I am Jinshan Youxia

Without hesitation, Sun Wukong transformed into a fly and prepared to escape, but the Purple and Green Sword came flying through the air and nearly pinned the fly to a pillar.

"Don't even think about running away until you explain yourself clearly today." He transformed back into his original form, looking at Fairy Zixia with tears in her eyes and a face full of anger, then at the female demons and women pouring into the Lingxiao Palace, and at his master Tang Sanzang, who was calling out the sweetest name. The expression on his face was as if someone had pulled out his tongue, wrapped it around his neck, and pulled hard!

"Alas!"

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The world of A Chinese Ghost Story, Lanruo Temple.

"What's your name?"

The Tree Demon Granny asked in a gentle tone.

For a moment, Nie Xiaoqian was dazed. Looking at the tree demon before her, a smile appeared on her face. "Master, you've succeeded!"

"You—" The tree demon grandmother had just opened her mouth when she was slapped down by the female ghost Xiaoqing behind her, and her soul was destroyed without her uttering a sound.

"Sister Xiaoqian~"

"Sister Xiaoqian!"

The female ghosts, having regained a great deal of memories and power, swarmed up chatteringly.

"I should say we succeeded." Zhang Chengyi's zombie body appeared out of thin air, smiling as he looked at the overwhelming number of female ghosts.

"Master!" Xn

The countless, densely packed sounds startled Yan Chixia, the bearded man from the neighboring Lanruo Temple, awakening him from his room. Gazing into the distance, he saw countless female ghosts and Zhang Chengyi floating in mid-air, about to cast a spell to exorcise the demons. Suddenly, some memories quietly surfaced.

He smashed through the window, jumped onto the roof, and shouted, "Senior!"

Zhang Chengyi waved his hand in acknowledgment, then looked at the female ghosts and asked, "I have a task for you to do. Do you have any ideas?"

The individuals in other worlds mostly overlap, but the female ghosts had long since merged into one. Now, with the repeated infusion of matter, their power has exceeded the limit, and even Sun Wukong would have a hard time defeating any of them.

The female ghosts looked at Nie Xiaoqian, who was leading them, and she said softly, "Please speak, sir."

Zhang Chengyi laughed.

"I would like to ask you to help me manage these worlds."

Chapter 415

In the twenty-first year of the Daheng Shengping era, in Lingzhou City.

"Ding ding ding!" The morning bells echoed throughout the city at seven o'clock, and the bustling residents on the roadside had already begun their new day.

A crowded breakfast stall, a bustling market filled with vendors' shouts, and children laughing and playing outside a martial arts gym...

This is an unremarkable seaside city in the New World. Its only advantage is its abundant seafood. However, in today's world where martial arts are so developed, even children who haven't yet attended martial arts academies but are just taking extra classes at martial arts schools can easily travel a hundred miles a day. Often, a fifth-rank martial artist can single-handedly manage a series of industries, including fish farming, fishing, and selling fish.

Hunting and fishing are no longer considered hard work, but rather novel activities that require money to enjoy.

If you see wild animals being killed or hunted indiscriminately, they are very likely animals that someone else is raising in the mountains. If you touch them, you might have to pay a lot of money.

If it were a martial beast, the losses would be even greater.

Especially in the last two years, for some reason, when wild beasts die, they seem to give birth to some kind of soul. The imperial court has even developed a unique technique to summon these souls. If the matter is reported to the authorities, the person who killed the beast will not be able to escape punishment.

"Woo~" The sound of a ship's horn came from the newly built port, and a modern-style steel cruise ship docked at the shore.

Passersby cast curious glances at them. They went out to sea barehanded, either wading or swimming. The port was only approved and built this year, and its purpose was unclear.

"what is that?"

“I’ve seen boats in the museum. I heard that there were such ancient buildings more than a hundred years ago.”

"Wow, only rich people can afford to buy this..."

Passersby stopped in their tracks, and some even flew up to watch. The shipbuilding technique had long been lost, and many of the techniques that were necessary in the past were meaningless in Daheng today. The methods of making gunpowder, ships, compasses, and various other instruments only exist in museums in various places.

The craft has been lost. To create it, one would need to be a martial artist of rank 5 or above to sculpt it by hand. Judging by the steel material, it might even require the skill of a rank 4 martial artist.

A wealthy person is not necessarily a fourth-rank martial artist, but a fourth-rank martial artist is definitely very wealthy.

