Chapter 2732: Human and Ghost, Different Paths

Chapter 2406 Humans and Ghosts Follow Different Paths

Black smoke like the sea, melted by the blazing sun.

Thunder for thousands of miles, overturning the green dragon!

The battle happening in Tian Gong City almost flattened the sky above the fallen immortal forest.

In this battle where the Jin Prince's Mansion killed their way into the fallen immortal forest, Martial Arts Grandmaster Ji Jing Lu was at the forefront. His body turned into a blazing sun of qi and blood, directly blasting a path through the fallen immortal forest and penetrating straight to the outside of Tian Gong City.

However, the main force of this great battle was none other than Jin Prince Ji Xuan Zhen.

This prince had a very high generational status within the imperial clan; he was a prince enfeoffed during the reign of Emperor Jing Qin. In terms of identity, he was only slightly lower than Zong Zheng Si Qing Ji Yu Min within the imperial clan. In terms of blood ties, the current emperor even called him ancestor.

He had personally experienced the humiliation of the five countries' emperors meeting in Tian Jing and had also witnessed Emperor Jing Xian's failure despite his exhaustive efforts.

He had once killed heavenly demons in the outer domain and had also once held the Chi Kiss in his palm.

When Ji Feng Zhou ascended the throne and decided to consolidate central hegemony, he returned from beyond the heavens. This was the first time in many years that he truly displayed the power of the Great Jing imperial family before the people of the world.

On the third day of the third month, when Zong De Zhen extracted the name "Prince Zhao" from the mouth of the original heavenly god, he and Ji Jing Lu had already arrived. They just stopped at the soldier ruins, hiding their tracks and concealing their presence, not letting people know.

Waiting this one night was to give certain people time to report the news — Yin Xiao Heng's death was necessarily the result of internal and external collusion.

The war machine of the central empire had already begun to move, galloping in Shen Lu.

Having experienced the immense failure of Cang Hai and then the extremely wicked event of an empire military commander being murdered, Jing Country could no longer tolerate it. The four-thousand-year first hegemony would either be torn like a piece of scrap paper or the names of the challengers would be written on it and they would be declared dead.

Under immense internal and external pressure, the imperial family and the three major Daoist lineages were completely twisted into one strand, weaving the cruelest noose in this world. No target being judged could survive under this noose.

The entire Shen Lu was suffocating!

Under this situation where the three lineages united and the entire country was mobilized, every single clue would be pulled out, whether internal or external.

And this night in the fallen immortal forest, the wind was calm and the waves were still.

Perhaps Equality Country really did nothing, or perhaps Tian Gong City had already been abandoned.

No matter which possibility, when Lou Yue publicly declared Equality Country as the murderer, everything could no longer be stopped.

Lou Yue declared with words; the Jin Prince's Mansion dyed their name with blood.

Ji Xuan Zhen coordinated with Jing Country's stance, wantonly and unscrupulously displaying his power.

In fact, he killed his way into Tian Gong City alone!

He withstood the great formation that Tian Gong City had operated for two years, withstood the siege of countless ghosts and countless "determined individuals" inside Tian Gong City, and fought against Qian Tang Jun and Bo Lu!

He killed until this moment, overturning heaven and earth, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring.

Ji Jing Lu stood below Tian Gong City, above the Avici Ghost Cave, cutting off the so-called "two realms" pivot, making the power of the Avici Ghost Cave unable to support Tian Gong City.

His hands hung slightly, his demeanor relaxed, overlooking the two pairs of eyes slowly floating up from inside the ghost cave: "You all better not come over. I am very likely... to beat you all to death!"

Among them were the heavenly ghosts named "You Yan" and "Xuan Fu".

Ghosts who cultivated to this realm no longer feared qi and blood, nor did they care about the blazing sun. But facing the scorching martial artist, they still inevitably felt weaker in momentum.

Ji Jing Lu stood alone above the Avici Ghost Cave, interpreting what it meant to "guard the pass alone".

You Yan's eyes were a deep blue color, and the ghost fire flickering within was in the shape of flying birds. Her voice carried the damp feeling of plum rain, slowly seeping into people's hearts: "Ji Jing Lu, where does your confidence come from?"

"You see, you know me. While I, before coming, just temporarily glanced at your names. This is why I have such confidence."

