Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 515 Plum Blossom Taoist
The coffin is not big, and its shape is not that of an ordinary coffin. Instead, it is square in shape, with carved beams and painted rafters, and images of evil beasts guarding the tomb and five ghosts carrying the coffin.

If there wasn't a big word "甸" written on it, Xiao Ran probably wouldn't have recognized that this thing was a coffin.

"No wonder!!"

Xiao Ran scratched his head, a look of sudden enlightenment.

Even Liumu, who was standing by, said with a relieved look, "No wonder even the underworld couldn't find the trace of Plum Blossom Taoist. It turns out that he hid himself here."

"It seems that this trap was set up to open the tomb of Plum Blossom Taoist. If you don't understand the magic passed down by Plum Blossom Taoist, you will never be able to find Plum Blossom Taoist's coffin."

Liumu looked back at Xiao Ran and asked, "What should we do now? This coffin is neither deep nor shallow. Unless you go down and fish it out, those spirit demons will tear your soul to pieces if you go down."

Xiao Ran felt embarrassed for a moment when he heard this.

The Plum Blossom Taoist had given him a big problem.

According to Liumu, those spiritual demons below cannot be killed or harmed, and can even tear apart his soul from a long distance, so this problem has no solution.

But on second thought, he felt that it was not right. If this question was a dead end, then why would the Plum Blossom Taoist pass down the four methods in one lineage, and why would he leave here a way to find his coffin?

Therefore, the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it, and the answer must lie with oneself.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran sat down cross-legged and let his thoughts race.

[Record of the Exhumation of Corpses], [Soul-crossing Sutra], [Soul-breaking Sword], and [Record of Clearing Wrongs], four subjects were placed in front of him, and a gleam of light flashed in Xiao Ran's eyes.

Finally, his eyes turned and his attention was focused on the Record of Clearing Wrongs.

Among the four skills, only the Record of Cleansing Wrongs is related to one's own soul.

This Record of Clearing Wrongs contains a set of methods for soul cultivation.

There are three levels in total, namely, soul purification, rebirth, and body shaping.

Soul Purification: Remove impurities from one's own soul, making it pure and flawless.

This is also the stage that Xiao Ran has cultivated to now.
But when it came to returning to the womb, Xiao Ran only had a vague understanding of it.

Trace back to the soul and fetus, seize the opportunity of yin and yang, swallow the nature to nourish life, and reverse the primordial spirit.

Xiao Ran didn't understand the meaning of it, but now, whether he understood it or not, he had to try it.

It's not that he didn't think about calling Liumu to ask for advice on the matter, but Liumu was a rebellious guy by nature, and Xiao Ran didn't trust him, so he would rather figure it out on his own than rashly believe his lies.

Xiao Ran closed his eyes, calmed his thoughts, and entered a meditative state according to the methods in "Xiyuanlu".

However, as time passed, the spirit demon below had already climbed up and began to try to tear the paper net blocking it.

Although, with the Tongyou Seal as a suppressant, these spirit demons cannot escape for a while, but their number is increasing. According to this situation, I am afraid that even with the [Tongyou Seal], they cannot be suppressed for too long.

"I say, it's too late for you to try to figure it out at the last minute. Hurry up and think of a solution, or just run away and come back later."

Seeing this, Liumu started to urge them.

After all, relying solely on these hidden banknotes, I'm afraid it won't last long.

Even Liumu himself did not want to come into contact with these spiritual demons. He only had half of his soul, and if it was lost here, it would not be worth it.

Xiao Ran opened his eyes. Just as Liumu said, cramming at the last minute probably wouldn't work. Time was too short for him to comprehend things slowly.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran carefully looked at the spirit demons below. Seeing that they tried to break out again and again, but were suppressed again and again, he felt determined.

"Let's give it a try!" Xiao Ran stood up suddenly.

"What??"

Seeing this, Liumu took two steps back.

Xiao Ran turned his head to look at Liu Mu: "I'm worried about leaving you up there, why don't we..."

"Why don't you let me go back to the gourd first!"

