novelraw Chapter 274 : Blame Me for Being Too Excellent
Chapter 274 : Blame Me for Being Too Excellent
Chu Sang met his skeptical gaze without annoyance, shrugging as she asked in return, "Let me ask you, where does the resentment of vengeful ghosts come from?"
"It's nothing more than dying with a mouthful of resentment, unable to return to the mortal realm, unable to see the loved ones they miss, unable to personally take revenge on those they hate. They generate resentment, becoming fierce ghosts wandering in the ghost realm, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation for a long time." Kumarajiva answered without thinking.
Buddhism and ghosts can't be said to be completely incompatible, but many Buddhist teachings were specifically created to deal with vengeful and fierce ghosts. He had purified quite a few vengeful ghosts under his command, "The most regrettable thing is still death, the separation of yin and yang, never able to return to the mortal realm. Whether love or hate, it's destined to have no result."
"Then, if they found a way to come back to life, what do you think these vengeful ghosts would do?"
Kumarajiva was rarely stunned, carefully examining her for a moment before slowly speaking, "Forget about a method, even just a vague glimmer of hope would drive fierce ghosts completely mad...... But, what do you mean by this? A mere Divine Transformation stage doesn't have the ability to reverse the natural order. I advise you not to indulge in wishful thinking."
Even the legendary Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators have a day when their destiny is exhausted and they ascend or perish, let alone mere Divine Transformation stage. Divine Transformation stage cultivators are not numerous in the cultivation world, but given the large base of cultivators, there are at least a few hundred Divine Transformation stage cultivators still active in the cultivation world today. If even Divine Transformation stage cultivators had the ability to reverse the laws of yin and yang, the entire Spiritual Abyss Continent would have long since descended into chaos.
"You can look down on me, but please don't underestimate my Fifth Senior Sister!"
Ghost qi sends the living to death.
Changsheng sends the dead to life.
Throwing down these words, Chu Sang pulled Changsheng along as they ran, heading towards the area with the most vengeful ghosts.
The disciples of the Buddha Sect were collectively stunned at this sight, not understanding her sudden bold move. Ah ah ah, what is she doing? In a hurry to seek death?!
It's one thing for this crazy woman to seek death herself, but why is she dragging a Senior Sister along to die with her?
Does she have some deep grudge against her Senior Sister??
The other people from Lingqing Sect didn't stop them either. What exactly are they trying to do?
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"Fifth Senior Sister, I'm sorry, but I need to borrow you. I'll repay you with three days of Wood Osmanthus Spirit when we get back."
Changsheng nodded dazedly with an "Ah" sound. Seeing a dagger materialize nimbly in Chu Sang's palm, her eyes widened even more. Was Little Junior Sister going to... use her to make soup?!
Swish—Chu Sang didn't give her time to react and run away, swiftly making a cut on her arm. Immediately, pale green blood flowed down. Fifth Senior Sister's blood wasn't red or light red, but a faint green color. The moment the blood flowed, the vengeful ghosts visibly became agitated en masse......
The title of Undying Wood wasn't given casually.
Every part of the Undying Wood is precious. To ordinary cultivators, its sap only has a faint sweet scent, but it instantly agitated the vengeful ghosts in the entire area.
The fierce ghosts screamed frantically, almost shattering one's eardrums. Their eyes became even more bright red as they madly rushed towards the two without a word.
Chu Sang pulled Changsheng along, running forward recklessly. As they passed through more and more areas, more vengeful ghosts were frantically attracted by the Undying Wood's aura, swarming up in a great black mass, densely packed with ferocious faces, enough to make one's skin crawl.
Changsheng looked back, "So, so exciting!"
The scene was quite shocking, extremely chaotic.
Damn.
Has she gone mad, truly gone mad?
What exactly is she trying to do?
"Undying Wood?"
This legendary item floated through Kumarajiva's mind.
Only the Undying Wood manifesting could cause such a large-scale agitation among vengeful ghosts.
Could it be...... that green-robed young woman is the Undying Wood??
This absurd thought flashed through his mind but wasn't denied. The Undying Wood was a type of wood-attribute beast demon. As a beast demon, it naturally had the possibility of shape-shifting. Not to mention the Undying Wood, a legendary divine tree that had existed in the world for who knows how many years. Shape-shifting should be easy for her. He just never imagined that Lingqing Sect had hidden her so well, protecting her so meticulously.
The outside world probably never imagined that Lingqing Sect was hiding such powerful individuals, including a shape-shifted Undying Wood.
Kumarajiva suddenly understood. He nodded to Gu Chang'an, leading several Nascent Soul stage disciples of the Buddha Sect to find an opportunity to retreat.
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"This naughty girl really is......"
Such a daring one!
"Little Junior Sister sacrifices kin for justice, truly merciless."
