Xu Ying stood at the bow of the ship, looking at both sides of the Nai River. The mountains and rivers were constantly shaking, and the underworld was invading the world of the living. New mountains and rivers kept emerging from another world, squeezing the original ones on both sides, making a shocking scene!

The ship was speeding up on the water, and the mountains and rivers on both sides were passing by in a flash. Xu Ying was secretly surprised, "This ship can probably run for hundreds of miles in no time!"

The farthest place he had been to was only a hundred miles away. At this moment, he was a little uneasy on the ship, "If she doesn't send me back, will I still be able to recognize the way? I've heard that some people sell children..."

In his mind, Da Zhong sneered, thinking, "This kid doesn't even know if he's been sold by the demon woman! The demon woman must have other plans. I wonder what she sees in Xu Ying."

Xu Ying didn't know what it was thinking and asked the girl in the coffin, "What is 'cun xiang'?"

Da Zhong was furious, "You little brat! You ask about your enemies but not me! If you had asked me, how could I not answer? Wait a minute, he seems to have asked me before, but I forgot to tell him. I only told him how to introspect. He missed the point and was outsmarted by the demon woman."

The girl stood at the bow of the ship, with a remarkable figure, saying, "You don't know what 'cun xiang' is? It's understandable since the Qi Refining Sect has declined greatly in your generation. In fact, many things have been lost in my generation. The influence of the great evil man is too great."

She paused and continued, "Cun xiang is a neutral image created by the mind to focus the consciousness. The so-called neutral image is a kind of great way created by the consciousness in the void, used to subdue the monkey mind and restrain the horse of intention. When you are practicing cun xiang, you have to create something out of nothing and turn falsehood into truth. Only then can you cultivate spells and magical powers and achieve the Dao."

Hearing this, Xu Ying's heart moved, "The practice method of cun xiang seems to be similar to that of the 'Hidden View'."

The girl was puzzled, "What is the 'Hidden View'?"

Xu Ying took out the book 'Nimu Hidden View Qi Refining Method' and said, "This method of the Nuo Master says that the hidden view is also a great way, but it is made by refining the power of the Nimu Secret Treasure. The hidden view is also created out of nothing and turns falsehood into truth, which can be used to refine spells or magical powers!"

He opened the Qi Refining Method, but saw a strand of hair falling on the opened page. Xu Ying looked up and saw that the girl had come to his side without him noticing, looking at the 'Nimu Hidden View Qi Refining Method' in his hand.

Her hair fell on Xu Ying's shoulder.

Her skin was white as snow, and her neck was slender, which contrasted with her black hair and made her look even more fair-skinned. She didn't look like an old corpse that had been locked up for a thousand years.

To Xu Ying's surprise, there was no stench of corpses on her body. On the contrary, there was a faint fragrance that smelled good, which made him unable to help but sniff a few more times.

It was the first time Xu Ying had been so close to her, and he was a little restless, slowly turning the pages of the book to let her look carefully.The girl was very serious. Xu Ying secretly looked at her and felt that her profile was even more beautiful than her front. Her eyelashes blinked from time to time, her eyes were like jewels, her nose was delicate and straight, and her lips were pink and tempting like cherries.

Xu Ying felt his heart beating faster and quickly looked away. "The female ghost is not only polite, but also beautiful."

After all, he was still a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. When he saw a beautiful person of the opposite sex, he couldn't help but have some impure thoughts, even if this person might be a female ghost or a female zombie.

In Xu Ying's mind, Da Zhong sneered silently, thinking, "This stinky kid has no self-control. When he sees a beautiful woman, he can't help but have impure thoughts. He probably even has a name picked out for their future children!"

Although he said that, he was still worried about being discovered by the girl. He silently covered the chaotic egg with his mouth and thought, "If I cover the Mud Pill Secret Treasure, the demon woman will think I am a chaotic egg and won't find me."

The girl quickly browsed through the "Mud Pill Hidden Scenery Qi Refining Technique", closed the book, and pondered for a moment. "It is indeed somewhat superficial. The hidden scenery in this book is an incomplete method. If you practice it, you will go astray and waste your life. It is extremely insidious. You shouldn't practice it."

"Waste your life?" Xu Ying was horrified.

"The flaws in the book must not have been left by the owner of the Mud Pill Palace. Therefore, it can only be intentional for the Zhou family to teach this incomplete method to their own disciples!"

Cold sweat broke out on Xu Ying's forehead. The Zhou family used these disciples to work for them and used this method to waste their lives. Their intentions were truly sinister!

