In a corner of the cemetery.
After escaping from the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost.
Zhang Mei and the others arrived here.
"The ghost exorcist in the yellow casual clothes, that's not the team I encountered."
Captain Li, while bandaging the blood-soaked teammate, listened to Zhang Mei recount the corpses in the pool of blood they encountered.
"So, it seems there are indeed other members of the Wei Dao Division who have been drawn into this ghost domain."
Zhang Chao spoke up.
He was currently assisting Captain Li in bandaging the injured.
It was at this moment.
Captain Li revealed something:
"The corpse you encountered, it's likely their entire team is dead. Because before I encountered the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost, I found the team I encountered, and they were all dead."
Everyone listened, their hearts suddenly heavy, a shadow cast over their minds.
Zhang Mei rubbed her temples and exhaled a breath of turbid air:
"Prepare for a fight to the death."
After a moment of thought.
Zhang Mei made arrangements:
"If the horde of fierce ghosts comes later, Zhang Chao, you guys deal with the other ghosts. Li team, Wunian, and I will deal with that Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost."
She looked at Wunian as she spoke:
"Wunian, you have the magical artifact given to you by your sect, its destructive power against ghosts is greater than mine and Captain Li's. You will be the main attacker against the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost, and Captain Li and I will assist you."
Wunian clasped his hands together and nodded.
Then she looked at Captain Li again: "Captain Li, you've fought with that Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost before. Tell us about its abilities."
From ancient times to the present, there have been many ghosts and monsters passed down among the people, and each of them has its own characteristics.
For example, zombies, their characteristic is that people bitten by them will be infected with zombie poison, and if the zombie poison is not removed in time, the bitten person will turn into a zombie.
For example, drowning ghosts, their characteristic is that they are very terrifying in the water, and they can control water to drag people into the water and drown them.
This is just like ghost exorcists.
Different types of ghost exorcists, such as Taoist priests, Maoshan Taoist priests, Chu Ma Xian, and so on, each sect and school has its own special ghost exorcism techniques.
Ghosts are also like this.
And their characteristics are mostly determined by the way they died in life, for example, drowning ghosts died by drowning in their lifetime.
Zhang Mei and the others did not know what kind of ghost the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was, they only knew that this ghost used the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Cave to enhance its strength, which was not its method of death.
It was a matter of life and death for everyone.
Captain Li did not dare to take it lightly and said directly:
"That ghost has a very special ability, it..."
Before he finished speaking.
Captain Li's gaze flickered, and his gaze fell on the gravestone closest to them.
Not just him.
Zhang Mei and the others also noticed.
Because they smelled a rotten bloody smell, following the smell, the bloody smell was emanating from that gravestone.
"Hmm?"
Zhang Chao's eyebrows twitched, and upon closer inspection, his expression was astonished.
He saw that on the gravestone, two newly carved characters had appeared at some point, the handwriting was crooked, and the strokes were stained with foul-smelling blood, which flowed down the strokes, forming streaks of red bloodstains.
Looking closely.
The three characters were clearly... Wunian.
Because the font was crooked and messy, and obscured by the seeping bloodstains, they couldn't recognize it for a moment.
The moment they recognized it.
Captain Li's face suddenly changed, and a look of horror appeared on his face. He immediately shouted:
"Quickly destroy those two characters, quickly!! That's the method of the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost!! As long as a name is carved, that ghost can curse the person with that name, and that person will die in a short time!!! My teammates died like this before!"
Zhang Chao and the others were so scared that their faces turned green, a chill shot up from the soles of their feet to the crown of their heads, and they quickly grabbed their peach wood swords and rushed towards the gravestone.
For a moment.
Zhang Chao, Zhang Mei, and the others rushed forward.
However, no matter how many ghost exorcism techniques they used, they were all useless, and they could not destroy the characters on the gravestone at all.
Wunian also made a move.
His Buddhist prayer beads spun, and in his other hand, he held a page of Buddhist scriptures.
As he recited the scriptures, a Buddhist amulet at his waist emitted Buddhist light, enveloping Wunian's entire body.
However, after reciting for a few seconds.
"Pfft!"
