Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 835: Demonic Body
As soon as the little ghost, shrouded in black energy, darted into the passage, there was a sudden "pop" sound. Without warning, it exploded on its own, dissolving into a cloud of yin energy and vanishing without a trace.
Wang Tiangu, whose mind was connected to the little ghost, paled instantly, realizing he had suffered a not insignificant loss.
"What’s going on? Could this passage have some other hidden mechanism?" Wang Tiangu asked the scholar angrily.
“Do you think the entrance to Lingmiao Garden is just an ordinary passage? Not only a little ghost without a fully formed body, but even for ghost kings or other formless phantoms, entering this passage would scatter their souls and spirits. Even I need to rely on a scroll painting to project myself into this space. Anyway, the entrance has been opened. Whether you enter or not from here on out, I have no say,” the scholar said calmly. After finishing, he transformed into a green light and flew into the scroll painting floating in midair.
Hearing this, Wang Tiangu’s expression darkened immediately. From the scholar’s words, it seemed that intangible beings like demon ghosts could not enter the passage directly. Wang Tiangu exchanged a glance with the sect master of the Ghost Spirit Sect, both showing surprise.
“I have already scanned the other side of the passage with spiritual awareness. Although the spatial rift makes it blurry, it is definitely some unnamed space inside. I have no patience to hesitate here and risk complications. I’ll go ahead first,” Wei Wuya said after a moment’s thought, then ignored the other two and transformed into a green light, shooting towards the passage.
The sect master of the Ghost Spirit Sect’s expression changed slightly upon seeing this.
“You three stay here. Junior Disciple Wang, no need to be fussy — let’s go together. It’s worth taking some risks for Lingmiao Garden. Besides, I’ve already cast the soul-shocking curse on that vital essence. I doubt it will dare to cause any trouble,” the sect master ordered coldly, glancing at the scroll painting floating before him. Seeing nothing unusual, his gaze flickered a few times.
He reached out and grasped at the scroll painting in the void, pulling it into his hand. Then he tucked it into his large sleeve and, along with Wang Tiangu, transformed into two streaks of light, shooting fiercely towards the passage.
Lingmiao Garden was said to be filled with heaven and earth spirit medicine everywhere. If they arrived a step behind Wei Wuya, that would be a huge loss.
Thus, the three figures of Wei Wuya and the others vanished in the blink of an eye at the black passage entrance, passing through the spatial barrier into another space.
“This is definitely not Lingmiao Garden!” Wei Wuya, who came out first from the passage, said as he looked around the unfamiliar place with a gloomy expression.
This was a space colored in dull gray, with no other hues. Looking up, low black stone piles scattered everywhere, some towering dozens of zhang. Gray mist hovered in the visible distance, which, according to Wei Wuya’s spiritual awareness, spread over more than ten miles.
If anyone claimed this place was the legendary Lingmiao Garden, where spiritual energy was several times that of the Human Realm, and where spirit flowers and exotic herbs abounded, not only would Wei Wuya refuse to believe it, but even the sect master and Wang Tiangu, who just came through the passage, wouldn’t believe it either.
However, upon arriving, the two of them scanned the surroundings, their expressions oddly mixed with about seventy percent anger and thirty percent surprise.
Wei Wuya glanced back at them, somewhat stunned, then grew highly alert.
He had expected that upon seeing this place wasn’t the legendary Lingmiao Garden, the two would be extremely displeased, maybe even immediately call upon Master Cangkun’s spiritual projection from the scroll and press for answers.
“Junior brother, can you feel it? The demonic energy here is at least double that of the Human Realm. Fighting humans here, my demonic technique’s power increases by thirty percent out of nowhere,” the sect master finally spoke after a pause.