From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 228: Ghost Hunting and the Depths of the Desolate Sea

Ghost slaves are demon servants commonly used in various places in the East China Sea. Because they are everywhere in the Taodu Mountain and the desolate sea, they can be easily trained into demon servants.

Therefore, there are often ghost-catching ships in the desolate sea to catch ghosts and monsters, just like when Yu Shuyang asked Li Zhen to solve the problem of lack of manpower.

Li Zhen asked him to find the Zhu family, because the Zhu family was good at refining water silk wind-catching nets, and had opened up six islands in Taodu Mountain, and was involved in things like catching ghost slaves and catching wind servants.

Speaking of which, with the location of Hushan Island in the desolate sea, it is even more convenient to capture ghost slaves. Yu Shuyang originally thought so too, and even prepared the soul-guiding banner.

However, because of the golden light from his good deeds, even if he took away all the golden energy outside the island, the ghosts and monsters did not dare to come to the island to cause trouble after dark. Every night, Yu Shuyang could only sigh and watch the ghosts.

Moreover, there are no ships or boats on Hushan Island. If Yu Shuyang wants to leave the island, he has to use his magical power of traveling or borrow the Zhu family's boat.

This time, Yao Jihua accompanied her uncle to the desolate sea to catch ghosts. Yu Shuyang was envious when he heard about it and wanted to go with them to take a look.

Originally, Yao Jihua would not allow it. Ghosts and monsters would not be afraid of Yin De Jin Guang. If she took him to catch ghost slaves, she would not be able to catch a single ghost hair.

Yu Shuyang also had a way. Although the nine-petal golden lotus in his spiritual heart had not yet grown, he had just obtained a set of Sweeping Cloud Fairy Clothes that had completed the thirty-six levels of forbidden magic. Wearing them was just right to block the golden light of good deeds.

This Sweeping Cloud Fairy Robe is dark blue in color, without any decoration on the garment, except for a longevity pattern with a white background and red lines on the collar, cuffs, and hem.

The Taoist crown is a fishtail crown made of five-yang gold, and the fishtail is embedded with: dust-avoiding beads, poison-avoiding beads, water-avoiding beads, fire-avoiding beads, wind-calming beads, and cooling beads.

The shoes are Bagua Buyun shoes, which are not made of cotton, linen, silk or wool, but of silk spun from the stems of pure lotus flowers, which are then spun and woven into cloth.

"I didn't expect you to be such a handsome Taoist priest. If I take you to Dongling Island for a tour, I wonder how many sisters will throw flowers at you."

Yao Jihua looked at Yu Shuyang and couldn't help teasing him. Dongyi women have always been proactive and generous, not bound by culture and etiquette. When they see a man they like, they will throw flowers at him.

However, Yu Shuyang is indeed handsome now, and his human form is also similar to the handsome man in his previous life. When he puts on the three pieces of robes, he looks like a handsome young Taoist priest.

All I could see was that he looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a body as slender as a green onion. He didn't look like a sickly young girl who couldn't bear the clothes. Instead, he was growing taller, like a young bamboo shoot emerging from a pole.

Her face was as pale as jade, her eyebrows were dark and her eyes were like autumn water, she had a square mouth under her nose, her ears were pear-shaped, and she wore a fishtail crown on her head. Her hair hung down from the back of her head, as black as lacquer, and the ends of her hair hung down to her waist.

He wore a gold necklace around his neck and dressed in a dark green fairy robe that did not reveal a single trace of precious light. He held a chicken-oil yellow Ganoderma lucidum Ruyi in his hand and wore green-gray Bagua Buyun shoes.

Yu Shuyang chuckled after hearing this, then cast a spell to use his immortal robe to cover up the golden light of his whole body, and said, "Miss Yao, I'm going to open your eyes this time."

Then, one demon and one man went down Tiger Mountain and headed straight for the west bank. At that time, Jingchu Wei was carving wood to make a statue of Dang Kang, and five bee demons were watching them.

Yao Jihua took out a walnut-carved ship and threw it into the sea. Then she chanted the Big and Small Ruyi Mantra, and the ship became a hundred times larger and floated on the sea.

