Chapter 55: Who is the superior one?

  "What's wrong?" I put on my boots.

  "Look." The gunner pointed forward.

  I tied up my shoelaces and looked up to finally understand why Jin Gang Cannon stuttered.

  Originally, I didn't know when, on the pile of rubble in front of us, a dense and dark cluster of ghosts and spirits had gathered. The soul energy's clothing presented characteristics of different eras, with all dynasties represented, but no modernly dressed ghosts were found.

  I and Jingang Cannon hastily drew out our magical tools on guard. For ghostly creatures, guns and explosives are of no use.

  "Lao Yu, why are they standing still?" Jin Gang Pao glanced at the dark shadows in front of him and asked me with a tilted head.

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  #119 Reply to the author: Wind and Clouds Chasing the Ninth Autumn Reply Date: 2011-10-18 20:06:00 "I don't know if you've noticed, but many of the ghostly spirits' transformed weapons look like magical artifacts" In front of him, a sea of dark souls numbering over a hundred stretched out. Among those in the front row, two ghosts held soul energy-transformed feather dusters, while another ghost resembling a monk grasped a staff made of dark energy.

  "It's over, it's over. Weren't they supposed to be small fries? How come they're all formidable characters?" Jin Gang Pao's voice was trembling.

  "Don't scare yourself, although the attire looks like a monk's, but there is only soul energy and not much spiritual energy on his head. White Wolf, come closer." I gave White Wolf the command to approach.

  The white wolf two steps away didn't move.

  I focused my attention and saw that the white wolf was lying on the ground, with a deep blue spiritual energy extending from its head, about three inches away, blocking us and the many dark souls between us.

  "The divine consciousness of the three yin has awakened, it is protecting us!" I finally knew why the hundreds of vengeful spirits were stagnant.

  "What you said is good or bad?" The same name confused Jin Gang Pao.

  I pointed at the white wolf's head without saying a word.

  "Old Ou, how can he control these vengeful spirits?" Jin Gang Cannon gripped his gun tightly.

  "The reason why San Yin Bi Shui is called San Yin is that it originally belongs to the three realms of pure yin, and it can maintain the corpse of a wind path person for thousands of years without rotting by relying on its own spiritual energy. It's imaginable how heavy its own yin energy is, these yin souls are not as yin as it." I analyzed continuously from beginning to end.

  "What are these disheveled ghosts doing here?" Jin Gang Pao still felt a lingering fear as he faced the hundreds of ghosts in front of him. Although he had previously claimed to not be afraid of ghosts, that was only when referring to one or two.

  "I thought there might be some ordinary vengeful spirits chasing after the dragon's tail to absorb its energy, but it seems that's not the case. This place is likely a prison!" I looked at White Wolf with concern and found that his body had already started trembling slightly.

  "Prison? Who's going in?" Jin Gang Cannon widened his eyes.

  "It must be some of those who abuse Taoist principles and use their skills for evil purposes." I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat as I thought back to some of my previous actions.

  "Lao Yu, look at the soul energy of those things, mixed with a hint of dark red, it's coming from the dead water pond, isn't that the work of the three-yin evil spirit!" Jin Gang Pao finally had a moment of clarity.

  "It's very likely!" Bai Lang's situation was getting worse and worse, after all, the three yin energies had already lost their original form, the spiritual energy emitted by his soul was getting weaker and weaker, and the amplitude of Bai Lang's tremors was also increasing.

  "Old cow, get ready to start!" I shouted loudly, and the spiritual energy in my body dispersed, trying to replace the exhausted Triple Yin Water. Unexpectedly, Triple Yin Water seemed to be competing with someone and refused to withdraw its spiritual energy.

  "Lao Yu, your dog wants to commit suicide!" Jin Gang Pao also saw that San Yin Bi Shui's own spiritual energy was about to be exhausted and was trying to extract the true yuan from Bai Lang's body.

  "My grass, this stupid thing has risen to a good victory, only wanting to fight with its own kind to the death, but it forgot that it no longer has a dragon body, and the true yuan of the white wolf can't withstand its reckless behavior." I'm so anxious, beasts are just beasts, even after cultivating for thousands of years, their IQ is still not enough.

