Chapter 311: Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling the Sword, High Mountains and Flowing Water

"Heaven and Earth Yellow, Ghosts and Gods Ten Thousand Directions, listen to my law! Control!"

Yuanhao let out a loud roar.

Six sword lights circled in all directions, spinning, setting up a sword formation. The power of the sword formation suddenly spread, pulling the drowned souls from within a hundred li above and below the great river, and even the souls of relatively weak fish and beasts in the sea, out of their bodies.

Visible ghostly green fires gathered from beneath the great river, point by point, like a green river. The Yin wind whimpered, and countless ghosts roared, taking shape within the sword formation.

Wherever the sword formation went, every ghost shadow turned into sword light. For a time, sword lights filled the sky, like a long river in the sky.

The magnificent great river on the ground reflected the surging sword-Qi long river in the sky.

Killing intent filled the world!

Those ghost-fire sword lights were formless and qualityless, but being slashed by these sword lights could also cause ordinary mortals to have their souls scattered.

"Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling the Sword Formation!"

Du Xiuniang muttered to herself somewhat ungracefully: "Senior Brother hasn't refined this move yet. If he can't control it later, it will attract ten thousand ghosts to bite back..."

Qian Chen knew she was saying this for them to hear, but it could be seen that Yuanhao was indeed having some difficulty driving this sword formation.

Using sword Dao to drive the Yin-dark Qi between heaven and earth was already extremely difficult, not to mention driving these ghosts that had spirits and wisdom and were even more violent. When Qian Chen first encountered the left-path demon of the Meishan Sect, he held a tiger-bone banner magic tool to control fox ghosts, which was very crude, and was led by Qian Chen to slash with his sword, causing the fox ghosts to bite back.

Driving ghosts with magic tools was so difficult, let alone just with sword intent and formations?

Looking at Yuanhao now, he had the upper hand, and with ten thousand ghosts turning into swords, no one could stop him! But once the latter half of the sword could not be controlled, the one who would die the most miserably would be himself!

But Qian Chen saw through the origin of this sword formation!

Under the bright moonlight, countless flying swords like ghosts shot out sword lights of the sky, and even beneath the river surface, more souls were constantly attracted by the sword formation, turning into sword lights and rushing out of the river surface, stabbing at Zhu Wuchang.

"Well done!" Zhu Wuchang's expression changed drastically, turning from indifference to a smile, a smile filled with expectation. He shook his sleeves and put away a black bag in his hand. He also slid a bronze-colored bell from his sleeve, with a hundred-legged true dragon carved on it!

After the twelve-winged heavenly centipede burned its body with pure Yang fire through the thunder tribulation and shed its pure Yin poisonous quality to ascend, it became a hundred-legged true dragon!

Qian Chen, sitting at the bow of the boat, shaking his feather fan, did not change his expression, only saying in a voice that only he could hear: "Heaven and Earth Six Imperial Sword Technique!"

In ancient times, there was a sword cultivation sect called the Taibai Sword Sect. It was a sect not inferior to the current Shaoqing. The sect had two major inheritances: one specialized in life-bound flying swords, cultivating sword embryos, known as one sword breaking ten thousand laws!

The other specialized in the Dao of sword formations, known as one sword giving birth to ten thousand laws.

Later, the two factions of sword cultivators of the Taibai Sword Sect fought endlessly due to differences in philosophy. The two factions left and founded new sects! Finally, the once-prosperous Taibai Sword Sect declined due to division. The name Taibai Sword Sect also gradually disappeared in the long river of history.

The Heaven and Earth Six Imperial Sword Technique was the supreme inheritance of the Taibai Sword Formation faction.

Using the power of Yuan Yuan Tiangang, Earthly Fiend, Human Desire, Ghost Soul, Divine Might, and Spirit Qi, it was integrated into the sword formation. It was known as controlling all things with law, and it was a supreme sword technique that could only be learned above the Nascent Soul level.

