Holy Bone

Chapter 1638: The Seven-Star Soul-Protecting Lamp Buried in a Ship Coffin

Situations similar to those of the old abbot of the Fugong Taoist Temple and the Yin-Yang master and his fellow apprentice are constantly happening in the capital of the underworld.

Soon the news spread in the ghost-walking circle in the underworld capital that there was a headless Taoist priest of unknown origin in the underworld capital, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.

It is not yet known whether they are friend or foe.

There was only one thing that was unanimously agreed upon in the Yin-walking circle in the capital: the cultivation level of this headless Taoist priest was so high that no one could tell the depth of his cultivation level.

The circle of walking on the dark is not big, but it is not small either. There are only a few Shinto masters who can do the skills of walking on the dark in the capital, and there are also some Shinto masters at the third level among them.

When even the third realm said that they could not see through the depth of the headless Taoist's foundation, it immediately caused quite a stir in the Beijing circle.

If he couldn't even see through the third realm, then that meant that this headless Taoist priest who suddenly appeared out of nowhere had reached the fourth realm...

When thinking of the fourth realm, the first things that come to mind are those old monsters and old giants. Ninety-nine percent of the top Shinto powerhouses who can break through to the fourth realm now are those old monsters who have lived for two eras.

These old monsters, who have been practicing for a long time and have a solid foundation, are the first to break through to the fourth level.

However, some people do not agree with the speculation about the fourth realm, because all witnesses said that the headless Taoist priest looked very young, with a slender figure, delicate skin and tender flesh, and was definitely no more than thirty years old.

So there are two voices in the Yin-Wu circle.

One is that the other party has powerful means of concealing his breath or magic weapons, making it difficult for people to tell his depth.

Secondly, as the seal of the Four Symbols Bureau of Broken Heaven and Absolute Earth was broken, the thousand-year-old corpse king awakened from some ancient forbidden area in the underworld. Because he was nourished by yin energy all year round, his skin and flesh became more and more yin and cold, making it logical that people cannot tell his real age.

While the underworld circle in the capital was still arguing over whether the headless Taoist was a dead body or in the fourth realm, the headless Jin'an had already left the underworld capital and was heading deeper into the underworld, following the guidance of the soul-guiding lamp.

Because he was being hunted by the great demon from the underworld, Jin'an had not been to the underworld for a long time. This was his first time to go to the underworld after practicing the techniques of praying for clear weather, praying for rain, borrowing wind, summoning clouds, entering water, driving fog, and walking on the ground.

He discovered a detail: the gray fog in the underworld that could confuse souls, make them unable to tell directions, and make it easy to get lost in the underworld, now had less impact on him than in the past.

Although he is headless now, it does not affect his ability to radiate his spiritual awareness and detect the surrounding environment.

Headless Jin'an activated the Thousand Heart Tribulation, thinking while he was on the road. He soon figured out the reason. On the one hand, it was related to the great improvement in his cultivation strength, and on the other hand, it was related to the seventeenth transformation of the Mist-driving Technique he practiced.

The latter is the most important relationship.

The jade slip describes the seventeenth transformation of the Mist Driving Technique as follows:

Above, you can push aside the clouds to reveal the blue sky; below, you can push aside the clouds to reveal the underworld.

This unexpected discovery was a small joy, which greatly increased Wutou Jinan's confidence in taking the Yin route.

His starting point in the underworld now is much higher than that of other Shinto strongmen. As long as he does not encounter an absolute crushing situation like the great demon in the underworld, his range of movement in the underworld will be even larger.

Not only does the Mist-riding Technique make it easier for him to move around in the underworld, but he also has the Wind-borrowing Technique, Cloud-summoning Technique, Water-entering Technique, and Ground-walking Technique.

The introductions to these miraculous techniques on the jade slips all mention the underworld to some extent.

