Chapter 188: The Old Demon Xuan Gu, Ghost Cultivation Technique
From the storage bag of the Sixth Palace Master, Ye Changsheng obtained a magic weapon called the Thousand Illusion Mask.
As the name suggests, this mask can change a person's appearance into various forms, and even change his or her own aura.
It is indeed a magic weapon with high practical value.
After obtaining this magic weapon, Ye Changsheng immediately refined it, then left the spare cave wearing a mask.
Fly towards the place where the old demon Xuan Gu was imprisoned.
Ten days later, Ye Changsheng appeared on a deserted island in a remote area of the Chaos Star Sea.
This is an island with a radius of more than a thousand miles. There are hills and slopes everywhere on the island. At a glance, it is all gray and yellow.
There is no spiritual energy on this island, and no plants can survive. It is a real deserted island.
After landing on the island, Ye Changsheng spread out his spiritual sense and soon found something abnormal .
He flashed and soon arrived in front of the earthen hill.
This was a tall yellow earth mountain, about a thousand feet high. As soon as Ye Changsheng approached the mountain, a strong wind blew up immediately, sand and rocks flew everywhere, the sky became dark, and the yellow earth was blown up into the sky.
A shocked and angry voice came from the top of the hill: "Who approaches this hill without permission?"
As he spoke, a figure with two swords on his back flew down from the hill, his eyes full of shock and anger.
The man was skinny, with messy white hair draped over his shoulders, a black short-sleeved leather jacket, a strange flower basket on his waist, and a pair of ferocious triangular eyes on his face covered with strange red spots.
Judging from the fluctuations of spiritual energy on his body, he is a cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan.
According to Ji Yin's memory, this person was once one of his disciples, and was later left here to guard the island.
The ferocious-looking monster rushed down and immediately saw Ye Changsheng with an indifferent expression, and was immediately shocked.
Before he could say anything, he saw the other party snap his fingers and a purple sword energy flew towards him.
The weirdo was so frightened that his soul flew away. After he could not help but recognize that this was actually a senior in the Nascent Soul stage.
Just as he was about to announce the name of the Ji Yin Patriarch, he did not expect the other party to attack directly.
The purple sword energy was extremely fast, shooting over in almost the blink of an eye. The monster had no time to react at all, and was directly pierced through the body by the sword energy and fell to the ground.
Ye Changsheng walked forward, picked up the flower basket and ancient treasures from the monster, the double swords behind him, and put them into his storage bag.
Then, he looked towards the large formation guarding the earthen hill.
"Ji Yin has a very high level of attainment in formation!" Ye Changsheng sighed as he looked at this large formation.
Whether it is the formation here or the large formation on Jiyin Island, they all demonstrate Jiyin's extraordinary attainments in formation.
Of course, the formation here is completely incomparable to the large formation on Jiyin Island.
This is a large formation with dual attributes of wind and earth. The strange man just now activated this formation, and it is now running.
The wind blew the yellow soil all over the sky, forming a huge dark yellow soil ball that hovered above the mountain.
A hazy yellow fog appeared and enveloped the place. This yellow fog was enough to block most of the Jindan cultivators who were not proficient in formations.
But in the eyes of people of Ye Changsheng's level, such a large formation was obviously not good enough. A sword energy flew out, and the yellow fog in the sky was immediately broken.
The outermost layer of the dual-attribute formation of wind and earth was destroyed, and yellow earth fell from the sky, covering the hill.
Then, a light shield formed by flames appeared in front of him. Countless winged fire snakes appeared on the wall of the light shield, swimming and dancing while continuously spewing flames.
"Winged evil!"
When seeing these fire snakes, Ye Changsheng murmured softly, "This is a kind of fire demon spirit."
This kind of evil spirit loves to devour the souls of monks and mortals.
The fire restriction in front of them turned this dirt hill into a three-yang place, thus giving birth to these winged evil fire spirits.
Ji Yin really put a lot of thought into trapping his master by using formations within formations.
Another burst of sword energy shot out, breaking the restriction, and those winged evil fire spirits dispersed.
A strange stone pillar appeared in front of Ye Changsheng.
There are a large number of strange runes engraved on the surface of the stone pillar, and the whole body is black and white.
The Spirit Sealing Pillar!
This is a magical tool used to seal the nearby spiritual energy and completely isolate it from leakage. The value of one pillar is about five or six thousand spirit stones.
Ye Changsheng walked forward, put one hand on the spirit-sealing pillar that was about two meters high, and pulled it up from the ground with a slight pull.
After taking a look, Ye Changsheng placed his hand on the Spirit Sealing Pillar, and a ray of light lit up.