Below the Nascent Soul level, the sword technique was divided into six veins—Yuan Yuan Tiangang Controlling Sword Technique, Earthly Fiend Controlling Sword Technique, Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling Sword Technique, Divine Might Controlling Sword Technique, and One Qi Controlling Sword Scripture.

Among them, the Human Desire vein was divided into righteous and evil branches. The evil Six Desires Sword Technique and the righteous Cutting Emotion Controlling Sword Technique. And the Cutting Emotion Controlling Sword Technique might be related to the Guanghan Palace's Taiyin Cutting Emotion Saber Technique that Qian Chen practiced!

Qian Chen privately speculated that it might be that an ancestor of the Guanghan Palace accidentally obtained the inheritance of the Taibai Sword Sect. Because she was too concerned about face and refused to say it out, she changed the sword technique into a saber technique, changed her appearance, and it became the inheritance of the Guanghan Palace.

Regardless of whether this guess was right or wrong, the Guanghan Sect had been modifying it for millions of years, according to its own cultivation method, perfecting the "Taiyin Cutting Emotion Saber Scripture." Even the principles of the saber technique were integrated into the Guanghan Palace's concept of cutting off emotions and nature to approach the Dao.

The foundation of the saber technique was transformed from the Human Origin Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires into Ice Soul Cold Light.

I fear that even if the descendants of the Taibai Sword Sect came, they could only see a shadow of their own inheritance in it.

But for Qian Chen, although he had refined the Ice Soul Divine Thunder, and even more so had refined the Ice Soul Divine Saber into the Ice Soul Divine Thunder Saber, he had also achieved some attainments on its Dao. But his foundation was ultimately in the Dao Sect. As his cultivation progressed, the Ice Soul Divine Saber no longer fit his path.

Qian Chen had been contemplating the future path of his own sword Dao—the "Heavenly Escape Sword Technique" of the Shaoqing inheritance, which was naturally a Dao Sect inheritance, and there was no hindrance in studying it. But the Ice Soul Divine Saber, which was closer to entering the saber with law and transforming supernatural powers into a saber after being modified by the Guanghan Palace, was somewhat of a hindrance.

"It's just a remnant move of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling Sword Technique!" Qian Chen observed the rhyme of Yuanhao's sword move carefully and couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed.

Those countless ghost shadows entangled on the sword light, countless messy obsessions, wails, and instinctive struggles made the six sword lights stabilizing the sword formation sluggish, and even trembling slightly. Even so, this Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling Sword Formation still had terrifying power.

Wherever the sword light went, those water beasts, pythons, and big fish controlled by Gu insects were slashed by dozens of green-fire sword Qi as soon as they touched the sword light, cutting off the connection between their souls and bodies, vividly taking their souls into the sword formation and refining them into sword Qi.

Wherever this sword went, the river was calm, but the corpses of demon beasts constantly floated to the surface.

The various strange Gu arts of Zhu Wuchang's Ten Thousand Gu Plague Bag had no resistance in front of this sword.

The souls of the insects were weak! Let alone hundreds of thousands of Gu insects, even if a hundred times more came, they would still have their souls stripped away under this sword, leaving only their shells.

The bell with the hundred-legged true dragon carved on it in Zhu Wuchang's hand shook, and the sound of the bell echoed over the great river. The ghosts that heard the bell sound immediately became restless.

Qian Chen, sitting at the bow of the boat, shaking his feather fan, said in a voice that only he could hear: "Heaven and Earth Six Imperial Sword Technique!"

Qian Chen's side, Xu Yang sighed: "That fellow Daoist is still too reckless! He is not familiar with the Meishan magic arts. The magic arts practiced by the Meishan Sect in recent years are getting closer and closer to the left path, and the magic arts passed down in the sect naturally cannot escape the likes of Yin ghosts and Gu insects!"

"And the magic art he is performing is one of the nine secret methods passed down by the Meishan Sect! It is called the Ten Thousand Gu Plague Bag! It is said to encompass ten thousand Gu, raising one plague. A thousand li of red earth, no demons left!"

