Chapter 314: Shrinking Spell!

"What did Lord Luo interrogate?"

"The one who came to Jinping County is General Wolf under the command of the Brocade Flower King. According to him, he is as swift as the wind, has infinite strength, and the divine weapon in his hand is a large spear; whoever he stabs dies. He has also followed the Brocade Flower King since childhood to learn magical powers and can summon all the bronze sculptures and stone statues in the world to become soldiers and generals," Luo Seng said. "He also has a transformation method, which can turn into a large bird and leave."

"All bronze sculptures and stone statues can become soldiers and generals..."

Lin Jue muttered to himself, which seemed like a profound Soul-Shifting Technique.

Ancient books say that when the Soul-Shifting Technique is cultivated to a profound level, it has the same effect as gathering stones into generals; any bronze statue or stone sculpture encountered can be summoned and brought to life to fight for oneself.

However, it is not as powerful as a statue that has been refined.

"How many soldiers and generals did he bring?"

"He brought hundreds of yaoguai soldiers," Luo Seng said, having already mounted his horse. "Yesterday he was still in the city, but today he suddenly decided to return to the Brocade Flower King's cave dwelling."

"Fellow Daoist Qingxuan and Fellow Daoist Jiang are still on their way. Since that's the case, we must hurry to catch up with them!"

"Exactly!"

Lin Jue also mounted his donkey.

He scanned left and right, seeing that the common people had already left, and except for a few wild duck corpses, there were no other wild ducks, and regardless of what his own Fuyao was doing now, he patted the donkey's neck:

"Go!"

The donkey then stepped forward.

Although this paper donkey is good, it is leisurely when there is no emergency, but when there is an emergency, it is too slow.

Lin Jue looked up—

Under the blue sky, among the layers of white clouds, a white egret was spreading its wings and flying.

"Fellow Daoist."

Lin Jue called out.

The white egret flew down gracefully and landed on the tree in front, startling the fine branches on the treetop to shake.

"I ask Fellow Daoist to return to the Fengshan Hongye Guan. There is no need to ask my junior sister, just ask the two stone horse fellow Daoists to come and help me," the Daoist sat on the donkey's back, his body shaking constantly, but he took out a magic seal from his cloth bag. "I will let Chen Niu go with you."

The white egret lowered its neck, its posture elegant.

Chen Niu naturally appeared and looked at him seriously.

"Take Fellow Daoist White Egret to the Fengshan Hongye Guan, and then bring the two stone horses to find me."

Chen Niu's expression froze, and he immediately became serious, looked around, and pointed to the road they had come from:

"Go this way!"

The white egret met his gaze, then its legs exerted a little force, and it kicked the fine branches of the treetop to shake again, and it spread its wings, flapping them, and flew gracefully into the distance.

Chen Niu raised his head, looking at it blankly.

A moment later, it also immediately chased after it, passing through the forest and leaves, while chasing it, it pointed to the direction of the road, correcting it and saying:

"Go this way!"

Lin Jue's paper donkey also never stopped, passing under the large tree where the white egret had just stood, and at the same time, he turned his head to say to Lord Luo: "Lord Luo, don't wait for me, hurry up and catch up to tell them, I will arrive later."

"Good. That yaoguai's words don't know how much is true or false, but in my opinion, it should be more true than false. Maybe the yaoguai general received news last night, so he decided to withdraw temporarily." Lord Luo said to him, "In any case, I will let that person surnamed Lei go to the city to check, and we will go to intercept."

"Good!"

"Che!"

Lord Luo shouted, and the divine horse under him instantly raised its hooves. Only a sound of horse hooves could be heard, like thunder, splashing green mud on the small road, and it had already left and disappeared.

After another while, the fox caught up.

The paper donkey's steps were fast, but the fox, which was the size of a cat, only jumped nimbly in the forest, easily catching up with the donkey and walking with it.

"Your donkey! So small!"

The fox turned its head, looking at Lin Jue.

"Small though it is, it has brought us from Huizhou to the capital," Lin Jue said, asking it, "What other magical powers have you learned from others?"

"Not learned!"

"Absorbed."

"Drank!"

The fox had been very sensitive to these things recently and wanted to correct him.

"Then what other magical powers did you drink?"

"Shrink."

"Can't you already shrink?"

"Shrink very small!"

"..."

Lin Jue thought about it and felt it was appropriate.

That duck herder had just shown two magical powers, one of which he should have already obtained, and the other was the shrinking spell.

After the fox learned it, it could teach it to him when it had time.

It was just that he didn't know if it could grow larger.

Thinking carefully, it was probably only able to shrink.

Because if it could grow larger, that duck herder should have already used it; after growing larger, he might still have had the power to resist. Just shrinking was also very useful—

He had always wanted to find a spell that was convenient for traveling, so that he could meet his senior brother and junior sister. Before the new year, Master Fan Tian had promised him and also said that there were two or three strange people in the Ju Xian Fu who knew this kind of spell, but recently, whether in the human world or among yaoguai and ghosts, it was not peaceful, and those two or three people had been relying on such spells to run around outside, bringing letters and messages, so they hadn't returned to the capital.

And the method of traveling is not limited to escape techniques, divine walking techniques, or techniques of riding clouds and mist; there are others.

Shrinking can also be used for traveling.

After shrinking, he could let Fuyao take him on the journey, and combined with the method of adjusting beasts and birds, he could also ask the animals in the mountains and forests and the birds in the sky to give him a ride.

Thinking carefully, it also had a bit of a strange style.

The only point was that the yaoguai general seemed to have another ability, which was that it could turn into a flying bird itself.

"Anyway, it's all a harvest."

