Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 156 Ghost King!

Chapter 156: Chapter 156 Ghost King!

Ahead, numerous wandering souls, half-translucent in form, knelt densely packed. There seemed to be five or six hundred of them, and many drifted out towards that yellow-clay house, subsequently kneeling towards the back.

At this moment, Zi Ya also noticed the issue; she looked at Shi Feng with an incredulous expression and said, almost in disbelief, "Are they worshipping you?"

"Naturally." Shi Feng spoke, then turned towards an elderly ghost at the very front and asked, "Do you know where this is? How did you all die?"

"Great one!" the elder spoke in a rough, powerless voice, "I do not know where this is. That night, our town somehow ended up here. In that direction, there’s a Ghost King Mountain housing a demon, whom we all call the Ghost King." The elder pointed toward a direction filled with piles of bones. "We’ve been here for who knows how long; this place has neither day nor night. The Ghost King, leading his ghost soldiers, captured us to that place, dismembered our bodies, and devoured our flesh. Even now in death, we are merely the wandering souls raised by the Ghost King, and we will eventually be consumed by him."

"Ghost King?" Shi Feng looked in that direction, a cold smile hanging on his lips. Without his appointing, some dared to call themselves the Ghost King. Did they really think that after the fall of Emperor Nine Nether, these minor ghosts could do as they pleased?

Seeing these wandering souls, Shi Feng knew that he would likely glean no useful information from them.

A blood and soul devouring evil ghost, whose Ghost Power was actually at the Martial Sect Realm!

Shi Feng clenched his left hand, collecting the Nine Nether Ghost Order, then commanded the wandering souls, "Disperse."

Once the Nine Nether Ghost Order was withdrawn, the souls immediately felt lighter and scattered in all directions. Then, Shi Feng noticed the elderly ghost who had spoken earlier and a good dozen other spirits still kneeling; among them were several female ghosts, the very ones Shi Feng had seen weeping earlier. He asked, "Is there something else you need?"

"Great one, we know you are extraordinary, please save us. It won’t be long before the ghost soldiers of the Ghost King arrive, and we, having the strongest souls now, will definitely be the first ones he chooses to devour." The elder spoke again in his coarse, weak voice.

"Yes, great one, please save us," a middle-aged ghost with a mournful voice continued.

"We beseech you to save us," the dozen or so spirits begged in unison, bowing and kneeling towards Shi Feng.

"Stand back; I have a plan," Shi Feng told the group of ghosts.

"Yes!" At Shi Feng’s command, the dozen ghosts retreated.

After the ghosts had left, Zi Ya asked Shi Feng, "Will you help them?"

"Why, you’re not afraid of ghosts anymore?" Shi Feng asked her with a smile.

"Not anymore," Zi Ya nodded and softly said, "I suddenly feel that they are not as terrifying as big sister, second sister, and our clan described. They are, in fact, quite pitiful. I checked just now; among those many ghosts, there were none of my clanspeople. I suppose my clanspeople, after their deaths, must have already..."

Zi Ya’s face showed sorrow, and she did not continue speaking. Shi Feng naturally understood that her deceased tribespeople’s souls had probably been devoured by the Ghost King.

Shi Feng did not continue to console her; such matters could only be resolved when she came to terms with them herself.

Ghost Soldiers! He did not know what level of Ghost Power they possessed, but that self-proclaimed Ghost King, he had to deal with it no matter what; subduing others that had reached the Martial Sect Level might be a bit difficult, but ghost souls! "If I, the Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor, can’t subdue a ghost soul of Martial Sect Level, and people find out, wouldn’t I become a laughingstock?" Shi Feng snorted coldly.

"Kid, there are so many souls here, and nourished by this environment, they are rich in Soul Power. If you can’t bring yourself to do it, let this Sacred Flame devour them instead," just then, the Sacred Flame within Shi Feng spoke.

Besides devouring blood, the Sacred Flame naturally also devoured souls. In the early days, before Shi Feng’s Soul Power had reached the First-stage, he couldn’t detect it by Soul Power alone and relied entirely on the Sacred Flame.

"Stay in line; these are all innocent people," Shi Feng said. "Devouring these souls is no different from slaughtering a town full of civilians."

"Fine, I guessed you were the kind with too much compassion," the Sacred Flame said.

"What’s next? Where are we going?" At that moment, Zi Ya looked at Shi Feng and spoke.

"You think these ghost souls are pitiful, right? Then we’ll wait, wait for those Ghost Soldiers to arrive," Shi Feng said. "Besides, those Ghost Soldiers might have been surviving in this environment for a long time and know how to get out."

"Hmm, I’ll listen to you," Zi Ya said. "It turns out you’re a really good person. I shouldn’t have turned into a Big Snake and hurt you that night."

"It’s already too late to realize that now; we’ve already been involved in this place," Shi Feng said.

After hearing Shi Feng’s words, Zi Ya looked down guiltily and said, "I’m sorry, it’s all my fault."

"It’s okay, you don’t need to be like that; this environment might actually be an opportunity for me." In this environment, there was a dense presence of Yin Qi and souls, especially the Ghost King and those Ghost Soldiers. With his Soul Power having incessantly killed to the brink of breaking through to Fourth-stage recently, advancing to Fifth-stage would become increasingly difficult without Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures; he had no idea how many more souls he would need to devour.

As the Sacred Flame had said, nourished by this environment, the ghost souls here were rich in pure Soul Power; those Ghost Soldiers and the Ghost King would provide the best nourishment for his Soul Power to advance.

"Let’s go, we’ll stroll around here first, wait for those Ghost Soldiers to come. A place with so many ghost souls is already rare on the Tianheng Continent nowadays," Shi Feng told Zi Ya, seemingly eager to explore the town filled with ghosts.

"Hmm," Zi Ya nodded. Now that she knew the plight of these ghost souls, and since these ghost souls did not look as creepy as she had heard before, she wasn’t scared anymore. She even wanted to search the town more closely, to see if she hadn’t noticed clearly earlier, or if her tribespeople’s souls hadn’t appeared.

Thus, Shi Feng and Zi Ya began wandering around the town, while Dark Evil quietly sank into the ground, as Shi Feng feared there were other formidable beings in this environment, so he stopped Dark Evil from continuing its exploration.

In the town, wandering souls drifted and cried, their voices echoing intermittently. Each ghost knew, according to the usual timing, that it wouldn’t be long before the Ghost King’s Ghost Soldiers would come to pick out food for their king. Marked by the Ghost King, they were like livestock kept by the Ghost King, utterly unable to escape the Ghost King’s control in this environment, waiting for the day they would eventually be devoured, just hoping their day would come later rather than sooner.

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