From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 401: Blockade of the City Lord's Mansion

Changliu Mountain, a stone cave halfway up the mountain.

Yu Shuyang held the Wuzhi Yaocao Sword and released the piled earth real sand from the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation. Each grain of real sand was only the size of a sesame seed and emitted pure mysterious light.

Lei Tu is one of the five earths, representing the roots and veins of the earth, and is also a symbol of the Nine Netherworlds.

There are a total of eighty-one grains of real sand in the Nine-Bend Yellow Sand Array, all of which were extracted from the Nine-Bend Yellow Sand in Youdu. It is considered one of the origins accumulated by the Tubo Ghost Kingdom.

Most of the stone chamber was filled with earth energy spiritual materials. These spiritual materials were refined by extracting earth energy. Their shapes were similar to square bricks, but their colors were bright yellow.

Eighty-one grains of real earth sand flew out, dancing back and forth above the earth's spiritual materials, like bees collecting nectar everywhere in a flower field.

As the Lei Tu Zhensha continued to refine the earth's energy, the Wu Zhi Yao Cao Sword also changed. Yellow light kept flashing on the Lingzhi Ruyi, just like fireflies in a summer night.

The magic restriction of the Wuzhiyaocao Sword actually began to increase.

At the beginning, in order to save trouble, Yu Shuyang found a shortcut when deducing the magic ban, which was to inject the evil energy of the five medicinal herbs into the Lingzhi Ruyi, which would allow the Yin-Yang Wu Ji Earth Evil Ban to grow on its own.

This method was indeed as he had envisioned. However, after refining the thirty-six evil prohibitions, no matter how much evil energy from the Five Zhi medicine was injected, it would be useless.

Since then, Yu Shuyang only carried the two magic swords on his body, nurturing them at all times, and basically never practiced magic prohibitions alone.

Ever since the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation was refined into the Five Zhi Yao Grass Sword, this magic sword has become different. It is more like a sword-shaped formation diagram than a sword weapon.

The core of the Wuzhi Yaocao Sword is the Yin-Yang Wu Ji Earth Evil Ban, which can just harmonize the Yin-Yang Five Elements of the earth. That is why it can carry the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation and the True Sand of the Earth.

Ever since he comprehended the inheritance of the Taoist Ancestor in the Taiqing Fairy Dream, his earlier ideas have been disrupted. He has rarely practiced swordsmanship, let alone refining the magic sword.

As the earth's energy was refined bit by bit, the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation slowly grew stronger, which in turn promoted the improvement of the Yin-Yang Wu Ji Earth Evil Ban. The formation diagram and the magic ban influenced each other.

In addition to the real sand of piled earth, the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Array also has two divine origins: the authority of salt water, the authority of stone, and the spiritual treasure Taiyin Cold Cicada.

Yu Shuyang has always regarded the spiritual treasure as a talisman to stabilize the formation, and the two powers as a means for Huangsha to cast spells.

Now, the earth's energy is absorbed by the piled earth and true sand, and flows back into the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation, forcing the formation diagram and the magic ban to continue to merge.

The core of the Yin-Yang Wu Ji Earth Evil Ban is circulation, which is not contradictory to the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation, and is even vaguely consistent with it. After all, they are both changes in the Earth Path.

The magic restrictions of the Wuzhiyao Grass Sword were gradually increased until the forty-fifth level of evil restrictions, at which point the increase stopped and all the earth's spiritual materials were refined.

Yu Shuyang put the piled earth and real sand into the Lingzhi Ruyi, and his mind entered the magic circle through the sword. He saw rolling yellow sand and the shrill and mournful cry of cicadas from time to time.

The Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation has absorbed the earth's energy, so there is no need to use the secret technique of the knife and spatula, and spells can be cast directly on the enemy.

Having learned from the lesson of the Heart Plague Bug, Yu Shuyang planned to improve the formation and at least arrange the Sweeping Cloud Boy and the Long Snake Boy into the formation, so that they wouldn't have to watch him foolishly when he was attacked.

Yu Shuyang began to deduce and calculate using the Black Tortoise Book. This time, the deduction was based on the pattern of military formations. He let the two boys stand in the open while he hid in the formation and launched a surprise attack.

