About me traveling to the world of immortality but finding ways to surf the Internet

"It feels like there are basically no living people left outside Wuhua Temple, huh?" Yang Yuyao, who had basically searched every area in Huacheng, thought to himself. It was already midnight on the second day. Even if There were originally living people who they had not yet had time to rescue, or they had been killed by ghosts, or they were hiding in some corner where they could not even find them.

But even if he thought so, Yang Yuyao was still carefully searching the areas he had scouted before, trying to find some more Xin Yun'er who were still alive. Based on the estimates of the number of people they have rescued from Wuhuaguan, the number of survivors in Huacheng may be less than one-tenth. In many families in Huacheng, not a single family member is left.

At this moment, Yang Yuyao saw a golden light, and then he saw clearly that it was a golden, bell-shaped barrier, and the person in the barrier was the monk Zhengxin who said goodbye to them not long ago. He was floating in the air, surrounded by ghosts, and was obviously not in a good condition. Yang Yuyao quickly rushed over.

Yang Yuyao did not call Zhengxin, but directly used his sword to destroy the ghosts who attacked Zhengxin. The light of the sword turned into a white rainbow, with unstoppable momentum, destroying everything in its path. From an honest perspective, these mortal ghosts were hit by the white light coming from the side, and were instantly wiped out. With surprise, he turned his head and looked in the direction where the white light appeared.

"Donor Yang?!" Seeing Yang Yuyao's figure, Zhengxin showed an expression of surprise.

"We meet again, why are you in Huacheng too?" Yang Yuyao asked after flying closer.

"Actually, I was originally going to Huacheng," Zhengxin smiled awkwardly. He looked even more embarrassed than when we met in Happy Horse Town, but it was different from the extremely poor and embarrassed when we first met him. He was now in a state of embarrassment due to the injuries all over his body, and even his gray monk's robe had become tattered.

"Eh? Thank you!" Zhengxin, who received the vitality pill thrown by Yang Yuyao, immediately swallowed the pill, and then explained, "My not taking the boat has nothing to do with money, but because I am particularly seasick. . Although there were some twists and turns, at least I got here smoothly." Unable to hold on any longer, Zhengxin allowed himself to land slowly, and then stood on the roof of a towering building. Yang Yuyao took a look and recognized that this was Huacheng's fire watchtower.

Like other places in Huacheng, this watchtower exudes an unsettling smell of blood, and the only ones alive are Yang Yuyao and Zhengxin. Yang Yuyao didn't need to enter the fire watch tower to check. He knew that the guards originally stationed in the fire watch tower to protect the city's fire prevention and disaster relief were all dead. The newly born ghost tribe is fragile and can be eliminated easily, but once the ghost tribe takes shape, even mortal soldiers who have been trained in combat can do nothing against them without the assistance of magic weapons.

"That guy finally showed up again." Standing on the roof of the fire-watching tower, Zhengxin said solemnly.

"That guy?" Yang Yuyao followed Zhengxin's gaze in confusion, and saw an unexpected figure appearing among the other dark ghosts. Compared with other twisted and ugly ghosts, it looks too normal, as normal as an ordinary human man. Even judging from his clothes, he is still a monk.

"Donor Yang, be careful. I think that guy is an evil cultivator possessed by ghosts. He can cast many terrible evil spells, and once he is hit by these spells, he will also be attacked by ghosts. The final effect." Zhengxin reminded Yang Yuyao.

"No, this is not possession. The ghost has completely taken over the body of this evil cultivator. This evil cultivator is already dead." Yang Yuyao said after careful perception and confirmation.

"It's dead? No wonder I feel so wrong." Zhengxin sighed, "Usually people possessed by ghosts can't communicate, but they will at least have some reaction when they hear others speak, but this guy has none at all."

"How many times have you seen it before?" Yang Yuyao asked. They were not within the sensing range of that special ghost clan, so the thing did not choose to escape or charge directly towards them.

"Yes, the first time I saw it was in the house behind a brothel. It appeared with other ghosts. Then we had a fight, and I have been chasing it since then, trying to get rid of it. There, I tried to find out why there were so many ghost clans in this city. But I kept communicating to no avail." Zhengxin replied. "At the moment, I'm not sure whether it is unable to communicate or unwilling to communicate. It is extremely irritable and attacks people almost as soon as it sees it."

"Can you tell me the specific time and place it appeared?" Yang Yuyao vaguely felt that that special guy might be the key to uncovering the cause of this incident, because it was too special.

"I didn't pay attention to the specific time at that time, but it should have been not too long after dark. As for the location, the brothel seemed to be called the Red House, by the way, the Hongxiang House! But I didn't understand that the house was Doesn't it belong to that brothel? Anyway, I felt the ghost energy and rushed over when I saw the ghost tribe. At first, I thought there were only a few ghost tribes, but I didn't expect that more and more ghost tribes appeared later, so much that I was unable to do anything. Block it." Zhengxin replied.

