Mythology

Chapter 304 The First Victim
[Common Things: The Heart Can Cause Murder]

[Related Allusions: "Five-Colored Ghost", "Nine-Bend Ghost", "Ghost Slaying Immortal" - Consume 10 points of Spirit Vision to enter the allusion world?]

"confirm."

Yang He was slightly surprised to see three faces appear before him.

[Soldier (speaking): You are a Shang soldier holding Qinglong Pass. After several days of continuous attacks by the Western Zhou, you are exhausted, and the reinforcements we expected have yet to arrive.]

[Groom (speaking): The soldiers inside Qinglong Pass are too busy to care for themselves. You're in charge of feeding the horses, but you've discovered that the food supplies are almost exhausted.]

[Scout (speaking): The general of Qinglong Pass sent you to scout towards Xiqi to confirm the location of the Xiqi army. You can sense that the general is considering withdrawing.]

[If no identity is chosen, the true form will be used to travel to the world of the legend.]

"The story has already begun. Could it be that Kong Xuan within the Three Corpse Daoist body is acting strangely?"

"Logically speaking, as long as I don't play the role of the Three Corpses Taoist, Kong Xuan can't possibly cultivate the root of wisdom, and the Five-Colored Ghost can at least be delayed for another six months."

Yang He looked at the regular characters, and there was nothing unusual in their information.

[The Three Corpses Taoist: Your fellow disciple hopes you will support Xiqi. You were about to respond, but then you noticed a series of chanting sounds coming from within your body. Upon closer inspection, you realized it was a one-year-old infant.]

[Immaculate Ghost Buddha: As a disciple of a sage, you can hear mortals praying to the sage; now, despairing cries echo throughout Qinglong Pass.]

Yang He was puzzled and hesitated for a moment before deciding not to choose a permanent role.

He originally planned to impersonate the Immaculate Ghost Buddha to create an avatar suitable for a ghost immortal, but now he has suddenly given up the idea. Using the avatar to serve as a celestial court is not a big problem, but after all, it is not a living person.

Cultivating through incarnation inevitably involves limitations in many ways, so perhaps...

"The Shang Dynasty had a large number of ghost soldiers who were half-human and half-ghost."

"Logically speaking, such an important place as Qinglong Pass, even if the Shang Dynasty had already decided to abandon it, would not have been left to be defended by ordinary soldiers alone. There must have been a small number of ghost soldiers stationed there."

Yang He refreshed the page repeatedly, and all the characters came from Qinglong Pass.

The green light flickered.

[Personal Guard (Green): You were once one of the 30,000 ghost soldiers in Chaoge. Unable to cultivate the Dharma, you were relegated to Qinglong Pass, where you became the general's personal guard thanks to your body's ability to withstand pain.]

"Let's go with him. I want to see what's so special about the ghost soldiers of Chaoge."

Yang He taught the method of personal guarding, and the three ghosts naturally had to carry it with them, in addition to the Myriad Transformations Hundred Ghosts Primordial Scripture that could make the three ghosts merge with the body and soul.

[Personal Guard (Blue): You were once one of the 30,000 ghost soldiers in Chaoge. Because of your innate supernatural abilities, you were envied and ended up in Qinglong Pass. Relying on your considerable strength, you became the general's personal guard.]

Yang He was unaware of the current situation at Qinglong Pass, so he did not harm the black cat. He simply put the pills he had previously refined into his storage bag and took them with him.

“Play the role of a bodyguard.”

.........

The sun sets in the west, and the setting sun is like blood.

The walls of Qinglong Pass, reflected in the twilight, appear mottled, all stained with blood, like unhealed wounds.

dong dong dong.

The war drums are beating.

Huang Feibiao's powerful voice came from outside the city gate, "The enemy is nothing but a rabble. I am certain that we will win today's battle!"

"A reward of ten taels of silver will be given for each enemy soldier killed, and the first person to scale the city wall will be promoted three ranks!"

Ladders were spread all over the city walls, and countless Western Zhou soldiers were advancing wave after wave, far surpassing the defending army, whose food supplies had run out.

The defending troops have been able to hold out until now only because Qinglong Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"Ugh."

