Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 127
"Don't go, the evil ghost, the poor Taoist will come to collect you!"

The old Taoist raised the brass bell in his hand and rang it. Sure enough, Jiang Laosan's body shook suddenly and his movements slowed down.

The old Taoist muttered something, stepped on the Big Dipper around Jiang Laosan, and kept shaking the bell in his hand rapidly. At the same time, he wiped an extra yellow paper talisman on his waist, raised his hand and threw the pinching formula, and the yellow paper talisman turned into a The yellow light stuck to Jiang Laosan's eyebrows, and Jiang Laosan, who was still restless and twisted, immediately calmed down.

"Disciple, take the dharma sword and kill the evil spirits for your master!" The old Taoist stopped his movements, hung the copper bell on his waist and stretched out his hand.

Dao Tong hurriedly handed over the long sword wrapped in sackcloth, and the old Taoist reached out and pulled out a red sword all over his body. He also muttered something in his mouth, and then stabbed Jiang Laosan between the eyebrows with his sword.

But before the sword arrived, there was a bang, and the yellow talisman stuck between Jiang Laosan's eyebrows exploded out of thin air, and a black air rushed out to the old Taoist priest.

Xu Chen, who had been observing by the side, was already prepared. At the moment when the black air burst out, he suddenly swung the old Taoist priest behind him. The phantom of the bat transformed by the black air lost its target. It is a more suitable object of possession, so he rushed over directly.

Xu Chen didn't care, let the phantom of the bat rush into his sea of ​​consciousness, and at the same time condensed his consciousness into a small sword. Dissolved by the light of the blue light bottle.

"Plop!" Jiang Laosan fell headlong to the ground, already out of breath.

"Master, are you okay!" The little Taoist exclaimed and rushed to the old Taoist.

"Quick, help me up to meet the immortal master!" The old Taoist was surprised and happy, struggling to stand up with the support of the young Taoist, then limped to Xu Chen and knelt down to pay respects: "Heming Mountain Changchun Temple Taoist Zhu Youshun pays homage to the Immortal Master, thanking the Immortal Master for his help."

Xu Chen opened his eyes, flicked his hand lightly, a gentle vitality lifted the old Taoist up and nodded with a smile: "You don't need to be too polite, I didn't expect you, a mortal, to have good magic skills, but this is not evil. Ghosts are not ordinary monsters, but ghost beasts from the underworld, which cannot be easily killed by ordinary spells in the mortal world."

The old Taoist turned pale when he heard this, and said with horror on his face: "So that's it, I said that the magic talismans and spells have all failed. In the past, I rarely missed ghosts and demons."

Xu Chen pointed to Jiang Laosan's body and said, "I have eliminated the ghost beast possessed just now, and there is no danger here, but you can't deal with this kind of ghost beast, so you should take your apprentice and leave quickly. If you encounter such a thing, try not to participate, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!"

The old Taoist saluted again and again, and was about to leave after collecting the dropped copper bell and sword, but Xu Chen called them again and said, "I heard that many people died in this city and outside the city recently, and these ghost beasts may be the cause. Does the Taoist priest know what other places are more suspicious?"

The old Taoist thought for a while and said: "The city is relatively chaotic, and the situation occurred within two or three days, and the location is not fixed, but I heard that the first disappearance of people and animals was in a village five miles north of the city. All the people and animals were dragged away by wild beasts, so the villagers went up the mountain together to suppress the wild beasts, but only two of them came back alive. People possessed by evil spirits slowly began to appear in villages and cities..."

After listening to the old Taoist's words, Xu Chen frowned, turned to look at the quiet Lan You and said, "Friend Lan, it seems that the soul beast has escaped here from the vicinity of Heifeng Ridge, and it seems that the soul beast is still alive. It has mutated, and it is able to control ordinary people to kill people, and the situation has become a little out of control!"

Lan You also nodded solemnly on his face and said: "It is true that there are many kinds of soul beasts. Although the number of soul beasts that can invade the soul is very small, this kind of bat-like soul beast is indeed the most difficult to deal with. Back then, I was on the ground. In the cave, this kind of soul beast invaded the sea of ​​consciousness, if Xu Daoyou hadn't rescued him in time, I'm afraid Lan You would have died a long time ago!"

The one who knows the soul beast best is Xu Chen.

And the weirdest and most difficult thing to deal with was not the giant spider spirit beast whose strength surpassed the alchemy state, but the bat spirit beast that was not big in size and not strong in itself.

Because only this kind of soul beast can invade the sea of ​​consciousness and directly attack the monk's soul, even the strong alchemy is hard to defend against. Once the soul beast invades the sea of ​​consciousness, it can only resist hard.

But for a group of monks at the stage of refining and transforming Qi, the soul is the most vulnerable place. The soul is not yet formed, and the defense is weak. In addition, there are few magic weapons for the soul, so it is even more difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, this time the Spirit Fox Canyon and the Black Wind Ridge formation opened gaps to release black air, spewing out tens of thousands of spirit beasts of various sizes, but there were very few bats of this type.

However, it was this rare and strange soul beast that caused the most casualties among monks.

Among the more than [-] dead monks in total, almost half of them were killed by this monster bat invading the sea of ​​consciousness and devouring their souls.

And the death is so fast that there is almost no power to parry

Therefore, as the news spread, all the monks who encountered this kind of monster bat in the two large formations would run away immediately. Except for Xu Chen, those who could deal with this kind of soul beast were a few strong alchemy realm or holding a bat. A cultivator in the Realm Realm with a soul magic weapon.

