Chapter 834
Ghostly Cultivator! Leng Yan, come quickly to the banner for a discussion.
"It's comfortable to deal with smart people."
Before Zhang Lingshan even saw the person who had arrived, he smiled and said, "Since you knew I was waiting for you here, you still dared to come. It's clear you're very confident and came prepared."
"hehe."
A figure in black robes suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Lingshan; it was none other than Chu Heng.
He reverted to his original attire, hiding his face and making it impossible to discern his features.
"You recognized me at the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce. It seems your divine sense is quite good, and you even discovered that I left a mark on you. You came all the way here by yourself, specifically to lead me here, without even calling any helpers. Speaking of confidence, you are more confident than I am."
Chu Heng sneered.
Zhang Lingshan said, "Of course. I am the Holy Son of the Ice Spirit Sect, a once-in-tens-thousand-years talent. I am unique in all time. Why would I need help to deal with a mere rogue cultivator like you?"
Chu Heng laughed loudly: "Haha, I've long heard that the Holy Son of the Ice Spirit Sect is arrogant and looks down on everyone, and sure enough. But you have no help, while I do. I'm a cautious person and would never be presumptuous."
"is it?"
Zhang Lingshan smiled sarcastically and said, "What kind of help can a mere Golden Immortal rogue cultivator like you bring? Anyone who isn't a Golden Immortal or higher is just an ant; coming here would only be suicide."
"Haha."
Chu Heng laughed: "What a coincidence, my helper happens to be at least a Golden Immortal. She is a powerful Immortal Lord. Interestingly, you also know her."
"Who?"
Zhang Lingshan's expression suddenly changed.
"it's me."
A cold voice rang out, slowly emerging from the dark corner of the valley, revealing a beautiful face and indifferent eyes.
"It's you!"
Zhang Lingshan looked shocked, his body jolted, and he exclaimed in horror, "As the chief ice element master of the Golden Immortal Pavilion, you should be guarding the Golden Immortal Pavilion. Why were you able to come out of the Golden Immortal Pavilion?"
The newcomer was none other than Leng Yan, the Ice Element Chief who had stolen Zhang Lingshan's Xuan Tian Array Plate from the Golden Immortal Pavilion, only to be severely humiliated by Zhang Lingshan with the help of Ji Buyi and Kong Ruobing!
Leng Yan sneered, "Who told you our Chief must stay in the Golden Immortal Pavilion to guard it? Li Xuanbing, do you think that just because you've become the Holy Son of the Ice Spirit Sect, I can't do anything to you? Heh, you're too naive. Just because I've been able to stay in the Golden Immortal Pavilion for so long, do you think I have no tricks up my sleeve?"
What do you want?
Zhang Lingshan shouted, "I am the Holy Son of the Ice Spirit Sect, unique throughout the ages. If you dare to kill me, the Ice Spirit Sect will not let you off. Moreover, our Ice Spirit Sect's protectors are nearby, guarding me. I advise you to leave immediately, and I may spare your life. If you remain obstinate, when our Immortal King protectors arrive in person, it will be your death day!"
"Hahaha."
Leng Yan laughed loudly: "Waiting for your Celestial King Protector? Unfortunately, he's lost."
"Impossible! How could a Celestial King get lost!" Zhang Lingshan shouted.
Leng Yan said, "Then you still have to thank yourself."
"What!?"
Zhang Lingshan's expression changed, his eyes filled with horror, and he looked at Chu Heng, saying, "It was your doing!"
"good."
Chu Heng smiled smugly: "You think the mark I placed on you was to mark you? You're so wrong. This mark can actually conceal your location, making it impossible for others to sense you. Hahaha. Don't think you can just remove the mark now. Too late! This place has been sealed off by me, and no one can sense you anymore."
"What amazing skills! You are truly gifted."
Zhang Lingshan's face darkened, and he said, "With your talent, you should have a better future. Why did you become that bitch Leng Yan's dog?"
"How dare you!"
Chu Heng was furious: "He's about to die, yet he still dares to utter such foul language. Master, don't waste your breath on him, just kill him!"
His feelings for Leng Yan are definitely not ordinary, because he got anxious before Leng Yan did.
However, without Leng Yan's orders, he did not act immediately, but glared fiercely at Zhang Lingshan.
Leng Yan wasn't particularly angry, as if Zhang Lingshan hadn't been cursing her. She was just slightly puzzled and said, "Li Xuanbing, you're about to die. Are you going to indulge in some verbal sparring now, or are you going to surrender? Or do you think you can still escape alive?"
"escape?"