Wunian's face suddenly turned pale, his Buddhist prayer beads all broke, and the beads scattered on the ground. A mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth.
"Wunian!!!"
Zhang Chao was the first to react, supporting Wunian who was about to stumble.
No need to think.
The 'curse of the gravestone characters' that Captain Li mentioned had begun to take effect, and its power was so great that even with a magical artifact and the cultivation of a Buddhist golden body, Wunian could not resist it.
Wunian's pale face and the bloodstains at the corners of his mouth made Zhang Mei and the others anxious. The two male companions, seeing that their ghost exorcism techniques were useless, anxiously grabbed nearby stones and smashed them at the gravestone, using their hands and feet to smash and kick, intending to destroy the gravestone and thus destroy the characters on it.
The gravestone was too hard.
With the addition of the two characters of Wunian on the gravestone, even though the gravestone had been weathered by wind and rain, there was no sign of fragility at all.
As time ticked by, second by second.
Wunian's complexion grew worse and worse.
"Wunian, hold on."
Seeing this, Zhang Chao was so anxious that sweat beaded on his forehead. He put aside the task of supporting Wunian and prepared to join the effort to destroy the gravestone.
Wunian was the calmest person in the scene.
He was not afraid of being in danger. His pale face was full of peace, and he sat cross-legged with his hands clasped:
"Amitabha, all is fate."
"Fate my ass."
Zhang Chao cursed. He knew what Wunian meant, that today was his great tribulation of life and death, but he had not found his own way to break the tribulation, and was destined to die here:
"You won't die, I'll destroy the gravestone right now, and then we'll find the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost together, beat it so badly its mother wouldn't recognize it, and break your death tribulation."
Zhang Chao and the others were full of unwillingness.
Having spent three years with Wunian, they didn't want Wunian to die like this.
Facing Zhang Chao's curses.
Wunian did not get angry, but instead smiled knowingly:
"This is the 189th time you've cursed this humble monk, Zhang Chao. You don't need to worry about me. Today is this humble monk's great tribulation, and it is destined to be so. Perhaps it is time for me to return to the Buddha's side."
"It's just that this humble monk can't let go of you. This humble monk hasn't helped you fight the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost together yet, alas..."
He sighed.
At this moment.
His always expressionless face was no longer calm, filled with deep guilt:
"It is I who have harmed you, by dragging you into my great tribulation."
In Wunian's view, the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was indeed his death tribulation, and now that everyone was trapped in the ghost domain, everyone was implicated by him in karma and shared this death tribulation with him. This was his only regret.
"Shut up, what do you mean by implicated? The mission was accepted by my cousin, what does it have to do with you."
Zhang Chao retorted, but his efforts to destroy the gravestone never stopped.
Wunian smiled and was about to respond.
Suddenly.
Wunian's expression froze, and he looked sharply to the front left. Zhang Chao and the others also looked, they all sensed a terrifying surge of Yin energy from that direction.
Under everyone's gaze.
From that direction, a figure shrouded in chilling Yin energy walked over.
It was the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost!
At the same time.
Figures flickered from all directions, it was the previous horde of fierce ghosts, they followed the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost and arrived.
"Amitabha, you've come at the right time. This humble monk was just worried you wouldn't come." Wunian's eyes blazed, emitting Buddhist light, which was no longer as gentle as before, but sharp and unparalleled.
As he spoke.
Wunian stood up, holding the page of Buddhist scriptures, and his lips moved lightly.
"Bow to the pure land of original nature, the boundless Buddha treasure, the great compassionate venerable. Southern world, fragrant clouds surge, fragrant rain, flower clouds, and flower rain. Treasures rain, treasure clouds, countless kinds, for auspiciousness, for auspiciousness, pervading adornment..."
The sound of Buddhist chanting echoed.
At this moment.
Countless scriptures floated from the Buddhist scriptures in his hand, and the Buddhist amulet at his waist emitted immeasurable Buddhist light. The light was so brilliant that it illuminated this place as if it were daytime. The broken Buddhist beads scattered on the ground also burst forth with infinite Buddhist light.
The scattered wooden Buddhist beads, each bead was as dazzling as a star.
Wunian was like a Buddha, with stars all over his body, his mouth blooming with lotuses, his body radiating immeasurable Buddhist light, and his appearance was solemn.
