Chapter 89. Ending
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
This omnipresent surging dark energy followed both Du Yan and the other all the way. If Xiao Lang’s refining had not been completed, Du Yan alone would have been trapped in the Shunping Ghost City by himself.
When they reached the edge of the ancient village, the speed at which the dark energy spread finally slowed down, as if something blocked its way, and it finally stopped at the edge of the ancient village.
Everything in front of them looks like something out of a fantasy movie. Everything in the distance has almost turned black and white under the shroud of dark energy, but this side of the ancient village was a colorful world.
The area was divided by a small river, and there was a simple bridge for vehicles on the river. In the current situation, it looks like the Naihe Bridge under the nine springs. On this side of the bridge was the prosperous world, on the other side of the bridge was the land of the dead.
At the bridgehead, where the colors intersect, there were two people standing, a woman in red and a young man, and they seem to have been waiting here for a long time.
The ancient village is considered the territory of Fan Shi. She had already received instructions from Xiao Lang and knew about the sudden changes in Shunping City. In order to prevent chaos, she had put the villagers outside the entire ancient village into a deep sleep so that they knew nothing about what was happening in the outside world.
The situation is critical now. If Sun Jin can’t be eliminated as soon as possible, all the people in Shunping City will be possessed by the evil ghosts in Ghost City, and it will then become another Shunping Ghost City.
Du Yan didn’t have time to explain too much, and directly asked Fan Shi: “Have you already known about the relationship between Shunping Ghost King and Sun Wenhao?”
Fan Shi shook her head, then nodded: “A mother will always have a certain degree of perception of her children, but I don’t know the truth of the matter.”
Du Yan cut to the chase and told Fan Shi about the relationship between Sun Jin and Sun Wenhao.
After hearing this, Fan Shi showed a complex expression of both sadness and joy: “After listening to your words, my obsession has been dispelled a lot. After knowing that he is just a vicious ghost who borrowed the body of my baby, then those things he did were not because of my fault.”
The peddler whispered to comfort her: “It wasn’t your fault in the first place.”
Seeing this, Du Yan told Fan Shi the method to get rid of the Ghost King and emphasized: “Using your corpse as the center of the formation, we can trap Sun Jin in the formation and get rid of him. But I’m afraid your corpse can’t be preserved.”
Fan Shi was slightly stunned, but the peddler beside her looked a little worried and asked: “If my lady’s corpse is destroyed, what impact will it have on her?”
Du Yan said frankly: “If Sun Jin is eliminated, and her corpse was destroyed, she will naturally not be able to exist in time in her current state.”
Before Fan Shi could say anything, Du Yan continued: “I can send you to reincarnation, but you have killed many people. When you go to the underworld to be judged, you will probably still have to be punished before you can reincarnate again.”
The peddler opened his mouth, wanting to ask something, but he seemed to know what Fan Shi was thinking and just held her hand.
Du Yan saw the peddler’s serious expression and said: “But the people you killed were all evil people who had wronged you. The judge will handle it appropriately.”
The peddler held Fan Shi’s hand: “I will wait for you.”
Du Yan looked at the peddler with a half-smile: “Fan Shi has the life of the guilty people in her hands. Although you only have one life, Xiao Lang was an innocent person. If you calculate it this way, you may have to spend more time in the underworld to be punished than her.”
Fan Shi nodded: “I am willing to accept the punishment for the mistakes I made. When I go to the Hall of Punishment in the underworld, I will not feel any resentment for the punishment I deserve.”
Fan Shi has agreed to use her corpse as the center of the formation to remove Sun Jin, so Du Yan will need some time to set up the formation.
Du Yan looked at Xiao Lang beside him. Xiao Lang was indeed a gifted man. He was extremely powerful when he broke out of the formation, but he was not Sun Jin’s opponent for the time being.
However, as long as he doesn’t enter Shunping Ghost City, he can still fight.
From Du Yan’s analysis, Sun Jin definitely would not come alone. After all, he is not a commander without troops like Xiao Lang. The Ghost King of Shunping can command all the ghost army in the entire Shunping Ghost City.
At present, Shunping’s direction looks tranquil, that’s because Sun Jin is still trapped in Tian Luo’s body. Du Yan can tell from the formation he has laid that it won’t take long for Sun Jin to break out of the formation.
