Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

"And if the other person is a modern ghost, you can try asking if his parents are still alive, and if his relatives have a habit of walking at night."

"To put it bluntly, you can kill me, but your family will be doomed tonight—if you were in that situation, would you still do it?"

Ye Yuchan: "..."

The man in front of me has a completely different impression of ghosts than I do!

And that last sentence was quite vicious!

Strangely enough, Ye Yuchan actually found some truth in what the old rogue said...

at the same time.

Zhang Ruoxue, who had no sense of ghosts or monsters, stood by the well, her gaze naturally falling on the two crooked, pale hands groping at the well opening.

She leaned slightly forward and peered into the dark well.

It was pitch black.

She frowned in confusion, then looked down at the pale arm and saw the snow-white, blood-stained long robe. Then she realized that the so-called blackness was just extremely thick hair that blended into the surrounding environment.

The darkness is moving.

No.

It was that head that was tilting upwards.

Just as she raised her head, a blurry face was reflected in Zhang Ruoxue's pupils.

It has no nose, no eyes, no ears, only a split mouth that almost takes up the entire face.

It didn't even have a tongue, only an empty... abyss-like blood-red mouth, and you could even see the thick, sticky blood rolling inside.

Despite having no tongue, it can utter chilling and unsettling words.

"I hate it so much... I hate it so much..."

Before he could finish speaking...

A powerful punch came crashing down on his head.

boom!

A deafening explosion resounded through the air, and the resulting shockwave sent fallen leaves flying everywhere.

In the fleeting gust of wind, the black-haired girl in the sailor uniform blinked and stood blankly in the torrential rain of falling leaves.

When everyone looked at the well in front of them again, there was no sign of a person... The entire well had been blasted into dust, and a deep pit had collapsed into the ground, with a large number of stones and clods of earth piled up, looking somewhat like a grave.

Zhang Ruoxue stood at the edge of the pit, looked at the blood on her right fist, and turned away somewhat embarrassed.

She scratched her head, revealing a silly, innocent smile:

"Sorry... the other person was too ugly, I called them on instinct."

A saint's punch.

If it were a bound spirit, it probably wouldn't survive, since that punch smashed the entire piece of ground it was possessing.

Ye Yuchan stopped trembling, her face full of complicated emotions, and hid behind Yun Ping, asking softly, "That's it?"

“It’s gone.” Yunping’s answer was certain: “That vengeful spirit… its soul has dissipated.”

"..."

Gazing at the small mound of earth rising from the dark pit, Ye Yuchan took a fraction of a second to mourn for this unseen fake Sadako.

As expected, demons and monsters... pale in comparison to cultivators...

They don't seem to make any difference.

……

……

"The vengeful spirits of Xiandu?"

"Yes, that should be the case."

As they walked deeper into the spiritual vein, Yunping explained to everyone the true identity of Miss Sadako.

In fact, it was also a vengeful spirit, but it was different from the spirit beast vengeful spirits they had expected to encounter—it was a vengeful spirit from a human.

To be precise, it comes from Xiandu.

Gu Xingzhuo raised an eyebrow slightly—this was already a significant emotional shift for him: "Why would the people of Xiandu become vengeful spirits? Come to think of it, can even humans allow their souls to continue existing in the world in that way because of resentment?"

"Generally speaking, no. After a cultivator dies, if their cultivation level is high, they can protect their soul from dissipation, or they can directly abandon their physical body and let their soul wander in the three heavenly realms to find a suitable body and then possess it. This is a common method used by many old monsters who have lived for tens of thousands of years."

"Even the soul of a saint, without a physical body, can at most only affect some cultivators with low cultivation levels; it cannot have strong offensive capabilities."

"What we just encountered was indeed the soul of a cultivator... and the reason it turned out that way is probably due to the influence of this place."

After speaking, Yunping stopped and squatted down, picking up a handful of incredibly soft soil from the ground.

It felt more damp than I expected.

His expression turned slightly more serious, and his tone became more somber: "The ultimate spirit beast is the essence of the paradise of living beings. If the ultimate spirit beast is killed... its evil side is released, and it will indeed turn into a vengeful spirit, which may affect the surrounding area."