Zhixia drew his sword and said: "If the ten thousand ghosts bite back, how should we save him?"

Qian Chen shook his head slightly: "This sword formation is not that simple..."

Zhu Wuchang's voice came from the opposite side: "This fellow Daoist, although driving ten thousand ghosts, the sword momentum is unmatched, but you are already struggling to drive this formation. I have already seen the flaws in your formation, where the life gate is. If I guide the ten thousand ghosts to reverse-rush the life gate, you will definitely suffer a bite-back. I fear that soul scattering will not be enough to describe it!"

"At this point, fellow Daoist, are you still not admitting defeat?"

Zhu Wuchang persuaded sincerely.

Yuanhao opened his eyes in mid-air. Driving the sword formation was indeed extremely difficult, and the six talisman swords he used to set up the sword formation were nearing collapse, and the operation was becoming more and more difficult. But he laughed: "You are too pedantic!"

Zhu Wuchang was not annoyed, only saying lightly: "It is not easy for you and me to have our current cultivation. To have one's soul scattered due to a momentary mistake is truly a pity!"

"You shouldn't have given me time. Originally, I was extremely reluctant to complete this sword. But you gave me time, which allowed me to catch my breath. In view of your pedantry, I will also tell you..."

"This sword of mine is not that simple!"

"If I can't control so many ghosts, I won't control them!"

Yuanhao's face struggled, and he said with difficulty: "Reverse life and death, ten thousand ghosts kill souls!"

His magic power shook, and he shattered the six talisman swords.

The six sword lights turned into dozens of talisman lights, collapsing into an eight-trigram magic array with a larger range.

With Yuanhao's magic power urging, the eight gates of the eight-trigram magic array operated, and the life gate and death gate were reversed, and the countless ghosts that had lost control were completely crazy under this stimulation. Countless sharp screams, countless ear-piercing ghost cries.

The countless ghosts that Zhu Wuchang wanted to break through the life gate entered the death gate, and under the power of the formation pushed by the ten thousand ghosts, they were refined into sword after sword of fierce and fierce swords, like ghosts from the Nine Netherworlds.

These countless souls were already restless to the extreme, and under Yuanhao's light push, guided by the formation, locked onto Zhu Wuchang, and immediately countless vengeful ghosts turned into evil and fierce sword Qi, whistling away.

This time, what stabbed out in the sky was not a river of sword Qi, but a mountain flood!

Ah ah ah!

Countless screams pierced into Zhu Wuchang's ears, making his soul sway. He could only summon the Falling Soul Bell, and the bell sound echoed over his head, only then canceling out these screams, but these were just the aftermath of the sword Qi, and the flood-like ghosts behind were the real killers.

"Fellow Daoist, this sword formation is originally upright and magnificent, although it controls ten thousand ghosts, the core is the Dao of salvation. But in your hands, it has fallen into the evil path. Using it without benefit is not the right path!"

Zhu Wuchang faced this flood of ten thousand ghosts biting souls that made people despair, but his face remained as usual.

Qian Chen knew that what this person said was true. The original Ten Thousand Ghosts Controlling Sword Technique, although it seemed to take ten thousand ghosts, and even made the souls of the creatures affected by the sword fall into the sword momentum, the true principle of the sword formation was "salvation."

The living souls were refined, the sword Qi turned into water and fire to refine, and the purest souls returned to heaven and earth, while the fierce, resentful, and violent Qi washed down whistled into countless sword Qi to kill the enemy.

And the pure soul power of saving ten thousand ghosts would nourish the flying sword and nourish the soul of the cultivator.

The core mystery of this sword formation is very simple, which is to kill on behalf of heaven.

Kill the Yin poison, resentment, and fierceness, kill the useless remnants, and clean up the spiritual machine of heaven and earth.

But Yuanhao's sword today only urged the ten thousand ghosts he controlled to be completely crazy, the resentment and fierceness rose infinitely, and then all poured toward the enemy.

It was as if a bear child who had caused trouble pushed all the consequences to others and stayed out of it himself.

