Chapter 25: The Way to Converse with Ghosts!

"A sachet?"

"What does he want to do?"

Seeing what Su Xuan took out, many people were stunned, guessing his intentions.

Su Xuan opened the sachet and poured some powder into his hand.

Then, a burst of fire appeared from his palm, burning the powder to ashes. A strange fragrance spread, and green smoke swirled around Su Xuan's body.

Su Xuan said to everyone, "This incense is called Soul-Guiding Incense. Because I have previously performed the Art of Communicating with the Nether and summoned the ghosts of Soul-Severing Valley, this time I do not need the soil from the valley as a medium; I can use this incense to summon them directly."

"At the same time, because of the Soul-Guiding Incense, the ghosts that appear this time will be visible!" ===== CHAPTER 41 =====

Except for the King of Han, no one else in the hall had seen Su Xuan summon ghosts before.

So Su Xuan's words were actually an explanation for the King of Han.

Su Xuan formed unique hand seals. As he did so.

Suddenly, an inexplicable wind began to blow.

This wind didn't know where it came from; it was cold and chilling, a true eerie wind.

Under the gusts of eerie wind, combined with the green smoke swirling around Su Xuan's body, some of the more timid officials began to tremble.

Ji Ji Wuye and Zhang Kaidi stared fixedly at Su Xuan.

Following the summoning of wind and rain that day, Su Xuan had once again displayed mysterious methods before everyone.

This time it was the Art of Communicating with the Nether!

If the summoning of wind and rain could still be attributed to coincidence, could Su Xuan succeed this time? If he were a fraud, would he show any flaws?

Ji Ji Wuye suddenly hoped very much that Su Xuan was a fraud.

Zhang Kaidi, although advocating Confucianism and respecting ghosts and gods from a distance, now hoped that Su Xuan could truly summon ghosts to point out Emerald Tiger and successfully take him down.

Even if the military pay wasn't hijacked by Emerald Tiger, it didn't matter.

After learning that the hijacking was man-made, Zhang Kaidi had already guessed who did it within a short time.

Throughout Zhao Guo, only one person had the ability to swap one hundred thousand taels of gold for Water-Dissolving Gold.

That was "Ji Ji Wuye". Emerald Tiger was Ji Ji Wuye's man, and with his vast wealth, if Ji Ji Wuye took the pay, using Emerald Tiger's assets to compensate was a reasonable thing.

"It, it appeared..."

Just as the leaders of the civil and military factions, Zhang Kaidi and Ji Ji Wuye, were lost in their own thoughts, someone spoke abruptly.

Suddenly, everyone saw black mist appear, and then... a hideous ghost shadow appeared before them.

The other party was wearing old, rotten armor, looking like a soldier in life, but looking at his true face made one feel extremely disgusted.

His face was rotten beyond recognition, with chunks of rotting flesh hanging as if they would fall off at any moment, and maggots as thick as fingers crawling in and out.

"Ugh..."

Someone gagged the moment they saw the ghost's appearance.

Those in the military, having killed enemies on the battlefield, were slightly better off.

But those with weaker psychological fortitude turned pale upon seeing such a hideous ghost.

On the throne, the King of Han had never seen such a scene.

He was not very brave to begin with.

Upon seeing the ghost's appearance, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was about to vomit.

Fortunately, Su Xuan noticed everyone's reaction. To prevent the ghost's image from scaring everyone, he flicked his sleeve, and black mist surged, covering the ghost's face.

With this, everyone didn't have to look at that disgusting face, feeling slightly more comfortable, but thinking of the hideous ghost face they had just seen, everyone still felt disgusted.

"The ghosts have been summoned. If anyone has questions, just ask them directly!"

Su Xuan said to everyone.

Thinking of the image of the ghost when it appeared, everyone felt fear and didn't dare to step forward to ask about the military pay.

Zhang Kaidi, as the Chancellor of Zhao Guo, although also afraid of ghosts.

Ultimately chose to step forward and asked the ghost summoned by Su Xuan: "Was the military pay really not hijacked by you?"

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

An inexplicable sound came from the ghost's mouth.

Zhang Kaidi and the others behind him were stunned. What dialect was this?

It wasn't the language of Zheng Guo either!

They couldn't understand it at all.

Ji Ji Wuye was terrified that Su Xuan had really summoned a ghost and secretly pondered a countermeasure.

Although he knew well that the disappearance of the pay wasn't the work of ghosts, and in fact, there were no ghosts from start to finish—the whole thing was his own fabrication.

But the key was, he couldn't say that.

If he said it, wouldn't he be admitting that he was the mastermind behind the disappearance of the pay?

If he let Su Xuan's lie continue, especially now that the ghost had really appeared, under the eyes of everyone, even if the disappearance wasn't Emerald Tiger's work, through the mouth of the ghost, it would make the matter seem like solid evidence.

In the end, it was because the cause of this whole affair was the ghost soldiers hijacking the pay. Since everyone believed from the start that the disappearance was the work of ghosts, now that the ghosts had appeared again, everyone could only choose to believe.

Or they would have to deny their previous belief that the disappearance was the work of ghosts.

People cannot deny themselves.

Especially these people in the court, who were all respectable people.

So, they could only think of ways to expose Su Xuan's lie from other angles.

Upon hearing the sound from the ghost's mouth, Ji Ji Wuye immediately had an idea.

"It seems this ghost doesn't understand human speech!"

Even if it were a real ghost, so what?

If it couldn't speak human language, it meant it couldn't point out Emerald Tiger.

Su Xuan said calmly, "Humans have human speech, and ghosts have ghost language. This is the difference between humans and ghosts. If the General wants to understand the ghost's words, there is actually a very simple way."

Ji Ji Wuye said with a cold face, "You don't want me to die and become a ghost to talk to him, do you!"

Once these words were spoken, many of Ji Ji Wuye's faction looked at Su Xuan with hostility.

Su Xuan was not nervous and shook his head. "General, what are you saying? I just meant that to understand ghost language and talk to ghosts, you just need to go outside, dig up some soil, and eat it."

"Yes, especially the soil near the latrine; that fertile soil works best!"

Although Su Xuan's words didn't mean for Ji Ji Wuye to die, telling him to eat soil from a latrine was still a great humiliation.

What kind of twisted logic was this? To talk to ghosts, you need to eat soil?

Ji Ji Wuye clearly hadn't seen Master Nine's movies and was immediately furious.

Just as he was about to lose his temper, Su Xuan added, "Since I have summoned the ghost, how could I not know that ghosts don't understand human language? Although everyone doesn't understand what he is saying, that is not important. Writing is also a way of communication!" ===== CHAPTER 42 =====