26 | The war began

Mu Yu took the fish to follow the guidance of Sinan, and came all the way to the Ghost Valley.

As soon as the sky was dawning, he saw from a distance that a large group of immortal cultivators had gathered on the shore of the lake.

Before he could hide his figure, he was noticed by the Sikong Zen Master.

"Tan Yue came from afar, what is appropriate?" Zen Master Sikong asked.

Mu Yu fell to the ground and said truthfully: "My friend was captured by the people of Guigu, and I came here to save her. ”

"Brother Muyu's friend is our friend." Hua Tang stepped forward and said.

At this moment, Yu Yu also landed beside Mu Yu, and because she was wearing a veil, Hua Tang mistook her for a demon and greeted, "Demon girl, don't come unharmed." ”

"You recognize the wrong person, my name is Youyu." The fish was dissatisfied.

Hua Tang came back to his senses and hurriedly asked Mu Yu, "The friend you mentioned just now shouldn't be a demon, right?" ”

"It's all my fault for being careless and being plotted." Mu Yu blamed himself, he noticed Hua Tang's empty arm, and his heart tightened, "Master Hua, your arm?" ”

"Don't mention it, the valley master of the Ghost Valley took advantage of the exhaustion of me and Master Si Desire, secretly used cold arrows, broke my arm, and snatched Miss Siruo." Hua Tang sighed and said, "The master of simple desire dealt with it properly, and Miss Sixuan escaped." ”

Immediately afterwards, Hua Tang introduced Aoki Daoren and Zen Master Sikong to Mu Yu one by one, and gave a brief explanation of the current situation.

"So, when the sun sets today, everyone will enter the Ghost Valley together."

"It's not that I'm unwilling to help Brother Mu Yu, it's because there are no more Jiuyao Jinyang Pills." Hua Tang said regretfully.

"Fellow Daoist, I'm willing to give you my one." Xiu'er said suddenly.

"Xiu'er ......" Hua Tang didn't know what to say to him for a while.

"Mu Yu, I'm going down too." Swim Fish said.

"You also heard just now, the death qi contained in this lake water is too harmful to the body, if there is no protection of the Zhiyang Pill, you will be invaded by the death qi and die." Mu Yu persuaded him.

"I don't care, I'm going down." Yu Yu said reluctantly, "You don't have to worry about the pill, I have my own way." ”

You Yu said, and took out another cold ice bottle of the same material and style as Hua Tang used to hold the Jiuyao Jinyang Pill, but it was much smaller, and poured out a golden pill from it.

"Why do you have the Nine Yao Golden Yang Pill?" Hua Tang showed a look of disbelief, but just for a moment, he seemed to think of something, "Could it be that you are Lin Yaotian's daughter?" ”

"You should be the one my father often mentioned, Uncle Hua of Jishitang, right?" Yuyu asked softly.

"I didn't expect you to grow so big." Hua Tang's face became much kinder, "Is your father okay?" ”

"I'm sorry for you, my father is still strong." Fish Passage.

"Time flies, it's been so many years." Hua Tang sighed with emotion, "Xiaoyu, when you go home, can you help Uncle convey a word to your father?" ”

"Uncle Hua, please speak."

"What happened back then, it was not his fault. Life is only a short hundred years, let him let it go as soon as possible. ”

"What do you mean?"

"You tell him that I told you to say this, and he will understand." Hua Tang sighed, and with a flick of his fingers, a golden elixir shot straight at Mu Yu, which was the one that was originally left for Xiu'er.

"When I enter the Ghost Valley later, Brother Lao Muyu will help me take care of her."

Mu Yu put away the pill and nodded.

It was getting late, and several people stood side by side in front of the lake, waiting for the sun to take away the last rays of afterglow.

Yu Yan looked obliquely at the end of the River Styx, and the clouds above the mountain had been dyed a brilliant red by the setting sun.

He stretched and said to the demon, "The sun is about to set, and I'm going to prepare for my business." ”

"Hmm." The demon nodded gratefully.

"The ghost qi in his body has gone nine times out of ten, even if you don't help him expel all of them, he can wake up, but it will have a little impact on his future cultivation." Whispering.

"Can I do it in an hour?"

"Theoretically, yes, but special circumstances are not excluded."

"For example?"

