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Moreover, Shi Chun seemed to be intentionally walking down the building.
The deeper you go, the heavier the yin energy becomes inside the building.
The source of this yin energy was clearly not the Higanbana ninja he had just killed.
Even for extraordinary individuals, their souls cannot naturally condense into yin spirits after death without undergoing special rituals or fortuitous encounters, and thus cannot generate yin energy.
These yin energies seemed to have existed for a very, very long time...
The building finally reached its bottom, but the deeper you went, the more eerie the atmosphere became, and a faint smell of blood lingered in the air.
Lu Xuan looked at the environment in the stairwell.
From the moment he entered the building, Lu Xuan noticed its strangeness.
Shady places are where malevolent energy gathers.
Furthermore, the first to third floors of the building have no doors or windows, and even...
Lu Xuan casually peeled off a white talisman with red characters on a white background, covered with a bunch of strange runes.
Is this a talisman from the Onmyoji lineage?
Onmyoji originated from the Five Elements and Yin-Yang theory brought to China by envoys during the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Yin-Yang theory declined in the domestic community of supernatural beings, but developed into a lineage in the island nation.
The key point is that this talisman is not used to suppress or seal, but to gather yin energy.
In such a place filled with yin energy and malevolent spirits, why would someone specifically use talismans to gather yin energy?
Go down to the basement level.
Suddenly, a completely different world opened up before me.
The basement level is much larger than the upper level, as if a large area of land has been hollowed out underground.
Compared to the dense yin energy and eerie atmosphere outside, there wasn't as much yin energy here.
The ground was covered with moisture-proof lime powder, and curtains made of strung talismans hung high, blocking the view.
On the ground, various skeletons were arranged in a peculiar way to form arrays, with white bones forming a forest and skulls forming fruit, creating this underground world.
The entire underground level is a seamless whole, with only gray and white colors remaining, making it look like a huge Japanese dojo.
There were still bloody footprints left by Shi Chun in his panic.
More importantly...
Lu Xuan slowly bent down and picked up a child's skull.
Even though Wudang practitioners are not skilled in these techniques.
However, as a Taoist with basic skills, Lu Xuan could tell that this was a place for raising corpses, and that there used to be a pit of ten thousand corpses under this office building.
It's easy to deduce that it was Bihe Ren who found this place, built this building, and used the resentment and yin energy of the corpses that died here to raise a terrifying demonic corpse.
Lu Xuan looked up ahead and saw that the endless yin energy and resentment here were being absorbed by the "great corpses" being raised in this corpse-raising ground.
Even through the layers of talismanic curtains separating them, one could still sense the eerie and sinister aura of death.
For decades, the lingering resentment of those who died here has not dissipated, and has instead become nourishment for the remnants of the Bihe Ren to raise their corpses.
After decades of planning, using the resentment and yin energy of ten thousand tragic deaths as a foundation, and building a forest of white bones, they aimed to nurture a demonic corpse.
These ruthless and treacherous people will never give up their evil intentions and will continue to spread their poison far and wide.
Looking at the forest of white bones before him, Lu Xuan was in no hurry to chase after Shi Chun.
Sit cross-legged on the ground, making hand gestures with your fingers.
A stream of pure energy arose out of thin air, and invisibly evolved into rituals.
"At that time, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable expounded this 'True Scripture of Expiation of Sins,' proclaiming to the heavenly spirits and earthly deities that the merit of fasting is immeasurable. He summoned all the heavenly dragons and earthly gods, the Lord of Fengdu, the officials of the Six Palaces, the Four Bright Lords and the Ten Courts of Hell, the Lords of the Five Sacred Mountains, the City Gods of the Nine Provinces, the Masters of Fate and the Recorders of the Five Paths, and the Great Gods of the Five Paths, to come before the Heavenly Venerable to assemble and pay homage..."
Without the aid of Qi, the solemn and dignified chanting already resonated throughout the space.
The moment the first word was uttered, a chilling black aura rose from the entire whitewashed corpse-raising ground, and the resentment of countless wronged souls was released, and they were then peacefully exorcised.
As Lu Xuan softly recited the scriptures, the ground in the corpse-raising area shook violently, causing the entire building to tremble violently.
For decades, the resentment and yin energy of the innocent people who died here have almost turned this place into yin soil. Not to mention that Bihe Ren has used all kinds of talismans and magic arrays to gather yin energy, which has hollowed out the entire building.
Right now, as Lu Xuan recites the Yuanshi Tianzun's Scripture on the Exorcism of Sins in Fengdu, countless dormant souls are awakened.
This entire corpse-raising ground began to shake violently, threatening to be completely destroyed.
As the chanting continued at a leisurely pace, each word became clearer and louder, like the roar of thunder, causing gods and demons to flee and all evil to retreat.
