I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 392 Yama, the King of Hell, the Great Dao of Reincarnation (8k words, two chapters combined)

The exorcist, whose body was gradually turning into a demon, began to question the meaning of life.

He must have made a tremendous decision to elevate his cultivation to an unprecedented level in just seven or eight years by relying on the Ghost-Eating Forbidden Technique.

But today, standing in front of Xu Qing, he felt as if he were a mayfly seeing the blue sky.

This feeling was fleeting. When the Demon Exorcist looked closely again, the young man before him had once again become harmless.

The Exorcist looked puzzled, initially thinking it was just his imagination.

"It has been a few days since I last saw you, but you look even more radiant than before."

Before the True Lord could respond, the Spiritual Ascension Master spoke first:

"Fellow Daoist Xu has been cultivating for so long that he has lost track of time. Seven years have passed since you went into seclusion. How could it be just a few days?"

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously calculated with his fingers and found that, just as Master Fu Luan had said, seven years had passed in the world!
The Demon Exorcist True Lord, who was over ten feet tall, exhaled a sinister aura and said, "Ghost Law has already dispatched his troops to leave the City of the Wrongfully Dead. If Brother Xu does not leave the pass soon, I'm afraid we will miss the opportunity to fight."

"City of the Wrongfully Dead"

Xu Qing frowned slightly. The City of the Wrongfully Dead was originally a buffer zone between Yin and Yang, a place where ghosts who died unjustly stayed.

What is a wrongful death? Those who die by suicide, from harm caused by demons, from man-made disasters, wars, or other unnatural causes are the ghosts of those who died unjustly.

These ghosts died violent deaths and were often unable to go to the underworld. They could only temporarily reside in the place where the yin and yang meet, and the Yin River at that time was not as desolate as it is now.

At that time, the Yin River was crisscrossed with paths, and it possessed the largest city in both the Yin and Yang realms, namely the City of the Wrongfully Dead.

Most of the spirits who died unjustly in the world will be drawn to the City of the Unjustly Dead to live in until they have experienced the time lost between their unjust death and their natural death, before they can re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.

However, the City of the Wrongfully Dead had already been reduced to ruins, and all sorts of wrongfully dead ghosts inside had been devoured and merged by the Ghost Law, or tamed into cougar ghosts and ghost soldiers.

The City of the Wrongfully Dead is the location of the Ghost Law Daoist Temple. At this time, the Ghost Law troops suddenly mobilized on a large scale, which can only mean two things.

One reason is that the Venerable Fuluan captured too many ghosts, which alarmed the Ghost Laws.

Another is that the Ghost Lawyer, who ranks second among the twelve leaders of the City of the Wrongfully Dead, finally couldn't resist getting involved in the mortal world.

Xu Qing asked Master Fu Luan, "How many ghosts have you captured for the True Lord over the years?"

More than ten thousand.

"How much?" Xu Qing looked at the Nuo Immortal in front of him with a shocked expression.

Seeing the disbelief in Xu Qing's eyes, Master Fuluan was quite proud.

However, the next moment he heard Xu Qing say:

"For seven whole years, you've only caught ten thousand ghosts. And you still think you can become an immortal?"

Xu Qing was furious. When he quickly visited the Ghost King's Tomb, performed the ritual to deliver the skeleton army of the Eight Banners Marshal, and eliminated the Yin Erosion Dharma King's troops, each of these involved tens of thousands of people.
Moreover, each battle was a one-shot victory, like picking chicks from a cage, catching them one by one.

Now this Nuo Immortal is telling him that in the past seven years, he has only captured tens of thousands of Yin ghosts.

"What do you mean by that!"

Master Fuluan has exhausted all his resources for the great cause of becoming an immortal. Now, Xu Qing tells him to his face that he cannot become an immortal. How can he bear this?
Besides, over the years, he has been catching ghosts day and night. Even a donkey pulling a millstone in the mortal world would deserve some praise from its master.

How could Master Fuluan have imagined that Xu Qing's first words would be, "You're still not working hard enough, you're so slow and inefficient"?

"Staring won't help. How can you, a dignified Nuo Immortal, not even be able to catch ten thousand ghosts in a year? It's obvious that your Daoist heart is not firm and your sincerity is not enough!"

