Taiping Inn

Wuzhou is mountainous and is the first of the 19 states in the world. According to the "Taiping Guangji", there are more than 800 peaks over 300 feet in Wuzhou. There are many mountains and forests, so many places are rarely visited.

At this time, on a deserted mountain, a middle-aged man sat cross-legged, with an abacus placed horizontally on his knees. It was made of jade, rectangular in shape, with straight columns inside, commonly known as "stages", with a total of 15 stages, with beams across the stages, two beads on the beams, and five beads under the beams. Each abacus is crystal clear, the difference is that the two beads on the beams are black, and the five beads under the beams are white. The whole abacus looks like an irregular and asymmetrical black and white fish.

At this time, the man was turning the abacus, like a shopkeeper who was counting accounts, and the abacus beads kept making crisp sounds under his fingers.

Today is the beginning of autumn, July 21st, which is the wedding day of Yan Feiqing of the Zhengyi Sect and Su Yun'an of the Cihang Sect. He has missed the wedding ceremony. In fact, for him, whether to watch the ceremony or not is not important. The key is whether he can go to the Zhengyi Sect and successfully meet the great heavenly master Zhang Jingxiu.

This person is none other than Shen Wuyou, the leader of Taiping Sect, ranked fifth on the Taixuan List, and known as Mr. Shen in the Jianghu. On his way to Yunjin Mountain, he was stopped by the leader of Zaoge Sect, Old Man Zang, with the "Ghost Miasma Yin Lock". After a long battle, Shen Wuyou finally broke through Old Man Zang's "Ghost Miasma Yin Lock" and headed for Yunjin Mountain. But when he was less than thirty miles away from Yunjin Mountain, he suddenly had an idea and asked for a fortune. The result was a bad omen, which meant that if he insisted on going to the Great Immortal Mansion in Yunjin Mountain, he might die on the spot before he even saw the Great Heavenly Master Zhang Jingxiu. So he had to change direction and come here, and at the same time hoped that the "idle piece" he accidentally dropped at the beginning would become the key to this breakthrough.

What made Shen Wuyou even more worried was that this hexagram indicated that the Great Immortal Mansion was not safe either, so there was a great possibility that the Earth Master came to Yunjin Mountain in person and took advantage of the opportunity of the Zhengyi Sect's banquet to sneak in, but the Zhengyi Sect turned a blind eye to it, which confirmed another possibility, that is, the original body of the Great Heavenly Master Zhang Jingxiu might not be in the Great Immortal Mansion at this time. If the Earth Master Xu Wugui took the opportunity to attack, the Zhengyi Sect would be too busy to take care of other things.

Shen Wuyou suddenly thought of his old father. Before he went to the Imperial Capital, he didn't know if he had a premonition. Before leaving, he said a lot of trivial words for the first time. Unlike before, those words were not mysterious, but extremely straightforward, which made Shen Wuyou remember them clearly.

Now thinking back, those trivial words seemed to be explaining the affairs after death, and they could be regarded as last words.

Then he thought of Madam Lu and Shen Changsheng. Shen Changsheng was not Shen Wuyou's son, but was adopted and raised by Shen Wuyou since he was a child, so he could be regarded as an adopted son. It's not that Shen Wuyou didn't want to make many things clear to Shen Changsheng, but Shen Wuyou felt that Shen Changsheng shouldn't bear too many responsibilities that didn't belong to him. In this entanglement, Shen Changsheng didn't go to Taiping Sect for the first time until Shen Wuyou left Taiping Inn.

As for Madam Lu, she owed too much, so it's better not to mention it.

As a person who is proficient in divination, Shen Wuyou believes that cause and effect are predetermined, so he rarely recalls the past, but this time he has a hunch that he probably can't go back to Luzhou.

At this time, a rolling black gas appeared in the sky, and then it quickly approached this mountain like a tide. Accompanied by the cries of countless wronged souls, a "black armored cavalry" composed entirely of wronged souls came in the air.

Shen Wuyou sighed and knew that it was Old Man Zang who arrived.

The reason why Zaoge Sect was able to despise the entire world with the power of a sect back then shows how powerful Zaoge Sect is. As long as there are enough "materials", one person is an army. Xu Wugui knew this very well, and dared not relax the control over Zaoge Sect, fearing that this wild wolf that could not be tamed would bite him back. Therefore, although Xu Wugui was an ally of Old Man Zang in the matter of Taiyin Corpse, he only helped symbolically, and even took the initiative to put pressure on Old Man Zang to make him stop. But now, the situation in the martial arts world has changed, so Xu Wugui has to do his best. At this time, there is an external threat from the righteous path, so Xu Wugui no longer deliberately restrains Zaoge Sect, but instead vigorously supports Zaoge Sect. With the accumulation of Yinyang Sect for many years, it is naturally not comparable to Zaoge Sect, which was rebuilt after being destroyed. Therefore, Old Man Zang not only restored his realm and cultivation in a very short time, but also went to a higher level. It's like Xu Wugui loosened the iron chain in his hand. Although the wild wolf can't be tamed, he will still give priority to the enemy between the enemy and the master.

In a blink of an eye, this black cavalry composed of wronged souls had already approached Shen Wuyou and stopped in the air. Black clouds rolled and black fog was thick. A pair of blood-red eyes shone through the fog, staring at Shen Wuyou.

In the heavy crowd of black cavalry, there was an ancient bronze chariot pulled by sixteen black horses. There was a canopy on the chariot and a throne inside the chariot. An old Tibetan man in white sat on the throne, like an emperor on a tour.

