Chapter 188

Yellow dust and white grass on the road before the grave, ghost fire like a lamp shining at night.

Under the ghostly moonlight, a wisp of green fire hung in the air, illuminating the black-skinned rat. Its green eyes shone with a different brilliance, and its fur shone with bright oil.

Zhang Fan raised an eyebrow. He had never seen such a black rat. Its figure was like a thin dog, its tail stood up and danced like a swimming snake, and the aura it emitted was solid, making people feel cold all over.

Who says it's good to practice in the mountains? It is truly a great demon in the human world.

No need to ask, no need to say more, this black-skinned rat must have seized a body, become a demon, practiced by borrowing a human body, and the Yuan Spirit participated in the mystery, otherwise it wouldn't have such a phenomenon.

What is demon energy?

This is demon energy, surging with fierce power, chilling the bones, able to shatter moonlight, able to divide mountain fog.

By comparison, existences like Su Shiyu and Shi Shougong could only be considered small demons.

"Mount Luohuang is truly a strange place in the city, a demon mountain in the red dust." Zhang Fan stared at the black rat and couldn't help but sigh.

"Little ghost, you've grown quite a bit since ten years ago."

The black rat's whiskers trembled slightly; it clearly smelled the scent on Zhang Fan.

"Did I really come here ten years ago?" Zhang Fan was silent.

At that time, he should have just entered the Great Night-Bright Tribulation, practiced the Spirit-Dividing Technique, and his Yuan Spirit was in a state of silence, which was the worst state.

"Mount Luohuang can't see a living person in three or five years. How could I remember wrong." The black rat's green eyeballs turned lightly, its gaze measuring Zhang Fan.

"At that time, a man brought you... it should be your old man."

"It really was Dad."

Zhang Fan's heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help but pursue: "What did he bring me here for?"

"What can you do here? Naturally, to visit the Master of the Wonderful Temple."

The black rat stood on two feet like a human, and one claw pointed upward.

"Master of the Wonderful Temple? There is a Daoist temple in this mountain?" Zhang Fan was surprised.

He had heard from Jiang Hu that Mount Luohuang was a forbidden place. Usually, even Daoist practitioners wouldn't go up the mountain at will. Every once in a while, the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance would send people to patrol.

People like Sui Chunsheng and Zhan Xinyue had done this chore.

"Laughed, it's been ten years, how can you not remember?" The black rat's eyes narrowed slightly, sneering.

"What did my dad bring me here for?" Zhang Fan pursued.

"Laughed again, what your dad brought you here for, how would I know? Do you think the Wonderful Temple is something you can enter just like that?"

The black rat had a great opportunity in Mount Luohuang and had once been enlightened by the Master of the Wonderful Temple, so it had such cultivation.

Even so, that Daoist temple wasn't something it could enter just like that.

Every first and fifteenth of the lunar month, kowtowing three times outside the temple gate is already a great blessing.

"What kind of person is the Master of the Wonderful Temple?" Zhang Fan asked curiously.

He hadn't expected that there was a Daoist temple hidden on Mount Luohuang, and ten years ago, Zhang Lingzong had even brought him to visit.

"Laughed to death, you don't even know who the Master of the Wonderful Temple is? And you dare to step foot on Mount Luohuang?"

The black rat narrowed its eyes, measuring Zhang Fan up and down, and its expression gradually became unkind.

"Rat, I..."

"What rat?"

As soon as Zhang Fan's words came out, the black rat didn't agree.

"The Daoist priest was once enlightened by the Master of the Wonderful Temple, named Black Nightmare. You are the rat, your whole family are rats..." The black rat cursed.

"Black Nightmare!?" Zhang Fan laughed lightly.

"Since that's the case, I won't disturb you."

As he spoke, Zhang Fan turned around and walked toward Ji Fengting and Mo Yun, intending to take them away.

He could see that Mount Luohuang was a place of right and wrong, and the water inside was deeper than he imagined.

"Laughed, junior, these two little ghosts are Black Grandpa's midnight snack. You say you'll take them away, so you'll take them away?"

Just at this moment, Black Nightmare gave a cold laugh. Its long tail whipped in the air, emitting a sonic boom. The force it swung made the surrounding fog retreat more than ten meters.

"Mm, you were the one who got them in?" Zhang Fan stopped his steps.

"Laughed again, they were useless themselves and bumped in. Who can you blame?" Black Nightmare sneered.

"Rat..."

Zhang Fan was silent for a moment, then suddenly said.

"What?" Black Nightmare listened to Zhang Fan's address and asked subconsciously.

"Laugh your mother!"

Once the words fell, Zhang Fan's body was like a falling leaf, as if merging into the wind. In a flash, he arrived in front of the black rat, pointed a finger, drew in the air, and traces of complexity intertwined with each other.

"Drawing Talismans in the Air!?"

The black rat's eyes narrowed slightly. Observing with the Yuan Spirit, it saw rolling True Yang like cinnabar ink opening in the air, forming a talisman.

