Chapter 4: Yinshan Evil Magic
Just when the captain, who was curled up in the copper-wrapped auspicious top bead, decided to continue pretending to be dead, a bright starlight flashed across everyone's eyes like a comet.

After the stars shone, the mast that originally stood in front of Ding Hai and his crew suddenly broke into two pieces from the root and tilted towards the bow.

After a loud bang, the mottled deck was hit inward by the mast and dented a lot.

If it weren't for the iron cladding attached to the deck that had not yet completely decayed and was able to withstand the pressure, this rapidly decaying speedboat would have been smashed to pieces.

At the tip of the bow, the copper-clad auspicious bead that was originally wrapped around the top of the mast broke away from the mast under the action of gravity and rolled to the edge of the ship's side. As the ship swayed, it could roll out of the hull at any time and disappear between the yin and yang gap.

Faced with the crisis of death, the captain in the auspicious top bead didn't bother to pretend to be dead, and immediately used his bone-shrinking skills to drill out. After a while, a middle-aged man about 1.6 meters tall crawled out from the washbasin-sized top bead like a loach.

After getting away from Dingzhu, the captain knelt down to Ding Hai without saying a word and said, "I was blind and didn't know that you are here. Please forgive me, you are the one who is here.

The reason why I hesitated when the real person called out to me for cooperation was that I was afraid that some monster would pretend to be the real person and deceive me, so I didn't dare to rashly agree to the real person.

Now that I have seen the real person, it is like seeing the Big Dipper in the sky. I am willing to serve the real person with all my heart.”

Seeing the captain who knelt more skillfully than Michael Jack, Ding Hai was speechless. He changed "a dog's service" to "a dog's service". Was he going to offer himself to be his dog?

He is treating him as the one who was born decades later. In the evening, he was calling him "little master" but now he is calling him "real person". He is really good at flattering people.

But you know what, it feels really good to be praised by others. No wonder that decades later, even though that kid from a big courtyard looked down on Michael Jackan from the bottom of his heart, he was still willing to help him.

However, Ding Hai did not dare to follow the example of the young man from the big courtyard and recklessly recruit the ship boss as his younger brother. This person was not a simple person, and the way he concealed his aura made Ding Hai feel fearful.

With corpse oil covering his head, corpse water smearing his body, and ashes stuffed in his stuffing, it's no wonder that the monsters on the ship couldn't find him. Being in the dark is one aspect, but these three methods of blocking his popularity are the key.

Using corpse oil to cover one's three yang fires and let one's yang energy drop to the bottom is not a secret technique. Any sorcerer with a little bit of Taoism experience can do it.

However, the method of covering up one's own qi by smearing corpse water on the body and plugging the orifices with ashes is not something that ordinary sorcerers can do. The difference here is deeper than this canal that connects the north and south of the country.

The last two are two of the 72 minor techniques of Yinshan Taoism. They are very evil and rare.

It is said to be evil because these two kinds of Yinshan evil magic are fine if used separately, but if they are used together, the caster may become the food of Yinshan Taoist practitioners if he is not careful.

Corpse water and ashes are both sinister things. Using just one of these sinister things to seal your entire body is no different from burying yourself in a dark and evil place. You will quickly transform into a sinister and spooky thing.

When the two evil things are used together and harmonized through the Yinshan evil magic, the result is not as simple as one plus one.

It is said to be rare because even Ding Hai, a disciple of a major sect, had only seen some brief records about these two evil arts in the travel notes of his own master by chance.

This is because the Yinshan Sect was wiped out by the Ming court army in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the evil spells within the sect were destroyed in the war.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yinshan Dao deliberately spread many of the seventy-two minor techniques in an attempt to transform sentient beings into resources to strengthen the Yinshan Dao.

Many ignorant people, after acquiring the evil magic of Yinshan Taoism, thought that their luck had come and they would become powerful and even dominate the world.

As a result, except for a few lucky ones who had the opportunity to escape from the control of Yinshan Taoism, other people who practiced the evil magic of Yinshan Taoism basically devoted everything to the prosperity of Yinshan Taoism in the early Ming Dynasty.

Blood, flesh, skin, membranes, and internal organs are nothing. The crazy, brainless, and easily manipulated living soul and the solid, immortal, and arbitrarily-controlled corpse brought great trouble to Emperor Gaozu of the Ming Dynasty, who had just fought the Jingnan Campaign.

If the people had not been determined and the many legal sects in the world had not wanted China to return to chaos and disorder, and had not joined forces to help Emperor Gaozu of the Ming Dynasty destroy the Yinshan Sect, it would be hard to say how many generations the Zhu family's kingdom could have been passed down.

