[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-life-as-false-emperor":3,"chapter-eternal-life-as-false-emperor-eternal-life-as-false-emperor-chapter-201":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Life as False Emperor",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1682897,2149,"Chapter 201 167: Earth-bound Spirit","eternal-life-as-false-emperor-chapter-201",201,"\u003Cp>Earth-bound Spirit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What kind of Ghost is that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Charming Ghost replied: \"An Earth-bound Spirit is the Fierce Ghost born from unresolved resentment before death that turns its resting place into a Ghostly Fiend, assimilating it as part of itself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Earth-bound Spirit is a High-tier Fierce Ghost, not particularly strong. But once trapped within the Ghostly Fiend it creates, its power can surge several times!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, this place is where we feast on the Human Race, where tens of thousands of human children have died over a century. Despite our tribe's Demon Masters practicing Soul Devouring, remnants always remain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over the century, many remnants have accumulated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, attracted by this Earth-bound Spirit, all these remnants of children will be consumed, further strengthening it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Charming Ghost's blood-red eyes continually scanned the surroundings, simultaneously sensing the presence of the Earth-bound Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the panicked demons, especially those who had already started killing each other, an unmistakable murderous intent glimmered in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, the Earth-bound Spirit excels in Illusion Techniques, some have already fallen under its spell!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They mistake each other for that Ghost, which leads to their desperate fighting!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Illusion Techniques?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies frowned and asked: \"Is there a way to escape this Ghostly Fiend?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among all Magic and Demonic Arts, Illusion Techniques are the most troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Charming Ghost said, \"Since the Earth-bound Spirit is attached to a place of death, destroying this house will break its Fiend!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then its strength will drop by half, and we'll have the upper hand!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies sneered, \"Take it down! Tear down this house!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Screech!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a shrill call, it swiftly flew into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its wings flapped, launching countless feathers densely packed like rain, mercilessly crashing down on the roof, punching hole after hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feast on human flesh was a great deed within the tribe, granting them this opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially a child with a Spirit Root; usually reserved for enjoyment by the Demon King or those near forming Demon Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now divided among them with resentment, it will inevitably become a Fierce Ghost!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azure Bone's form swelled, transforming into a giant skeleton towering three or four meters high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sprinted madly toward the main door, attempting to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are that Fierce Ghost!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, the Harpies caught sight of a Fierce Ghost in a red bellyband charging toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly darting aside, several feathers shot forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An explosion sounded, instantly tearing the Earth-bound Spirit to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the ground came a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one by one, seemingly just five or six year old children crawled up and attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Earth-bound Spirit, huh? Illusion Techniques or not, even if you're kin, kill!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies sneered, wings flicking again, down came countless feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battling demons suddenly faced an aerial assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two untransformed demons were shredded instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azure Bone, the half-man half-snake demon, and the wild Pig Demon were severely injured, swearing in anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop it! That's the Earth-bound Spirit's Illusion Technique!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the Charming Ghost appeared beside the Harpies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The roof has collapsed, quickly get outside, attack this area from outside and eliminate it along with the Earth-bound Spirit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies agreed, turning to fly toward the holes in the roof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But next moment, a cold hand pierced through its heart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With another, it grasped its unhatched Demon Core!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You, you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cough, cough, cough...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn... Earth-bound Spirit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Biting teeth in rage, the Harpies turned, but next it saw countless pale-faced, lifeless-eyed children storming forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each carried endless Yin Qi, their faces naive but their gaze terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With open mouths, revealing cute yet somewhat eerie white tiger teeth, they poured into the Harpies' body, devouring its flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My life back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I died so unjustly...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nanny Liu, you deceived me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll eat you...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Waa waa... It hurts so much!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless harrowing, ghostly wails drifted from the void, echoing in the Harpies' mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It struggled desperately, trying to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But another group of bare-bottomed, ghostly pale child Resentful Souls emerged from the void, swarming over, granting no quarter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, damn...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Charming Ghost, save, save me...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Harpies struggled fiercely, yet couldn't escape so many Resentful Souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearby, the Charming Ghost appeared but didn't intervene, fixating on the swarm, searching for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One thing left unsaid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human children in innocence are the purest beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once overwhelmed by resentment and killed, transforming into Fierce Ghosts absorbing vast quantities of Yin Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These ghosts are far stronger than those transformed from ordinary adults!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, they just consumed a child with Spirit Root, already in Qi Cultivation Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once transformed into a Fierce Ghost, its strength would grow even greater!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must seize this chance to locate the Earth-bound Spirit's true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, none of them would escape!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a \"bang,\" the Harpies' body crashed onto the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No help came; after struggling briefly, it couldn't fend off endless Yin Qi and fierce ghosts, ultimately perishing completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn Earth-bound Spirit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn Human Race!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground, with the Harpies gone, the demons resumed their fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, after killing the harpies, Zheng Yi was about to make his next move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark shadow suddenly leapt onto him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehehe...