In ancient times, they secretly became gods in the deep mountains.

Chapter 56 Gu Yuexi Appears, Savior Goddess
Gu Yuexi appeared, and the boundless spiritual energy, like a vast ocean, swept away the ghostly energy with overwhelming force.

Fire Boy and Water Boy broke free from the ghostly energy and stood up. The townspeople were overjoyed to find that they could breathe again, as if they had survived a disaster. The pain of suffocation they had just experienced was terrifying.

The ghost soldiers of the kasaya-clad monster were also buried deep underground in an instant by Gu Yuexi's hands.

His goal failed.

Anger, astonishment, and panic filled the robed monster as he stared at the phantom in the sky with a mixture of rage and fear.

What exactly is she? How does she have the ability to turn the world upside down and suppress the ghost soldiers he had painstakingly summoned underground?
The strange man in the cassock was horrified: "What kind of monster are you?!"

“If I remember correctly, you just called me a coward,” Gu Yuexi replied.

"You're the Golden Saintess they've been talking about?" the strange man in the kasaya exclaimed in shock.

He said angrily, "Why are you going against me?"

Does she realize that she has ruined her path to immortality?

The strange man in the kasaya was burning with anxiety.

"Enlightenment!" Gu Yuexi called out his Dharma name: "You oppress the people, feed the ghosts with the people, refine the souls of the dead into red-clothed ghosts, and sever their cycle of reincarnation. I, the goddess, have come for the people who have suffered so much."

The strange man in the kasaya didn't think he had done anything wrong: "You say I've caused the people to suffer. The world is inherently full of suffering. I'm helping them to be freed from suffering as soon as possible. What wrong have I done?"

"You are not a demon!" the strange man in the kasaya asserted. "You have no demonic aura; on the contrary, your spiritual energy is vast. Therefore, you are also a cultivator. What benefits did those people give you to make you protect them like this?"

"I have no grudge against you, no connection whatsoever, so why are you my enemy?"

"brush!"

Gu Yuexi made her move, and a hurricane swept through. Mingwu's cassock was blown away by the wind, revealing a skeleton that gleamed with a chilling light. His bones were terrifying, like those of a demon.

But the bright red heart in the white bones was beating slowly, clearly indicating that he was still a living person!
Evil repair!

"Where did you learn your evil arts?"

He understood but remained silent.

Gu Yuexi said softly, "It's okay if you don't want to say."

"Ah!" Mingwu let out a scream.

Gu Yuexi used the Soul Searching Technique.

Although he cultivated his body into a skeleton, as a living person he still had a heart and his soul had not yet left his body. So she used the Soul Searching Technique to learn the whole truth.

Mingwu was originally a wealthy young master. Because of his talent for cultivation, he was taken in as a disciple by the former abbot of Qingchan Temple. He was obsessed with immortality and began searching for various methods of immortality when he was a teenager, but he did not succeed until his old age.

He learned about it a year ago from an ancient book.

A ghost in red and a mortal's soul marry in the afterlife, and the resulting ghost baby is used in medicine to prolong life.

In order to continue his search for the true path to immortality, he needs to extend his remaining lifespan.

According to the rudimentary records in ancient books, burying a man who has died less than six months ago in an ominous place, watering him with the blood of mortals, and chanting scriptures over the corpse every day will create a red-clothed ghost in less than ten days. Of course, as an evil art, this method is not foolproof.

Only one out of ten corpses will successfully be transformed into a red-clothed ghost.

In order to achieve immortality, one should understand and follow the instructions.

He then used a magically enchanted locust wood bead to steal the woman's soul.

The red-clad ghost and these living souls formed a ghost marriage, giving birth to a fierce ghost infant that also possessed the soul of a woman. The ghost infant successfully inherited its mother's lifespan. After consuming the longevity pill refined by the ghost infant, it realized that it would gain at least ten more years of lifespan.

This is a deception, a usurpation of destiny!

The cultivation method he practiced was an extremely insidious and evil art.

It often comes at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.

As for Zhao's grandson, Mingke.

After Mingke died, he was preoccupied with the ghosts in his home. He was afraid that the ghosts of the He family would harm his relatives and loved ones. When he was buried in a place of evil spirits, before he could even quench his thirst with his blood, he instinctively ran towards the He family.

