Chapter 19 Cooking the Lake

"Hmm?"

Erguotou had set up the Altar of this city. Its many wonders were praised, even hailed as divine skill, beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Normally, similar methods might not be beyond the reach of others, but within a military formation, they were often dispersed by the overwhelming Qi, rendering such techniques unusable.

However, this was the difference between having and not having contact with the Purple Tai Sui. Those who possessed Purple Qi had substantial techniques, capable of producing astonishing effects even within a military formation, unlike others.

Moreover, Erguotou possessed far more Purple Tai Sui than most.

But just as they were breaking through the city gates and the entire army was elated, a streak of bloody light rose fiercely within the city, malevolent and strange beyond description, instantly disappearing into the darkness and heading straight for the grain-protecting army outside the city.

At that moment, Mingzhou King Yang Gong was on horseback, raising his precious saber and ordering the army to advance into Huzhou City.

Although he had been warned that someone inside the city was casting spells to harm people, and even knew how to counteract them, he paid it no heed, knowing only that his men's morale was just as high whether he was in the formation or not.

Now that Huzhou City had been successfully breached, that streak of bloody light had arrived.

Yang Gong had many capable people around him, skilled in various spells, all to protect him within the army, but when this bloody light flashed, it still caught them off guard.

While the people in the army couldn't detect such sinister spells, Hu Ma on the distant矮山(dwarf mountain) had been waiting all along. Suddenly, his gaze turned grim as he looked towards a spot in the night.

That bloody light was almost invisible to the naked eye, but Hu Ma captured it instantly. Even with his abilities, he couldn't instantly cross the dozens of miles to stop that bloody light. Even Erguotou only noticed it abruptly after it had flown out of the city:

"Not good!"

"..."

He had set up the altar, surrounding the entire city within it. When the bloody light flew out of the city, he was the first to notice.

But even with the magic power of his altar, he was caught somewhat off guard and couldn't forcefully keep the bloody light within the city.

At the same time, without much thought, Hu Ma immediately stepped onto the ground. Simultaneously, the ten pillars of his cultivation surged forth, reinforcing this step.

Boom!

The earth seemed to tremble as a result. The entire world shrouded in darkness seemed to twist from this step. Centered on where Hu Ma landed, the world appeared to have a sunken pit.

That bloody light had originally been flying towards Mingzhou King Yang Gong's neck, and Yang Gong himself was unaware, only experiencing a moment of instinctive palpitations, the color draining from his face.

But before he even had time to constrict his pupils, the trajectory of the bloody light was suddenly twisted.

Instead of flying straight towards Yang Gong, it was pulled by a strange and powerful force, forcibly changing direction and suddenly flying towards the dwarf mountain behind the military formation.

Standing there was Hu Ma.

"This bloody light..."

He raised his hand and grabbed the bloody light. He only felt that this bloody energy was extremely sharp, cunning, and slippery, frantically cutting within his palm like a chainsaw.

But he just held on tightly. After a long while, he felt the energy dissipate. He opened his palm and saw only a faint red mark, with a faint smell of blood.

"What is this thing?"

Erguotou had already rushed over, flustered. He could sense the existence of this bloody energy, but couldn't stop it, which caused some shock to him, who had greatly improved his skills and even believed he had knowledge of all kinds of magic in the world.

'My skills are already so great, and there are still things beyond my understanding?'

'...'

"No wonder even the disciples of Bu Shi Niu Cai Sect couldn't figure out the details..."

Hu Ma looked at his palm and said slowly, "This isn't human skill. It should be from the Yellow Springs."

"I've seen this kind of skill on two people before. One was a numb and ferocious man I saw when I went to Wutong Town, and the other was Shao Daozi, the transmigrator next to Miss Red Wine."

"Their skills are tainted with some extraordinary things, so they appear much more ferocious than others and cannot be regarded with ordinary eyes."

"That skill should be from the Blood Pool in the Eight Views of the Yellow Springs."

