Chapter 254 Ghost Queen
Subconsciously, Zhang Yang was about to activate the Soul Vein Sword Pill, but at this moment, for some reason, a great fear spread in his heart, as if he would die as long as he took action.
So he changed his mind and shouted, "Five hundred immortal stones, I will stay for a while."
As soon as he finished speaking, the cold and gloomy atmosphere around him disappeared instantly. The little woman who was still shedding tears of blood and made Zhang Yang feel that she would die if she made a move suddenly smiled sweetly, was full of life, and even gave him a wink.
"Oh my, a distinguished guest has come to visit me. It really makes my humble abode shine! Please come in."
Zhang Yang stared at the woman as if he had seen a ghost.
"Are you a ghost?"
"I am so ashamed. I am just a ghost queen. Please don't blame me if I haven't treated you well." As the woman said this, she walked away from Zhang Yang, swaying from side to side. She really disappeared out of thin air.
At this moment, Zhang Yang was already sweating profusely.
He knew that the Ghost Queen was in the extraordinary stage, the Ghost Empress was equivalent to the foundation-building stage, and the Ghost Queen Mother was equivalent to the golden elixir stage.
So if he had dared to do it just now, he would really die.
"What about the five hundred immortal stones?"
The big man carrying a bow and arrow appeared again, his expression still cold.
Zhang Yang deliberately asked, "Shouldn't I give the Immortal Stone to that Ghost Senior?"
"Stop talking nonsense. That is the village guardian ghost raised by our village. If you want to enter the village to avoid the sleepless night, you must pay 500 immortal stones."
"I see. Sorry, sorry."
Zhang Yang quickly gave him a handshake and 500 immortal stones. After receiving the immortal stones, the archer's expression eased a little. "Stranger, since you have paid the protection fee, then during the sleepless night, the Black Bull Village will guarantee your safety and daily training and diet. But you must remember that there are three taboos in the Black Bull Village."
"First, you are not allowed to leave the protection range of the village protection formation on your own."
"Second, you are not allowed to visit the core forbidden area of Black Bull Village."
"Third, you are not allowed to have an affair with the female ghost who was protecting the village. Do you understand?"
"I understand. Can I, can I practice in the village?" Zhang Yang said quickly. This is very important.
"Of course, if you pay the protection fee, you can absorb the spiritual energy within 500 miles of Black Bull Mountain at will."
"Oh, thank you. There is still one thing I don't understand. What is a sleepless night?" Zhang Yang asked again.
"You will know." The big man seemed very busy. He said a few words and left, but he soon came back. "You'd better prepare more immortal stones, because when the next sleepless night comes, if you don't have enough immortal stones, you will either die outside or be like the stranger who owed rent. We usually betrothed him to the village ghost as a ghost husband."
The big man left.
Zhang Yang stood at the entrance of the village with a complicated expression. Here, the Ghost Queen, also known as the village guardian ghost, turned into a delicate, weak, and lively little woman again, crying there with tears and incomparable sadness, as if the deceased was really her husband.
The corpse had no heart, but there was still a strange smile of extreme satisfaction on its face, and its limbs were in asymmetrical spasms.
These would have been fine, but what really shocked Zhang Yang was that the deceased was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and was very likely a stranger like him who came to the world of immortal heroes through the Endless Sea.
"This world of immortal cultivation is indeed so terrifying."
Zhang Yang sighed in his heart, then turned and walked into the village. The wailing of the village guardian ghost behind him became louder. If he turned around, he would find that the village guardian ghost was staring at him with a foot-long saliva.
This ancient village is unexpectedly large and has two floors, one above ground and one underground. There are many villagers, but they basically turn a blind eye to Zhang Yang's appearance, and these villagers are very busy.
Men were processing animal hides or forging iron, while women were clearing tiny strips of land in the gaps between houses and planting all sorts of unfamiliar plants on them. Children over eight or nine years old were exercising, and only younger children could run around the streets without a worry.
Even in this village, the white-haired old men and women in their seventies each held a weapon in their hands, a weapon enchanted with an unknown spell.
Zhang Yang’s first feeling was that this ancient village was too tense. It was in a tense state of war at all times and in all places, as if a disaster would befall it tomorrow.
Zhang Yang walked everywhere and no one paid attention to him until he reached the end of the village. There was a large open space with a lonely little stone house in the middle. It seemed to be some kind of sacrificial temple. A hunchbacked old man was sitting in front of the temple, neither asleep nor awake.
Zhang Yang didn't dare to disturb them, so he turned around and went back, then he found a stone house that was obviously uninhabited on the other side of the village.
Since the big man didn't make any clear requests, I guess he can move freely.
However, to be cautious, he waited for a while to make sure that no one was interfering before he felt relieved.
He used 500 immortal stones to purchase a temporary residence permit, not just to avoid the sleepless nights, what he really wanted to do was to get his practice back on track.
Before, even though he became a sword cultivator, Zhang Yang could not continue practicing because he did not have the necessary conditions, especially in learning sword techniques, which required him to come to the world of immortal cultivation before he could start practicing.
Calm your breath and concentrate! Open the invisible heart sword to cut off distracting thoughts, and gather the invisible soul sword to protect the soul and spirit sea.
At this point, Zhang Yang has already entered the most perfect state of practice.
Then, he slowly circulated his mental skills and drew down a ray of native spiritual energy from this world.
This is a very routine operation, but for Zhang Yang it is no less than a bolt of lightning exploding in the Linghai Tianmai.
This is the spiritual energy of this world assessing and measuring him, and there is a question of recognition involved.
