Chapter 181: Ghost Cultivation
These three ghost lands, the ghost land of Mengyuan Prefecture is connected to the ghost land of Beiluo Kingdom, and there are many ghost cultivators. However, because the area is too large and it is at the junction of the two countries, the Xiuzhen forces of the Xia Kingdom are relatively weak, so few traces of them are found.
And the ghost land in the west, under the deterrence of the top sect in the west, the Wild Sand Valley, although the area is not small, the number of ghost cultivators is smaller. It has always maintained a balance of power with the Wild Sand Valley, and has not invaded the states of the Central Plains on a large scale.
Ghost Island is a well-known place in the cultivation world. But here there is a top-level large array under the ancient ghost cultivation, which is comparable to the Huatianzong Mountain Gate Great Array, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
His relative reading ability, the harm to the mainland, is not so obvious. As long as the cultivators don't pass through the sphere of influence over there, they will be fine. Therefore, no Xiuzhen force dared to provoke it.
Of course, it's not that they don't want to invade the hinterland of the Xia Kingdom, but the Wuji Island in the East China Sea, which deters the seaside cultivation forces in the eastern part of the Xia Kingdom, so that the ghost islands deeper overseas do not dare to act rashly.
It can be said that the Xia Kingdom's cultivation of the true realm, and its vigilance against ghost cultivation is a little more than the invasion of monks from neighboring countries. And Hua Tianzong regarded the hunting and killing of ghost cultivators, and even got the news of ghost cultivators, as great merit and gave heavy rewards.
The ghost trace first appeared, according to the sect's ghost killing order: the ghost trace appeared, and there was no forgiveness for killing. This errand of escorting the spiritual objects back to the sect has become less important.
At this time, Elder Ran saw that the rescued monk had finished introducing the situation, so he began to arrange the task.
Elder Ran decided to send Shi Qing, Wang Xian and a mid-foundation building monk, together with the three foundation building monks sent by the Guanghan Palace, to form a six-person search team, and early tomorrow morning, set off with the fleet of the Guanghan Palace to search within a radius of thousands of miles from Chierdo City. He still took the other disciples and escorted the spiritual objects back to the sect.
Chierduo City is only 15 days away from the border between Guanliao Prefecture and Mengyuan Prefecture, and Guanliao Prefecture is the sphere of influence of Guanghan Palace, and cooperates with Guanghan Palace to find enemies, so as to get reinforcements nearby. Guanghan Palace also attached great importance to the discovery of ghost traces in neighboring states, and immediately agreed to send a team to search for the location of the ghost clan with the monks of Huatianzong, waiting for an opportunity to kill the ghost cultivators.
Although the search for ghosts is dangerous, it is also a good opportunity to make great achievements. If you take the form of registration to solicit manpower, it is natural that everyone is enthusiastic and strives to be the first.
Elder Ran selected one cultivator from each of the four end-foundation-building monks, the four mid-foundation-building monks, and other peak cultivators of Heavenly Sword Peak to be the strongest representative. In particular, Shi Qing and Wang were the monks who won the sword fighting reward first, which naturally convinced the other monks who couldn't go.
Elder Ran was like a mirror in his heart, the monks of Huatian Sect rarely had experience in fighting ghost cultivation, most of the monks were hundreds of years, and it was rare to encounter a ghost cultivation opponent, even if it was a top sect with a history of tens of thousands of years, there was very little experience in fighting ghost cultivation in the Book Pavilion. Once a cultivator searches for a ghost cultivator whose surname is like to live in groups, it often involves the forces of the ghost clan, which may lead to a war between humans and ghosts, which is extremely dangerous.
This requires that the monks who go to search must have a strong divine sense, so that they can be good at tracking, in order to effectively restrain the ghost cultivators' ghost skills, and after discovering the enemy's traces, it is relatively easy to escape the pursuit of the ghost cultivators.
The mana of ghost cultivators is completely different from that of other monks. Ghost skill is a practitioner of mana and divine consciousness. Ghost cultivation is based on cultivating ghost skills, with the cultivation of the black eggshell-shaped ghost dantian as the core, and attacks the opponent through ghost awareness, ghost qi, and ghost bones.
Ghost consciousness is that after the ghost cultivator cultivates the ghost skill, from the ghost dantian, he can send out a divine sense attack, invade the monk's divine consciousness, attack and devour the divine consciousness, and greatly reduce the monk's fighting strength, unable to effectively control the magic weapon, unable to effectively identify the opponent's body shape, and it is difficult to exert mana.
Ghost qi is a mist that is emitted from the ghost dantian through the use of ghost skills. When the ghost aura is thick, a thick ghost fog that is visible to the naked eye is formed. If the ghost mist hits the body, if it is inhaled by the monk, or touches the monk's skin, it will penetrate everywhere and invade the monk's body, achieving the purpose of confusing people's minds and taking people's souls.
When the ghost cultivator launches a ghost qi attack, it will form a cloud of ghost mist of different sizes. The closer the monk is to the core of the ghost cultivation dantian, the thicker the ghost fog, the more he can't see with the naked eye, and the stronger the attack, the more mana he needs to consume to resist the ghost qi penetrating through his body.
