Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?! Chapter 709 - 693: You Don’t Want Your Soul to Be Annihilate

Images flashed by rapidly, ti flowing backward quickly.

Soon, in Jiang Yuan’s vision, there appeared a rugged, towering high mountain where two people near the top were clearing a path, trying to reach the summit.

The "cara" zood in on the young people dressed in the sa club uniform, panting and chatting, ntioning recent events. The slightly short and chubby one was beaming with happiness, talking non-stop.

He talked about how smooth work was, about to be promoted to office manager and get a raise;

How happy his relationship was, with a rich and beautiful girlfriend who agreed to marry him, and his parents buying a luxury flat that’s being renovated...

He was so engrossed in the conversation, completely imrsed in visions of a bright and beautiful future, he didn’t notice his companion’s face growing darker and darker.

"Lin Mingze, you’re lucky. Your dad has power, your mom has money with a company, everything from school to work was arranged for you. Your parents paid in full for a house worth a few million in a first-tier city, and your girlfriend is beautiful and outstanding, you’re a winner in life."

The companion looked at him expressionlessly and asked, "As long as you’re happy, why do you have to brag? We’ve known each other for six years since we joined the college rock climbing club, and every eting, we have to hear your brags.

My family is poor. The money I make now has to repay my parents’ debts, living in a shared rent without even having a girlfriend. After years of hard work, I got laid off by the company, couldn’t find a job, ca out to relax, and yet still have to listen to you brag. Is it fun?"

Lin Mingze’s smile instantly froze, "Ah? I-I was just chatting, no intention to boast."

"Of course not! You take for granted everything arranged by your parents as easily acquired and routine, without needing to brag about it, how could you know how hard the lives of us poor people are?" The companion’s thin face twisted in anger. As he spoke angrily, he reached out and pushed hard, gritting his teeth, "Go to hell!"

A scream of terror pierced the mountainside, startling only flying birds in circles.

The scream abruptly stopped, and just monts ago intoxicated in happiness, Lin Mingze watched his shattered body, refusing to step into that door of light, he wanted revenge!

Jiang Yuan "watched" with a frown, harboring ill-will and killing soone during a wild mountain climb, without witnesses or any video recordings, it would be difficult to convict.

Indeed, the incident was determined as an accidental fall, combined with the steep cliffs without a traceable path, Lin Mingze’s family spent a fortune hiring people to search the mountain, but ultimately couldn’t recover all of the shattered remains.

A sudden tragic death of soone who was successful in both career and love, naturally left a big grievance in his heart.

In the subsequent flashed images, Lin Mingze groped around to "live" in a form unseen by ordinary people, later learned to devour its kind, followed by seizing the opportunity to absorb human Yang Energy.

The Yin Fiend Qi around him grew denser, his appearance beca increasingly indistinct.

Ultimately, Lin Mingze possessed the body of the one who killed him, torturing him to death.

Vengeance complete, but the Evil Energy lingered, he began to seek suitable individuals to offer incense and sustenance for himself...

"The Master Liang you ntioned, is she a woman around twenty-seven or eight years old, with long hair, a mole on the tip of her nose, a rose tattoo on her left arm?" After using the Soul Searching Technique, Jiang Yuan inquired.

Although it felt like a long ti had passed with flashing images, upon opening his eyes he realized at most only half a minute had passed, with Yang Yaozong still lecturing on the precise steps of dancing on a grave.

"That’s right, just as you described..." Yang Shushuan nodded in agreent, then realized with concern, worriedly thinking: Oh no! They know each other! What to do? This young guy won’t resort to murder and cover-up with a thunderbolt on us, right?

Huang San blinked several tis and asked, "So what? You know her?"

Jiang Yuan pointed at the Evil Ghost and explained, "That’s right, according to its own confession, its accomplice is a supporter nad Liang Yuhong. It’s not humans raising ghosts for profit, but ghosts actively seeking people to offer sustenance, orchestrating victim selection, Liang Yuhong making money; the Evil Ghost possesses and drains Yang Energy from people."

After speaking, he kicked the Evil Ghost, "Lin Mingze, you don’t want your soul to dissipate, do you?"

Faced with a thunder strike upfront and Soul Searching behind, even with Lin Mingze amassing abundant Yin Fiend Power, he couldn’t endure such ordeals. In a daze, he heard soone calling his na, bewildernt ensued.

Ever since he was pushed off the cliff eight years ago, dying such a tragic death, relentlessly growing stronger by devouring and becoming a fierce ghost, he’d hidden his appearance, no one could possibly know his true identity!

So, was it a dream? Dreaming of being alive again?

Or perhaps since it’s the approaching Qingming Festival, his mother invited a mage to perform rituals hoping for his reincarnation?

"Lin Mingze? Oh, can’t take it now?" In the real world with no system to assist, Jiang Yuan wasn’t sure about its exact condition, assud it truly couldn’t continue, sighed, "Brother Li, how do we handle one that’s about to die?"

Li Tiezhu, puzzled by when the other party "interrogated" the Evil Ghost and even learned the real na, was taken aback, hurriedly replied, "There are many thods, for instance, using a cinnabar rope tied beneath a peach tree and let the rising sun scatter the soul;

Or using a Peach Wood Sword to pierce the heart, nailing the limbs, driving Peach Wood Nails into the ridians one by one, usually just a few nails would disperse the soul; or if we know the identity and origins, dig up the remains and perform earth cremation on the spot..."

The more he listened the more alard he beca, Lin Mingze realized it was no dream, imdiately struggled but was stung by the cinnabar rope, jolting him awake.

