Chapter 174 Becoming the Ghost King
“May 16, the thirteenth year of Tianxing.
“I admit, I am afraid of death.
"Even after practicing "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique", I am still afraid of running into an enemy that is difficult to deal with, causing me to completely disappear in this world.
"So in the past few years, , I successively created several clones and scattered them in various areas of Jiaodong Province.
"They blend in among the crowd and live independently.
"Unless someone has a greater attainment than me in the 'path of cause and effect', no one can detect the difference between these clones and me. relationship between.
“But having a clone does not mean absolute safety.
“Besides, I am tired of this hiding life.
“I must find a way to make myself stronger.
"At this time, I suddenly remembered that when I defeated '梼杌', I used the soul search spell to get an important piece of information from its memory - if the 'Fierce God' wants to be promoted to the 'Ghost King', he needs to One hundred thousand souls as sacrifices
“I think if I can become the legendary ghost king, maybe I will no longer be afraid of Emperor Tianxing and the saints of the Daqi Dynasty!
“…”
“The ninth day of the first lunar month in the fifteenth year of Tianxing.
“My experiment was successful.
"I took the nine water snakes in the Yi River and used the "Zhaoming Forbidden Technique" and the Bagua Array to combine them into one and transform them into a giant monster.
"As the saying goes, the Bagua Array , formed with sincerity, it becomes spiritual over time; when it encounters prosperity, it becomes auspicious; when it encounters decline, it becomes disaster.
“Everything in the current Daqi Dynasty seems to be peaceful, but in fact there are hidden dangers——
“The royal family, big families, and big sects occupy more than 90% of the cultivation resources, but the lower-level monks have You work hard to complete the task for a small "quiet mind pill", but if you are not careful, you will go crazy during the practice; ghosts and monsters are rampant in remote areas, causing harm to the people, but the royal relatives and bureaucrats in the capital are still immersed in the comfortable life The environment is even trying to deduct supplies...
"The resentment among the people is enough to breed a powerful ghost at the level of a 'fierce god'.
"This snake demon is the product of the combination of the essence of the two hexagrams Kan and Li and the resentment of the world. Kan hexagram has four short paintings and one long painting; Li hexagram has two short paintings and two long paintings, a total of nine paintings. The nine heads of the snake demon correspond to each other.
"Kan is water and is black in color, so the five heads are good at water and are black; Li is fire and are red in color, so the four heads are good at using fire and are red.
“I named it ‘Nine Infants’.
“It is my most proud work after ‘Snow Girl’, and will also be an important tool for my promotion to ‘Ghost King’.
“……
"The twenty-first day of June in the fifteenth year of Tianxing.
"The plan to become the 'King of Ghosts' failed.
"I discovered that becoming the 'Ghost King' not only requires the sacrifice of one hundred thousand souls, but also requires a special ceremony.
"The 'Nine Infants' that I worked hard to create The snake demon' was also defeated by the Da Qi Imperial Preceptor and was sealed underground in Qingzhou Mansion using a spell formation.
"It is not easy to create another fierce god like 'Nine Infants' - because it will not only consume my strength, but also need to accumulate enough resentment among the people. The resentment accumulated by Qingzhou Prefecture is obviously not enough In order to create two 'Nine Infant Snake Monsters', these extremely lethal 'god' level ghosts
"I have to think of a way to unseal it and release it again."
"...
"The eighth day of the eleventh month of the sixteenth year of Tianxing.
"The Imperial Master of Da Qi is indeed a strong man who has become a saint through the Tao of Talisman. I have spent three years and still can't find a way to crack the sealing formation.
"...
"May 25, the seventeenth year of Tianxing.
" Jia Boming, the governor of the Exorcism Department of Anqiu County, was injured while performing a ghost-killing mission. He petitioned for his body and returned to his hometown.
“One of my clones found him and tried to get some information from him about the ‘Nine Infant Snake Demon’ sealing formation.
“But because he made a decision when he became an official, He took an oath of secrecy and refused to speak even to death.
“Of course, this little problem doesn’t bother me.
"I turned him into my puppet with the help of the 'Puppet Manipulation' spell, and naturally inherited all his memories.
"So, I learned from his memory that the Great Qi Imperial Master manipulated the 'Nine The formation diagram of the Infant Snake Demon's sealing formation is divided into eight, which are hidden in the exorcism division offices of eight counties in Qingzhou Prefecture. As for where it is hidden, only the governors of the exorcism departments in each county know.
