You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 79 Soul Manipulation (3)

"Uncle, don't be afraid!"

Seeing that his uncle and aunt were really frightened, Zhou Qiang quickly comforted them, "Yang Shuai is dead, hanged. Uncle, you know... what's coming is just Yang Shuai's ghost, wearing his skin."

"........."

Zhou Qiang's aunt rolled her eyes and fainted.

Zhou Qiang got impatient and shouted at Yang Shuai, "Yang Shuai, why don't you say something!"

"what?"

Yang Shuai shook his head, pointed to his mouth, and made "woo-woo-ah-ah" sounds with his mouth closed.

Seeing Zhou Qiang's anxious expression, and considering that he had frightened Xu Hailong, he waved and said, "Old Xu, it's me, don't be afraid."

Those who have encountered ghosts know that weaker ghosts generally cannot speak; their speech is actually a fluctuation of mental thoughts.

But Yang Shuai is different; he has his own "skin" and is capable of speaking.

He was a hanged ghost. He was fine when he didn't speak, but as soon as he did, his scarlet tongue, which was more than a foot long, would stick out.

Xu Hailong: "..."

His eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

"........."

Yang Shuai looked resentful and stuck out his tongue, complaining, "I already said I didn't want to talk, but you insisted on making me talk... Do you have a grudge against your uncle? You just wanted to scare him to death... Ouch!"

He was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly screamed in agony.

It turned out that the sun had risen, and a ray of sunlight fell on his shoulder.

Yang Shuai quickly hid in the car.

"Mr. Chen, why don't you head back first?"

Zhou Qiang handed the cat-demon statue to Chen Yang and said with a wry smile, "I need to explain this to my uncle and aunt... Don't worry, I'll be back by this afternoon at the latest, and I'll settle the bill for you as soon as I get back to Wucheng."

"Forget it this time."

Chen Yang: "Your uncle brought the cat demon statue home to guard the house, so even if I don't come, he'll be fine..."

After glancing at the sun on the eastern horizon, Chen Yang said, "Commander Yang can't stand the sun, so let's head back now."

The Mercedes-Benz sped out of Tufeng Village and headed towards the "Yuzhen" highway exit.

Just a few minutes after entering the highway, Wang Lin called.

"Hey, Master Chen."

"We just got off the Yuzhen Expressway... I just saw your car, are you planning to go back?"

He then inquired in detail about the "rat demon" incident.

Chen Yang didn't hide anything and told Yang Shuai's family about how they had unearthed the ruins of the "Cat God Temple" a few years ago and released the rat demon... The rat demon had been hiding in Tufeng Village for several years, secretly recovering its strength.

It was only after it manipulated Yang Shuai into committing the massacre of his entire family and then committed suicide that it began to eat Yang Shuai's flesh and blood, put on Yang Shuai's skin, and try to become a real person.

As for the matter of bestowing the title of Cat Ghost on behalf of the Underworld, Chen Yang did not bring it up himself.

"That's fine."

Wang Lin said, "Master Chen, please drive slowly. I need to get to the scene first... I'll visit you again when I get back to Wucheng."

The expressway from Yuzhen to Wucheng was newly built last year. The road is wide and there are few cars on it. There are no speed cameras along the way. Chen Yang hung up the phone, stepped on the gas, and the car speed immediately increased.

He got on the highway at 6:50 and arrived in Wucheng at just over 8:40.

After dumping Yang Shuai at the "funeral parlor," Chen Yang suggested, "Old Gu... how about we have some lamb offal for breakfast?"

"Row."

Gu Jinghui: "Let's go to Du Yousu... I saw their online promotion saying that the new Du Yousu store spent more than 1600 million yuan on decoration alone, making it the pinnacle of lamb offal in Wucheng, but I've been too busy to go."

The two drove to "Du Yousu Lamb Offal Shop" and waited in line for more than an hour before they could eat.

Putting aside whether it tastes good or bad...

Chen Yang cursed, "Damn it, I'm never coming to this store again, it's such a waste of time!"

We left the store.

Gu Jinghui then realized that he hadn't brought a portion for Yang Shuai.

Chen Yang: "Forget it, what's the point of him, a hanged man, eating lamb offal?"

Back to the store.

As soon as Chen Yang opened the shop door, he saw two feet...

It turns out to be Yang Shuai.

He tied the elastic drawstring of Gu Jinghui's pants to the ceiling, made a knot, and hung himself up there. Because he was bored, he practiced "moonwalking" with his legs in mid-air.

Hey!
Chen Yang asked with a dark face, "What are you doing?"

Yang Shuai stuck out his tongue: "I'm bored, so I'm taking a break."

Chen Yang: "How am I supposed to do business if you hang it on the ceiling?"

"Oh!"

Yang Shuai grabbed the knot with both hands, lifted his body upwards, and his head emerged from the knot.

He removed the elastic rope and said, "Shall I go to the second floor to rest?"

"........."

You're paralyzed!
Chen Yang was speechless: "Could you take off that skin and hang it on the roof?"

In this way, ordinary people with mortal eyes would not be able to see him.

Yang Shuai was quite obedient. He took off his human skin, folded it neatly, and put it away before floating upstairs and hanging himself up again.

Gu Jinghui was delighted and ran upstairs to chat with Yang Shuai.

Chen Yang then took out the cat demon statue and placed it on the counter.

brush!
From within the statue, a plump wisp of black smoke emerged, landing and transforming into a chubby tabby cat. It ran to the shop entrance, licking its paws as it said, "Meow... Lord Night Wanderer, is this the human world as it is now?" "How wondrous..."

