Chapter 407 Black Sky (4)
It was approaching dusk and the sky was dim.
In the deep mountains and forests, a funeral procession was galloping across the treetops.
This scene seemed eerie and filled with evil spirit.
Lu Yu's scalp felt a little numb. Inexplicably, he felt a little palpitated about the scene in front of him. Perhaps it was a memory from his previous life . Even though he now had enough means to exorcise demons, he still felt uncomfortable.
What is even more heart-wrenching is that in this team, except for the four suona players who are living people, the others, including those beating the gongs, beating the drums, scattering yellow money, crying while holding various instruments, and those carrying the red-lacquered coffin on the poles, are all paper figures.
The paper-making technique was so high that the paper figures looked just like real people, and some of the female characters even had rouge on.
Lu Yi's heart trembled, and the power of Feng Shui surged. He rubbed his hands together, and countless purple thunders as thick as buckets roared and struck over with a deafening sound.
The four suona players' expressions changed, their bodies shook, and they quickly fled to the side, leaving behind a trail of afterimages.
The hundred or so paper figures rushed straight into the oncoming thunder. Countless lightning flashes raged, and the paper figures trembled violently. Huge holes were torn in them by the lightning. Gray-white evil energy gushed out, paper pieces exploded, and shrill cries resounded through the sky. Human-shaped shadows rushed out from among the paper figures, and flew forward with red eyes.
But thunder is the nemesis of these evil things.
Moreover, the thunder method that Lu Yi comprehended is different from the various thunder methods passed down by other sects. It is created by the power of Feng Shui, and contains a strange Taoist rhyme of the creation of heaven and earth. It is full of vitality and has a hundred times greater killing and restraining effect on various evil forces.
Therefore, most of these cultivators were in the Golden Lotus Opening Realm, a small number were in the Half-Step Dao Fruit Condensation Realm, and there were three humanoid shadows that had already formally condensed the Dao Fruit. They had just rushed out less than a hundred feet when they were blasted to pieces by the lightning that was like a river rolling back from the sky.
Suddenly, a low breathing sound was heard from the scarlet coffin.
After three breaths, the thick coffin lid was punched open, and a naked zombie with jet-black skin, faint blue light entwined under the black skin and countless complex runes on its body jumped out.
This zombie... doesn't even have a single hair on its body.
He was nearly two meters tall, with muscular body and sharp black horns growing from the joints. Rather than being a human, it was more like a corpse left behind by some kind of humanoid alien, which was refined by someone using some strange law.
Lu Yi immediately recalled some information about Yazhou from the geographical map given by Xuanzhen.
The people of Yazhou were tough and would often engage in fighting and group brawls, so every day a large number of independent cultivators, family cultivators, and even government officials were seriously injured or died suddenly. Therefore, the funeral business in Yazhou City was extremely hot. Sometimes, in Yazhou City, cultivators could sell hundreds of high-end coffins in a single day.
The funeral business in Yazhou was monopolized by a monk family named Yin.
The Yin family is good at making paper figures, walking on the underworld, raising ghosts, refining corpses, cursing and other evil tricks. They are a very famous local tyrant in Yazhou and are extremely difficult to provoke.
The information provided by Xuanzhen was detailed enough, and a lot of the information came from official intelligence of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty.
According to the speculations provided by the local officials of Yazhou, they thought that the Yin family had unclear connections with some foreign monastic forces, and even suspected that the Yin family was doing some shameful and dark business in private.
People always say that a rabbit doesn't eat grass near its burrow, but in the capital of Yazhou alone, there were several important officials who died suddenly, and it was suspected that they were related to the Yin family.
If there was a lack of hard evidence, the Yin family would have been in trouble long ago.
These information flashed quickly in Lu Yi's mind: these paper figures, the eerie funeral procession at dusk, and the black-skinned zombie that jumped out of the coffin... The people who attacked him should be the Yin family.
In such a huge city like Yazhou, you won’t find anyone else with this kind of outfit.
While he was thinking, the burly zombie let out a long roar, carried the thunder released by Lu Yi, rushed to Lu Yi in one step, and punched him on the head.
Lu Yi noticed that there was a flash of crystal light at the zombie's heart.
There was actually a Buddhist relic buried inside the heart of this zombie - it was this Buddhist relic that released a warm Buddhist power that cleansed the corpse qi and evil spirits on the zombie's body, allowing the zombie to have the magical effect of resisting heavenly thunder.
Lu Yi's thunder only left scorch marks on the zombie's body but failed to cause fatal damage to him because of the relic.
"Using Buddhist relics to refine zombies... How blasphemous!"
Lu Yi shouted loudly, and faced the zombie's fist, he also met it with a punch.
With a loud bang, Lu Yi retreated more than ten steps, and the zombie flew straight into the sky, with its right arm twisted. The sound of dense bone breaking was endless, and one arm was shattered into pieces.
Lu Yu realized that the zombie's physical strength was about 90% of his own five great Vajra Dharma techniques. For an ordinary physical cultivator, this was a huge amount of strength.
However, what he displayed now was a modified version of the Wuliang Guixu body, which was more powerful and domineering than the five great Vajra Dharma images. The zombie's arm was shattered by his punch, and a force of uncast potential forcefully penetrated into the zombie's internal organs.
