Chapter 83

Song Shuhang held the little girl, moved her father and mother to one side, and then continued to look at the tall and large foreign monk.

He could sense that as the foreign monk chanted the scriptures, the massive spiritual energy began to surge, like waves crashing in all directions.

In the air, there were negative energies that ordinary people could not see wandering around in the carriage. However, when they encountered the surging spiritual energy of the tall and large foreign monk, these negative energies instantly scattered like birds and beasts, flying out through the broken windows toward the front carriages.

Song Shuhang's heart stirred. Are they 'ghosts'?

He had already completed the foundation-building stage, but his eye aperture was not yet open, so he could not see the ghosts. However, in the 'alert' state, he could vaguely sense those mist-like negative energies.

Ghosts usually do not enter places with a large flow of people, such as subways and buses, where human energy is abundant.

Abundant and vigorous human energy is an extremely yang force that can directly cause some weaker ghosts to disintegrate. Even powerful ghosts do not like places with overly vigorous human energy.

However, when a dense crowd encounters a disaster, it is an exception. The large amounts of fear, death, despair, and resentment generated instantly are the favorite food and growth nutrients of ghosts. Especially the souls of those who die from accidents and pain in disaster areas; ghosts can become stronger after consuming them.

Some powerful ghosts can even forcibly take the souls of those who are injured and on the verge of death. Such souls on the brink of death are even more beneficial for enhancing the power of ghosts!

"Demons, be gone, be gone, be gone!" The foreign monk clearly had some skills. He roared loudly, his spiritual energy surging, and the negative forces in the carriage were instantly expelled.

In an instant, the passengers in the car who had been cursing were stunned. Because as the foreign monk finished his loud call, the carriage instantly brightened. The broken glass, the blood splattered on the walls, and the passengers pierced by the glass all disappeared.

The passengers in the carriage, though disheveled, were not covered in blood.

"Was that just an illusion?" All the passengers were dumbfounded, at a loss.

Yes, all the terrifying scenes of blood and gore were illusions created by the ghosts to make the people in the carriage more frightened and fearful, generating more negative energy of despair.

The ghosts scattered, but the skilled foreign monk was not satisfied with this result.

"**!" He cursed again, grabbed his prayer beads, and quickly chased the ghosts to the front carriages.

After the train's emergency brake and alarm, the independent switches for each carriage door were activated. By pulling the manual switch on the side of the door, the door could be opened.

The foreign monk skillfully pulled the independent switch and chased the ghosts into the front carriages.

The powerful foreign monk's arrival at the subway was not coincidental. He was tracking the ghosts in the subway, trying to purify them.

Song Shuhang reached into his pocket, where he had a talisman to dispel evil, a talisman of armor, and a sword talisman.

He kept these three talismans close to his body as a precaution.

He hoped he wouldn't need to use the talismans, as he had a limited number of them. Before encountering the sect leader, each wasted talisman would reduce his chances of victory.

Wait a moment!

A thought flashed through Song Shuhang's mind.

Could the ghosts in the subway be related to the sect leader?

Because the sect leader is also a ghost cultivator of the evil path, and his current hiding place, 'Yuanlong Pharmacy,' is only about three subway stations away! Could it be that coincidental?

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At this moment, in the third carriage behind where Song Shuhang was, two men with slightly pale faces huddled together, whispering.

"Damn it, how did that foreign monk catch up again? We already avoided him for a whole town's distance, and he still won't let go!" The man dressed in a white-collar outfit gritted his teeth.

The other man, dressed in a plain T-shirt, rubbed his temples and said bitterly, "We haven't been able to feed 'Kuyou' for two days in a row. If we can't feed it today, we'll be processed by the sect leader tonight and become Kuyou's food."

At this, both men shuddered.

Kuyou is the resentful ghost that roams the subway. It is said that the sect leader spent great effort to gather it from a battlefield decades ago, making it a初级 ghost general with the strength of a second-level cultivator. The sect leader has been cultivating it for many years, making it one of his strongest resentful ghosts.

Under normal circumstances, resentful ghosts are sealed in ghost-dense yin places to sleep, using the ghost energy of the yin places to cultivate the resentful ghosts while also reducing their daily consumption. However, over time, the resentful ghosts will become weak.

Therefore, every time the sect leader goes out with the resentful ghosts, he needs to find 'food' nearby to supply the resentful ghosts, allowing them to recover from their weakened state.

The two men are grassroots members responsible for leading the resentful ghosts to find food. They would seek out disaster sites or graveyards to provide the necessary sustenance for the resentful ghosts.

Yesterday, they were letting the resentful ghost 'Kuyou' feed in a cemetery when they unexpectedly encountered the tall and strong foreign monk. If they hadn't run quickly, the weakened Kuyou would have been purified by the foreign monk... just thinking about it made them shudder.

If Kuyou were purified, they would definitely have to commit suicide; that way, they would die more pleasantly!

After much effort, they managed to lead 'Kuyou' to a great distance. Then they found this subway with long branches, manipulated the ghost's illusions to confuse the subway driver, and artificially created an emergency brake to make a disaster site for Kuyou to feed.

But they didn't expect the foreign monk to follow them all the way!

What did we do to offend you? Can't you just let us go?

"The only option now is to fight," the white-collar man gritted his teeth.

If they can't feed the resentful ghost today, the sect leader will turn them into 'delicacies' in the eyes of the resentful ghosts using cruel punishments. Dead or alive, they have to fight to find a way out!

"Once we hold back that foreign monk and let Kuyou absorb enough energy to recover from its weakened state, that foreign monk will be dead!" The other man gritted his teeth.

With this in mind, the two men got up and rushed toward the front carriages.

The subway carriages were in chaos, and the two men's desperate pursuit was very noticeable.

Soon, they passed through the carriage where Song Shuhang was. Unfortunately, they didn't notice Song Shuhang, who was in the 'spiritual energy alert state.'

Their strength was low, in the 'hundred-day foundation-building' stage. Due to the inferior foundation-building technique, lack of body-tempering liquid, and their advanced age, their 'hundred-day foundation-building' had been ongoing for many years without completion.

Controlling the ghost general Kuyou relied on a temporary magical tool given to them by the sect leader.

The two men hurriedly rushed through Song Shuhang's carriage, chasing the foreign monk's trail.

After the two men were far away, Song Shuhang opened his eyes: "Another two cultivators."

Moreover, the two men who had just rushed by had blood qi levels far higher than ordinary people, and they were related to the ghosts, carrying the same negative energy as the ghosts.

He didn't expect that by holding the little girl and riding the subway for three more stops, such an event would occur.

Should he go and see what's happening up ahead?

Song Shuhang thought to himself.

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On the other side, the tall foreign monk had already caught up with the resentful ghost.

The resentful ghost had absorbed a lot of negative energy and recovered some strength. At this moment, it was using its illusionary abilities to envelop the first three carriages of the subway, creating various terrifying illusions to incite fear and despair among the passengers.

It was just waiting for its strength to recover a bit more, and then it would use the illusions to drive the passengers into a desperate situation, forcing some of the weaker-willed to commit suicide and consume their souls!

"I've found you!" At this moment, the bald foreign monk revealed a bright smile and a row of white teeth: "Stop running. I have already cultivated the Heavenly Eye (eye aperture), and under these eyes, no ghost can hide. Let me purify you!"

With that, he pulled out a Buddhist scripture from his monk's robe and loudly recited its contents, the deafening sound echoing through the carriage. The precise pronunciation of the Chinese characters was truly embarrassing for many native Chinese people.

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