Liumu's eyelids couldn't stop twitching, especially when he saw the indescribable gleam in the corner of Xiao Ran's eyes, Liumu suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"No need to bother!"

Xiao Ran suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Mu's arm: "Come on, walk with me."

"Don't!!"

Liumu still wanted to struggle, but Xiao Ran was the one who controlled his body. Just a thought made Liumu's body involuntarily carry Xiao Ran on his back. Then he took a step forward, jumped from the Tower of Babel, and jumped straight down.

"You are crazy, you are looking for death!!"

Liumu let out a strange howl, but could only watch his body quickly jump over Xiao Ran's seal and fall rapidly into the abyss.

Just as his body rushed into the seal, bursts of shrill screams came from all directions.

The scream was like a knife. Even though Xiao Ran used half of Yin and Yang at the first moment, he was unable to block it. Suddenly, he felt a tearing sensation as if he was being cut by thousands of knives coming from all over his body.

Fortunately, at this time, Xiao Ran took out another thing from the space.

An oil-paper umbrella.

The umbrella opened, and in an instant a feminine glow covered Xiao Ran and Liu Mu from the umbrella, blocking out the noisy and shrill screams.

"Huh?? You still have a treasure like this?"

"How dare you go to Liangshan without a bit of courage? But I don't have much Yin De in my Yin De umbrella, so I don't know how long it will last."

Xiao Ran's words were half true and half false. He really had no idea how long this Yin De Umbrella could last, but the Yin De inside it was not a small amount. 130,000 Yin De was enough to support it for a while.

If the situation was not urgent, Xiao Ran would actually be reluctant to use this treasure. After all, this was the good karma accumulated by the old lady in Xitai Mountain over most of her life. How could he squander it at will?

But now Xiao Ran couldn't care less about so many things and had to find Plum Blossom Taoist first.

The two of them fell rapidly and reached the location of the coffin in a moment. Liumu raised his hand and threw Xiao Ran over. Then Xiao Ran threw out the [Locust Hook] to hook Liumu and quickly pulled him over.

It was just such a short moment, but the expression on Liumu's face was already very painful. As long as he left the protection of the Yin De Umbrella, the screams of the Lingmo outside alone would be enough to make him drink a pot of wine.

"Hurry up, there are more and more spirit-transforming demons."

Xiao Ran nodded, looked at the coffin at his feet, reached out and felt around on it for a while, and discovered that he had no idea what material the coffin was made of. It felt like wood, but when he tapped it with his fingers, it felt like metal.

The key point is that the coffin is square, but it is a whole piece. He searched around the coffin but couldn't find any gaps.

"Could it be that there is another mechanism?"

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran had to start examining the coffin in front of him again.

It was at this time that Liumu seemed to have noticed something and looked around nervously. As the number of spirit demons around him increased, Liumu began to feel a little worried.

"Or else, you can just put me back into the gourd first."

"Stop talking nonsense and take it!"

Xiao Ran threw the Yin De Umbrella to Liumu and asked him to stand in front and hold it. He looked carefully at the coffin in front of him. Xiao Ran tried to use backtracking to find a way to open the coffin, but it was of no use.

The ability to trace back is very strong, but the coffin has been here for who knows how many years, and there is no trace at all.

However, Xiao Ran noticed the picture of five ghosts carrying a coffin on the coffin.

"Could it be... Five Ghosts Moving?"

There are eight magic techniques in the Zhou family's Soul Crossing Sutra, namely, the technique of controlling ghosts, paper flower heart lanterns, five ghosts moving, the wrong path in the underworld, the underworld money to overcome disasters, the underworld treasure to communicate with the gods, the King of Hell knocking on the door, and the appearance of the Yin gods.

The only thing Xiao Ran had never used was the Five Ghosts Moving Technique.

Use the Five Ghosts Moving Method to move this thing out? ?

But on second thought, Xiao Ran felt something was wrong. In this place, it would be useless even if five ghosts came, let alone five ghost messengers.

Just as Xiao Ran was thinking about it, he heard Liumu shouting from behind: "Xiao Ran, I think it's better for us to leave first. I always feel something is wrong."

