Chapter 62: That… Is It Really a Heavenly Master’s Seal?

Ning Xuan did not know that a demon was coming tonight, nor which demon was coming. He only knew that if Shanyang was besieged by the four prefectures, the person leading the troops would either be him or someone appointed by Great General Qin.

But he had priority.

He had already been branded with the mark of the Son of Heaven’s faction, and he was originally the general of Wangyue Prefecture among the four prefectures.

Since the demons would think of disguising themselves as prefects and stealing incense fire, and since they would think of colluding with high officials, then there was no reason why they would not think of… beheading.

Beheading had always been the most efficient and direct method.

Killing him, killing a “first-grade nature-attribute general,” in exchange for one of their own people taking over, and one of their own people besieging, why not?

To be able to know that he was a “first-grade nature-attribute general,” and to be able to see the change in the generals’ information so quickly, this once again proved that Great General Qin must have colluded with the demons. Otherwise, how would the demons know?

The demons were very cautious.

So cautious that they guessed that his “first-grade nature-attribute general” might have hidden his strength, and then they pulled his hidden strength to the highest, and counted it as a second-grade.

The demons had formulated a beheading plan against him according to the specifications of a “second-grade nature-attribute general.”

The White Mountain Zen Master was the beheader.

The incense fire body had a very strong recovery ability, but it was clumsy; while the White Mountain Zen Master was a second-grade demon, its recovery ability was lacking, but it was flexible. More importantly, it had a powerful weapon, a weapon that could turn one into a thousand, and a thousand into one.

As long as the White Mountain Zen Master cut open his incense fire body and then found the hidden him, it could directly end the battle.

Just now, in the eyes of the White Mountain Zen Master, it should have been its staff saber that cut open the golden body.

No matter what power the golden body was still using, it would be interrupted because it was cut in half.

The White Mountain Zen Master would break through the air and go up, and peek into the golden body. As long as it swept to his figure, it would cut out a second saber, quickly end the battle, and then leave without a trace.

But it never expected that the madman in front of it would “burn his boats” in the first strike.

This madman had consumed all his golden body in the first strike.

How could one fight like this?

It was unreasonable.

Ning Xuan’s golden body did not wait for the White Mountain Zen Master to cut it open. He had consumed it all himself.

One was to burn his boats and strike at the solid, and the other was to leave a way out and strike at the empty.

In a single thought, the victory and defeat had been decided, and life and death… had also been decided.

Was the White Mountain Zen Master wrong?

It was not wrong.

Its killing method was not wrong no matter how one looked at it.

The mistake was that it had encountered an opponent who was not so normal.

What was not wrong became wrong.

This was not only a game of strength, but also a game of their respective enlightenment and choices in the moment of life and death.

Ning Xuan had won, that was all.

He raised his hand and “thudded” on the Zen staff.

His qi and blood surged, and he began to refine this ownerless Zen staff.

While he was refining, he continued to be on guard. After all, although he felt that there should only be one White Mountain Zen Master, he still needed to continue to maintain his guard and not think that the battle was over.

On the Zen staff, every piece began to jump and resist, while his qi and blood began to seep in and suppress it.

He had refined the flying knife in an instant, but it took him a whole night to refine the Zen staff.

By the dawn of the next day, the morning light dragged its golden and slanted tail through the clouds and fell. A few leaves on the high mountains were knocked down. After all, it was early autumn.

The leaves rolled and hesitated, and more than ten of them came towards him from the same direction, some fast and some slow, with the west wind.

Ning Xuan grabbed the handle of the Zen staff and gently flicked it back.

The Zen staff turned into more than ten broken blades, and each broken blade accurately cut a fallen leaf, dividing it into two.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The next moment, those broken blades quickly returned to Ning Xuan’s hand.

Ning Xuan looked at the Zen staff, and with a thought, the Zen staff changed and became a saber of moderate length.

Ning Xuan held the saber, and with a flick of his five fingers, the saber began to change again, becoming a belt. The belt was wrapped around his waist, which was quite decent.

‘What a treasure. It’s a good thing the White Mountain Zen Master was still thinking about you day and night in the nightmare.’

This was the first time Ning Xuan had obtained a treasure of this level.

Although he had lost the golden body that he had worked so hard to condense, it was still worth it to be able to kill the White Mountain Zen Master and get such a treasure.

