Hell Emperor.

Chapter 404 Ye Jie-Arrival
"Ah Jie, the land ahead is Japan. You have an important mission this time, so you must be careful. I will escort Master to the Immortal Ascension Conference on Fangzhang Immortal Island first. If you need anything later, please use the remaining pages of the Book of Life and Death to contact Master. I will come as soon as I see you."

Without any obstacles blocking the way, Shen Qingge flew his sword and quickly sent Ye Jie to the island of Japan, and then they parted.

Ye Jie nodded slightly, clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Qingge, I will take good care of myself, and there will be no accidents on this trip. However, when the mission is completed, I don't know what extreme actions the ghosts of the Wushen Temple will take..."

At the end, Ye Jie sighed. This time he will assassinate the master of the Witch God Temple and seize the main account. The ghosts in the Witch God Temple will certainly not let it go, and he doesn't know how many lives will be involved in this disaster. However, in order to resurrect Hua Xiaomei who was accidentally killed by Xia Wei, he has no choice.

"As for you, I heard from the Dragon King that the Ascension Conference is not peaceful, so you'd better be more careful." As if he thought of something, Ye Jie reminded again.

"Don't worry. The title of Xuannv's descendant is not in vain. When we meet again next time, I will have ascended to the position of Ghost Immortal. It seems that I am still one step ahead of you on the path to immortality."

Ren Changhong waved her hands and smiled, her heart filled with joy at the impending ascension, as if she didn't take the tests at the Ascension Conference and the obstruction of her competitors seriously at all. For her, the descendant of Xuannv, ascension was undoubtedly a foregone conclusion.

Meng Junyao also said goodbye to Ye Jie reluctantly: "My dear, I'm going to find my brother first. He seems to be in a bad condition. When you finish dealing with the matter in Japan, you must come to find us!"

"Of course, but judging by your attitude, I'm afraid someone will become an immortal before I can find you."

Ye Jie smiled. In the mortal world, the title of the descendant of Xuan Nu was not understood by many practitioners with little knowledge due to geographical separation. But in the heavenly court, it was extremely useful. He was afraid that before he arrived, they would have already settled the matter.

Li Fei'e glanced at Ye Jie and pursed her lips and said, "I'm still very worried about Sister Xia Wei... When things are over, I will definitely go find her."

Ye Jie remained silent. After saying goodbye to several people one by one, he reached into his arms and took out a soul-calling flag covered with dark brown bloodstains and wrinkled skin. He slapped it hard, and a figure with white hair hanging down to the ground and a demonic aura came out of it.

"I'm sorry... the soul-summoning flag is of poor quality. I kept you inside it all the way, and you must have been suffocated. Now that we have finally arrived in Japan, it's time to let you out." Ye Jie said apologetically.

The one summoned by Ye Jie was the snow witch that Xia Wei and others had seen on Mount Paektu before. In order to find the whereabouts of the witch and unable to reach Japan, she went along with Xia Wei and others.

Before Ye Jie set off, he also thought of the Snow Fairy, so he took her with him and put her into the Soul Summoning Banner. Fortunately, she had no complaints. If it were any other powerful fairy demon, they would definitely not be willing to hide in the Soul Summoning Banner and would face the risk of their souls being refined at any time.

"Finally arrived...my hometown."

After coming out of the soul-summoning banner, the Snow Fairy seemed to remember something and murmured.

Ye Jie glanced at her and said, "You have been living in the soul-summoning flag all the way, and you have been willing to risk your life to reach this land of Japan. I guess this trip is very important to you."

The Snow Fairy said in a shrill tone: "My husband, he has violated the Heavenly Law and is still suppressed in the Soul Devouring Abyss. I am very worried about him... I don't know what his situation is, but I know that only the witch of the Witch God Temple can help me see him!"

Ye Jie understood the situation clearly. The Snow Fairy was willing to risk her life to reach Japan and look for the witches in order to find out about her husband. He then said, "Since this is your hometown, please lead the way. I also have something to do with those witches."

The Snow Girl nodded and led the way without hesitation: "As long as we can find a shrine in the nearby village, we can find those witches! Follow me, according to my perception, as long as we follow this road, we can reach the gathering place of people..."

Led by the Snow Girl, the two men immediately moved forward and after some searching, they saw traces of houses ahead and came to a village where people lived.

