Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Xie Lingya was shocked. At the critical moment, Liu Lingtong showed himself.
The Ghost King reached out and took down Liu Lingtong. Xie Lingya felt a cold touch on his shoulder. He wanted to take Liu Lingtong back, but he still resisted the urge and held his breath to watch the next development – if the Ghost King wanted to swallow the cute Reporting God, he really couldn’t bear it anymore.
“I was just wondering why this place felt so weird. It turns out to be a little Liu Lingtong.” The Ghost King actually laughed a few times, and his voice was as cold as ice.
Liu Lingtong shivered and said: “My, your Majesty, please spare my life. I didn’t dare to look directly at the King’s majesty, so I hid, but I was still discovered by the King…”
The Ghost King asked: “What is your origin? It seems that you are not a natural wood spirit.”
Liu Lingtong whispered: “I was originally a willow incarnation of ghosts gathered by the river. I was picked up by someone to repay the gods. Later, because the information was all trivial, I was abandoned in the wilderness and now I am practicing alone.”
There were some incompetent Reporting Gods who could only tell the owner that they had eaten up some kitchen salt and that their wife should shave her legs, etc., but they couldn’t figure out much more, and the result was that the owner became angry and sold them off or threw them away.
But the Phytolacca God and Liu Lingtong, one of whom was an innate wood spirit and the other who was sacrificed by an expert, were not included in this list.
The Ghost King had no doubts. He didn’t even think that the little Liu Lingtong had the guts to lie to him. Thinking that he had scared it out, he was very proud and tied the Liu Lingtong to his ears.
He was tall and burly, so with the little Liu Lingtong hanging from his ears, his legs did not even touched his shoulders, which made him look even more compact.
The ghost king touched his ears to check on the Reporting God and was quite satisfied.
Xie Lingya was stunned. What do you mean? Is this ghost king planning to cultivate his ears to repay the gods? No… he’s already a ghost king, so does he still need Liu Lingtong’s forecasting technique? Or is he coveting how cute our Liu Lingtong is?
Liu Lingtong was no longer in danger, but Xie Lingya’s mentality was a bit broken.
While Xie Lingya was in a daze, the Ghost King had already walked away.
After the ghost king left, Xie Lingya did not tear up the little blue man, “What is up with the ghost king tying Liu Lingtong to his ears?”
Shi Changxuan was also a little helpless. He had just been watching the development nervously, but he did not expect this, “Follow him first. Okay.”
That’s all. Before the Ghost King disappeared, the two of them quietly followed behind.
….
The Ghost King floated towards the deep mountains. His speed was very even at first, but suddenly a flying talisman shot from the south and landed on the Ghost King’s chest. This was the Flying Talisman Recruitment. The Ghost King immediately followed the gust of wind and disappeared quickly.
This should be Pei Xiaoshan summoning the Ghost King. He wondered what he needed the Ghost King to do?
The bad thing was that he couldn’t keep up with him. Who knew where he was going. Xie Lingya was about to speed up and rush over there to see if he could catch up, when he suddenly heard a loud shout.
He and Shi Changxuan followed the sound together and saw a young man wearing a Taoist robe leaning against a rock. His eyes were rolled up, the whites of his eyes were exposed, his teeth were clenched, his cheeks were tense, and his body was constantly twitching.
“No, is it a ghost possession?” Xie Lingya took out a spiritual ancestor amulet and put it on the young man’s forehead.
The young man only paused for a moment, and his twitching became even greater.
Xie Lingya was shocked, “So powerful?”
Shi Changxuan looked at it for a while, frowned and said, “Maybe it’s an epileptic seizure.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
Looking at this appearance, he must be from a Taoist sect. He must be here to arrest Pei Xiaoshan.
Normally, epileptics recovered naturally after a seizure. The two men loosened his collar and helped him lie down on his side. In order to confirm the identity of this man, Shi Changxuan found a life-giving magic book on him.