"For example, someone forcibly broke into the Ghost Valley, causing the source of the River Styx to be destroyed, and the water of the River Styx will also be affected, and at that time, the ghost energy in the river will riot, let alone an hour, maybe you can't drain the ghost energy in his body for two hours." "Moreover, because your realm is not enough, the ghost qi that constantly escapes from the water of the River Styx will be like an invisible hand, and your meridians will become a bamboo pipe connecting the River Styx and his body, and at that time, even if you want to stop, it will be too late." ”

"So, are you going to stop there, or do you want to continue with my work?" Yu Yan finally asked.

"Go ahead." The demon said firmly.

"Okay." You Yan hooked her finger at the demon, and she was immediately pulled by an invisible gravitational force to Yu Yan's side, Yu Yan held her hand, and the demon was surprised to find that his hand was small and soft, as if it was boneless.

Without waiting for the demon to think more, he had already withdrawn his hand, and at the same time, the demon felt a biting chill surging into his veins along the palm of his hand, running in the tendons of his whole body like a wild horse for a week, converging into the palm of his other hand.

The demon hurriedly aimed his palm at the River Styx, and those ghost qi from the water of the River Styx seemed to suddenly feel the call of home, gushing out of the palm of the demon and falling back into the water.

"Looks like you're doing a good job." "Then I'll go first." ”

The demon wanted to say goodbye to him, but her mouth trembled and couldn't be opened. Those ghostly qi continued to flow into the River Styx through her meridians, but those biting chills continued to accumulate in her body, invading the bone marrow, as if to freeze every inch of her flesh and blood.

Yu Yan paced slowly, walking along the banks of the River Styx in the direction of Mount Styx, and from time to time translucent balls of light could be seen floating across the river.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the sunset on the mountain was almost swallowed up by darkness. Yu Yan unhurriedly took out small ceramic bottles from his sleeves, a total of four bottles, which were the blood of the four spirit beasts.

"I didn't expect that the blood of the spirit beast that I inadvertently obtained back then can now come in handy." Youyan was a little emotional, and some pictures flashed in his mind, including the sound of soldiers, deafening screams, the pungent smell of blood, and the skyrocketing fire.

"Who can say the word cause and effect clearly?" He smiled self-deprecatingly and closed his eyes, "Master, I'm afraid your old man wouldn't have imagined that the four bottles of spirit beast blood that he won from you at the beginning are now the key to feathering and ascending to immortal." ”

Finally, the last rays of light were gone, and endless darkness engulfed the land, and the undead in the River Styx cast a faint white light, gentle like the lights of a family sitting together. 、

You Yan opened his eyes suddenly, and the next moment, the corks of the four bottles all flicked off, and four drops of dark red blood shot into the air like arrows from the string, drawing four arcs in the air and converging in front of Yu Yan's eyes.

A drop of blood floated out of his fingertips, mixed with the blood of the four spirit beasts, and the next moment, dark black flames burned up and down Youyan's body, and the blood of the four spirit beasts was also ignited at the same time.

The water of the River Styx suddenly began to boil, and almost at the same time, the demon felt a strong gravitational force coming from the River Styx, sucking himself tightly, and a cold ghost qi poured back from the water of the River Styx, flowing back into the body of the demon and colliding with the ghost qi that was constantly flowing out of the meridians, not only that, but even began to push the ghost qi from Pu Jia's body to flow backwards.

Just when these ghost qi were about to be re-injected into Pu Jia's body, the demon took a deep breath, mobilized his own ghost qi, and merged into the ghost qi from Pu Jia. After getting the help of the demon, the two ghosts in different directions faced each other again, like two bulls wrestling, and no one was willing to take a step back. Beads of sweat slid down the demon's cheeks like rain, and she felt her skin seem to burn at that moment, and at the same time, because the demon used all of her ghost qi to fight against the returning ghostly energy, the meridians and bone blood in her body lost protection, as if the cold from the netherworld began to spread wildly, constantly eroding her flesh and blood.

The inside of the body was as cold as the ice of the Nine Heavens, but the outside of the body was as hot as if it had been burned by the Nine Heavens True Fire. Cold and heat hit at the same time, and the demon's consciousness began to blur.

She gritted her teeth hard, and used every last ounce of strength to push the ghost qi from Pu Jia's body.

Finally, the originally evenly matched situation gradually tilted, and the ghost qi slowly moved in the direction of the River Styx again. It was as slow as a snail, but at least it started moving again.

