I become a god in another world

Chapter 699 The war is about to begin
Chapter 699

The moment the vengeful ghost appeared, everyone's expression turned serious.

Meng Po stopped dwelling on what the paper doll Zhang had said and instead looked at the 'tree roots' with a slightly nervous expression.

Yu Lingzhu's expression turned pale, and her lips trembled.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the coffin beside the old woman's ghost body rapidly decayed and liquefied at a visible speed, eventually dissipating into a pool of ashes and mist that scattered around.

The ghost's eyes were half-open, its forehead was covered with wrinkles, and its disheveled hair covered its bluish-gray, lifeless face, making it a terrifying sight.

The ghost was dressed in a dark blue-green robe embroidered with cloud patterns.

Countless dark branches sprouted from the ghost's body, flying in all directions to form a strange, powerful, and terrifying ghost tree.

At this moment, the vengeful ghost was fully revived, and the ghost tree that was originally divided into six paths was immediately taken back by Old Madam Chang.

The black mist flowed backward, and when it returned to its embrace, it transformed into a ghost child of four or five years old.

Chang Hao!

Yu Lingzhu murmured.

As soon as she finished speaking, Old Mrs. Chang straightened up from her stiff body.

As soon as the vengeful spirit moved, everyone let out a painful groan, as if their souls were being pulled away.

Under the pale light of the ghost lamp, countless thin, blood-red threads were seen connecting the human and the ghost.

Old Mrs. Chang, shrouded in black aura, turned to leave.

As soon as it moved, the blood threads connecting Meng Po, Chen Duozi, and the people of the capital were instantly pulled tighter.

The ghost's power was boundless; the combined strength of the remaining people in Wan'an County and the capital was insufficient to stop its advance.

The vengeful ghost took two steps forward, the Yellow Springs changed course, and Meng Po's ghost pot twisted.

Blood streaks dug into everyone's bodies, and countless bluish-black ghost spots appeared on their skin.

A skull-like face instantly appeared above the demonic spots.

The face was so lifelike that once it came back to life, it began to devour the flesh and blood of everyone.

……

The situation, which was originally under the control of Zhao Fusheng and others, was suddenly disrupted by the recovery of Granny Chang.

Everyone couldn't help but scream.

Meng Po and the others felt their power rapidly draining away. The speed at which the ghost head spread far exceeded their expectations. Their skin became like rotting, withered leaves. As their flesh and blood were lost, their skin shriveled up and clung tightly to their bones.

This devouring power even affected the vengeful spirits themselves, causing the vengeful spirits controlled by Wu Shaochun and Kuai Manzhou to weaken rapidly.

Zhao Fusheng turned his head quickly.

The moment Granny Chang revived, the paper figure Zhang had already disappeared.

He wasn't running away. This man's purpose was unclear. Since he had come all this way to send Sun Shaoyin's ghost head to piece together a body, he must have something big on his mind. It was impossible for him to hide at this time.

It is highly likely that he knew how formidable Old Lady Chang was and wanted to sit back and watch the two fight.

Realizing this, Zhao Fusheng immediately understood the situation.

Paper Man Zhang wants to deplete his own and Granny Chang's power in order to benefit himself. Therefore, he is unlikely to intervene in the early stages. Perhaps if he is truly no match for her, she will lend him a hand.

With that thought in mind, she immediately got up.

The ghostly threads pierced her body, tearing her flesh to pieces, leaving only a layer of skin and flesh holding her together.

Investiture of the Gods prompts: Do you want to consume 10000 merit points to piece together a physical body?

Yes!
This is not the time to conserve merit points.

As soon as Zhao Fusheng had this thought, his merit points immediately turned into a green mist, continuing to connect her flesh and blood.

She stood in mid-air, bound by countless blood threads.

As she turned around, she saw that Meng Po and the others were in danger.

Where Grandma Chang walked, she left behind a thick, dark fog.

