Zombie World: I Have a God’s Tomb

"Your senior brother? He is no longer comparable to ordinary people!"

Uncle Jiu sighed faintly.

As soon as his words came out, the three disciples around him were all stunned. Yes, with Ling Xiao's powerful strength, it is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Chu Liu may be extremely talented or even It can surpass any of the younger disciples of Maoshan, but unfortunately, there is still no comparison with Ling Xiao.

This is the gap between humans and gods!

"Yes, master, you are saying this as if I am no longer a human being!"

Ling Xiao rolled his eyes speechlessly.

"Okay, I’m going back to practice first! The rest is up to you!"

Immediately, Ling Xiao took the bag given by Uncle Jiu and went back to the room.

Speaking of which, the new house is very big.

There is not only a corridor and pavilion in the center of the yard, but also a small pond.

It can be said that it is a wealthy family.

Even The previous ancestor's ancestral hall was very luxurious after simple decoration.

It can be said that no Maoshan Taoist priest's home can be decorated like this.

After all, this courtyard is worth more than a thousand oceans, and the decoration Qian Lingxiao spent more than five hundred.

It will be even more luxurious when it is completely completed.

Of course, Ling Xiao didn't care about these extraneous things at this time.

He had returned to his room and immediately entered the tomb of the gods. space

"Recently, the master's business has been getting better and better day by day. It seems that Renjia Town's Jiu Shu's reputation is slowly spreading!"

Ling Xiao looked at the bag in his hand and said with a smile.

As he said that, he directly put the talisman paper on it.！

"boom!!!!!"

The next moment, the bag burst open.

"Roar! Stinky Taoist priest, I'm going to cramp and skin you!!!"

Then an angry roar came.

I saw a black shadow rushing towards Ling Xiao fiercely, with a desperate posture.

However, Ling Xiao's hand began to form crazy seals at this time.

A A seal was quickly punched out from his hand.

"Recite the Yuanshi jade text once to cure illness and prolong life according to the Five

Sacred Mountains. The demon king of the Eight Seas has tied his head.

The evil and filthy guards in my palace have dissipated.

The Tao Qi will last forever and is as urgent as the law!"

Afterwards, with a series of curses, Ling Xiao's hand pressed hard towards the black shadow.

"Bang!!!!!"

In an instant, this black shadow-level evil spirit exploded and turned into a cloud of Yin Qi that dissipated throughout the entire space of the God's Tomb!

"Buzz!!!!"

Suddenly, a wave of fluctuations came, and the soul fragments that were transformed into the sky after the ghost collapsed also began to gather rapidly at this time.

Finally, a soul light ball appeared in front of Ling Xiao's eyes.

"Bury it!!"

Ling Xiao didn't hesitate and spoke directly to the system!

"Buzz!!!"

In an instant, a crack opened in the earth again, and then the soul light ball slowly fell into it.

As the earth closed again, a tombstone slowly emerged.

"Ding... Congratulations, you buried a shadow-level evil ghost, gained 3000 experience points, and obtained Ocean: 3000!"

Suddenly a notification sound came to his mind.

At this moment, his experience points had completely reached 100,000 points!

"Ding...Congratulations to the host, your experience points have met the upgrade requirements. Do you want to start upgrading?!"

A notification sound immediately reached Ling Xiao's mind, and Ling Xiao's expression became serious when he heard the notification sound. If he upgrades to a Heavenly Master, his body will naturally erupt with huge energy fluctuations. According to his estimation, with his strength, this energy wave will definitely crush the entire mansion into ashes.

"Don’t upgrade yet, I’ll find a place to talk about it!!"

After Ling Xiao finished speaking, his consciousness immediately left the space of the God's Tomb.

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After Ling Xiao walked out of the room, he looked at the stars in the sky, and then directly mobilized all the energy around him!

"boom!!!!!"

In an instant, endless golden flames and the power of golden holy light burst out from his body.

Then Ling Xiao soared into the sky and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.

However, on Ling Xiao's body The moment the powerful Qi burst out, Uncle Jiu and the others had already rushed out, and then just in time to see Ling Xiao, covered in blazing fire, disappear into the horizon!

"Master, master... master, senior brother can fly! ?"

Chu Liu looked at Ling Xiao who had disappeared from the sky with a look of disbelief.

