Killing Demons: Upgrading from Calligraphy

The demons turned to ashes and the ghost den was empty.

Along with that enchanting bright red flame gradually dissipated.

The lingering ghost also turned into nothingness.

Only the Taoist in a wide-sleeved long robe stood between heaven and earth, wiping away the last trace of evil with a flick of his sleeves.

"Won……"

After witnessing the destruction of the ghost den, the elders of the Yun generation also saw Qi Xiu standing there indifferently.

"It seems that the deputy headmaster's strength has reached a level that we cannot imagine."

Taoist Yunyang stroked his long beard gently, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

Before, when he took Qi Xiu to the Hell Forest to take away the two realms of mind, he was just a little cultivator in the Bloodstained Realm.

I didn’t expect that in just a hundred years, the former little Taoist priest has now become a top-notch True Lord who can shoulder heavy responsibilities.

He can even turn the tide and stabilize the situation of the Shenxiao Sect when the head master is away.

"Yeah, this kid is incredible."

Taoist Master Yun Xiong was equally surprised, even though he had always known that his young disciple's progress in cultivation was extremely terrifying, with earth-shaking changes occurring almost every time they met.

But he didn't expect that in just a hundred years, Qi Xiu's cultivation had surpassed his.

“My fellow uncles and aunts, although the demons in Hell have been slain, the turmoil in the Hell Forest has not subsided.

You all quickly return to your respective spiritual peaks and control the sect protection formation."

After pinching out the last remnant of Su Buqing's soul with one hand, Qi Xiu turned around and gave instructions to the group of elders of the Yun generation below.

Although these seventy-two true kings of hell have all been destroyed.

However, the evil energy that continued to dissipate from the Hell Forest and the gradually disordered energy all indicated that the revival of the Hell's divine weapon was not affected in the slightest by the death of the seventy-two True Lords of Hell.

After instructing the elders of the Yun generation to take good control of the sect protection formation, Qi Xiu immediately transformed himself into a ray of powerful lightning and rushed straight towards the Hell Forest that looked like a volcano about to erupt.

"Xiu'er..."

Seeing Qi Xiu entering the Hell Forest alone, Taoist Yun Xiong looked serious and decided to go with him.

But at this time, Taoist Yunyang raised his hand to stop him.

"Yun Xiong, didn't you hear the deputy headmaster's order? Go back to Yunti Peak and control the sect protection formation. That's what you and I need to do now."

Hearing what Taoist Yun Yang said, Taoist Yun Xiong frowned and looked towards the Hell Forest in the distance with worry:

"But Xiu'er..."

"Trust the deputy headmaster. Since the headmaster has allowed him to take on this important task, and the acting headmaster has also expressed his full trust in him, why don't you, the master, trust him?"

Taoist Yunyang's words made Taoist Yunxiong slightly stunned, but then his expression relaxed and he nodded.

"Brother Yunyang, you are right. With Xiu'er's current strength, he cannot handle the problem. I am afraid it will be useless for me to go there."

"It's good that you can figure it out, but you don't have to worry. You have just witnessed the methods and talents of the deputy headmaster.

He fought alone against the seventy-two Lords of Hell and won completely.

This level of strength is probably unparalleled in the world in the Dao Body Realm.

Moreover, the deputy master has the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Controlling Treasure Order bestowed by the master himself. It has only revived a part of the Hell Dao artifact, which can absolutely not do anything to him. "

With his worries put aside, Taoist Yun Xiong was no longer obsessed. Then, a group of elders with the surname Yun transformed into divine light and rode on the light to return to the sacred peak where they were stationed.

Although the sect protection formation can draw power from the spiritual peaks on its own, it can only exert its full power with the peak master in charge.

Even if the Hell Divine Artifact is fully revived, there is no need to worry about any damage to the interior of the mountain gate.

……

The lightning surged and transformed into terrifying thunderbolts that fell from the sky, piercing through the colorful, strange and pervasive evil energy above the hell stone forest.

A brilliant and blazing lightning fell to the ground, and a calm and indifferent young Taoist walked out of it. His pair of purple eyes slowly scanned the ancient Demon Sect's headquarters that had returned after a hundred years.

"This evil energy contains a mysterious power that can corrode and corrupt the soul. Over time, it will turn those who are in it into ghost corpses, neither alive nor dead, with no hope of escape."

Sensing the power contained in the demonic energy, Qi Xiu frowned slightly.

This kind of evil spirit was recorded in the secret books of the Shenxiao Sect, and was called: Seven Returning Souls.

People who are transformed into soul corpses by the Seven Returning Evils can not only retain the power they had in life, but their souls will also be dissolved and converted into cultivation, greatly increasing the power of the soul corpse.

