Chapter 72: No Need to Worry Now, I’ve Joined the Zixia Sacred Sect

Lu Xuezhi said lightly, “Although it is outside the country, that Shanmo Sect has already affected Hanzhou. If they invade our country, we must punish them even if they are far away.”

Chaoyinzi said calmly, “General Lu, it is better for this poor Taoist to report to His Majesty first and let His Majesty make a decision. Otherwise, it is still normal for the general to leave the fiefdom, but if he leaves the country, it will be a big deal.”

Lu Xuezhi said, “Then you hurry up. His Majesty will agree. My husband and I cooperate, plus you and Immortal Aunt Yaozhen, it is enough to destroy that evil sect.”

Chaoyinzi no longer entangled, and said, “This poor Taoist certainly hopes that you and General Ning will make more contributions and become divine generals, so… I will definitely explain it carefully. General, please wait for my news.”

Lu Xuezhi nodded.

Chaoyinzi suddenly left. During this period, she did not even look at Ning Xuan.

Ning Xuan touched his forehead and faced his wife’s faint gaze, as if she was waiting for him to “take a stand and express his attitude.” He said, “Miss Lu, you know me, I…”

Lu Xuezhi looked at him seriously, her pretty face in a scarlet high collar, her eyes like bright stars.

Ning Xuan said, “I… I get tired of eating too much lamb, I need a cup of tea.”

As he spoke, he got up and left.

Lu Xuezhi shouted, “Stop.”

Ning Xuan said, “Miss Lu?”

Lu Xuezhi sat upright, her legs crossed, her hands on her chest, and she raised her head and said, “Let me ask you, do you think we, plus Chaoyinzi and Immortal Aunt Yaozhen, can go to that Shanmo Sect to find out?”

Ning Xuan said without any hesitation, “Yes.”

Coaxing his wife, who would tell the truth?

Anyway, he felt that Chaoyinzi would definitely mess things up and prevent him and Lu Xuezhi from going to the Western Regions.

Since he knew the true positions of Great General Qin and the Zixia Temple, he could already look at many things from a relatively correct position.

Lu Xuezhi asked, “Why do you think we can?”

Ning Xuan said, “A martial artist should not lose his will, and should have a heart that goes forward without hesitation. You and I have experienced a lot of storms. If we are afraid of demons and don’t even dare to investigate, then what kind of general are we?”

Lu Xuezhi said, “You can go.”

Ning Xuan left.

He went to the side hall, drank tea, and watched the snow, feeling a little headache.

He thought for a moment, and with a thought, he summoned the [Confined Ghost].

These days, he had actually been summoning it every now and then.

Now, he summoned it again.

His heart was instantly occupied by a burning desire.

‘Fuse with him! Fuse with him! Fuse with him!’

This voice that almost suppressed all reason was constantly shouting in his soul.

He took a deep breath, took water to boil tea, and the small charcoal stove emitted the fragrance of beast gold charcoal, and the water gradually boiled.

He looked at the boiling water…

A scene gradually appeared in the boiling water.

A sedan chair was walking quickly in the ice and snow, and salt-like snow fell from the sky.

In the sedan chair, the middle-aged man with a purple face and a goatee had a burning gaze. The two of them looked at each other from a distance across the space again.

Ning Xuan withdrew the Heavenly Demon Record [Confined Ghost].

His desire still remained.

He patiently brewed a cup of tea, and then patiently tasted it, until the fire in his heart slowly extinguished, his reason slowly recovered, and everything became quiet.

Only then did he begin to think.

‘It’s not snowing everywhere. The snow on Tianyouzi’s side is almost the same as what I see here. He is already very close to me.’

‘He didn’t bring a prison cart, which is normal. The Confined Ghost is his biggest secret, and also the secret of the Zixia Temple. He can’t let anyone know.’

Ning Xuan’s eyes were faint.

The time in the nightmare, the experience of his previous life, and the many times he had endured death, all of these had broadened the width of his life a lot.

Although he was still sixteen years old, his mind had already begun to become mature, and even… cunning.

He held the teacup and swayed, watching the tea foam rise and fall, and then it settled with a “thud.”

The next morning.

The snow covered Hanzhou, and it was wrapped in silver.

The snow did not stop.

Ning Xuan boarded a fishing boat he had bought alone and floated towards the Mingzhu Lake.

He had taken a straw rain cape and a bamboo hat, and a fishing rod. After disguising himself, he boarded the fishing boat. At this moment, no one could recognize who he was from his appearance.

