Hell Raid

Chapter 183: Raid from the Underworld

"Are you good at playing tricks? Can you call on ghosts and gods to fight?"

Qin Mu was slightly startled, and suddenly remembered the Soul-pulling and Ghost-summoning Talismans. These two spells were about souls and ghosts, and he found them on the first floor of Tianlu Tower.

The talisman for summoning ghosts and gods came from the Hongshan School, while the talisman for leading souls came from the Jiuyou Sect.

Both of these spells are placed on the first floor of Tianlu Tower. Because they belong to the more obscure category of spells, few people practice them. They are soul-related spells, but they don't have much attack power.

Especially the spell that can summon ghosts and gods. This spell claims to be able to summon ghosts and gods, but Qin Mu has tried it several times and found that it is at most similar to the Five Ghosts Moving Technique in the Dayu Tianmo Sutra, but it is much more complicated.

After Qin Mu found these two spells, he wanted to ask Ba Shan Ji Jiu to teach him. Ba Shan Ji Jiu thought these two spells were unpopular and had not been studied, so he gave them to him and let him figure them out on his own.

Although the runes for summoning ghosts and gods are similar to the Five Ghosts Moving Technique, their runes are obviously much more complicated and require the refining of talismans.

Its talisman was even more complicated than the one Qin Mu had seen in the Golden Palace of Loulan. It was an incomplete sphere with one thousand and twenty-four irregular interfaces, and each interface had a complex rune.

The talisman of the Loulan Golden Palace has only fourteen interfaces.

Qin Mu saw that the talisman for summoning ghosts and gods was too complicated, so he thought that this magical power was very powerful. He didn't expect that the effect was only equivalent to the Five Ghosts Moving Technique.

He believed that the Hongshan Sect might be hiding something, but this sect had disappeared from the world and no longer existed.

Qin Mu had practiced the Soul-pulling Technique of the Jiuyou Sect, but he had not yet tried whether he could successfully pull back the souls of the deceased from the underworld.

Some runes in the two spells are similar, which should be because all spells related to souls have similarities.

Qin Mu bought some yellow paper and cinnabar from the city, and spent two days refining the talisman for summoning ghosts and gods. Then he spent another day writing down the runes for attracting souls, and comparing them two by one.

After comparing, Qin Mu was finally able to confirm that there were errors in the talismans for summoning ghosts and gods and the soul-pulling talismans in the Tianlu Tower, and some of the runes were deliberately written incorrectly.

These sects were unwilling to hand over their spells to the imperial court, so they deliberately made mistakes in a few runes in the spells they handed over, causing the power of the spells to be greatly reduced or to fail to work at all.

The number of runes required for the talisman to summon ghosts and gods is extremely large, and there are as many as a dozen errors among them. However, precisely because of the large number of runes, there are as many as a thousand correct runes.

This is a huge treasure trove of knowledge.

With this foundation, Qin Mu can modify the wrong runes in the Soul-Gathering Skill.

There are more than 600 rune arrangements required for Soul Pulling. Qin Mu modified the runes he found to be wrong and thought there should be no mistakes. He immediately found a soldier and said, "Are there any bodies in the city? I want to test the spell."

The sergeant said, "Do you need the corpses of Jiuyoumen to test your magic? The corpses of Jiuyoumen have been buried. If necessary, they will be dug out again."

Qin Mu's face changed slightly, and he asked hurriedly: "Where is it buried?"

The sergeant said, "A group of people were buried in the mass grave near Dijiang County, and another group was buried in Lushan near Lu County. The bodies were salvaged a few days ago. They were buried in the nearest place."

Qin Mu's heart was beating fast, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is Shao Yin? Go and inform Shao Yin quickly, and ask her to order the entire army to be on alert, and then send soldiers to the mass grave and Lushan to burn those bodies!"

The soldier didn't understand what he meant, but he ran out anyway and said, "Shao Yin went to Dijiang County across the street to comfort the people. I'll go and inform her now!"

"Sister Chu Yu is in Dijiang County? Damn!"

Qin Mu called another soldier and asked him to inform the city defenders to be on alert. He immediately called Shen Wanyun, Yue Qinghong and others and said quickly: "The Jiuyou Sect may make a comeback, so be on alert!"

Shen Wanyun, Yue Qinghong and the others were all puzzled. Monk Yunque said, "All the people of Jiuyou Sect were killed almost to extinction, with only a few cats and dogs left to flee everywhere. Do we still need to be on guard against such a small group of people?"

"They faked their own death!"

Qin Mu had just said this when suddenly, a faint singing voice came from the river. The singing was very ancient and obscure, as if the gods in the underworld were calling the dead to return. It gave people the feeling that there was a hazy and majestic god who opened another portal and sent the souls of the dead back from the underworld!

Qin Mu's face changed drastically, and he ran as fast as flying, whistling through the air, and landed on the tower of the north gate of the city. The north gate of the city was empty, with only a few soldiers patrolling. Most of the army of Lizhou Prefecture was recuperating after experiencing a great battle.

Qin Mu looked towards the river and saw a Taoist priest in a straw hat standing on a mast in the center of the river, performing rituals and singing in the river. Huge runes emitted green light, like countless glowing green snakes twisting and turning in the air.

Yun Que and the others hurried over and stood beside Qin Mu, looking towards the river. Shen Wanyun said, "What happened..."

Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became dull, and he saw a black fog surging in the river. The area covered by the black fog was getting bigger and wider. In the darkness, it seemed as if there was a portal standing in the middle of the river, floating on the water!

