One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 246 Chapter 246: The Sky Suddenly Darkens

Zhao Fuyun told He Jindou about his idea, and the two discussed the details with each other and made some contingency plans.

But Zhao Fuyun knew that he could make preparations, but Master Xun would be the one to take responsibility for any unexpected events.

Time quickly came to the evening of the next day.

Zhao Fuyun and the snake demon Suifeng came to a mountain a hundred miles outside Xutang Pass.

"Where did Daoist Fellow Fuyun go that day? There is really no trace left, as if he had disappeared into thin air. If I had not actually seen Daoist Fellow Fuyun, I would have thought that Daoist Fellow Fuyun was just an illusion in my dream."

The snake demon Suifeng and Zhao Fuyun were both on this unnamed mountain at this time.

Zhao Fuyun was standing on the rocks on the top of the mountain, while the snake demon was floating in the air with the wind.

At this moment, he did not look tall, but rather petite. A ball of white mist gathered in the lower part of his entire snake body, covering his lower body, as if he was wearing a half-length robe made of clouds and mist.

Zhao Fuyun smiled and said, "Life is like a dream. Who knows if we are not in a dream now?"

"Well said. I once met an elder who slept in his own dreams for many years. Whenever I approached him, I would enter his dream. I could only meet him in dreams." The snake demon Suifeng said.

"Oh, there is such an elder. I would like to meet him one day." Zhao Fuyun said.

"If that day comes, I will meet him in my dream." The snake demon Suifeng agreed readily.

Zhao Fuyun once heard someone say that when someone readily agrees to something, there are only two possibilities. One is that the thing is just a small matter for the other party and can be easily accomplished. The other is that the other party has never thought about completing it at all and just agreed to it readily.

Zhao Fuyun grinned, smiling brightly, and said, "I'm really looking forward to it, but that's all for the future. Now, what should we do?"

"We just need to lure them out. We are a hundred miles away from Xutang Pass, and those grass-roots soldiers will not be able to see us." The snake demon Suifeng said.

"At night, the yin energy is strong. I think those grass-roots soldiers will be even more powerful. Is it okay for us to go at this time?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"At night, all the grass-roots soldiers in Xutang Pass will transform into humans, and it will be difficult to distinguish which are the grass-roots soldiers and which are humans. That's why Xu Hongyu was careless and led the grass-roots soldiers out of Xutang Pass. As long as we kill Xu Hongyu, everything will be fine." The snake demon Suifeng said.

"Where to lead?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Let's lead them here." said the snake demon Suifeng.

"What if he doesn't come?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"If he doesn't come, we will kill him directly." The snake demon Sui Feng said coldly, murderous: "Those who treat ordinary people like cattle and sheep are not worthy of death. The sooner they die, the sooner they can rescue the people of Xutang Pass. As far as I know, there is a person's soul trapped in the body of every grass-roots soldier, and they cannot escape."

After hearing his words, Zhao Fuyun's heart was filled with murderous intent. He felt that this man must die. If he didn't die, he would toss and turn, unable to concentrate and sleep well.

But at this moment, he felt a vague sense of danger in his heart, as if he was entangled in an invisible rope, which seemed to tie him up.

He stood there without moving, suppressing the boiling murderous intent towards Xu Hongyu in his heart, and said with anger on his face: "Just kill him directly. Such a person should not be allowed to do evil in the world."

After Zhao Fuyun finished speaking, he stood up and turned into a ray of fire. He rolled up from the top of the mountain into the sky, turning into a fireball, leaving a long trail of fire cloud behind him.

Seeing that Zhao Fuyun couldn't wait any longer, the snake demon Suifeng couldn't help but smile.

He floated in the void, and clouds and mist quickly gathered around his body, wrapping him up and making him invisible.

Zhao Fuyun was thinking about his plan in his mind.

On behalf of the Great Zhou court, Xu Hongyu has most likely used human souls to practice magic and refine treasures, which is not allowed under the laws of the Great Zhou. Although some people have often done it secretly over the years, no one has done it openly.

From He Jindou, Zhao Fuyun learned that Xu Hongyu actually had another identity, that is, the identity of a secret inspector of the Great Zhou Inspection Office.

His grass-roots soldiers can be deployed everywhere to monitor the local areas. They are an important part of the Zhou Dynasty court in maintaining and monitoring local peace.

From this he knew that someone was trying to get rid of Xu Hongyu.

However, Xu Hongyu himself might have been indulging his wife in refining dream fruits in her dreams, which was a violation of the laws of the Great Zhou.