"Lock Demon Talisman!"

Once this talisman is formed, it specifically suppresses the Yuan Spirit of spirits and demons. No matter how fierce and bizarre you are, once you touch the talisman, you must immediately lie down like a corpse, locking the Yuan Spirit and closing the seven orifices.

"Small tricks, you dare to show off!?"

The black rat's body shrank suddenly, like a ball. The next moment, it spat out a mouthful of black energy, and a cold wind blew, actually blowing away the 【Lock Demon Talisman】 drawn in the air.

"Good demon." Zhang Fan raised an eyebrow, showing surprise.

It wasn't that his talisman way was weak; on the contrary, ever since he stepped into the 【High Merit】 rank, all kinds of means had greatly improved. Drawing talismans in the air, one stroke forming a talisman, he had also studied many practical talismans...

Especially this 【Lock Demon Talisman】, he didn't know how many times he had practiced it in private.

Like demons such as Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu, one talisman could suppress them for a lifetime.

But this black rat in front of him actually blew it away with just a mouthful of demon wind.

It wasn't that Zhang Fan's talisman was too weak, but that this black rat's cultivation was too deep.

Whoosh...

Taking advantage of this gap, only a sound of air exploding rang in his ears, and the long black tail whipped over like a whip. The force it swung was powerful, looking enough to crack gold and split stone...

If it landed on a person, even a Daoist practitioner couldn't withstand this tail.

This is the terror of demons. They seized a human body, practiced by borrowing the human body, but the original body was not abandoned. The two combined, having both profound Daoist techniques and wild beast bodies, with vast power, almost exhaustive.

"Innate Dao Mother, Zhou Tian Chen Huang."

"Lord of the Stars, Dou Mansion Venerable King."

Almost at the same time, Zhang Fan formed the 【Dou Finger Seal】 and chanted.

In a trance, the starry sky was vast, as if starlight was blowing down, spilling onto Zhang Fan's body. The True Yang flowing under his skin shone with mottled rosy light, and the starlight attached to the surface of his body appeared even more brilliant.

"Heaven Mother Heart Mantra."

The black rat had extraordinary knowledge, its eyes narrowed, and it gave a violent shout.

Bang...

The next moment, a violent sound rang out, and the black tail whipped onto Zhang Fan's body like a whip. The starlight attached to the surface shook violently, actually appearing with cracks.

"Good fellow."

Zhang Fan's eyes jumped. Even with the 【Heaven Mother Heart Mantra】 protecting his body, he could feel the penetration of the huge force, making his internal organs tremble.

One can imagine how great the power of this tail was.

Bang...

Just at this moment, the black rat's body shook, and another tail sweep came horizontally.

Zhang Fan's figure flashed suddenly, retreating violently. He had the 【Heaven Mother Heart Mantra】 on his body, and his defense, strength, and speed were all improved. Whoosh...

That long tail missed, landing on a blue stone the size of a table, which shattered in response, breaking into seven or eight pieces.

"Little ghost, I didn't expect you to get the Daoist orthodoxy, and it's the Profound Gate orthodoxy."

The black rat said, but its body didn't stop at all. Its speed was extremely fast, biting Zhang Fan and not letting go. The long tail swept continuously, and the huge power ran rampant in the dense forest.

Zhang Fan used the 【Heaven Mother Heart Mantra】 to fight with it, avoiding the killing moves every time, but he could also feel the terrifying pressure.

With such power, as long as one tail hit, for anyone else, it would be a waist-cut, head and body separated.

"Black Heaven Black Heaven, deep as the nine abysses. Where bones are buried, buried beside the grave..."

Suddenly, while the black rat was killing, it rubbed its two claws, chanting.

Immediately after, bursts of gloomy black fog surged from all directions, like the vast night descending on the human world, actually continuously stripping and devouring the starlight around Zhang Fan.

"Great Black Heaven Mantra!?"

Zhang Fan was quite surprised.

The Great Black Heaven Mantra is an extremely secret mantra in the Daoist world. Once the method is formed and the mantra starts, it is no weaker than the Heaven Mother Heart Mantra.

It is rumored that chanting this mantra can make the three lights extinguish, the sun sink, the moon hide, and the stars fall, just like the nemesis of the Dou-Worship lineage.

"Little ghost, you think only you can chant mantras!?" The black rat chased and didn't let go, sneering in a deep voice.

"This rat has truly become a demon, actually proficient in the Daoist orthodoxy." Zhang Fan's heart drummed.

The Great Black Heaven Mantra is not some wild fox Zen, but the Profound Gate orthodoxy, the Daoist secret transmission, which ordinary Daoists don't know.

This method cannot be practiced without being taught by someone with great divine abilities.

Zhang Fan never dreamed that a rat becoming a demon would be proficient in such Daoist magic.

This is not an ordinary demon, or rather, it is much harder to deal with than ordinary demons.

Whoosh...

