My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 806 Spirit World
Jiang Xinghuo stretched out his hand and grabbed Ling Chi through the air, which frightened Ling Chi so much that his soul flew out of his body. It was too late for him to dodge, so he could only turn into cold wind and dodge backwards, hoping to avoid Jiang Xinghuo's attack.

But it still underestimated the strength of the Red Lotus Karma Fire. Under the control of the Hundred Weapons Martial Arts Exercise, the Red Lotus Karma Fire meandered like a strange python and turned into a flying chain of flames, quickly wrapping up the dark wind.

Ling Chi's screams were also heard, and he could no longer maintain the form of Yin Feng. Instead, he was tightly bound by chains of fire and burned rapidly like a torch.

But Ling Chi's resistance is much stronger than other evil spirits, at least his consciousness is not wiped out in the first place.

I don’t know whether Ling Chi’s cultivation level is higher than those evil spirits, or Ling Chi’s own resistance is stronger.

Jiang Xinghuo remembered that the punishment of lingchi required 3,600 cuts on the body, and the entire punishment period would not be completed in one day. It would take three days at the shortest and seven days at the longest to completely end the pain.

Therefore, it is normal for Ling Chi to have a strong resistance to the Red Lotus Karma Fire, but once he is entangled by the Red Lotus Karma Fire, it is only a matter of time before his consciousness is wiped out. Unless Jiang Xinghuo can take back the Red Lotus Karma Fire in time, the only thing waiting for Ling Chi is death.

On the other side, Chen He and Huo Ma, seeing this scene, did not dare to stay any longer and spread their legs and flew away into the distance.

Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry when he saw this. He just transferred his consciousness to the Wuji Chantui clone, then waved his right hand and used the methods in the Dragon Raising Technique. He also coordinated with the Wuji clone's innate ability to reverse the yin and yang qi, forming a twisted vortex, which directly sucked back Chen He and Huo Mai who had escaped. The two evil ghosts had no ability to resist at all, and were instantly wrapped in the red lotus fire.

These two evil ghosts followed in the footsteps of their other companions. The moment they were entangled by the red lotus fire, their consciousness was wiped out by the pain. They could only allow the red lotus fire to burn on their bodies, unable to put up any effective resistance.

At this point, all the evil spirits had been eliminated by Jiang Xinghuo, leaving only Ling Chi still struggling weakly.

"Destined death... It is what it is... Haha... I didn't expect that after hiding for so many years, I still couldn't escape it in the end..."

Ling Chi was entangled in blood-red flames, but there was no trace of pain on his face. Instead, he sat on the ground carefreely, letting the flames rage on his body. At the same time, he looked up at Jiang Xinghuo and asked, "Do you know where this place is?"

"do not know."

Jiang Xinghuo also sat on the ground and shook his head frankly as if he was talking to an old friend.

"This place is called the spirit world. You can think of it as the shadow of the real world, or you can call it the netherworld."

"I know that the world you humans live in now is a fragment separated from the original secular world, drifting aimlessly in the starry sky. Although it can avoid the impact of the destruction of the secular world, your world is also missing a lot of things."

"Like... the kingdom of the dead."

Ling Chi spoke slowly.

Jiang Xinghuo's pupils shrank slightly, and he pondered for a moment before dissipating the red lotus fire on Ling Chi's body. However, the threat was not completely eliminated. The red lotus fire turned into a circular prison, trapping Ling Chi's body inside. If Ling Chi made any unusual movements, the red lotus fire would immediately ignite him again.

"continue."

Jiang Xinghuo said in a deep voice: "Tell me everything you know, I promise to give you a quick death, and you will have a chance to appear again after hundreds of years, otherwise you will disappear from this world forever like your brother."

As he spoke, Jiang Xinghuo pointed at the burning bodies of the evil spirits with his right hand and said, "They have no chance of coming back. My Red Lotus Karma Fire uses sin as fuel to burn, and it will be imprinted in their bodies for generations. Only when all the sins are burned out will the Red Lotus Karma Fire go out. Even if they revive again in the future, as long as their past karma is cleansed, they will still not be able to escape justice."