"Captain, the current situation is different from what you said in the evening. The water ghost dragged people into the water to find a substitute, which caused such a commotion."

While questioning, Ding Hai's hand never left the hilt of the sword. Under his control, the blade of the Seven Star Evil-Slaying Sword was always hovering not far from the captain's neck.

After cautiously glancing at the shining sword in front of him with the corner of his eye, the captain, with all the sweat pores on his neck exploded, pretended not to notice that Ding Hai was threatening him. He turned his hand and gave Ding Hai a thumbs up, praising him sincerely with a sincere face.

"I admire the master's keen observation. How could those water ghosts of the Nine Links have such ability? We actually suffered an unexpected disaster this time."

"Before the ship was about to set sail this morning, five guests arrived and wanted to take the ship south. They were flying under the banner of Buting, the Flower Boxing King, one of the Four Yues of the capital, and the leader was Buting's only son, Bu Yuan.

But those of us who travel around the world all know some unknown things. The four people following Master Bu are definitely not ordinary martial artists.

Even though they were wearing scented sachets and heavily sprinkled with perfumed powder, I still smelled a faint smell of urine when I welcomed them onto the boat.

“Everyone in the capital knows that Flower Boxing King Buting is the coach of Prince Yi’s Mansion, so the identities of those people are obvious without asking.

After I guessed that they were helping Prince Yi with his errands, I immediately gave up my cabin and carefully served them, fearing that neglecting them would bring disaster upon me. "

"But I never expected that this bunch of bastards from Prince Yi's Mansion would use all of us on the ship as a cover. In the evening, I was afraid that you might fall into the trap of the Nine-Ring Chain, so I asked for some time with a smile and went to the cabin to remind you to be careful at night.

When I came back, the five of them were gone. Xiao Liba, who was on duty on the deck at the time, told me that right after I left them, I took advantage of the dark night and jumped onto an iron-hulled ship that had been following us along the waterway."

Through the captain's narration, Ding Hai combined the current situation with his own guesses and roughly figured out the current situation.

If the captain of the ship did not lie, they should have suffered the consequences this time.

There was a sorcerer targeting the people in Prince Yi's Mansion, but the people in Prince Yi's Mansion managed to escape in the dark evening, avoided the sight of the attacker, and escaped by stealing a trick.

The sorcerer who used the unique environment of the Nine Rings to pull a ship full of people to the underworld did not know that the person he was looking for was no longer on the ship, but launched the attack as planned.

Therefore, among the monsters on this ship, there are both the water monsters that pulled people as substitutes in the Nine-Ring Chain and the sorcerer who pulled all the people on the ship towards the underworld.

But, would a guy who could die for someone else without batting an eyelid really tell the truth? Ding Hai didn't believe it.

With a shake of his wrist, a sword flower blossomed. Along with the shining of the sword flower, a blood flower also bloomed on the captain's body.

“What I just said is nine out of ten true and one out of ten false, and none of it is true. You know that yourself, but I can tell you clearly that a master who can cast a spell to pull such a large ship into the gap between Yin and Yang would never make a mistake in the target.

Now, I will give you one more chance to organize your words. I hope you can grasp it. In a matter of seconds, this ship will fall into the netherworld. If you are playing tricks, I will throw you into the netherworld and let you perish forever."

"Really, I didn't lie to you. How could I dare to lie to a real person like you?" The bloody hole on his left shoulder did not scare the captain. Although he was surprised that Ding Hai, who looked like a pale scholar, attacked him without saying a word, he still did not change his previous words.

Looking at the captain in front of him who was covering his wound and refusing to repent, Ding Hai's patience dropped to freezing point. You can die if you want, but don't drag us brothers with you.

He exerted force from his toes, and a kick as fast as thunderbolt instantly hit the captain's abdomen, kicking the captain, who was bowing and kowtowing, three meters away.

The captain, who thought Ding Hai would listen to him for a while, was caught off guard and vomited a large pool of blood.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch." Even though he had already flown three feet away and had lost a lot of energy, Ding Hai's sudden kick still shook the captain's internal organs.

The uncontrollable feeling of nausea took control of the captain's body, causing him to vomit continuously.

Strands of blood along with smelly stomach acid kept gushing out of the captain's mouth.

Ding Hai turned a blind eye to this and continued to press the captain, wanting him to explain why the warlock targeted the ship.

As for sympathy, even Chizuru, who had not yet started her journey, did not speak up to stop Ding Hai. These days, not everyone deserves sympathy.

Just as Ding Hai was shaking his sword and preparing to carve another sword flower on the captain, a black cicada slipped out of the captain's mouth along with blood and stomach acid.