Yu Shuyang's eyes widened again as he looked at it, and he hurriedly asked, "Miss Yao, did you personally refine this nuclear boat, or do you sell it?"

"My family refined the nuclear boat ourselves, but it is only used by our clansmen and is not sold to outsiders. If you want to buy a sea boat, I can point you to two places.

There are only two companies doing shipping business in the East China Sea. One is the East China Sea Dragon Palace. You can go to the sea markets in various waters to buy.

There is another one, which is Jinlu Island next to Kuhai Cliff Island, where the Fu family treasure ship is for sale. It is an exclusive business on Shandu Island.

The two sea vessels have their own characteristics. The dragon clan's sea vessels are mostly made of snail shells and clam shells, which have the advantage of being good at diving underwater.
The downside is that you have to buy a demon servant to drive the ship. His ship must be driven by dragon energy, and the rituals and refinements also require dragon magic. Later maintenance and upgrades are inseparable from the sea city dragon clan.

The Fu family's sea vessels are made of large wood and are good at sailing on the water. The advantage is that when you buy a ship, it comes with the method of refining a treasure ship, and you can refine it yourself later.

The downside is that they are expensive. The cheapest ship in the Dragon Clan's Haishi Market only costs 80,000 Fu coins, while the Fu Clan's Haishi ship costs at least 450,000 Fu coins."

While urging the nuclear boat, Yao Jihua introduced it to Yu Shuyang. She has been obsessed with ships since she was a child and becomes excited when talking about it. Now all the Yao family's ships have been manually improved by her.

Yu Shuyang listened thoughtfully. At present, he was only wealthy on paper. The produce from Zhitian was supplied to his family's noodle shop. The problem was that Yu Mu did not pay him the money.

The last time we purchased the eight million talisman coins from Yatou Mountain, it was paid with the ten thousand kilograms of grass that Li Zhen took away. Now the money for the purchase of Hushan Island is still paid by Mu Lingge, so this bill still needs to be settled with grass.

Thinking of this, Yu Shuyang couldn't help but sigh. No matter how he calculated the accounts, he seemed to be quite rich. How come he didn't have much money in his hands yet?
If he hadn't been able to eat the wind to fill his stomach, would he have starved to death long ago?
"Little Taoist priest, you look so miserable, are you short of money? If you are really short of money, I can also teach you some ways to get rich quickly.

Judging from your current appearance, you will probably be able to transform into a human in the future. We have several widowed sisters on our island who will probably be willing to do so."

Seeing that the little Taoist priest had a bitter face and did not respond, Yao Jihua took great pains to explain, and then made a joke half teasingly and half jokingly.

Just by looking at the immortal robes that the little Taoist priest was wearing, one could tell that he was not poor and destitute, so she made a joke about it. If he was really poor, she would not have said that.

"Miss Yao, a widow is more important than a young girl. If you want to find a husband, I will definitely agree." Yu Shuyang retorted.

Yao Jihua chuckled when she heard this. She didn't look like a young lady from the inner boudoir of Kyushu. She had the straightforward and bold style of a foreign girl.

"Forget it. You look like a magnet for attention. I don't want to be a jealous woman for the rest of my life."

While sailing along the way, Yu Shuyang and Yao Jihua chatted and laughed with each other, and discussed the Five Virtues. One of them saved the dead and accumulated good karma, while the other was kind and harmonious and gathered blessings.

The walnut boat was sailing on the desolate sea. There was a farming elephant spirit on the bow. It was the soul garment left behind after the elephant died of old age. It could also be said to be the seven souls remaining in the corpse.

The farming elephant spirit automatically drove the walnut boat to find Uncle Yao Jihua's ship. There was also a farming elephant spirit on his ship.

As the nuclear boat went deeper into the desolate sea, the color of the sea water was visibly turning darker, and a cold wind blew over the water, with new dead souls floating in the wind.

It was as if there was a passage in the sky, constantly transporting the souls of the dead here, and then being blown into the desolate sea by gusts of cold wind.