Although strong, it lost the true essence of this sword Dao and fell into the evil path.

But the evil path spreads endlessly in the world, which shows that the evil path is not without the benefits of the evil path, at least... power is not lacking.

Zhixia saw countless ghosts turned into green sword Qi, drowning Zhu Wuchang, but there was no joy on his face. Although Zhu Wuchang was an enemy, he had been reasonable and restrained from beginning to end, leaving a way out for everyone.

The struggle between them had no distinction of righteousness.

Neither the Jin court nor Sun En was righteous.

And Yuanhao, although he was one of his own, his madness of forcibly driving ten thousand ghosts without regard for the consequences also made Zhixia feel hard to be happy. These ghosts were used by Yuanhao, and after killing Zhu Wuchang, their fierceness would be even better than before.

Since he had no ability to restrain them, after the ghosts dispersed, how many more killing sins would they create in the world?

"Soul, come back! Leave your constant stem!

Why go to the four directions? Leave your happy place,

And leave that inauspicious place!

Soul, come back! The East cannot be entrusted..."

On the small boat drowned by countless ghosts, ancient witch words suddenly came, and Yuanhao's expression changed drastically. Zhu Wuchang's voice came from front, back, left, and right, covering the great river, chanting the ancient sacrificial words!

Those ghosts that died under the sword formation and floated in the water, and even that huge demon beast Jiang Ang, opened their mouths and let out a mournful cry, but there was no irritability and anger, but like the grand sacrifice on the altar, under the majesty of the gods, in the solemn and solemn sacrifice, that mournful prayer.

Not far away, the crowd saw Jiang Ang's body like a small hill shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in an instant, it turned into a dry corpse!

Its blood and Qi, together with the corpses of countless water beasts on the river, were swallowed by the ten thousand ghosts not far away. Soon its skin weathered, its bones melted, and in an instant, the corpses all over the river were cleaned up.

The ghosts that had eaten the blood food did not completely calm down, and with a calm, majestic "Enjoy!"

The ghosts that had eaten the blood food did not completely calm down, and with a calm, dignified: "Shang Xiang!"

Zhu Wuchang's face was somewhat pale, but this was only because he forced out his own essence blood, using the Meishan secret method—Summoning Soul Sacrifice, using the corpses of water beasts around him as sacrifices, at the cost of replacing his own blood sacrifice to the ghosts, although he damaged some vitality, his own strength was not weakened at all.

And after this blood sacrifice, Zhu Wuchang was already a sacrifice eaten in the eyes of the ten thousand ghosts.

But Yuanhao's sword was too ruthless, and these sacrifices still failed to appease the ghosts.

So after the target locked by his formation disappeared, under the promotion of Zhu Wuchang's sacrificial method, the ghosts that were still unsatisfied could only choose... bite back at the formation master!

Yuanhao's face was completely pale. The sword formation he controlled, without any of his will, slowly turned the eight gates, locking the death gate onto himself.

This is the taboo of setting up a formation with living souls. Once the formation itself has a will, the formation master will also be controlled by the formation.

"Captain!" Du Xiuniang pounced on him: "Run! Don't worry about the mission!"

Yuanhao's face was ugly, and he smiled miserably: "Now, is it something you can just run away from?"

"Sure enough!" Qian Chen finally confirmed his guess.

He still wanted to watch this play. It was rare to meet other reincarnators. He hadn't probed the details of the Lord of Reincarnation yet! These people... cannot die!

A sound of strings!

Qian Chen sat at the bow of the boat, the Great Saint Thunder Sound across his knees, the zither sound clear like a gurgling river, slowly flowing out.

It was high and broad, like the bright moon in the sky reflected in the water.

Suddenly picking the merchant string, the zither sound suddenly became heavy, just like the great river passing through the canyon, with high mountains standing on both sides!

Suddenly plucking the Shang string, the zither sound suddenly became heavy, just like the big river passing through the canyon, with high mountains standing on both sides!