"With such a high intensity of burning pain, I believe that even if you evil spirits were to suffer from it several times, you would completely disappear into thin air and would never be able to re-condense your body again."

"So how to choose depends on your own thinking."

"If you tell me what you know, maybe you can show up again a hundred years later. But if you want to go down this path to the end, I don't mind sending you off now."

Jiang Xinghuo pinched his right hand slightly, and the circular flame cage shrank instantly. Although it was not enough to completely ignite Ling Chi, the desolate aura emitted by the red lotus fire made Ling Chi's heart tremble.

It knew that its guess was correct. There was indeed something wrong with the flame. If it was entangled by it, it might really have no future.

So when Ling Chi heard Jiang Xinghuo's words, he didn't have any thoughts in his mind. For these evil ghosts who were born with resentment, death only meant sleeping. But if their consciousness was wiped out, the situation would be different. Even if another "Ling Chi" appeared in the world in the future, it was not certain whether that Ling Chi was it. It might be a new collection of resentment.

Moreover, the reason why Ling Chi said those words was not to pray for his life, it was just to divert the trouble away. In this spiritual world, there lived a large number of terrifying creatures, and there were many beings that even these evil spirits were unwilling to provoke.

But it believed that as long as it told Jiang Xinghuo these things, whether out of instinctive curiosity or confidence in his own strength, he would go deeper into the spiritual world to explore.

By then, whether Jiang Xinghuo died at the hands of other evil spirits, or other evil spirits were killed by Jiang Xinghuo, it would be something that Ling Chi would be happy to see.

If Jiang Xinghuo died in the spirit world, it would be an indirect revenge for them. On the contrary, if Jiang Xinghuo killed other evil spirits, it would be even better. As the saying goes, it is not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth. If one person is unlucky, it is really unlucky. If everyone is unlucky together, it would be fun. Otherwise, why am I dead and you are not? Isn't this extremely unfair?

So when he heard Jiang Xinghuo's words, he could only cry. Ling Chi not only did not resist in his heart, but he happily told everything he knew. "The world we live in now is the kingdom of the dead that was derived from the separation of the real world from the secular world. All the living beings who died in the real world will enter this spirit world after death. If they are lucky, they will become evil spirits, and if they are unlucky, they will become food. The competition between ghosts is much more intense than that of other creatures. The four words "you die and I live" are the best embodiment of this."

"This ancient house is a building that evolved from a prison. It holds dozens of evil spirits. We were one of them, but we escaped from there later."

"Why escape?"

Jiang Xinghuo asked back: "Even if you escape from the old house, you can't leave this world. Instead of going out to fight with other evil spirits, why don't you hide in the old house for safety?"

Ling Chi sighed, shook his head and said, "You only know the facts, but not the reasons. Since this old house is a prison, it means it is not a shelter. The person who built the old house was not so kind. You may not understand the survival mechanism of us evil spirits. We evil spirits are the products born from the nothingness after death. Even if you see your relatives and friends here, it is best not to regard them as living people, because they are all ghosts evolved after death. Although they have memories of their lives, all emotions are lost. You are just a stranger to them. The better ones will ignore you, and the worse ones may directly tear you apart and swallow your soul."

"I've strayed off topic. Let's get back to the survival mechanism of things like us. After we are born, if we want to continue to become stronger, we can only do so by devouring other evil spirits. If we are hungry for a long time and cannot eat enough ghosts, then our strength will weaken day by day, and we may even starve to death here. If evil spirits like us die again, we may really be dead. After all, things like 魙 are not common. After thousands of evil spirits die, there may be a chance for one or two to be born."

"And the evil spirits trapped in the old house have no way to devour other evil spirits. They can only quietly wait for death to come. Therefore, any evil spirits that have the ability to escape from the old house will not stay there to die. Although the old house can isolate the attacks of other evil spirits, it will also trap itself to death inside."

After listening to Ling Chi's words, Jiang Xinghuo finally understood the whole story, but he didn't know how to describe the ghost bride and the ghost baby.

You might say that they were unlucky and were trapped in the old house waiting to die, but they turned into ghosts under their own catalysis.