At this moment, he finally understood why Uncle Jiu said that Ling Xiao was no longer a mortal. He was still a mortal who could fly. He was simply a true god!

"Of course, Eldest Brother can fly. What’s so surprising? You’ll know what a land god is when you see Eldest Brother’s true strength in the future! Qiu

Sheng said proudly, as if he was the one who could fly.、

"Where is this kid going tonight? ?"

But Uncle Jiu frowned.

Suddenly, his expression changed.

"Could it be that he is about to break through! ?"

Uncle Jiu took a breath. He knew that Ling Xiao's level had not reached that of a Heavenly Master. But when he gave him a shadow today, Ling Xiao said that his strength would greatly increase.

Is it because he is finally going to be promoted to Heavenly Master?

"What? Senior Brother wants to break through the Heavenly Master! ? Could it be that Senior Brother wasn’t a Heavenly Master before? ?"

Uncle Jiu's words immediately stunned the literary scholar on the side!

"Yes, how can a Heavenly Master be achieved so easily? Even your senior brother has not advanced to the realm of Heavenly Master before, but it is different now! He's finally making the cut!"

Uncle Jiu was trembling with excitement. To be honest, Ling Xiao was happier to be promoted than himself, because he knew what this meant!

"Fifteen-year-old Celestial Master, fifteen-year-old Celestial Master, this will definitely set a new record in the history of Taoism!

In the thousands of years since the spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to dry up, there has never been a super genius who reached the level of Celestial Master within twenty years old. Even Patriarch Zhong Kui achieved Celestial Master at the age of twenty-five!

If Patriarch Zhong Kui had not died at the age of more than a hundred years old, he would definitely have become a Taoist Lord.

And now Ling Xiao's talent far exceeds that of Patriarch Zhong Kui. In other words, your senior brother is very likely to reach the realm of Dao Lord within a hundred years, or even before the age of fifty!

And this means that your senior brother can definitely transcend the mortal world and survive the catastrophe to become the only immortal in the human world!

When the time comes, moving mountains and filling seas, destroying heaven and earth, will not be a problem at all!!"

Uncle Jiu spoke solemnly to the three senior brothers present.

His words immediately made the three of them open their mouths in shock.

Immortal, the legendary immortal.

And his senior brother is actually very big. The hope became, this kind of shock made the three of them feel extremely unreal

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However, at this time, Ling Xiao had already crossed dozens of kilometers and arrived on a mountain.

"System, upgrade it!!"

After sensing that there was no one around for several kilometers, Ling Xiao spoke directly to the system.

"Ding...accept the order and start the promotion!!!"

The system also responded to Ling Xiao very quickly.

"Rumble, rumble!!!!"

However, the next moment, waves of energy like a flood poured into his body crazily.

In an instant, the power spread all over Ling Xiao's body. At this moment, all the muscles and veins in Ling Xiao's body began to surge rapidly. was washed away by this force.

Under the influence of the force, the tendons actually thickened crazily and became stronger.

What this brought about was that Ling Xiao absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth faster and faster.

This is what was mentioned before The previous system has a built-in physical tempering effect when upgrading the strength.

Every time the system is used to upgrade the strength, the system will improve Ling Xiao's talent.

You must know that Ling Xiao's cultivation talent can only be considered medium at the beginning. From four or five years old to ten When I was five years old, I had only cultivated to the third and fourth levels of human master. If it were not for the system, even if I wanted to reach the earth master level in the future, I would have to be after the age of forty or fifty!

However, after a system After upgrading, Ling Xiao's talent has long surpassed that of Uncle Jiu. Now that he has been upgraded again, his cultivation speed is at least ten times that of Uncle Nine!

In other words, if he had the talent for cultivation now, at the age of fifteen, he would have already You have reached the realm of Heavenly Master by yourself!

And this is only the improvement of physical talent. Even the soul talent has begun to strengthen rapidly under the power of the system.

The improvement of physical talent is to increase the speed of physical cultivation, while the talent of soul Improvement not only increases the speed of physical training, but also improves understanding. And with higher understanding, it is not impossible that in the future, when Ling Xiao's strength reaches a certain level, he can even control the laws of heaven and earth, or understand how to use the power of heaven and earth. thing!

"boom!!!!"

