Chapter 78: Breaking the Black Pot

However, as this cold and dry voice arrived, Lin Feng did not see any figure inside the shop.

The interior of the shop was pitch black, and the outlines of some pots and stoves could be vaguely seen, but the person speaking could not be spotted.

"What should I do if I don't have Ghost Money?"

Lin Feng thought of the old Daoist's words and immediately realized that this shop was likely not opened by a human, but by a ghost.

"..."

As Lin Feng's words were spoken, the candle shop suddenly became deathly silent; after a while, that voice sounded again.

"If you have no Ghost Money, then pay with your life; this skin and flesh of yours can be exchanged for three white candles!"

As these words were spoken, the entire shop became increasingly eerie and sinister; the thick darkness inside the shop was like a dam about to burst, seemingly ready to surge out and engulf everything at any moment.

"Hehe, you want the life of Old Sun?"

Lin Feng was stunned upon hearing this, and then he recalled the function of the Ghost Market that the old Daoist had mentioned.

Sell life, buy ghosts.

Selling life clearly meant selling one's own life, but could buying ghosts mean purchasing these ghost items?

"Qi and blood like a furnace, top-quality skin and flesh, can be used to refine corpse oil..."

As this voice sounded again, the candle tears flowing from the red candles on the counter began to surge toward Lin Feng.

The green ghost fire on the white candles also instantly surged, rushing directly toward Lin Feng, clearly intending to burn him alive and refine him into oil.

As for the black candles, they remained motionless; clearly, the other party had no intention of using that kind of candle.

Watching the scalding candle tears spread to his feet, he was enveloped by a large amount of green ghost fire.

"You dare to make a move on Old Sun! Hehe!"

Seeing that the other party intended to burn him to death without a word, Lin Feng let out a strange laugh and suddenly opened his mouth to inhale; a large amount of green ghost fire was instantly sucked into his belly.

He also took a step forward and reached toward the counter; the Universe in Palm was opened directly, and several candles immediately fell into his hand.

"Seeking death!"

Seeing that Lin Feng dared to snatch them directly, that cold and dry voice became manic.

"Clang~ Bang~"

Various pots, bowls, and ladles in the candle shop made clashing sounds, and then the thick darkness inside the shop instantly surged toward Lin Feng like a burst flood.

In just a moment, Lin Feng was pulled into an unknown region; looking around, there was deep darkness everywhere, yet under his feet, it felt as if he had fallen into scorching, scalding lava.

The air was filled with a strong stench of rot and grease; it was as if he were placed in a hell of high temperature, rot, and grease.

"Boom!"

Cyan-red ghost fire was released by Lin Feng, instantly illuminating the surroundings; Lin Feng looked down to see that beneath his feet was actually constantly churning black, viscous grease.

Under the high-temperature burning of this grease, it appeared incredibly violent; even a small splash carried terrifying high temperatures and a horrific, eerie aura.

"Woo-woo~ Ah~"

At the same time, there were blurred human figures on the surface of the grease, constantly struggling; they stretched out their arms and opened their mouths wide, wailing and screaming.

If he had fallen into such a place and were not for the toughness of the Play Ghost and Lin Feng's own superior constitution, he might have completely become a part of this black grease in just a moment!

"Hmph! You dare to scheme against Old Sun!"

Being targeted like this by the other party, Lin Feng was truly angered; the terrifying cyan-red ghost fire on his body spread wildly in all directions with him at the center.

The fierce ghost fire collided with the black grease, and two terrifying, eerie powers began a fierce confrontation.

At the same time, Lin Feng waved his hand, and the Tanshi Gui behind him quietly appeared, then split into one ink-juice clone after another, constantly shouting "Eat! Eat! Eat!" in their mouths.

The black grease churning and surging all around began to be devoured by them in large quantities, immediately losing the upper hand in the confrontation with the ghost fire.

And because the ghost fire was burning this black grease, it was also undergoing crazy changes itself, becoming more intense and violent.

Even the color of the originally cyan-red mixed flames was gradually leaning toward golden-yellow; this was the trend of the two types of ghost fire controlled by Lin Feng merging.

"Boom!"

Lin Feng also took action holding the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and a pillar reaching the sky shot straight up.