Among the passersby were several fourth-rank martial artists who were taking a morning stroll. Seeing the novelty, they immediately became interested and prepared to go aboard the ship to study its structure and see if they could build one themselves.

"Passage is prohibited here!" Black-clad guards belonging to the imperial court suddenly appeared and blocked the way.

With a thud, a thin screen of light flashed by, and the fourth-rank martial artists who tried to approach seemed to have crashed into a wall, sliding down to the ground one by one.

The gangway of the steel cruise ship descended to the ground, and soon a dozen or so strange men walked onto the surface.

Wow, dog ears!

"It's a monster, someone from the other continent!"

"Grand Tutor Guo, I've seen Grand Tutor Guo!"

There are quite a few people with keen eyesight and sharp perception; those who have reached the seventh rank in martial arts often have very sharp minds.

"Are they going to establish diplomatic relations with the mainland?"

"Yay! My cat can finally transform into a demon!"

"The imperial court is too strict; otherwise, I would have married the cat long ago..."

"Silence!" Seeing the growing noise, the black-clad guard shouted again. His unique martial art, known as the 'command,' took effect along with the spiritual energy, rendering passersby below the third rank unable to make a sound no matter what they did.

"You flatter me," Guo Jing smiled slightly. "Brother, it's been a long time. How have you been?"

Just as Inuyasha was about to speak, Kagome Higurashi glared at him, and he reluctantly shut his mouth.

As the ruler of the Demon Kingdom, he shouldn't have come along. However, recently, for some unknown reason, a photo of him taken by Zhang Chengyi years ago, showing him with a crooked mouth, drooling, and looking slanted, has suddenly spread, causing him to see a lot of strange looks every time he attends a meeting.

Modern monsters don't have the same hierarchical order as in the past, and since he's not very temperamental, the government of the monster kingdom is very loose. Fortunately, the monsters' self-management is quite good, and with the supervision of the Human Federation, there's no worry about any problems. He's at most a mascot, so even if he runs away, it won't have much of an impact.

Even if something happens, he can go to the Moon Princess, who has transformed from a moon demon. He, as the ruler of the demon kingdom, really has no reason to exist.

Kikyo spoke in a proper Daheng Mandarin: "Grand Tutor Guo, I have long admired your name."

"Princess Kikyo, please follow me," Guo Jing said politely.

This Kikyo priestess holds a high position in the Human Union on the opposite continent. She is said to be the first priestess and has a particularly good relationship with the Kingsoft Ranger. Everyone calls her Your Highness, so he will definitely have to be polite to her as well.

The new world is extremely vast. Like the outer heavens of the past, after leaving Daheng and entering the ocean for 20,000 miles, the spiritual energy abruptly ceases. Without the spiritual energy, only grandmasters can cross over and travel to the opposite continent.

It's really too far.

Moreover, the sea is not only home to a large number of martial beasts, but also many monsters, each occupying their own territory. Ordinary people passing by are likely to suffer bad luck.

Grandmasters can indeed subdue monsters, but when it comes to the realm of monsters, one must be cautious. Besides, the continent itself is still underdeveloped, so there's no need to go to the sea to fight and kill, since they are all intelligent beings.

Sea monsters rarely come ashore, and even if they do, they will register properly with the Black Guards. After all, every city in the New World Continent has a Grandmaster in charge, and ordinary monsters are definitely no match for them.

However, it wasn't as difficult for the monsters to come over as one might imagine. Some of them were capable of teleporting with their belongings, unlike ordinary martial artists who heavily relied on spiritual energy. It wasn't difficult for them to close the distance and visit the monsters using teleportation.

Most of the sea monsters have joined the Monster Kingdom, so they have few obstacles to travel.

The group boarded a flying boat powered by spiritual energy, traversed most of the city in the air, and arrived at the city lord's mansion in Lingzhou City.

The delegation could only meet Xiao Feng tomorrow; for the time being, they would stay in Lingzhou City. The city lord of Lingzhou City, Huang Yaoshi, was the father-in-law of Grand Tutor Guo Jing.

Kikyo declined the original social gathering and instead took Inuyasha and Kagome with her. In private, she met with Guo Jing and asked, "Has Daheng noticed anything unusual about your soul lately?"

She brought the delegation here because it was about a matter of the soul.

Both the Land of Monsters and the Human Union have seen a large number of people who have died and become monsters. It is known that in the past, when humans died, their souls would enter the underworld, but in the last two years, for some reason, their souls could not be taken away by the messengers of the underworld, which has caused a lot of problems.

