Ghost General
Feng Haochen stayed standing and smiling. He leisurely sat down on the stone chair behind him and treated himself to a nip of tea.
“Y-you consumed the slave pill. I’ve seen the results. Why aren’t you following my command? Kneel before me!” Panic flitted across Gui Xuanyue’s face. “Kneel!”
“Young Man, your shizun would be better off if he spent some more time studying,” Feng Haochen remarked with a friendly wink. “Do you know the origins of slave pills?”
“No.”
“When I discovered them after tirelessly researching, I purely wanted to control elemental demons using them. I didn’t think humans would use them on other humans. Which creator would ever imagine he’d end up consuming a slave pill?”
A red trail of light ran along Feng Haochen’s body to his mouth. He spat the sleeve pill and flicked it into smithereens.
The two youths’ brains were unable to process the information fast enough.
“Impossible,” muttered Gui Xuanyue.
Gui Xuanyue’s shifu only told him to not be conspicuous with slave pills’ usage and to not let Third Heaven Palace find out they possessed the illicit pills. Ghost Sect had no idea Feng Haochen destroyed slave pills long ago. Theirs were either contraband or a version they concocted.
“I experimented with slave pills on elemental demons. Sadly, it didn’t work. I stopped bothering with slave pills thereafter, but somebody supposedly on my side stole the formula and has now used them to commit evil. They didn’t work on elemental demons, yet work on humans…”
Feng Haochen created slave pills to increase humanity’s chances against elemental demons, but it was a tool at the end of the day. How the tool was used was in the hands of the user.
Although Gui Xuanyue could no longer achieve his goal, he burst into laughter. “Shizun said ordinary methods were useless against you, so he showed me a number of backup plans. If slave pills won’t work, how about ghost generals?”
Feng Haochen frowned. “You shouldn’t have something so rare in your possessions. You must be part of Gui Yuzi’s lineage.”
Gui Xuanyue sneered. “You really do know everything. Knowing is one thing, but let’s see if you can handle it.”
“I thought Gui Yuzi’s lineage was exterminated, but what do you know.”
“Let’s see how you handle ghost general at your level.”
Gui Xuanyue roared and released white yin qi from his body. The white yin qi puffed and puffed as it gradually formed a spirit soul. The spirit soul was Ghost Gate’s twins. In other words, the spirit soul was initially a human being who grew up and cultivated alongside Gui Xuanyue until Gui Xuanyue killed him and turned him into a magical weapon. Since the emotionless spirit soul was a Primordial Infant Realm cultivator, fighting Gui Xuanyue was the equivalent of fighting two of Ghost Gate’s disciples at once.
“Vacant Spirit Ghost Domain!” Gui Xuanyue and his twin coiled around each other, generating a grey cube dimension. Inside the dimension were hovering, vengeful wraiths with savage faces and protruding eyeballs. Red ghost flags situated at the eight corners held the shape of the dimension. Vengeful wraiths slithered along the flags.
The dimension sucked Feng Haochen in. Inside the domain was another ghost donning a black robe and hood. The aura exuding from the ghost was identical to Feng Haochen’s. The ghost’s giggle was annoying to the ear.
Feng Haochen voiced, “The ghost general lacks ghost energy, so he’s a far cry from the real deal. A genuine ghost general couldn’t possibly exist within Heaven and Earth Formation. I can ascertain you aren’t part of Gui Yuzi’s lineage.”
“Indeed, but it’s enough to replace you.”
Gui Xuanyue recited jarring ghost curses. Every seven curses he recited would solidify the spirit soul more and remove the mist concealing the face of the ghost in Vacant Spirit Ghost Domain.
Feng Haochen sternly asserted, “Gui Yuzi’s techniques are used to deceive the heavens. The heavens will eventually find out about your deception. I promise the heavens will punish you once they do. Gui Yuzi’s lineage was wiped out for that very reason. You deceived Celestial Prison. Consequently, the heavens will erase you, body and soul one day.”
Gui Xuanyue brushed Feng Haochen off and focused on chanting his curses. Once he was done reciting all forty-nine curses, the spirit soul’s spiritual power condensed more and more. The ghost’s face was revealed to be the same as Feng Haochen’s.
“Go!” commanded Gui Xuanyue.
Gui Xuanyue had his spirit soul charge into Vacant Spirit Ghost Domain to invade Feng Haochen’s body. Feng Haochen’s face turned pallor as the spirit soul exited his body and fused with the ghost general.
Flashing golden ancient text spread across the sky. The patterns in the sky were none other than the tracks of Celestial Prison. Gui Xuanyue successfully wrestled control from Feng Haochen and planted the remote in his ghost general.
Feng Haochen sprayed a mist of blood from his mouth as he staggered back, chest pounding hard.
“Shifu!” Mu Yu couldn’t break free of Gui Xuanyue’s grip.
With the smile of a killer, Gui Xuanyue said, “The last step is to kill you, and my ghost general shall have full control over the formation.”
Feng Haochen spat out another mouthful of blood. “Ghost generals aren’t living organisms. It can’t change anything even if it becomes the formation’s core.”
“But I can speed up the spiritual qi depletion. Once the formation kills a Golden Core Realm cultivator, I’ll have a spirit soul to play with. That’s perfect, isn’t it?” responded Gui Xuanyue, cackling. He summoned a cold and dark black sword to his hand. “Everyone thinks True God passed away because he vanished without a trace after exterminating the elemental demons. Allow me to make it a reality.”
Gui Xuanyue enhanced his blade with ghost qi and thrust it toward Feng Haochen’s chest…
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