Chapter 117 Going up the mountain
Wang Zhanko stood up neatly, gathered his sleeves and bowed slightly, and replied, "I have a private agreement with the Ghost King of Formation. After my father dies, I will offer him the entire Fuji Town and the Wang family as a sacrifice, and he will allow me to enter the path of cultivation. However, I don't have the fate of an immortal, so I need to receive an initiation or strengthen my spiritual roots before I can begin my cultivation."
"You, you prodigal son!" Wang Taiyuan was furious when he heard this. Wang Zhanke looked at him with a worried expression: "Father, don't be angry. You've finally recovered a little."
It can be said to be a pathological inheritance. Luo Xuanyi watched and forcibly interrupted them to avoid wasting time, but she was still a little curious: "You said it so frankly, aren't you afraid that I am a righteous cultivator and decide to kill you?"
"Your Excellency is joking. I simply made a pact with the Ghost King, but he hasn't fulfilled it yet, and I haven't gained anything. How can you just convict me directly? You must be trying to persuade me to turn back from my wrong path."
"Besides, since you already know about the Ghost King, why should I be so secretive and let go of this opportunity? It's all a matter of weighing the pros and cons. If the bet goes wrong, it's my miscalculation. But you don't seem to be offended by my answer, so I guess my bet was right."
When Wang Zhanke was not so impulsive, he still looked like a gentle scholar, and he was not disturbed even if Wang Taiyuan glared at him from the side.
"Is that so? But since you have a private relationship with the Ghost King, that's all the better." Luo Xuanyi briefly explained the matter of testing the Ghost King. "You don't need to do anything extra. Just treat me as your maid and go up the mountain with Wang Taiyuan. Don't do anything unnecessary."
"By the way, you didn't arrange for a ship to go to the Lingsha Textile Factory to destroy any evidence, did you?"
Wang Zhanke shook his head. "The Ghost King was quite confident in his formation. He said that if any juniors from the Immortal Cultivation Realm came, we should ignore them. Any movement would only arouse suspicion. So I didn't make a move."
"Very good. Then let's go to the Ghost King's residence now. It would be best if we had a cover to fool those people."
Wang Taiyuan finally caught his breath and suggested, "Don't dwell on that. I'll place the traditional bell from the old bell-ringing festival on the top of Fuji Mountain. Firstly, it'll make it easier to select the people to offer sacrifices, and secondly, it'll make it easier for me to go up the mountain and meet the Ghost King without arousing suspicion. The townspeople all know that I have the habit of going up the mountain to pay homage to the mountain god. Plus, now that I'm nearing the end of my life, if I bring Zhan Ke up with me, others will think I'm asking the mountain god for help."
Luo Xuanyi thought for a moment and accepted this explanation.
"But even so, those three cultivators from the Six Alliances will probably still be suspicious, right? Why don't you deal with them first, sir?"
Wang Zhanke spoke with the airs of a true demonic cultivator. Luo Xuanyi shook her head. "While we can kill them, it's best to wait until they leave Fu Ji Town before they die. This will prevent any tracking tools from being neglected and exposing Fu Ji Town and me. Have someone keep an eye on their movements. If we have to kill them, I'll take action."
Wang Zhanke nodded in agreement.
After resolving their worries, Wang Zhanke and Wang Taiyuan immediately walked towards the mountains. Luo Xuanyi changed her body into a maid's outfit and silently pushed Wang Taiyuan's wooden wheelchair forward.
There is a separate mountain road leading from the palace to the top of the main peak of Fuji Mountain, so it is easy to avoid people's sight and escape into the mountains.
Fuji Mountain looks lush green from afar, but walking through the forest reveals that the trees seem to climb upwards, with dense canopies and sparse understory, making it easy to walk. The trees here are also ordinary pine trees, and the fallen leaves are thick and soft.
The wooden wheelchair would have been difficult to move forward with the weight on it, but Luo Xuanyi pushed it easily.
"The Lingsha Weaving Farm is on the other side of the mountain, but you can't see it from here. You have to step onto the land to see the whole picture."
Luo Xuanyi looked in the direction Wang Zhanke pointed, and could still only see tall trees. She couldn't help but become interested in the formation used by the Ghost King.
Ever since she began her journey as a treacherous cultivator, Luo Xuanyi had been puzzling over which system to choose. With no role models to follow, she could only explore on her own. A poison cultivator wouldn't be as convenient as using her physical body; if she simply pursued sword and weapon cultivation, she wouldn't be able to fully unleash her treacherous abilities. As a result, she still relied primarily on her physical body for alchemy and the basic techniques of the All Evils Attract Ghosts technique. While powerful enough for her level, she wasn't entirely satisfied.
Furthermore, Luo Xuanyi wasn't one for direct confrontation. If she had to choose between carefully planning and safely killing an enemy remotely, or charging in for hand-to-hand combat or a magical exchange, she'd definitely choose the former. She wasn't a battle fanatic; she killed enemies solely for her own benefit. Naturally, she preferred the safer approach, but she simply couldn't do it yet.
Right now, maybe the formation can make up for my shortcomings?
Just as the three of them reached a slightly flatter spot, Luo Xuanyi felt the leaves on the ground twist, and the atmosphere around them suddenly changed. The coolness brought by the shade of the trees, which had originally shielded them from the scorching sun, turned into a chilly chill, as if there was some kind of barrier, and the wheelchair could no longer be pushed forward.
"Ghost King, it's me. I need to see you," Wang Taiyuan, who had been silent the entire way, said. A gust of chilly wind swept past the three of them, swirling and dissipating. The other party seemed to confirm that it was indeed Wang Taiyuan, and with a snap of his fingers, the surrounding environment shattered.
What is before my eyes is no longer an endless forest, but the entrance to a cave.
Wang Zhanke stepped in first. Seeing that he looked like he had been here before, Wang Taiyuan snorted in anger and was slowly pushed by Luo Xuanyi to follow behind Wang Zhanke.
The cave was very wide, not looking like it was formed naturally, but more like it had been carved by humans. Sure enough, after walking for a while, a series of "ding-dong" sounds came from deep inside some other hole in the cave wall. Looking closely, one could see a stretched and deformed human figure, illuminated by a ball of blue light, on the stone wall.
The sound waves of a specific frequency emanated from the rugged, winding veins of the cave, and the same sound began to resonate everywhere. The waves of impact and the previous echoes gave people a slight headache. Wang Zhanke and Wang Taiyuan frowned and quickened their pace, but their eyes revealed a sense of familiarity.
After walking for about an incense stick of time, the three finally saw the Ghost King sitting cross-legged in the deepest part of the cave.
Fourth update~ I haven't written a fighting scene for a long time hh My hands are itching
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