Hybrid Spiritual Plant Cultivation

Chapter 367 Thoughts
In the River Styx.

"Master Fulong, the immortal outside has not left yet."

The one who was speaking was a ghost with three heads. One head was confused, one was stupid, and one was both confused and stupid.

Opposite the three evil ghosts was a giant snake that was completely corrupt.

The big snake hissed, "What trick did this immortal use again?"

"The immortal seems to be saving the souls of the dead."

"Hmph." The rotten snake's eyes revealed disdain: "You can't beat him, so you want to save him? He's just an incompetent person. Keep an eye on him, don't let this immortal ruin the peace of the Styx."

The evil spirits slowly retreated.

This place is the section of the Styx in the ancient Burning Fire Domain. Although the Styx flows, the wronged souls and evil spirits do not necessarily go with the flow, so over time, they become local evil spirits.

The pollution of the River Styx and the outbreak of evil spirits were the products of the collapse of the Divine Dynasty. A large number of ghosts from the previous dynasty even established an underground ghost kingdom and set up a nine-grade ghost dynasty system, dreaming of restoring the glory of the Divine Dynasty.

But it collapsed as expected. No matter how much it imitated the Divine Dynasty, it was ultimately a different species and it was difficult to survive with the same system.

However, the big ghost dynasties disappeared, but small ghost dynasties emerged like mushrooms after rain.

Right now in the Burning Fire Ancient Domain, there is a ghost country established by a giant ghost snake. The giant snake calls himself the Ruined Ghost Emperor, with the cultivation level of the sixth realm. The eighteen ghost generals under his command all have the strength of the fifth realm, although they are not very obedient.

What has made the big ghost snake murderous in recent days is that outside the Styx, a cultivator built a floating island and killed the ghosts in the Styx from time to time.

This is really too much bullying. Usually, it is him, the big ghost snake, who rushes out from the River Styx, but recently someone actually dared to come and provoke him.

"Hmph, when the tide of the Styx comes, I will kill everyone in the surrounding area and make the blood flow like a river."

The big demon snake was filled with hatred, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent.

At this time, Chen Jing didn't know that the local ghosts of the Styx hated him very much. He was still thinking about an efficient way to clean up the resentful souls and evil spirits.

His idea at this time was to achieve automated harvesting through hybridization of demon species, but after experiments he found that this idea had great limitations.

First of all, it is not energy-efficient. The fast-growing hybrid monster species require a lot of spiritual power. Although one's own magic power is strong, the Styx has no end, and it is obviously not cost-effective to consume it.

The second is the Möbius strip law, which is not very suitable for offense. It will be wiped out in the middle of a fight. It is only suitable for defense.

So Chen Jing began to change his thinking and built a city wall around the River Styx to prevent attacks.

Although this approach is more effective than attacking, the evil spirits in the Styx may not be very clear-headed, but they will not actively seek death.

So it’s still not a perfect solution.

After much thought, Chen Jing felt that a brute force attack was too expensive. He cleaned up the Styx to make money, not to spend money, so it was not worth it.

Just when Chen was stuck in a bottleneck, he unexpectedly heard a bell sound in the River Styx.

There are too many strange noises in the River Styx, and people usually ignore them. But because this one sounded so much like Jiu Niang’s bell, I went to take a look this time.

Looking from a distance, they saw two spirits, one old and one young, stepping into the River Styx.

"Wow, you're quite brave."

Chen Jing could see clearly from the Qi Shu that these two were weaklings, not exceeding the first level.

"Although the soul leaving the body is not as fatal as the spirit leaving the body, the risk is also very high. Moreover, a living person leaving the body and entering the Styx, what is this for? Is it to seek death?"

He was observing secretly from a distance of tens of thousands of miles.

One old and one young, the old one walked in front, holding a lamp in one hand and ringing a bell in the other, "Soul come back, soul come back."

The clear ringing sound emitted an invisible force, causing the evil spirits along the way to become unresponsive to the two of them.

suddenly.

There was a whimpering sound coming from the front.

I saw a woman in red kneeling under the tree in front of me and sobbing, "My husband, when will you come to find me? I have been waiting for you for too long. If you don't come to find me, I will go find you..."

The old man's face was slightly stern. He quietly changed his position and continued to ring the bell, shouting, "Soul, come back."

However, not long after they walked, the woman in red appeared in front of them again, crying that her husband had not found her yet.

The young man behind him showed a look of fear, "Grandpa, she..."

"It looks like you can't avoid it. Let's go. Don't be afraid." The old man walked forward and said, "Miss, I am the ferryman of the Qingming Realm. I walk between Yin and Yang and can fulfill the wishes of the dead. If you have any unresolved wishes, I can do it for you."

