Invasion Myth: Starting with the Schoolteacher

Chapter 1020 Someone is Cursing You
The incantation had barely finished when a strange change occurred!
A cold wind suddenly rose from the ground, causing banners to flutter and sand and stones to fly!

Countless emerald green phosphorescent flames suddenly appeared from all directions, converging on the altar like a tide! The wailing and howling of hundreds of ghosts intertwined, forming a chilling battle cry!
Within the churning black mist, countless figures clad in tattered armor could be vaguely seen, their blood-red eyes flashing in the mist, condensing into the chilling light of swords, spears, and halberds!

Those with slightly lower cultivation levels felt a chill run down their spines upon seeing this display!

This Li Gongfeng usually looks arrogant and noble, like a Taoist master. Who would have thought that what he secretly refines are all such vicious and evil things!

The composition of the local militia was inherently complex.

Most of them are the souls of fallen soldiers, resentful ghosts, mountain spirits, and wandering ghosts that have been directly tamed by sorcerers. Depending on the needs, they are refined using secret methods to scatter their intelligence and recast their ferocity, so that they can be made into different types of soldiers specializing in different duties.

But those summoned by Li Gongfeng were clearly the Five Witches who hunted the mountains, the Five Witches who collected souls and established prohibitions, the Five Witches who captured human souls, and the Five Witches who bit fingers and dripped blood... They were all fierce and evil, with a murderous aura soaring to the sky.

These are clearly not guardian soldiers created through proper methods, but rather ferocious and evil creatures specializing in killing and imprisonment!

If it were allowed to get out of control and backfire, the entire city of Suiyang would probably be turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood in an instant!
However, with the arrow already on the bowstring, there was no time to worry about anything else.
He pointed the command flag in his hand, which controlled the rampaging soldiers, fiercely towards the direction of Ebotai!
"go with!"

In an instant, the thousands of soldiers let out a series of mournful howls, transforming into a dark, gloomy wind that blotted out the sky, like a flood bursting its banks, howling as it swept towards the direction of Ebo Terrace!

The rampaging soldiers are yin-type ghosts, extremely fast, and can traverse thousands of miles in the blink of an eye!
Wherever it passed, the lonely ghosts, spirits, and evil spirits in the mountains and fields were terrified and avoided it, fearing that they would be swallowed up by this fierce and malevolent army.

In just a few breaths, the dense black tide had already reached the foot of Ebo Terrace, and it looked like it was about to completely submerge this ancient place where the Fire Lord had attained enlightenment!
then……

They crashed solidly into an indestructible "golden dam" that suddenly rose up!
It was Hui Ren, who was now engulfed in golden flames thanks to Xu Xuan's "buff," along with the three hundred monks behind him!
These monks had been holding back their energy for a long time, just waiting for the enemy to come to them!
Seeing the countless ferocious soldiers covering the sky and the earth, Huiren was not alarmed but delighted, grinning to reveal a set of white teeth that stood out conspicuously against the golden light.

"Well done!"

With a loud shout, he abruptly lifted his robe, his thick arms rolling it up to his shoulders, his muscles bulging, making a "creaking" sound like a fully drawn bowstring!
Arhat – Embracing the Moon!
Then, golden light burst forth from the bald head, and the entire body instantly turned pure gold, becoming indestructible. A tremendous force capable of subduing dragons and tigers rose from the dantian and poured into the arms!

With fists clenched like a full moon, he fiercely punched forward!
"Boom! Boom!"

Two incredibly condensed, almost tangible golden fist-shaped energies, like cannonballs, crashed fiercely into the wave of rampaging soldiers!

Wherever it went, no matter how rampant the enemy was, they collapsed upon contact, their souls scattered by the pure and fierce Buddhist power!
The black waves were forcibly carved out into two wide golden light channels!

The fist's momentum did not diminish as it landed in the distant mountains and forests, exploding with a deafening roar and sending up two large shockwaves mixed with golden light and ghostly energy, causing the earth to shake violently!

Hui Ren's golden eyes swept across the area like searchlights, and seeing countless soldiers still rushing in from all directions, his fighting spirit surged once again!
His voice was like a booming bell, resounding throughout the entire battlefield:
"Zen monks! Be on your guard! Don't let the Zen master look down on our Linji Temple!"

"Follow me—and go!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already plunged into the boundless black raging tide like a golden meteor!

But then we saw the Venerable Huiren, with his dazzling golden body, charge into the enemy ranks like a tiger among sheep.

He charged left and right, his movements as swift as lightning, his punches and kicks powerful and unparalleled. Wherever he went, ghosts howled and wolves howled; there was no one who could withstand a single blow!
How could those earth-rampant soldiers, crafted with evil human magic, possibly be a match for the golden bodies of Buddhist monks and the immense strength of Arhats?

Behind them, three hundred golden-glowing monks roared in unison, like a pack of lions unleashed, and followed closely behind, fiercely fighting with the thousands of rampaging soldiers!
The whole scene suddenly became exceptionally "spectacular".

The situation was similar in other areas.

The slightly weaker monks quickly formed the Arhat Subduing Demon Formation, their energy intertwined, their golden light merging to create an impenetrable golden wall. No matter how the dark figure attacked, it could not cross the line.

Meanwhile, the powerful monks of each hall followed Huiren's example and launched their own "unparalleled monk" mode, wielding their staffs like windmills or their palms like lotus flowers, doing their best to reduce the number of the rampant soldiers.

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle amidst the interplay of Buddhist light and ghostly energy around this ancient Ebo Terrace!

Meanwhile, Li Gongfeng, who was observing the battle situation from inside the Liang Prince's mansion using the magic of vision, was in a very bad mood.

