Chapter 104 Lingshan

Chapter 104 Lingshan

Chapter 104 Lingshan (Two in One)

After a while, he heard a voice almost close to his ear.

"Oh... you, the evil disciple who betrayed your master and ancestors, actually became the leader of Ranshan Sect. I really hate you, hate you... But what can you do if you become the leader? Can you defeat my master? Aren't you asking me for help? Come on, beg me, beg me, listen to me!"

It really was Zhao Qi.

"Why are you here?"

"Why am I here?!" Zhao Qi's voice changed, becoming hoarse, like a person whose throat was damaged by smoke. Li Wuxiang didn't know if this was because after becoming a ghost, the body's condition would remain the same as before death - before he died, he screamed miserably.

"It's all thanks to you! I'm a cultivator, so when I die, I'll naturally be here! I've become your master's soldier! Now you're going to die too! If you're even more miserable than me, you won't even have a soul left! Great! I'm relieved! So satisfying!"

He wrapped his arms around Li Wuxiang's back even tighter, as if he wanted to strangle him to death. But Li Wuxiang stood quietly and thought for a moment: "A few days ago, a man named Sun Dihuang forced his way out of a window on the wall and peeled off the skin on his face..."

"Yes! It was me who did it! Haha, what am I now? A ghost soldier! A skinning ghost! Naturally I'm looking for someone with a lot of resentment! He hates you so much, so naturally I'll possess his body! Just to go to the world of the living and take a look, at least for a moment!"

"When Cheng Peixin invited the door gods that night, did you come out?"

"Yes, do you know how to be scared now? How much do you know? Didn't I teach you what you know? But I didn't teach you that sometimes the dead are scarier than the living! As long as there is an opportunity, I will come out and pester you! There will be many people who hate you in the future! I will always find a suitable one and possess him..."

Zhao Qi cursed bitterly, chattering incessantly and gritting his teeth, as if he had been holding back many of the words for a very long time and was finally able to vent them out.

Li Wuxiang listened for a while and then said, "Master, I didn't expect you to be so miserable."

The sound stopped abruptly, and Li Wuxiang felt that the thing on his back suddenly became still and stiff.

After a long time, I heard another voice: "What did you say? I'm telling you, don't try that! Do you think I don't know how much you hate us? Haha, you like to lie, how do you feel about being lied to?! What do you think of your master's plan? I'm telling you! It's useless for you to say anything now! Do you think I'm miserable now? You will be even more miserable in the future!"

Li Wuxiang sighed and shook his head: "I'm not saying you're miserable now, I'm saying you've always been miserable."

"You know, I used to think you were a bad person, but after I went to Deyang these days and saw many things in Deyang, I finally understood... I can't seem to blame you. You are not a bad person, you are just a victim."

He paused for a moment, and Zhao Qi didn't say anything else.

Li Wuxiang sighed again: "The one who hurt you is Zhao Kui. I know that you have always been a soft-hearted person... If you were born in the Chen family of Jinshui, you might be a kinder person than the people around you. But you met Zhao Kui when you were a child. He didn't teach you what is right and what is wrong, so you didn't know what you should and shouldn't do. You only knew what would make him like and what would make him dislike. Zhao Kui is like your father. He has the power of life and death over you. He is the source of your fear."

"You're talking nonsense." Zhao Qi said, "My master is very good to me! Don't try to sow discord between us!"

Li Wuxiang sighed again, "Well, it should be the same as for kittens and puppies. They have to be fed, so they regard this feeding as a great favor. If you don't keep one, you will keep another. When you are in a bad mood, you will beat and scold them. When you are really fed up, you will even throw them away or kill them. Master, you will die for your children, but will you die for your cats and dogs?"

After a while, Zhao Qi shouted, "It's against human ethics! It's treasonous! It's natural for a master to punish his disciples. It's natural. It's been like this since ancient times... It's the same for everyone! It's the same for everyone, all——"

"You are different." Li Wuxiang said softly, "After you summoned Zhao Kui, he wanted to kill me with a flying sword, but you stood in front of me. You would block a sword for me, but Zhao Kui would not block that sword for you. You are different from other masters."

