I have Immortality In The Cultivation World - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: The Ghost of Yu Niang

Editor: Henyee Translations

The remnant souls within the courtyard have been too weak to arouse Zhou Yi’s curiosity.

Based mostly on his previous life’s conjectures about ghosts, there was one place that absolutely housed real spirits.

The heavenly jail.

12 months-round, it by no means noticed the sunshine of day and was house to many who had been wrongfully imprisoned and died below brutal torture—an ideal setting for the aggrieved and vengeful ghosts.

“Maybe the explanation why the jailers’ life spans are so brief is that they’re consistently accompanied by shadowy souls, tainted by their yin vitality, which reduces their longevity. I’ve been within the heavenly jail for over twenty years and have by no means heard of a fierce ghost harming anybody, so that they aren’t significantly highly effective entities,” Zhou Yi mirrored.

“I’ll draw one other Peaceable House Talisman and take a look at it out within the heavenly jail tomorrow.”

Zhou Yi deliberate to remain within the mundane world for just a few hundred years, till he may not enhance his cultivation, after which discover a option to attain the Cultivation World.

Throughout this time, the heavenly jail would function his base of operations; he needed to clear out the hidden spirits. First, to forestall the revelation of the Longevity Dao Fruit, and second, as a result of nobody needs ghosts peeping on them.

After the primary Peaceable House Talisman was drawn, Zhou Yi’s brushstrokes flowed far more easily the second time round.

After destroying greater than a dozen items of talisman paper, he lastly managed to efficiently create one other.

“Plainly entry into talisman drawing isn’t so troublesome in spite of everything. Yu Jie had instruction for a number of years and but didn’t succeed. Maybe I’ve a pure expertise for talisman making?”

Zhou Yi was fairly happy with himself; drawing talismans, although not as profitable as alchemy, could be a helpful talent to have as soon as he entered the Cultivation World.

The following day.

Arriving on the heavenly jail early, Zhou Yi wasn’t positive of the efficient vary of the Peaceable House Talisman, so he purposely selected a central location to activate it.

An invisible wave swept throughout the cells, conjuring gusts of chilling wind out of nowhere.

The wind carried the faint sound of crying and wailing, and the chilliness brushed previous his ears as if somebody was whispering secrets and techniques.

“As anticipated, there are numerous shadowy souls!”

Zhou Yi regarded across the heavenly jail, which may effectively be described as a nest of lingering spirits.

Hanging from the ceiling have been humanoid shadows, like bats suspended in a cave, their pairs of crimson eyes all mounted on Zhou Yi. Most have been detached and impassive, however some bore poison and hatred, seemingly those that died by Zhou Yi’s hand in life.

There have been much more within the cells—huddled in corners, clinging to partitions, or mendacity on straw mats, every in a unique pose.

The prisoners, sleeping alongside shadowy souls every single day, didn’t want torture to have their lifespans reduce brief by the corrosive yin vitality.

A shadowy determine emerged silently from the bottom and stealthily climbed onto Zhou Yi’s again, with arms shaped from mist tightening round his neck.

“Hmph!”

True Yuan flowed out of Zhou Yi’s physique, and the shadow melted into nothingness like butter in hearth amidst a shriek of agony.

“Out of compassion, I shall ship you all in your option to reincarnation!”

His True Yuan remodeled into Sword Qi, sweeping out quick as lightning, pulverizing the remnants of souls earlier than they may even assume to flee.

“Senior, spare my life…”

A girl’s startled cry got here from above, and Zhou Yi noticed a shadow slowly morphing, revealing a face and materializing a costume of emerald inexperienced mist.

“A feminine ghost!”

Zhou Yi flashed in entrance of the lady, analyzing her with curiosity, “You appear considerably acquainted?”

The girl stated, “Senior, I’m Huang Yuniang, the daughter of Huang Heng from the Ministry of Rites. I used to be imprisoned right here a yr in the past, and through that point, you took care of me…”

“You’re Previous Huang’s daughter?”

Zhou Yi shortly recalled Huang Heng, who was wrongfully imprisoned a yr in the past on costs of embezzlement.

A mere fifth-rank official accused of embezzling three thousand taels of silver, he didn’t qualify for the heavenly jail, not to mention his spouse and daughter being imprisoned with him.

The rationale behind it was easy. Wei Chang, a infamous lecher from Divine Capital, had unexpectedly seen Huang Yuniang’s magnificence and, disregarding his personal dignity and public ridicule, despatched for her hand in marriage.

He proposed to make Huang Yuniang his concubine and promised to make sure Huang Heng’s promotion and prosperity in return!