Guo Jing pondered for a moment and admitted, "That is indeed true."

Daheng also discovered early on that, due to his relationship with Zhang Chengyi and his past experiences in the Hong Kong variety show world, he had obtained some magical techniques supported by the Monkey King Sun Wukong.

However, at present, this is only a temporary solution. Even if you become a martial artist, not everyone can escape birth, aging, sickness and death. Now, the dead are reluctant to leave and are returning to the human world with spiritual energy, which has caused a lot of problems.

Chapter 416 Magic and Reality

[September 7th, the 21st year of the Taihang Shengping era, Lianhe Zaobao]

[At the port of Lingzhou City, seven fourth-rank martial artists were apprehended for attempting to infiltrate the steel ship. One third-rank martial artist and one second-rank martial artist were also apprehended for attempting to take the ship away. It is said that the third-rank and second-rank martial artists are father and son, and had previously joined forces to infiltrate the Emperor's palace to steal a pair of dragon-patterned underwear…]

Inuyasha looked at the newspaper called "Lingzhou Morning Post" and couldn't help but ask the black-clad guard next to him, "Aren't you afraid that this newspaper will come knocking on our door if it says something like this?"

No matter how politically idiotic he may be, he has lived for hundreds of years and for decades in modern society. What newspaper would dare to report on government departments and the head of the country in a tabloid-style manner? Wouldn't that be courting death?

The black-clad guard shook his head and sighed, "Your Excellency is unaware of this, but the morning reports from various places are all collected by informants. They are often highly skilled in martial arts, extremely adept at lightness skills, concealment, and disguise. The information they collect is published in the nearest newspaper and spread far and wide, making them almost impossible to eradicate. Moreover, there is even a Grandmaster Zhou among the informants..."

"Ahem~" Guo Jing, who was sitting in front of the flying boat, coughed lightly. Seeing that his subordinates had shut up, he said with a somewhat helpless tone, "Please forgive my rudeness."

The Rumor Envoys became the most disgusting organization in the entire Daheng region as soon as they appeared more than a decade ago. Many sects and even the imperial court tried to capture them, but the more they captured, the more they joined. Even Grandmaster Zhou Botong, the junior brother of Instructor Wang, eventually joined them and is now the most wanted criminal in the entire imperial court.

The problem is that Coach Wang is the strongest among the grandmasters from two hundred years ago. He has been deeply involved in the field of education and is the head of the entire Daheng Martial Arts Academy, with students all over the world.

While a warrant for arrest may be issued, it is certainly not permissible to arrest or kill the suspect.

Of course, with a Grandmaster's level, if he's only thinking about running away and hiding, who can kill him?

Inuyasha was curious, but wisely refrained from pressing the matter and instead flipped through the newspaper to read the gossip about Lingzhou City.

These rumors are really something else; they cover everything from gossip about someone's family to major government policies.

In fact, martial arts is much more convenient than being a monster. Even when your strength is relatively low, you can still live a very good life by relying on spiritual energy. Many creations can be made simply by hand.

Unfortunately, the demons only discovered they could cultivate martial arts more than twenty years ago. Twenty years is too short for demons. They also lack meridians, which are implanted later in life. There are also limitations due to their innate physical constitution. All these factors combined mean that the number of demons who can cultivate martial arts is extremely small.

Especially within the realm of the demon kingdom, almost no demons practice martial arts; those demons who yearn for martial arts have all transformed into human form and come to Daheng.

Interestingly, his half-brother Sesshomaru moved to Taihang with his wife and children, and I heard he lives in Oboroyama Prefecture. I wonder if we'll have a chance to meet this time...

"Woo~" The sound of a steam horn came from afar.

Inuyasha turned his head and looked over, and saw several 'ships' that looked exactly like the one they were on racing through the air.

Moreover, these 'ships' are not nuclear-powered at all; they only look like them. In reality, they are driven by spiritual energy, and the martial artists on top sit on the top, shouting and laughing as if they were riding horses.

It felt somewhat surreal to him.

Seeing something fun, people immediately sculpt it by hand and ride it like a flying boat or a horse, creating a novel and trendy aesthetic.

Inuyasha believes that any modern person who sees this scene and knows the cause and effect would definitely be unable to hold back their emotions.

Kagome Higurashi, standing nearby, was trying not to laugh, while Kikyo turned her head away from looking.

Knowing his wife as he does, if she raises her eyebrows slightly and stretches her lips by about three millimeters in a formal public setting, it's obvious she's laughing heartily.