Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 331 Guilty! Deserves Death! (First Update!)

Outside the town of Taiping.

Tiny pieces of wood, barely an inch long, floated low in the air, slowly rising and falling.

It is as insignificant as a grain of millet, yet its presence is incredibly strong. Although it has absorbed a massive amount of Yin energy, it still looks ordinary, showing no abnormalities, and constantly attracts the remaining ghosts, who come one after another.

With the souls of a large number of ghosts scattered, the area is now filled with an exceptionally thick yin energy. Black mist, like cotton wool, drifts and piles up, resembling layers of gauze, wrapping the broken wood in the center.

After being affected by the battlefield of [Iron Tree Prison] and by the ruthless actions of Broken Wood, the number of ghosts rushing up has become sparse.

However, they showed no intention of learning from their own kind and continued to try to fight over the wood chips like moths to a flame.

Bang!
Another ghost bypassed its companion and grabbed at the broken wood.

Just like before, his yin energy was instantly drained, and he vanished into thin air on the spot. The already dense and tangible yin energy around him seemed to become even colder.

But soon, the broken wood drained several ghosts dry, but in the end, the yin energy disappeared without a trace.

Seemingly sensing something was wrong, the wood chips that had been hovering low in the air suddenly shot up into the sky.

Whoosh!
The wood splintered with lightning speed, circling several times in the blink of an eye, its range expanding as if searching for something.

However, the wood shards searched all around Taiping County and its suburbs but found nothing.

The next moment, it fell back to the low sky, and the remaining ghosts around it rushed up again like hungry wolves pouncing on their prey.

Just like before, the moment these ghosts touched the broken wood, their yin energy was instantly drained, and they vanished into thin air.

However, the drained yin energy quickly and inexplicably disappeared without a trace, not even falling into the broken wood.

The wood splinter shot into the sky once more, circling Taiping County twice, but it still couldn't find its source.

Soon, the wood shards continued to fall back into the air, while the remaining ghostly creatures crawled and scurried forward fearlessly, reaching out to grab the wood shards before having their yin energy drained...

Just like before, the broken wood didn't get even a trace of yin energy!

This happened three times in a row. This time, the broken wood did not soar into the sky, but instead shot straight towards a "vengeful spirit" at the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell].

This "vengeful spirit" at the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] had a head no bigger than a watermelon, almost imperceptible compared to its enormous body. Its limbs were slender, and beneath its head was a body as fat as a mountain of flesh. Wherever it went, a strong stench of corpses wafted out, and yellowish-green pus kept dripping out. This was a "bloated ghost"!
It is also the one with the highest cultivation level among the remaining ghosts.

Whoosh!
The wood shattered at incredible speed. This "vengeful spirit" at the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] had no time to react before the wood shattered in front of it and disappeared into its brow like lightning.

"what!!!"

The "bloated ghost" suddenly raised its head and let out a mournful howl. At the same time, its huge body began to convulse rapidly, and its yin energy exploded like a forest being ignited.

The "bloated ghost" seemed to have turned into liquid, constantly deforming as it writhed violently. Accompanied by crackling sounds, the outline of its mountain of flesh rapidly collapsed and condensed, transforming into a humanoid shape in the blink of an eye.

Even at this point, the changes had not stopped. Soon, the head of this humanoid figure took on the appearance of a crown, with twelve tassels hanging down.

Its humanoid body also resembles a royal robe.

A few breaths later, the transformation stopped, and the mountain of flesh, the "bloated ghost," suddenly transformed into a tall and majestic figure. Its crown was perfectly adorned with twelve tassels that hung down, obscuring its face. Only through the gaps in the tassels could one vaguely glimpse the small piece of wood embedded between the figure's eyebrows.

At this moment, the crowned figure's cultivation had also broken through from the ninth level of the [Tongue-Pulling Hell] to the peak of the [Scissors Hell]. Its Yin energy was filled with a strong sense of despair, fear, and death, making it unlike any ordinary ghost. In an instant, this ghost, which was originally ugly in appearance and not very strong, seemed like the King of Hell from the underworld reigning over the mortal world.

However, it only resembles the King of Hell in appearance; it does not possess the majesty of a true Yama, nor does it have the underworld duties of ghost servants like Qingli and Kulan.

At the same moment, the ghosts that had been chasing the wood chips all around seemed to have lost their target and stopped in place, looking bewildered and confused.

Just then, the ghostly creature, resembling the King of Hell, seemed to suddenly gain sentience. It immediately opened its mouth and uttered a low, suppressed voice: "How dare you!"

The voice was unlike a human voice; each word was like rolling thunder, or the roar of a dragon and the howl of a tiger, like heavenly music, spreading out in a whooshing sound.

It wasn't loud, but the entire area around Taiping County was silenced by this shout.

The bewildered ghosts around them couldn't withstand the shout and froze instantly, then collapsed like sandcastles, their souls scattered.

The night wind seemed to freeze for a moment, and the entire outskirts of Taiping County fell silent, as still as death, with only this ghostly creature resembling the King of Hell remaining.

But just like before, these dissipated ghosts also lost all their yin energy, which was not absorbed by the broken wood at all.

Once all the yin energy had dissipated, the ghostly creature resembling Yama, the King of Hell, seemed to have finally discovered something. It slowly turned its head and looked in the direction where Zheng Que was.

Immediately afterwards, the ghostly creature, resembling the King of Hell, spoke in a very harsh tone: "You... are guilty!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his arm and grabbed at Zheng Que from a distance, as if he wanted to forcibly take away Zheng Que's soul.

But the next moment, the ghostly creature that resembled the King of Hell grabbed nothing at all.

"guilty!"

"guilty!!"

With each increasingly furious shout, the ghostly creature resembling the King of Hell gradually grew to an enormous size.

The tassels on the crown on his head had unknowingly transformed into crimson vertical pupils.

The face hidden behind the tassels was ripped open with crisscrossing cuts, the flesh of which rolled back to reveal rows of fine, sharp teeth.

As the body grew larger, the gaps between the tassels widened, revealing the original location of the eyes, where dense pustules and tumors had grown.

His majestic and solemn robes began to grow cold and dark, as if a gurgling black spring flowed within them, from which countless pale arms reached out, seemingly pleading for help or pulling at each other.

The aura of the peak of [Scissors Prison] became chaotic and blurred.

Even a cultivator with great supernatural powers would be completely unable to determine his true cultivation level if he were here.

In an instant, this ghostly creature, which resembled the King of Hell, and which originally appeared to be a high-ranking and righteous deity in the underworld, became even more wicked than a demon!
At this moment, the voice emanating from this ghostly creature, resembling the King of Hell, seemed to contain something of unknown meaning...

"guilty!"

"Be punished!"

(End of this chapter)