Soon, this thick and tall pillar shrank and finally became as thick as a finger.
Ye Changsheng threw it into the storage bag.
This thing might be useful in the future.
He looked at the big hole in front of him that was exposed because the Spirit Sealing Pillar had been pulled out.
The cave was dark and rumbling, with a cold wind blowing out, and there was a white stone staircase leading down.
Go down the stairs all the way to the deep underground, and you will see a square hall of more than 20 meters in size.
The ceiling of the hall was inlaid with several fist-sized luminous pearls, illuminating the place in a milky white color. On the ground, in a pool of water that was neither too big nor too small, grew a three-colored lotus.
This colorful lotus has not yet bloomed and is just a bud, but it is already as big as a bowl and emits green, red and yellow light.
The strange thing was that a few inches above the colorful lotus, a small and exquisite seven-color rainbow appeared out of thin air, sparkling and extremely gorgeous!
In front of the pool, there was a jade-white skeleton half lying on the ground, with a small emerald green arrow about a foot long stuck in its head.
Ye Changsheng recognized at a glance that the material of the emerald green arrow was Tianlei Bamboo.
"Ji Yin is also quite outrageous. How could such a sinister and cunning person just ignore this place after plotting against his master?"
"Logically speaking, after he achieves Nascent Soul, he should come here and completely resolve this hidden danger!"
"Why would it be necessary to set up a formation here and send people to guard it?" Ye Changsheng complained in his heart.
His gaze lingered on the white bones on the ground for a moment, then he looked at the tri-colored lotus.
If some cultivators with poor eyesight saw this object, they would definitely mistake it for the legendary fairy object Seven Clouds Lotus.
According to various legends, the Seven Clouds Lotus possesses incredible magical effects. If taken by mortals, it can bring the dead back to life and grow flesh on bones. If taken by monks, it can directly improve their cultivation by one level and greatly increase their magical powers.
Of course, Ye Changsheng knew that there was no such magical creature as the Seven Clouds Lotus in the human world.
Even the existence of Qixialian is still a question.
After all, this is something that only appears in various legends, and no one has ever heard of the real thing appearing.
The so-called Qixia Lotus here is nothing more than a demon snake.
The camouflage of this thing is indeed strong enough that even the old demon Xuan Gu was deceived by it.
The layout of the cave here was actually specially arranged by Ji Yin for Xuan Gu, using the magical object Qixia Lotus to deceive the old demon Xuan Gu.
When Xuan Gu reached out to pick the so-called Seven Clouds Lotus, he was bitten by the evil snake hiding inside.
Afterwards, Ji Yin and Ji Xuan also appeared at the right time and attacked Xuan Gu with small arrows made of Tianlei Bamboo, completing their achievement of backstabbing their master.
Ye Changsheng stared at the thing that looked like a flower bud, took a look, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he directly shot out a sword energy and slashed at the flower bud.
“Whoosh!”
Seeing the sword energy coming, the flower bud moved immediately and dived into the water. Then a black shadow flew out of the water and pounced towards Ye Changsheng.
Another sword energy shot out and hit the black shadow directly. After a scream, the black shadow fell to the ground, revealing a three or four foot long black strange snake with fleshy horns on its head.
Demon crown snake!
The demon crown of this demon crown snake was deliberately refined by Ji Yin to look like the Seven Clouds Lotus, which deceived Xuan Gu at the beginning.
After easily killing the snake, Ye Changsheng looked towards the small pond and said calmly, "Aren't you coming out yet?"
After a moment of silence.
“Hehehe!”
Waves of strange, sneering laughter emanated from the pool, and in an instant, black ghostly fog filled the entire hall.
Immediately afterwards, a green figure flew out of the pool and pounced towards Ye Changsheng at a rapid speed.
This person was covered in crystal green light, his face was blurry, and he had several black mist-like belts as thick as arms wrapped around his body. His eyes were as red as dripping blood.
This ghostly figure, as soon as it appeared, immediately attacked Ye Changsheng and tried to take over his body.
The old demon Xuan Gu is an old monster who has lived for thousands of years. After being plotted against by his two disciples Ji Yin and Ji Xuan, he used the Xuan Hun demon refining method to refine his Nascent Soul into the body of a demon.
With a cold snort, Ye Changsheng's spiritual consciousness, which seemed to have condensed into substance, flew out and turned into a soul-slaying seal, fiercely slashing at the demon that pounced on him.
"ah!!!"
With a shrill scream, the green demon flew backwards in an instant, fell to the ground, rolled over, and screamed.
