From clam spirit to mirage dragon fairy

Chapter 35 The Scholar Returns
"Tell me, why didn't you go to the underworld to reincarnate? Instead, you were a ghost at the bottom of the lake, helping the evil spirits?"

Guyang exuded a trace of dragon power and looked at Zhao Dabao.

The golden eyes were like the eyes of God, penetrating directly into Zhao Dabao's mind.

Zhao Dabao is just a Yin soul who has just entered the realm. Although he has been on the battlefield, he is not a veteran of many battles. If he cannot cultivate the evil spirit of the soldier soul, even the lowest Yin soldiers are very reluctant.

Facing Guyang, Long Wei instantly trembled with his arms and legs, and said everything he knew as if pouring beans out of his bamboo tube.

Years ago, Zhao Dabao left his hometown with the recruiting generals and was dragged onto the battlefield after only less than two months of training.

Although most of the Dian King's men were new recruits like Zhao Dabao, they actually won several battles with their large numbers and abundant supplies.

Soon a hundred thousand troops and hundreds of warships were arrayed on the Canglan River, intending to cross the river to earn the supreme throne.

But at this time, the imperial court also reacted.

Thirty thousand naval troops confronted the King of Dian across the river.

Zhao Dabao was an unlucky guy. When the two armies were shooting at each other, an arrow pierced his chest and lost his life.

After experiencing a period of ignorance, Zhao Dabao gradually realized that he had become a ghost.

At that time, he, together with many Pao Ze who died in battle, lurked under the Canglan River to avoid the masculine evil spirit between heaven and earth.

There are many people who have no worries and cares. After death, they automatically embark on the road to hell and enter the underworld to wait for reincarnation.

But there are also many ghosts who have the same obsession as Zhao Dabao and return to the netherworld without souls.

Zhao Dabao has always remembered his old father at home.

His mother died when he was young, but Father Zhao worked hard to raise him.

Who knew that a war would separate father and son from each other.

Zhao Dabao's heart was full of guilt for his father.

He wanted to go home, to those two adobe houses.

Even if he has to be reincarnated, he still has to go home and see his old father again.

So Zhao Dabao relied on this obsession to find the connection between his relatives, staying up day and night, and followed the water back to Yingyue Lake.

However, Zhao Dabao did not expect that as soon as he entered the area of ​​Yingyue Lake, he would be attracted by a strange magic power to the ghosts at the bottom of the lake.

Then Zhao Dabao began to patrol the ghosts in a confused way, dragging more innocent ghosts into the ghosts.

Now that Zhao Dabao was awakened by Guyang's mind-purifying spell, he recalled some clues.

The lord of ghosts calls himself the "Ghost King of Underworld", and he doesn't know where he comes from.

There are two major ghost generals, the "Laughing Ghost" and the "Crying Ghost", and more than 300 "Yaksha Ghosts" gathered under his command.

It's just that the two major ghost generals and the Yaksha ghost are close followers of the "Ghost King of Underworld" and rarely appear among the ghosts.

Generally, the people in charge of Zhao Dabao and the others were the generals of the Yin Dynasty who died in battle during this period.

One is Luo Kaiwei, the current Weiyuan Marquis, the vanguard general of the imperial army's Pingnan army.

One is Tianbao General Hu Junda, the adopted son of the King of Dian.

Marquis Weiyuan was struck by seven swords and three arrows in the melee and finally fell into the water and died. He had fought dozens of battles for thirty years and was a veteran on the battlefield.

Hu Junda was only nineteen years old, but he was a talented man. He was discovered by the King of Dian in the countryside. He used a silver spear to pick off more than a dozen defenders in three cities and performed extraordinary feats. He was adopted by the King of Dian as his adopted son and given the title of " General Tianbao".

It was a pity that the young, arrogant and underestimating enemy rushed in and fell into an ambush by the imperial court. A battalion of [-] soldiers was dominated by the imperial court's "Fire Boat Formation" and all were burned to death in the river.

These two generals both raised great soldiers, and even those who had just died were not comparable to Zhao Dabao and the others.

Now these two generals each lead three thousand ghost troops and are stationed among the ghosts. They build a ghost city for the ghost king of Huangquan to guard the low-level ghosts and capture the ownerless ghosts.

A rough calculation shows that there are at least [-] ghost soldiers and [-] ordinary ghosts in the ghost realm under Yingyue Lake.

After Zhao Dabao finished describing everything he knew, Gu Yang did not break his promise.

He personally brought the ghost of Zhao Dabao to Xiabiao Village.

The once lively little fishing village is now desolate, and the adobe houses made of mud have turned into a muddy pond after the flood.

The village has become uninhabitable, with only three or two dilapidated small fishing boats docked on the shore, showing a trace of popularity.

"Father-"

Zhao Dabao floated into the cabin of the boat.

This is their family's most valuable possession.

In the past, Zhao Dabao had been driving this small boat with Father Zhao to cast nets for fishing. In summer, he would also work part-time as a ferryman to take the scholars and gentlemen around the lake to enjoy the scenery of Yingyue Lake.

The boat is still the same boat.

But now it has lost its former vitality.

A skinny old man with white hair and beard was huddled in the cabin wrapped in a thin quilt. The small stove that used to cook fresh fish had been extinguished, leaving only a layer of white charcoal ash without any warmth.

The old man's face was flushed, he was sweating constantly, and his breath was very weak.

Guyang could see that the old man's vitality was gradually disappearing.

