Pawn Crossing the River

In the next few days, Qi Xuansu walked through several major branch palaces without stopping. Accompanied by the main person in charge of the branch palace, he inspected each branch palace and made various speeches, either encouraging or criticizing.

According to the established schedule, he finally returned to the main palace on the fourth day and checked Xiao Yin's homework. Then on the fifth day, he taught in person and paid extra attention to Yan Yongyi and Xu Xinghuan.

Yan Yongyi was fine. Although Xu Xinghuan looked more docile and far less strong than Yan Yongyi, he actually understood some worldly ways and took the initiative to visit Qi Xuansu.

As soon as the two met, Xu Xinghuan congratulated Qi Xuansu: "Master Qi has reached a higher level."

Qi Xuansu showed the calmness of an elder: "Let's make progress together."

In fact, Xu Xinghuan had long been instructed by his father Xu Dacheng to meet Qi Xuansu, but Qi Xuansu was too hurried to Xiangzhou and just missed it.

Qi Xuansu was still busy attending the Taoist Palace meeting, and did not chat with Xu Xinghuan much, but he still fully expressed his intention to get close to her. The best way to cultivate confidants is to go the secretary route. After Chen Jianchou, it is Yan Yongzhen, and Yan Yongzhen will eventually be sent out.

When Yan Yongzhen is sent out, Xu Xinghuan will almost be promoted to the third-rank Taoist priest. If it is suitable, he can take over Yan Yongzhen's job, just like Liu Hu took over Ke Qingqing's job.

As for Yan Yongyi, Qi Xuansu is not prejudiced, nor does he look down on her because the Yan family is weaker than the Xu family. The key is that she is a female Taoist priest.

Although Qi Xuansu does not mind contacting some older female Taoist priests, he regards himself as a junior and gets along with them more casually, but Qi Xuansu is very afraid of female Taoist priests of the same age and generation. Except for Yao Pei and Shi Yu, who are more or less related, or Ning Yuqing, who has to deal with colleagues, he is generally unwilling to have too deep contact with them, for fear that some rumors will spread and ruin his reputation.

Who makes the current moral weapon so easy to use? Everyone wants to wave it a few times. His position is so critical that I don't know how many people are watching him and want to make articles for him. Although he is not afraid, he will not be killed with his status and position, but there is no need to test whether the moral sword is sharp.

The disadvantage of doing this is that Zhang Yuelu is dragged down. Many people say that Zhang Yuelu is really domineering, and even Qi Xuansu is obedient. If it were another man, I dare not think how miserable it would be. But Zhang Yuelu doesn't care about this. Her reputation has been "bad" for a long time. She doesn't worry about too many debts and too many lice. Let him go.

Finally, after dealing with these miscellaneous Taoist palace affairs, Qi Xuansu explained to Yan Yongzhen properly, and officially began to retreat and dreamed of Lingshan.

It was still the familiar message from Qi Niang. Qi Xuansu came to the old place with ease and met Shi Hengbo.

Behind her are eleven totems symbolizing eleven witches.

The totems of Wu Di, Wu Zhen, Wu Lu, and Wu Xiang were upgraded to the sixth scale, the totems of Wu Ji, Wu Fan, Wu Yang, and Wu Xian were upgraded to the seventh scale, the totems of Wu Luo and Wu Gu were upgraded to the eighth scale, and Wu Peng's totem reached the ninth scale, which was also the only totem that was fully filled.

The fully upgraded totem of Wu Peng allowed Qi Xuansu to obtain the inheritance from Wu Peng, mainly the five elements formation and the manipulation of earth energy.

In summary, Qi Xuansu's inheritance of the scattered man, the martial man, the witch, the Qi refiner, and the exiled immortal were already in the stage of creation, and only the alchemist inheritance was still in the infinite stage, which was the only shortcoming.

Qi Xuansu directly infused the totem with the divine power of "Xuan Yu".

To Qi Xuansu's surprise, this "Xuan Yu" was quite pure, and it mainly acted on Wu Zhen's totem, making it directly upgrade from the sixth scale to the ninth scale, becoming the second fully upgraded totem after Wu Peng's totem.

Qi Xuansu remembered very clearly that Wu Zhen was one of the four great witches who fell in Lingshan Dongtian, and Lingshan Dongtian was also the base camp controlled by the Yao family.

Qi Xuansu even suspected that the "Xuanyu" of the Yao family was extracted from Wu Zhen's corpse, and the blood in the "Xuanyu" was the real blood of the great witches.

The difference is that the blood in most ordinary "Xuanyu" is imitated by the creation engineering, just like imitating the blood of the candle dragon and other things. The Taoist sect does have such ability, but after all, it is an imitation, and it is impossible to be exactly the same as the real thing. It is mixed and impure. The imitation blood is more like a mixed blood. Therefore, after absorbing a piece of "Xuanyu", the totem scale of several great witches will be improved. Even Li Changge, an acquired immortal who has nothing to do with the inheritance of the great witch, can use "Xuanyu".

But the "Xuanyu" provided by the Yao family is too pure, without a trace of overflow, and accurately improves Wu Zhen's totem. When thinking about the remains of Wu Zhen that Qi Xuansu had seen before, it is not surprising to have such an association and speculation.

Qi Xuansu recalled the three murals he had seen in Lingshan Cave Heaven.

In the first mural, Wu Zhen sat on a huge throne, like a giant, wearing a robe with strange patterns and a bronze mask covering her face. There were many figures around her feet, not even as tall as the armrests of the throne. Some were kneeling and bowing their heads in prayer, some were prostrating themselves, and some were standing with their hands raised, looking at Wu Zhen devoutly, as if waiting for Wu Zhen's blessing.

