The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 506

Chapter 506: Chapter 502: No Movement Chapter 506: Chapter 502: No Movement “Has she been scared out of her wits?” Shen Luo wondered, rushing to her side.

With a gentle touch of his palm to the young girl's head, he transferred a warm soothing energy to help calm her disturbed spirit. Only after quite some time did the girl finally whimper and burst into tears once again.

“Little sister, don't be afraid, everything is alright now. Please, stop crying. Your family members have fainted, so I'll take you all back to your house. You take good care of them and don't leave the house until dawn, alright?” Shen Luo comforted softly.

At his words, the girl nodded her head faintly, not fully understanding, and continued to weep silently.

With no time to spare, Shen Luo quickly moved the two adults and the little girl back into the room, then affixed a ghost suppression charm to the front door before he leaped onto the roof and flew away.

Once out of that courtyard, Shen Luo dashed away only to find an increasingly large number of ghosts around.

He darted into a street, confronted by a green-faced ghost and a long-tongued ghost charging at him.

Shen Luo twisted his wrist, drawing out a Mother-Child sword, and with a swing of his hand, it shot out a ray of sword light, quickly severing the ghosts with two slight noises.

He rushed forward, patted his Qiankun bag, and quickly absorbed all the Yin Sha Qi into it.

Just then, another cry for help came from around the street corner.

Shen Luo immediately dashed over there and, once around the corner, he saw dozens of Chang'an people on the street, fleeing in panic, pursued by more than ten ghosts.

Among them, some were several meters high with vague and ethereal forms, while others crawled close to the ground, wrapped in iron chains which clanged along the ground, echoing in the street like the cries of death.

Some had green faces and fangs, others were dismembered or covered in mud, and some were rotting badly, an array of shapes and forms.

However, although these ghosts appeared grotesque, their true strength was not formidable, barely on par with a Qi Refining Cultivator, far inferior to the previous female ghost.

One ghost, standing several meters tall and looking rather evanescent, held in its hand a slender scythe about three meters long, with fresh blood dripping from it, falling incessantly.

He was in the lead of the chase and, with a swing of his hands, he brought down the scythe to reap the lives of the fleeing people.

Shen Luo simply wouldn't allow it. He soared into the air and, like a meteor, crashed into the center of the ghosts.

In his hands, he held seven or eight Small Thunder Talismans, which he threw violently around him. Immediately, flashes of electricity lit up, followed by roaring thunder sounds.

“Boom!”

Seven or eight beams of snowy white thunder light exploded in the center of the ghosts. Radiant threads of lightning shot out in all directions, instantly engulfing all the ghosts.

The wailing ghosts were torn apart by the lightning, transforming into dispersed Yin Sha Ghost Qi.

Seeing this, Shen Luo hurriedly activated his Qiankun bag, absorbing all of the Yin Sha Ghost Qi back into it. In no time, the entire street was once again tranquil.

The fleeing people, seeing this, praised him as an 'Immortal Master' and began to kneel and worship him.

“Don't run around in the streets anymore. Find a house guarded with Door Gods and hide there. Don't come out until dawn.” Shen Luo urged, before hurriedly departing once again.

At this moment, he was utterly bewildered. He couldn't fathom how such a scene of “Hundred Ghosts Night Parade” could occur in Chang'an City, and why were there no signs of officials from the Great Tang Dynasty?

If it was not for the validation of his cultivation level and possessions, Shen Luo might have even thought that he had unknowingly dreamt of time-traveling again.

“Regardless, I should first go to the Cheng Manor, and inform Duke Cheng and Lu Huaming about what's happening here.” Determined, Shen Luo dashed in the direction of the Imperial City.

Halfway through his journey, as he passed by a temple built within the alleys, he noticed a faint golden Buddha's light veiling the outer periphery of the temple, like a light curtain shielding it from the encroaching darkness from the outside world.

In front of the temple's main entrance stood two giant ghostly creatures, each over ten meters tall and with horns growing from their heads. They were each wielding a huge wolf tooth club, with which they were vigorously smashing at the entrance of the temple.

With each “boom”, the golden light curtain enveloping the temple outside would vibrate, but it never collapsed.

The gates of the temple were tightly shut, and from within came the sound of monks chanting Buddhist scriptures. The louder the voices, the brighter the light emanating from the golden light curtain surrounding the temple.

After some hesitation, Shen Luo, thinking he would have to continue practicing the Xuan Yin Vein Opening Technique, rushed over to cast a Thunderfall Talisman that exploded the two ghostly creatures and absorbed the Yin Sha Qi emanating from their bodies.

After leaving this location, he continuously encountered other ghosts along the way. Some he hunted, others he bumped into involuntarily, but all were slain by him one by one.

Before long, the ghost general in his Qiankun Bag conveyed that the Yin Sha Qi he had lost before was becoming restored. It could now assist Shen Luo in slaying more ghostly creatures and absorb more Yin Sha Qi.

Since Shen Luo had to hurry to Duke Cheng's Manor, he declined the offer.

By the time he arrived at the entrance of Chang Le Alley, he saw blood flowing like a river, and the Great Tang soldiers that had been stationed there had been completely wiped out without a single survivor.

Outside the alley's gate stood a tall ghostly creature, completely pitch black with deer-like antlers sprouting from its head. It had its back to Shen Luo, and was gesturing at the direction beyond the gate. Its movements were rigid and slow, creating an extremely eerie sight.

Following the creature's gaze, the sight that met Shen Luo's eyes made his scalp tingle.

A short distance from the gate, along the shore of Tongji Canal, he saw ghostly creatures, their bodies rotting and draped in water grass and mud, crawling ashore. They moved in hordes towards him.

They left long, wet trails on the ground as they dragged their wet bodies.

Shen Luo did a rough count, there were more than a hundred of these water ghosts. The aura they emitted wasn't very strong, only the creature with antlers standing outside the gate seemed a bit different, possibly comparable to a later-stage cultivator in Grain Avoidance.

If these creatures charged into the alley, the previously tidied-up Chang Le Alley would again become a playground for specters, causing innumerable innocent townsfolk to lose their lives.

Shen Luo exhaled resignedly. He could only stay for a few moments to slay these ghostly creatures before leaving.

Just then, the ghostly creature outside the gate also discovered Shen Luo, it turned its deer-like head slowly, a hundred and eighty degrees and stared straight at him.

Only then did Shen Luo notice that its entire face was that of a stag, and around its neck was a dark red trace of blood. There were clear signs of flesh and skin stitched together there.

Its pairs of dark red eyes blinked a few times. Lifeless, they bore into Shen Luo's gaze. Only then did it turn its body around slowly.

Unlike the other ghosts he had encountered so far, this deer-headed ghost appeared to possess higher spiritual wisdom. It didn't attack Shen Luo upon discovery but instead took a few steps back, gesturing at him.

Immediately after, the ghostly creatures that had just crawled out of the Tongji Canal seemed to have received an order, and like a crazed horde, charged towards Shen Luo in the alley.

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