Chapter 638: A Critical Moment

Wolves in front, tigers behind.

If an ordinary person encountered this situation, life and death would be hard to predict, and they could only fight with their lives.

But for Li Yan, it was like the east wind had suddenly arrived.

Divine orders aren't always available, but when capturing Yin criminals, if something is nearby and doesn't know the taboos of the False False Yin Si, it will be taken away.

If it is an evil Yin object, it will be even less likely to be spared.

Especially since this time it was capturing demonic Qi, the Nether Generals of the False False Yin Si would also come in person!

"Roar!"

Hearing the incantation for summoning Yin soldiers, the old demon that crawled out of the coffin looked terrified and let out a shrill roar.

In an instant, countless paper dolls swarmed over.

"Go!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Yan interrupted the incantation, pulled Zhao Zhao Lu Zi, and retreated rapidly.

Perhaps because the demonic creature in the center of the cave had come out, everyone in the coffins began to wake up.

They were panicked and desperately kicked the coffins.

When Li Yan and the other passed by, the thumping sounds merged into one, and the scene was extremely shocking.

However, there was no time to rescue them at this moment.

In the passage behind, dense paper dolls had already swarmed in.

Yin wind and cold mist instantly filled the entire cave.

Crack!

The lid of one of the coffins suddenly shattered.

A giant man with a sauce-red face crawled out in a sorry state, his muscles knotted, obviously a martial artist.

Just after escaping, before he could check the surrounding scene, he was directly wrapped in thick mist and Yin wind.

Paper dolls floated up and down in the Yin mist, suddenly sticking to his back.

The giant man's body stiffened, his eyes quickly turned blood-red, and he rushed toward Li Yan like a madman.

This was a common method used by paper doll Yin soldiers.

If someone carried a protective magic artifact, the paper doll Yin souls would find it difficult to get close, and they could deal with it after possessing them.

The actions of the paper dolls were almost instinctive, obviously the controller was experienced.

However, in this short time, the two had already arrived at the center.

Li Yan ran while chanting.

"Heaven has records, Earth has laws, the False False Yin Si detains souls, mortals avoid!"

When he got close to the bronze coffin in the center, the incantation was finally completed.

In an instant, Yin wind whistled all around, and darkness spread.

The monster that crawled out of the coffin had originally leaped up, its sharp claws reaching toward Li Yan.

But seeing this situation, it immediately gave up the attack, tapped its toes, flew backward, and directly fell into the coffin.

What is this guy doing?

Li Yan felt strange, but saw the heavy bronze coffin lid beside him slam shut.

The other party's aura vanished without a trace in an instant.

And at the same time, the surroundings were already surrounded by darkness.

Accompanied by the clanking of chains, dense cold auras appeared.

Among them, one was even more heart-palpitating.

It was precisely the Nether General of the False False Yin Si, descending with his Yin soldiers.

The large group of paper dolls whistling from behind didn't even have time to react before they were wrapped in darkness.

Clank, clank~

Accompanied by the dense sound of chains, the Yin souls entrusted within the paper dolls were all bound and dragged out as black smoke.

Like a deflated ball, these paper dolls quickly collapsed, decayed, and fell to the ground.

Before the power of the False False Yin Si, the paper dolls that had made Luoyang City panic were simply vulnerable.

All of this was perceived by Li Yan's divine ability.

But he didn't pay any attention to it at all; his entire attention was on that bronze coffin.

The demonic god "Yang Corpse" inherited the "Corpse Coffin Zhao Changsheng Technique." The demonic creature that this demonic Qi attached to obviously practiced a stronger method, hiding in the coffin without a trace of Qi leaking. The Nether General whistled left and right, but couldn't find it.

"Close your eyes and wait for me!"

Giving Zhao Zhao Lu Zi a warning, Li Yan held his blade and rushed toward the coffin.

He wasn't foolish enough to loudly alert the Nether General.

Judging from the various clues before, the gods were not invincible; they were more like residents within the Great Luo Dharma Realm.

They had to attack by locking onto an aura, which was why there was the position of "Living Yin Envoy."

In short, saying it was useless, and it would also violate the taboos of the False False Yin Si.

