Chapter 213: General Bietou

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had long known that there was a higher Divine Will realm above sword intent.

Dou Gengyan had told her, and she herself vaguely felt it: she hadn't climbed to the peak of "sword intent" yet, but she vaguely saw a higher mountain behind the mountain.

Since sword intent could make moves "come alive," it seemed very reasonable for great Immortals to make techniques become "living supernatural powers."

"Are the gods you invite when you practice inviting Immortals and supporting the planchette this kind of god?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked.

The Dog-Meat Daoist said, "You asked me to find your ghost son, so a Talisman General who tracks and locks onto energy mechanisms descended."

"If it were driving away evil and ghosts, and killing your ghost son, the one that would descend would be a Killing Divine General."

"I understand; different techniques correspond to different functions, and different techniques give birth to different divine generals."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu nodded first, then said, "My meaning is, no matter what the function is, they are all 'Talisman Generals' evolved from techniques. Are the ones you invite to descend in your daily life this type of Talisman General?"

"But the gods you worship should not be Talisman Generals, but real gods and Immortals, right?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist laughed, "If one day your sword moves have spirituality and turn into divine generals one by one, will I flatter them, or will I flatter you?"

"As for the sacred ones I have invited in the past..."

He hesitated for a while, then told the truth, "I prefer to invite this type of Talisman General; they are very easy to invite and relatively easy to dismiss."

"But after the Middle Ages, this type of Talisman General gradually became rare."

"So before, I was very reluctant to help you find your ghost son."

"You think that me just chanting a few spells and drawing a talisman is not that simple."

"Inviting gods... sigh! As long as there is a proper path to take, never enter a side door."

As the saying goes, it is easy to invite a god but difficult to send one away.

A Daoist who invites a god only hopes that the spirit will honestly do things.

But spirits also have their own thoughts and personalities; many times they will act on their own initiative, doing things according to their own ideas rather than those of the Daoist who invited them.

Often the Daoist cannot even resist.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked suspiciously, "Logically speaking, there should be more and more great Immortals and techniques, and more and more Talisman Generals. How could Talisman Generals become fewer after the Middle Ages?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist sighed, "Even if you don't have Immortal fate and haven't seen real secret records of Immortal techniques, you should know the general realm of the Qi Refiners who 'refine Qi into spirit, refine spirit into emptiness, and refine emptiness into the Dao'."

"From Heavenly Immortal to Great Luo Golden Immortal, one should refine emptiness and join the Dao, merging with the Heavenly Dao."

"Heavenly Immortal is one of the Five Immortals; can God Immortal, Earth Immortal, and Ghost Immortal refine emptiness and join the Dao?"

"According to what I know, many God Immortals and Earth Immortals cannot refine emptiness and join the Dao, but they have 'joined the Dao as one' with the Divine Dao rules represented by the Talisman Generals."

"That is to say, the divine general I summoned might have been a God Immortal or Earth Immortal who reached the end of the Immortal path."

He hadn't cultivated the Golden Elixir Great Dao and didn't know much about Heavenly Immortals and Golden Immortals.

But when he invited Immortals and supported the planchette, he had indeed encountered divine generals who were once Earth Immortals.

"Uh, God Immortals and great Immortals' techniques joining the Dao? Can this join?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was surprised.

The Dog-Meat Daoist said, "Why can't it join?"

"Just like your Immortal Martial Artists' 'Qi Elixir', isn't it also imitating the Golden Elixir Great Dao of the Heavenly Immortals?"

"Qi Elixir is not one ten-thousandth of Golden Elixir, but it is still an 'Inner Elixir'."

"Divine Dao rules are not the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, but they are still a kind of rule under the Heavenly Dao."

"Sigh, Heavenly Immortals are truly noble," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sighed.

She still didn't know what "Heavenly Immortal" specifically represented, but she already knew how low-class the other Immortals were.

Human Immortal goes without saying; the lowest of the low.

Originally, she had treated God Immortals and Earth Immortals as "True Immortals," but God Immortals and Earth Immortals were actually so low-class that they had to join the Dao with "Divine Dao rules"... and Divine Dao rules were just techniques created by great Immortals at will!

When she became a great Immortal, her sword intent would become the rules of Heaven and Earth, and that group of God Immortals and Earth Immortals would treat her sword intent as an "opportunity to join the Dao." How could she look down on them?

Uh, she was clearly just a mortal, but she had already brought herself into the perspective of a "great Immortal."

"Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, God—among the Five Immortals, 'Heavenly Immortal' is of course the most noble. But you cannot look down on God Immortals and Earth Immortals; it's just that some God Immortals and Earth Immortals have joined the Dao with Talisman Generals, not that 'joining the Dao with Talisman Generals' is the only way out for God Immortals and Earth Immortals."

"The top God Immortals, Earth Immortals, and Ghost Immortals are no different from the top Heavenly Immortals, whether in status or magic power realm," the Dog-Meat Daoist said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said, "So it is certain that 'Human Immortal' is the lowest."

The Dog-Meat Daoist shook his head, "No 'Immortal' should be linked with 'low-class'."

"Human Immortal is just difficult to achieve longevity; Qi Elixir is not Golden Elixir and lacks the nature of immortality, dissipating rapidly after two hundred years."

"It doesn't mean Human Immortal is necessarily lower than the other Immortals."

"For example, you; with your talent, if you become a Human Immortal and are lucky enough to eat a flat peach, living for thousands or tens of thousands of years, accumulating thousands or tens of thousands of years of cultivation, see which God Immortal dares to provoke you."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu thought thoughtfully, "Do you know any Human Immortals with 'ten thousand years of cultivation'?"

"I don't know, but this kind of Human Immortal definitely exists, and the number is not small."

The Dog-Meat Daoist's eyes were gloomy, "Even within Tianmen Town, there might be 'Ten-Thousand-Year Human Immortals' hidden."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked curiously, "Who do you suspect?"

—Who do you suspect? Say it quickly, so I can hurry up and worship a godfather!

The Dog-Meat Daoist sighed, "It's not about suspecting anyone; Tianmen Town is the center of trade in the Western Sand Region, and there are too many rare treasures gathered here from all directions."

"Whether it's 'Ten-Thousand-Year Human Immortals' or ordinary Human Immortals, they will all collect spiritual medicines and Immortal treasures."

"Either take them directly or refine them into elixirs to nourish the Qi Elixir and prolong life."

"I have been in Tianmen Town for a while, and I haven't seen any divine medicines or Immortal treasures," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

The Dog-Meat Daoist sneered, "Many ordinary people in Tianmen Town have lived their whole lives without ever taking a bag of bone-strengthening soup that costs a few taels of silver, but you drink it every day."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu thought of the Tianmen Society.

Under the leader of the Tianmen Society, there were more than ten rudder masters, and each rudder master could be distributed one Qi-Benefiting Elixir for free every month.

The price of one Qi-Benefiting Elixir on the market is 100 taels of gold!

Such a huge investment can only prove that the benefits brought by the Tianmen Society to the "Elixir Provider" are even greater.

Relying only on the normal business of the Red Sleeve Workshop and the 'Bu Si Gui', it is probably difficult to satisfy the 'Elixir Provider'.

Especially since the Red Sleeve Workshop belongs to the Jiao Si Fang and is an industry of the Western Shu Imperial Court (Prince Qinghe).

But if the Tianmen Society could monopolize a portion of divine medicines and Immortal treasures...

She had to go back and ask Aunt Liu.

"This broken blade..." Seeing Xiao Yu Yu handed the half-blade to the Dog-Meat Daoist to see, "Is it General Bietou's?"

"Isn't it his scimitar!" The Dog-Meat Daoist glanced at the blade and sighed with emotion, "As expected of a ghost general who can trade blows with the City God; that General Bietou has such great fierce power."

"I feel that the fierce evil aura on him is only slightly worse than the blood evil aura of the Investiture of the Gods that you released in the Red Sleeve Workshop that day."

"But he is only a ghost general; above him are the eight great Ghost Kings... the Guaizi Mountain ghost soldiers have truly become a climate."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said strangely, "Do you know General Bietou's identity? I mean his identity when he was alive."

The Dog-Meat Daoist immediately said, "He must be a fierce general among the allied forces of the thirty-six countries, perhaps even a Human Immortal!"

"More than fifty Western Human Immortals died on the Lianghe Beach battlefield that day!"

"Only half of them were found and sent home for burial."

"General Bietou is probably one of the other half."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu shook her head gently and laughed, "Daoist, you finally made a mistake, and a big one at that."

"General Bietou is probably just an ordinary person, and doesn't even know martial arts."

The Dog-Meat Daoist's heart moved, and he lowered his head to look at the blade again, surprised and suspicious, "Could it be an acquaintance of yours, a sand barbarian warrior?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu pointed to the middle section of the blade, "Look here."

The broken blade was longer than Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's palm, and the widest part of the break was four fingers wide.

The gray iron blade was covered with dark red rust, like residual blood.

There were no runes or characters on the blade, but near the back of the blade at the top, there was a leaf-shaped mark.

