Chapter 318: The Underworld

A new official path was established.

More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages rumbled forward, laden with in-demand goods.

The Qingqiu Demon Kingdom was destroyed, and Dashun gained ten times more territory, tens of millions of people, and all supplies.

As long as you can bring goods from Dagan and send them to a new city at will, you can exchange them for several times the gold and silver.

On the carriage at the front, the bearded chief escort was talking to the young Taoist priest, and the conversation was very speculative.

The Taoist was wearing a large purple Taoist robe, with Yin and Yang Bagua diagrams embroidered on his chest, and a purple gold gourd hanging around his waist. He was leaning on a bluestone and taking a nap when he met him.

The chief escort has been to Dashun several times and knows that the immortals here have repeatedly shown their saints. Even the official roads were paved by immortals' spells for several days. Seeing the immortal aura of the Taoists, he boldly invited him to accompany him. .

There are demons making trouble everywhere in Dashun. A good relationship may save a life.

The Taoist was none other than Zhou Yi. Meeting him was fate, so he hitched a ride.

Suddenly.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and in a blink of an eye, dark clouds covered the sun, and it was about to rain.

"The weather is changing so fast!"

The escort leader shouted quickly and took out the oilcloth to cover the goods to prevent them from getting wet.

The sound of wind gradually stopped, and the cold air invaded the body.

The carriage sped up and was still more than a hundred miles away from the city.

After walking for half an hour, the rain fell, but in the end, we could not reach the city.

Fortunately, the escorts were all men who practiced martial arts. The shopkeepers who were traveling with them huddled on the carriage and hid under the tarpaulin with the goods.

"Is there anyone in front?"

The escort leader saw a passerby not far ahead, walking alone in the rain.

Only when he got closer did he see clearly that he was a soldier in full armor.

The bronze armors were in dilapidated condition, most of them were seriously damaged and almost fell off on their own.

The sword on his waist is a bit weird, pale in color and curved like ribs.

The soldiers walked in the rain with light steps, not much slower than the speed of the carriage.

Getting closer, the soldiers heard the sound of the carriage and turned their heads.

The head guard clearly saw the soldier's appearance. He had a dark face, a simple and honest face, and a series of black tattoos on his face.

The escort leader hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is this friend going to Xincheng?"

The soldier shook his head and said, "I'm going back to Changyang Mansion."

"Changyang Mansion? Luo Changyang Mansion?"

The escort leader asked in surprise: "My friend is from Dagan?"

The soldier nodded and said, "I am from Xing County, Changyang Prefecture. I can't go back if I get lost."

"Haha, thousands of miles away, I actually met a fellow villager."

The head guard quickly greeted him: "Brother, get in the car. After selling goods in Xincheng, we will go back to Daqing together."

"thanks, thanks!"

The soldier jumped up and landed safely on the carriage without making any sound.

The escort leader couldn't help but admired: "What a handsome kung fu!"

"In general, my name is Li Erniu, and I am just a junior corps commander in the army."

Li Erniu said: "Thanks to the kindness of the Commander-in-Chief, he passed down the martial arts skills and managed to achieve success."

"Just the captain?"

The head escort's eyes widened, and he actually invited: "Why don't you come to our escort agency? Brother Li's skills are worth at least dozens of taels a month."

A martial arts monk who has reached the highest level can kill tigers and leopards, and can be regarded as an acquired master among ordinary people.

Li Erniu said with a simple and honest smile: "I want to go home and take a look first, my mother is still waiting."

"It should!"

The head guard carefully asked Li Erniu where his hometown was and said he would pay him a visit when he returned.

When fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, they naturally have endless things to say, which makes the originally cold wind and rain feel a little warmer.

When we were still more than twenty miles away from the new city, the clouds cleared and the rain cleared, and the sun shone through the clouds.

"It is said that this new city was built overnight by the magic of immortals. It stands to reason that we are working hard and there are more immortals, but we have never heard of such miracles. Your brother, you have seen... in the army..."

As the escort chief spoke, he couldn't help but start stumbling with his mouth, as if he had seen a ghost.

In fact, I actually saw a ghost.

Wisps of sunlight fell and penetrated directly into Li Erniu's body, making his originally substantial body translucent.

Five sharp claw marks seemed to start from the face, splitting the head open, along the chest to the abdomen. Broken internal organs could be seen in the depths, and jagged white bones were exposed in the shallows.

"Ghost...ghost!"

Screams came from the carriage behind, and the timid ones scurried away, while the experienced bodyguards took out treasures to ward off ghosts and evil spirits.

What about the boy's urine, rooster blood, black dog blood, realgar wine, black donkey's hooves, the magic talisman peach wood sword obtained from Taoist temples, the divine statues and magic beads consecrated in Buddhist temples...

No matter whether it is useful or not, prepare it first. In terms of single attribute, it is yang, which will cause some damage to ghosts.

Li Erniu looked a little confused and didn't know why. He raised his head and looked at the sun, and his figure became more and more transparent.

"Certainly!"

Zhou Yi pointed a finger, the moonlight aura fell on the ghost body, and the original broken body recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, Li Erniu returned to his physical body. The sun fell, and a dense brilliance floated on his body to prevent the ghost body from being harmed.

