Chapter 1596 Seven Great Ghost Generals
“This Centipede Demon Worm goes through three transformations in its life. After three transformations, it becomes incomparably powerful, one of the most formidable ghost beings in the Underworld, a Yama-level expert that only they can contend with. This Centipede Demon Worm has already transformed once and is about to undergo its second transformation.”
The disheveled Daoist said, “The second transformation requires certain items, including this Dark Purple Lotus. That’s why it’s relentlessly pursuing us.”
“Disheveled Daoist, look… for the sake of both our lives, how about we throw away that Dark Purple Lotus?” Chen Xuan took a deep breath and said. This was the safest course of action. Although the Dark Purple Lotus was precious, it wasn’t worth risking their lives for. After all, he hadn’t yet found any clues about his father.
“I won’t… When has anything that fell into my disheveled Daoist’s hands ever left?” The disheveled Daoist said with obvious heartache.
“Are lives more important, or is the Dark Purple Lotus more important?” Chen Xuan urged. Despite his reluctance, the disheveled Daoist took out the Dark Purple Lotus and casually tossed it into the nearby Yin River.
As expected, the Centipede Demon Worm following them leaped forward, rushing towards the Dark Purple Lotus. It bit onto the Dark Purple Lotus in mid-air, but having lost its support, it plummeted into the Yin River.
“Damn you, you Centipede Demon Worm, I’ll braise you sooner or later!” The disheveled Daoist gritted his teeth, only able to vent his resentment with words.
“Never mind, never mind, perhaps there are even better things.” Chen Xuan said with a smile.
The two of them had been fleeing and had no idea where they were now, so they could only continue forward.
“Good heavens, our luck is too good!” Suddenly, the disheveled Daoist exclaimed, “No, it should be *your* luck that’s too good!”
Chen Xuan turned his head and saw a flower growing on a stone. This wasn’t made of stone, it just looked like it. This thing was called a Stone Flower! A Stone Flower greatly increases the probability of Nascent Soul stage experts breaking through to the Soul Splitting stage. This was undoubtedly something all Nascent Soul stage experts dreamed of.
“Go get it,” the disheveled Daoist said.
“You’re so agreeable, that’s not like you? Is there some conspiracy?” Chen Xuan asked, surprised.
“I’m a very generous person!” The disheveled Daoist patted his chest. He thought to himself that this thing was useless to him, and if it were useful, he would definitely not be polite! Chen Xuan thought, ‘Generous my foot.’ He seemed to understand the reason as well and didn’t stand on ceremony, immediately retrieving the Stone Flower.
After retrieving the Stone Flower, Chen Xuan was ecstatic. When he had time later, he could consider attempting to break through to the Soul Splitting stage! The disheveled Daoist beside him felt a pang of jealousy. Why was it that when someone else obtained a natural treasure, nothing happened, but when he encountered something, it was a Centipede Demon Worm?
“Disheveled Daoist, something bad has happened!” Chen Xuan seemed to sense something and said urgently.
“Is the Centipede Demon Worm chasing us? No?” The disheveled Daoist frowned.
“Ghost Messengers! Ghost Messengers are chasing us!” Chen Xuan smelled the scent of Ghost Messengers.
The disheveled Daoist extended his divine sense to investigate and indeed, two li away, a team of Ghost Messengers was pursuing them. “This is bad, the great commotion we caused might have alerted them.”
“Flee!” The two, who had just found a moment of peace, embarked on the path of escape once more. It wasn’t that they couldn’t defeat the Ghost Messengers, but rather that in the place where yin and yang converged, akin to international waters on Earth, the Book of Life and Death didn’t apply, and their souls could be easily snatched by Ghost Messengers, which would lead them into reincarnation.
However, these Ghost Messengers were clearly prepared; Ghost Messengers were also intercepting them ahead. In the blink of an eye, they encountered a team of Ghost Messengers.
