Chapter 1 Every Path, Upon Entering the Mansion, Represents Ascending the Hall and Entering a New World

Every path, upon entering the mansion, represents ascending the hall and stepping into a new world.

Hu Ma's Shou Sui entering the mansion meant entering a new level, far stronger than before. It was just a pity that he had only just entered, not having learned any of the unique skills and abilities of the mansion level. Even the differences in his own body after entering the mansion hadn't been adapted to yet.

Normally speaking, Shou Sui at this stage wouldn't fight others. Unless they had a great advantage, they'd just run away.

But Hu Ma had another advantage over others, which was the abilities in the Towns-Age Book. Before, his Shou Sui abilities and the skills in the Towns-Age Book could only be used separately, not working together.

But after entering the mansion, he could use his Shou Sui body to perform the Towns-Age techniques, and then use the Ghost Walker altar to bless his Shou Sui body. Even though he hadn't learned the mansion-level skills in the Shou Sui path, he had the confidence to fight the evil thing outside.

"Huff!"

Facing the enormous and incomparably twisted black shadow outside, he took a sudden breath in the altar, like a whale sucking water, and the rolling Yin energy was swallowed into his belly, then forcefully exhaled forward.

This breath blew onto the red lantern, and the weak red light emitted from the red lantern suddenly burst into bright light. Borrowing the power of the altar, it was like a rolling fire cloud, mighty and vast, burning towards the mysterious and deep black shadow outside the valley.

"Shua-li-pa-la!"

The huge black shadow covered the entire mountain forest, and there were rustling sounds of snakes and insects crawling everywhere, seeming to swallow everything.

But now that the red light burned over, a large area of black shadow was immediately burned, disintegrated, shrunk, melted, turning over and over, gathering and dispersing uncertainly.

Mixed in were also the sudden awakenings and panicked wails of some witchmen.

The black shadow that spread to the Pai Lou (gate tower) not only didn't invade the valley but was even burned back directly by this fire. Inside, there was vaguely some terrifying thing frantically twitching, colliding, and wailing.

The fire on the red lantern was actually a kind of divine light. Yin evil energy would disappear upon touching it. Ordinary Ghost Walkers could also use talisman fire and candles to blow out this flame when setting up an altar.

But usually, it would only burn for a short while and then stop because they couldn't keep up with the magical power, and they didn't have the ability themselves.

But Hu Ma was now using his Shou Sui body to drive the altar's magical power. How long was the Shou Sui's breath? He directly blew the red light on the red lantern into a fire dragon, winding and curling, from left to right, almost tearing the huge black shadow in half.

If the huge black shadow covering the entire forest was originally a Gu pot, now, the Gu pot was even about to break.

"My goodness..."

The people in the valley only saw the shadow of the behemoth approaching the valley, but as Hu Ma held the red wooden sword, and the red light in front of the valley blazed, the shadow immediately retreated and shrunk. In the invisible darkness, there were sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Old Man Sun, guarding in front of the valley, wailed for a while, almost kneeling, "The Red Lantern Goddess's magical power is actually so profound?"

"Then why am I still worshipping the One Coin Sect..."

"..."

He was an old Shou Sui who entered the mansion, and he was old and knowledgeable. It wasn't that he didn't know how powerful the things the witchmen had invited were, and that ordinary methods couldn't deal with them.

If a Tang Shang Ke (hall guest) personally came, that might be possible, but inviting a Tang Shang Ke also has different methods: The weakest method is to bring the Tang Shang Ke's token, and as long as you recite the mantra, you can let the Tang Shang Ke descend a trace of magical power and perform supernatural powers.

A more powerful method is for the Ghost Walker to set up an altar to borrow power, which can invite 30% of the Tang Shang Ke's magical power. If there is a secret token, there will be even more.

Compared to this, the highest is for the Spirit Bearer to use himself as a candle to invite the Tang Shang Ke to possess him. There is no upper limit. How much magical power can be invited depends only on how much life one is willing to burn, and how much magical power one can carry.

But Old Man Sun was sure that even the One Coin Sect Dharma King's method of invitation couldn't deal with the thing the witchmen had invited, and now, what the Red Lantern Society's little shopkeeper was using was clearly just the simplest method, yet it severely injured the thing outside?

Doesn't this mean that a trace of the Red Lantern Goddess's magical power is stronger than what the One Coin Sect Dharma King carries with his life?

"How could this be?"

At this moment, a desperate wail suddenly sounded in the valley.

It was the Wu Gong Clan Chief, who was possessed by the Gu worm, his face already wrinkled together. He wasn't so surprised just now when a Tang Shang Ke suddenly descended by borrowing the Dharma King's body, and when the Red Lantern Society's manager took action, breaking his insect song and cutting off the Qi of the entire valley.

All his wishful thinking was shattered. He had no choice but to rely on the witchmen's prayers to invite the Wu Shen (witch god) to descend, which was already a last resort, a lose-lose move. But who could have thought that he would still be severely injured all at once?

In fear and despair, he kept making insect noises, begging and urging, only thinking that the Wu Shen outside the valley could come in.

This was really impossible. To be honest, he had calculated countless times in his heart before taking action, and not once did he think that the Wu Shen had already descended, but was actually blocked outside the valley...

"Ka Ka Ka Ka..."