Ji Jing Lu looked down from above: "You all have lived in the Avici Ghost Cave for many years. The people of Jing Country have never come to drive you away. It's not because they couldn't spare the effort, but because you are very sensible and have never disturbed the order of the present world. More importantly, Jing Country does not regard you as a threat — if you retreat now, it will still be like before."

From within the Avici Ghost Cave, Xuan Fu's voice was very vicissitudinous: "Humans die and then become ghosts. We exist because of various unwillingness, and when we wake up, we are no longer our former selves. But Ji Jing Lu, I was once like you."

"You are high-spirited, you wear brocade clothes and eat jade food. You see all the spring scenery, you enjoy the human world."

Amidst the constantly rolling black fog, a ferocious ghost body about eight feet tall slowly floated up. He was born with a pair of ox horns like deep cast iron, with spiraling ghost patterns on the horns. His eyes seemed to be rusted, a confused heap piled up, unable to be seen clearly.

"We are unwilling to go to the Netherworld to be enslaved, nor can we clearly return to the origin sea while alive. We just want a place to occasionally breathe. But Bo Lu told us — we can be like you."

Heavenly ghost Xuan Fu stepped on the ghost fog like stairs, walking up step by step, walking higher and stronger: "Like you!"

He was in the dark Avici Ghost Cave, yet he cast his shadow to the sky.

You Yan's slender figure followed behind him, walking in his shadow, only her eyes were bright, as if they were floating lanterns.

"How can you make me retreat?" Xuan Fu asked.

His craving for the human world burned in You Yan's eyes.

"The ideal is very beautiful." Ji Jing Lu spread his five fingers, taking the iron fan in his hand: "But you need to have a life to realize it."

Thereupon, he leaped down in the air, his martial body instantly swelled up, and the brocade clothes on his body directly exploded like broken butterflies.

It was as if the rope of a giant crossbow was being tightened.

Ji Jing Lu's martial body constantly swelled and tightened, and outside his body, nine large tendons actually appeared, intertwining with each other and actually coiling around his body like dragons!

Suddenly, his claws probed and his whiskers raised, truly becoming a dragon shape.

The green tendons' dragon heads converged at his neck, as if supporting his head, as if lifting a throne together.

Nine dragons lift the sun!

Heavenly ghost Xuan Fu's ferocious ghost body was instantly compared to a doll.

This was different from the body of another kind of top martial artist, !

Legend has it that the ancient Dragon Emperor Pan Wu Clan had an invincible body, sweeping across all heavens.

Dao Country inherited ancient traditions, and Ji Jing Lu used the legendary Pan Wu Clan's body to carve himself, completing the transformation of a martial artist, and finally achieving this body. Even when he was in the twenty-sixth heaven of martial dao, he could not truly grasp it until martial dao ascended to the peak and then manifested!

His martial body had such explosive power, yet his face was still so gentle and refined.

But when his eyes slightly lifted, there was a cruel majesty.

The iron fan in his hand also swelled accordingly. He gripped the closed iron fan, like holding a mixed iron stick, and at the same time he leaped down, he smashed this iron fan down, extremely roughly and violently smashing down on the head.

"Retreat!"

This body was the extreme of force, this intent was the peak of martial arts.

All heavens and myriad realms, one body横 swept across them.

Ka! Ka! Ka!

The entrance of the Avici Ghost Cave cracked!

This was the time for Jing Country to display its muscles to the whole world, and also the time for Ji Jing Lu to stretch his fists and feet.

He needed to let people know.

Why he could take over Dou E, why he could open up the central martial dao, and temper Jing martial soldiers!

Jing Nine Armor was not an unattainable imagination, but an inevitable result that would be realized.

What was struck out was the majesty of Jing Country, what was blasted open was the front road of the Dou E army.

Heavenly ghost Xuan Fu's forehead suddenly grew a piece of hard bone, the bone patterns were strange blue-green two-color eight trigrams shape. Power came down from the two ends of the ox horns, and this piece of eight trigrams hard bone lightly rotated —

From this ghost bone eight trigrams, a blue-green intertwined light pillar suddenly shot out rapidly, rumbling, stubbornly resisting Ji Jing Lu's iron fan and lifting it up.

Of course, it could not resist the power of the nine dragons coiling around the martial body.

But he was not alone.