Zhang Guifang, clad in iron armor, was a burly man with a weary face. As the commander-in-chief of Qinglong Pass, he was exhausted and had nothing left to fight. Several of his deputy generals had died one after another under the blades of Huang Feihu and others.

He stood behind the city gate, the blood on the top of the city wall resembling a gentle drizzle.

"Yang He".

"My subordinate is here."

Zhang Guifang looked at the last remaining guard, who was in his early thirties with a scar running across his handsome face. "According to the Shang Dynasty's instructions, we were to hold Qinglong Pass for twenty days. Nineteen days have passed now, and we should arrange to withdraw."

Zhang Guifang pinched the bridge of her nose helplessly. "How about this, you lead a squad of soldiers to explore the area outside Qinglong Pass first, and I will lead the brothers to follow closely behind."

Yang He's gaze lingered on Zhang Guifang for a few moments, and he did indeed have a vague recollection of her.

In the original work, Zhang Guifang was definitely a fierce general who defeated Huang Feihu and forced the Western Zhou to raise the white flag of truce. Unfortunately, he was not an immortal and died fighting alone after exhausting his strength.

"Yang He, do you have any objections?"

Zhang Guifang was somewhat anxious. The Shang Dynasty's decision to abandon Qinglong Pass was truly inexplicable, as if they were setting up some kind of secret operation behind the scenes.

Unfortunately, I had no idea what was going on from beginning to end.

"No, General."

Zhang Guifang summoned twelve men, all of whom were young soldiers.

Yang He led the way on horseback, with the other soldiers on two horses each. Before long, they headed northwest along the mountain road outside Qinglong Pass.

The sky was dark, and the dense forest blocked out the light.

Before long, it was pitch black.

Yang He slowed down his horse and glanced at the Niwan Palace, where the three ghosts were seated, but their cultivation level was only at the Sitting Core Realm.

"The trouble for ordinary characters lies in their cultivation level; those at the Core Formation stage are completely insufficient to protect themselves."

He took out a few pills from his storage bag and popped them into his mouth when no one was looking.

The elixir melted upon entering the mouth, allowing the yin energy from the outside world to enter the body. The pupil ghost immediately began to circulate its energy throughout its body, attempting to break through to the Embryo Transformation Realm.

Yang He's only consolation was that the three ghosts did not require the tedious ghost-raising process at lower realms.

"I feel that the physical constitution of the ghost soldiers is just so-so, completely incomparable to the body of the underworld ghosts. At most, their physical bodies have some characteristics of evil spirits."

Yang He examined himself and found that there was a palm-sized patch of grayish-black skin on his chest that could withstand sharp weapons, and his heart rate was slightly slower.

That's it.

"Sir, there is a Taoist temple in the desolate mountains ahead."

Yang He focused his pupils and noticed that the mountain path was already covered with weeds, but a building suddenly appeared, and the Taoist temple was quite large, covering an area of ​​two or three hundred square meters.

He felt uneasy, and his spiritual vision grew unnaturally.

"Go around the Taoist temple."

"Sir... there are lights inside the Taoist temple, and it seems like there are people there!"

The soldiers pointed in terror at the Taoist temple, only to find two old horses tied up in the courtyard, and two figures standing motionless at the window, as if they were sitting on wooden statues.

"Walk!!"

Yang He glanced at his soldiers and, sure enough, four were missing.

They hurried along, quickly turning into the nearest bushes, and after hacking their way through a forest, the Taoist temple was still right in front of them.

The lights inside the Taoist temple grew brighter, and eight figures appeared at the window.

Yang He looked around and found himself almost completely alone. Most of his twelve soldiers had been caught in the attack, while the remaining four fled in different directions without hesitation.

"This is strange. If it's a five-colored ghost, shouldn't it be a Buddhist temple?"

He dismounted and walked towards the Taoist temple, where a dilapidated plaque at the entrance came into view.

Jinting Taoist Temple

Yang He narrowed his eyes. Wasn't Dao Xing Tian Zun's Daoist temple Jin Ting Mountain?
Isn't the story about the Five-Colored Ghost?

It's the Nine-Bend Ghost!!

"So, the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation has already begun? The first victim was Dao Xing Tian Zun? And the Taoist temple in front of us is the crime scene?"

(End of this chapter)