This was what Zhengyi’s disciples were taught to carry by their master when they first started. There were many kinds of sees. This ability could protect the disciples once and drive away evil spirits. Moreover, the inscriptions of each sect were different, and an expert could know his origin at a glance.
Shi Changxuan glanced at him and said, “This is a junior brother of the Qingwei Sect.”
It took ten minutes for the Taoist priest of the Qingwei Sect to slowly wake up.
“You finally woke up,” Xie Lingya breathed a sigh of relief. “There’s no signal here, so we can’t call the emergency number.”
“Who are you…” he asked.
Judging by his accent, they could see he was not from Queshan, but he had connections within the Taoist sect, so Shi Changxuan revealed his identity.
“Thank you two senior brothers,” this man had just finished his attack and had not yet recovered. “My master, my master was captured by the ghost king, and there are other seniors…”
Pei Xiaoshan recruited the ghost king from all directions they had met, and there were three more.
The Taoist priest from the Qingwei sect introduced himself as Xiao Baiqing. When the Ghost King came, he suddenly fell ill because of the excessive stimulation. Then his master fought with the Ghost King and was captured. For some reason, the Ghost King just ignored him and didn’t care about him. Maybe he thought he was going to die.
Later, Xie Lingya found out that Xiao Baiqing had genetic epilepsy since he was a child. He had already controlled it well by taking medicine. But after he became a Taoist priest, when he saw the Ghost King, he was stimulated to have another seizure before the Ghost King did anything to him. Maybe the Ghost King just thought he was so unlucky that he didn’t care.
“Junior brother Xiao, don’t move here for now. We’ll go find the seniors. You’ll have to be sent to the hospital later.” Xie Lingya held him down to prevent him from moving and recruited a team of soldiers to guard him.
Although he had lost track of the Ghost King, Xiao Baiqing took out a compass from his arms, “This is the secret compass in our temple. It can find the direction of my master.”
He stuffed a piece of talisman paper into the small mechanism under the compass. Xie Lingya guessed that there might be things related to his master, such as hair, or birth dates.
The compass was originally used to read Feng Shui, but after so many years of Taoist alchemical development, Xiao Baiqing and his sect had come up with some fantastic ideas for finding people. Judging from his confident look, he should be on target.
Xie Lingya couldn’t read a compass, so he gave it to Shi Changxuan. After Shi Changxuan exchanged a few words with Xiao Baiqing, they took the compass to find the way.
After searching in the mountains for about half an hour, Shi Changxuan said: “We’re here.”
The two of them crept over a hillside and saw a slightly flat ground with seven or eight Taoist priests sitting there, with their hands tied with a rope, while the other end of the rope was connected to a tree nearby.
It was hard to see clearly from this angle. Xie Lingya lowered his head as much as possible and saw a few pairs of feet exposed under the tree canopy. His face suddenly became a bit ugly. What kind of posture could it be with the feet hanging under the tree? They were clearly a few hanged ghosts, tied to the tree. These Taoist priests were tied using hanging ropes.
The Hanged Ghost had a lot of resentment. Xie Lingya’s experience of dealing with the Hanged Ghost was not very pleasant. This scene reminded him again.
Looking next to him, he didn’t know where Pei Xiaoshan was. There were only four ghost kings gathered together. They ignored the bound Taoist priests and gathered together to look at the Liu Lingtong on the ear of one of the ghost kings.
Xie Lingya couldn’t hear what they were talking about. He could only see that there was another ghost king reaching out to pinch Liu Lingtong. He clenched his fists and said, “They actually teased my Reporting god…”
At this time, Pei Xiaoshan appeared. He came out of the forest on the other side, followed by some mountain charms. Those short mountain charms were carrying coffins on their shoulders, and their waists were bent even more with the effort.
There was still dirt on the coffin, which was obviously freshly dug.
Pei Xiaoshan also had a sword in his hand, which should be the male sword among the three-five evil-killing male and female swords. The female sword was snatched back by the Taoist Association, and this was the only one he had left.