"Something's wrong!"

Xiao Ran looked back, and his heart sank. He saw those spirit demons floating quietly around, staring at them motionlessly.

“What are these things for??”

"I don't know. I'm not familiar with this thing, but it's definitely not a good thing. If you have a way, open the coffin. If not, let's leave quickly!"

Liumu urged again.

Speaking of things like the Spirit Demon in the past, Liumu would not have taken them seriously. Even if his real self came, he could destroy them with just a flick of his fingers.

But the problem is that he is just a fragment of thought now, and he has no ability to resist these spirit demons, not to mention that the scene before him has exceeded Liumu's understanding of spirit demons.

In my impression, these spiritual demons are a group of brainless and unintelligent creatures, even worse than the wild cats and dogs in reality.

But now they were all standing there quietly. This kind of out-of-specification behavior inevitably shocked Liumu, and he even doubted in his heart whether these spiritual demons had been tamed.

Of course, this is definitely impossible.

It’s like no matter how good a dog trainer is, he can’t train a Husky to the same level as a Border Collie.

"Since it's not tamed, then... someone is controlling it, but where is the third person in this place besides me and Xiao Ran?"

Thinking of this, Liumu couldn't help but lower his head and look at the coffin at his feet.

Suddenly, an idea flashed through Liumu's mind, and his expression suddenly changed: "Little..."

The moment the words came out, there was a loud "boom" in their ears. The spirit demons surrounding the coffin emitted a strange audio frequency at the same time, making Xiao Ran and Liu Mu's ears buzz.

"Buzz..."

This audio ignored the protection of the Yin De Umbrella and made the two of them feel dazed and dizzy. What was even more strange was that the stone carvings on the coffin in front of them seemed to come alive.

Five little ghosts stood up from the coffins and rushed towards them with their fangs and claws bared, carrying a coffin behind them, and went straight through the bodies of the two men.

The moment the coffin passed through the two people, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a blackness in front of his eyes, and his soul seemed to be pulled into the coffin and was moving forward rapidly.

It all happened very suddenly and quickly.

Xiao Ran only had time to realize that the stone carving on the coffin was actually a spell when he heard a "bang!", which seemed to be the sound of the coffin falling to the ground. "Stopped?"

Xiao Ran hesitated for a few seconds and tried to push the coffin open. As a result, with a light push, he pushed the coffin lid open effortlessly.

"Where is this?"

Xiao Ran stuck his head out of the coffin and looked out, only to see a world of green mountains and clear waters before him.

He looked up at the sky and was stunned.

I saw the sky above my head was covered with stars, the sun and the moon shone together, the Milky Way hung upside down like a waterfall, the clouds were like silk, and the green mountains were like pillars of heaven, standing tall between heaven and earth.

It is said that the world is so big that there is nothing strange.

But the scene before us is obviously not a magical creation of nature. It is more like a fairyland beyond our cognition.

With a "bang", the coffin next to it was pushed open. Liumu stuck his head out to take a look, and the shock on his face was exactly the same as Xiao Ran's just now.

"What a big deal! I didn't expect there to be a different world inside this coffin. No wonder the coffin is square. The sky is round and the earth is square. There are nine chapters of laws and orders. It's like going under the stars and under the moon. Ten thousand ghosts are hiding. It's incredible, incredible."

After Liumu finished speaking, he turned around and looked at Xiao Ran with interest: "This Taoist priest Meihua's methods are really interesting, you..."

Before Liumu finished speaking, he realized that there was something wrong with the way Xiao Ran stared at him.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"So... you look like this?"

Xiao Ran looked Liumu up and down. He was originally worried that after Liumu's soul separated from the tiger, it would be out of his control or pose a threat to him.

But now it seems that I was too worried.

At this moment, Liumu had no arms or legs, his body was as black as a coal ball, and he had only one eye on his head.

If I had to say what I was thinking...

Well, this reminded Xiao Ran that the appearance of the [Little Man in the Bottle] was quite similar to Liumu's current appearance.

"Ah!! How did I become like this??"