At that time, he will definitely summon all the powerful ghosts in the city to come outside the ancient village to devour Xiao Lang. However, Sun Jin is not stupid. He will naturally think of the existence of the Fan Shi in the ancient village. The corpse of the Fan Shi is one of his weaknesses.
Logically speaking, Sun Jin should have found an opportunity to destroy Fan Shi’s corpse long ago, but the Maoshan sect’s Taoist priests sealed Fan Shi’s body under the ancestral hall of the ancient village.
Hundreds of years ago, when the Taoist sects were flourishing, the Maoshan Sect, as the leader of the Taoist sects, was extremely powerful. Even Sun Jin did not dare to underestimate the formation set up by the Maoshan sect’s predecessors.
Thus, the ancient village became the only place in Shunping Ghost City that was not under the jurisdiction of Sun Jin.
However, since Sun Jin knew that Fan Shi’s corpse was here, he would not easily enter the ancient village. He would definitely let his ghost army take the lead, and only after occupying the ancient village and destroying Fan Shi’s corpse, Sun Jin, would enter the ancient village.
Therefore, in the current situation, they can restrain each other. Xiao Lang is not Sun Jin’s opponent. Sun Jin is cautious and will not enter the ancient village, but the ghost army under his command is not Xiao Lang’s opponents.
Now Du Yan needed Xiao Lang to buy him time to set up the formation. He looked at Xiao Lang and said directly: “I will go with Fan Shi and the others to set up the formation. You stay here and don’t let them break the barrier. This ancient village is our last resort.”
Du Yan turned around and walked a few steps towards the ancient village. He suddenly thought of something, stopped and turned around, and saw Xiao Lang looking eagerly in that direction, with an expression that seemed to want to say something but hesitated.
Du Yan turned around and walked over, smiled softly, and unbuttoned the collar of his clothes to him.
Xiao Lang’s eyes widened slightly, his face suddenly flushed, and he said: “Now, now isn’t the right time, is it?”
Du Yan rolled his eyes speechlessly and said: “I want you to deepen this imprint. First, it will reassure you so that you don’t think I’m going to take this opportunity to run away. Second, I will also need to use your ability to do something later.”
Xiao Lang was choked by him, and his face turned redder. Although his face was red, he moved quickly, lowered his head, and bit Du Yan’s shoulder.
Xiao Lang’s way of leaving an imprint was very simple, that is, he bit Du Yan’s shoulder and passed his own Yin energy through the wound and engraved it into Du Yan’s blood.
Xiao Lang was a ghost refined by Du Yan, and the Yin energy will not cause any harm to Du Yan’s body, so he boldly uses this method to monitor Du Yan.
After doing all this, Du Yan patted Xiao Lang on the shoulder and said: “Come on, if things go well. When you become the Ghost King, you can make a request.”
He paused and emphasized: “No matter what your request is, I will fulfill it.”
After saying that, Du Yan turned around and walked towards the ancient village.
He said this not just to encourage Xiao Lang. Xiao Lang is now a supernatural being. The intensity of the energy he possesses depends on the strength of his soul and the strength of his obsession.
Now Du Yan finally understood that Xiao Lang’s obsession was entirely with him. Du Yan promised to agree to a request without any conditions, so Xiao Lang would bear it for this period of time just based on this obsession in his heart. Even if he was injured, as long as the fire of obsession in his heart was not extinguished, there would not be any serious damage.
However, when everything is over, Xiao Lang will eventually know the things Du Yan left in the notebook. At that time, no matter whether Xiao Lang’s request was to kill Du Yan to avenge himself or to stay with him forever, Du Yan would agree.
Under the guidance of Fan Shi, Du Yan first took the spirit tablet of Sun Wenhao’s father from the village ancestral hall. Although this spirit tablet is not as effective as a corpse, it can still serve as a symbol of Sun Jin’s biological parents.
Afterward, under the guidance of Fan Shi, he found her corpse and brought it back to the underground ancestral hall. After everything was ready, Du Yan began to set up the formation.
It is actually very difficult to destroy a Ghost King. Not only does it require various extremely spiritual treasures, but it also needs people from the cultivation sects to guard the gates of life and death. Now Du Yan is alone, so he naturally has neither the ability nor the time to set up such a complicated formation.