Because the strength of this kind of monster bat soul beast is not strong, it basically only has the strength of a first-order monster beast. The two-headed bat that helped Xu Chen fight against the giant spider soul beast last time has never appeared, so most of them are still in the end. They were all trapped in the formation and killed, but there were still fish that slipped through the net, and they had already run thousands of miles away to start causing trouble in the world.

What worries Xu Chen the most is that this kind of spirit beast, without a physical body, can still parasitize in the body of a mortal like a ghost, and repeatedly infect it. If one is killed, it will soon invade another person's body and continue to survive.

Xu Chen still doesn't know how this soul beast infects and parasitizes, because the possessed mortals can't discern the spirit beast's breath carefully through their spiritual sense, so they can't use their spiritual sense to search and kill them on a large scale.

Although the soul beast in front of him was dealt with, he was still uneasy. According to his deduction, the bat soul beast he killed just now seemed incomplete, very weak, and seemed to be just a part of a bat soul beast.

Then it gets more complicated.

If bat soul beasts can really divide and infect mortals on their own, then as time goes by, the situation will become more and more uncontrollable, and eventually thousands of people will die as a result.

What worries Xu Chen the most is whether the soul beast will continue to increase its strength through this method, and eventually become completely uncontrollable!
Therefore, after careful consideration, Xu Chen said to Lan You: "Friend Lan, this matter is no small matter, we can't just ignore it, we have to investigate it carefully, otherwise I'm afraid there will be a huge hidden danger left, and more people will die in the future !"

Lan You nodded and said, "I will support whatever Daoist Xu wants to do, and I'm not in a hurry to go back to the mountain anyway!"

Xu Chen heaved a sigh of relief, and after a brief discussion, the two asked the old Taoist priest and apprentice to lead the way, and went out of the city to the village where the missing and dead people were first missing to check the situation.

Everything has a source. Although so many days have passed, the bat spirit beast may have left the place where it first appeared, but if some clues can be found, it will still be very beneficial for the follow-up investigation.

After the four of them left the city, Xu Chen let go of his consciousness to find the village that the old Taoist said, and threw the flying sword directly, enveloping the two masters and apprentices with vitality.

There is indeed a small village here, with more than a dozen farm houses scattered sparsely, and the crops in the fields are also growing well.However, no one could be seen in the whole village, and every house had its doors and windows open, and there was still a rancid smell in the air.

People are still in the air, Xu Chen's spiritual sense has long seen the situation in the village and the surroundings clearly. There is indeed no one in the village, and all the people have gone to the empty houses. In addition, there are human and animal corpses that have fallen to the ground. rot.

The whole village is full of strangeness and tranquility, really like a ghost village.

The four of them landed on the ground, the old Taoist priest and the young apprentice hadn't recovered from the shock, they were still trembling while standing on the ground.

Xu Chen carefully searched the entire village for two miles, but found no spirit beast aura, so he enlarged the scope of his consciousness again, covering the entire barren hill behind the village, searching like a grate, and suddenly his consciousness came Jumping, I felt a familiar atmosphere in a cave in a valley on the side of the barren mountain.

Lan You also found this cave almost at the same time, the two of them touched each other with their consciousness, and then quickly retreated separately.

Xu Chen's heart fluttered for a while, but Lan You's cheeks turned red all of a sudden.

This inadvertent touch of spiritual consciousness was like two naked people meeting each other and saying hello, it was so exciting.

Under normal circumstances, when cultivators communicate with each other, they will release vitality to protect the sea of ​​consciousness, just like people wearing clothes.

But if they forget, they will see each other's soul.

Of course, this so-called seeing is actually a subconscious feeling, as if it can penetrate the other party's mind. This is purely a kind of mind touch, the deepest level of soul communication, which is far clearer than pure physical contact. In an instant, it will be engraved in the memory to form a brand.

"Ahem, Fellow Daoist Lan, it seems that we didn't come in vain. We should have found the location of the soul beast!" Xu Chen coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment.

Lan You lowered her head and said softly: "That's true. The soul beast should be in the cave. It's not too late. Let's kill it, so we can get on the road as soon as possible!"

"Okay!" Xu Chen nodded, and said to the old Taoist master and apprentice: "We have found the hiding place of the soul beast, and we are going to kill it. Your master and apprentice are waiting here first. If you are afraid, you can leave and return to the city first! "

The old Taoist was very excited when he heard it, and said: "Can the two immortal masters bring the old Taoist to open your eyes? The ancestor of my Changchun temple was also an immortal, and his cultivation reached the real yuan realm. I heard that he also visited Taiyuan gate. I have learned fairy art."

Xu Chen was surprised when he heard this, and said, "The cultivation base of the True Origin Realm is already very good, and you even went to my Taiyuan Gate, so it seems that it is indeed some fate to meet you this time."

The old Taoist said with surprise on his face: "It turns out that the two of you are also immortal masters from the Taiyuan Sect."

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "I am a disciple of the Taiyuan Sect, but this Fellow Daoist Lan is a senior disciple of the Yuqing Palace."

The old Taoist was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Forgive me, the two immortal masters. The old Taoist knows Taiyuanmen, but he didn't know that there is Yuqing Palace."

Xu Chen smiled and said: "It's okay if you don't know, let's kill this soul beast first, so as not to be noticed and escape. Since you want to go and have a look, you can go and see it. When you arrive, don't get too close, otherwise you are afraid of accidents, go away Bar!"

Xu Chen spoke of a volume of vitality, wrapped in the old Taoist master and his apprentice, and stepped forward with swords, followed by Lan You, two rays of light soared into the sky, and went straight to the valley on the side of the barren mountain.

(End of this chapter)