The immortal Fu Luan, with his crooked nose and mouth, retorted angrily, "If you're so capable, then go! It's true I'm a terrestrial Nuo Immortal, but this is the Yin River."

"That's really strange. This is the first time I've heard that the 'land' in 'land immortal' refers to someone who can't swim. Otherwise, how come I can't even hear the word 'river'?"

Xu Qing remained sharp-tongued. Among the Three Musketeers of the Yin River, he and Exorcist True Lord both took the initiative to assume their respective risks when facing powerful enemies. But this guy, who had no guts, was different; he was unwilling to take any risks at all.

The fact that he could have captured 10,000 ghosts in seven years suggests that he was wandering around the edge of the Yin River, catching some lonely and lost spirits. Otherwise, the number would have been much higher.

Normally, Xu Qing wouldn't say anything, but the situation is urgent, and it's time to take certain risks. If he doesn't go all out at this critical moment, he truly deserves not to become an immortal.

Xu Qing was used to being the patriarch of the Cat Immortal Hall, and deep down he couldn't be as selfish as Master Fu Luan. He had to fulfill his promise to the Demon Exorcist True Lord and also value the Demon Exorcist True Lord's life.

After giving Master Fuluan a piece of his mind, Xu Qing turned around and left the Bone Temple.

To catch ghosts, one must search from the ghost's lair. Xu Qing opened his Heavenly Eye and Yin Pupil, using the methods of civil and military geomancy to observe the entire Yin River's energy field.

In a short while, he found several armies of ghosts.

These are all members of the Ghost Law retinue, the largest of which is located three hundred miles outside the City of the Wrongfully Dead.

The bold get rich while the timid starve. The Demon Lord Ghost Law, who devours tens of thousands of wild ghosts, might look down on him, but what if it were a subordinate of the Ghost-Eating Law?
In Xu Qing's eyes, since the goal is to increase the attractiveness of the bait, why not create a larger fishing spot to attract big fish, and then make the Exorcist True Lord the most tempting bait in that spot?
Xu Qing acted swiftly and decisively, immediately unleashing the power of the Underworld Kingdom to intimidate the ghosts. At the same time, he summoned the Mountain and River Cauldron, which could capture ghosts, and with the help of the Underworld Emperor's fortune, he reaped all the rewards along the way.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand.
Once they reached a point 300 miles outside the City of the Wrongfully Dead, Xu Qing used the same tactic again, swiftly capturing all the Yin army stationed on the burial mound.

Meanwhile, in the City of the Dead, filled with the ruins of an old city.

A colossal, unparalleled creature was revealed.

The colossal creature was enormous, stretching for more than ten miles. It opened its thousands of ghostly eyes and scanned the ancient Yin River Road, but only saw a wisp of corpse energy dissipate from the burial mound three hundred miles away from the Taoist temple.

Gui Lu, who was stationed in the City of the Wrongfully Dead, seemed unable to believe his eyes.

It rose in confusion, carrying with it dark clouds and ghostly mist, and flew through the air, arriving in an instant at the thousand-foot-high burial mountain.

When not a single ghost could be seen on the entire cemetery, Ghost Law finally confirmed one thing—

Its perception was correct; there really was someone audacious enough to harvest all the troops it had left outside the city to await orders right under its nose!
Enraged, Gui Lu immediately dispersed his myriad thoughts, attaching them to ghosts within a thousand miles, and began a thorough search.

It was eerie and ghostly, obscuring the moon and stars.

Suddenly, a cloud of turbid air filled the ancient Yinhe River, and countless ghosts appeared in procession.

Meanwhile, the instigator, Xu, has already appeared inside the True Lord's Bone Temple, carrying the Mountain and River Cauldron.

The ding (鼎) is a vital vessel for the preservation of mountains and rivers, and also a utensil for cooking food.

Xu Qing transformed into a chef, using the Mountain and River Cauldron as a crucible to cook 100,000 vengeful ghosts, which were then served to the Exorcist Lord.

"Brother Exorcist, eat it while it's hot, don't delay!"

