Chapter 30: God is Dead

After negotiating the conditions with Song Da Shen, General Guan Huchen didn't delay, immediately took a few quick steps, left the courtyard, and entered the study, with Song Da Shen floating in the air, following closely behind.

As soon as he and the ghost entered the courtyard, one after another black shadows, bringing bursts of cold wind, whistled from outside the wall.

The meat and vegetable offerings on the offering table decreased rapidly, and chicken bones and duck bones appeared out of thin air, piled up in a mess on one side.

Faintly, one could hear subtle chewing and quarreling sounds.

General Guan Zhong felt his heart hair, but pretended not to see or hear anything, and continued to throw paper ingots into the fire basin.

On the other side, General Guan Huchen entered a quiet room that had been cleaned in advance, and placed the Wenxi tube, white jade inkstone, Jing Jiao Silk, top-grade pine ink, and a set of colored ink on the table seriously.

"Song Ye, you also know that this is a border fortress, and the literary style is not prosperous, this little one is still missing some spiritual ink, you see..."

General Guan Huchen looked at the blurred black shadow emitting cold energy with hopeful eyes.

If General Guan Zhong entered the room at this time, he could see that under the candlelight, his Master had a shadow, while the blurred figure opposite had empty feet.

"Virtuous brother, I have been a patrol inspector for many years, and I have experienced quite a few things, but this is the first time I have seen you like this, not only the incantations and talismans for inviting immortals, not even one, completely rubbing your upper and lower lips together, directly ordering people... oh, I am not a person, I am a ghost and god.

Even the four treasures of the study for inviting immortals to transmit truth are not prepared, and you still want ghosts and gods to check for leaks and fill vacancies.

Really, many great immortals are not as good as you." Song Da Shen said half-mockingly and half-emotionally.

"Inviting Immortals to Transmit Truth Method" was originally a spell, even if it didn't enter the orthodox path, it was considered a left-handed strange art.

It even had a high threshold, and many strange people and scholars couldn't perform it even if they knew the method.

For example, to invite ghosts and gods and painting immortals, you must prepare an invitation talisman and be able to recite the invitation incantation fluently.

First burn the invitation talisman and the memorial, then recite the invitation incantation, and only then can you invite ghosts and gods.

General Guan Huchen only practiced martial arts and didn't understand magic arts.

He could invite Song Da Shen entirely by relying on connections and taking the back door.

After Song Da Shen came over, he used bribery to buy off ghosts and gods.

Inviting Immortals to Transmit Truth was originally a crooked strange art that didn't take the right path.

General Guan Huchen's means were even more crooked than the Inviting Immortals to Transmit Truth method itself.

"Song Ye, this little one doesn't dare to take advantage of you, it's really limited by the environment, and there is nothing I can do," General Guan Huchen was also very helpless.

But if he could find spiritual ink, no matter how high the price, he wouldn't ask for help from ghosts and gods.

The price demanded by ghosts and gods would only be greater.

"I am not a literati, I don't have spiritual ink, ask Zhang Saint later, maybe he brought it, maybe his painting skills are divine, and he doesn't need spiritual ink," Song Da Shen said.

After speaking, he cast a transmission spell, and the candlelight in the room "popped" and went out.

The darkness was thicker than ink and stickier than glue. The oppression and stuffiness in the air made even an immortal martial arts expert like General Guan Huchen feel uncomfortable.

Suddenly, in the darkness, the floor tiles cracked to both sides, cracking a two-meter-wide, infinitely deep opening.

Vaguely, there was the sound of bamboo and silk music coming from below, the sound was illusory and unreal, like a dream.

And as the sound of bamboo and silk approached, a white-faced little ghost with a high hat led the way, and four red-haired black-faced little ghosts carried a large brocade sedan chair, floating out from the ground crack one after another, and then the ground crack slowly disappeared.

The sedan chair was very gorgeous, with landscapes, ladies, immortals, and other portraits painted on the surface, lifelike, almost thinking they were alive.

"Zhenyuan Daxian, we have arrived at the Western Shu territory, and have now entered the General Guan Mansion."

The white-faced little ghost turned around and said respectfully to the sedan door.

"Hmm, has the person come?" the old man's voice came from behind the curtain.

"This little one General Guan General Guan Huchen, pays respects to Zhang Saint!" General Guan Huchen knelt down and bowed.

"Is it to draw you?" Zhang Saint asked.

"No, it's the little daughter who wants to enter the palace, and needs a Shadow God Portrait," General Guan Huchen said.

"Then has your daughter come?" Zhang Saint asked.

"She is next door, and will be here soon." General Guan Huchen didn't go out to call General Guan Zhong, because the "person" Zhang Saint asked about was actually a "ghost," because they were all ghosts.

General Guan Huchen gave Song Da Shen a look, "Song Ye, I have to trouble you again."

This is the second step of Inviting Immortals to Transmit Truth: Soul Capture!

Inviting Immortals to Transmit Truth has two major steps. First, invite the immortal, burn the invitation talisman, recite the invitation incantation, combine the talisman and the incantation, and invite the painting immortal and painting saint from the underworld to a clean quiet room.

The second step is to burn the soul-capture talisman, recite the soul-capture incantation, and similarly combine the power of the talisman and the incantation to capture the soul of the target person.

No matter where the target person is, even if they are ten thousand miles away, even if they have been dead for many years, as long as the soul is in some corner of the world, they can summon the soul to the room in an instant, and let the painting immortal draw the outline.

In addition to the two major steps of inviting immortals and capturing souls, there are many details and trivialities.

