After a brief discussion, the Dumu Taoist priest and Xu Dao had decided on a strategy.
During the conversation, the other party's spiritual consciousness swept over Xu Dao's body wildly, testing his strength. Taoist disciple Chen Wan behind Xu Dao was implicated, and the fear in his heart became even worse, and he almost fainted and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, after a period of discussion and noticing the foundation-building magic weapon in Xu Dao's hand, the one-eyed Taoist priest had half believed Xu Dao and did not go too far.
Xu Tao's face did not change, he fluttered his sleeves and robe, and said: "Taoist Priest Dumu, I'll leave later."
After he finished speaking, he patted Taoist disciple Chen Wan beside him, motioned for him to follow him, and then turned around and walked in the direction he came from.
Fortunately, at this time, Chen Wan had suppressed the fear in his heart, and he could barely move to keep up with Xu Dao's footsteps.
After hearing Xu Dao's words, the one-eyed Taoist priest exclaimed: "Yes." It shook its huge body and got out of the cave where the altar was.
A huge head stuck out. The dozen or so Taoist disciples who had been staying outside were already frightened and suspicious because they heard the screams. When they saw the huge ghost head, their faces became even more frightened.
After being stunned for a moment, they opened their eyes wide, opened their mouths, and finally recognized the one-eyed Taoist priest, and they all cried out:
"Hall Master!", "One-eyed Taoist Priest!"
"Jie!" When the one-eyed Taoist priest in the shape of a ghost saw these Taoist disciples, his eyes flashed with covetousness and cruelty. Black energy crawled around his body, and he bared his teeth and claws. He seemed to want to swallow these Taoist disciples together just like he did just now.
In the belly.
But today, it took advantage of the opportunity of using the altar to swallow the flesh, blood and souls of eighteen Taoist disciples. It behaved wantonly. If it continued to devour these unrelated Taoist disciples who had not boarded the altar, it would be punished by the sect.
Other Taoist priests came to discuss the matter.
After looking at these Taoist disciples greedily, the one-eyed Taoist priest just shouted:
"From now on, you are not allowed to leave this place, nor are you allowed to speak to outsiders, otherwise the rules will follow!"
The sound was loud and deafening.
Upon hearing the Taoist priest's order, the remaining ten or so Taoist disciples all kowtowed and agreed, not daring to disobey. They lay on the ground and shouted: "I obey the order of the hall master!"
"Disciple, obey!"
The ghostly Taoist priest with one eye looked away from these people, and then looked into the deep darkness, where countless living people, monsters, and ghosts were imprisoned.
Its giant eyes narrowed slightly, showing a hint of joy, and then it opened its huge mouth and inhaled violently:
Phew!
The gloomy wind gusted, and the gloomy energy and resentment that had accumulated for countless years in the ground began to stir, all pouring into its mouth and nose, converging into threads, and squirming in like snakes and insects.
Filled with yin energy and resentment, after dozens of breaths, the one-eyed Taoist burped, and then it moved its body again and walked towards Xu Dao and the two.
Xu Dao stood aside, observing the scene with cold eyes.
Seeing the other party's method of devouring all the yin energy and wandering souls in the dungeon, his eyes flickered, but he didn't say anything. He just held his hand towards the other party and continued to lead the way quietly.
The footsteps faded away, and after the two ghosts and the ghost disappeared, the remaining Taoist disciples all collapsed on the ground, sweating profusely.
They were all early-stage Taoist disciples with low-level cultivation. They had never seen Taoist priests who were in the foundation-building realm. They were all intimidated by the aura of the one-eyed Taoist priest just now and could not recover for a long time.
After finally regaining consciousness, someone stood up tremblingly and walked towards the cave where the altar was.
Their bodies suddenly froze.
Eighteen Taoist disciples with higher cultivation than them were all throwing themselves down on the altar in weird postures, their stumps entangled in a circle.
The heads of the eighteen Taoist disciples all exploded, their spines were visible, their bodies were dry and flat, their energy was completely gone, and there was no trace of blood on the altar.
Seeing a large number of such tragic images, the surviving Taoist disciples' hearts skipped a beat, their faces all turned pale, they were dazed and frightened, and the fear of escaping from death arose spontaneously.
the other side.
When the one-eyed ghost Taoist priest led by Xu Dao walked out of the underground prison, he had already restrained his figure and aura, and no longer gave people a feeling of fear.
The Taoist priest turned into a human, wearing a white Taoist robe. He was still hairless and bald, and there was only one eye on his forehead. Although he was in human form, he looked even weirder.
The opponent's Yin Shen was solid. Xu Dao looked at it at first glance and thought it was a physical body. However, upon closer inspection, he could detect clues and recognized it as a Yin Shen.
