Chapter Twenty-Four: Using Skills to Cultivate Kung Fu
"What?" When Ye Qianming heard that Xiaobai was in danger, he was concerned but confused. He asked Murong Yun: "Where is Xiaobai now?"
Murong Yun wanted to comfort Ye Qianming and put his pressure on his shoulders, but he had no choice but to jump up and reach under Ye Qianming's chest. He couldn't reach it at all. He could only pull the corner of his clothes and said: "Don't be anxious, Your Excellency. Your spiritual pet is still here."
No danger."
"Although your spiritual pets have been placed on the altar, the last batch of sacrifices will not be sacrificed to the treasure until three days later. Before then, the sacrifices are not in danger."
Ye Qianming calmed down and was about to ask something when he was suddenly startled: "I almost got led around because of this news just now!"
He tried his best to hide his inner shock. Looking at Murong Yun's sincere face, he couldn't help but feel a little scared and admired.
"If I had asked him just now and he had caught the direction of the conversation, and if I had been criticized by him again, I might have been deceived."
After all, Murong Yun did not provide enough convincing evidence, so Ye Qianming had to be careful again and again.
At this moment, he calmed down before continuing to ask: "In that case, wouldn't it be better to use these three days to rescue those sacrifices?"
Murong Yun shook his head: "It can't be that simple. The master of this Ghost Snake Cave is called Xue Qingyun, and he is in the middle stage of foundation building."
"According to what he said before, during the preparation time for the sacrifice, he will stay with the treasure and the sacrifice, keeping in touch with his mind, so that he can completely control the treasure and will not leave easily."
"Although the ghost shadow of the second master is in the early stage of foundation building, he is good at sneak attacks. Compared with Xue Qingyun's ability to fight head-on, we still should not act rashly. On the day of the complete sacrifice, if there is chaos, there may be a chance.
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"Middle stage of foundation building? That's a bit difficult..." Ye Qianming also felt a headache about this. In this case, he could only wait for the strong men from the academy and the city lord's palace to come to the rescue.
Suddenly, the entire cave trembled violently. Ye Qianming immediately opened his consciousness and saw that not only the cave, but the entire Ghost Snake Cave looked like a chess piece, picked up by an invisible hand and floating in the air.
Mid-air!
However, upon closer inspection, a mass of black blood energy as big as a mountain peak embraced the cave and held it up in the air.
Ye Qianming was horrified, what kind of power could this lift a cave sky with ease?
"Is he a strong person from the Academy? No, I'm afraid only a strong person at the Golden Core Stage can have such abilities!"
Ye Qianming's shock had not yet subsided when he saw that the movement of the entire cave had not stopped, but was moving in the air with the support of the black blood. After less than half an hour, it passed through countless places that even Ye Qianming could not see.
After understanding the rune ban, it was firmly located in another place.
There were bursts of noise outside, and the bandits were also frightened by the strange sight of the Ghost Snake Cave. Murong Yun walked outside the cave entrance and asked about the situation, then trotted back with a frown on his face.
"Lao Wu is maintaining order outside. I heard from him that the effect was caused by the preliminary sacrifice of the treasure by the elder brother!"
Ye Qianming was a little in disbelief, and then said with a solemn expression: "I have never asked my fellow Taoist just now, what kind of treasure did the master of the Ghost Snake Cave sacrifice, and can he move mountains and fly to the sky if he masters it?"
Murong Yun shook his head helplessly: "Big brother takes good care of that treasure and never lets us see it, but Lao Wu has been helping big brother with things outside. I asked about it just now."
Murong Yun leaned close to Ye Qianming's ear and whispered: "That is a spiritual weapon, at least three colors!"
"Three-color spiritual weapons? I have never heard of three-color spiritual weapons even from those big families. How can I get one from Ghost Snake Cave?"
From bottom to top, the grades of magic weapons are treasure weapons, spiritual weapons, mysterious weapons, and fairy weapons. The maximum colors of the spiritual power of each grade are three, five, seven, and nine respectively. The more colors, the more powerful they are at the same level.
Stronger, better.
For example, Ye Qianming's Cold Stone Sword is the top three-color treasure among treasures, and the Five Ghost Banner he obtained is also a three-color treasure, but its color purity is much different.
Some big families in the Bishan Kingdom will naturally have magic weapons at the spiritual level to help them. Yu Jin once said that their father, the head of the Yu family, owns a two-color spiritual weapon, which can be said to be an important family weapon.
