My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

But at this time, Mo Youren had already passed the shop and met up with Gui Lao outside the formation. He only heard Gui Lao ask, "How is the matter going? Is there anything missing?"

Mo Youren smiled and said, "Master, don't worry. Thanks to those Taoist priests who helped me divert attention, everything went smoothly. I think the cartilage powder has already spread among the crowd."

Just as the words fell, someone in the crowd shouted, "Someone is poisoning us, disperse quickly."

Then dozens of people fell to the ground. Everyone was shocked and looked at Master Wudu. Master Wudu looked grim and said, "Why are you looking at me? Could it be that I poisoned you?"

No one answered, but they all silently took two steps back and moved further away from him.

At this time, a gust of cold wind rushed out of the shop, and dozens of ghosts flew towards the poisoned people. Those people were poisoned at this time, their bodies were soft and they had no resistance at all and were possessed by the poison.

Then they all stood up mechanically and walked around. When they stopped, they drew their weapons and slit their throats.

Suddenly, dozens of fountains of blood gushed out, soaking the heads and faces of the people next to them. The crowd then woke up as if from a dream, and screamed and fled in all directions.

But at this time, the entire market town was already shrouded in the fog barrier, which was impossible for those low-level cultivators to break through.

As for Qianhe, seeing that the crowd was in chaos because of looking for Mo, he did not care about being noticed by the person who set up the formation, and immediately used means to forcibly break the formation.

But the old ghost had been preparing for this day for many years, so the formation was naturally quite mysterious, and Qianhe was unable to break it in a short period of time.

But Qianhe was a true disciple of Maoshan after all. Although it took some effort, he finally made some progress. Just when he was about to break the formation, a red light flashed and the formation was strengthened again.

The sudden change made all his efforts go to waste.

At this time, Gu Lao in the crowd looked at the hexagram formed by the blood on the ground and said in astonishment, "This is a blood sacrifice. Are you, old ghost, going to sacrifice us?"

At this time, he came to his senses and said to everyone, "This is all a conspiracy of yours, old ghost. You spread the news of the precious medicine to attract everyone here, just to catch us all in one fell swoop and use us monks to sacrifice our blood to your ghost."

The old ghost smiled sinisterly upon hearing this and said, "That's true, but so what? I have opened a market here for more than ten years just to gather a group of monks to be sacrificed. Now my blood-refined hexagram formation is complete, and none of you can escape today."

As he spoke, he cast a spell, and hundreds of resentful souls crawled out from under the blue bricks. They passed through the Blood Refining Hexagram Formation, and their ghost bodies turned red. They were forcibly elevated to the level of evil spirits by the formation.

(Ghost levels: residual soul, wandering soul, resentful soul, evil ghost, ghost general, ghost king, ghost emperor)

When Qian He saw these hundreds of evil spirits appear, he immediately uttered a few words: "Hundred Ghosts Soul Devouring Formation!"

Jiang Li and the four people from the east, south, west and north were all stunned when they heard this, but Qianhe did not explain. Instead, he said to everyone, "Hurry up and prepare your weapons."

"These hundreds of evil spirits gathered here, turning this place into a ghost zone temporarily. It is impossible to break this formation by force. Only by eliminating them and weakening the formation can we have a chance to break this formation!"

As he spoke, he took out a Taoist robe from the carriage and put it on. Upon hearing what he said, Jiang Li and the others also changed into suitable combat clothes and checked various weapons.

Qianhe frowned when he looked at the twelve Taoist soldiers. Just when he was about to say something, he saw them put on their military uniforms inside out, revealing a large number of talismans for exorcising ghosts and calming souls on them, and then took out brass swords from the car and put them on their backs.

Jiang Li gave an order, asking them to set up machine guns on the roof and prepare for defense. He then ordered, "When the fight starts, remember to recite the Golden Light Mantra. Don't lose your mind because of fear."

Upon hearing this, everyone agreed.

Jiang Li turned around and said to Qian He, "Uncle Master, don't panic. I've prepared everything. I soaked those bullets with cinnabar and realgar. They should have some effect on those ghosts."

Qianhe looked at Jiang Li in astonishment, but said nothing.

At the same time, Master Wudu said to everyone in a stern voice, "With me and Gu Lao here, why are you panicking? We have two or three hundred people here. Each of us can deal with two or three little ghosts. We can kill them all very quickly, and then the formation will naturally break."

The crowd had different reactions when they heard this, some were excited, some were scared, and some were running around.

Master Wudu saw that the situation was not good, so he waved his hand and two streams of poisonous mist rushed towards the two evil cultivators who were fleeing in panic. The man immediately covered his neck in pain, and fell to the ground a moment later, foaming at the mouth and twitching continuously.

Seeing this, Master Wu Du said viciously, "This will be the fate of anyone who dares to run again!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw this, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​escaping. They each used their own methods to prepare for counterattack.

By this time, Ghost Master had completed his spell. With a pinch of his hand, hundreds of evil spirits began to run wild and rushed towards the crowd.

Upon seeing this, the evil cultivators immediately used their own methods to attack or defend and fight against those evil spirits.

At first, the evil ghosts relied on their numerical advantage to attack the evil cultivators in overwhelming numbers. The evil cultivators had no way to retreat and had to use their unique skills.

They either activate evil weapons or cast strange spells.

For a moment, various colored lights flashed in the dark sky, accompanied by roars and screams.

The attacks of the evil spirits came like a tide, while the evil practitioners fought desperately.

Their figures shuttled through the light, sometimes fighting close combat with evil spirits, and sometimes casting spells from a distance.

The two sides fought back and forth, neither giving in. The entire battle process was bizarre and inexplicable, making people dizzy.

Old Gu and the Master of Five Poisons are the oldest and have the highest level of cultivation, and they have more tricks up their sleeves, but one of them is known for his poisons, and the other for his witchcraft.

However, the means to fight ghosts were very limited, so not many ghosts could be eliminated in a short period of time, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Jiang Li, Qianhe and others were already on the edge, and the old ghost didn't give them any special care, so there weren't many ghosts attacking them.

So Jiang Li gave an order, asking the machine gunners not to open fire and expose themselves for the time being, and he went with them to clear out the scattered ghosts with rifles and pistols.

As for those who got close to him, Qianhe and several others from the southeast, northwest, and northeast were killed with bronze swords.

As for these bullets, although they had been soaked in cinnabar and realgar several times, they were not contaminated with enough cinnabar. So even though they did cause some damage to these evil spirits, the damage was very limited.

It often takes several or even dozens of bullets to completely kill it. However, the bullets used by Jiang Li were the ones that Simu had drawn with talismans himself, so naturally they could kill one with one shot. Unfortunately, the number was too small, less than a hundred.

When the people in the center of the formation heard bursts of gunfire behind them, they subconsciously turned back to check, but they were possessed by the evil spirits as soon as they were distracted.

Then he began to attack the evil cultivators around him, which caught those evil cultivators who were fully focused on fighting the enemy off guard, and dozens of them were killed or injured immediately.

They were then possessed again and joined in the siege of the evil cultivators, which instantly tilted the originally evenly matched battle.