Chapter 76 Rules "No need, the situation is changing."...
Before getting close to the Jiuyou Sect, Zhao Chaoan could see the huge ghost gate and seemed to hear the wailing of ghosts.
The order in this area seemed to be disrupted, with ghost energy and spiritual power mixed together, and it was slowly approaching the environment of a restricted area.
Zhuifeng City and the two sects seemed to be aware of this problem as well. The people in this area were basically evacuated to minimize casualties.
But those people from the Jiuyou Sect who were sacrificed by Qin Li could not be rescued. They could only see if they could go to the afterlife after this disaster was over.
He quickened his pace and as soon as Zhao Chaoan arrived at the scene, he waved his hand to create a temporary barrier in front of the Ghost Gate to intercept the ghosts emerging from the Ghost Gate. As for the ghosts of the Jiuyou Sect at the scene, he could only try his best to help them reincarnate.
She glanced around briefly and saw Jiang Liuyan and Shen Cangwu. She walked over to them and asked, "What's the situation now?" while summoning ghost soldiers to fight the out-of-control ghosts at the scene.
Many ghosts emerged from the Ghost Gate. Without exception, they were all irrational. They did not seem to be from the underworld, but were very similar to the wandering souls beside the Forgetful River.
As for the ghosts that were transformed from the sacrificed people of Jiuyou Sect, they were even more crazy, and seemed to want to drag everyone present into the water.
"The situation isn't good on either side," Jiang Liuyan explained quickly. "The Sky Wrath's speed has accelerated. After treating the surviving members of the Nine Nether Sect, Sect Leader Bai and Doctor Qu immediately set off to continue treating those affected by the Sky Wrath. As for here, the current situation is the cover-up you see. We can't close the Ghost Gate. What's the situation in the ghost world?"
"The three ghosts over there are also trying their best to block it. As for the gate..." Zhao Chaoan looked at the ghost gate and rolled up his sleeves. "Let me give it a try. Logically speaking, anyone at the level of Ghost King or above should have no problem closing this kind of gate. But this time, there are too many suspicious points. Let's wait until it's over to find out the details."
Jiang Liuyan nodded: "Okay, you go close the door, and we will do our best to intercept those ghosts."
Coincidentally, at this moment, the barrier set up by Zhao Chaoan was broken by a large number of ghosts. The resulting impact annihilated some souls, but many still flowed out and were blocked by people from Zhuifeng City and Tianyan Sect.
Zhao Chaoan was still very confident in leaving this matter to Jiang Liuyan and Shen Cangwu. She really couldn't devote too much energy to this. The ghost soldiers could resist, but they might also be affected and become the hostile camp.
Most of the ghosts here are from the Jiuyou Sect. Maybe it's because she blew up this place before, but when these ghosts saw her, they rushed towards her as if they had seen their mortal enemy. They were blocked by Jiang Liuyan and others.
Zhao Chaoan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his pupils had turned red, and his red Taoist robe had turned into a long gown with dark red and gold edges. His black hair had turned completely white, and there seemed to be a bit of green flames on the edges.
His skin also turned pale, and at the same time, his body's position rose steadily, soon reaching a level that Jiang Liuyan and Shen Cangwu could not measure.
Jiang Liuyan was slightly surprised, but also felt more relieved. If Zhao Chaoan couldn't stop it, they were helpless.
Shen Cangwu exclaimed in admiration: "She is indeed worthy of being the Ghost King. The one I saw in the underworld before was not even at her peak strength. With such power, she is worthy of being the king of a region."
"Indeed, but it seems that this place also has a certain repulsive effect on her. If the opening of the Ghost Gate had not disrupted the order, I'm afraid she would have been repelled and suppressed the moment she unfolded this form in the mortal world." Jiang Liuyan narrowed her eyes and could see a hint of stagnation in Zhao Chaoan's aura.
Zhao Chaoan did feel repulsion the moment his form was fully unfolded, but thanks to Guimen being there, he was able to endure the repulsion and it passed.
She put her hands together and practiced her skills. A pair of giant beasts appeared behind her. As she moved, they held onto the Liangshan Gate of the Ghost Gate and continued to force the gate back.
Originally, only the ghosts of the Jiuyou Sect hated her, but now, some of the ghosts have also begun to turn their attention to her, making Zhao Chaoan even more certain of one thing -
These ghosts are controlled. Only unconscious ghosts will be attracted by this kind of door and force their way through. They should not notice that they are only attacking themselves, but will attack indiscriminately.
Any ghost with a little bit of consciousness would not do this, because once they pass through the door, they will have only one ending: reduction to ashes.
The only ghosts that can be liberated here are the ghosts of the Jiuyou Sect who died here.
Who would do this? Sha Ruxin? No, she wouldn't do that. Her bottom line isn't that low.
After discovering that the ghosts had started to attack Zhao Chaoan, Jiang Liuyan called on others to increase the intensity of the attack on the ghosts. Now there was no time to think too much. In order not to affect Zhao Chaoan's movements, they could only "slap them away with great force."
Some ghosts were directly dispersed and dissipated, while others burrowed into the ground and disappeared. Although they had some doubts, they did not have time to think about them.
Fortunately, fewer and fewer ghosts came out of the Ghost Gate. The ghosts of the Jiuyou Sect also merged into the ground after being defeated and no longer appeared. The pressure began to slowly ease.
