bookrebus Chapter 28 Ghost King You
Chapter 28 Ghost King You
next morning
"Bang!!!"
A deafening explosion rang in her ears, and Liu Xingxing sprang up from the bed like a carp leaping out of water. She reflexively conjured a weapon in her bare hands and held it in front of her for self-defense.
"Holy crap, who?!"
Liu Xingxing was so frightened that she lost all sleepiness, and her eyes were wide open.
Little Mo, who was originally sleeping on the stool, couldn't stand the sudden fright and was now jumping around in the room, her fur standing on end.
The sound seemed to be coming from the street, and it wasn't far away. People downstairs also became noisy upon hearing the noise.
Seeing that it wasn't coming for her, Liu Xingxing immediately stopped her attack and picked up Xiao Mo, who was huddled in the corner and trembling, and comforted it for a while until it gradually calmed down. Only then did she belatedly yawn.
I don't know which bastard started fighting outside so early in the morning, disturbing everyone's sleep and making such a commotion.
She remembered that when she entered the city, it was explicitly forbidden to fight within the city, and this was the case in most towns under the jurisdiction of sects. So what was the situation now?
Fortunately, Liu Xingxing wasn't particularly grumpy when he woke up, otherwise the people causing trouble outside definitely wouldn't have left him even a single grain of ashes today.
Liu Xingxing, holding the cat, leaned close to the window and opened it to see what was happening outside.
With her excellent vision, she didn't even need to use her divine sense to spot the "culprits" at a glance, but the next second she was almost blinded by the sight.
Several young men with colorful hair were surrounding another young man who looked like he was dressed in the robes of some sect. The only one who looked normal seemed to have been beaten up badly, with not a single inch of his body intact.
"Tsk, I wonder if the color was dyed, a bunch of non-mainstream, scruffy kids."
Liu Xingxing watched the spectacle with great interest. There were quite a few people watching the spectacle like her, but not a single person went up to help the pitiful child.
Sure enough, Liu Xingxing immediately heard people downstairs talking about this matter.
"These demons have become increasingly rampant in recent years, actually snatching people from other people's territory in public."
"Exactly! If you ask me, we shouldn't have made any contract with the demon race in the first place. We should have just wiped them out in one fell swoop!"
"Tch, Brother Zhao, you really dare to say that. Back then, it was Immortal Venerable Yanzhi who personally made the promise to the previous Demon Emperor. Who could say no to it?"
"Hmph! It's just talk, what's there to be afraid of? Yan Zhi has been ascended for thousands of years, why would he care about the lives of people in the lower realm? Besides, everyone knows he has some connection with the demon race. He might have made the contract out of selfish motives."
"Brother, be careful what you say, be careful what you say."
"Tch, what's there to hide? Everyone knows the truth about this!"
"Sigh, ever since the demon realm got a new demon emperor a hundred years ago, these beasts have become more and more restless..."
……
The group was talking quite loudly, and anyone with cultivation nearby could hear them clearly. However, they didn't seem to mind saying these things, suggesting that these matters were common knowledge.
But Liu Xingxing listened with great interest, as if she were hearing this gossip for the first time.
"Wow, I didn't expect to hear gossip so early in the morning."
But the names they were talking about seemed a little familiar; I felt like I'd heard them somewhere before.
Stop, stop...
Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in Liu Xingxing's mind.
Holy crap, isn't that my cheap master who ascended to immortality years ago?!
Liu Xingxing immediately pulled back and stiffened from the window, blinking her eyes sharply a few times.
Who knows? The gossip suddenly turned into gossip about our own people. Does Master know that his reputation has been damaged so many years after his ascension?
"Hey~ who's so arrogant, daring to speak ill of the past?"
A languid voice suddenly broke into everyone's ears, followed by a whiff of a lingering, rotten aroma that seemed to waft from somewhere.
Yes, it's the kind of incense that can suffocate you, literally the kind that can suffocate you.
Several low-level cultivators who didn't have time to escape were instantly killed by the stench, bleeding from all seven orifices.
The others who smelled the odor immediately became alert, all looking as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
There's no other reason than that there's only one person in the entire cultivation world who can use this kind of fragrance: Bai You, the Bone-Eating King, one of the Five Kings of the Ghost Realm.