There is a law in the Great Zhou that forbids using human spirit, soul, flesh and blood to refine treasures and practice magic. Violators will be beheaded or thrown into prison, depending on the severity of the offense.

It is easier to practice with the support of the imperial court, and he is also the one who monitors others, so it is inevitable that he cannot bear the loneliness and slow practice, and wants to find shortcuts.

Zhao Fuyun originally wanted He Jindou to find the chief official in the local inspection office, but He Jindou said it would be better not to. He said that the Great Zhou Inspection Office seemed to have great powers, but in fact it also had great powers. It could monitor local monks and had the power to arrest and detain people.

However, the Inspection Office was already a mixed bag of good and bad people from the very beginning when it was established.

There are local cultivators, independent cultivators, and cultivators from sects, so people from all kinds of forces are entangled together. It's like a sieve in here. If you want to arrest someone, the other party will get the news quickly.

So He Jindou said that if they went to look for the chief of the local inspection department, Xu Hongyu would know before they even reached Xutang Pass.

Moreover, Xu Hongyu is from the Inspection Office, which is not difficult for the local cultivators to know.

It is said that Xu Hongyu had contact with a prince in the capital.

No one knows how this news got out, maybe it was him or someone else.

Anyway, there must be a purpose. If it is him, it is to add a talisman for himself. If it is someone else, it is to help him add a potential enemy.

What Zhao Fuyun is thinking now is to detain Xu Hongyu first. At that time, the people behind the snake monster will surely come out to kill him. This will be a good opportunity to see who else is behind the snake monster.

Very simple and direct way.

When he told his plan to Master Xun, Master Xun just said "yes".

Zhao Fuyun transformed into a huge fireball and arrived at Xutang Pass with great momentum. Suddenly, it exploded. In an instant, in the evening sunlight, a rain of fire fell towards the city.

And in the city, a roar sounded at the right time.

"How dare you come here? I'm going to kill you."

A man rushed out from the city gate mansion, holding a pagoda in his hand. He rushed up to the sky and threw it with his hand. The soul-locking and demon-suppressing pagoda flew out and turned into a yellow light flying above Zhao Fuyun's head. The tower body quickly appeared in the void, and the moment it appeared, it would lock the soul and suppress the demon.

Zhao Fuyun sensed a strong sense of danger, so his body weakened and turned into a rainbow light, flying away into the distance.

However, his escape was not continuous. After escaping for a distance, he would reveal his figure again. It seemed that his escape technique consumed a lot of energy and he could only escape for a distance, so he needed to keep revealing his figure and stop casting spells.

Xu Hong chased after the person in front again and again, as if he could immediately put the person in front into the tower.

Just after Xu Hongyu left Xutang Pass, a figure walked in from outside the pass. He was wearing a Bagua Taoist robe, holding a finger dustpan in his hand, wearing a black Taoist hat, and had a faint smile on his face.

He wanted to go in and get the "command token" of the military commander of Xutang Pass.

He couldn't help but sigh that his plan of several years had finally come true, and he couldn't help feeling a little elated.

He knew very well why Xu Hongyu rushed out of Xutang Pass so irrationally, because he had eaten the dream fruit, which, although it could improve his cultivation, would also make him extreme, impulsive, irritable, and irrational.

That's why he was easily led out.

In Xutang Pass, there are two things he wants to obtain. One is the "talisman" of the Grass-Headed Soldier, and the other is to enter the secret house of spiritual herbs and pick a nightmare grass, which will be of great help to his practice.

The "talisman" of this grass-headed soldier can be refined into an extremely powerful magic weapon, and he is even confident that he can refine it into a spiritual treasure. He walked on the street and found that those grass-headed soldiers were in the process of transforming from straw men into real people, so he quickened his pace.

No one saw him, because he was walking on the street like he was walking in a dream.

He arrived in front of the city gate without any hesitation, then passed through the gap and soon arrived in front of a secret room.

He knew that this was where the Grassroots Soldier's 'talisman' was placed.

That "talisman" is certainly not a real token or military talisman, but a straw man. It is said that it was made from the body of the king of the Straw Man Kingdom. It has been placed here for worship for many years, and every military lord has used it to control the straw men in the city.

He believed that as long as he put in some effort, he would be able to refine it into a spiritual treasure.

Of course there was no gap in the secret room, but when he saw the door, a mist appeared in his eyes, and the door seemed to be in his dream, so he naturally passed through the gap in the door of the secret room.

