Chapter 50: What Did the Sage Say?

Meng Jingzhou flipped to a piece of tiger skin. The tiger skin was old, as if it had a history of over a hundred years, but it was preserved very well. The dense small characters on it could be seen clearly. Lu Yang and Man Gu curiously stretched their necks to take a look, but didn't recognize this kind of script.

"This is demon script, the script within the demon race," Meng Jingzhou said, as it happened that he recognized it.

The fox race is naturally promiscuous, which is reflected in their writing. They often write some unhealthy books. If someone does certain indescribable things to these books, the author of the book can collect a trace of yang energy.

Therefore, the unhealthy books that often circulate in the Central Continent are mostly written by the fox race. Although the authorities promote their harm extensively and hold activities to destroy books every few years, these books still circulate in the black market and are repeatedly banned but never stopped.

When Meng Jingzhou was young, he was quite obsessed with this kind of book, but he didn't know what indescribable things were at that time; he just thought the book was good.

In order to read the original version, he specifically learned demon script.

"You love learning so much?" Lu Yang and Man Gu were surprised. Cultivating immortality can enhance memory, and learning a language doesn't take long.

But the problem is that Meng Jingzhou learned demon script before cultivating immortality, which was quite extraordinary.

Meng Jingzhou didn't want to explain the reason too much, only saying that he had some interest in demon culture.

Man Gu felt that Brother Meng was worthy of being Brother Meng; he studied hard but didn't like to show off, his behavior was humble, his character was noble, and he was worth learning from.

"What is written on the tiger skin?"

"Let me see... Ghostly things, yin acts and yang avoids... this is a method for driving ghost servants."

Meng Jingzhou browsed through it quickly, calculated slightly in his heart, and soon deduced the function of the secret manual.

"The old hunter should have been refined like this."

"There are also requirements for refining ghost objects. The cultivation must differ by two major levels, except for refining mortals. After the 7th layer of Qi Condensation, one can refine mortal souls."

The technique of driving ghost servants is very chicken-rib-like. Only people two realms lower than oneself can be refined. Even if a ghost servant is refined, can one really let the ghost servant go into battle to kill the enemy?

Just like the battle with the tiger demon just now, if a ghost servant appeared, its effect would probably be worse than cannon fodder, posing no threat at all.

"Do you need me to translate it all for you? This thing doesn't seem to limit the race; the human race can also cultivate it, it's just that the tiger demon's cultivation effect is the best."

Man Gu originally wanted to say what's the use of learning this thing, but heard Lu Yang analyze: "We are joining the demonic sect, demonic methods are indispensable. This technique of driving ghost servants is just right to serve as a facade. The hunter's residence happens to have ready-made chang-ghosts. You translate the technique of driving ghost servants on the tiger skin, and the three of us will learn it together."

Originally, Lu Yang planned to eradicate the remaining chang-ghosts. Now that the situation has changed, it's not too late to use the chang-ghosts and then disperse their souls.

Listening to the tiger demon's meaning, the chang-ghosts were all willing to be servants after death, driven as ghosts to harm travelers.

They all deserve to die.

"Good." Meng Jingzhou agreed immediately. He spread paper and ground ink, his pen moving like a dragon or snake, and soon wrote down the technique of driving ghost servants.

"I won't cultivate it. I have a Pure Yang Spiritual Root. When ghosts see me, it's like snow seeing the sun; they will melt quickly. I can't practice this kind of pure yin attribute spell."

Lu Yang and Man Gu didn't say much and cultivated together.

Before long, a yin wind blew in the cave, accompanied by the faint wailing of ghosts, bringing endless chill that pierced the bones and froze the marrow.

Lu Yang only felt his body lighten, his feet off the ground, floating in the air, just like a ghost.

He felt his mind was clearer than ever, his five senses were sharp, and he could perceive every subtle detail around him. He also felt Meng Jingzhou was like a raging fire, scorching hot!

"Hmm? What's going on?" Lu Yang was puzzled. He looked down and found his body was sitting cross-legged on the spot.

"No, it's not that I can fly, it's that my soul has left my body!"

Meng Jingzhou noticed Lu Yang's abnormality and screamed in horror: "Only the Nascent Soul stage can have the soul leave the body and travel ten thousand miles. How come you have left your body now?"

"Hurry back! You are only at the Foundation Establishment stage and haven't cultivated your soul yet. The soul is easily damaged. Once the soul is damaged, it's hard to repair!"

Lu Yang also realized the problem and operated the mantra for driving ghost servants to let his soul return to normal.

"How did you do it?" Meng Jingzhou had never heard of anyone at the Foundation Establishment stage daring to have their soul leave their body.

There was no such spell at all.

Lu Yang was also extremely puzzled: "I just followed the technique of driving ghost servants you wrote to cultivate. I felt I understood it completely, there was no problem, so I said I'd try to operate it to see what it looked like, and it became like this."

Meng Jingzhou looked at Lu Yang with a strange expression: "Could it be that you treated your own soul as a ghost servant and drove yourself?"

He had never heard that one could cultivate like this, but judging from the current situation, this was the only explanation.

Lu Yang thought about it and couldn't think of any other possibility.

Lu Yang asked Meng Jingzhou to stay away from him and tried several more times, but the result was the same: his soul would leave his body.

"What's going on with my spell talent?"

The two had no choice but to wait for Man Gu to wake up and ask if his situation was the same as Lu Yang's.

When Man Gu woke up, he saw Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou looking at him with anticipation, which left him confused.

"Did you learn the technique of driving ghost servants?"

"I have some insights, I should be able to drive eight mortal souls."

"Can you drive yourself and let your soul leave your body?" Lu Yang looked at Man Gu with anticipation, wanting Man Gu to say yes, so he could prove that he hadn't practiced it wrong.

Man Gu was even more confused: "How is this possible? This is a technique for driving ghost servants. Can one really treat one's own soul as a ghost servant and drive it?"

Meng Jingzhou glanced at Lu Yang and told the story of Lu Yang's learning process, which made Man Gu admire him endlessly.

Brother Lu had a sharp mind and extremely high talent in learning spells, unmatched by anyone. Brother Meng was talented and learned.

Along the way, he learned a lot of things, just like the words spoken by a sage.

What did the sage say?

Oh right, the sage said: In a group of three, there must be my teacher.

"We should go find the chang-ghosts." Seeing that there was nothing worth looting in the cave, Meng Jingzhou greeted his companions to leave.

"You guys go first, I'll handle some things and follow up." Lu Yang asked Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu to leave first.

Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu didn't think much and left the tiger cave.

After confirming that the two had left, Lu Yang's smile faded, and the expression on his face gradually became calm.

He walked to the depths of the cave, saw the bones piled up like a small mountain, and sighed softly.

"Sure enough, they are here."

When Lu Yang saw various items, he guessed that with the tiger demon's caution, it definitely wouldn't throw the bones outside after eating people, as that would be too easy to expose itself. The safe behavior was to leave the remains in the cave.

Reality also confirmed his thoughts.

These poor people who came from different places and were tricked and eaten while passing through Songshan finally found their resting place in this small cave.

Lu Yang didn't speak again. The Qingfeng Sword was as sharp as mud, and he easily cut a large piece of rock from the rock wall.

He smoothed the rock block, silently recited the Rebirth Mantra, set up a tombstone for these poor people, was silent for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking, and then turned and left.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, let's go." Lu Yang greeted his two companions to leave this unpleasant place. ===== CHAPTER 51 =====