"This old Jiao's female demon underling may not have great skills, but she has unintentionally figured out a method related to that Blood Pool, which is why she is so powerful."

"..."

As he spoke, Hu Ma pondered slightly and said in a low voice, "The Eight Views of the Yellow Springs are the most mysterious places between Yin and Yang. Now they are all in the hands of the Ten Surnames."

"It seems that when we really face the Six Surnames in the future, we can't be too careless..."

"..."

"That's right!"

Erguotou nodded seriously, "No matter when, we can't underestimate the Ten Surnames."

"I didn't take the Ten Surnames seriously before, but after learning the Hu family's Zhen Sui Book, I realized the power of the Ten Surnames' methods. The Hu family hasn't seriously studied skills for twenty years, and they're already so powerful, let alone the other families?"

"But how did you stop this evil thing?"

"..."

"I didn't stop it!"

Hu Ma smiled, retracted the foot he had stepped out, and there seemed to be a vague rumble around him, as if the earth trembled, but looking around, there were no specific changes.

"I didn't go over the bridge, but I relied on the methods of the Daluo Dharma Sect and Old Lord's Eyebrows to cultivate the Ten Pillars of Incense, which made me different from others."

"With the cultivation of the Ten Pillars of Incense, stepping on the earth can make this world form a pit centered on me. The world will tilt towards me, so the methods borrowed from this lack of heaven and earth will also come closer to me."

"..."

Erguotou looked at him with a serious expression, "Are you deliberately making up new words? I don't understand."

Hu Ma didn't know how to explain it for a while.

His current destiny is so heavy that a part of it has exceeded the limits of this world. Therefore, all spells that are not named or cast with a close-range medium can be drawn to himself.

This is also his only ability to protect Yang Gong now, of course, it is still a clumsy ability.

To put it another way, if he really couldn't protect him, and Yang Gong's head was cut off, then he could use the method of the Shou Sui Ren (Year Keeper) to sew it back on, maybe it would work.

Alas, one can only admit that the Shou Sui Ren is indeed only good at some clumsy methods.

...

...

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Before Huzhou City, everyone noticed something was wrong and hurriedly looked at Yang Gong, carefully examining his neck. They were relieved to find that his head was still there.

"Nothing."

Yang Gong also shuddered slightly before reacting. He looked deeply into the night and tapped his heart with his horse whip.

Then he looked at the city with a grim expression, gnashing his teeth, "All kinds of evil skills, so particular, when my grain-protecting army steps in, I will first peel the skins of these rats in the gutters one by one!"

Saying that, he ordered the attack on the city, strictly forbidding the indiscriminate killing of innocents, but no female demon was to be spared.

The Ming King was also angry. His army was strong and powerful, but he almost lost his life under these poisonous methods. Who wouldn't be anxious?

"The grain-protecting army doesn't rob grain, has swords and guns, and protects parents."

At this time, as the grain-protecting army broke through the city gates and all the city walls, the resistance of the city's troops became weaker and weaker, and it was already unstoppable.

The grain-protecting army shouted loudly, and one team after another went deep into the city. Someone rushed to the altar in the city and saw the panicked female demon, and immediately rushed over with their horses, slashing wildly and killing, creating a ground full of blood gourds.

This scene shocked many people in Huzhou City. Coupled with the other troops entering the city from various places, the Huzhou troops completely surrendered and no longer resisted.

Soon, a "Ming" flag was raised high above the city wall, fluttering in the night wind.

"I am the Thousand-Year Dragon God, destiny is in my hands, even the heavens can't control me, the underworld can't take me, you are just mortals, how dare you deceive me?"

However, the chaos in Huzhou City quickly subsided, but in the south of the city, near the water, swords and soldiers rose up, and the chaos was unusual. A silver-armored fierce general led a group of black-armored men, turning and moving, killing and maiming.

It was the Three-Headed Old Jiao (Flood Dragon).