This gave the demon hope, and she strengthened her faith, endured the pain of the freezing fire, and tried to force the last trace of ghost energy in Pujia's body in the direction of the River Styx.

On the shores of the lake, the sunset has lost its last rays.

"The time has come, everyone take the pill." Zen Master Sikong said.

Several people threw the Jiuyao Jinyang Pill in their hands into their mouths almost at the same time. Jin Dan melted in his mouth, and Mu Yu felt as if he had swallowed a mouthful of hot oil.

The next moment, he felt that his body was full of indescribable power, and he subconsciously summoned the peach blossom tree, and the peach blossoms that had withered during the fierce battle against the roe deer owl bloomed again, and even each petal was painted with a layer of golden light.

The others also felt the change that this elixir had brought to them, and they all looked happy. Only Hua Tang stood by the lake with a sullen face, looking distressed.

"Master, the matter of opening up yin and yang will be handed over to you." Michito Aoki said.

Zen Master Sikong folded his hands, the rosary hung on his two thumbs, he chanted the Sanskrit Buddha name in his mouth, a layer of pale golden light enveloped him, and from time to time there was a Sanskrit word "10,000" coming out of the golden light.

With the chanting of Zen Master Sikong, a strong wind suddenly rose, and the originally cloudless sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds.

Golden lightning accumulated in the black clouds, and constantly rumbled and roared, and each lightning bolt swam through the black clouds, reflecting the entire lake as if it were day.

At first, the surface of the lake was only ripples, but with the wind and clouds, lightning and thunder, the lake began to roll up huge waves, and finally it seemed to boil.

"Up." Zen Master Sikong threw the rosary into the air, and at the same time, a golden lightning bolt struck the surface of the lake, and immediately set off a huge wave dozens of feet high.

"Open." Zen Master Sikong spread his hands apart, and the huge wave split in two, sweeping towards both sides with his gestures.

A golden bolt of lightning streaked through, illuminating the stone steps that led to the Ghost Valley.

"Valley master, an outsider has forcibly entered the valley!" A frightened voice sounded in Youyan's heart, Youyan didn't pay attention to it, he concentrated on burning the blood of the four spirit beasts mixed together, as if everything that happened at this moment had nothing to do with him.

"Valley Master, don't you really plan to meet the enemy first?" The shadowy black shadow appeared behind Yu Yan again.

Youyan said unhurriedly: "If you are afraid, take the ghost valley and go to the battle." ”

"I will live up to the trust of the valley owner." The shadow faded.

Youyan frowned slightly: "Her luck is really bad." ”

Most of the blood of the four spirit beasts had already been burned, and Sikong and the others had finally reached the end of the passage and entered the Ghost Valley one after another.

"Ghost Valley is waiting for you to come." The black fog dissipated, and the black shadow gradually coalesced into a human form.

"It's you, you're still alive!" Mu Yu recognized this person at a glance, it was Shangguan Miao's master, Ghost Lingzi.

"Thanks to you, I am now this immortal." Oni Lingzi laughed sadly.

"Are you the one behind the capture of the demon?" Mu Yu asked.

"The person who brought her back was Shen Qiji, and it was the valley master who gave the order." "But I have to admit that the person who made the suggestion was indeed me. ”

"The ghost is not gone, today the master will beat you to the soul with his own hands." Mu Yu said angrily.

"Brother Muyu, don't be impulsive, today the ghost valley belongs, if there is one, they will all be buried here." Hua Tang Road.

"The tone is not small, then let's learn your profound Taoism." Ghost Lingzi sneered, and the black mist swept in again, and people wearing black hoods walked out of the black mist one by one.

"Guigu belongs, listen to my orders and set up a formation."

Ghost Lingzi gave an order, and a group of ghost cultivators gathered around him, surrounding him in the middle like stars holding the moon, and he himself once again turned into a black shadow, and behind each ghost cultivator, a pitch-black shadow emerged, constantly integrating into the body of Ghost Lingzi, making the black shadow of his incarnation continue to swell.

Soon, he was dozens of feet tall.

"Bluffing." Hua Tang snorted coldly, took a pill, and between his raised hands, dozens of golden flames swept towards the Ghost Lingzi, but what everyone didn't expect was that these dozens of flames actually passed directly through the Ghost Lingzi's body and flew farther away.

"Truly, my current state is like an illusory ghost, and all spells can't cause me the slightest damage." The smug laughter of the ghost spirit reverberated throughout the ghost valley.