The moment he entered, he froze, as if he had entered a snake den and his whole body was numb, or as if he had fallen into an ice cellar and his whole body was cold.

Because he saw that there was someone inside.

There are two people.

A woman was holding a stick of incense in her hand, worshiping a straw man on the shrine.

The woman was wearing a black robe, with her black hair draped over her back, and an extremely eye-catching red crown on her head.

He did not see the female cultivator's face because his gaze quickly shifted to the side, where there was a person with a silver glow all over his body.

No, this is not a human, but a silver-armored corpse puppet.

This is, this is the silver-armored corpse puppet that Zhao Fuyun brought. How did it get here?

His mind was a little confused for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, black whirlpools were seen surging in the eyes of the silver-armored corpse puppet.

He was frightened.

He wanted to retreat and exit out of this door.

But his back hit the door of the secret room.

He was anxious and quickly adjusted his mindset.

"The world is like a dream, everything is in my dream..., the world is like a dream, everything is in my dream..."

He thought of this in his mind, wanting to turn all of this into a dream.

However, the eyes of the silver-armored corpse puppet firmly absorbed his soul and thoughts.

He found himself sinking deeper and deeper into the whirlpool, and slowly, the whirlpool seemed to have become a dream for him.

Part of his consciousness told him that this was not a dream, but a spell cast by the enemy. Another part of his consciousness told him that this was all just his nightmare, and that he was the one who had the nightmare. He should relax and get some sleep.

After the female cultivator finished her worship, she stretched out her finger, bit her fingertip, and smeared the blood on the facial features of the straw man.

The straw man's face suddenly became ferocious, but after the female cultivator's finger touched its forehead, its expression slowly calmed down and became docile.

At this time, all the straw men in the city looked towards the Chengguan Mansion.

After a while, it turned back again, and the straw man's body slowly turned into people.

Men and women, old and young, began walking in the streets and alleys of the city.

At this moment, the female cultivator in the secret room stretched out her hand, and the straw man on the shrine seemed to have life. It jumped onto her palm and quickly shrank into a pocket-sized straw man.

The Taoist leaning against the door had his eyes out of focus.

After a long while, he stood up in a daze.

He just stretched out his hand, and the secret door suddenly twisted, as if in a dream, becoming unreal, so he walked through, and the female cultivator and the silver-armored corpse puppet followed him through.

After they walked through, the door immediately recovered from the illusory distortion.

They walked through the corridors and passed by maids one by one. These were not real people, but grass-roots soldiers. Instead of stopping them, they saluted the maids.

The female cultivator came to a house with a temple structure in the mansion, where there was an altar.

The altar was empty; originally there should have been a pagoda there.

The tower is called the Soul-Locking and Demon-Suppressing Tower.

But now it's been taken away.

After the female cultivator looked around, the silver-armored corpse puppet that had been following her came to the left corner on the south side and stood still, motionless.

She found a chair and sat down in the corner on the south right.

On the altar, there was a painting of an evil ghost with its mouth open, facing the door, as if it was trying to suck all the positive energy in the world, or as if it was struggling to die after being unable to breathe.

The other sides of the altar are engraved with densely packed runes, the lines of which finally converge on the altar, where there is a carved stone mirror.

There are two words engraved on the stone mirror - Yongmi.

The Taoist in Bagua robes stretched out his hand and pressed on the stone mirror. Ripples appeared in the void. In his eyes, this ancestral temple seemed to have fallen into his dreams.

Then he was seen diving into the stone mirror as if jumping into a well, and in a flash he was lost in it.

At this moment, the sky outside darkened rapidly, as if there was a black curtain covering the sky.

No matter how dark the sky is, there can be no no light at all, not to mention that it is not completely dark. There is still residual light between the sky and the earth, and it is time for people on earth to turn on the lights.

But at this moment, the sky and the earth suddenly became so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

Then, an excited voice sounded in the darkness.

"I really didn't expect that a golden elixir would come to Tiandu Mountain. It's such a pleasant surprise!"

"And he is a newly promoted Jindan. I never thought that I, Ye Xing, would have the opportunity to participate in the cause of killing two Tiandu Mountain Jindan in a row. I, Ye Xing, will eventually make a big career and a big name."

The man who called himself Night Star had a voice full of irrepressible excitement and restlessness.

　I originally wanted to stop at 2,000 words, but when I reached 2,400, I decided to reach 3,000. But when I saw that it had reached 3,000, I thought, why not reach 4,000.

　　I didn’t tell you about it. Of course, it was a sudden decision in my mind to write it by hand without telling me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)