He meticulously prepared and even went so far as to kill the worshippers to establish his authority, but he failed to make any progress whatsoever!
Above the developing light screen, only that solid golden light wall firmly blocked all the impact of the black mist, and no matter how frantically the soldiers went, they could not budge it in the slightest.

"It really is you! Xu Xuan!"

Li Gongfeng gritted his teeth, practically squeezing the name out from between his teeth.

With his level of cultivation, he was completely unable to see Bai Suzhen who was presiding over the ritual of exorcising stars. He could only rely on the pure Buddhist golden light and assume that Xu Xuan was behind it all.

"Hmph! Your Highness said it could never be Xu Xuan, but what do you say now?!"

A surge of resentment at being questioned welled up within him, and he immediately turned his anger towards the "God of War of Liang Kingdom".

"Young Master Liang is a complete idiot who's good for nothing but causing trouble! If he hadn't repeatedly tried to be clever by inviting the enemy to the heart of the Prince's mansion for 'treatment,' how could the other side have had the opportunity to figure out his weaknesses and devise such targeted tactics!"

At this point, he inexplicably began to resent this "wise" father and son... Of course, he knew that the real culprit could never be let off the hook!

Driven by extreme rage and anxiety at the impending failure, a ruthless and resolute glint flashed in Li Gongfeng's eyes.

Capture the thief first and capture the king!
"I've wanted to curse this bastard to death for a long time, and now this is the perfect opportunity!"

Without further hesitation, Li Gongfeng flipped his hand and took out a straw figure that had been prepared in advance and soaked in a secret medicine.

On the straw figure, the names "Xu Xuan Xu Hanwen" and their birth dates were clearly written in cinnabar.

He quickly placed a soul-guiding lamp above the straw effigy's head and a soul-stabilizing lamp at its feet. Then, he stepped onto the Big Dipper, made hand seals, and chanted incantations. A talisman emanating an ominous black aura was swiftly drawn at his fingertips and then slapped onto the straw effigy's chest, instantly incinerating it!
With the help of the evil power of the altar and by forcibly extracting some of the spiritual energy from the other offerings around him as fuel, Li, the worshipper, was bursting with confidence, and a ferocious yet certain smile appeared on his face.

"After three bows, I will surely annihilate your soul and ensure your death!"

He concentrated his energy and bowed deeply to the straw figure!
With a single bow, an invisible yet insidious curse, aided by a mysterious causal connection, instantly traversed time and space, silently devouring Xu Xuan on the Ebo Terrace!
What was Xu Xuan doing on the Ebo Terrace at this moment?

He was leisurely standing by the platform, admiring the "True Unparalleled Buddhist Dharma" unleashed by Abbot Huiren, watching the golden iron fist sweeping through the ghost tide, and thinking to himself: "At this rate, the abbot is probably going to achieve the trophy achievement of 'Slaying a Thousand Ghosts in One Battle'."

At the same time, they didn't forget to keep an eye on Bai Suzhen's actions.

Having already recited the incantation to invoke the gods and burned the yellow paper meant to reach the heavens, he now stood quietly in the altar, his robes fluttering, as if he had merged with the stars in the sky.

She was waiting, waiting for the imprisoned Great Fire Star to break free of the Liang Prince's mansion's shackles and fly over under the guidance of orthodox rituals.

Xu Xuan leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "Is it difficult?"

Bai Suzhen didn't even blink, her tone as calm as if she were discussing the weather: "Not difficult."

For her, breaking through the level of restrictions imposed by Li Daoren was a piece of cake, requiring no effort at all.

In some ways, this was the weakest enemy they had encountered since they "joined forces" with Xu Xuan.

If it weren't for the immense humanistic energy of the Liang Prince's Mansion acting as a barrier and cover, given the skill and methods of the person who set up the array, Xu Xuan wouldn't have needed to invite her to perform this formal star-summoning ritual. He probably would have already found a way to destroy her along with the array himself.

Just then, Bai Suzhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold glint flashed in her starry eyes.

She clearly saw a wisp of sinister and treacherous curse power, like an invisible poison arrow, traverse space and land precisely on Xu Xuan beside her.

Just as a surge of anger rose in her heart, someone dared to pull such a wicked trick in front of her?
But then, that anger turned into... a sense of utter boredom.

Because this curse power, although not weak, would likely cause an ordinary cultivator at the second realm to immediately have their soul dissipate and die violently if struck by it.

But to use this curse to kill Xu Xuan...

Bai Suzhen even found it somewhat amusing. It seemed rather... frail.

This enemy has completely misused the wrong methods. Unless it is a true punishment from the heavens, even if she personally casts a curse, it would probably be difficult to truly curse this man with a peculiar fate and entangled karma to death.

So he put aside that insignificant worry and spoke lightly, as if he were talking about something ordinary:

"Someone has cast a spell on you."

Xu Xuanzheng watched as Hui Ren smashed more than a dozen rogue soldiers with a single punch. Upon hearing this, he didn't even turn his head, simply giving a casual reply:
"Oh. Of course."

As he spoke, a slight chill did indeed emanate from his body. His internal magical power was stirred by the incantation, causing a slight disturbance in the acupoints around his body.

I couldn't help but shiver, and several distorted and terrifying hallucinations seemed to flash before my eyes... and then, nothing more.

All the unusual sensations quickly subsided, and my body returned to normal.

He even reminisced about it for a moment, and then offered a rather objective assessment:

"That's pretty impressive."

The fact that this spell could make him feel "cold" and see "illusions" shows that its power is indeed top-notch in the ordinary cultivation world.

Xu Xuan's speeches have always been quite "fair".

After all, not everyone can break through the barriers of immortal flesh and jade bones, human blood and qi, Buddhist pure land, white lotus Dharma form, and all sorts of messy karma attached to them.

(End of this chapter)