General Guan Huchen's ability was insufficient, so he directly cheated.

Invite immortals? He took the back door and bribed ghosts and gods.

Capture souls? Continue to bribe ghosts and gods, and ask ghosts and gods to help hook the soul of the obedient daughter over.

Song Da Shen and the ghost messengers under his command were originally civil servants of the underworld, and hooking souls and locking spirits were the most professional, even better than the soul-capture incantation.

"Don't eat, come over and work!" Song Da Shen was unhappy, but he had expected this to happen long ago.

He "ghostly shouted" towards the direction of the courtyard outside the house.

It was really a ghost shout, like a night owl howling.

Then two old ghosts wearing errand uniforms appeared, one thin ghost hiccuping, his black face flushed, and another fat ghost holding a steaming, juice-flowing pig trotter and gnawing on it (ps).

They both had iron chains as thick as thumbs hanging from their waists, swaying one step at a time, and the chains clanged.

The two ghost messengers didn't walk through the main gate, but like illusory shadows, walked directly through two walls.

"Master, who are we catching?" the drunk old ghost asked.

"General Guan Yu, female, Sha Man tribe, eleven years old in nominal age, just in the backyard of the General Guan Mansion," Song Da Shen said.

"General Guan Yu?" The old ghost's expression was strange, "Is it a little girl?"

General Guan Huchen was a little embarrassed and explained, "Her original name is 'Yu,' and it just so happens that my surname is 'General Guan.' After returning to Yingxiang Mansion, I will ask a literati to rename her."

Song Da Shen said impatiently, "What is her name, does it have anything to do with you? You are just calling souls, just call the soul according to the name."

"Order!" The two old ghosts swayed again, talking and laughing as they left the quiet room.

"Miss General Guan has such a big shelf, and actually made the Old Master wait." Zhang Saint said sarcastically.

This was not complaining about Miss General Guan, but actually targeting General Guan General Guan Huchen.

General Guan Huchen understood, and immediately knelt down and bowed three times again, "Painting Saint, please forgive me, this little one is not neglecting the Saint.

This little one prepared vegetarian food and fruit wine, thinking that the Saint had arrived, so I should enjoy the offerings first, and then dare to trouble the Saint to take up the pen."

Song Da Shen also showed a flattering smile, "Saint, please drink a glass of wine and moisten your throat first, Miss General Guan is next door, and will be here soon—"

"Roar!" The tiger roar full of violent and fierce aura suddenly resounded through the night sky, and the sound wave even formed a transparent ripple visible to the naked eye, quickly rippling in all directions. Song Da Shen's expression stiffened, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

The five little ghosts carrying the sedan chair held their heads, hiding behind the sedan chair, screaming like ghosts.

The sedan chair was very stable and didn't shake, but the cloth curtain and tassels of the sedan chair were blown by the sound wave and fluttered "rustling."

Zhang Saint in the sedan chair even let out an "ouch."

"Ah ah~~~~" In the fierce tiger roar, there was also a miserable ghost howl.

Just hearing the ghost howl, one felt pain, endless pain.

General Guan Huchen was confused, "Just now, I seemed to feel the fluctuation of the Tiger Soul Divine Intent, is it an illusion or..."

Here, only he is not a ghost.

In the real world, there is no fierce tiger roaring at the sky, shaking the eight directions of evil.

Even more, one cannot see the transparent sound waves rippling across the water surface.

General Guan Huchen's only feeling was the Tiger Soul Divine Intent that made him familiar yet strange.

It was like a General Guan family expert practicing "Tiger Soul Seven Kills" performing the Seven Kills mystery nearby.

But the other party's Seven Kills mystery seemed to be slightly different from the one he had mastered after thirty years of effort.

"Master, help!!"

In the quiet room, one person and many ghosts, or shocked, or confused, the fat ghost messenger who had left earlier, holding a large trotter, floated in crying and howling.

"Chi Miao, why are you holding your own leg? Where is Luo Yan, what happened just now, can it be related to you?" Song Da Shen asked repeatedly.

It turned out that the big trotter the fat ghost messenger was holding in his arms was his own, not a pig trotter.

His right leg was neatly cut off diagonally from the root of the leg.

His left leg was also injured and a bit clumsy.

"Old Luo, woo woo woo, Master, Old Luo seems to have... died, killed by the 'General Guan Tiger'!" Chi Miao cried and howled.

General Guan Huchen's face changed greatly, and he said repeatedly, "My Lord, I have been in this room and haven't left, Song Ye can testify, I didn't kill any ghosts!"

"It's not you, this General Guan Tiger, it's your little mother tiger, your daughter General Guan Yu~~ my leg, poor Old Luo, woo woo, too unjust, too miserable!"

Chi Miao sat paralyzed on the ground, crying and howling while trying to connect the big trotter to the broken end.

(ps: Explain, so as not to confuse careful readers, the food here is indeed steaming hot, the vegetarian and meat dishes placed on the table earlier had been prepared for a long time, not that I wrote it wrong.

Humans and ghosts are different, humans and ghosts are in two dimensions.

It can be simply understood as the ghost's dimension temperature is lower, the space is darker, and the atmosphere is gloomy.

Just like human body temperature is constant, just because the ambient temperature is low in winter, opening the mouth to breathe out steaming hot air, while there is none in summer.) ===== CHAPTER 32 =====

It can be simply understood that the ghost's dimension has a lower temperature, the space is darker, and it is filled with a gloomy, chilling aura.

Just like how human body temperature is constant, it's only because the ambient temperature is low in winter that one opens their mouth to exhale steaming hot air, whereas in summer, there is none.)