Southern Brightness Fire Technique

"The 'Changgui' is a tiger demon's henchman. This kind of ghost likes to possess the bodies of timid people, thus shaping them into tyrannical and domineering individuals!"

Dong Zhongshu was still digging into some of his memories about changgui and tiger demons.

Only when Zhang Xuezhou held a faint glimmer of Law Power light that pulsated in his hand did his gaze finally turn towards it.

"You found the tiger demon?" Dong Zhongshu asked curiously.

"I don't know if it is," Zhang Xuezhou shook his head and said, "But the guidance of the Technique Method is there!"

"The Yin-Yang School's method of observing qi doesn't seem to work like this?"

"This is the Yin Entity Tracking Technique; I learned it from the Daoist Mu!"

"Daoist Mu?"

When Dong Zhongshu had a sudden thought, he also used the Qi Detection Technique.

His Qi-reading technique Confucian School cultivator originated from the Yin-Yang School, while Zhang Xuezhou's tracking technique as Yin-Yang School cultivator originated from the Corpse-Face School. This is quite subtle.

Dong Zhongshu's half-baked ability to detect qi made it difficult to track down the tiger demon, but given that Zhang Xuezhou had determined the location, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to verify it.

"It really came back!"

As he received a barely discernible sensation, Dong Zhongshu frowned.

"The number of these ghosts is still increasing. Has that tiger demon been casting spells all along?"

Aside from the occasional appearance of a ghost in the ancestral hall, a scream can sometimes be heard from the village outside the ancestral hall.

Zhang Xuezhou felt that the Yin Entity Tracking Technique had never been so effective before, but as long as he could track it, Zhang Xuezhou really had no way of knowing how to kill such a Yin object.

He reached into the ghost's body and grabbed at it, but found it empty and he couldn't touch any form.

This is like dust seen in the light, visible but untouchable. They lack the means to eliminate the opponent and are helpless against the tiger demon ghost.

"If the changgui can possess bodies, why didn't that tiger demon command the changgui to possess us and kill us?"

Xu Yuan asked Xu Ji in a low voice, which prompted Xu Ji to point to the villagers around them who had been beaten so badly they couldn't get up.

The power of seduction and oppression far surpasses that of possession by a vengeful spirit. It's not that the tiger demon hasn't done this before, but the other party has already instructed the villagers to kill him once, so possession by a vengeful spirit would be of no use whatsoever.

The method to resist the poison of the changyan is very simple: either shield your breathing or use a fan to blow away the poison, thus breaking this harmful technique.

The tiger demon's supernatural Divine Ability is more focused on cultivating its henchmen and harming people silently, rather than on direct combat.

If it weren't for the fact that the opponent was in a somewhat unusual state, this demon would have been killed long ago.

Xu Ji's eyes swept over Dong Zhongshu.

Even the weakest tiger demon is still a powerful demon that has cultivated Divine Ability. A single wisp of tiger's might is enough to break a minor cultivator. For example, when he used his demon-exorcising staff to strike the tiger demon, it had no effect whatsoever.

It seems that Dong Zhongshu easily subdued the tiger demon, but such ability is not something that ordinary people possess.

The opponent's Body Transformation is at least at the Transformation stage, and they are likely at the Divine Ability Realm, or even the Sole Self Realm.

Such people were not numerous in the Great Han Dynasty.

Looking at Dong Zhongshu's accountant's robes, he couldn't figure out which accountant was so skilled.

"Wind techniques, swordsmanship, and now even the art of identifying spirits—such a complex cultivation path! Could this be the work of Confucian School cultivator? But it seems rather unlikely that a great Confucian School cultivator would be an accountant..."

Let alone Xu Ji being confused, anyone who came would have fallen into self-doubt.

But Xu Ji still possesses the wisdom and insight gained from living to this age.

He could not determine Dong Zhongshu's identity, but he could basically guess Dong Zhongshu's school of thought.

After much deliberation, Xu Ji rummaged through his backpack.

"This Confucian School cultivator, I possess a Southern Bright Fire Technique from the Corpse-Eating School, which is particularly effective against Yin creatures," Xu Ji said. "Now that the tiger demon is newly formed, if you can pinpoint its location and learn a bit of it, it will surely be possible to completely kill it."

"Southern Ming fire techniques?"

Dong Zhongshu blinked.

Since they could learn from the teachings of various schools of thought, Confucian School would naturally not shy away from the teachings of the Shi Jiao school.

However, as the foundation of the Corpse-Slaying School's control over Yin entities, the Southern Ming Fire Technique of the Corpse-Slaying School was never passed on to outsiders, and the Confucian School also had no such fire technique materials.

