Reborn as the Strongest Immortal Cultivator in Modern Times

As soon as Ye Yu and his companion stepped onto the rooftop, three enormous stone pillars came into view. The pillars were about twenty in number and adorned with intricate carvings.

Ye Yu looked around and found that only their building had three stone pillars, while the surrounding buildings did not.

Looking into the distance, Ye Yu saw that Oda Ikeno's office building was directly opposite this place.

Seeing that Ye Yu was staring at the building where he worked without saying a word, Song Tai asked, "Ms. Ye, have you noticed anything wrong?"

Ye Yu chuckled and asked in return, "Don't you think the rooftops of the building we're in are somewhat similar to the rooftops of the building across the street?"

The building where they lived was built on a hillside, and from a distance, it looked almost level with the building where he worked.

As Song Tai listened to her words, he looked closely and saw that three stone pillars also stood on the roof of the building where he worked.

He said to Ye Yu, "There are also three stone pillars on the other side. But what does that have to do with that female ghost?"

Ye Yu said, “Look at the patterns on the stone pillars, they are all double snakes entwined. And these three stone pillars over here reach the sky, making it difficult for moonlight to penetrate, and presumably the same is true for sunlight. The fog gathers and is difficult to disperse, so the yin energy naturally accumulates and becomes stronger.”

After saying that, Ye Yu squatted down: "And look, it's strange that this rooftop is covered with black mud. Usually, other rooftops are clean cement floors."

Ye Yu picked up a small clump of soil from the ground, revealing the white ash underneath, and continued, "There's lime underneath the black mud. I've read about it in a book before; it's an ancient Chinese method of preserving corpses."

Ye Yu blew away the lime in his hand, revealing a small piece of white marble. "By mixing white marble into it, we can condense mist and gather the essence of the sun and moon, thereby achieving the purpose of manipulating the walking corpses."

"There are also three stone pillars on the opposite side. Through a certain formation, all the yang energy and essence of the sun and moon absorbed here can be transferred to the building on the opposite side, which can kill two birds with one stone."

Song Tai listened to Ye Yu's logical analysis and was surprised. He asked, "Miss Ye, could it be that you belong to the Maoshan sect?"

Ye Yu smiled and shook his head: "These are just unorthodox methods. All the wonders of the world originated from China, so it's not surprising that you know about them."

As soon as she finished speaking, a cold snort came from behind a wooden plank in the far corner of the rooftop, and a man and a woman walked out, with a heavily injured female ghost in red floating behind them.

Both of them were at the mid-stage of the Earth Rank cultivation level. The woman among them was dressed like the red-clad female ghost, both in Japanese attire. Seeing that Ye Yu and Song Tai were both very young, the two showed expressions of surprise.

The man spoke first: "You young girl, you have quite the nerve. Just because you have some skills, you don't take the Hemao family seriously."

Ye Yu scoffed lightly: "What is the Hemao family? Never even heard of it. They're probably just some nobody's little family. How dare they act so high and mighty in front of me?"

Seeing Ye Yu's arrogance, the woman's face darkened. She shouted angrily, "You ignorant brat! Our Hemao Clan is one of the four great families of Yin and Yang in Japan. We know everything from astronomy to geography, and divination is second nature to us."

"So you're from Japan. Who is the owner of that building across the street, Oda Ikeno?" Ye Yu asked.

Upon hearing the name Oda Ikeno, the man frowned and asked, "How do you know Mr. Oda Ikeno?"

"Of course we should cause him trouble, otherwise why would we bother him?"

Ye Yu didn't want to waste words with them and said expressionlessly, "It seems that you're the ones who set up these pillar formations, right? Your purpose is to help Oda Ichino. Well, you're unlucky to have run into me."

After Ye Yu finished speaking, she immediately attacked the two of them. She made hand seals, and dozens of wind blades instantly appeared behind her.

Although these wind blades were small in size, they were continuous, forming a long, blue torrent that shot towards the two of them.

The two did not expect Ye Yu to be so ruthless in her first move.

The woman took out a bell hanging on her wrist and shook it vigorously, chanting incantations that Ye Yu couldn't understand. A faint yellow light gradually spread around the bell, blocking all the wind blades that Ye Yu shot at her.

However, the yellow light shield only lasted for a moment before it emitted a muffled roar, the yellow light dissipated, and the bell in the woman's hand was shattered by the wind blades.

She screamed in agony. The bell was her weapon, it had been with her since she was a child, and she never expected that it would be shattered by Ye Yu like this.

Just as the bell shattered, the red-clad female ghost screamed repeatedly. All the black mist on her body drifted away and scattered. In a short while, she became transparent and extremely weak.

It turns out that this bell is a magical artifact used to control the female ghost.

Seeing this, the man dared not let his guard down any longer. He kept waving his long sword to block the wind blades that were shooting towards him.

The woman quickly adjusted her mindset. She took a silk scarf from her neck, chanted the incantation again, and the scarf quickly became as hard as a steel plate.

The two of them worked together and managed to block Ye Yu's attack for a time.

Upon seeing this, Ye Yu gently stretched out her right hand, and the flying sword appeared out of thin air in front of her.

The tip of the flying sword was pointed directly at the two people from the Hemao clan. She made a hand seal, and the sword light suddenly grew larger, reaching several feet in length, and radiating a hazy glow.

The other three people and the ghost present stared wide-eyed at the sight, for they had never seen anything like it before.

Ignoring their shock, Ye Yu gently waved her right hand, and the sword light shot straight towards the two of them.

The two men from the Hemao clan were terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. They frantically used all their trump cards, but they were unable to stop the sword light shooting towards them.

At this moment, despair appeared in their eyes.

The sword's edge was incredibly fast, shattering their weapons and wounding both of them in just a few seconds.

The man coughed up blood, a look of madness flashing in his eyes. He took out a jade pendant from around his neck and tossed it into the air above the three pillars. The pendant seemed to be drawn to something, floating between the three pillars.

Soon, a black light barrier descended between the three pillars, enveloping Ye Yu and Song Tai, as well as the two members of the He Mao clan.

The man grinned maliciously, "Since we can't beat you, let's all die together."

When Ye Yu came up, his divine sense had already detected a small array here.

She was still thinking to herself that although Japan was small, they had still managed to steal something.

The man lay on the ground, chanting incantations. The temperature inside the light shield quickly dropped, and snowflakes even began to fall from the sky.

Soon, the light shield was covered with a layer of ice, and Ye Yu heard Song Tai's teeth chattering.

Ye Yu didn't delay, muttering, "A trivial skill."

As soon as Ye Yu finished speaking, she heard a muffled groan from Song Tai beside her.

Song Tai's hands were gripping his own neck tightly, his face flushed red, as if someone wanted to strangle him to death.

Ye Yu turned to look at the two people from the He Mao clan. The man was still chanting incantations, while the woman took out a small doll from somewhere and wrapped her own hair around the doll's neck, tightening it.

She must have used some kind of magic to connect Song Tai's mind with the puppet to achieve this effect.

Ye Yu had lost all patience. Two bone needles pierced directly between the eyebrows of the two men from the He Mao clan, severing their life force. With the two dead, the female ghost also drifted away with the wind.

Song Tai then began to breathe.

Although the man stopped chanting the incantation, the temperature inside the light shield continued to drop.

Ye Yu used her flying sword to shatter the jade plaque above her head, and the light shield suddenly disappeared, while the temperature began to gradually rise.

At the same time, the three stone pillars around them began to make a soft, cracking sound, and several large cracks spread out from the base of the pillars.

Ye Yu looked at the pillar and said, "This formation is useless now; it will have no effect in the future."