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Nie Xiaoqian thought it through even more clearly. She believed that living as a human in a chaotic world was worse than being a ghost.

A month after the master left.

The female ghosts then formed a hierarchy. Some ghosts harbored deep resentment and were already strong. After their souls merged, they became even stronger and naturally became the older sisters. The remaining, more obedient ones were called the younger sisters.

However, the master's influence was still strong, and no one dared to do anything out of line. Everyone stayed obediently in Lanruo Temple.

Six months after the master's passing.

Nie Xiaoqian was no longer able to control the group of female ghosts. Ghosts would often sneak away, some would return, and some would never come back.

She simply wrote down the names of each female ghost who left or arrived.

A year after the master passed away.

The female ghosts became even more unruly. The weaker and more docile ones stayed quietly with Nie Xiaoqian in Lanruo Temple, while some, led by Xiaoqing, ran to an open space and demanded that Zhuge Wolong and the others build them a large house to live in.

Some of the most resentful and powerful individuals left Lanruo Temple and also left Guobei County.

They went to seek revenge.

Five years after the master's passing.

There are fewer than a hundred female ghosts left in Lanruo Temple; most of those who have left have been reincarnated.

Nie Xiaoqian heard that the commotion outside was getting worse and worse. Guo Bei County had been conscripted by various forces four times in a row, and the entire county could not even gather a hundred able-bodied men during the planting season.

Zhuge Wolong, along with four craftsmen, had quietly developed the two houses into a small village, with the majority of the population coming from people who had escaped corvée labor in Guobei County.

When the first couple got married, they even sent offerings to Lanruo Temple.

so good.

Nie Xiaoqian secretly watched the newlyweds enter the bridal chamber hand in hand, feeling a pang of envy from the bottom of her heart.

Chapter 248 Nie Xiaoqian's Personal Opinion

Five years have passed, and time seems to have suddenly sped up.

Nie Xiaoqian felt as if a year had passed in the blink of an eye.

The situation outside is getting more and more chaotic. People who run in from outside are all talking about how many people died in a major battle in some place.

Guobei County became a notorious place of evil spirits, and those who came here were all desperate and had no other choice.

Unexpectedly, there was a quiet and peaceful little village next to Lanruo Temple.

Zhuge Wolong devised a method to destroy the corpse energy that permeated the land, allowing flowers and plants to grow again. However, he did not take immediate action to deal with it, but instead made respectful offerings and then consulted Lanruo Temple for their opinion.

Nie Xiaoqian felt that the master was not a stingy person, and that he had tried to solve the problem of soil pollution, so she agreed.

Xiaoqing used this incident as a reason to lead a group of people to make a scene outside for a long time.

But they dared not come in.

No one, not even a ghost, dared to disturb the master's sleep.

The seventh year passed quietly, and everything remained the same.

In the eighth year, an old fat man claiming to be Zhang Tianshi came looking for him. Hearing that the master was sleeping, he left a letter and quietly left.

In the ninth year, the war in the south ended. A human who called himself the King of Yong rose up in Jiangxi, received the support of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, swept away the evil spirits, established the state of Liang, made Nanjing its capital, and marched north.

Guobei County remained undisturbed, and Lanruo Temple remained peaceful. Nie Xiaoqian wondered if the old fat man who had come last year had played a role, but she carefully preserved the casually placed letter.

I wonder how long the master will sleep, and what if the letter gets damaged?

In the tenth year, the souls of some fallen soldiers gradually returned to their hometowns. Nie Xiaoqian heard that not only were there countless demons and monsters in the north, but also a state established by the Jurchen people in the harsh land of Liaodong.

While both sides were eliminating evil spirits, they were also constantly at war, with the capital city serving as the border between their countries.

Nie Xiaoqian didn't understand why humans would fight in front of demons and evil spirits, but she was too lazy to care. She listened to some of it out of curiosity and wrote it down in her diary, intending to show it to her master when he woke up.

Speaking of which, will the master marry them?

Even if it's just going through the motions like the Black Mountain Demon, and using it to gain some benefits from other demons, that would be fine too.

The old man who fell from the sky and saved everyone is the dream corpse of many female ghosts.

Unfortunately, she dared not write her thoughts in her diary.

In the eleventh year, the war between Daliang and the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong ended.

In the twelfth year, the capital of the Great Liang Dynasty was moved to Luoyang, and a general amnesty was declared. Almost no one went to the vicinity of Lanruo Temple anymore.

For the next few years, Nie Xiaoqian had no recollection of anything, and there was nothing she needed to record in her diary.

In the seventeenth year, Zhuge Wolong passed away. Before his death, he made a special trip to Lanruo Temple to see the master, as if he had something to say. However, he only knelt for a few hours before leaving with the help of others.

It was buried near Lanruo Temple.

In the same year, female ghosts who had gone out returned one after another. Some ghosts took revenge and went to be reincarnated, asking other ghosts to send a message. Some ghosts couldn't even find their enemies and wandered outside for a long time with nowhere to stay, so they had to return to Lanruo Temple.

In chaotic times, today's hatred may vanish like a bubble tomorrow.

It wasn't until someone returned that Nie Xiaoqian learned that there were fewer and fewer ghosts outside, and the world was at peace. The once chaotic underworld was now sending out ghost messengers to lure the dead souls down to the underworld.

She knew that the spirits of the underworld had long since left, meaning that the underworld had already selected some spirits.

Write this down.

In the eighteenth year, the wasteland near Lanruo Temple turned into a forest, as lush as when the Tree Demon Granny was still alive, but also very different, full of vitality.

In the same year, a demon from the underworld came to visit, saying that they had disturbed the balance of Yin and Yang, disrupted the cycle of reincarnation, and committed heinous crimes, and that they should be captured and cast into the animal realm.