Contemplating himself from an honorable lineage, Huang Heng couldn’t endure such an insult and harshly rebuked Wei Chang as shameless.

A number of days later, he was denounced by a colleague, accused of accepting three thousand taels of silver from retailers whereas supervising the Nationwide Academy’s repairs.

Wei Chang initially supposed to maintain the household of three within the heavenly jail to convey them to their senses, hoping to proceed with the wedding later. Nevertheless, Huang Heng, frail in well being, died inside a month.

His spouse adopted him in despair, whereas Huang Yuniang, to keep away from Wei Chang’s harassment, took her personal life within the cell.

Zhou Yi felt pity for the Huang household’s plight and all the time gave them just a few further spoonfuls of porridge when serving meals.

“Again you then have been matted, and I puzzled why Wei Chang could be in such a rush, even for somebody such as you.”

“My father stated many ladies have been abused within the heavenly jail, so he instructed me to mar my look to keep away from…”

Huang Yuniang corrected herself, “Senior, after all, you’re totally different. You solely punish the unhealthy and the depraved, by no means mistreating the wrongfully accused.”

“You noticed all that?”

Zhou Yi’s voice remained calm and emotionless, his True Yuan able to turn out to be a sword at any second.

As a wronged spirit, Huang Yuniang had turn out to be extraordinarily delicate to life pressure and swiftly defined.

“I’m conscious that senior is an Innate Grandmaster, keen on consuming and listening to prisoners’ tales, secretly slaying those that attempt to get away, and turning a blind eye to the wrongfully accused trying to flee…”

“Hmm.”

These previous two years, after making vital progress with the Devouring Heaven Demonic Method, Zhou Yi had not proven any anomalies since absorbing Internal Qi not elevated his True Yuan.

The one factor that could be thought of a flaw was his eternally unchanging look!

“Why are you totally different from these different remnants?”

There have been greater than 100 lingering spirits within the heavenly jail, all dazed remnants apart from Huang Yuniang.

Huang Yuniang obediently replied, “Senior, after my demise, my soul hooked up itself to the Jade Hairpin, and by being nurtured by it, I used to be in a position to retain my mind and reminiscence.”

Zhou Yi requested additional, “As a ghost, do you perceive any Divine Expertise or strategies?”

“I can take up the essence of people to strengthen my ghostly type, and I can possess individuals to disturb their spirits,” stated Huang Yuniang.

“Nevertheless, I can solely possess the weak and odd; those that are sturdy and have robust yang vitality are troublesome to method. These cultivators with substantial achievements exude robust Qi-Blood, and getting close to them looks like being scorched by hearth.”

Zhou Yi nodded barely, “So that you’re planning to cover right here within the heavenly jail as an alternative of going by means of reincarnation?”

The lingering spirits have been far weaker than anticipated, but that additionally made sense since they have been merely a yr previous as ghosts.

“The vendetta in opposition to my dad and mom can’t coexist below the identical sky!”

Huang Yuniang knelt on the bottom and pleaded, “This humble woman asks the senior to assist. After avenging my dad and mom, I’m keen to supply my life-sustaining Jade Hairpin and serve you evening after evening!”

“…”

Zhou Yi was all of a sudden stunned and considerably irritated, “What are you speaking about?”

Huang Yuniang murmured, “Hidden within the shadows, I heard the senior and colleagues speak each day concerning the Spring Breeze Constructing, Oiran, and the like; I assumed you have been of a flirtatious nature.”

After her total household unjustly died and he or she grew to become a vengeful ghost, Huang Yuniang had come to a realization.

All of the dogmatic social etiquette was meaningless; to avenge her dad and mom, she was keen to turn out to be a slave or a maid.

“My surname isn’t Ning!”

Zhou Yi had little interest in ghost knights and stated, “There are lots of within the Heavenly Jail who’re worse off than you. A mere Jade Hairpin isn’t sufficient to remodel right into a ghost; is there one more reason?”

Huang Yuniang fell silent for a second, then stated, “In life, I favored to learn historical books, and my father specifically collected some for me, together with a quantity of Daoist scripture that I recited day and evening, clearing the thoughts and brightening the spirit.”

Zhou Yi’s eyes lit up, “Recite it for me to listen to!”

“The Daoist scripture is known as ‘Cultivation of the Spirit Idea by the True Individual of Qing Wei’.”

Huang Yuniang recited, “Upon beginning, people embrace the concord of yin and yang… All strategies of nurturing the spirit, the center needs to be like that of an toddler, serene internally…”

After Zhou Yi memorized and recited it a number of instances to himself, he certainly felt refreshed, with a barely clearer sense of the non secular vitality of heaven and earth.