“Mortal, how dare you pretend to be a god and enter the Underworld! You have crossed the boundaries, follow me back to the Yama Hall for punishment!” A Ghost Messenger holding a dark chain said coldly.
Chen Xuan and the disheveled Daoist exchanged glances and said in unison, “What if we don’t go?”
“Then I’ll snatch away your souls!” The Ghost Messenger shouted.
“Scram!” Chen Xuan immediately unleashed the Chen family’s Feng Shui Xuan Arts and cast a Thunder Spirit Charm. Lightning struck, hitting a Ghost Messenger, instantly turning it into scattered souls. The other Ghost Messengers looked on with fear.
The disheveled Daoist then took out a whisk from his Qiankun bag. This whisk was no ordinary item, but a genuine Taoist magical artifact. He flicked his wrist, and the thousands of whisk hairs instantly grew dozens of meters long, crushing several Ghost Messengers in front of them, turning them into scattered souls!
In the blink of an eye, several Ghost Messengers were annihilated, and the remaining few were weak and vulnerable.
“Do you dare to block us again?” Chen Xuan coldly shouted.
The Ghost Messengers were filled with fear. One of the Ghost Messengers gritted his teeth and said, “Kid, you’re finished. Our Ghost General will not let you go!” The ghost then took out a spirit tablet from his waist, seemingly transmitting a message to his Ghost General.
Boom! Before he could finish speaking, the myriad whisk hairs fell like a torrent, and the Ghost Messenger instantly vanished into thin air. However, the Ghost Messenger beside him had already transmitted the message: “Ghost General Mogan, humans have invaded the Underworld, many Ghost Messengers have been annihilated…”
Since their presence had been exposed, Chen Xuan and the disheveled Daoist no longer held back and directly eliminated all the Ghost Messengers present.
“Let’s leave quickly, Ghost Generals might come chasing us soon,” the disheveled Daoist said.
“En!” Chen Xuan nodded.
As the two departed, the surrounding ghostly beings whispered amongst themselves.
“These two humans are quite formidable, actually defeating two teams of Ghost Messengers. We’ll have to be careful when we see them from now on.”
“That’s nothing. Do you remember many years ago, a group of people came here, and even the Yama King had to turn a blind eye. *Those* were true powerful beings!”
“So what? Didn’t they still die or get injured, or end up half-dead and half-alive?”
“Shut up! Don’t talk nonsense, what if *that* person finds out? Even King Yama himself couldn’t save you!”
Suddenly, a surge of ghostly energy swept through the area, and a terrifying pressure emanated in all directions. The surrounding ghostly beings fled in all directions; some jumped into the Yin River, while others hid underground. Seven figures appeared in an instant. These seven figures were precisely seven Ghost Generals! Each of them emanated dense ghostly energy, their terrifying strength incomparable to ordinary Ghost Messengers.
One of the Ghost Generals, wearing a ghost-head saber at his waist, reached out and grabbed a ghostly being trying to escape. “I ask you, where are those two humans?”
“If I tell you, will the Ghost General spare me?”
“You have no right to negotiate!”
“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you, they went in that direction.” The ghostly being pointed in a direction. Before he could finish speaking, ghostly energy erupted from the Ghost General’s palm, and the ghostly being vanished into thin air without even a chance to scream.
“Brothers, capture those two humans, and Yama will surely reward us!” The Ghost General with the ghost-head saber took the lead, with the others following closely.
Half an hour later, the disheveled Daoist’s pupils contracted, and he suddenly stopped. “There’s an ambush ahead!”
“There are seven of them in total, and their strength is immense, each possessing the power of a peak Nascent Soul stage expert!” Chen Xuan scanned the surrounding hilly terrain, his divine sense probing, and immediately discovered the clues.
“Peak Nascent Soul… It seems like it’s the Seven Great Ghost Generals.” The disheveled Daoist said coldly, “Come out, don’t hide your heads and show your tails!”
The surroundings were silent for a moment, and then seven figures shot up into the sky! Roiling ghostly energy swept towards them.