Master Fulan glanced at the large cauldron Xu Qing had placed in the temple. At first, he didn't think much of it, wondering how many vengeful ghosts Xu Qing could capture in less than half a day, and how many yin spirits this cauldron could possibly hold.
However, when Xu Qing lifted the lid of the cauldron, the Yin energy formed by the gathering of 100,000 ghost generals and ghost soldiers instantly surged out.

The gluttonous demon-exorcising deity reacted extremely quickly. The moment the eerie ghostly aura overflowed, he let out a low roar and began to devour the food like a whale swallowing its prey.

Master Fuluan's eyelids twitched violently. He glanced at the 100,000 evil spirits howling in the cauldron, then looked at Xu Qing, who kept urging the Exorcist True Lord to eat quickly. He had a vague sense of foreboding.

"Where did Fellow Daoist Xu capture these 100,000 evil spirits?"

Xu Qing stared at the Exorcist True Lord, whose aura was rising steadily, and said without turning his head, "I picked up the Ghost Law Regiment on the road."

What does "ghostly serpents picked up on the road" mean?

Master Fuluan was filled with horror. No one knew the terror of Ghost Law better than him. Even the Azure Dragon God, who gathered millions of incense offerings from the mortal world a thousand years ago, was no match for Ghost Law!
After that battle, Azure Dragon went into hiding, while only Ghost Law still wandered around the Yin River.

Master Fuluan had originally intended to face the Ghost Law as soon as possible, but now that the time was approaching, he felt flustered and uneasy.

His instinct to search, attack, and withdraw, honed over two millennia, began to urge him to leave quickly.

Inside the incense hall, the body of the Demon Exorcist True Lord had grown to a hundred feet tall, and his aura had become even more violent. Xu Qing looked at the True Lord, who had become a demon god, and instead of feeling fear, he licked his lips with a strange light in his eyes.

This True Lord's body is becoming more and more sexy and alluring.
The burly man, who was doing his best to suppress the ghostly invasion, suddenly felt his whole body tighten, as if he was being locked on by a natural enemy, but this feeling only lasted for a moment.

The exorcist, who had just been fighting against all sorts of evil thoughts, also came to his senses because of this strange feeling.

He managed to speak, but what came out was not only human speech, but also the garbled, demonic murmurs of countless ghosts.

"The Bone Temple's grand formation has been damaged, and the unusual activity here cannot be concealed from Ghost Law for long. I urge Brother Xu to remember my previous promise; I will be eternally grateful!"

The True Lord, whose body was hundreds of feet tall, bowed his head. Just as Xu Qing was about to respond, the entire Bone Temple suddenly shook!

"Well, I have some matters to attend to in the mortal realm, so I'll take my leave now. We'll meet again another day!"

Xu Qing glanced to the side and saw that Nuo Xian beside him had already activated the Mayfly Heaven and Earth Talisman in his hand and disappeared in an instant.

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Xu Qing was completely speechless.

"He really is a spineless man, no wonder he can live for two thousand years!"

While enduring the pain of being devoured by the ghosts, the Exorcist Lord said, "Don't worry about it. Neither of us brothers intended to rely on outside help."

"That wretched creature has arrived. Brother Xu, take care. I'll be going first!"

Xu Qing looked at the True Lord, who was suffering from the torment of the ghosts, and cupped his hands, saying, "Until we meet again, Brother Exorcist."

The Demon Exorcist rushed out of the Bone Temple. Upon hearing Xu Qing's words, he paused, then his eyes became resolute.

When dealing with a demonic law master like Gui Lu, one must not have even the slightest thought of clinging to life. Only by embracing the determination to die can one possibly secure a glimmer of hope for the mortal world and for others.

Never again
Without further hesitation, the Demon Exorcist Lord roared and resolutely charged toward the enormous creature before him.

Like a moth drawn to a flame.

A thousand miles of burial mounds, a perilous and narrow place.

The demon, shrouded in the karmic force of calamity, lingered in the dark clouds atop the mountain, obscuring its entire form.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg, yet it still gives people a mysterious and suffocating sense of oppression.

