Chapter 11 Entering the Night Again

Clutching the Officer of Punishments saber, he once again stepped into the night. He vaguely realized that this was actually a good opportunity to temper himself.

Back in Stone Horse Town, after he refined the Great Might Heavenly Duke General Seal, he had already pushed open two mansion gates. Moreover, during this time, he had fought several times, and each opponent was difficult to deal with. With ample blood offerings, his skills had improved by leaps and bounds.

Vaguely, he was gradually glimpsing the scenery behind the third gate of the Shou Sui (Year Watcher) entering the mansion.

Opening the third gate meant reaching the most powerful level of Shou Sui entering the mansion, which was the soul receiving incense and the body walking the yin and yang. Simply put, it was the ability to walk in the netherworld with a living body.

In fact, Zou Gui Ren (Ghost Walkers) didn't need to wait this long. After pushing open the first gate, and some with advanced techniques could borrow the path to the netherworld even in the Deng Jie (Ascension Realm). However, he, as the original family of Ghost Walkers, had never tried it because he learned the skills of the Shou Sui.

However, Ghost Walkers borrowed the netherworld through methods, but what if he also had the ability to walk the netherworld with his physical body?

Shou Sui combined with Ghost Walking was a spectacle to look forward to.

In fact, Hu Ma had also considered that he had already taken over the Zhen Sui Fu (Town Suppression Bureau), holding the golden mace, and could even kill Fu Shen (Bureau Spirits). This ability was much stronger than the meager skills of entering the mansion as a Shou Sui.

What is ability? Power is also an ability, and one of the greatest abilities.

So, with the Town Suppression Bureau, did he still need to continue toiling on the path of the Shou Sui?

He thought about it carefully, and the final answer was: Yes!

Perhaps, it was just because of his transmigrator identity that he inherently lacked a sense of security. Even with the Town Suppression Bureau in hand, he still felt uneasy, and thus yearned for the feeling of having all his skills within himself.

Therefore, even if his Shou Sui skills seemed insignificant compared to the Town Suppression Bureau and were rarely used, he still decided to learn them.

And to push open this third gate, his current identity as a Ghost Walking Head Taker was perfect.

Kill!

Kill ghosts, slay demons, subdue evil, and suppress monsters!

The more fierce battles he experienced, the more solid his skills became. The more Yin and evil spirits he killed, the more nourished his soul became, and the more powerful his dharma form became.

This was not a shortcut, but the most practical and effective path. It was just that ordinary Shou Sui dared not do this, lest they attract trouble. Many Shou Sui would choose to enter the battle formation at this time and become officials under the Ten Surnames, also for this killing karma.

Wasn't he perfectly suited for this path now? In any case, it was well known that the Ghost Walking Head Taker was originally a Shou Sui.

Thus, as the Town Suppression Bureau opened, shaking the world and protecting the grain army into Mingzhou City, and as luck gradually arose, he was not idle. Instead, using the opportunity of the altar for lighting ghosts, he began to stir up a storm of blood.

Not only did he follow Zhang A'gu's list of ghosts to eliminate several evil spirits from south to north, but even Digua Shao (Sweet Potato Burn), had been called out and put to use.

On the way to Cha County to slay a grass-roots wild god, when he arrived, he sensed a ghostly atmosphere and an unusual evil. He searched around but could not find any trace of that fellow.

So he invoked the Measuring Heaven Boots and searched back and forth several times, but found no sign of him. Instead, he saw a troupe of actors, leading donkeys and carts, hurrying on their way in the night. So he stopped them, bowed, and said, "May I ask where the troupe leader is? Please come out and say a few words."

It was now in the wilderness, with no one around. Suddenly seeing a person with a ghost-head saber under his arm and a smiling mask on his face blocking the road, the people in the troupe were immediately startled.

The troupe leader was timid and hurriedly ordered people to grab their weapons, while he put on a smiling face and hurried forward to greet him: "I don't know why this brother is blocking our way in the middle of the night? Are you short of travel expenses and coming to borrow money?"

"Not borrowing travel expenses."

Hu Ma said, "I'm just asking the troupe leader for some information. Traveling troupes are used to the ways of the martial world. Now that the world is not peaceful, why risk traveling at night?"

"Who would want to travel at night? Isn't that how we met you?"

The troupe leader complained in his heart, but only dared to force a bitter smile on his face, saying, "We wouldn't dare to travel at night either, but we passed a small road earlier. We were familiar with it and should have come out in half an hour, but we got lost this time."

"We walked all afternoon, and it was only when we saw it was getting dark that we took out the costumes and prayed a few times before we got out. Now we've already delayed our journey. I hope you can give us some convenience. We're in a hurry to perform for the patron..."

Hu Ma listened and nodded, saying, "Take out the costumes again, and let me take a look."

"Ah?"

The troupe leader was immediately frightened: "Brother, are you even robbing our costumes? That's our livelihood. We still have two strings of cash and half a bag of millet. Why don't you take them and leave us our livelihood?"

