Start as a Temple Spirit

After Yibao finished speaking, he looked at the temple spirit respectfully, waiting for questions.

"Forgotten Township is located in the Ten Thousand Mountains. How strong is it? How many soldiers can fight? What is the population?" Shang Liangshan did not hesitate to ask three questions in a row.

Nothing is more important than understanding the situation, as it concerns your own life.

After hearing this, Yibao groaned and said, "Reply to Master Miaoling, the strength of Forgotten Township can only be considered a small force among the Hundred Thousand Mountains."

"There are only eight teams of soldiers capable of fighting, each with 8 men. In addition to hunting, collecting herbs, and trading, they also guard the village."

"The population is over a thousand households, about ten thousand people."

"12 to 1." Shang Liangshan muttered, and then continued to ask: "What kind of world are we living in?"

Yibao was stunned when he heard this. He did not fully understand what Master Miao Ling said, so he could only guess and answer: "Master Miao Ling, I have never been out of the mountains, so I don't know what the outside world is like."

"I only know that there are many barbarian tribes in the Shiwan Mountains, bandits are rampant, and demons and monsters emerge in an endless stream. It is very dangerous."

"Oh, by the way, I heard from the Great Elder that the world outside the Hundred Thousand Mountains is now in chaos and war. Various forces are constantly attacking each other. The lives of the weak are worthless, and the people are suffering terribly."

Shang Liangshan was skeptical about this, because the TV dramas that portrayed simple and honest elders from the mountains always deceived the younger generations in this way.

He pondered for a while, pointed to the General Temple and asked, "Why was the temple built in the belly of the mountain?"

"Prevent the evil cultivators from targeting the newly born temple spirit." Yibaoshan blurted out.

"Ni Ma!" Shang Liangshan cursed in his heart. He really was a fragrant thing, the favorite of demons and monsters.

Seeing Master Miao Ling, Yi Bao's expression changed constantly, and he said hurriedly: "Master Miao Ling, don't worry too much. Your existence is the top secret of Forgotten Township, and you already have the ability to protect yourself."

"The power of self-preservation?" Shang Liangshan pondered and asked, "Do you know what the power of this spirit is?"

Hearing this, Wang Yu shook his head and said, "The level of the temple spirit is different from ours. You are a spirit body, you can fly into the sky and hide in the ground, and kill lonely ghosts. I can't do that."

"Wait, that ghost just now was a wandering ghost? If you could find it, why couldn't you kill it?"

"They are lonely ghosts, the lowest level ghosts, equivalent to first or second rank martial artists. However, practitioners below fourth rank can only injure them severely but cannot kill them because they can fly away."

"In other words, those above the fourth rank can kill lonely ghosts?"

"Hmmmm," Yibao nodded repeatedly and explained, "The fourth-grade soul-gathering technique is to select a spiritual object and take it into the Dantian for nourishment. It can be combined with the release of Yuanli to burst out with powerful attack power. Therefore, it can kill lonely ghosts, but ghosts above the level of vengeful spirits cannot be killed."

"Tell us in detail the levels of the ghosts." Shang Liangshan said anxiously.

Yibao did not hesitate and began to educate the temple spirit.

The levels of ghosts are divided into: lonely souls, wild ghosts, vengeful spirits (also known as vengeful ghosts), evil ghosts, fierce ghosts, ghost generals, and ghost kings.

"Why are there only seven levels?" Shang Liangshan asked puzzledly.

"Because, lonely ghosts correspond to the three realms of body refining, blood refining, and qi refining. In addition, vengeful ghosts are very fierce, and their strengths vary. A strong vengeful ghost can compete with a master of Tongxuan realm, so there are two less realms."

"Oh," Shang Liangshan nodded in realization and asked the question in his mind, "At what level can ghosts develop spiritual intelligence?"