But if you say they are lucky, being able to become ghosts under almost impossible circumstances, before they can show their power and reveal the abilities of ghosts, Meng Po boils them into soup, washes away their memories, and turns them into her most loyal slaves.

"I have told you everything I know. You can start now. Finally, I will give you a piece of advice. Never trust the evil spirits you see here, even if they were your parents when they were alive."

After Ling Chi finished speaking, he sat there with his eyes closed, looking like he was waiting to die. Jiang Xinghuo looked at Ling Chi and a ball of lightning flashed in his palm. To be honest, he really didn't want to kill Ling Chi like this. If he could use him for his own purposes, he would definitely be a chosen worker in the future. Letting him become the executioner of hell and controlling the way various tortures were carried out would save him a lot of trouble.

But the problem is that he killed all the evil spirits and only left Ling Chi. Will the other party obey his orders as he wished?
Although he had the God-Binding Immortal Talisman and the Prison-Suppressing Disaster in his hands, as long as there was a pattern, it was possible to avoid it. But what if it stabbed him in the back someday?
Jiang Xinghuo's mind moved, and he opened the acupoints in his body, releasing the goddess Mengpo. As soon as the elegant and graceful priest Mengpo appeared, Ling Chi began to tremble in fear, as if he had seen his natural enemy. His behavior was exactly the same as that of the ghost bride at that time, and there was no sign of the ferocity and sharpness of a fierce ghost at all.

"Sister Meng, please help me and get it done for me."

Jiang Xinghuo gave a fawning smile and expressed his thoughts. It was because he had just rejected someone and now he was asking for help from them.

The goddess Meng Po glanced at Jiang Xinghuo with all her charm, took out the alchemy furnace from her lower abdomen again, then looked at the dead ghost's body and signaled Jiang Xinghuo to remove the red lotus fire burning on the body.

Jiang Xinghuo obediently took back the Red Lotus Karma Fire, even the Red Lotus Karma Fire that trapped Ling Chi. Seeing that it looked like a little chick, it probably didn't have the courage to run even if it was allowed to.

Without the obstruction of the red lotus fire, the goddess Meng Po enlarged the alchemy furnace, and with a wave of her right hand, the corpses of the evil spirits were immediately sucked into the furnace, and began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a pot of fragrant soup.

Then the same steps and process were followed. Goddess Mengpo grabbed Ling Chi's neck and threw it into the alchemy furnace. The Mengpo soup in the furnace began to disappear rapidly and was all absorbed by Ling Chi. When Goddess Mengpo took Ling Chi out of the pot, there were some changes on Ling Chi's body. The wound under his robe had disappeared, and his robe had become clean, no longer stained with blood.

The goddess Meng Po then yawned lightly, stuffed the alchemy furnace back into her stomach, threw Ling Chi aside, and returned to Jiang Xinghuo's acupoint again.

Jiang Xinghuo touched his nose. He was ready to sacrifice his appearance, but the other party ignored him this time. Fortunately, everything was done, and the other details and trivial matters didn't matter.

Jiang Xinghuo waited for a while. Ling Chi woke up slowly from his coma. When he saw Jiang Xinghuo for the first time, he immediately stood up, bowed, and said sincerely: "Thank you, my lord, for saving my life."

"No need to be polite."

Jiang Xinghuo narrowed his eyes slightly and raised his right hand. He didn't know how the Mengpo Goddess had tampered with his memory, even the address had changed.

"Thanks to the Lord for helping me this time, otherwise I would have died in the hands of those ungrateful people. I didn't expect that they would attack me, their brother, in order to increase their own strength."

Ling Chi said with a somewhat gloomy expression.

Jiang Xinghuo listened to his words. Although he didn't understand what was going on for the time being, he could get a general idea from the beginning and end of his words.

Meng Po tampered with the causes of death and positions of those evil spirits, and changed those evil spirits in the same camp to the opposite side of Ling Chi. In Ling Chi's current cognition, those evil spirits did not kill him, but wanted to kill him, and then were saved by him.

That's why Ling Chi said those words just now.

Jiang Xinghuo said pretentiously: "People's minds are unpredictable, don't worry about it, just follow me in the future, I will have other great uses for you."

(End of this chapter)