My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 182: First Battle with the Sacrificial Wine

Chapter 182: Chapter 182: First Battle with the Sacrificial Wine

"There’s no good or evil in magic, only in those who use it!" Wang Zijia muttered, reassuring himself as he gingerly seated himself upon the White Bone Throne. "Go!"

At Wang Zijia’s command, ghostly fog encircled the Five Ghosts. Taking a step, the Four Ghosts swiftly transformed along with their sedan chair into ethereal shadows, visible only to the spiritual eye, and sped off in a certain direction.

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After merely a brief moment, Wang Zijia’s figure quietly emerged in front of a courtyard in the East District of the Beast Control Sect. The scenery here was most charming.

After a rough estimate, he was at least three times faster than a paper kite. And this was just ordinary speed. Such speed was definitely considered fast among the Wine Monks!

After assessing his own situation, Wang Zijia lifted his eyes to the courtyard in front of him. The information about the master of the courtyard also arose in his mind.

Name: Min Xin

Cultivation: Early stage Wine Monk

Affiliation: Beast Control Sect, Beast Flow

Main Cultivation: He owns a Ghostly Demon Leopard at the middle-stage of the Wine Monk realm, is elusive as a ghost.

Among the information on the three Wine Monk level cultivators provided by Du Kang, this one seemed to be the easiest to deal with.

Especially considering that their opponent was a Beast Control Monk, for which Wang Zijia had been preparing for three months. If he could catch him unprepared, he felt he had a pretty good shot at coming out on top.

If it weren’t for the fact that the curses in the "Five Ghosts Divine Power" were somewhat unprofessional and could trigger life-saving replacements, he would have preferred to start with cursing for a more stable attempt.

However, even in his current state, he doesn’t feel threatened. His Daoist foundation built by the Tao Fruit, accompanied by the Five Ghosts who were in the Wine Monk realm, added to that the top-grade magic door used by a peak Wine Monk, and the blessings from a third-grade spiritual device used in the Perfected Realm.

It still counted as catching the Beast Control Monk off guard, when several factors added up, his chances of succeeding should be 99.9%, right?

As for the remaining 0.1% risk, he didn’t need to bear it himself. He was currently cultivating the Dao Seed, and he could just call for someone if things didn’t work out.

After all, he wasn’t afraid!

With such assurance at the bottom, Wang Zijia was full of confidence.

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Although he was confident, Wang Zijia didn’t directly initiate confrontation. Instead, he carefully pulled out a set of Array Flags and cautiously placed them around the yard.

This was a second-class Concealing Array that Wang Zijia had spent nearly two thousand magic money to purchase.

Although the Outer Sect area was vast and usually allowed a bit of underhand dealing, it would be easily noticed if the Wine Monks start a fight.

After setting up the Concealing Array Flag, Wang Zijia turned his attention back to the courtyard.

The courtyard was quite large, with at least four compartments and occupied several acres. Inside, rock gardens and running water and pavilions were scattered about, creating a quiet and elegant atmosphere.

With the Five Ghosts Talisman circling around him, Wang Zijia turned into a shadow and carefully sneaked into the courtyard.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t encounter the defensive formation that he had expected to find in the courtyard of most Wine Monks.

But just when Wang Zijia was about to rest easy, he stopped in his tracks because he had detected the traces of a warning formation.

The formation was fairly concealed, and had he not been a second-class talisman master who was extra cautious, he might not have noticed it.

After some thought, Wang Zijia furrowed his brow.

It was a second-class alert formation, and he was only a talisman master. It would be somewhat challenging to silently deal with it.

Looking at the inner courtyard enveloped by the warning formation, Wang Zijia fell silent for a while.

The entire large courtyard was not crowded with people, only a few ordinary disciples, and none of them went to the backyard. It was unclear whether it was because they were not allowed to enter the backyard or because it was already night time.

Wang Zijia pondered for a moment, and the Five Ghosts quietly appeared, confusing all the other disciples in the courtyard. A ghost talisman turned into a fog, enveloping a disciple, causing him to fall into a state of confusion, like sleepwalking, and slowly walked into the backyard, stepping inside.

At this moment, Wang Zijia, under the support of the Five Ghosts, turned into a shadow and slipped in.

"Tearing!"

As the child stepped inside, a cold light rushed out of the void, directly tearing the child’s clothes, and left several scratches deep enough to reveal the bone on his chest. The tremendous force also sent him flying out.

"Roar!"

A completely black panther appeared, growling at the child.

The moment he entered the warning array, the ghost fog controlling the disciple disappeared without a trace. Struck and roared at, he had not yet regained consciousness and was directly knocked out again.

"What’s going on?" a middle-aged man came out of the backyard and reprimanded.

The middle-aged man was in his forties with two strands of strange white hair at his temples. He looked mature, but his temperament was rather sinister, giving a feeling not to ruffle him.

"Roar!" The black panther turned his head and roared at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man frowned, moved forward a few steps, preparing to go to the fainted disciple to inquire.

"Hiss..."

However, after only two steps, the black panther suddenly acted as if its fur traveled along its spine and showed a defensive posture. Between grating teeth, it growled a warning.

The middle-aged man paused in his action, about to do something.

At this time, the entire courtyard was suddenly illuminated with points of spiritual light and a faint mist enveloped the entire yard.

At the same time, in the distance several meters in front of the fainted disciple, between the middle-aged man and that disciple, a figure suddenly appeared.

With the appearance of the figure, there were also five ghost shadows.

Three of them rushed straight towards the black panther in front of them, and the remaining two ghost shadows rushed towards the middle-aged man. As Wang Zijia revealed himself, he waved his hand, a splendid spear like blood crystal, emerged and rushed towards the middle-aged man, Min Xin, following the shadows.

"How dare you!"

Min Xin let out a stern yell, pressing his hands down to form a claw shape. His fingernails protruded like claws, flickering with a cold light. He slightly bent over, lowered his waist, and squat down and his body muscles inflated a notch.

Facing the flying long spear, he raised his claw hand, and a few swipes shattered it.

At this time, the two ghost shadows had already approached. One of them turned into a four-handed demon, opening its bloody mouth, and directly pounced on it, while the other one remained in a ghostly state and rushed up.

"Thump!"

The demon that turned into a physical form made contact first. The sound of the collision between the ghost claw and the other party’s claw hand was dull and deep, which startled Min Xin a little.

Immediately after, as the ghost shadow was about to touch him, a transparent light shield emerged from Min Xin’s body, bouncing the approaching shadow away.

Both the man and the ghost didn’t pause and engaged in a fast-paced duel.

On the other side, seeing this, Wang Zijia, who was already thinking of a quick battle, saw that the initial probing had no effect, didn’t hold back at all. A book emerged above his head.

Amidst the flickering bloody light, Wang Zijia’s aura rose sharply, and in the blink of an eye, he reached the peak of the sacrificial wine.

Min Xin was startled and yelled towards the distance: "Black Tiger!"

"Roar!"