Unlimited employment

Chapter 193, Section 192: [Yang God Ghost Realm]

Outside the inner treasury, Chen Sheng's gaze lingered on the statue of Fairy Gu Yao for a long time.

Only after Shenxuzi, this sycophant, had finally finished his devout worship and walked contentedly toward his room did he transform into a wisp of white mist and follow him.

Wherever the white mist passed, everything vanished without a trace, like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser.

The ancient wooden inner chamber was filled with traces of spells that could ward off fire, water, dust, and insects. Shen Xuzi, walking among them, was completely unaware of the strangeness behind him, his mind still replaying how to continue framing those who were competing for his favor.

"Zhong Kui had not practiced Taoist arts for long before he had already refined the Five Elements and Five Ghosts required for the art of communicating with the spirits into his body."

Next, I only need to make the four pillars and eight characters of the subsequent six harmonies and six ghosts, and the nine orifices and nine ghosts clash with each other and conflict with the ghost master's fate, and the probability of the evil ghosts backfiring will increase several times.

In addition, the art of head regeneration is a Taoist technique that reverses life and death. When a person dies, they can become a ghost, and when a ghost dies, it can become a person. If I replace the beheading weapon used in the ritual with a vicious blade, it will surely fill the practitioner's heart with a cruel intent.

The practice of the Nightmare Prayer Technique requires the use of poisoned wine brewed from the resentment and malice of the human heart. I have mixed in some thoughts of human joy, which may very well cause the practitioner to lose their way in the labyrinth of their own mind.

……

Fairy Gu Yao will be away for decades. With my careful planning, by the time she returns, Zhong Kui will surely have already perished.

In this world, only I am worthy of the fairy's exclusive favor.

Having held a high position in the Bixuan Immortal Mansion for many years, Shen Xuzi was intimately familiar with the methods of secretly harming disciples within the sect.

With a joyful heart, he pushed open the door to the room, only to find it completely empty and white, like a white abyss that could devour everything.

"Ghostland?"

Shen Xuzi was startled, and his divine sense shot out in all directions in an instant, only to find that the corridor he had walked through when he came had also turned into nothingness.

In the entire world, only two lonely doors and himself remained, standing helplessly and insignificantly in the pale world.

Shenxuzi's eyes glowed green as he scanned the surrounding space, but all he could see was the same pale white as before.

"A ghost realm that I can't see through must be the work of at least a fourth-level cultivator."

Is this Qingfengzi? Two hundred years ago, in order to compete with me for the fairy's favor, you made a mess of the fairy palace, and in the end, you were rejected by the fairy and imprisoned in the fairy palace.

"You've really had a tough time, enduring two hundred years of torture, and the first thing you did after escaping was to come looking for revenge."

As a cultivator from the Bixuan Immortal Mansion, Shen Xuzi recognized that this was a ghost prison created by the Yama Prison Suppression Techniques and quickly matched it with an enemy who possessed this ability in his memory.

"Hehehe, what a pity. In the past two hundred years, my cultivation has risen to the fourth level under the favor of the fairy."

Your laughable revenge is nothing short of courting death.

As they chatted, Shenxuzi emitted a dense, ghastly green light, which wove together to form a long green cloak and a jade-green crown.

His handsome face and attire complemented each other, highlighting his eccentric temperament as the sect leader's most beloved pet, while the light emanating from him shone into the ghost realm, creating a green haven.

"Your arrival is nothing more than adding another soul to my River of Dead Souls."

Shen Xuzi stood there with an arrogant expression, his eyes closed and his mind focused. He raised his hand and waved it forward.

"Heavenly Demon Devours Souls, Tide of the River of Death."

Ow—

Numerous pale green souls transformed into a green wave, roaring out of his body and filling the space of the ghost realm.

Twisted faces laughed wildly, their mouths splitting into exaggerated arcs as they tore at the space in front of them, releasing the boundless ferocity that had grown from their imprisonment and slaughter.

In particular, the souls of several fourth-tier cultivators were twisted into half-human, half-demon forms by Daoist magic, frantically unleashing the power of a fourth-tier cultivator capable of overturning rivers and seas, causing wisps of misty white fog to fall into the space.

Just when Shenxuzi thought he was about to break out of the domain, the white mist wriggled and transformed into a giant as large as a mountain.

The giant had a ferocious and menacing appearance. He didn't utter a word, but instead spewed out a wave of even paler white mist from between his lips and teeth, which surged toward the dead river in front of him.

Rumbling--

An even larger white mist instantly swallowed the green light of the Dead River, obscuring the entire world.

In the fog where nothing could be seen clearly, all that could be heard were the mournful cries of evil spirits. Soon, even the howls grew fainter and fainter, until a terrifying silence descended completely.