There was a constant rumbling sound inside the zombie's body, and bulges on his belly kept appearing and shrinking.
After a breath, the zombie suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a mouthful of fangs.
A ball of minced meat and black gas with a faint sandalwood scent spewed out from the zombie's mouth. This zombie, which was tempered with Buddhist relics and had extremely strong power, shook slightly, and the aura on its body suddenly disappeared. Its huge body fell heavily to the ground, creating a human-shaped deep pit on the ground.
Lu Yi pointed with his right hand, and dozens of enhanced thunders fell heavily, hitting the relic embedded in the zombie's heart.
With a muffled sound, the relic exploded, and a ball of soft white flame quickly covered the entire body of the zombie. With a "whoosh" sound, the zombie was burned into a ball of ash in just a few breaths.
The four suona players watched the zombies being destroyed, and they turned around and left without saying a word.
But Lu Yi took a step forward, easily stepped over them, and stood in front of them: "But you are friends of the Yin family of Yazhou? Haha, why did you attack me? Are you... from the photo studio?"
From the information Xuanzhen sent, since the Yin family was suspected of being involved with people outside the country and acting in a secretive manner, and showing up at this time to arrest the "bald man", all Lu Yi could think of was that the Yin family was actually the pawns of the film studio stationed in Yazhou, who specialized in establishing a base in Yazhou and taking on various murder transactions.
The faces of the four suona players changed. They groaned at the same time, and the suonas in their hands exploded, revealing a two-foot-long, willow-leaf-wide, and cicada-wing-thin poison-tempered dagger hidden inside.
With a sharp whistle, four short swords flew out silently and stabbed directly at the fatal points on Lu Yi's body.
Lu Yi clasped his hands together and took a deep breath.
There were four crisp "ding ding ding ding" sounds, and the dagger hit Lu Yi's skin, then bounced back violently.
There was a loud bang in the sky, and each of the four suona players was hit on the head by a bolt of lightning as thick as a water tank, which burned their bodies and they fell straight to the ground with black smoke.
Lu Yu's eyes flickered, and his vision suddenly increased. He looked far away, and glanced at Xuan Taisu and a group of pursuers who were vaguely visible behind him. Thunders kept falling, blasting the four suona players to pieces, and their souls flew away. Then he turned around and sped up to continue to escape.
Knowing that the Yin family in Yazhou City was eyeing him, Lu Yi naturally followed the original plan and drew a large arc to bypass Yazhou City.
Behind him, thousands of miles away, Xuan Taisu suddenly took out a jade mirror made of beautiful jade from his sleeve.
On the mirror surface that was faintly shrouded in a layer of spiritual mist, lines of text suddenly spurted out rapidly, blooming like fireworks.
Xuan Taisu's eyes suddenly widened into a look of disbelief!
This was the news that Xuan Taiyi personally brought to him - in Jinge County, Yanou City, the Ouyang clan, who had been hiding behind the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty for three hundred years, were completely wiped out, and everyone from the clan leader to the servants were killed.
Tens of thousands of elite imperial guards drawn directly from Xuanfeng City, along with several old priests of Zhao Xukong from Canghai Tower and Baoguang Pavilion, were all killed.
The murderer was the bald man that Xuan Taisu was chasing after.
Xuan Taiyi asked Xuan Taisu very rudely - Did you make a mistake in your target and chase the wrong person?
Xuan Taiyi even told Xuan Taisu that he had sent another expert to Yanou City. By questioning the ordinary people in Yanou City, he found out that there was a group of aunts and old wives in Yanou City who often went to an unnamed small temple outside the city to burn incense and pray for blessings all year round.
Occasionally they would see the abbot of the small temple, who was the bald man they were wanted.
In other words, the bald man is a local resident of Tern City...a family with roots that can be traced.
In this case, it is only natural that the bald man appears in Tern City. On the contrary, who is this man who is madly fleeing in the northwest? What does he want to do?
They were able to easily annihilate the Ouyang clan, tens of thousands of private armies, tens of thousands of elite imperial guards, and several old priests who were in the Void Realm... Such strength was truly terrifying. Aren't the people led by Xuan Taisu too weak?
Xuan Taisu only felt a chill running from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head.
He looked at the blurry figure fleeing in front of him, and subconsciously slowed down the speed of his pursuit.
He quickly wrote back to Xuan Taiyi, telling him that the man he was chasing was indeed the bald man in the portrait, the daring madman who had looted several provincial cities and whom he had spotted outside Jiezhou City.
While replying, Xuan Taisu slowed down his pursuit.
The truth is, the number of imperial guards spies he brought with him was no more than a thousand people. Compared with the tens of thousands of elite soldiers who rushed to Tern City, their personal cultivation might be much higher, but in terms of comprehensive strength, they were obviously inferior to the people over there.
Since even Tern City could be completely annihilated...
Well, God knows how powerful the man he is chasing is?
Clone?
Incarnation?
Or some other magical power?
Xuan Taisu was a little flustered... After all, he was a prince of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, and he was quite happy to take advantage of the weak with a large group of people... How could he be in the mood to fight a real bandit like Kuang Tu?
Just as Xuan Taisu was hesitating, Lu Yi bypassed Yazhou City and headed straight to the northwest.
Suddenly, the void around him began to spin.
