CH 102

Chapter 102 – Saving People?

”After being trapped in this spell, our profound qi is already more than half spent, Brother Ying. If we continue to waste away like this, we’ll have no choice but to ask the patrol disciples for help,” Luo Chengyi said to Ying Wei with a bitter smile as he sat there cross-legged on the floor.

Ying Wei looked at the imprisoning ghost array surrounding the two of them and lightly shook his head. “The spiritual awareness of these two ghosts are at an extremely high level. This ghost array that they laid down may very likely be an evolved, stronger version of an array technique from the Miaohua Sect. Just now, I could still just barely manage to send out a message, but now I might not even be able to transmit something through the sect’s jade slip.”

He stood up and once again tried several spells to try to break through the restrictions of the ghost array, but it was just as futile as before.

“Those two Evil Spirits have no way of fighting the two of us head on, so they can only use this array to slowly wear away at us,” Ying Wei said. He pondered for a moment before taking out a gray banner-type Magic Treasure. “I’ll give this Evil Dispelling Banner a try to see if we can forcefully break through this array. Luo Chengyi, lend me a hand.”

By this point, he even stopped addressing him as ‘Brother Luo’, calling him directly by name, which hinted at the urgency of the situation.

(TL: In Chinese, using an honorific title like ‘brother’, ‘senior martial brother’, ‘teacher’, etc. in combination with their surname implies more formality than calling someone directly by their name, exactly like in this case.)

Ying Wei activated the Evil Dispelling Banner, and multiple streams of gray light shot out from it and wrapped around the ghost array.

Numerous Malicious Spirits rushed out from the array, using their bodies as sacrifice to obstruct the gray streams of light.

Ying Wei furrowed his eyebrows and took an extremely precious Yuan Cultivating Pill, revolving the Evil Dispelling Banner to its utmost strength. Gray radiance brimmed forth from the Evil Dispelling Banner, making over a dozen gray streams of light shoot out and wrap around the ghost array!

The Malicious Spirits were unable to block it, and the gray streams of light smashed ruthlessly into the restrictive array!

The ghost fog finally retreated a bit, and a small seam appeared in the array, but the power of the gray streams of light had already been spent. Ying Wei’s face was pale, but he brandished the Evil Dispelling Banner with all his might once more, and several thick streams of gray light flew out once more. As they swept towards the ghost mist, Ying Wei shouted out, “Luo Chengyi, now!”

A sword-shaped Magic Treasure appeared in Luo Chengyi’s hand, and he began to charge it with power.

When the streams of gray light collided with the restrictive array once more, a light flashed through Luo Chengyi’s eyes, and he let his Dao Foundation stage cultivation erupt forth. He raised the sword-shaped Magic Treasure in his hand and unleashed a ferocious strike!

A resplendently brilliant white sword light followed like lightning after the gray streams of light, slashing against the restrictive array in the blink of an eye!

Boom!

A small crack finally appeared in the restrictions of the array.

In the instant that the crack appeared, a flaw emerged in the thick and dense ghost fog of the array, hinting that it was on the verge of breaking down.

Luo Chengyi and Ying Wei shared a look, then each rapidly rushed out in two completely different directions!

A sinister, mournful ghost howl echoed out from the way that Ying Wei went in.

A hint of hesitation appeared in Luo Chengyi’s eyes. But in the end, he didn’t turn his head. He used the last drops of his strength to hack open the ghost fog and rush out.

When he turned around to look, the thick ghost fog had completely enveloped Ying Wei. The frightening sound of his shouts and cries could be heard from within.

The direction that Ying Wei went was the location where the Evil Spirits were. They had rushed out from the array and launched a surprise on Ying Wei when he was least expecting it. It would probably be difficult for him to survive at this rate.

Even if the Evil Spirits launched a surprise attack, only one wouldn’t be enough to kill off Ying Wei, who was at the peak Dao Foundation stage. Therefore, the ghosts let Luo Chengyi go and both went for Ying Wei at the same time to ensure his downfall.

Hearing the cries from within the ghost fog subside, Luo Chengyi started quivering where he stood. When he turned to look, he saw two thick, black clouds rushing rapidly towards him.

Ying Wei was dead! And the two Evil Spirits didn’t seem to want to let him go either!

The ghost array just now had been set up inside the main hall of the Miaohua Sect. There were many massive pillars within, so even if Luo Chengyi was out of the ghost array now, he had no way to fly away. As soon as Luo Chengyi managed to leave the main hall, he activated his Magic Treasure, wanting to ride on his sword and flee.

