Chapter 21

Before his soul refinement, Jiang Wei’s soul strength was already three times that of an ordinary ghost; after the soul refinement, although the concentration of his soul didn’t change much, his soul strength reached ten times that of an ordinary ghost! With Jiang Wei’s “Insight” realm, in a fit of rage, a casual strike sent the five underlings’ souls trembling, making it difficult for them to even stand up.

In fact, Jiang Wei had held back; if he had really used his full strength, these five underlings would have been erased from the ghost world.

"Xiaohao, how do you want to deal with these ghosts? You decide!" Jiang Wei said.

In Jiang Wei’s heart, Li Hao was his good brother, who had helped him a lot, whether in the human world or the ghost world. Now, seeing his good brother being bullied, and if he hadn’t returned in time, Li Hao’s life would have been in grave danger; in such a situation, Jiang Wei even had the thought of killing these five underlings—killing these five ghosts would entangle Jiang Wei with the sin of the Forty Pagodas.

"Let them go!" Li Hao shook his head.

"Let them go?" Jiang Wei was stunned, "They almost killed you, and you say to let them go?" Jiang Wei found it hard to believe.

"Let them go!"

Under Li Hao’s insistence, Jiang Wei ultimately chose to let the five ghosts go.

"If I had killed them, it would have certainly brought me into conflict with the Zhou Mansion!" After the five underlings fled in panic, Li Hao sighed deeply.

"What’s really going on?" Jiang Wei pressed.

Li Hao slowly revealed his thoughts, "If I have a grudge with the Zhou Mansion, then the possibility of me and Xue’er being together would be even slimmer; and doing so would also make it difficult and uncomfortable for Xue’er!"

"Having a grudge with the Zhou Mansion isn’t something to be afraid of; but from what you say, it’s indeed not suitable to kill those ghosts!" Jiang Wei thought for a moment and said.

"Ah Wei, how did you suddenly become so strong..." Li Hao still couldn’t believe it, "And where did you get all this equipment?"

"It was also my good luck; otherwise, I might not have returned at all!" Jiang Wei sighed, recounting his experiences of the day. Of course, he didn’t mention the details about the Five Ghost Dao Talisman’s brilliance, only roughly mentioning the danger of the battle with the white tiger.

"Indeed, very lucky! As far as I know, even soul-condensing ghosts find it difficult to move outside the city; and among the ghosts who haven’t reached the soul-condensing stage, those who can return after leaving the city are few and far between." Li Hao, who had been in the ghost world for ten years, knew how dangerous it was outside the city; otherwise, with so many ghosts in Original Sin City, they would have long left the city to fight monsters and level up, instead of idly wasting their yin life in the city.

Like Jiang Wei, if it weren’t for his strong desire for revenge, he probably wouldn’t have risked his life to leave the city; after all, Jiang Wei was almost permanently erased from existence, unable to even reincarnate.

"Holding this pair of tiger horns, I can enter the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion!" Jiang Wei said, "But Xiaohao, I don’t know how long it will take me to go to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion; if I leave you here alone, I’m worried the ghosts from the Zhou Mansion will come to trouble you again..."

"No problem, when you’re not around, I’ll stay under the wall of Cultivator Zhang’s house!" Li Hao said, "This is Cultivator Zhang’s territory, the ghosts from the Zhou Mansion won’t dare to do anything to me!"

"That’s a good idea!" Jiang Wei had also heard of Cultivator Zhang’s prestige in the area, "Then I’ll go to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion first. When I return, I’ll accompany you to the Zhou Mansion; at that time, I’ll go with you as a disciple of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, and I’ll see if that old man Zhou Lei will still be so disrespectful!"

"Alright!" Knowing Jiang Wei’s strength, Li Hao suddenly felt that he and Zhou Xue had some hope; with Jiang Wei’s help, he was no longer as lost and helpless as before.

"Xiaohao, these extra pieces of equipment, you can keep them!" Jiang Wei was already wearing a set of equipment, and the other few pieces he had picked up were not useful to him.

But even these extra pieces of equipment were worth thousands of nether coins; if Jiang Wei could carry them, he would have brought all the equipment back.

"Alright!" Li Hao said, "I’ve never worn equipment before; hearing you say there are hundreds of thousands of ghosts’ legacies outside the city, I really want to push a cart to carry them!"

"Are you crazy, risking your life for money!" Jiang Wei laughed and joked, "No more talk, I’m heading to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion now, wish me luck!"

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At the inner city gate that separates the upper and lower levels of the ghost world, a squad of Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion ghost soldiers was on guard.

The annual test had ended, and the inner city gate had returned to its usual stern and quiet state; ordinary ghosts who got too close to the gate would be driven away.

"Stop, what are you doing!?" A ghost soldier shouted at Jiang Wei, who was approaching the gate.

Jiang Wei took out the tiger horns and waved them, "I hunted a pair of tiger horns, I want to join the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion!"

"Oh?" The ghost soldier’s attitude suddenly improved.

This year, because the test stone was damaged halfway through the test, the test content was changed to "hunting a pair of tiger horns"; according to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion’s promise, any ghost who hunted a pair of tiger horns could join the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion. In other words, Jiang Wei was very likely to become a disciple of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, so the ghost soldiers’ attitude naturally couldn’t be bad.

The ghost soldier captain took the tiger horns from Jiang Wei and carefully examined them, "They are indeed tiger horns, wait a moment, I’ll go and report!"

While waiting, Jiang Wei carefully observed the ghost soldiers guarding the inner city gate. These ghost soldiers were clearly much stronger than ordinary ghosts, but they were still far from the soul-condensing stage. Even the strongest ghost soldier captain had a soul strength equivalent to about twenty to thirty times that of an ordinary ghost; as for the ordinary ghost soldiers, most were five to ten times that of an ordinary ghost, with only a few reaching over ten times.

While Jiang Wei was still waiting at the inner city gate, the ghost soldier captain had already passed the message to an elder.

"What? A ghost hunted tiger horns? How is that possible!?" The elder of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion was very surprised.

Others might not know, but as an elder of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, he certainly knew that this "hunting tiger horns" was actually a conspiracy! To be honest, the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion never intended for any ghost to return with tiger horns.

But now, after just one day, a ghost had actually hunted tiger horns?

"Could this ghost have acted alone, not with other ghosts, so he wasn’t ‘bewitched’ by the Pavilion Master?" the elder thought, "But even so, tigers aren’t that easy to deal with!" Except for newly arrived tigers in the ghost world, other tigers were generally quite strong; even soul-condensing ghosts couldn’t guarantee they could return with a pair of tiger horns.

"Let’s go, take me to see!"

PS: Sorry, it’s so late to finish coding...