All Li Yan could do was destroy this bronze coffin before the False False Yin Si troops left.

Before he finished speaking, he had already leaped out.

But an unexpected thing happened.

After his warning, Zhao Zhao Lu Zi, who should have stayed in place, seemed to feel something, suddenly raised his head, looked left and right, and then, like a madman, rushed directly into the darkness.

"You... motherf***er!"

Li Yan didn't expect that Zhao Zhao Lu Zi, who was reliable in his impression, would actually cause trouble at this time.

He was annoyed in his heart, but he couldn't afford to pay attention to it.

Arriving at the metal coffin in a few steps, Li Yan pressed his hands on the coffin edge, and his strength erupted suddenly.

He was already at the peak of Hua Jin, only one step away from Dan Jin.

His entire body's strength was integrated; although it couldn't compare to Wu Ba, it could be considered divine strength.

He could play with a two-hundred-jin stone.

However, under the eruption of his strength, the bronze coffin didn't move at all.

There was a spring mechanism inside!

Li Yan cursed inwardly, but he wasn't panicked.

For this situation, he also had a countermeasure.

The lineage of treasure-seeking and exploring the mysterious, as well as some skilled "earth rats," often encountered mechanisms when exploring ancient tombs.

They wouldn't be like novices, foolishly using tools to pry.

They only needed to use listening strength to perceive where the spring was, and then use the strength of "hitting the cow across the mountain" to break it open.

Experts familiar with this path could even open the tomb door with a light touch.

Although Li Yan wasn't proficient, he knew how to use it.

This method was taught by Zhao Zhao Lu Zi.

Placing his hand on the coffin lid, Li Yan's palm trembled rapidly, and thumping sounds came continuously.

Soon, the sound changed.

Li Yan felt joy in his heart after hearing it; it was just a simple bolt structure inside.

After aiming at the position, he swung his arm violently, and the explosive strength of the Piga Palm erupted.

Boom!

With a loud noise, a clicking sound came from inside, and the heavy coffin lid revealed a gap.

The Nether General and the False False Yin Si troops, who originally couldn't detect the target and were preparing to leave, stopped immediately.

Streams of Yin Qi whistled over, and the surrounding temperature dropped suddenly.

Frost condensed on the ground, and Li Yan was also frozen until his brain felt numb.

"Roar!"

With a huge roar, the coffin lid popped up again.

Before Li Yan could react, a pair of cold palms grabbed his neck violently.

Feeling the severe pain in his neck, Li Yan gave a low shout, grabbed the other party's wrist, and two Soul-Severing Flying Blades whistled out, directly severing the other party's arms.

At the same time, the sound of chains rang in his ears.

The demonic creature was unwilling, but it had already been locked by the Nether General. The surrounding Yin wind blew violently, and Li Yan's ears were filled with angry and desperate roars.

Just one breath later, the darkness dissipated rapidly.

Leaving at the same time was the demonic Qi inside this old zombie's body.

As the Yin soldiers left, the darkness disappeared rapidly, and the cave was silent.

Crack!

Li Yan tore off the two severed palms, and the bruises on his neck and the shattered bones recovered rapidly.

He spat fiercely and looked into the coffin.

Up close, this thing was even more terrifying; the skin was black and blue, piled with wrinkles, seemingly dead for a long time, but the flesh was still growing, becoming neither human nor ghost.

So it was an "Old Yin Person"...

This "Old Yin Person" thing was different from a zombie.

A zombie is a corpse that causes trouble after death.

While an "Old Yin Person" is different from a "Yang Person," referring to a person who has died, but whose soul still remains in the flesh.

Among the folk, there are some old people who live for a long time, whose temperaments become strange, who like to stay in dark rooms, gradually fearing light and craving blood, still eating and drinking, but the flesh begins to rot.

Weaker ones will suffer the pain of flesh rotting day and night, becoming crazy until the flesh collapses.

Those who understand the mystery will hide in Yin lands in the mountains to practice, gradually turning into evil spirits.

Those crazy old witch women in the Wushan Goddess Palace were "Old Yin People."

Too lazy to look at the other party's disgusting face, Li Yan looked around quickly and took out the only bamboo slip from his side.