Zhang Lingshan chuckled, "You two stinking grasshoppers, you think you can let me escape? Look around you, it's not you who's trapped me, it's me who's trapped you."
"nonsense!"
Chu Heng sternly rebuked him, not believing it at all, but seeing Zhang Lingshan suddenly become so confident, he couldn't help but turn around and take a look.
That one glance sent a jolt through him.
Suddenly, a large red door appeared in the darkness behind them, and countless figures emerged from it, each exuding a sinister aura and displaying a ferocious and eerie expression.
"They're all ghosts!?"
Chu Heng cried out in surprise and rushed to Leng Yan's side with lightning speed.
Although Leng Yan is the top ice-type expert, and her whole body is cold, she is at least a human being with yang energy.
Only by staying with Leng Yan did Chu Heng feel a sense of warmth, and only then did he realize that he had not fallen into the underworld, but was still living in the mortal world.
"The Way of the Yin Ghosts?"
Leng Yan's expression also changed. She felt as if the temperature in the world had dropped by an unknown number of degrees. Even though she was an expert in playing with ice and a powerful Immortal Lord, she felt an unbearable chill at this moment.
This was a perception deeply affected from the heart, far more than a simple drop in air temperature. It was clear that the other party's Yin Ghost Dao was not simple, and she even felt a sense of threat.
But Leng Yan was quick to retort, scoffing, "The way of Yin ghosts is but a minor art! What can these little ghosts do to me?"
"I merely opened a door; naturally, I can't do anything to you."
Zhang Lingshan smiled slightly, "But what if there were a few more doors?"
Boom boom boom!
The voice just fell.
Leng Yan felt the temperature drop even further, and everything around her felt incredibly cramped.
Four large red-lacquered doors suddenly appeared out of thin air, opening wide towards her and Chu Heng. Countless ghosts rolled out of the red doors like dumplings being dropped into a pot, emitting mournful and eerie cries.
"Block your ears!"
Leng Yan shouted sharply.
These sounds can influence a person's mind.
If we are constantly influenced by this sound and become cowardly before the battle even begins, then there's no point in even fighting.
Chu Heng's face turned pale, and he hurriedly clenched his right hand, about to take out a magic weapon from his ring to protect his ears.
But just then, he felt his right hand touch nothing.
Strictly speaking, he didn't leave empty-handed; at least he found a ring.
but.
The ring was completely empty. Not only did he fail to retrieve the magical artifact he had intended to take out, but even the things he hadn't planned to touch had vanished without a trace.
"What's going on!?"
Chu Heng let out a terrified scream.
"what happened?"
Leng Yan, as expected of a Celestial Lord, was able to remain calm at this moment, and even with her ears covered, she could still hear Chu Heng's words.
Because she had sealed her hearing, her divine sense was still focused on Chu Heng, keeping a close eye on her loyal subordinate.
"Everything in my ring is gone!" Chu Heng exclaimed.
"Gone? How could it be gone? Why did it disappear?"
Leng Yan asked instinctively, not quite understanding at first.
The ring has always been on my hand, so how could the contents inside have mysteriously disappeared? Could it be that the space inside the ring has rotted and the contents have leaked out?
"What are you looking for?"
A voice, chuckling softly, rang in Chu Heng's ear.
Chu Heng's expression changed abruptly. He turned his head sharply and stared intently. He saw a ghostly face suddenly looming close to his nose. He couldn't help but turn pale with horror and retreated rapidly.
As they retreated, they reached the edge of the red gate, where each of the ghosts grabbed one of them and pulled them inside.
"It was you! So it was you who stole the Ghost Mask from the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce and framed me!"
Just before entering the Red Gate, Chu Heng left behind these last words.
He finally realized what the ghost mask that the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce had mentioned was all about.
Like the other members of the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce, he assumed that the Ghost Mask was stolen by someone from the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce building. Who would have thought that it was Li Xuanbing who used such a stealthy method to put the Ghost Mask into Chu Heng's ring?
This explains why the items in Chu Heng's ring suddenly disappeared without a trace.
It wasn't that the space inside the ring had leaked; rather, after I arrived here, that despicable guy Li Xuanbing emptied all my belongings.
Such methods are truly unbelievable!
If I had known this guy had this trick up his sleeve, I shouldn't have worn a storage ring this time. I should have come naked and watched him steal it.
But the issue now is no longer whether or not to steal.
If I had known this guy's methods were so bizarre, I shouldn't have come here to die.
When this guy put on that ghost mask he stole from the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce, he seemed like a completely different person.
wrong.
It wasn't that it was a different person; it was as if it had become a group of people.
