Chapter 237 Ghostly Path Summoning Gods Hellfire Wind Maiden
The spirit of the word transformed into a giant bird, with black feathers falling as it flapped its wings. It plunged headfirst into the abyss of the crevice, its bright eyes reflecting Cang Shu, who had bent down to pull Yan Xiaochuan out of the spider silk cocoon. It then let out a clear chirping sound towards them.
Xing Chun crawled out of the hole in the cabin, rubbed his twisted neck, and looked up at the Zi Ling bird.
"Master?"
Yan Xiaochuan, staring at the head covered in white spider silk, looked at Zi Ling with a bewildered expression.
Master Mu Yong'an wouldn't leave Taiyi easily. Even if he had something to do, he shouldn't... Yan Xiaochuan frowned.
Cang Shu glanced casually and caught a glimpse of the boy's solemn and cold expression, a moment unlike any other.
"Are you two alright?" Xing Chun was quite far away from them, his fair face smeared with dust and blood from the debris in the cabin.
"It's nothing," Cang Shu replied. "The instructors should have arrived by now."
The spirit bird carried the three of them onto its wings and flew them upwards.
The cry of a bird came from the abyss, soaring into the sky and piercing the darkness of the abyss, revealing a swarm of fireflies on the ground and four thirteenth-realm sorcerers facing each other below.
Wenren Xu smiled and touched his bald head, showing no sign of panic. He appeared very relaxed, and even looked at Mu Yong'an and Zhu Rong opposite him with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"What, you beat up the kid, so the old man's here to back you up?" Wenren Xu laughed.
Mu Yong'an was pale, wearing a black fox fur coat that concealed his thin figure. Although his sickly appearance was obvious at a glance, his eyes were still sharp and intimidating, making people not dare to underestimate him.
He glanced at Yan Xiaochuan, who had been brought out of the abyss by the spirit bird, before looking back at Wenren Xu and Geng Hanfu opposite him.
Wenren Xu's gaze swept over Zhu Rong and Zi Lingfei, finally landing on Mu Yong'an.
A patch of brightly colored snake scales flashed behind Zhu Rong's neck. The scales were so vivid that they were hard to ignore, but looking at them for too long would make one dizzy from the rich colors.
“What kind of behavior is it for two thirteenth-level masters to bully a few students who are not even tenth-level?” Zhu Rong cracked his neck from side to side. “What brilliant tricks do you have? I’d like to learn from you.”
Geng Han replied, "No, no, tonight there were two Taiyi students who were both at the tenth realm, and it was these two tenth realm students who were being bullied."
Wenren Xu also said politely, "Tonight was meant to be a night of bullying the weak, and now that you've come, we're naturally leaving."
Zhu Rong's eyes twitched slightly as he listened; he had never seen such a shameless person.
Wenren Xu was not joking. Almost the instant he finished speaking, he and Geng Hanfu used the Wind Riding Technique to retreat.
Zhu Rong had no intention of letting them leave so easily.
On the flying bird, Yan Xiaochuan and the other two saw a flash of colorful light, as brilliant as clouds, shimmering on the smooth, cold snake scales. The python's body snaked forward rapidly like lightning, even faster than Wenren Xu and Geng Hanfu's wind-riding technique.
The giant python resembled a fluttering ribbon, yet it exuded a chilling aura.
Startled, the sea fireflies scattered, their shimmering light reflecting off the golden snake patterns that covered half of Zhu Rong's face.
Wenren Xu and Geng Hanfu simultaneously activated their protective auras and leaped to dodge, but were forced to retreat slightly by the giant python with colorful scales.
Yan Xiaochuan, who had just disembarked from the Spirit Bird, felt something was off about the giant python with colorful scales, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. It wasn't until he heard Xing Chun clutching his neck and muttering that his Void Constellation General was a traitor that he realized something was wrong: "Why is the instructor's beast-taming beast headless?"
After hearing this, Xing Chun also looked at the giant, colorful-scaled python in front of him.
Cang Shu looked at Zhu Rong ahead and explained, "This is the Devouring Python that Master refined with Qi. Its body is as bright as clouds and has achieved the unity of beast control. When the mind moves at will, Master is its leader and eyes and ears."
Only its body is visible, but its head and tail are not.
This move is quite useful for intercepting and chasing opponents, making it difficult to predict their moves.
The giant, multicolored python coiled around Geng Hanfu and Wenren Xu, their bodies overlapping to form a high wall. The two looked up and saw dazzling, colorful light all around them. After looking at it for a while, they felt a tightness in their chest, a stinging pain in their eyes, and dizziness.
