I am Jinshan Youxia

Zhang Chengyi's distinctive loud voice rang out, and Nie Xiaoqian quickened her pace, soon floating over. Upon seeing her master, she smiled, then pursed her lips, controlling her emotions, and said gently:

"master."

"Hey, Xiaoqian, haven't you reincarnated yet?" Zhang Chengyi said casually. "Get me some clothes."

Nie Xiaoqian wasn't shy at all. She winked at the female ghost following behind her and said, "Master, this concubine..."

"Ghost King! Ghost King! My king is truly sincere!" The scholar-ghost outside let out a dying roar.

This is really urgent.

"What's going on?" Zhang Chengyi asked with a curious expression. It was truly remarkable that a zombie could even show an expression; he must have put in a tremendous amount of sweat and effort to bring his stiff body to life. "Do we have a ghost king here?"

He was eager to try it out. When he woke up, the amount of corpse energy had not changed, but its quality had improved by a level. The same was true for the heavenly lightning. There was little change in the status bar.

The "Continuous Vitality" has been transformed into "Eternal Vitality." In the previous version, the corpse poison would gradually weaken after leaving his body. The corpse poison grass needed to capture living creatures and transform them into half-living, half-corpse creatures to extract and absorb the corpse poison in order to grow. In this version, "Eternal Vitality" has allowed his corpse poison to evolve to the point where it can absorb yin energy to reverse yin and turn yang to obtain nutrients and maintain its vitality.

If a corpse poison herb could be cultivated, it would probably secrete corpse poison as long as there is sunlight and moisture. If planted in a person's body, it should turn them into an immortal half-human, half-corpse with just one bite.

Of course, the strongest attributes are lightning resistance and steel-like body. One evolution is not enough to change these two attributes. But don't be fooled by their unassuming appearance. As a one-sided enhancement obtained by giving up all the strange characteristics of advanced zombies, their resistance to lightning and the toughness of their bodies are among the toughest in advanced zombies.

Suddenly becoming so much stronger, I definitely have to show off! What kind of demon king is this? Come out and fight me!

Nie Xiaoqian blushed and whispered, "Outside are ghosts sent by the Black Mountain Demon to propose marriage. The Ghost King he mentioned is... is me."

"Black Mountain Demon, Ghost King, you?"

Zhang Chengyi carefully examined his female ghost housekeeper, stroked his chin, and exclaimed in surprise, "You're doing quite well, Xiaoqian."

"I'll go and get rid of it right away." Nie Xiaoqian bowed and was about to leave.

Zhang Chengyi had already dashed out. All that was heard was a cry of pain, followed by his threatening voice: "How many mothers does that Black Mountain Demon have? Trying to pick up my girl?"

"Pfft~"

Nie Xiaoqian laughed out loud, a sweet smile appearing on her face.

That's how my husband is.

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"Spare me! Your Majesty, spare me!"

The scholar ghost was lifted up like a chick, his soul trembling.

Zhang Chengyi, completely naked, waved the scholar ghost in his hand and said, "Go back and tell the Black Mountain Demon to wait for me on the main street of the City of the Wrongfully Dead. I'll definitely rip his head off when I get there."

"Master, the City of the Wrongfully Dead is no longer the territory of the Black Mountain Demon," Nie Xiaoqian said, floating behind like a young wife.

Zhang Chengyi frowned. Then wasn't he just using a lame joke that didn't fit?

Nie Xiaoqian immediately tried to cover for him, saying, "I will inform King Yama, and my master will challenge the Black Mountain Demon in the City of the Wrongfully Dead."

No way, even the King of Hell would do something like this?

Zhang Chengyi couldn't hold back any longer. He had slept for twenty years, not two hundred, right?

Nie Xiaoqian whispered again, "Yanluo Wang is a ghost king of unknown origin who calls himself that. A few years ago, he drove away the Black Mountain Demon and occupied the City of the Wrongfully Dead. His goal is to obtain the power of one of the Ten Kings of Hell."

