Chapter 196
Chapter 196
Although the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess’s true body remained imprisoned in the Netherworld’s purgatory, after merging with the yin energy King Biancheng had sealed away, her baleful might now towered to the heavens.
“Gagagaga! Today, I will show you creatures of the Animal Realm what it truly means to be a god!”
As she spoke, the stone statue transformed into flesh and blood, swelling rapidly until it stood ten meters tall.
She had a tiger’s feet and a dragon’s body, python-like brows and the eyes of a Jiao. Her appearance was bizarre and grotesque.
Her bald head was green, with wisps of withered yellow hair fluttering in the wind. Her ugly body was completely naked.
A long fissure split open across her swollen belly, constantly spewing ghostly qi.
“Heavenly Ghosts emerge, earthly ghosts weep; yakshas and lowly folk deities bow before me.
“Vicious souls and evil ghosts, all that dwell between yin and yang-those who defy me shall fall to the Ninth Level of Hell.
“Swiftly, swiftly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!”
As the incantation ended, wretched howls rang out.
Hundreds upon thousands of evil ghosts in every imaginable form crawled out of the snow.
Hanged Ghosts stuck out their long tongues and carried ropes still stained with blood.
Blood-Smeared Ghosts approached the three Immortal Spirits with eerie chuckles, each carrying a crimson cloth sack filled with blood, filth, and other foul matter.
Drowned Corpse Ghosts were soaked from head to foot. Their skin had bloated in the water, their heads grotesquely swollen. Their flesh was deathly pale and riddled like a honeycomb; the lightest touch of a finger would sink into it with a wet squelch.
There were countless other kinds, too many to describe.
“Gagagaga! Children, tear these beasts apart for this ancestor!”
Faced with the horde of evil ghosts summoned from the City of Wrongful Death, Hu Qingshan and the other two could only abandon offense for defense.
Fortunately, the recovered Bai Wuwei rejoined the ritual battle, allowing them to hold out-barely.
When the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess saw that she could not overcome the four spirit mediums quickly, she hardened her heart and plunged a hand into her own withered chest.
She ripped out a rib still trailing shreds of flesh.
But just as she opened her mouth to chant an evil curse, her vision blurred. Someone had snatched the rib away.
Looking closely, she saw that Huang Zuo and his wife had arrived in time.
The sharp-faced old woman pointed at the rib in disgust.
“Husband, that thing is bloody and reeks! Even a dog wouldn’t eat it. What did you snatch it for?”
Huang Zuo chuckled.
“Wife, if you don’t manage a household, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are. We’ll take this bone home and try it. Maybe the dog won’t eat it, but what if the pig will? A small household like ours has to make ends meet somehow. Waste not, want not!”
How could the mighty Ghost Mother Evil Goddess not fly into a rage when two yellow weasels mocked her so openly?
She charged at Huang Zuo and his wife with a furious howl.
“You stinking, foul pair! This ancestor will make you beg for death and find none!”
Their entire purpose was to enrage the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess until she lost her reason. Enemies in that state were the easiest to provoke into making mistakes.
It was a favorite tactic of Yellow Immortals when pitting their arts against others.
There was another point as well: unless completely certain of victory, a Yellow Immortal would never clash head-on with a powerful enemy.
Huang Zuo and his wife revealed their true forms without hesitation. Relying on their small bodies and astonishing speed, they led the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess weaving through the horde of ghosts.
From time to time, they also unleashed their innate divine ability-their stench-to disgust her.
“Oh dear, husband, I ate too much this morning. My stomach feels a little upset.”
“Now that you mention it, wife, mine’s started rumbling too.”
“Oh, I can’t hold it! Wife, let me blast this big-bellied hag first and show you how it’s done…”
Their special attack did little physical harm, but the humiliation was overwhelming.
After only a few blasts, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess’s green face had been smoked a scorched yellow.
The fury drove her completely out of her mind. She even forgot to use her evil arts and simply slammed her enormous palms down again and again.
“Die! All of you, die!”
Unfortunately, she failed to hit Huang Zuo or his wife even once. Instead, she crushed a great many of the evil ghosts she had summoned herself.
The Five Great Immortal Families had worked together for a thousand years, and their coordination was flawless.
Hu Qingshan, Chang Huaiyuan, and Bai Wuwei roared as they held back the onrushing ghosts, protecting Old Sixth Hui firmly in their midst.
Old Sixth Hui’s expression was solemn as he chanted in a ringing voice.
“The young master physician taught me to slay ghosts and bestowed upon me a divine formula.
“Above, I call the Jade Maidens to gather up all ill fortune. Mountains split as I ascend; upon me I bear the sacred seal.
“The canopy crowns my head; my feet tread the Kuigang. The Six Jia support me on the left; the Six Ding guard me on the right.
“The Yellow God goes before me, Yuezhang follows behind. The divine master slaughters without yielding to the mighty. First slay evil ghosts, then cut down specters of the night.
“What god will not submit? What ghost dares stand against me? Swiftly, swiftly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!”
It was none other than the powerful move Old Daoist Zhou had used before-the Ghost-Slaying Incantation.
Thick fog spread as balls of yin thunder formed from nothing.
Like an attack that struck the entire battlefield at once, it swept the whole ghost horde away.
Under the Six Paths of Reincarnation, living beings enter different realms after death according to the karma they accumulated in life.
The Six Paths comprise three good realms and three evil realms.
The three good realms are the Deva Realm, Human Realm, and Asura Realm.
The three evil realms are the Hell Realm, Hungry Ghost Realm, and Animal Realm.
Because spirit mediums are nonhuman beings who gained cultivation, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess called them creatures of the Animal Realm.