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

No, no, no, such a strange thing couldn't possibly happen!

Ye Yuchan gasped, firmly believing that there was nothing wrong with her mind—

"Then...why doesn't she have legs?"

"Stands are all made by floating, so it doesn't matter if they don't have legs, right?"

"Then...her clothes still have blood on them..."

"It's normal for a body double to have some blood on them, just like how people who work in car repair shops carry wrenches with them, it's everywhere."

"She looks like she's about to kill someone... and she doesn't even have normal meridians! She's a vengeful spirit... a ghost, right?!"

Faced with Ye Yuchan's question, Yun Ping pondered for a few seconds before saying with certainty, "Eh...it's all because...it's a stand-in!"

Don't just use stand-ins to cover everything up!

Are Stand users omnipotent and invincible?!

Seeing that everyone seemed to have accepted the situation, Ye Yuchan was stunned.

Could it be... that the problem is actually with myself?

With everyone thinking she was abnormal—if it weren't for her remaining rationality telling Ye Yuchan that there were no Stand users in this world, she would have doubted whether she was truly abnormal.

Before Ye Yuchan could react, Nie Xiaoqian began to sob softly.

"Waaah... Yuchan... why did you forget me? Am I really... the kind of person whose existence or non-existence doesn't matter?"

For a moment, the wronged Nie Xiaoqian cried with tears streaming down her face, which was truly heartbreaking.

But the problem is, the tears you shed are blood! Crimson blood...it looks even more gruesome, doesn't it?!

Seeing Nie Xiaoqian wiping away tears (and blood), Zhang Ruoxue was immediately displeased and said to Ye Yuchan, "Yuchan, have you really lost your memory? Or are you doing this on purpose?"

"Me? No...I..."

“Junior sister, I’m more inclined to believe you have amnesia.” Gu Xingzhuo looked calmly at Ye Yuchan: “I believe Junior Sister Yuchan isn’t such a wicked person.”

Lu Yingqiu chimed in, "I also think so... Could it be that something nearby is affecting Master Ye?"

Ning Xuchen sighed deeply, his face showing horror: "What a terrible place."

You guys are the scary ones!

That said, it's one thing for others, but what about you, you old rogue...?

When Ye Yuchan looked at Yun Ping's face again, she found that the old rogue's smile had not completely faded.

Ye Yuchan: "..."

Yunping seemed to have noticed this as well. He coughed twice and then said seriously, "In short, since Yuchan's memory is faulty, I will help you recall it."

"That's right. I suppose you've forgotten that I am also a Stand user."

...You're here too?!

Everyone was startled, only to see Yun Ping whisper something.

"THE World!"

As soon as he finished speaking...

next moment.

boom!

The wind and waves raged.

Layer upon layer of air explosions erupted, their fist shadows falling like meteorites from the sky.

Yunping's fist slammed into a female ghost who was sobbing and pretending to be pitiful.

Suddenly, the substitute Nie Xiaoqian's eyes widened, and without even uttering a wail, her body expanded at an extremely fast speed and exploded in an instant, disappearing into endless darkness.

After finishing all this, Yun Ping let out a long sigh of relief, turned around and gave Ye Yuchan a thumbs up: "How was it? Wasn't my substitute's ability to stop time very powerful?"

God the hell, time has stopped!!

All you did was rush over and beat Nie Xiaoqian to a pulp!

Speaking of which, didn't you just confidently say that she was Zhang Ruoxue's double? How come you killed her double now?!

"What? A true Stand user doesn't need a Stand." Yun Ping waved his hand and said, "A true Stand user is their own Stand!"

"So please stop using the Stand concept to make fun of it!"

As Nie Xiaoqian perished, the shock on everyone's faces gradually subsided, slowly turning into confusion.

Zhang Ruoxue looked around and found herself still on the vine-covered steps, but for some reason everyone had stopped.

"What... happened just now?"

Not only her, but it seems that no one else has any recollection of Nie Xiaoqian's story.

Ye Yuchan realized that Nie Xiaoqian must have influenced everyone in some way, making them believe from the very beginning that there was nothing wrong with her existence.

But for some reason, it didn't affect me. As for the old rogue... his silly antics were clearly just him playing a joke on me.

Yunping turned to the crowd with a smile and said, "Nothing happened~ It was just a few trivial incidents, nothing to worry about..."

"We've arrived at our destination."

Everyone's attention, including Ye Yuchan's, was drawn to the huge void in front of them.

That was when Yunping was attacking Nie Xiaoqian, the terrifying impact blasted a large hole in the rotten vine wall. Walking out of that hole seemed to allow one to escape this seemingly endless vine staircase.