"It has already gained some power and authority over the underworld deities and is trying to recruit us sisters. Many of us sisters have already pledged allegiance to Yama, the King of Hell."

"After Xiaoqing was killed by Yama last year, she was thrown into the animal realm."

She briefly mentioned the relationship between Lanruo Temple and Yama, the King of Hell.

Zhang Chengyi's expression darkened. He had always thought that Xiaoqing was narrow-minded and petty, and that she would get into trouble sooner or later, but he still felt uneasy about hearing that she was going to be killed.

You dare kill my horse?

Even this so-called King Yama has to be killed.

After Nie Xiaoqian finished speaking, she quietly stayed to the side.

Zhang Chengyi casually tossed the scholar-ghost aside and said, "Get lost, and remember to pass on the message."

Watching the scholar-ghost leave with his belongings, his face filled with despair, he asked again, "Tell me what has happened in these past twenty years?"

Let's really figure out what's going on.

Nie Xiaoqian took her diary out of her sleeve, handed it over respectfully with both hands, and said, "I have recorded everything."

Zhang Chengyi flipped through the diary. It was normal for the world to be unified, but the fact that the newly emerged Great Liang and the Manchu Qing were now in a standoff across the capital made him feel that history had been altered too much.

The probability of the Tartars invading the pass in the future seems very low.

He had no idea what would happen then.

Zhuge Liang died when he was only in his fifties or sixties. It's a pity he died so young; he was such a talented person.

Ghost messengers and spirits of the underworld...

Zhang Chengyi was thinking when he suddenly asked, "Do you think those demons and monsters who have given themselves the title of Yin Gods can invite me to the underworld?"

Nie Xiaoqian pondered for a while, then shook her head and said, "It's unlikely. They are stronger than me, but they are far from being Yin Gods."

It's all hype and no substance.

A bunch of trash.

Chapter 250

But if those guys can't invite me to the underworld, what's the point of a fight?

Zhang Chengyi was speechless for a moment, and he continued to flip through the diary.

The document clearly states the fate, life or death of each female ghost, showing that Nie Xiaoqian put a lot of effort into it; she even forgot the names of some of them.

Well, not some, but most of them...

There's no way around it. When there are only a few dozen souls in his body, he can still remember them. But when the number increases to hundreds or thousands, he just combines the souls in a formulaic way and then puts them into his body to sleep. When they wake up, he throws them out in batches.

In this situation, he can remember some things only because his memory is so good that he can't forget them at all. Even if someone just casually says a name, he remembers it clearly.

"Don't worry, sir." Nie Xiaoqian saw Zhang Chengyi staring blankly at the densely packed names in the diary and thought that the master was a little sad, so she comforted him, "When people die, they become ghosts, and when ghosts die, they become spirits. People are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are also afraid of spirits. This is the balance between heaven and earth."

"Yama, the King of Hell, had not yet become a Yin deity. He was also afraid of the Yin spirits, so he used his power to throw his deceased sisters into the cycle of reincarnation."

"Although the soul is broken and cannot be reborn as a human, it still has the opportunity to be reborn as a human after reincarnation for thousands of lifetimes."

The cycle of reincarnation in this world is a mess, with all sorts of folk customs and settings.

Zhang Chengyi remembered that when a person died, they became a ghost, and when a ghost died, they became a vengeful spirit, and so on. They could keep dying indefinitely. If this world also followed this rule, then the concept of life and death was even more absurd than the world of Inuyasha.

In the cycle of reincarnation, all the flowers, birds, fish, insects, humans, ghosts, and demons in the world are the same group of souls flowing back and forth, right? Even if you are killed and your soul is gone, you can still live, just like how data in a game can be changed and can't disappear unless you delete it directly.

This is further accompanied by claims of reincarnations of gods and Buddhas.

It inexplicably gives me the feeling that a game company has created a game for a group of people who read about gods and Buddhas to play.

Zhang Chengyi banished his chaotic thoughts and finished reading the diary. There wasn't much more to read. The female ghosts had either died or left, and only forty-seven remained at Lanruo Temple.