Tantai Ming exclaimed, his sincere sigh making the other Buddha Sect disciples even more shocked. Had they been living in seclusion for too long and not seen the outside world? Were sect disciples now all playing so wildly, directly using fellow disciples to feed ghosts?
Was this trying to find a solution, or settling a personal grudge?
They weren't given time to doubt their life choices. More and more vengeful ghosts in the ghost realm were attracted by the Undying Wood's aura. Dark clouds pressed down on the city. This could even cause a trampling incident! People could be trampled to death!
The vengeful ghosts naturally wouldn't let these outsiders go, intending to tear them all apart like a plague of locusts. The others were forced to join the battle. Wu Wo was the first to charge forward, with over a hundred flying swords like flying snow and flowing flowers, slicing the oncoming vengeful ghosts into segment after segment. Without even giving them a chance to reconstitute their soul bodies, they were quickly and densely sliced into strands of ghost qi by the sword techniques, impossible to piece back together even if tried.
This behavior made the evil ghosts lose heart, unanimously avoiding this mad woman who had gone berserk, trying to find other soft targets to squeeze.
The first to bear the brunt was Tang Yanling, who appeared to be the gentlest cultivator on the scene.
Unexpectedly, the person who seemed easiest to deal with turned out to be an uncompromising powerhouse. Her illusion techniques were effective not only against human cultivators and demons but even ghost cultivators. Most ghost cultivators were vengeful ghosts who had died with resentment and unfinished business. The illusion buff was doubly effective, keeping the vengeful ghosts firmly under control.
Many vengeful ghosts were deeply trapped in the illusion, unable to wake up, and were all indiscriminately slaughtered by Wu Wo.
Seeing this scene, the other vengeful ghosts were on the verge of collapse. They hadn't expected these two crazy women to be so formidable. Falling back on their second choice, they went to attack Su Chen'an and Mu Chihuai, who looked like they had no offensive power as support cultivators.
Mu Chihuai's poison techniques were very effective when dealing with human, demon, and monster cultivators, but were at a loss when attacking ghost cultivators without physical bodies.
Su Chen'an had many spirit tools on hand, and he had prepared many specifically for dealing with ghost cultivators before coming to the ghost realm. But there were too many vengeful ghosts, causing severe consumption of spirit tools. A single tool refiner couldn't meet the demand, unable to resist all the vengeful ghosts on the scene.
"Be careful!"
Sword intent fell from the sky, slashing down a vengeful ghost intending to attack the two. Tantai Ming, having finished dealing with vengeful ghosts on another side, came to help.
The three huddled together for warmth, attracting even more attention from vengeful ghosts.
The spiritual energy leaked by Tantai Ming during battle attracted nearby vengeful ghosts like cats smelling blood, all gathering around. He focused only on dealing with the vengeful ghosts before him, not noticing a Divine Transformation stage vengeful ghost hidden behind, striking at his heart.
Wen Renyue quickly pulled him, dodging the vengeful ghost's fatal attack. The spirit of the Weeping Blood Sword swiftly appeared, kicking the vengeful ghost away hard.
Wen Renyue then summoned a beast demon that could devour ghost qi. It looked like an ox but had a single horn on its head, able to store the devoured ghost qi in its horn, avoiding backlash from the ghost qi.
"What a bunch of disgusting, filthy things! When will we finish killing them all!" Her face was full of impatience as she raised her knife and brought it down, dealing with another ghost cultivator, protecting the two weaklings behind her with Tantai Ming on the left and right.
Su Chen'an took advantage of the time bought by the others to bring out his refining furnace and work overtime. The importance of spirit tools became more evident in critical moments.
With insufficient numbers, only by refining more spirit tools to resist ghost qi could they possibly withstand the oncoming fierce army of vengeful ghosts.
The time required for tool refining was longer than for pill refining. Su Chen'an had to compress the refining time as much as possible. Under these circumstances, to refine spirit tools of the same quality, he had to consume more divine sense and spiritual energy. Soon, his face turned pale. Fortunately, Mu Chihuai had prepared many spirit-replenishing pills before coming, and they were all high-grade goods, barely allowing Su Chen'an to hold on without exhausting himself completely.
Si Kou Qiu was also frantically buffing everyone, giving the disciples on scene stronger speed, attack power, and defense capabilities, preventing them from falling to the vengeful ghosts. But this also consumed a huge amount of energy, with spirit-replenishing pills barely able to replenish the rapidly depleting spiritual energy in her dantian in time.
Some blood welled up in her throat, and her body swayed slightly. Her perception decreased dramatically, completely unaware of a vengeful ghost behind her, its sharp claws about to pierce her heart.
Chengying rushed forward to block the strike for her. Fortunately, he managed to protect the vital points with his sword in time, but he still coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Chengying!" Si Kou Qiu came to her senses, slashing that vengeful ghost with one sword strike, then hurriedly supporting him and feeding him a healing pill.
"Don't worry, Young Miss, I'm fine."