And once the soul corpse is defeated, it will immediately self-destruct, producing even more violent seven returning souls to pollute the surroundings.

This magic fog is extremely strange. There is no corresponding method to dispel it, and it can linger for thousands of years.

If the Seven Returned Evils were allowed to spread out, the entire Shenxiao Sect's mountain gate would turn into a deadly place.

Unless the sect protection formation is always activated, disciples below the Dao Body realm can only stay in the sect protection formation.

He slowly closed his eyes, and a blue-silver light flickered between Qi Xiu's eyebrows.

next moment.

I saw a missing corner of the thunder pool slowly opening up in the void, and the thunder liquid that penetrated the universe, the sun and the moon surged in the pool, stimulating powerful and domineering lightning flashes that spread across the four corners of the world.

Thunder magic is the most yang and powerful thing in the universe.

Heaven can overcome all evil spirits.

Summoning the Thunder Pool of Transformation, Qi Xiu's body shook slightly, and an incarnation emerged from his body.

"You stay here and guard this Thunder Pool of Rebirth, refine these Seven Returning Evils, and don't let them spread out any further." Qi Xiu instructed his external incarnation.

"rest assured."

Leaving behind an incarnation to use the Thunder Pool to refine the Seven Evil Souls, Qi Xiu himself continued to walk towards the depths of the stone forest.

It was once the headquarters of the medieval demon sect.

The Hell Forest was filled with thick fog, and a series of cold and shadowy figures, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, surrounded Qi Xiu.

However, Qi Xiu today is no longer the little cultivator in the Blood-stained Realm more than a hundred years ago.

The terrifying pressure from the top Taoist master made these evil spirits that had not dissipated after tens of thousands of years extremely fearful. They only dared to watch from afar and did not dare to step forward.

The deaths of Su Buqing and other True Lords of Hell made the Hell Forest seem a lot emptier.

After walking for several hours, Qi Xiu hardly noticed anything unusual except that the fog around him became thicker.

And under the special vision of the Qi-gazing technique, he was already very close to the divine artifact of Hell.

Just as Qi Xiu was facing the dead silence and tranquility of the fog, his vigilance was increasing.

His feet suddenly felt empty and he fell downward at an uncontrollable speed, so fast that everything in front of him turned almost pitch black.

Steadying his body while falling, Qi Xiu raised his hand and summoned the Haotian Mirror above his head. Then the Daluo Five Elements Golden Plate began to shine brightly, and the Innate Five Elements Bureau under his feet was ready to go.

It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it seemed like only a moment had passed.

The sky was filled with raging fire, and wherever you looked, there was a sea of ​​fire, like an endless furnace burning the world.

After the fire, shrill screams came from all directions, like sharp steel spikes stabbing straight at them.

The snow-white mirror light fell in strands, and both the raging fire and the sharp sound waves were firmly blocked outside and could not penetrate at all.

There was a flash of purple in his eyes, and Qi Xiu's gaze immediately broke through the raging fire and he could see the surroundings clearly.

This place looked like a cave, with many upright stone pillars standing in rows. The surface of the stone pillars was full of bumps and pits and spikes. Figures were forcibly hung on the stone pillars, allowing the spikes to pierce their bodies.

Next to the figures hung on the stone pillars stood little ghosts with green faces, fangs, bony bodies, ugly and twisted bodies. They held pliers in their hands and used them to pull out the tongues of the people on the stone pillars. This process was not done all at once, but was slowly stretched and pulled out. The pain was indescribable.

The extremely shrill screams just now came from the mouths of those who had their tongues pulled out.

With his eyes slightly narrowed, looking at the scenes in front of him, a name suddenly emerged in Qi Xiu's mind.

Tongue pulling hell!

"The eighteen levels of hell?"

The moment this thought arose in his mind, the green-faced evil spirits holding pliers appeared beside Qi Xiu.

"To sow discord, to slander and harm others, to be smooth-talking and to make clever arguments.

Hey, hey, give me your tongue!"

A strange and eerie laugh sounded in his ears, and Qi Xiu's eyes suddenly blurred. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself hanging on the stone pillar, and the Haotian Mirror above his head had disappeared without a trace.

Those evil ghosts with green faces and fangs were laughing and raising the large iron pliers in their hands, reaching towards him, ready to start the tongue-pulling torture.

"phantom?"

His expression remained as calm as before, but as he felt the real pain coming from his body, Qi Xiu's eyes showed a hint of understanding.

The next moment!

The ordinary Taoist robe beside Qi Xiu suddenly burst into an extremely dazzling colorful light, and the powerful and majestic spiritual aura was wrapped with a trace of hegemony that shocked the heavens, and instantly blew away those hideous and laughing green-faced evil spirits.

“You were able to take my soul out of my body without my knowledge. You are indeed the most powerful demon sect in the Middle Ages.