Just as he ascended to a height of about 7 meters, he suddenly felt everything become heavy. When he looked down, he saw that one of the ghosts was already weighing down on his sword Magic Treasure, laughing evilly at him with a bizarre, frightening smirk on its face.

“Just by yourself?” Luo Chengyi sneered, anger flaring up in his heart. Seeing that the other ghost was several dozen meters away, he stopped trying to flee. He halted his sword and used his last bits of remaining profound qi to cast an incantation. He wanted to take advantage of the moment when the other Evil Spirit hadn’t yet made it over to him to eliminate this Evil Spirit.

A brilliant white radiance appeared in his palm. It was no unconventional cultivation method of any sort. It was none other than the Green Heavenly Thunder Incantation from the Sacred Sect’s Shangqing Profound Laws, which could only be cultivated at the Dao Foundation stage, and was specifically for restraining ghosts.

The Thunder Incantation formed in his hand, emitting a green-white glow. The rumbling and crackling of thunder and lightning exploded out, and within moments, the incantation was about to smash into the Evil Spirit’s head.

Suddenly, the ghost qi surrounding the Evil Spirit dissipated, and it transformed into a tender, young boy, hanging from the sword by one hand. The boy received the attack, sending fresh blood spurting through the air, wailing out, “Daddy, don’t leave me!”

Luo Chengyi was dazed for a moment, but he regained his senses shortly after. Hot anger burned in his eyes, enough to melt the skies!

“You filthy ghost, how dare you change your appearance to that of my son! Damn you!” he shouted with pure, unadulterated rage.

The Green Heavenly Thunder Incantation brought blindly bright white lightning streaking downwards. The Evil Spirit’s body became extremely faint, clearly having suffered a heavy injury. It transformed from a wailing young boy back into its original ghostly appearance.

Luo Chengyi was just about to use another incantation to extinguish its existence, but he suddenly froze, as if something suddenly occurred to him. At that moment, his mind felt clear, like a bucket of cold water had been doused over him.

“This piece of shit was just stalling for time. To think that I had fallen for such a laughable scheme…” he muttered.

Sure enough, in the few breaths of time he spent dealing with this Evil Spirit, the other stronger Evil Spirit had already caught up to him.

A hideous, malevolent laugh came from its mouth as the two Evil Spirits surrounded him at the same time. Luo Chengyi looked around him, but there was no way to escape.

“You’re coming at me? Come then! Even if I die, I’ll take at least one of you down with me! If you didn’t use that ghost array to exhaust most of my strength, neither of you would count for anything! Filthy, cunning pieces of shit!” Luo Chengyi tried to revolve the Green Heavenly Thunder Incantation, but he already had no profound qi left to produce a half-decent brilliant white orb like earlier. Just now, that Thunder Incantation was already at only 50% of its usual might.

“That’s right. If we didn’t have that Miaohua Sky Array to weaken you two, how could we have fought on even terms with Dao Foundation stage cultivators like you? We wouldn’t even be able to hide,” the stronger of the two Evil Spirits said with a laugh, transforming into the form of a human man.

“What are you intending to do to me?” Luo Chengyi asked. He wasn’t dumb. He knew that right now, he was just a candle on the verge of flickering out. If the two Evil Spirits rushed him right this moment, he wouldn’t meet a happy end.

“If you take everything out of your interspatial ring and erase the mark on your sword Magic Treasure, I’m willing to spare your life,” the man-shaped Evil Spirit said.

Luo Chengyi gazed into the eyes of that man and saw a boundless cruelty and coldness within.

Deep inside, he already knew this Evil Spirit wouldn’t let him go in the end. But he still held onto a sliver of hope. “As a ghost, you can’t even use this human Magic Treasure. What do you want these things for?”

A cold light flashed through the man’s eyes, clearly lacking the intention to explain these things to him. He only replied in a frigid tone, “Will you do it or not? If you won’t, then die.”

A bitter, forced smile rose on Luo Chengyi’s face. Gambling on a ghost’s word?

But then again, what else could he do in the current situation? He slowly rubbed the interspatial ring on his finger.

“Martial Uncle, we’ve come to save you!”

Luo Chengyi and the man-shaped Evil Spirit both simultaneously turned their heads.

A youth wearing a black robe with gilded sleeves was flying up Miaohua Mountain on his black Spirit Cloud. There was another disciple on it, wearing a distraught expression.

“Just mere trifling Sea of Qi stage cultivators?” the man sneered.

Xu Disheng’s expression was as unchanged as ever. He had been secretly watching what was happening for a while now. Since he actually dared to come over, that meant he was out for blood!