  "Hey, what are you doing here?" Just as I was frantically turning around, a human voice actually came from the dark souls.

  I turned around to see that the black madwoman who had been our guide during the day had actually walked through the thick phalanx of ghosts and was walking straight towards us, while the numerous ghosts seemed completely indifferent to her.

  "What the heck are you?" The cannon in Jin Gang's hand was raised.

  Hei Fēngzi slowly approached the blue gas wall condensed from the three yin evil spirits, looked at it and then turned to look at Bai Lang, shook his head and actually passed through the gas wall to our front, with the gray scarf I gave her in the daytime still hanging around her neck.

  "Little brother, is it you?" Her head had a person's anger, so I was sure she was human.

  Hei Feng Zi didn't say a word, walked up to me and used both hands to brush aside the hair covering her eyes, stared at me for a while, then shook her head.

  "Wow, where did your sword come from?" Hei Fengzi suddenly discovered that Jinqiang was holding the Ganjiang ancient sword.

  "Get back a bit, don't get hurt." Jin Gang Pao replied with his regained composure, kindly reminding her.

  Hei Fengzi didn't respond, and instead reached out to grab the Qiang from Jin Gang's hand.

  "Don't be rude again!" Jin Gang Pao was startled by her and loudly scolded her.

  "Old Cow gave it to her, let's see what she wants to do?" I said solemnly. A crazy woman appearing in the middle of the night in this situation was definitely not a coincidence. The main thing was that she had appeared from this side of the mountain stream, and during the day, Jin Gang Pao and I had already searched up and down, and other places were impossible to pass through, so I was very suspicious about how she had come over.

  "Old upon..." Jin Gang cannon wanted to say something, but was stopped by my gaze. Gan Jiang is originally an ancient sharp weapon, with a very heavy yang energy, if she really is some kind of ghost or demon, the first one to suffer would be herself.

  Jin Gang didn't let go, but Hei Fengzi suddenly wielded the dry spear with a few swift and elegant sword flowers. Unfortunately, he was wearing a tattered cotton-padded jacket, which made him look slightly strange. After a few swings, Hei Fengzi rushed towards me with the dry spear in hand, and as he approached, he stretched out his hand to grab the feather duster from my hand.

  The golden cannon god on the side took out the divine turtle cannon with an ominous expression.

  But what happened next left me even more bewildered. Hei Feng Zi took the duster from my hand and threw it aside, then placed a hilt in my right hand and grasped my arm to pose in a downward sword stance. He himself retreated several steps to examine me, and after a long while finally spoke up: "Are you him?"

  "Who is he?" I asked in shock, turning around to see that White Wolf had already rolled his eyes back and was foaming at the mouth. In a state of urgency, I put down my spear and grasped the Soul-Sealing Spell, intending to seal the soul of San Yin Bi Shui back into its body.

  "Ah..." The black-haired boy standing beside me saw the finger gestures on my left hand and suddenly burst into tears. "I've finally found you!"

  I didn't have time to bother with her nonsense, my priority was still to save my white wolf "Yanmo Luo Wang, order the nine hells, don't lose your soul..." Who would have thought that I hadn't even finished reciting my soul-sealing incantation when the black lunatic on the side suddenly reached out with his left hand and actually grabbed Three Yin Bi Shui's soul from the white wolf's body. As soon as Three Yin Bi Shui's soul left the white wolf's body, the blue energy wall also dissipated. And outside the energy wall, a swarm of dark souls rushed in.

  "My grass, this madman is going to get us killed." Jin Gang Pao cursed loudly and picked up the Jiuyang Brush on the ground, preparing to face the enemy. I also stood up with Gan Jiang in hand after seeing that Bai Lang was not seriously injured.

  At this moment, something even more unexpected happened. Hei Fengzi's left hand grasped the soul of San Yin Bi Shui, without lifting his head, his right hand stretched out, and a purple gas wall suddenly appeared between us and the yin souls. Hei Fengzi let out a light shout again, raised his hand, and a strong purple gas surged out like a tide, instantly dispersing hundreds of yin souls into the dead water pond.

  "Violet energy!"

  "Violet energy!"

