Red Prajna!
Prajna is a type of vengeful spirit demon in Fusang legend, said to be an evil spirit ford from a woman's intense jealousy and resentnt.
There are currently three main types of Prajna in folklore. The first type is Laughing Prajna, a sowhat common evil spirit, often appearing with a grotesque laughing face, especially enjoying scaring children. The second type is White Prajna, which folklore describes as born from insane jealousy and resentnt, attaching to the narrow-minded vengeful woman, leaving at night to take lives, similar to a parasitic soul.
The last one is the Red Prajna.
This type of Prajna is the most ferocious among the three; it kills without any reason or justification, killing whenever it wants, and eating after killing, with extrely cruel thods.
"Alert!"
"Pollution source detected! Hostile entity from the Hungry Ghost Dao detected!"
As the Red Prajna appeared, many ghostly figures gradually erged around as well. They looked tornted and more savage and terrifying than the ghosts Su Ziyu saw in the Ghost Capital. They started devouring the surrounding corpses as soon as they appeared, seeming as if they were starving, eating whatever they saw.
——"Hostile entity from the Hungry Ghost Dao!..."
All the ghosts that appeared are marked as hostile entities from the Hungry Ghost Dao, and they are all polluted entities. Fusang culture heavily influenced by Huaxia, especially after Jian Zhen's eastward journey during the Tang Dynasty, where Chinese studies flourished throughout Fusang. Virtually all the aristocrats had to learn Chinese characters, and it would be looked down upon if a noble couldn't recite a few Tang poems in this era.
With the introduction of Buddhism into Fusang, the concept of the Six Paths of Reincarnation also began to spread among the people.
"Gained 3 Source Power Value!"
Su Ziyu quietly approached the defeated Reincarnation Dao person and absorbed the Source Power Value into his pocket without revealing himself, opting instead to observe the skills of these Yin Yang Masters first. Anyway, as long as he touches the corpse last, he can get the Source Power Value, so he does not mind others fighting the monsters for him.
"Jie Jie!"
The Red Prajna laughed sinisterly, spitting out a ghostly blue fla. In an instant, she disappeared from her original spot and reappeared behind a Yin Yang Master.
A sharp ghost claw struck from the darkness.
Abe no Seii's reaction was extrely quick, transforming the talisman paper in his hand into a chain to bind it, then said in a deep voice, "Yoshimasa! Yoshihiko! Back off!"
"This demon is not sothing you can handle!"
One by one, talismans floated in the air, protecting Abe no Seii before him like an array. The Yin-Yang Dao stems from the ancient Chinese natural philosophy and Yin Yang Five Elents theory, originating from the School of Yin-Yang, a branch of Daoism during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Later, it started to rge with the chanted spells of Yin Yang Five Elents and was prominently practiced in the Qin Dynasty by alchemists.
In the late Eastern Han period, the Ghost Dao technique erged in Fusang, suspected to be inherited from Huaxia's Celestial Master Dao. Queen Himiko of Fusang was the founder of the Ghost Dao cult during that ti.
According to the Chi Songzi Calendar: "In the Han Dynasty, people and ghosts mixed together, evil spirits ran rampant. Tai Shang showed compassion, descended to He Ming Mountain, and bestowed upon Celestial Master Zhang the Zhengyi Alliance's Authority Talisman of one hundred and twenty degrees, along with the Rituals for One Thousand Two Hundred Officials, Three Hundred Chapters, and Secrets of Magic, to heal and manage people. The Celestial Master then established the Twenty-four Domains, expanded the Zhengyi Chapter Talisman, managed households and transford people, spreading hidden virtues widely."
This was the beginning of all talismans.
The talismans Abe no Seii used were sowhat different from Huaxia's Daoist talismans, but Su Ziyu, an outsider, couldn't discern the specific differences.
The main practice for Yin Yang Masters is the technique of summoning gods and exorcising ghosts, heavily influenced by Daoist teachings. The magic they practice focuses primarily on Five Elents Techniques, and their thods for sealing Great Demons are quite similar to Daoism, utilizing the power of mountains and earth veins and sealing with Talisman Secret Technique.
In sealing demons in the past, Abe no Seii almost always chose famous mountains and rivers.
——"Soul Suppressing!"
Talismans rose with the wind, as Abe no Seii made a sword-like gesture with his two fingers pointing forward. A faint dragon's roar suddenly resounded, startling Su Ziyu.
A Kikyo Seal appeared in mid-air.
The Kikyo Seal used by Abe no Seii is unique to Yin Yang Masters, essentially a pentagram inscribed with various talisman patterns, representing the five elents of tal, wood, water, fire, and earth that symbolize all things in the universe.
Rumble!
A bolt of lightning ca down from the sky.
Unlike the Spiritual Lightning that Su Ziyu wielded, what Abe no Seii utilized at this mont was real Thunder Technique, the pinnacle of Daoist magic capable of commanding the power of lightning and thunder.
Dragon-like shadows appeared faintly before his eyes.
These weren't corporeal Eastern True Dragons, but rather spirit bodies offered up in religious rituals. It is said Abe no Seii had twelve powerful Shikigami, naly Tengshe, Vermilion Bird, Liuhe, Gouchen, Cyan Dragon, Tian Yi, Celestial Empress, Tai Yin, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, Tai Shang, and Heaven. These were mostly inherited from Daoist orthodox deities, completely different from the ghostly shikigami other Yin Yang Masters commanded.
It is rumored that in this era, only Abe no Seii could command a True Dragon spirit.
"This guy is incredible!" Su Ziyu's figure kept retreating.
He could sense so existences distinctly different from other shikigami erging. As the sound of the dragon's roar echoed, a very palpable pressure made Su Ziyu feel slightly uncomfortable.
"Abe no Seii!!!" From afar, the Red Prajna let out a painful wail.
As expected of the most powerful Yin Yang Master of this era, Abe no Seii's move severely wounded the Red Prajna before him, and many nearby Hungry Ghosts were killed by the Thunder Technique. Shikigami erged faintly, most appearing as Ghost Generals, with a few being peculiar demons. Under the command of the Yin Yang Master, they were gradually eradicating these Hungry Ghosts.
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