Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 245 Underground Master

Taking another look, Chu Tai discovered that the state of this corpse-reincarnated immortal was somewhat miserable.

The methods of corpse transformation in the world are fire transformation, water transformation, weapon transformation, stick transformation, medicine transformation, etc. Depending on the different methods and time of corpse transformation, the final achievements will also be different.

The person in front of Chu Tai is one of those with lower achievements, and he will need to practice in the underground for a period of time after his death.

"You are practicing the method of changing your form and washing the scenery?"

The Corpse Reincarnation Immortal was silent, and Chu Tai immediately knew that he had guessed correctly.

Transforming into a new form and washing away the shadows is a relatively common practice among the corpse-reincarnating immortals, and it is also circulated within the Yin Jing Sect.

The Yin Jing Sect's method emphasizes on learning and transforming into form, and changing turbid scenery into qi.

After twelve years of intensive practice, one can capture the spirit and soul with qi, and after fifteen years, one can capture the soul with spirit.

After another thirty years, the bones in the coffin gave birth to life.

After forty years, if you are alive, you can return to the human world.

After accumulating virtue and doing good deeds for another fifty years, one can report to the immortals and obtain the position of a candidate immortal official.

After another sixty years, one can seek the immortal talisman of heaven and enter the Guanghan Terrace for meditation. After a hundred years, when the old impurities have been cleansed, one can ascend to the Kunying Palace.

The cultivation method of the person in front of him should be simpler than that of Yin Jingzong, and it seems to be mixed with traces of the earthly immortal system.

The veins of this place have been affected by the power of Yinshan Dizun, so this guy's cultivation is likely to be closer to Yinshan Dizun.

Therefore, Chu Tai did not intend to talk nonsense with the other party. If the other party was unwilling to speak, Chu Tai would not bother to pay attention and stood up to leave.

Seeing this, the corpse-reincarnating immortal hurriedly spoke up to stop Chu Tai again and informed him of his situation.

This corpse-transmigrating immortal was named Ruan Hantai. He was a casual cultivator who lived here five hundred years ago. He practiced hard for more than three hundred years, but when there was no further progress, he chose to bury his body in the ground and use elixirs to transform his corpse.

But later developments were just as Chu Tai had guessed before. Ruan Hantai practiced hard for three decades to reshape his body and was about to complete his transformation back to life. However, at this critical moment, he was affected by the power of Yinshan Dizun, causing his final transformation back to life to fail.

"What do you want from me?"

Chu Tai looked at Ruan Hantai below and asked a question. He had already decided that if the cultivator below asked him to cut off the connection with the earth veins and help him break free from the influence of Yinshan Dizun, he would leave immediately.

"I hope you can destroy my physical body."

"Are you willing?"

Chu Tai was a little surprised. The majority of the corpse-reincarnation methods of Dongji Chenguang Datian were somewhat different from what ordinary people thought of as reincarnation.

Most corpse transformations involve giving up the physical body and using the process of death and rebirth to gain better talents and abilities, and thereby prove their status as an immortal.

But in most of the corpse transformation methods, after the body returns to life, the connection between the physical body and the Yin spirit is not as close as that of a living person.

Living people who practice cultivation can still mix the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. Although the corpse-reincarnated immortals have physical bodies, there will basically be no similar situation.

For the corpse-reincarnated immortal, the revived body is closer to its own magic weapon, or a proof of achieving a higher level of immortality.

Destroying the body would be equivalent to destroying Ruan Hantai's past three decades of hard work, and would even cause his final immortal career to be downgraded by one level. "If I delay any further, my body will become one of the foundations for the Yinshan Earth Lord to occupy this place, and I will become his slave. I beg you to be merciful and save my life."

Ruan Hantai's attitude was very humble, but he just begged and did not express anything else.

Chu Tai shook his head and said, "If I take action, it would be like making enemies with the Yinshan Earth Lord. Why should I help you for no reason?"

