The periphery of Gushan Mountain is originally the transitional area between the ghost world and the human world. When practitioners step into it, ghosts often appear.
However, as the ghosts in the ghost world expanded and invaded the human world, this place became increasingly unstable and inaccessible.
The ghosts have already occupied all the peripheral areas. Not to mention ordinary woodsmen, hunters, and even cultivators rarely appear.
On this day...
"Your Majesty, please take a look."
A thin young man in green clothes and a small hat, dressed as a slave, respectfully held something in his hand and wrapped it in yellow cloth.
Standing proudly on the rock in front of him was a young man dressed in white, whose attire belonged to the Sanqing Palace.
He took the object and opened the yellow cloth, only to see a golden needle sealing the orifice and a red thread wrapped around an object, as big as a fist, all brown and black.
"Is this Cha Zhong?"
The thin young man in green clothes and hat looked like a servant ghost. He nodded and bowed and said, "Exactly, the little ghost has been undercover in Gushan for many years. Today he has the chance to escape with the tea seeds. Please bring the envoy back to the Taoist temple to the Lord."
"You have merit."
A smile appeared on the corner of the Sanqing Palace young man's mouth, and then he waved to him, "Come here."
The servant ghost didn't know why, but when he was about to take a step, he heard the other party say, "Well, let me do it."
The next moment, the 'Sanqing Palace Young Man' slowly turned around, turned his back to him, stretched out his hands to push back his black hair, and opened a huge mouth from the back of his head, with sharp fangs and stinky saliva dripping from it.
"You are not the envoy, you are the ghost of Gushan."
The servant ghost looked frightened and staggered back a few steps. Just as he was about to turn around and escape, the world was spinning in front of his eyes.
When he realized what he was doing, his lower body was already in the mouth of the 'Sanqing Palace Youth', biting it a few times with his fangs, and then swallowed it.
The 'Sanqing Palace Youth' is a fierce ghost in human skin. He touched the corner of his mouth and said, "Come out!"
A white shadow flashed at the corner of the rock in the south, and a woman walked out slowly, wearing hemp and mourning, covering most of her face with a white handkerchief, her shoulders hunched as if she were crying.
“Tuk-tuk-tuk.”
The sound of wooden sticks hitting the stone ground was heard, and an old man with a cane came from behind. His face was livid and his joints were stiff. He came hopping up and down.
The forest to the west swished, the sound of breaking through the air was heard, a large group of vines came through the air, and the cry of a baby could be heard from inside.
Upon closer inspection, these 'vines' turned out to be wet umbilical cords, with hundreds of babies covered in purple and blue wrapped inside.
at last……
The arrogance was overwhelming, and the surrounding scenery was distorted, as if it was the visual confusion caused by the hot summer heat and steaming water vapor.
The dry grass on the ground spontaneously ignited without wind, igniting a little green will-o'-the-wisp, and the strongest one appeared.
There was no sound of footsteps, not because the visitor was floating in the air, but because every step he took would corrode the rock and leave extremely deep footprints.
Although there was no sound of the earth shaking or the mountains shaking, this silent oppression made the other four ghosts feel afraid.
"Li Kui, you are finally here."
Li Kui, who appeared last, was tall, with a green face and fangs. He had a stone ax in his hand and nothing else.
He nodded towards the 'Sanqing Palace Youth', "Do you really want to see this human skin and talk to us?"
"I'm going to lure other people into taking the bait later. It's more convenient if I don't take it off yet."
The 'Sanqing Palace Young Man' is actually a servant ghost wearing flesh-looking clothes, but when he raised his hand to throw himself into the game, his ghost energy was completely gone. No wonder the servant ghost just now was fooled.
"Everyone, Da Yaksha has sent us out to hunt down those spies, eliminate the tea species on the spot, and stop strangers from trying to steal some spiritual tea."
"However, we have just received news that Yunyang Temple has sent people to respond. Those strangers will definitely break into the mountain. You and I are here to make sure they never come back."
The 'Sanqing Palace Youth' nodded, "Let's do this. One person, one person, kill the spies and strangers together, and then go back and ask for merit."
The other three fierce ghosts had no objection, but Li Kui shook his head, "I'm different from you, I'm afraid there won't be enough people to kill all the way."
As soon as he said this sentence, the other four ghosts became angry.
Although the five ghosts are all ordinary ghosts, only Li Kui has won the title of Yaksha.
In the ghost world of Gushan, the title of Yaksha is the highest honor and is distinguished by strength.
The four of them were once Yaksha Demons, but when they were promoted to Li Gui, their Yaksha titles were automatically revoked. Unless they gained military exploits and strength, they could not be called Yaksha Demons.
Li Kui is the strongest and the most arrogant among the five ghosts, and he looks down on his companions.
The 'Sanqing Palace Youth' suppressed his anger and said with a smile, "Since you are so powerful, Li Kui, if you can kill all the people in Yunyang Temple before us, Da Yaksha will definitely be extremely happy."
"Okay, I'll kill people first, you can do whatever you want."
Li Kui carried the stone ax and turned away.
The other four ghosts looked pretty and had nothing to say, so they left the scene one by one.
A faint word was left in the air, "He will never come back."
…
Wang Fu left the Taoist temple and before entering Gushan, he encountered several incidents of evil spirits blocking the road and killing pedestrians.
A mere evil spirit was destroyed with just a few moves of air warfare without any effort.
However, the seriousness of the situation has exceeded imagination.
The expansion of the ghost world in Gushan has reached this serious level.
Ghosts come from a wide range of sources. Some people are born with grievances after death, some are transformed by the escape of evil thoughts of living people, some are naturally born and raised like the ghost mother, some are transformed into shapes by the essence of vegetation, and some are born from abandoned and dilapidated things.
produce.
According to the laws of this world, any behavior that goes beyond common sense will eventually give birth to ghosts, but there are no monsters, demons or others.
Of the four heavenly kings of demons, ghosts, and ghosts, there is only one ghost in this world, and the other three are absent.
After a ghost becomes powerful, it can walk during the day and avoid water, fire, essence, blood, yang energy, soul and body, or negative emotions such as panic and fear, all of which are food for the ghost, and there are countless of them.
"ah!"
Wang Fu touched the fire in front of him, and the fire rose, burning a dozen evil ghosts gathered into ashes, and shook his head.
The land beneath our feet is still the human world, but there are ghosts everywhere.
Sure enough, when we reach the outskirts of Gushan, wouldn't it be that day and night are reversed, black and white cannot be distinguished, and the world has completely become a world of ghosts.
I remembered that a few years ago, there was a ghost market outside Gushan, where practitioners could come and go freely and trade fairly with ghosts.
Nowadays, when I compare it with the past, I feel like I am in a different world.
The outskirts of Gushan are no longer the outskirts of a few years ago. Now they have become a truly dangerous place. If you don't have the skills to cultivate yourself, breaking in rashly is courting death.
On this mission, to pick up the ghosts and bring back some spiritual tea seeds, we have to race against time. After all, on their territory, every move is subject to too many restrictions.
Wang Fu knew from the beginning that he had to race against time and not lose time.
Ding Zhangdian also said that this time is related to Taoist strategic materials. If the tea seeds are obtained, they can grow spiritual tea on their own in the future and will no longer be restricted by Gushan.
Yunyang can imagine this, and the other side of Gushan can also imagine this.
It is conceivable that Gushan will definitely send out elite soldiers and generals to kill the servant ghosts and the Yunyang gatekeepers who are supporting them. A fierce battle will be inevitable.