The most intuitive point is that although dusk is approaching outside the dungeon, the sun is still setting, and the one-eyed Taoist priest is walking under the dim sunlight, but there is not a shadow under his feet.
After walking out of the Jiangcheng Prison, the mortal jailer outside saw the other party. When he saw that there was no shadow under his feet, he was immediately surprised on his face.
The jailers who guarded the prison had a set of rules for survival. They didn't dare to ask any more questions. They kept their heads down and didn't even dare to look at the Taoist priest's face.
Xu Daojiang studied the various states of the one-eyed Taoist Yin Shen. He compared his own Yin Shen and found that in addition to Taoism, the other party's Yin Shen was undoubtedly more substantial.
It was evening, and the mortal market in Jiangcheng was extremely lively, with pedestrians coming and going.
Even if they saw the one-eyed Taoist priest, they would just pass it by, as if they didn't know they were passing by a ghost.
The one-eyed Taoist priest walked, looking at the busy scene of traffic in his eyes, his face was slightly dazed, and his steps paused.
Xu Dao was always paying attention, guessing that the other party might have been touched by the fireworks in the market, and felt as if he was in another world.
After all, according to Taoist disciple Chen Wan's description, the Yaksha Gate was not only built on an ancient battlefield, but the interior of the gate was also underground, deeper than the dungeons of Zhijiang City, and more like the underworld.
But the next moment, the trance in the eyes of the one-eyed Taoist priest disappeared, replaced by greed and covetousness.
Just like the expression shown by the Shezhao Taoist priest when he looked at the "chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep" raised in the temple, his mouth almost watered down.
This made Xu Dao feel slightly startled, and he secretly thought about how mortals could attract each other. Fortunately, the one-eyed Taoist priest did not do too many things.
In this way, with both parties having their own thoughts, they walked to the Demon Dance Hall on North Street in a tense atmosphere.
Originally, Xu Dao wanted to take the one-eyed Taoist priest directly to East Street, because the toad Taoist priest and the gecko Taoist priest were resting on the east street.
However, the one-eyed Taoist priest changed the place to avoid being noticed by the other party, and asked Xu Dao to call the two Taoist priests over at that time, so Xu Dao followed suit and decided on the North Street.
It just so happened that his talisman shop was also on North Street. If something went wrong at the table later, it would be convenient for him to take away the belongings in the talisman shop and escape directly.
When they arrived at the Dang Yao Hall, although the deacons and worshipers inside did not know Dumu Taoist, they saw that he had a strong Yin spirit and must have advanced cultivation. They all thought he was Xu Dao's friend, and they were very respectful and did not dare to offend Dumu at all.
"Night is approaching, and the two Taoist priests from Wutong Temple are still resting in the east hall. You will prepare a banquet quickly and invite the two Taoist priests over."
Xu Dao told Bai Tang and others: "If the two Taoist priests ask why they changed places tonight, you will report to each other on the grounds that Beitang has plenty of money."
When Bai Gongfeng and others heard this, they didn't notice anything wrong at all, but their expressions froze, and they lamented in their hearts that tonight they would have to spend as much money as Dongtang did.
But as mentioned before, Xu Dao and the two Taoist priests were their immediate superiors, and both had powerful magic powers, so they did not dare to disobey.
"Yes! This humble position will be arranged by someone. Mr. Lei and this Taoist friend will go inside first and have a rest."
Dang Yao Beitang immediately started to rush into chaos. In order to avoid affecting the banquet later and making the Taoist priests unhappy, the deacon and others simply closed the entrance to the hall and refused to admit outsiders for the time being.
After giving instructions, Xu Dao invited the one-eyed Taoist priest to a quiet place and chatted with him. As for Taoist disciple Chen Wan, he had already let him go, allowing him to have a good rest.
After the one-eyed Taoist priest thoroughly confirmed that Xu Dao was Jiangcheng's demon envoy, he gave him some face. He closed his one-eyed Taoist tightly and arranged tactics around him while chatting with Xu Dao.
The waning moon is like a hook, rising slowly and hanging in the night sky, looking bright.
When the two of them were almost tired of waiting, two figures finally flew from the sky and landed directly in the courtyard of the Beitang.
Xu Dao looked up and found that the two figures were the Taoist priest Shezhao with the body of a demon.
With a thought in his mind, he immediately looked to his side and found that the one-eyed Taoist priest who was still sitting in his seat had disappeared. He didn't know whether he had gone underground or was hiding somewhere else.
A voice rang in Xu Dao's ears: "Thunder Messenger entertained those two guys so well. I am here, arranging formations for you."
Hearing the voice transmission, Xu Dao nodded calmly.
He found that when he didn't use his spiritual consciousness, no matter how he looked around, he couldn't find any trace of the other party. Even the hands and feet that the other party had just done seemed to have disappeared.