Ruan Hantai was silent for a moment after hearing this and said, "My fellow Daoist has a good cultivation base. I think you don't like the magic weapons I used to make during my lifetime. If you are willing to save my life, I will teach you the method of cultivation, and then..."

Ruan Hantai took two deep breaths and seemed to struggle for a long time before he stated his final condition.

"I see that your magical power is top-notch among the six-grade ones. You have not made further progress because you are limited by the power. If you can help me, I can also give you some of the power of the Underground Lord that I have gained through three hundred years of hard practice."

"【Underground Lord】Law and intention? Which level?"

Chu Tai was not deceived, but first asked about the other party's level of understanding.

After all, the essence of the underground lord is a special power structure between the ghost fairy system and the earth fairy system. The corresponding powers of the three levels of upper, middle and lower are very different, and the benefits they bring are naturally completely different.

Among them, the lower-level underground lord can also be called the [first-level underground lord], which is equivalent to a ghost. Although he has supernatural powers, he has no mysterious methods. He can mostly drive the yin energy and earth energy. He is also inferior in the meaning of the law.

The middle-level underground master, also known as the [second-class underground master], is equivalent to a pure and spiritual ghost fairy. Although he uses yin energy, it is pure and not mixed, and contains fairy ideas. He has entered the lower level of the fairy way and barely entered the middle level in the Dharma that can be used to achieve the fifth level.

The upper-class underground lord, also known as the [third-class underground lord], is close to the initial stage of becoming an earthly immortal, has extraordinary supernatural powers, and can even reach the sky. He has barely entered the upper class in the magic used to achieve the fifth level.

Ruan Hantai was silent for a moment, and said: "If I had practiced successfully, I could have achieved the Dharma of the [Second-Class Underground Lord], and thereby achieved the fifth-grade Taoism, and obtained the upper level of the ghost immortal. In the future, there is also the possibility of transferring to the upper level of the earth immortal. It's a pity..."

Hearing this, Chu Tai naturally knew what the other party meant by "a pity", but he was not at ease with Ruan Hantai, so he asked for some of the [Second-Class Underground Lord]'s insights into the Dharma.

"you!"

Ruan Hantai was furious when he heard Chu Tai's request and wanted to scold him, but he held it back and separated a bit of spiritual light from the earth veins and sent it to Chu Tai's hands.

Feeling the faint breath of law in the spiritual light, Chu Tai stored it in the mountains and rivers jade screen, then stretched out his hand and pointed, and the scorpion tail sword turned into a stream of light and pierced into the earth veins. As the earth veins changed, it slashed into the place where Ruan Hantai's corpse was transformed.

The sharp sword light circled around the neck of a hairy corpse, and after cutting off the head of Liu Yang, Chu Tai took a wrong step and quickly flew away.

At the same time, the Scorpion Tail Sword flew out from another direction along the ground veins and cut off a formation pattern above.

Instantly, the aura of the earth surged up, shaking the formation and causing a black-robed Taoist to fly out. Upon seeing Ruan Hantai, he was horrified and exclaimed, "You actually escaped?!"

Ruan Hantai, who rushed out of the earth veins, was originally looking for traces of the Scorpion Tail Sword and Chu Tai, and did not pay attention to the monk who appeared. But when he heard the word "escape", he turned around and looked at the Taoist in black robe, feeling his inner magic power and true energy.

Ruan Hantai immediately became furious and shouted, "Great! I was wondering how that Yinshan Earth Lord found the place where I would be reincarnated. Turns out it was you bastards who did it!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and released several streams of black air towards the Taoist in black robe.

The Taoist was shocked and angry, but he still pretended to be calm and retorted: "If you, Master, didn't know the seriousness of the matter, why would we do such a dangerous thing!"

As he spoke, he also took out two magic weapons, trying to hold back the black energy.

ps: The transformed Zhuo Jing and the underground master are derived from "Yun Ji Qi Qian" Volume 86 Corpse Transformation Part 3, and there are some changes here.

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