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I found you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After killing the harpies, the long-awaited rose finally found that splash of bright red among the group of azure-grey child fierce ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A newly born earth-bound spirit, devour you, and my Celestial Ghost Soul-devouring Technique will gain another variation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Charming Ghost's figure fiercely charged towards Zheng Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense group of child resentful souls around Zheng Yi, upon coming into contact with the Charming Ghost's body, emitted a series of piercing friction sounds, and were quickly eroded away, turning into green smoke and dispersing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two forces of the same attribute, yet completely different Yin Qi, started battling immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't accept this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to kill you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Zheng Yi, his own Yin Qi was rapidly being devoured by another kind of Yin Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to stop it, but there was no way to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only allow it to be devoured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an earth-bound spirit, his greatest abilities are illusion techniques and trapping the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commonly known as Ghost Wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Charming Ghost that had entered his body was a stronger soul-devourer, naturally able to devour other ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had continuously harassed with illusion techniques, he might not have been defeated so quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after he acted and killed the harpies, the Charming Ghost hidden behind finally made its move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahaha...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human Race Cultivator! Earth-bound Spirit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Celestial Ghost Soul Devouring!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll never let you have an easy time, even if I die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi also roared angrily in his heart, his whole body's Yin Qi surging, carrying endless infant resentful souls, fiercely pounced towards the Charming Ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two ghosts immediately started a frenzied battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a time, the ghostly wails were continuous, the Yin wind gusted, and the evil ghosts devoured souls!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi's last memory was of a giant, pitch-black mouth fiercely pouncing on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Phew...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the darkness, Zheng Yi opened his eyes again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had returned from the Spirit Pool World to Great Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Failed again... This time I only lived seven years in the Spirit Pool World, which is just seven days in Great Yu?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi slowly got up and began to move his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the palace maid brought food, he began to carefully recall this experience in the Spirit Pool World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the first experience in the Spirit Pool World, the second was obviously much worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he had also discovered many things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First: The spirit roots of the children in the Spirit Pool World are most likely not innate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the teachers in the Spirit Pool who taught them the \"Spirit Eating Technique,\" their spirit roots are 'seeds.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And where did these 'seeds' come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi guessed that they likely came from those rows of strange big trees guarding the Spirit Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially those bizarre fruits that were only the size of red dates yet shaped like babies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are those fruits?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ginseng Fruits?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or something else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While eating, Zheng Yi was pondering over this matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the special spirit root 'seeds,' Zheng Yi also thought of other things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spirit Pool World is not a real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either it is a fake world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or it is a projection world of some real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With too little information now, he couldn't determine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time he entered the Spirit Pool World, Liuu Linger and Liuu Miao'er, two sisters, were Snake Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They both could transform into humans, both were descendants of the Demon King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liuu Linger clearly was not very strong, around the Qi Cultivation Stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most challenging was Liuu Miao'er, who carried a Demon Core, at least at the Golden Core Realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second time in the Spirit Pool World, there were several Little Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so, he was no match!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing dinner, Zheng Yi once again linked his spirit with the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words began to appear again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[World Illusion Truth ended.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You lived only seven years in this world, eventually killed by a group of Little Demons, and in resentful energy transformed into an earth-bound spirit, killing three Little Demons. This life was also quite eventful.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Illusion Truth Progress: Eight points]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lifespan consumed: 7 years.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Illusionary Items: None.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi's eyes suddenly paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why is the world completion only eight points? That's only eight percent? Much less than the first Illusion Truth World completion!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi stared at the data on the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror with full of doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few moments, he finally remembered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the first life, I was eventually devoured by Liuu Linger of the Baisu Demon Race, and my soul was defeated by Liuu Miao'er, achieving 18% world completion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In this life, I didn't see Liuu Linger and Liuu Miao'er but left the Spirit Pool early, killing three monsters... Little Demons?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought flashed in Zheng Yi's mind: \"Liuu Linger and Liuu Miao'er are the main quests of this Illusion Truth World!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the first life, even though I just frightened Liuu Linger to tears, because it was the main quest, I earned such a high world completion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the second life, although I killed four Little Demons, these few Little Demons were at most considered side quests.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if I killed all those Little Demons, I'd only complete side quests, and the world completion would definitely not be much!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That means...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Yi gritted his teeth: \"To fully clear this Illusion Truth World, the main quest is Liuu Linger and Liuu Miao'er!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1800,"2026-06-06T13:34:09.115Z",1,"novelbin.me","6146aa002d520d3797796c146910fafcf3dff585b51695f066d70fc17a1096dd","eternal-life-as-false-emperor-chapter-202","eternal-life-as-false-emperor-chapter-150",358,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-life-as-false-emperor-cover.jpg"]