“This gives me a bit of a headache.
“The Exorcism Department Yamen is a key area of concern for the Daqi court, and the governors of each county must have been under the watchful eyes of the Chief Tian Jishu for a long time. under.
“I definitely can’t kill them at will and make them puppets like I am now.
"I must think of a concealed enough way to find out where these eight formation diagrams are hidden."
"...
"October 19, the eighteenth year of Tianxing.
“Today, when my clone was wandering around Xunliu Street in Yishui County, I discovered an artist playing with mice. This gave me new inspiration in my mind.
“ According to Cui Mingbo's memory, the governors of each county need to strengthen the seal of the 'Nine Infant Snake Demon' every three years. In the process, they will definitely take out the formation map left by the national master.
"I just need to make some mice, spiders, ants and other species into my puppets, let them sneak into the exorcism department, observe the governors' every move anytime and anywhere, and maybe follow them to find the hidden location of the array. .
“Because I control these puppets through the ‘Thread of Cause and Effect’, no one will notice anything unusual about them.
“So, I turned this mouse-playing artist into my clone, and asked him to take the puppets to the exorcism offices in each county and follow the governors of each county.
"After a while, through the eyes of these mice, I discovered that the formation map of Mengyin County was hidden in a secret room under the public kitchen - you only need to tap a specific floor tile three times to enter the secret room.
“Of course, the entrance to this secret room will authenticate intruders.
"It's definitely not possible to break in forcefully.
"Because the formation at the entrance to the secret room was personally arranged by the Imperial Master. If you break in by force, the Imperial Master will definitely know about it.
“But this doesn’t trouble me.
“In the Avenue of Cause and Effect, names are symbols that symbolize everyone’s identity. I can use the art of cause and effect to temporarily borrow other people's names.
“More than forty years ago, I borrowed the name of my neighbor Wu Qilang and spent the night with his wife - although I did not change my appearance, the beautiful woman was determined Unwaveringly believe that I am his husband.
"So, in the same way, I temporarily borrowed my identity as the governor of Mengyin County, sneaked into the secret room, and saw the sealing formation.
"However, in order to prevent being discovered by the Imperial Master, I did not I didn't take this formation diagram with me, I just kept its contents firmly in my mind.
“I think I can use the same method to see the remaining formation diagrams.
“…………
“Twenty-Three of the Sky May 11th.
"As of today, I have used the same method to see the contents of eight formation diagrams.
"After knowing the formation diagrams, it will become much easier to crack the sealing formation.
"In addition, the way of seal script and the way of cause and effect have many things in common.
"Just give me a little more time, I can put the 'Nine Infant Snake' The demon was released from the ground and asked to bring me one hundred thousand souls.
“At the same time, based on the memories left by ‘梼杌’, I basically restored the process of the promotion ceremony to ‘Ghost King’ – I needed to find a place that was secluded enough to build an altar and hold the ceremony. Ceremony.
"I set this location in Yishan." Yishan, in everyone's perception, is the territory of the Snow Girl.
“But Snow Girl is my creation, and Yishan is naturally my territory.
“According to the memory of '梼杌', during the process of building the altar, A large amount of Yin Qi will spread to the outside world, causing nearby residents to be corroded by Yin Qi and turn into ghosts.
“However, as long as I build the altar in Yishan and use the art of cause and effect, I can mislead others into thinking that the spread of Yin Qi is caused by the increase in the Snow Maiden’s strength.
"Before becoming the Ghost King, I must hide myself in the dark.
"..."
"July 16, the twenty-third year of Tianxing.
“Today, Shi Lei from Qianhu in Laizhou Prefecture actually wanted to send people to investigate the massacre at the foot of Laoshan Mountain in the first year of Tianxing.
“As the real murderer of the massacre, I absolutely He cannot be allowed to know the truth.
"I used the 'abduction' spell to set the result that 'the monks involved in investigating the case will be seriously injured on the road and have to abandon the mission.'
"So, the monks who took over the mission set out Then they got lost and entered the lair of the ghost "Looted People". When they came out, they were all seriously injured and dying.
“First there is the effect, then there is the cause - this is the power of the ‘sequence tracing’.
“The person who created this technique is really a genius.
“Yes, I’m talking about myself.
"...
"It was the eighth day of September in the twenty-third year of Tianxing.