At the same time, he also confirmed that there was only one White Mountain Zen Master. Otherwise, the best time to ambush him would have been when he was refining the Zen staff.

“I don’t care what your name was before. From now on, you will be called the Ruyi Saber.”

Ning Xuan gave it a name.

Then, he turned his head and looked at Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie was carefully hovering her fingers over the blood sprayed by the White Mountain Zen Master, feeling the heat that had not yet dissipated from the demon blood. When she met Ning Xuan’s gaze, she shivered, then took a deep breath and said, “Gentleman, I see that some of the newly born demonic plague martial artists in the mansion are not as good as me when they were in the martial world. I… I mean, can I also try to become a demonic plague martial artist?”

The two of them looked at each other quietly.

Ning Xuan said, “There is a lot of flesh and blood of unranked demons in the mansion. To be safe, you should start from the unranked. When you get used to it, then take the first-grade… With the green jade passed down from the Flying Eagle Tower, the unranked level is still relatively safe.”

As he spoke, he began to collect the flesh and blood of the White Mountain Zen Master. This was an important resource.

And since he had killed the White Mountain Zen Master, his father would probably be able to get a considerable part of the dragon qi.

With his father’s temper, his father would not hide it at all. He would give all this part of the dragon qi to his big brother.

In this way, his big brother would also have the qualification to step into the second-grade.

Every great battle, especially this kind of great battle of life and death, would cause Ning Xuan to have strong after-effects.

Discomfort, nausea, and weariness rushed in.

He gave the General Ning’s residence to Madam Jie.

The General’s residence was actually not of much use to him. The original choice of this place was only because it was quite close to the Zen temple, and he could often go to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and seek some peace.

Now, the female Bodhisattvas could not stand his torment, and this place was not of much significance anymore.

However, Ning Xuan liked Madam Jie very much, so he naturally hoped that Madam Jie could walk with him for a longer time, so he took Madam Jie to experience that terrifying scene together.

If he died, Madam Jie would of course die with him.

If he did not die, then Madam Jie would also see what he had to face, and then Madam Jie would make her own choice.

Ning Xuan was actually quite conflicted.

He both hoped that Madam Jie could go far with him, and also hoped that Madam Jie would choose to stay away from everything, although he did not know how to stay away.

So, he gave the decision to Madam Jie herself.

And Madam Jie still chose the former.

So, he gave her the General Ning’s residence.

The resources could be used at will, and she could use them however she wanted.

He himself only kept a tiger tally.

After the great battle, he could go to the Chenxiang Pavilion to enjoy himself, and he could find Madam Jie to enjoy himself.

But now, those pleasures had become boring because of his strong physique. He had to be careful every time, for fear of destroying those exquisite paper people and paper things.

No matter where he went, someone would respectfully call him General. Even a dandy friend like Liu Shirong would pull him to join the “Shanmo Sect.”

After killing the White Mountain Zen Master, Ning Xuan took Madam Jie back to the General’s residence. After a few simple instructions, he left a note of his whereabouts and left.

He ran to a high mountain, jumped onto an old tree that protruded from the cliff, and then lay down obliquely, drinking fine wine and looking at the sea of clouds, which was a kind of relaxation. He could not find joy and could not make fun. The wine he drank was bitter, and it was extremely boring.

Another half a month passed.

Under the leadership of Chou Nu and others, the four prefectures’ troops were successfully mobilized and gathered at the border of Shanyang Prefecture, just waiting for that Tianyouzi of the Zixia Temple.

Ning Xuan, this General An Yuan, also lost his freedom and was caught. He honestly sat in the three camps of Wangyue Prefecture, and also took charge of the soldiers of the surrounding three prefectures, giving orders… or rather, responsible for stamping, using his tiger tally to stamp.

Chou Nu and Immortal Aunt Yaozhen also sat in charge together.

The difference was that one was in the camp, and the other was somewhere unknown.

The finished product of the second-grade nature-attribute demon pill was also successfully delivered.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen gave it to Ning Xuan.

Ning Xuan went to the wild to take it.

He first summoned the Heavenly Demon Record of the “Incense-Condensing Mouse,” raising his spirit attribute to 12.5, and then took the pill.

In just one day, he had digested it.