However, the scene in the village was far beyond their expectations. There were corpses everywhere and people died in miserable ways. The whole village was shrouded in an eerie and ominous atmosphere, as if it had been cursed by the most vicious curse. Even flies and insects dared not approach.

"Here...how could this happen?" The tragic scene in the village made the Snow Girl gasp, unable to believe what she saw.

Ye Jie was extremely calm. He leaned over and checked the corpse. He soon got some important information:

"Their bodies are still warm. It hasn't been too long since they died. Moreover, their deaths were not caused by demons, but more like evil spirits. Even their souls are nowhere to be found. Ordinary demons only know how to destroy the body, and only ghosts will intentionally destroy the soul as well."

"What on earth happened here?" The Snow Girl looked around, trying to find the answer from the clues around her. Soon, her eyes fell on a mountain road. Outside the mountain road, a bright red arch stood there. "It's the torii of the shrine... Follow me, walk this way and you will reach the shrine."

Ye Jie set out to follow, and as they walked along the mountain road, the situation did not improve at all. The tragic traces of the battle beside the road and the corpses everywhere conveyed a very bad signal to the two of them. In this catastrophe, even the shrine might not be spared.

Finally, the two arrived at the shrine, but the situation around them was no better than that of the village below. The only difference was that the corpses under their feet had changed from the corpses of villagers in cloth clothes to the corpses of shrine maidens in red and white uniforms.

Ye Jie looked calm, stroking his chin and said, "It is indeed a vicious ghost causing trouble. I don't know where this vicious ghost is from and what grudge it has. It even spared the shrine of the Wushen Temple."

The Snow Girl was stunned: "How could this be... We finally found a shrine, but there is no one to show us the way, not even a soul."

"Speaking of souls... there really are some here."

Ye Jie changed the subject and his eyes fell on a deep well outside the shrine, which seemed to contain something.

The Snow Girl was stunned. Following Ye Jie's instructions, she also looked at the deep well. Her eyes gradually changed from disbelief at the beginning to surprise: "There really is a soul hiding there! Even I didn't notice it, but you noticed the abnormality so quickly..."

As she spoke, the eyes of the Snow Girl looked at Ye Jie with a different look. Although she had long known that Ye Jie was the master of the Golden Wheel Palace under the Hades, his realm was there. He had not yet become a ghost fairy, so naturally he could not be admired by the monsters who were respected for their strength.

Due to her lack of understanding, Xue Nu even thought that the reason why Ye Jie was able to become the master of the Golden Wheel Palace was only with the help of his disciple Xia Wei. After all, Xue Nu had been defeated by Xia Wei before, so she naturally recognized Xia Wei's strength.

Now, seeing that Ye Jie's seemingly ordinary mortal ghost appearance actually hid a perception that even demons and immortals could not match, the Snow Girl looked at him seriously for the first time.

"I don't know who is hiding in the deep well. Could he be the culprit behind all this? I will call that ghost out right now."

The Snow Girl's face was determined. As she slowly gathered her energy, her innate abilities were fully activated. Deep in the well, she felt so cold that even her soul seemed to be completely frozen. Soon, a soul could no longer bear it and jumped out of the well.

Seeing Ye Jie and his companions, the ghost was terrified, followed by deep grief and indignation, and said mournfully: "You killed so many of our companions in the shrine, and even I was found by you... Well, I escaped in the previous battle. I am sorry for my master who taught me, and for my companions. Even if my soul is scattered, I will let you know how powerful I am!"

The one who escaped from the well was a young girl ghost. She had a look of shock on her face and eyes full of grief and anger. She was about to use her martial arts to explode her soul and severely injure Ye Jie and his group.

"Calm down, you might be mistaking us for someone else."

Seeing this, Ye Jie seemed to realize something, and stretched out his hand to grasp it in the air. The female ghost's body suddenly stiffened. Her preparation for self-destruction was now interrupted. Her face turned red for a moment, and she was like a deflated ball. No matter how she used her energy, she could not escape at all.

The Snow Woman also stepped forward to persuade him: "Don't worry, judging from your attire, you are the shrine maiden of this shrine, right? What exactly happened here? Can you tell us what happened?"

After a conversation, the female ghost calmed down, her eyes showing a bit of surprise: "You... are not in the same group as the previous evil spirits? It seems that I have wronged you. The sisters in the shrine, all..."