At the same time that he was praying in his heart, the Wu Shen outside also showed what seemed to be angry emotions. Naturally, it didn't want to endure any longer. Along with the sound of scales rubbing and the pungent smell, the huge black shadow spread towards the valley again.

This time it was clearly more ferocious, like a black tide pouring in.

The raging Yin wind and twisted and strange power caused the trees outside the valley to make painful wails that seemed to be audible to the human ear, and one by one, they were twisted into a hemp flower shape and crashed to the ground.

"It's really not easy to deal with..."

And Hu Ma, having taken this breath, felt a slight sinking in his heart. That thing was indeed not easy to deal with. As a being that condensed the power of countless Gu worms, evil spirits, witchmen's ancestral souls, and living people's flesh and blood, it also had unimaginable power.

After being burned by himself for so long, it still had the power to counterattack, and even wanted to directly hit his altar.

He gave a low shout, and the red wooden sword in his palm turned over and inserted into the ground.

The twisted and strange shadow rushed over, and with a rumbling sound, it was unknown how many trees were broken. Even the cliff walls surrounding the valley had been cracked in countless places, and gravel fell, raising countless smoke and dust.

The altar bore the brunt, directly taking the impact of the Wu Shen.

Everyone in the valley felt like they were in a nightmare, not knowing when they would be swallowed by invisible evil spirits. But they couldn't see the specifics in front of the valley, they could only see the red lantern.

As if being impacted and washed by a storm, it swayed and seemed about to be blown away or extinguished several times, but the red lantern stubbornly persisted, hanging on the Pai Lou, still emitting a reassuring red light.

They were increasingly convinced in their hearts and wanted to laugh. Using his own body as a Towns-Age object after entering the mansion, setting up an altar, with the person borrowing the altar's power and the altar being created by the person, actually had an amazing effect.

If you want to break the altar, you must first make your own Towns-Age object unable to withstand it.

But precisely, Shou Sui, especially Shou Sui who have entered the mansion, other abilities are hard to say, but they are indeed very able to withstand it.

"Can't wait any longer..."

And in this heart- Palpitating battle, the most tormented was still the Wu Gong Clan Chief, who only wanted to drill into the mine. He looked back at the Pai Lou countless times, hoping that the red lantern would be blown out or torn to shreds.

But it was still hanging there steadily, emitting a terrifying red light.

He also wanted to go to help the Wu Shen, but he didn't dare to approach the red light. He was afraid from the bottom of his heart, and he also wanted to help the Wu Ya beside him to solve the three incarnations of Wu Song who were deadlocked with her, but he still didn't dare. Compared to the one outside, he was even more afraid of Wu Song.

Before entering the mine, the Gu worm he possessed wasn't completely refined. It had the magical power to frighten people's hearts with insect songs, but it was also cut off as the Qi in the valley was dispersed by the evil Qi, and he couldn't continue it for a while.

Seeing that it was such a stalemate, no one knew what would happen. He suddenly gritted his teeth and rushed out of the Gu pot, rushing towards the mine covered with red cloth.

The Gu worm, separated from the Gu pot, had no protection at all.

But at this moment, he only wanted to enter the mine, and he only worried that Wu Song next to him would come out to stop him. But the result was unexpectedly smooth. Seeing himself rushing into the mine, Wu Song's three incarnations didn't even turn their heads to look at him.

He didn't seem to care at all whether he entered the mine or not, his attention was only on Wu Ya.

Even the Wu Gong Clan Chief was a little dazed, "If he doesn't care about me entering the mine at all, then why did he bother to stop me so much just now?"

"Huh?"

And not far away, Hu Ma also frowned slightly, but he wasn't flustered, just coldly looked at Monkey Wine, thinking about how to join forces with him to achieve a better effect.

This guy just wanted to kill the Wu Shen at first, but now, his purpose seems to have changed.

While his mind was racing, the Wu Gong Clan Chief did seize the opportunity, was overjoyed, and moved like lightning, directly penetrating the red cloth surrounding the mine, and even tore through the layers of wooden frames blocking the outside. He was about to directly enter the mine.

This scene frightened the meat cutters and Zhou Datong and others not far away, but they suddenly heard a "dong" sound, and the Gu worm was actually bounced out.

It seemed a little dizzy and had a bump on its head.

Everyone was stunned, not knowing what was going on.

Old Abacus, shrinking behind a piece of door panel, stretched out his head tremblingly and said a little awkwardly, "I had seen that the surname Zhuang was ill-intentioned long ago, and specially sealed the mine. I don't know what he's up to, so I secretly on the outside..."

"Sealed another layer..."

"..."

"?"

Under the Pai Lou, Hu Ma, who was fighting the Wu Shen outside by borrowing the altar, had sharp ears and eyes, and no movement could escape his ears. Hearing this, his mouth couldn't help but twitch, "Old fox..."

He had taken advantage of the previous patrol to secretly set up Ghost Walker arrangements around to prevent accidents. He didn't expect that this old guy hadn't been idle either...

It's just that the Wu Gong Clan Chief suffered.

And after such a delay, Hu Ma was also a little alert in his heart, frowned, and looked deeply into the valley. They are all reincarnators, can't you guys be so unreliable?

Now that I have done my best, but you still don't take action, do you really want me to show my abilities and first subdue you as an evil spirit?

(End of this chapter)