Chapter 2767: Humans and Ghosts Are Different

Black smoke like a sea, melted by the fierce sun.

Thunder rumbled for ten thousand miles, overturning the blue dragon!

The battle currently unfolding in Tiangong City almost flattened the sky above Falling Immortal Forest.

The Jin Wang Mansion’s foray into Falling Immortal Forest was led by martial arts grandmaster Ji Jinglu. His body transformed into a fierce sun of qi and blood, directly blasting a path through Falling Immortal Forest and penetrating straight to outside Tiangong City.

But the main force of this great battle was none other than Jin Wang Ji Xuanzhen.

This clan king had an extremely high seniority, being a prince enfeoffed during the reign of Jing Qin Emperor. In terms of identity, he was only slightly lower than Minister of the Zongzheng Temple, Ji Yumin, within the clan. In terms of blood relation, the current emperor had to address him as an ancestor.

He personally experienced the humiliation of the five countries' emperors meeting in Tiandu, and also witnessed Jing Xian Emperor’s exhaustion and powerlessness.

He had once killed heavenly demons in the outer domain, and once raised a Chi Kiss with his bare hand.

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

At the beginning of the third period, when Zong Dezhen was prying the name "Zhao Wang" from the mouth of the Original Heavenly God, he and Ji Jinglu had already arrived. They simply stopped at Bing Ruins, concealing their tracks so that no one knew.

Waiting this one night was to give certain people time to report the news — Yin Xiaoheng's death must have been the result of internal and external collusion.

The war machine of the central empire had already set forth, currently galloping across the Divine Continent.

Having experienced the immense failure of the vast sea and then the extremely wicked event of the assassination of an empire's military commander, everyone in Jing Country could no longer tolerate it. The first hegemony in four thousand years would either be torn like waste paper, or the names of challengers would be written upon it, and they would be pronounced dead.

Under immense internal and external pressure, the imperial family and the three Dao Pulse completely twisted into one, weaving the cruelest noose in this world. No judged target could survive under this noose.

The entire Divine Continent was struggling to breathe!

In this situation of the three pulses uniting and national mobilization, any tiny clue would be pulled out, whether internal or external.

And on this night in Falling Immortal Forest, the wind was calm and the waves were still.

Either Equality Country truly did nothing, or Tiangong 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, and Jin Wang Mansion dyed its name with blood.

Ji Xuanzhen cooperated with Jing Country’s stance, displaying his power without restraint.

In fact, he killed his way into Tiangong City alone!

He took on the great array that Tiangong City had operated for two years, the siege of countless ghosts and countless "Zhi Shi" inside Tiangong City, and the confrontation with Qian Tang Jun Bo Lu!

He fought until this moment, when heaven and earth were turned upside down, and lightning flashed and thunder roared.

Ji Jinglu stood below Tiangong City, above Avici Ghost Cave, cutting off the so-called "two realms" hub, making the power of Avici Ghost Cave unable to support Tiangong City.

His hands hung slightly, his demeanor relaxed, as he overlooked the two pairs of eyes slowly floating up in the ghost cave: "You better not come over, I might… beat you all to death!"

The Heavenly Ghosts named "You Yan" and "Xuan Fu" were currently among them.

Ghosts who had cultivated to this realm no longer feared qi and blood, nor did they care about the fierce sun. But facing a scorching martial artist, they still inevitably weakened a few points in momentum.

Ji Jinglu stood alone in the sky above Avici Ghost Cave, interpreting what it meant to "guard the pass alone".

You Yan’s eyes were deep blue, and the ghost fire that jumped within them was bird-shaped. Her voice carried the damp feeling of plum rain, slowly seeping into people's hearts: "Ji Jinglu, where does your confidence come from?"

"You see, you know me. Whereas before I came, I only briefly glanced at your name. This is why I have such confidence."

Ji Jinglu looked down from above: "You have lived in Avici Ghost Cave for many years, and people from Jing Country have never come to drive you away. It’s not because they couldn't spare a hand, but because you were very sensible and never disturbed the order of the present world. More importantly, Jing Country did not regard you as a threat — retreat now, and it will still be as it was initially."

From within Avici Ghost Cave, Xuan Fu's voice was very vicissitudinous: "Humans die and become ghosts. We exist because of various unwillingness, waking up no longer being ourselves. But Ji Jinglu, I was once the same as you."

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

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

"We are unwilling to go to the Netherworld to be enslaved, and we also cannot clearly return to the origin sea while alive. We just want a place to occasionally breathe. But Bo Lu told us — we can be the same as you."

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

In the pitch-black Avici Ghost Cave, he cast his shadow towards the sky.

You Yan's slender figure followed behind him, walking in his shadow. Only her pair of 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 Jinglu spread his five fingers, taking an iron fan in his hand: "But you must have life to realize it."

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

It was as if a giant crossbow had tightened its string.

