Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 103 The Impure Prince
The paper sedan chair stopped outside the Yang family's gate. The curtain rolled up automatically, and a pale-faced middle-aged man stepped out.

This "Impure Young Master" is Cui Wushe's chief disciple, and he is now over eighty years old.

Those who practice Xuanmen Kung Fu are good at nourishing their essence, energy, and spirit, and generally appear young. The deeper their skill, the younger they appear. This is especially true of orthodox Xuanmen practitioners, followed by practitioners of unorthodox schools, and then practitioners of unorthodox paths. They are usually several hundred years old, but still look like middle-aged or even young people.

Ghostly cultivation techniques are far from yang and close to yin, causing the loss of vital energy and making it difficult to maintain youth.

They commonly use methods to extend lifespan and then refine themselves with various elixirs, but this only sustains the outer layer; the inside remains decayed.

Although the Unclean Prince appears to be in his forties or fifties, he is actually seriously ill, like a tuberculosis patient, emaciated, with lifeless eyes, as if he is about to die.

He sat in the sedan chair, looking at the dark Yang Mansion, feeling the intense, furnace-like life force within, and said hoarsely, "Useless!"

Then he said, "Go ahead and burn this place down to the ground."

The two spellcasters holding the incense burner lifted the bronze burner, and wisps of smoke flew into the Yang residence.

This smoke is particularly effective at bewitching and seducing. After entering the mansion gate, it automatically splits into hundreds of strands, each strand locking onto a creature, including cranes, deer, and mandarin ducks in the garden, but of course, it targets many more people. The large amount of smoke rushes towards the Flying Immortal Palace like flying venomous snakes.

Yang Qisheng set up an altar at Feixian Palace. Upon seeing this, he activated the spiritual talismans that had been inscribed on railings, steps, eaves, and other places beforehand, turning the eight gates and reversing the direction, transferring all the smoke to the forest due east.

The forest is full of vitality, and there is also a large amount of bamboo.

A large amount of death energy accumulates in the bamboo and wood, and is absorbed by the plants.

Green leaves, bamboo poles, vines, flowers, and grasses absorb the deathly air, quickly turn black, wither, and fall to the ground.

The underground Qingyang Divine Talisman faintly emitted light, and life force surged. These plants all worked hard to grow new buds, stretch out their branches again, and bloom and flower.

"Hmm?" The unclean young master inside the paper sedan chair sensed something was wrong and waved his hand, signaling the two disciples holding lanterns to come forward and perform a ritual.

The two men activated the ghost lanterns in their hands, chanting incantations.

In an instant, all the lights that had been extinguished within a radius of several miles were automatically relit, the flames were green, and the burning lanterns and torches also turned from yellow to green.

The once dark Yang mansion was now brightly lit, but all the lights were green will-o'-the-wisps, making it appear eerily green, and turning many of the surrounding houses into a ghostly realm!
Within each green flame, a vengeful ghost presides. Their lower bodies are in the lamps, candles, and torches, while their upper bodies sway and tremble with the flames, baring their fangs and claws, laughing grotesquely. Suddenly, they stretch their bodies and pounce on nearby living beings.

Yang Qisheng had carefully studied the "Notes on Crossing Souls" and knew that there was such a spell in the Taiyin Ghost Path. Beforehand, he gathered everyone in the mansion together and used the Dragon Roar Jade Brush to draw a protective golden talisman on the front and back of each of them.

The vengeful ghost lunged at them to grab them, but golden talismans automatically emanated from their bodies, blocking the ghost.

Yang Qisheng then pointed his brush in mid-air, conjuring a magical fire talisman that flew away and landed on the south side of the mansion. The nine bonfires that had been set up beforehand were immediately ignited with a "whoosh".

The flames roared, and Yang Qisheng made a hand seal with his left hand and then drew a stroke with his right hand, causing all the flames in the mansion to burst into a large number of normal orange-yellow flames!

The green will-o'-the-wisps are yin fire, and the yellow flames are yang fire. Yin and yang clash, crackling and exploding wildly.

The fierce ghosts within the will-o'-the-wisps roared, trying to extinguish the yang fire.

The two demonic figures outside the mansion gate also joined forces to cast a spell, manipulating the two glass ghost lamps in their hands.

Yang Qisheng continued casting spells, his Dragon Roar Jade Brush lightly tapping repeatedly, instantly completing nine more "Spirit Treasure True Fiery Court Talismans." After being cast, the flames of the nine bonfires turned from orange-yellow to incandescent, and the heat continued to rise.

