Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 333 - 143: Daoist Priest Fan Steps into the Netherworld! The Mysterious Kings of the Ten Halls? (10,000-word mega - , subscribe please) _2
"This... this Daoist Priest Fan..." The evil ghost, because of Yun Jiuqing’s few words, immediately knew that the robust man before it was the only one among these people who could make decisions.
And it also knew that Fan Wu was addressed as Daoist Priest Fan, which made its sycophantic smile unconsciously betray a hint of confusion.
This guy didn’t look anything like a Taoist!
It had been a Taoist in its previous life.
It had also seen many Taoists.
Be they the righteous Taoists with faces full of justice or the wicked Taoists with the look of kidney deficiency, it had seen an abundance of them. In short, it had encountered Taoists of all sorts.
But a Taoist like this so-called Daoist Priest Fan, with his muscles bulging like twisted ropes... to tell the truth, it was the first time it had seen such a thing! It even seriously doubted whether this so-called Daoist Priest Fan could actually perform any Taoist magic?!
While a myriad of thoughts flashed through its mind like lightning, the evil ghost was thinking one thing but saying another, "I... cough cough! Just now, the Ghost King I mentioned is a rather well-known one in the Netherworld."
"It has a nickname in the Netherworld, called by the various aggrieved spirits and evil ghosts as—Ghost King of the Ten Halls."
"Ghost King of the Ten Halls?" Yun Jiuqing listened, dumbfounded.
"Cough! It’s just a nickname," the evil ghost hastened to explain, "It has nothing to do with the Ten Halls Yama."
"Oh!" Yun Jiuqing suddenly realized!
Wasn’t this just like those cultivators who, after learning a trick or two, thought themselves invincible and gave themselves titles like XX Ancestor, XX Immortal, XX Great Immortal... and the like?
"However..." Yun Jiuqing stroked her chin, full of curiosity, and asked, "Aren’t there many gods and Yin Envoys in the Underworld? Wouldn’t someone like a Ghost King get taken care of by a Yin Envoy?"
The evil ghost answered, "The Underworld is a very large realm. Within it, the Great Zhou Dynasty occupies, at most, a mere speck in the ocean. In such a vast place, there are always some undercurrents lurking."
"I see!" Yun Jiuqing had a moment of clarity, "So you’re saying the Underworld is short-handed?"
"Er..." The evil ghost pondered, "You could understand it that way, to some extent!"
It continued, "That Ghost King of the Ten Halls in the Underworld is a ghost with great ambition. Countless evil ghosts within an unknown radius are under its command. Recently, the Ghost King of the Ten Halls discovered a place in the Underworld connected to the human realm where the barrier is extremely weak."
"The ambitious Ghost King of the Ten Halls harbored thoughts about it. It ordered a bunch of evil ghosts to guard this place and keep the secret, not letting other Ghost Kings know, and especially not letting the Yin Envoy find out. Whoever leaks this secret will have their soul crushed and scattered!"
"Furthermore, the Ghost King of the Ten Halls has cast a curse on each evil ghost guarding this place! The moment they reveal this secret, there is no need for the Ghost King itself to take action, their souls will be scattered instantly."
Yun Jiuqing looked at Fan Wu, "Daoist Priest Fan, this kind of curse, it sounds quite like those used by the Witch Immortals!"
"Indeed it does," Fan Wu nodded lightly.
However, it was likely just a resemblance, after all, there must be many similar cultivation methods in the world.
Moreover, he had seen nothing related to Witch Immortals in the attribute information or nickname of this evil ghost.
This indicated that in all likelihood,
It had nothing to do with that Witch Immortal.
Fan Wu asked, "Now you, aren’t you also revealing the secret? Why are you, this evil ghost, not affected by that so-called curse?"
The evil ghost responded, "That curse was originally offered by me to the Ghost King of the Ten Halls. Among that group of evil ghosts guarding the weak spot in the Underworld connecting to the human realm, I was one of them, and I was also their leader!"
"It was the Ghost King of the Ten Halls that trusted me, so it appointed me to watch over them, as a form of double insurance."
"And then it never expected that the first one to betray it would actually be you?" Yun Jiuqing asked with astonishment.
"Exactly," the evil ghost said, without a hint of guilt for betraying its ghostly ruler but with a tone full of irony, "Its plan was too naive, too risky. The reason I followed it in the Underworld was that it could provide me with protection." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
"But that fool... actually thought to use the weak spot between the Underworld and the human realm to gather a large number of evil ghosts to invade the human realm, turning it into a ghost domain of its own."
"It even thought about training a huge army of Underworld ghost soldiers to seize the Emperor’s position of a human dynasty, capturing the nation’s fate. With the national fate protecting it, it aimed to become a Ghost Emperor of the human realm."
"In that way, with the protection of a nation’s fate, it wouldn’t fear trouble from the Ten Halls Yama of the Underworld. But its plan was just too naive, it was seeking its own death!"
The evil ghost uttered a disdainful laugh, "I can guarantee that when the time comes, it may not even have managed to conquer a single city in the human realm before it gets dealt with by a powerful deity."
"If I continued to follow it by then, I would only die faster! Therefore, I temporarily distracted those evil ghosts who were loyally devoted to the Ghost King of the Ten Halls."
"Then I sent a dream to my descendant, passing on to him the secret technique so that he could coordinate with me from inside. Together, we made a crack in the weak barrier between the Underworld and the human realm!"