In this ancient village, the formations left by the Maoshan sect’s Taoists were made of the best materials, which are now difficult to find in other Taoist sects.
Xiao Lang’s refining speed was so fast, partly due to these materials.
Du Yan already knew the formation to destroy the Ghost King. Since he had a way to improve the formation to refine the Ghost King in a short time, he naturally had a way to use this formation to deprive a Ghost King of his ability. He only needed to reverse the formation that was used to refine Xiao Lang to achieve this effect.
When Sun Jin becomes an ordinary powerful ghost, Xiao Lang can easily devour him and take his place as the king of all ghosts.
Du Yan knew what he was doing, so he moved very quickly and completed the transformation of the formation in a short time. However, he did not activate the formation but walked out to the fork in the cave.
Fan Shi followed him and asked: “Celestial Master Du, the Lord is under great pressure right now, why don’t you lend a helping hand?”
Du Yan said: “I am going to lend him a helping hand now.”
Although the formation has been set up, it is a troublesome matter to lure Sun Jin into the formation. He can’t let Xiao Lang kill all the ghost army, forcing Sun Jin to take action himself.
There are countless powerful ghosts in Shunping Ghost City. Even if Xiao Lang can defeat them, he can’t withstand the consumption of this kind of wheeled battle. Then he can only find some trouble, borrow troops, and try to lure away these ghost soldiers and generals, so as to force Sun Jin to take action.
Du Yan was moved. The years he spent as Yuan Yan had improved his tactical skills. He could think of using this two-pronged approach to force Sun Jin to enter the ancient village.
Now, Du Yan has stood in front of the ghost army he needs to borrow.
He looked up at the piles of corpses that were more than ten meters high, walked around the huge cave, and after knowing the location of each pile of corpses, he began to plan his next move.
The area was too big, so Du Yan pierced the tip of his left middle finger and left a drop of blood next to each pile of corpses. The rest of the work was left to Fan Shi and the peddler. They were powerful ghosts and were much faster than Du Yan.
Fan Shi and the peddler can not touch cinnabar and other extremely yang things, so they can only rely on Xiao Lang’s ability to temporarily seal the extremely yang power of cinnabar.
Du Yan still mixed the blood from his left hand into the cinnabar. There was Xiao Lang’s imprint on his left shoulder, and the blood from his left hand left Xiao Lang’s ability to connect yin and yang.
After everything was ready, Fan Shi held a cinnabar in her hand and set up a formation to refine wandering ghosts according to Du Yan’s instructions. The formation was very crude, and the number of wandering ghosts here was indeed extremely large, but with Xiao Lang’s ability, it was more than enough to set primary ghost control formation and refine them all.
The work on Fan Shi’s side has been completed. Du Yan holds the yellow talisman paper between his fingers and shakes it in the air, and the talisman paper ignites.
He threw the talisman paper at the starting point under his feet, and the flame on the talisman paper quickly spread along the route that Fan Shi had just walked.
Du Yan stood on a slightly higher ground, watching the formation in front of him gradually light up, and suddenly sighed: “I actually have this kind of time to use powerful connections to intimidate people.”
The ghost refining formation was fully lit up, and a murderous aura rose to the sky from the pile of corpses. The entire cave was filled with the sounds of ghosts crying and howling. Those wandering ghosts, having finally broken free from the constraints of the corpses and gained a little freedom, began to run around like headless flies.
Du Yan didn’t say anything and didn’t even raise his eyebrows. He just looked at the chaotic scene in front of him quietly.
Finally, the noisy cave became quiet, and all the ghosts were standing quietly and neatly in the cave, waiting for Du Yan’s instructions.
***
When Du Yan returned to the ancient village, Xiao Lang was fighting with Sun Jin’s ghost army, and the battle seemed difficult to resolve.
Although those ghost soldiers and generals were not a match for Xiao Lang, there were too many of them. Xiao Lang seemed to be at a loss as to what to do and was stuck in the quagmire.
Du Yan could tell at a glance that Xiao Lang’s extremely solid figure had become slightly erratic, indicating that he was beginning to struggle.