For example, the 14th transformation, the Wind Borrowing Technique, can borrow the white wind from the living world to bring good weather and good harvests, and borrow the black wind from the underworld to avoid the pain of the black wind cutting off the soul. Another example is the 15th transformation, the Cloud Calling Technique, which can spread rain from the clouds, ride on the clouds and mist, chase the clouds and lightning, and disperse the miasma and rain clouds to avoid the disturbance of the treacherous clouds in the underworld.

The sixteenth transformation is the water entering technique, which allows one to dive into the sea and even go to the underworld.

The eighteenth transformation is the earth-walking technique, which allows one to go up to the sky and into the earth, as well as down to the underworld, and travel a thousand miles a day.

These magical skills can be said to make Headless Jin'an feel more at ease in the underworld, like a dragon returning to the sea.

The statue of Thousand-Eyed Taoist Lord is not here. If this evil god were here, he would definitely be amazed that Jin An was born to be the Taoist Lord of the Underworld and the Corpse King of the Underworld.

Originally, there were some ghost walkers following Headless Jinan from a distance, trying to find out his true strength, but Headless Jinan walked faster and faster in the wilderness outside the capital city filled with gray fog. Gradually, those ghost walkers could not keep up with Headless Jinan's pace, and the distance between them became farther and farther. They lost Headless Jinan not long after he left the capital city.

This result further confirms the speculation in the underworld circle that the headless Taoist priest is a dead person from the underworld.

Ordinary dead people in the underworld cannot ignore the gray fog of the underworld and move freely, let alone the living people.

  The speed at which the headless Jin'an moved through the gray fog was faster than those ordinary dead people. If he was not a dead person, could he be a living person?

What the outside world discusses has nothing to do with Wutou Jinan. At this time, he came to the river outside the capital.

All rivers in the world flow into the sea, and all rivers in the underworld flow directly into the Yellow Springs River. The rivers in the world of the living and the underworld are all connected. He plans to take the Yellow Springs River in the underworld directly to the source of corpses. The waterway in the underworld is the fastest and most convenient way to travel.

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The sound of waves hitting the riverbank continued to reach my ears, and as I got closer to the river, the sound of the waves became clearer and clearer. The closer I got to the river, the thicker the gray fog near the riverbank became, bewitching my soul and becoming cold and gloomy.

The thickness of the gray fog near the river bank had affected Wutou Jinan, making him not as calm and composed as before.

But it is still much easier than his previous secret methods.

As the sound of the waves became clearer and clearer, at the same time, the rustling whispers of countless drowned people in the Yellow Springs River also became clearer in the ears, from sporadic to noisy, like decadent devilish sounds filling the ears, bewitching the soul, trying to drag people into the water to be scapegoats.

These had limited impact on Wutou Jin'an, who had made great progress in Taoism. He still went to the river bank as he pleased, intending to find a boat to go downstream.

Just as I said I wanted to find a boat, a flickering candle light approached from upstream, like a weak oil lamp in a storm, ready to be overturned by the waves at any time.

Soon I could see clearly that the candlelight was the Seven-Star Soul Protection Lamp.

A coffin was carried on a black-sailed boat, with a seven-star soul-protecting lamp placed on the bow to illuminate the way ahead, lighting the way to the underworld for the owner of the coffin and scaring away any troublesome ghosts on the road.

There is a folk saying that it is easy to see the King of Hell, but difficult to deal with little ghosts.

The black-winged boat carries a coffin, which is a very ancient type of boat coffin burial, generally popular in the Wuzhou Prefecture area. It symbolizes a better reincarnation and allows the soul of the deceased to return to the distant soul land.

It's unknown how long this boat coffin has been drifting in the Yellow Springs River in the underworld. Now it's been entangled by many little ghosts. Many blue and white corpse arms are hugging the bottom of the boat, forming a corpse hugging the boat. They want to capsize the boat coffin so that they can get on the boat, take its place, return to the land of souls, and reincarnate.

This is also the reason why the Seven-Star Soul-Protecting Lamp on the bow flickers. Countless little ghosts underwater have entangled the black-sailed boat and are working together to overturn the boat and blow out the Seven-Star Soul-Protecting Lamp. There are gusts of cold wind on the river.

(End of this chapter)