Chapter 375: Liangshan's Host of Evil Ghosts

Strength—what is it, Mu Yi can't say.

Wisdom, body, Inner Qi, and will are all strength.

The Multiverse contains countless possibilities; studying them all is impossible, and omniscience and omnipotence have always been a paradox.

Nevertheless, Mu Yi is clear about his abilities and the road ahead.

His powers mainly consist of three main inheritances: Chi You's legacy, the Military Strategist's legacy, and the Reincarnation legacy; other abilities such as the Thousand‑Mile Eye Divine Ability, divine seat authority, and incense‑faith are essentially supplemental forces.

The Heavenly Court can forcibly strip these abilities, including the three main inheritances, but only if they first kill him.

Mu Yi is still very clear about what is primary and what is secondary.

This is also the path most celestial beings of the Heavenly Court follow; even if their positions are removed, their strength changes little, because their power is in their own hands.

Mu Yi likewise walks this road.

He will not discard these external forces; a gentleman makes good use of things, and as long as his main line is set, external power is also a means of growth.

"The research has yielded results!"

Lily invites Mu Yi to the alchemy laboratory for observation.

Through an alchemical rite she deconstructed the blood‑sacrifice power, producing items similar to the previous Sage Stone; these can be used for energy charging, with extremely high conversion efficiency.

"Thanks to the alchemy notes you gave me last time, I learned a lot from them!"

Lily hands Mu Yi a ruby she extracted, and points to the alchemy golem beside her.

"I have named this crystal Blood Soul Stone; it can serve as an energy source for alchemical products and as a material for ritual charging—its effect is quite good."

"You said before you still have a lot of that power—could you find a way to link it with the conversion rite? That should enable autonomous transmutation!"

Mu Yi pinches the Blood Soul Stone, using his will to sense its power; compared with the blood‑sacrifice force suppressed in the Reincarnation Land, the stone's energy is steadier and gentler, indeed suitable as an energy source.

The Zongwang Player seems to have also accepted Lily's naming of this new alchemical creation, also calling it Blood Soul Stone.

【Blood Soul Stone】

Item Level: 25

Type: Energy Crystal/Consumable

Quality: Purple Epic

Description: This is a special gem that stores flesh, blood, and soul; it can replace many special materials or serve as a component for equivalent alchemy.

A single stone is not as good as the Sage Stone that was consumed before, but Lily has extracted dozens of such stones.

This is only the power stored in one weapon; if all the power of the Reincarnation Land were drawn out, it might pile up into a mountain.

Mu Yi worked with Lily to devise an alchemical rite that can autonomously transmute blood‑sacrifice power, producing Blood Soul Stones, which the alchemy golem then collects and stores.

Although its efficiency is slower than Mu Yi's digestion of power via the Reincarnation Barrier, it wins by being fully automatic, requiring no supervision.

Mu Yi is still very attentive to this matter.

Even though the Reincarnation Land still has ample space after suppressing the blood‑sacrifice power, the Blood Divine Son, the old Golden Dragon soul, and many legendary souls, he somehow feels that without a solution, the Reincarnation Land will eventually become overloaded.

While Mu Yi was busy processing these things, Bai Ze sent a message asking him to meet at the Ghost Gate.

Mu Yi says he doesn't know what Bai Ze intends, but after thinking he doesn't refuse.

"Mu kid, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

Bai Ze leans in front of the Ghost Gate, lazily looking at Mu Yi as he speaks.

"Let's hear the good news first!" Mu Yi says cautiously; he feels Bai Ze's gaze is full of schadenfreude, which is not a good sign.

"Do you remember those evil ghosts who escaped from the Ghost Gate before?" Bai Ze says with a smile in his eyes.

"Of course. Didn't you say they were supposed to face the calamity? Something went wrong?" Mu Yi instantly senses trouble.

Those evil ghosts suppressed under the Ghost Gate, even the weakest are at demigod rank; even after years of suppression and source depletion, they are still no lower than legendary.

"They reborn in that world by borrowing bodies; the Heavenly Court and Underworld plan to go with the flow, thinking of simply guiding them into calamities, which also saves the Hundred‑and‑Eight Generals of Heaven and Earth from having to reincarnate their spirits."

"Jiuzhou is so vast; the Heavenly Court has many places to employ people!"

Mu Yi feels even more uneasy, as if something big is about to burst.

"So what's the good news?"

Bai Ze visibly smiles, his eyes squinting.

"The good news is that the operation is proceeding smoothly!"