The black mist surged like a river, billowing and carrying Old Lady Chang's ghostly body in front of it.

All the living people were being dragged behind it, following the vengeful ghost, which was about to pull them into this extremely dangerous 'river'.

This river is a cycle of reincarnation; once people enter this cycle, they will likely find it difficult to escape the laws of the six realms.

Everyone sensed something was wrong.

But the ghost hadn't even made a move yet; it had only just awakened, and everyone's power was completely suppressed in its presence.

Although the people of Wan'an County were terrified, they remained relatively calm, as they were used to large-scale events.

The few envoys who had miraculously survived in the capital were terrified.

As the 'Ghost River' loomed, everyone involuntarily let out screams:

"Help--"

As soon as he finished speaking, several people were already about to step into the river.

Just then, Zhao Fusheng made his move.

She opened up hell.

As soon as hell opened, a glimmer of light appeared on the river surface that was billowing with endless black smoke.

This tiny light was like a star in the vast night sky.

The starlight flickered slowly, breaking through the black mist's barrier, and leisurely emerged from the ghostly fog in accordance with the laws of nature.

It's easy to lose your way in the long river of reincarnation, but Zhang Chuanshi's ghost ship will never get lost!

Ghost ships are naturally adapted to 'rivers', and the laws of ghost rivers are precisely what 'counter' the ships.

Zhang Chuanshi's dying wish was to return to Zhao Fusheng's side, and this wish ensured that the vengeful ghost would not go astray.

As soon as the ghost ship appeared, the light from Zhang Chuanshi's body immediately illuminated the riverbank.

Under this light, the scene inside the River of Reincarnation was immediately revealed to everyone.

Countless heads floated and sank within the black river.

A dense array of dead faces looked up, their heads bowed, towards the center of the ship.

The ghost heads were countless, seemingly numbering in the tens of millions. Everyone glanced at them and were momentarily disoriented, as if the sea of ​​heads and blood stretched endlessly before their eyes.

Suddenly, Yu Lingzhu was horrified: not only could she not see the end, but when she looked back, she could no longer see the path the group had come from.

The group was about to fall into the sea of ​​ghosts.

Just then, the lantern flickered, and the group, lured by the lantern's laws, felt light and floaty, and somehow found themselves on the ferry.

After boarding the ship, I was surrounded by a vast expanse of white space and couldn't find my way.

Zhao Fusheng has disappeared, and the shrine, Wuqing County, and Granny Chang have all vanished without a trace.

Ghost heads appeared in all directions, and beyond the edges of the ghost heads lay endless black mist.

“The sea of ​​ghosts is boundless.” One of the messengers shuddered.

He felt a sense of despair.

The moment this thought arose, his heart was instantly devoured by some kind of law, leaving it completely empty.

He stared blankly down at the side of the ship, where several ghostly corpses had somehow climbed onto the side of the ship and reached out their hands to him.

This scene startled the messenger so much that he wanted to scream, but it felt as if there was sand stuck in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound.

As his consciousness spun, he looked again—and the situation had immediately changed.

He had disembarked at some point and was now lying on the side of the boat, looking up at the direction of the boat, trying to climb inside.

The messenger died.

This is a law belonging to the River of Reincarnation.

In just a glance, seven or eight of the dozen or so surviving messengers were lost.

The remaining people were terrified.

Yu Lingzhu whispered:
"Don't look at the Ghost Sea."

Her words sent a chill down everyone's spine.

If we don't look at the sea of ​​ghosts, where else can we look?
The survivors, keeping their minds focused, discovered that everyone in Wan'an County was perfectly fine.

Before the great laws, both ghost tamers and ordinary people are treated equally, achieving absolute fairness and justice: because whether human or ghost, and regardless of the ghost's rank, all are suppressed by the laws of reincarnation and cannot cause any trouble.

Therefore, the fact that none of the people in Wan'an County had died was quite surprising to everyone.

