Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 340 Soul Capture. (Second Update!)

Upon hearing this, Mu Xiangu frowned and immediately threw another punch at the enormous ghost.

boom! ! !
The enormous ghost was once again forcefully dispersed by the force of the fist, turning into black mist that scattered throughout this world.

Taking advantage of this moment, Mu Xiangu quickly transmitted her voice to the ghost bride: "Then why don't you let it parasitize you?"

The ghost bride remained calm. She had been fighting with the ghost possessed by the [Nine Netherworld Treasure] for a while, but the [Nine Netherworld Treasure] had never left the ghost's body.

Clearly, the parasitic existence of this [Nine Netherworld Treasure] is conditional.

The lord of the underworld just promoted her to a higher rank; she is now a soul-reaping messenger, while Mu Xiangu is still just a lowly underworld official.

As expected, this [Nine Netherworld Treasure] can now only parasitize ghosts below the level of Yin Messengers!

The ghost currently possessed by the [Nine Netherworld Treasures] is too weak to defeat her, so the Immortal Bone of the [Iron Tree Prison] has become her next target for parasitism!

Whoosh!
Just then, the tiny piece of wood, barely an inch long, flew over again, shooting straight towards Mu Xiangu's brow.

The ghost bride quickly transmitted her voice, "Do as I say!"

"Do not resist in any way."

"Otherwise, once we pass Hai hour (9-11 PM), we'll both go to hell!"

Mu Xiangu frowned even more, but in this situation, she could tell the difference between right and wrong. She immediately snorted and transmitted her voice, "Fine!"

"If the mission fails, I will never let you off!"

The ghost bride didn't reply. Instead, she stared intently at the tiny piece of wood, which was about an inch long. Just as the wood was about to strike Mu Xiangu's brow, she suddenly opened her palm and grabbed at the air in Mu Xiangu's direction: "Don't dodge!"

Mu Xiangu suddenly felt a powerful sense of crisis approaching. In the darkness, her whole body tensed up. However, upon hearing the ghost bride's words, she instantly suppressed her instinct to flee and stood motionless in mid-air.

The next moment, she felt as if her body was being held tightly by some invisible restraint, unable to move at all.

Almost at the same moment, the piece of wood shot over and landed right between Mu Xian Gu's eyebrows.

Mu Xiangu's body suddenly surged with Yin energy, her aura became extremely terrifying, and her expression clearly twisted, showing great pain.

Seeing this scene, the ghost bride didn't dare to delay. In her vision, Mu Xiangu's entire body was firmly locked by fine, dark chains.

The chains, adorned with ever-changing runes, exude an aura of imprisonment, capture, and suppression.

All the chains converged into one giant chain, the end of which connected to the hand she was clenching.

This is the Soul Reaper's [Soul Binding]!
That pitch-black chain was only visible to her and the person she was detaining.

Taking advantage of the fact that the [Nine Netherworld Relics] had just begun a new parasitic process and had not yet fully taken control of Mu Xian Gu's body, the ghost bride's eyes, hidden under her red mandarin duck veil, suddenly lit up with the same pattern as the token on her waist.

As bird-like and insect-like runes appeared deep within her eyes, a huge portal suddenly appeared behind Mu Xian Gu.

This gate is towering and imposing, with a presence that seems to reach the heavens and the earth. Its material resembles bronze, filled with an ancient and weathered feel. Countless demons and monsters are carved on it in shadows, shrouded in a thick, tangible yin energy. The swirling black mist seems to evaporate continuously, and from within the shadows, pairs of eyes, some eerie green, some scarlet, and some icy blue, flicker uncertainly, coldly surveying their surroundings.

clack clack...

The portal opened immediately after it appeared.

The crack in the open door revealed boundless darkness, vast and deep like a bottomless abyss, conveying an intense sense of death, despair, pain, and punishment...

The same dark, tough, and chilling chains emerged from the darkness behind the door and wrapped around Mu Xiangu's body.

Then, Mu Xiangu's body was slowly pulled into the doorway. At this moment, the broken wood that had just entered Mu Xiangu's brow seemed to sense something and immediately began to move outwards, seemingly trying to break free from Mu Xiangu's brow.

But the next moment, Mu Xiangu snorted coldly, and with her still relatively clear mind, she immediately reached out and pressed the broken wood against her forehead!

The ghost bride's yin energy was rapidly depleting, and with each hand seal she made, Mu Xian Gu was continuously pulled into that majestic portal.

The broken wood immediately began to struggle desperately, writhing wildly between Mu Xiangu's eyebrows like a living thing. The yin energy on Mu Xiangu's body was rapidly absorbed by it, like a flood bursting its banks.

Soon, Mu Xiangu's cultivation level dropped from the second level of the Iron Tree Prison to the first level.

She was trembling violently and shouted with great difficulty, "Hurry up!"

The ghost bride did not answer. Her body suddenly erupted with yin energy, and the iron chains tightened sharply with a crisp sound. The speed at which Mu Xiangu was pulled into the towering gate increased significantly.

Just as Mu Xiangu's cultivation was about to plummet to the [Scissors Prison] level, her entire body was finally pulled completely into the towering portal.

Whoosh!
At this moment, the tiny piece of wood, barely an inch long, finally broke free from Mu Xiangu's body and quickly fled towards the door.

But at this very moment...

boom!
The majestic gates closed in an instant.

The black chains in the ghost bride's hands immediately vanished into thin air.

The towering gate that only she could see also vanished without a trace.

"Roar!!!"

A furious roar rang out.

The ghost bride looked down and saw that the ghost that had been parasitized by the [Nine Netherworld Treasure] had once again taken shape.

However, without the [Nine Netherworld Treasures], it could no longer maintain the image of Yama. After a strange twist, its body turned into a grotesque mess of tumors and pustules.

The ghost bride immediately slapped down...

boom! ! !
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In the dilapidated palace, Zheng Que gripped the Book of Life and Death and the gavel tightly, while abscesses and tumors continued to grow on his body.

These foreign objects spread very quickly, reaching his entire body in the blink of an eye.

As before, the Book of Life and Death and the gavel spontaneously emitted a pure black light. This light was soft and cold, spreading rapidly and enveloping Zheng Que.

The pustules and tumors that had grown on his body spontaneously fell off in the black light, and the moment they touched the ground, they all turned into streams of pure yin energy, which were absorbed by the underworld.

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Que's body returned to normal.

He gazed at the Book of Life and Death before him and exhaled a deep breath.

I don't have much time left!
If this situation were to occur again, even if the Book of Life and Death and the gavel could help him resolve the abnormality, his physical body in reality would not be able to withstand it!
boom! !

Just then, a loud bang suddenly rang out in the empty hall.

Zheng Que looked up and saw that Mu Xiangu had appeared out of thin air at some point and crashed heavily to the ground below. Beside her, there was a piece of wood about an inch long that fell down with a "thud".

[Treasures from the Nine Netherworlds]!
Become!

(End of this chapter)