The fishing boat was anchored outside a reed marsh in the wilderness of Mingzhu Lake. It was remote and had few people, but the old fisherman said that there was a nest here, and he was guaranteed to catch fish.

So, Ning Xuan came.

Fishing was something he had thought of on the spur of the moment.

He was here today for an appointment, a very tacit appointment.

Now this was just his cover.

But as he fished, he suddenly found that fishing was very interesting.

Because it was unknown, because he didn’t know what he could catch, it was interesting.

In his previous life, and in this life, he had never fished, because he felt that sitting for a long time just to catch a fish that could be bought in the fish market for a little money, what was the point?

But now he found that fishing might be more interesting than cockfighting and horse racing. It was a kind of slow waiting, and at the moment of harvest, he would get great happiness.

Suddenly, he found that the fishhook had sunk a little.

A look of joy appeared on his face, and he swung the rod with a “swoosh.”

Thud.

A broken shoe with water plants and mud fell on the bow of the boat.

Ning Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud.

He threw the broken shoe into the lake and cast the hook again.

He was very curious, what could he catch this time.

Whisper chain.

In a one-to-one single chain, a conversation was taking place.

“Tianyouzi, I’ll confirm it again. According to the ranking and the merits you have established, you have a lot of priority in the selection of clothes in the future, and your ranking is also high. Are you willing to give up your ranking and go back to the end? This means that all your merits and all your efforts so far are in vain.”

“Disciple is willing.”

“He is only a dual first-grade. He is far from reaching the standard of a finished garment. If you wear him now, his potential will no longer be realized. He could have become a better garment. Are you really so impatient, and really want to give up everything to wear him now?”

“Disciple is willing. Disciple has felt the opportunity to become stronger in him. As long as disciple fuses with him, he will definitely produce an unprecedented change.”

“Oh? An unprecedented change?”

“Yes, disciple doesn’t understand what it is, but… disciple is sure that the change will definitely be very magical and very special. And it will definitely not disappoint you.”

“Yaozhen is also very special. If you wear that kid, you can’t be discovered by Yaozhen. No one can destroy Yaozhen’s growth.”

“Disciple understands.”

“That’s good.”

“Thank you, Master.”

“You don’t have to bring anyone. Chaoyinzi will meet you.”

After a short conversation, the middle-aged man with a purple face and a goatee lifted the curtain from a closed carriage of a sedan chair and walked out. He stepped on the withered long grass that was over his ankles, and his eyes rolled back. His line of sight instantly sensed the distant terrain, and also sensed Ning Xuan who was leisurely fishing outside the reed marsh.

Tianyouzi sneered and said in a very strange voice, “An ant trying to shake a tree, a mantis trying to stop a chariot.”

He raised his arms and looked at himself again.

This garment, he had obtained it with great difficulty.

Now that he was going to lose it, he was a little reluctant.

However, if the old doesn’t go, the new won’t come.

A golden light suddenly surged from his side, and a middle-aged female Heavenly Master appeared.

“Senior Brother.” Chaoyinzi called out.

She was a second-grade garment, and the ghost state she showed was not much.

After the third grade, it was gradually difficult to hide, and at least she could not speak.

So, there was the whisper chain.

Chaoyinzi also knew that Tianyouzi could not speak, so she said directly, “He shouldn’t have chosen a place with water. When I suppress him into the water, Senior Brother can go and possess him. In exchange, Master said that I will replace Senior Brother’s original ranking.”

Tianyouzi stared at her and opened his throat.

Chaoyinzi raised her hand and interrupted, “Senior Brother, have you forgotten who I am? He won’t drown, it will only make his body and spirit extremely weak, so that Senior Brother can possess him. It will be quick.”

Tianyouzi snorted. This sound was like many men, women, old people, and children snorting together, which was very strange.

But he thought for a moment and still nodded.

In this water area, Chaoyinzi was very terrifying.

The next moment, Chaoyinzi no longer said much. She suddenly went limp, and an invisible and twisted ghost shadow emerged from the skin. Then she raised her hand and turned it over, and a dark black seal fell on her hand. The twisted ghost shadow pressed the seal down.

The second-grade garment was tightly wrapped outside, hiding the strength of the third grade.

But if the third grade wanted to exert its true power, it still had to take off its clothes first.

Thud!

Ning Xuan swung the rod again.

This time, he caught a big fish.

The fish landed on the side of the deck.

He was very happy. He ran to the side of the boat, bent down, and held it up. He was about to weigh it. At this time, he suddenly glanced to the side and saw that the boat board was filled with ink-like black.

