Chapter 13 Scoring twice
Before Li Yu made a decision, Chen Ming and Zhou Zixuan started arguing.
Among the many outer sects of Kunlun, Baiyun Temple has a relatively high status. Even the royal families of some small countries will try their best to send their children in. Chen Ming is the prince of Chen State, and Zhou Zixuan is also from a noble family of a certain country. It is hard to imagine that two people of such status would quarrel like shrews.
In the end, the two people each made concessions, and Zhou Zixuan also joined the mission of exorcising ghosts. Finally, the spirit coins were distributed according to their contributions, and the dispute was finally ended.
Li Yu originally wanted to ask Jiang Li to go along, but Jiang Li said that she was not feeling well, so he did not force her and went down the mountain with Zhou Zixuan and Chen Ming.
With their current strength, they could not fly in the air for long. The last time they went down the mountain, they flew for a while and walked for a while, and waited for their magic power to recover before flying quickly on the road. Chen Ming and Zhou Zixuan gathered their energy earlier than Li Yu, so their flight distance was slightly longer.
But this time, Chen Ming and Zhou Zixuan found that when their magic power was almost exhausted and their speed dropped sharply, Li Yu remained calm and his speed did not decrease. Along the way, they did not find any elixir that Li Yu used to restore his energy .
This shows that Li Yu’s magical power is deeper than theirs.
Whether you gather qi early or late does not mean anything. Whether you can gather qi successfully has a lot to do with luck. The person who successfully gathers qi in three months may not have worse cultivation talent than someone who gathers qi in three days.
The speed of cultivation after gathering Qi is the manifestation of talent.
Although Li Yu started to gather Qi a few months later than them, his cultivation speed was obviously faster than theirs.
Zhou Zixuan couldn't help but ask, "Junior Brother Li, have you opened up the second acupuncture point?"
During the Qi Refining Stage, spiritual energy is mainly stored in the acupuncture points, with only a small part in the meridians. Therefore, although Chen Ming and Zhou Zixuan gathered qi earlier than Li Yu, all three of them only opened one acupuncture point, and their strength was not much stronger than Li Yu.
Unless the next acupoint is opened, the magic power will only increase significantly.
Li Yu did not deny it, and nodded: "I was just lucky. I accidentally found a strange fruit in Baiyun Mountain yesterday. After taking it, the second acupuncture point was opened."
Li Yu had no way to hide his true level of cultivation, nor did he intend to hide it.
High-level immortal cultivators have extremely powerful spiritual awareness and can see through the strength of low-level immortal cultivators at a glance. In the eyes of Elder Sun, who is in the late stage of foundation building, his strength cannot be concealed, so he simply admits it in advance to avoid being considered as having something to hide.
Zhou Zixuan and Chen Ming could only envy Li Yu's luck. They had successfully gathered their Qi for several months, but they still could not open the second acupoint.
The three of them flew and stopped along the way, and at noon, they arrived at a village.
The location of this mission is still near Fengzhou City, in an almshouse outside Fengzhou City. There are always strange noises at night, which scared the nearby villagers, so they went to Baiyun Temple for help.
A charity cemetery is a place where corpses are stored. Some ownerless corpses or corpses whose relatives are temporarily unable to take care of their funeral will be deposited here first.
When Li Yu and the other two arrived at the charity cemetery, it was still early and they first asked about the specific situation.
According to people living nearby, several villagers heard some noise in the charity cemetery at night. After bravely approaching, they found a corpse sitting up from the coffin. They were so scared that they pissed and shit themselves and ran all the way back home.
Chen Ming was a little surprised and murmured, "This place is low-lying, and it is indeed easy for Yin Qi to gather. Could it be a corpse transformation?"
But soon, he shook his head and said, "Impossible. Zombies are different from ghosts. They are inhumane. Once they turn into corpses, the nearby villages will definitely be covered in blood..."
He called the village chief from a nearby village and asked, "Have any people or animals died accidentally in the nearby villages in the past few days?"
Muramasa thought about it, shook his head and said, "No."
Chen Ming said: "Then it shouldn't be a corpse. Let's do this, just in case, find a few people and open all the coffins here to have a look."
Although the people nearby were a little scared, with the presence of several immortal masters, there were still a few brave and strong men who opened the dozen or so coffins displayed here and checked the teeth and nails of the corpses as requested by Chen Ming, but found nothing abnormal.
Chen Ming thought for a moment and said, "I think I know what's going on. It should be the evil spirits causing trouble..."
Chen Ming obviously knew much more about ghosts than Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan, and Li Yu also took this opportunity to learn more.
Yin spirits are the incarnation of a person's soul after death. After a person dies, there is a very small probability that the soul will become a Yin spirit. Generally speaking, most Yin spirits have very weak Yin energy, which will slowly dissipate over time. A few Yin spirits can rely on their instincts to find a place where Yin energy gathers to live and exist for a long time.
The longer the evil spirit exists, the heavier the yin energy it gathers, and the stronger its strength becomes. It can even manifest a physical body, and ordinary people can see it with the naked eye, just like the female ghost we encountered last time.
Ghosts that are not strong enough cannot fully manifest themselves, nor can they possess living people. Sometimes they will possess corpses and use the corpses to move, making them look like zombies.