Yunping gave a signal, and everyone followed his lead, crowding around the large hole.

The six people stood in a line at the entrance of the cave, only to find that there was no road ahead.

What appeared before me was an extremely vast and empty area.

The entire structure is cylindrical, and the interior space seems to be hollowed out. As far as the eye can see, only the cylindrical column in the very center of the space is particularly eye-catching.

But if one were to let spiritual energy reside in the eyes and look more closely—

"That's a bit of an exaggeration..."

Even Ye Yuchan, who had seen many grand occasions, couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

In the center of the field of vision, there was a giant cylinder that seemed to lead to the ground. Its shape looked like... the trunk of a giant tree that reached the sky! Countless black vines wrapped around the trunk, forming an indestructible outer shell. The vines were also covered with black tubes, which looked like blood vessels flowing with black blood. They pulsated from time to time, constantly pouring the black liquid into the trunk.

Any vine you pull out is about the same thickness as an adult man's waist, and compared to the tree trunk as a whole, the vine is as thin as a capillary in the human body.

Enormous and terrifying.

What's even more unsettling is that in the surrounding empty areas... there are one after another flashing black shadows.

With Ye Yuchan's eyesight, she could easily see the true appearance of those dark figures.

Vengeful spirit.

Thousands upon thousands... countless vengeful spirits!

Too many, too many, like a torrential rain, scattered across the sky, the screams and howls never ceasing.

A look of panic flashed in Ye Yuchan's eyes as she murmured:

"We are..."

"We've stirred up a hornet's nest."

34. This time it's the official version.

A hundred ghosts roam the night, and demons dance wildly.

As far as the eye could see, there was a cacophony of ghostly wails and howls; this vast and terrifying space seemed to be a paradise for vengeful spirits.

Not to mention the enormous tree trunk in the arena—the ominous aura emanating from it even surpassed that of the Demon Lord that Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue had faced before.

This is bad, really bad.

No one would have imagined that beneath this spiritually rich vein lies such a terrifying ghost realm.

Judging from the forms of those vengeful spirits, most of them seem to be the corrupted souls left behind after people died. The ones wailing, roaring, and sobbing incessantly in the sky are the vengeful spirits of these immortal cultivators.

They were killed here, and then influenced by the extremely strong resentment of the ultimate spirit beast, they turned into vengeful spirits, wandering endlessly in this empty underground space.

Yunping stood at the cave entrance, looking around: "No wonder I haven't encountered many vengeful spirits along the way... they've all come here."

Ye Yuchan trembled and timidly hid behind Zhang Ruoxue, grabbing Ruoxue's arm with one hand: "No, you old rogue... don't tell me we really have to go down through this cave."

"Otherwise, do you have any other choice?" Yun Ping spread his hands and pointed to the vine-covered staircase leading to the dark depths to the side. "Why don't you take a few more steps yourself?"

……

Ye Yuchan fell silent.

If this path leads to powerful demons or evil cultivators, Ye Yuchan wouldn't mind taking the plunge. To her, even bloodthirsty demonic beasts that have slaughtered thousands or cultivators practicing evil ways wouldn't frighten her.

But she has a bit of a psychological aversion to ghosts.

Seeing Yu Chan remain silent, Fourth Senior Brother Gu Xingzhuo sighed slightly, then stepped forward and stood beside Yun Ping, maintaining his usual calm and indifference: "Compared to this... Teacher, why are these vengeful spirits gathered here?"

There didn't seem to be anything nearby that would attract vengeful spirits.

Yun Ping shook his head and corrected Gu Xingzhuo: "To be precise, they should be said to be bound here."

"Restraint?"

“The vengeful spirits wander and drift, and the longer they exist, the stronger their resentment becomes. When it becomes strong enough, they should become quite delicious food. That is why they are specially bound to this place.”

Zhang Ruoxue frowned: "It sounds like they're being kept in captivity."

"That's right, they're raised in captivity."

Lu Yingqiu's gaze hadn't left the enormous tree trunk in the very center of the cylindrical space since the beginning. She pointed to the dark vines on the trunk that seemed to have a life of their own: "Is that the dried one...?"

"At present, yes."

"Speaking of which..." Ye Yuchan poked her head out from behind Zhang Ruoxue and couldn't help but ask, "What exactly was that thing...? It looked like a broken tree trunk..."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately realized what was going on.

Perhaps at first they didn't connect that pitch-black, rotten thing with a being hailed as the twenty-second ultimate, but now that Ye Yuchan has spoken, everyone has realized a certain possibility.