Mortal Bones

"Yeah." Xiahou Qingyuan nodded, "One of the demon generals of Jiuyuan likes to turn the flesh and soul of the cultivators into tobacco, and then turn them into smoke puppets for his use."

"Sure enough, the ghosts in Xuanhuang Tower are evolved by Emperor Xuanhuang using the power of Jiuyuan."

Xiahou You murmured.

"Xu Taiping, these people are all following you, why don't you save them?"

At this moment, a sharp shout suddenly sounded in the spirit mirror.

But this voice obviously did not come from Xu Taiping, let alone from the ghosts.

"Is it someone from Bajing Dao Palace?!"

After a little thought, Xiahou Qingyuan and his sister said almost in unison.

"This Bajing Dao Palace is still not giving up, and still wants to alienate Master Taiping and the monks who climbed the tower."

Xiahou You said with a bit of anger on his face.

"The person who spoke should be the deputy palace master of Bajing Dao Palace named Liu Qingyuan."

Xiahou Qingyuan frowned at this time.

"Second brother, do you know him?"

Xiahou You turned his head and looked at Xiahou Qingyuan.

"I don't know him, but I heard a long time ago that the deputy palace master of the Eight Scenery Palace, who is in charge of the affairs of the lower world, is ruthless and will do anything to achieve his goals. Even if his own cultivation has reached the Heaven-asking Realm, he still prefers to use some shameless means to plot against others."

Xiahou Qingyuan said with a little disdain.

"No wonder he can damage the reputation of the Eight Scenery Palace and alienate Master Taiping and the monks who enter the tower."

Xiahou You nodded.

"It's good that no one mentioned it just now. Now that he shouted like this, if Xu Taiping doesn't save him, everyone will definitely have a gap in their hearts."

Xiahou Qingyuan looked back at the spiritual mirror in front of him.

"But if we go to rescue Master Taiping, he may not be the opponent of the old smoker."

Xiahou You looked worried.

Although she really wanted to see if Xu Taiping would have other choices, this choice did not include fighting the old smoker.

Just after the old smoker "ate" another disciple of Bajing Dao Palace, Xu Taiping, who had been silent all the time, suddenly looked up at the spiritual mirror in the air and said:

"This senior, it's not that I don't want to save you, it's just that the time has not come yet."

Hearing this, Xiahou You's mouth corners slightly raised, thinking:

"I didn't expect that Master Taiping would also joke."

When climbing the tower before, Xu Taiping was serious most of the time and rarely joked with others.

But she certainly didn't expect that Xu Taiping's words just now were not a joke, but his answer after careful consideration.

...

After a while.

"Ah ah!..."

With another scream, the head hanging on the waist of the old smoker was gone.

Instead, there was a row of white figures standing under his feet.

After answering Liu Qingyuan of Bajing Dao Palace, Xu Taiping just watched quietly until this moment.

"Watching helplessly as the people of Bajing Dao Palace were devoured by that old smoker, Xu Taiping really hated them. He even dared to ignore Bajing Dao Palace."

Mu Yuchen was shocked.

"Besides, he had no choice. It was impossible for the old smoker to be dealt with by the cultivators fighting alone."

Ji Ye shook his head helplessly.

In his opinion, Xu Taiping was more helpless against the old smoker than taking revenge on Bajing Dao Palace and warning the cultivators who would pass through the ninth floor of Xuanhuang Tower with him.

"If we do nothing, we can indeed take revenge on the Eight Scenery Palace and intimidate the monks from the Five Directions who will enter the tower together, but..."

Mu Yun paused halfway through his words, then reduced the image in the spirit mirror in front of him until Xu Taiping and the old smoker in the distance all appeared in the spirit mirror, and then continued:

"But this kind of intimidation will not convince the more than 300 monks who entered the tower with him. Once the moment of life and death comes, they are very likely to disobey orders."

Just one ghost king is so difficult to deal with. When they pass through the snowy area, they will face a hundred or even a thousand times more ghosts.

At that time, if the more than 300 monks who entered the tower together cannot work together, there is no chance of winning.

"According to what you said, if Xu Taiping wants to make these more than 300 monks willingly accept the dispatch, doesn't he have only one choice, which is to kill the old smoker?"

Mu Yuchen curled her lips.

She felt that Mu Yun was thinking too complicated.

"Sister is right, you are overthinking, and Brother Taiping can't possibly..."

"Boom!..."

Before Ji Ye finished speaking, he was interrupted by a burst of air from the spirit mirror.

Immediately, the three of them looked at the spirit mirror.

In the spirit mirror, after the old smoker took the last puff of his cigarette, Xu Taiping, who had been watching the battle from a distance, suddenly broke through the air like lightning.

The direction was exactly the old smoker a few miles away.

"He... this madman... really... really intends to kill the old smoker!"

After being stunned for a few breaths, Mu Yun suddenly stood up and said.

Immediately afterwards, the old smoker in the spirit mirror waved his sleeves and slapped the billowing smoke like a cloud towards Xu Taiping.

When he was about to collide with Xu Taiping, dozens of extremely strong arms suddenly stretched out from the white smoke, and they all clenched their fists and slapped Xu Taiping with their palms.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by a deafening collision sound, in the midst of everyone's astonishment, Xu Taiping's figure turned into a fist shadow, and with one punch, he blew away the dozens of sturdy arms and the cloud-like smoke.

"Shua!"

Before everyone could exclaim, Xu Taiping's figure appeared above the old smoker's head like lightning in a flash.

In a hurry, the old smoker suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a cloud of white smoke, blocking Xu Taiping.

"Shua!..."

And with the sound of a knife ringing, Xu Taiping's figure turned into a knife shadow again, and with a "Shua", he chopped the white smoke apart with a knife.

"Bang!"

When there was no more obstruction in front of the old smoker, Xu Taiping did not put away his knife and change his moves, but instead separated a Xuanyuan clone that had already set up a fist stance, and hit the old smoker heavily with a "Ba Xia" style.

"Bang!——"

As a fierce and swift fist shadow appeared, the huge figure of the old smoker was hit by a punch, and his feet flew up and down, until he rolled and slid thousands of feet before stopping.

And Xu Taiping's Xuanyuan clone also shattered with a bang when he hit the old smoker with a punch.

"He... he didn't lie to the Bajing Dao Palace just now... He really didn't want to save him, but was waiting for the opportunity!"

After a long time, Ji Ye slowly stood up.

Mu Yuchen on the side murmured in disbelief:

"Could it be that he really planned to... planned to kill the old smoker?"