But there was actually a spiritual weapon in the Ghost Snake Cave, and it was of three colors, which had to shock Ye Qianming.
"Perhaps that Scarface didn't exaggerate. With a three-color spiritual weapon that was just as powerful as before, coupled with Xue Qingyun's strength in the middle stage of foundation building, he might really be able to pursue a career."
But Ye Qianming also had a flash of inspiration and asked Murong Yun: "I'm afraid that three-color spiritual weapon has some shortcomings. Perhaps the need for sacrifice is part of the reason."
Murong Yun nodded: "I don't know how many sacrifices Lao Wu has sent in these days, but only a bone is left. This shows that the spiritual weapon is evil and either requires a large number of sacrifices, or it is seriously damaged and requires a large number of sacrifices."
Please use the product to repair it.”
"But even so, the spiritual weapon has already taken shape. What's worse is that the magical power of the spiritual weapon just moved the Ghost Snake Cave to the other side of the Cold Stone Mountains, flying a full five hundred miles!"
Ye Qianming felt his head was heavy and thought to himself: "Five hundred miles away? When will the people from the academy arrive? Will they evacuate before they find the bandits?"
"No, definitely not! Regardless of whether the academy is truly a holy place respected by thousands of people, he will work hard to investigate thoroughly and save the civilians who were used as sacrifices for this image."
"And this is a three-color spiritual weapon. There is no reason for them not to be interested. As long as I find a way to get the news out, someone will definitely come by then!"
Ye Qianming told Murong Yun his thoughts with half reservation, and the latter was quite convinced after hearing it.
"Now there are only two questions left. How to get the news about the spiritual weapon out, and how did I lurk in the Ghost Snake Cave these past few days? Even if the scarred face is injured, someone should come to visit and take care of him.
You can’t just bury them one by one, right?”
Murong Yun stroked the beard on his chin and thought for a while, then laughed and said: "For the first problem, your Five Ghost Flags are the best solution."
He rummaged through his ring and found two jade slips and handed them to Ye Qianming.
"These two jade slips respectively record the five ghost summoning techniques used by the second master's ghost to control the five ghost flags, and the ghost nine steps, the escape technique used to sneak into the shadows."
"After your Excellency learns the Five Ghost Summoning Technique, you will be able to more skillfully control the Five Ghost Flags, allowing them to go out and carry messages. However, they cannot go beyond a hundred miles, so people from outside still need to keep searching."
"In addition, you can also use this to control the body of the fourth child and make him pretend to be alive. I can help you act by visiting him. As long as the elder brother doesn't come to see it in person, there will be no problem."
"As for this Nine Steps of Ghost, your Excellency has fought against ghosts, so you should also know how wonderful it is, and after mastering it, you can also pretend to be a ghost and go deep into the ritual."
Ye Qianming took the two jade slips with a hint of fun, stared at Murong Yun and said, "Fellow Taoist, this is a good trick. You have stolen all the special skills of the foundation-building monks."
Murong Yun chuckled: "Your Excellency, don't worry too much. I am in charge of the wealth of the Ghost Snake Cave. This ghost likes to gamble and enjoy himself. I don't know how many spiritual stones he has borrowed from me. I asked him to use his own skills in exchange. It doesn't count."
What?"
"In fact, if you hadn't taken action, his five ghost banners were originally meant to be compensated to me, but now they are giving you an advantage!"
Ye Qianming and Murong Yun smiled knowingly. They both knew that the other had hidden a lot of information, but they also knew that they were being aloof and treated each other in a lewd way.
After Murong Yun left, Ye Qianming first thoroughly checked the environment in the cave and set up formations to shield the outside world. Then he relaxed and began to carefully study the two exercises given by Murong Yun.
After memorizing the content of the exercise, Ye Qianming couldn't help but sigh: "It is indeed an evil practice. If you don't improve it, even if you learn it, it will do more harm than good."
"Both of these techniques require people to indulge in demonic nature in order to exert their maximum power, and they also need to cultivate demonic energy for consumption. Even if these are not harmful, they cannot be completed overnight like Huaguang Technique.
I need to think of a smarter way... I have it!"
Ye Qianming quickly sinks his consciousness into the world of spiritual power. This world does not have the ability to distort time such as one day inside and one year outside or speed up thinking, but it does have another good helper, which is the spiritual power here.
Ye Qianming discovered when he helped Dongfang Yuran lower the spiritual thunder that the spiritual power here is alive and has a certain degree of consciousness. Now he wants to test whether these consciousnesses can be used for himself.
