Chapter 9: On the Yellow Springs Road, the Ghost Gate Pass

A moment later, in Li Boyang’s home.

Watching the big girl finish off the rest of his porridge, then sit beside him with a look of satisfaction.

The emotions within Li Boyang’s heart appeared even more complex.

As a soul from a civilized society, he could not take such things for granted.

Therefore, driven by these complex emotions, Li Boyang even pulled himself away from the joy of obtaining extraordinary power, realizing for the first time that this was a real world.

Perhaps this world truly did have gods, ghosts, and demons.

But this world also had common folk and the masses.

Thinking this, the fatigue of his body caused Li Boyang to close his eyes once again.

The energy consumed by letting the sword pellet leave its sheath to kill the enemy was far greater than Li Boyang had imagined.

Then, without anyone noticing, wisps of faint baleful aura surged from the ground, silently pouring into Li Boyang’s body.

Li Boyang, in his sleep, turned over, and the red downy hair on his head began to burn once more.

"..."

The big girl beside him, after noticing this situation, curiously reached out to touch Li Boyang’s hair again.

Feeling the warmth radiating from his palm, the big girl drifted into a dream without realizing it.

This room, which was not particularly large, thus fell into silence once again.

Only when Li Boyang occasionally ground his teeth, revealing those four fangs that were quietly growing, did it prove that those baleful auras were not without effect.

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At the same time, at the Mountain God Temple on Flying Peak.

By the time Xi Luo finally dragged all of Ruifu’s remains into the back temple, the thick earth-baleful aura had already lingered over a small half of the back mountain.

The nearby grass and vegetation had all withered and turned yellow, and the original fertile soil had become a quagmire.

Only those species with tenacious vitality could continue to grow in such a harsh environment.

It was fortunate that there was still a divine statue here to provide protection, or these earth-baleful auras would not have been contained.

Otherwise, a radius of a hundred miles would likely have become a barren land where livestock could not breed and human traces were rare.

"So, these fierce gods formed from baleful aura are just detestable..."

"It’s bad enough that their personalities were perverse while alive, but they are just as troublesome after death."

Lying listlessly in front of the main hall, Xi Luo couldn't help but complain to her sister’s divine statue.

"However, that child was beyond my expectations; after reincarnating, he was actually able to perfectly retain the power of the sword pellet."

"With the protection of the sword pellet, plus his naturally auspicious fate, the baleful aura after Ruifu’s death shouldn't have too much of an impact on him, right?"

When she said this, Xi Luo clearly hesitated for a moment.

Setting aside whether Li Boyang was considered naturally auspicious or a demon fetus descended from the heavens.

The aggression and corrosiveness inherent in the earth-baleful aura alone were not something an ordinary flesh-and-blood body could withstand.

Not to mention, Ruifu’s earth-baleful aura was a genuine curse.

In this era, any divine ability involving curses was basically unsolvable.

"I fed him so much mountain monster flesh a while ago; surviving the erosion of the baleful aura shouldn't be a problem."

"The curse, however, is a bit tricky..."

"But at most, it will only cause him to develop some minor anomalies; it’s not a big deal!"

"Anyway, that child was born with anomalies, so what’s the big deal with a few more!"

Muttering this softly, Xi Luo thought of the red downy hair covering his head.

If Xi Luo hadn't seen wrong, those hairs that hadn't fully grown yet seemed to have similar properties to the fur of a Fire-Sable Mouse.

Repelling fire and guarding against cold, impervious to blades and swords...

One could say that the brat was already a "spirit creature" among humans.

"It’s a pity he is ultimately not as good as my sister; I wonder what kind of divine ability that vertical eye on his forehead will eventually gestate."

After nagging and complaining to the statue for a long time, the exhausted Xi Luo soon fell into a deep sleep.

Whoosh!

Silently, the Valkyrie statue in the main hall emitted a faint light.

The civil and military robes draped over the statue flew up, landing perfectly on Xi Luo.

The temple doors, which had been wide open, were also blown shut by an invisible breeze at this moment.

Creak...

Accompanied by a nearly inaudible sound of the door closing, the entire main hall fell back into a lingering dimness.

Xi Luo, who had quickly entered dreamland, even began to snore.

This formed a sharp contrast with the baleful environment in the back mountain that was still boiling and worsening.

However, what no one noticed was.

With the death of Ruifu and the chaos of the earth-vein baleful aura...

A barren land not far from Flying Peak, shrouded in thick black smoke, was also undergoing a certain mutation simultaneously.

Boom!

Yin energy, more piercing than polar cold winds, gathered, and a nearly materialized black shadow was exposed to the sunlight.

When the yin energy materialized, a Yin God with the head of an ox and the body of a human, several zhang tall, appeared out of thin air.

"Evil deeds in the world of the living will be repaid; I come to summon souls to the Underworld."

The biting yin wind formed a path to the Underworld behind the Ox-Head.

And at the end of this path was a huge horizontal gate archway.

Looking from afar, one could see the three large characters "Ghost Gate Pass" written on the archway.

—Yellow Springs Road, Ghost Gate Pass, the Underworld judges good and evil.

—Other Shore Flower, Forget-River, the Three-Lives Stone discerns cause and effect.

—Meng Po Soup, Naihe Bridge, the Six Paths of Reincarnation determine the next life.

Obviously, this tall Ox-Head Yin God came from the Underworld of this world.

"Wealth and status in life all become empty; follow me into the ghost crowd after death."

Carrying a huge fork on his shoulder, the Ox-Head murmured in a low voice.

This voice seemed to possess magic, dispersing the black fog that constantly shrouded this area.

Under the cover of the rolling thick smoke, a three-legged cauldron, fully ten zhang tall, lay tilted on the ground, with more than half of its body buried deep underground.

Yet even so, the fire in the three-legged cauldron remained unextinguished.

The black fog that had previously shrouded this area was the residual smoke produced by the burning of the three-legged cauldron.

This black smoke not only obscured vision, but it also continuously emitted terrifying toxicity, leaving almost nothing growing wherever it passed.

Especially after the earth-vein baleful aura became chaotic, the fire in the three-legged cauldron burned even more vigorously.

"This baleful-refining method again?"

"Who dares to offend the majesty of the Underworld and repeat the tragedy of the Earth-Square Ghost God?"

Having said this, the Ox-Head swung his sharp fork violently and stepped into the area shrouded in black fog without hesitation.

"Howl!"

In an instant, ghost wails and wolf howls erupted from the fog.

And after these wails, an old man with a weathered face, exuding an icy cold aura, appeared like a ghost, blocking the path in front of the Ox-Head.

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