857: C857 The Secret of the Ghost Capital

C857 The Secret of the Ghost Capital

"Uncle, this Phantom Mist Blaze of yours doesn't seem to have any intention of harming us, then why are you testing us like this?"

Seeing that Sun Wukong had returned safely, Qin Loong was relieved. Hence, he asked the old uncle about the doubts in his heart.

"Heh heh, since you've all passed the test, I'll first give you the ghost city's temporary pass."

The old uncle raised his hand and shot out two streams of grey light, and threw the two grey and black Spirit Stone towards them.

Qin Loong took the Spirit Stone and inputted a bit of his own spirit energy. Then, the scene in front of his eyes started to change.

The sky was no longer gray. Instead, it was filled with sunlight and thick foliage.

The river beside them was extremely clear, and from time to time, some small fish would jump out of the water. Occasionally, a few small shrimps would climb onto the riverbank.

The dilapidated village in front of them had become a peaceful and lively town. People were entering and exiting from the village from time to time. One could see the shops and vendors on the streets busy receiving customers. It was like a paradise.

"Oh? "Oh?"

Sun Wukong looked left and right, obviously extremely shocked.

Qin Loong also opened his mouth wide, looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

"Hehe, let's go. Let's find a place to sit and have some tea."

The old man's attitude toward them now, and the complete change, had become friendly and kind.

Qin Loong and Sun Wukong followed the old uncle to a teahouse and sat down, then called for the owner to give them a few bowls of tea.

"Oh? It's rare for someone to pass the test. "

The owner of the teahouse was a middle-aged woman. She smiled as she served a teapot and three tea bowls. "I'll give you a few of our Godly Capital's specialties as my treat later."

"The capital?"

When Qin Loong heard this word, he looked at the old man strangely.

"We locals all call this place the Godly Capital. Only outsiders who don't understand the situation would call this place the Ghost Capital. This term is too derogatory and discriminatory."

The old uncle looked at Qin Loong seriously and said.

Qin Loong nodded his head, "Mn, that's indeed the case. It seems that your life here is blissfully peaceful, and calling his a ghost is indeed a little too biased."

"I don't think it matters what his name is. The quality of a person or a place won't change because of his name."

Sun Wukong said casually.

Hearing this, the old man wasn't angered and instead chuckled, "Mister Sun is a man of character, that's true. However, those of us who live here hear our homeland being called a despicable place, they will feel uncomfortable."

The old man did not continue to ponder about this question and continued, "I believe all of you know the general reason for this place. We were all gathered here because of the Primaltwin that escaped from death and were unable to perfectly reconstruct our bodies within a short period of time. We were also not willing to go to the Underworld."

Qin Loong and Sun Wukong both nodded their heads to indicate that they knew about this.

So the old man continued, "Those of us who are unwilling to go to the Underworld all have a strong obsession, hoping that one day we can perfectly reconstruct our bodies and return to the human world. At the beginning, there were a lot of people who couldn't hold on and chose to disperse their Nascent Souls.

"So you live on just like that?"

Qin Loong frowned and asked.

He thought it was good, but it was a kind of paralysis.

"Hehe, I know what you are thinking about, but of course we won't give up hope. Those who truly give up hope, won't be living in the capital just like that."0

The uncle smiled and continued, "One reason is to remind us not to give up hope, the other is to remind us who we are, to not fall into the demonic path."

"So that's the case. Then what is the relationship between this place and the outside world like? Uncle He, why were you so cautious of us at the start?"

Qin Loong asked about the key point.

"At first, there was no estrangement between this place and the outside world. In reality, we welcomed people from the outside world. Especially when some of our relatives and friends didn't cultivate enough, they needed someone to bring them to us.

When the old man said this, his expression suddenly became sad and angry.

He continued, "Until now, for some unknown reason, perhaps it was because we had gathered countless obsession, or perhaps it was because many special existences such as primordial spirits had gathered here. Anyway, after the first trace of the special anti-karmic power appeared, everything quietly began to change."

"The power of counter-karma? Aren't the various special effects of the Phantom Smoke Formation caused by the Karma Force? "

Qin Loong had guessed that there was a certain degree of karmic power here, but he didn't expect that it wasn't so.

"That's right. This place has never been here for a long time. To a certain extent, it has always been able to ignore the power of karma. This is probably because we're all abandoned people!"

At this moment, the expression on the old man's face became even more sorrowful.

"How is this being abandoned by the heavens and earth? This is being cared for by the heavens and earth!"

Qin Loong said with incomparable excitement.

Not just him, even Sun Wukong was shocked.

All of the heaven's eight realms had to struggle until their heads bled just for the sake of a legendary child. Wasn't the entire Desolate Ancient Continent made even more chaotic by the arrival of the legendary day to truly escape from cause and effect?

"Sure enough, you've all misunderstood, just like those higher-ups back then."

The old man's mood did not change at all as he continued, "It's not really possible to get rid of the cause and effect here. Otherwise, we would have had quite a few capable people here, and some of them would have obtained or already possessed powerful Law of Causality Weapon.

Qin Loong calmed down and felt that what his uncle said was reasonable.

He then heard his uncle explain, "This Inverse Karma Force is only able to ignore the Law of Causality Weapon to a certain extent. So, after the people who were originally at the top misunderstood it and tried to use all sorts of methods to seize the Inverse Karma here, we used it to counterattack."

"Did you win?" If it was a true upper class expert who took action, even if you did not use Law of Causality Weapon s, it would probably be very difficult for you two to win with your primordial spirit bodies, right? "

With Sun Wukong's Divine Seal Realm, such a judgement was undeniable.

So the old uncle also nodded his head to show that Sun Wukong was right.

"However."

The old uncle suddenly changed the topic, "Those god have suffered quite a bit of damage here as well. After all, this is the border of the Absolute Yin Region, and many of them have already injured quite a few cultivation level s. Some of their realms have even regressed quite a bit, and one of them has even been taken down by us."

"So that's how it is."

Sun Wukong understood: "So when they realised that the power here was not the power to jump out of the cause and effect, they felt that it was not worth it and gave up."

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