Wenren Xu sighed, "It's a pity that we can't look at beautiful things for long."
Geng Hanfu gave him an annoyed look: "At a time like this, you still have the leisure to praise how pretty this thing is?"
Wenren Xu smiled and said, "I can use the seven senses of the ghost path to close my eyes and ears and not be affected by it. What about you?"
Geng Hanfu did not answer, but his gaze became slightly serious. As he made a hand seal, he exhaled lightly, and the breath transformed into the word "Sea-Stabilizing Needle".
A massive golden pillar of light rose from the ground, crackling with lightning and electricity, freezing the giant, multicolored python that was shrinking its size and preventing it from growing taller.
Although the head of the giant python could not be seen, its low, hoarse roar could be heard.
Geng Hanfu said, "I think it would be better if we went our separate ways."
Wenren Xu: "Then you must take care."
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and slashed at the void. Black runes poured out from his fingertips, and the moment they formed a complete shape, the surrounding space distorted. In the distorted world, pairs of pale, ghostly claws tore through space from behind Wenren Xu.
Within the torn spatial rift, a faint sea-blue figure could be seen. The woman had her back to the rift, revealing her graceful figure. Her long hair was as long as her floor-length skirt, like a winding stream in the mountains extending far into the darkness.
In the dark space, she was the only one in color.
Mu Yong'an and Zhu Rong both noticed the changes on Wenren Xu's side and were somewhat surprised.
Ghostly Path Summoning Gods: Hellfire Wind Woman.
Taoism, Buddhism, and the Taoist school of ghosts all possess the means to summon gods and command generals.
Taoist deities and Buddhist Vajras can both be understood as using some means to summon a more powerful force, while retaining their own form to assist the one who summons them.
There are two ways to summon gods: one is to invite divine generals and Vajra generals to take human form and help you, and the other is to directly ask the divine generals and Vajra generals to lend you their power, so that you can have temporary divine power.
The methods of summoning gods and generals used by the Ghost Daoists are somewhat unique.
Taoists and Buddhists can summon gods with just talismans and incantations, but the Ghost Taoists need to form a contract to summon gods and can only summon gods they have formed a contract with.
Because the Daoist practice of ghosts cultivates the soul and discards the physical body, their power to summon gods is biased towards the void of death.
To put it in layman's terms: the images of ghosts and spirits are rather sinister and bizarre.
Taoists and Buddhists invoke heavenly soldiers and generals, while those who practice ghost-based Taoism invoke ghostly soldiers and generals from the underworld.
After forming a pact, a Taoist can summon divine generals to take human form or invite gods to enter their body.
The summoned deities naturally vary in strength. At this moment, Wenren Xu summoned the Hellfire Wind Maiden, whose strength is both powerful and rare. Even masters or saints of the thirteenth level of the Ghost Path would find it difficult to successfully form a contract with her.
As the Infernal Wind Maiden slowly turned her head in the void rift, just as a glimpse of her profile was about to appear, countless small whirlwinds rose from the ground, instantly transforming into a towering tornado that distorted the space encircled by the giant rainbow-scaled python.
Just like a flat sheet of white paper being vigorously crumpled and rolled up, it also concealed the figures of Wenren Xu and Geng Hanfu.
Numerous wind blades slashed at the giant python with colorful scales, which was immobilized by the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, slicing off its scales that flew everywhere. The python's roars echoed in the air as its body writhed wildly.
Mu Yong'an straightened his robes and said to Zhu Rong, "Let's split up and chase after them. I'll go after the one from the famous family."
Zhu Rong tossed him a snake scale: "Both of them have colored scales on their bodies for positioning."
Mu Yong'an reached out and took it, then went to chase after Geng Hanfu.
Beneath the beast-bone ship, Qin Chongxue, whose armored formation had been forcibly broken by Zhang Yuxuan and Mu Wu, looked extremely grim. He created a safe distance, gripped his short blade in a reverse grip, and swept his sinister gaze over the two Taiyi instructors who had suddenly appeared.
"Xiao Mei, Mei Mei!" Zhang Yuxuan rushed to see Mei Liangyu as soon as he landed. "Hey, what kind of shameless 13th-level military master would actually fight a mere 10th-level Taoist disciple!"
Mei Liangyu covered her mouth and coughed: "Your words didn't satirize that shameless 13th-level military strategist, but they did satirize that little 10th-level Ghost Daoist disciple."
Seeing Mei Liangyu cough up blood all over his hand, Zhang Yuxuan stepped forward to check his wrist: "Did you damage your soul?"
But Mei Liangyu dodged it, saying, "It's nothing."
His gaze remained fixed on Qin Chongxue across from him.
