45 Chapter 44

For the next two to three days, Zhi Yan helped me burn paper money during the day. Then in the evening, I borrowed her body and instantly traveled to the ghost market. I went to check on my bank account in the Netherworld. As I watched the amount of money slowly accumulate, I became somewhat anxious.

Then I went to the ghost market's tavern and asked Zi You about the approximate cost of one Resurrection Pill. Zi You's answer made me even more anxious.

"According to the standards of the average person, one hundred thousand coins can roughly buy one shichen." After saying that, Zi You immediately stared at me with fixed eyes.

*shichen – two-hour period

I understood his meaningful gaze, he was sympathizing with me. I felt that I had no hope in buying the Resurrection Pill. Because according to my standards, the average person would pay one hundred thousand to buy one Resurrection Pill, so then for me, I would have to pay one million coins.

Because the price that I had to pay was nine times more expensive than the average person. Then in the end, at the ghost market, they rounded up the price, so nine hundred thousand rounded directly up to one million.

Argh, I could see through all of your guys' methods.

So when calculating back and forth, deducting the previous spending from the money in my account, and adding the amount from the past few days when Zhi Yan overworked herself to find people to burn ghost money for me, the current amount was twenty-eight thousand coins in total.

According to Zi You's words, the standards for an evil person turned ghost like me, who was able to earn so much money in such a short time was already not an easy feat. As for ordinary ghosts,when offering sacrifices and paying respects to their ancestors, living people would only burn paper money once during the new year or other festivities. So it was not easy for ordinary ghosts to get an average of thirty to fifty thousand a year.

But I was not an ordinary ghost, argh!

This was such a slow pace to save money. When enough money was saved to buy the Resurrection Pill, many years would have already passed.

I wondered since Mo Qing likes me, then I should seduce him and mention this to him, so that he would use his authority as the sect leader. On Chen Ji Mountain, he would organize an ancestor ceremony and drag those tens of thousands of demon cultivators to one by one burn paper offerings for me.

If one person was one hundred, ten people was ten thousand, then when a gathering of ten thousand people joined hands to surround Chen Ji Mountain and burned offerings, they could burn one million in one day! After that, they would diligently burn paper money for me again for about a year! If so, then maybe I could buy the Everlasting Resurrection Pill and be resurrected!

However, it seems that the Everlasting Resurrection Pill did not exist… So once a month, I could devour the One Month Resurrection Pill; that would be a fine alternative.

I was eager to get started and repossessed Zhi Yan's body to return to Gu Han Guang's mountain top.

In these past few days, Mo Qing was so busy that a trace of him could not be seen. Even in the evening, he did not seek me out like before. So under the pretext of recuperating from my wounds, I just stayed in Gu Han Guang's courtyard, which made me happy and relaxed.

In actuality, I did not want to see him… After all, I suddenly found out that someone in this world likes me, so as far as I was concerned, this was quite a shock to me. I did not know what kind of facial expression I should use to face such a person… Fortunately, I hid and did not see him, which made me happy and relaxed.

When I landed in Gu Han Guang's courtyard, I just happened to see Zhi Yan's twisting butt protruding outside the wall, while the other half of her body was inside the small room where Shen Qian Jin was imprisoned. I did not know what play she was watching.

I silently dropped Zhi Yan's body in her room, and then I went back out into the courtyard. I glided over to Zhi Yan's side and stuck half of my body into the room: "What are you looking at?"

Zhi Yan's eyes were full of excitement: "South Mountain Lord and Shen Tower Leader's great connection!"

I: "…"

Looking into the room, I saw that inside the prison that Mo Qing erected, Gu Han Guang was playing go with Shen Qian Jin. I did not know where these two people got their free time from, because it was already in the middle of the night and they were playing go with such vigor. Anyways, what Zhi Yan said was not wrong. Between these two people, one person appeared like a child, while the other person was cold-tempered, but when they were sitting down in front of the chessboard, it was strangely fitting.

In the end, when Shen Qian Jin lowered the white go piece, Gu Han Guang had lost half of the chessboard. Shen Qian Jin smiled: "South Mountain Lord was being modestly lenient."

Gu Han Guang's face was indifferent: "It couldn't be regarded as being modestly lenient, it was you who should win." He stood up and turned to leave, but Shen Qian Jin suddenly said: "Tonight, I could not sleep, thank you for your trouble, South Mountain Lord. Thanks a lot for accompanying me to play go."