As she spoke, the ghost girl could no longer suppress her grief and began to sob softly. It was the Snow Girl who comforted her that made her mood slightly better. Then she told the truth:

"The culprit who massacred the Linhai Shrine and the village protected by the shrine was a group of extremely cruel ghosts... They were cruel and slaughtered all the sisters in the shrine, not even sparing their souls... The tragic scene of the battle made me deeply timid. I committed suicide before the slaughter came and hid my soul in a deep well. This is how I escaped. If not, I am afraid that my soul would not have survived... I feel sorry for the dead sisters..."

After understanding the situation, the Snow Girl also showed some grief. Thinking of the previous experience of the female ghost, the Snow Girl, as a demon, could not bear to watch it and immediately said, "Those evil ghosts, do you know where they went?"

The female ghost pointed to the path next to her: "I heard from the bottom of the well that they ran this way at last. I can feel that you two have abundant spiritual power in your bodies and your strength far exceeds that of the sisters of the shrine maidens. Can you please help and avenge those sisters of the shrine maidens who died at the hands of the evil spirits?"

The Snow Girl did not hesitate and immediately replied: "I will help you and get rid of those evil spirits that are causing trouble in the world."

After saying that, the Snow Girl pulled Ye Jie and followed the trail that the evil spirits had taken.

On the way, Ye Jie was helpless. He hadn't said anything yet, so he let the Snow Girl finish her words. He had to remind her, "Have you forgotten why you came here? Aren't you looking for your husband? You haven't even solved your own problems, but you're planning to avenge those witches. Is it because of their experiences that you feel sympathy? Aren't you a monster? How can you sympathize with the suffering of humans?"

The Snow Girl's eyes were slightly cold, and she shook her head and said, "Even though I am a monster, my husband is the mountain god of Mount Paektu. After spending a long time with him, I will naturally feel close to humans. Besides, I helped those witches to avenge their deaths, not entirely out of sympathy."

Ye Jie glanced at her and said, "So, you are planning to gain the trust of the witches through this matter, so as to achieve your goal and contact your husband who has been suppressed in the Soul Devouring Abyss until now? That is indeed a good idea, but how do you know that those witches can definitely help you?"

If the Snow Maiden avenged the tragic death of the witch, she would have a legitimate reason to ask the witch for help. It sounded good. But how would the witches contact the souls in the Soul Devouring Abyss? Shouldn't she ask the Shura of the Demon Palace for help? At least the Shura could enter the Soul Devouring Abyss freely, but the witches didn't have that much ability to dare to interfere in the affairs of the Demon Palace.

In response, the Snow Girl simply said: "It seems that you don't know the legend of the red veil... Every ghost born in Japan has heard of the legend of the red veil, and only it can help me."

"What red veil?" Ye Jie raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of doubt. He didn't know whether the red veil the Snow Girl was talking about was a person or a ghost? Or was it just a decoration for a man and a woman to get married.

However, no matter how Ye Jie asked, the Snow Girl avoided talking about it, and only said that when Ye Jie saw the red veil, he would naturally understand everything. Although Ye Jie was helpless, he could only put his doubts aside, and soon there was a harsh noise in front of him.

"We are able to be reborn. This time, we will let those witches know how powerful we are!"

"We were all killed by the witches when we were alive, and our souls were imprisoned after death. Now that we have escaped and ascended to heaven, we will make those witches pay ten times the price!"

In front of him, a group of evil spirits sat in a circle, laughing wildly, with an ominous and sinister atmosphere around them. A bonfire was burning in the middle of them. Looking closely, corpses with miserable deaths were roasting on the bonfire. The corpses were skewered with spears, and their bodies turned to charcoal, and they could not rest in peace even after death.

"Did you hear the screams of those witches before they died? That sound was so beautiful."

"Speaking of which, the one who killed the most witches must be Brother Hexia. His sword-drawing and slashing moves really make us envious."

Amid the flattery of the ghosts, Kawashita Yoshiharu, with a sword on his waist, was in high spirits, and his sallow face showed a bit of cruelty and bloodthirstiness. In the battle to destroy the shrine, he contributed the most, and countless priestesses died under his sword.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps was heard in the distance, which immediately attracted the attention of all the ghosts. He Xiaji also glanced over, but after just one look, he could not move his eyes away.

(End of this chapter)