Liumu only noticed his changes at this time and was also surprised. Even if he had lost his soul, he would not know why he became like this? ?
"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..."

The sound of wind chimes was heard in the distance, and Xiao Ran and Liu Mu immediately became alert.

Soon a team appeared in front of the two.

Although this team was wearing human clothes, they were actually birds and beasts. At first glance, Xiao Ran thought they were a group of monsters.

The leading rooster head bowed to Xiao Ran and Liu Mu and said, "Gentlemen, my master has already prepared food and wine for you in Merlin on the other side, and specially asked me to pick you up for the banquet."

"Who is your master?"

Although Xiao Ran couldn't think of anyone else except Plum Blossom Taoist, he still had to ask one more question.

"I am the ancestor of plum blossoms."

Seeing that the rooster acknowledged that its owner was Plum Blossom Taoist, Xiao took a deep breath, grabbed a few hairs from the black six-eyed head with one hand, and sat on the sedan chair as if he was carrying a basket of eggs.

"go!"

When the rooster saw that Xiao Ran was already seated, he turned around and shouted in a low voice. The team immediately changed direction and took Xiao Ran to the mountain nearby.

On the way, Xiao Ran couldn't help but whisper to Liu Mu, "Our souls were forcibly dragged here, so there shouldn't be any problems with our bodies, right?"

"Don't worry, there will be no problem with the body. Those spirit demons won't dare to approach this coffin."

Liumu observed very carefully. There were more than tens of thousands of spirit demons outside, but they did not dare to have any improper thoughts about the coffin. Obviously, there was something special about it, but they just didn't know it.

Xiao Ran was riding in the sedan chair, which was swaying from step to step, but he felt quite comfortable. So he asked the rooster-headed steward beside him, "Where is this place? Why are the sun and the moon hanging together? Why do you all look like animals?"

"Reporting to you, sir, this is Jiri Township, the place where my master's immortal abode is located.

As for our appearance, it is our own choice. Being a human is too ugly and too tiring, so we simply changed our appearance and lived in the appearance of birds and animals.

This way, even if they had hatred for each other during their lifetime, they would not turn against each other after death because of this old grudge. "

Rooster Head gave Xiao Ran a brief introduction to the Polar Day Village.

Just as Liumu had guessed before, this place is a flat land with round sky and no night in the daytime, but all the ghosts here are not afraid of the sunlight, and even become more energetic as they stay here longer and longer.

There are seventy-two mountains here, and there is a city on each mountain, which is enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of ghosts. However, at present, the number of ghosts who can really stay here is actually no more than ten thousand people.

"Hey, this Taoist priest Plum Blossom has really established his own ghost country. Just based on this point, the underworld should not let him go." Liumu couldn't help but complain in a low voice as he listened to the rooster's introduction.

If it weren't for the sensitive identity of Meihua Taoist, who dared not expose himself easily, I'm afraid he would have already started to collect the ghosts around Qingcheng Mountain.

According to Rooster Head, this small space is big enough to accommodate tens of millions of ghosts.

Xiao Ran didn't feel anything about this, but he couldn't help feeling a little more wary.

Even though Gong Jitou praised this place as a paradise, Xiao Ran didn't think that Meihua Taoist was a good person.

As he was talking, Xiao Ran smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms.

Under a plum tree in front of them, a figure was sitting at a table, quietly waiting for them.

"Plum Blossom Taoist?"

Xiao Ran widened his eyes, trying to see the Plum Blossom Taoist's appearance clearly. After all, theoretically speaking, this Plum Blossom Taoist could be considered the founder of his sect.

However, Xiao Ran could clearly see the man's facial features, including his eyes, nose, and ears, but he could not form the slightest impression of him in his mind.

It looked one way at first glance, and seemed to be something else at second glance, or perhaps I wasn't sure if this was the face I just saw.

Xiao Ran even wanted to look back and give it a try, but after thinking about it, he gave up the idea.

After all, this is our own master, so it would be better not to show off my own skills in front of him.

Without waiting for the sedan to get closer, Xiao Ran jumped off the sedan, threw Liumu aside, and walked quickly to the figure.