Although he didn't know what was wrong with the arrow in the armored formation, when it hit him, another force did enter his body, disrupting his five elements and invisibly disturbing the seal within him, causing Mei Liangyu to recall many past events.
Unaware of the specific circumstances, Mei Liangyu dared not let others notice the changes in his Five Elements Qi.
At this moment, the changes within his body were like the five elements being reversed, and he felt an indescribable swelling and pain in his limbs and bones, but this did not affect his ability to use the Nine Streams Technique.
Mei Liangyu's mind raced as he recalled the various military and magical arts he had learned, trying to grasp the subtle nuances of Qin Chongxue's arrow.
Zhang Yuxuan felt a pang of heartache seeing Mei Liangyu's body half-covered in blood and his five elements in disarray. He turned and glared angrily at Qin Chongxue.
Mu Wu remained calm as he examined the scroll unfolding behind Qin Chongxue: "The 'Washing the Weapons' painting. It seems you have considerable power behind you to have obtained this rare military treasure."
Qin Chongxue glanced at the giant, colorful-scaled python not far away. Seeing that they were fighting, he weighed the situation and knew he couldn't stay any longer, since the orchid medicine had already been injected into Mei Liangyu's body.
Judging from his current state, he has already been affected by the orchid medicine and is no longer a threat. If it weren't for these two troublesome thirteenth-realm experts...
Qin Chongxue concealed the gloom in his eyes, remained silent, and waved to retrieve the "Washing Soldiers" painting.
The instant he stepped back, Mu Wu also moved. Both of them flashed by, their speed so fast that they were invisible. No one saw when Mu Wu drew his long sword, nor did anyone see when Qin Chongxue's sword spirit appeared.
Mu Wu grips the blade with his front hand and the end of the hilt with his back hand, so that he can generate maximum force when swinging the sword.
Qin Chongxue's sword spirit was tall and had long arms, even taller than Mu Wu. Its hollow eye sockets stared at Mu Wu, and it reacted quickly, using both hands to form a cross to block the attack.
Mu Wu frowned slightly as he looked at the sword spirit before him.
This power seems a bit off.
"Trying to run away?" Zhang Yuxuan saw Qin Chongxue use his wind manipulation technique to flash away and was about to chase after him, but then he looked back at Mei Liangyu, feeling uneasy.
"I'm really fine." Mei Liangyu shook her head.
Only then did Zhang Yuxuan go after Qin Chongxue.
Mei Liangyu swallowed the blood that rose in his throat, took a deep breath, and was about to set off to chase after the person when he heard Yan Xiaochuan's voice calling from behind: "Senior Brother Liangyu?"
He turned around and saw the injured Xing Chun, and frowned.
Cang Shu helped Xing Chun approach, and Xing Chun exclaimed in surprise when he saw Mei Liangyu's appearance: "How come you're in even worse shape than me?"
"As long as he's not dead." Mei Liangyu said, glancing at Yan Xiaochuan and frowning as he stared at the spirits surrounding him.
Yan Xiaochuan said, "This is Master's spirit word; he went to chase after those two thirteenth realm cultivators."
Mei Liangyu's brows furrowed even more.
He didn't call Mu Yong'an to Dongfenghai tonight, nor did he let Mu Yong'an know that Yan Xiaochuan had been kidnapped.
The East Wind Sea is vast, yet it is teeming with sea fireflies.
The cracked ground made it easy for people to trip, but Geng Han's Wind Control Technique was very fast. In the darkness, with the help of the fireflies, he arrived at the edge of the East Wind Sea. He could see the lights of the outer city in the distance and arrived at the place where the East Wind Sea met the steep mountain path.
Geng Hanfu, who had been running away, suddenly stopped in the stone path on the mountain wall. Below the path, which had no railings, was the deep blue sea.
Mu Yong'an stopped a short distance away and looked up at Geng Hanfu.
Geng Hanfu stroked his beard and said to Mu Yong'an, "Tonight I only sealed the young master's five elements power; the rest are just superficial injuries."
He paused, then sighed softly, "You've taken very good care of the young master."
“He’s not doing very well, but he’s not doing very badly either.” Mu Yong’an coughed twice, his gaze sharp as he looked at Geng Hanfu. “You shouldn’t touch the other person either.”
"Who?" Geng Hanfu paused in stroking his beard. "Mei Liangyu?"
Mu Yong'an: "He is the eldest princess's child."
Geng Hanfu suddenly gripped his beard tightly with his five fingers. He remembered the orchid medicine that Qin Chongxue had brought, and his face instantly darkened.
[Author's Note]
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