Chapter 480: Humans, Ghosts, and Demons

"Qing'er, can you eat now?"

Lin Fan looked at Qing'er with some curiosity, wanting to know if her spirit body could consume food.

"Of course I can. Aside from not having a physical body, I am no different from an ordinary person. Moreover, my spirit has materialized; in fact, my sense of touch is the same as anyone else's."

"That's good, let's eat!"

Lin Fan nodded, signaling for the women to eat.

After the meal, Lin Fan arranged a room for Qing'er before returning to his own.

"Huh? Why are Caiyi and Xin Shisiniang here too?"

After walking into his room, Lin Fan discovered the two little demons were also there.

"Yueru said she couldn't satisfy Brother Lin Fan at all. Fortunately, there's Nie Nie Xiaoqian, and today she simply called in two more helpers."

Upon hearing this, Nie Nie Xiaoqian lowered her head, her pretty face flushed red.

"Zhao Linger, you were the first to faint, and I was the second. You can't put all the blame on me!"

The two women began to shift the blame onto each other, but the meaning was clear: they simply couldn't handle it alone and had to find others to share the burden.

"You two agreed to this?"

Lin Fan cast his gaze toward Xin Xin Shisiniang and Caiyi.

"Isn't serving the Young Master what a maid should do? Naturally, I would not refuse."

The two women exchanged a glance and then spoke in unison.

Since that was the case, Lin Fan had nothing more to say; it was obvious he was the one benefiting here.

Lin Fan lowered the bed curtains and began to cultivate the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon with the women.

It must be said that humans, ghosts, and demons provide three completely different sensations; naturally, all of them were wonderful.

When the winds calmed and the sudden rain ceased, Lin Fan, entering a state of sage-like clarity, began to write in his diary.

[A new day has arrived, and I have started writing in my diary again.

Today seems to have been filled with many events, but in reality, it was just fighting Uncle Baiyue, then fighting the Water Demon Beast, and finally fighting the combined form of Uncle Baiyue and the Water Demon Beast.

This morning, I took Zhao Linger, Yueru, and the others to continue toward the Nanzhao Kingdom. We traveled until noon, and just as we entered the city to find a restaurant for lunch, we ran into Shi Shi Gonghu and Tang Yu. I knew it was time to put an end to things, because since Shi Shi Gonghu appeared, Uncle Baiyue couldn't be far behind.

Sure enough, Uncle Baiyue soon appeared within my perception. I just don't understand why these villains always have to make such a grand entrance. The Uncle Baiyue of the Immortal Martial world acts just like the Starry Host Old Immortal of the Comprehensive Martial world; it's truly beneath him.

There's also that guy who claims to be the Immortal King who slaughters the nine heavens with his Red Spear and Immortal Shield, the one who says, "At the peak of the immortal world, I stand alone; where I, An Lan, am, there is heaven." They are all the type who die faster the cooler their entrance is!]

"What's wrong with people having a bit of flair when they show up? Are you just feeling insecure because they stole your spotlight, so you have to take them down?"

Seeing this, the women couldn't help but cover their mouths and giggle. Lin Fan was a bit petty, but he seemed like a very interesting person this way.

[Uncle Baiyue has the strength of an early-stage Earth Immortal. I didn't take advantage of him; I simply revealed my peak Earth Immortal strength to fight him. In the same realm, why should we cultivators fear a battle?]

"It always feels strange, but I can't put my finger on what's weird about it."

The women knitted their brows, murmuring to themselves.

[Uncle Baiyue and I exchanged blows for less than three rounds before I severed one of his arms. Then, I brought him to the lake where Qing'er had transformed into a stone statue to suppress the Water Demon Beast.

I was surprised to discover that Qing'er's spirit was actually unharmed. I don't know what kind of fortune she encountered, but this is even better; she can witness me killing Uncle Baiyue and the Water Demon Beast to avenge her.