To deal with the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost.
He risked everything, exhausting his entire body, to unleash the maximum Buddhist power of the three magical artifacts simultaneously.
Buzz!
Finally, with Wunian's "Amitabha."
The scriptures floating in the air, wrapped in immeasurable Buddhist light, blasted towards the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost.
The momentum was so great, like the ringing of bells and tripods, that it made the surrounding ghosts scream eerily. Even though the Buddhist light was not specifically aimed at them, the residual power alone made them almost unable to bear it.
Even.
The Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was surprised.
It seemed it had not expected Wunian to unleash such power.
But it was only surprised.
Facing the Buddhist scriptures that filled the air, the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost made a move that was incomprehensible to Wunian, Zhang Chao, and the others.
It didn't even resist.
It stood there.
Spreading its arms, it directly welcomed the Buddhist scriptures towards it.
Boom!!
The Buddhist scriptures fell instantly.
"How could this be?" Zhang Chao and the others were stunned, their eyes full of disbelief.
As if bathing in sunlight, the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost bathed in the baptism of Buddhist light, not even losing a layer of skin, and it did not cause the slightest damage to it.
One must know that those were powerful magical artifacts that condensed the Buddhist power of five successive abbots of Mount Wutai, their entire Buddhist power.
No matter how strong the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was.
It was impossible for it to cause no damage at all.
Unless...
Wunian suddenly looked at the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost:
"Your Nine Evils Yin Gathering Cave, is there a high-ranking Buddhist monk in one of the nine graves?!"
He was well aware of the power of his three magical artifacts.
They had a strong restraint on all evil spirits.
But the fact that it had no effect on the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost made him think that there was only one possibility: the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was not within the scope of evil spirits, but since the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost used the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Cave, it was definitely not evil. Clearly, there was a part of it that the magical artifacts judged as not evil.
Thinking carefully, Wunian quickly understood. It was the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Cave, which could absorb everything in the nine graves, and the people buried in some of the graves made the magical artifacts feel that they were not evil.
The simplest way to make the magical artifacts feel that they were not evil was a high-ranking Buddhist monk, after all, the magical artifacts themselves were made by high-ranking Buddhist monks.
The Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost let out a sinister chuckle.
To give the others more despair, it directly nodded and admitted:
"In my nine graves, one of them was the former abbot of Mount Wutai. Although he was later expelled from the sect and became a demonic monk, it cannot be denied that he was a high-ranking Buddhist monk."
It stood there, bathed in the Buddhist scriptures.
A chilling ghostly voice came slowly.
"With the Buddhist power of a demonic monk, let alone your three magical artifacts, even if you invited a Bodhisattva, you couldn't do anything to me."
Saying that.
The Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost extended its ghostly hand, and terrifying Yin energy surged, transforming into a giant ghostly hand, grabbing towards Wunian.
"Wunian!"
Zhang Chao and the others changed their expressions. They no longer cared about destroying the gravestone and wanted to help Wunian.
But they were powerless.
As they made their move, the other ghosts from all directions, seeing that the Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost was not afraid of Buddhist light, became ferocious, let out chilling ghostly cries, and swept towards them, leaving them with no time to spare.
Seeing the ghostly hand extending towards Wunian, their eyes were about to split.
But at this moment.
"Inviting a Bodhisattva... then let's invite one to see..."
Wunian murmured, and took out a photo from his pocket.
It was Zhang Wei's photo of 'Namo Gatling Bodhisattva'.
The Nine Evils Yin Gathering Ghost's words reminded Wunian of the 'Namo Gatling Bodhisattva' photo that Zhang Wei had given him not long ago, and asked him to find an opportunity to use it to drive away ghosts.
Now that all his magical artifacts were used up, only this 'magical artifact' was left.
He decided to try anything, no matter how unlikely.
Wunian threw out the photo of Namo Gatling Bodhisattva.
As he clasped his hands together and chanted "Namo Amitabha."
Boom!!!!
A deafening roar erupted.
Like a Buddhist great bell ringing, it echoed throughout the area.
Instantly.
The photo burst forth with heaven-shattering Buddhist light!
...