How to experiment? Just ask!
Ye Qianming summoned a group of spiritual power and asked: "Can you connect with my consciousness?"
Although his method is very rough, these spiritual powers are conscious and can be understood naturally, but it is also difficult to express the meaning to himself.
This group of spiritual energy was unable to perform complex expressions. It lingered in front of Ye Qianming for a long time to no avail, and finally had to stick it to Ye Qianming's forehead.
Suddenly, Ye Qianming felt the other person's child-like voice: "Okay, but I can only connect a little bit."
"Your cultivation is too weak, so there is a limit to the consciousness you can connect to."
"Is this consciousness connection?"
"Yeah." The group of spiritual energy nodded, and the conversation in his consciousness also said the same.
Ye Qianming breathed a sigh of relief, then summoned the spiritual power groups that had reached the upper limit, and connected his consciousness with them. At a rough look, there were about ten groups of spiritual power floating around him, taking the shape of a baby, crossing his legs like himself.
Sitting there, as if meditating.
And more spiritual energy groups were floating around them, maintaining the shape of dumplings, chattering around them, like children watching the fun.
Ye Qianming calmed down and experimented first, comprehending the first part of the five ghost summoning techniques. He was pleasantly surprised to find that with the connection of consciousness, he really seemed to have ten more thinking brains to participate together.
Enlightenment!
Although these spiritual power groups are a bit slow in understanding because their intelligence is not as good as that of humans, but together they are five or six times faster than Ye Qianming alone.
"With this blessing, I can give it a try!"
Ye Qianming put aside his excitement and quickly immersed himself in the world of understanding and modifying the exercises.
Time flew by, and more than two days passed quickly. Murong Yun often went in and out of the cave on the excuse of taking care of Scarface, bringing news and the character traits of the ghost he wanted to play.
And Ye Qianming would also stop to meditate when he came and ask him for some cultivation questions. After all, Murong Yun was a half-step foundation-builder of Qi Refining and could answer many of Ye Qianming's questions.
There were some problems that he had no clue about, so the two of them explored together and gained a lot.
On the third day, Murong Yun still used the old excuse to enter the cave, feeling uneasy: "We are going to start taking action today, but I see that the boy has a lot of problems and the process is not going fast. Don't hold back when the time comes..."
Thinking of this, his eyes turned cold: "If this move doesn't work, we can only shirk the blood debt to him!"
Suddenly, a cheerful female voice sounded behind Murong Yun: "Third brother, are you here too?"
Murong Yun was startled, but he still steadied himself and smiled behind him: "So it's Lao Wu. What, why are you here if you don't help eldest brother prepare things?"
Standing behind him is none other than Xue Shengnan, the fifth master of Guishe Cave. She is Xue Qingyun's only daughter. She is capable of the fifth level of Qi refining at a young age. She and Scarface, the fourth child, are childhood sweethearts.
Xue Shengnan was dressed in smart clothes. She was tall and strong, looking like a female general. She laughed and said, "I've finished helping my father. I only saw my fourth brother once that day after he came back from injury. I wanted to come and have a look."
How's it going, fourth brother, I'm here to see you!"
As Xue Shengnan said this, he quickly passed Murong Yun and walked towards the cave.
The back of Murong Yun's neck was covered with cold sweat, but he could only follow Xue Shengnan forward: "Xue Shengnan looks cheerful, but in fact, she has no less thoughts than her father. If I stop her, I'm afraid she will notice something. I can only hope that boy can
Got through it!"
The two of them were chatting with each other while walking on the road. Xue Shengnan was surprised that the ghost hadn't come back yet, and Murong Yun could only get away with it.
Fortunately, Xue Shengnan did not ask further questions, but couldn't wait to come to the cave and saw Scarface lying on the bed.
"Fourth brother, I'm here to see you!"
Xue Shengnan was about to go when suddenly a black shadow floated in the air and appeared in front of the two of them. The black mist covered his face, but it revealed two spots of scarlet.
Murong Yun was so shocked that she almost forgot to breathe!
"Second, second brother!"
[Author's digression]: Let me answer the question about updates here. The second one is now a college student, so it is okay to update at least 3,000 words once a day, but it is difficult to maintain two updates, so currently I can only update once.
Even.
However, double updates will be available after the summer vacation, which will start around the middle of next month. The plot should also reach a climax by then, so you can look forward to it!
ps: This chapter has nearly 3,900 words, and it’s not easy to type. Please give me your support!