Chapter 464: Chapter 328: From then on, there is no more Lu Shan Sect in the world!
Nine ghost generals, clad in armor.
Each one had an overwhelmingly powerful aura, not inferior to Yue Niang’s.
They all knelt down on one knee, fists held together, addressing him as “Master”.
Xu Yang was baffled by this.
He looked around, saw that no one else was present, and finally confirmed…
These nine ghost immortals were indeed bowing to him!
“Please, all of you generals, quickly get up!”
Xu Yang’s thoughts flickered, maintaining a calm expression. After the ghost generals stood up, he asked with confusion, “How did you know I was coming out of here? Do you recognize me?”
One of the ghost generals stepped forward and said, “We actually don’t know your face or appearance, Master…”
“However, the great being once said that if a living person walks out of this study on the night of Lunar August 1st, he’s our master. We must serve him for ten years, and then we can regain our freedom and return to the Underworld Palace to work in the underworld.”
Xu Yang had already guessed this to some extent.
The person who arranged for these nine ghost immortals to serve him was…his father!
It was the profound love of a father!
From the words of these ghost immortals, Xu Yang gathered that they were not human ghosts.
Upon further inquiry, he found out…
These nine ghost immortals were originally spirits of the Underworld Palace.
They had entered the human world during the opening of the Ghost Gate on Lunar July 15th, intending to cause a big commotion. However, they were caught by the lord of Fengdu Ghost Market, who took them all under his control.
Of course,
they had resisted.
As a result of their resistance… Out of the original twelve ghost immortals, only the nine survived.
These nine ghost immortals had sworn a “Great Dao oath” and been planted with a secret technique by “Qingyi”, the lord of Fengdu Ghost Market, ensuring 100% loyalty and allowing Xu Yang to use them confidently and boldly.
However, Xu Yang didn’t put on the high and mighty attitude of a master but smiled and said, “You are all heroes among ghosts. There’s no need to be so cautious. Since you know who I am, you may call me Mr. Xu, Master Xu, or… Young Master Xu.”
“Young Master Xu.”
The nine ghost immortals exchanged a few words and reached a consensus on how to address Xu Yang.
Xu Yang continued, “I still don’t know your names.”
One ghost immortal stepped forward and said, “I am Lao Da, the Grand Ghost General of Fengdu Ghost Market.”
Another one stepped forward and said, “I am Lao Er, the Deputy Ghost General of Fengdu Ghost Market.”
Seeing the third ghost immortal step forward, Xu Yang couldn’t help but ask, “Are you Lao San?”
The ghost immortal replied, “I’m not Lao San, but Lao Liu, the Sixth Ghost General of Fengdu Ghost Market.”
Next to him, another ghost immortal said, “Young Master Xu, I am Lao San…”
Xu Yang: “……”
The dignified ghost immortals had such amusing names.
These names were just… too casual!
Xu Yang roughly understood that the names must have been given by his “father” for the sake of easy memory. He immediately said, “My father has returned to the Underworld Palace, and I am now taking over the Fengdu Ghost Market…”
“Before he left, he opened a space passage. Once you enter the passage, you will arrive at Xi Xia Ghost Market.”
“To celebrate the connection of the two major ghost markets, I have decided to randomly select 1,000 ghosts from Fengdu Ghost Market to enter Xi Xia Ghost Market and offer them a free trip to the haunted house each time the ghost markets open. Generals, I entrust this to you.”
After giving his instructions,
Xu Yang said, “Alright, go pick the ghosts first… I have other matters to attend to, so I’ll return to Xi Xia Ghost Market first.”
He returned the way he came, and within a few seconds, he was back in the depths of the haunted house in Xi Xia Ghost Market.
With a sweep of his divine sense, he saw a long line of ghosts outside the haunted house. Xu Yang immediately used the “Dream Creation Skill” to envelop the entire haunted house while he opened its gates with a thought!
The “foreign” ghosts didn’t know the “terror” of the haunted house.
They only knew that they would receive a large reward if they ventured inside.
If they could withstand a certain time in the haunted house, they could even obtain the Xi Xia Ghost Market’s permanent residency. They were overjoyed and rushed into the haunted house…
The young ghost named Ye Fan was the fastest.
He was the first to enter the haunted house. As he faced the endless darkness, he clenched his fists and cheered himself on, “Come on, Ye Fan, you can do it! You’ve beaten countless terrifying games in your life, so why would you be scared now?”
As his thoughts settled,
the darkness in front of him began to dissolve!
Ye Fan was delighted and laughed confidently, “It seems this haunted house isn’t so bad… Just an illusion, as long as I stay true to myself, I can easily break through.”
The darkness disappeared,
replaced by a bright light.
As Ye Fan walked towards the light, he saw a majestic mountain entering his field of vision.
He blinked in surprise and said, “This mountain… looks familiar!”
“Mount Tai?”
“This is Mount Tai?”
He looked around and finally confirmed his conclusion. He then frantically patted himself and was even more surprised, “I… am I alive?”
“These clothes I’m wearing…”
“And this backpack?”
“Isn’t this the outfit and backpack I wore before I died, when my friends and I went hiking on Mount Tai?”
Turning around, Ye Fan saw several familiar faces.
“Wang Gang?”
“Chen Li?”
He murmured, “You guys… why are you here?”
A burly young man finished packing his bag, stood up, and touched Ye Fan’s forehead in confusion, “Your fever is gone…why are you still confused?”
He rolled his eyes and complained, “Ye Fan, did you get amnesia? We came to climb Mount Tai.”