"Ghosts above the level of evil spirits have intelligence, which is very scary. They may even lead hundreds of ghosts to march at night, ghost soldiers to borrow the road, and ghost marriages. Every time they appear, it is a disaster. This is also one of the main reasons why villages make wishes to heaven and earth for the birth of temple spirits."

"I cannot defeat a fierce ghost." Shang Liangshan hurriedly shook his head.

Are you kidding? If I encounter a fierce ghost, I will be eaten.

You must know that if a temple spirit encounters a vengeful spirit, it will only be devoured.

"Master Temple Spirit, wherever faith reaches, it is your invisible dojo. You can use the power of believers to fight against evil spirits. If you can refine a piece of heaven and earth into a dojo, you will be invincible." After the leopard finished speaking, he saw Master Temple Spirit looking at him and hurriedly said, "This is what the great elder told us."

Shang Liangshan could only smile bitterly when he heard this, as his Taoist temple was only about 20 square meters.

Thinking of this, he said helplessly: "Leopard, I have to go back to practice. Please remember not to spread the news of my appearance. Just keep it to yourself."

"Yes." Yibao stood up and saluted, respectfully sending the temple spirit back to the General Temple, then turned around and left, as he still had to stand guard.

Shang Liangshan returned to Baiwu Taoist Temple, put aside all distractions and began to practice.

The practice method of temple spirits is very simple, which is to absorb the power of incense and vows, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and strengthen the spiritual body.

Of course Shang Liangshan is an alien. He can eat ghosts because he is an alien: a ghost!

Time flies, practice is endless, and only with a reverent heart can one obtain the true meaning.

This was not the beginning of the truth for Shang Liangshan. He looked at the erected purple shadow chain in confusion and cursed in his heart, "Although I'm not a human, I'm not a dog either. What do you mean by leading me like a dog?"

The purple shadow chain didn't care about Shang Liangshan's inner thoughts. It just kept pulling upwards, like a person taking a stroll, ignoring the dog's resistance, trying to pick up the dog and catch up with a beautiful woman to chat up with her.

Shang Liangshan looked at the purple shadow chain around his neck, then at the purple shadow chain that was standing up in front of him and being pulled upwards. He stood up helplessly and moved along with the traction of the purple shadow chain. He wanted to see what this dog chain was going to do.

After leaving the Taoist temple, Shang Liangshan followed the traction and flew to the top of the cave. He used the technique of drawing a line on the ground to make a prison and flew up through the rocks.

"Whoosh" there was a strong wind on the top of the cliff, and heavy rain was beating on the manifested Shang Liangshan before he could take a closer look at his surroundings.

With a loud rumble of thunder, purple lightning streaked across the sky, blinding people's eyes, and struck the purple shadow chain directly, splashing electric strings in all directions.

Shang Liangshan didn't even have time to scream before he was struck by lightning and shattered into thousands of lights.

Amid the raging electric arcs, the purple flames greedily absorbed the power of lightning.

The eerie black ghost flames, emitting black smoke while raging in the electric arcs, also greedily absorbed the power of lightning.

This is the ghost lights of thousands of homes, half black ghost flames, and half purple flames, distributed in the purple electric arcs.

"Hua La La" the purple light shadow chain swam like a snake in the electric arc, greedily absorbing the power of thunder and lightning, and the purple light became brighter and brighter.

After a moment, the electric arc dissipated, and the purple shadow chain suddenly stood up, began to grow thicker, and pointed to the dark clouds where thunder was roaring in the distance.

"Boom" the second thunder roared and struck, hitting the purple shadow chain.

For a moment, electric arcs raged on the top of the cliff, and the purple light was dazzling.

Such a strange sight immediately attracted the attention of the masters of Forgotten Township, and they all looked towards the top of the cliff.

Yibao even ran to the meeting room in the rain, opened the secret door of the rock passage, and ran towards the General Temple.

In the General Temple, the sound of explosions echoed.

Standing at the gate of the temple, the first thing you see is the statue of the general flashing with electric arcs.