And at this moment, the power in Ling Xiao's body directly broke through the bottleneck of Ling Xiao's Earth Master realm.

In an instant, the aura on Ling Xiao's body also began to surge rapidly.

The violent Qi flowed from him. The body erupted wantonly.

Golden flames also began to spread in all directions.

Soon everything within a radius of one kilometer was enveloped in endless flames.

The dazzling light shone so that dozens of kilometers around were transformed into It was daytime.

All the trees on the earth were burned to ashes, and even the earth melted rapidly under the power of this heat.

A kilometer in radius was turned into a sea of magma!

And this scene also foreshadowed Ling Xiao’s fate. The strength has increased several times compared to before!

If such a terrifying destructive power broke out in any town, it would be enough to wipe out thousands of people instantly.

However, this is just the power that Ling Xiao unintentionally exudes from his body when his strength increases. It’s just strength!

"Ding... Congratulations to the host, your realm has been successfully promoted to the first level of Heavenly Master!"

Finally, a prompt sound also reached Ling Xiao's mind. After hearing this prompt sound, Ling Xiao slowly opened his eyes in the sky.

"call!!! It’s finally over!"

Ling Xiao slowly opened his eyes and glanced around, and everything he saw had turned into a sea of magma.

To be honest, the average first-level Heavenly Master is far from that powerful.

Even Ordinary Celestial Masters at the fifth and sixth levels cannot do what Ling Xiao is like.

After all, in this age of the end of the Dharma, the strength of the Celestial Master level is mainly based on the physical body.

Even if they understand the same world as Ling Xiao Despite the general situation, it is impossible to exert such a powerful power.

Firstly, Ling Xiao's strength is systematically blessed and blessed by heaven-level skills.

Secondly, Ling Xiao's true energy reserve is also invincible, and the true energy he can mobilize is The amount of Qi is definitely dozens of times that of ordinary cultivators of the same level.

And the same is true for the recovery speed.

Because he has hundreds of Mao Zhan, Zombie King, and hundreds of ghosts and ghost kings as the backing of energy reserves.

The yin energy of these ghost kings and zombie kings, Ling Xiao, can also be directly converted into true energy through the tomb of gods.

Therefore, if they recover, all the ghost zombies will absorb the yin energy to recover!

In this case, the recovery speed cannot be slow. Of course , this can be regarded as Ling Xiao’s biggest trump card, because if the true energy is not strong enough, it will definitely be greatly reduced.

Being able to exert 100% of the power and achieve three achievements is already pretty good, so all the cultivators in this era have been cut off. Instead of those fancy Taoist methods, he majored in the physical body.

After all, even practitioners of the Celestial Master Tao like Uncle Jiu carry swords and fight with zombies every day, not to mention the physical training.

"System, open my attribute table and take a look!!"

Feeling his current powerful power, Ling Xiao spoke to the system.

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Name: Ling Xiao

Divine Tomb Level: LV4 (Cultivation: 100 years, time: 500 times, special reward: 50%, 0/500,000)

Realm: Heavenly Master First Level (2900/100,000)

Divine Power: Yin and Yang Eyes of Heaven and Earth LV4 (0/500,000)

Zombies: Hairy Zombie: 100, Zombie King: 2

Ghosts: Red Ghost*112, Green Ghost King: 1

Skill: Heavenly Fire Jiuxiao Technique (Low Grade Heavenly Grade, Qi Strength*250%)

Super Power : Power of Heavenly Fire (Advanced) Power of Holy Light (Advanced)

Weapon: Red Flame Mithril Sword (Earth Level Best)

Skills: Healing 1v4 (0/500,000) Maoshan Taoism LV4 (0/500,000, 300%) Refining weapons 1v3 (10000/30000) Refining medicine 1v3 (5000/30000)

Money: 370,000 oceans

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Ling Xiao looked at his attributes and looked directly at the number of red-clothed ghosts!

"Of all my ghosts, except for the extremely yin soul of the Green Ghost King, there is only one high-level ghost, the ice soul, which is an intermediate ghost and a high-level ghost, and the rest are all low-level ghosts.

Even if a hundred ghosts of this level were added together, their total strength would not be as powerful as that of a Ji Yin Soul. In this case, it would be better to fuse directly!"