Ghost bones are the natal weapons that ghost cultivators are born with, and they do not need to be deliberately sacrificed. Ghost cultivation, usually in the form of a skeleton, after practicing ghost skills, relying on ghost bones to walk and jump, to protect the ghost dantian in the abdominal bone.
When fighting the method, the ghost cultivator does not need to rely on the skeleton to fight directly. Even if it is a ghost cultivator in the Qi refining period, he can attack the opponent with a volley of clouds and mist when he is fighting against the enemy. At this time, all the skeletons will be freely dispersed and combined to attack the enemy.
The regeneration ability of ghost bones is extremely strong, even if in a fight, all the ghost bones turn into powder, they will be absorbed by the ghost qi, after the fighting method, as long as the ghost dantian is still there, you can transport the ghost gong into powder into bones and reorganize the ghost bones within a few days.
After announcing the mission, Elder Ran solicited the opinions of Shi Qing and the others in public, emphasizing that this mission was voluntary, and if there were monks who did not want to go, it didn't matter, they could be sent to others instead.
Shi Qing and the three of them nodded their heads in agreement, expressing their willingness to go, and had no objection to participating in the task of searching for ghost cultivators. Elder Ran stared at Wang Xian for a while, and when he saw that his mind had been decided, he didn't say anything more.
After all, Wang Xian was not a monk of Heavenly Sword Peak, and he was also a talisman master, whether to send him to fight, Elder Ran also hesitated, and finally decided to ask Wang Xian's consent before letting him go. If he doesn't agree, don't force it.
Although Wang Xian's fighting strength was high when he was fighting swords, it could be said that he was on a par with Shi Qing, the top disciple of Heavenly Sword Peak, and he was very suitable for participating in this task. But the talisman cultivation he showed through the rune sword array was also amazing, and he was a rare professional master.
From the perspective of Fu Qi Peak, it is natural that he does not agree to let such a professional master take risks. In order to avoid the escort of the spirit object, when the team returned to the sect first, Fu Qifeng asked Tianjian Peak to return to the mansion on time, leaving the tail of the hand, and Elder Ran asked Wang Xian to answer whether to participate in the search mission in public.
Early the next morning, Hua Tianzong and his entourage, with the cooperation of the Ice Heart Palace, prepared to leave for the sect. The Ice Heart Hall concentrated the bulk trading spiritual materials that had been prepared for a long time on the empty floor in front of the Welcome Pavilion and began to load the giant ship. Wang Xian, together with the monks of Hua Tianfeng and Danyao Peak, cooperated with the Ice Heart Hall to check the spiritual materials and check the list.
Elder Ranhua of Heavenly Sword Peak stood outside his huge ship, ready to set off. Elder Ye Song of the Ice Heart Hall and Elder Li Lamin of the Ice Spirit Hall accompanied them and watched the monks load the ship together. The three of them talked a few words from time to time, mainly talking about Fu Jian.
Fu Jian, few people go to the imperial envoy. In the final analysis, it is because if you want to make a talisman sword, you must not only know how to make talismans, but also have good swordsmanship. Wang Xian's forty-nine golden sword talismans, if they were cast by ordinary monks, their divine sense would not be able to support them at all. Because there are too many of them, even if the mana required for each golden sword rune is small, the divine sense is not small, and even if it accumulates into a lot, it is not something that the divine consciousness of ordinary foundation building monks can use.
The reason why Wang Xian was able to make an envoy was because when he was refining the golden sword talisman, he not only sealed the mana, but also sealed a wisp of divine consciousness. In this way, when he was fighting the sword, the sword was already sealed with divine consciousness, and each golden sword could echo each other, forming a set to respond to the enemy.
And Wang Xian, he doesn't need to spend too much divine sense to control every golden sword. The talisman maker can only seal his own divine consciousness in the rune, and in this way, others want to buy and use it, but they can't use it at all, and they can only use it for the talisman maker's own use.
Runes, generally speaking, only seal the mana and spells of the talisman master, and the divine consciousness needs to be guided by the caster himself.
This leads to the fact that, either, sword cultivators who don't know how to make talismans will only use their divine consciousness to divide them into forty-nine parts on the spot, and they will envoy forty-nine swords respectively, and the divine consciousness of the monk in the foundation building period will not be able to support the forty-nine swords at the same time.
Or, the talisman master can make talismans like Wang Xian, but he doesn't want to lose too much, and squander many golden sword talismans in the first battle, and the talisman master is generally not proficient in sword formations, so he doesn't need to use golden sword talismans at all, he can use other talismans to combine them, and the attack effect is not bad.
When Ran Huabing talked about this rune sword, his eyes were even more bright. He knew that since Wang Xian was so proficient in using the Fu Sword to cast the Forty-Nine Returning Yuan Array, he must have used this sword array to fight the enemy many times before. In this way, it is likely that he has a set of forty-nine magic weapons on him. Huatian swordsmanship does not have to use a sword to make a royal envoy, with arrows, short spears, maces, whips, and even hammers, halberds, ge, and spears.