"It's no bother."

As Gu Ham Quang pulled open the door, Shen Qian Jin contemplated for a second, and then called out to him again: "Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but can I boldly ask a question. Has South Mountain Lord met me before?"

I raised my eyebrows and looked at Gu Han Guang, but only saw his lips moved subtly, while his back faced Shen Qian Jin. In the end, he responded indifferently without even bothering to turn his head around: "After I joined Wan Lu Sect, I have never left the mountain and have never seen Shen Tower Leader."

"What about before… Joining Wan Lu Sect?"

"Such a long time ago, I don't remember it anymore."

Shen Qian Jin nodded her head: "Oh…" She bowed her head as if she felt some sense of loss, and the corner of her lips curled somewhat self-mockingly: "I was too bold."

But in response to her loss was only the sound of Gu Han Guang closing the door.

I immediately drifted out of the wall, glanced at Gu Han Guang outside the room, and only saw the hazy mist in his child-like eyes. Beside me, Zhi Yan asked me weakly: "Is he crying?"

"He had already cried."

At that time, when the love poison in Shen Qian Jin's body was transferred into his body, he helplessly watched himself turn into a child. Then, even under Shen Qian Jin's pleads, he insisted on puncturing her head needle by needle to erase her memories that included him… After that, Gu Han Guang cried.

He helplessly embraced the unconscious Shen Qian JIn, who no longer had memories of him, and bawled his heart out.

From then on, Gu Han Guang did not step out of Chen Ji Mountain. He lived like a renunciate, and hated all pairs of lovers. Just because he was afraid that they would remind him of himself and his lover.

"Let's go." I dragged Zhi Yan away, "There's nothing good about this kid's trivial story. Instead, I want to discuss something with you, it's sure to be much more interesting than this."

I took Zhi Yan back to her room and reclined on the bed. I smiled beamingly and scrutinized her from top to bottom: "Little Sis Zhi Yan, it must be exhausting to mindlessly run about to recruit people to burn paper money for so many days, hmm."

Zhi Yan suddenly felt numbness crawling all over her body. She trembled, took two steps back, and stared at me guardedly: "If you have something to say, then just say it."

"Look at you, this big sis was only feeling sorry for you. I have a way to do this once and for all, so that you don't have to run around recruiting people to burn paper money any more. Do you want to hear it?"

"You're saying…"

"The way is to just let Li Chen Lan help me burn paper offerings. Then you can focus on resting, meditating, and improving your skills. I will also give you guidance. You just have to promise me one thing."

"First, tell me what it is."

I solemnly said: "In the future, when I want to caress him or kiss him, you have to stand still and not move a muscle."

Zhi Yan was alarmed: "What did you say?!"

"Yesterday, didn't you say that the body is just a shelter where the soul resides? When I'm inside, I am me, when you're inside, you are you. It's not you that's doing it, so when I want to seduce Li Chen Lan, you just need to obediently stand still."

"But you still can't use my body to go kiss… Kiss him, ah! Then again, you already know that he likes you. So if you have any request, then you can just tell him directly. What else is there to talk about seduce or not seduce…"

"What do you know? He used to like me, because I had saved him, had those ostentatious titles, and also had mastered great abilities, but what do I have now? I only have your body, if I don't use your body to seduce him, and make him continue to like me, then what happens if one day he doesn't like me anymore?"

Zhi Yan stared at me, and was silent for a very long time. Her eyes went through a myriad of changes, from anger to incomprehension, then finally, from understanding to helplessness: "Great Demon King, from the bottom of your heart, you actually don't think that he can like you…"

I was stunned: "Of course not, I know that he likes me, but how can it be without a good cause. He must have a reason to like me. I must make myself into something that will always make him continue to like me."

"So you never thought that he just simply likes you?"

Tsk, so naive. I glanced obliquely at Zhi Yan: "Why do you talk so much? You just don't want to let your body be kissed by or be close to other men, isn't that right?"

Zhi Yan was also angry: "That's right! I just don't want to! If you like him! Then how can you be willing to use my body to seduce him?"

"Isn't it because I have no other body? Otherwise you tell me what else can I use to seduce him?" I calmed myself down, and then my eyes narrowed sharply, "Who said I like him? I still haven't given up on killing him."

Zhi Yan's face became stupefied: "What did you say? A few days ago, didn't he save your life?"