  I and Jin Gang Pao simultaneously exclaimed, our sect's disciples are over a thousand, but only nine of the Three Saints' personally taught students have truly reached the purple spiritual energy. And Hei Feng Zi just used something similar to our sect's Soul Locking Spell and Demon Expelling Spell, except without reciting the incantation, not even using hand seals.

  "Don't kill it!" Just as we were still in shock, Hei Kuang grabbed the left hand of San Yin Bi's soul with a purple aura, and I immediately spoke out to stop him.

  "It's bad, it will kill your dog." Hei Fengzi turned his head to look at the white wolf, and then looked at the struggling soul of San Yin Bi Shui in his hand.

  "It's my friend, just without a body, you'd better put it back quickly." I said cautiously, pointing to her left hand.

  "Send it back and your dog won't survive." Hei Fengzi pointed at the withered white wolf beside him.

  "Is it also your friend?" Hei Fēngzi pointed at Hei Shui.

  "That's not it, absolutely not!" Jin Gang Pao finally came back to his senses from the shock, saying in a serious tone.

  Hei Fengzi didn't say a word either, took a few steps forward, and the purple energy in his right hand shot out again, directly at the black water. After a moment, he closed his eyes.

  "Lao Yu, is she a goddess?" The scene in front of him was so unbelievable that Jin Gang was completely stunned.

  "Not like that." I shook my head and said uncertainly. During the day, I had also taken a look at her aura, there was nothing special about it, her spiritual energy was very short, standard weak-mindedness.

  "Is her Taoist skills the same as what we learned?" Jingang Cannon gazed at Hei Fengzi, who was standing with his eyes closed and his hand raised to control his breath.

  "It's like yet not like." I nodded and shook my head at the same time. Hei Fengzi's current technique seemed to be using both the Soul Searching Spell and the Mountain Moving Spell, but I had never known that these two spells could be cast simultaneously.

  "Don't you know what's in your head?" The Golden Cannon pointed at my head again.

  "Damn it, how can I know everything? Why don't you ask me what he used to wipe his butt back then?" I retorted at Jin Gang Pao. The memories of Cheng Feng Dao Ren in my mind have always been fragmented and incomplete.

  "Oh my goodness..."

  Jīn gāng pào měng rán zhī jiān dà jiào qǐ lái.

  Translation: The diamond cannon suddenly let out a loud shout.

  I turned back to see that the black madman on the shore had flipped his palm, and a purple gas burst out, actually pulling out the "Three Yin Water" hidden underwater from a distance of several feet.

  "Finish it off quickly." Jin Gang Pao shouted, pointing at the "Three Yin Water Breaker" struggling on the surface of the water, trying to break free from the purple gas's control.

  Hei Fengzi didn't turn around, his left hand's San Yin Bi Shui soul was thrown out with a flick of his wrist, and his right hand's five fingers were curled up, the movement extremely swift. Before the sound of the Golden Cannon had even faded away, Hei Fengzi had already turned around, holding another "San Yin Bi Shui" soul in his hand, and asked, "Do you want this one?"

  "No, no." I waved my hands with Jin Gang Pao. The three-yin water gun in Hei Feng Zi's hand was much more ferocious than the previous one, and its beastly nature was even more violent.

  Hei Fengzi didn't hesitate either, and a purple energy burst out from his right hand. His five fingers suddenly clenched together!

  "Blue." Amidst the thick and thin of the Golden Cannon, in the midst of busyness, he caught a glimpse of the three yin breaking water that was falling into the dead water. The original three yin breaking water that was lurking in this dark abyss had a dark red aura.

  "A great kindness is not to be thanked, dare I ask the senior's Taoist name!" I solemnly thanked the black madman who was clapping his hands. The black madman had such a high and profound cultivation, yet he hid it so deeply. Not only did he resolve the urgent crisis for both of us, but he also settled one of my heart's concerns.

  "What did you say?" Hei Fengzi looked bewildered.

  I exchanged a glance with Jin Gang Pao, neither of us understanding whether she was genuinely foolish or just pretending to be.

  "You, you, you..." Hei Fengzi finally spoke up, and I and Jin Gang Pao hurriedly pricked up our ears to listen.

  "Do you have anything to eat? I'm hungry..."