Ling Xiao thought for a moment and didn't hesitate!

"System, help me fuse all one hundred low-level ghosts!!"

Ling Xiao spoke directly without hesitation!

"Ding...accept the order! Fusion is about to begin! Fusion materials: low-level ghosts*100, average level: early stage of fierce ghosts!"

The system responded quickly

"Swish, brush, brush!!!!"

The next moment, all the fierce ghosts in the entire God's Tomb soared directly into the sky from the tomb.

A full hundred fierce ghosts were all hovering in the sky. These ghosts were all early stage ghosts, and the rest The dozen or so evil ghosts in the middle and late stages and even the peak evil ghost Ling Xiao did not fuse them.

After all, the strength of the peak evil ghost is equivalent to seven or eight ordinary evil spirits, and the five evil ghosts buried by the soul fragments of the five ghost infants The strength is comparable to forty ordinary ghosts. If they are fused, there will be a disadvantage! (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"Buzz!!!"

However, at this moment, there was a wave of fluctuation in the sky.

In an instant, the Yin Qi in the sky began to condense rapidly under the power of the system, and a huge and extremely mysterious formation quickly took shape.

"Ding...start merging!!"

Finally, with a notification sound, the formation instantly burst into dazzling blood-red light.[]

The blood-red light instantly shone on all the fierce ghosts. At this moment, all the fierce ghosts turned into blood-red.

"Roar!!!!!"

"Roar!!"

"Roar!!!"

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At the same time, painful roars came directly from the sky.

These blood-red ghosts began to gather together crazily.

Soon their souls were kneaded together at an extremely fast speed to form an even larger ghost body!

This ghost body began to grow rapidly as the surrounding ghosts crazily merged into it.

In the end, a blood-red ghost figure that was more than fifty meters high appeared in the sky above the tomb of the god.

Just with this size, Ling Xiao knew that this ghost shadow was at least as high as the Ghost King's second level.

"Buzz!!!!"

Suddenly, from the depths of the endless void, another silver mysterious power blooming with starlight emerged rapidly. In an instant, deep silver power poured into the body of the fused ghost king crazily.

In the end, the silver The power was completely integrated into the ghost king's body. This power directly dyed the original blood-red soul of the fused ghost king into pure silver.

At the same time, there was a silver light spot flowing around the body.

This scene was very similar to Uncle Jiu's previous use of Jiuxing. What he looked like when he was casting a divine curse.

Sure enough!!

"Ding... The fusion is completed, congratulations to the host, you have obtained a new ghost: Soul of the Stars (top level) realm: Ghost King Two Stars!"

A prompt sound also reached Ling Xiao's mind at this time, and Ling Xiao smiled when he heard the prompt sound.

"The top ghost finally has the top power of heaven and earth, and it is also the power of stars! When the master used the Nine Star Divine Curse before, he borrowed the power of the stars to use it.

That power can actually allow a monk of the fourth level of earth master to kill a zombie king. It is simply terrifying to the extreme. However, although there is some credit for this, it is because the power of the stars is too powerful."

Ling Xiao said with some emotion. He didn't expect that his ghost would be blessed by such a powerful soul now.

In other words, the star soul of the second ghost king's current combat power is at least comparable to the fifth and sixth levels of ordinary ghost kings. Oh my god!

And this strength is almost the most powerful existence in the entire cultivation world so far.

"This fusion is definitely worth the money. It seems that I need to get some zombies as soon as possible, and then fuse all my zombies. If I can get another top-level zombie, the overall strength of all my ghosts will become even more terrifying.!"

Ling Xiao said with satisfaction.

And the most important thing about Ninth Uncle, Ling Xiao discovered that after the fusion of a hundred fierce ghosts, their soul power reserves were actually fused and became more, and at the same time, their cultivation speed was also faster than before. Hundreds of heads can be added up faster.

In other words, as long as they are fused, the only disadvantage is that apart from the smaller number, everything else, whether it is auxiliary training, Yin Qi reserves, or even overall combat power, has greatly increased..

In this way, I have no reason not to upgrade!

Thinking of this, Ling Xiao’s feet turned into a golden stream of light and disappeared directly.

And the speed was so fast that it only took Ling Xiao dozens of seconds. I've already returned to my hometown.