The deduction of the formation did not take too long. After all, the two boys were just placed in the formation, not to be used as talismanic instruments to suppress the formation like Taiyin Hanchan.

After the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation was completed, Yu Shuyang took out the fish-scale flying talisman and sent them to Yang Fuzi, Yin Chenzi, and Li Zhen respectively, explaining the follow-up arrangements clearly.

After receiving the flying talisman in reply, he flew out of the cave, left the mountain protection formation, and headed straight for Chaoju City.

He and Li Zhen had agreed that once he had set up the formation in Chaoju City, the Mu family would definitely notice it, so they should not stop them and let them return to the city.

In this way, Li Zhen and his companions could return to Changliu Mountain. Yu Shuyang was worried that the Mu family would "exchange homes" with him, so he surrounded the cave in the City Lord's Mansion and besieged the Mu family members in the Wild Horse Farm. He turned around and captured Yu Fu and Yu Mu to threaten him.

Therefore, in addition to inviting Yang Fuzi and Yin Chenzi to take charge, Yu Shuyang also had to ask Li Zhen, the second sister, the sixth sister and others to return to defend Changliu Mountain and Qianzhang Cliff to prevent a desperate counterattack.

This is also his usual style, planning everything before taking action.

With two magical powers of wind magic, and with the cooperation of Yunyou and Yunyi, Yu Shuyang flew on the wind as if he was performing a magic of escape, as if he was shuttling between the wind and clouds.

The wind passed without leaving a trace, and the clouds moved like shadows. Amidst the turbulent wind and clouds, Yu Shuyang floated over the Four Symbols Magic Ban and lightly jumped over the city gate.

In just three or five steps, he flew from the main road of the outer city to the inner city, without stopping at all, and went straight to the city lord's mansion.

Along the way, you can see that the guards are all wearing armor and holding weapons. Every two or three teams of guards have a leading manager. The roads between the city and the town are blocked, and all passing monsters, big and small, must be checked.

Ever since the night when Yu Fu survived the tribulation, there have been four to five thousand fewer little monsters in Chaoju City. This is not a lot in Chaoju City, after all, there are hundreds of thousands of monsters in the city.

However, four or five thousand little demons rioted collectively, and the scene frightened Mu Lingge. In addition, Yu Shuyang caused trouble, resulting in fire and thunder disasters and a solar eclipse. The city was in chaos.

More importantly, more than a dozen demon fairies from the Mu family gathered at the Wild Horse Farm. They had been fighting there for five days, and some news had already spread.

It’s like the saying goes, what you should know has already been known, and what you shouldn’t know is still in the dark.

All these things put together made the atmosphere in Chaoju City become very weird. Even monsters who didn't know the truth could feel that something was wrong when they arrived.

Yu Shuyang secretly activated his magical power of cloud cover to hide his figure in the shadows. As the saying goes: clouds block the view and a single leaf can't see the mountain.

Yu Shuyang moved forward stealthily, passing through the layers of obstacles set up by the guards, and arrived at the gate of the mansion quietly.

It was still the Six Gates, the Duke's Mansion, and the City Lord's Mansion. Yu Shuyang stood here without feeling any nostalgic feelings.

After all, it had only been a few days, and the last time he was attacked by a heart plague bug, no fight broke out and nothing happened.

This time it was different. Yu Shuyang held the Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi and used the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation. Then a stream of yellow sand poured out, like an overwhelming sandstorm.

As the yellow sand rolled, eighty-one grains of real sand fell to the ground, spreading out in nine bends and eighteen turns, like a flowing river, winding and undulating from the ground until it surrounded the Duke's Mansion and the City Lord's Mansion.

The Nine-Bend Yellow Sand Formation originated from the Nine Bends of Yellow Sand in Youdu, and is somewhat similar to the legendary Yellow River Formation, but the former follows the trajectory of the riverbed, while the latter follows the twists and turns of the river water.

The appearance of yellow sand and yellow wind soon alarmed the Mu family, and demon soldiers from the government office and the city lord's mansion came out to investigate.

The wind and sand are blessed by the two powers of salt water and stone. When the wind blows and the sand falls, the demon soldiers are either covered with a layer of salt or stone skin grows on their skin.

