If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 265: Soldiers Set out from Guaizi Mountain

When Xiaoyu left King Fu's blessed land, it was already after three o'clock in the morning.

They chatted from the afternoon until midnight. Prince Fu had already comprehended the nine meanings of flowers, so it only took her more than an hour to teach him the method of the Lord of Flowers. The rest of the time, Prince Fu talked non-stop, teaching her the Jade Book and the Golden Book, and answering the difficult questions in the Ghost Cultivation Secret Record.

Xiaoyu gained a lot.

There are a total of eight methods of ghost cultivation, four methods of "Taiyin Refining the Body", two methods of escape, one method of concealing one's breath and moving stealthily, and one secret method of the Yin spirit taking over another's body and being reborn.

There is no method of attack.

If it happened to someone else, Xiaoyu would suspect that the other person was hiding something, but if it happened to Prince Fu, it would be too normal.

The Taiyin body refining method is mainly to help ghosts condense and refine the "ghost body", which is similar to the human breathing method and is the foundation of ghost cultivation.

Xiaoyu couldn't practice on her own, so she could only become a reference for her to deduce the "Dog Treasure Body Refining Method".

Of course, just because she can’t practice doesn’t mean it’s useless to her. After all, she still has a “ghost father”.

After recording and roughly understanding the four methods of Taiyin body refining, the "method of killing the flat-headed person by force" finally broke through the bottleneck and began to be deduced quickly.

Well, the method by which General Bietou killed the enemy has not been deduced yet.

It’s not that Xiaoyu is weak.

Just by killing the flat-headed general in the form of a ghost general, the method of deduction has been completed.

However, General Bie Tou had practiced "The Black Mountain Old Demon's Form Refining Method" (Black Mountain Form Refining Treasure Record), so just beheading General Bie Tou could not kill him completely.

Just like the battle between Honnōji and Tiger Lord, Tiger Lord beat up the cockroach that was biting his tiger head.

Lord Hu is an expert at playing with ghosts, and he will certainly show no mercy.

As a result, within two days, Xiaoqiang came out of the dog treasure again.

The key to the "method of killing the flat-headed general by force" is to destroy the Black Mountain where the flat-headed general is parasitic.

In other words, Xiaoyu must destroy the entire Netherworld Mountain.

And it’s not enough to simply collapse the mountain, we have to destroy the “energy veins” of Black Mountain and sever the connection between Black Mountain and the earth veins.

This is not something that can be achieved with simple sword techniques.

Now Xiaoyu feels that he will be able to figure out the method to kill Black Mountain with the flat head before dawn.

Xiao Yu could not practice the Taiyin Form Refining Technique. However, he could integrate the Ghost Escape Technique and the Breath-Containing Stealth Technique into his Yin Gui Sword Escape Technique and the "Clairvoyance Stealth Technique" to a limited extent.

Previously, when the Yin Gui Sword Escape Technique was performed, a grey shadow would be left under the sun. The bigger the sun, the more obvious the grey shadow would be.

Now she used the Yin Gui Sword Escape Technique and completely turned into a ghost, invisible and shadowless.

She walked all the way back to "Yu Mansion" from Qinghe Villa, and no one noticed anything unusual.

In the past, she never used the Yin Gui Sword Escape Technique to pass through the city gate, because there were martial arts masters with sharp eyes and ears at the city gate. They could detect gray shadows that ordinary people could easily ignore. Once discovered, it would be difficult to explain.

Even now, in the dead of night, the city walls and gates were still guarded by city defense troops, but they were unaware of anything.

The final secret technique of Yin Shen taking over another's body and being reborn is a bit weird. It does not devour the soul of the person being possessed, but lets the person being possessed devour his own Yin Shen (the threshold for cultivation is the Yin Shen realm), and then assimilate the other person's thoughts from the inside out.

Obviously, this is a method of "soul fusion".

The advantage is that it is not easy to be discovered by ghosts and gods.

After all, taking over a living person's body is not allowed by "God".

Once discovered, the messengers of heaven and the ghosts of the underworld will be severely punished.

Picking up dead bodies requires a lot of luck and skills, but the advantage is that no one cares. Oh, no, it’s not the gods or Buddhas who care, only people - the family of the deceased might have objections.

Xiaoyu will study and improve this secret technique of possessing another's body, but she hopes she will never need to use it in her lifetime.