Lin Jue shook his head and didn't think much more about it.

Since he had waited for his own fox, he simply put away the donkey, put it back into the cloth bag, and then took out a Divine Walking Pill.

After swallowing the pill, his feet became hot, and he felt his whole body light and airy.

With one step, he was like a fox, his figure like a swallow, wind born under his feet, directly crossing from the ground to the top of a small tree two zhang away, and with another step, he had already crossed to a large tree, and then, like a fox, he walked on the treetops and in the forest.

Fuyao was originally standing on the top of a tree branch, waiting for him, but only felt a wind blow up the fur on its face, seeing its own Daoist's figure whistling past it.

It was stunned for a moment, then immediately jumped to follow.

With the clear wind as a companion and the fox following, in a moment, he had walked several miles under his feet, startling many beasts and birds in the mountains.

This place was already not far from the Jinping County seat.

What this group wanted for this trip was the word "divine speed." After dawn, they would naturally not walk like last night, but would travel at full speed.

Relying on the divine speed of his precious horse, Lord Luo barely caught up with them outside Jinping County.

After telling them the results of his interrogation, Daoist Qingxuan and Daoist Jiang hesitated for a moment, then decisively decided not to waste time entering the city, but only let people go into the city to inquire, then turned with full force to intercept the yaoguai general in the direction east of Jinping County.

It was really not unexpected; halfway there, they encountered the yaoguai who were marching in the mountains with a large army.

These yaoguai were used to walking in the mountains. This time, they brought many common people, seven or eight bronze sculptures and stone statues, and some gold, silver, and treasures that they didn't know what to do with, and they were actually walking in the mountains.

A group of people stood on high ground and just happened to see these yaoguai.

Lord Luo caught a glimpse of a tall figure walking at the very front, walking upright, with a blue-gray body, topped with a wolf head, which was probably half a head taller than an ordinary person.

"General Wolf..."

His gaze scanned the many small yaoguai behind him.

Although they were small yaoguai, they were mostly based on fierce beasts in the mountains or wild beasts with strong physiques—

Some were slightly shorter than humans, looking like deer or sheep yaoguai, walking in the middle of the team, escorting a group of common people; some were about the same size as humans, looking mostly like wolf or jackal yaoguai, all holding weapons and walking on the left and right of the team, and some even wore armor on their bodies; and some were much taller and stronger than humans, mostly transformed from horses or cattle, almost all of them were bare-chested, carrying huge boxes on their backs, or carrying stone statues and bronze sculptures while walking.

"Stone statues and bronze sculptures..."

The number of these yaoguai alone was comparable to the soldiers and generals under the command of the Tu Long Wang.

However, the Tu Long Wang at that time had not made trouble with great fanfare, so he had not recruited soldiers and bought horses on a large scale, and although the shrimp generals, crab warriors, and yellow-scaled guards under his command were mostly the size of humans, they all had hard armor on their bodies, which was probably more difficult to deal with than these.

Adding these stone statues and bronze sculptures, it was hard to say.

Lord Luo thought to himself, regretting that he had left home too hastily and hadn't called more heroes from the capital to help.

At this time, Wan Xinrong and Fellow Daoist Tao both looked at him.

Lin Jue was not there, and he was Lin Jue's protector, so they naturally regarded him as Lin Jue's spokesperson or backbone.

Daoist Qingxuan and Daoist Jiang were also exchanging glances.

"Since the word 'divine speed' has been set, talking about schemes is a great taboo. Besides, since we have already encountered them, we are at the windward side, which is a favor from heaven. If the wind direction changes later, those yaoguai below will instantly smell the scent on us. Since that's the case, it's better to go up immediately," Lord Luo said quickly, pointing his spear downward. "Those bronze sculptures and stone statues, who has a way to deal with them first?"

"If there is nothing else strange, I, Wan, can smash the stone statues."

"Leave the stone statues to Fellow Daoist Wan," Lord Luo said, turning his head to look. "Fellow Daoist Tao, your flying knives are many but not fierce; those small yaoguai escorting the common people and the common people are left to you."

"No problem!"

"The three Daoists of the Zhen Jian Gong, I don't know what abilities you have, so let's each use our own magical powers," Lord Luo said. "That yaoguai general also holds a long spear, so he has a fate with me. I, Luo, just want to try whether my martial arts can eliminate the great yaoguai, so leave him to me."

"Please, Lord Luo and everyone, receive the talisman!" Daoist Qingxuan didn't talk nonsense and took out a talisman from his hand. "Since everyone has come to eliminate yaoguai, you are all people of the righteous path. This is the Jin Guang Body Protection Talisman; wearing it on your body, you can borrow golden light from the righteous gods in heaven to protect your body. This is the Thunder Fire Sword Attachment Talisman; you can borrow the thunder fire power from the two thunder fire divine generals of my family and attach it to your knives and swords, which can help eliminate yaoguai. The sword attachment spell in the spell prohibition also comes from this."

Wan Xinrong and Fellow Daoist Tao both received it solemnly.

Only Lord Luo did not receive it, but just gripped his long spear tightly.

"No need, now my martial arts can protect my body, and the long spear and precious sword in my hand can eliminate yaoguai! No need for golden light or thunder fire!"

After the words were finished, the mountain wind just happened to stop.

The opportunity was fleeting and could not be waited for any longer.

Lord Luo turned sideways to take off his luggage, only holding the long spear in his hand, carrying a precious sword, and borrowing force on the steep mountain slope, his whole person rushed down like an arrow from a bowstring.

Without any hesitation or fear.

His heroic spirit seemed to infect several people.

Everyone rushed down the mountain one after another.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 315 =====