"In this way, the Nuo method of the Zhou family will not be leaked. Even if it is leaked, the method that is passed on will be a fast-acting method. The Zhou family is maintaining their own status using this method!" he thought to himself.

The girl continued, "Although the hidden scenery in the book has great hidden dangers, the concept of hidden scenery is excellent, and it is not inferior to the concept of the Qi Refining method of the cultivator. From this superficial method, it can be inferred that the hidden scenery may not only be used to refine spells, but also a method of hidden transformation."

She frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled, "Has the Qi Refining method of the cultivator been eliminated? However, I don't think that the hidden transformation can surpass the Qi Refining method of the cultivator. What caused the extinction of the Qi Refining method of the cultivator?"

She had been locked up for thousands of years and felt unfamiliar with everything in the current world.

Xu Ying asked, "What is hidden transformation?"

The girl said, "From this method, it can be seen that the purpose of the Nuo practitioner's cultivation of hidden scenery is to refine a small fairyland within themselves and ultimately transform and hide within it to achieve immortality. However, this method is too superficial and does not explain how to transform and hide within the hidden scenery."

Xu Ying's eyes lit up. To refine a small fairyland within oneself and transform and hide within it to achieve immortality?

Wouldn't that be an immortal?

The inheritance of the Mud Pill Palace Master doesn't sound so bad.

"So, how does one cultivate Hidden Scenery?" Xu Ying suppressed his excitement and asked.

The girl was somewhat displeased and said, "We are fellow practitioners. Your inheritance is no weaker than mine. Why bother learning Hidden Scenery?"

Xu Ying was stunned and it took him a while to come to his senses. "Is my inheritance really that strong? Wait, where did I get my inheritance from? Is it the Taiyi Guiding Art?"

He was a bit confused. The Taiyi Guiding Art was only for the Qi Gathering period, and there were no follow-up techniques.

Suddenly, the ship sailed westward and slowed down in the middle of the night. Xu Ying had no idea how far the ship had traveled along the Nai River, but it was at least two or three thousand miles.

"Is this Huaihua or Tongren? No, Huaihua is west of Yongzhou, and Tongren is only a few hundred miles away."

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He didn't know where the ship had sailed to. He was just a rural teenager, and the farthest place he knew of was the prefectures and counties near Yongzhou.

Looking ahead, the Nai River suddenly divided into several tributaries, like the veins of a leaf, spreading out in all directions and flowing into the vast darkness.

The riverbanks where the tributaries passed were dotted with ghost fires. From afar, the ghost fires were everywhere, covering an area of dozens of miles, like a world of ghosts!

It was rumored that the Nai River would guide the ghosts to the underworld, so that they wouldn't suffer from the wind and sun.

When a person died, their soul would leave their body and turn into a ghost. Even a slight breeze would tear it apart, and a little sunlight would make it dissipate. Even the yang energy in a mortal's body could impact the ghost.

Only by entering the underworld could the ghosts be safe.

Xu Ying looked around, but it was late at night and he couldn't see far. He could only see the endless ghost fires.

"Why are there so many ghost fires here?" he whispered.

The ship slowed down and sailed into the main channel of the hundreds of tributaries of the Nai River. Ghost fires flickered on both sides, and he could vaguely see villages and city walls.

Perhaps it was because it was nighttime, and he couldn't see any signs of human activity.

The girl opened the black coffin, lifted the lid, and searched inside for a moment before taking out a whip that was two or three zhang long and handing it to Xu Ying. "Stay on the ship. When the ship stops, light it on fire. After the ship burns, lift this whip and strike it towards the sky until you exhaust your strength."

Xu Ying looked at the whip. It was an ordinary whip made of fine hemp rope, with a golden tail hair hanging from the tip. He didn't know what kind of animal it came from.

"Will this send the spirit away?" Xu Ying asked in doubt.

The girl smiled, her eyes crescent-shaped and alluring. "Naturally."

Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Leave it to me. You can rest assured."

But the girl was not at ease and said, "This ship was refined by me three thousand years ago. Ordinary fire cannot ignite it. I'll give you a flame."Behind her, the girl's primordial spirit extended her right hand, with the thumb and ring finger touching, and a faint flame appeared at the fingertips, which she sent to Xu Ying.

Xu Ying didn't know how to receive the flame, but the girl's primordial spirit reached into his Huiyi Domain, separating her thumb and ring finger, and the flame quietly floated in the air.

"This flame is the pure Yang fire that I found. It is formed by the heavens and the earth and can assist you in your cultivation."