Otherwise, they might not be able to hold on. Many cultivators have already been infected by ghost energy and can only use their spiritual power to resist the erosion of ghost energy in the rear and join the battle after their own condition stabilizes.
Regardless of whether this battle is successful or not, they need to rest for a while.
Zhao Chaoan also noticed that there were fewer and fewer ghosts. She could sense the power of the three ghost kings on the other side of the door. They were blocking other ghosts from entering and helping her close the door.
The door was moved little by little, until only a gap was left at the back, and it only needed to be pushed a little further in.
Just when the door was about to be closed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but something unexpected happened. A huge force pushed the door open again, and at the same time, a giant beast as tall as a mountain roared out of the door.
Zhao Chaoan was caught off guard and was blown away by the air current. Jiang Liuyan immediately jumped up to catch her. At the same time, the ghost state on Zhao Chaoan was completely lifted, and he returned to his previous puppet form.
"What's the situation over there?" Jiang Liuyan helped Zhao Chaoan steady himself, ordered everyone to step back, and asked.
Shen Cangwu pinched his hands and chanted a spell, and the formation that he had been secretly drawing up to trap the ghost clan was activated. Several chains appeared from it and bound the giant beast.
Chen Cangwu had been maintaining the formation to trap the giant beast, so the others had some time to breathe and adjust their status as quickly as possible.
Zhao Chaoan was also trying her best to calm her breathing. The rejection reaction that had been suppressed before now came flooding back. Fortunately, she was able to get rid of her ghost state at that moment, and with the help of the connection between her puppet body and Ying Bu Ran, she was not expelled from the mortal world.
"The three of them are still preventing the ghosts from passing through the door. I don't know what happened to the King of Hell, but it seems that the order here is gradually returning to normal. They must have done something." Zhao Chaoan covered his chest and said with his last breath.
"Give me a moment to relax, then I'll close the door again."
Jiang Liuyan didn't reply to her immediately, but asked, "Can it be closed from that side?"
Zhao Chaoan was stunned for a moment, then answered subconsciously: "Okay, I failed here. They should come to close the shop after they deal with the ghost tribe problem."
Jiang Liuyan sighed softly and patted her head: "Do what you can. There are solutions. Don't force yourself."
After a pause, she continued, "As a mother, I don't want to see you fight in a way that harms yourselves. Give them to us, and I'll leave the ghost energy on them to you."
This was the first time Zhao Chaoan had been touched on the head by an elder. For some reason, his nose felt a little numb. After a moment of hesitation, he hummed and nodded: "Okay, I'll stop her too."
Seeing that she had indeed begun to recover on her own, Jiang Liuyan patted her shoulder and rushed forward with a sword in hand to help Shen Cangwu deal with the giant beast.
The giant beast was not weak either, and could fight Shen Cangwu on equal terms. It was only after Jiang Liuyan joined the battle that it was slowly suppressed.
But there was a problem: no matter how many times they hurt the giant beast, the ghost energy overflowing from the ghost gate could help her recover.
"This is not a solution." Jiang Liuyan slashed out with his sword again and looked at Shen Cangwu, "Master Shen, do you have any solution?"
Shen Cangwu threw out a few more blasting talismans, took a step back to Jiang Liuyan's side, thought for a moment, and saw that the giant beast's four claws had recovered again. After observing for a moment, he said: "I have a way, but I may need you to help me keep an eye on the people from the Tianyan Sect... Wait a minute!"
She stretched out her hand, calculated quickly, and smiled, "No need, the situation is changing."
Jiang Liuyan raised his eyebrows slightly. Just as the giant beast was recovering and preparing to attack again, a figure rushed out from the ghost gate and hovered in the air.
The King of Hell took one look at the giant beast that roared at her and just snapped his fingers. The body of the giant beast was instantly twisted, and the ghost energy continued to explode from its body, floating towards the ghost gate and back to the ghost world. Finally, the giant beast was annihilated.
The King of Hell floated back to the ground and closed the Ghost Gate with just a wave of her hand. With another wave of her hand, all the ghost energy in this place, including that on the monks, gathered into her hands, condensed into a ball, which she grasped in her hand and disappeared.
Zhao Chaoan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He came to the King of Hell and complained, "You came really early. If you had come a little later, we would have solved the problem. Hey, do you want to give the Mortal World an explanation for this matter too?"
As she spoke, she nudged the King of Hell with her elbow and raised her eyebrows, looking like she was just enjoying the fun. The King of Hell glanced at her, and Zhao Chaoan stood back beside Jiang Liuyan.
It seems that the King of Hell is not in a good mood right now, so she'd better not get close to him.
"I'm sorry. This was indeed my negligence, and I've caused you all some losses. I'll compensate you later. As for my late arrival, it's because the Ghost Realm is in chaos right now. Someone took advantage of the Heavenly Spirit's clone building the Ghost Gate to create chaos and subvert the Ghost Realm. I've been sorting out the rules of the Ghost Realm to prevent that person from seizing it, so I'm late."
After she finished speaking, she paused, sensing something for a moment, and then continued, "You should all be more careful. Although the closure of the Ghost Gate has prevented more rule power from being taken away, one-tenth of the rule power in the mortal world has already disappeared."
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Author's note: I'm sorry I've been working so hard lately cleaning up after Xiu Gou, and I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'll try to update more steadily in the future. I'm so sorry [burst into tears]
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