Ji Jinglu's martial body continuously swelled and tightened. Outside his body, nine large tendons actually appeared, entwining each other, and actually coiling around his body like dragons!

Suddenly probing with claws and raising whiskers, he truly became dragon-shaped.

Blue veins formed a dragon head intersecting at his neck, as if supporting his head, as if jointly lifting a throne.

Nine Dragons Lifting the Sun!

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

Different from, another kind of top martial artist body, !

Legend says the ancient Dragon Emperor Pan Wu Clan had an invincible body, sweeping all heavens.

Dao Country inherited the ancient ways. Ji Jinglu carved himself with the legendary Pan Wu Clan body, completed the transformation of a martial artist, and finally became this body. Even during the twenty-sixth heaven of martial dao, he couldn't truly grasp it, and it only manifested until martial dao ascended to the top!

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

But with a slight lift of his eyes, he possessed a kind of cruel majesty.

The iron fan in his hand also swelled accordingly. He grasped the closed iron fan, like holding a wrought iron stick, and smashed this iron fan down at the same time as he leaped down, smashing it down extremely rudely.

"Retreat!"

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

All heavens and ten thousand realms, one body crosses them.

Ka! Ka! Ka!

The mouth of Avici Ghost Cave cracked completely!

This was Jing Country’s time to display its might to the whole world, and also Ji Jinglu’s time to stretch his fists and feet.

He needed to let people know.

Why he could be in charge of Dou E, why he could open up central martial dao, and temper the soldiers of Jing!

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

What was beaten out was the majesty of Jing Country, what was bombarded open was the road ahead for the Dou E Army.

A piece of hard bone suddenly grew out of Heavenly Ghost Xuan Fu’s forehead. The bone patterns were strange blue-green two-color Bagua shape. The power cast down from the ends of the ox horns caused this piece of Bagua hard bone to rotate lightly —

From the center of this ghost bone Bagua, a light pillar woven of blue and green suddenly shot out, rumbling, steadfastly resisting Ji Jinglu's iron fan and lifting it up.

Of course, it couldn't resist the power of the Nine Dragons Coiling Martial Body.

But he was not alone.

Behind him, Heavenly Ghost You Yan suddenly leaned back, her deathly pale face, blood-red lips, and ghost hair flying scattered and spread, deeply stabbing into the cave wall, as if knotted into a spider web. The power from the ghost dao supported them, instantly consolidating the entrance of Avici Ghost Cave.

Mountains, rivers, and the earth were all this web, supporting them, only moving forward, not backward.

Avici Ghost Cave was bottomless and boundless. Countless years within it, countless ghosts had accumulated and were eternally sinking and dissolving.

After Tiangong City was established and yin and yang penetrated, it had infinite possibilities.

Qian Tang Jun chose a good location, truly having the potential for operation.

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

Of course, Avici Ghost Cave was so gloomy and dangerous, and exploring downwards was not easy. Qian Tang Jun sat in Tiangong City, wholeheartedly investing in and operating it, developing so rapidly — exploring the ghost cave was also very slow.

For the heavenly ghosts, climbing up was equally difficult.

"Don't want to go back anymore!"

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

Swallowing bird ghost shadows actually flew out of her pupils. In a sharp cry, they instantly covered the sky and earth, like thick clouds boiling, heading towards Ji Jinglu.

But precisely at this time —

Rumble!

Tiangong City's city wall suddenly collapsed!

You Yan and Xuan Fu stopped their attack almost simultaneously, their faces showing shock!

Amidst the flying bricks and stones, a huge stone plaque came horizontally.

Above it was written "All under heaven, human race is one family, ten thousand kinds of origin, no high or low."

A boot embroidered with imperial family heavenly patterns in gold thread stepped on it.

The owner of the boot was a man wearing a robe embroidered with a golden python, his figure tall and straight, his divine eyes like electricity, the Jin Wang of the central empire, Ji Xuanzhen!

The battle inside Tiangong City had actually ended so quickly!

With the blessing of the entire Tiangong City, the help of so many people from the two realms inside and outside, and Qian Tang Jun himself not being weak... he actually didn't hold out for even fifteen minutes.

It could be said that the absolute majority of Tiangong City's people hadn't even participated in the battle, and the entire Tiangong City hadn't been thoroughly put into operation yet.

Even the two venerable heavenly ghosts had decided to crawl out from the depths of the ghost cave to assist, and they hadn't even fought Ji Jinglu for several exchanges!

Entering the enemy's array alone, beheading a general and seizing a flag, was just like this.

How strong was Ji Xuanzhen exactly?!

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

Great Jing's Jin Wang lightly ground his foot, and the stone plaque instantly cracked into four or five pieces. Stones of no shape were everywhere in the sky, only one complete 'human' character continuously flipped in the air.

"Humans and ghosts are different paths!"