After stuffing it into his bosom, he turned his head to look.

Inside the cave, it was a mess, with paper dolls collapsed and yellowed all over the floor.

Many coffins had cracked, and the people inside had faces like white paint, covered in frost, obviously having been extremely unlucky after being possessed by paper dolls, and were taken away by the False False Yin Si troops.

And beside one of the coffins, Zhao Zhao Lu Zi was kneeling on the ground.

He had already fainted, both wrists cut, blood flowing.

On the coffin, there were talismans drawn with blood from his palms.

Obviously, Zhao Zhao Lu Zi spared no effort to protect the person in the coffin.

Li Yan had already guessed who was in the coffin, approached with a gloomy face, and kicked the coffin lid away.

Whoosh~

A figure accompanied by Yin wind attacked him.

It was precisely Feng Feiyan, the pretty shopkeeper of the Fenglai Inn in Chang'an City.

At this moment, her face was blue and purple, her eyes were blood-red, and there was a paper doll stuck behind her.

Feng Feiyan, who had practiced martial arts, was also targeted by the paper doll and used as a puppet for parasitism.

To prevent her from being taken away by the Yin soldiers, Zhao Zhao Lu Zi had sealed her in the coffin together.

Facing the attacking Feng Feiyan, Li Yan's expression didn't change; he raised his hand violently and suspended her in the air by her neck.

Whoosh~

The dense Three Talents Demon-Suppressing Coins on the "Qian Nian" arm guard trembled simultaneously.

The massive Yin Qi directly shook the paper doll behind her away.

Before she could land, she was nailed in the air by the Soul-Severing Flying Blades and torn to shreds.

Li Yan held Feng Feiyan's neck, a flash of killing intent in his eyes.

He knew very well what kind of person Zhao Zhao Lu Zi was.

This Feng Feiyan was originally a scheming person and a secret agent of the Commandant's Office; perhaps it was this woman who bewitched Zhao Zhao Lu Zi, causing him to leave Guanzhong and encounter these disasters.

"Don't..."

A weak voice came from the ground; it was Zhao Zhao Lu Zi who had already woken up.

He felt Li Yan's killing intent, his face was pale, and his eyes were full of pleading.

What kind of mess is this...

Li Yan was annoyed in his heart, but he didn't make a move, placing Feng Feiyan on the ground.

Although Zhao Zhao Lu Zi was honest, he was quick-witted and knew what Li Yan was thinking, shaking his head weakly: "Brother Li, it has nothing to do with my wife. If it weren't for her saving my life, I would have died in Guanzhong."

"Hmm?"

Li Yan was somewhat surprised. He was about to ask, but suddenly raised his head, and a chill rose on his back.

He could feel that there was a terrifying aura climbing outside.

Carrying boundless resentment and distorted Gang evil Qi.

It was the Six States' demonic army that had absorbed the demonic disasters!

These things were originally suppressed within the Liugong of the fake False False Yin Si.

Xu Fu deliberately left flaws, and the paper dolls and subordinates Wang Xuanmo left to guard were destroyed by the False False Yin Si troops.

The fake False False Yin Si now could no longer suppress this demonic army of the Six States.

At the same time, the cave trembled rumblingly, and rubble and soil fell down.

"Leave first!"

Li Yan didn't say a word, directly pulled out a horse talisman, tied it to his leg, and quickly chanted.

Swish!

A straw-spirit paper doll leaped into the air.

As Li Yan chanted, Yin wind whistled, and a huge black shadow merged with the paper doll.

The one invited this time was "Marshal Meng, the Great Heavenly Power General who pursues and executes."

Among the Eight Generals of the Inner Altar, his power was the greatest.

Blessed by Marshal Meng's divine power, Li Yan only felt a huge force rising from the soles of his feet, the muscles in his arms bulging, and his strength increased significantly out of thin air.

"Nuo Gao! Six Jia Nine Chapters, Heaven is round and Earth is square, Four Seasons and Five Elements, Sun and Moon are light..."

Once the Northern Emperor Divine Travel Incantation was released, a wild wind whistled all around.

