I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 231 Dachang City

"I was too hasty. I should have refined a few more Nascent Soul cultivators before dividing them up!"

Xiao Wuji looked at the wisp of fire dancing on his fingertip, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

This flame was a clone he had just created, its true form a sub-flame of the Chaos Fire. It was like a second primordial spirit, sharing his will, and he could refine it again at any time to enhance his strength. Such a clone was simply perfect!
However, his mistake was that he was too impatient. He started practicing this technique as soon as he met the standard for cultivating clones, which resulted in his clone being a bit weak now!

"I should be able to unleash the power of the early Nascent Soul stage, so I'll have to rely on my mental strength!"

His cultivation technique integrates magic power, divine power, and divine consciousness into one, but only mental power remains separate. However, he cannot advance without mental power, and he will need the help of mental power to create a vast world in the future.

Therefore, the cultivation method also includes many techniques for cultivating and applying mental power, so it's not entirely unusable in combat. Furthermore, it's worth mentioning that the mental power of these separated avatars is also at the Dominator Realm, since mental power is "mind-based" and doesn't change with the separation of the body.

Unfortunately, the mental energy between his main body and his clones cannot be combined; otherwise, he would only need to create a few dozen clones to dominate this world!
"System, deploy!"

[The clone has been deployed—]
The flame vanished instantly, and the system remained silent.
"No, now that we've finished disposing of it, tell me how to collect it!"

……

In the dark corner of the desolate street, a cluster of gray-black flames appeared without any warning, as if it were always meant to be there.

“Such a strong yin energy!”

A young man's voice echoed through the alley.

Then, the flames suddenly swelled considerably, and then transformed into a human form. The color of the flames abruptly changed, completely transforming into a black-haired, black-eyed youth dressed in black!

[Will it return?]

Looking at the system window in front of him, Xiao Wuji smiled knowingly.

"no!"

"So the choice is mine, that makes things much easier!"

Being able to return at any time means he can arrange his schedule freely without the risk of being suddenly recalled.

After reviewing the system, Xiao Wuji looked at the cement road beneath his feet and a motorcycle parked at the alley entrance. With a thought, he transformed his black robe into a black tracksuit.

Then Xiao Wuji walked out onto the street and looked at the familiar Chinese characters on the signs on both sides of the street, which gave him the illusion of being reborn.

However, this place is filled with yin energy, making it a world suitable for cultivation. At the very least, it should be inhabited by many yin spirits and ghosts.

With memories of his past life, Xiao Wuji naturally integrated into this society, walking through the streets and alleys like an ordinary person, scanning everything around him with his divine sense.

"That's strange, how come it's not there?"

His current spiritual sense range is approximately ten thousand miles, comparable to some late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, easily covering a sizable county town. Yet, he found no trace of any cultivator.

The yin energy here is quite dense, enough to supply cultivators in the Qi Refining stage without any problem, but no cultivator occupies it, which he finds very abnormal!
"No, I need to go to two more places. What if this is the level of commentary from this world?"

With a thought, Xiao Wuji concealed his presence and flew towards a train station that his divine sense had locked onto. He planned to follow the train there to a big city to take a look!
"Hmm! The closest city to here is Dachang City, let's go check that out!"

After some investigation, Xiao Wuji then slipped to the roof of the bus heading to Dachang City.

That's right, he was planning to evade the fare!

Even if he came to this world naked, and even if he brought something with him, it definitely wouldn't be RMB!
Being unfamiliar with the area, he was too lazy to fly around aimlessly; what if he flew too far away?
"Dachang City... Why does that sound so familiar? I feel like I've heard someone mention it to me before?"

Although cultivators generally have photographic memories and can even recall every detail in their memories, there are some things he really doesn't know!

"This world has such a heavy atmosphere of yin energy, could it be a horror novel?"

"That's why I hate these unfamiliar worlds the most!"

Dachang City, No. 7 Middle School!

At a wonton stall on the street near the school, Xiao Wuji was eating wontons with gusto, with more than a dozen bowls and plates piled up beside him, leaving the surrounding diners and the owner dumbfounded.

However, Xiao Wuji didn't care at all. He hadn't tasted such ordinary delicacies in a long time. Although he possessed a wealth of top-notch culinary skills and even spiritual cooking techniques, he was always too lazy to cook them. He was even too lazy to let his subordinates waste their time.

However, he now feels that he can satisfy his appetite while traveling through the heavens!

He paid the bill with the spare change he had "picked up" from the "pickpocket," and then strolled toward the Seventh Middle School.

"Ghosts cannot be killed!"

"Only ghosts can defeat ghosts!"

"Understanding the patterns of ghosts..."

Click, click!
Outside the classroom, Xiao Wuji ate instant noodles while listening to the "cultivator" give a lecture.

Tear!

After swallowing the last bite of instant noodles, Xiao Wuji tore open another bag of potato chips and muttered to himself:
"No wonder I couldn't find any cultivators. It turns out this world has only just begun to 'revive'!"

"But this ghost is quite interesting!"

After saying that, Xiao Wuji stuffed two more potato chips into his mouth, then turned his head to look at the end of the corridor.

An old man dressed in a black robe, his face covered in lividity, stood there stiffly. His gray, lifeless eyes stared blankly at the classroom, like a cold corpse standing there.

The area around the old man was pitch black, without a single ray of light. The corridor lights seemed to have been completely extinguished, and a thick darkness, like mercury, rapidly seeped into the classroom.

The wall near the old man aged at a visible rate. The brand-new paint suddenly looked as if more than ten years had passed, and it began to be covered with moss, the paint turned black, and peeled off in patches. A gloomy, rotten smell gradually spread.

Without a doubt, it's a ghost!

However, this kind of ghost is different from the yin spirits or ghost cultivators in the cultivation world. It is more like a spiritual object born from heaven and earth, which carries the laws of the Great Dao!

"The main body is the law, then it is filled with yin energy, and it seems to also contain some fragments of human souls!"

"It can move freely and can also mobilize the power of the laws of heaven and earth like a strange fire!"

"I just don't know how they kill people..."

Seeing the shadow gradually spreading, Xiao Wuji decisively took a few steps back. He sensed the aura of spatial laws within the shadow!

Although he also mastered the laws of space, he couldn't create a spatial barrier, so he was somewhat wary of this ghost!

However, he still wanted to see how this ghost killed people. Anyway, his Chaos Fire could refine anything, and it could even burn through spatial barriers. But just in case, Xiao Wuji specially went outside the barrier and observed with his divine sense!
Seeing the spatial barrier spread throughout the entire school, Xiao Wuji retreated outside the campus.

Chaotic fire appeared at his fingertips and he gently touched the barrier. Before long, a fist-sized hole appeared in the spatial barrier. He probed his divine sense into the hole and carefully observed everything inside.

"Zhou Zheng, it's a knock on the door..."

"This is... cause and effect?"

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(End of this chapter)