sea again, the black lines had disappeared.

I paddled all the way to the other side, but I could not hear any sound of water.

Su Jinzhou moored the boat to the shore first, then turned around and led Jitang ashore.

Chu Jinhuai then stopped, and only after stepping onto the gray sand did his somewhat uneasy heart finally settle down.

At this moment, a ball of blue flame suddenly ignited on the sea surface not far away near the shore.

Many ferrymen passed by in sight, but they didn't react much, not even looking at the flames. They just held up a ghost lamp and led the souls behind them slowly into the realm of the dead.

Only a few idle ferrymen walked towards the flames, and their pace was neither fast nor slow.

Several people looked intently and saw a slender human figure in the burning flames, which was distorted almost out of shape in the flickering flames.

The blue flame was like substance, too thick to dissolve, slowly dripping and melting into the Lethe Sea, igniting a small piece of the Sea.