Chapter 261: The Tiger Army’s trapped camp, meeting the young master!
When the curtain of space was lifted by Xu Yu, a corner of the turbid and surging Yellow Spring appeared before the three people.

Zhou Tieyi instantly sensed that the flow rate of the "vitality" around him was accelerating. With just a glance at Huang Quan's appearance, the two talismans on him and Miaoyu's bodies were like withered flowers, wrinkled and dried up, and the special ink also quickly dissipated.

The loss of vitality was only one of the reasons why the talisman withered. The more important reason was the invisible and terrifying suction coming from the underworld.

This part of the suction directly acts on the soul, as if there are gusts of "cold wind" up and down, left and right, pushing oneself towards the underworld.

Zhou Tieyi felt that his smooth and unobstructed blood was rapidly freezing in the "cold wind", as if he had turned into an ordinary person again and was surrounded by ice and snow.

Before he could do anything, the mute old man who had remained calm all this time suddenly stood in front of the two men. His slightly hunched body was like a ballast stone, standing between Zhou Tieyi, Miaoyu and Huang Quan, completely blocking the bone-chilling 'wind'.

"Mute, are you okay?"

Zhou Tieyi asked cautiously.

Originally, he thought that the illusory Yellow Spring evolved by his brother was already amazing enough, but after seeing just the tip of the iceberg of Yellow Spring, he understood why this place was called the destination of death by the people of this world, and why it gave birth to nine ancient gods like the Emperor of Birth and Death.

The mute old man turned his head, revealing his sparse and fleshless gums, grinned, and gave Zhou Tieyi a thumbs up.

A trustworthy elderly person, Zhou Tieyi commented in his heart.

The mute old man stood in front, trying to enter the space opened by the virtual fish little by little. Suddenly, his left arm seemed to be hit by something, and his clothes were torn by a sharp object, followed by more than a dozen wounds. The mute old man looked solemn and no longer smiled, as if he was thinking about the source of his strength.

For a moment, there was only the virtual fish swimming in the air, as if everything that had just happened had nothing to do with it.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it, and threw the tiger talisman in his hand to the mute old man, "Mute old man, try it."

The mute old man took the tiger talisman, nodded, and stepped into the space opened by the virtual fish again. This time the terrifying invisible attack no longer occurred. The mute old man successfully entered the curtain, and then nodded to Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu, indicating that they could come in as well.

After Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu entered, the space curtain that was opened by Xuyu closed again, leaving no trace.

In this small space, strong sensory stimulation impacted Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu's minds.

Fortunately, Zhou Tieyi had the [Usurpation of God] magical power to protect him, so his mind was not moved. He just felt that there were some problems with his perception system.

There are always various cries of death floating in the ears. These cries make people feel as if they are on the battlefield, with enemies everywhere. The sense of danger constantly stimulates the nerves, which can easily lead to misjudgment and even attack the companions around them.

In addition to hearing problems, the sense of smell is also a hard-hit area. The strong smell of rust corrosion and blood corrosion fills the nasal cavity, making people feel like they are in a long-abandoned weapons warehouse.

And this was not just an illusion. Possessing the power of flesh and blood, Zhou Tieyi could feel wisps of invisible evil spirit entering his blood through his breath, condensing into metal spikes so tiny that ordinary people could not perceive them.

These metal spikes are actually more than just the power of Gengjin!
Having already comprehended the image of the White Emperor and practicing the [Record of Supervising Soldiers and Killing Demons], Zhou Tieyi was very sure!
If he really had to describe this special power of Gengjin, it would be that blood corrodes metal and then grows rust, not the metal itself.

Therefore, this rust can not only absorb metal to grow, but also absorb blood to grow.

By the time a person reacts, the metal spikes in the body have already accumulated to a certain level, eventually turning the person into a rusty statue.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Miaoyu anxiously and said that if senior sister couldn't bear it, he could let her leave first.

A faint shadow covered Miaoyu, like a film of water. Although Miaoyu looked solemn, the mute old man in front of her blocked most of the pressure, and she naturally had some magic ways to bear the remaining pressure.

