It's like a mass of pure yin energy, often produced by practices in the dark arts or found on skulls and yin ghosts.
And the skeleton ghosts naturally endowed with rich yin energy in the Ancient Yin River Dao almost always manage to produce Yin Essence Pills.
So where are the most skeleton ghosts found?
Xu Qing instinctively thought of his old neighbor, the Du'e Ghost King.
"Twelve years..."
Xu Qing's eyes flickered. In twelve years, even if Zuo Zixiong and the Eight Banner Marshals could not defeat the Du'e Ghost King and the Yin Erosion Law King, it was enough to severely deplete his old neighbor.
In the thousand-year-old Ghost King Mausoleum, just how many fallen skeleton ghosts would there be?
Those skeleton frames are all stark white corpses!
And they can continuously provide Xu Qing with supplies of Yin Essence Pills.
"Xuan Yu! I've thought of a solution!"
As the moon rose high, Xu Qing turned his head to look.
He saw no black cat beside him to share his worries.
His gaze swept across the store and fell on Huang Xiaoliu, holding a boiled egg on the coffin board and peeling its shell with his mouth.
Xu Qing stepped forward, snatched the egg from Huang Xiaoliu, and began peeling it while asking, "Where did the Profound Jade Immortal Family go?"
With egg shells stuck in his teeth, Huang Xiaoliu hurriedly replied, "Refugees from Jingzhou have traveled to Jin Sect by water to seek refuge. In the evening, Lady Qing Qing and the Gray Immortal Family from Feng Shui Hall, along with the protective Monkey Immortal Family, went to the docks to provide them with food and herbal relief..."
Bao Sheng Temple uses the Sutra of Salvation as its divine artifact to stabilize the temple, while the Cat Immortal Hall's artifact is a rice bowl.
Disaster relief is a major business of the Cat Immortal Hall and a significant source of incense offerings, but it can only be done at night, not during the day.
This also echoes the opera lines from 'Cat Deity,' which sings of aiding the poor at night and managing rodent infestations.
After listening to Huang Xiaoliu's report, Xu Qing couldn't help but smile.
He thought the cat was carefree and quick to dismiss worries, but little did he know the cat had already begun to work overtime to earn incense offerings.
If Xu Qing remembers correctly, the last time Xuan Yu acted this way was when he learned that Xu Qing was about to undergo tribulation.
"Xiaoliu, when the Profound Jade Immortal Family returns, convey a message for me, saying that the solution will be devised by the Xu Immortal Family, so it shouldn't worry too much."
Speaking, Xu Qing handed the peeled boiled egg to Huang Xiaoliu.
"There's also one more thing, I need to go on a long trip. Xiaoliu, go to the funeral clothes shop and fetch Boss Liu to look after the store for me."
"As for the funeral clothes shop... you can visit the Funeral House and have Tie Zhu come back to watch over it."
Ever since the coffin shop had a 'ghost' incident, Liu Su'e went to the nearby funeral clothes shop to replace the Wang family's little sister, accompanying Gu Qiao'Er's daughter in managing the shop.
When Xu Qing has immortal families look after the shop, he always has a principle that there must be a Galloping Immortal Disciple present.
Now that Xuan Yu is away, he's planning to travel to the Ancient Yin River Dao, but the business at the Funeral Shop cannot be interrupted.
Fortunately, besides Liu Su'e, Tie Zhu, who studied martial arts with him and became Huang Xiaoliu's Galloping Immortal Disciple, can independently handle matters.
The key point is, Tie Zhu is an obedient 'child.'
Unlike Wang Liang, who once studied martial arts with Xu Qing but later abandoned his family to follow Zhu Huai'an to the northern frontier.
If Wang Liang had endured the trials back then and practiced diligently, his martial achievement today would undoubtedly not be inferior to Tie Zhu's.
"People each have their own fate; I just hope he doesn't regret it..."
Xu Qing glanced at the lights in the Incense and Candle Shop; the Wang family's little sister has awaited her brother's return for six years.
The once pale and thin lass has now grown into a graceful young woman.
...
Upon arriving at the Ancient Yin River Dao from the Twin Coffin, Xu Qing immediately noticed something amiss.
Why was the casket upside down on the ground?
Xu Qing's senses were suddenly alert, and he wielded his mountain-opening axe, adding another layer to the Eighteenth Plane of the Celestial Gang Technique.
At the same time, Xu Qing set the anchor points in the Divine Travel Celestial Scripture early at two places: the Baisha River, which spans over a hundred miles, and the Hu Yang Mausoleum where Hu Baosong resides.