Li Yan didn't explain, directly grabbed the arms of the two, stepped with his left foot, and rushed out of the cave wrapped in a wild wind.

The horse talisman technique also had high and low levels. Originally, with his cultivation, he could only carry one person, but with Marshal Meng's divine power, grabbing two people to perform the divine travel technique was effortless.

After exiting the cave, an anomaly had indeed occurred outside.

Seeing coffins piled up in a mess, lids shattered, all were black-robed people with pale faces.

These demonic people were all Wang Xuanmo's subordinates, practicing the "Corpse Coffin Zhao Changsheng Technique."

They controlled paper dolls to cause trouble, and their souls were also taken into the False False Yin Si.

And the fake Luo Feng Liugong that suppressed the Six States' demonic army were also rumbling constantly, bricks and tiles falling.

Cracks also appeared on the stone tablets standing outside the palace gates.

"Go!"

Li Yan only took one look before grabbing the two and running down the mountain.

With the blessing of the horse talisman, his speed was astonishingly fast.

The wild wind whistled, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived at the foot of the mountain.

In the Nether Path at the foot of the mountain, it was also about to collapse.

Those vengeful souls of the Six States' sorcerers in the Yin mist had now returned to their original appearance, blood-colored evil Qi surging all over their bodies, crazily hitting the stone walls of the Nether Path, and the Three Sovereigns' Spirit Wood used as crossbeams was also decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, Li Yan was suddenly in a dilemma.

To leave, one must pass through the Nether Path, but in the current situation, I'm afraid one can only fight their way out.

The divine travel technique could not be used, and it couldn't carry the weak and powerless two.

"Brother Li, you go quickly."

Zhao Zhao Lu Zi panted and said: "Don't worry about us..."

"What kind of nonsense is that!"

Li Yan cursed and prepared to carve out a bloody path.

Hum!

Just then, a sound came from across the Nether River.

Seeing Elder Yin Jiuge reveal his figure, his left hand formed a seal with the thumb pressing the root of the ring finger, and the other three fingers stood straight.

This was the "Taishan Seal," symbolizing Taishan's ruler suppressing ghosts;

His feet took a turn every three steps, treading the "Yu Step Three Reversals," matching the number of Qin's water virtue.

At the same time, the old man grabbed a handful of five-colored soil from the leather pouch at his waist, scattered it violently into the air, and said loudly:

"Earth as proof, Mount Li as a grave! Five colors to suppress, the Yellow Springs shall not pass—!"

This was the Nether Sect's "Five Sacrifices Suppression Technique," a secret transmission of the Qin Gong.

It is recorded in the "Qin Bamboo Slips: Daily Book" that the "Five Sacrifices" are the gate, door, well, stove, and central courtyard.

The Nether Sect originated from the secret blessings of the Qin Gong, so naturally, they were familiar with this method.

This technique could be considered official orthodoxy of the Qin era, no weaker than today's Mystic Sect orthodoxy.

As the five-colored soil scattered from the air, dust flew all around, incense smoke rose, and the originally rioting Nether Path now became quiet.

Li Yan leaped up without hesitation, jumped onto the top of the Nether Path, stepped on the collapsed Three Sovereigns' Spirit Wood crossbeams, and passed directly over the heads of the Six States' sorcerer vengeful souls.

Passing through the Nether Path, he stepped on the waves and arrived at the opposite bank of the Nether River.

"Go quickly!"

At this moment, Elder Yin Jiuge's face was already blue and purple, nosebleed flowing.

Obviously, using this Qin Gong secret technique was a significant drain on him.

Li Yan dragged Zhao Zhao Lu Zi and the other, Elder Yin Jiuge used the escape technique, and the few ran madly toward the exit.

And behind them were the dense, rioting Five-Colored Corpse Spiders in pursuit.

These evil creatures were all hiding in pottery coffins, looking like coffins chasing them.

Just after exiting the cave, they saw Lu San and the others surrounding them.

"Flash!"

Wu Ba let out a roar and shouldered the tiger-crouching cannon.

After Li Yan and the others leaped away, he lit the fuse toward the cave entrance behind.

Boom! A loud noise.

Amidst flying sand and rocks, the underground palace began to collapse slowly...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 639 =====