Chapter 54 (Part 4)

“All right. It looks like the lay disciple is just a smokescreen. The city lord’s manor is still controlled by the Buddhist Sect.”

Yu Yu knew it. Those monks looked as if they did not chase fame or profit, but the monks on Blue Star were much better at marketing than the Daoists.

Compared to the quietness of Daoist temples, Buddhist temples were much livelier. Monks not only had silver tongues, they also knew how to absorb the Daoist sects’ strengths. Some of them could even interpret fortune sticks and tell fortunes.

When Yu Yu saw this, do not even mention how speechless he was.

No wonder they had so many tourists. It turned out they had absorbed the Daoist sects’ strengths, then improved them a little themselves, and they became part of Buddhism.

Since monks even took on feng shui business, who would dare say Buddhism was not competitive?

The senior and junior brothers found an inn that looked very clean and booked a small courtyard. Just like that, they settled in.

Yu Yu sat on the couch to meditate and cultivate, while Lingji sat on a stool and drank tea, guarding his junior brother’s safety at the same time.

Right now, if he could avoid leaving his little junior brother’s side, he would avoid leaving as much as possible. Entering the city lord’s manor today could not be helped. That was simply their rule. Since Lingji did not want to make a big fuss and draw attention, he could only follow it.

However, it was also because he had confirmed there would be no problem with Yu Yu’s safety that he went in.

After cultivating for almost two hours, Yu Yu opened his eyes.

“Little Junior Brother, how is it?”

Seeing that he had finished cultivating, Lingji hurriedly asked.

“It’s much smoother than cultivating in the Demon Realm.”

Yu Yu lay on the couch. When he was in the Demon Realm, he could only cultivate using spirit stones and also had to worry about demonic qi being drawn over.

Now things were better. After leaving the Demon Realm, his cultivation speed instantly became much faster. Of course, the injuries in his body were still not that easy to heal, but the injuries that originally needed a year to recover from would now probably only need half a year.

The time had suddenly shortened by one third, and both Yu Yu and Lingji were quite happy.

After finishing his cultivation, Yu Yu was also tired. The senior and junior brothers did not eat spiritual food and directly returned to their room to rest. For these ten days, they did not plan to go out.

They would go out again once the teleportation array opened!

So Yu Yu and Lingji became shut-ins for the next few days. When they wanted to eat spiritual food, they directly ordered it from the inn. Although the food’s deliciousness could not compare to Yu Yu’s, the craftsmanship was still passable.

The senior and junior brothers stayed at the inn for five days. On this day, as usual, they got up and washed first, then cultivated, and finally ordered a table of spiritual food. This was their ordinary and plain day.

But this ordinariness and plainness was soon shattered.

“Ah!”

“Help!”

Immortal-Receiving City suddenly fell into chaos. A flag painted with a skull suddenly appeared in the sky, constantly absorbing the souls of the human race.

“An evil cultivator?”

Yu Yu and Lingji exchanged a glance, immediately left the room, and stood in the courtyard to observe the situation.

“Not good. This is an evil cultivator trying to refine a Myriad Ghost Banner. It needs the souls of several million people to be refined successfully. No wonder the other party set his sights on Immortal-Receiving City.”

Lingji looked it over and quickly recognized that this was the spiritual weapon most commonly used by evil cultivators.

The Myriad Ghost Banner’s full name was the Myriad Ghosts Grieving Together Banner. It was refined from the souls of millions of living beings into tens of thousands. Even if Lingji and Lingyu had never refined a Myriad Ghost Banner, they could still guess the cruelty within.

The souls inside the Myriad Ghost Banner devoured one another after killing one another, and in the end, more than ten thousand vicious ghost souls were formed.

And those souls no longer had any reason to speak of. They only listened to the Myriad Ghost Banner’s master and killed whoever he ordered them to kill.

Because this Myriad Ghost Banner was too cruel, the people of the cultivation world would absolutely not allow it to appear.

Now that someone dared risk universal condemnation to refine a Myriad Ghost Banner, it would naturally provoke public outrage.

But what Yu Yu and Lingji found strange was that despite such a huge disturbance, the Arhat in the city lord’s manor had not come out.

“This won’t do. If we wait any longer, the souls of the people in the city will be taken away.”

Yu Yu did not know why the Arhat in the city lord’s manor had not acted, but in the end, he could not bear it. The lives of ordinary people were lives too!

“Little Junior Brother, go ahead and act. Eldest Senior Brother is here.”

Lingji knew his little junior brother would definitely take action. Without any hesitation, he even took the initiative to encourage Yu Yu.

“Thank you, Eldest Senior Brother.”

Yu Yu summoned his own Green Feather Branch and tossed it into the sky.

The Myriad Ghost Banner, which was absorbing souls, suddenly trembled. The souls being absorbed gradually returned, once again going back into their original owners’ bodies.

Because they had only just been pulled out of their bodies by the Myriad Ghost Banner, they could still revive after returning now.

