Chapter 782: 328: Ghost King of the Netherworld in the Nether Spring!
Mini Array Spirit One Spirit _1 Chapter 782: 328: Ghost King of the Netherworld in the Nether Spring!
Mini Array Spirit One Spirit _1 Some were born with innate celestial abilities, the chosen ones, while others required constant, postnatal effort to seize that slim chance to awaken their dormant potential.
Chen Dengming was, doubtlessly, of the latter sort.
In the world, there is people of tranquility received the innate celestial abilities, who were not scarce nor plentiful; their number even surpassed those who struggled their way to attainment.
Yet…
many of those with exceptional talents perished prematurely, forgotten by the world.
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For those who perished too early in the mortal world, were often embellished and transformed into legends that lofty cultivators and common men loved to chatter about, as long as they had lived a period of glorious history.
But if someone perished under the Nether Spring, how many people in the mortal world would remember their names, regardless of their past glories?
Ghost King of the Netherworld, this was the title of an ancient Ghost Monarch from beneath the Nether Spring, who was once an illustrious figure.
Most that were called Ghost Monarch were formidable ghost creatures of the Divine Transformation level, few were those who controlled the Nether Spring.
There were only eighty-one Nether Springs.
A ghost creature that could control a Nether Spring, even if it was not a Ghost Monarch of Divine Transformation, was still an extremely powerful Nascent Soul Ghost King.
With the aid of Nether Spring, a sacred item in the Ghost Path, the creatures would become even more formidable, such that they were called Infernal Ghost Monarchs.
However, Ghost Monarchs like the Ghost King of the Netherworld, who were granted titles outside of Nether Springs, were all genuine Divine Transformation beings; they were ancient existences amid the many ghost creatures and evil curses beneath the Nether Spring.
Such existences often hid within the Yin Soil of the Nether Spring, staying in peaceful rest for a long period of time, enjoying offerings from many ghost cultivators surrounding the ghost city birthed by the Nether Spring, and rarely waking up.
After death, most divine spirits would dissipate, unable to enter the sacred grounds of the Ghost Path beneath the Nether Spring.
Only a very small number of strong souls, or souls that, by coincidence, had entered the Nether Spring, or cultivator’s divine spirits that had their souls taken by ghost cultivators, are able to enjoy their afterlives underground…
The former need to convert to ghost cultivation to get an afterlife.
The latter depends solely on luck – if the corresponding ghost city beneath the Nether Spring is easier to survive in, maybe they get to enjoy their afterlives.
The lattermost group, having had their souls taken, live a life worse than death, controlled by others, and their afterlives are by no means peaceful.
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Therefore, ghost cultivators ended up miserably, even with their afterlives.
Once their afterlives ended, their souls would disperse completely.
The state of “peaceful rest” is the most perfect method of “prolonging life” for ghost cultivators.
“Peaceful rest” requires a large amount of underworld resources, offerings from many ghost cultivators, and the protection of the Nether Spring, perks not available to ordinary ghost cultivators.
The Ghost King of the Netherworld, of course, had the resources and qualifications to enjoy “peaceful rest” for a long period of time.
As of late, the Ghost King has been frequently roused from his “peaceful rest”, spontaneously thundering with rage, roaring intimidatingly like a bolt of lightning shaking ghost shades.
This gave many ghost cultivators across the region a dreadful sense of doom; they were all in a cold sweat, suspecting that a Yin Soil war might be about to erupt.
Right after Chen Dengming successfully merges with his spirit and changes his spiritual root attribute to a top-grade Water Spirit Root with a finished product…
Not more than a decade later, an angry roar that shocked all the souls, suddenly burst out from the grand and gloomy ghost city.
The city was a colossal ghost city built within layers of sombre mountains and ridges.
In the centre of the city, a white beam of light as if connected to the sky, bright and eye-catching could be seen extending from the earth to the heavens, like a water-drawing dragon.
That was the Nether Spring, the path that connected to the Mortal World.
The grand palace that encompassed the Nether Spring was the Underworld Dynasty, where the Ghost Monarch resided.
Around a number of rocky, steep mountains, that served as daunting portals which separated the Ghost City into various areas, much like divisions of the eighteen levels of hell.
Strange sounds echoed from each area, as if responding in fear and anxiety to the howling of the Ghost Monarch.
Upon closer inspection, many ghost souls, like wandering spirits, roam around the mountains on the outskirts.
They bore strange faces and bodies, some green-faced and fang-toothed, others three-headed and six-armed.
Some appeared as normal people, but in a state of great misery.
All of them emitted a chilly aura; they are the lowliest ghost citizens.
The closer one is to the center of the Ghost City, the more “decorous” the ghost creatures dwelling there were, and higher their status.
Even the region closest to the Ghost City was garrisoned with several formidable and well-armed ghost armies.
Inside the city were countless formidable ghost cultivators and ghost generals.
But now, when they heard the roar from within the heart of the city that seemed like the palace of the Underworld Dynasty, all the ghost cultivators sensed unease and some even restlessness.
Many ghost creatures have even crouched to the ground, trembling, worshiping in terror, not understanding what had happened.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh –
About a dozen formidable ghost creatures, some riding ancient chariots, some emerging from paintings, and others crawling out of coffins.
They all appeared in different forms, like a parade of a hundred ghosts, approaching the grand and dreary city gate of the Ghost City’s Underworld Dynasty.
Next, they worshiped the Ghost King of the Netherworld reverently and listened to his commands.
Among these creatures, there were those who looked like normal people with exquisite appearances and those with large bodies covered in multiple devilish heads that were rather ugly.
The weakest among them were Ghost Generals that can be compared to those in the middle phase of the Golden Core.
A little more than a decade ago, they had already been aroused by the ghost king’s roar, and they have listened to his commands.
They generally understood that it was a rude cultivator of the mortal world who had found and moved the treasure of the ghost king.
In the Nether Spring, a Ghost King reigned supreme with supreme control, but to reach into the mortal world beyond the Nether Spring for retribution proved to be quite a challenge.
The more formidable the ghost creature is, the harder it is to leave the Nether Spring.
Even if the Ghost King of the Netherworld personally sent someone to the mortal world, he must open the Nether Spring and consume precious resources of the underworld to do so.