It felt as if everything around me had disappeared, and I was all alone in the world.

This caused Shen Xuzi's expression to change slightly.

"The one who could annihilate my River of Death in one move, could it be a fifth-level cultivator?"
"This is bad! If a fifth-tier cultivator attacks, the Azure Profound Immortal Mansion will be in grave danger. This is the Fairy's foundation! I must inform the Fairy as soon as possible."

Shen Xuzi cultivates the Heavenly Demon Slaughtering God Record inherited from the Bixuan Immortal Mansion. This method is most adept at liberating the wild and bestial imprints left deep in the hearts of the human race from the ancient era of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

After cultivating this path, the cultivator will awaken the bestial and savage nature of their ancient ancestors, believe in the natural way of the jungle, survival of the fittest, and the free competition of all creatures under the frost-covered sky, and can also absorb negative desires such as greed, obsession, resentment, and hatred from the human world to strengthen themselves, and can even kill the souls of enemies and imprison them in their bodies to enslave them... possessing all sorts of powerful means.

However, the bestial nature awakened by Shenxuzi is somewhat different from others. It is similar to the loyalty of a dog. He needs to be loyal to a master in order to have the courage to live in this world.

And Gu Yao, the head of the Bixuan Immortal Mansion, is the master he chose for himself.

Therefore, the thought of Gu Yao potentially suffering losses due to the invasion of a fifth-tier cultivator ignited boundless courage within him.

A dense green light emanated from his Yin spirit, condensing outside his body into a gigantic dog demon shape that enveloped him layer by layer.

The giant dog howled and opened its mouth to bite the space in front of it, tearing a dark hole with a teeth-grinding tearing sound, and then jumped into it.

After passing through a long, colorful tunnel that shimmered with iridescent light, Jinxuzi landed and discovered that the outside world was the inner treasury's courtyard.

Overjoyed, he galloped to the main courtyard and prostrated himself before Gu Yao's statue, praying.

"Fairy, a powerful enemy has invaded your immortal abode."

Shenxuzi begs you to quickly unleash divine punishment, temporarily repelling the invading enemy, and then return as soon as possible to guard your immortal abode.

As soon as the words were spoken, a faint light shone on the statue, transforming it from jade to flesh, from an inanimate object to a living one, and it smiled faintly and lowered its eyes.

"Shenxuzi, you did a great job. You truly are my most loyal dog."

"Rest assured, with me guarding your celestial abode, no one in the mortal realm can dare to offend you."

Gu Yao squatted down and gently stroked Shen Xuzi's dog head, her affection for her beloved pet evident.

"Woof... Woof, woof—" Only after gaining its master's approval did Shenxuzi bark happily a few times, when it suddenly felt a pain on its head, and its joyful barks turned into whimpers.

He quickly opened his eyes and saw that the face of Gu Yao's statue had been distorted into the giant he had seen in the Ghost Realm, with a face full of majesty and ferocity.

"This is impossible!"

Shenxuzi screamed.

Statues are an important channel for communication between cultivators and believers, embodying the cultivator's power and helping them communicate with believers across long distances. How could someone else encroach upon the owner's statue?
"Heavenly Demon, you must be a Heavenly Demon from beyond the realm."

"My lord is a member of the Demon-Slaying Team of the Heaven-Mending Sect. If I die at your hands, when she returns, she will tear you to pieces."

In the statue's hands, Shenxuzi was still struggling unwillingly.

And the statue embodying Chen Sheng's will finally speak for the first time since the start of the war.

"Then let her come back. I will wait for her to come and slay the demon."

Then, the statue's hands closed directly, and amidst desperate screams, it crushed Shenxuzi into a dead dog.

……

in reality.

Chen Sheng looked at Shen Xuzi, who had collapsed into spiritual light without a single wound, and the statue that was still intact not far away, and then withdrew the ghost domain that had been unfolded.

The so-called grand-scale battle and the bizarre methods of possessing the divine statue were essentially just illusions created by Chen Sheng to deceive Shen Xuzi's perception and distort his mind.

None of the events in the Ghost Realm actually happened in reality.

However, the damage suffered inside is real; those killed by the Lord of the Ghost Realm will truly die.

This is the power of the Yama Suppressing Hell God: concealed, unpredictable, and powerful.

Even a fourth-tier cultivator like Shen Xuzi, when he goes all out, possesses the power to move mountains and overturn seas, but once he falls into the Ghost Realm, he will only die silently.

"With Shen Xuzi, a problem that's right under our noses, all that's left is Gu Yao, a threat that's far away."

However, compared to that, killing her doesn't seem so urgent.

After all, I won't get married until I reach level four, so I still have plenty of time to develop.

If he could advance to the fifth rank as Zhong Kui before Gu Yao's demon-slaying mission ended, that would be even better.