In the blink of an eye, the sky darkened. Qin Mu looked towards the other side and vaguely saw several scholars' ships approaching, and then saw the darkness engulfing the scholars' ships.

There was also a scholar's ship that had sailed over Yongjiang River and was also shrouded in darkness. Angry shouts and screams were heard from the ship, and it was obvious that they had encountered something unexpected and strange.

He turned his head to look at Lushan Mountain on the left side of the county town. Lushan Mountain suddenly collapsed, and tiny figures rushed into the air and pounced towards this side.

Several soldiers who were guarding the west gate of Lu County had not yet come to their senses when a figure flew over and immobilized them with a yellow talisman and killed them on the spot!

Boom!

The west city gate was wide open, and one "corpse" after another rushed into the county town, killing the defenders who had not yet had time to reorganize!

Those corpses were indeed corpses, but the souls of the dead were still inside them. The Taoist in the river used the soul-pulling magic to summon back the souls of all the victims of the Jiuyou Sect, allowing their souls to return to their bodies and launch a surprise attack on the defenders of Lu County!

Some of these corpses were in tatters, some had only a layer of skin connecting their heads and necks, some had a big hole in their chests, some were missing arms and legs, and their faces looked horrible and hideous.

They were indeed dead, but their souls were pulled back from the underworld by magic and returned to their bodies, and their strength was still the same as when they were alive.

Shen Wanyun was stunned and stood on the city wall, at a loss as to what to do.

Qin Mu looked towards Dijiang County on the opposite bank again. It was already shrouded in black fog and only the faint sounds of magical explosions could be heard.

"Abandon the city and go through the east gate!" Qin Mu said decisively.

Shen Wanyun and others were shocked. Qin Mu ran on the city wall, shouting loudly, calling Long Qilin and Hu Ling'er. They saw that Lu County was in chaos and was killed by the "corpses" of Jiuyoumen who were resurrected after their death.

The army of Yankang State often practiced combined attack skills, practicing the same magic or swordsmanship in groups of three or five. As long as more than ten soldiers cooperated closely, they could even kill opponents above their level.

This tactic is extremely useful in large-scale combat. It can be said that it can kill the enemy with great ease and annihilate those sects that dare to resist.

However, this battle in Lu County also revealed the drawbacks of this tactic.

The resurrected "corpses" of the Jiuyou Sect rushed into the city. The soldiers in the city were dispersed before they had time to reorganize themselves. They fought on their own. The strength of a single soldier was much inferior to that of the disciples of the Jianghu sects. It was almost a one-sided massacre!

The sky was getting darker and darker. The disciples of Jiuyou Sect were resurrected after their death. They could see things clearly in the darkness as if it were daytime and were not afraid of death.

They were already dead bodies, so they couldn't feel any pain and didn't need to be on guard against the opponent's moves. They could just pounce and kill.

Moreover, as a sect, Jiuyoumen has many masters, and even strong people in the realm of heaven and man and the realm of life and death have been "resurrected".

This kind of resurrection is not a true resurrection, it is just the use of magic to summon the souls of the dead. These souls will eventually return to the underworld, but this period of time is enough to wipe out the defenders of Lu County!

"The defenders of Lu County are finished."

Qin Mu felt a little depressed, but he heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Hu Ling'er and Long Qilin rushing over. They immediately jumped out of the East City Gate and ran out of the city in the dark.

Behind them, the East City Gate collapsed with a loud bang and was shattered into pieces by a strong man in the Heaven and Human Realm.

Qin Mu looked back and saw a general at the Heavenly Man Realm being torn apart by several resurrected warriors from the Jiuyou Sect!

There were also a few Taoists urging yellow papers to walk in the air, which made Qin Mu feel a little depressed. Those Taoists were the remnants of the Corpse Immortal Sect. The Corpse Immortal Sect and the Nine Nether Sect joined forces. One controlled the corpses and the other controlled the souls. I am afraid that not many soldiers in the city can escape.

"Dr. Qin, we should cross the river and return to Dijiang County!" Shen Wanyun said in a deep voice.

Qin Mu shook his head: "There are many bodies sunk in the river. We can't go back."

He had just said this when suddenly the sound of water was heard from the riverside. In the black mist, one resurrected "corpse" after another, dripping wet, walked up from the bottom of the river. When they saw them, they suddenly ran towards this side.

"We can only go to southern Xinjiang and look for opportunities to return to the north."

Qin Mu's expression did not change. He raised his hand and patted his waist. A sword light flew out of the Taotie bag and turned into a cloud sword style. The sword light rotated and cut off the heads of several Jiuyoumen disciples who were rushing over.

Those Jiuyoumen disciples turned into headless corpses, and immediately bent down, picked up their own heads, tucked them under their armpits, and still rushed towards them!

A head under the armpit of a corpse opened its mouth and screamed: "Hurry up, there are a few fish that have escaped the net! Hurry up, someone!"

Even though Yun Que, Yue Qinghong and Shen Wanyun were well-informed, they had never seen such a weird magic. On the contrary, Si Yunxiang, who was always shy and timid, was calm and composed, not panicking at all.

Qin Mu spread his five fingers and suddenly pinched them. The sword light of Shao Bao Sword immediately turned into a sword-circling style, rotating and cutting, cutting the Jiuyou Sect disciples into pieces. He said in a deep voice: "Hurry up, lest the Jiuyou Sect's masters catch up."

Several people ran quickly into the darkness. Yun Que looked back at the fire-filled Lu County, feeling a little panicked and sad. "Going to Southern Xinjiang? That's the enemy's lair..."

————There will be two chapters updated today, one chapter at noon and one chapter at night, and three chapters will be updated tomorrow!