Heavenly ghost You Yan behind him suddenly arched her back, her face pale, her lips blood red, her ghost hair flying wildly and wantonly, deeply stabbing into the cave wall, as if forming a spider web. Power from the ghost dao supported them, instantly consolidating the entrance of the Avici Ghost Cave.

The mountains, rivers, and earth were all this web, supporting them, only forward, not backward.

The Avici Ghost Cave was bottomless and boundless, accumulating countless ghosts over countless years, forever sinking and dissolving within it.

Since the establishment of Tian Gong City and the penetration of yin and yang, it has had infinite possibilities.

Qian Tang Jun chose a good location and truly had the potential for operation.

Equality Country should not, and will not, abandon it.

Of course, the Avici Ghost Cave was so gloomy and dangerous that exploring downwards was not easy. Qian Tang Jun was based in Tian Gong City, wholeheartedly invested in its operation, and its development was already so rapid — exploring in the ghost cave was also very slow.

For heavenly ghosts, climbing up was equally difficult.

"We don't want to go back anymore!"

"If you feel we should go back —" You Yan's 森 voice and howl: "Then please come down!"

The kite bird ghost shadow actually flew out of her pupils, and in a sharp cry, instantly covered the sky and earth, like thick clouds boiling, heading towards Ji Jing Lu.

But at this moment —

Rumble!

The city wall of Tian Gong City suddenly collapsed!

You Yan and Xuan Fu almost stopped their attack at the same time, their faces showing shock!

Bricks and stones flew disorderly, and a large stone plaque came horizontally.

On it was written "All under heaven, the human race is one family, ten thousand kinds of origins have no high or low".

It was stepped on by a boot embroidered with gold thread and imperial family heavenly patterns.

The owner of the boot was a man wearing an embroidered gold python robe, his figure tall and straight, his divine eyes like electricity, the Jin Prince of the central empire, Ji Xuan Zhen!

The battle inside Tian Gong City actually ended so quickly!

With the entire Tian Gong City adding to the resistance, and so many people from the two realms inside and outside helping, Qian Tang Jun himself was not weak... He actually didn't hold on for even a quarter of an hour.

It could be said that the absolute majority of people in Tian Gong City did not even participate in the battle. The entire Tian Gong City had not yet been thoroughly operated.

Even the two heavenly ghosts who had made up their minds to crawl out from the depths of the ghost cave to provide aid had not even fought several rounds with Ji Jing Lu!

Single rider entering the array, beheading the general and seizing the flag, just like this.

How strong was Ji Xuan Zhen exactly!?

"Yin and yang penetrate, two instruments blessed land?"

The Great Jing Jin Prince lightly ground his foot, and the stone plaque instantly cracked into four and five pieces. Broken stones that could not form an outline were all over the sky, only one complete 'human' character, constantly flipping in the air.

"Humans and ghosts follow different paths!"

This then pronounced the fate of those ghosts.

"Unwilling to go back?" Ji Xuan Zhen grabbed with his large hand, leading down five green thunder dragons from the high sky, roaring and killing into the ghost cave: "Don't go back!!"

You Yan and Xuan Fu exchanged glances, without any extra reaction, nor did they say anything more. They dispersed into ghost fog on the spot, and just like this disappeared without a trace.

They knew Qian Tang Jun's strength again. If the opposite side defeated them in the ghost cave, then they could expound their dao, then discuss ideals, and then persuade them.

But such a powerful heavenly ghost who borrowed the dragon qi of the last emperor of Yue Country and possessed geographical advantage still could not withstand Ji Xuan Zhen's offensive.

How could they dare to be touched by Ji Xuan Zhen?

Rumble, the thunder dragons danced wildly, electric snakes flew about.

Although the two heavenly ghosts retreated, the thunder dragons led by Ji Xuan Zhen did not stop, but continued to rampage in the ghost cave. Ordinary ghosts basically died upon contact. In this instant, countless ghosts were killed, and the killed ghosts turned into green smoke, almost boiling into clouds!

"The mythical era has ended, what is there to talk about yin and yang penetration —" Ji Xuan Zhen's face was expressionless, he only gave one ice-cold evaluation: "At wit's end!"

Ji Jing Lu's body's qi and blood, like a boiling volcano, gradually silenced. He calmly looked at the distant sky: "It seems they don't plan to leave us, nor do they place all their hopes in Tian Gong City — no one with enough weight has come."

