In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 54 The Mass Grave, the Strange Man in the Kasaya
Behind Qingchan Temple is a mass grave left from a previous great battle. It is said that the sounds of soldiers fighting could often be heard here in the middle of the night. Later, the founding emperor of this dynasty built Qingchan Temple, and the monks with profound Buddhist knowledge chanted sutras every day in an attempt to save the souls of the dead.

To this day, the mass grave remains a burial ground.

It is a truly ominous place.

Before the drought, Qingchan Temple was a popular place of worship, and no one paid any attention to the mass graves there.

"what!"

Screams rose and fell, and it was clear that there were more than one person's voice, along with some eerie hoarse sounds. The closer they got to the mass grave, the stronger the ghostly aura became, making the place seem like a cold, hellish place on earth.

When Huowa and Shuiwa arrived at the mass grave, the scene inside was horrifying.

"Please, don't eat me! I have elderly parents and young children to support, and a wife who has contracted the plague. I am the pillar of my family. Please let me go back!"

A ragged, bloodied man knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. His face was filled with fear and despair as he pleaded with a group of inhuman creatures.

Those inhuman creatures were dressed in red, and a chilling, ghostly aura emanated from them.

Red-clad ghost!
Fire Boy and Water Boy immediately realized that this was not something they could deal with.

There are dozens of red-clad ghosts here.

They devoured the flesh of mortals with ferocity, tearing off pieces and gnawing at them. The sound of their sharp teeth tearing was incessant, a veritable hell on earth.

"You two, why don't you reveal your true forms?"

Suddenly, an old and eerie voice appeared, and another person appeared in front of them.

He was draped in a red and yellow robe, covering himself completely, and wore a strange mask on his face, with a smiling face on one side and a crying face on the other, alternating between red and white.

His arms were covered by a kasaya, not a single inch of skin was exposed, like a rampant ghost under the moonlight.

Suddenly, he pushed at me with his palm.

"call--"

The immense ghostly power grazed the two children's bodies; if they hadn't dodged quickly and in time, they might have been injured.

Fire Boy and Water Boy revealed their figures.

They've already been exposed, so there's no point in hiding any longer. This monk is too strange; he can actually see through the invisibility technique of a Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator.

"Two little kids?" The strange man in the kasaya seemed surprised to see Fire Boy and Water Boy.

He chuckled and asked, "What brings you here?"

Huowa asked coldly, "Are you the abbot of Qingchan Temple?"

The strange man in the kasaya made no attempt to conceal his identity: "It seems he's here for me."

He looked down at the two children as if teasing a puppy: "What is your purpose?"

Fire Boy and Water Boy were able to determine his cultivation level.

The person in front of me cultivates ghost power, and the attack just now was also ghost power. It can be confirmed that he is a ghost. It seems that the abbot of Qingchan Temple has been dead for a long time.

But why is he keeping so many red-clad ghosts? And why is he feeding these creatures with living people?

The two children remained silent, constantly on guard against him making a move.

The strange man in the kasaya chuckled, "So your target is me? Let me guess, you're here to kill me. You two foolish little bastards."

He quickly formed hand seals, and a ghostly domain descended upon him.

He coldly ordered the ghosts who were eating nearby, "It's up to you now!"

At a glance, Huowa estimated there were at least thirty red-clad ghosts. Last time, Ming Ke's fake red-clad ghost had drained a lot of their spiritual energy.

This time we encountered real red-clad ghosts, and there were more than thirty of them at once.

It seems this battle will be a fight to the death.

"Whoosh!" Fire Boy held a long whip made of flames. The whip seemed to have a mind of its own, and a killing rune flew out from the air.

Water Baby used the water flow to conjure a long, light blue sword.

The longsword gleamed with a cold, sharp light, its blade flashing with an unusual luster, as if proclaiming its thirst for blood and slaughter.

"Hmph!" The strange man in the kasaya snorted coldly, "As expected, you came prepared."

His sharp, aged voice commanded the red-clad demons: "Tear them to shreds!"

"Ho ho!"

The red-clad monsters reeked of blood, and they approached the two children menacingly, their bodies radiating a fierce aura.

"Today, no one will leave this place." The kasaya-clad monster stepped back, leaving the battlefield to the red-clad ghosts and the two children.

The two children stood back to back in a defensive posture. The red-clad monsters swarmed forward, their claws, gleaming with black light, leaving visible traces in the air before vanishing in an instant.

Fire Boy and Water Boy were locked in a fierce battle with more than thirty red-clad ghosts. The powerful spiritual energy collided with the vast ghostly energy, emitting scorching sparks.

Fire Boy lashed out with his long whip, conjured a fireball with one hand, and threw it out. Several red-clad monsters were knocked away by him. Water Boy quickly swung his sword, the blade both gentle and deadly.

In an instant, the two children forcefully broke through the encirclement of more than thirty red-clad ghosts and flew to a safe area.

The red-clad ghosts used the power of the ghost realm to pull the two children, who had finally escaped their predicament, into different ghost realms.

The red-clad ghosts cooperated, trapping the two children in layers of ghostly realms. Each time the children broke through one ghostly realm, a new one would appear.

The red-clad ghosts intended to trap the two inside and kill them.

If human cultivators had already collapsed due to the multiple ghost domains, the Fire Boys and Water Boys were not human. They would not consider their own gains or losses, and would only keep searching for the core of the ghost domain array, destroying it layer by layer.

“These two brats are indeed not easy to deal with; their mental fortitude is unbelievable.” The kasaya-clad monster let out a sinister laugh. “But so what? They can only leave their lives here as nourishment for my immortality.”

"Ho ho-"

The red-clad ghosts were forced back several steps as their ghostly domain shattered.

For the two children, the Ghost Domain Array Eyes they set up were significantly simpler than those set up by Ming Ke.

Mingke is a conscious ghost. When he sets up a ghost domain, he considers the changing position of the sun to determine the key point of the formation.

This presents a considerable challenge for those trapped, since not everyone could have imagined that the formation's focal point would change with the sun's position.

Although the group of red-clad ghosts in front of them had a strong blood aura and were more powerful than Ming Ke, they lacked reason and did not use intelligent methods like Ming Ke. The core of their ghost domain was fixed in a certain place, and if you looked carefully, you could even see obvious flaws.

The two children broke through the ghost realm of more than thirty red-clad ghosts at an astonishing speed.

"You... could you be the legendary cultivation geniuses?" The strange man in the kasaya suddenly stood up, shocked by the two children's talent.

As far as he knew, no one in the world had ever broken through the ghost realm of more than thirty red-clad ghosts in just two hours.

His talent for cultivation was already abnormal enough, but unexpectedly, two geniuses even more powerful than him appeared.

"If I could tame you into red-clad ghost slaves, if I could crush you up and mix you with spiritual herbs to refine longevity pills..." the kasaya-clad monster excitedly imagined.

He ordered the red-clad ghost, his voice urgent: "Capture these two brats alive! I want to use their flesh and blood to refine pills that prolong life. With their talent and cultivation, if they become my food, my talent and cultivation will increase more than threefold!"

(End of this chapter)