From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The young woman sighed and continued, "That is, to overthrow the Great Black Mountain and destroy the Heavenly Palace."

To achieve this goal, we must first seize the radiance of the two spiritual realms: Heaven and Earth.

But a spirit's body cannot withstand it.

Therefore, Xiaoqian married a scholar and had two sons. She also arranged for my mother to marry that scholar, who then gave birth to me. She had the 'spiritual realm' she had come to understand engraved on my heart, so that the three of us could become vessels carrying the radiance of the spiritual realm in the future.

"Three?" Zhang Zhiwei asked in surprise. "Besides 'heaven' and 'earth,' what's the last one?"

"people."

The young woman said, "Because Aunt Nie believes that the root of everything is the outside world of humans. If they hadn't built temples and suppressed the meteorites in this feng shui location, the Black Mountain wouldn't have been formed, nor would the Ghost Realm have been formed, and she wouldn't have been filled with pain in her consciousness."

After overthrowing the Great Black Mountain and obtaining the radiance of the spiritual realm, beings like us, who are half-human and half-ghost, can survive in the real world. Then we must target humans in the outside world to forge the radiance of the human spiritual realm. In this way, our abilities can also be used in the outside world.

Later, my mother discovered Xiaoqian's plot and informed my father, Ning Caichen. She also contacted the chivalrous Yan Chixia, and together they plotted to take away the three children, including me.

But in the end, only the Black Lady and the White Lady were taken away, while I was left behind, raised by Xiaoqian, who taught me martial arts and deceived me, saying that my mother had selfish motives…”

# Chapter 373 Is Nie Xiaoqian the Villain?

Isn't the story of "A Chinese Ghost Story: Republican Era Version and Under One Person Version" a bit too ahead of its time?

Zhan Lan and Zhang Jie exchanged glances, both of them having the same thought pop into their minds—

Is Nie Xiaoqian a villain?

Which director had such a wild imagination to come up with such a bizarre story?

However, upon closer reflection, Zhan Lan realized that the only way for a human and a ghost to unite and have children seemed to be within this ghost realm.

Furthermore, considering that Nie Xiaoqian in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" offered herself to Ning Caichen to repay his kindness, and even helped take care of Ning Caichen's elderly mother and sick wife, and even acted as his slave, it is logical that Nie Xiaoqian had a plan!

The values ​​of the ancients may differ from those of modern people, but they were definitely not fools; human nature always has a selfish side.

Since Nie Xiaoqian in the "Xiaoqian" chapter has already left Lanruo Temple and her remains have been buried by Ning Caichen, if she is truly a kind and good person, she can be reincarnated into a wealthy family. Why does she have to cling to Ning Caichen?

Unless she has ulterior motives!

For example: lusting after Ning Caichen's body!

"If that's the case, how did you know all this?" Jiang Liu asked. "Logically speaking, Nie Xiaoqian would never tell you this, right?"

"The effect of the spiritual realm."

As the young girl raised her hand, three golden points of light reappeared, forming a picture similar to a three-dimensional projection. The content playing in the picture was the past of Nie Luoli, Shaoyao, Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen. "The basic abilities of the spiritual realm are four: moving and controlling objects, rotating and cutting, creating things and destroying everything. But when combined, they can evolve into all sorts of abilities."

I accidentally discovered that I could connect with the entire Ghost Realm, and thus explore all the past events recorded in the Ghost Realm since its formation.

In addition, I discovered that this ability can also deduce some future scenes and fragments of the outside world.

Such a display of ability made Jiang Liu take notice, truly feeling that the Ghost Realm was a peculiar video game world, or that the guy who controlled the spiritual realm was like a player with cheat codes, or a "privilege dog"!

He now understood why the black woman would occasionally throw out modern slang that only existed in the 21st century!

but!

Since this spiritual realm was created by Nie Xiaoqian, did she also know about this ability?

Jiang Liu made a note of this thought for the time being, and then asked, "Why didn't Nie Xiaoqian come out by herself?"

"She was suppressed by Yan Chixia with a bronze statue of a rhinoceros horn, and was forbidden to leave..."

The so-called Tongtianxi is a bronze-shaped mythical beast with a bull's head, a tortoise's body, and seven tails.

"...There used to be a crystal mirror on the top of that bronze statue, which could reflect human bones and internal organs, and also had the power to kill ghosts and monsters. But my father, out of consideration for our past relationship, removed that crystal mirror."

In this way...

Without the Qin King's Bone-Illuminating Mirror, only the bronze statue of the Heavenly Rhinoceros, though capable of suppressing evil spirits, could not kill Nie Xiaoqian.

"So, your goal is to prevent the overthrow of Daheishan?" Zhang Zhiwei realized that their goals conflicted with those of the young lady.

Although the ghost realm will disappear, the half-human, half-ghost beings like the little girl will also vanish without a trace. However, if this ghost realm continues to exist and develops to a certain extent, it may form even more terrifying evil spirits.

Furthermore, from the perspective of bringing the ghost realm into reality, their goal is actually the same as that of "Nie Xiaoqian".

After all, overturning Daheishan at this stage is equivalent to disrupting the energy pattern of Daheishan, causing the ghost realm to overlap with reality. The power of nature in reality can then be used to disrupt the energy pattern, thereby continuously weakening the ghost realm or even destroying it.

