According to the original plan, after defeating the Ghost Emperor's reinforcements, the next step would be to launch a full-scale attack on the ghost clan's heartland to kill ghosts, seize territory and resources. However, the situation in this world has changed so much that Yu Qian'an didn't know what to do for a while.
After thinking for a while, Yu Qian'an simply let them attack on their own and he would serve as the reserve. Anyway, as long as he didn't move, this wouldn't be considered a decisive battle.
It is not as comfortable to grab those resources as to ask others for them directly. Yu Qian'an no longer needs to bother looking for items below gold quality.
Yu Qian'an continued to practice his sword-wielding skills. Although the speed of cultivating spiritual energy in the immortal sect was not as fast as before, the practice still had to continue. Yu Qian'an felt that cultivation itself was a process of accumulation over time, just like saving money. If you only think about saving big money and making big money and then saving more, then the money you can save will definitely not be as much as those who save big money and small money together.
Moreover, from the beginning of this section of the journey, the strongest person is already at the five-color myth level. If I can't break through to the next station, then how I will survive in the next section will be a problem. After all, the strength of the enemies at the next station must be at least one level higher, so I, a three-color person, may really be as numerous as dogs.
Yu Qian'an had been practicing for more than ten days when Yang Jiarui brought him a guest: "Boss, this is Ghost Nine, an envoy sent by the Ghost Emperor. He wants to talk to you."
Yu Qian'an opened his divine eyes and took a quick look. Ghost Nine's true form was that of a newborn baby, one that had been trampled to death. It was filled with resentment, completely at odds with the polite appearance he had conjured up.
Yu Qian'an: "Ghost Nine, what a strange name."
Gui Jiu: "Are you curious about my story? I can tell you that my parents were a poor couple who extremely favored boys over girls. If they gave birth to a daughter, they would immediately drown her, trample her to death, or dig a hole and bury her.
My eight older sisters all died this way. When I was reborn into this world, I thought I would be loved by them. However, my father was drunk on the night my mother gave birth to me. My mother gave birth to me in a daze. My father took one look and thought it was a girl, so he threw me to the ground and stepped on me to death.
By the time my mother got up to check and clean up, I was already dead. My father jumped into the river and died in anger. My mother also went crazy and was finally killed by me.
Isn’t it a very common and clichéd story? "
Yu Qian'an: "It's indeed very common. The ghost story I met on the road about eight daughters sending their ninth child to school is much more exciting than yours. They carried their younger brother to school and eventually died because of him. Even after death, they would become part of their younger brother.
Your parents are cruel and decisive, more decisive than killing a chicken. But isn't it a bit unnecessary for you to be so resentful about this? How much pain can there be in dying at birth?
Ghost Nine: "Hehe, because I'm a debt collector. I failed to collect debts the previous eight times, and I failed again the ninth time. The couple is dead and the other one is crazy. I don't even have anyone to collect debts from. If I can't complete my mission, I will return to the underworld to bear the consequences of their karma, as well as the karma of my nine failed reincarnations. That's why I hate it!"
Yu Qian'an: "Oh, so, your eight sisters are actually reincarnated as you. You are so unlucky. With eight daughters, you can lose everything in gambling with such probability. On the ninth time, you finally made the right choice and won the bet, but you found out that you didn't bet at all. It was all in vain.
What is the rule of this debt-collecting ghost? What karma do they owe you that you have to spend nine reincarnations to collect the debt from them?"
Ghost Nine: "What karma do you owe me? In their previous life, they were a group of monkey trainers. They found monkeys difficult to tame and unable to take care of themselves, so they bought a child, used a secret method to skin the child, and then used the skin of a living monkey to cover the child, turning the child into a monkey. Every day, the child not only had to follow their performances, but to prevent the child from speaking, they cut off the child's tongue, beat him with whips and sticks every day, and locked him in a cage to endure inhuman torture. Do you think I should take revenge?"
Yu Qian'an: "Indeed, it seems that what you did was not excessive. In their previous life, they tortured other people's children and didn't treat them as human beings. In this life, they killed their own children with their own hands. They have to endure the torture of being childless and having their children killed for the rest of their lives. This can be considered retribution!"
Gui Jiu laughed, tears streaming down his face. "But, I'm the one who was tortured in both lives! Am I also responsible for karma? What crime have I committed that deserves to endure all this?"
Yu Qian'an: "Who knows? Maybe everything is predetermined, and the result you are experiencing is also the result of the cause you sowed in the past!"
Ghost Nine: "Just when I was completely desperate and about to be tortured to death by the tortures of hell, you said it was a coincidence that all the ghosts and gods in hell disappeared, and the Lord Ghost Emperor rescued me."
Yu Qian'an shook his head: "You're wrong. In fact, you would have been liberated if you died then. Now living is endless pain. Living in resentment every day, with negative emotions in your heart, how can you be happy?"
Gui Jiu: “I want to tell you that my experience is not an isolated case. This includes the Gui Shuai from Jiuzi Academy whose eight daughters sent their son to school that you met last time. This is a common thing in this world.
The distorted concept of childbearing in this world has led to many girls being drowned, buried, frozen to death or burned at birth.
When all this becomes taken for granted, and no one blames or cares, this numb world is not much better than hell.
Humanity deserves extinction, because those people aren't human at all, but merely flesh-and-blood demons. Look at the ghosts in this world, aren't they all formed from resentment? And isn't the source of resentment precisely the actions of these people?
If there weren't so much evil in this world, how could there be so many ghosts?"
Yu Qian'an: "I understand. I thought you told me your story just to scare me, or because you wanted to confide in me. But it turns out you told me that it was to prove the legitimacy and rationality of the existence of ghosts. No wonder you can be the messenger of the Ghost Emperor. According to your argument, my disgust towards ghosts has been reduced a little.
But what about the millions of headless ghosts in Chiyang City, and the evil tiger that gathered bandits and harmed people? Even if all living beings are guilty, it shouldn't be the ghosts who judge them, right? "
Gui Jiu: "We are the messengers sent by the gods to judge the human world. If not, why did the gods leave? It is precisely to make way for us to do whatever we want in this world. If not, the gods would have come to stop us long ago.
If we can successfully conquer the human world, it proves that even the gods feel that humans are no longer worthy of living in this world!"
Yu Qian'an: "According to your logic, the fact that you ghosts are being killed is also the will of the gods. Why are you still negotiating? Just accept the judgment of the gods."
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