He glanced at the panel:

[Ning Xuan]

[Life (Constitution): 10]

[Nature (Spirit): 12]

He had already been able to truly reach “dual second-grade” without summoning the Heavenly Demon Record.

The improvement in life was quite direct.

But nature was very strange.

Even though Ning Xuan had already reached 12, his performance was still just gathering incense fire, and nothing else.

This time, the incense fire was simple.

He had already been branded with the mark of the Son of Heaven’s faction, so to a certain extent, he already needed to obey orders, especially good orders, which he could not refuse.

After having to agree to take charge of the five prefectures and solve the problems of the five prefectures, Chou Nu had completed the connection with the Heavenly Masters of the other prefectures, and had also sent the incense fire Bodhisattva statues stored in those prefectures to Ning Xuan.

The upper echelons of the five prefectures, except for Shanyang Prefecture, all began to know that a “first-grade nature-attribute general” would be in charge of their side.

A good thing.

Everyone was happy.

The general had at least four “trial and error” opportunities, and his future was boundless. He was not comparable to a demonic plague martial artist at all.

Just this morning…

One after another, incense fire Bodhisattva statues were sent to the camp.

Ning Xuan threw all these Bodhisattva statues into a sack, preparing to go to the wild to absorb the incense fire.

Chou Nu sent him to the front of the camp and said in a low voice, “What kind of demon did you kill that day? Mr. Taiyi got a lot of dragon qi, and that batch of dragon qi helped me break through the second-grade directly, and there was even some left over…

I’m not saying this to investigate anything. I and Mr. Taiyi didn’t tell anyone. We just hope you pay attention to safety and don’t face danger alone.”

Ning Xuan smiled and nodded.

If he hadn’t stayed alone in that mountain villa, the White Mountain Zen Master would not have appeared rashly. Even if it had appeared, it would have killed everyone around.

What’s more, compared to cooperating, he was actually more suitable for fighting alone, because he had always been alone in the nightmare.

He carried the bag and went to the wild.

In a forest by a river where horses were drinking, he sat down casually, and then casually took out the incense fire Bodhisattva statues one by one, absorbed all the incense fire, and then crushed the clay statues into powder and scattered them casually.

The expedition of the government troops was usually accompanied by people from the martial world.

Among these people from the martial world, there were also some young people, young people like Ning Xuan, both men and women.

Ning Xuan had only sat for a while when he enjoyed a scene of a dispute between two young heroes and a female hero, and also heard a young hero and a female hero flirting under a tree shade.

So, he moved to another place.

He went to a place farther away from the garrison and absorbed all the incense fire Bodhisgvas cleanly.

At this time, he heard the voice of Immortal Aunt Yaozhen in his ear.

“General Ning, Senior Brother Tianyouzi has arrived! Senior Brother wants us to meet at the Wolf Ridge Plain in front.”

Ning Xuan replied, “I’m coming.”

The next day.

The government troops of Wangyue Prefecture were the first to push to the Wolf Ridge Plain.

The Wolf Ridge Plain was a small plateau near Shanyang Prefecture. Standing on it, one could see the distant Shanyang Prefecture through the gap between two high mountains.

At this time, on the still green plateau, a sedan chair was being carried by four big men, and there were also six prison carts accompanying them.

Two of the six prison carts were wide open, and the shackles were all unlocked.

But strangely, this was not a prison break.

After Ning Xuan arrived, he saw the two prisoners who were not in the prison carts at a glance.

They were on the green grass outside the prison carts. One was standing, constantly twisting his head and turning his body, as if his flesh and blood had been stiff for a long time and needed to be stretched; the other was sitting, constantly pulling up the grass on the ground and crushing it, and then bringing the grass juice to his face to smell, as if he had not smelled a fresh smell for a long time.

Before he came, Ning Xuan had already learned a lot of information through Immortal Aunt Yaozhen.

Tianyouzi, because he often needed to solve some dangerous incidents, did not have a suitable general partner, so he did not have a general partner. He usually brought four ordinary Taoist boys who carried the sedan chair, and six special prison carts.

And in these six special prison carts, there was a human demon imprisoned in each.

A general who failed to take the pill would become a demonic plague martial artist.

A demonic plague martial artist who failed would become a human demon.

A human demon was a demonic plague martial artist who had succeeded in strength, but his personality had become more and more crazy, and the time he was awake every day was greatly reduced.