The peddler and Fan Shi were about to step forward to help, but Du Yan stopped them: “You can’t show up for the time being.”
The peddler said: “Although we are not as capable as Lord, we can at least help relieve some of his pressure.”
Du Yan shook his head: “You have more important things to do later…”
Just after Du Yan informed Fan Shi and the others of his next plan, the battle situation in the distance changed again.
In the direction of Shunping Ghost City, the sky, which was as calm as an ink painting, began to shake violently. Sun Jin, who was standing in the back watching the battle, suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of Shunping Ghost City.
That is, a large number of fierce ghosts causing chaos in Shunping Ghost City. And Sun Jin, at least before this moment, did not know the existence of these fierce ghosts.
He looked into the distance and felt that the auras were very familiar. They were the death row prisoners he had fought with in Shunping City eight hundred years ago.
Those defeated prisoners actually left the suppression of the Wanshi Ridge at this moment and ran out to cause chaos? Did the landslide a few days ago completely destroy the formation?
Sun Jin didn’t care about the reasons behind this and could only try to solve the crisis there.
Shunping Ghost City is Sun Jin’s base and must not be destroyed, especially since there is a very important person in Ghost City.
However, given the current situation, Sun Jin was unable to decisively leave and return to Shunping Ghost City to deal with those rebellious ghosts causing trouble.
If he went back to save Tong Xuan, let alone whether his ghost soldiers and generals could defeat Xiao Lang, even if they could defeat Xiao Lang with their superior numbers, those ghost soldiers and generals would definitely not be able to resist the temptation to swallow Xiao Lang into their stomachs.
After all, as long as one of them devours Xiao Lang’s soul, they will have the power to become a Ghost King, and then they won’t have to be afraid of him as a Ghost King.
After much deliberation, Sun Jin finally let out a loud howl to the sky and transferred most of his ghost soldiers back to the Shunping Ghost City.
Not long after, Xiao Lang, who was under siege, seemed to have reached the end of his strength. After barely destroying the fierce ghosts who were besieging him, he half-knelt on the ground, and his figure became extremely elusive.
When Sun Jin was about to order the remaining ghost soldiers to capture Xiao Lang and take him out of the ancient village, he saw a figure in a wedding dress suddenly appear behind Xiao Lang.
Sun Jin was certainly familiar with the fierce ghost who suddenly appeared. After all, she was the mother who had raised him for more than ten years.
Sun Jin had always believed that after Xiao Lang died, he must have devoured the Fan Shi in the ancient village, otherwise it would be impossible to explain how he became the Ghost King in such a short time.
It’s not that he was unwilling to step into the ancient village, but he was worried that if Xiao Lang fails to completely destroy Fan Shi’s remains, it will pose a great threat to him.
However, Fan Shi appeared now. Before Sun Jin could think about it, he saw Fan Shi’s eyes were red, and she took advantage of Xiao Lang’s carelessness to pounce on him. The previous struggle may have exhausted Xiao Lang, a newly born ghost, so he was thrown to the ground by Fan Shi without any resistance.
Sun Jin was anxious and wanted to rush into the ancient village.
He knew what happened to Fan Shi afterward. After experiencing such a tragedy in the human world, Fan Shi became extremely angry and became a powerful ghost with extremely strong aggressiveness. She had completely lost her mind and her appearance here with the only purpose of devouring Xiao Lang and becoming the Ghost King.
If Fan Shi swallowed Xiao Lang, Sun Jin felt that Fan Shi would be more difficult to deal with than the newly born Xiao Lang, and he might even be defeated by Fan Shi.
Thinking of this, Sun Jin no longer cared about anything else and directly stepped into the ancient village to compete with Fan Shi for the ownership of the soul.
Just as Sun Jin appeared in front of Xiao Lang, Fan Shi, who was pouncing on Xiao Lang as if gnawing at his soul, raised her head and gave him a weird smile.
“Hao’er, it’s been a long time since we last met. I can’t thank you enough for being so filial to your mother?”
After saying that, Fan Shi’s long hair suddenly grew up, and she entangled Sun Jin tightly. Sun Jin’s movements were also very fast. The claws on his fingertips grew rapidly, and as he raised his hand, the hair that was wrapped around him broke into several pieces and fell to the ground..