After all, he built his foundation through other means and is not a native of this world, so there is bound to be rejection here.
Everything looks normal from the outside.
But in Zhang Yang's Linghai Tianmai, there was a constant sound of thunder, which meant he was going through the inner tribulation.
It took him five full hours to successfully dissolve this wisp of local spiritual energy of heaven and earth and connect with the entire world.
At this moment, the nine sword-cultivating meridians in Zhang Yang's body trembled slightly, as if they had some kind of resonance with this world.
Unfortunately, this resonance only lasted for a moment.
"call!"
Slowly exhaling a breath of foul air, Zhang Yang's eyes flashed with a sharp light. From now on, he was considered a true immortal cultivator.
When he stood up and moved his body slightly, he felt that all the bones, meridians, internal organs, and blood in his body had entered a very vigorous burning state.
This is a completely different cultivation mode from that of the Jindan Dao cultivators.
Practitioners of the Golden Elixir Dao need to restrain their essence and energy and refine their qi into elixirs.
But sword cultivators need to burn their qi, blood, soul, spirit sea, and even everything.
"I'm still far from enough to practice the Xuan-grade sword technique. This is mainly because my foundation is too weak." Zhang Yang thought slowly, and at the same time, an ordinary-grade sword technique emerged in his mind. This was the sword technique he obtained when he killed the human sword cultivator when he completed the doomsday village building mission.
"Although this sword technique is ordinary, it just corresponds to my current level. This is it."
As soon as he made the decision, a sword intent of mountains and rivers rose up from Zhang Yang's sword meridian. At this moment, he stood there, giving people the feeling of a towering mountain or a rushing river.
There is nothing more magical than the sword intent of mountains and rivers.
But what is even more magical is the Mountain and River Sword Technique, which contains only three sword forces.
One is called Nine-Layered Mountains, which means that there are many mountains, each one higher than the last.
One is called Thousand Layer Clouds, which means clouds and mist are lingering in thousands of layers, and are illusory.
One is called East Flowing Water, which means that all rivers flow into the sea and the trend of flowing eastward is irreversible.
Zhang Yang had comprehended and mastered the triple sword power, but he was simply unable to release it.
This moment is different.
His aura drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth while stirring up the sword intent of mountains and rivers, and finally condensed the sword formula. The three became one and none of them could be missing.
A few seconds later, with Zhang Yang as the center, the air within a radius of ten meters condensed, as if something invisible was falling. This was the sign of the generation of the Nine-Layered Mountain Sword Force.
Zhang Yang did not dare to delay and directly took out the ordinary sword Qingying and injected the Nine Mountains sword energy into it.
At this moment, he felt as if he had been sucked dry, with twenty breaths of his innate spiritual energy lost from his body. Then, the green shadow of the sword hummed and suddenly burst out with a dazzling white light. At the same time, it was really as if nine heavy mountains were bombarding him.
"boom!"
An extremely sturdy stone house built with ordinary iron ore was actually destroyed by Zhang Yang's sword!
Then, his knees went weak and he almost fell down because he had committed a big taboo. He did not store enough innate spiritual energy in his body, so the Nine Mountains Sword Force just now could only devour his own strength.
"Damn it, the life energy consumed by the sword cultivation profession seems to be more terrifying than that of the golden elixir cultivation profession."
Complaining in his heart, Zhang Yang could only take out the immortal stone to recover quickly. This movement naturally attracted the attention of the villagers, but why were their eyes so strange? It took Zhang Yang five immortal stones to recover. During this time, the villagers did not disturb him. Even when the big man with the bow and arrow arrived, they specially cleared the area.
As soon as he saw Zhang Yang finish his meditation, he asked eagerly, "Brother, was that an ordinary sword technique you just performed?"
“Ah?” Zhang Yang was stunned, but his mind raced immediately, and he smiled bitterly as he followed the words: “It’s not an ordinary item, it’s just an incomplete sword technique I obtained from a relic in the past. It only has one sword force, but I have never been able to control it, cough cough cough!”
Zhang Yang coughed out a large mouthful of blood. This was great, his acting skills were off the charts.
"But this power is strong enough." The big man said with his eyes still shining, as if ordinary sword skills were something amazing.
Zhang Yang remained calm and continued with a pale face: "You are joking, my strength is too weak. The village guardian ghost of your village can kill me with a single blow. What use is this incomplete ordinary sword technique?"
"Hey, even if it is an incomplete ordinary sword technique, it is still an ordinary sword technique. Brother, let's make a deal. Our Black Bull Village can permanently hire you as the village elder, and also give you a thousand immortal stones. Just give me this incomplete ordinary sword technique."
The big man said sincerely.
Zhang Yang was really confused this time, because the village guardian ghosts of Hei Niu Village were all so strong at the Jindan stage, how could they possibly be interested in a broken ordinary sword technique?
"Hey, brother, to be honest, the reason why our Black Bull Village can survive in the dangerous wilderness is because we have a village guardian ghost of the queen mother level. But this is passed down by our ancestors more than a thousand years ago. We have to sacrifice a pair of boys and girls to it every year. This is not our power."
The big man hesitated for a moment and finally told the truth.
"I'm talking about a female ghost who's over a thousand years old. Aren't you afraid of backlash?"
Zhang Yang was really shocked.
"No, no, as long as the Three Yin Drums are not broken, the village guardian ghost will always protect the village. Moreover, this is also the practice of most villages in the wilderness. They either raise village guardian ghosts or village demons. It's the same. This does not conflict with our desire for ordinary sword techniques."
(End of this chapter)
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