After a while, Zhao Qi sneered: "You are lying again, you love lying the most! I know you hate us with all your heart, hehe, I also——"

"I hate Zhao Kui, but I don't hate you." Li Wuxiang sighed, "Zhao Kui killed so many innocent children in order to refine Taiyi. His crime is unforgivable. And you...you took someone's life just to find Zhao Kui, and you even found a reason to comfort yourself, saying it was for the good of everyone. After I came to Deyang, I realized that these things have been seen as normal by many people. Maybe you felt that you just went a little too far at the time."

"So, I just said that you are also a victim of this world. Being a victim and harming others makes people feel pity and pathetic. But there is nothing to hate... During the days when you and I were master and apprentice, you wanted to use me as the main priest, right? But then you softened your heart. You have never harmed me, and I have never harmed you. It is Zhao Kui who does not care about you. He is not a good master. And I understand that your resentment is actually directed at him. But you dare not do it to him, so you hate him so much."

Zhao Qi was silent and motionless on his back.

"So...is your current situation very bad?" Li Wuxiang asked, "When he was alive, Zhao Kui treated you like that. He was not you, and he would definitely be on guard against you for having any grudges against you...What do you usually do as his ghost soldier?"

Zhao Qi hissed, "Do you think I don't know what you want to do? You want to drag me to deal with him!"

"So, is your current situation very bad?"

After a while, he said, "Humph, is there anything good to say about Lingshan?"

Li Wuxiang was silent for a while. "It should be Zhao Kui who asked Cheng Peixin to trap me in here, intending to refine me to death. But Master, you have been talking to me these past few days. Do you really just want to see how miserable my death will be?"

"Let's get rid of Zhao Kui together." Li Wuxiang said softly, "You blocked a sword for me that day. Now, I will give you Zhao Kui's ancient cave."

"Give it to me? Haha, you want to give it to me? Dream on!"

Li Wuxiang suddenly felt his body lighten, the feeling of being entangled disappeared, and there were no more whispers in his ears.

But he no longer had the intention of calling out to the external evil, but felt the slowly rising temperature in the mirror and waited patiently.

He used to think that Zhao Qi was like a child who had not grown up, and now that he has become a ghost, it seems to be the same.

…There was a pool of blood on the ground, which was made up of all kinds of twisted limbs and broken bones and flesh. A black and red shrunken human figure covered with mud and sand crawled out of the pool of blood, and immediately heard the never-ending wailing that filled the entire world.

Screams, roars, cries, and laughter, these sounds came out from the endless sea of ​​corpses and blood, gathered under the sky tightly pressed down by red clouds, and rolled and echoed like thunder.

Zhao Qi sat next to a puddle of blood, and all kinds of twisted limbs immediately stretched out from the ground beneath him to cling to him - some were only skinned, but the flesh and blood were still there, some had completely rotted away, with maggots crawling in them, and some were left with only bones, pale and fragile, and it was unknown how long they had been decaying.

These arms scrambled to scratch his legs, tearing off the flesh and blood piece by piece, and then retracting into the ground. In just a few breaths, Zhao Qi's legs began to reveal their white bones.

But he ignored these things and just stretched out his hand to grab an arm that looked fleshy and bloody on the ground and pulled it hard - the thing under the arm was pulled up by him, and attached to it was also a bloody corpse, but it was limp and powerless, and the body below the arm was an almost transparent blood color, as if it was about to disappear.

Zhao Qi opened his mouth, and the skin and muscles on his cheeks immediately cracked, revealing his black teeth. He tore at the arm and swallowed it, and a weak scream came from his almost transparent body. When he swallowed the whole arm into his stomach, the pale body gradually turned into a pool of blood and seeped into the flesh and blood ground, and the torn off parts of his legs grew back.

He gritted his teeth and chewed the flesh in his mouth, but he could not feel any temperature or taste.

"Is the current situation bad?" He couldn't help laughing. What is good? This world of corpses and blood is filled with lonely ghosts like him.

When he was still alive, he felt that the world was not good - the sect was too decadent, the spiritual energy was too thin, and the aptitude was too poor. He had to work very hard to make a little progress, but he still could not catch the master's eye. At that time, he felt that his situation was not good.