At this time, Xiao Lang jumped up from the ground and rushed towards Sun Jin, and the two of them started fighting.
Xiao Lang’s approach was very strange. He didn’t attack with fangs and claws like other ghosts.
He held a strange wooden sword in his hand, with pure yang energy lingering around the sword. Anyone who knew about Taoism would know that this was the peach wood sword commonly used by the Celestial Master.
Sun Jin held the wooden sword, his expression becoming more and more ferocious, as if he was recalling some unpleasant past events.
He said with hatred: “You actually became a running dog of an Exorcist. You are truly a disgrace to the ghost world!”
Xiao Lang ignored him and attacked directly.
When the fight was at its most intense, a golden light suddenly appeared on the ground.
Seeing this, Sun Jin moved and wanted to retreat, but Fan Shi held him tightly without caring about the consequences.
In just a split second, the golden light on the ground had already touched Sun Jin’s feet. The golden light seemed to have life, and once it confirmed Sun Jin’s existence, it instantly shrank into a very thin beam, moving upward along the blood vessels, completely restraining Sun Jin from the inside.
Sun Jin’s expression changed drastically, and he said to Fan Shi: “You are crazy. You will not end well even if you use your own corpse to set up a formation.”
Fan Shi didn’t care, just sneered: “I have fulfilled my wish to drag you to be buried with me. This world is so dirty, there is no point in staying here.”
When Sun Jin heard what Fan Shi said, his expression changed again, and he said: “The soul of the clan leader is in my hands. If you let me go, I can help you get rid of your hatred.”
Fan Shi said: “You don’t have to fool me. How can the hatred between you and me be eliminated by killing an outsider?”
Sun Jin was unable to convince Fan Shi, and he was unable to escape, so he looked more and more desperate.
His entire body was corroded by the golden light, which eventually burst out from his bones and blood, piercing him like a sieve.
Du Yan just came out of the ancient village and said: “Xiao Lang, now!”
After Xiao Lang heard this, he raised his hand and thrust it into Sun Jin’s chest without hesitation.
Sun Jin had no power to dodge and could only watch everything happen. He screamed, his face twisted, his figure became more and more vague, and finally disappeared, leaving only a black bead falling from the air.
Xiao Lang reached out to catch the bead, then crushed it into powder without hesitation.
Du Yan, who was far away, saw that when Sun Jin disappeared, he seemed to shout “Tong Xuan” with his mouth.
***
Liang Fei and his group came to Shunping Railway Station again, and they were still the only ones on the platform.
Everyone still couldn’t get used to Xiao Lang’s current appearance. Compared to the playfulness before, he seemed quite restrained.
Although Xiao Lang’s appearance had not changed much, his skin had turned pale, and his lips had turned a little darker, making him look a little eerie standing there.
Seeing that no one spoke, Xiao Lang raised his eyebrows: “What? You don’t recognize me as your friend anymore?”
Liang Fei spoke without thinking: “No, it’s just your appearance, that is…”
Xiao Lang looked at him and said: “What’s wrong with my appearance?”
Liang Fei was about to say that it was a bit scary, but suddenly he saw Du Yan standing next to Xiao Lang and he said in an uncanny way: “You look like a perfect match for Celestial Master Du.”
“……”
Everyone standing on the platform turned their heads away at the same time, not because Xiao Lang’s sinister look was so scary. But because the Ghost King in front of them, who was said to be able to command hundreds of ghosts, was smiling so stupidly that it was unbearable to look at him.
However, at this time, Liang Fei asked again: “Celestial Master Du, the matter here is over, won’t you leave with us?”
Then, everyone witnessed the Ghost King’s unique face-changing skills again, and there was even a gust of cold wind blowing above the platform.
Du Yan smiled and said: “I promised him that I would always be with him.”
Everything was windy and sunny, the sun was just right, and the breeze was not dry.
The train whistle blew long and hard, and everyone’s peaceful journey finally came to a safe end.
Before they got on the train, they saw Ghost King Xiao Lang on the platform, who put one hand on Du Yan’s shoulder and said with a smile: “I’ll invite you to the wedding next time.”
“?”
In the end, Xiao Lang’s friends left Shunping City with confusion as a gift.
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