I personally broke the seal Qing'er had created with her life and released the Water Demon Beast from the lake. This wicked creature looks like a giant mud loach. I originally intended to make soup out of it, but it was so ugly that I lost my appetite, so I angrily transformed into a dragon and beat the Water Demon Beast to a pulp.

I skinned it, pulled its tendons, hacked it into pieces, and tore its head apart. It experienced every possible way to die. Although it can regenerate in water, it feared me to its very bones; it started trembling the moment it saw me, yet I still mercilessly slaughtered it.

Just then, Uncle Baiyue chose to merge with the Water Demon Beast, hoping to use its power and its ability to regenerate in water to fight me to the death.

The fused Uncle Baiyue Beast had eight snake heads and one human body; its appearance was somewhat similar to the nine-headed snake Xiangliu. Moreover, its realm broke through the Earth Immortal stage, reaching the mid-stage of Profound Truth. It also learned a technique from somewhere to enlarge its body, becoming the size of a mountain, attempting to bully me with its size.

Could I tolerate this? I immediately used the Law of Heaven and Earth to expand my size a thousandfold, matching the Uncle Baiyue Beast. It wasn't that I couldn't get bigger, but that it wasn't worthy.

This was also the first time I used my full strength. My God King Body was fully activated, the God King Pure Land vision unfolded, and I used the "Dou" character mantra to simulate the Eight-Nine Profound Art. Never mind a mid-stage Profound Truth Uncle Baiyue Beast; even if someone in the Lingxu realm came, I could still wrestle with them and show them what it means to be the one worthy of white robes in this world.

A mere Uncle Baiyue Beast didn't even have the strength to make me warm up before I tortured it to death. Even with its ability to regenerate in water, it vanished into smoke under my "Overture of the Gods," completely obliterated from heaven and earth.

Then, in front of the arriving Witch King, I moved Qing'er's stone statue and took away his daughter, Zhao Linger. No matter how dissatisfied or resentful he was, he could only remain silent and compromise.

He was this cowardly ten years ago, and he is still this cowardly ten years later. If such a useless king without any backbone lived in the Three Kingdoms period, where heroes rose together, he would probably be the first vassal to be annexed, right?

The Nanzhao matter is settled. I plan to go to Shushan to reason with the Sword Saint, to let him know that having big fists is the hard truth, and by the way, I'll take a stroll through the Demon Locking Tower to bring Wan'er out.

Back then, the fox demon Nuyuan, in order to save her kind from the Demon Locking Tower, deliberately seduced the Shushan senior disciple Jiang Ming to sneak into Shushan, but they developed feelings over time. Later, she was exposed because she killed a disciple of the Demon Locking Tower.

The Shushan Sect Master Jiang Juezhi ordered Jiang Ming to kill Nuyuan himself, but Jiang Ming took Nuyuan and hid in the Demon Locking Tower. Later, he became obsessed due to love and slaughtered the fellow disciples who chased them into the tower.

Because of this incident, Shushan was almost cut off from its lineage; of the many fellow disciples, only the youngest one remained, which is the Sword Saint Yin Yin Ruozhuo.

And although Yin Yin Ruozhuo is alive, his heart is already dead.

He was deeply influenced by the Jiang Ming incident. Since Jiang Ming became a demon for love, Yin Yin Ruozhuo abandoned love to attain the Dao, walking a path completely opposite to Jiang Ming's.

Although I think Jiang Ming was wrong—killing countless fellow disciples for Nuyuan and driving the master who raised him mad—love is inherently blind. In the face of love, there is no right or wrong, only the heart's desire. For him, being able to give everything for love was his own choice.

And the suffering he endured in the years that followed was the consequence of his own choice. However, the child he had with Nuyuan is innocent, so I plan to bring her out.

Forget it, I'll deal with this when I get to Shushan. That's all for today!]

After finishing the diary, Lin Fan began to claim today's diary reward, and to his surprise, there was only one item.