This then pronounced the fate of those ghosts.

"Not willing to go back?" Ji Xuanzhen grabbed with his big hand, leading down five paths of blue 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 even an extra reaction, and said nothing more. They dissipated into ghost fog on the spot, just like that, disappearing without a trace.

They were no clearer about Qian Tang Jun's strength than they were about themselves. It was the other side who had beaten them into submission in the ghost cave, then expounded the dao, then discussed ideals, then persuaded them.

But even such a strong heavenly ghost, borrowing the last emperor's dragon qi of Yue Country and occupying the local advantage, couldn't withstand Ji Xuanzhen's offensive.

How dare they be touched by Ji Xuanzhen?

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

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

"The era of myths has all ended, what are you still talking about penetrating yin and yang —" Ji Xuanzhen's face was expressionless, only giving an ice-cold evaluation: "Exhausted all tricks!"

Ji Jinglu's body's qi and blood, like a boiling volcano gradually silencing, calmly looked at the distant sky: "It seems they don't plan to leave us, nor have they placed all their hopes in Tiangong City — not even one weighty enough has come."

Ji Xuanzhen only said: "Rats in the gutter, it would be fine if they didn't provoke us. Now how dare they show their heads?"

Whether Sheng Gong, Zhao Wang, Divine 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 for years, Tiangong City had always been operated by Qian Tang Jun alone. Although he spoke of representing the ideal of equality and stood on the stage, no second person in the entire Equality Country stood out openly.

In other words, they profoundly understood that they were not tolerated by the world. Although they chose this dangerous place, so easy to defend and hard to attack, they were also prepared to cut it off at any moment.

If they wanted to truly exterminate Equality Country. Perhaps they should have given them a little more time, let them operate for a few more years? Let it become more difficult to give up here, then they could cut down more.

Ji Jinglu retracted his gaze, looking towards the already battered walls and ruins, where thick smoke was still rolling in Tiangong City: "You let Bo Lu go?"

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

"The battle ended too quickly, perhaps not giving them enough time to rescue." Ji Xuanzhen couldn't show too much emotion, rising and flying towards the high sky: "It's time to verify their ideal... Exterminating Tiangong City can be said to be a sudden event. Now that they have been given enough opportunity, will they save or not save?"

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

The beginning of the third period had a good start.

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

As for now...

Ji Jinglu turned his body, looking at the two people slowly walking from afar — one wearing a Chu Country royal family jade crown, but his clothing was quite simple, a man muttering something, and an ordinary-looking but very clean bald head — they should chat with the Chu Country people.

"Chat a chat?" A voice suddenly said this, seeming to ring in his ear.

The woman on the bed had her eyes tightly closed, her breathing long, seemingly still in a deep sleep.

"Already three poles of the sun," that voice said: "Does the body borrowed also need to sleep?"

Wu Guan Wang opened his eyes, his hand pinching the formula of course not relaxed, his face smiled very harmlessly, even bringing out a bit of nauseating charm: "Elder Su of Dong Wang Valley said, ordinary people must guarantee at least four hours of sleep every day. This way they can have a better state to work and live, which is beneficial to consolidating lifespan — since I borrowed this body, I naturally want to be responsible for this body. Last night I worked too late, so I'll supplement my sleep during the day."

He turned his head to look towards the chair that had been placed by the bed at some unknown time, and the unwelcome guest sitting on the chair.

There was a hazy lump of shadow, which could not be seen clearly no matter what.

"My good brother, eh?" He asked sensitively.

"You didn't guess wrong." The person sitting on the chair said leisurely: "It was your good brother who helped me find you."

"How is my bright brother doing! Where is his corpse now?" Wu Guan Wang stood up in a rage!

Wu Guan Wang, who knew no hell, was a model of repaying grievance 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 it had been abandoned!

The person sitting by the bed was not surprised, filing his nails with a file knife, and slowly said: "He was very sensible, so he is still alive — I don't know if you are sensible?"

"That of course. Everyone who has used me says I'm good, I'm famously sensible!" Wu Guan Wang finally put his heart at ease when he heard his brother was still alive. He stacked his legs, posed a relaxed sitting posture on the bed, changed into a fawning smile, and said coyly: "I still don't know this adult's name, how should I address you?"

"You don't need to know who I am." The newcomer had profound cultivation, ignoring his disgusting offensive: "I am just a worthless small fry, who won't be noticed even when walking in the sunlight. This spring scenery is very good, I came here to tie a good karma with you."

"You are not hindering... speak more directly." Wu Guan Wang said cautiously.

"Then I will put the words more directly —" That person flipped his palm and put away the file knife. The hazy lump of shadow also seemed to sit up straight: "Central Heavenly Prison, do you still remember?"

Wu Guan Wang's charming eyes instantly became fierce!

That person acted as if nothing had happened, unhurried: "Remember how you... came out?"