And in the six special prison carts that Tianyouzi brought, there were six second-grade martial artist human demons imprisoned.

These second-grade human demons were awake for four or five hours a day, so they were on a three-shift system, with two of them rotating, basically ensuring that there were two human demons who could guard this third-grade Heavenly Master at any time.

Because they were human demons, even if they were lost in a dangerous incident, they were after all existences whose potential had been exhausted. It was better than a general with a boundless future dying.

As for these human demons, the imperial court had long “bought a horse with a thousand gold,” and had spent a lot of money in exchange for their loyalty, and had arranged for their families, funerals, etc…

At this time…

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen skipped to the front of the sedan chair. Her cold face in front of outsiders melted at this time, and she happily shouted, “Senior Brother!”

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing a middle-aged man’s face that was slightly purple.

The middle-aged man stroked his goatee, smiled, did not speak, and then closed the curtain.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen said, “Senior Brother, look at the general I brought. This is the partner I chose.”

In front of this middle-aged man, she was completely like a child, and even had a bit of a showing off meaning.

This time, the middle-aged man lifted the curtain again, glanced at Ning Xuan next to him, nodded, and then closed the curtain again. He still did not speak.

And at this time, the two human demons suddenly stepped forward and stood on the left and right sides of the carriage.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen pulled Ning Xuan and stepped back a little.

Ning Xuan looked.

The sky was low, and the dark clouds were like ink. A dark purple halo suddenly rose from the sedan chair, like a mist but not a mist, like a smoke but not a smoke.

The halo rose higher and higher, and soon landed in the distance, and condensed into a dark purple great seal in the sky above Shanyang Prefecture. Rolling mist rose, like a deep sea seaweed twisting its slender qi body, and also like the dark black long hair of a drowning woman struggling.

Ning Xuan was stunned for a moment, and his eyes were fixed on the strange dark purple. His strong constitution and spirit made him feel an indescribable and obscure yin cold.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen said with some excitement, “A third-grade great seal, the purple qi comes from the east. This is a real Heavenly Master! Senior Brother Tianyouzi is a third-grade Heavenly Master.”

Then, the dark purple great seal began to fall…

It began to melt…

It began to turn into a layer of dark purple thin mist and cover Shanyang Prefecture.

A Heavenly Master’s Seal actually covered a whole city!

All kinds of rumbling sounds began to be heard in Shanyang Prefecture, and among them were mixed with many demon roars. Even from a long distance, some could still be heard. They were forced out, as if they were breaking through some kind of restriction, but it was all in vain.

A moment later…

Those sounds suddenly became quiet.

A human demon beside Tianyouzi suddenly rushed out, jumped straight down from the cliff, and then rushed around in the mountains like a gust of wind. It soon became a black dot, and then soon disappeared into the distant Shanyang Prefecture.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen looked at her partner and said, “General, Senior Brother said that the demons in this prefecture are just some second-grade demons. He has already suppressed them. Now, he just needs the second-grade human demon slaves to kill them.”

Sure enough, as expected, just two hours later, the human demon returned from a distance, holding two heads in its hand, a mouse head and a fox head…

Tianyouzi did not speak, or rather, he had been talking to Immortal Aunt Yaozhen through the “whisper chain.”

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen suddenly said, “General, Senior Brother Tianyouzi said that the demons here are not too strong. As long as the location is confirmed, they can be easily solved. However, there is still some chaos in the city. We need to lead troops into the city to maintain order.”

Ning Xuan was a little dazed.

Today, he was prepared for a great battle.

But, from beginning to end, he didn’t even see anything, and the great battle was over.

Immortal Aunt Yaozhen said again, “General, let’s go. Senior Brother still has to go to the Frozen Hell to take charge. He just came to help on the way.”

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, the sedan chair over there moved again, and the six prison carts also slowly started, and went in the direction of the Frozen Hell.

Ning Xuan felt extremely dazed.

All along, he had always thought that in the battle between demons and Heavenly Masters, the Heavenly Masters were the side that was completely suppressed. But today… he suddenly realized that he still knew too little about this world.

Especially the dark purple Heavenly Master’s Seal just now. That bit of purple was like a decoration, and it was almost rolling with black smoke. Was that really a Heavenly Master’s Seal?

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he said, “Let’s enter the city first.”