In the blink of an eye, a flower-decorated sedan chair carried by eight evil spirits appeared in mid-air, accompanied by sixteen ghosts. A Yin-Yang Envoy led the way, followed by dozens of ghost servants.
As soon as the sedan chair appeared, the previously clear sky suddenly became foggy, and the space was filled with the ghostly aura emanating from the sedan chair.
Liu Xingxing frowned as she looked at the extremely flamboyant flower-adorned sedan chair and the petals that the ghosts occasionally scattered.
Goodness, she can be even more pretentious than her when she makes an appearance. She really has to admit defeat. Look at that thick, choking ghostly aura, she must be at least at the level of a ghost king.
(Ghost race ranking: Corpse Ghost (newly formed ghost), Ghost Ghost, Ghost Servant, Evil Ghost, Yin Yang Envoy, Ghost King)
One second they were enjoying the show, the next they were being used as gossip by others. Look at those non-mainstream demons, they've already disappeared.
What a lucky day it is today that we even encountered the Ghost King passing by, or perhaps this is the place these ghosts were originally after.
Like the demon race, the ghost race rarely interacts with humans except for occasional minor conflicts. Why are they all out here today?
A gust of cold wind swept by, causing the decorative ribbons on the openwork sedan chair to flutter and the light gauze to reveal the true face of the "person" inside.
A man with an extremely handsome appearance was seen sitting barefoot in the sedan chair in an extremely languid posture, wearing a black inner robe as smooth as silk. His hair was casually tied up and was as smooth and loose as his clothes, falling in front of his shoulders and behind him.
Most importantly, he was actually holding a beautiful female ghost in his arms, her clothes disheveled and her shoulders half exposed.
He was even flirting with that female ghost without any regard for others?!
Holy crap! Are all ghosts this open-minded?
Liu Xingxing only regretted that she had such good eyesight, because no matter how handsome a guy was, she couldn't stand him anymore, and the image of a handsome guy in her mind collapsed in an instant.
However, precisely because of her sharp eyesight, she noticed something interesting the instant she looked over: the female ghost in the Ghost King's arms seemed to have a hint of reluctance on her face, and it seemed that she was hiding something interesting in her hand.
Tsk tsk tsk, so even the demon race has cases of abducting female demons...
Liu Xingxing's expression became intriguing.
As a result, because she stared at the person for too long, and the place where the female ghost's hand was resting on the chest of the ghost king, the person in the sedan chair seemed to notice something and looked at her with a sinister gaze.
When their eyes met, Liu Xingxing paused for a moment, then flashed what she thought was a very friendly smile.
Bai You smiled faintly, her expression unreadable.
He was always the one who chose them, and those who dared to covet his body would never even have the chance to become ghouls.
If it were someone with even a little bit of beauty in the past, he wouldn't mind capturing them and throwing them to his evil minions to be tortured at will; he just enjoyed watching the flowers gradually wither.
But this one isn't even worthy of being touched; let's just kill him directly.
However, he has something more important to do right now.
Bai You lowered her eyes and looked down at the person who had spoken rudely to Yan Zhi earlier. She simply reached out and gently hooked him. The human cultivator felt a powerful suction force pull him directly out of the room and through the wall.
"Help!!!"
In the blink of an eye, the person was levitated and placed in front of the sedan chair.
"His words were disrespectful and presumptuous in criticizing the Immortal Venerable Yanzhi; he deserves to be killed."
Bai You casually opened his mouth, and with just a few words, he sentenced the man to death.
"I……"
"puff!"
The man was about to speak when, before he could say anything, he was split in two by something and fell to the ground like two lumps of garbage.
No one present had a cultivation level higher than Bai You, and upon seeing this scene, no one dared to utter a sound. After all, most cultivators cherish their lives, especially those who had just been calling the man who had been cut in half on the ground "brother."
Everyone knows that when Bai You was still a little kid, he greatly admired Immortal Venerable Yan Zhi and even begged Yan Zhi to take him as his disciple for hundreds of years.
Yan Zhi was once famous for his swordsmanship and was known for his upright and rigid character. Naturally, he would not accept a ghost as his disciple. After Yan Zhi ascended to immortality, the matter was left unresolved.
This person is really unlucky these days. How did he have to run into Bai You, who just happened to be passing by, and let her hear bad things about her idol?
Having dealt with one, Bai You looked up at the woman in the same building as that person.
It was her turn.