Gui Lu is the master of all ghosts in the three realms. He embodies the cunning of the chang ghost, the ferocity of the mountain ghost, the gloom of the water ghost, the wrath of the vengeful ghost, the resentment of the hanged ghost, and the greed of the starving ghost. He can be said to have fused all the delusions of ghosts into one furnace.

Amidst the dark clouds, a multitude of ghosts howled fiercely, guarding the laws of the underworld as they marched, their presence truly chilling and malevolent.

"The Demon Exorcist Lord, it was you all along!"

Ghost Law was surprised, but even angrier!
In its early years, when it killed the Xuan Tan Long Hu Zhen Jun and caused him to return to nothingness, the latter sacrificed his life to cover the departure of a ghost god.

And that ghost or deity was none other than the Exorcist True Lord.

At that time, it did not take this ghost or god, which was not part of the orthodox temple system, seriously, nor was it willing to risk devouring the other party and creating a weakness for itself.

Once a ghost law devours a ghost, it will automatically integrate and comprehend the corresponding ghost's supernatural abilities and techniques, and at the same time possess the corresponding ghost's illusionary abilities.

Ghosts like the Exorcist Lord, who possess the bodies of spirits and cultivate through their physical forms, will also take over the bodies of others and gain their supernatural abilities after being devoured and fused with them.

Ghosts without physical bodies are immortal and indestructible. As long as there is a ghost in the Yin River and the Underworld, it will not perish.

However, the Ghost Law, which possesses a physical body, is bound by the Ghost Fetus, which means it is forcibly pulled into the realm that the Six Paths of Reincarnation can control.

Ghosts crave reincarnation the most, yet also fear it the most.

Ghost Law was unwilling to take that risk, which is why he ignored the Exorcist True Lord and let him go.

But who would have thought that a thousand years later, this little ghost that it had once released would dare to devour its followers and become its enemy!
Who gave you the courage?

Ghost Law felt his dignity had been offended.

With a roar, Gui Lu instantly transformed into a massive, mountain-like evil demon form, upon which countless tiny demons, the size of fleas, frolicked and cursed.

The evil spirit shook its body, and all sorts of demons and monsters, densely packed together, rushed towards the Exorcist Lord like locusts.

Although the True Lord had devoured 100,000 evil spirits and transformed into a demon god with a body a hundred feet tall, he still stood before the Ghost Law, whose body covered an area of ​​several miles, like a lone leaf in a small boat, swaying precariously.

The countless little demons surged towards the Exorcist Lord like a dam bursting open.

These little devils were all sharp-toothed and clawed, and they climbed all over him like dog skin plasters. The Exorcist Lord's legs were covered with two thick layers of flea-like ghosts.

The True Lord was furious, ignoring the troublesome little devil, and ran across the ground with his ornaments on.

At the top of the Yin-Yang Boundary Marker, Xu Qing looked into the distance and saw countless little ghosts falling off the body of the black-faced giant with blue faces and fangs. However, in the face of the surging ghost tide, more and more little ghosts were climbing onto the True Lord's body.

When the Exorcist Lord was completely transformed into a 'beehive' and surrounded by 'swarms of bees', a red gauze lantern suddenly rushed out of the hive, followed by hundreds and thousands of lanterns.
Those red gauze lanterns are river lanterns thrown by ordinary people when they worship the "True Lord Who Protects the Home, Bestows Blessings, and Exorcises Demons." Each one contains thousands of incense sticks from the people.

When the thousand-mile-long cemetery was stained with a layer of red, all the demons and monsters on the body of the Exorcist Lord were also completely driven away.

Even so, the Exorcist Lord was still dozens of miles away from Ghost Law.

Ghost Law sneered: "I have devoured more than a million ghosts. You have only eaten a hundred thousand small ghosts. How dare you offend my majesty?" When the Exorcist True Lord saw that Ghost Law was not particularly interested in his body, his heart sank.

"You wicked creatures! You devour the marrow of the fetus, steal the lifespan of heaven, damage the virtue of the earth, and disrupt yin and yang. You have countless blood debts within and outside the six realms, and your sins are piled high in the depths of the nine netherworlds. I am the True Lord of Exorcism, the God of the Underworld, who has received the Seal of Righteous Virtue and enjoys the incense offerings of all people. Today, I will sacrifice this body, even if my soul is destroyed under the flames of the Avici Calamity, to slay you all!"