More accurately, they turned into a bunch of ghosts.
The mask seemed to contain countless ghost faces. The moment the mask approached, it was as if countless ghost faces were attacking you face to face, freezing your mind and making it almost impossible to think.
It wasn't until he was pulled into the red gate that he finally realized what the other party's methods were.
pity.
It was all too late.
When Chu Heng emerged from the red gate again, he seemed to have awakened. He was no longer confused, no longer in pain, no longer timid, no longer panicked, and no longer screaming.
He became unusually calm.
"Chu Heng, what are you doing? Come here right now."
Leng Yan called out urgently.
However, when Chu Heng actually came closer to her, Leng Yan's expression suddenly changed, and she screamed urgently, "Get away! Don't come near me!"
"Hahaha."
Zhang Lingshan laughed loudly: "You're unwilling to get close to me, you woman, you're such a hypocrite."
"What exactly did you do!?"
Leng Yan shouted sharply, his entire body enveloped in icy aura, forming a frozen zone that forbade anything outside, including Zhang Lingshan and all ghosts and monsters, to approach.
"hehe."
Zhang Lingshan smiled faintly: "Foolish fellow, how long can your Frost Domain last? All this scheming and struggling is no use. You might as well just surrender. Look at this."
As he spoke, Zhang Lingshan took out the Soul-Guiding Banner.
It was obtained from Leng Yan back then.
Upon seeing this banner, Leng Yan nearly coughed up blood.
At the time, she believed that the banner was too yin in nature and that the other party would not be able to subdue it. Instead, it would bring disaster. Therefore, in order to settle the matter and keep the peace, she willingly handed over the banner.
I never expected that this kid would know such a disgusting and sinister trick.
Isn't this a heretical practice?
The Ice Spirit Sect is a prestigious sect, yet it appointed a heretical cultivator who plays with ghosts as its Holy Son. If outsiders knew this, they would laugh their heads off.
Let alone outsiders, if the Ice Spirit Sect Master knew that his Holy Son was a heretical cultivator of the demonic path, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood. He would expel the Holy Son from the sect on the spot, or even beat him to death.
If possible, Leng Yan really wanted to spread this message so that the people of the Ice Spirit Sect could see what kind of person their supreme holy son really was.
Unfortunately.
The opponent not only possesses evil cultivation techniques, but also knows formations.
He had secretly sent out countless messages, but none of them had a follow-up; they were all sealed away in this abyss.
She had thought they had trapped Zhang Lingshan, but she hadn't expected that the other side would turn the tables on her, and she was now trapped and unable to send any messages.
This is true isolation and helplessness.
No wonder the other party knew that Chu Heng had placed a mark on him, yet still swaggered over here.
His purpose was not only to lure Chu Heng, but also to get rid of the Immortal King Protector of their Ice Spirit Sect.
Because this kid didn't want the Ice Spirit Sect to know that he possessed the methods of a demonic cultivator.
In other words, she and Chu Heng actually helped the other side a lot, and they walked right into the trap the other side had set up, becoming easy prey.
"Chu Heng, you've just joined my Ghost Realm army and already encountered a delicious and delightful immortal lord. It's only right that you make a great contribution today."
Zhang Lingshan said with a smile, and with a wave of his right hand, he sent the ghost mask and the soul-guiding banner to Chu Heng.
As soon as Chu Heng put on the ghost mask, his ghostly aura surged dozens of times, and his overall aura reached its peak.
After all, he was the strongest Yin ghost in the entire Yama Ghost Realm, a Yin ghost who had reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.
That is, they have just joined the army of ghosts, and their aura has not yet been fully integrated.
Otherwise, his ghostly aura could have continued to rise.
Even so, it's enough for now.
Because Chu Heng still has the Soul-Guiding Banner in his hand. This magic weapon can help him gather the power of the surrounding Yin ghosts, allowing them to gather together and enhance his power.
"May your soul return!"
"Leng Yan, you are destined to be a member of our Yama Ghost Realm. Stop struggling and come quickly to join us in the banner."
"Let's quickly gather in the banner!"
The ghosts shouted in unison, their voices varying in pitch and speed, their movements unpredictable, as they slipped into Leng Yan's icy domain from countless gaps in all directions, bewitching her mind.
"Don't even think about trying to unsettle me!"
Leng Yan let out a sharp, long howl that soared into the sky, drowning out all the noisy ghostly sounds and whispers.
Her aura surged dramatically, her immortal power almost tangible, sweeping away the surrounding ghosts like leaves in a whirlwind, sending them flying back into the red gate. (End of Chapter)