Above the Great Dao
Chapter 349 - 175: Speak Softly for Fear of Disturbing the Celestials

Chapter 349: Chapter 175: Speak Softly for Fear of Disturbing the Celestials

Upon seeing this, boys and girls on the other boats waved at her, signaling her not to save the ghost spirits and to quickly leave before anyone noticed. ƒrēeNovelFire.com

The ponytailed girl hesitated, grasping one rope with one hand while reaching out with the other, waiting for Chen Shi to come.

Just then, a tremor came from the sky.

The color drained from the ponytailed girl’s face. She threw the white lotus to Chen Shi, grabbed the rope, and pulled hard. Immediately, someone in the circular hole pulled the rope, lifting her and the boat upward.

"Eat it!"

The ponytailed girl lowered her voice, "I’ll save you when I come next time!"

Chen Shi caught the white lotus just as the girl and the boat were pulled into the circular hole, which then closed and vanished.

In other circular holes, people were also pulling ropes hard, lifting the boys and girls into the sky.

Suddenly, a child failed to grasp the rope and, with a plop, fell into the marsh along with his boat, making a loud burst sound.

Inside the marsh, a crowd of ghost spirits suddenly froze, motionless.

Those pulling the ropes with the boys and girls then accelerated violently, yanking swiftly upward as if something terrifying was about to happen!

Chen Shi also looked up, only to see a pair of huge eyes suddenly appear in the sky, as if the heavens had cracked open, the eyes rolling around searching for the source of the noise.

Then the heavens lowered, gradually revealing a gigantic face with green fangs and sharp ears, looming down almost touching the marsh from afar.

The giant ghost reached out and picked up the child who had fallen into the marsh and put him into its mouth as if tasting a rare delicacy.

After eating the child, the giant ghost counted the white lotuses in the marsh with its fingers.

Seeing this, Chen Shi hurriedly stuffed the white lotus given by the ponytailed girl into his mouth, chewed vigorously, and swallowed it whole, his heart pounding wildly.

The giant ghost, after counting for a while and noticing many were missing, let out an angry roar, shaking the marsh and nearly scattering the souls of all ghost spirits. Some were even shaken to death, falling into the marsh and being swallowed by it.

Chen Shi steadied his spirit and noticed that the ghosts who had been shaken to death soon turned into pools of water, igniting pale blue flames.

Where dead ghosts were many, puddles formed, and between the pale blue flames, white lotuses gradually started to poke through.

Chen Shi paused slightly, "The ghosts in the marsh, upon death, turn into nutrients, becoming water, nourishing the lotuses! This is a breeding ground for ghosts, a place for planting white lotuses!"

This place was vastly different from the ancient legends of the underworld!

All the ghosts in the marsh would become nutrients for the growth of the white lotuses!

The giant ghost slowly rose and merged with the sky, hiding its form and closing its eyes.

After a while, snoring sounds came from the sky. Chen Shi waited a moment, then suddenly saw a crack open in the sky, the ghost stealthily opened its eyes, its eyeballs rolling in the crack, stealthily checking on its own paddies to prevent anyone from stealing the planted white lotuses.

After another moment, the eye slowly closed. In the sky, snoring gradually resumed.

Slowly subsiding, the ghost probably fell asleep.

Chen Shi steadied his mind and spotted a small boat nearby, so he lifted his leg and walked toward the boat.

At that moment, he felt much lighter, easily pulling his legs out of the marsh’s grip!

"It’s the effect of the white lotus!"

He suddenly realized, having eaten that white lotus, his spirit had grown stronger!

The strange allure, which was quite faint, now seemed much less compelling.

"White lotus is a good thing!"

Chen Shi climbed onto the small boat, looking at the other white lotuses in the marsh; he rowed the boat towards them.

Now a ghost spirit, he feared not the yin energy of the underworld.

Chen Shi picked another lotus and swallowed it whole, feeling his spirit grow stronger with each bite.

He rowed the boat, picking and eating the white lotuses along the way, feeling his spirit growing stronger and stronger. Within just a short while, after consuming dozens of white lotuses, he felt exceptionally light, stepping on the marsh, yet able to float on the water’s surface.

He could even gather mana, with a wave of his hand, a gust of yin wind would follow!

Chen Shi continued to pick, and after eating over a hundred white lotuses, he only felt his soul stabilize, almost as if he had a physical body.

