Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 662 - 23: Swift as the Wind, Slaying a Ghost in One Step!_3

It's not true transmission if the incantation rises so quickly.

Zhang Wulang, it's said, was one of the grandmasters in the late Tang period, mastering Witchcraft, Daoism, and Martial Arts, with positions like tiger hunting, beast taming, and serpent slaying under him, forming a complete Meishan Hunter System.

This lineage has traces of Pangu worship and the Chiyou tribe, belonging to a fusion of Witchcraft and Daoism, but those who know this incantation are very rare in Jianghu.

This curse cannot be learned by just anyone; most of the traditions related to the Jiu Li Witchcraft are found in remote mountainous areas.

Before Celestial Master Zhang Daoling entered Ba and Shu, it was also the stronghold of Witchcraft, and to this day, there is still a legacy of Witchcraft.

The fusion of Witchcraft and Daoism, where the Witchcraft that submitted to the Daoist sects got merged, is a tradition of Huaxia.

The religions in this world are quite messy, with the fusion of Bon and Buddhism happening just two or three hundred years ago, and it was Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty who brought Buddhism there, with Songtsen Gampo later establishing the Potala Palace, which was only built a little over three hundred years ago.

On this foundation, Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism was born, and Songtsen Gampo sent noble youths to study in India, bringing back the "Highest Yoga Tantra."

Esoteric Buddhism took form in the seventh century CE, during the Tang Dynasty, and many sects familiar to the world aren't that ancient.

This is also why the Tianzhu Demon Monk Jiu Mo Luye came to the Eastern Land seeking scriptures, pursuing the ultimate in martial arts.

That demon monk wanted to explore the legend of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan ascending with thousands of maidens.

Early records in "Zhuangzi" note 'with three thousand maidens, ascends in broad daylight.'

Additionally, the Daoist records are numerous; the Herb King Sun Simiao mentioned in "Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold: Bedroom Supplements" that "In former times, the Yellow Emperor ascended with twelve hundred maidens."

Mythical legends are difficult to trace for truth, but there are indeed some lineages of this cultivation method in Jianghu.

The true transmission of Daoism rarely appears in Jianghu.

Because the threshold for Daoist cultivation is too high, where others practice Inner Strength, they start directly with True Qi and Mana; if a true Daoist heir appears, they are usually top-tier experts, possibly possessing some secret Daoist incantations.

(True Qi is refined from essence, Mana is condensed from spirit. One is at the lower Dantian, the other at the upper Dantian.)

This person wore a cloud-pattern white robe adorned with starry patterns, his hair bound with a ebony Daoist hairpin, with two wisps of frosty white hair hanging in front of his forehead, appearing young, yet prematurely gray without clear reason.

He carried a Sword Box on his back, with a golden iron sword to slay humans and a lightning-struck wooden sword to slay spirits.

Fu Jianhan seemed to recognize him, motioning to Lady Jade Face not to act, stepped forward with a hand salute and said, "Are you a friend from Kunyu Mountain in Qingzhou?"

The man looked at Fu Jianhan with surprise, as if recalling something, returned the salute, and said, "May I ask, are you Fu Jianhan, the Northern Wasteland Rogue Hero?"

These words turned Fu Jianhan's face beet red.

Lady Jade Face glanced at him in surprise, her smile sweet and mocking, saying, "Little beggar."

"You sure gave yourself a loud name."

Drinking leads to trouble.

The year before, while traveling in Liaodong, he unexpectedly met a Daoist vanquishing a demon, they got along well, and thinking he needed a loud title, in a moment of inspiration, he named himself the Northern Wasteland Rogue Hero.

To mention it in this situation today just feels somewhat socially embarrassing.

Fu Jianhan smiled awkwardly and said, "Just drunken talk, not to be taken seriously."

"I am good friends with the recluse Su from Kunyu Mountain."

"Today must be a misunderstanding."

The lineage of Yun Wangji combines elements of Daoism, the Yin-Yang School, and Witchcraft, not all sects of the ten schools ended up in the Demonic Path, which only got about twenty to thirty percent; Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism were the biggest winners.

Just like the saying that all martial arts under heaven come from Shaolin when in fact all martial arts converge at Shaolin.

The person's figure flickered, landing from the treetops as if using Qinggong, yet distinctly different, light as a monkey; he cupped his fists in a Jianghu greeting, instantly seeming to shift from true Daoist transmission to a Jianghu hero, apologizing, "A misunderstanding!"

"I traveled this way, thinking I'd encountered a demon practicing Witchcraft, unexpectedly disturbing you all."

He flipped his wrist, revealing that charm talismans were somehow posted around the Chenghuang Temple, and as if by unseen force, they combusted into ash.

—The Mu Gong Incantation.

A highly advanced incantation.

Mu Gong, also known as the Lord of Eastern Florescence, the Lesser Yang Lord of the Eastern Florescence Purple Mansion, alongside the Queen Mother of The West as a Daoist deity, is also revered in folklore as Eastern King, practiced mainly by northern Daoists, for the Eastern King is also known as the Emperor of Fusang.

This person's studies were diverse, not like one emerging from orthodox Daoism.

More like the Seeking Immortality Sect.

That is the group from the Ancient Era who searched for overseas Immortal Beings and Immortal Mountains; Huaxia has had three large scale Immortal-seeking waves.

The most famous of those is Qin Shi Huang seeking the elixir of immortality.

The Seeking Immortality Sect is both righteous and evil.

In this age, even demonic Daoists are not few, and soon there would be the Shenxiao Sect's Lin Lingsu who would enthrall Emperor Huizong of Song, tricking him into believing he was the eldest son of God, the emperor of longevity descended to earth.

The title 'Dao Lord Emperor' comes just like that.

—Yun Wangji (Scholar of the Greenjade Pavilion) (Overseas Immortal Mountain) (Yin-Yang Mother-Child Sword) (Five Star Silver Gray).

Fu Jianhan invited this person into the ruined Chenghuang Temple, he gladly went along, having lowered his guard somewhat, yet when looking at Lady Jade Face, there was an inexplicable tinge to his gaze.

The world has been tumultuous for a long time, and now, when heaven and earth are changing, even demon folk seek a path.

The Ancient Era.

The folk legends of deities and monsters were mostly tales of fallen scholars and Dragon Maiden Immortal Spirits, or the Divine Maidens of mountains, rivers, lakes, and other mystical beings; but by the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, folk tales of deities and monsters became mostly about fox maidens, phantoms, mountain spirits, and sinister beings.