"Sister, is it okay?"

When Miaoyu heard Zhou Tieyi's question, she nodded with a slightly cold expression.

Senior sister’s expression is a little strange?
Normally, even if the senior sister didn't want to see me, she would be gentle and detached, like a clear spring in a valley. Even though she seemed far away, she was not cold.

And now the senior sister's expression is a bit like a frozen spring, which makes people feel as if she is keeping them at a distance.

Not only that, Senior Sister also looked better.

Zhou Tieyi commented in his heart with great certainty.

Before, Miaoyu's facial features were far from excellent, but they were well coordinated, and coupled with the elegance brought by years of Taoism, she was classified as a beauty.

Now that her expression had become cold, Miaoyu's facial features had also become cool and beautiful, with details gradually becoming perfect, just like a newly opened flower that had fully blossomed and then instantly frozen into a rose in ice.

"I was using the Dao Sutra to suppress my mind, so some changes occurred in me."

Miaoyu's voice was cold and this time there was really no ups and downs. Noticing the confusion in Zhou Tieyi's eyes, she took the initiative to explain.

Zhou Tieyi's confusion about his senior sister had not yet been resolved when a strong voice came from beside him, "Xiao Tieyi, do you have any clothes with you?"

Zhou Tieyi looked towards the source of the sound. At the moment when his senses were shocked, not only did Senior Sister Miaoyu undergo tremendous changes, but the changes on Old Man Ya's side were even more shocking.

His originally hunched and withered body turned into an iron tower. His exposed muscles burst his loose clothes and turned into strips of cloth hanging on his body. Every inch of exposed skin was a thick bronze color, just like a copper ingot that had been hammered thousands of times and then cut extremely precisely to become a perfect human form.

Zhou Tieyi himself was tall enough, but in front of this figure, he looked like a teenager who had not yet grown up, and was two heads shorter.

"Dumb old man?"

The mute old man nodded, touched the hair on his head that stood up like iron needles, and laughed, "I haven't felt alive for a long time! It's so refreshing!"

Zhou Tieyi quickly took out his loosest training suit from the white jade chessboard.

The mute old man took the clothes and changed them without any care.

Zhou Tieyi moved a few steps and stood in front of Miaoyu, but Miaoyu's expression at this moment showed that she didn't care at all.

However, she also knew that this was not her normal state or normal thinking, so she didn't say much.

After the mute old man changed his clothes and moved his hands and feet, he seemed to be really feeling the feeling of being alive. Anyone who has been a living dead for hundreds of years will cherish every minute of the feeling of being truly alive.

"Mute, how have you changed now?"

Zhou Tieyi asked tentatively. He had a hunch that the changes in the mute old man might be able to explain the strangeness of the Zhou family ancestral hall to some extent.

The joy and boldness on the mute old man's face faded and turned into calmness. He just explained, "Outside, I am 'death in life', and here I am 'life in death'."

"My name is Xie Tingchun. I carried the flag for the Marshal back then. Of course, you can just call me the dumb old man when you are outside. I don't want to use the name Xie Tingchun on that horrible-looking guy."

Those who can carry the military flag for the commander-in-chief are the most loyal guards among the loyal guards. In particular, most of the military strategists in this world can refine the military flag into a secret treasure to command the army.

When the commander-in-chief is pinned down by a powerful enemy, the flag bearer takes on the function of temporarily unifying the army.

Old Mute didn't want to explain more, and Zhou Tieyi didn't want to force him to ask more questions. After all, anyone could see that Old Mute had contributed a lot to the Zhou family and was even willing to continue existing as a living dead.

Zhou Tieyi didn't ask any more questions. The mute old man grinned again and said, "You are not bad..."

He thought about it carefully, and then came up with what he thought was the highest evaluation, "Better than the Marshal back then." Miaoyu suddenly asked, "Why do you think so?"

Her current state is very strange. Even she cannot completely control it. Everything depends on her heart. So she wants to know Xie Tingchun's evaluation of Zhou Tieyi, so as to learn more information about Zhou Tieyi.