Pei Xiaoshan used his sword to command. With a wave of his sword, the mountain ghosts sped up and placed the coffin on the ground. The ghost kings then dispersed and stood in front of Pei Xiaoshan.
When Pei Xiaoshan saw the Liu Lingtong on the ear of one of the ghost kings, his expression immediately turned cold, and he stepped forward and pulled Liu Lingtong off.
Ghost King: “What?? This is mine.”
Just now he told other ghost kings that picking up a Liu Lingtong, isn’t it much better than a cat?
——As a ghost, they cannot feed animals, or they cannot feed them for long.
Pei Xiaoshan glanced at him and said calmly: “This is mine.”
The Ghost King was stunned for a moment, and then became angry. He stared at Pei Xiaoshan fiercely and said, holding back his anger: “…I picked this up.”
“Humph.”
Pei Xiaoshan sneered, holding Liu Lingtong in his hand, pointing the sword in his hand, “You picked it up somewhere. Go back and look for it. There must be another living person – or two, there.”
He had left Liu Lingtong in Qiyang, and now that this Liu Lingtong had appeared here, there was a high probability that it had something to do with Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan. He still remembered the hardships those two people put him through. If it weren’t for them, he wouldn’t be in such a mess.
The Ghost King glanced at Liu Lingtong again, but Pei Xiaoshan had the Sanwu Evil-Slaying Sword and the Du Gong Seal in his hands, so he could only turn around and drift towards where he came from.
“Wait a minute.” Pei Xiaoshan shouted, “Take another one, and be sure to bring them back to me.”
The ghost king stopped and looked at a companion, and then another ghost king came out and went to look for him with him.
The Ghost Kings also had an identity. How could any human being dare to talk to them like Pei Xiaoshan, so his face was not very good-looking.
Pei Xiaoshan didn’t care what they thought. Even the angrier and more violent the Ghost King was, the happier he was. He went from being an enemy of ghosts and gods to now serving ghosts and gods, and his psychology had become distorted. It didn’t matter if they were angry, it didn’t mean they could do anything to him.
After Pei Xiaoshan finished, he said to the remaining ghost kings: “I want the talisman. You follow the method I told you to kill these people. I will also refine them into Yin soldiers.”
Those Taoist priests all looked at him fiercely, “Pei Xiaoshan, you-“
Pei Xiaoshan only glanced at them, and the rope originally wrapped around their hands slipped to their necks, strangling them until they were speechless and their eyes popped out.
Pei Xiaoshan turned around and went to his temporary altar.
On the other side, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan hugged the locust tree. The two angry ghost kings didn’t notice them and didn’t know they were there. Instead, they looked for where they came from.
As soon as they left, Shi Changxuan sat upright and began to think about the Flowing Golden Fire Bell, while Xie Lingya drew out the Three Treasure Swords.
Originally, Xie Lingya wanted to take action directly when he saw the seniors being strangled by ropes. Later, when he saw that Pei Xiaoshan was about to leave, he waited a moment. If Pei Xiaoshan was also under too much pressure, it would be better to rescue the seniors first.
Pei Xiaoshan went back into the forest, so they looked at the two ghost kings again. One pressed one of the middle-aged Taoist priests into the coffin, and the other pulled up the hanging rope, and the hanging ghosts on the tree slid down, one by one. He pulled the hanging rope in his hand and dragged the Taoist priests over.
The Taoist priests grabbed the ropes around their necks and kicked on the ground, making deep marks, but they were still unable to withstand the strength of the hanging ghost. The main reason was that the ghost king on the side suppressed them.
The legs of the Taoist priests were inch by inch off the ground, but Xie Lingya seemed to be able to feel their fear even though they were so far apart…
Xie Lingya saw that Shi Changxuan was not ready yet, but he couldn’t help it. He pulled up the blue paper and lifted it. He rushed down with his sword, grabbed a Spirit Ancestor Talisman from his bag, and then stuck his sword into the soil: “It is universal in all directions, and the Tao is everywhere!”
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