Chapter 81 – Bull ghosts and snake gods

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Xu Ying's mind was in a daze. The people he had seen had turned from young to old, while he himself had never changed.

But he only had memories of the past few years. Who was he during those missing years?

Was he still Xu Ying?

His head was pounding, and he tried hard to recall the memories of Xujiaping, but the more he tried, the more different memories flooded in. Different voices, different scenes, different appearances of his parents filled his mind!

"What are you?" the old man trembled.

Xu Ying was confused. "Who am I?"

What was he doing during those missing years? Who was he back then?

Where did those missing years go? Why doesn't he remember? Why doesn't he age? Why did Xiao Fengxian say she saw him three thousand years ago?

Xu Ying felt dizzy, and he fell backwards. Countless voices rang in his ears.

The old man who recognized him also fell down with him. The village was in chaos.

"The young one still has breath! Come and save him!" someone shouted.

"The old one is young! The young one is old! Which young one are you talking about?"

Xu Ying was in a daze, and various chaotic scenes flashed through his mind. Many faces swirled around him, as if they were saying something to him, but the voices were too noisy to hear clearly.

Some of the scenes were blurry, like the changing of the world. Mountains collapsed, lakes receded, and the ground dried up, revealing dead fish with gaping mouths.

New mountains rose from the ground, and new lakes formed rapidly.

He saw the desolate land turn into a desert, and the desert returned to an oasis.

He saw the rapid changes in the world, with the rising and setting of the sun and moon becoming extremely fast, and the seasons changing at an accelerated pace.

Sometimes he woke up, but soon fell back into a deep sleep, faintly hearing the sound of a bell.

When he opened his eyes in a daze, he saw a large bell hanging above him. The patterns carved on the inner wall of the bell seemed to come to life.

He heard the voice of the bell coming from a distant place, "I'll help him stabilize his scattered consciousness. He should be fine. He's just been greatly shocked..."

Xu Ying saw the surrounding mountains moving, and then he fell asleep again.

He heard unfamiliar voices in his ears, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

"What should we call him?"

"Let's call him Xu Ying. He will be famous throughout the world, known by everyone!"

He felt a gentle hand stroking his face, and a familiar yet unfamiliar voice whispered, "Xu Ying, Xu Ying. Remember your surname, don't forget your name."

Xu Ying woke up again, but this time he didn't rush to get up. Instead, he opened his eyes and looked around, afraid of bumping into something again.

This was a room, and from the furnishings, it seemed to be a woman's boudoir. However, everything was old, and the bronze mirror on the dressing table was blurry. It seemed to have been vacant for many years.

There was a female ghost in the bronze mirror, peeking at him. When she saw him looking at her, she quickly hid.

The female ghost became bolder when she saw that Xu Ying didn't move, and she started grooming herself in the mirror. Then she took off her head and placed it on the table, combing her hair slowly.

Xu Ying sat up, and the female ghost in the mirror stared at him, blood flowing from her seven orifices, and her ghostly face became sinister.

Xu Ying rubbed his head, which was still swollen from a bump.

His ears were also buzzing, and it took a while before he could hear the sound.

The female ghost in the mirror found it boring and lay down on the bed in the mirror, lazily yawning. She curled up like a cat, pulled the blanket over herself, and fell asleep.

Xu Ying got off the bed and whispered, "Is Seven and Lord Zhong staying in a haunted house?"

The female ghost in the mirror quickly sat up and nodded repeatedly.

Xu Ying stood up, but stumbled.

The female ghost in the mirror covered her mouth and laughed, as if mocking him for being weak.Xu Ying didn't pay much attention to it, steadied himself, but his head still felt like it was splitting open. He walked out of the house and saw a vast expanse in front of him. They were inside an ancient mountain, with houses and courtyards, as well as an old palace that looked dilapidated and hadn't been repaired for a long time.

The place was not big, relatively flat, with the ground paved with bricks, and the houses were exquisite.

Xu Ying looked down and could see a mountain gate.

The houses and palaces on the mountain indicated that this was probably a small sect from three thousand years ago. When the Qi Refiners disappeared, this place was left vacant.

"Where is this? Where is Lord Zhong and Xiaoqi?"

Xu Ying walked to the front of the gate and turned around to see the huge mountain that had fallen down, smashing into two other mountains. The remaining part of the mountain was still extremely large, like a broken tree stump, with strange peaks standing at the broken parts.

This unknown sect from three thousand years ago was built in the sunny side of the Wumang Mountain. The Qin Yan Cave was in the shady side of the mountain. Xu Ying had not noticed the ancient sect ruins on the sunny side of the mountain.