Hu Ma didn't have time to talk to them anymore. He frowned and suddenly said in a low voice: "Take them out!"

He used the Ghost Whisper trick, his soul was strong and suppressed the other party, making the other party seem to be bewitched, confused, and obediently unloading the donkey cart and taking out the costumes from the box one by one, placing them on the ground.

"Aiya..."

Just as these costumes were spread on the ground, under Hu Ma's cold gaze, a young man's costume suddenly let out a scream, floated up from the ground, and ran towards the depths of the night, quite fast.

Hu Ma looked at it and couldn't help but sneer, as expected.

That fellow knew that the Ghost Walking Head Taker would come to him, and was unwilling to submit and dared not resist. So he borrowed the costumes of the troupe to conceal his aura and prepare to move.

There were all kinds of costumes in the troupe, pretending to be gods and ghosts, in various shapes and colors. Ghosts and spirits moving also loved to find them.

Now seeing that fellow was alarmed and ran away, Hu Ma also sneered, strode up to chase, and as he left, the people in the troupe woke up. Seeing that the costumes were all on the ground, they hurriedly counted, and sure enough, one was missing. They immediately beat their chests and stamped their feet, cursing:

"He's really a lunatic, leaving two strings of copper coins behind. In the middle of the night, he just robbed us of a costume and ran away..."

"..."

It was said that the grass-roots wild god borrowed the costume and ran extremely fast, and was about to disappear into the night when he heard a burst of giggling laughter. Paper figures floated over from all directions in the surrounding night, and behind them was a tall ghost figure with extremely heavy fierce aura.

The thing was so frightened that it screamed and knelt on the ground, crying loudly: "Please spare me, Head Taker. I really dare not offend the Town Suppression Bureau, but I dare not offend Master Meng either..."

"I only want to survive. I don't even want my family fortune. Please spare me, Master..."

"..."

Hu Ma walked out from the darkness behind him, his eyes sinister under the smiling mask: "Don't you understand that offending neither side means offending both sides?"

"I'll save you from suffering, just take a knife!"

"..."

Saying that, he killed it with a single blow, and felt that his Shou Sui dharma form was more condensed, but it was not as obvious as before.

"Eh?"

On the opposite side, Digua Shao's head poked out from behind that sinister and terrifying figure, looked at the troupe's costumes sprawled on the ground, and then looked at Hu Ma, saying, "Senior, it's not the same as you said. This good dish is far from reaching the level of a ghost king."

"This one is too timid. After being summoned by the altar, he was afraid that we would come to him, so he abandoned his territory and ran away. Of course, he's vulnerable. If he was in his valley, it would take some effort to deal with him."

Hu Ma was not polite and took out a list from his arms, saying, "However, since you're not satisfied, then I'll give you a few more. Just follow the list and eliminate them one by one."

Digua Shao's voice trembled a little, and she hurriedly took it, looking up and down, her breath stopping: "Really... all for me?"

Seeing her so excited, Hu Ma hesitated for a moment, but then he thought, in these troubled times, why consider so much? So he said, "Not only will I give them all to you, but I'll also give you a Head Taker Token to make it easier for you to act outside."

"However, you must abide by the rules, only punish the ringleaders, and don't harm the living. I've been in the Ghost Walking world for so long, and I've only managed to get the position of Head Taker. I want to share the benefits with you, but if you cause trouble, it will affect me."

"..."

"I understand!"

Digua Shao nodded excitedly, saying, "If something happens, how can I expose my brother? I'll carry it myself."

"Really?"

Hu Ma was surprised to hear that: "What did you do in your previous life?"

But in any case, Digua Shao's attitude was there, and the first person to step onto the stage set up by the Town Suppression Bureau had appeared.

...

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At the same time, a hundred miles away from Mingzhou City, a man with a thick beard, wearing black coarse cloth clothes, riding a big blue mule, was drinking wine from a wine gourd and sighing deeply:

"Although this time on the bridge was a bit bizarre, the harvest was quite a lot..."

"I thought that going on this bridge would be targeted by the Ghost Walking family, but there was no movement at all. Could it be that the Ghost Walking family only has a silly young master left and can't take care of me?"

"While he hasn't reacted, I can still help Little Red Lantern increase her skills..."

"..."

The more he thought about it, the happier he became, humming a little tune in his mouth. Logically speaking, it was not far from Zhumen Town, but firstly to show off, and secondly to be careful, he took out a red lantern from the mule's back to inquire about any unusual news.

He chanted, gently touched it, and the red lantern lit up. He held it in his hand, shook it a few times, and wanted to summon the Little Red Lantern to his side.

Unexpectedly, he shook it several times, his expression slightly suspicious: "Why can't I summon her?"

He hurriedly put away the wine gourd, sat up straight, and issued an edict, summoning the lonely wild ghosts from all directions to ask what was going on. But after hearing it, his head exploded: "What?"

"My Red Lantern, has become a Fu Shen (Bureau Spirit)?"