"Woo woo." The red-clothed female ghost raised her head, revealing a half-skulled face. "My husband and I have made an oath that we would not be born on the same day, month, or year, but would rather die on the same day, month, or year. But now that I'm gone, why hasn't my husband come to find me yet..."

The old man didn't answer.

The red-clothed female ghost murmured as if crying, "I miss him so much, miss him, miss him... I'm looking for him, looking for him, looking for him..."

"Hmm." The old man groaned, and a hint of blood suddenly appeared on the palm of his hand. He raised his hand and looked, and unexpectedly, a red veil appeared.

When he looked up again, the woman in red had disappeared.

"Grandpa..." The boy looked worried.

"Alas, when walking in the underworld, you can't avoid being haunted by ghosts. Even if you are fully prepared, it is difficult to guarantee complete safety. This red-clothed evil ghost is easier to deal with. As long as you fulfill its wish, you can be freed."

The old man was no longer surprised. He carefully examined the veil and said, "This is a dark treasure formed by the obsession of the red-clothed evil spirit. Wear it on your head and you will be able to avoid the evil spirit's attention. But remember, don't do it more than three times."

"I know, Grandpa, for all the underworld treasures, there is no more than three times the limit."

"Yes." The old man continued to walk forward with the young man: "A person has three fires. When you use the dark treasure once, one fire will be extinguished... When three fires are extinguished, the person will die."

Three fires?
Chen Jing's eyes flickered slightly, and he spent three minutes adjusting the recognition data of his pupil technique.

Then I looked again and indeed found the so-called three fires.

"As a mere cultivator of the first realm, I can also acquire some good little skills. Not bad, not bad."

There are countless spiritual powers in the world, and even one who is a transcendental being cannot say that he or she understands every one of them.

Cultivation is continuous learning and cognition.

Chen Jing continued to look.

Two of the three fires on the old man's body had been extinguished, leaving only the fire on his head, while the young man behind him had all three fires gathered together.

At this time, the old man walked in front, using the bell to drive away some of the lowest level of wronged souls, and then relying on his rich experience, he bypassed or targeted the evil spirits.

At the same time, he did not forget to explain to the young man behind him.

"The beast's ghost is afraid of people and fire just like it was in life. However, a stronger beast's ghost will arouse its ferocity. This is when we need to use this butcher's knife."

A fierce ghost appeared in front of the old man again. He took out his butcher knife, spat out a mouthful of blood to urge it, and instantly slashed out two blood-red blade beams, directly killing the third realm fierce ghost.

Chen Jing exclaimed that it was awesome. Anyway, he was in the first realm and saw the third realm, so he knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Although his realm is not high, this ferryman's use of spiritual power and targeting of opponents are very good."

The old man killed the beast's ghost, stepped forward and picked up a piece of soul bone, saying: "Yes, not all beasts' ghosts can leave soul bones. This is a good thing for refining magic tools. I can call this beast back and drive it again."

"Yeah!" The boy nodded obediently.

The grandfather and grandson kept walking and came to the ruins of a dilapidated village.

A group of ghostly children walked by, laughing and running and jumping around them.

"Children's souls are fragile and their minds are incomplete, so it's the hardest for them to become ghosts... I don't know what kind of suffering they went through in their lifetime to become like this."

The old man sighed, took out a pile of yellow paper from his bag, patiently cut it into a little man, and blew a breath of yang energy at the mannequin. The mannequin then came to life and played with the child's ghost like a living person.

only.

The process of playing was a bit bloody. The children laughed innocently yet evilly, tore the limbs of the yellow paper man, and dug out his internal organs. During this time, the laughter never stopped.

The grandfather and grandson took this opportunity to leave.

"It's getting closer." The old man continued to ring the bell, and when he called out "Soul, come back", a faint response came from the distance.

They came to a well.

The old man frowned deeply and said, "Those who were hanged or drowned are mostly ghosts, and most of them are fierce ghosts. And those who drowned in a well are 100% fierce ghosts."

"Grandpa, didn't they say that this sister hanged herself?" the boy asked puzzledly.

"Hiss... that's hanging and then throwing into a well, very evil, very evil!"

The old man took a deep breath and wandered around the periphery, not daring to go forward.

But in the end.

He still made up his mind.

"This girl is the sweetheart of that Lord Li. You know, Lord Li was penniless when he was young, and he relied on this girl for help. Later, the two of them secretly decided to spend their lives together. In order to marry this girl, Lord Li went out with the caravan, promising to come back after earning enough money. Then there was no news for ten years...

Everyone said he was dead, but he didn't expect that he was not dead, but became a noble. But when Lord Li returned home, he found that the woman he had secretly engaged to had died in an unclear manner.
Lord Li asked us to bring back this girl's soul, and we will certainly reward her generously..."

