Chapter 85 of 100

Chapter 85

17 min read4,238 words

In the ghost realm, it is extremely rare to encounter old friends from one’s past; unless, like Chen Ge and Du Zihuan, they were born into the ghost realm very close to each other.

"Jiang Wei, Li Hao, and the dog... is it Er Dan?"

Chen Ge and Du Zihuan were initially stunned, then suddenly reacted: "Those five are ghosts from the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, run quickly!"

As they spoke, Chen Ge and Du Zihuan started to run, but they hadn’t gone far when they noticed that Jiang Wei, Li Hao, and Er Dan were still standing there, showing no intention of running.

"Run quickly!" Chen Ge urged anxiously, "The City of Original Sin is the territory of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion; you must not provoke the ghosts of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion here!" However, Chen Ge saw that Jiang Wei and Li Hao not only showed no intention of running but were actually walking towards the five ghosts.

"Jiang Wei, Li Hao..." Chen Ge was about to pull the two of them, but suddenly remembered something and retracted his hand, no longer shouting to run.

Chen Ge and Du Zihuan silently followed, wanting to see what Jiang Wei and the others would do. The four people and the dog stood in front of the five fallen little ghosts.

"Ouch!"

"It hurts!"

"Damn, it really hurts!"

The five little ghosts on the ground were not very strong and could not withstand the angry slap from Er Dan. Although Er Dan had tried to hold back, he still caused the five little ghosts to suffer soul-shaking pain, making them unable to get up for a long time.

However, despite the pain, the five little ghosts still shouted: "How dare you hit us! Do you know who we are? Get down and call us 'master' immediately, or when the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion’s army arrives, we will make you wish you were dead!"

"Are you from the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion?" Jiang Wei asked with a dark face.

"Exactly!" The five little ghosts replied without hesitation, their faces filled with pride, "Since you know we are from the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, why don’t you kneel and await our judgment? And... you brought a dog into the city and let it attack us! I’m telling you, this is considered colluding with another race, and you should be punished with the 'Ten Thousand Worms Soul Devouring' torture!" The five little ghosts quickly identified Jiang Wei as the leader among the group.

Jiang Wei ignored the five little ghosts’ shouting and directly took out the identity token of a formal disciple of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion, saying, "You five are from the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion? Then why have I never seen you in the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion!?"

"Why have you never seen us?" The five little ghosts were about to retort, "Who do you think you are?" but suddenly saw the identity token in Jiang Wei’s hand.

"This... this... this..." The five little ghosts immediately stuttered; clearly, they recognized the identity token of a formal disciple of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion.

"What do you mean by 'this'?" Jiang Wei’s eyes flashed with a cold light.

"Hisss!" Sensing Jiang Wei’s killing intent, the five little ghosts all drew in a sharp breath. Then, immediately, they forgot about their pain and dignity, and prostrated themselves on the ground, kowtowing, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! We failed to recognize your greatness, please forgive us!"

"Forgive you?" Jiang Wei said coldly, "This is not impossible!"

The five little ghosts were overjoyed and kowtowed repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you!"

Jiang Wei let them kowtow for a while before saying, "But... you must explain the current situation first!"

The current situation...

The five little ghosts immediately became nervous.

At this moment, Chen Ge and Du Zihuan finally noticed something: "Jiang Wei, you are..." Moreover, Chen Ge and Du Zihuan also discovered that Jiang Wei, Li Hao, and Er Dan had all reached the peak of the Spirit Meeting stage!

Li Hao and Er Dan reaching the peak of the Spirit Meeting stage was understandable, but how long had Jiang Wei been in the ghost realm, and he had already reached the peak of the Spirit Meeting stage?

"Senior Brother Chen, Junior Brother Du, I will explain later!" Jiang Wei said, then cast a fierce gaze at the five little ghosts, "Speak quickly, while you still have the chance!"

"We... we..." The five little ghosts immediately stuttered.

Was there even a need to explain? It was obvious that they were pursuing and trying to kill Chen Ge and Du Zihuan! Moreover, if they revealed the truth, the consequences would be even more severe than not saying anything at all!

"How can you stutter!?" Jiang Wei sneered, "Aren’t you from the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion? Weren’t you going to sentence me to the 'Ten Thousand Worms Soul Devouring' torture?"

"We..." The five little ghosts were not actually disciples of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion; they merely had a slight connection to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion and were using its name as a cover. In reality, these five little ghosts couldn’t even enter the inner city, let alone the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion.

The five little ghosts really wanted to run, but they had already noticed that Jiang Wei and Li Hao were at the peak of the Spirit Meeting stage, and even the dog beside them was at the peak of the Spirit Meeting stage!

The huge gap in strength made them realize that running would only bring them humiliation.

"Hmm?" Jiang Wei’s gaze became even colder.

Finally, one of the little ghosts spoke up, "A friend of mine has a grudge against them, so he asked us to teach them a lesson, not to kill them..." This little ghost was not stupid and knew to downplay the situation; what was clearly a "pursuit and kill" was described as a "lesson."

"Oh, is that so?" Jiang Wei, of course, did not easily believe the little ghost’s words, and with his keen insight, it was not difficult to notice that the little ghost’s eyes were somewhat dazed when speaking.

"You’re lying!" Chen Ge immediately countered, "You clearly said you were going to take us to the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion!"

"Hmm?" Hearing Chen Ge’s words, Jiang Wei immediately sensed something unusual.

"Still not telling the truth!?" Jiang Wei roared.

"I... I..." The little ghost who had spoken stammered, "I’m telling the truth!"

"Hmph!" Jiang Wei coldly snorted and, in a split second, broke the little ghost’s ghost horn.

"You... you..." The little ghost was terrified; the forced removal of the ghost horn caused him excruciating pain.

Jiang Wei seemed completely unaffected by this cruel act: "Can you tell the truth now? It doesn’t matter if you don’t; the 'Ten Thousand Worms Soul Devouring' torture awaits you!" Jiang Wei tossed the two ghost horns, saying, "Speak quickly, or I will ask the next one! I don’t believe all five of you are so stubborn!"

"I’ll speak, I’ll speak!" The little ghost, terrified, dared not continue to play mind games with Jiang Wei, "It was Lu Yunkuang who instructed me to do this! And if it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t dare to claim we are ghosts of the Heavenly Wasteland Pavilion."

---