"That's saving your life, because I'm already dead. Even though on that day, he really moved me deeply, but that can't make me give up my original intention!"

Zhi Yan's entire face became incomprehensible: "So what're you wanting to do by working so hard to save money to buy the Resurrection Pill? You can go kill him directly, and become ghosts together, right!"

At long last, I understood her train of thought: "You think that I'm saving money to buy the Resurrection Pill because I want to be together with Li Chen Lan?"

"Well, isn't that so?"

I stared at her with a grim face: "That's because I'm returning to become the Wan Lu Sect Leader."

"…"

"For little ladies like you, all day in your head are love and passion, except for men, there's really nothing else. My life as a ghost is so miserable, before when I didn't go to the ghost market to buy things, I didn't know. Now that I went there to buy things, I've received so much anger. I've experienced the ghost market's full discrimination against me. From early on, I wanted to destroy it, but I couldn't do it. I'll simply borrow the ghost market's power to become human again, and then once again stand on top of the world. I'll live a life where I can beat up anyone who's not pleasing to my eyes." I shot Zhi Yan a glance:

"The next time I encounter a situation like Jian Xin Sect, I absolutely will not let anyone outperform me. My journey is to dominate the world, do you understand? "

Zhi Yan bowed her head: "I think that Li Chen Lan is so pitiful…"

"In a nutshell, you'll lend me your body. Before I dominate the world, I'll first ask for the Sect Leader Command, and order all the disciples of Wan Lu Sect to burn money for me."

"Not lending."

[Oh, wow, you have grown fully fledged, huh!]

I glared at her. In an instant, Zhi Yan went back into her body. She lay on the bed with her arms crossed, and tried her hardest to keep her eyes wide open with a determined look to not compromise. Right at this time, outside the room, the rooster crowed indicating that it was dawn.

I knew I could not wrestle against her, besides I did not feel like arguing with her. In any case, in the evening, I could just push her out of her body. When that time comes, I would perform the Instantaneous Travel Technique, and by then, I did not believe that she could stop me.

But I absolutely did not expect that when evening came, Zhi Yan never came back from the foot of the mountain.

I thought to myself, maybe this little lass was afraid that I would snatch her body, so she planned to hide from me? I looked at the sky, and when I was planning to go down the mountain to look for her, a dark guard had brought Zhi Yan back. Zhi Yan trembled from head to foot with her face looking pale.

When she saw me, she temporarily forgot that there was still the dark guard by her side. She just stared intently at me, took two steps towards me, and then covered her face with her hands and knelt on the ground: "Brother Cang Ling…"

I was taken aback and my expression became solemn: "You met up with Liu Cang Ling?"

"Brother Cang Ling went crazy…" She buried her face in her hands and cried chokingly, "He must've known about the news in Jin Zhou City, so he went crazy…"

I lowered my gaze and saw a thin trace of blood on the Zhi Yan's neck, this wound… Was exactly the same as the wound on Shen Qian Jin's neck.

In an instant, my heart turned cold. I heard my clear frightening voice ask Zhi Yan: "Why did you meet up Liu Cang Ling, was there anything unusual with him? When he stabbed you, which sword did he use? Did the dark guard save you? Where's Liu Cang Ling? Where did he go?"

"I don't know…" Zhi yan held her head, as if she was in utter chaos, "He was absolutely nothing like the usual Brother Cang Ling… His eyes were lifeless, he didn't say a word, and stabbed me with the sword. I thought… I thought that he knew about the news in Jin Zhou City. He knew that I was involved in it… Therefore, he wanted to kill me."

"Zhi Yan." I calmly called her name, and forced her to calm down, "You need to carefully remember and tell me whether the sword in Liu Cang Ling's hand sucked the blood from your neck or not. When he wanted to kill you, was his expression similar to when Liu Wei killed your father?"

Zhi Yan seemed to be stunned silly by these questions of mine, and so she raised her head to gaze at me: "Yes… How did you know?"

Of course, I would know. Many years ago, when Wan Lu Sect was outside Jin Zhou City briefly fighting with Jian Xin Sect, Liu Su Ruo's Heart Confusion Technique was used. This technique indeed made my Wan Lu Sect slay each other and it killed a lot of people.

I clenched my fist. That woman actually had a very long life that even she could not be eradicated on that day.

After taking Zhi Yan's blood, was she still planning to resurrect Luo Ming Xuan…

Translated by Sonrisa t.n.t