The murmuring slowly faded. Fenglin turned his right hand over, and a black cloth bag covered in talisman markings appeared in his palm.
Whoosh!
The bag opened on its own. Fenglin reached inside with his left hand, pulled out a handful of Black Beans, and scattered them toward the Heavenly King Mausoleum.
Rattle!
The densely packed beans scattered through the air, raining down into the forest.
Bang, bang, bang...!
The instant each bean hit the ground, it flashed with black light. Then a sinister wind suddenly stirred through the forest, accompanied by faint ghostly wails and howls.
The sinister wind swept past, and the black mist slowly dispersed. Each bean had transformed into a Yin Soldier, standing abruptly and stiffly amid the dense woods.
Dark clouds veiled the moon. The Yin Soldiers all turned their heads together, like a procession of ghosts in the night.
These Yin Soldiers seemed to have come from the underworld. Each was tall and massive, hatred etched across his face. They wore broken armor and carried damaged weapons, looking as wretched as corpses that had just crawled up from a battlefield.
Whooo...!
The sinister wind howled, and the entire forest shook.
Not far away, the curtain concealing the sedan chair's interior slowly lifted in the wind.
The Heavenly Rhino Cave Master's eagle eyes fixed on the hundreds of Yin Soldiers in the forest. In disbelief, he said, "Scattering Beans to Make Soldiers? No... that's not quite right...!"
"Go!"
Just then, Daoist Fenglin suddenly transmitted his voice to Ren Ye and the others. "Get inside the Heavenly King Mausoleum, quickly."
"Be careful. If I haven't seen you in half an hour, I'll come straight back for you." Recovering from his shock, Ren Ye immediately rushed south.
In the forest, the expressionless Yin Soldiers with their livid