All the lamps, torches, and candles in the mansion turned incandescent. The vengeful ghost howled and struggled as it was burned, but the ghost fire was already weakening and eventually was completely refined and destroyed by the incandescent flames.

As the emerald flames vanished, the vengeful spirits within also dissipated into nothingness.

The flames inside the lamps held by the two disciples outside the door also turned white.

Will-o'-the-wisps have no temperature. When they shine on a person, they will not feel hot. On the contrary, because the yin energy enters the body through the hair, they will feel cold.

But at this moment, the two ghost lamps turned incandescent, and the flames continued to leap up. In just a few breaths, the glass lamps were melted by the heat, and the two people were so frightened that they hurriedly dropped the lamps.

"Useless things!" Seeing that his two disciples' spells had been broken by the opponent, the Unclean Prince could no longer hold back. He reached out and struck the air, smashing the Yang family's tall gate, studded with copper nails, into pieces.

Then sixteen wooden figures carried the sedan chair forward, through the gate, and into the courtyard.

He could tell that Yang Qisheng had set up a formation to protect the entire Yang residence. If he flew in directly from the air, he would be attacked by the combined forces of the five elements. So he entered through the main gate, preparing to break the formation.

"This is the southeast Xun position, which belongs to the Yi wood element in the Five Elements theory. It represents vitality and is directly incompatible with me." Unclean Prince thought to himself. The Taiyi Palace and the Taiyin Sect have been fighting for two or three hundred years. The Taiyin Sect has also studied the Taiyi Palace's Five Elements Qimen Formation.

To break this formation, one should head southwest (Kun position) and enter through the Death Gate, which would be advantageous. However, the South View Gate lies in between, containing nine layers of Li Fire, which is also one's nemesis. If one goes due east, it is the Zhen position, which represents thunder, and is also detrimental to one's own strength.

However, the Unclean Prince was not in a hurry, because the White Bone Prince entered from the northwest corner gate, which is the Qian position, where one can defy the heavens and earth and use the ghostly "lawless" technique.

He planned to break the formation, but Yang Qisheng didn't give him the chance.

Yang Qisheng knew that his opponent was an old, evil sorcerer who had cultivated for at least several decades, while he had only cultivated for a little over four years. If they fought in a methodical and orderly manner, he would definitely be no match for him.

At this point, you have to work your magic and charge straight in with your few magical treasures!

As long as Cui Wushe doesn't come, I'm at least 60% confident that I can achieve final victory.

Seeing that the Unclean Prince had entered, he immediately sent a telepathic message to Nanxing, instructing him to guard the "open gate" in the northwest Qian position, and then activated the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd on the table in front of him!
The gourd shimmered with light, and more than a hundred flying swords shot out from inside. The swords, all the same length and size, were wrapped in sword energy of various colors and shot into the night sky. They made a sharp turn and headed straight southeast, following the direction indicated by Yang Qisheng's sword technique.

As the Unclean Prince was thinking that his opponent's Dao power was shallow and he had not yet mastered the Taiyi Divine Thunder, and that the Southeast Zhen Palace was merely a place with vitality but no thunder magic, he was preparing to head due east to break through the "Injury Gate" when he suddenly saw a large number of flying swords flying from the sky. His pupils contracted violently: Oh no! The opponent has actually ambushed more than a hundred sword immortals here!
His four junior brothers were killed one after another, and Cui Wushe ordered them to investigate.

He has been busy refining magical artifacts and hasn't had any time to spare. It's mainly the fourth brother, the White Bone Prince, who has been investigating.

The White Bone Prince tracked down the area to the ancient vine county and General Mountain, where he used magic to capture and interrogate some humans and ghosts. He deduced that his opponent was from the Taiyi Palace and was not very strong. Later, he gradually learned about the opponent's background and found out that he came from the Yang family of Sanjiang City.

Previously, by the Siming Lake, he encountered a junior from the Taiyi Palace. In the ensuing magical duel, he was at a disadvantage and almost lost to his opponent.

Fortunately, Cui Wushe happened to be passing by and captured him on the spot.

Unable to find Yang Qisheng's whereabouts and not daring to seek revenge at Longgao Mountain, the White Bone Prince decided to first annihilate the Yang family to vent his anger.

The Unclean Prince received the information halfway and came to help. He knew very little about Yang Qisheng's background and at this time thought that the other party had more than a hundred sword immortals lying in ambush on him.

Even if he was arrogant, he wouldn't dare to fight against more than a hundred sword immortals at the Refining Fiend level. His first reaction was to run away as fast as possible!

(End of this chapter)