Knowing that Gui Lu's wisdom had surpassed that of a demon, the Exorcist Lord had to put on a real show and adopt a self-sacrificing attitude in order to possibly guide Gui Lu to consume the bait.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Exorcist Lord immediately activated his Ghost and God Magic Realm.

Within the Dharma Realm, a deep red Soul-Gathering Umbrella spun and rose.

The radiant umbrella is the result of the True Lord's accumulated merits over the years, and it is also the incense and ritual implement of the Exorcising True Lord.

As the treasure umbrella soared into the air and unfolded, the hundred-foot-tall corpse of the Exorcist True Lord rose even higher. Then, using the power of the Soul Gathering Umbrella to collect all the ghosts, he began to feast in front of Ghost Law.

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Seeing that the Exorcist Lord was drinking the ghosts as if they were noodles, ignoring him completely, Gui Lu was stunned for a moment.

What followed was an overwhelming rage!

Gui Lu wanted to stop the Exorcist Lord, but thousands of red gauze lanterns fell like shooting stars before him, and Gui Lu was unable to step forward to stop them for the time being.

Millions of incense offerings became stumbling blocks on the path of the Ghost Law. When the red gauze lanterns were exhausted, the Exorcist Lord had already devoured 100,000 ghosts again, becoming a completely mindless demon.

Ghost Law roared in fury. It never expected that the other party would go to such lengths, even at the cost of sacrificing all the incense it had accumulated over a thousand years, just to scratch its fur.

The laws of the underworld are incomprehensible.

The underworld is bankrupt, and the King of the Underworld has returned to nothingness. Why would an unemployed ghost or god with no employer and no salary work so desperately?

Enraged, Gui Lu changed its appearance once more. This time, it was no longer an evil ghost, but a three-headed, six-armed form composed of vengeful ghosts, fierce ghosts, and death-reaping ghosts.

At the foot of the cemetery, the Demon Exorcist Lord, who had been completely corrupted, was left with only a wisp of obsession that could not be eliminated. He joined forces with his body and charged towards the Ghost Law with his physical body!

Faced with the exorcist who had lost his mind, Gui Lu finally felt the urge to devour him.

The three-headed, six-armed demon shattered the red gauze lantern that automatically protected the True Lord.

Countless little demons once again swarmed around the Exorcist Lord like a tide.

But Zhenjun, still obsessed, fearlessly crashed into the burial mound.

Formless and unpredictable, the ghost law, which serves as the dwelling place for all ghosts, transforms once more.

As the exorcist arrived, a starving ghost clinging to the mountaintop opened its blood-red maw.

At this moment, the starving corpses lay on the burial mound, their enormous bodies making the thousand-foot-high burial mountain look like a field embankment, while the starving ghosts were like hungry tigers entrenched on the embankment.

Influenced by the hungry ghost's supernatural powers, the ghost law was making a deafening roar in its belly. When the exorcist lord charged in, the hungry ghost poked its head out and tilted its head back, swallowing the lord who was brought to its mouth in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, a tremendous change is taking place in Gui Lu.

The Demon Law Master, who devours all ghosts and gains supernatural powers, has transformed from a starving ghost without a body into a 'corpse demon' with the body of a demon god.

Gui Lu smacked his lips, still wanting more.

This was the first time it had ever tasted a spirit carrying a corpse, and it certainly had a unique flavor.

However, it would take some time to separate the Demon Exorcist's physical body from the demon; only then could it feel at ease.

However, just as Gui Lu climbed the dark clouds and prepared to leave, a strange fluctuation of magical power suddenly came from afar.

It glanced to the side and saw a white-clad youth holding a demon-slaying sword on the Yin-Yang boundary marker in the distance.

Gui Lu became suspicious, and countless sesame-seed-sized 'fragrance ghosts' unconsciously crawled out of his nostrils.

The Scent-Eating Ghost has a keen sense of smell. It twitched its nose and sniffed, and found a strong smell of corpses!
It turns out to be a powerful zombie monster!
Ghost Law looked disgusted. Although it could merge with all ghosts, it found the zombie's flesh too tough and hard to chew.