"Those evil ghosts who reincarnated have become calamity‑facing individuals; they can advance the Mandate of Heaven, and later they will all be sent back to the Yellow Springs, where someone will repress them under the Ghost Gate again."

"That is indeed good news!" Mu Yi nods, meaning he no longer has to capture those evil ghosts?

"So, what's the bad news?"

"The bad news is simple: your Zongwang Player intervened!" Bai Ze bursts into hearty laughter.

"What kind of trouble did they cause?"

Mu Yi instantly feels a massive headache; the Zongwang Player even dares to charge the Ghost Gate—who knows what mischief they'll cause.

"It's not much mischief; it's that the Great Song Emperor of that world was killed by those people, breaking the Mandate of Heaven!"

"Those evil ghosts who were supposed to be swept up by calamities, wander cluelessly through the Mandate, and finally return to the Underworld, have awakened ancestral wisdom and begun to wreak havoc among mortals!"

Bai Ze says it lightly, but Mu Yi's complexion suddenly darkens.

"Aren't the Heavenly Court and Underworld planning to send people to deal with them?"

"The Heavenly Court isn't just idle; of course they sent people!" Bai Ze says, his expression now full of malice, completely unable to hide it.

"Guess who the Heavenly Court sent?"

"It won't be someone from the Grand Void Palace, right?" Mu Yi truly feels his head spinning this time.

From Bai Ze's expression, he can see that the other party is likely an adversary.

"Got it right!"

"A disciple of the Grand Void Palace volunteered to take charge! The Heavenly Court has just seized a great world and lacks manpower, so they readily agreed!"

The volunteer is a third‑generation disciple of the Jade Void Palace, and he has just become a disciple of Grand Master Lingbao!

Well, Mu Yi felt his vision go black; the heavens collapsed at the outset.

I fear not a god‑like opponent, but a pig‑like teammate.

Such a teammate is worse than none; we might even have to deal with him ourselves.

People of the Jade Void Palace have never been the reasonable sort.

"Will the Underworld send someone?" Mu Yi clung to a last glimmer of hope.

"Hehe! This is the task entrusted to you by Hou Tu Niangniang!" Bai Ze emphasized the word "you".

Mu Yi furrowed his brows; the teammate is a third‑generation disciple of the Jade Void Palace, so this trip will surely solve the problem.

Even if he just took on a master, he is at least demi‑god level, and his upper limit is unfathomable.

Looking at the other third‑generation disciples, Nezha and Yang Jian need no further comment—they are Heavenly Court war gods, famed fighters, roughly on par with Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

Even the slightly lesser Jinzha and Muzha are Buddhist Dharma protectors.

He wouldn't need a second move to beat him to death.

This newcomer certainly can't compare to the veteran third‑generation disciples like Jinzha and Muzha, but to be valued by Grand Master Lingbao, he must be roughly on par with Daoist Taiwei.

So the question is, how many moves would Daoist Taiwei need to kill him?

Mu Yi isn't certain, but he can be sure he can't defeat Taiwei now, especially after his clash with the old golden dragon's soul.

But as Bai Ze said, this is the task entrusted to him by Hou Tu Niangniang; he represents the Underworld to clean up the mess that originally arose because of him, a mess stirred up by Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

No matter what, he has no room to refuse.

Now the only path before him is to grit his teeth and go to that realm, see if he can take care of a few more evil spirits before encountering the Jade Void Palace's third‑generation disciple.

"Thank you!" Mu Yi bowed his hands to Bai Ze.

If Bai Ze hadn't told him this, he might have directly run into that Jade Void Palace disciple.

The other side certainly wouldn't kill him, but if they seized all the evil spirits, making his trip completely pointless, that would already count as humiliation.

After all, he still bears the divine posts of two heavenly sovereigns.

"If you want to act, you'd better hurry!" Bai Ze lazily closed his eyes.

"Jade Void Palace disciples will surely deduce the heavenly secrets; you can't escape! I'm really looking forward to your performance!"

Mu Yi's mouth twitched; Bai Ze is a troublesome fellow, on one hand giving himself a heads‑up, on the other putting eye drops in himself.

He couldn't tell for a moment whether Bai Ze was helping him or simply wanted to watch the spectacle.

However, he's too weak; without giving him a cheat, it's hard to stand against the opponent.

Nevertheless, Mu Yi bowed again to Bai Ze; regardless of Bai Ze's thoughts, at least he helped him.