“With such profound scripture, your father by no means learn it?”

Huang Yuniang murmured, “Father may have turn out to be a ghost too, however with just one Jade Hairpin to depend on, he urged me together with his dying breath to not do evil and selected to let his soul scatter.”

“Previous Huang was considerably rigid in pondering, however he had a resolute nature.”

Zhou Yi requested, “How am I that will help you take revenge, by slapping Wei Kang to demise?”

An Innate Grandmaster can undertake an assassination with out shedding their face. Solely a grasp of the identical stage would discover it laborious to hint. A strand of True Yuan hooked up contained in the goal’s physique would detonate by itself as soon as the space was nice sufficient.

If ready for a possibility, when the sufferer carelessly stumbled and hit their head, one may take the second to stir round inside their mind a bit.

The world would solely assume that Wei Kang, having dedicated numerous wrongdoings, by accident tripped and fatally hit his head.

This was the tactic Zhou Yi considered in a short while. A traditional Innate Grandmaster would hardly trouble with such bother, seemingly storming into Wei Kang’s residence and beating him to demise in entrance of everybody.

In a melodramatic approach, one may say “A Grandmaster should not be insulted,” with an air of overwhelming vanity!

“The vengeance for my dad and mom have to be exacted by my very own palms.”

Huang Yuniang stated, “With my feeble energy, I can’t go away the ten-zhang vary of the Jade Hairpin I reside in. I ask the senior to help me by putting the Jade Hairpin beneath Wei Kang’s mattress.”

“That’s easy.”

Zhou Yi stated, “After your revenge is taken, both discover a new place to go or enter the cycle of rebirth—you shouldn’t keep within the Heavenly Jail.”

“Senior, may I’m going to the imperial jail?”

Seeing Zhou Yi’s expression darken, Huang Yuniang shortly continued, “I have to additionally bother the senior to ship this humble woman away from the Divine Capital to discover a darkish place, and that may suffice.”

Zhou Yi requested, “Why do you not want to enter the cycle of rebirth?”

Huang Yuniang stated, “Even the smallest creature clings to life; I have no idea if there may be reincarnation on this world, and even when there may be, that reborn self wouldn’t be the identical particular person.”

Zhou Yi nodded in settlement, “Bear in mind the ultimate directions of Previous Huang.”

Huang Yuniang kowtowed in gratitude, then swore to the heavens.

“I’ll heed my father’s teachings and by no means commit dangerous deeds. Ought to I break this vow, let heaven and earth precise their wrath upon me!”

…

Wei Kang’s residence.

The interior quarters.

The sixty-two-year-old Wei Kang, nonetheless robust in his later years, had simply settled down together with his newly taken concubine, Wan Yu, after a half-night of exertions.

In his goals, he noticed boundless white mist rolling, hazy and blurred as if it have been the Immortal Realm.

Inside the fog appeared a girl in inexperienced robes, lovely as a flower, seductive and affectionate.

“My lord, come over!”

The voice was ethereal and elusive, her type enchanting and voluptuous, and Wei Kang’s gaze was instantly mounted.

“My magnificence, look forward to me…”

As he stated so, he rushed ahead, solely to understand at air; her voice then got here from behind him once more.

“My lord, I’m right here!”

With eyes just for the attractive lady, Wei Kang pursued her relentlessly, regardless of what number of instances he missed, utterly unaware that his decrease physique was steadily changing into clear.

At this second.

The day had already brightened.

Not daring to disturb Wei Kang, the concubine rigorously rose to see the girl of the home.

By noon, Wei Kang was nonetheless deep in slumber, unresponsive like a strolling corpse.

Solely then did individuals notice one thing critical had occurred!

When the previous dowager realized of this case, she swiftly known as for Imperial Doctor Ge from the palace to look at him.

After taking his pulse rigorously, Imperial Doctor Ge shook his head, “The lord of our nation exhibits a traditional pulse, solely a bit weak and unreceptive to nourishment; he shouldn’t be comatose.”

Having enquired intimately, the previous dowager despatched somebody to escort Imperial Doctor Ge again to the palace.

Wei Kang’s eldest professional son, Wei Chang, volunteered, claiming he wished to debate his father’s situation with Imperial Doctor Ge to hunt a proficient physician for therapy.

As soon as they have been outdoors the door, Wei Chang lowered his voice and inquired.

“Imperial Doctor Ge, can my father nonetheless get up? With such extended unconsciousness, may there be hazard to his life?”

“My medical expertise are humble; the Princely Inheritor ought to search others for session.”

Imperial Doctor Ge dared not say extra and hurried onto the carriage.