If it hadn't been for the Exorcist Lord eating its minions and thus incurring its wrath, it wouldn't have risked swallowing that foul-smelling but delicious-tasting ghost corpse.

Ghost Law urgently needed to detach the corpse of the Exorcist True Lord and was too lazy to pay attention to the corpse monster in the distance. It disappeared into the dark clouds and was about to leave.

Who knew that the young man was so ungrateful? Just as Gui Lu was about to move, a flash of sword light appeared before his eyes, and the white-clad young man holding the Ghost-Slaying Sword had already arrived above the dark clouds!
"The Demon-Slaying Sword, Xu Qing."

As it devoured the Exorcist Lord, it also saw his memories.

Xu Qing frowned, a vague sense of unease creeping into his heart.

But the arrow is already on the bowstring, and it cannot be held back!

Xu Qing seized the opportunity and slashed at the ghost head facing him with all his might with the Ghost-Slaying Sword, which had already been stacked to thirty-three layers!
The Exorcist Master once said that all the unjustly killed corpses and ghosts have weaknesses.

The True Lord died by crashing into a pillar in the Golden Palace; his weakness was in the area between his eyebrows!
The Heavenly Gang Axe Technique reversed the universe. At this moment, Gui Lu was on the ground and Xu Qing was in the sky. When the axe shadow covering a hundred miles fell, Gui Lu's skeletal ghost head facing Xu Qing instantly shattered.

Caught off guard, Guilu fought back with all its might, but still had one head and three arms severed by the Heavenly Gang Axe.

With a roar of shock and anger, the Ghost Law, whose dark clouds had been cut off, finally abandoned its contempt. It raised its head, and thousands of ghostly eyes stared at the young man above it.

Having missed his first attack, Xu Qing had already exhausted most of his magical power.

He frowned as he looked down at the enormous creature below.

That skull-like ghost head was not the location of Ghost Law's head.

Xu Qing opened his Heavenly Eye and Yin Pupil, and saw that Gui Lu's body was covered with countless ghost heads.

The ghost heads were either laughing and cursing or howling like ghosts. On the Ghost Law's belly, there was a ghost face with squinting eyes, and even the navel was constantly opening and closing like a mouth.

That's a demon with a veil.

Looking at the throngs of ghostly figures, Xu Qing was momentarily at a loss as to where to find Ghostly Law's weakness.
The Exorcist Master never mentioned this situation!
Xu Qing's eyes flashed, and he suddenly grinned, revealing his teeth:
"I've seen bastards before, but I've never seen a bastard like you before. It seems your mother has quite the tricks up her sleeve."

Xu Qing missed his first attack, but he didn't stop talking. He started to coax Gui Lu into speaking, trying to find the location of Gui Lu's face through the sound source.

However, this ghost law was almost demonic in its wisdom. It transformed its body and, with a clever ghost in its body, said, "I wondered why that exorcist lord was so confident in fighting me to the death. It turns out he wanted to use his corpse as a cage to imprison me and make you the one to clean up the mess."

The clever ghost's eyes darted around as he mocked, "But you've been fooled by him. Although I have a weakness now, my supernatural powers and magic are still as strong as ever. No matter how many tricks you use, how can you possibly defeat me?"

When Gui Lu spoke, all the ghosts on his body opened their mouths, and the voices came from all directions, giving Xu Qing no chance to find the weakness of the Exorcist True Lord.

“I know everything about the Exorcist Lord’s life. Your schemes with the Exorcist Lord and that Eggless Venerable cannot be hidden from me. I have 108,000 ghosts here, totaling 108,000 forms. Even if you have the supernatural power to create heaven and earth, how many times can you use it?”

As Gui Lu spoke, his body split into 100,000 ghosts, who pounced on Xu Qing just as they had when dealing with the Exorcist Lord!
The Wraith Demon's arms could extend and retract freely, attempting to bind Xu Qing's body; the Plague Demon spewed out plague poison and miasma, covering a thousand miles; in addition, there were countless ghosts such as the Hanged Ghost, the Frozen Ghost, the Starving Ghost, the Mountain and Forest Ghost, and the River Ghost, carrying their own evil magic, surging towards Xu Qing.

