Chapter 506 Little Ghosts Carry Sedan and Measuring Heaven Boots

"This..." Hu Ma hadn't expected Di Gua Shao's eyes to be so sharp, even greeting him so openly. He felt somewhat helpless. The reason he waited to travel at roughly the same time as Di Gua Shao was because he worried she was unreliable and would waste time.

But as reincarnated individuals, even if they knew each other, it was best to have as little contact as possible. At most, they would nod to each other and go about their business.

She, on the other hand, didn't care about that at all. Instead, she excitedly yelled, waving the willow twig whip in her hand high in the air, and laughed, "Run faster, run faster, get ahead of him!"

The little ghosts carrying the sedan next to her heard this and immediately cried out, "Grandma, we're running fast enough! Yesterday we were beaten by Grandma, and our backs still hurt today. We can't run..."

Di Gua Shao's eyes widened as she heard this. She grabbed a handful of paper money and scattered it high in the air, saying, "I told you yesterday to listen to me. There are plenty of rewards."

"Grandma has a willow branch whip in her left hand and handfuls of money in her right. Which do you want? Tell me!" As she spoke, the paper money fell with a rustling sound on both sides of the sedan, covering the heads of many little ghosts.

These little ghosts, their noses bruised and faces swollen, were hit by the paper money, but they suddenly perked up, their eyes even shining. A group of short legs moved very quickly, and they shouted at the top of their lungs, "It doesn't hurt anymore!"

"Grandma is willing to give rewards, which is much better than the previous owner. Besides, Grandma is light. We don't need Grandma to use the willow whip. We can still run faster than anyone else!"

As they spoke, the surrounding yin wind howled, and they actually became faster and faster, seemingly leaving Hu Ma far behind.

"Heh, childish!"

Hu Ma watched from behind and found it amusing. "She wants to compete with me?"

As a descendant of the Hu family, master of the Non-Eaters, he certainly wouldn't do such a childish thing... As he thought, he quickened his pace, as if wind was rising beneath his feet, and instantly caught up. He even left Di Gua Shao, who was sitting in the sedan, behind.

It wasn't to compete with Di Gua Shao, but to see which was faster, his Measuring Heaven Boots or the little ghosts carrying the sedan.

He had actually competed with Meng's second son once before, but that time, when Meng's second son got into the sedan, the little ghosts had already been beaten, damaging their roots, so they didn't run as fast. Now was the time to see their true abilities.

"As expected of a senior, even his way of traveling is so brilliant!" Di Gua Shao watched from behind and deeply admired him. Then, she scattered a large handful of paper money and urged the little ghosts carrying the sedan to chase after him quickly.

"This little girl probably only obtained the Little Ghost Sedan Carrying method last night, right?"

Hu Ma noticed that Di Gua Shao was catching up quickly and felt a little puzzled. "Only a day, and she's running this fast?"

He slightly relaxed his guard and took a closer look. Using his eyes after entering the fu realm, he discovered the reason.

Good heavens, those handfuls of paper money were imbued with magic! He had been hit on the head by Di Gua Shao's paper money before in order to put on a show, and it had instantly bought away an unknown amount of his cultivation.

Cultivation was vitality, closely related to a person's life and death. Therefore, for ordinary people, this paper money was buying life.

And now, she was scattering handfuls of paper money that had already bought lives.

This paper money bought the lives of the living, but giving it to these little ghosts was rewarding them. It was truly generous beyond compare. Which well-to-do family could waste money like this? No wonder these little ghosts carrying Di Gua Shao, despite looking bruised and battered and having suffered a great loss, were now carrying her with such enthusiasm. If he wasn't careful, she would catch up to him.

How should he put it? It was almost like using handfuls of blood food to drive the little ghosts.

Feeling impressed, he accelerated slightly, and his speed increased again, quickly leaving Di Gua Shao behind.

Through this competition, he gained a certain understanding of this secret art. People in this world relied entirely on their legs to travel. Even wealthier families relied on mules and horses. People in the know had their own secret arts, but they each had their own costs.

Di Gua Shao's traveling method relied on paper money that had bought human lives, while he borrowed the Measuring Heaven Boots to travel, constantly consuming his own cultivation.

Before, when he had borrowed the power of the Measuring Heaven Boots to chase Meng's second son, he hadn't noticed it because he had only traveled a short distance. Now, he realized that the consumption of cultivation was quite fast, no less than the consumption of performing a special skill for the time it takes to burn one incense stick.

But if he had to compare, the most powerful traveling method seemed to be borrowing a path from the yin realm. That kind of method was the most elusive and powerful, but he didn't quite understand it. He would have to ask Er Guo Tou for advice later.

All techniques in this world that involved the yin realm were mysterious and unpredictable, beyond the imagination of outsiders.