Yang Yuyao thought about the information he had obtained so far. Audiences at Wuhuaguan, Taoist Master Mingcheng and Ji Baolai, both said that they discovered that the ghost clan began to appear at Youshi. Zhengxin said that he saw the ghosts appear not too long after dark. It is difficult to confirm the specific time based on personal perception, but it should be around the same time as others said that the ghosts appeared. It was also at a similar time that Yang Yuyao and the others observed the situation in Huacheng while having dinner on that raised plot of land.

"It is even possible that what Zhengxin encountered was the first incident point for the ghost clan. If the Hongxiang Tower happens to be in Beicheng." Yang Yuyao was thinking secretly, but thinking did not prevent him from fighting. He thought, Cleaning up the ghosts they met along the way, and following the monk-like ghosts together with Zhengxin, they were ready to find an opportunity to help Zhengxin control that guy and get more information from him.

"Speaking of which, when I arrived here yesterday, I had a vague feeling that something was not right about this city. Could it be that the group of ghosts besieging the city this time was also a man-made disaster?" Yang Yuyao thought to himself. He danced with his sword and used the sword energy as a cage to try to intercept the man. The ghost clan that occupied the monk's body suddenly spit out a large mouthful of blood from Zhengxin, who was not far away from him. Yang Yuyao turned around in surprise and saw Zhengxin holding his stomach and falling, and the speed of his fall was definitely not under his normal control.

Yang Yuyao didn't know if Zhengxin had lost consciousness, but something would definitely happen if he fell like this. Yang Yuyao used his spiritual power to catch him, and the man who looked like an adult man was trapped in the sword energy cage. The ghost tribe suddenly looked up at the sky and let out an uncomfortable scream like a baby crying. The group of ghosts nearby suddenly rioted.

At this time, the appearance of most of the gathered ghosts had changed. They were originally mostly babies and seemed to have grown a little and turned into children. But they still can't speak human words. It's like a child who has been isolated from direct contact with people since birth has grown up a little, but because of the lack of language learning environment, his thinking still stays in the infancy.

Yang Yuyao knew that they had changed like this because they had killed too many people. Whether they were devouring or killing people, or even doing this to their own kind, the ghosts could quickly become stronger. Even if they choose the strategy of giving priority to rescuing people and cleaning up the ghost clans they encounter on the way to and from the rescue, they still have too few manpower and many ghost clans still grow up.

Although it is a very unfamiliar situation for the monks of their time to deal with a large number of ghosts, according to the records passed down by the monks from generation to generation, the methods used by Yang Yuyao and others were also used by monks thousands of years ago to deal with ghosts. One of the methods. In those records, there are only two strategies for dealing with groups of ghosts, depending on the situation.

In one case, the ghost clan is far away from mortals. For example, when a group of ghosts are surrounding a monk and there are no people around, then there is no need to think about it and just kill the ghosts directly. But if a large number of ghosts appear in a densely populated area like Hwaseong now, then rescuing people first becomes the best choice.

Except for a very small number of ghosts who can think and have intelligence, the vast majority of ghosts are following their instinctive actions. Their instinct is to constantly hunt and kill in order to quickly become stronger. For these ghosts without reason and IQ, the temptation to kill is stronger than anything else.

If Yang Yuyao and the others choose to kill ghosts in this situation, the scattered ghosts will not only make it less efficient for them to clean up the ghost clan, but will also most likely cause the death of more people. Once the number of human deaths increases, these ghosts will become stronger and more difficult to deal with. Therefore, the purpose of giving priority to rescuing people is not only to ensure that more people have a chance to survive, but also to block the easiest way for the ghost clan to upgrade. Even if the ghost clan improves their realm by hunting each other in the later period, the number will also be reduced. The pressure to cope with it is not that great.

Of course, there is another way to block the way for the ghost clan to become stronger, which is to use certain magic weapons to lure the ghosts away, so that they will give up attacking mortals and gather together to eliminate them. This method is naturally the best, but it is a pity that such magic weapons have almost been lost in the world of immortal cultivators. The evil cultivators working with Bai Lingxue may have similar magic weapons in their hands that can control the ghosts, but Yang Yuyao and the others do not. Something like this. They can only settle for the next best thing.

"Huh? Do you need to find a place to rest for a while?" Yang Yuyao, who was about to call a clone to send Zhengxin to Wuhua Temple for treatment, asked when he saw Zhengxin flying up. Unlike Zhengxin, what's here is just a clone of him, so even if it's destroyed, it won't be a big problem.