"My old man's clone in Yishui County suddenly discovered today that there is a clerk in the Yishui Exorcism Department Yamen named Gu Xu, who has a terrifying talent for spiritual practice. This man only spent a few days In just a few months, he has almost reached the first level of perfection - even I didn't have such a terrifying cultivation speed back then.
"In addition, he is also making many improvements in private. He wrote a lot of talismans and incantations.
“This kind of understanding can only be described as outrageous.
"I even think that even if we let him practice the "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique", he might be able to come up with some new tricks."
"...
"Twenty Years of Heaven September 30, three years ago.
“The Yin Qi in the Yishan area became more and more intense, gradually alarming the court.
“In order to prevent the saint from knowing about the situation here and interfering with my promotion plan, I went to Yishan A ban was set up within the territory to block the secrets of this place.
"From now on, all divination techniques and divination techniques will not be able to accurately predict the situation in Yishan.
"In addition, I also used the 'attribution' spell to continuously hinder and delay the capital's response. Support from Qingzhou Prefecture.
"Anyway, the bureaucrats of the Da Qi Dynasty are already corrupt enough - it is normal for them to dilly-dally.
"...
"Twenty-three years of Tianxing The second day of the lunar month.
"Controlling too many puppets is also a burden on my spirit.
"Sometimes, it is difficult for me to fully control their instincts.
“For example, the rats and bugs I hid in the exorcism department would eat the books if I wasn’t careful.
“In recent times, the monks of the Yishui Exorcism Department have They found that the books in the library had been gnawed by rats, so they called a group of scholars from the county school to copy the contents of these damaged books.
“They also called on that boy Gu Xu as a helper.
"That boy's observation is very keen.
"I must not let him detect the slightest abnormality from the damaged books.
“…
“It’s October 29th, the 23rd year of Tianxing.
“Today, two troublesome guys came to Yishan.
"One person has a very faint dragon aura, and if nothing else, he should be the prince of the Daqi Dynasty; the other person looks like he should be his follower.
"The two men sneaked all the way into Yishan, and came to Arriving near the black altar. As expected, they thought the black altar was the creation of the Snow Maiden.
“I have to find a way to drive these two people away as soon as possible.
“However, I can’t let them die here - if this prince really dies on my chassis , then Emperor Tianxing will have a one-thousandth chance of discovering my existence.
“Although the possibility is very low, in the process of being promoted to the ‘Ghost King’, I will not allow any accidents to happen.
"So, I used the 'abduction' spell to set the result that 'they will bump into the snow girl, have a fierce battle, get injured, and eventually be rescued by a mysterious strong man'.
“As for what the process is like, that’s not important to me.
"It's just that I didn't expect that in order to achieve the result set by the 'abduction' spell, He Yiqun, the junior fellow of the Grand Master of Qi who has been traveling around the world and not interested in worldly affairs, actually changed his nature and relied on his 'shrinking' The magical power of Di Cheng Cun became the savior of the prince and his entourage!
“It really surprised me!
“It seems that as my strength gradually improves, my attainments in the ‘Way of Cause and Effect’ are also constantly improving!”
"...
"The first day of the first lunar month of the twenty-fourth year of Tianxing.
“The young man named Gu Xu successfully climbed to the top of Mount Laoshan and received my inheritance.
“The prince of Da Qi and the children of the aristocratic family are no match for him.
“It seems that I still underestimated his cultivation potential.
"...
"The sixth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-fourth year of Tianxing's reign.
“In order to prevent anyone from breaking the void and escaping during the ceremony, I blocked the space of Qingzhou Mansion in advance. All those who want to escape will eventually come near the black altar.
"In addition, I have also blocked the secrets in the entire Qingzhou Prefecture, and all secret deductions and divination spells will be completely ineffective.
“In a short period of time, even the capital city of Luosi in the Exorcist Department could not detect that the ‘Nine Infant Snake Demon’ broke out of the seal.
"Although the shielding time will not last long.
"But I believe that before the saints notice the abnormality in Qingzhou Mansion, the 'Nine Infant Snake Demon' will be enough to help me obtain a sacrifice of one hundred thousand souls.
“…
“The seventh day of the first lunar month in the twenty-fourth year of Tianxing.
“All goes well.
"The seal of the 'Nine Infant Snake Demon' has been lifted.
"The ceremony can begin.
“…”
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