Especially within the Gatekeeping lineage, there was no involvement at all.

The current Hu Ma knew about the "yin realm," but he couldn't even explain what it was. He had heard wandering ghosts say long ago that the gates of hell in this world were closed, which was why so many strange and evil things lingered in the human world.

But in fact, there were yin realm guides like Xiang Yatou who could lead the souls of the living to the black door, and there were also Borrowing Soldier Talismans that could borrow ghost soldiers from the yin realm.

There was even the so-called yin realm in Di Gua Shao's mouth that could record people's karmic debts... It could only be said that it was a vast and strange world. The current him wasn't ready and didn't dare to delve into it.

As he thought, he familiarized himself with the special skills and abilities of the fu realm, and also headed towards Mingzhou.

He and Di Gua Shao chased each other, covering more than two hundred miles in one night.

It wasn't until the crowing of chickens came from the villages along the road that they slowed down and looked for a place to rest on both sides of the official road.

From the Blood Food Mine to his own manor, it would normally take eight or nine days to travel by swift horse. Even if they spared no effort and hurried desperately, like Di Gua Shao before, traveling day and night, it would still take more than three days.

But now, with the Measuring Heaven Boots, it seemed that two nights of running would be enough.

However, now that he stopped to calculate, he also realized that this kind of borrowed method of traveling consumed a lot of cultivation. If he ran at full speed, relying only on his three incense sticks of cultivation, he would probably have to stop and rest after running for about two hours.

Compared to Di Gua Shao, the advantages and disadvantages were also very obvious.

Within a short distance, he was much faster than Di Gua Shao and could leave her behind at any time, but when it came to long-distance travel, she seemed to be better than him.

However, her handfuls of paper money consumed her usual accumulation. In comparison, it was not as easy and effortless as borrowing the Measuring Heaven Boots.

Now that it was already dawn, he just wanted to find a place to take a nap and replenish some energy, so he didn't enter the village. Instead, he found a ancestral hall and rested. He gnawed on some green food, fetched some spring water from a nearby stream, and barely filled his stomach.

Using the Measuring Heaven Boots to travel, he could also use the technique during the day, but it was easy to shock the world. Moreover, traveling day and night consumed too much cultivation.

This was better than Di Gua Shao, who could only use her Little Ghost Sedan Carrying method at night.

After resting for a day, when dusk descended and night fell again, Hu Ma returned to the official road and used the technique again, striding towards the Mingzhou territory. Now that he was more and more skilled, he was much faster than the previous night.

By the second half of the night, he had already entered the Mingzhou territory, so he slowed down. When the morning mist surged and the sky brightened, he returned the Measuring Heaven Boots.

He estimated that he was no more than twenty or thirty miles away from the Old Yin Mountain territory and could walk the rest of the way.

"Aunt?" As soon as he returned here, he saw many cyan banners erected high in various places between the villages and along the official road.

Some were only located at the head of the village or beside trees, while others were held high by believers wearing green robes and crowns, slowly following behind the banners, passing through the rural dirt roads. The busy people in the fields on both sides hurriedly kowtowed when they saw them from afar.

Without exception, all the cyan banners had the character "Li" (理, principle) on them. Coupled with their expressions and robes, Hu Ma could easily guess that they must be people from some kind of sect.

However, these kinds of sects were usually cautious and dared not show themselves in public. Even the One Coin Sect, which had a large momentum, was determined to rebel and only dared to hide in the mountains. How could this Green Lotus Sect be so openly in the open? He felt strange in his heart, but he didn't want to interfere. He didn't even take a look. In the distant fields, a gust of yin wind swept towards here. It was Di Gua Shao yelling and screaming, only half an incense stick of time slower than him, and she had already arrived at this place.

She was excited at this time, and the little ghosts carrying the sedan were even more excited, directly crashing forward.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the road, there were people carrying cyan banners walking in the middle of the official road, and the passing mules, horses, and pedestrians all gave way to the side. Di Gua Shao's reckless intrusion happened to collide with them.

The banner holder raised his head and shouted, "The True Principle Altar does not allow collision!" As he spoke, an invisible yin energy suddenly spread out from behind the banner.

"...It looks dangerous, but in fact, Di Gua Shao knew what she was doing. Seeing that she was about to collide, she sighed and raised the willow twig whip in her hand, slashing it in the air. The little ghosts carrying the sedan immediately stopped their feet, still a considerable distance from the banner! But she also heard the banner holder..."

These little ghosts, after two days of getting along, had long since joined Di Gua Shao's sect and immediately cursed and scolded, "Where did these demons come from, daring to offend our Grandma?"

"Then beat them!" Di Gua Shao, in the sedan, stretched lazily, looked down from above, and asked the cyan banner holder, "Who are you, daring to bully me in the territory of the Red Lantern Society?"