Xu Qing knew he had to fight with all his might. He opened the Blood Lake Dharma Realm and the Immortal Hall Dharma Realm, and at the same time transformed into the Nuwa Immortal Robe, using the Dharma of Heaven and Earth to transform into the incense deity!
At the same time, the Dismemberment Technique splits the body into nine parts, and the Yin Kingdom expands its absolute domain, with the Yin Emperor's Qi transforming into a Xuanlong to mobilize the Yin River's earth veins and evil energy.
The myriad ghost eyes of the Ghost Law were shocked, puzzled, doubtful, and wary, but more than anything, they were filled with greed and covetousness.

In the eyes of the Ghost Law, Xu Qing was already considered an even tougher opponent than the Exorcist True Lord!
This zombie really wants to eat!
Xu Qing no longer used the Heavenly Gang Axe Technique. He held the Ghost-Slaying Sword and began to move with light and agile swordplay. He used the Mysterious Maiden Sword Technique in conjunction with the incense from the Blood Lake to approach Ghost Law step by step.

However, he still underestimated the cunning of the Ghost Law.

Besides possessing exceptional intelligence, this master of the demon's magic also has extraordinary intuition and senses.

Although it was unaware of Xu Qing's intentions, it subconsciously resisted the other party getting close to it.

Xu Qing's sword light grew faster and faster, and his eight clones joined forces with his main body to surround him from all sides, but they couldn't withstand Gui Lu's superior skills and magic!

Facing the Ghost Law, which even immortals, Buddhas, and saints fear, Xu Qingzhen was like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. In just a short moment, all eight of his clones were torn apart by the eight Yama ghost gods created by the Ghost Law.

Xu Qingmo said that even if he took a step forward, it would take millions of incense sticks to be thrown out like water to barely stabilize himself.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, nearly half of the incense at Baosheng Temple has been used up!

The ghost was cautious and did not give the corpse monster in front of it a chance to get close. It was only when it realized that the incense that Xu Qing threw out was getting less and less that it felt at ease.

It is already an unprecedented phenomenon for a corpse monster to have incense offerings, but a corpse monster that enjoys the reverence of thousands of people and has nearly ten million incense offerings is even more unprecedented.

Even the legendary Nüba did not possess so many human beliefs.

The Ghost Law determined that Xu Qing had exhausted all his tricks, and the dwindling number of incense offerings was proof of this.

When the price of incense offerings dropped from one million to eight hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, and two hundred thousand... Gui Lu's suspicions were immediately suppressed by the confidence of the 'clever ghost'.

Xu Qing ignored everything and only stopped after he managed to unleash another axe strike.

At this moment, his water-based magic power was completely exhausted, and even his hair-based magic power had been largely depleted due to the use of various supernatural abilities.

Within the Three Realms and Six Paths, the amount of magical power that all living beings cultivate is limited by their realm and level of cultivation.

Even with five hundred years of cultivation, no matter how solid your foundation, your magical power can't surpass that of someone with a thousand years of cultivation; at most, it can only approach the level of someone with a thousand years of cultivation.

The difference between someone with a thousand years of cultivation and someone with ten thousand years of cultivation is also like this.

Gui Lu could see that Xu Qing had only survived the Heavenly Fire Calamity, while the magical power he had lost was already at the level of Kui Ba, that is, the magical power loss of someone who had survived the Bifeng Calamity and possessed ten thousand years of cultivation.

The Ghost Law, now dominated by the clever ghost, looked at Xu Qing, whose magical power was clearly exhausted but who still wanted to move forward, and sneered: "How much incense do you have left? How much magical power do you have left?"

Seeing that Xu Qing ignored him, the clever ghost, having made a fool of himself, retreated to the background. When Ghost Law changed his form again, he did the same thing, transforming into a ravenous ghost that never knew when to stop.

Xu Qing, whose Baosheng Dharma image had dissipated, spoke with a resolute expression, just like the Exorcist True Lord before him: "I am the Baosheng God, the leader of the Immortal Hall, worshipped by the main temple, and enjoy the incense offerings of the people. Today, even if I have to give up this body and let my soul perish under the flames of the Avici Calamity, I will still slay all you evil demons for the sake of the believers of the world!"