Xu Ying moved around and broke out in a cold sweat, so he had to sit down.

"Lord Zhong and Xiaoqi don't know what they're doing. They left me here, aren't they afraid that the female ghost will devour me?"

Xu Ying shook his head and took a deep breath. Then he slowly activated the Qi and blood in his body, stimulating his physical functions.

At the same time, his two major secret treasures, the Mud Pill and the Vermilion Palace, were also opened one after another. Gradually, Xu Ying returned to his peak state, but his head still hurt. He didn't know if it was from being hit by Lord Zhong or from the memories that caused his brain to lose control.

Xu Ying introspected and inspected the realm of Empty Silence and found that it was not injured, which relieved him. However, Lord Zhong was not in the realm of Empty Silence, and he didn't know where he had gone.

He tried to recall what had happened when he fainted. A series of strange images and sounds flashed through his mind, and his head felt like it was splitting open again, so he quickly stopped.

"More than sixty years ago, someone saw me. Why do I have no impression, no memory at all?"

He calmed down and wondered if it was the Meng Po Soup. Could it be that the old man with a worried expression had really given him the Meng Po Soup, washing away his memories from the past?

But the tea brought by the old man with a worried expression tasted good and didn't cause memory loss!

Suddenly, Da Zhong's cursing voice came, "I've said before that the Qin Yan Cave and the Mud Pill Palace in the Dongtian are not real blessed lands, they're just tricks to deceive people. But you didn't believe it and insisted on digging them out! Now I'm covered in mud too! And you left Ah Ying here, don't you know if Ah Ying was sucked dry by the female ghost?"

Xiaoqi's voice came over, "That female ghost definitely can't harm Ah Ying. I saw her trapped in the mirror. Besides, the female ghost in the coffin said that this is the Ascension Ground. Since it's the Ascension Ground, it must have something extraordinary!"

Just then, Da Zhong noticed Xu Ying sitting there and couldn't help but be both surprised and delighted. He quickly flew over and smiled, "Ah Ying, you finally woke up! Let me suck a little bit! This bastard Xiaoqi doesn't let me suck his Qi and blood, saying that he feels like he's been sucked dry by the female ghost three hundred times a day. He's really a jerk. Can the female ghost suck as delicately as I do?"

Xu Ying quickly said, "Lord Zhong, I've been unconscious for so long and my complexion is still not good. Let's talk about it in a few days!"

Da Zhong had no choice but to give up and said earnestly, "You need to intensify your cultivation. Look, you've been unconscious for more than ten days, which has delayed your progress. Learning is like rowing upstream, if you don't advance, you'll retreat."

"You're right, Lord Zhong." Xu Ying humbly accepted the advice and asked, "What's the matter with the female ghost in the house?"

Xiaoqi swam over, covered in mud, and smiled, "She's sealed in the bronze mirror and can't harm anyone. We felt sorry for her, so we left her there. We just went to find the Ascension Ground of Wumang Mountain earlier, fearing that there might be wild beasts that would harm you, so we put her in your room."

Xu Ying's face turned black and he said, "Is this something a human would do?"

But then he felt relieved, "These two guys are not human to begin with, so there's no need to demand too much from them."

He stretched his muscles and bones and said, "That day, the girl in the coffin said..."

Xu Ying imitated the tone of the girl in the coffin and softly recited, "In the south of the Xiao Xiang, in the abyss of the Cang Wu. Below the Jiuyi Mountain, there is an eternal immortal. This Ascension Ground has ultimately become desolate. What she meant, is she referring to the Ascension Ground of Wuwang Mountain in Wuwangshan, or is it the Ascension Ground in Jiuyi Mountain?"

Xiaoqi said, "It must be here! As you said, the Ascension Ground in the Chaodongtian of Jiuyi Mountain is fake. The ascension aura left behind is not from ascenders, but from Qi Refiners who were shattered! Therefore, the Ascension Ground mentioned by the female ghost must be Wumang Mountain!"

Xu Ying nodded gently and looked back at the broken Wumang Mountain, murmuring, "But now, even Wumang Mountain is broken. Where exactly is the Ascension Ground hidden?"At this moment, two old cows slowly walked up the mountain. These two old cows were covered in wounds, big and small, that had already scabbed over but had not yet healed completely. It was unknown how many battles they had gone through to arrive here.

Xu Ying looked at these two old cows with confusion, feeling like he had seen them somewhere before.

Suddenly, the two old cows looked up and saw him, and couldn't help but become overjoyed, hastening their pace as they ran towards the mountain.