The next morning, it was dawn.

More than 3,500 war horses have been led to the gate of Qinghe Villa.

"Teacher, are you guys going to the Lianghetan battlefield too?" Xiaoyu originally planned to look for the Taoist priest Gou Rou, but at the outermost edge of the "Ghost Slayer Squad", he met Doctor Min and seven or eight Bao'antang apprentices carrying medicine boxes.

They were all dressed smartly, with narrow sleeves and trouser legs tucked in at the wrists and ankles.

Doctor Min looked her up and down. She was quite capable. She wore a lake green coat with no hem, sky blue pants tucked into brown calfskin boots, and her medium-long hair was tied behind her head with a gold hoop and jade ring.

He frowned, "We will only guard the outskirts of Lianghe Beach, but you want to enter the ghost country of Guaizi Mountain, and you are dressed like this?"

Xiaoyu looked around and saw that almost all the heroes in the martial arts world had put on their "robes".

Except for monks, most of the robes are Taoist style.

The so-called "robes" are not magical treasures or magical tools.

It is just a Taoist robe made by a Taoist priest, which has been worshipped by incense for a long time and blessed by gods recently.

When the dog-meat Taoist priest asked the gods to find out the location of her ghost that day, he put on his robes.

The robes have two great benefits. The first is that they help Taoists perform their magic. The second is that they can protect against evil to a certain extent.

It is useless against powerful immortal warriors, as the robes cannot block swords and knives at all, but it has a relatively strong protective effect against ghosts, monsters and evil spirits.

That is to say, physical resistance is approximately zero, but magical resistance is relatively high, especially against spells with evil attributes.

"I'm different from them. My Pure Yang Sword Energy is more effective than any robe." Xiao Yu explained in a low voice.

When she came out of the blessed land last night, the dinner had already ended and the heroes had already gone to bed.

But there was a steward left in Qinghe Villa, waiting for her at the back entrance of the mountain.

He also provided her with a "ghost-killing marching bag" which included a robe.

The robe had been washed in advance and had only a faint scent of soapberry. She accepted it but did not wear it today.

"Wearing a robe will have some effect. At least it can make you less conspicuous." said Doctor Min.

Xiao Yu said strangely: "How could I, who is so afraid of death, not have considered what you have thought of?
In the world of the living, to the naked eye, I am indeed more conspicuous.

But once they enter the ghost country, the 'yang' of the robes clashes with the yin of the underworld, and they are almost like small lanterns."

In the human world, the robes are ordinary, without any sound or light effects; once entering the underworld, there will be more obvious fluctuations in the aura, and they will flash with a faint glow. After all, they contain the power of incense and the blessing of Shinto, and they resist the erosion of negative energy.

"Everyone, thank you for your help."

The master and his disciple whispered a few words in the back, and Zhu Yitao came to the front in a black official uniform, saluted solemnly to the "heroes", and then chose a warhorse. "Zhu Yitao is going too? He is just a mortal, what can he do?" Xiaoyu was a little surprised.

Doctor Min whispered, "When we get to Lianghe Beach, we must set up an altar to invite the gods. It will be more effective if officials represent the court and the people to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.

If you can invite a great god to come, you may not have to go to Guaizi Mountain. The great god can deal with the Eight Ghost Kings alone."

"If you want to represent the court, why not send an imperial envoy?" Xiao Yu said.

"Isn't Prince Xianzhi the imperial envoy? The 'official priest' who opens the altar to invite the gods is Taoist Yunqing. Your Excellency only needs to burn a petition on behalf of the court. There is no need to make it too troublesome, and he is not the main person in charge." Doctor Min said calmly.

"Where is Prefect Wen of Yingxiang Prefecture? His official position is higher than Zhu Yidao's." Xiaoyu said.

"But he is less courageous than Zhu Lingjun." Doctor Min said disdainfully.

As he was talking, Li Xianzhi walked out of the gate of the mansion, greeted Zhu Yitai first, jumped on his horse and shouted: "All Shudong heroes, please check your bags again - a set of robes, a soul-calling talisman, four sets of divine vests, ten five-thunder talismans, twenty thunderbolts, a number of lightning-struck wooden instruments, and five pills of the immortal belly-filling pill."

The items that Li Xianzhi mentioned are all in the "Ghost-Slaying Marching Bag", but you don't have to use the items provided by the court. If you have the conditions, you can exchange them for better ones.