"The imperial court was suppressing the Corpse-Slaying School, and we only encountered the Corpse Sect Master while we were traveling. He entrusted us with finding a good successor for this scroll of 'The Corpse Book'!"

Xu Ji pulled out a scroll of human skin scripture from his backpack, which was covered with densely written characters.

He had obviously read the "Shi Zi" before he knew that it contained this fire technique.

Following the direction Xu Ji pointed, Dong Zhongshu repeatedly looked at the rows of small seal script characters.

For a Confucian School scholar, this script, which had once circulated in the Southern Jambudvipa Continent), did not pose a problem for Dong Zhongshu.

After a quick glance, a book on fire techniques had already entered Dong Zhongshu's mind.

"The Southern Ming Fire Technique is specifically designed to counter yin entities. Even a trace of it will cause the yin entity to burn like a bone-deep abscess until it is burned to death. No wonder the Corpse-Eating School doesn't pass on this technique!"

Dong Zhongshu silently recited this in his heart.

The Southern Ming Fire Technique is extremely unique; its flames are virtually invincible against Yin entities.

If this technique becomes widely known, the Corpse-Slaying School's ability to control yin entities and corpses will become completely useless.

The Corpse-Manipulating School can pass on Technique Method such as corpse control, but it will undoubtedly keep the Southern Bright Fire Technique firmly in its grasp.

If the Corpse-Eating Sect had not been nearly wiped out by the imperial court's suppression, forcing its leader to entrust it to the Agricultural Sect cultivators on his deathbed, this technique would never have been possible to retrieve.

Dong Zhongshu's Law Power originated from his mind, and the Law Power guided by the Six Classics of Confucian School was constantly adjusted and corrected to meet the requirements of the Shi Jiao School's Technique Method.

Several seconds later, his internal acupoints throbbed, and a tiny, pale flame appeared at his fingertip.

Dong Zhongshu pointed in the direction Zhang Xuezhou had previously indicated.

In an instant, the yin entity that the tiger Demonization was tainted by the flames, revealing the body of a tiger-headed imp.

A look of terror appeared on the tiger-headed imp's face. It seemed that it still didn't understand why it was being attacked in its ghostly state, and even that its body was beginning to disappear as it burned.

Like burning firewood, after the crackling sound of burning, a piece of his body would be missing.

In their terror, the tiger's roar and howl echoed throughout the entire village.

In the ancestral hall, more than ten ghosts stretched their heads and howled to the sky. Some flew into the mouths of the tiger-headed ghosts, some forcibly crawled back into the bodies of the villagers lying on the ground, seemingly driving these villagers who had been knocked down to continue to get up and kill Dong Zhongshu and others. Some cried out for their companions, while others turned into smoke and charged at Dong Zhongshu and others.

The various ghostly figures have different forms and also possess the instinct to save and protect their master.

But as the tiger-headed imp's body was mostly consumed by the Southern Ming Fire Technique, these vengeful spirits were plunged into a wail of doom.

The newly formed Southern Bright Fire Technique was very weak, and the burning speed was not fast, but the despair brought by this slow burning filled the tiger demon's heart.

Watching itself being burned away bit by bit, it let out an extremely unwilling roar.

"This land belongs to us. You humans have seized our territory. We, the Changhu clan, are the masters of this place. We can control the humans in our territory, we..."

The wailing gradually subsided, and the flames burned out completely, turning into a wisp of smoke.

Inside the ancestral hall, with the demise of the tiger demon, the bodies of more than ten vengeful spirits that had been summoned also ceased to exist.

Three of our men died!

The business group consisted of ten people, and in just one night, nearly a third of them were laid off.

Dong Zhongshu looked at Zhang Xuezhou, then at Zhao Liang, whose face was pale, and Zhang Debiao, who was still clutching his buttocks, as well as the remaining guest minister surnamed Xu and the two coachmen.

He sensed that his bad luck was already beginning to show.

In his journey to the Northern Border to seek treatment from General Li Guang, he will most likely encounter another setback, possibly even leading to disaster.

There's no need for the Zhao family to return to Shu County to report this; if Zhao Liang hadn't returned to Shu County within two years, the Zhao family should have gone to Chang'an to file a complaint.

Just thinking about the various forms of suppression that the imperial court would inevitably trigger when handling this matter made Dong Zhongshu feel a sharp pain in his liver.

Accordingly, he was not in high spirits at the moment.

It wasn't until Zhang Xuezhou rummaged through the ancestral hall and found a large tiger skin with ancient characters and simple graphics carved on it that Dong Zhongshu finally perked up a little.