Inside him, there was a peculiar strength circulating, this strength was the power of his soul, repairing the damaged parts of his soul and nourishing and strengthening his spirit.

"If I continue eating like this, I’m afraid I might soon become a Ghost King! Eh, strange, what is this..."

Upon consuming the lotus, Chen Shi saw the flow of Soul Power within his body surge toward his limbs, but something at the center of his forehead seemed to be blocking the flow.

He supported himself with his hands on the sides of the small boat, leaning over to look at his reflection in the water.

In the reflection, he saw at his forehead, three inches deep into his brain, dense talisman seals forming a celestial palace structure, with thousands of Divine beings seated within, seemingly suppressing something!

Just as Chen Shi was about to take a closer look, he suddenly saw in the sky behind his reflection in the water an eyelid beginning to open!

"The specter is awake?!"

Chen Shi felt chills down his spine and dared not move.

The eyelid gradually opened wide, and although snoring sounds could still be heard from the sky, they grew increasingly louder.

The eyeball beneath the eyelid didn’t move, as if it was staring intently at the thief who was stealing the white lotuses.

Chen Shi gripped the sides of the boat tightly, his legs gradually tensing.

Suddenly, the face of the ghost drastically descended, bellowing, "Lotus thief!"

Without a second thought, Chen Shi dashed forward.

He stepped on the yin wind, not touching the ground, with each stride covering a distance of twenty or thirty meters, quickly spanning two to three kilometers.

The colossal ghost descended from the sky, landing in the marsh, towering thousands of meters high, stepping on Demon Flames, wielding a steel fork, with ghostly fire dancing around the fork’s prongs.

With one step, it caught up to Chen Shi, thrusting the fork at him and shouting, "For stealing my white lotuses, you shall turn into manure!"

Just as Chen Shi was about to be impaled, a loud rumbling was heard, and far off, the giant ghost saw a mountain emitting black smoke and flames rushing towards it, hitting it and sending it tumbling backward.

It rose to its feet, swinging its steel fork at the massive figure, but upon seeing its face clearly, the ghost was horrified, leapt into the sky, and disappeared from sight.

The imposing figure was Black Pot, which had chased away the giant ghost and now crouched down, its tail wagging loudly, scattering countless spirits around it, smiling broadly, tilting its head to look at Chen Shi, waiting for him to climb onto its back.

Chen Shi climbed onto its back and said, "Black Pot, did Granny Sha send you to find me?"

Black Pot nodded, stepped over the marsh, and ran swiftly towards a great fire.

Looking back at the marshland filled with white lotuses, Chen Shi thought, "This is a good spot, I must remember it for next time I come to steal."

He remembered the girl who tied her hair up and gave him the white lotus, thinking, "I must repay this kindness. Strange, why would they risk their lives to steal white lotuses from the underworld? Even for a Cultivator like myself, stealing white lotuses could mean death at any moment, let alone for them?"

He could see that the young men and women who were stealing lotuses had no cultivation; a small mishap could result in death in the underworld, and even if they didn’t die, frequent visits would erode their bodies with yin energy, leading to death sooner rather than later.

As for why they would take such a risk to steal the white lotuses?

He was puzzled.

"Also, the talisman seals in my soul, why do they look so similar to the ones sealing Uncle Xiao Wu? Could it be my grandfather’s doing? What did my grandfather seal inside my head?"

Chen Shi was perplexed, as his grandfather had never mentioned this!

"In a small boat, quietly picking white lotuses. Dare not speak loudly, for fear of startling the celestial beings."

At the Henggong Mountain Phoenix Ridge, the headquarters of the Taiping Sect were located here, where several girls gathered, including the one with the tied-up hair.

"Finally got one Resurrection Lotus, and you gave it to a little ghost!"

A fat woman from the Taiping Sect kicked the tied-hair girl to the ground and viciously whipped her several times, shouting, "You want to save a ghost? Save yourself first! The rest of you, who didn’t get any Resurrection Lotus, no food tonight, starve!"

The tied-hair girl curled up in a corner, and another girl approached her, taking a bun from her bosom, and said, "Xiao Dingxiang, this is what I saved, you eat it, to fill your stomach."

Xiao Dingxiang shook her head, "You eat it, I’m not hungry."

Her stomach growled with hunger as she thought, "Next time I go to the underworld, will he still be there? I should have time to save him then."

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