"Waterways open gates in the walls, stone roads use overpasses..."
"The gate of life leads to the gate of death, and the gate of death leads to the King of Hell..."
"A mountain of swords leads to a sea of fire, and a mountain of swords leads to a sea of fire..."
"Eight gates and three paths to advance, Ghost Gate escapes invisibly..."
Suddenly, the golden-haired old man, who was napping, woke up, stretched, and muttered these words in a mysterious voice. Immediately, his eyes turned towards me, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, his eyes instantly became extremely terrifying, as if he wanted to eat me.
My mouth twitched. Damn it! I just stole your Soul Guiding Lamp. Do you really need to treat me like an enemy? Can't I just return it to you? Besides, it wasn't me who stole it. It was that damned Su Xiaoniu, okay?
Despite all my thoughts, I managed a forced smile, smiled at King Xujin, and said, "Well, well... old man with golden hair, I 'borrowed' your Soul Guiding Lamp because I really wanted to save someone. Now I'm bringing it back to you."
King Xujin saw that I was indeed holding the Soul Guiding Lamp in my hand, and it looked like I had come to return it. His terrifying look suddenly returned, and he got off the bed and walked over to me, saying, "Put down the Soul Lamp and leave immediately! Grandpa doesn't have time to play with you!"
"Hmph, are you really that cruel?" I complained, placed the soul lamp on the table, and said, "I'll leave the soul lamp here. Also... I'd like to ask you for a favor."
"No help!" King Xujin refused decisively. Damn it, I haven't even told him what I want him to do, and he rejected me outright!
It seems that I need to use some method to make him help me willingly! I pondered for a long time and said, "You should have guessed that the only people in the world who can use this Soul Guiding Lamp are you, Gui Sanniang, and Weapon Master Su Xiaomo. And I can use it to save people. This shows that my words about being Su Xiaomo's apprentice are not false, right?"
King Xujin curled his lips and said, "So what?"
I continued calmly, "By the way, I met Gui Sanniang not long ago. She even asked me about King Xujin's whereabouts. Do you think I should tell her?"
"How dare you, you little bastard!" King Xujin was so angry that his golden hair stood upside down, his beard puffed and his eyes glared. He looked like a sulky child, so adorable.
I chuckled and took the opportunity to say, "As long as you do me a favor, I'll keep it a secret for you!"
King Xujin sat down on a stool, poured himself a cup of tea, and said as he drank, "Let me tell you first, what can I help you with?"
I pointed at the formation diagram in the mirror image's hand and said, "Help me break the Ghost Gate Bagua Escape!"
Poof! A mouthful of tea suddenly spurted out. King Xujin glared at me and said, "What? Say it again? What's the meaning of ghost escape?"
"Ghost Gate Bagua Escape!" I told everything.
King Xujin jumped three feet high, looked at me in surprise and said, "Are you sure it's the Ghost Gate Bagua Escape?"
I nodded heavily.
King Xu Jin said in astonishment, "The Ghost Gate Bagua Escape is Ghost Sanniang's secret. To be more precise, it's an unformed Ghost Valley formation. She once sought guidance from our Four Yin-Yang Elders on Yin-Yang techniques, and then combined them with the principles of Yin-Yang and Bagua to create this formation. Logically, there's no one else besides Ghost Sanniang who could set up this formation. Could it be..."
I was secretly amazed. No wonder Su Xiaoniu asked me to come to the golden-haired old man first. The founder of the Ghost Gate Bagua Dun was actually Gui Sanniang! And before that, she had also consulted the Four Yin and Yang Elders. The Four Yin and Yang Elders the golden-haired old man was referring to were naturally the Taoist Wuxie, the Taoist Wushan, the Taoist Wuzhen, and the Taoist Wuxu.
The golden-haired old man is one of them, the Taoist Wuzhen. In other words, King Xujin is most familiar with the Ghost Gate Bagua Escape, and it is obviously a wise choice to ask him to break the formation.
"I remember Ghost Sanniang said this at the time..." King Xu Jin raised his head and said, "If Senior Sister Su were here, Ghost Gate Bagua Escape would have been fully formed and even more powerful. Unfortunately..."
I asked in surprise, "Senior Sister Su? Is that Su Xiaomo? Where was she at that time?"
King Xujin paused, then sighed sadly, "At that time, the eldest daughter went to the West to practice cultivation and never returned for several years. When we finally got news of her, it was already news of her death..."
I was stunned. Su Xiaoniu had gone to the West to practice Buddhism for years, and when she returned, she was told she had died. What had happened in between? Then, Su Xiaoniu's ashes were mailed to her hometown in China through a friend. Why?
I am becoming more and more interested in Su Xiaoniu's affairs, but I know that Su Xiaoniu will definitely not tell me!
Sure enough, I heard Su Xiaoniu say impatiently: "The old man keeps talking nonsense, he is so nagging! You tell him whether he will help or not, if not, forget it!" It seemed that she was not happy that the golden-haired old man had revealed some of her things.
I dared not retort, so I said to King Xujin, "The dead cannot be resurrected, old man Jin, I offer my condolences. But as for my request to break the formation, will you help me?"
King Xujin's eyes gleamed with brilliance as he nodded, "Ghost Sanniang's Ghost Gate Bagua Escape! I've been studying and analyzing it for years, but unfortunately, I've never tried it myself. Now that I have such a great opportunity, I, Grandpa, must try it out! - But, brat, if you really run into Ghost Sanniang, you'll have to block it for me!"
"Of course there's no problem with that." I don't know what the relationship between Gui Sanniang and King Xujin is that makes King Xujin so afraid of her, but the overall situation is more important. I have to borrow King Xujin's power to help me break the formation first.
One done, one more person missing!
King Xujin said to the mirror image, "Write down the words I just said on this formation diagram, and then make three copies."
"Okay." The mirror image nodded, wrote down the few words that King Xujin said when he woke up, and then went out with the formation map.
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