The old man smiled, pointed at himself, Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu, and said to Miaoyu, "The three of us came in together, and both of us changed with the world, but he was the only one who didn't change. Isn't that amazing?"

Miaoyu nodded seriously and said, "The essence remains unchanged, and it has already become detached from the world."

Zhou Tieyi interrupted, "We came here to find the weak spot in the space of the soldier's tomb. Thank you, Uncle... Thank you, Grandpa... Thank you, Great Grandpa."

Zhou Tieyi changed the address several times, and Ya Lao smiled and said, "Just continue to call me Ya Lao."

"Old Mute, do you know the secret of how the soldiers' tombs were built?"

Since the mute old man had carried the flag for my great-grandfather in the past, and my great-grandfather was a favorite general of the founding emperor of Great Xia, and had experienced the entire history of the founding of Great Xia, with his level as a second-rank military strategist, it is very likely that he had a complete understanding of the establishment of the military tomb.

The mute old man nodded as expected.

"In the final battle of the founding of the country, seeing that a new 'Human Emperor' might appear, not only did the State of Chen fight with all its might, but many evil gods also fought back desperately, setting up a huge conspiracy. With the help of this battlefield covered by 400,000 soldiers' souls, they directly broke through the barrier between Yin and Yang, and even wanted to reverse the underworld and pollute the two long rivers of Heluo. If they really succeeded, the vitality of Heluo would be reduced by at least half, and half of the land in the world would be neither human nor ghost."

He pointed at himself and said, "I was contaminated during the First World War."

"So after the final battle, Taizu had no time to build a new capital. He could only order Guanjun Hou to move this Yujing Mountain from Beihai to serve as the throne hall, and then he ascended the throne by force and turned into the sun and moon to suppress this place."

The second-rank military strategist is "Mountain Puller", and he really has the power to pull mountains. No wonder I feel that the terrain around Yujing Mountain is very strange. It is obviously a large plain, large enough to accommodate four cities, but there is a high mountain abruptly rising in the middle. And I heard that the Fuyao Mountain next to it was originally a bit higher than Yujing Mountain, but a layer was directly cut off.

As for why this founding history has not been widely circulated, it should be related to the fact that the final battle involved many gods. The more powerful the gods are, the more difficult it is to let their names spread. All traces of their existence should be erased as much as possible, so that the possibility of their return will be smaller.

What Zhou Tieyi cares more about is the second half, where Taizu of Daxia ascended the throne without any preparation and turned into the sun and the moon in the sky. Is this the reason why the Emperor of Daxia cannot become the Holy Emperor? Because from the very beginning, the founder of this Taoist tradition had a fatal flaw, so even if the later emperor inherited the throne, he would not be able to live for five hundred years like the Holy Emperor.

Zhou Tieyi looked solemn, "If there is a problem with the soldier's tomb now, will the situation of the Yellow Spring flowing backwards happen again?"

If this is true, he really needs to reconsider his cooperation with Guan Guan.

Although he has never considered himself a good person, as a calculating bad guy, he cannot do such a thing which hurts the world but brings the greatest benefit to others!
"I haven't been able to do that for a long time."

The mute old man answered with certainty, "You are worried that the opening of the soldier's tomb will lead to the evil spirits causing trouble, right?"

Zhou Tieyi nodded.

It is no longer a secret that Daxia has opened the soldier's tomb for the God-Slaying Division. As the protector of the Zhou family, it is normal for Old Ya to know about this.

"Your Majesty must have his confidence in opening the soldiers' tomb. Moreover, after three hundred years of grooming, this Yellow Spring tributary has been completely tamed by the fate of the Great Xia nation, and even the entrance has been changed several times. The wronged souls of the Chen Kingdom who were dissatisfied at the beginning have long been dispersed, leaving only the loyal souls of our Great Xia. Even if the boundary between Yin and Yang is temporarily broken, they will not harm the people of Great Xia. Instead, they will help Great Xia temporarily block the influence of Yellow Spring on the world of the living."