In a short while, the tens of thousands of wronged souls who had been dormant in this corpse-raising ground were converted, their resentment and karmic consequences dispelled, their troubles relieved, and they found peace and freedom, achieving liberation.
As the very foundation of this corpse-raising ground was shaken, the demonic corpse instinctively awoke.
Instinctively, it took a bite of the bloody food closest to it.
Under the gaping maw, Shi Chun, who was frantically arguing with a person dressed in the robes of an Onmyoji in front of the demon corpse, had half of his body bitten off starting from his left shoulder.
Shi Chun frantically reached out his hand to the Onmyoji in front of him.
"Quick, come save me!"
Chapter 206: It's alright, I will take action.
Look closely, the old man sitting in meditation in front of the demon corpse is called Ashiya Doichi.
He was squatting in the corpse-raising ground, nurturing the demonic corpse that Bihe Ren had spent decades cultivating.
The Higanbana clan was nearly wiped out by the Tang Clan back then, and after so many years of barely surviving, probably only that stupid guy Yamacho would believe in the power of the Demon Blade Hiruma.
If the Demon Blade Hiruma is really that powerful, how did they lose back then?
As the successor chosen by the former ninja leader, Shi Chun, the leader of the Hiei ninja who supported the secret development of the Hiei ninja's accumulated power, naturally wanted to choose a different path.
Therefore, cooperating with the local far-right to gain new power capable of influencing the balance of power has naturally become the latest plan.
Ashiya Doichi was an Onmyoji who came from the mainland to support the plans of the remnants of the Hiei Ninja after the remnants of the Hiei Ninja joined forces with the local far-right.
Ashiya Doichi's ancestor was Ashiya Doman, who was once as famous as Abe no Seimei, the most powerful Onmyoji in Japanese history. Unfortunately, he lost in a battle of magic against Abe no Seimei and was eventually exiled.
Just like the former Higanbana, they were like stray dogs.
To commemorate this humiliation and to show that he had surpassed his ancestors, he changed his name to Ashiya Michiichi.
For decades, Bihe Ren has been in charge of the plan to refine demon corpses.
Naturally, he was already very old.
"what happened?"
Ashiya Michiichi slowly opened his eyes. His cloudy eyes darted around for a long time before he seemed to realize who the guy who had scrambled up to him was.
"Mr. Shi Chun? What brings you here?"
"Master Ashiya, please save me!"
Shi Chun scrambled through the curtains woven with talismans and knelt before Ashiya Doichi, shouting frantically.
"Someone has stormed the headquarters. The elite troops of the Bihe Ninja outside are about to be overwhelmed. We need the power of the Demon Corpse."
"The demonic corpse is not yet fully gestating..."
Ashiya Michiichi shook his head numbly.
Behind them, blood flowed like lava from an altar made of white bones, and a huge demonic corpse, several meters tall and resembling a demon god, sat cross-legged within it.
"Now that the demonic corpse has been unleashed, it will only go on a killing spree without any reason. You and I will definitely die first."
"As for the enemy you mentioned."
Ashiya Michiichi snorted coldly and spoke arrogantly.
"It's alright, I will take action."
At over a hundred years old, as the strongest of the local Onmyoji lineage, he has his own confidence.
No matter who comes to my door, I don't take them seriously unless they are a modern army.
This is the moment! This is when I will make my move.
Shi Chun: "..."
Shi Chun remained silent for a moment.
His gaze fell upon someone older than himself, who looked lifeless and almost like a dried-up corpse.
If he weren't still breathing, Ashiya Michiichi would look like he'd crawled out of a grave to anyone who saw him.
It's not that I look down on you.
Fine! I just look down on you.
You're still going to hit Lu Xuan? With your old bones, you'd probably fall apart if you moved even a little bit.
It doesn't matter whether this stupid old man lives or dies, just don't drag me down with him!
"No! There's a way, there's a way."
Shi Chun suddenly had a brilliant idea, and his eyes lit up.
"The entire Bihe Ninja Village has been almost wiped out by that person. Didn't you say the whole building was already part of the magic array?"
"If we could sacrifice all the dead to the demon corpse, wouldn't that allow the demon corpse to be born sooner?"
"That's not entirely impossible..."
Ashiya Michiichi fell into deep thought. If the souls and resentments of those who died tragically could be sacrificed to the demon corpse, it would indeed allow the demon corpse to be born sooner.
But Ashiya Michiichi quickly realized what was happening.
"To awaken the demon corpse ahead of schedule, at least several hundred lives filled with deep resentment are needed. Has the Bihe Ren above killed that many enemies?"
Shi Chun was ashamed and stammered.
"Yes, almost..."
"I didn't expect your Higanbana Ninja to have become this powerful after so many years of accumulation?"
Ashiya Michi was filled with amazement at first glance.