In the second mural, Wu Zhen was still sitting on the throne, pretending to take off the bronze mask covering her face. The reactions of those figures were different. Some were extremely frightened and fled in all directions, while some were overjoyed and seemed to be looking forward to this moment.

In the third mural, Wu Zhen took off the bronze mask on his face. Wu Zhen's face was dark, as if shrouded in shadows. And those people around Wu Zhen, whether they were terrified or overjoyed, their outlines became dotted lines, which seemed to mean that they turned into shadows.

At that time, Qi Niang gave an explanation that Wu Zhen was the master of the "Shadow Realm" and these people were taken into the Shadow Realm by Wu Zhen.

Wu Zhen had been dead for many years. Even if his remains were somewhat magical, they were at most comparable to Wu Luo's incarnation. What's more, Wu Zhen's remains had been absorbed by the "Bone Mirror" for most of its power, leaving only some debris, which was really not worth mentioning.

But there was a variable here, that is, the Shadow Realm.

It was precisely because of the existence of the Shadow Realm that Wu Zhen had the possibility of resurrection, so that the successor Tianshi had to seal it in two parts. His soul sank into the illusion of the last battle and could not extricate himself. The remains were placed on the throne and suppressed by the "Bone Mirror".

This is also one of the reasons why the Earth Master did not take away the "Bone Mirror", and in the end it benefited Qi Niang.

Qi Xuansu and Qi Niang joined forces but failed to completely destroy Wu Zhen. Instead, they used "evil fire" and "shebi corpse poison" to accelerate Wu Zhen's collapse. Because of the lack of "bone mirror" to suppress him, he finally returned to the shadow world.

Qi Xuansu got Wu Zhen's inheritance at this time. First of all, he made a huge improvement in realm cultivation, making up for the last shortcoming, and the alchemist inheritance finally entered the stage of creation.

This stage corresponds to the Yang God realm. Yin gods can shed their shells and travel, invisible to human eyes, invisible and intangible, with a soul and many weaknesses, while Yang gods are no different from living people, fearless of sky light, sky wind, sky thunder, flying in the sky and hiding in the ground, immortal, and can be regarded as a model of Yin extreme Yang. The most critical point is that after reaching this realm, the alchemist inheritance is finally no longer suppressed by the blood of the warrior inheritance.

However, many of the methods of ghost immortals are not good at fighting with others, and are more auxiliary means.

After the warrior inheritance reaches the broken void realm, the greatest magical power is to shake the void, which is most suitable for fighting with others. Other inheritances, such as the Three Corpses Realm, the Dao Merger Realm, the Dao Fruit Realm, etc., are all omnipotent means. They can be used to fight with others and for other purposes. It all depends on how to use them. Only the alchemist inheritance has gone to the other extreme of the warrior inheritance. It is mainly used for other purposes and is not suitable for fighting with others.

The characteristic of a warrior is that he attaches great importance to the body and takes the body as the foundation of everything. He even does not hesitate to unite the body and soul, making the soul a part of the body. As the opposite of the warrior, the alchemist despises the body and regards the body as clothes.

After reaching the Yang Shen realm, the body can be abandoned. The Yang Shen exists independently. In addition, the thoughts are scattered. The alchemist has quite a lot of means to save his life. Under the same realm, it is not difficult to defeat the alchemist, but it is difficult to kill the alchemist completely.

The Yang Shen can also reincarnate again. In essence, it takes advantage of the fetus in the belly before the soul is condensed to occupy the fetus. In this way, "reincarnation" will only cause confusion in the fetus, forgetting the past and present lives. If you are lucky, you can remember the past. If you are unlucky, you will be confused all your life.

Many child prodigies who were born with knowledge and died young were actually possessed by alchemists. The reason for their early death was that their skin was just an appearance, and the three corpse gods inside attacked their lives, and their life span was over.

After reaching the Yang Shen realm of the pseudo-immortal stage, the mystery of the fetus can be solved. This is different from the celestial immortal clone. After all, the celestial immortal clone is separated by a world, and the alchemist himself is in this world, so it is relatively easy to solve the mystery of the fetus. If you don’t want to start as a baby, you can also parasitize, pretend to be an old senior who helps others, cultivate a suitable container, eat away at it little by little, and finally complete the possession of others.

After becoming an immortal, you are no longer limited to "reincarnation" as a fetus, and you can even skip the process of parasitism and cannibalism, and directly forcibly possess others, truly making the skin like clothes. Even when fighting with others, you can also possess others. Ordinary people only see a flash of light and shadow, but they can’t pass through the body, and the skin has already changed its owner.

From this point of view, alchemists are best at staying alive.

But for Qi Xuansu, it was a bit useless. He couldn't bear to give up his own body. Without his body, what would he have left?

In addition, several other inheritances also benefited and improved, but they were still quite far from the pseudo-immortal stage.

The key is the magical power brought by Wu Zhen's totem.

If Wu Peng is the great witch of earth, then Wu Zhen is the great witch of shadow.

She is the master of the shadow world and is good at "shadow art".

The so-called "shadow art" is to copy the shadow of a real object, and then use the shadow as a means to fight the enemy, which can be regarded as making a fake real in a sense.

In those days, Yao Zu "collected" the shadow of Tianshou Mountain, collected it in his sleeves, and released the shadow of the mountain when fighting with others, as if the real mountain fell from the sky. This is also related to cultivation. If a three-tribulation immortal moves the shadow of Kunlun Mountain, or copies the shadow of a big river or a long river, I am afraid that no one in the world can stop the power of the mountain and river.

Different from the powerful but temporarily unusable Five Elements Formation, Qi Xuansu's cultivation level allows him to use the "Shadow Technique". If he cannot imprint Kunlun, he can just imprint a small mountain, which is more flexible.