The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 504

Chapter 504: Chapter 500: Encountering a Ghost Chapter 504: Chapter 500: Encountering a Ghost Time slowly trickled by, and before long, the window was bathed in the hazy light of the moon, and the night was deep.

After experiencing failure seven times, the Yin Sha Qi Shen Luo was controlling finally reached the last critical point, aiming for the San Yin Jiao.

His eyes were tightly closed, his hands forming magic spells, maintaining the operation of the charm patterns on his leg to prompt the ant pattern and mana to interweave and clash with each other.

Just then, Shen Luo's eyes suddenly snapped open, staring at the Ghost General opposite him.

Its eyes had already lost their sparkle, its body's light had become extremely dim, and its figure seemed somewhat translucent. The black fog coming out of its open mouth was gradually fading. It was clearly a sign of excessive consumption of Yin Sha power.

A tight knot formed in Shen Luo's heart. He understood that the amount of Yin Sha Qi contained within the Ghost General was finite, and not as pure as the one contained within the Six Chen Whip. It was already nearly exhausted, and if it was not cut off now, not only would the ghost's Dao-Practice be seriously damaged, its ghostly body might not even be able to maintain itself.

“Enough, one last gamble.” Shen Luo's eyes hardened, his spell-casting fingers suddenly pointed downwards, and cut off the last stream of Yin Sha Qi. The energy was focused into a single line and ruthlessly fired at the San Yin Jiao.

A soft “hiss” sound came.

At this final juncture, the San Yin Jiao was finally blasted through.

On the other side, the Ghost General was nearly unconscious, its wavering body slowly retreated back into the Qiankun Bag.

At the same time, blood-red patterns on Shen Luo's leg suddenly lit up, retracting to cover his entire meridian. Then a white and black light shone, overlapping and intertwining, beginning to merge together.

After a long while, all the lights vanished, and the patterns on Shen Luo's leg also faded. An odd power seeped into the meridians, and a new Meridian was finally successfully opened!

“I did it, haha…” Shen Luo's eyes snapped open, feeling the mana in his body slowly flowing into the new meridian. His face was filled with joy, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This Meridian was not one of the Twelve Channels, but it had reaffirmed Shen Luo's confidence in opening meridians. All his previous efforts in Dreamland had not been in vain. He could accomplish this in reality as well.

If he could open more meridians, even if he only achieved half of those in Dreamland, his aptitude would greatly improve. His cultivation speed would increase several times. With the added support of elixirs and spiritual materials, escaping his short lifespan ordeal wouldn't be as difficult as it currently was.

He put away the unused Injury Healing Rejuvenating Pill, stood up, held the Qiankun Bag in his hand, planning to release the Ghost General to check on its condition.

However, before he could act, he suddenly heard a cluttered noise coming from outside.

Shen Luo swiftly released his Divine Sense, scanning the surrounding area, and his brows quickly furrowed. Low, impure, ghostly Yin Sha Qi was spreading from all direction.

“What's going on?”

Shen Luo was taken aback. He immediately stood up, pushed open the door, jumped up, and landed on the rooftop.

He stood on a protruding statue of a Vermilion Bird, scanning the area and saw fires illuminating the market. Even further away, plumes of thick smoke were rising into the sky.

“Help… help me…”

Just then, a terrified cry for help came from nearby.

Shen Luo immediately turned his gaze in that direction and saw the vendor who had sold him the water basin lamb struggling to crawl on the stone pavement of the neighboring alley. He left a long trail of blood behind him.

A group of black fog was falling not far behind him. Inside it, a ghostly pale face with a hint of decay could vaguely be identified.

“An evil ghost?”

Shen Luo frowned slightly, his toes touched the rooftop, and he suddenly floated down toward that direction.

The ghost that was chasing the peddler seemed bored too. Its hands suddenly widened, and two ghost claws rapidly extended, swooping towards the peddler.

Just as the claw was about to touch the peddler's back, a barrage of thunder suddenly exploded.

A Small Thunder Talisman exploded, turning into a white electric light, crashing straight into the ghost's brow.

With a soft chi sound, the ghost's cheek was torn apart. It didn't even have time to scream before its Yin Sha Qi began to scatter in all directions.

Seeing this, Shen Luo immediately slapped his Qiankun Bag. A black whirlwind flew out from it, directly sweeping up the scattered Yin Sha Qi, and quickly flew back into the bag.

The Qiankun Bag bulged for a moment, then quickly deflated, the Yin Sha Qi had been consumed completely by the Ghost General.

Shen Luo caught up in a few steps with the peddler who was still crawling in fear, and patted his shoulder.

The peddler was greatly frightened, his body shuddered, and he fell to the ground, kowtowing like a garlic, constantly begging for mercy, “Ghost grandfather, spare my life, spare me, Ghost grandfather…”

“I'm not a ghost, look up and see.” Shen Luo reassured him.

However, the peddler, his courage already shattered, could not comprehend any words, he kept begging for mercy, and an odd smell came from him.

Shen Luo frowned, laid his palm on his shoulder, and a gentle Yang Gang power flowed into the peddler's body.

The peddler felt a warmth all over, and then finally regained his senses, stopped begging for mercy, and with fear in his eyes, looked up at Shen Luo.

“Cu-customer, why is it you?” the peddler asked trembling.

“What happened?” Shen Luo didn't answer, and instead asked.

“Ghost, there was a ghost …” Prompted by Shen Luo's question, the peddler recalled his terrifying experience and couldn't help but cry out loudly.

“The ghost is already gone, quickly tell me exactly what happened?” Shen Luo asked.

The peddler glanced behind Shen Luo and saw that the alleyway was empty indeed, he sighed with relief, and began to recount haltingly:

“Today, I don't know why, but there were many more customers than usual, and I ran out of water. I thought I'd go to the old locust tree nearby and collect some water from the well beneath it. Unexpectedly, as soon as I sank the bucket into the well, a ghastly ghost with a pale face… it just crawled upwards following the rope, I immediately threw the bucket and ran. But I tripped and fell, I don't know whether I broke my leg or what, I just couldn't stand up, so I had no other choice than to crawl…”

Shen Luo understood the situation, checked the peddler's injury and found that, his skin was just scratched and there were no broken bones, and that his inability to stand was due to overwhelming fear, causing his legs to become weak.

“Your leg is not broken, it's just badly grazed from crawling.” Shen Luo said, helping him up as he spoke.

“Thank you, thank you.” Becoming aware of the truth, the peddler swiftly bowed in gratitude and repeatedly thanked him.

Shen Luo looked around, saw the Yin Sha Qi scattered all over, and said to the peddler:

“There are many ghosts around the street, don't rush to go home yet, look for a house with Peach Wood Symbols on the door in this area, go and hide in there until dawn.”

Upon hearing this, the peddler's face turned pale again, he pleaded with a whimper, “I can't… my wife and children are still at home, I must go back immediately…”

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