A translucent old ghost, with a deathly pale face and a hint of cunning, stood among the crowd, reaching out to Liu Yizhen, Meng Po, and the others. Meng Po, seemingly from nowhere, produced a medicinal candy and placed it in Zhang Chuanshi's hand.
Liu Yizhen put his hands behind his back and said, "I owe you money."

Fan Bisi and Fan Wujiu had their backs to Zhang Chuanshi, while Chen Duozi was at a loss.

Wu Shaochun was an upright man, and he looked guilty because he had no money to pay the ferry fare.

Only Kuai Manzhou coldly pushed Zhang Chuanshi's hand away:
"No."

The vengeful ghost couldn't understand her words and persistently reached out again, but Kuai Manzhou pushed it away once more.

"No."

……

The people interacted with the ghosts, but overlooked the influence of the ghost sea.

Just as everyone was pondering, a ghostly figure flickered, and Zhang Chuanshi's ghostly body appeared in front of Yu Lingzhu and the others, and they all reached out their hands at the same time.

With this demand, the pressure on everyone immediately increased.

Earlier, I watched the people of Wan'an County interact with ghosts, and it was quite easy to have a face-to-face conversation with this old boatman.

But when the vengeful ghost stood in front of the group and reached out for money, everyone felt immense pressure.

One example is that made him learn from Kuai Manzhou's reaction:

"No--"

He reached out to push Zhang Chuanshi's hand away, but when his flesh and blood touched Zhang Chuanshi's palm, the light within the Ghost Boatman's body ignited like wildfire.

Suddenly, flames ignited within his body, and in an instant, he transformed into a human-shaped lantern.

Seeing this, the remaining people dared not harbor any more illusions.

When they have no money to pay, they pay with their own possessions, their own lifespan, or some kind of promise.

……

The ghost ship slowly approached Zhao Fusheng.

Only when they approached Zhao Fusheng's side and entered hell did the group awaken from the fog.

In the short time that followed, more than ten more of the envoys on the ship died, leaving only the man from Wan'an County, Ding Datong, and six or seven envoys from the capital led by Yu Lingzhu.

With the hellish suppression in hand, Zhang Chuanshi had no intention of extorting money from the living anymore, and instead wanted to invite Zhao Fusheng onto the ship.

The Investiture of the Gods hints: The ferryman of the Yellow Springs invites you to board his boat.

Zhao Fusheng remained silent and invited the ghost messenger out.

She successively bestowed the Six Paths of Laws, establishing the rudiments of a great order, thus accumulating immense merit and receiving rewards from the Investiture of the Gods. Now, she possesses a considerable amount of merit points.

The ghost messengers, suppressed by merit points, willingly submit to her commands.

The moment the ghost messenger carrying the ghost knife appeared, he immediately subdued Zhang Chuanshi.

As soon as the ghost messenger was revived, he immediately got to work.

Horse-faced man wielded his knife and slashed away the bloodstains clinging to the ghost ship wherever he went.

Its blade has a karmic connection with the Chang family and is effective against the Ghost Vine.

At this moment, as the blood threads on Meng Po and the others were severed, the force pulling them apart loosened.

Investiture of the Gods prompts: Do you want to consume 10 merit points to repair the offering shrine?

Yes!
Zhao Fusheng made his choice.

Merit points have been deducted.

The shrines that had been destroyed by the law of reincarnation were repaired one by one.

Meng Po, Liu Yizhen, Chen Duozi, and others returned to the Shrine of Life and were protected by it.

"You will suppress the laws for me, seal off the four directions, and prevent Old Madam Chang from leaving Wuqing County," Zhao Fusheng instructed.

After escaping danger, everyone shouted upon hearing this:
"Yes!"

After rescuing everyone and ensuring there were no further worries, Zhao Fusheng prepared to go all out.

With a flick of her wrist, she pulled a thin, blood-red thread into her hand.

"Come back!"

With a stern shout, Zhao Fusheng grabbed the blood-stained thread and yanked it hard.