The girl disembarked and floated away, her voice clear and crisp, coming from afar, "You only need to operate your divine consciousness and enter the flame to control its advance and retreat. After setting fire to the ship, you can refine this fire and use the true Yang in the fire to temper your body and soul, which can help you cultivate the pure Yang body."

Her figure soon disappeared into the darkness, and her voice became lighter and lighter: "Wait half an hour, then set fire, use the whip, and then you can leave on your own. This place is dangerous, and you cannot stay here for long. After I finish my business, I will find you and send you back to Wumang Mountain!"

Xu Ying watched her go, feeling warm all over his body. The pure Yang fire in his Huiyi Domain emitted waves of Yang Qi, which had a similar effect to the Thunder Sound Tempering Body and the Great Sun Tempering Body, and could temper his body!

What surprised him even more was that his elemental energy became purer as it passed through the flame!

"Even elemental energy can be tempered!"

Xu Ying was surprised and delighted, and tried to temper his divine consciousness. To his surprise, his divine consciousness was also strengthened and became more pure and resilient!

"If I can use this fire to temper my body, divine consciousness, and elemental energy, my strength will definitely increase!" Xu Ying stood at the bow of the ship, facing the cold wind on the Nai River, full of confidence.

Da Zhong flew out from behind him and said, "A Ying, what's the name of your child with the demoness?"

Xu Ying was puzzled, "Child? What child?"

Da Zhong sneered, "You and the demoness were intimate, haven't you thought about having a child with her?"

Xu Ying blushed and said, "How is that possible? And how can a child be born?"

"Just use your... stop!" Da Zhong suddenly realized what he was saying and quickly shut up.

At this moment, Xu Ying saw a ragged man with a greenish complexion leaning on a stick, struggling to walk out of the jungle on the left bank of the Nai River.

Behind the ragged man, the jungle shook, and several ragged old men and women walked out, also leaning on sticks and walking with difficulty.

More and more people came out of the jungle, men, women, and children, supporting each other, but walking silently.

By the light of the ghost fire on the Nai River, it could be seen that their clothes were torn and had festering wounds that attracted flies buzzing around them.

Xu Ying looked in the direction they were coming from and saw a huge crowd of refugees like a black dragon stretching for several miles.

"They are..." Xu Ying murmured.

Da Zhong's voice was somewhat solemn, "They are plague victims."Xu Ying looked towards the distant place where the Hundred Miles Ghost Fire was spreading. The plague people should have come from there.

"Where they come from, there are likely floods, wars, or famines." Da Zhong's voice was low as he spoke. "I have been stranded on this rocky mountain for three thousand years and have seen this happen many times."

It hung in the deserted temple on the rocky mountain and had seen countless floods, wars, and famines over the thousands of years. Bodies were everywhere, left unburied, and every time this happened, a plague would spread.

The ship was still moving forward slowly, and more and more plague people appeared on both sides of the Nai River, in mountain villages and towns. Plague people were everywhere.

The plague people struggled to move forward, not knowing where they were going along the riverbank.

People kept falling down, their bodies twitching a few times before they completely lost their breath.

But the others ignored this and continued to walk forward, their eyes dull, like walking corpses.

"Ah Ying, this should be the source of the Nai River diversion."

Da Zhong said in a deep voice, "Someone caused a massacre here to rescue a demon girl, causing an epidemic. Ah Ying, this demon girl you are helping must have bad intentions and must have a plan!"

Xu Ying still stood at the bow of the ship, staring blankly at the plague people.

He had cultivated his Heavenly Eye and used it to see the world, and everything had become different.

In the sky, there were large, fleshy red tentacles floating silently, hanging down.

These flesh-colored tentacles were extremely agile, as if they were stretching out from another deep space, with no source visible.

They came behind those plague people and split into many tiny tentacles, inserting themselves into the pus-filled sores on these people's faces, slowly wriggling and sucking.

Xu Ying looked into the distance, where ghost fires were spreading, and in the sky above these places, countless tentacles were reaching out from another space, descending from the sky and disappearing into the darkness below.

Fleshy red tentacles from another world intertwined and covered the dim sky, blocking out the stars at night. They split into more and more tentacles, constantly swelling and shrinking, sucking the life force out of the plague people.

This scene was extremely real, yet extremely unreal.

This was the scene that he saw with his Heavenly Eye!

Xu Ying struggled to move his gaze, his Adam's apple rolling. "Oh my god..."

Where his gaze fell, the entire dim and unclear sky was completely covered by wriggling red flesh, with no end in sight.

An incredible creature shrouded the sky, with countless fleshy tentacles descending towards the people in the west.