Text Chapter 1442 The Ferocity of the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Army!
The army of Yin soldiers and ghosts is in groups, like a sea covered with white lotus flowers.
Under the pale yellow sky, at the front of the army that could not be seen at a glance, there were countless translucent remnant souls, looking from a distance, it looked like a faint mist.
The masters of these remnant souls are mostly ordinary people who died tragically in this natural disaster.
Before death, the resentment was soaring, and after death, the ghost lingered, and there was no such a good monk as Master Kuchan to save him in time, and then he was instigated by Bai Lian's old mother, and he was condensed and formed. Driven by resentment and hatred, he became a number in the ghost army. The most pioneers and cannon fodder.
They have different shades of color, and the ones with the weakest soul fluctuations are like wisps of steam coming out of a boiling kettle, already so thin that the human form can't be seen clearly.
The color is a little darker and more condensed, and you can vaguely see what they looked like before birth. Most of them are sallow and emaciated victims. Many people have been soaked in the flood for too long, and all of them have rotten intestines, rotten bodies, and hideous faces. ——These characteristics are reflected in the remnant soul in every detail!
Many remnants were in a daze, lost a lot of memory, and still don't understand what happened.
There were also some remnants who thought they were not dead yet, and looked in the direction of Dongning City with an expression of great anticipation.
I really don't know whether the reason why they want to attack Dongning City is because they have a deep hatred for the cultivators in Dongning City, or because they are confused by the instinct of survival and want to hide in Dongning City for refuge.
The remnant souls of ordinary people are very unstable, and they are extremely susceptible to various disturbances. If they are lonely ghosts, they will be wiped out if they are not careful.
Therefore, it is recorded in many unofficial history notes that ancient Youdao gentlemen were never afraid of lonely souls and wild ghosts, and they could disperse the sneaky remnants with just a surge of righteousness in their chests.
However, once the small remnant souls condense into a mighty army and support each other, they will naturally form a magnetic field protection shield like a defensive shield outside, which is another matter.
It is as if a small lump of ice was exposed to the air and melted in a short time, while a whole warehouse of ice was compacted without any gaps, even if it was stored for ten days and a half months, it would not be easy. It melts away.
Not to mention, Li Yao also saw that in the middle of the Yin soldiers and ghosts, at intervals, there would be a dharma altar built with piles of white bones, and thick white smoke would rise from the altar, turning into a flower in mid-air. The white lotus in full bloom makes all the remnant souls shroud in the brilliance of the white lotus.
These white lotuses should be some kind of magic weapon used to stabilize the magnetic field and protect the Yin soldiers and ghost army.
Its original source is estimated to be some kind of military magic weapon used by the Pangu civilization to protect the lingering soul!
Thousands of souls of ordinary people, under the protection of the white lotus magnetic field, can exude suffocating power.
Not to mention that behind these "new appendages", the color is more intense, almost like a living person.
Although these old ghosts are not many in number, they are the main force of the Yin soldiers and ghost army. Their source is either the resentful people among the refugees; Those who practiced; or they were the lucky ones among ordinary remnants of souls. In the fights, they were lucky not to be scattered, but instead swallowed a large number of soul fragments left over when others dissipated, and gradually grew stronger!
There are even some old ghosts who are simply transformed from cultivators after death. They are out-and-out "ghost cultivators".
In the ancient Xiu world, there is no government and laws to coordinate and restrain, and the cultivation world is by no means monolithic.
The conflicts between cultivators are far greater than the conflicts between cultivators and ordinary people. I don’t know how many cultivators died tragically in the firefight with each other. What’s more, the entire sect was destroyed by such evil as the “Heisha Sect”. Power slaughtered.
These cultivators linger after death, but the realm of comprehension cannot tolerate them, not to mention that they don't know how to cultivate ghosts, and how to preserve and strengthen themselves.
Apart from changing camps and taking refuge with Bailian's old mother, what other options are there?
This point is also an extremely important reason why the White Lotus Sect has been inexhaustible and eradicated for decades.
The appearance of the old ghosts over the years is much more imposing than those "new appendages". Their ghosts are highly condensed. At first glance, they are not much different from living people except that they are white and lifeless. , Only by careful observation can we see that wisps of black air are slowly drifting outward from them.
Most of the old ghosts have mastered the supernatural power of the space-distance imperial object, and they wear magic robes and armors.
These robes and armors, of course, were drawn and engraved with rune arrays to maintain the stability of the magnetic field in the hands of old mother Bailian, making their souls more stable and not easily collapsed.
The newly dead remnant souls are the vanguard and cannon fodder, the old ghosts are the central army, and on the two wings of the entire army formation, there are densely packed skeleton soldiers.
In addition to the grotesque human skeletons, there are also a large number of skeletons of pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, and even all kinds of bones and sticks condense to become a super skeleton monster with a height of more than ten meters or tens of meters, with a faint silver light. It should be a ghost soldier. The large siege equipment prepared by the ghost army for this battle!