Jiao snakes are inherently suspicious, cruel, vigilant, and fierce. Therefore, before, he couldn't figure out the details and didn't dare to lead troops to confront the Mingzhou King, but now that he was attacked into the city, he couldn't sit still and wait for death, so he became ruthless and led his troops to kill.

Worthy of being a thousand-year Taoist, he held two guns and waved them with great force. Hundreds of grain-protecting soldiers couldn't get close to him, but were killed by him and retreated again and again.

He was usually timid, but now he was fierce when he started killing, and he seemed to want to kill directly and meet Ming King Yang Gong.

Zhao Zhu wanted to grab the credit and killed him with a steel fork, but Zhou Liang was quick-eyed and grabbed him back.

Even so, he was almost pierced through the body by a spear.

"This demon is fierce, you all get out of the way, leave this great achievement to us!"

Then, in a chaos, someone shouted sharply. When everyone looked, they saw the four generals from Lao Yin Mountain coming down, led by Yuan Kui, who had just made a contribution. The four of them attacked at the same time and entangled with the three-headed Jiao in a fierce battle.

But the four of them were already strong, but facing this three-headed Jiao, they were still quite inferior, and were immediately suppressed.

The black-armored guards following the three-headed Jiao spread out and surrounded them, not allowing others to attack again.

"This dog thing is very horizontal!"

But also in this rolling battle, Hu Ma and Erguotou had already appeared on the distant city wall, looking at the old Jiao and thinking about his skills.

Erguotou said, "Since we want to bet on the grain-protecting army, then I will not directly take action. If you take action, it may startle the mandate of heaven, so we must wait for it to be forced out of Huzhou City, or show its true form, then it will be time for our people to take action!"

While speaking, the two of them looked forward, and they saw that the battle was getting more and more lively.

Seeing that the four strong generals of Lao Yin Mountain couldn't take him down, they heard an angry roar from the side, but it was General Shen Hongzhi of the Central Route Army, who bowed a few times to the red lantern, and then rushed up with his weapon.

When she rushed, her deputy general Sun Niangzi also rushed over, and the rest of the leaders and generals followed behind.

Zhou Liang and Zhao Zhu joined forces to press forward, rushing towards the group of black-armored guards, one raised his hand and pressed it under his ribs, the other raised his hand and stood it next to his nose, and then at the same time, he used his best skills:

"Hum!"

"Ha!"

In an instant, a rolling Yang thunder and a Sen Sen Yin Qi intertwined, like two rivers advancing side by side but completely opposite, rushing towards the front, shocking the loyal black-armored guards, and many people fell to the ground.

The grain-protecting army followed up, and where the Sen Sen sword and Ge waved, they stabbed to death one black-armored guard after another.

The bald old Zhang next to him, who had raised his hand to use his best skills, heard the movement, turned his head and glanced, and put his hand down again:

"Since you hummed, then I won't hum."

"..."

The three-headed old Jiao felt that there were more and more people around him, which was chaotic and annoying. Looking at the black-armored guards around him, they had been killed and injured, and were almost covered in corpses.

It was also surprised and angry, and wanted to use a ruthless move, and send out ferocity, to kill a few of them.

But it was also a shrewd one. At the beginning, it knew that it was not the opponent of the grain-protecting army in terms of soldiers, so it wanted to use the people as a meat shield. Later, it saw that the grain-protecting army attacked the city so quickly, and its rain-summoning method was broken, it knew that there were experts in the grain-protecting army.

In alertness, it suddenly noticed that the army was quickly going to the south of the city, near the lake. Was that to cut off its way back to the lake?

It stayed on the south side of the city at the beginning in order to return to the lake. How dare it fight now? With an angry roar, the demon energy vibrated, knocking back the people who were approaching, and then ignoring others, it jumped over the city wall.

It plunged into the lake, and it was immediately different. Vaguely, a huge object swam at the bottom of the water, and from time to time made amazing roars.

The grain-protecting army rushed to the city wall, bent their bows and set up arrows, and shot them out, but there was no effect.

