The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 491

Chapter 491: Chapter 487: Jing River Dragon King Chapter 491: Chapter 487: Jing River Dragon King “Brother Jin, no need for formalities. These gold and silver are nothing to me. Could you recount the incident of your uncle encountering the ghost in detail to me?” Shen Luo said.

“No problem, my uncle was cooking in the kitchen when he got into trouble. There was some commotion near the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in the West City. By the time I went to find him, he was crouched on the ground shivering and mumbling about a ghost. No matter how I called to him, he wouldn't respond,” Jin Buhuan said.

“Oh, did your uncle mention what the ghost looked like?” Shen Luo pressed on.

“No, he didn't.” Jin Buhuan shook his head.

“How is your uncle doing right now?” Shen Luo asked again.

“After the incident, he has been in a daze, not speaking. Several doctors have already seen him, but he hasn't improved, sigh…” Jin Buhuan sighed sadly.

“I have some medical skills. After our conversation, could I examine your uncle?” Shen Luo raised his eyebrows and suggested.

If his uncle was harmed by a ghost, this opportunity could help Shen Luo decipher some clues about the ghost.

“Sir, you know medicine?” Jin Buhuan looked at Shen Luo skeptically.

“Dear brother, have you been suffering from a sore left shoulder and numb hands and feet during the night?” Shen Luo's divine sense swept over Jin Buhuan, noticing some blockage in his blood and Qi flow around the left shoulder, and said with a slight smile.

“How did you know?” Jin Buhuan said in surprise.

“Doctors use observation methods to understand, often they can understand much simply by looking,” Shen Luo answered.

“Sir, you must be a miracle doctor. Please take a look at my uncle later,” Jin Buhuan, thoroughly convinced, said excitedly.

“Of course.” Shen Luo nodded slightly. Spotting the middle-aged scholar getting up to leave, he immediately dismissed the other two and went to meet him.

“Your Excellency, how remarkable that we meet again,” he greeted.

“It's you? Have you also come to hear this story of how Emperor Tang deceitfully obtained thirty extra 'Yang Life' years?” the middle-aged scholar looked at Shen Luo and said with a smile.

“Deceived thirty 'Yang Life' years?” Shen Luo was taken aback.

He had been busy talking to Jin Buhuan just now and hadn't paid much attention to what the storyteller had been saying in the tavern. He vaguely overheard something about “Visiting the Underworld, Emperor Taizong revives, performing rites for beings of water and land.”

“That Emperor Tang promised to plead for the Jing River Dragon King, but didn't keep his word. The two argued in the Underworld, and the officials there, in their greed for wealth, not only severely punished the Jing River Dragon King's ghost but also granted Emperor Tang an additional thirty 'Yang Life' years. Hmph!” the white-robed scholar said, his face clouding with resentment.

“The Jing River Dragon King!” Shen Luo exclaimed upon hearing these words.

Back in the Underworld, hadn't Hu Yong tried to unleash the ghost of the Jing River Dragon King? Furthermore, Cheng Yaojin had been deeply unwilling to speak of this matter.

“Ah, it seems you're unaware of the matter concerning the Jing River Dragon King. Unsurprising, really. After committing such a gruesome act, Emperor Tang naturally wouldn't want it to be widely known. The storyteller here only dares to discuss fragments and tiny aspects of the events from that time, really uninteresting,” the white-robed scholar gave a cold laugh, seeming to find the conversation with Shen Luo dull, and continued walking towards the outside.

“Your Excellency, please wait,” Shen Luo moved swiftly to block his path again.

“What else do you want?” The white-robed scholar furrowed his brows.

“There is something I do not understand, and I hope the gentleman can enlighten me. Where did you obtain the golden scale used to buy the fish earlier?” Shen Luo asked with a bow.

“How I obtained it is of no concern to you,” the white-robed scholar tapped his palm with his paper fan and replied nonchalantly.

“I would normally not bother myself with such matters, but the golden dragon scale carries an intense ghostly Qi. I fear it's connected to the grave situation in Chang'an City. Please, I implore you to divulge more, ” Shen Luo said.

“Ah, so you can sense that it is a dragon scale, your perception is not bad. But if you wish to know more, you should investigate by yourself,” the white-robed scholar laughed aloud, his figure blurring and reappearing outside the Qianjin Tower, then headed eastwards.

Shen Luo's expression changed, and he immediately gave chase at full speed using the Slanting Moon Steps.