When Yu Shuyang saw this scene, he couldn't help but think of the Styx in the Xuanming Underworld, as if the underworld passage he had cultivated was the same.

By using the soul-guiding banner to activate the Xuan and Huang Qi, the wandering ghosts are drawn into the Styx, and through the cleansing and soaking of the Styx, the evil spirits are removed, and they are transformed into pure and clear ghosts, or even into monsters.

Here in the desolate sea, newly dead souls are blown into the water, and are eaten by ghosts and monsters at night. The remaining ones sense a breath of death from the underworld before dawn and turn into new ghosts and monsters.

The sacred peach tree on Taodu Mountain does not lead ghosts into the underworld. Instead, it connects to the lowest level of the Nine Netherworlds, where all the sinners are imprisoned.

Only on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year, the Ghost Gate connected to the sacred peach tree will open wide, and ghosts from the nine underworlds can come to the world of the living through it, and ghosts from the desolate sea can also enter the nine underworlds.

The two peach gods, Shentu and Yulei, were solely responsible for guarding the sacred peach tree from harm, and for protecting the guilty spirits in Hell from escaping once the gates of Hell opened. The further the boat traveled, the more ghostly the scenery on the desolate sea became. There were mountains of piled bones and skulls, trees grown from bones, and even dark mountains like the Peach and Willow Blessing, where ghosts gathered.

At this point, Yao Jihua stopped joking and took out a bone flute carved from ivory, ready to be on guard at any time.

"Since you have accumulated good karma, why don't you take out the soul-attracting treasure? We are now in the depths of the desolate sea, and ghosts may emerge at any time."

Yao Jihua hurriedly reminded that she had just asked Gengxiang's spiritual consciousness to steer the boat to meet up with her uncle, and she did not notice the direction the nuclear boat was heading, and it actually came to the depths of the desolate sea.

When capturing ghost slaves on the desolate sea, one must also be prepared to be captured by old ghosts. Therefore, ghost-catching ships are mostly on the outskirts of the desolate sea, or in several ghost realms, and do not go deep into the desolate sea.

Yao Jihua couldn't help but look at Yu Shuyang a few more times. She didn't know if it was because of her good luck or because she left her uncle halfway and lacked help. Anyway, the current situation was a mixed bag.

The good side is that there is someone on her boat who has accumulated good karma, so she doesn't have to worry even if she travels through the desolate sea. The bad side is that her uncle must have been captured by the old ghost and thrown into the depths of the desolate sea.

Yao Jihua calmed herself down, told Yu Shuyang all her guesses, and then hurriedly asked Yu Shuyang for help to go with her to rescue her uncle.

Yu Shuyang nodded after hearing this. He had long wanted to lead a group of ghosts to the Xuanming underworld, but the golden light of good deeds had frightened the ghosts and monsters and they did not dare to go to the island.

However, out of caution, he still asked, "What is your cultivation rank? What is your uncle's cultivation rank? How many people are there in your group?"

Currently, Yu Shuyang is at the early eighth level. Even if he has the Soul-Guiding Banner and the Golden Light of Yin De, powerful weapons against ghosts and monsters, he still has to consider the consequences if he is surrounded by ghosts and monsters.

"I'm in the early seventh rank, my uncle is in the late sixth rank, and there are three other people of the same clan on the ship. One has the same level of cultivation as me, and the other two are about the same as you."

Yao Jihua did not hesitate and directly explained the whole situation. Although she didn't know what Yu Shuyang was worried about, she cooperated quite well.

Yu Shuyang put away the Wuzhiyaocao sword, and took out the soul-guiding banner from the magic bag. He sank his mind into the Xuanming underworld and drew the five Xuanyin waters into the banner.

Normally, only Xuan and Huang Qi are used to save the dead. Now, if we want to deal with old ghosts or fifth-grade ghost immortals, we have to rely on the full power of Xuanming and the underworld.

In particular, he planted Ruomu on the north bank of the Black Water River. Now the clear water gathers in the blue sky, reflecting the starry sky and the Milky Way, which can be used to borrow power for reincarnation.

