Chapter 797: Suppressing Demons on a Rainy Night

"Hmm?"

The troupe leader, who was standing at the edge of the opera stage and controlling the overall situation with ghost music, suddenly paused his singing.

He turned his head violently, staring in the direction of the West Wangxiang Terrace ruins.

On the other side, the Corpse-Garment Old Woman was also fishing in troubled waters.

This old demon woman acted cautiously, fearing being accidentally hit by the random artillery fire of the naval forces, so even though there was the Netherworld Great Array set up by the Ghost Opera Troupe, she still didn't dare to get close, but hid in the thick fog, pouring the bubbling green water from the clay pot in her hand into the river.

In an instant, a large number of dead fish floated up in the river.

The eyes of these dead fish rapidly turned white, maggots grew on their bodies, and then they seemed to come alive, swaying madly.

The Corpse-Garment Old Woman gave a hideous smile, violently throwing out the robe she had sewn from human skin, which then transformed into individual human-shaped shadow puppets, wrapping the dead fish filled with Gu insects, diving into the water, and rushing toward the naval warships.

These evil things moved extremely fast.

After climbing onto the warship deck, as long as they were smashed, the foul-smelling dead fish pulp along with the Gu insects would rush out, rapidly infecting and spreading.

Those who were hit all turned blue and purple in the face, foaming at the mouth, and fell to the ground.

This old demon woman was best at releasing Gu and poison, and refining her own "Hundred-Corpse Garment" by peeling human skin.

Back in the day, she was also a famous figure, besieged by righteous masters, and had no choice but to join the Jianmu organization.

The Ghost Opera Troupe set up an array to besiege, and she released poisonous Gu; it could be called a tacit cooperation.

Fortunately, there was Long Yan'er on the ship.

As the former Saintess of the Gu Sect in Miao territory, she was also proficient in Gu arts.

Facing the terrifying offensive of this old demon woman, she didn't dare to be the slightest bit careless, directly releasing her life-bound Zither Insect.

The Zither Insect vibrated its wings, emitting a melodious zither sound that even the thunder and artillery fire couldn't drown out.

Within the range of the sound, all Gu insects were controlled, detaching from the bodies of those soldiers and flying into the fire on their own.

However, the gap in cultivation could not be made up.

Long Yan'er could only protect the people on this one ship.

"Fellow Daoist Corpse-Garment, something's wrong!"

Just at this moment, the Ghost Opera Troupe leader suddenly spoke.

"Eh?"

The Corpse-Garment Old Woman's fingers also stopped plucking, and she looked at the distant sky, carrying unbelievable suspicion:

"... It's broken? The aura of the Hundred-Bone Old Ghost... how could it... dissipate?!"

Both of their faces were so gloomy they could drip water.

They could clearly sense that the pure Yin-Sha aura that had originally been surging continuously from the direction of the Wangxiang Terrace ruins, supporting the operation of the Netherworld Opera Stage and amplifying the power of the Ghost Music Illusion Array, was now like a water flow whose source had been pinched, rapidly thinning and becoming intermittent, on the verge of exhaustion.

"Not good!"

"Something must have happened over there!"

Both made the judgment at the same time.

"How is that possible?"

The Corpse-Garment Old Woman said in a deep voice, "That Hundred-Bone Old Ghost is as cunning as water; without the official warrant, what else could deal with him?"

The Ghost Opera Troupe leader turned around upon hearing this and shouted sternly, "Where is the item?"

"Zhou Banzhu, it's still here!"

The clown wearing a red robe immediately stepped forward, tearing open the yellow cloth package painted with blood talismans; inside was none other than Li Yan's official warrant.

The Ghost Opera Troupe leader didn't touch it, but frowned and said, "The item is definitely correct, how did he..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly widened his eyes.

The official warrant was actually vibrating and humming on its own.

It was Li Yan, who was rushing over at high speed, sensing it.

After Li Yan struck the "Hundred-Bone Daoist" and "Old Man in the Forest" into the Netherworld, the reward from the Netherworld was immediately poured into the official warrant, adding two Gang Orders; Li Yan wasn't nearby, so it naturally reacted.

"Throw it far away, go!"

The Ghost Opera Troupe leader ordered with a gloomy face.

The official warrant was a beacon for the channel between the Great Luo Dala Fajie and the human world.

It wasn't powerful in itself; what was terrifying was the power of the Great Luo Dala Fajie that surged from within it.