Suddenly, the demon soldiers were in a panic. Some of the timid ones retreated, while the brave ones rushed in with their weapons in hand. Soon, they were transformed into stone statues and salt statues. Such a scene frightened both the demon soldiers and the stewards.

Anything beyond their cognition would cause fear. They had seen the battles between demons and fairies, and there were many mysterious spells among them, but they had never seen one that turned into a stone statue or a salt statue with just wind and sand.

The yellow sand rolled and flowed, emitting a dark and gloomy feeling, just like a cemetery. Both the Duke's Mansion and the City Lord's Mansion were alarmed. They could all see that the visitor had ill intentions.

Most of the demon fairies who were in charge were taken away by Mu Changling, leaving only the elders who were raised in the cave and the demon fairies who had transformed into dragons and practiced in the side branch.

The news soon reached the cave, and some elders could no longer sit still. They gathered in groups of three or four, and those from the side branches contacted each other, but no one was willing to step forward.

It's not that they are cold-blooded. The Mu family has rules both inside and outside. The elders and the demon fairies from the side branches can only stay in the cave. They can practice the various arts of immortality and exchange various resources with the family, but they cannot interfere in external affairs.

The demons and fairies of the side branches have always been led by the Sick Dragon Ancestor. When some demons and fairies came over, they found that the Sick Dragon Ancestor's house was empty.

"Why isn't the ancestor in the courtyard?"

"That shouldn't be the case. The ancestor can't go out. He usually breathes on the sick tree."

Several demon fairies from the side branches failed to find the Sick Dragon Ancestor and had to go back in twos and threes. They did not think that what was happening outside was that serious. The three branches of the Mu family each had a third-grade demon fairy, so how could the clan members be afraid?

The news spread quickly. After all, the demons and immortals in the cave had nothing to do. Apart from practicing and raising their children, they would also go out to feast with each other.

Ever since Master Ma was sent back to the mansion by Mu Changling, he felt upset. When he heard that there was a yellow sand river outside, enclosing the Duke's Mansion and the City Lord's Mansion, he couldn't help but smile.

The others didn't know the inside story, but Master Ma knew it all. He knew that Mu Changling had taken three fourth-grade and six fifth-grade horses to the wild horse farm, as well as the subsequent news.

Moreover, he had gone to look for the Sick Dragon Ancestor several times, but he didn't see the ancestor come back, so he knew that the matter had not been resolved and might have gotten out of hand.

Thinking of this, Master Ma was also very happy. Yu Shuyang and Mu Changling both looked down on him, so he would only be happy no matter who they beat to death in the end.

"Something's been going on strangely lately. First, a fire and thunder disaster occurred in the city. I don't know who was so blind as to blame. We haven't investigated the matter yet.

Now someone is causing trouble again, who is this targeting?"

"Perhaps it's a wild monster that escaped from the inland of Kyushu and got hold of a mysterious treasure. Perhaps it's here to seek revenge on our family."

"A treasure? I'm afraid this isn't a magical treasure. I've heard that when yellow winds blow and quicksand rolls, the wind and sand can turn demon soldiers into stone statues or salt statues."

"Is this true? Turning a demon's flesh and blood into stone and salt is a treasure of creation. I just don't know what the transformed stone and salt will be like. Maybe it's a way to make money."

"Haha, you know what, it's really possible. If that's the case, then our Mu family should also run a salt field?"

The demons and fairies gathered together to chat, talk for a while, eat for a while, just to kill time. This is how the demons and fairies of the side branches all live.

Nine-bend yellow sand formation.

The wind and sand turned into nine bends and eighteen turns, yellow sand rolled on the ground, and yellow wind blew in the air. The formation has been successfully arranged, and Yu Shuyang also arranged the Sweeping Cloud Boy and the Long Snake Boy in the formation.

The boy Saoxia held the Yin-Yang True Shape Fan in his hand, constantly drawing the power of the Thunder Avenue, fanning it towards the Ganoderma Lucidum Ruyi. The wind was mixed with the power of water thunder and fire thunder, constantly urging the Yin-Yang Wu Ji Earth Evil Ban to operate.