"No need." Zhengxin took off the wooden beads he wore around his neck and hung them in the tiger's mouth between his thumb and index finger. He clasped his hands together and muttered a scripture that Yang Yuyao didn't understand. It seemed that there was really nothing serious about it. Looks like a hindrance. However, Yang Yuyao kept looking at him, always feeling that something was wrong with his situation, but he didn't know what was wrong.

In addition to rapid depletion of yang energy and physical weakness, people whose bodies are invaded by ghost energy will also be affected mentally. Depending on the individual, different reactions will occur. Some people become extremely depressed and hopeless, while others become extremely irritable. Although not all people who are invaded by ghost energy will be mentally affected, after all, they are now fighting against Zhengxin together. Yang Yuyao is not only concerned about Zhengxin's state, but also pays attention to his mental state. But for now, it seems that Zhengxin's mental state is quite stable.

"It seems to be the integration stage." Yang Yuyao judged based on the type and power of the spells cast by the evil cultivators whose bodies were occupied by ghosts. The dead cultivators made their original realms difficult to perceive and unable to use. Search the soul to find out what this evil cultivator has done and how he ended up like this.

It is easier for evil cultivators to improve their realm than normal monks, so it is not surprising that they can reach the integration stage. Moreover, the realm of evil cultivators is different from those created by drugs and is real. Logically speaking, it is difficult for a monk who has reached the realm of integration to have his body occupied by a foreign soul, so his situation is not uncommon.

However, even if the body of this evil cultivator was once in the integration stage, it could not increase the damage much after being occupied by the ghost clan. On the contrary, it was because the ghost clan was not good at using the spells of the evil cultivator. Although it could be used, But it feels like a child playing a video game for the first time and randomly tapping skills. Not only is it ineffective, but the accuracy is also extremely poor. Even if Yang Yuyao is facing it, it can cast spells in the completely opposite direction.

After basically confirming that it would be difficult to get any useful information from this ghost clan that occupied the evil cultivator's body, Yang Yuyao decided not to keep it anymore. At this time, the "big move" that Zhengxin had been brewing for a long time was finally ready. . At this time, Zhengxin's whole person was shrouded in golden light. The poor-looking tattered monk's robe looked much more noble under the golden light. His wooden beads danced with the sleeves of the robe without wind, but they were dancing one by one. crack.

"Donor Yang, leave the rest to me." Zhengxin said with a smile to Yang Yuyao. His face, which was not handsome and still had a shaggy beard, was unexpectedly handsome. smile. Yang Yuyao didn't understand the specific practice of Buddhism, but his intuition made him feel that there was something wrong with Zhengxin's ultimate move. Even if he didn't specifically feel it, Yang Yuyao felt that the light on Zhengxin's body at this moment and the Buddha's sound surrounding him were consuming his life.

"Zhengxin, this move of yours..."

"Sure enough, the acuity of geniuses is different from that of ordinary people. This is a big killing move that we Buddhists can only use once," Zhengxin said with a smile, "Being hit by the evil cultivator's attack will quickly consume your vitality. I have used this move with I have been fighting the ghost clan with evil cultivators for several rounds, and now I am basically exhausted. I have never been ashamed of what I have done!"

"Wait, maybe you don't have to do this..." Yang Yuyao, who already understood Zhengxin's plan, wanted to say that as long as he was still alive, there might be a way to make up for the lost vitality. However, before he could finish his words of dissuasion, the last Buddhist bead in Zhengxin's hand broke into pieces. Then a bell rang, and the golden light covering Zhengxin exploded instantly, like a flash bomb detonating, and then spread to the surroundings with Zhengxin as the core.

Wherever the light touched, the ghosts died immediately. The evil cultivator who had taken over his body also had his pupils dimmed like any dead person the moment the light arrived, and his skin was quickly covered with gray. He fell quickly like a puppet with its strings cut off.

The light continued to spread. In just a few breaths, most of Huacheng was baptized by this golden light. Not only did the ghost clan dissipate, but the ghost energy was also completely cleared. The darkness shrouding the city dissipated, and the moonlight and starlight Appeared above Hwaseong again. As for Zhengxin, the moment the light exploded, Yang Yuyao knew that he was dead. But Yang Yuyao still tried to catch his body again, wanting to see if there was any way to save him.

Yang Yuyao even thought about the resurrection pill in the system mall. However, before he even had time to debate whether to use it or not, Zhengxin's body changed after he caught it. Yang Yuyao watched as Zhengxin's body suddenly turned into sand and was sucked into the black hole that suddenly appeared, but he had no idea how to stop it.

"What exactly is that..." Yang Yuyao realized that there was no need to consider whether to use the resurrection pill for Zhengxin. Zhengxin, whose body had disappeared, couldn't use the resurrection pill at all. But is this also the effect of the Buddhist ultimate move? Yang Yuyao didn't know, but he soon knew the answer.