"What does this symbol mean?" The Dog-Meat Daoist asked.

"It's my name, a feather. This sword is called the 'Dragon-Slaying Treasure Sword'; last year I personally directed the barbarian warriors to forge it, mixing in two pieces of meteorite iron, and it can cut iron without breaking."

The Dog-Meat Daoist suddenly realized, "I was wrong! Besides Human Immortals who easily become fierce ghost generals after death, those lords who possess dragon energy but die with deep resentment are even more likely to grow into Ghost Kings!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu hesitated, "I'm not sure if General Bietou is the Sand Dune King; General Bietou is very strong, and the Sand Dune King was very weak."

If it weren't for this half of the Dragon-Slaying blade, she would never have linked General Bietou, who could fight blade energy with her, to the Sand Dune King.

Just now, they fought in the air, and she did win, but she won by relying on Pure Yang Sword Qi.

General Bietou is stronger than Guan Huchen and is already very close to the strength of a Human Immortal.

The Sand Dune King was indeed gifted when he was alive; after all, his status as "Headman" was fought for.

Among tens of thousands of sand dune people, he was the best fighter.

But he didn't know martial arts.

There is one more point: General Bietou didn't restart the Great Father-Destroyer.

Is General Bietou unrelated to the Sand Dune King, or were the conditions for restarting the Great Father-Destroyer not met, for example, meeting again?

"It is easy to become a fierce ghost after being weak when alive; there are countless examples."

"It is also common for those who are highly skilled in martial arts when alive to be bullied by fierce ghosts after death," the Dog-Meat Daoist said.

"It's easy to become a fierce ghost, but how can the martial arts realm be improved in a short time? He is a sand barbarian, not a sand barbarian feather!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

The Dog-Meat Daoist shook his head, "Whether General Bietou is the Sand Dune King or not is not important at all. Humans and ghosts are on different paths; he won't show you any mercy."

—No, the identity is still very important. If he is the Sand Dune King, he can reactivate the Great Father-Destroyer.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu thought to herself.

A single "method to kill General Bietou" probably doesn't have much value.

But the "method to kill the leader of the ghost soldiers" must be of extraordinary value!

General Bietou is not alone; he has a ghost soldier army by his side.

The Buddha used the "technology" of the Six Paths of Reincarnation to create the Xiao Yinjian in a joint venture with the Heavenly Court.

But the Xiao Yinjian does not equal the Yin Realm.

The Xiao Yinjian is to the Yin Realm as the Xianyang City of the Great Middle Kingdom is to the Yang Realm.

Xianyang City is the residence of the Human Emperor and is the most prosperous place in the world, but it cannot equal the whole world.

The Xiao Yinjian only occupies a corner of the Yin Realm.

The "Eight Kings Tiangong" of Guaizi Mountain is also in the Yin Realm.

The Buddhism and the Heavenly Court joined forces to create the Xiao Yinjian; General Bietou captured a batch of craftsmen (ghosts) from the Yang Realm and, cooperating with a group of ghost soldiers, built the Eight Kings Tiangong in the Yin Realm.

Because it is a palace built by human craftsmen, it doesn't look much different from a human palace.

At most, the sky is grayer, there are fewer brightly colored flowers and green plants in the palace, and the lights are like being covered with a layer of shadow, having a gray feeling, not as bright as the candlelight of the Yang Realm.

At this time, the Lu King Palace in the north of the Tiangong.

General Bietou walked quickly to the bottom of the throne, knelt on one knee, and said, "Brother King, you summoned me over, do you have any instructions?"

The "Lu King" on the throne was not wearing a sacrificial robe or a crown.

Like General Bietou, he was also in full armor and wearing an iron helmet.

His iron helmet had a hole on the left side of his temple, while General Bietou's iron helmet looked like a soda can that had been stepped on by someone, shriveled.

General Bietou, the name fits the person.

"Ji Sha, just now there seemed to be a great sun descending over the East Pass City; what is going on?"

General Bietou said, "Brother King, you know, I caught a ghost official from Tianmen Town who was out on business at Lianghe Beach last night. Just now, a Daoist used the lock on his energy mechanism to spy on the East Pass City, and I slashed over, but the other party actually cut off my blade. Look."

He held up the two-foot-long broken blade with both hands and said, "The person who cut off my treasure sword is very powerful; one sword strike was like a scorching great sun falling."

"It wasn't a real great sun, but that person's sword qi."

"The sword qi shattered my blade qi, cut off my Dragon-Slaying Treasure Sword, and finally fell on the East Pass City like a great sun, burning my palace to ashes; how powerful." ===== CHAPTER 214 =====