“What is it?”
“There are ghosts wandering outside the peach grove.”
“Those ghosts?”
“I do not know. Let us go and see!”
Shen Ying rose gracefully. A flash of white flesh vanished, and in an instant, she had changed into a red and pink light gauze phoenix tail trailing skirt. It was elegant and luxurious, revealing the immortal’s temperament without doubt.
Lu Zheng also changed into a set of green robes. The door opened without wind. The two figures floated lightly and flew out from it.
A streak of green light, a pink shadow.
Moments later, the two arrived at the edge of the peach grove. Then they saw two ghosts peeking around the periphery of the peach grove.
“Is this the place?”
“According to what that little ghost said, it should be here.”
“This peach ghost is really lucky. Because its main body is a peach tree, it was conferred as a land spirit by the yang world court, and it is also called the Peach Flower Immortal.”
“Is it not riding on the coattails of that true Peach Flower Immortal? If we talk about good luck, she is the lucky one.”
Lu Zheng blinked and looked at Shen Ying.
Shen Ying smiled slightly and whispered, “In these years, many places have newly built peach flower shrines. It is said that among them, there are a few peach tree spirits too. But they are all little demons. And I am mixed in among them. Unless it is an ancient old demon, few people know that I am the true Peach Flower Immortal now.”
Lu Zheng raised an eyebrow. “The court has done a good deed.”
In this way, unless it is like the Peach Mother Divine Tree with profound cultivation and personally having its incense qi drawn away, it is indeed not easy to know the flow of this large amount of incense qi.
“A mere little land spirit, could she really kill the Black Wheel King?”
“I do not know. But according to that timid ghost, the Black Wheel King did enter Taohua Village, and then never came out. Then his yin residence was suddenly exposed, and the Refining Yang Chapter, one of the Seven Canons, was partially leaked out in a reduced form.”
“The leaked version is not complete. The full Refining Yang Chapter must still be on him. And he died in Taohua Village. That means this Peach Flower Immortal likely obtained the complete Refining Yang Chapter?”
“In that case, does it not mean this peach ghost has already cultivated the Refining Yang Chapter? If so, with just the two of us, I fear we are not a match for this Peach Flower Immortal. Coming to probe today, is it not a bit reckless? Better to retreat and report this to the master.”
“Nonsense. The master sent out more than twenty of us this time. We brothers are only in the middle ranks. If we go back with just this uncertain news, what merit can we claim?
If we can verify that this peach ghost has indeed cultivated the Refining Yang Chapter, whether we tie her up and take her back directly or report it to the master, the merit is solid. It might even let us advance further.”
“Can we handle it? Do not fail to earn merit and end up losing ourselves.”
“Rest assured. A small land spirit of a mere dozens of li Taohua Ping, even if she has cultivated the Refining Yang Chapter, it has not been long. How powerful can she be?”
“Fine. Let us go in and probe.”
“No need. I am here.”
“Who!?”
“Oh no, the Peach Flower Immortal!?”
Appearing without a sound, the strength was clearly above theirs.
The two hundred-year old ghosts were startled. They turned back together and saw a beautiful woman in palace attire and a green-robed scholar standing behind them.
“Run!”
“Can you run?” Shen Ying waved her hand faintly. Pink peach flower煞 appeared out of thin air and surged into the two old ghosts’ bodies.
These two old ghosts’ cultivation was not even as good as Duan Jiang and Zhan Yue. Who knew where they got the confidence to come probe Taohua Ping with just the two of them.
They tried to break out, but unfortunately, with the peach flower煞 entering their bodies, in just a few breaths, it locked their yin qi. Their ghost bodies began to wither, nearly unable to maintain form.
“Spare our lives!”
“Peach Flower Immortal, spare us!”
Shen Ying was about to question them when her fine eyebrows suddenly furrowed. She pulled Lu Zheng and swiftly retreated.
The next moment.
“Bang! Bang!”
Two light sounds. The two old ghosts’ bodies actually exploded directly. Their divine souls were extinguished.
Shen Ying looked at the dispersing yin qi before her and said gravely, “Curses were placed in their true spirit divine souls. Once out of control, they self-destruct.”
“Good method.” Lu Zheng nodded and rubbed his chin. “Moreover, Black Wheel King. The other side is coming for the Black Wheel King.”
Shen Ying said, “It should be for the secret method of Refining Yang Returning to Yin from the Black Wheel King. It seems it is not some independent existence, but one of the Seven Canons, the Refining Yang Chapter?”
“Let us go ask Duan Jiang and Zhan Yue!” Lu Zheng said.
“Now?” Shen Ying asked.
“Now.” Lu Zheng nodded. “These two old ghosts’ divine souls have curse methods. Now they are dead and vanished from the dao. Who knows if their master knows, or when they will come.”
To dispatch more than twenty hundred-year old ghosts to the yang world at once must be a ghost king from the netherworld, and with extraordinary methods.
Regardless of whether they could win, first they needed first-hand information. That would rely on the two former subordinates of the Black Wheel King.
If it turned out they really could not beat them…
Anyway, the Refining Yang Chapter was in Lu Zheng’s hands. Worst case, hand it over. Return it to the original owner.
The two did not return to the village. Instead, they headed straight to Tonglin County. Moments later, they returned to Tong Yi Alley and entered the Du residence directly.
“Young Master Lu? Madam Shen?”
As soon as they entered the courtyard, Fan Boyu flashed out. “The two of you coming overnight, has something urgent happened?”
As his words fell, the two who had not restrained their auras also alarmed Du Yueyao.
Du Yueyao pushed open the door and came out. “Big Brother Lu? Sister Shen?”
Lu Zheng said, “Something has happened. I have questions for Duan Jiang and Zhan Yue.”
Du Yueyao, upon hearing this, immediately revealed her left wrist. She brushed the bodhi bead bracelet, and a jade token appeared in her hand.
“Big Brother Lu!”
Lu Zheng took the jade token, formed a seal, and Duan Jiang and Zhan Yue flew out from it.
“Greetings, master!”
Du Yueyao had not cultivated the Little Earth Sovereign Ghost Controlling Divine Method. She had only learned the control techniques, so these two ghosts were still subordinate to Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng nodded and asked, “That secret method of Refining Yang Returning to Yin from the Black Wheel King, where exactly did it come from?”
“It was obtained from the hand of a perished ghost king.” Duan Jiang said.
He had said this back then.
Lu Zheng frowned. “Say it in detail!”
“I know the details!” Zhan Yue hurriedly said.
Deep in the netherworld, there was a ghost king named the Hui Ming Law King. His strength was powerful. Few opponents in the four directions and eight extremes. He was a ghost king overlord who dominated the netherworld.
However, no matter how strong this ghost was, he still could not achieve eternal immortality. In the end, his ghost body perished and completely dissipated between heaven and earth.
However, after his death, the technique he had plundered, cultivated, and summarized throughout his life, the Hui Ming Seven Canons, was divided into seven parts and its whereabouts unknown.
And one of the seven canons, the Refining Yang Chapter, was obtained by the Black Wheel King by chance.
To know, each chapter in this Hui Ming Seven Canons was either a remnant from the upper realms or a treasure scripture deduced by ancients. They were all techniques with great origins. Later, they were collected, fused, and refined by the Hui Ming Law King, taking the essence and discarding the dross. They had already become extremely profound technique scriptures.
In fact, it was indeed so. That Refining Yang Chapter had almost no aftereffects. And after Lu Zheng obtained it, it also increased the efficiency of his treasure mirror sacrifice refining by several times.
Just one Refining Yang Chapter was this strong. One could see the preciousness of the Hui Ming Seven Canons.