But these yakshas are really quite weak.

Aside from looking very much like the legendary Yaksha, their strength was even inferior to that of the female ghosts. Before Nie Xiaoqian could decide whether to fight or negotiate, Xiaoqing, who lived on the other side of the forest, led the female ghosts in and killed the Yaksha, who fled in disarray.

Several months later, the Yakshas returned.

They've gotten a bit stronger.

Another year has passed. In the nineteenth year of the Lord's slumber, the Yakshas came for the third time. This time, they were not just a group of Yakshas, ​​but also a small number of ghost messengers, saying that Yama wanted to talk to the female ghosts.

The idea of ​​Yama, the King of Hell, negotiating with ghosts sounds rather comical.

Nie Xiaoqian was willing to listen to what they had to say, because the leader of the ghost messengers was actually one of the sisters who had left Lanruo Temple years ago.

After the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, fewer innocent people died violently, and the chaos in the underworld came to an end. A ghost king seized the Gate of Hell, drove away the Black Mountain Demon, and called himself Yama, gathering ghosts to maintain order in the underworld. The sisters were his subordinates who married Yama.

The title of Yin God is not fixed; it belongs to the strong. According to that sister's guess, some demons and monsters have probably figured out how to usurp the divine positions and how to use the power left behind by the Yin Gods when they left.

Even the position of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has been filled by several self-proclaimed Ksitigarbha Ghost Kings.

The negotiations did not go very smoothly. Yama, the King of Hell, wanted them to submit and offered them good terms.

Nie Xiaoqian was unwilling, but some female ghosts were very tempted.

Although Yama, the King of Hell, is not as powerful and omnipotent as a true god of the underworld, he does have the ability to allow some ghosts to be reincarnated as humans ahead of time.

Many female ghosts did not do any good or bad things in their lives, and were killed in a daze. They did not accumulate virtue in their previous lives, so they deserve to be reborn as animals in their next life.

Even the King of Hell's small amount of power was enough to tempt them.

If you want to leave, then go ahead.

Nie Xiaoqian's attitude was simple, but Xiaoqing started fighting with Yama's subordinates again. Some of the sisters left, and some were killed in the battle.

The newly recruited ghost messengers and yakshas are not all weaklings; some are tough nuts to crack.

Nie Xiaoqian originally had no intention of getting into a conflict, but once the fight started, there was no room for further negotiation between the two sides, and she was unwittingly drawn into the dispute.

As Yama's sphere of influence grew, he quickly recruited subordinates, while the female ghosts of Lanruo Temple died one by one, their numbers dwindling.

She had no desire to fight, but because she was once favored by the master, had good talent, and was the strongest among her sisters, she was eventually promoted to the position of Ghost King by her sisters step by step.

However, the ambitious Xiaoqing had her soul scattered by Yama, the King of Hell, during a battle.

The ghosts outside call her Lanruo Ghost King. Some ghosts say that she wants to reverse the yin and return the ghosts to the yang world. Some monsters speculate that she also wants to become Yama, the King of Hell. There are also ignorant and incompetent sorcerers who come to her door with a body full of stench, wanting to follow her.

Even the Black Mountain Demon, who once wanted to take her as a concubine, sent someone to say that he wanted to join forces with her.

No one—no human, ghost, demon, or monster—knew that Lanruo Ghost King Nie Xiaoqian was simply waiting quietly, hoping for the future.

Thus, amidst strife and slaughter, the world entered its twentieth year of the Master's slumber.

Another monthly leave request

As the title says, I'm taking a day off today.

Chapter 249 The Master is Like This

It was night outside Lanruo Temple.

"Ghost King, my king sincerely wishes to marry you as his principal wife."

The pale-faced scholar's ghost bowed and said, "At that time, the two kings will join forces..."

“I’m not interested.” Nie Xiaoqian interrupted the scholar-ghost, saying quietly, “I’m not interested in your suggestion, and I’m even less interested in your king.”

With that, she flicked her sleeve, and the bags of gifts scattered on the ground flew back to the paper cart pulled by the paper horse. "Take your things and go."

The Black Mountain Demon's men have come four times this year, bringing gifts each time.

The purpose is nothing more than to win her over to join forces to kill Yama, the King of Hell, and rule the underworld. The main reason is that she has been staying in the mortal world for many years, which is uncomfortable for ghosts, giving people the illusion that she is attached to the human world and has some thoughts about it.

Unfortunately, the Black Mountain Demon cannot leave the underworld, which is why he is so determined to win her over.

"Ghost King, my king says he'd divorce all his wives and concubines for your sake," the scholar-ghost tried to persuade him again.

There was nothing they could do; the three ghosts who came before failed to persuade them, and when they returned, they were all stuffed into the teeth of the Black Mountain Demon.

Monsters don't just eat people. The Black Mountain Demon, a mountain demon who became a monster in the underworld, can eat a hundred or two ghosts as easily as playing with them. Unfortunately, as a monster, he is not qualified to inherit the position of judge. The four judges are all underworld gods who became after people died. The power they left behind naturally repels outsiders. Otherwise, with his superb ventriloquism and huge stomach, taking down Zhong Kui would be a piece of cake.

Nie Xiaoqian was too lazy to pay attention. She knew that the ghost she rejected would die if it went back, but what did that have to do with her? Just as she was about to send the ghost and the things away, she suddenly noticed that the heavenly thunder that had been raging under Lanruo Temple had suddenly stopped.

master!

A look of joy appeared on her usually aloof face. She turned and went back into the temple, leaving the somewhat bewildered scholar behind.

"Where are the people? No, where are the ghosts?"