The long snake boy held the Dongyuan Xuantian flag in his hand and exerted the power of Qiankun to activate the Qiantian Daoban. The power of Qiantian spread in the Nine Bends and turned into small spaces, just like digging many pits in the yellow sand.

Yu Shuyang was hiding on the side. In addition to controlling the operation of the formation, he was also activating the mouth wind magic. The mouth wind magic combined with the Taiyin Hanchan had an effect that made the sky sad and the earth weep.

After the formation was set up, all we had to do was wait for the demon fairy from the Mu family to break through the formation, but there was no follow-up movement. No one came out of the cave in the City Lord's Mansion, and no one came back from the Wild Horse Farm.

Yu Shuyang suddenly felt that he had miscalculated, and hurriedly took out the contract token and asked Xuanhu Pengwei.

"Xuanhu, how is the wild horse farm now?"

This time, the black fox Pengwei did not respond immediately. Instead, it took a long time before it responded.

"Little Taoist priest, why are you sending me a message now? The other side is fighting like crazy this time. They are all fighting for their lives. I won't say any more to you."

The Black Fox Pengwei was constantly summoning demons and ghosts at this time. The contract he had agreed with Yu Shuyang was to hand over the City of the Dead to him. With the suppression of the Xuanming Underworld, he could not attract the demons and ghosts in the underworld.

For a long time, the Black Fox has relied on the authority of the God of the Underworld to continuously plunder demons and ghosts from the underworld. These demons and ghosts are also ownerless wild ghosts who gather together to build a ghost nest.

At the beginning, the Black Fox Pengwei was looking for the ghost's nest around the Black Water Styx River. However, the origin of the Xuanming Underworld Land was constantly strengthened by the Dark Sun and Dark Moon, and the Styx River was expanding all the time.

This makes the ghost dens around the Xuanming Netherworld restless. Moreover, the banks of the Styx are full of Netherworld Ghost Weeds, which often lead demons and ghosts to the Taiyue Ghost Mansion.

A few days ago, the Mu family demons did not fight desperately. The black fox Pengwei and Li Zhen assisted them, and with the help of the second sister Yu Zilan's various straw puppets, they were always able to maintain the demon army formation.

Speaking of which, it was also because the Mu family lacked knowledge and did not understand the power of the military formation. This demonic ghost military formation and the warship formation turned into a ghost tide once it was deployed. The greater the force that was suppressed, the more ferocious the rebounding ghost tide would be.

Originally, Yu Tienan and Shu Qing had not thought about refining the military formation. After all, the Wild Horse Farm was not the North Sea, where they could capture monsters and ghosts to replenish the military formation.

Unexpectedly, the black fox Pengwei helped a lot. Not only did he teach them how to devour the ghosts in their army formation, he also kept sending ghosts to fill the army formation.

In this way, the fighting attacks of the Mu family's demon immortals were like hammering a red-hot iron ingot. With repeated blows, the demons in the army formation continued to improve their cultivation.

Yu Tienan was holding a tiger spear on the warship, and his natal sense of the Aries star continuously attracted evil and bloody energy, which was scattered into the ghost tide, constantly cleansing the monsters and ghosts, and eliminating the resentment of the ghosts.

The ghost-devouring method can turn the dead and injured demons and ghosts into fertilizer, continuously growing the demons and ghosts in the army. However, the cannibalism of demons and ghosts will also generate ghost resentment. The demons and ghosts will be eroded by the ghost resentment and will eventually go crazy and devour their masters.

"What's wrong with the Mu family? Instead of going back to Chaoju City, they are fighting here." Li Zhen said as he looked at the yellow gas rising from Wangchaoju City.

As early as when the yellow gas began to rise, Li Zhen knew that his cousin had finished setting up the formation and was waiting for the Mu family to return to the city for reinforcements. He then led the monsters back to defend Changjiu Mountain.

What he didn't know was that Mu Changling had lost his judgment at this time, and he didn't know who was causing trouble outside the City Lord's Mansion.

According to the order of the Red Eyebrow Patriarch, Yu Shuyang must be captured within seven days. Now there are only two days left, and Mu Changling has nothing to worry about.

(End of this chapter)