For example, although all the heroes of Shudong were wearing robes at this time, many extraordinary people were wearing their own robes with stronger protective properties.

For example, Xiaoyu did not choose the lightning-struck wooden magic tool (a tool for performing rituals, not a magic weapon), the Qiao Shi sword was enough.

"We are ready!"

"Prince, let's go!"

The Shudong heroes shouted randomly.

"Feed the warhorse a stomach-filling pill!"

Li Xianzhi jumped off his horse and was the first to feed his warhorse a stomach-filling pill.

"Put on the speed vest!" After feeding the warhorse, Li Xianzhi shouted again.

Xiaoyu took out two yellow "scarves" from her waist, tied them around her calves, and then stuffed them into her riding boots.

Miraculously, she immediately felt much more relaxed.

Then Li Xianzhi shouted, "Wear the Soul-Guiding Talisman close to your body, and the Five Thunder Talismans and Thunderbolts are at your disposal."

The Ghost King of Guaizi Mountain must know the news that the Shudong hero entered Guaizi Mountain to exterminate ghosts today.

Since they left Qinghe Villa, they might encounter a surprise attack from the ghost soldiers at any time. Therefore, they had to put on the magic vest and wear the soul-calling talisman in advance, and be prepared to fight at any time.

"set off!"

Everything was ready, and Li Xianzhi took the lead.

The three thousand five hundred cavalry formed a gray-brown torrent, breaking through the morning mist, trampling the loess road, and spreading towards the north.

After running for about five miles, they encountered the first checkpoint.

The outpost was built on the roadside, with dozens of villagers carrying food and drink, and two lightly armed knights.

The lightly-armed knights left the main road and galloped through the fields beside the road, shouting: "The road is clear, we can go forward, the road is clear, we can go forward."

Xiaoyu caught a glimpse of an unfamiliar City God Temple duty official floating above their heads.

"Keep moving forward!" Li Xianzhi did not stop and led the team forward at a constant speed.

No one left the team.

The officer on duty suddenly disappeared and went further north.

Another five miles, another sentry post, another group of villagers with food and drink, and two lightly armed knights.

"The road is clear, we can go forward!" The light cavalry had been galloping back and forth on the five-mile section of road that he was guarding.

This time, several knights left the team and asked their fellow villagers for water.

The road was smooth all the way until we reached the tenth outpost.

There were no villagers carrying food and drink near the outpost, but there were a few monks sitting on the roadside chanting.

Although they were chanting, they also prepared dozens of buckets of clean water for the knights in advance.

"Everyone, here I come!"

A loud laugh came from the sky, and a rainbow appeared above everyone's head. The leader of Minshan finally made a brilliant appearance.

"Keep moving forward!" Li Xianzhi just turned his head to look at the old farmer in Minshan, and his horse did not slow down.

After that, the old farmer from Minshan kept floating above the knights' heads.

The tenth to fifteenth outposts are all guarded by monks and Taoists.

Water and food were prepared at the outpost.

But without the sixteenth outpost, the ghosts and gods appeared directly in front of everyone.

"Don't panic, these are ghosts and gods under the command of the City God. The City God is with us!" Li Xianzhi shouted.

Seventeen or eighteen ghosts and gods came at once.

They spread out in all directions with the marching team as the center.

As the marching column moved, they followed it northward.

At this time, nearly two hours had passed since we set out, around ten o'clock in the morning.

The morning mist completely dissipated, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly.

Although the surrounding farmland is deserted, it has a unique wild charm against the backdrop of bird calls and deer shadows.

"There are Yin soldiers!" When they were twenty miles closer to Lianghe Beach, they finally encountered the Yin soldiers from Guaizi Mountain.

The ghosts and gods in the City God Temple, who transformed themselves into "sentinels", were the first to discover the Yin soldiers, but they did not chase them. Instead, they turned around and loudly reminded the marching team.

The Yin soldier was also a cavalryman. He was very brave and stood by the roadside until the "ghost-slaying army" approached within a hundred steps. Then he lightly flicked the whip and drove the skeleton horse back into the ghost path, disappearing in front of everyone.

“I ran into an old acquaintance so soon.”

Xiaoyu has a strange expression.

She could tell at a glance that the ghost soldiers were dressed as Shaman warriors, but they were too far away to see their faces clearly.

(End of this chapter)