Having said that, Xu Qing, holding the Demon-Slaying Sword, lunged towards the gaping maw of the Ghost Law.

Sprint, raise your sword, slide tackle.

With a smooth combo, Xu Qing was plunged into the gaping maw of the starving ghost.

Overestimating one's own capabilities
Amidst the playful banter of the ghost law, countless ghostly figures also displayed expressions of joy and elation.

However, just as the hungry ghost tried to tilt its head back and begin to swallow, its expression suddenly changed. It tried to cough violently, but found that it could not cough at all.

It reached into its throat, trying to pull out the thorn stuck there, but was interrupted by an extremely terrifying incense-like supernatural power!
Just a moment ago, Gui Lu said...

As soon as Xu Qing entered the throat, he once again unleashed the Blood Lake Dharma Realm and used the Dharma of Heaven and Earth to transform it into a Life Preservation Dharma Form that was even more solid than before.

Almost simultaneously, Xu Qing countered with a bowl of rice, and the Cat Immortal Hall's magical realm unfolded accordingly.

Two Dharma realms descended behind Xu Qing, like the sun and moon hanging in the sky.

In his left hand, he holds five million incense sticks of golden merit for saving the world and bringing peace to the people; in his right hand, he holds five million incense sticks of red merit for protecting life and nurturing the people.

Xu Qing smiled coldly, merging the two incense sticks in his hand—one gold and one red—into a large incense axe, and raised his hand to cleave the bottomless abyss that wanted to devour him.

Ghost Law roared in shock and anger, unable to utter a sound. This axe blow had severely damaged its foundation. Even when it fought against the Azure Dragon God, it had never suffered such a serious injury.

The enormous ghostly body of Gui Lu instantly stiffened.

Fortunately, its foundation was incredibly deep. In just an instant, the torn and burned wounds, from the inside out, began to heal again.

Gui Lu activated his innate divine power, exerting all his strength to devour and refine Xu Qing's divine power and body.

However, just when Ghost Law thought Xu Qing's methods had come to an end, a chorus of scriptures and incantations suddenly began to be recited in its mind.

The owners of those voices included high-ranking officials, scholars, and top scholars; as well as ordinary people, wandering rogues, peddlers, and even prisoners and criminals.

All the five elements and eight professions of the world, and all the myriad forms of humanity, are transformed into scriptures for saving people, to help Xu Qing convert the Ghost Master who controls thousands of ghosts.

Ghost Law's enormous body began to disintegrate, starting with four or five snowflakes, then a single snowflake, and finally evolving into a massive avalanche!
"Yama, the Emperor, the Cycle of Reincarnation!"

Ghostly Law, filled with fear and resentment, let out a roar emanating from its back.

The second-in-command of the Yinhe Sect, Gui Lu, who had occupied the City of the Wrongfully Dead for two thousand years, finally fell.

At this moment, the Sutra of Salvation in Xu Qing's mind was radiating boundless light like never before!
Every time he turned a page of the Sutra of Salvation, it resonated deep within his soul like a great bell!

Countless fragments of ghostly memories and countless souls of the unjustly killed gathered into sand, into hills, and into a sea of ​​sand that swallowed him up.

Xu Qing endured the excruciating pain of his divine consciousness being torn apart, barely managing to seal all those jumbled memories into the scripture. He focused his attention solely on one of the clearest and most intense memories, the life of a red-robed ghost who had died by crashing into a pillar!
　I recommend a new book by the renowned author Ru Shuiyi: "I, the Gun God".

　　Synopsis: [Cut off the battlefields of Russia and Ukraine, fight drug lords in the Americas, destroy warlords in Africa, export military power globally, and rewrite the rules of mercenaries!]

　　A book by a master author, quality guaranteed.

　　When this was my first book, the renowned author Ru Shui Yi gave it a chapter recommendation. Now that he's released a new book, I'm here to cheer him on (though the author might not need it, it doesn't stop me from piggybacking on his success). If you're interested, feel free to bookmark it and give it a try; it's really good.

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