Ji Xuan Zhen only said: "Rats in the gutter, it's fine if they don't provoke us, but now they dare to show their heads?"

Whether Sheng Gong, Prince Zhao, God Hero, or all of them came today, they would all die.

Equality Country was rational.

This rationality was not only manifested today.

It also lay in the fact that over the years, Qian Tang Jun was always the only person operating inside Tian Gong City. Although it was said to represent the ideal of equality and stand on the stage, there was no second person from the entire Equality Country who stood out in the open.

In other words, they deeply understood that they were not tolerated in this world. Although they chose such a dangerous place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, they were also prepared to cut their losses at any time.

If they wanted to truly exterminate Equality Country, perhaps they should give them a little more time and let them operate for some years? Let this place be more difficult to give up, so that more could be cut down.

Ji Jing Lu turned his gaze back, looking towards Tian Gong City, which had been turned into broken walls and ruins, with thick smoke still rolling: "You let Bo Lu go?"

There were still many remaining people in the city, but not a single ghost was left. However, there were no corpses of heavenly ghosts.

"The battle ended too quickly, perhaps there wasn't enough time to rescue them." Ji Xuan Zhen's face showed no emotion. He rose and flew to the high sky: "It's time to verify their ideals... Exterminating Tian Gong City can be said to have happened suddenly. Now that there's enough opportunity, will they save him or not?"

Ji Jing Lu waited quietly in his original place for a while. It was still early morning, and the sky was bright.

The fourth day of the third month had a good start.

He knew that this chase would continue for a period of time, perhaps one day, perhaps two days, depending on when the people saving Bo Lu took action, or rather — if it was determined that no more people would be saved.

As for now...

Ji Jing Lu turned around and looked at the two people slowly walking from a distance — one man wearing a Chu Country imperial family jade crown on his head, his clothes quite simple, muttering something in his mouth, and one ordinary-looking but very clean bald head — they should have a chat with the people from Chu Country.

"Have a chat?" A voice suddenly said this, seemingly ringing in his ear.

The woman on the bed had her eyes tightly closed, her breathing long, seeming to be still in deep sleep.

"The sun is already high in the sky," that voice said. "Even a body borrowed wants to sleep?"

Wu Guan Wang opened his eyes. Of course, the hand pinching the incantation was not relaxed. His face had a very harmless smile, even bringing out a trace of nauseating flattery: "Dong Wang Valley Elder Su said that ordinary people should guarantee at least four hours of sleep every day, so that they can have a better state for work and life, which is beneficial to consolidating lifespan — since I borrowed this body, I naturally want to be responsible for this body. I worked too late last night, so I'm making up for sleep during the daytime."

He turned his head and looked towards the chair that had been placed beside the bed at some point, and the unwelcome guest sitting on the chair.

There was a hazy cluster of shadows there, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see clearly.

"Is it my good brother?" he asked sensitively.

"You didn't guess wrong," the person sitting on the chair said leisurely. "Just your good brother helped me find you."

"How is my bright brother!" Where is his corpse now?" Wu Guan Wang stood up in great anger!

Wu Guan Wang, who had no door to Hell, was a model of repaying grievances with virtue.

He didn't care whether his good brother had betrayed him. He only cared whether his good brother had left a whole corpse and where he had been abandoned!

The person sitting by the bed was unfazed. He used a file knife to file his nails, slowly saying: "He is very sensible, so he is still alive — I wonder if you are sensible?"

"Of course. Everyone who has used me says I'm good. I'm notoriously sensible!" Wu Guan Wang finally relaxed when he heard that his brother was still alive. He crossed his legs, put on a posture of sitting and waiting to be taken and sought, and changed to a fawning smile, saying tenderly: "I still don't know this adult's name and surname, I don't know how to address you?"

"You don't need to know who I am." The comer's cultivation was profound, and he ignored his disgusting offense: "I am just a small role not worth a penny. I won't be noticed even if I walk under the sunlight. This spring scenery is very good, so I came here to form a good karma with you."

"Why don't you... say it more directly." Wu Guan Wang said cautiously.

"Then I'll say it more directly —" That person flipped his palm and put away the file knife. The hazy cluster of shadows also seemed to sit up straight: "Central heavenly prison, do you still remember?"

Wu Guan Wang's fawning eyes instantly became fierce!

That person regarded it as nothing, unhurriedly: "Remember how you... came out?"