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Qi Xi was pleasantly surprised and went forward to greet them, saying, "I'm feeling a bit hungry, let's have some beef first!"

He got closer and closer to the two old cows, feeling a sense of familiarity. He couldn't help but have a sudden realization in his heart: "Could it be them?"

His expression changed suddenly, and he quickly changed direction, running towards the mountain. However, his large body made it difficult for him to turn around in time.

In the midst of their mad dash, the two old cows suddenly emitted black smoke and a sinister aura, transforming into two bull demons standing in the chilling wind. They held bone whips and without saying a word, whipped Qi Xi as he approached, knocking him to the ground.

The two bull demons surrounded Qi Xi and whipped him relentlessly. When Xu Ying arrived, he ordered them to stop, and only then did they cease.

Xu Ying was surprised and looked at the two bull demons from top to bottom, saying, "Da Zhong, is it really you?"

Da Zhong replied, "It's the bull demons who followed you back then. But weren't there five of them?"

Back when they were at the Shuikou Temple, there were five bull demons that had followed him and accompanied him to the Wumang Mountain. After the Wumang Mountain collapsed, these few bull demons followed him back to the Shuikou Temple.

When Xu Ying boarded Zhou Qiyun's dragon carriage, these few bull demons were unable to get on and were left behind at the Shuikou Temple. The dragon carriage flew for a long time before arriving at Dahua, where Xu Ying stayed for several days before heading to the Guizi Ridge, then to the Yinting, and finally to the Cangwu Abyss. He passed through the Cangwu Abyss and arrived at the Jiuyi Mountain, then continued on to Qiyang.

After that, Xu Ying fell into a coma and Qi brought him back to the Wumang Mountain!

Xu Ying originally thought that these few bull demons would leave after that, but he didn't expect them to follow him over mountains and across ridges to arrive here!

Originally, there were five bull demons who followed Xu Ying, but now only two remained. The other three bull demons most likely died along the way. Judging from the wounds on these two bull demons, they must have suffered a lot on this journey!

The new land was extremely dangerous, not only for Xu Ying and the other living beings from the mortal realm, but also for Yin creatures like the bull demons.

Xu Ying was deeply moved and walked forward.

"Since you have followed me, I will not abandon you. Today, the two of you will be my Xu Ying's senior disciples!"

Xu Ying laughed and said, "As demonic cultivators, you have strayed into the divine path. I will teach you the cultivation method of refining qi and open the six secret treasures of the human body. We will cultivate together!"

Qi stood up and looked at the two bull demons, saying, "I always feel like they are not very smart. Could it be that you just took in two idiots as your disciples?"

Xu Ying suddenly remembered the past actions of these two bull demons and had a bad feeling.

Da Zhong said, "These two bull demons used to graze in the underworld and would attack anyone they saw. If they couldn't beat you, they would be beaten by you instead, but they would still stubbornly follow you. Their minds do seem a bit off..."

Veins popped on Xu Ying's forehead, and he coughed, saying, "Don't panic. They have just been poisoned by the divine path and absorbed the aura of incense, losing their true nature! After learning my cultivation method of refining qi, they will definitely be able to transform back into bull demons!"

Qi whispered, "How about we kick them out of the sect?"

Xu Ying felt guilty and said, "I just started the sect and haven't even taught them any skills yet. If I kick them out now, my reputation will be ruined."

He paused and lowered his voice, saying, "Let's kick them out later. By the way, Qi Ye, you are well-read, help me come up with impressive names for them."

Qi pondered and said, "The Book of Changes says, 'Wumang, the beginning of everything, is prosperous and beneficial, with thunder below and heaven above.' Since we have returned to the Wumang Mountain and met them again, why not call them Niu Zhen and Niu Gan?"

Xu Ying was overjoyed and said, "Qi Ye, you are truly cultured."

He looked at the two bull demons and said to the one missing an ear, "From now on, you will be called Niu Zhen."

The other bull demon had intact facial features, but its body was covered in crisscrossing wounds, a horrifying sight. Xu Ying said, "You will be called Niu Gan."

Upon hearing this, the two bull demons looked at each other, stood in the vortex of chilling wind, and clasped their hooves in front of their chests, saying, "Thank you, Master, for giving us names and surnames!"

Xu Ying was astonished.

Qi was also greatly shocked and exclaimed, "They are not idiots!"

Niu Zhen said in a deep voice, "We were originally bull demons in the mortal realm. After becoming demonic kings, how could we be idiots? We were just worried that our lifespan would be exhausted, so we had no choice but to become bull ghosts and snake gods in the underworld. Today, we have encountered a wise master and have been given names again. There is no need to pretend to be idiots."

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