Then, I can legitimately enter the Patching Heaven Sect.

Having escaped the fiery pit of the Azure Profound Immortal Abode, I'll cultivate for a few years within the Heaven-Mending Sect, and once I'm stronger, I'll return to seek revenge on Gu Yao for the annihilation of my clan and her imprisonment!

Looking at Gu Yao's statue not far away, Chen Sheng sneered inwardly.

Just then, a mountain breeze blew by, and he took advantage of it to transform into the morning mist and dissipate, allowing his consciousness to return to his body so that he could continue to observe the instructors' demonstrations in the mirror and listen to their lessons.

No one knew that this young man, who had only recently begun cultivating, had actually killed a fourth-level cultivator from an immortal abode.

In the days that followed, Chen Sheng continued his previous life, listening to the instructors' guidance every day, accepting the offerings from the immortal abode with a clear conscience, ignoring everything else, and focusing all his attention on cultivating the Dao.

Under the cover of the Yama's Prison God, his true cultivation progress was extremely rapid, yet remained unknown to others.

However, Shen Xuzi's disappearance caused a great uproar in the Bixuan Immortal Mansion.

Some suspect that he embezzled the treasures from the immortal abode and fled to the ends of the earth;
Some people also asserted that Shenxuzi was a spy sent by another sect. After stealing the immortal mansion's inherited Dao techniques, he had returned to his original sect.

Some people say that he couldn't bear the sect leader's heartless abandonment, so he took the initiative to leave this sad place.
Amidst the various opinions, Sect Leader Gu Yao even descended upon the divine statue with her will, returned to her Immortal Abode, and dealt with the matter.

Using divination, she concluded that Shenxuzi was dead.

However, no matter how many times they tried to find the murderer using divination, they could not get any results.

The world of Bei Ke is filled with countless experts, and its cultivation system has been passed down for millions of years without interruption. There are simply too many fifth- and sixth-order cultivators.

Considering the murderer's ability to deceive the heavens, and the fact that Shenxuzi was already dead and the dead had little value, the matter could only be left unresolved in the end.

If Shen Xuzi knew in the afterlife how Gu Yao treated him, I wonder what he would think.

In contrast, Gu Yao cared a lot about Chen Sheng and even made a special trip to see him amidst her busy schedule as her will returned.

He stared intently at Chen Sheng's face, which was so captivating that it could charm all living beings, his eyes filled with affection. He sat there for the entire morning, chatting away about many things on his own.

Afterwards, he made some arrangements for his future cultivation plans within the immortal abode before departing.

With Gu Yao gone, Chen Sheng's days began to pass more quickly.

He was confined to a small courtyard every day to practice Taoist arts. If he lacked any ghosts or materials, he would inform the inner treasury and someone would deliver them to him.

Ordinary disciples need to complete various immortal mansion tasks to obtain advanced cultivation methods. As long as they are interested, an instructor skilled in this field will explain it to them through the mirror.

Thanks to his amazing charisma, every teacher is dedicated and responsible, sharing all their knowledge and skills.

The immortal abode also specially adjusted the subtle direction of the earth's veins, pulling out a branch of the Xuan Yin Ghost Vein to flow through the small courtyard where he lived, in order to supply the consumption of spiritual energy.

The four essentials for spiritual practice are wealth, companions, Dharma, and place; it can be said that it lacks none of them.

Under such favorable conditions, coupled with his experience and insights from having already mastered this series of Taoist arts and the Yang Shen technique, Chen Sheng secretly advanced to the third level in just two months using the Tong You technique.

In the fourth year, he combined the three Taoist arts of communicating with the spirits, exorcising spirits, and continuing one's head to create a new Taoist art called [Nourishing Nature and Ghostly Fate Record], and secretly advanced to the fourth rank.

In the ninth year, he combined the three Taoist arts of Soul Capture, Dream Marriage, and Soul Chase to create the [Ghost King Commanding Troops Technique], secretly advancing to the middle stage of the fourth rank.

In the fifteenth year, he used the three Taoist arts of Nightmare Prayer, Food Ingestion, and Pot Heaven to cultivate the [Devouring God and Devouring Ghost Demon Art], and secretly advanced to the fourth-level advanced stage.

After that, he would try to condense the Yang God of Yama's Prison every year.

Although he failed every year, he could feel that he was getting closer and closer to cultivating this Yang God for the second time.

When he was unable to break through, he began to cultivate the two Taoist arts, [Corpse Immortal Soldier Disarming Technique] and [Heavenly Demon God Slayer Record].

As the founder of the Azure Mystic Immortal Abode, he primarily cultivated three Daoist arts. These three arts were related to death and the manipulation of souls. He hoped to draw parallels and find a breakthrough opportunity for himself...

(End of this chapter)