Her seemingly light pull was actually a contest of the power of laws.

The Ghost Sea began to tremble.

The countless vengeful ghosts in the sea began to wail, and wave after wave crashed against her, sweeping over her layer by layer. When they reached Zhao Fusheng, they turned into a hurricane, trying to engulf her.

Behind her floated a dozen or so shrines, and the crowd hid inside them. They watched as the black mist approached, its waves crashing up to several dozen feet high, like towering mountain peaks, and its shadow engulfed Zhao Fusheng.

All of this was silent, yet it came with overwhelming force.

Everyone clenched their fists.

Zhao Fusheng's hair flew wildly, her clothes fluttered in the wind, and she faced the sea of ​​ghosts, displaying her supernatural powers of manifesting heaven and earth.

She completely controlled the Investiture of the Gods and had already established her own laws—which originally belonged to the category of 'ghosts'.

At this moment, using the special identity of a 'ghost' to unleash the power of a ghost would be even more powerful.

A large amount of black energy surged from Zhao Fusheng's body, and wherever the black energy reached, her figure solidified.

In an instant, her body transformed into a pillar supporting the sky, firmly blocking the invincible torrent of the Sea of ​​Reincarnation that was sweeping in.

She stood like an insurmountable, solid mountain, blocking everyone's path.

'Boom. '

The sea of ​​reincarnation crashed against her, and the crests of the waves swept her away.

The main impact of the Great Law was blocked by Zhao Fusheng, but the aftershocks still impacted the surroundings, causing the shrine where everyone was located to shake violently.

However, the place associated with the shrine is Zhao Fusheng.

She will never die, and her shrine will never perish.

Black energy surged upwards, and the aftershocks of the Sea of ​​Reincarnation tore apart Zhao Fusheng's body.

The division rules of the Investiture of the Gods are revealed at this time.

A line of blood severed Zhao Fusheng's neck, and another line of blood separated her limbs and torso.

The bloodline formed by the laws disintegrated her body, instantly separating her head from her body.

This scene terrified Yu Lingzhu and the others in the capital.

Yu Lingzhu was about to unleash the Ghostly Law without saying a word, but upon closer inspection, someone exclaimed:

"Lord Zhao is not dead."

Zhao Fusheng is indeed not dead.

The greatest benefit of transforming one's body into a living 'ghost' is that one can be divided without dying.

Where the severed body was disintegrated, a large amount of malevolent energy surged out.

These malevolent energies, like broken lotus roots still connected by threads, remained intertwined, preventing Zhao Fusheng from being completely broken down.

A ghostly monument appeared in the center of her split body, as immovable as a stone that calms the sea.

No matter how fierce the winds and waves, no matter how the laws apply to it, they cannot shake it in the slightest.

Zhao Fusheng was startled when her body was first separated, but she quickly regained her composure and was not frightened.

Countless wronged souls and vengeful ghosts clung to her body in the sea of ​​blood, beginning to devour her soul and flesh.

These ghostly accomplices could not shake her position, nor could they cover up the existence of the Ghost Stele of the Investiture of the Gods, but their large numbers were like annoying flies, causing her some interference.

Her hand trembled:
"Enter the cycle of reincarnation into the realm of hungry ghosts!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a large number of ghostly accomplices clinging to her arm instantly turned into tiny dots within the torrent, swept into the tide of reincarnation, and surged down her arm toward her back.

In the shrine behind her, the brothers Fan Bisi, who guarded the path of evil spirits, felt something at that moment.

Neither of them could explain their feelings.

It was as if the two of them had received a divine instruction and gained some understanding.

"We will guard the realm of evil spirits!"

As soon as the two Fans had this thought, the shrine immediately 'moved'.

The shrine carried the two forward, and the ghosts who had been banished to the realm of evil spirits by Zhao Fusheng were swept up by a huge wave of the Sea of ​​Reincarnation and surged toward the direction of the Fan brothers.

(End of this chapter)