Ghost Immortal

Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen dark figures surged into the courtyard from outside the wall.

These shadowy figures are not ghosts, but living corpses controlled by the Soul-Eating Gu.

They were both men and women, dressed in the clothes of the city's common people.

Their eyes were vacant, their faces expressionless, like a group of walking corpses.

Each person has a small black dot the size of a grain of rice between their eyebrows, which is the mark of the Soul-Devouring Gu parasitizing the human body.

These living people, controlled by the Gu worms, rushed into the open space and, without fear of the ghosts' yin energy, pounced directly on them.

The human body controlled by Gu worms is different from that of ghosts; they still have a physical body and their yang energy has not dissipated.

When ghosts touched their bodies, it was like touching a red-hot iron, making a hissing sound.

At the same time, the Gu worms are also gnawing at the soul of the ghost.

The ghost bitten by the Gu worm will wail, its body will convulse, its eyes will become empty, and it will turn around and pounce on Master Si Mei and the others.

This is precisely what makes the Soul-Devouring Gu so terrifying!

The bitten ghost will immediately turn into a Gu worm puppet and turn around to attack its original companion.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight ghosts had been bitten by the Soul-Devouring Gu and turned into the Gu Master's ghost Gu puppets.

These ghostly puppets and the living people controlled by the Gu worms mingled together, forming a bizarre army that approached the entrance of the mortuary.

White Impermanence withdrew his whip and stood side by side with Black Impermanence.

Two figures, one in black and one in white, blocked the altar, their soul-hooking ropes and soul-binding whips glowing with an eerie green light.

Bai Wuchang roared, "Gu Zhenren! How dare you be so insolent before the underworld officials? Aren't you afraid of being punished by the underworld?"

Gu Zhenren's hoarse laughter echoed in the darkness.

"Hehehe!!!"

Immediately afterwards, his gaunt figure emerged from the darkness.

Gu Zhenren finally revealed himself.

He was wearing a black cloak, the hood of which covered most of his face, revealing only his pointed chin and chapped lips.

His lips were covered with fine black cracks, but upon closer inspection, they turned out to be not cracks, but countless tiny worms wriggling on his lips.

This guy actually used his own body to raise venomous insects!

His left hand held a pottery jar, the surface of which was covered with honeycomb-like holes, from which several black worms, as thin as hair, emerged.

The worms wriggled at the mouth of the jar, making a rustling sound.

When Black Impermanence and White Impermanence saw him, they both took a half step back.

The righteous gods of the underworld actually felt wary of a living cultivator!

Gu Zhenren sneered sinisterly, "Why are you two underworld officials so angry? I'm merely taking advantage of the open gates of hell to collect some wandering souls to feed my Gu worms. The underworld loses so many souls every year, what harm is there in giving me a few?"

White Impermanence shouted sternly, "Ghosts are under the jurisdiction of the Underworld; how dare you, a heretical cultivator, lay a finger on them!"

Gu Zhenren cackled and began to mock.

"If the Underworld truly had control over me, why did it take them so long to send just the two of you after I killed over a hundred people and refined a hundred and eight Soul-Devouring Gu? To put it bluntly, the Underworld is also afraid of the Soul-Devouring Gu in my possession. The Soul-Devouring Gu is specifically designed to counter souls, and even the Underworld officials are formed from souls. If you get bitten, you'll be annihilated as well."

He lifted the pottery jar, and more black worms immediately emerged from its mouth.

"Today's opening of the gates of hell is a perfect opportunity for my Soul-Devouring Gu to have some extra nourishment. I'll take in all these scattered wandering ghosts!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large amount of black mist spewed out of the pottery jar.

The black mist transformed into countless tiny Gu worms, which flew in all directions.

These insects are smaller than mosquitoes. They fly silently and disappear into the night in the blink of an eye, never to be seen again.

The Four-Eyebrowed Taoist was ruthless and taciturn. He drew his peach wood sword and charged forward.

The cinnabar runes on the peach wood sword shone with a dazzling golden light as it slashed at the pottery jar in the hands of the Gu Master.

He poured all his strength into this sword strike, and a three-foot-long sword aura emanated from the tip of the blade.

Gu Zhenren raised his white bone staff and lightly tapped it in the direction of the Four-Eyebrowed Taoist.

Two eerie green flames shot out from the eye sockets of the skull on the bone staff.

The will-o'-the-wisp transformed into two green ghost hands, one grabbing the sword energy of the peach wood sword and squeezing it hard.

"Snap!"

The sword energy shattered.

The four-browed Taoist priest's hand gripping the sword was split open, and blood flowed down the hilt.

He did not back down, but bit his tongue and spat out a mist of blood.