He clasped his hands together, raised them above his head, and bowed forward: "Disciple Xiao Ran, I pay my respects to the Grandmaster."

As Xiao Ran finished speaking, a pair of undisguised gazes swept over him, and suddenly a strong sense of oppression enveloped Xiao Ran.

After a long while, a deep and powerful voice was heard.

"You haven't cultivated to the second level of Xiyuanlu, and your soul hasn't returned to the womb. How did you get down here?"

"I have an umbrella of Yin De, which is enough to protect me from being harmed by the spirit-transforming demon."

Xiao Ran said truthfully.

After receiving this answer, Plum Blossom Taoist nodded slightly: "That's a solution, right? Sit down first. You don't need to call me Grandmaster. In theory, you and I are equals."

Xiao Ran's face changed when he heard this, and he quickly shook his head to refuse: "Master founded the sect, just like the brilliance of the sun and the moon. It is a great fortune for me to have the blessing of Master. How dare I be on the same level as Master?"

As the saying goes, flattery can never wear out.

Even a character like Meihua Taoist, when he hears others' greetings, at least he gets a great deal of satisfaction in terms of emotional value.

However, the Plum Blossom Taoist still waved his hand and said, "Although that is true, since you have already inherited the Four Veins, you are my successor, the new Plum Blossom Taoist, and the future guardian of the Destiny. From this point of view, you are me and I am you, so we are equals."

As the guardian of heaven, Meihua Taoist had already decided on this matter.

But Taoist Meihua was unwilling to take the job, but he couldn't refuse it, so he thought of a dishonest method. He simply made up a lineage of four methods and then went into hiding.

Now both the people above and below were going crazy.

The underworld has sent ghost messengers to search for him over the years, but nothing has been found.

In the end, the Underworld had no choice but to accept reality and wait for the new Plum Blossom Taoist to appear, until Xiao Ran appeared and took over the job.

From this point of view, it was Plum Blossom Taoist who owed Xiao Ran the scapegoat, so naturally he didn't have the nerve to call him his disciple anymore.

Besides, it’s not so easy to agree to Xiao Ran’s title of “Grandmaster”.

After agreeing to this, if Xiao Ran gets into trouble in the future, will he take care of it or not? ?
So no matter from which perspective, it makes sense for Meihua Taoist to say that Xiao Ran is of the same generation as him.

Besides, Xiao Ran was of the same generation as him, which meant that he only owed him a favor.

If Xiao Ran was his junior, then he would be indebted to this junior, which would be harder to repay than a favor.

"You can just call me fellow Taoist."

Seeing that Taoist Meihua was so persistent, Xiao Ran no longer worried about this issue. He wanted to take out the gold paper that the monk gave him from the space.

But at this moment he suddenly remembered that he entered here as a soul and could not open the space.

Suddenly, an embarrassed look appeared on his face.

"Fellow Daoist, when I came here, a great monk in Fengdu City asked me to bring you a piece of gold paper. This thing is still in my physical body's hand..."

"Hahaha, it's just a pardon. There's no need to take it to heart."

Taoist Meihua seemed to have known what the gold paper was long ago and didn't take it to heart at all.

However, Liumu at the side could not help but curl his lips and say, "Boasting! Would you dare to show up without this pardon order?"

After Liumu finished speaking, he immediately covered his mouth, realized that he had said something rude, and stood up and ran away.

Seeing this, the Plum Blossom Taoist did not chase him, but calmly raised the wine glass in his hand and said: "My friend, the road has been difficult. I will drink this glass of wine first as a token of my respect."

After saying that, he drank the wine in the glass, then turned the glass upside down on the table and tapped it lightly with his fingers.

"Ding!"

Suddenly, a tremendous amount of energy spread out from the wine glass, quickly swept across the world, and then quickly returned to the wine glass.

Just when the Plum Blossom Taoist turned the wine glass over, Xiao Ran widened his eyes and saw that Liumu, who had just run away, had fallen into the wine glass. He ran forward with his head down, completely unaware that he had been trapped in the wine glass by the Plum Blossom Taoist.

(End of this chapter)