Zhou Yi waved his hand and took a photo, and a pale sword flew from dozens of miles away.

Three rays of light were pulled out of the sword and fell on Li Erniu's body. His originally confused eyes gradually regained their clarity.

"I died in battle..."

The three souls returned to their places, Li Erniu's memory recovered, and he remembered the scene before his death.

The new city was originally called Heisha City. Li Xun's tribe was ambushed by demon soldiers outside the city. Li Erniu died in the battle, and his soul rested on the sword made from the demon king's rib.

The demon king's skeleton was full of sinister energy, and Li Erniu turned into a ghost pawn, walking towards Daqian every day.

Traveling at night or on a cloudy day, when you encounter the clear sky and day, your soul will dissipate and return to its original place, and it will happen again at night.

"Thank you, Taoist Master, for casting the spell. I won't harm anyone...I...don't want to die!"

Li Erniu bowed and prayed. In his memory, Taoist priests always cast spells when encountering ghosts to scare them away so as not to harm others.

Zhou Yi asked: "Want to go home and see?"

"Um."

Li Erniu nodded heavily.

Zhou Yi asked again: "What then?"

Li Erniu was slightly startled and didn't know how to answer. With the popularity of fairy books, everyone knew that people living together with monsters and ghosts would be harmed by Yin Qi.

Relatives at home may not care, especially the mother, who would rather die than be with her son.

However, Li Erniu couldn't do this.

"Why don't you go home and take a look, and then work under Pindao's command?"

Zhou Yi said: "If you succeed in practice in the future, you can use magic to restrain the Yin Qi, and you can go home to visit your mother at any time."

"I do."

Li Erniu said that he would kowtow to Zhou Yi as if he were a disciple in opera.

"I can't bear this."

Zhou Yi quickly held up his hands to prevent Li Erniu from kneeling.

The head guard saw that Li Erniu had regained his appearance and his words were not as ferocious as those of a ghost, so he lost his fear and couldn't help but ask.

"Taoist Priest, are you...an immortal?"

"If flying in the sky and escaping from the earth is considered an immortal, then I am a poor Taoist."

As soon as Zhou Yi thought, clouds and mist rose under his feet, carrying him and Li Erniu to fly to the sky, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The escort leader was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he felt sorry again and again.

"I have been thinking about meeting an immortal every day, but today I really did. How could I forget everything I had planned?"

Suddenly I felt like there was something in my hand. I opened it and saw that there was a Yin Yang Bagua rune on my palm.

The golden light is shining, so beautiful!

…

Soaring in the clouds and riding in the fog.

One of the Thirty-six Heavenly Powers, it can be said to be an enhanced and advanced version of the earth evil power, Wind Control.

In the morning, I rode out the clouds and mist, and in the evening, I had traveled to all three mountains and five lakes.

The direct benchmark speed is roughly the speed of an ox, but unfortunately it lacks the mystery of the Five Elements Escape.

In just half a day, we rushed from Qingqiu to Xing County, Changyang Prefecture, Luo.

Li Erniu's hometown is in Lijia Village. Looking down from the clouds, there are only a few hundred households.

I am even more timid when I am close to my hometown.

Li Erniu, who was fighting demons on the battlefield, looked at the familiar village and was too cowardly to speak.

"Go down and have a look."

Zhou Yi calculated with his fingers that the head of the cloud happened to fall at the west end of the village, outside an ordinary farm.

Boom, boom, boom!

The door opened, revealing an old woman with white hair and blurry eyes. She could vaguely see two figures outside the door.

"Who are you looking for?"

"mother!"

Li Erniu knelt on the ground with a bang and kept kowtowing: "Erniu is back."

"Er Niu! It's Er Niu!"

When the old woman heard the familiar voice, she quickly came over and touched Li Erniu's face, her eyes suddenly filled with tears.

"The county officer came and said that you died in the battle, but my mother didn't believe it. When I left, I promised that I would definitely come back, and now I'm back!"

Li Erniu supported the old woman and returned to the courtyard to sit down. He went to the house to get a bowl and brought water to Zhou Yi.

"Mom, what's wrong with your eyes?"

"It's okay, I'm just getting old. Let me touch you more..."

The mother and son talked for a while, but Zhou Yi did not interrupt or urge them.

"Mom, I'm taking leave this time to come back to visit my relatives, and I'll be leaving soon."

Li Erniu explained the reason he had been thinking about for a long time: "I made great achievements on the battlefield immediately, killed many demons, and sealed the general in the south. I must rush back."

"General?"

The old woman asked in surprise: "My son has become a general?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm in charge of thousands of people..."

Li Erniu talked about his prestige in the army in detail, and it was as detailed as true. He had a good relationship with the general in the army, and he usually listened to his boasts. Now that he has spoken to his mother, he should be able to coax him over.

The old woman smiled and said, "My son is great and has a promising future."

"That's dozens of taels of silver a month."

Li Erniu didn't know that Jiang's monthly salary was enough. Since the escort agency was willing to spend dozens of taels to hire him, it should be worth the price.