The Myriad Ghost Banner also had not expected that something would actually come out to fight it over souls.

The Myriad Ghost Banner, which already had a trace of spiritual awareness, became unhappy. It strengthened its absorption ability, continuously absorbing souls.

The Green Feather Branch naturally refused to show weakness and fought even more fiercely with the Myriad Ghost Banner over the souls.

You think I’m afraid of you? If you have the ability, then let’s compare and see who’s more powerful.

They pulled back and forth, and neither side yielded.

It even reached the point where the souls that had been absorbed into the Myriad Ghost Banner also began flying out.

At this time, the Myriad Ghost Banner’s master began to grow anxious. If all the souls were sucked away, then his trip to Immortal-Receiving City to collect souls would not only fail to profit him, but his plan would also have been ruined by the other party, and even the souls stored inside his Myriad Ghost Banner would be snatched away.

That would be a huge loss for him, and the evil cultivator naturally would not accept that. So he controlled the Myriad Ghost Banner and tried to temporarily leave this area.

Once the Myriad Ghost Banner moved, it temporarily stopped absorbing souls, and Yu Yu also let out a breath of relief.

Yu Yu was only at Golden Core. Controlling the Green Feather Branch to pull souls back in reverse and save a whole city of common people once again exhausted the bit of spiritual power he had only barely cultivated back.

Now Lingji was guarding him on one side while taking out supreme-grade spirit stones for Yu Yu to absorb and use to recover his spiritual power.

Because of the fluctuations from Yu Yu crushing supreme-grade spirit stones to recover spiritual power, the evil cultivator noticed them.

“I was wondering who had such great courage that they actually dared fight this lord over souls. So it turns out to be only a little Golden Core child! If you know what’s good for you, leave early, and this venerable one will spare you.”

The Myriad Ghost Banner’s master finally appeared. An old man wearing shabby Daoist robes flew out from the shadows.

His words sounded as if he did not plan to fuss with Yu Yu and Lingji, but both sides understood that this was impossible. Yu Yu and Lingji could not leave, and the evil cultivator also would not let them go.

The Green Feather Branch continuously released life energy to oppose the Myriad Ghost Banner, preventing it from affecting the common people in the city.

When the evil cultivator saw the Green Feather Branch’s performance, he stared at it with greedy eyes. A Golden Core’s bonded spiritual weapon could contend with his Myriad Ghost Banner, which meant this Golden Core’s bonded spiritual weapon was of a very high grade.

Whether he seized it and found a way to modify it into a spiritual weapon he could use, or took it out and exchanged it for resources, the evil old Daoist was determined to obtain it.

He had lost quite a few souls this time, so he had to make up for it somehow. Of course, after he killed this pair of senior and junior brothers, it would not be too late to absorb the souls of the whole city.

In short, evil cultivators would eat anything except a loss.

The idea was decent, and the item was also very good. It was just that the evil cultivator had never considered that since the other party dared take the Green Feather Branch out and use it, they definitely had a way to protect it from being seized.

Yu Yu also had not expected that his bonded spiritual weapon would actually be targeted by an evil cultivator. Sure enough, even if good things changed appearances, people would still covet them.

“Old thing, you’re not even as good as a Golden Core, yet you still have the nerve to say you’ll let us go. Where did you get that confidence?”

Yu Yu spoke to the evil old Daoist from half a city away.

With the Green Feather Branch’s help, some of the common people whose souls had been drawn away had woken up, while some other common people’s souls were still being fought over.

After the evil old Daoist came out, his control over the Myriad Ghost Banner grew stronger. Those souls that had not been taken back struggled ceaselessly inside it.

So if Yu Yu wanted to take back all the souls, he had to spend even more spiritual power. The supreme-grade spirit stones beside him never stopped. As he absorbed them, he controlled the Green Feather Branch to oppose the Myriad Ghost Banner.

For a time, the two sides were deadlocked, and neither could do anything to the other.

However, the evil old Daoist also saw that the owner of that branch spiritual weapon seemed to be injured. As long as he persisted a while longer, the other party would no longer be able to stop him from absorbing souls.

Even so, Yu Yu’s tone still made him nearly fall over in anger. Ever since the evil old Daoist had started roaming the world, he had never been insulted like this.

He was at least a Tribulation stage cultivator, yet today he had been called inferior to a Golden Core. If this spread, how was he supposed to continue making his way in the cultivation world?

Cultivators of the same evil path would laugh him to death.

If he did not want to be laughed to death, then Yu Yu, this Golden Core, had to die.

The Green Feather Branch constantly released white light in the sky, pulling the souls that had been drawn away out of the Myriad Ghost Banner and returning them.

At this time, the evil cultivator saw that the situation was not right. That Golden Core boy was too good at holding on. If he truly waited until the boy could no longer persist and stopped, the souls inside his banner would all be gone too. So he planned to recall the Myriad Ghost Banner. But just then, a streak of sword intent suddenly flew up from somewhere underground, and the Myriad Ghost Banner broke.

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