Mingwu found him on a cliff outside the county town, and the two fought, causing Mingke to fall to the bottom of the cliff.

Mingke used his remaining ghostly power to create a ghostly domain to escape Mingke's pursuit, but in doing so, he also lost part of his memories of becoming a red-clothed ghost.

Afterwards, Zhao's mother arranged a ghost marriage between Miss He's soul and Ming Ke, which is why Ming Ke found Miss He in the ghost realm, and the two of them escaped a calamity.

As for the others, they were not so lucky. The red-clothed ghost was tainted by karma and ate human flesh and blood. When the ghost baby was born, the woman's soul would be weakened by half and she would become a lonely ghost, and she would not have the chance to wake up like Miss He.

This method was far too insidious. Mingwu was unable to refine the evil energy within his body, so his flesh and blood were corroded by the evil energy, turning him into a skeleton.

Obsession turns into bones; to achieve immortality in this way, one must inevitably pay a price.

"You'd rather become a skeleton for immortality?" Gu Yuexi told Mingwu everything she had seen.

Mingwu was utterly shocked: "How do you know all this? What did you just do?"

"You don't need to know."

I will strip away everything that doesn't belong to you.

Mingwu was frozen in place, unable to move, and a surge of resentment rose in his heart.

"let me go!"

Gu Yuexi stripped his lifespan away from him.

"No!" Mingwu's soul felt as if it were being burned by raging fire, and he screamed in agony.

He was angry, desperate, and resentful.

why?
He's done so much, is he going to fail at the last minute?
Gu Yuexi said, "Your pursuit of immortality is not wrong, but you persecute innocent people and use mortal flesh and blood to cultivate. I absolutely cannot forgive you, otherwise more innocent people will suffer!"

"Ah!" With his last wisp of lifespan stripped away, Gu Yuexi shattered his rotting bones with a burst of spiritual power, and Mingwu screamed before falling silent.

Turned to ashes, vanished without a trace!
She absorbed the malevolent energy from the red-clothed ghost. As a ghost tainted by karma, the red-clothed ghost didn't even have the right to be reborn as an animal.

As the malevolent energy was absorbed, the red-clad ghost vanished into thin air.

Gu Yuexi left behind a trace of their soul power, hoping that the system's resource library might contain treasures that could condense souls, allowing them to be reincarnated.

She then sealed the malevolent land behind the mountain. This malevolent land, forged from the flesh and blood and spirit of 100,000 soldiers, possessed an extraordinary and profound malevolent energy. She would absorb and refine the malevolent energy here once her cultivation level was higher.

"Your Majesty, due to the ghostly energy, the people in the town have fallen ill with a strange disease that resembles an epidemic. We beg Your Majesty to save them."

Shuiwa explained the situation in the town.

"understood."

The ghostly energy in the town was absorbed by Gu Yuexi, and suddenly the sky brightened, and the cloudy sky cleared up.

"what happened?"

"Why did the sky suddenly become bright?"

"It felt like something was making it hard for us to breathe, but it stopped after a few breaths. Could it be that a monster has been born?"

"Huh? No way, we're having such a hard time."

"Exactly! War, drought, plague, and now a monster has appeared! What sins has our Ping'an Town committed?!"

"Look!"

Just now, the celestial phenomena changed, and the people who could walk all came out of their houses. They went to their courtyards or streets and discussed the amazing scene.

Looking up at the sky, everyone gasped and screamed in terror.

"Oh no! A monster!"

"My God! A monster has appeared in the sky. It's so big that it takes up half the sky. It's terrifying."

"Run quickly!"

"Ahhh-"

The people were terrified and fled in all directions.

They hid inside the house.

Some people with mobility issues are still struggling to walk on the streets.

Gu Yuexi absorbed the ghostly energy from the sky.

After the ghostly aura dissipated, she looked down.

Are they treating her like a monster again?

"It's not a monster!"

"This is Her Majesty! This is the Golden Saintess!"

Li Danian ran out and spread the news.

The fairy boy just came to see him and said that he had kept his promise to him and had invited the Golden Saint Goddess to treat their plague.

"This is a savior deity, not a monster!"

(End of this chapter)