I Possess a Scroll of Demon-Subduing Records

Like a large, fluttering moth, she flew around for a long time before finally replying, "Okay."

That one word had exhausted all her courage.

Unfortunately, Lin Yi didn't see it at that moment.

Ghost Cry Forest is a forest shrouded in dark clouds, so vast that its boundaries are difficult to see with the naked eye.

Because the trees are tall and lush, the ground beneath them is often shrouded in darkness and filled with a heavy yin energy. In addition, strong winds occasionally blow through the forest, sounding like ghosts wailing, hence the name "Ghost Cry Forest".

Deep within the Ghost Cry Forest lies Ghost Cry Ridge, the headquarters of the Hundred Ghosts Sect.

Deep in the dense forest, even though many people know the location of the Hundred Ghosts Sect's headquarters, very few can actually get in to raid and destroy them.

The mountains and forests are full of miasma, and the Hundred Ghosts Sect is skilled in stealth and adept at setting traps. It is unknown how much it would cost to wipe out the Hundred Ghosts Sect.

Lin Yi swaggered in, carrying a baby in his arms.

Having seen the memories of the Thousand Illusion Ghost Princess, he naturally knew how to enter the Hundred Ghosts Gate through internal means.

He didn't even bother with any disguise, because Thousand Illusion Ghost Princess was very good at it.

Lin Yi was exploiting an information gap; nobody knew that Qianhuan Guiji was dead, so Lin Yi was now Qianhuan Guiji…

Chapter 371 The Secret Record of the Netherworld

The Hundred Ghosts Sect members on Ghost Cry Ridge did not react much to Lin Yi's arrival.

He's just a stranger. As long as he can get to the Hundred Ghosts Sect headquarters without triggering the defensive formation, he's definitely one of our own.

Inside the main hall of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, demons were truly dancing wildly.

Various strange costumes and bizarre outfits, some with faces covered in white ash, others with faces covered in black ash, are they cosplaying as the Black and White Impermanence?

These are all relatively low-ranking disciples. The higher-ranking elders and deacons all look respectable, but no matter how kind and benevolent they appear, they still make people feel uneasy.

Lin Yi slowly walked through the crowd and reached the very center of the main hall.

Despite being just a demonic sect, the Hundred Ghosts Sect holds assemblies with the same level of formality as the imperial court's court assemblies.

The most ordinary and lowest-ranking servants served in various places, while only those with some status could stand in the main hall. They were arranged according to their status, with a throne in the very center that only the sect leader could sit on, while everyone else had to stand.

Those closest to the throne, besides a few sect leaders and eunuchs, were the four elders and the left and right protectors.

Lin Yi's slow, forward movement finally attracted the attention of the crowd, who quietly inquired about the identity of this strange man with a child.

Finally, Lin Yi sat on the throne of the sect leader.

At this moment, no one was foolish enough to jump out and question Lin Yi about why he dared to sit down. Instead, they all knelt on the ground and said, "Greetings, Sect Master!"

Those who had secretly sized up Lin Yi earlier were now terrified.

The sect leader's personality is unpredictable; who knows if he might be executed just for glancing at her a few times?

This is not without precedent.

The moment Lin Yi sat down, the entire Hundred Ghosts Sect trembled with fear.

He didn't rush to speak, but casually looked around. It seemed that everyone had arrived.

At least the important people are all here.

Lin Yi didn't know how many disciples hadn't arrived yet, since Qianhuan Guiji wouldn't remember everyone in the Hundred Ghosts Sect, and there was also the possibility that some of them were recruiting disciples outside.

Killing everyone in this hall is enough; the few who escaped and are still lurking outside won't amount to much.

Lin Yi understood the situation and turned to the people around him, asking, "Left Protector, are all the disciples here?"

Not pretending is the best disguise.

Lin Yi didn't even try to hide his voice, yet no one doubted his identity. It can only be said that Qianhuan Guiji had laid the groundwork well.

The Left Protector was a bewitching woman, much like Chu Bi from before, but she dared not show the slightest coquettishness in front of Lin Yi. Upon hearing Lin Yi's question, she quickly knelt down and replied, "Reporting to the Sect Master, there are a total of thirty-six elders in the sect, and all of them have arrived."

Of the 280 inner disciples, 260 entered the hall. The remaining 20, along with 1,200 outer disciples and stewards, waited outside.

Among the four major demonic sects, the Hundred Ghosts Sect should have the second smallest number of members. The Thousand Buddha Temple has the fewest members, while the Pure Heaven Sect and the Ten Thousand Demon Alliance rank first and second respectively. However, the exact number of members is unknown.

The Hundred Ghosts Sect has only a little over a thousand members, but each of them can control multiple ghosts, making one person equivalent to several people.

Are there any absentees?

Lin Yi spoke casually, but the oppressive aura he inadvertently revealed still made the Left Protector tremble with fear.

She was incredibly grateful that she had urged everyone to be there, just in case the Thousand Illusion Demon Princess might kill someone if she was displeased.

The members of the Hundred Ghosts Sect are scattered throughout the world, and they mostly fight alone, rarely in groups. Summoning all of them back is no easy task.

But she did it!

The Left Protector, of course, didn't expect any reward; she only hoped that the Thousand Illusion Ghost Princess wouldn't be angry.