This level of injury was nothing to him. Chengying wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and pulled the exhausted Si Kou Qiu to a relatively safer position.
As the most talented senior brother in the sect, Gu Chang'an had to take on the responsibility of protecting his junior brothers and sisters. Seeing everyone's condition worsening, exhausted from long-term consumption, he summoned Long Yuan and stood at the forefront, "Those who are injured, retreat and recuperate first. Those who can still fight, come with me to lure the vengeful ghosts towards the valley in the northwest."
Hold on a little longer.
We're almost there.
He looked deeply towards the direction Chu Sang and Changsheng had left.
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Chu Sang led Changsheng on a grand tour, countless out-of-control vengeful ghosts frantically surging up, their numbers beyond imagination. Not only were the vengeful ghosts in the entire dense forest attracted, but vengeful ghosts from other parts of the ghost realm had also heard the news of the Undying Wood's manifestation. As long as they could obtain the Undying Wood, they would have hope of returning to the mortal realm. The temptation was too great!
The entire ghost realm emptied out.
The vengeful ghosts gathered at the ghost gate also rushed over, like a sweeping storm, all heading towards the center of the dense forest, forming what seemed like the eye of a storm.
The strength of the vengeful ghosts ranged from the lowest Qi Condensation stage to Divine Transformation stage, with even several Unity stage old ghosts.
The speed of the vengeful ghosts was incredibly fast. Chu Sang pushed her movement technique to the extreme but still couldn't shake off those high-level vengeful ghosts. Just as they were about to be caught up, Changsheng, frightened by this horrifying scene, reverted to her original form. A green light flashed, and a green vine appeared coiled around Chu Sang's wrist.
She glanced down, quickly covering the vine with her sleeve, then applied several speed talismans to herself, once again widening the distance from the vengeful ghosts, leading them towards the valley in the northwest on her flying sword.
At the end was a dead end with no way out.
The vengeful ghosts, seeing that Chu Sang had finally stopped running and there was nowhere left to go ahead, hadn't even had time to put on their ferocious smiles when the ground sank over a large area.
At the same time, a sky-covering Buddha light sectioned off the area. The vengeful ghosts were enveloped by the Buddhist formation. The Buddha Sect direct disciples who had left early now all emerged. They had found a hidden place to set up the trap, while Chu Sang and Lingqing Sect were responsible for luring the ghosts into the trap.
The vengeful ghosts inwardly cursed furiously. Indeed, the most terrifying thing in the world isn't ghosts, but the human heart! Damn it, these despicable human cultivators with their schemes and tricks had set a trap here waiting for them?!!
Some vengeful ghosts, unwilling to submit, tried to forcefully break the formation. But as soon as their bodies touched the Buddha light, they were violently burned, as if they would turn to ash the next second, in unbearable pain!
The fear of being reduced to ashes made the vengeful ghosts dare not approach casually again. Kumarajiva ordered the Buddha Sect disciples to form an array, bring out Buddhist artifacts, and chant sutras to purify the vengeful ghosts.
"Ah—"
The piercing screams of large swathes of vengeful ghosts were deafening. Chu Sang couldn't help but cover her ears, closing off her five senses.
Dealing with low-level vengeful ghosts wasn't difficult, but there were still over a dozen Divine Transformation stage vengeful ghosts and two or three Unity stage high-level vengeful ghosts. Although Buddhist cultivators could restrain vengeful ghosts across realms, there was an upper limit to this cross-realm suppression. To deal with Unity stage vengeful ghosts, Kumarajiva had to borrow the power of the Buddha Sect's treasured staff.
But it was still slightly insufficient. He couldn't bring out the true power of the staff.
Seeing that the light of the Buddhist formation they had set up in advance was gradually dimming, with some vengeful ghosts starting to stir again, wanting to forcefully break through the formation once more, if they succeeded in escaping this time, it would be hard to find another opportunity.
"Can you handle it or not? If not, let me do it."
Chu Sang watched anxiously and, without a word, snatched the staff from Kumarajiva's hand. This scene was somewhat familiar. His face changed immediately, "You......!"
Seeing the staff in Chu Sang's hands like a fish in water, easily displaying the power befitting the sect's treasure, purifying those few Unity stage ghost cultivators, Kumarajiva's expression became incredibly complex.
"......"
So he had fought desperately, secluded himself for three years, finally breaking through to Divine Transformation, just to be mocked by her again??
After completely resolving the vengeful ghost situation, Chu Sang casually tossed the staff back, raising an eyebrow with a smile, "How about that? When I handle things, you can rest assured."
Kumarajiva caught the staff, giving her a cold glance, "Do you need me to praise you again, saying how amazing you are?"
With that, he turned and left, his whole body emanating black energy even heavier than the vengeful ghosts. She looked bewilderedly at the other Buddha Sect disciples who were exchanging glances, "This bal... ahem, your senior disciple, why is he so sarcastic? Is his mental health not quite right?"
"......"