Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 298 Modern Mountain God 42

This place has a ghost king, more than twenty ghost generals, more than three hundred ghost soldiers, and thousands of low-level ghosts.

He wasn't a close confidant of the Ghost King; his mission was simply to collect the offerings. The ghost general he'd killed knew even more. Qiuqiu and the others' arrival was a conspiracy between the Ghost King and the Master of Quancheng.

Wen Yuan and Qiuqiu's combat effectiveness was too high. The sacrifices over there should have been attacked by the ghosts and slowly entered the altar. They did not expect Wen Yuan and Qiuqiu to appear. They suffered heavy losses and had to use Quan Cheng, the spy, in advance. He took Wen Yuan and Qiuqiu away from the protection circle of the soldiers without much effort.

After discussing it with Ji Changze, they decided to use their tricks against him. Qiuqiu and the others disguised themselves as people without cultivation. Ji Changze's eyes were dull, and he looked like he was being controlled. He held his female apprentice, who had been sleeping, in his arms. Qiuqiu and Wen Yuan also followed the ghost general and slowly entered the altar.

After passing through two caves, they slowly entered a place more than ten meters underground. Accompanied by the sound of dripping water in the cave, there was a surge of yin energy. Qiuqiu's eyes became dull and his face turned pale, making him look more like a puppet being controlled.

The group of old Taoist priests who came with them were all detained on the altar. Most of them were unconscious and had injuries of varying degrees. Director Li's face was covered in bruises and it was unknown how he was caught.

Seeing Qiuqiu and Wen Yuan were also captured, his spirit that he had been holding on to was instantly drained away, and he completely fainted, his eyes filled with despair that the situation was hopeless.

Almost all the monks gathered here, as well as a small number of unconscious soldiers. As the early morning of the Ghost Festival approached, the hall behind the altar finally revealed its full appearance. The ghost king at the top was a weak scholar with a gloomy temperament. There were more than ten ghost generals surrounding him, and more than a hundred ghost soldiers scattered around the altar.

These were not surprising. What was unexpected was Xia Yu in the side hall, with her big belly and looking like she was about to give birth at any moment. There were only a few local people with cultivation around her.

There were more than twenty men in black, led by a middle-aged man with deep eyebrows and eyes. From the information given by Director Li, we learned that this was Banquan, a big investor introduced from the Sun Country.

With the help of Banquan and others, the Ghost King began to activate the formation. Qiuqiu took the opportunity to send out a trace of mental power to explore the entire formation. With the continuous effect of mental power, the body that had pretended to be unconscious now turned pale in the face and was wet with sweat.

Time passed minute by minute, and Qiuqiu finally figured out the situation clearly.

The formation had already begun to activate, and he whispered to Wen Yuan beside him, "After investigating this formation, I found that it is a special reincarnation formation. It's not the kind that brings the dead back to life, but it transforms dead energy into life through the power of faith in the middle. The Ghost King was reincarnated into Xia Yu's belly through this special method."

"Didn't you say that the best time to reincarnate is between the third and fifth months of pregnancy?"

"Yes, I found this in an ancient book."

"Then the real reincarnated Ghost King might already be in Xia Yu's belly. This is just a place to increase the magic power of the new Ghost King."

"Move Ji Changze over slowly, and I'll tell you in detail what I've observed. You and I started too late, so we don't see many things comprehensively."

Wen Yuan nodded in agreement and briefly activated the Origin Pearl, causing the previously lifeless Ji Changze to blink. Qiuqiu whispered the reason, and Ji Changze said with embarrassment, "Find a way to get Director Li here. He has far more information than you think. I got into this business by accident, and I don't know as much as Brother Wen."

Wen Yuan: What a waste of time and energy!

Qiuqiu: "The director is too far away from us. It's impossible to move him over."

Wen Yuan: "Wait a minute, I have a way." After saying that, the ghost general who had just escorted them, along with several men in black, moved several very powerful people to the place closest to the statue in the center of the altar, which was also the place where they would be sacrificed first. The scholar ghost king nodded with satisfaction.

Qiuqiu saw Wen Yuan, Ji Changze, Director Li, the Taoist nun, and others standing nearby. Wen Yuan explained within the Water Origin Bead barrier he had set up, "This altar is at least a thousand years old, but the statue is only about a hundred years old. This statue is the wild god that the surrounding villages have worshipped for generations."

"My initial guess is that this wild god is the real mastermind behind this, and has been reincarnated in the belly of Xia Yu. He will be born tonight when the gates of hell are wide open and the yin energy is at its heaviest. The baby will have little magical power, and the altar itself is used to extract the magical power and flesh and blood of the sacrifice."

"Wenna, Ji Changze, and I have all experienced a simplified version of this formation. It only extracts mana, but the extracted mana is mixed. After filtering through a female cultivator with a funnel constitution, it can be easily absorbed by the cultivator. However, for every ten points absorbed, less than one point is converted. This means that the beneficiary can only absorb a maximum of ten percent. The absorber cannot control the formation and is likely to explode and die."

"But this formation is different. It's neutralized by the power of faith stored in the statue. The absorbed mana, after being neutralized by the power of faith and filtered through the funnel, becomes quite gentle, even a baby can absorb it. This altar can also be used to sacrifice life and flesh. Although only a fraction of the transformed energy survives, with so many offerings, it's quite easy for that newborn baby to grow to fifteen in a short period of time."

"Director Li, after investigating the statue's features and the in-depth investigation of this area, haven't you uncovered the origins of this wild god?"

Several elders around who were quite prestigious in the Taoist sect looked at him. After hearing the explanations of Qiuqiu and Wen Yuan, Director Li revealed all the core secrets he knew.

The loss of souls in the country was not a big deal. After all, no one was investigating or exploring it. Before he took over the special office, an old senior also accidentally discovered the soul-binding formation.

However, Taoism declined, and there were no people who could destroy the formation. They had to use the few remaining magic tools passed down from their ancestors to break it violently. This also caused great harm to the ghosts trapped inside. In the end, they had to give up and patrol everywhere, secretly searching for the murderer.

Over the years, despite caution, incidents of lost souls are still common. Fortunately, some old crematoriums have been abandoned, and there are no soul-binding formations in the new crematoriums. Fortunately, we met Wen Yuan, Qiuqiu and the others.

Only then did they find some clues. Although Qiuqiu's magic power was low, she had her own complete inheritance of talismans and formations. With her help, the escaped fish in the country were basically eliminated in the past year.

It also provided a more important clue. The person who set up the soul-binding formation to collect souls might be from the Sun Kingdom Shrine. Director Li has searched the country several times in the past few years but has not found anyone from the Taoist sect who can set up such a large-scale formation quietly. He thought it was a foreign force.