The nuclear boat made many twists and turns and finally arrived at an island made of bones. On the island, skeletons were piled up like trees. On the pale trees, there were black crows and ghosts, each with flaming eyes.

Another nuclear boat was docked at the shore, and it didn't look like it had been captured. Yao Jihua cast a spell to collect the two nuclear boats.

Yu Shuyang jumped onto the island, turned around and said to Yao Jihua, "Why don't you wait here? I'll go up to the island alone and see if the ghosts can do anything to me.

If things go wrong, we can still have a way out and go find reinforcements. What do you think?"

After listening to this, Yao Jihua thought about it for a long time. She cultivated the benevolent and harmonious spirit of Zuo Yu, so she had no shortage of ways to protect herself and her life. Moreover, she also had the purple spirit of fortune and luck, so she could always turn danger into safety.

However, fighting against the enemy is not possible, and good fortune does not appear out of thin air. It is often because the people around you fight to the death to protect you that you can turn danger into safety.

"Then I'll wait here. I can't let you take risks alone. I'll cast a spell to lend you a purple cloud of auspicious energy for protection."

After Yao Jihua finished speaking, she took out a grain of rice from the basket in her hand and shot it towards Yu Shuyang's head. The rice bead scattered like powder and turned into a purple auspicious cloud.

The basket of pearl rice she carried was magical rice that had been refined in advance. It could be eaten as a meal or used in spells. It was one of the few means to deal with the enemy.

Yu Shuyang was protected by the purple auspicious clouds and did not feel any changes. He then walked towards the island holding the soul-guiding banner.

Through various signs, we can guess that there should be a crow-shaped ghost living on this island. This crow is naturally sensitive to death and is extremely vicious among ghosts, even more powerful than black tigers and black cats.

People often regard crows as unlucky, especially those who have elderly or sick people at home. When they hear crows croaking in the house, they will think it is a sign of death.

Therefore, the cries of crow-shaped ghosts carry a force of death, and they can even drive the deadly fire of the underworld and are not afraid of the sun and sunlight.

Yu Shuyang first drew the power of the Yellow Banner and Leopard Tail stars. He used the Xuanyin Biluo and Ruomu Qingshui energies to manifest the power of the Yellow Banner star, transforming it into a green and yellow tiger.

He also used the energy of the Xuanyin Mingyue to manifest the power of the Leopard Tail Star and transformed into a leopard with yellow and white fur.

With two star gods accompanying him, he was not afraid of sudden attacks, and he had a set of Sweeping Cloud Fairy Clothes on him, so he was not afraid of being killed by secret spells.

He took off the golden ring from his neck and held it in his hand, taking all necessary precautions before heading deeper into the island.

Looking at the crow ghosts hanging on the bone trees everywhere, he didn't think that the evil spirits on the island were unaware that someone had broken in.

So they walked slowly all the way, but they never saw any monsters or ghosts. There were only trees full of white bones and black crow beasts on the trees.

About half an hour later, Yu Shuyang finally reached the center of the Bone Island and saw a city wall and gate made of bones.

I saw the words "Guyuan" written in ghost script on the closed city gate, and two tomb beasts were squatting at the city gate, one looked like a wild boar and the other looked like an elk.

The two beasts were half clay and half ghosts. When they saw Yu Shuyang coming, they both laughed and the wild boar tomb beast took a step forward.

"Hello, Master. Are you also here to attend our Lonely Garden wedding banquet? Do you have an invitation or wedding card?"

Yu Shuyang was stunned by the question. He came to find his uncle on behalf of Yao Jihua, so where did he get the invitation or wedding card? He was speechless for a moment.

At this time, the elk tomb beast came over and pulled the wild boar tomb beast aside. The two tomb beasts whispered to each other a few times, and the wild boar came over again with a smile.

"Master, please come in. A virtuous person like you can have a couple of glasses of wedding wine even without an invitation."

As the saying goes: Don't hit a smiling person. Yu Shuyang went to the City of Bones with the soul-guiding banner.

The tomb beast behind him said again: "Brother, is it okay to let him in like this?"

"Don't worry, the city lord will definitely like this look."

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