The storm came together, plunging the evil corpse into a quagmire.
The evil blade in his hand slashed and cleaved, but was blocked by wind and rain, unable to pass through the heavy waves or pierce through the gray and eerie realm.
The evil corpse's eyes gleamed even brighter, and it seemed to go mad, slashing again and again, each strike seemingly possessing immense power, as if it wanted to shatter everything in the world into nothingness.
But it didn't work!
The waves churned up whirlpools.
Black spikes also sprouted from the ghostly realm, attempting to pierce the feet of the evil corpse.
In that instant, the evil corpse stopped swinging its long sword, and its armor shattered instantly!
Then, as if a crack had appeared in the void, squads of armored ghostly soldiers marched out in a mighty procession, seemingly from an ancient hell.
Scenes of wailing ghosts, piles of white bones, mountains of corpses and seas of blood have descended upon reality.
The strange realm shattered instantly! The surging waves were also stopped!
This was a scene that Bai Ze and Shen Lang had never seen before. They couldn't even fight against the evil corpse's long sword and always ended in defeat.
Unexpectedly, the truly terrifying evil corpse was incredibly powerful after it erupted.
The scene before them was like a myth descending upon them! How could they not know that the figures amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood were an army of ghost soldiers!
The eerie, unsettling aura made them tremble almost instinctively.
The terrifying Yin energy seemed poised to engulf everything in the next instant.
Hou Wenjie was also somewhat surprised by this scene. He did not expect that a ghost soldier, after death, could produce such earth-shattering power.
Hou Wenjie didn't hesitate and calmly said, "Trying to catch the moon's reflection in the water!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the water stream, which had been split in two by the Yin energy, each created a deep whirlpool. Then, the two whirlpools quickly merged into a larger whirlpool, from which a black moon emerged.
The moon shone with a grayish-white light, as if rising from the underworld, and was inherently imbued with an aura of deathly stillness.
It looks both sinister and beautiful, like the greatest work of art, making people unable to resist admiring it and temporarily ignoring its aggressiveness.
But in the next instant, it unleashed astonishing power, as vast as the ocean, and with a single strike forward, it seemed capable of cleaving everything in two.
The illusory aura of the approaching Yin army was quickly reduced to nothingness like bubbles under the powerful suppression of the moon wheel.
Then, it went straight ahead.
The evil corpse's eyes flashed with an eerie light, and finally, just as the moon was about to strike, it blocked it with its long sword.
Before he could react, Hou Wenjie's voice, like a death knell, rang out again: "The Qiankun Ruyi Bag!"
A red brocade pouch flew up from Hou Wenjie's waist, quickly expanding into an airtight red net that covered the evil corpse, and then rapidly shrank back down!
Before the evil corpse could struggle any further, the black python that had been hovering in the void moved. It opened its huge mouth and swallowed the brocade pouch whole, then appeared in Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness in the next instant.
Seeing the giant python completely devour the evil corpse, Bai Ze and Shen Lang, who were not far away, were dumbfounded!
Hou Wenjie's endless stream of bizarre abilities truly amazed them.
Is it over?
They looked at Hou Wenjie, who was standing still not far away, with some hesitation.
At the same time, in Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness, the aura of the evil corpse almost pierced through the giant python's head. In that instant, the light of his nature shone brightly, like the blazing sun in the sky!
The aura of the evil corpse trembled continuously, and wisps of black energy were steamed out from its body!
Then, this black energy was swept up by the vortex in the sea of consciousness and transformed into even finer black light!
Hou Wenjie opened his eyes, and the red brocade pouch expelled the corpse of the ghost soldier, which no longer possessed any eerie aura.
Then, he turned to look at Bai Ze and Shen Lang, who looked uneasy, and smiled, "It's over."
Bai Ze and Shen Lang then stepped forward. Shen Lang immediately squatted down beside the corpse of the Yin soldier, using his still intact left hand to pry open the Yin soldier's fingers one by one, trying to get the long sword.
However, while he was prying open the ghost soldier's fingers, he suddenly noticed that the ghost soldier had a wooden plaque hanging from his waist.
"Huh?!" He ripped off his waist tag and saw some ancient characters written on it, which touched on a blind spot in his knowledge. So, he grinned and said, "Look, what characters are written on this?"
Bai Ze glanced at it and shook his head. "Don't ask me. I joined the army right after graduating from middle school. That's too advanced for me."
Hou Wenjie smiled as he took the wooden plaque and read the words on it aloud:
"Cao Tianbao, the Yin Soldier under the command of Emperor Song of the Third Palace."
"They really are ghost soldiers!" Bai Ze and Shen Lang exchanged a glance. What level of monsters had they been fighting against for the past few days?
The title of Yin soldiers may sound like just "soldier," but they are indeed the Yin gods of the underworld!
On the website of the Bureau of Ghostly Affairs, there are many archaeological records about ghost soldiers. Some of them mention that there are a total of ten Yama Kings in the underworld. However, apart from Yama King Yama, who appears more frequently, there are no records of the other nine Yama Kings in current archaeological books.
Today they actually discovered one of the Kings of Hell named Emperor Song. Looks like they're getting lucky?
Shen Lang learned a new secret and seemed to be in a good mood. He then tried to pry open the Yin Soldier's fingers and finally got his hands on the long sword.
Bai Ze felt a bit annoyed by Shen Lang's actions.
Hou Wenjie then activated his Heavenly Eye to check if there were any other anomalies in the surrounding area.
Soon, he noticed something was wrong.
He placed his hands on their shoulders, and a few moments later, the three of them were standing on the top of a small hill.
Hou Wenjie saw a grave that had been dug up. The tombstone in front of the grave was inscribed with "Tomb of my friend Cao Tianbao", and the person who erected the tombstone next to it was inscribed with "Erected by Li Yuchan of the Longmen Sect".
Seeing the name on the tombstone and the obvious signs of human excavation that even a layman could see, Bai Ze and Shen Lang immediately understood. Shen Lang, looking at the scattered coffin lids in the pit, cursed loudly:
"Holy shit, which bastard robbed this grave? What the hell? How many people are they trying to kill?!"
Bai Ze's face also darkened: "These people must be caught. This is a crime of endangering public safety, and they should be made to spend the rest of their lives in jail."
Ignoring their righteous indignation, Hou Wenjie peeled a yellow talisman off a broken wooden board.
Yuan Caiwei had a memory of how to make talismans. It was simple, consisting of only eight characters: "[Talismans have no orthodox method, they are spiritual through qi]". The qi here is the innate true qi, which is heavenly light in the sky.
The task of making a talisman is to lock the light of heaven into the talisman with one's own true intention.
For Taoists who cultivate Yin spirit, their Yin spirit is far more powerful than their Yuan spirit. The Yuan spirit can only follow the Yin spirit, wandering through the five internal organs and giving rise to the three souls and seven spirits. By this time, the Yuan spirit has long been disturbed by the seven emotions and six desires, and is unable to settle in the Heavenly Heart to receive the Heavenly Light.
The only place that can receive the light of heaven is the grotto-heaven. Only in the grotto-heaven, at midnight, can one receive the light of heaven to draw talismans and store the light of heaven in the talismans.
The only function of talismans is to suppress evil spirits and ward off evil!
At this moment, under Hou Wenjie's divine eye, the talisman flashed with a bluish-white color, clearly indicating that it was a genuine talisman.
Hou Wenjie thought that this must have been placed on the coffin by Li Yuchan of the Southern School, who erected the monument, to prevent his friend Cao Tianbao from turning into a monster. Unfortunately, even with proper arrangements and burial on a high mountain, it was still impossible to avoid being visited by tomb robbers.
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