Fortunately, Xu Dao was not without a way to deal with this situation. He thought to himself: "If this guy can't hide and wants to be a coward, I will help him."
Although the one-eyed Taoist priest's movements in setting up formations around him were very fast, Xu Dao saw them all. He didn't know the specific name of the formations arranged by the other party, but he also recognized that they were capable of invisibility and trapping the enemy.
Equally effective formations.
In order to avoid being trapped by the opponent later, he calmed down and relied on his understanding of the formation to recognize several formation nodes and was confident that he could directly destroy the opponent's entire formation.
While he was calculating in his mind, Xu Dao kept moving. He no longer paid attention to the one-eyed Taoist priest who was hiding secretly, and quickly stood up and greeted the two Shezhao Taoist priests flying in the night sky.
"I've met two Taoist priests!"
In the blink of an eye, a wave of coercion descended, and Taoist Toad and Taoist Gecko, who were more than one foot tall, appeared on the scene.
They swayed and used their spiritual consciousness to scan the seats, wine and food prepared in the courtyard, as well as the singers and dancers waiting there, and couldn't help but smile on their faces.
The Taoist Toad was overjoyed: "Hahaha! Thank you for your hard work, brother Lei!" The Taoist Gecko also snorted softly as a greeting.
Seeing that the two Taoist priests did not notice anything strange, Xu Dao secretly praised the one-eyed Taoist priest's skill in setting up the formation.
Compared with the way he entertained Taoist Shezhao yesterday, he entertained the two of them more enthusiastically.
The three of them sat down, and Taoist Toad waved his hands familiarly and called out: "Sing and dance!"
The Taoist disciples who were drinking with them responded loudly: "Thank you, Taoist Master!"
The banquet began, with the clinking of wine glasses and the sound of dinner plates, just like the drinking scene last night, extremely lively.
Not long after, Xu Dao's ear sounded a sinister voice: "Jie, what the messenger of thunder said is true, this nest of snakes and insects really has a lot of secrets!"
"In just over a year, these two toads and geckos are about to die! I still remember that when they first arrived in Jiangzhou, these two were the weakest. I didn't expect, I didn't expect..."
The other party's voice became lower and lower, but the coldness and sternness in his voice became more and more serious.
Xu Dao listened calmly and felt happy in his heart: "It's done!"
According to Dumu Taoist's performance, Shezhao Taoist priest has already been suspected and coveted by the Yaksha sect. The two will have troubles in the future, and then he will be able to fish in troubled waters and have both sides.
It's just that the two sides may still make peace. In order to prevent the two sides from reconciling, Xu Dao has to add fuel to the fire.
"Whether it's Taoist priest Shezhao or Taoist priest from Yaksha Gate, it's best if one of them dies tonight!"
During the banquet, he smiled and toasted to the Toad Taoist priest next to him, but in his heart he was secretly scheming against the other party, pondering the pros and cons.
It is said that although he went to Jiangzhou Prison and invited the Yakshamen Taoist here, after both parties arrived, there was a question of who he should help.
He had been thinking about this issue when he left, but had not made a decision yet.
It stands to reason that the Taoist priest who abandoned the imperial edict and used people as animals was a heinous crime, so he should have dealt with the other party first without even thinking about it.
But the Taoist priests of the Yaksha Sect don't look like good people, and the Yaksha Sect is powerful and unpredictable. Xu Dao may have to help She Zhao weaken the opponent first...
"Ha ha!"
The wine table shook, and Taoist Toad drank the spirit wine. He patted his belly and laughed repeatedly, praising: "Thunder Messenger! Come on, drink hard, drink hard!"
Taoist Priest Gekko reluctantly raised his glass and joined in the fun.
The two of them had no idea that Xu Dao was planning in his heart whether to take their lives.
Just when Xu Dao was hesitating, a sudden change occurred on the scene, but someone wanted to make a decision for him.
Hiss!
I saw traces of black air rising from around the seat, connecting into lines, and in an instant it formed a net cage shape, which fell upside down to the ground, trapping Taoist Toad and Taoist Gecko in it.
Such a sudden scene appeared, and everyone at the scene was stunned.
The two Taoist priests were laughing happily. Their expressions suddenly changed. They looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. They quickly used their spiritual consciousness to scan their surroundings and became wary.
Exclamations rang out, and other Taoist disciples around also looked at the field in surprise. Some alert ones had already lifted their clothes and were ready to run away at any moment.
Immediately, two rays of consciousness from Taoist Shezhao jumped out from the black air cage and fell on Xu Dao, locking him tightly. A sharp voice came out:
"My surname is Lei, are you teasing me and wanting to take revenge?"
Xu Dao sighed, it was the one-eyed Taoist priest hiding in the dark who raised the formation.
But if his guess is correct, the one-eyed Taoist priest will take action next moment, but he still won't show up.