The Hu Yang Mausoleum, left by the Hu Yang tribe, has restrictions that provide some degree of concealment; Baisha River is the primary location for the Water Corpse and suspiciously shelters a Cyan Dragon; if faced with a truly difficult enemy, Xu Qing wouldn't hesitate to activate the cyan scales and awaken the hidden 'presence' in the Baisha River.
However, when Xu Qing forcibly pushed open the coffin lid and stepped out of a collapsed tomb, he found that this forest of steles and tombs had been ravaged by some calamity; all the burial mounds had been flattened.
Looking towards the even more desolate Ancient Yin River Dao, he noticed the distant massive Ghost King's Tomb was also badly battered.
Xu Qing could even see some skeleton ghost frames exposed outside the tomb, covered by layers upon layers of sand and wind.
Who would be so heartless to disturb graves?
Initially, Xu Qing thought it was the works of Zuo Zixiong and the Eight Banner Marshals exerting themselves, but when he lifted a skeletal ghost for transcendence, he found out that wasn't the case!
Days ago, when the ghost soldiers from the Ghost King Mausoleum were patrolling, the sky suddenly darkened, followed by thunderous roars from above.
The ghost soldiers looked up, only to see a water ladle covering the sky, dragging a tail of incense fire, crashing down towards the Ancient Yin River Dao with a world-destroying momentum.
The ghost fire in the ghost soldiers' hollow eyes flickered wildly.
The word "danger" surfaced in the ghost soldier's shriveled mind.
At this critical juncture, above the Ghost King Mausoleum suddenly appeared a ghost king manifestation wearing a royal crown and a yellow dragon robe.
That ghost king wielded a royal sword, his figure towering dozens of meters high, ready to intercept the falling water ladle.
At the same time, to the southeast, a skeletal general wearing a commander's helmet and heavy armor, bearing a national dragon, wielded a spear to meet the descending water ladle.
In the southwest, the gender-fluid Yin Erosion Law King unleashed countless swarm insects to form a tornado storm, assaulting towards the water ladle.
The ghost soldiers had never witnessed such a scene before, and without time to think, the dark cloud pressed by the water ladle revealed a colossal entity seemingly pieced together from thousands of ghosts.
Xu Qing recognized the entity as the Ghost Law's form, which the old woman faced upon entering the Ancient Yin River Dao.
The Ghost Law employed ghost imaginations to extend its thousand black and red ghost arms, grabbing towards the water ladle.
Concurrently, thousands of ghosts like plague ghosts, shadow-eating ghosts, and consumption ghosts on the Ghost Law's form swarmed along the ghost arms to attack the water ladle.
To the south, ancient sanctified priestesses and witch chiefs chanted ancient curses, causing skeletons buried beneath the Ancient Yin River Dao to unearth, assembling four bone warriors with ox heads and human bodies, and horse faces and human bodies, aiming to halt the descent of the water ladle.
Yet, just as the water ladle was about to crash down, the ghost king manifestation above the Ghost King Mausoleum suddenly shrunk, transformed into a ghostly light, and rapidly fled into the depths of the mausoleum, disappearing.
Patrolling ghost soldiers were momentarily stunned; while others stayed, their own ghost king applied oil to its soles and ran away first?
The ghost soldiers watched the resolute departure of the ghost king's figure, sensing the collapsing majesty of a ghost king monument that once stood higher than a mountain in their hearts.
At this moment, the water ladle crashed with a loud sound, a visible gray storm swept in, extinguishing the last glimmer of true spirit within the ghosts like candles in the wind!
The Sutra of Salvation completed its page-turning, and Xu Qing, holding the Yin Essence Pill in his hand, remained silent for a long while.
He remembered that when the old woman escaped the Ancient Yin River Dao, she issued a harsh statement to Ghost Law, the ancient priestesses, and witch chiefs.
She said that borrowing weak water must be repaid, and she would settle the account with them sooner or later.
Originally, Xu Qing didn't take it seriously, never imagining the old woman harbored such a grudge!
Simultaneously, Xu Qing understood where the old woman consumed all the weak water to borrow power.
It turned out that the silent bomb was never dropped in Jin Sect but was thrown into the Ancient Yin River Dao!
............
He had remembered that when the old woman escaped from the Ancient Yin River Dao, she had issued a harsh statement to Ghost Law, the ancient priestesses, and the witch chiefs.
She said borrowing weak water must be repaid, and she would settle the account with them sooner or later.
Originally, Xu Qing didn't take it seriously, never imagining the old woman harbored such a grudge!
Simultaneously, Xu Qing understood where the old woman consumed all the weak water to borrow power.
It turned out that the silent bomb was never dropped in Jin Sect but was thrown into the Ancient Yin River Dao!