Chapter 29: Encountering the Infant Tower

The State of Chu was located in the southern part of the East, with a special geographical environment, close to the Ten Thousand Mountains in southern Xinjiang.

Especially in the southern region, influenced by the land veins of southern Xinjiang, there are countless strange peaks and dangerous rocks. The dense vegetation breeds a large amount of miasma and poisonous insects, making witchcraft rampant here.

The mixed living of people of various ethnic groups created complex but united local clans, which led to the Chu royal family's weak ability to rule the local areas.

The terrain was dangerous, voodoo was rampant, and banditry appeared from time to time, so many foreign merchants could easily die in a foreign land.

Therefore, in this land one can often see corpse drivers and corpse carriers who help people return to their roots.

For these professionals who are easily subject to taboos in other places, in the southern region of Chu State, as long as they do not blatantly show off their identities, they can enter tea stalls and first-class restaurants normally.

Under such circumstances, Chu Tai, who had left Taiyi Temple, raised his shoes, dressed up a little, and used magic to transform himself into a short middle-aged sorcerer in order to test whether the control of the "Wandering Man" was related to his identity. He then found a path that was often walked on and walked along it.

Because he didn't use his supernatural powers to travel faster, Chu Tai walked along the small path for half a month before turning onto the official road.

On this day, the sun was very hot. Chu Tai, who was walking on the road, suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him was a little strange. He turned his head and looked towards a place where yin energy was rising a hundred feet away from the official road.

Chu Tai had encountered similar situations several times in the previous ten days, mostly in places where the power of earth veins was intertwined and vital energy was entangled.

If it is close to a village or town, it is most likely the place where the village sorcerers practice their magic, and Chu Tai will just take a look and leave; otherwise, it is mostly ownerless land, and if it contains suitable vitality, Chu Tai will collect some of it to repair the magic weapon obtained from Wodan.

During this half month, Chu Tai has completely erased the last spell from the three magic weapons and brought them under his control.

According to research, the prototype of the Liuhe Circle, which is made of the best material and has the best refining technique among the three magic weapons, should be the Yin Ring in the Taiyi Two-Phase Ring, a secret magic weapon of the Jinhua Sect.

It was just that Taoist Wudan could not find the thousand-year-old cold jade suitable for refining the Yin Ring, so he modified it and used deep-sea cold iron and Kanshui sunken silver to refine the Liuhe Circle.

Compared to the original magic ban effect, the Liuhe Circle lacks the ability to protect the mind and resist external demons, but it has a little more sharpness and the ability to capture people with a set of objects.

After Chu Tai washed it, he wore it with him for self-protection.

Compared to the Liuhe Circle, the cloud material of the other two magic weapons is too poor, and the ghost flag is too incomplete.

In half a month, Chu Tai purified the clouds and mist again, spun them into silk and weaved them, filled the broken banner, and refined it into the Seven Yin Evil-Removing Banner learned from "Bei Xuan Yin Jing Ying Tian Tu", which he used as a magic weapon while playing the role of a side door sorcerer.

Most of the vital energies he encountered recently were refined into this new banner.

Now, all that was needed was to refine in one more Yin-attributed evil energy, and the pattern of seven Yins transforming evil on the banner would be completely formed. This made Chu Tai somewhat sensitive to the Yin energy that he might encounter.

He looked intently and saw two people lying in a place where vital energy gathered. There was also a person standing beside them helping to move things that looked like bronze mirrors so that more sunlight could shine on the two people.

After taking a look at the patterns and structures on the mirror, Chu Tai immediately understood that this was an unconventional method of gathering yang and expelling yin.

'Although this method can exorcise evil spirits by focusing sunlight, the patterns on the mirror are all wrong. Isn't it a bit too random?'

Thinking of this, Chu Tai recalled the many witches and sorcerers he had met in the past half month. He suddenly realized how difficult it was for ordinary people to get in touch with the complete inheritance of immortal methods, and how lucky he was to be able to obtain the inheritance of Jinhua Sect.

While sighing, Chu Tai also looked at the three people from a distance. The oldest one among them was a skinny old man.

He had a piece of yellow cloth covering his head, and on his bark-like face there were two pus-oozing boils. There were also yellow marks on his sleeves and back, probably also boils.

Under the concentrated sunlight, the pustules on his face emitted a yellow-brown mist visible to the naked eye, which was daunting.

The other man who was also lying there was much shorter, but he looked somewhat similar to the old man. It was unclear whether they were father and son, or uncle and nephew.

The only problem with the short man was that his left forearm was wrapped in a piece of cloth with cinnabar patterns, which gave off a faint chill in the sunlight.

With just one glance, Chu Tai saw the problem with the man's arm.

The man's arm was very stiff, the color of his fingers did not match his skin color, and there was a wound on the palm of his hand that seemed to have been cut by a sharp weapon. The flesh that had been turned over had turned black and purple, and a little bit of purple-black blood kept flowing out under the sunlight.

"Corpse Qi entering the body?"

Chu Tai frowned slightly and looked at the last tall man. He was burly, carrying a lot of things on his back. He looked a little silly, but his face was a little childish. He seemed to be only seventeen or eighteen years old.

What’s even more interesting is that this tall man is the only one among the three who has cultivated magical powers, even though his magical powers are so poor that Chu Tai can’t stand it.

"I remember that the foul air of the soul-moving grave and the miscellaneous air of the dead bones and remains were classified as the eighth-grade miscellaneous air, but with a little purification, they can be transformed into the seventh-grade grave air of the dead bones and remains. I didn't expect that there would be people who would not refine them and directly absorb these two kinds of energy for cultivation, etc..."

"Looking at the man's posture, it's not that he hasn't practiced, but he's just relying on instinct to inhale and exhale, so he lets the vital energy gather in his body? Why is this happening...?"

Chu Tai, who had studied physiognomy and was proficient in medicine, paid close attention and gradually realized that the young man had a shallow fate, and his spirit was unbalanced, as if he had lost his soul.

Moreover, when observing the young man's face, Chu Tai felt that he looked somewhat familiar. When calculating the young man's fate, he was even more surprised to find that he seemed to have some shallow connection with him.

"An old friend from the past?"

Chu Tai lowered his head, wondering whether he should give him some pointers so that he could refine the magic power in his body. After all, neither the foul air from the spirits nor the mixed air from the remains and bones were suitable for living people to use.

But think carefully about the time required to teach a person with a lost soul to cleanse his vital energy, the actual situation of his own avoidance of Tianmen Divine Lord, and the objective reasons that the two people around the man did not look like good people and it would be difficult to get rid of the infection once he was infected.

In the end, after staying there for a while, Chu Tai chose to leave and head along the road to the next town.

This time, he quickened his pace, each step was more than ten feet long. In less than half a minute, he approached the new landing point and sensed a new place where yin energy gathered.

Looking up, I saw a small bluestone tower about ten feet high. The top was covered with tiles with spells written on them. There were no doors or windows, only two holes covered by iron sheets as passages.

"Baby Tower, when did Chu have this thing?"

Looking at the small tower, Chu Tai felt the faint ghostly aura around the tower and was shocked.

(End of this chapter)

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