In some ordinary people's homes, there are often unusual body movements after a relative passes away, or newly buried deceased people crawl out of their graves at night. This is all because of evil spirits causing trouble.
Chen Ming has been at Baiyun Temple for two years and has personally handled several similar incidents.
After listening to him, Zhou Zixuan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Since this mission is so simple, you can do it alone, why do you need to ask Junior Brother Li to come along..."
Chen Ming heard the complaint in her words, but he did not refute.
Ever since he was possessed by a female ghost last time, other tasks were fine, but he felt very uneasy about anything that involved dealing with ghosts. He always felt uneasy if he didn't call a few more people to help him.
Chen Ming looked at the sky and said to Li Yu: "Junior Brother Li, it's still early now, why don't we go to Fengzhou City first, I will take you to have a good time, I am familiar with all the restaurants in Fengzhou City..."
While speaking, he winked at Li Yu, making an expression that all men could understand.
Before Li Yu could say anything, Zhou Zixuan said angrily: "Chen Ming, it's okay for you to fall into depravity, but don't lead Junior Brother Li astray!"
Li Yu also said: "No need, but it's still early now. We can go to Fengzhou City to eat first and come back in the evening."
Generally, ghosts will not appear during the day, but only at night.
Li Yu and the other two arrived at Fengzhou City and first found an inn to stay in. After dinner, Li Yu went out alone, bought some things on the street, and then returned to the room to practice. It was not until nightfall that he went out with Chen Ming and Zhou Zixuan.
The three of them flew at a low altitude, not very fast, so that they could recover their magic power while flying .
From a distance, they saw the charity cemetery.
Under the pale moonlight, a broken white lantern was hung on the gate of the charity cemetery. The night wind was cold, and with a whimpering sound, it blew the lantern left and right, causing the light and shadows around the charity cemetery to shake constantly, adding a bit of weird atmosphere.
When they got a little closer, Li Yu and the other two felt the strong yin energy in the charity cemetery.
With Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan around, Chen Ming became much bolder. He stood outside the gate of the charity cemetery and shouted, "Where did you come from, you wandering ghost? This is not the place for you to stay. Leave now!"
As for demons and ghosts, as long as they do not harm the people, the righteous rarely kill them all. They will usually talk to them about reason first.
Of course, not all ghosts and spirits are obedient.
Some ghosts can retain their memories from their previous lives, but a large portion have lost their intelligence after becoming ghosts and can only act on instinct. If left alone, once they become powerful, the common people will suffer.
As for those who are stubborn or not intelligent enough, we have to eliminate them to prevent future troubles.
As Chen Ming's words were heard, the yin energy inside the charity cemetery began to fluctuate violently.
puff……
A ball of dark blue flame suddenly flew out from the charity cemetery and headed straight towards Li Yu and the other two.
When the flame approached, Li Yu did not feel the heat, but rather a little cold. As the ball of flame flew out, seven or eight more flames followed closely behind. The strength of these evil spirits was not weak and they were able to condense ghost fire.
Li Yu snapped his fingers and several fireballs popped out, colliding with the blue flames, and the two annihilated each other.
More than a dozen illusory shadows flew out from the charity cemetery.
Li Yu did not expect that there were so many evil spirits occupying this charity cemetery, and their strength was not weak. Although not as strong as the female ghost last time, they were similar to the old ghost who was the leader. The fluctuations of the yin energy on their bodies were not weaker than those of immortal cultivators in the Qi Induction Stage.
These ghosts are obviously more violent than those occupying Ren Mansion.
After discovering Li Yu and the other two, he pounced directly towards them.
The twelve ghosts condensed their Yin energy into sharp claws and attacked them one by one.
To deal with evil spirits and ghosts, besides thunder magic, fire magic is the most convenient. In Chen Ming's hand, he condensed a fire knife, and Zhou Zixuan condensed a flaming whip, and they each dealt with the several evil spirits that attacked them.
call out!
The long whip broke through the air, and two ghosts were hit head-on. Their souls collapsed immediately. She turned around and whipped again, taking care of the other two ghosts.
On the other side, Chen Ming, holding a flaming sword in his hand, chased and chopped several ghosts, and easily dealt with them.
When they looked at Li Yu, they found that he had ended the battle very early, and there was no ghost around him. With the cultivation level of the three of them in the Qi Refining Stage, they were able to deal with these ghosts that were at most equivalent to Qi Induction. This was really a bit of bullying the ghosts.
Li Yu looked down at his palms, then looked at his chest.
In fact, he did not cast any spell just now. As long as those ghosts were touched by his palm, they would turn into pure yin energy and be sucked into the incense burner, thus confirming his guess.
Although there were a lot of ghosts this time, it was a task that could be completed by a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. Chen Ming already had some regrets in his heart. Perhaps, he shouldn't have asked Li Yu and Junior Sister Zhou to join him...
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he heard the voices of Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan at the same time.
"careful!"
"careful!"
Chen Ming's heart skipped a beat and a chill rushed to his head. He turned around suddenly and saw the two lanterns at the entrance of the charity cemetery suddenly burning. The raging flames turned into a red shadow and flew towards him.
"No way, again!"
This was the last thought in his mind. As his body trembled, something forced its way into his body. He seemed to see his deceased grandmother waving at him again...