The old man said something as if to encourage himself, then he unpacked the package he was carrying and took out various things from it one by one.

Even Chen Jing, who was observing secretly, couldn't understand the functions of some of the magical weapons for a while.

After getting ready.

The old man climbed down the well and his figure gradually disappeared at the mouth of the well.

The boy was waiting outside.

Five full days passed during this wait. During this time, the rope on the well sometimes turned rapidly and sometimes became taut, which made the young man very worried.

From time to time, resentful spirits from the outside world would wander over, and the young man had to use clumsy magic tools to drive them away.

suddenly.

The rope stretched straight again, and this time, it was accompanied by the old man's groaning sound of effort.

The young man hurriedly approached, holding the chains of the captives in his hand. As the sound got closer, the old man who had been in the well for five days finally appeared, carrying a bloated and smelly female corpse behind him.

"Grandpa, it worked?!" the boy was surprised.

But the old man looked pale: "It's done, let's go back."

"Uh-huh!"

The grandfather and grandson returned together.

However, Chen Jing discovered that the third fire on the old man's body flickered and was on the verge of going out.

The old guy is going to die...

He had a thought in his mind.

A wisp of divine consciousness incarnation was attached to its body.

The old man was completely unaware of this. He just carried the bloated corpse on his back and carefully left along the way back.

There were no more setbacks on the way back, and we escaped from the River Styx successfully.

Open your eyes again.

The old man has appeared in a rather luxurious house. In front is a handsome man dressed in gorgeous clothes, with his eyes closed, full of majesty.

And around them, there was a group of people standing and kneeling.

"Master Li, I have accomplished my mission and brought the young lady back."

"it is good!"

The handsome man opened his eyes and looked at the resentful spirit of the woman. He couldn't help but reveal a look of astonishment and pain: "Juan'er, Juan'er, how did you become like this..."

The ghost of a woman called Juan'er also made a whimpering sound and struggled frantically against the restraints on her body.

"It's all my fault. It's my fault that I didn't come back to you earlier." The handsome man stepped forward and untied the restraints on the woman with a wave of his hand.

next moment.

The woman's resentful spirit let out a sharp howl, and the huge resentment gathered in her hands, and she reached out to the handsome man in front of her.

"Kill you!"

“Uh…” The handsome man was stunned, and then a layer of darkness appeared in his eyes. He muttered to himself, “So that’s it, it was all me, it was all me, I actually killed you with my own hands…”

Simultaneously.

A red veil appeared, and a red-clothed evil spirit appeared and walked towards the handsome man.

"My husband, my husband, I'm here to find you..."

"Oh?"

The handsome man opened his arms and said, "You've come just in time. I'll turn my beloved wife into a ghost and practice my invulnerability today. Come on!"

A pitch-black magic circle appeared under his feet, and black spiritual power threads bound the two female ghosts. At the same time, the wailing voices of more women emerged around him.

The old man explained with his eyes wide open.

"Go, go quickly! This man killed his wife and made her soul a ghost. He is a demon!"

He pushed his grandson and tried to leave.

But he was grabbed by a bloody hand that appeared out of nowhere. The handsome man laughed loudly: "I have controlled the power of the evil spirit. Today, no one can leave."

For a moment, everyone in the house fell into despair.

"It's over, it's all over. There are actually people who are so cruel and crazy..."

Boom.

Suddenly, a bolt of thunder appeared in the sky.

The lightning refracted several times in the sky and turned into an incandescent pillar of light, which came down with a loud bang, cleansing all the evil forces.

The old man was almost blinded. When he regained consciousness, he saw that Lord Li, who had been so arrogant just now, was now being stepped on by a man in strange clothes.

The evil aura that filled the air disappeared into thin air.

"I said that the customs and practices of the lower world cannot withstand a closer look."

Chen Jing rolled up his sleeves.

He picked up the man surnamed Li who was standing under his feet and said, "But the tissue used to wipe your butt can also be recycled."

He turned around, pondered for a moment, then walked over and helped the old man up.

"You don't have much time left anyway, so come along."

The old man's eyes blurred and he was shocked to find that he had come to the River Styx in the flesh, and countless evil spirits were rushing towards him.

The strangely dressed man, however, was calm and fearless. He emitted golden light and took him across the long River Styx. The terrifying evil spirits in the River Styx that he had to fight with all his might were like weeds in the eyes of this man, and he just passed by them casually.

"Immortal? He must be an immortal!" The old man's heart was filled with excitement.

at last.

The golden light stopped and the old man slowly landed on the ground. As for the man surnamed Li, he was not so lucky and fell directly to the ground.

Chen Jing stepped forward.

"Old man, after seeing your method, I think there should be a more pleasing solution to deal with the resentful spirits and evil spirits. Are you interested in helping me build the underworld?"

(End of this chapter)