Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 664 24: Thunderstrike Vanquishes the Ghost God!

Who is this personage?

Whether in life or in death, this ghost general had never seen anyone launch such a direct frontal assault on a military formation like him.

Back in the day when he served as a general under Zhu Youren, it wasn't as if he hadn't encountered Jianghu experts who wanted to assassinate him, especially after the massacre at Bochang, where over a hundred thousand civilians were buried alive. Martial experts from Shandong, both from the underworld and the righteous path, sought their heads.

There was even one time when several martial experts teamed up and nearly reached his tent, but they were shot dead by his ambushed archers, with two killed and three injured, before being cut to pieces by the swarming personal guards.

In the army, battle-hardened soldiers had their ways of breaking through the true Qi protections of Jianghu people. Armor-Piercing Heavy Arrows could pierce even through bright light armors at close range, let alone their mere protective Qi.

After his death, those personal guards who followed him also turned into evil Yin Soldiers. It was during the turbulent times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, where endless wrongful deaths occurred, and even the Underworld was unstable. Thus, he sought to become a 'Ghost Hero,' leading his troop of evil ghost personal guards, borrowing the path of the Yin army, from the north to the south.

Along the way, he led the evil Yin Soldiers, avoiding the high experts of the living world. They rested during the day amidst burial grounds and skeletal mounds, and traveled by night borrowing the Yin soldiers' path, building some fame and gathering numerous fierce ghosts from ancient battlefields.

Upon entering the south, the ghost general's life became much easier. Not only did fate favor him with the chance to transform into a ghost god and become a regional 'Ghost King Yin Commander,' he even took a beautiful concubine— a young female ghost who had drowned herself at the tender age of sixteen.

Initially, he hadn't planned to kill the local city god, just searching for blood meals in the vicinity and occasionally indulging in human flesh.

But unfortunately, that newly appointed city god had a sense of righteousness, seeking to rid the area of these flesh-eating evil ghosts for the sake of the people. Thus, the city god enlisted Martial Commanders as Yin spirits, with those valiant warriors who died in battle receiving incense and fire worship, and then gathered a group of constables to exterminate the flesh-eating evil ghosts.

In the end, it must be said that the intellectuals were somewhat presumptuous; they hadn't led soldiers into battle and so were unaware of an army's might. The group of martial constables were slaughtered to the last, even the city god's head was chopped off with one strike.

The city god had some incense power on him. After killing him, he took his cultivation and simply occupied the local cemetery's Yin residence. Despite a few malevolent ghost incidents, the nearby populace lived in fearful anxiety. Coupled with his arrangements, there appeared an outside ghost temple, where he was worshipped as a 'Wild Bodhisattva'.

Though it was a folk heresy, it sufficed for him in terms of incense and blood meals. He now only awaited the day he could raise an army, rallying thousands of fierce evil spirits, to counter-attack the Underworld and claim territory.

He would learn from Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, to cause chaos in the Underworld once, and then find a way to get conscripted, becoming a regional ghost commander in the Underworld!

All this is a matter of fate.

If not for the guidance of a high person, how could a mere martial man have thought of so much?

The high person didn't say much, only leaving one line, 'Lay down the butcher's knife, immediately become a Buddha,' so that if the ghost general ever heard these words, he would know his opportunity had arrived.

But there were still some righteous individuals in the world.

In Qingzhou, whether Jianghu people or external cultivators, there was some sense of sangue and vigor. Yun Wang Ji pursued this group of evil ghosts all the way, seeking vengeance for over a hundred thousand Shandong fathers and nursing vengeance against these evil ghosts, thus tracking them here.

Otherwise, the cultivators of Qingzhou rarely went south; they more often sought out immortal islands overseas.

Slay!

That youth with unmatched swordsmanship broke through the military formation, his three-foot sword light, like blood and gold, scattering all flesh-eating evil ghosts wherever it reached. The soldiers already had secret techniques to disperse ghost souls with blood Qi and fiendish Qi, and the blood fiend was similarly the nemesis to evil spirits. Just the brimming blood Qi around him made many weaker evil spirits dare not approach.

— Fierce Evil Ghosts (Terrified) (Two-star Silver Gray).

— Flesh-eating Evil Ghosts (Terrified) (Three-star Silver Gray).

— Yin Fiend Personal Guard (Terrified) (Four-star).

— Ghost General (Yin Commander) (Ghost King) (Blood Sacrifice) (Ghost God Transformation) (Five-star Gold).

The youth's momentum grew more astonishing the more he killed, even the dark golden sword light extended by three inches. The swordsmanship he employed had no specific form, composed entirely of the most basic sword momentum, all for the most effective way to kill enemies. There was no aesthetic, hardly any coordination with footwork, and certainly none of those fancy postures used in single combat.

This is military swordsmanship!

Moreover, it approached a Grandmaster level in slaying swords.

Jianghu individuals liked to display postures when performing techniques, but in chaotic battles, reaching out a hand could mean getting it chopped off, and the same went for feet. If one dared use Qinggong body techniques, they would find themselves in a storm of arrows once airborne. Those Jianghu sword moves, if you dare raise a hand for a sword seal, enemies from all sides would counter with a slash to sever your hand or foot unless your sword Qi was sharp enough to break through the shields. Otherwise, when a shield was raised, shielded soldiers would immediately chop at knees and stomp on toes.

Military joint attack methods required only to wound the enemy.

This ghost general had used such tactics to kill many Jianghu experts, and after becoming a fierce evil ghost, he used the same methods on some玄门 masters.

But today, it seemed somewhat ineffective.

The youth broke through the first line of defense of the blade-shield soldiers with unparalleled sword Qi. He appeared to understand the ghost general's formation changes as soon as the Yin banners started to wave, and as the surrounding evil ghosts attempted to change formations to encircle him, he unexpectedly broke through in a breath's time. Killing one ghost with each step, he quickly slew over a dozen flesh-eating evil ghosts, causing them to dissipate and forcibly breaking through the ghost general's joint attack tactics.