If Qi had not already achieved the state of immortality, I would have been in trouble today."

The shattered stone pillars fell down, and Qi Xiu flicked his sleeves, and the raging fire that was spreading towards him was immediately extinguished. Then he raised his hand and made a stroke, and golden lights overflowed, and majestic and overbearing talismans appeared, like mountains pressing down on the group of green-faced evil spirits.

Attack and defense can be changed in a blink of an eye.

Qi Xiu calmly looked at this tongue-pulling hell, then he flicked his sleeve and slapped out with a palm. The innate Hunyuan handprint shook the infinite void, and with the boundless and terrifying force, it suddenly hit the stone wall of the cave.

boom--

The whole cave was shaking with a deafening roar, but it was firmly held. A huge palm print was deeply imprinted on the stone wall created by the Xiantian Hunyuan handprint.

But as time passed, the palm print was constantly swallowed by the stone wall and gradually returned to its original appearance.

It seems that ordinary methods are unable to break this soul method.

Knowing that he was not in the real world, but his soul had been captured, he was afraid that it would be impossible to leave through normal means. Qi Xiu's eyes, with purple energy flowing, slowly swept across the entire cave.

When he didn't notice anything unusual, his eyes fell on the group of evil spirits with green faces and fangs, holding pliers.

"The person who tied the bell must be the one who can untie it. It seems that the key is still in your possession..."

Walking towards the group of evil ghosts with green faces and fangs, Qi Xiu stretched out his big hand and immediately captured the green-faced ghost that had been suppressed by the talisman.

"Once you enter hell, you will never be able to escape from it!

Even if you have great abilities, you can only perish in hell forever, with no chance of escape."

Even though he was caught in Qi Xiu’s hand, the green-faced evil ghost was still shouting and cursing.

"is it?"

Looking calmly at the green-faced evil ghost struggling in his arm, a ray of green light suddenly flashed on Qi Xiu's Taoist robe, and spread along his arm towards the evil ghost.

"what is this?"

Sensing something strange, the green-faced ghost screamed in a distorted voice.

"You'll know in a minute."

Before Qi Xiu finished his words, the green light had already penetrated deeply into the body of the green-faced evil spirit. Visible colorful patterns were constantly evolving and spreading to his entire body surface.

Before, when Qi Xiu broke through the realm of immortality, he attracted countless inner demons to enter his body and take over his body. Later, he used these 100,000 inner demons combined with the obsessions of 100,000 residual souls in his body to successfully refine the [Hunyuan Gold Seal].

And the obsessions of one hundred thousand inner demons and one hundred thousand residual souls were also integrated into his Hunyuan Heart Pill.

In the heart pill, the inner demon and the obsession of the residual soul gradually merged, and finally turned into a special existence that combined the two characteristics.

Qi Xiu named him: Hunyuanzi!

This Hunyuanzi inherited the inner demon's method of taking over other's bodies and capturing souls, and like the obsession of the residual soul, it is almost impossible to erase or eliminate.

As long as you are targeted by Hunyuanzi and pounce on him, your soul will be immediately taken away by him. It is extremely powerful.

It has the same effect as the Blood God Son of Taiyin Yinren.

The only difference is that the Blood God Son absorbs the essence and blood of living beings, while the Hunyuan Son takes over their souls.

Although the green-faced evil ghost in the Tongue-Pulling Hell is ancient and powerful, it is still unable to resist Hunyuanzi's possession of its body under the suppression of the talisman.

Soon, the green-faced evil spirit's entire body was covered with colorful flowing lines, which finally gathered at its brows and condensed into an ancient Hunyuan seal.

"My lord!"

He knelt down, and the green-faced evil ghost who had been shouting and cursing just now now had a fanatical look on his face.

Hunyuanzi is composed of inner demons and the obsession of a residual soul, and the obsession of the residual soul contains a fanatical belief in Qi Xiu. The person whose body is possessed by him will naturally inherit this fanaticism.

"Where is this place? How did you take my soul away? How can I break out of this realm?"

Facing Qi Xiu's question, the green-faced ghost did not hesitate and answered:

“Reporting to my Lord, this place is the first level of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the Tongue-Pulling Hell, and we are all the jailers of the Tongue-Pulling Hell.

My Lord's soul was not captured by us, but by a divine weapon. The soul-capturing ceremony had already begun when you stepped into the Hell Forest, but the method of the divine weapon was too obscure, so you did not notice it.

As for how to leave this place.

There are two methods.

One is that we will carry out the punishment of pulling out the tongue, and after being punished for 3750 years, they will go to the next level of hell.

The second is to kill all the jailers and tortured souls in this prison, and the Tongue-Pulling Hell will collapse, and my Lord can go to the next level of hell."

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