Lu Yingqiu was taken aback: "The evil side?"

"……I see."

Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Yunping seemed to understand something.

He gave Gu Xingzhuo a wink, meaning that he would leave the explanation to his fourth brother, while he continued to squat on the ground, gently stroking the strange land.

The white-haired boy, who had received Yun Ping's gaze, patiently explained to everyone:

"The twenty-first ultimate paradise for living beings... is actually not the perfect utopia that everyone talks about. If I had to give an example..."

"Junior Sister Ruoxue, what do you think is the antonym of 'paradise for living beings'?"

"Huh? Me?"

The illiterate girl, suddenly asked a question, blinked, remained silent for a moment, and then tentatively uttered a question:

"The dead weeping in the sea?"

Everyone: "..."

Gu Xingzhuo scratched his head, seemingly unable to think of a way to refute this seemingly bizarre answer, and finally could only helplessly accept it: "That's pretty much the feeling. In short... any living being in the Land of Living Beings will have a feeling of 'not wanting to leave, wanting to stay here forever, feeling happy here,' but in reality... although the Land of Living Beings does have extremely stunning scenery and countless delicacies, with mountain springs that can be used to brew wine and forest fruits that can be eaten, these do not give everyone a sense of happiness."

"Perhaps those who want to live in seclusion will find this kind of environment very happy, but if that's all there is to it, then this paradise for living beings is not enough to be hailed as a 'Shangri-La' by everyone. After all, not everyone likes a secluded life."

"However, even the most heinous murderers, or royalty and nobles who are obsessed with power and fame, will feel immense happiness as long as they stand on this paradise for all living beings."

"The fundamental reason is not because a paradise for living beings brings happiness, but because a paradise for living beings... removes everything except happiness from people."

"That is evil... the evil of living beings."

……

Gu Xingzhuo's words shocked everyone present except Zhang Ruoxue—at least it completely overturned their impression of a paradise on earth.

As for why Zhang Ruoxue wasn't shocked—it was because she didn't understand at all.

"That's why once you step into the Paradise of Living Beings, very few people are willing to leave. Even if they are forced to leave, they will try their best to come back."

"There are actually many people who die of old age or die happily in the paradise of life... it's just that very little of this news gets out."

Because those who have the ability to spread the word have probably also set foot in the paradise of living beings.

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

"Isn't this just like a drug? It doesn't feel like a good thing."

"Drugs?" Gu Xingzhuo asked, puzzled.

In response to the fourth brother's question, it was Yunping who slowly stood up from his half-squatting position.

"It's a very troublesome thing, similar to the effect of a paradise for living beings."

"Then what about my senior brother...?"

Isn't that the same as being infected with drugs?

Ye Yuchan hadn't finished speaking.

Yunping then extended his hand, signaling her to be quiet.

"Let's put this topic aside for now; there's something more troublesome going on."

"Even more troublesome...?"

"The commotion Ruoxue caused just now seems to have attracted something extraordinary."

Yunping's words had barely fallen.

In the distance, above the gloomy black sky, a pair of giant, scarlet eyes suddenly lit up. In those irrational eyes, there was only a brutality and rage that humans could not comprehend.

Gu Xingzhuo narrowed his eyes; he was particularly familiar with this feeling.

"They've been lured here..."

"The vengeful spirit of an ultimate spirit beast."

31. Meeting an acquaintance again... oh no, a familiar tree.

The resentment of the ultimate spirit beast.

If we get to the bottom of it, it is something that ordinary people cannot achieve.

Born from the twenty-one ultimate beings, the ultimate spirit beast, whose origin is the essence of the soul, releases its evil thoughts completely after death, reaching a level that can even affect the surrounding area for several miles.

This withered, dead forest is the best example of this.

In that case, the ultimate spirit beast that has become a vengeful spirit should possess boundless resentment. Its long-hidden malice will erode its will, and endless killing intent will condense in its blood-red eyes.

Brutal, bloodthirsty, enormous...

This truly embodies the image of a vengeful spirit transformed into its ultimate form.

and so--

"It's completely different from what I imagined..."