The old Tibetan man said, "Shen Wuyou, why don't you go to Zhengyi Sect?"

Shen Wuyou did not answer, but continued to move the beads on the abacus, and a map of the Southern Dipper appeared out of thin air in front of him.

The so-called Beidou is the master of death, so there is the "Beidou Thirty-Six Swordsmanship" of the Qingwei Sect, which is not only the best swordmanship in the world, but also the best sword-controlling technique, which is mainly for killing; the Nandou is the master of life, from which a magical power is derived, called the "Nandou Twenty-Eight Formations", which can be used as a method of arranging formations, as well as a method of breaking formations, and can also be used for divination.

The twenty-eight beads move according to the heavenly stems and earthly branches.

The star map changes, and the seven stars in the east, south, west, and north are transformed into nine fields and nine skies, and stars appear in the daytime.

The star map corresponds to the stars and affects the power of the stars.

The seven stars of the Azure Dragon in the east, the seven stars of the White Tiger in the west, the seven stars of the Vermillion Bird in the south, and the seven stars of the Black Tortoise in the north all lit up at the same time. Then, the starlight seemed to fall like the Milky Way.

Circles of visible ripples spread out in all directions, as vast as the Yangtze River flowing eastward, unstoppable.

The sky and the earth suddenly became as bright as day. Under the light, the black clouds and black air on the sky rolled endlessly, as if a raging fire was burning filth. The faces of countless wronged souls who were originally hiding in the black air suddenly became blurred and shaky.

The old man snorted coldly and took out a folded black cassock from his sleeve. This was an unexpected gain when he stole the Buddha's bone relics. It was originally a relic of a high monk. After falling into his hands, it was refined and turned into a treasure to defend against enemies.

Without seeing how he moved, the cassock unfolded by itself and rose up. Every time the cassock rises one foot, the length and width of the cassock increases by one foot. When the cassock rises to a height of hundreds of feet, it has covered the sky and blocked the stars, preventing the power of the stars from falling.

After covering the stars, Shen Wuyou's star map lost most of its effect. Old Man Zang waved his hand again, and with the help of Xu Wugui, the "Nine Sons Mother Heavenly Ghost" that had been refined completely roared out.

There are a total of eighteen complete "Nine Sons Mother Heavenly Ghost". "Nine Mothers" are nine beauties who can do all kinds of temptations. If you are not determined and have a little heart, you will fall into a lot of illusions and cannot extricate yourself. In serious cases, your blood and qi will boil and your essence will be directly sucked away by them. "Nine Sons" are nine babies who come and go without a trace, are extremely fast, are good at sneak attacks, and like to suck essence and blood. The combination of the two is extremely powerful.

Eighteen sky ghosts whistled around Shen Wuyou.

Shen Wuyou moved eighteen abacus beads, and eighteen starlights shot out from the abacus, fixing the eighteen sky ghosts separately, making them temporarily immobile. Then Shen Wuyou stood up, took out a finely carved golden bird from the Xumi treasure, and threw it casually. The golden bird, which was originally only the size of a palm, grew in the wind and turned into a golden crow. With a flap of its wings, it was more than ten feet long, burning with raging fire all over its body, like a living thing, rushing straight into the rolling black air. Wherever the golden crow passed, the black fog melted, the black clouds dissipated, and the iron cavalry transformed by the wronged souls were burned into wisps of green smoke by the raging fire and dissipated in the world.

In a few breaths, a large blank space appeared in the originally thick black, and the edge where the black and the blank met was a very bright red, just like a piece of black paper that was burned into fragments, and there was still a little residual fire on the edge that was burned into black ash.

After a while, the Golden Crow's power was exhausted and slowly dissipated. There were few black riders left, only an ancient bronze chariot.

The old Tibetan sitting in the chariot snorted angrily, and the strange phenomena of heaven and earth changed again and again.

The black cassock that originally covered the heads of the two people turned into night, making this place seem like late at night. The ground under Shen Wuyou's feet became sticky and soft, like mud after rain, and like the internal organs of some animal, sticky and soft, as if it were a living thing, slightly wriggling.

Shen Wuyou looked down and saw that a black mist had appeared under his feet at some point, and it had even gradually spread over his feet, as if it was a street in a rainstorm season. Because the rainwater had no time to drain, it gradually formed water accumulation. At first glance, it looked more like a small river. Under this black air, countless lifelike faces protruded from the constantly squirming ground, and black air floated out. These faces closed their eyes tightly, with painful and hideous expressions, and stretched out their bloodless pale hands from the ground, trying to grab Shen Wuyou's ankles.

At the same time, countless murmurs sounded in Shen Wuyou's ears, as if they were telling about their sufferings in this life, and it was difficult to transcend, so that Shen Wuyou would feel sorry for them.

Shen Wuyou knew very well that after a person died, a little bit of his true spirit was annihilated, leaving behind a wisp of residual soul, only resentment and anger, just like a zombie after the corpse was raised, it was just a shell, and it had nothing to do with the person's life. The so-called suffering had long dissipated with the annihilation of the true spirit, and the so-called salvation of the dead by Buddhism and Taoism was just to remove it. At this time, these whispers were just a means for the old man to confuse people.

Shen Wuyou waved his sleeves to cut off the hands that wanted to grab him, his feet were suspended in the air, and he said calmly: "Master Zang is ranked fourth on the Taixuan List, and he really deserves it."