As the black fog surged, the starlight around Zhang Fan suddenly dimmed. Once the Heaven Mother Heart Mantra was broken, his speed immediately slowed down. The wind whistled in his ears, and he saw that long tail following closely like a black shadow.

"Break!"

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan gave a light whisper. He blew a breath lightly, turned in the air, and the surrounding air began to twist. The fierce true fire danced wildly, like a dragon's roar shocking the sky.

In an instant, in Mount Luohuang, a firelight rushed into the sky, moving in this gloomy long night.

"This is... Pure Yang True Meaning, Pill Fire Separation and Merger!?"

The black rat's expression changed suddenly, its green eyeballs shrinking like mung beans.

Rumble...

Fire Dragon Pill Sword, this magic no weaker than the 【Five Thunders Orthodox Method】, finally appeared in Zhang Fan's hands.

True fire separates and merges into three feet, spitting out divine might like a sword glow.

The black long tail swept horizontally, colliding with the true fire Zhang Fan urged, like a long whip meeting a magic sword, like a mysterious snake seeing a fire dragon...

Bang...

A burst of explosive sound, ten thousand firelights splashed, falling on the ground, illuminating the gloomy long night, accompanied by the black rat's pain.

It was ultimately a flesh-and-blood body. No matter how powerful the tail was practiced, it couldn't withstand Zhang Fan's pill fire! "Grass... I really grass... you dare to play with fire?"

The black rat screamed repeatedly, suddenly losing its fierce power. Its long tail was burned, wrapped in inextinguishable firelight, and retreated rapidly.

This is Daoist true fire, not something that can be extinguished by just flapping around.

"Why aren't you hee-hee-ing anymore!?" Zhang Fan laughed lightly.

"Little ghost, don't be crazy. If you have the guts, wait for the Daoist priest."

The black rat yelled while jumping up its body, actually drilling directly into the ground.

"Mm!?"

Zhang Fan raised an eyebrow, looked carefully, and could no longer find the black rat's figure, leaving only the scorched smell in the air, as if fur and flesh were burned.

"This rat has some ability."

Zhang Fan looked at the deep pit on the ground and fell into deep thought.

A rat is a rat; its best skill is still drilling holes. Just this escape technique of drilling into the ground is not something ordinary demons can compare to, not to mention its originally powerful body, and the tail was also extremely tricky to use...

The most terrifying thing is that this rat is good at Daoist magic and is quite orthodox.

"What kind of person can train such a rat?"

If it were a life-and-death battle, Zhang Fan could also take down this rat, but in this Mount Luohuang, if the other party wanted to escape, he had no way.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fan couldn't help but look up at the mountain peak.

That rat said there was a Daoist temple hidden in this mountain, named Wonderful Temple.

"Dad even brought me here..." Zhang Fan fell into deep thought.

The person Zhang Lingzong visited was definitely not an ordinary person. Daring to have a Daoist temple on this Mount Luohuang and being able to train a great demon like the black rat, one could know with their toes that it wasn't an ordinary master.

"Could it be..."

Zhang Fan's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered Liu Liu Nan Xu's exhortations.

"There is a great master hidden in Yujing City, enough to rank in the world's top five..."

"It wouldn't be this Master of the Wonderful Temple, would it?"

The more Zhang Fan thought, the more wrong it felt. He couldn't help but shudder, hurriedly walking toward Ji Fengting and Mo Yun, and carried them.

"Still waiting for me, I'll wait for your grandmother's big aunt."

Zhang Fan looked at the hole where the black rat had just disappeared, spat, turned around, and left, not daring to linger for a moment.

How this Mount Luohuang looked, it felt evil.

Not to mention who the Master of the Wonderful Temple was, and not to mention whether he was that top-five master in the world, the person living here shouldn't be a normal person. He had better stay away.

Without further ado, Zhang Fan carried Ji Fengting and Mo Yun and rushed down the mountain, gradually disappearing into the desolate night.

At this moment, another part of Mount Luohuang.

The pile of rubble scattered, and a deep hole appeared.

Under the ghostly moonlight, a black shadow darted out; it was none other than the big rat, Black Nightmare.

It held its tail, blowing air with heartache. A scorched smell permeated the air.

Zhang Fan's Fire Dragon Pill Sword had caused no small injury to this tail. If it didn't practice for three or five years, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to recover, and it would have to find many great medicines and mountain treasures.

"Little ghost, our enmity is settled."

The black rat gritted its teeth and spat.

Hum...

Just at this moment, a beam of glaring light projected from the distance, shining exactly on Black Nightmare.

"Damn, who has the guts to eat a bear's heart and leopard's gall?" The black rat cursed.

What's wrong today? More people going up the mountain than ghosts looking for death.

"Black Brother, it's me. I brought you your favorite small dried fish."

Just at this moment, a gentle voice came from not far away.

"So it's White Brother." The black rat heard this and grinned.

The man held a flashlight in one hand and a bag in the other, walking slowly. Under the ghostly moonlight, the man revealed his true face; it was none other than Bai Buran.

(End of chapter)