Watching Mu Yi disappear on the Yellow Springs road, Bai Ze saw a water mirror appear before him, beginning to reflect Mu Yi's figure.

"Hehehe, Mu kid, guarding the Ghost Gate is really boring; let me watch your performance!"

Just as Mu Yi thought, Bai Ze indeed loves a lively scene and doesn't mind big trouble.

Mu Yi's cultivation is definitely no match for a Jade Void Palace third‑generation disciple, so Bai Ze gave him a little help to balance their power as much as possible.

Only a evenly matched dragon‑tiger clash is interesting! Only then can it help him pass this long, boring watch‑keeping life.

He can't just lie down and sleep, or a hundred years would pass in the blink of an eye.

Whether Mu Yi loses or the Jade Void Palace disciple loses, to Bai Ze it's an amusing future.

……

Mu Yi followed the Yellow Springs road straight to the world where evil spirits are reborn.

"Forgot to ask Bai Ze, what time is it now!"

Emerging from the Yellow Springs road, Mu Yi appeared in a vast wilderness.

He casually picked a direction and flew that way; no matter what, first he needed to figure out where he was.

Passing a village, Mu Yi landed, bumped into a passerby, and struck up a conversation with the old man at the village entrance.

"May I ask, old sir, what place is this?"

"This is Wang Family Village, on the eastern Jingdong route, not far from Hai Prefecture!"

Seeing Mu Yi's radiant aura, the old man had little objection and pointed him toward a road.

"Follow this road and you'll reach Hai Prefecture City, but I advise you, old man, not to go there if you have no business—rumor says rebels there even eat people!" the old man said anxiously.

"Hai Prefecture..." Mu Yi stretched out his hand to do a finger count.

Although he isn't skilled at divining heavenly secrets, calculating a direction is no problem for him.

"The third year of Xuanhe? Indeed, it's the Liangshan Marsh!"

Mu Yi's mouth twitched; he figured out that Hai Prefecture City is not far from Liangshan, and the direction of Liangshan gathers a great deal of fate's aura—obviously those calamity‑bound evil spirits reborn.

Roughly speaking, by this time the Liangshan Marsh had already gathered a hundred and eight people.

Trying to seize the chance to defeat them one by one has become impossible.

"Now it's troublesome!" Mu Yi pondered.

In this world, the vital energies of heaven and earth are active; those fated individuals already possess great aura, their basic strength is not weak, and with the evil spirits' past‑life wisdom awakened, there's probably not a single pushover.

Especially when they're all gathered together, even if that third‑generation disciple makes a move, he likely won't gain much advantage.

"What should we do?"

Mu Yi had no clue, so he flew toward the direction of Liangshan to scout the situation first.

But before he even reached Liangshan Marsh, he discovered the situation was worse than he imagined.

The whole of Qingzhou had become a scene of mortal Purgatory; everywhere were wandering souls, and in a village, large numbers of neither‑human‑nor‑ghost creatures were feasting heartily, their food being the villagers they had slain.

"This..." Mu Yi fell from the sky.

Without any need for communication, swords were drawn and this batch of neither‑human‑nor‑ghost monsters were all slain.

"Is a person, having been altered by ghostly arts in body, becoming neither human nor ghost, bloodthirsty and brutal..." Mu Yi saw many things from these monsters' bodies.

The most important point is that the Marsh of Mount Liang has probably become a ghostly realm now; originally those Mount Liang bandits are likely all transformed into such things.

"Dust to dust, earth to earth, I will avenge you!"

Mu Yi set the mountain village ablaze with a fire, turning it to white earth; his anger was uncontrollable.

These monsters seem to be performing some evil ritual; after killing, they can become stronger. Mu Yi successively exterminated several wandering monster bands, discovering that they were not killing aimlessly; fundamentally, they were bent on creating slaughter.

"The soul wasn't taken away, nor was the vital essence drained..."

The more Mu Yi exterminated these monsters, the less he could understand what they were doing.

If it were for producing slaughter to obtain vital essence and souls, that would still be a purpose, but these monsters only kill people; occasional cannibalism is just an isolated case, and mostly they kill simply for the sake of killing.

Only when Mu Yi personally witnessed the monsters killing and was unable to stop him did he realize what these monsters were taking: it was these people's fortune.

The entire Azure Prefecture had become a mortal purgatory, while the Court fell into chaos due to the emperor's assassination, and the fortune of the Great Song no longer coalesced.

These Mount Liang fiends, by creating slaughter, collect the fortune of Qingzhou; it's unknown what they intend to do.