As for whether Nie Xiaoqian knew this—

Zhang Zhiwei believes that the other party can use the spiritual realm to achieve the same abilities as a sorcerer, but most likely they do not understand the principles of Qi, otherwise how could they be suppressed and trapped in one place?

No, that's not true.

The young girl shook her head. "Whether the Great Black Mountain is overthrown or not has nothing to do with me. I just don't want my two older sisters to become Aunt Nie's puppets. If possible, we even want to leave the Ghost Realm and see the outside world..."

The puppet refers to the "centipede" that the White Lady transformed into after her death.

Although the ability of the spiritual realm was created by Nie Xiaoqian through her perception of the radiance of the spiritual realm of heaven, it is actually a continuation of her consciousness.

If an entity with this ability loses all self-awareness, then "Xiaoqian" will come out and take over.

The Black Lady, the White Lady, and her Little Lady are not only the vessels that Xiaoqian uses to carry the radiance of the spiritual realm, but also the "soul shell" through which she escapes suppression and returns to the Great Black Mountain.

"So, the King of the Underworld really is Ning Caichen?" Jiang Liu was quite curious about how Ning Caichen eventually turned into such a ghostly figure.

Could it be that, like Lu Renjia, the body's physical form is constantly adapting to the energy of the ghost realm, thus transforming into a ghost or deity?

"No."

The young woman snapped out of her daze and dismissed Jiang Liu's guess, saying, "That's Yan Chixia."

Jiang Liu: "???"

the other side.

Zheng Zha, Ling Dian, Zhao Ying Kong, Qi Teng Yi, and Fairy Loli had arrived at the top of Da Hei Mountain and were standing outside the steps.

Ahead stood a gate with the three large characters "Netherworld" inscribed on it. Inside was a temple with the plaque "Namo Temple" inscribed on it. It was ancient and gloomy, but Zheng Zha could still vaguely discern its original splendor and luxury.

The fairy Loli stepped into the area on the mountaintop.

"and many more!"

Zheng Zha grabbed Fairy Loli's hand, but it was too late.

Instantly!

A thousand ghostly mists and ten thousand dark clouds surged from the mountaintop, and a blue-faced, fanged, crimson-haired, half-benevolent-browed, half-angry-eyed underworld emperor with four arms, standing about three zhang tall, emerged.

"Who dares to trespass into the Netherworld?" the Underworld Emperor questioned the Fairy Loli.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zheng Zha pulled the fairy Loli out of the mountaintop area and back onto the steps.

Seeing this, the King of the Underworld did not make a move. Instead, he turned and headed towards the Nanwu Temple, his figure disappearing into the eerie gray mist.

"Just as Jiang Liu said, as long as we leave the mountaintop, we will not be attacked."

Zhao Yingkong seemed to be deep in thought. Then, seeing Zheng Zha pulling the Fairy Lolita along, she said sarcastically, "A guy like you is actually the captain? No wonder Chu Xuan is against you!"

At least.

She would never accept Zheng Zha as captain now!

Hearing this, Zheng Zha felt a little embarrassed, but he couldn't refute Zhao Yingkong, so he simply said, "I'll test it!"

What are you doing up here?

at this time.

A familiar voice rang out.

Above the archway, black mist filled the air, and a woman in black wearing a round hat inscribed with "Peace Under Heaven" appeared, sitting on the protruding eaves on the left side of the archway.

On the right side—

A white-clad woman is sitting there!

She's still alive!

Zheng Zha was terrified.

Qi Tengyi was so frightened that he trembled. After all, the white-clad woman had killed Arno and broken one of his arms. How could he not be terrified?

"I'm here to apologize." Zhao Yingkong stepped onto the mountaintop and, recalling Jiang Liu's words, sincerely said "I'm sorry" to the woman in black.

# Chapter 374 Yan Chixia

boom!

As the woman in black jumped from the eaves of the archway, the three-zhang-tall, blue-faced, fanged, four-armed underworld emperor reappeared.

This was because Zhao Yingkong had stepped into the mountaintop area.

Seeing this, Zhao Yingkong tensed her leg muscles, ready to leave the mountaintop at any moment—she had come to apologize to the Black Lady…that was true, but she was unwilling to die for it.

friend···

She did yearn for it deep down, but she couldn't die!

She still had something she needed to accomplish—to take revenge on Zhao Zhuikong!

Therefore, if the King of the Underworld were to attack her, Zhao Yingkong would jump onto the steps outside the mountaintop without hesitation, even if it would eliminate any possibility of reconciliation with the Black Lady... To be honest, Zhao Yingkong herself didn't know why she felt like a friend to the "NPCs" in the "horror movie".

The river flows like this.

The same was true of the black woman in front of me.

“Dad, stop for a moment. She’s a friend I invited to visit our hometown,” the woman in black called out.

Upon hearing the word "friend," Zhao Yingkong finally felt relieved.

Jiang Liu is right!

An apology will suffice!

"invite?"

These two words seemed to trigger some kind of "mechanism" of the underworld emperor, causing his three-zhang-tall body to shrink continuously, eventually transforming into a person dressed as an ancient scholar with a height of about 1.78 meters.