Wisps of ink-black turned into twisted arms, and painful and tense palms.

The lake surface turned into a netherworld.

A gloomy qi spread out.

The nearest ghost hand suddenly grabbed his ankle. He suddenly stopped and could not move…

The palm climbed up, revealing a long and narrow ghost shadow with a venomous face.

A look of astonishment appeared on Ning Xuan’s face, and a look of solemnity flashed in his eyes. His qi and blood circulated wildly.

But at this time, he was caught by a second evil ghost.

He felt that his soul was suppressed, and all his strength was frozen.

Instantly, his forward-leaning body became a slow fall.

He was originally standing on the side of the boat to get the fish. This fall directly turned into a headlong fall, and he fell into the lake with a “plop.”

The sound was not loud, like a fat fish jumping out of the water and slapping its tail hard.

But even though he had fallen into the water, there was no feeling of suffocation, because his constitution was strong, so strong that he could even absorb the extremely small amount of air in the water like a fish, and use that little air to maintain a long survival time.

And then…

One after another, evil ghosts climbed over and pressed him down tightly.

At this time, an accident happened.

He suddenly felt a strange suppression.

When he was tightly wrapped by these evil ghosts in the water, he felt that the qi and blood in his body were rapidly becoming silent. He glanced at the panel, and sure enough… there was a change on the panel.

A change in constitution.

The constitution of “11” was rapidly regressing. First, it became “10 (11),” then “9 (11).” When he had completely fallen into the mud and was quiet and motionless, his constitution column had already become “0.5 (11).”

This meant that at this time, even an ordinary bamboo pole could stab him to death.

More directly, a strong feeling of drowning came.

He wanted to struggle, but he could not move.

He was like being tied up tightly and thrown into deep water.

And at this time, he felt a gloomy and cold feeling pouring into his head.

The next moment, he seemed to have left reality and came to a strange space.

The space was narrow and not big.

A creepy, wooden-faced and twisted giant suddenly stood in front of him, looking down at him.

Tianyouzi had come.

And in this soul space, Ning Xuan was a child compared to Tianyouzi.

The small child even had a look of panic on his face. He was looking up at the tall giant that had suddenly arrived, and his face was still a little flustered and terrified.

Tianyouzi took two steps forward, and a strong sense of oppression came from his body.

The child stepped back in horror, and his hands subconsciously pushed forward. This was an instinctive resistance.

Tianyouzi did not communicate, nor did he wait. He showed a ferocious smile and pounced forward.

The child wanted to run, but was pounced on in an instant.

Tianyouzi opened his mouth and bit down fiercely.

When he bit, it was still a child. Halfway through the bite, he felt that something was wrong. When he had completely bitten down, he found that the child he had pounced on had become bigger.

Bigger than him.

He… had become a child.

Boom!

Ning Xuan summoned the [Confined Ghost] Heavenly Demon Record, and his spirit soared to 28. He hugged Tianyouzi with both hands and bit down, tearing off a large piece of “meat” from his shoulder.

Although Tianyouzi was stunned by this sudden situation, he still reacted quickly.

Although he didn’t know what kind of strange encounter Ning Xuan had to have this kind of power, but in the way of soul fusion and possession, how could a mere mortal compare to a Taiyin Ghost Cultivator?

To catch the thief, first catch the king.

And the king of the soul was the brow.

Tianyouzi secretly laughed at Ning Xuan for biting his shoulder first, and then he suddenly turned his head. A look of ridicule and venom flashed in his wooden eyes, and then he bit fiercely at the brow of Ning Xuan’s soul, and then hurriedly swallowed.

Almost at the same time as he swallowed, Tianyouzi spat out what he had eaten.

And he heard laughter in his ears.

“Heh…”

“Haha!”

“Jie hahahahaha!!”

Ning Xuan laughed and began to eat.

Tianyouzi looked at Ning Xuan’s soul in horror. His previous ridicule and venom had all disappeared, and turned into disbelief and incomprehension.

He suddenly began to struggle wildly.

He had to escape.

He had to escape.

He had been baited!

This soul was very strange!

However, Ning Xuan held him very tightly, and also ate very quickly.

Soon, Tianyouzi was gnawed to pieces.

And then, he had become a part of Ning Xuan.

Ning Xuan let out a long breath.

He glanced at the panel.

[Ning Xuan]

[Life (Constitution): 11]

[Nature (Spirit): 22]

His spirit had changed from “12” to “22.” The effect was equivalent to eating a demon pill, but the way of eating this demon pill had become fusion.