Ye Changsheng walked forward, and his spiritual consciousness, which seemed to be tangible, penetrated his body and transformed into chains, binding up the demonic body of the old demon Xuan Gu, making it unable to move.
"Fellow Daoist, please spare my life. As long as you can help me get revenge, I am willing to acknowledge you as my master!" Xuan Gu shouted.
When he realized that he could do nothing to the man in front of him, he immediately began to beg for mercy.
As an old ghost who has lived for thousands of years, Xuan Gu believes that he still has some value.
These young monks should be interested in me!
but……
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light flashed in Ye Changsheng's eyes, and two crescent-like sharp blades flew out of his eyes.
He chopped the old demon Xuan Gu hard.
"ah!!!"
The ears could hear continuous shrill screams. This method of directly attacking the spirit could also work on demons and ghosts.
The old demon Xuan Gu was shaking with pain, but Ye Changsheng turned a deaf ear to his pleas for mercy and continued to use the Soul-Severing Seal to weaken the opponent's demonic body.
After four consecutive slashes, Xuan Gu's originally thick body became thin, as if it would dissipate with a gust of wind.
After weakening Xuan Gu's demonic body, Ye Changsheng felt at ease to use the soul-searching technique on the old demon.
The green demon's body lay dully on the ground, motionless, while Ye Changsheng's consciousness penetrated into it, reading the information .
Xuanhun Demon Refining Technique, Nine-bend Spirit Ginseng, Infant-cultivating Pills...
From the memory of the old demon Xuan Gu, Ye Changsheng learned the whereabouts of the Jiuqu Lingshen in the Xutian Palace and the recipe of the Peiying Pill.
Moreover, we also learned about the two secret caves of this old ghost.
In addition to the location of the secret cave he learned from Ji Yin, Ye Changsheng learned the locations of the five secret caves from the memories of the master and disciple.
It's true that a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
After reading the memory, Ye Changsheng slapped the old demon Xuan Gu to death with one palm, and then picked up the emerald green Tianlei Bamboo arrow on the ground.
There was a faint flash of dark demonic energy on this Heavenly Thunder Bamboo. It was obvious that it had been refined using evil methods, which greatly reduced its effectiveness in warding off evil spirits.
Ye Changsheng held a small green arrow in his hand, and a hint of a smile flashed in his eyes.
A ball of purple flame suddenly rose from his palm, and the flame instantly covered the entire Sky Thunder Bamboo Arrow.
With a burst of burning, all the dark evil energy on it was burned away.
At this moment, suddenly, a residual soul flew out from the small arrow of Tianlei Bamboo.
It was an old, gloomy face, full of fear, and he shouted, "Daoyou, please spare me. I am willing to serve you as my master for the rest of my life as a ghost slave!"
“Swish!”
The purple flame flew past, and the remnant soul's cry for help stopped abruptly, and the last trace of the old ghost Xuan Gu left in the world disappeared.
"These thousand-year-old ghosts have so many tricks that it's hard to guard against them. If you're not careful, they might escape!" Ye Changsheng sighed.
After putting away the Tianlei Bamboo Arrow, Ye Changsheng looked at the white skeleton on the ground again.
He stretched out his hand and flicked out a fireball, which immediately started burning.
After burning out, a section of white and crystal clear rib fell to the ground.
Ye Changsheng grabbed the rib and squeezed it, immediately turning it into a pile of bone powder. A white ball of light and a black insect like a cricket floated out of it.
The insect kept chirping around the ball of light. Ye Changsheng flicked his finger and a flame shot out, burning the insect to death.
Then, he looked towards the white ball of light.
"The remaining map of Xutian Palace!" Ye Changsheng murmured softly .
He picked up the white ball of light and put it into his storage bag. Now he had two incomplete maps of Xutian Palace in his hands.
After taking a look at the surrounding environment, Ye Changsheng turned around and left the deserted island.
According to the information obtained from the soul search, he flew towards the secret caves of Jiyin and Xuangu.
A month later, Ye Changsheng found all five secret caves and all the magic weapons and elixirs hidden inside.
A great harvest!
In a cave of the old demon Xuan Gu, Ye Changsheng also found a white and crystal clear bone.
There are many ancient characters densely engraved on the bones.
If Ye Changsheng had not happened to see information related to this kind of writing when he was searching the soul bones, he might not have recognized this ancient writing.
This crystal bone contains a top-notch ghost cultivation technique!
"Ashura Pluto's Art"!
The old demon Xuan Gu's Xuanhun demon refining method and the method of practicing the Shura Holy Fire were all learned from this Shura Pluto Gong.
According to Xuan Gu's memory, this technique was obtained by him accidentally from somewhere under the sea.
I don’t know who stayed here!