"By the way, where are they? Why aren't they staying at the temple?" he asked casually.

Nie Xiaoqian paused for a moment, then said, "The sisters hold heavenly lightning in awe..."

It can't be that they were terrified of being struck by lightning inside the master's body before, and now they tremble at the sound of anything, so they moved to the side of Lanruo Temple.

Hearing this, Zhang Chengyi roughly guessed the reason. He smiled shamelessly and said, "Come, come, Xiaoqian, call them all back. It's been a long time since their souls have reunited."

Normally, his evolution path is like that of a low-level zombie: sucking blood to accumulate corpse energy, then consuming the corpse energy to evolve his body, and then sucking blood again to replenish his corpse energy after waking up. However, he is obviously not normal. His corpse energy is locked and will not change. His body has completed its evolution, and although his corpse energy has not changed much, its upper limit has increased significantly.

Therefore, after evolution, it urgently needs the soul of a female ghost to merge with it in order to continue the survival of the soul.

Heaven knows if he'll die on the spot if his high-level low-level zombie soul is worn away. This thing will rise and fall with the corpse energy once it's no longer connected to the soul, and it will weaken even if it's locked up.

As he became more familiar with evolution and the body, he came to understand something deeper.

The 'weakness' of the soul when the corpse energy becomes stronger is not a sign of weakness. On the contrary, as the corpse energy strengthens, the soul also strengthens, as both are part of the zombie.

Rather, when the corpse energy reaches a certain level, without the protection of the soul, the spirit will continuously lose its original existence, and at a certain point, the spirit will 'die'.

It's more like a rule.

If we're going to make comparisons, it's like the strange Shikon Jewel cloud backup feature in the Inuyasha world, or the incurable cancer in the Marvel universe, and so on.

Zhang Chengyi logged into and modified a body in each world of the game, and these messy rules came from the computer loaded into the game. Before he could capture the world without destroying it, he had no way to make the game rebel against the computer code.

"Yes, sir."

Nie Xiaoqian happily agreed and floated away to call back all the female ghosts near Lanruo Temple.

"Master, you're finally back."

"Sir, you must do us justice!"

"master……"

Before long, Lanruo Temple was filled with chattering sounds, the general meaning of which was that Yama, the King of Hell, had gone too far in bullying the female ghost, and they hoped that the master would step in to get revenge.

There were too many female ghosts, and Zhang Chengyi had a headache listening to them. He said, "Fine, fine, I'll definitely catch that kid and let you kill him when I get the chance."

It's a bit difficult now. All the demon kings and ghost kings with ambitions have gone to the underworld or reincarnated to seek opportunities to become gods or Buddhas.

To be more precise, they had been preparing for this for a long time.

A hundred years ago, there weren't many demons and monsters that were still active in the human world. Young Lady Hua wanted to stay in the human world to take revenge and wait for her enemy to be reincarnated. Old Lady Tree Demon couldn't leave Lanruo Temple at all, and as a result, they both fell victim to a certain zombie.

Pudu Cihang was ambitious, wanting to achieve great things in one go, and ended up sending it all.

Hearing the master's promise, the female ghosts rushed into Zhang Chengyi's body with satisfaction, their souls merging one by one and they entered a deep sleep. After all, he had become stronger, and when the female ghosts woke up, they would also be strengthened.

Nie Xiaoqian was the last one to leave. She sealed a letter and said softly, "Master, this is a letter left by that fat, um, Zhang Tianshi. He said he would inform you as soon as you wake up."

Zhang Chengyi didn't pay much attention, took the letter, and said, "Okay, I understand."

He can't wait to become stronger.

Nie Xiaoqian lowered her head like a timid wife, remaining silent.

"Something seems off about Xiaoqian," Zhang Chengyi belatedly scratched the back of his head.

Who cares?

He opened the letter left by Zhang Tianshi, glanced at it a few times, and then read it carefully again.

It really mentions a major event.