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The next day, Ling Xiao got up early because there were more than twenty days before the Ghost Festival in July and a half.

During this period of time, it can be said that the demand for Ming coins has been ridiculously high. Even though the price of these Ming coins from Uncle Jiu is extremely high, when the demand is high and the price increases,���In the past half month or so, Uncle Jiu has also caught a lot of little ghosts and gained quite a reputation.

Of course, the most important thing is Gu Gu's propaganda. As an orthodox Taoist priest in Maoshan, Gu Gu's strength must be nothing to say. She has been back to her hometown for eight years.

His reputation is almost the same as when Uncle Jiu was in Renjia Town.

With her publicity, coupled with the legend of Renjia Town and the provincial capital, it gradually spread to Yunling Town, and the number of people who came to Uncle Jiu to order ghost coins was overwhelming.

Not only Yunling Town, but also people from the surrounding villages and towns, and even people from the provincial capital and Marshal Xu all ordered a full amount of 100 million taels of nether coins.

Even because the Ghost Festival is here and the underworld is open, a template of five thousand taels of nether coins would still require a full 20,000!

It also takes several days without eating or drinking.

In addition, everyone else's orders have even been filled with a month's worth of ghost coin orders.

Therefore, if there are no accidents, in the next period of time, Uncle Jiu and Ling Xiao will be working in a difficult and life-threatening assembly line!

In this way, there were still not enough manpower, and even Aunt Sue came to help.

Fortunately, Ling Xiao summoned all the ghosts to help a few people, so they were not so tired.

The main reason why Li Gui is not used all is that there are some tasks that Li Gui cannot do, such as inputting Qi on these ghost coins to activate them.

Although the input of zhenqi is very small, even the talented Qiu Sheng will not be too tired if he inputs it all day long, but it is impossible for Li Gui to execute it.

Therefore, the rest of the printing work was almost handed over to Li Gui. Everyone except Uncle Jiu was inputting Qi.

Uncle Jiu was even more miserable. He had to stamp almost every piece of paper money with his own hands.

Therefore, even though his sealing hand was as fast as a phantom, it still couldn't keep up with the printing speed.

But the benefit of working so hard is very obvious, that is money.

At the current speed, Ling Xiao estimated that the profit in one hour could reach a full 100 oceans!

What is the concept? They have to work at least 14 hours a day!

That’s 1,400 oceans a day!

There are still twenty days until the Ghost Festival, which means that after all the payment is recovered by then, you can directly earn close to thirty thousand yuan!

This speed of making money is simply a steal!

Of course, it's so terrifying because Uncle Jiu and his colleagues' assembly line speed is so terrifying!

There are more than ten ghosts in his possession, and the terrifying speed has turned into dense shadows in the entire hall.

The speed of printing money is more terrifying than the efficiency of hundreds of people.

In addition to Ling Xiao, there are four of them who can continuously pump in Qi.

Let their working speed be at least as fast as a hundred people in the normal Money Department.

It shouldn't be too much for a shady money maker to earn three hundred yuan in twenty days, right?

"｀Friend Yimei lives here! ?"

However, just when Ling Xiao and the others were busy in full swing, a voice came from the gate.

"On the sixth day of the lunar month, go and see who it is!!"

Uncle Jiu directly ordered Chu Liu, who was helping to print on the assembly line.

After all, he was of little use on the field.

He only had a trace of Qi, and it disappeared after a few minutes of continuous output.

He could only do something simple. Physical work.

However, with the help of Ling Xiao's fierce ghost, he could only stare.

"Good master!!"

Chu Liu also hurriedly walked out.

A few minutes later, Chu Liu hurried back.

"Master, Taoist Ma from the provincial capital is here, saying he has something important to discuss with you!"

Chu Liu came back quickly and said!

"Horse Taoist priest! ?"

Uncle Jiu frowned, and immediately thought of Taoist Ma, the first-level earth master. He was a disciple of the Zhengyi sect, and he was also a chivalrous and righteous Taoist. Although he was weak in strength, he was only in his thirties after all. Well.

But those who practice are of the Zhazhi lineage

"Master, let me do it! You go and take a look first!"

Ling Xiao saw Uncle Jiu frantically stamping the seal in his hand while he was thinking, so he came over helplessly.

"you?"