“Climb Mount Tai?”
Ye Fan was even more puzzled. He couldn’t help but ask, “What year is it now?”
“It’s 2008, and the Olympics will be held next month…”
“2008?”
Ye Fan cried out in disbelief, “This is impossible! I’m dead, aren’t I? Is this an illusion?”
“Illusion, my foot!”
The muscular young man named “Zhang Li” cursed: “Did you burn your brain with a fever? You kept talking in your sleep last night.”
“Sleep talking?”
Ye Fan slapped himself.
The solid pain made him unable to distinguish between reality and illusion for a moment.
Is he trapped in an illusion…
Or did he not die and just had a strange dream???
However, this dream was just too long and too bizarre… Did he turn into a fierce ghost?
By the time he came back to his senses, his fellow hikers were already tens of meters away. Ye Fan shouted and caught up: “Wait… It’s not a good day to climb the mountain. I have a feeling that something will go wrong!”
“What nonsense. We’re going to follow the tour group and take the cable car to the top instead of climbing by ourselves. Are you saying we’re going to fall off?”
Upon arriving at the mountain,
Ye Fan found everything to be incredibly real.
This gradually made him believe… that everything had indeed been just a strange dream!
He didn’t die.
It is still 2008.
This… is the only thing that conforms to his views on life and the world.
Are there ghosts in this world?
Let alone becoming one himself!
That’s too unscientific.
However, an accident happened when they were taking photos on the top of Mount Tai…
Ye Fan lost his footing and fell from the mountain.
As his body fell, a tremendous sense of fear engulfed him…
“Ahhhhhh!!!!!”
“I’m going to die, I’m going to die…”
He screamed frantically, but Mount Tai seemed endlessly high, and his body kept falling through the clouds without ever hitting the ground…
All the ghosts who entered the horror house were experiencing the same thing as Ye Fan.
They…
in their dreams, “died” once again!
For ghosts.
Many ghosts collapsed.
Crying and yelling, non-stop shouting.
Only a very small number of them, with firm determination, persisted… And an even smaller number provided Xu Yang with no “merit value” at all.
Such ghosts were the so-called lucky ones among ghost-kind.
Because their “deaths” were not painful at all.
Some died on women’s bellies.
Some fell asleep and woke up to find themselves dead!
To relive the process of “death” for them was frankly more like enjoyment.
Of course,
these ghosts are extremely rare, and there might not even be one among a thousand!
…
Deep in the horror house,
Xu Yang, sitting cross-legged in the darkness, looked at the merit value that was rapidly rising, approaching the 3.5 million mark, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth[Name]: Xu Yang
[Age]: 22 years old
[Daoist Arts]: Divine Ascension Scripture
[Daoist Skills]: Fire Manipulation Skill (Divine Transcendence), Water Manipulation Skill (Divine Transcendence), Wulei Rules (Divine Transcendence), Paper Cutting Skill (Divine Transcendence), Earth Escape Skill (Divine Transcendence), Dream Creation Skill, Land Spirit Skill (Divine Transcendence).
[Martial Arts]: Land Flight Skill (Complete), Soul Searching, Disguise Art, Eight Forms of Famous Sword Skills (Complete), Great River Sword Manual (Third level)
[Divine Powers]: Rain Invocation, Flame Spewing, Mountain Shaking, Turning Stone into Gold, Communicating with the Netherworld, Interrupting Flow, Summoning Clouds, Super Strength, Symbol Water, Symbol Water, Wind Borrowing…… (Too much to list, leaving out with ellipsis.)
[Cultivation]: Late stage of Divine Transcendence Realm
[Daoist Artifact]: Supreme Purification Seal (Daoist artifact), Iron Hammer
[Merit Value]: 3.38 million.
[Storage Space]: 100 cubic yards
Glancing at the system attribute panel, Xu Yang couldn’t help but laugh: “Lord Cui is very helpful. The ghosts from Fengdu City provide me with merit every day. Now I’ve cultivated 32 of the 72 Earth-Devil Skills, and I also have three Malevolent-Deity powers.”
“After tonight, my merit value should be close to the 5 million mark.”
“By then… I should be able to master all the remaining 72 Earth-Devil Skills.”
“As I master each divine power, my magical power will increase a little… Once I master all 72 Earth-Devil Skills, at what level will my strength be?”
Soon,
the nine Ghost Immortals appeared with the 1000 “lucky ghosts” of Xi Xia Ghost Market.
Through the “space channel,” they appeared directly in the deepest part of the horror house. Xu Yang covered them with his “Dream Creation Skill” and called the nine Ghost Immortals to his side.
“Nine generals.”
“After the ghost market is over, you will come with me to the human world… I need your help with something.”
Now that he had his own strength,
and with his wives, Black and White Impermanence, as well as these nine Ghost Immortals, it would be easy to take down the Lu Shan Sect.
However, what Xu Yang didn’t know was…
Just now,
the Lu Shan Sect had completely disappeared from the human world!
White Impermanence stood above the Min River, presiding over the scene, and said: “Disciples below the Entering Dao Realm in the Lu Shan Sect, erase all memories of tonight and send them ashore.”
“For those in the Entering Dao Realm, disable their cultivation.”
“Have you killed everyone above the Entering Dao Realm?”
“If you have, go and loot the wealth of the Lu Shan Sect… Bring everything back.”
After giving instructions,
White Impermanence looked at the almost collapsed Lu Shan Sect and sighed: “After tonight, the human world will be without the Lu Shan Sect… I don’t know if Celestial Master Xu will give us trouble.”