Even if destroyed, it would appear in a new place, and Li Yan's official warrant was different, of a high grade, and had the added blessing of the Heavenly Official Order, so they didn't dare to destroy it easily and could only seal it.

"Yes, Zhou Banzhu!"

The red-robed clown didn't talk nonsense, holding the official warrant, his arm shaking like a python turning over.

Swish!

The official warrant immediately broke through the air, moving extremely fast.

But at the same time, Li Yan finally sensed the official warrant.

He broke through the water with a splash and immediately formed seals and chanted: "Qingjia! Ascend to the black heaven, descend to the black earth, the black heaven has no light, the black earth has no gate, the Yin people send out troops, the Yang people avoid, collect evil and evil retreats, collect ghosts and ghosts perish, I serve the North Yin Fengdu, act as fast as the law!"

This was the incantation for summoning Netherworld troops, which required consuming Gang Orders.

Those Earth Immortals all had Dharma artifacts to conceal their aura, and they were far apart, so he could only use this method.

Whoosh~

In an instant, a wild wind rose on the river surface.

The official warrant stopped abruptly in mid-air, and with it as the center, darkness spread rapidly to the surroundings.

The sound of armor and chains rang out at the same time.

The eerie music played by the Ghost Opera Troupe was suppressed almost instantly.

Without the support of the Yin-Sha aura from Wangxiang Terrace, the illusion array also collapsed rapidly.

"Brother Yan is here!"

Sha Lifei's eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly, "Listen to me, all soldiers close your eyes!"

"Don't look around, be careful of losing your life!"

Although the naval soldiers didn't understand why, seeing the thick fog around them dissipating, and the local Jin Ling cultivators on the ship successively closing their eyes, they also sensibly followed the order, not daring to look more.

And on the Ghost Opera Troupe's side, they suffered a disaster.

The official warrant hadn't been thrown very far, and when the Netherworld troops were dispatched, the most conspicuous Netherworld Opera Stage became the target.

Yin wind wrapped in darkness almost instantly shrouded the Netherworld Opera Stage.

The Ghost Opera Troupe band members closest to it were also wrapped within it.

These fellows had harmed quite a few people following the Ghost Opera Troupe, and each of them had deep resentment and Yin-Sha aura on them.

Some had their souls hooked directly, and they jumped into the water smartly, but soon their complexions turned pale, their eyes lost focus, and they stopped breathing.

"Idiot!"

The Ghost Opera Troupe leader cursed fiercely and immediately said to his subordinates, "Split up and retreat!"

His heart was bleeding; compared to the subordinates who were good at killing, these band members were harder to assemble.

After all, they had to be proficient in music and also be sorcerers; ordinary martial arts performers wouldn't do.

Now that they were wiped out in one go, he didn't know when he would be able to assemble them again.

Although annoyed, what was more important now was to leave.

Once targeted by the Netherworld, that would be truly life-threatening.

With that, he rolled his sleeves and transformed into black smoke, dissipating.

The escape technique revealed at this moment was actually stronger than that of the other Earth Immortals.

Seeing their leader flee, the others of the Ghost Opera Troupe also fled in all directions.

But at this time, the illusion array had been broken, the thick fog had dissipated, and their tracks had been exposed to the naval army.

"Do it!"

Sha Lifei let out a stern shout, and Kuai Dayou immediately ignited the explosive fire crows.

Hum!

The terrifying bowstring sound of the crossbow cart vibrated.

Several fire crow mechanisms soared into the sky like fire meteors.

This object moved extremely fast, and the bamboo and wooden wings specially made by Kuai Dayou constantly changed with the airflow, first rushing violently into the high sky, then making a folding turn, rushing toward the wooden boats of the Ghost Opera Troupe like a hunting falcon.

This design was originally intended to evade the enemy's rain of arrows.

But facing enemies who had no intention of resisting and were only fleeing, it was clearly a bit superfluous.

The more ingenious design was still at the rear.

The moment it touched the ship's sail, the fire crow's beak squeezed backward like a button, the internal mechanism gears immediately activated, and the entire body exploded with a bang, with a large amount of solidified grease and new-style gunpowder all ignited in an instant.

Boom!

A fire mass the size of a room exploded, and countless poison-quenched iron fragments splashed with the airflow.

"Ah—!"

Immediately, screams continued.

The wooden boats were soon ignited, and many of the Ghost Opera Troupe members who had originally wanted to flee were deeply embedded with iron fragments in their internal organs and injured, the toxins erupted, they became dizzy, and were blown rolling on the ground by the surging air waves. ===== CHAPTER 798 =====