As he spoke, he took out the silver pancakes and gold leaves from his arms. They were obtained by plundering the demon city. The demon country rarely had a unified currency, and most of them were bartered. It took several cities to plunder the gold and silver.

"Mom, this is your monthly salary from the army, keep it!"

"Yeah, yeah, Mom, I'll keep it for you to say goodbye to."

When the old woman took the gold and silver, she couldn't help but hold Li Erniu's hand, tears streaming down her face.

Li Erniu quickly helped the old woman wipe it off and said comfortingly: "Why are you still crying, mother? I have been busy with military affairs recently. I will come back to see you when I am free."

"Mom is so happy!"

After a moment of reluctance, Li Erniu finally stood up to say goodbye.

I knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times. Considering my mother's age and body, there was almost no chance of seeing her again.

Farewell today means farewell forever.

Zhou Yi patted Li Erniu's shoulder, and clouds and mist rose under his feet, flying towards Qingqiu Fudi.

The old woman stood at the door and stared for a long time until her eldest son came back from farming. Then she returned to the house without telling him about the return of the two cows.

The eldest son asked about the gold and silver, and the old woman said that it was sent by a friend in the Erniu Army.

…

Take advantage of the void and control the wind.

It flew a hundred thousand miles and arrived outside the blessed land of Qingqiu.

It has been more than two months since the Daqian Southern Expedition ended. Qingqiu Futian is hundreds of miles away and is still deserted.

Emperor Dashun received an oracle that the immortals suppressed 100,000 demons in the blessed land of Qingqiu, and immediately issued an order to turn the area of ​​1,000 miles into a forbidden area.

Zhou Yi calculated the auspicious day by himself and killed Qiongqi and Taotie. Perhaps because he was not good at learning, or perhaps the demon illustrations had fixed the loopholes, the results were somewhat different from what he asked for.

Killed Hu Linger and obtained the Tiangang supernatural power to fly in the clouds.

Zhou Yi was quite satisfied with this. Only with the treasure to protect him, he would be invincible. If he ran fast enough, he would be invincible in the world.

Killed Qiongqi and obtained the Eight Diagrams Purple Ribbon Immortal Clothes.

The Shangqing body-protecting treasure, when worn on the body, is invulnerable to swords and guns, and is not soaked by water and fire, protecting the body at all times.

Zhou Yi was not very satisfied with this. He first asked for one of the four swords, and then one of the five innate flags.

Then he killed Taotie and obtained the purple gold gourd.

It was nothing else, but the purple-gold gourd that said "I call you, do you dare to answer?" It was originally the treasure of Laojun Shengdan, and calling people by name was just one of its functions.

Ordinary elixirs put into it can be upgraded in a few days, and newly brewed spirit wine can be stored for a hundred days and turned into a hundred-year spirit wine.

Such treasures can be called supreme treasures, but unfortunately they are somewhat different from what Zhou Yi wants.

"This gourd is the wrong color, my mind is full of orange..."

The cloud fell.

Zhou Yi pinched the magic formula with his hands, and the ripples in the void in front of him vibrated, and a dark portal appeared.

The cold wind blew out of the portal, which actually made Li Erniu's ghost body feel cold and cold. He followed Zhou Yi and stepped into it.

The void was reversed, and yin and yang changed.

Li Erniu was dizzy for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, the day had turned into night.

The ghost fire was floating in the air, barely shining some light, and he saw the path stretching forward.

After Zhou Yi walked forward for a while, he saw a city with four big characters on the gate: Netherworld.

There were soldiers on duty at the gate. When they saw Zhou Yi, they saluted and bowed to call him the city lord.

One of the soldiers was surprised to see Li Erniu and asked, "Is it General Zhu Li Erniu?"

"It's me, you are..."

Li Erniu looked carefully and saw that the soldier in front of him was wearing a black robe and holding shackles and chains instead of swords and spears. It took him a while to recognize him and said, "He Ergou?"

This name caused the other soldiers to laugh, and He Ergou said quickly.

"I am now the soul-collecting messenger of the underworld, He Bisheng, don't call me big dog anymore!"

Li Erniu nodded and said, "Okay, Ergou!"

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Come with me to register your name first, and then we will talk about the past."

Li Erniu nodded repeatedly. After seeing He Ergou, his originally depressed mind was relieved a lot. If there were many former comrades in the city, it would really be a good place to go.

After entering the city gate, I saw that the houses on both sides of the street were lined up one after another.

Passing by a wine shop, I heard shouting and playing finger-guessing, and Li Erniu almost thought that they were all alive.

Zhou Yi said on the road: "In the battle of the southern expedition to Qingqiu, millions of people died, and the bones covered the fields."

Li Erniu nodded repeatedly. After meeting He Ergou, his originally depressed mood was relieved a lot. If there were many former comrades in the city, it would really be a good place to go.

After entering the city gate, I saw that the houses on both sides of the street were lined up one after another.

Passing by a wine shop, I heard shouting and playing finger-guessing, and Li Erniu almost thought that they were all alive.

Zhou Yi said on the road: "In the battle of the southern expedition to Qingqiu, millions of people died, and the bones covered the fields."