Chapter 65

Within the Ghost Domain, the Tou Gui and the Puppet Ghost were already entangled with the two blurred human figures, respectively.

The Tou Gui was responsible for intercepting the figure that could not be touched and would cause things to age and decay upon approach.

By manipulating the shadow Ghost Domain and its polluted blood, the Tou Gui continuously surrounded this figure, attempting to cast it further away so as not to affect the battle between Lin Feng and the Incense Temple Ancestor at the center.

This effect was better than having hundreds of clones attack the opponent directly, as it could drag the opponent down and cause a certain degree of impact.

However, conversely, the figure's power to make things age and decay was also affecting the Tou Gui; Lin Feng could only control the Tou Gui's main body to dodge as much as possible, yet the Ghost Domain was still being affected.

During this brief supernatural confrontation, the two sides gradually formed a very fragile balance, barely maintainable for a period of time.

But Lin Feng knew clearly that as time dragged on, the first to collapse would definitely be the Tou Gui; this figure's power was extremely formidable, only for some unknown reason, its range of effect was not that large.

At the same time, the supernatural confrontation between the Puppet Ghost and the other figure seemed much more boring.

The ability displayed by this figure was to reflect the damage received, while the Puppet Ghost's ability was to exert forced control.

At first glance, the abilities of the two ghosts seemed completely unrelated, but when the actual supernatural confrontation took place, both sides simultaneously fell into a stage of power struggle.

Looking from the outside, it was as if the two ghosts had stopped moving after colliding, and there would be no result until one side completely suppressed the other.

In other words, Lin Feng's only breakthrough point now was the Tanshi Gui, which was also the main reason he had painfully allowed it to eat Wang Xuanji's corpse.

If the Tanshi Gui still could not become a new Fierce Ghost, then Lin Feng would have to think of a way to run.

Because the more he fought, the clearer he became about how difficult these things that were neither human nor ghost were to deal with.

"Bang!"

In his three-headed and six-armed state, the Ruyi Golden Cudgel in Lin Feng's hand expanded wildly, then smashed toward the Incense Temple Ancestor in front like a heavenly pillar.

However, the next moment, the black-faced, white-eyed Incense Temple Ancestor, who looked like a giant statue, opened his mouth full of fangs and spat a thick smoke directly at the Ruyi Golden Cudgel smashing down on him.

Subsequently, the Ruyi Golden Cudgel smashed into the ground to the side as if it had lost Lin Feng's control.

Then, this Incense Temple Ancestor had already appeared behind Lin Feng, a grayish-white palm falling fiercely toward Lin Feng.

"Break!"

However, possessing three heads and six arms, Lin Feng could naturally notice the situation from all aspects at any time; the Ruyi Golden Cudgel in his hand shrank instantly and thrust fiercely toward the hand that was about to fall.

Afterwards, the Xi Gui's power clashed head-on with the opponent's again; death energy and ghost fire intersected in mid-air, and after a burst-like sound, the two pulled apart again.

Whether it was probing or a formal engagement, Lin Feng still had no method to defeat the opponent.

Because the feeling the opponent gave him was neither a living person nor a ghost; it clearly possessed human consciousness but had a ghost's body.

And ghosts themselves were existences difficult to eradicate; in a certain sense, they were immortal.

Unless one could first rely on more powerful supernatural force to suppress the opponent's ghost, and then use the method of sacrifice to forcibly fuse it into one's own ghost.

However, Lin Feng's difficulty now lay in this first step; the Xi Gui's strength was on par with the opponent's, and it held no advantage in the supernatural confrontation.

"Eat! Eat! Eat!"

But just at this moment, a series of voices mixed with different men, women, old, and young suddenly rang in Lin Feng's ears.

"It's done!"

The moment he heard this voice, Lin Feng understood that the Tanshi Gui had finally digested the ghost within Wang Xuanji's body during this time!

In the shadow world, Wang Xuanji's corpse had already disappeared, and so had the hundreds of paper coins Lin Feng had stuck onto the corpse.

However, the Tanshi Gui was still in its original green-skinned child form, only with large patches of black ink on its body; looking at them, these ink patches would actually squirm like living creatures.

But this also indicated that it had already digested the Ink Hand and the Face Ghost, and coupled with the large amount of dried corpses and hundreds of paper coins it had eaten, it had now successfully ascended to the level of a Fierce Ghost.

Just as Lin Feng was distracted observing the Tanshi Gui's situation, the Incense Temple Ancestor struck again fiercely.

His mourning clothes suddenly emitted a large patch of turbid, dim yellow light, and then Lin Feng only felt a blur before his eyes, as if he had seen an ancient scene with his own eyes.

That was also a year of harsh conditions and difficult survival.

The earth was scorched for a thousand miles, and everywhere were dead bones and skin-and-bone refugees.

At this time, these refugees were moving forward numbly with dull eyes, each one looking as if they had lost their souls.

And in front of them was a prosperous market town filled with incense smoke, where people had endless grain to eat and endless wine to drink; life could be described as peaceful and comfortable.

To live here, one only needed to offer a stick of incense to the statue in the town every day.

The refugees who kept coming from afar were all attracted by the peaceful scene of this town, and each of them respectfully offered incense to that statue.

Everyone who had offered incense would receive plenty of food and drink, and some even built houses and settled down.

They married and had children here, continuously multiplying and living.

But the next moment, a giant pillar crashed down, smashing fiercely toward the statue in the town.

"Respect the Incense Master for protection!"

"This is a demon!"

"Slay the demon!!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

"..."

Accompanied by Lin Feng directly taking action to destroy the statue in front of him, countless townspeople living in the town turned toward Lin Feng in unison.

These townspeople had red eyes and mutated bodies, directly transforming from the kind-hearted ordinary people they were before into evil ghosts with nothing left but skin and bones.

These evil ghosts were just like the dried corpses Lin Feng had seen before, only compared to those dried corpses that had physical forms, these evil ghosts were formless and substanceless.

Only streams of shrill, resentful, and hateful curses and scolding drilled into Lin Feng's mind.

They hated Lin Feng for destroying their beautiful life, and they believed that the culprit behind all the suffering they endured and their current state was caused by Lin Feng.

Thus, they concentrated all their negative emotions of resentment, pain, despair, and hatred onto Lin Feng.

"Hehe, truly a good method!"

Listening to the various resentful curses, Lin Feng's thinking also began to stiffen; at this moment, he even truly had the illusion that it was as if he had done everything.

But he knew that this was simply a trick and the opponent's ability; after closing his eyes and letting out a strange laugh, when Lin Feng opened his eyes again, a ray of golden light was emitted from them.

The Xi Gui's ability was originally to play and imitate others; although the Great Sage Equaling Heaven's Fiery Eyes could not be imitated perfectly with the current Xi Gui, imitating a hint of that charm was still doable.

Sure enough, as he opened his eyes again, the illusions before him disappeared completely, leaving only a burial robe glowing with yellow light and a palm strike from the opponent!

"Bite him!"

However, the moment Lin Feng raised his cudgel to meet the attack, the Tanshi Gui had already quietly appeared behind the Incense Temple Ancestor.

Having become a Fierce Ghost, its movements were even more terrifying; even the Five Ancestors, who were also of Fierce Ghost strength, did not notice when this ghost had crawled up.

Following Lin Feng's order, the Tanshi Gui immediately opened its mouth full of fangs!

"Eat! Eat! Eat!"

Subsequently, mixed voices were emitted from its mouth, and for every word spoken, a piece of the Incense Temple Ancestor's massive body would disappear!