Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 505: Transformation into a Ghost! (Second Update!)

A chilling aura swept over him. Zheng Que opened his eyes and saw the familiar, dilapidated hall. On the long table in front of him, the Book of Life and Death and the gavel were quietly placed.

He calmly moved his limbs, listened to the howling wind coming from the breach above his head, and pondered for a moment.

He had already absorbed a large amount of Yin energy while cultivating with Song Jiaoyin.

Then he practiced with Xue Shuangzi...

However, this time, the amount of Yin energy absorbed during cultivation with Xue Shuangzi was far less than before, but the speed of cultivation improvement was unprecedented!

"Peak of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment!"

"I've only just broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and my cultivation level has improved too quickly this time."

"Um……"

"Never mind all that for now, let's summon Xue Shuangzi in and see what's going on."

Thinking of this, Zheng Que immediately turned to the second page of the Book of Life and Death and read aloud the entry: "Xue Shuangzi!"

The next moment, the mist below the hall surged, revealing Xue Shuangzi's figure.

At this moment, Xue Shuangzi's body has completely returned to normal. There are no traces of a living person's hands, feet, or clothes. She looks exactly like her original self.

Suddenly finding herself in the underworld, Xue Shuangzi quickly knelt down and respectfully said, "This humble servant greets Your Excellency!"

Zheng Que did not answer immediately. He looked down at Xue Shuangzi and was slightly surprised to see that she had recovered completely. After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand with the character "令" on it and pointed it at her.

In the blink of an eye, Xue Shuangzi's yin energy began to increase rapidly.

The yin energy transformed into a massive pillar of energy, surging and circling around her, continuously increasing her power.

Xue Shuangzi felt overjoyed at the rapid improvement in her cultivation level and immediately began to kowtow in gratitude.

Zheng Que remained silent, his gaze fixed on the area above her head, where a massive cloud of yin energy hovered, large enough to raise Xue Shuangzi's cultivation level directly from [Scissors Prison] to [Iron Tree Prison].

This is the Yin energy he harvested after slaying the "Scorched Soul" of the "Iron Tree Prison".

Of course, now that the "strange" crisis in Yuwen Market has been resolved, it is sufficient to raise Xue Shuangzi's cultivation level by one level.

He still had other uses for the remaining yin energy...

As she pondered, Yin energy continuously flowed into Xue Shuangzi's body, and soon her cultivation reached the ninth level of the [Scissors Prison].

Seeing that Xue Shuangzi's cultivation was about to break through to the Iron Tree Prison, Zheng Que once again stretched out his palm bearing the character "令" and aimed it at her.

The Yin energy that was still being poured into her body suddenly stopped, and the pillar of Yin energy dissipated and receded in an instant, and Xue Shuangzi's cultivation stopped increasing.

Zheng Que immediately ordered, "Step back."

The fog reappeared, obscuring Xue Shuangzi's figure.

After resolving Xue Shuangzi's issues, Zheng Que looked at the Book of Life and Death again.

On the second page, the record of "Yuwen Marketplace" is still incomplete. Clearly, it will take some time for the underworld to absorb the "strangeness" of the marketplace.

Looking at the incomplete records, Zheng Que nodded slightly, leaned back, and began to sort through the memories he had gleaned from these fragments…

First, in the "strange" scene, the five figures in the main hall of the Yuwen Mansion, led by a burly man, was the son of an official of the imperial court who had once reclaimed the wasteland of Xue Tong Pass. During his father's campaign at Xue Tong Pass, he built this market town from scratch.

His name was Yuwen Ji, and he was also the former head of Yuwen Fangshi. The name Yuwen Fangshi comes from him.

Of the remaining four figures, the elderly cultivator on the left below the main seat was from the Heavenly Artifact Sect; the young cultivator was from the Azure Moon Cliff. Of the two on the right, the alluring female cultivator was a disciple of the Deer Temple; and the middle-aged cultivator with a sorrowful expression was a member of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Each of these five figures embodies a "law"!
But after the incident at Yuwen Market, the "laws" on the five people were all shattered into pieces...

After this once bustling and extremely prosperous market became "strange," the memories of the five people remained in their own fragments.

Each time a cultivator enters this "strange" place, they receive a fragment.

In reality, this was a form of possession that these five people performed on a living cultivator!
Previously, Yan Dong and Song Jiaoyin had each collected three fragments, gaining many memories from the "strange" entities. They learned how to collect more fragments, how to refine them, and how to use a portion of the power of the "law"...

But the truth is that those crucial memories all came from those five figures.

Even the power of "law" is the same.

This explains why, after entering this "strange" place, both Yan Dong and Song Jiaoyin felt increasingly yin energy, eventually becoming like ghosts.

However, there were two exceptions among this group of "strange" people who entered the market.

One is Liao Zhanbo.

Although Liao Zhanbo never revealed any information to Zheng Que before his death, the fragments automatically recorded some of his memories after Zheng Que's death.

This Liao Zhanbo is not some rogue cultivator, but a former disciple of Muyou Palace!

The other party entered this "strange" place not to seek any opportunity to form a golden core, but to become a ghost!
To be precise, the other party's goal was to refine this "strange thing" into their own ghost body.

Before coming to Xue Tong Pass, they had made various preparations, so after entering Yuwen Market, they were not greatly affected by the five figures.

The other exception is Zheng Que himself, who is a Heavenly Rank Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Because he already possessed a "law," all the fragments that entered his body were immediately pieced together by his "law."

This meant that the figures sitting upright in the five main halls were also unable to attack him.

However, correspondingly, the memories he gleaned from the fragments were the fewest of all.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que frowned slightly.

Compared to the memories within this "strange" place, Liao Zhanbo's memories seem to hold even more secrets...

According to Liao Zhanbo's memory, the six major sects have been making various attempts to deal with ghosts.

For example, the Heavenly Artifact Sect refines unformed "monsters" into artifacts and uses the artifacts to control the "monsters".

His summoning banner was actually the work of the Heavenly Artifact Sect.

However, the original main soul within the summoning banner, the "Strange One," namely the Dream Weaver, was killed by the Ghost Bride...

For example, the Blood Lotus Sect kept a large number of ghosts and frequently held ghost-fighting competitions to select the most powerful ghost. Then, they selected the strongest limbs from the most powerful ghost and transplanted them into cultivators.

Therefore, the Blood Lotus Sect has many highly skilled cultivators who look more like ghosts than ghosts themselves...

As for Muyou Palace, his previous cultivation was perfectly normal.

However, there is a realm called "Transformation into Spirit".

Muyou Palace changed it to "Huagui" (化鬼)!
(End of this chapter)