In a distant place, the connection with the innate evil treasure hidden in the Taiyin Ghost Realm became clearer.

That evil treasure had become his alone.

But unexpectedly, with the bonus of the [Confined Ghost] Heavenly Demon Record, his spirit did not directly reach the level it should have. It did not reach the 33 he had imagined, but “29.999 (33).”

The many decimal places of 9 showed that he was infinitely close to 30, but he lacked some necessary promotion conditions, and was stuck, and could not exert the strength he should have.

Hiss!

Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss!!

At this time, on the deep lake bed, the heavy water ghosts outside his body quickly dispersed, and his constitution was also rapidly recovering.

This was not released by Chaoyinzi, but his spirit had surpassed Chaoyinzi’s by a lot, which made Chaoyinzi’s ghost seal naturally ineffective.

Swoosh!

He broke out of the water and returned to the fishing boat.

The middle-aged female Heavenly Master also appeared by his side in an instant. Looking at Ning Xuan, she said, “Congratulations, Senior Brother.”

Ning Xuan looked at her.

Information flashed in his mind: Chaoyinzi, a drowned ghost, the characteristic of the ghost seal was that “when suppressed in water, it can suppress the opponent’s qi and blood together, producing a temporary weakening.”

He had counter-possessed Tianyouzi, and he naturally knew what Tianyouzi knew.

Tianyouzi had a sect, and its name was “Zixia Sacred Sect.”

The Zixia Temple in the imperial capital was just the tip of the iceberg of this sect.

However, as he had expected, Tianyouzi was just a small character in the Zixia Sacred Sect, which was full of Taiyin Ghost Cultivators. His position was “a formal disciple of a sect.”

He had possessed Tianyouzi, which was equivalent to “formally joining the Zixia Sacred Sect and becoming a formal disciple of this sacred sect.”

Chaoyinzi said, “Since Senior Brother has succeeded, then the previous ranking is mine.”

Ning Xuan said coldly, “Alright.”

After speaking, he clenched his fists again and said, “This kid is hiding quite deep. He is a second-grade martial artist.”

Chaoyinzi was not surprised to hear him speak. A third-grade strength wearing a second-grade garment was naturally a kind of self-sealing.

She asked curiously, “Did Senior Brother get what he wanted?”

Ning Xuan showed a sinister smile. He clenched his fists and said, “I got it.”

Chaoyinzi said, “What is it?”

Ning Xuan raised his hands and let out a few sinister “jie jie” laughs, and then said, “A garment is a garment. Once it becomes a garment, all growth is sealed, right?”

Chaoyinzi said, “Right.”

When she said right, her eyes were already a little wrong.

Before, she had some hidden ridicule, and felt that Senior Brother was confused. Even if he really liked this garment, he should wait for him to grow for a few years. Why was he in such a hurry?

Ning Xuan said, “But now, not only has my ghost body become stronger, I even feel that I should still be able to practice martial arts.”

Chaoyinzi had guessed it, but when she heard it with her own ears, she still subconsciously said, “Impossible!”

Ning Xuan said, “I’m not sure either, I have to try.”

Chaoyinzi suddenly said, “Senior Brother, you should get used to your body first. Lu Xuezhi is not a pushover. These days, she has been dual cultivating with this garment of yours every day. You can’t let her find any flaws.”

Ning Xuan said cautiously, “Maybe I can find a reason…”

Chaoyinzi said, “If you look for it, she will definitely be suspicious.

In fact, she should know something.

She said she was going to the Western Regions. We have roughly guessed that a considerable part of the remnants of the martial arts sects of the past are in the Western Regions.”

Ning Xuan closed his eyes, as if he was digesting “Ning Xuan’s memory,” and then said, “And she is too anxious.”

Chaoyinzi smiled and said, “That’s right. She was so impatient to send Madam Zhao and the others from the Qin family to the Western Regions. But she sent them very quickly, too quickly. This girl looks smart and acts decisively, but… she is very stupid.”

Ning Xuan deeply agreed, and nodded heavily. Then he searched “Tianyouzi’s memory” again.

In this memory, he found the attitude of the Zixia Sacred Sect towards the remnants of the Western Regions sects in the past.

They couldn’t see the situation inside clearly, but they wanted to keep them, raise them, and wait for the clothes to become stronger on their own.

But they were not allowed to grow strong, and they were not allowed to have much fresh blood.

What’s more, this land still needed generals to cooperate with Heavenly Masters to slay demons and eliminate evil.

If they didn’t slay demons and eliminate evil, where would the dragon qi come from to fatten the Heavenly Masters?