But the scholar's movement skills were as elusive as a ghost, far faster than Shen Luo. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the crowd ahead.

Shen Luo gave chase for a few steps before stopping, resigned to his failure.

But he was not worried about losing track of his target because he had Shadow Gu at his disposal. However, it was the scholar's skills that surprised him.

“There were definitely no fluctuations of mana on that white-robed scholar, but he possesses such swift movement skills. Could he be a 'High People' with cultivation far superior to mine?” he wondered to himself.

“Ghost! Don't come over!” At this moment, a woman's scream echoed from somewhere ahead.

“Haunting in broad daylight!” Shen Luo was taken aback.

“It's this Yin Qi! It's… the ghost has appeared again!” The Ghost General in the Qiankun Bag became restless again, growling lowly.

Shen Luo's expression changed, he didn't care about shocking the world, his figure shot up and dashed towards the source of the sound, in a blink of an eye he was inside a tall tower building.

A plaque hanging at the entrance of the tower read “Liuxiang Pavilion”, seeming to be a place of entertainment.

Shen Luo spread his Divine Sense and quickly located the source of the scream, entering a window-side room within the tower.

“Ghost… Don't come near me… Someone come save me… Sob…” A palace-dressed girl sat in the room, her face streaked with tears, her hands waving frantically in front of her as if to ward something off.

“Miss, what has happened?” Shen Luo asked with a salute.

“I didn't see anything! I didn't hear anything! Sob… I'm so scared…” The girl in her palace dress seemed to be too frightened to reason, her communication utterly broken.

Seeing this, Shen Luo waved his hands in front of the girl, fingers dancing, casting a spell to calm her mind.

The girl's expression gradually softened with Shen Luo's hand seal transitions, she was no longer as terrified, she lifted her gaze to look at Shen Luo.

“Miss, there is no need to be afraid. I am not a villain, I just heard your call and came to look. You mentioned that you saw a ghost. In broad daylight, is there really a ghost?” Shen Luo stopped the spell and saluted again.

“I… I just saw a ghost walking around downstairs! A headless ghost! The ghost was dripping wet, muttering 'my head, where's my head'… It scared me so much, sob…” The palace-dressed girl muttered somewhat absurdly.

But the moment talk of the ghost began, the girl became frantic again, covering her face with her hands, and started sobbing.

“Miss Lian Xiang, what's wrong? Huh, who are you?” A maid in green rushed in from outside and showed surprise at the sight of Shen Luo.

“A headless ghost, dripping wet… wait, this girl is crying. Could she be the weeping girl that the grey robe elder Dao mentioned?” Shen Luo ignored the maid, mumbling to himself, then suddenly remembered what the grey robe elder Dao said before.

He took a glance at Lian Xiang in front of him, took out the secret talisman covertly and flicked it with a bent finger.

The talisman transformed into a yellow shadow, avoiding the sight of both people present in the room and stealthily stuck itself on Lian Xiang's back.

The moment the talisman was attached, the panicked look on Lian Xiang's face disappeared instantly.

“Pearl, what happened to me? Who are you?” She looked around blankly, as if she had completely forgotten everything that happened and looked at Shen Luo somewhat timidly.

“So that ghost-drawing charm really works!” Shen Luo thought to himself. At the same time, he became certain that the three prophecies the grey robe elder Dao gave him were not baseless and were all true.

“I came over because I heard some noise here. Miss, did you see where the headless ghost went?” He then asked Lian Xiang.

“I, I don't know, that ghostly figure disappeared in a flash from underneath the building, ” Upon hearing the words “headless ghost”, Lian Xiang's body began to tremble like a sieve.

“Downstairs?” Shen Luo walked over to the window and looked down.

The bustling streets below were bathed in brilliant sunlight with people coming and going. There was not a trace of Yin Qi or any ghostly shadow.

“In that case, excuse me.” He nodded at the two girls, turned around and walked outside, leaving the two bewildered girls behind.

The entire Liuxiang Pavilion was in chaos upon hearing someone scream about a haunting. Some people tried to escape, others rushed upstairs.

Shen Luo blended into the crowd and quickly left the Liuxiang Pavilion without attracting any attention and reached under the tower.

He spread his divine sense to probe the surroundings, but couldn't sense anything.

“Could you sense the trail of that ghost?” Out of necessity, he communicated with the ghost general inside the Qiankun Bag via his divine sense.

“Why should I tell you.” The ghost general suddenly gave a defiant cold laugh.

“You…” Shen Luo was taken aback by the ghost general's attitude.