But soon the Ruyi Golden Cudgel hit the top; accompanied by a loud bang, the Ruyi Golden Cudgel collided directly with the top.

"Big! Big! Big!"

Seeing this, Lin Feng immediately continued to inject more eerie power into the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and the Ruyi Golden Cudgel also expanded wildly.

"Boom! Bang! Bang!"

Terrifying collision sounds rang out constantly; it really had the posture of being about to poke a hole in the sky.

"Clang~ Clang~ Bang! Bang!"

As Lin Feng continuously used the Ruyi Golden Cudgel to attack, coupled with the increasingly violent ghost fire impact, a gap was gradually opened in the top.

Only then did Lin Feng clearly see where he was; it turned out to be a large black pot for refining corpse oil, and the sky above his head was merely a pot lid!

"You want to refine Old Sun into corpse oil?"

"Hehe, even if the Eight-Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun came, it would be useless!"

"Boom~"

The black grease in the entire large black pot was decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye; on one hand, the Tanshi Gui was splitting into more and more clones to devour it, and on the other hand, this grease was becoming the nourishment for Lin Feng's ghost fire to merge and grow stronger.

"There are actually two Fierce Ghosts!?"

"Wasting this old man's corpse oil! Get out, you!"

Suddenly, that cold and dry voice sounded again, and then Lin Feng only felt the surrounding environment change; when he appeared again, he had already arrived outside the candle shop.

And the candle shop that should have been in front of him had already disappeared; there was only a small wooden building without a lit lantern nearby.

Seeing this situation, Lin Feng frowned; clearly, the commotion he caused in that large black pot was too great, and he was finally thrown out by the other party.

"Hmph! Don't let Old Sun run into you again!"

Although he said that, this time Lin Feng had truly gained benefits.

The eerie fire on his body had now become even more terrifying, to the point that even he himself felt it was becoming scalding hot.

Releasing a cluster of eerie fire at will, the golden light instantly illuminated a large area around him, much like holding a torch in the darkness.

With the help of this firelight, he could see further, and the scenes on both sides of this street were also clearer.

The wooden buildings on both sides of the street now completely revealed their original appearance: dilapidated, ancient, and filled with a sense of decay.

"Whoosh~"

However, while this cluster of eerie fire illuminated the surroundings, it also revealed the true forms of the pedestrians on the street.

The passersby who had originally been in front of and behind Lin Feng stopped in their tracks under the illumination of the golden eerie fire, each of them turning around with stiff bodies to look at Lin Feng.

These so-called pedestrians were shockingly all ghosts, each with a different manner of death, their bodies permeated with deathly aura.

At this moment, influenced by the golden eerie fire, these ghosts seemed to have been provoked and immediately launched their killing rules toward Lin Feng's position.

"Hee hee, die! Die! Die!"

But just at this moment, one Green-Skinned Tanshi Gui after another emerged from the surroundings, and then simultaneously spat out this word in voices mixed with various tones.

A terrifying curse spread outward with these Gluttonous Ghosts as the center; any ghost that heard the word "die" instantly stiffened in place, clearly showing that in the previous eerie collision, the Gluttonous Ghosts were significantly stronger.

Lin Feng was not polite to these ghosts either; sheets of red paper money flew out from his body to wrap around them.

Subsequently, blood-colored threads and shadows spread out simultaneously, quickly binding them and pulling them into the shadow world to be imprisoned.

After finishing all this, Lin Feng finally felt satisfied.

He had just roughly counted about ten ghosts; although most were Great Ghosts, it was still more of a harvest than he had had in the previous two days.

At the same time, Lin Feng also noticed that the black ink on the Gluttonous Ghosts had become more viscous, even giving one a greasy feeling; clearly, the Gluttonous Ghosts had also gained quite a bit from being inside that large black cauldron earlier.

By this calculation, he really should thank that candle shop for its generosity; if the other party hadn't locked them inside the large black cauldron, how could the eerie fire and the Gluttonous Ghosts have become stronger?

Right, he had snatched a few candles from the other party; Lin Feng took them out to look and found there were exactly three, no more and no less.

Among them were two red candles and one white candle; as for why the black candle wasn't taken by him, he did not know.