However, Ling Xiao's words immediately confused Uncle Jiu. Can Ling Xiao use the big seal of his Yin Qian Division!?

But when he was doubtful, Ling Xiao had already turned the Yin Qian Commander card into the big seal in his hand. Yin took it

"Snapped!!!!"

As Ling Xiao pressed the seal, a burst of light flashed across the large seal without any ink, and a red seal appeared.

"Hiss...what's going on! ?"

Uncle Jiu was completely stunned when he saw this scene.

Even after he came to the yard, he was still confused and didn't know what was going on.

The Yin Shuai of the Punishment Department can use the seal of his Yin Qian Department!? Aren’t you talking nonsense!? Not to mention being shady and handsome among different bureaucracies, even the judge level cannot interfere with the work of other bureaucracies.

Therefore, let alone using it normally, even if It was he who handed the big seal to Ling Xiao, and the big seal would directly turn into a token.

"etc!! Could it be that this boy is more than just the sinister and handsome man who punishes evildoers! ?"

Uncle Jiu's expression suddenly changed as if he had thought of something.

Because he knew clearly that when he first entered the Yin Qian Division, the judge of the Yin Qian Division personally summoned him. However, if Ling Xiao was just taught by the Fifth Yama Lord If he had learned something, the judge of the Yin Qian Division would not have summoned him in person!

After all, it is a normal thing to teach him some skills and Taoism!

He was even personally rewarded by Grandmaster Zhong Kui.

"This kid must be worshiping the Fifth Lord of Hell as his teacher, hahaha, this kid is still hiding and tucking away from me!"

In an instant, Uncle Jiu finally figured it out!

At this moment, he laughed happily

"Taoist Priest Yimei, I heard that you are busy and causing a lot of troubles. It is really a lot of troubles!!"

However, at this moment, an embarrassed voice suddenly interrupted Uncle Jiu's thinking.

Only then did Uncle Jiu come back to his senses and he had arrived in the middle of the yard.

He saw a middle-aged man in gray clothes smiling. standing in the yard

"Mr. Ma, we meet again, let’s talk inside!"

When Uncle Jiu saw the visitor, he smiled and hurriedly greeted him and then invited him into the living room.

"I wonder what Taoist Master Ma is here for? My apprentice said there was something important? ?"

Uncle Jiu curiously spoke to Taoist Ma.

"It's true. Uncle Jiu, I have a big event here this time!"

Taoist Ma solemnly told what happened.

It turns out that there is a township called Tengteng Town more than 40 kilometers away from Yunling Town.

The size of the town is pretty good, but I don't know why. Not long ago, a group of zombies suddenly appeared in Tengteng Town.

These zombies directly slaughtered all the people in the town. Fortunately, they were all wandering around Tengteng Town and never came out of the town.

Otherwise, with that batch The strength of the zombies can definitely kill all the people in dozens of surrounding towns!

But even so, it is naturally impossible to allow these zombies to cause harm.

When Taoist Ma learned the news yesterday, he went to Qinghai Dao The leader was planning to go to find out what was going on, but he heard that Taoist Master Qinghai had taken his disciples back to the ruins of Motuo Lanruo Temple to offer sacrifices.

After all, the Ghost Festival was coming.

In desperation, Taoist Master Ma had no choice but to come. Looking for Uncle Jiu

"Teng Teng Town! ? A bunch of zombies! ?"

Uncle Jiu frowned when he heard this. Taoist Ma didn't know exactly how many zombies there were and how strong they were.

But he has been so busy recently that he can't even move his hands away, right!

"I know Taoist Master Yimei is busy lately, so I just came here to make an appointment with you, Taoist Master Yimei. I'll go check out the situation first. If it's just a group of weak zombies, I'll naturally handle it alone.

But if you are strong, I can only ask Uncle Jiu for help!"

Taoist Ma saw that Uncle Jiu seemed to be slow and spoke quickly.

"What did Taoist Master Ma say? Killing evil and killing demons for the sake of reputation is our duty. No matter how busy we are, I have to go and see!"

However, Uncle Jiu spoke solemnly.

Indeed, he is very busy now, but no matter how busy he is, it is not as important as slaying demons.

After all, human life is at stake.

"Master, how about Taoist Ma and I go take a look! If it were my position, the sixth grader could also take over!".