"You did very well."

Lin Yi sincerely praised the Left Protector.

He had thought that such a large demonic sect would have some members scattered outside, but he didn't expect the Left Protector to have everyone gathered.

What is a surprise?

Upon hearing Lin Yi's praise, the Left Protector's face flushed with excitement.

"Thank you, Sect Master."

"I have nothing to reward you with, so I will grant you death!"

Lin Yi could no longer bear the wailing aura emanating from her, so he casually struck out with a palm, shattering the Left Protector's internal organs into bloody foam, causing her to collapse on the spot.

To Lin Yi's surprise, the members of the Hundred Ghosts Sect did not question Lin Yi's identity because he had killed someone. They all knelt on the ground, looking at Lin Yi with excitement, fear, and also worship and fanaticism.

Goodness, this complex emotion has even stumped Lin Yi.

It was at this moment that Lin Yi understood why, despite Qianhuan Guiji being a lunatic, none of the members of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, who had suffered so much bullying, wanted to betray her.

Force is only one aspect; the real reason lies in the fact that none of the high-ranking members of the Hundred Ghosts Sect are normal people.

The Thousand Illusion Ghost Princess's unpredictable and indiscriminate killing nature has earned her the adoration of the Hundred Ghosts Sect members. Although they fear her, they also regard her as a role model.

Emmm...

BT's approach is always unconventional.

Thanks to the character design of Thousand Illusion Ghost Princess, Lin Yi's destruction of the Hundred Ghosts Sect was made so easy.

Everyone thought Lin Yi was just having a daily episode and had casually killed someone, but little did they know that Lin Yi intended to kill everyone.

No one resisted, but Lin Yi still showed no mercy.

He showed mercy, but who showed mercy to the innocent who were turned into slaves?

Killing these evil people and eliminating the scourge is the greatest act of mercy to the world.

Lin Yi casually took out a sword from his cloud bag, not using the Demon Slayer or the Snow Pillow, because he was worried about soiling them.

Under Lin Yi's ruthless slaughter, some people finally began to escape. No matter how fanatical they were about Qianhuan Guiji, their lives were still more important.

But how could someone who isn't even at the first rank be a match for Lin Yi?

Even releasing their ghostly servants wouldn't allow them to live a single second longer.

Blood flowed like a river, corpses littered the ground, and finally, it was burned to ashes.

Lin Yi was gentler with the ghost slaves of the Hundred Ghosts Sect. He drove them to one place and then filtered them one by one, separating those who were forced to become vengeful ghosts and those who voluntarily became vengeful ghosts.

Those who suffered persecution in life and had nowhere to seek justice became vengeful ghosts. Even if they had committed sins, Lin Yi still recited scriptures for them and helped them pass on to the afterlife.

Because they are vengeful spirits controlled by others, they are merely a weapon.

The knife killed the person, but the knife was not the one who committed the crime.

When settling accounts, you can't just break all the knives.

The majority of these were the souls that had been exorcised, which shows that most of the ghosts in the Hundred Ghosts Sect were artificially created.

People from this sect deserve to die ten times over.

A small portion are naturally formed ghosts.

Some were not persecuted by others, but rather had strong inner obsessions. One of them was choked to death after stealing food from his neighbor, and then turned into a vengeful ghost to harm his neighbor.

There were women who, after being discovered by their husbands of infidelity, conspired with their lovers to murder their husbands and were sentenced to death…

Vengeful ghosts are not necessarily victims or pitiful people; they may also be the manifestation of people who refuse to admit their mistakes until death.

When such people become vengeful ghosts, they are even more ferocious than the innocent ghosts who were harmed.

Lin Yi also found about thirty such ghosts among the tens of thousands of vengeful spirits, and these naturally became part of Lin Yi's cultivation.

The threshold of 7,500 years of cultivation was broken, and several decades of additional cultivation were added.

Lin Yi didn't even bother to keep track of such a small amount; the improvement in cultivation that ghosts could provide was far too little.

A trip to the Hundred Ghosts Gate is time-consuming and laborious, but yields almost no benefit.

But Lin Yi was happy about it.

Before he learned how to exorcise ghosts, Lin Yi had thought about destroying the Hundred Ghosts Sect to gain more cultivation. Even if each of those tens of thousands of ghosts could only provide one or two years of cultivation, he could still gain tens of thousands of cultivation points.

If the quantity is sufficient, the quality will naturally follow.

But having taken a trip to the underworld, Lin Yi now has another option.

If you give up some benefits but gain inner satisfaction, then it's not a loss.

The cultivation level required for this tribulation is sufficient, thanks to the Centipede Demon King, who provided nearly seven thousand cultivation levels. With a little more effort, Lin Yi could easily gather seven thousand five hundred years of cultivation.

Next small goal: nine thousand years.

What delighted Lin Yi even more this time was the change in the Demon-Slaying Manual.

Each time a tribulation is overcome, the Demon-Slaying Manual will introduce new features, just like a version update.

Two new features were added last time: Lin Yi appeared on the homepage, and a dynamic peeping function was added.

This time, the Demon-Slaying Manual includes a map next to the illustrations on each page, marking the distance to Lin Yi and the general direction.

Good heavens, the navigation feature I've been waiting for is finally here!