"And even if the first-rank one takes action, it doesn't mean they can completely break it. At most they can create some loopholes..."

Old Ya thought for a moment, and then explained to Zhou Tieyi, "With such a large world, countless military spirits stationed there, and His Majesty as the commander-in-chief, do you know what this means?"

Zhou Tieyi followed the mute old man's suggestion and suddenly he opened his eyes slightly and uttered a very blasphemous word, "Shen Ting."

The "Kingdom of God" of the Great Xia Saint not only covers Yujing Mountain and the four cities, but also covers the corresponding underworld and connects the yin and yang.

Only in this way can he possess a power stronger than that of a first-rank god. Previously, he was able to be as transcendent as the sun and the moon in his own 'kingdom of God'.

"clever."

The mute old man said approvingly.

Just as the two were talking, a dark cloud spread out from afar. When the dark cloud got closer, a number of ghost soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons, holding flags, appeared. The leading ghost soldier waved his hand, and the flag turned into a dark cloud, surrounding the three people who broke in.

At the right moment, the mute old man raised the tiger talisman in his hand and shouted, "Seeing the tiger talisman is like seeing a saint!"

The aura of the tiger talisman was amplified ten times in this special world and could be easily sensed. Moreover, like the imperial edict, this thing contained the destiny of the country and could not be false on the surface.

The ghost soldier immediately raised his hand to stop his men's siege. Feeling the national destiny, the ghost soldier dismounted, clasped his fists and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."

"Holy Holy Gong."

The mute old man calmly looked around at the ghost soldiers around him and said skillfully, "Take us to the Tiger Power Army's base."

The dark clouds gathered again, this time carrying three people into the air. Less than an incense stick of time later, they arrived outside a barracks. Seeing the familiar way of setting up the camp, the mute old man was slightly stunned, his heart full of emotion. If he was not living in the world as a living dead, he would also be stationed in this barracks at this time.

"Tiger Power Army, listen up and go out of the camp to welcome the angel."

The ghost soldier who brought the three people here let out a low roar.

Suddenly, teams of ghost soldiers blew their horns just like when they were alive. In an instant, they turned into whistling winds and stood in neat rows in front of the tents.

The leader of the Yin soldiers looked at the mute old man in disbelief, "Xie Lao San, you are still alive?!"

The mute old man looked at his old friend from three hundred years ago and said with a smile, "The Marshal won't let me die, so I can't bear to die."

"Come, come, come, everyone, meet the second young master of this generation of the Tiger Power Army."

Only then did the many ghost soldiers focus their attention on Zhou Tieyi who was standing beside the mute old man, but their eyes were still a little hesitant.

Because to become the young master of the Tiger Power Army, it is not only about bloodline, in any military practice, the strength of the commander is the most important. Otherwise, even if you become a general, you will be incompetent and bring disaster to the whole army.

Zhou Tieyi took a step forward, and the surging energy and blood in this gray space was really like a rising sun. In the reflected light, the Green Emperor held a bamboo stick, the Red Emperor controlled a fire snake, the Yellow Emperor embraced a wheat ear, and the White Emperor held a sharp sword. The five-colored light, carrying Zhou Tieyi's rapidly evaporating energy and blood, shone on these ghost soldiers.

For a moment, a trace of satisfaction appeared on the ghost soldier's face. Getting the blood and energy of a living person, especially the pure blood and energy of a top warrior like Zhou Tieyi, was the best practice for a ghost.

The leader of the Yin Army took a serious look at Zhou Tieyi, then clasped his fists and greeted him, "I am Huang Yuquan from the Zhou Family's Xianzhen Camp, greeting the young master."

"Zhou Clan's Xianzhen Camp, meet the young master!"

Zhou Tieyi gathered his own Qi and blood, and said in a concentrated voice, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Young Master, please enter the account."

Huang Yuquan stepped aside and respectfully welcomed Zhou Tieyi into the tent.

Old Mute also turned sideways and looked at Zhou Tieyi with satisfaction.

Zhou Tieyi took the lead and strode forward.

(End of this chapter)