And what about here? There is not even a possible "good". Those things on the ground are the same as themselves. After they die, they cannot go to the netherworld, or they are unwilling to go to the netherworld and come to Lingshan. But here, if you want to become "good", you can only rely on the power of incense and vows. Without the power of vows, you will become weaker and weaker until you can't stand up and fall down, just like the things under you, gradually turning into blood, water and evil spirits.

The things below tore his flesh and blood, and he devoured them, accustomed to it and not caring. Because this flesh and blood was of no use, it only allowed him to barely look like a human. Without the nourishment of willpower, it made no difference whether it was wrapped in flesh and blood or just a skeleton.

He was just... was...

That sentence popped up in his head again, "cats and dogs", a dog - the master occupied the ancient cave, and some of his former fellow disciples still remembered him. Although he could not receive offerings from them because of his identity as the Kitchen God, he still gained something because of the ancient cave, which could prevent him from gradually declining like himself.

As for himself...if Cheng Peixin hadn't opened up Lingshan a few days ago and he hadn't seized the opportunity to catch Sun Dihuang, he would have almost turned into blood and evil spirit by now!
Hate, hate... He gritted his teeth and turned to look at the place not far away -

Everything was wrapped in a thick bloody darkness. Only when the clouds at the top of the sky thinned a little could one glimpse the outline not far away. It was also a mountain of corpses, pus and blood flowing, and the stench was overwhelming, but the flesh and blood of the mountain was at least solidified, so that the people living in the caves on the mountain did not have to eat each other like him and the many resentful ghosts in this sacred mountain to fill the emptiness in their stomachs that could never be satisfied.

Master... Master... is he good to me? He killed me, but brought me here to be a ghost soldier.

But why didn’t he ask me to move in too?
Is it because there are still some incense and remains in that ancient cave?

What if I were the master? Am I a good master?

Zhao Qi thought of the pill he gave to Li Wuxiang. That's right, I'm a good master! I can't bear to eat it myself! I want to refine him, but I can't bear to do it! I don't beat him or scold him, so I'm naturally a good master! I haven't harmed him!
From the very beginning... I wanted to be a good master!

In his confused mind, something popped up - a young man was sitting at the door waiting, standing in front of him respectfully, and laying a clean towel for him... How great, Zhao Qi thought, this is the master and the disciple, how great! Yes, he has never harmed me!

“Master!” He turned and howled in the direction of the ancient cave, “Master! I’m hungry! I’m hungry! Master! Please let me go to the netherworld! I’m hungry!”

No one paid any attention to him, so he used his hands and feet to crawl towards the ancient cave, wailing: "Master! Give me something to eat! Master!"

When he was about to climb to the cave entrance, a piece of human skin suddenly flew out of the dark cave and pulled him back with a snap: "Beast! Guard well! I will bite you when the matter is accomplished! You stupid thing, don't you want revenge? You have created the karma yourself, so you have to suffer the consequences!"

Zhao Qi rolled back to the pool of blood and immediately shut his mouth.

That sentence took root in his head - "I will give you Zhao Kui's ancient cave"!
Give it to you, give it to you, give it to you!

Zhao Qi reached his hand into the pool of blood, and slowly pulled it to both sides as if he wanted to tear apart the invisible blood.

Countless bubbles gurgled out of the blood, and the flesh on his body began to peel off, revealing a pale skeleton. He immediately put his mouth close to it and ate the fallen flesh back into his mouth.

The bubbles popped up more violently, and tiny crackling sounds rose up from the pool of blood.

Zhao Kui's voice in the ancient cave shouted again: "Is he still in there?"

Zhao Qi grinned: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Keep an eye on him!" Zhao Kui's voice lowered again. "The suffering you are going through now is because your master wants to teach you a lesson. When you refine him, there will naturally be people who worship him every day. When your master becomes a true god, he will call you into the ancient cave!"

"Okay! Master! Hahahaha!" Zhao Qi laughed, "Let's go into the ancient cave!"

He spread his hands apart, and all the flesh on his body turned into pus and blood. A pale skeleton fell to the ground with a crash.

A human figure suddenly emerged from the pool of blood.

(End of this chapter)