Why are there so many four-wheeled metal boxes on the road?

"Wait...why is this woman dressed so provocatively?"

"The world is going to the dogs! The world is going to the dogs!"

"Ok?"

Chen Yang flashed to the doorway and said, "Which woman? Let me give my opinion!"

There wasn't much business in the shop, so Chen Yang pulled up a small stool and sat down by the door, chatting with Cat Ghost God: "By the way... your name is Cat Ghost God? Don't you have a name?"

"I almost forgot, you were born from the offerings and sacrifices of the people..."

"Your spirit is quite chubby, so how about we call you Little Fatty from now on?"

Cat Demon God: "..."

This name is too common.

Although it was born from the offerings and sacrifices of the people, it also knew that to survive in the "underworld system," one had to be shrewd and worldly. The fact that Chen Yang managed to obtain an imperial decree and a promotion in rank with just one letter was enough to show Chen Yang's "connections" in the underworld.

"Little Fatty?"

The tabby cat said, "This name is excellent... I thank Lord Night Wanderer for bestowing this name upon me!"

"It's just giving someone a name, it's nothing."

Chen Yang added, "I'll help you find a suitable body later... and I'll also find a way to get some incense for you to offer sacrifices."

The tabby cat was overjoyed and prostrated itself on the ground to thank Chen Youshen for his great kindness.

If I don't train you, who will work for me?
Chen Yang's mind raced with thoughts as he secretly plotted how to get some incense and offerings for "Little Fatty" to enhance its strength... That way, he would have a servant... Ugh!
They should be considered helpers.

At this moment, the owners of the hardware store and the tobacco and alcohol shop next door gathered together again.

Chen Yang's ears twitched...

"Have you heard? Old Ma's shop is up for sale!"

"What a tragedy... How did our once happy family end up like this!"

"Old Ma's knee meniscus was shattered by his brother. Even if he has surgery, he will most likely be disabled... Old Ma's wife probably transferred the shop to raise money for Old Ma's medical treatment."

"Won't his brother pay compensation?"

"Compensation my foot! That brat from the Ma family stabbed his second uncle three times... I heard that Old Ma agreed to give his second son the courtyard that his grandfather left behind in the countryside, and that's why the second son agreed to the settlement. Otherwise, that brat from the Ma family would definitely be in jail!"

Chen Yang shook his head secretly...

Grandpa Ma was kind-hearted and didn't kill his children and grandchildren.

Calming his mind, Chen Yang began to study the [Qingwei Mountain-Suppressing Five Thunder Method].

"The head represents Heaven, the feet represent Earth... To cultivate thunder magic, one must control the [Primordial Qi]!"

"After a person is born into this world, their essence, energy, and spirit will gradually be polluted by various desires and distracting thoughts, making it impossible to directly connect with heaven and earth. Therefore, to cultivate thunder magic, one must first purify one's own essence, energy, and spirit, return to the innate state of purity, and reach the realm of 'using one's own energy to unite with the energy of heaven and earth, and using one's own spirit to unite with the spirit of heaven and earth.'"

This is quite similar to the Taoist concept of "entering the Tao" and the martial arts concept of "harmony between man and nature".

After pondering for an entire afternoon, Chen Yang still had no clue, so he had no choice but to give up and instead began to cultivate the "Yellow Springs Refining Spirit Method" by circulating his divine soul.

At night.

Wang Lin arrived at the shop, travel-worn.

Chen Yang had already resolved the incident involving the "Rat Demon," and they were merely there to clean up the mess, so naturally, no trouble would arise. However, Wang Lin brought some bad news...

"This afternoon, headquarters assembled several Taoist masters and stormed into a misty area in Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province, but in the end, the demon spirit escaped!"

"Ok?"

Chen Yang asked in surprise, "That demon spirit is very powerful?"

Wang Lin said, "According to the intelligence, that demon spirit is stronger than an ordinary Dao Realm cultivator, but it is not invincible at this level... Its greatest skill is concealment!"

"After being wounded, the demon spirit knew it was no match for the enemy and went into hiding."

"Several Taoist masters tried every means, but they still couldn't pull it out of the mist... A master from Maoshan said that unless the entire misty spiritual domain within a radius of thirty miles can be refined, it is impossible to kill the demon spirit."

Chen Yang said, "Then let's refine it!"

Wang Lin was both amused and exasperated: "A misty spiritual domain within a radius of thirty miles, especially one that is so easy to refine? At least no one in the current Daoist sects has such a method."

After seeing Wang Lin off, Chen Yang continued his cultivation.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, business at the funeral home returned to normal, with no customers for a day or two. However, the addition of Gu Jinghui, Yang Shuai, and "Little Fatty" made the funeral home much busier than before.

On June 8th, Gu Jinghui brought a fat, chubby tabby cat from outside.

With a physical body to rely on, "Little Fatty" stopped returning to the statue and from that day on, there was not a single rat left on Yumin Street.

June 10th, the 6th day of the fifth lunar month.

That night.

The full moon hangs high.

Chen Yang sat cross-legged on the ground, silently circulating the "Yellow Springs Refining Spirit Method" in his cultivation.

Suddenly, his soul trembled, and his Yin spirit rapidly grew stronger!
Chen Yang was secretly delighted and channeled his spirit into his body...

Wow!

The next moment, a cold wind blew through the funeral home, and then the benches placed on the ground slowly floated up.

"The ability to manipulate objects with one's soul has finally been achieved!"

Chen Yang couldn't wait and took out his magic weapon, the Blood-Patterned Flying Sword.

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