Dong. Dong Dong
The tiny collision sound made by the black cicada when it landed was inconspicuous. Under the deafening sound of the captain's vomiting, Huo Yuanjia and his companions didn't even notice it.

But Ding Hai, who had been observing the captain's every move, noticed something was wrong.

People in Shandong do have the habit of eating cicadas, but fried cicadas don’t make a thumping sound when they fall to the ground.

Walking quickly towards the black cicada, Ding Hai ignored the sour smell and picked up the black cicada on the ground with a sword.

After carefully observing the black cicada on the tip of the sword, Ding Hai turned his head to look at the captain who was gradually suppressing the sound of vomiting and trying every means to reduce his presence. The murderous intent in his heart surged to the extreme.

"Spiritual Jade Cicada, this is the reason why we have fallen to this point. I'm afraid those people in Prince Yi's Mansion have drowned you in the river."

Seeing Ding Hai's expression as if he wanted to skin the captain alive, Huo Yuanjia and others on the side were very puzzled. Isn't it just a cicada insect carved from a black stone?

Seeing the puzzled looks on their faces, Qianhe explained in a low voice that the cicada as an insect had special meaning in the eyes of the ancients because of its living habits. The ancients believed that the cicada had the ability to be reborn after burrowing into the ground.

Therefore, ancient emperors and generals liked to hold a jade cicada in their mouths at the last moments of their lives, implying that they could be reborn like the cicada.

An old saying goes: Jade can nourish people.

This is true, so the precious jades such as warm jade and warm jade are hard to come by even at a price of money.

If this good jade can nourish people, it can naturally also nourish the corpse of a person after death. The only difference is that the properties of the jade that nourishes corpses are completely different from those of the jade that nourishes people.

Yin jade, death jade, blood jade and other burial jades that the living avoid are no worse than warm jade and warm jade in the eyes of dying emperors and generals.

The best of all burial jades is a spiritual jade that is rumored to be born only in the deep and evil places of the underworld. It is a top-grade treasure that even many emperors and generals find difficult to find.

There have been more than 400 emperors in ancient times, and at least half of them wanted to find a magical jade to carve into a jade cicada to protect their bodies from immortality and their souls from falling.

Among this half of emperors, it is recorded that less than one-tenth received the spiritual jade and carved it into a jade cicada.

Among this one-tenth, the number of emperors who were buried with the spiritual jade cicada in their mouths may not even be counted on five fingers.

Not to mention the distant past, let’s just talk about the old woman in the Forbidden City who had just killed the Six Gentlemen of the Wuxu Reform. Since she felt that she had less energy due to her age, she issued an order to search for the magical jade throughout the country.

Anyone who presents the magical jade will be rewarded with the third-rank hat and ten thousand taels of gold, and three of his sons will be admitted to the Imperial University of Peking. This means that you can be a peasant in the morning and enter the emperor's palace in the evening. However, it has been nearly ten years since this imperial decree was issued, and no one has responded to the call to receive the jade.

The Imperial Household Department of the Qing Dynasty once searched the whole country for a magical jade to carve into a jade cicada and give it to Cixi to seek credit, but no matter how hard they dug, they could not find a real magical jade.

After learning how precious the seemingly inconspicuous spiritual jade cicada on the deck was, Zheng Shan'ao, who was guarding Nong Jinsun, and another guard named Han who was holding two swords, couldn't help but stare at the spiritual jade on the tip of the Seven-Star Evil-Slaying Sword.

This is the real shortcut to heaven!
Although anyone with a discerning eye could see that Qing Ting was on his way out, to low-level martial artists like them, Qing Ting was still a prehistoric beast that was out of their reach. A strand of leg hair plucked out would be thicker than their waists.

If their remaining rationality had not been frantically warning them not to commit suicide, they would have already stretched out their hands towards the shining tip of the sword.

"Master, please spare my life. Since ancient times, only the virtuous can own treasures. I am willing to offer the precious jade and the wealth I have accumulated from years of sailing, just ask you to help me out when you are in danger." After seeing that he accidentally vomited out the spiritual jade cicada hidden in his stomach, the captain immediately gave up his hope and began to beg Ding Hai.

But after finding out the crux of the problem, Ding Hai was too lazy to pay attention to the captain who was crawling on the ground and kowtowing and begging for mercy.

If you were honest with him when he first asked for cooperation, Ding Kai, who has a flexible moral bottom line, would not mind taking advantage of the situation to help him save his life, and you could just split the benefits in half afterwards.

Now that he has found the key to breaking the deadlock by chance, what use is there for you? Aren’t there enough people holding him back?
(End of this chapter)