"Hey? Alive again!" Chuci backed away, afraid it might stick out its nauseatingly long tongue and lash out again.

Upon hearing the Evil Ghost ca back to life, Yang Yaozong shrank straight into the corner of the bed, "Quick, get it out! Parents, get them to drive the ghost away!"

No one paid any attention to him, Li Tiezhu reminded, "Brother Yang, do you have contact with any other families? Ask if their children are better now; if they are, it ans there’s only this one Evil Ghost; if not, we’ve got to make another trip."

Racing back to the living room, grabbing the phone, Yang Shushuan imdiately initiated a group chat inquiry; aside from those three families who had spent money long ago and were alright, indeed, the children of the remaining families suddenly got better too.

He imdiately felt he got a raw deal and coughed twice, shouting, "Let tell you, your kid is okay because I hired a master to capture the evil ghost. It cost a full hundred thousand yuan! Any family that’s benefited, you should all share the cost!"

The group chat fell silent for a few seconds. Surely, the other families were unwilling; it’s already a huge relief not having to spend two hundred thousand when their children suddenly got better, so why would they want to split the costs?

"Says who? You claim you spent a hundred thousand hiring a master to catch ghosts, where’s the evidence?"

"Exactly! My child recovered because of burning incense and praying to ancestors, what does it have to do with you?"

"My son is just blessed and turned disaster into fortune. If it weren’t for your kid’s troublemaking, nothing would have happened! It’s your kid who led mine astray, and now you want us to compensate..."

...

The unreasonable parents quickly got into a heated argunt.

The evil ghost, Lin Mingze, sneered and said, "With people like these, I don’t understand why you bother interfering. Teach them a lesson, isn’t that better?

I haven’t caused any deaths. Besides, even if one or two trash died, it’s good for society. Otherwise, they’d continue harming the innocent."

"So, you think you’re doing sothing good?" Jiang Yuan was getting a headache from their quarrel.

Since the evil ghost was willing to speak, there was no need to listen to Yang Yaozong’s ramblings. He dragged the evil ghost into the courtyard and said, "Tell , what’s going on with you? Where is Liang Yuhong?"

It still wanted to stall for ti, thinking of ways to escape.

But Li Tiezhu, following Huang San’s instructions, was eager to try out the peach wood nails. With just a bit of intimidation, Lin Mingze confessed everything.

"My mother was cheated out of a lot of money by so fakes, but occasionally so were right, which slightly increased my power because she worshiped my morial tablet.

Later, I t a very powerful water ghost. It mocked for dying while flaunting my wealth but still showed the way.

It had many worshippers, and those people bought traffic online and posted short videos at popular check-in spots to lure unsuspecting people to swim or camp in scenic but dangerous riverways.

When water is released upstream or after a heavy sumr rain, at least two or three could drown. The more people it indirectly killed, the more it could devour, and the stronger it beca, able to control more worshippers.

The water ghost said it also taught a mine ghost to target people online to explore abandoned mines at these popular check-in points, and those who died trapped inside were devoured to enhance its power.

After I beca a ghost, I only killed the guy who killed and at most absorbed so Yang energy without harming lives.

So, I sought out Liang Yuhong as a worshipper. She was responsible for finding fools online and luring them to the mass graves with the heaviest Yin energy, where I could ambush and possess them...

It defended itself with a stiff neck, "I really didn’t kill anyone, and I specifically targeted punks and scoundrels. During my ambush in the deserted cetery, I possessed a thug who was robbing and assaulting, saving a little girl in the process. Doesn’t that count as accumulating virtue and doing good?"

Jiang Yuan: ...

Putting aside other things, from the soul-searching technique and its confession, it didn’t lie.

First, no lives were taken; second, it only picked on wayward youngsters, and absorbing Yang energy left them in a slump for a few months, after which they recovered.

So, is it a good ghost or a bad one?

"Hearing just one side of the story is pointless. We need to hear what Liang Yuhong has to say." Huang San perched on Li Tiezhu’s shoulder, nonchalantly adding, "Right and wrong isn’t sothing for us ghost hunters to judge. We take money to resolve disasters for others, acting as diators to settle this matter completely.

So, let’s not waste any ti. Since you’ve admitted you’re the one haunting everyone, and there are no other ghosts to catch, let’s go find Liang Yuhong and then discuss how to resolve this."

It kept wondering what ans Jiang Yuan used to ta the evil ghost.

One must know, the deeper their cultivation, the more ferocious the evil ghosts beco. This guy was almost turning into a Ghost King, definitely not easy to deal with!

Could it be that the heavenly thunder subdued it?

Or perhaps during a mont it wasn’t aware of, the little friend used so technique, forcing the evil ghost to reveal its true na.

Ghosts are ethereal and formless, the best at imitating and deceiving.

So lonely spirits specialize in finding those longing for deceased relatives, pretending to be the deceased in dreams or possessions to cheat them out of incense offerings.

Once soone learns their real na, they figuratively hold their lifeline and the power to make the ghost’s soul vanish at any ti.

It looked enviously at the little friend, who didn’t seem to realize his own abilities, thinking that with such skills, this kid’s future was boundless!

"Eh? Isn’t it a coincidence?" Half an hour later, Yang Hongye smiled, looking at the hotel where the car stopped. "I booked this very hotel for everyone. Once we sort this out, we can rest right away. Everything on this trip just went perfectly smoothly."

After speaking, she specially thanked Li Tiezhu, "Thanks to Brother Li’s help, I’ll give you a big red envelope later!"