Sealing ghosts into skeletons and refining them into skeleton soldiers is also a type of "possession", which has both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that the ghost is protected by the skeleton, so it is not easy to collapse, and the skeleton is more convenient to hold some heavy weapons and directly attack the flesh and blood of the enemy. Skeleton, refining a unique super skeleton soldier, the power will be even stronger.
In the ancient times when there were no "spiritual prosthetic bodies" made of super alloys, a pure natural and pollution-free skeleton was considered the most primitive "spiritual prosthetic body", right?
But the disadvantages are also obvious.
Without muscles, meridians, and blood vessels to manipulate, the skeleton soldier's movements are too slow and stiff, and if he is not careful, his joints will slip, break, and shatter, and he will collapse on the ground, unable to move.
Except for a very small number of elite soldiers who can engrave various runes on the skeleton to improve flexibility and attack power, most skeleton soldiers are considered one-time consumables.
What's more, the skeleton can't fly, so it can only slowly crawl over the ground, which will lose the most important flexibility of the ghost.
The skeleton is like a pair of armor, but it is also like a body, with obvious advantages and disadvantages, so you can't put all the ghost soldiers and ghosts in the skeleton, it can only be used as a relatively important type of arms.
"Woo..."
In the depths of the Yin soldiers and ghost army, there was a winding horn sound, which made people want to vomit blood.
"Wow! Wow! Wow!"
The last few thousand coffins in the army formation suddenly shattered at the same time, and thousands of zombies with livid faces and tiny features grew out of the coffins.
Most of the zombies are shining with a bronze luster, but some are shining with a silver light, and a very few are shining with a dazzling golden light, like the high-ranking nobles in the army of ghosts.
Zombies are really a very interesting thing. They are very rare in a very small number of modern cultivation civilizations, but they are not uncommon in the world of ancient cultivation.
The existence of zombies is really counterintuitive—since after a person dies, the heartbeat and breathing stop, and the mitochondria in the cells no longer work, unable to swallow and release energy, then how can zombies be so powerful after they die?
After he personally inspected the ancient holy world and combined some of the methods of raising and refining corpses here with the theories of the modern cultivation world, he slowly realized the mystery.
According to Li Yao's estimation, the so-called "zombies" should be those who have cultivated into the iron-like corpses, and some special microorganisms or parasites have penetrated into them.
These special microorganisms regard the corpse as their home, and carry out a series of mysterious transformations on the corpse, producing various incredible characteristics.
It is often mentioned in the stories that "green-haired zombies" and "white-haired zombies" grow green and white hairs, which is a very common phenomenon in the process of cultivating microorganisms and bacteria.
Therefore, the so-called "raising corpses and refining corpses" is actually the clever use of special microorganisms by the ancients, and there is no essential difference from using bacteria to brew yogurt.
When a corpse is successfully refined, the ghost will infiltrate it and control it, turning it into a zombie that can move freely and exchange spiritual energy with the outside world. Its attack power, flexibility and defense speed are all a hundred times higher than ordinary skeleton soldiers.
As for the microorganisms in the zombies, they are not intelligent anyway, so there is no need to worry about the conflict between the ghosts and them.
Newly dead and remnant souls, old ghosts, skeleton soldiers, and zombie commanders, with a clear banner and strict military law, gathered a series of spooky auras, soaring into the sky, covering the entire sky with clouds, like a dark ocean. To half a ray of sunshine.
In the middle and rear of the army of ghosts, there is also a huge chariot made of countless white bones, like a moving palace of bones, faintly exuding a blade-like coldness, releasing boundless gray breath, it should be the white lotus The law of the old mother Wan Mingzhu.
Even knowing that Bailian's old mother, Wan Mingzhu, was there, with Li Yao, Yan Liren, Qi Zhongdao, Ba Xiaoyu, and Master Kuchan, it was impossible to rush over there surrounded by millions of Yin soldiers and ghosts. Take its head from the army of thousands.
What's more, they didn't have a head for you at all, and if there was a slight disturbance, they turned into a wisp of smoke and ran away.
Therefore, the "Bai Lian Mother Hunting Team" headed by Qi Zhongdao could only sit quietly on the psychic flying boat, waiting for a better opportunity.
Standing on the ship's side, Li Yao turned his eyes away from the Yin soldiers and ghost army, and glanced at the Dongning Mansion, the largest city in the southeast, under his feet.
This bustling city with the title of "City That Never Sleeps" is immersed in a panic and lifeless atmosphere at the moment.
The scale of Dongning Mansion is dozens of times larger than that of Tiger Roaring City, and the city wall is two or three times higher. Two sides face the sea, one side faces the mountains, and the remaining side facing the land is full of ditches, pits, and horses. There are also hundreds of giant pillars tens of meters high, four or five people hugging each other, engraved with golden runes, standing silently under the tower, forming an indestructible defensive formation!
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