The next moment, the giant object in the lake stirred, and a huge wave was lifted up. The city wall near the lake was specially built to be low. Now, the huge wave turned over and smashed into the city, and I don't know how many houses were destroyed and how many soldiers were knocked down.

With the help of this rolling wave, those black-armored guards also fled to the lake and plunged into the water.

Following closely, the water marks in the lake were endless, but I don't know how many things hidden in the water came to meet them, a dark group, looking like an army, from time to time set off various waves and rolled towards the city.

Even the fierce generals in the grain-protecting army had never seen such a scene before, their faces changed, like drowned chickens, trembling and retreating.

"Haha, I have been cultivating for thousands of years, and I am called king by the water. How can you compare to my little sect? As long as I am in this lake for a day, don't even think about taking my Huzhou away..."

It only had an age of thirty-something, but because it remembered where it came from, it called itself "老夫(Old Man)."

But this kind of clamor also made everyone present's face sink. Huzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, and its terrain is unique. If there is such an old monster hiding in the water, staring at it day and night, then Huzhou has been taken, and I am afraid that it will not be stable.

This is the capital of the three-headed old Jiao. Although it has been transformed into a human form for thirty years, it has always been an evil nature. The one in the water is its real army.

If the grain-protecting army is there, it will hide in the water. Once the army leaves, it will continue to come back to occupy this place, which is simply impossible to prevent.

More importantly, even if you want to find a way to cure it, this thing is a strange thing of heaven and earth, with a thousand years of Taoism, I am afraid that even Madam Lu's paper figurines can't suppress its fierce power.

In this way, how can it be cured?

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"What a thousand years of Taoism..."

Just when everyone realized that something was wrong and was at a loss, suddenly heard a long laugh from afar. Hu Ma was wearing a black cloth robe, followed by the old Abacus holding the banner, and Erguotou stood on the wall, watching from afar.

Most of the soldiers on both sides, especially the leaders, recognized Hu Ma, and they hurriedly gave way. Hu Ma went straight to the edge of the city wall, looking at the vast expanse of smoke and the dark lake below the city wall, and smiled:

"I would like to know, what is your thousand years of Taoism compared to my ten pillars of incense?"

"..."

"What trash, get out!"

The thing in the lake didn't recognize Hu Ma, and felt that the powerful person who had just set up the altar and sealed the city was not him. Seeing that he was young, it didn't take him seriously. Instead, the Teng Teng waves surged up, seeming to want to卷(roll) him into the lake.

"Bang!"

Hu Ma slapped his backhand, took out the Big Stele Hand.

On the back of his palm, dense and complex runes appeared, and he slapped the water wave that was horizontally about tens of丈(3.33 m) wide and ten丈 high, and actually slapped the water wave back into the lake.

The next moment, his soul light condensed, and he showed the Dharma image of three heads and six arms. The left head was a ferocious phase with a green face and fangs, and with a click, it turned to the front.

Facing the dark lake, the ten pillars of Taoism in his body surged at the same time, and this head vaguely turned into a crimson appearance.

Then, he suddenly opened his mouth wide and shouted, and the rolling evil flames spewed into the lake.

When the evil Jiao (Flood Dragon) was slapped back by him, it was already毛骨悚然(terrified), quickly盘(coil) his body, curled back to the deep bottom of the lake, and quickly swam to the distance, determined not to easily expose the water surface.

But unexpectedly, the rolling evil flames sprayed into the lake, and for a time, the腾腾(surging) water vapor surged and quickly surged over half of the sky, making it impossible to see five fingers.

After half a day, there was a "咕嘟(bubbling)" sound on the lake, and I don't know how many water妖(monsters) 精怪(spirits) in the lake screamed and struggled to escape from the water.

Some of them were red.

Behind him, whether it was the grain-protecting army, the old Abacus, or Erguotou on the distant city wall, they were almost frightened:

"He... he is boiling the lake... expelling demons?"

ps Recommend a book: "Abnormal Containment: I am the Lucky One in the Cage", the author is a tentacle, and it is a science fiction class.

(End of this chapter)