Chapter 611: The Ghost Gate Turns Out to Be Something You Summoned!

"Old Daoist, you still want to trick me? This kind of trick that even a three-year-old wouldn't believe, you actually dare to use it right in front of me?"

Kong Yuan Si gave a cold snort, strode toward Xuanqing Daozhang, his face full of mockery, but seeing Xuanqing Daozhang as weak as a spent crossbow, his eyes revealed undisguised greed, and he said:

"Don't worry, I'll give you a quick death, considering it compensation for your body healing mine!"

Before Kong Yuan Si could take a few steps, he suddenly noticed an abnormal situation arising; under the shroud of his evil art, his perception was clearer than anyone's—not even a rustle in the grass would escape him, and even if a cultivator appeared here using invisibility or similar secret arts, he would notice.

This is also why he just now had the audacity to pretend to fall for Xuanqing Daozhang's scheme, wanting to see what trump cards Xuanqing Daozhang had.

He never expected any of this.

Xuanqing Daozhang suddenly erupted with three times his usual ability, rendering all of Kong Yuan Si's preparations useless under that secret art, nearly capsizing in a ditch; fortunately he was a corpse cultivator, not a proper cultivator, otherwise that blow from Xuanqing Daozhang, before he even reached Nascent Soul Stage, would almost certainly have sent him to report to the Yama King.

Unless one has practiced Ghost Cultivator arts, able to discard this foul flesh, let the soul escape, and directly transform into a ghost.

Kong Yuan Si unconsciously looked up, toward the abnormal spot that had suddenly appeared within his evil art; something unknown had changed in the sky, from it emanated a mysterious attraction that drew the heavenly and earthly spiritual qi from all directions, like endless long dragons, blocking the devouring of the black qi, and it condensed into form above.

"Did you do this?"

Kong Yuan Si frowned slightly, faintly realizing that the shape gradually forming in the sky was the illusory image of a gate; after staring a long time he still couldn't tell what kind of spell it was, and he instinctively turned his head to look at Xuanqing Daozhang.

"How could this be, how could this be, how could this be..."

Xuanqing Daozhang seemed not to have heard Kong Yuan Si's words, his voice trembling, his face and eyes full of shock.

"I'm asking you a question!"

Kong Yuan Si's face turned cold; seeing Xuanqing Daozhang still ignoring him, he said, "Since you don't want to answer me, then you'll never speak again!"

As he spoke, Kong Yuan Si rose again, preparing to walk toward Xuanqing Daozhang, to end his life and use his corpse to heal his own wounded body; before he could take a few steps, his peripheral vision caught the stone gate rapidly forming above, a stray thought flashed in his mind, and he said, "No!"

Kong Yuan Si unconsciously lifted his head, taking a deep look at Xuanqing Daozhang; whether observed with the naked eye or with the Dharma Eye, one could see Xuanqing Daozhang was a spent crossbow, yet he recalled his own earlier experience: even if he had been confident, knowing Xuanqing Daozhang would scheme against him, he pretended to fall for it, yet still ended up capsizing in a ditch.

He dared not bet that Xuanqing Daozhang's current spent-crossbow state wasn't an act!

Even though just now Xuanqing Daozhang had forcefully taken one of his proud techniques, the secret art that had just boosted his strength threefold was obviously spent, his spirit and qi dropping lower and lower, nearly to the bottom, not seeming like an act, but who knows if Xuanqing Daozhang still has other secret arts.

That could allow him to again increase his strength threefold or even more in a short time.

Although.

Such a possibility is slim, but he dare not gamble his life on it!

Kong Yuan Si couldn't help but glance up at the sky; that gradually forming stone gate might be one of Xuanqing Daozhang's killing moves, and he coldly said:

"Old Daoist, you're no disappointment as a Ziyang Palace disciple—your abilities exceed my imagination; I just don't know if you know the Rebirth Method!" Having said that, Kong Yuan Si had already made his calculations; the black shadows he had previously controlled, which had stopped attacking Xuanqing Daozhang, once again employed the Human Sea Tactic.

He wanted to see whether Xuanqing Daozhang was merely putting on an act, deliberately luring him in so he would capsize again in a ditch.

The surrounding clamor shook Xuanqing Daozhang from his stupor, drawing his gaze back from the fully formed stone gate in the sky; how could he fail to recognize that this stone gate was the Ghost Gate that had appeared at Le Wenmao's funeral? He had originally wondered why, despite having performed soul salvation many times over the years, he had never summoned a Ghost Gate.

How could a Ghost Gate have been summoned at Le Wenmao's funeral!

Only when Le Zizhen and his wife appeared did he think that the Ghost Gate that had suddenly shown up at Le Wenmao's funeral was likely Le Zizhen's doing, intended to fetch that old thing Le Wenmao for a reunion in the Underworld.

Now it seems……

Xuanqing Daozhang unconsciously looked up; in Le Zhuang's embrace, he watched as one black shadow after another surrounded them, all slain by his Flying Sword, with not a single black able to approach Wang Ping'an beside him; the boy's little face was full of innocent ignorance, a flash of inspiration passing through his mind.

He recalled having personally witnessed how this child used his arts.

All it took was for him to use it once, and the child would say it.

"How could I have forgotten this kid!"

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Having said this, Xuanqing Daozhang paused, his gaze toward Wang Ping'an full of delight; indeed it was possible, a fine disciple who could leave his name in history, surpassing his expectations, he thought to himself:

"'Perhaps this is the power of an Innate Dao Body; I don't know why this child, without using other arts, suddenly chants the Soul Salvation sutra and summons a Ghost Gate for what purpose?'"

"He didn't know whether Wang Ping'an had forgotten other arts, or whether he had only just summoned the Ghost Gate, and the child found it novel, thus summoning the Ghost Gate again?"

"'No!'"

"Xuanqing Daozhang's peripheral vision suddenly caught the black shadows, once again employing the Human Sea Tactic and lunging at him from all directions; a flash of insight passed through his mind, and he thought:"

"\"It must be this child, knowing these black shadows are resentful spirits unable to reincarnate, so he instinctively summons the Ghost Gate to perform soul salvation on them! \"

"As for why Wang Ping'an could know these black shadows are resentful spirits, given the child's myriad miraculous abilities, adding one more is hardly outrageous."

"\"How could this be? \""

"Kong Yuan Si's face was full of suspicion; worried that Xuanqing Daozhang might be feigning weakness to lure him in and make him capsize again in a ditch, he arranged the black-shadow legion to take Xuanqing Daozhang's life, while constantly observing him, simply wanting to see whether Xuanqing Daozhang's performance matched his conjecture."

"Who would have known."

"When the black shadows again attacked using the Human Sea Tactic, Xuanqing Daozhang did not display the ease he had before; he was altogether a spent crossbow, struggling to slay one black shadow after another while the shadows left horrifying wounds on his body, were it not for the pills being as plentiful as dirt."

"He even suspected that Xuanqing Daozhang might have already met his death at the hands of the black shadows!"

"(End of chapter)"