The blood mist landed on the broken sword energy, which then reformed and became even more intense than before.

"With the disciples of Maoshan here, how dare you act so presumptuously!"

Master Si Mei roared, and the golden light on his peach wood sword suddenly exploded, transforming into countless fine golden needles that rained down on Gu Zhenren.

Gu Zhenren was forced to take a step back.

He held the earthenware jar in front of him, and the worms from the jar's mouth surged out, weaving a black insect curtain in front of him.

The golden needles struck the insect screen, producing a dense sound like raindrops hitting banana leaves.

Countless Gu worms were pierced by the golden needles and burst into black liquid.

Unfortunately, the insect screen was too thick. The golden needle pierced through layer after layer, but was still completely swallowed up by the insect screen.

"He has some skill, but it's not enough."

Gu Zhenren gave a hoarse laugh.

He flipped the pottery jar over with his left hand, and a crack appeared at the bottom, from which emerged a dark red Gu worm the size of a thumb.

This Gu worm is completely different from the previous black Gu worm.

It was dark red all over, with six transparent wings on its back, covered with spiderweb-like blood vessels.

It has a crescent-shaped mouth on its head, which opens and closes to emit a sharp, piercing scream.

"The Soul-Devouring Gu Mother Gu!"

The White Impermanence was astonished.

The mother Gu flew out of the Gu Master's hand, circled once in the air, and then swooped down into the horde of ghosts.

A dark red afterimage streaked across the night sky.

The mother Gu burrowed into the ghost's brow and emerged from the back of its head, leaving behind a wisp of pale golden light.

This is the soul core of a ghost, the essence of its soul.

The soul core was swallowed by the mother gu, and the ghost's eyes instantly became empty. It turned around and pounced on the four-browed Taoist priest.

The mother Gu was as fast as a red lightning bolt, weaving through the horde of ghosts.

As long as you pass through a ghost, it will devour the ghost's soul core and turn it into a puppet.

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty ghosts had been controlled by the mother Gu and stood behind the Gu Master, forming a ghost Gu puppet army.

The Taoist priest with four eyebrows looked solemn.

He finally understood why Gu Zhenren dared to be so arrogant in front of the underworld officials.

Once someone has the mother Gu in hand, ghosts will become their tools.

Seeing this, Li Feng knew that the situation was out of control.

He grabbed Qiu Sheng's arm and shouted to Qiu Lan, "Senior Sister, quickly use the sound transmission talisman to notify Officer Zhao! Tell him to bring reinforcements!"

Qiu Lan finally snapped out of her shock and hurriedly pulled out a communication talisman from her bosom, infusing it with spiritual power.

The talisman burned, like a golden stream of light, and flew towards the government office.

But Li Feng knew that Zhao Tiezhu's arrival would be of no use.

Gu Zhenren's Soul-Devouring Gu is specifically designed to counteract the soul, while Zhao Tiezhu's righteous officialdom can suppress evil spirits.

However, even against the Soul-Devouring Gu Mother Gu, which can devour soul cores, it may not necessarily gain the upper hand.

Moreover, Gu Zhenren still has more than a hundred offspring Gu in his possession.

We must find a way to control these out-of-control ghosts and prevent them from being devoured by the Gu Master.

Otherwise, once Gu Zhenren's army of ghost Gu puppets is fully formed, Qingyan City will be completely finished.

Master Si Mei was clearly aware of this as well.

He stopped fighting with Gu Zhenren, sheathed his sword and retreated, taking out a palm-sized Bagua flag from his bosom.

The Bagua flag is made of yellow silk, and the flag is embroidered with the Bagua diagram and the ancestral seal of the Maoshan School.

The talisman was embroidered with gold thread, so it looked quite elegant.

Master Si Mei raised the Bagua flag high, bit his index finger, and quickly wrote several blood characters on the flag.

"Four-Eyebrows, the thirty-sixth generation disciple of Maoshan, urgently summons his fellow disciples of the Zhi generation to Qingyan City!"

After he finished writing, he threw the Bagua flag into the night sky.

The Bagua flag unfurled in the air, transforming into a three-foot-long banner. The Bagua diagram on the flag and the ancestral master's seal simultaneously shone with golden light.

The light condensed into a golden pillar in the air, shooting straight into the sky.

It exploded in the night sky, turning into eight golden rays that flew in all directions.

This is the Bagua communication technique of the Maoshan School.

All Maoshan disciples within a radius of 500 li, as long as their cultivation reaches the Qi Refining stage or above, can sense the summoning of the Bagua Flag.

The Zhi generation consists of the fellow disciples of Master Si Mei, all of whom are Qi Refining cultivators who have cultivated for many years.

If we can gather them together, there might still be a glimmer of hope.