The night in early summer was still a bit cold, not to mention that the old man had been living in a cabin with heavy humidity and did not have adequate nutritional supplements. At this time, he was already on the verge of death.

Zhao Dabao looked at the old man and couldn't help crying out in sorrow.

Perhaps it was because the old man was on his deathbed and actually saw the ghost of Zhao Dabao.

"Dabao, Dabao. You're back. Dad finally got you back."

The old man tremblingly raised his skinny palm to touch his son.

"Dad, I'm back. Dabao is back..."

Zhao Dabao knelt in front of the old man and cried out in pain.

"Don't cry, don't cry-"

The old man wanted to comfort his son.

But the palm suddenly passed through Zhao Dabao's cheek.

"Da, Dabao...my son, you——"

The old man's eyes widened with disbelief, and then turned into endless sadness.

“Dad, Dabao is unfilial, Dabao is unfilial—”

Zhao Dabao knelt in front of the old man and kept buttoning his head.

“Dabao, I don’t blame you, I don’t blame you, it’s the way of this world, this damn world.

God--

Why can't we poor people be given some way to survive?

why?
My eldest son is not yet 20 years old.

He hasn't started a family yet, and he hasn't really understood the world yet.

puff--"

Two lines of tears fell down the old man's face. He looked up to the sky and shouted angrily, complaining about the injustice of this world. Why did he let the white-haired man give away the black-haired man?

He was so sad that he was so angry that a mouthful of hot blood spurted out. "Daddy, daddy——"

Zhao Dabao eagerly tried to hold the old man up, but his strength penetrated the old man's body time and time again.

"General, general, save my dad, save my dad."

Zhao Dabao prayed to Guyang as if he was suffering from a sudden illness and went to the doctor indiscriminately.

"Ugh--"

Guyang, who was hiding in the water outside the boat, also felt sad.

It's too late.

The old man's breathing had stopped, and a transparent ghost floated out from the old man's body.

"Big Treasure—"

The old man finally touched his child's body again.

"Father-"

Zhao Dabao hugged the old man and cried in grief.

“Dabao, don’t cry, don’t cry.

The two of us hit the road together, and we are not alone on the road to hell. "

The old man wiped the blood and tears from his son's face and said with a relieved smile.

"Father-"

Zhao Dabao was even more sad.

"Let's hit the road. I hope you won't be poor in the next life."

Guyang suppressed the sadness in his heart.

"Dad, he is the patrol general under the Queen Mother Bengxian."

Zhao Dabao explained Guyang’s identity.

"It turns out to be the general. The old man thanks the general.

If it hadn't been for the Clam Fairy Queen and the General, the old man would have been a withered skeleton on the roadside, and he wouldn't have been able to wait until my son came home.

I will never forget your great kindness to you and your empress.

There is no way I can repay you in this life.

afterlife.

In the next life, the little old man will work as a cow and a horse to repay his mother and the general. "

The old man kowtowed to Guyang.

"go Go--"

"The edict of the Supreme Being, surpassing your lonely soul, ghosts and ghosts, all four lives are blessed..."

Guyang slowly recited the Rebirth Mantra.

The cute clear light shines on the souls of Zhao Dabao and his son.

Little bits of spiritual light dissipated in the night sky like fireflies.

The souls of the father and son became fainter and fainter, and finally slowly dissipated into the aura.

Guyang recited the Rebirth Mantra several times. Although Zhao Dabao and his son had entered reincarnation and could no longer find the slightest breath, Guyang still did not stop.

This rebirth mantra was recited not only for Zhao Dabao and his son, but also for the father and son who were killed by this abominable world like them.

It was for Guyang himself.

This sad scene reminded Gu Yang of his parents in his previous life, and he didn't know how they would be sad when they received the news of his death.

"Dad, Mom, are you all right?"

Guyang quietly wiped away a trace of tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Okay, it's time to get down to business."

Gu Yang suppressed the longing in his heart and began to think about how to eradicate that hell ghost king.

"Bata——

"Bata-"

Suddenly, a sound of footsteps came from the muddy dirt road on the shore.

"Who would come here in the middle of the night? Forget it."

Guyang muttered and prepared to sink into the water to avoid pedestrians.

"Your Majesty, please proceed slowly——"

Suddenly a hearty voice came from the shore.

"?"

Guyang was confused.

Is this calling yourself?

"Xiao Yaxuan, a young student, meets with the general."

A scholar in green shirt walked to the lake and bowed in the direction of Guyang.

"Scholar? No, he's a practitioner."

Guyang narrowed his eyes.

The person who came was none other than the scholar Xiao Yaxuan who originally planned to canonize the Lake God.

Last time he brought a little maid with him, and she was dressed very poorly.

But this time Elva Hsiao was wearing exquisite silk brocade, with a three-foot green sword hanging around her waist. Her whole body seemed to be completely reborn, showing off its sharp edge and imposing aura.

Although he had tried his best to behave like an ordinary scholar, Gu Yang could still see the sharp sword intent in him.

Just standing there was like an unsheathed sword, making people shudder.

Gu Yang had never seen Elva Hsiao and naturally he didn't know about his changes.

What surprised Guyang was not the sword intent.

In fact, Xiao Yaxuan's sword intent was completely different from that of Xuan Zhenzi back then, and he was not taken seriously by Gu Yang at all.

What surprised Gu Yang was the white aura on Xiao Yaxuan's body that was as hot as the sun.

The spiritual light emitted from the depths of Elva Hsiao's soul and gathered in his heart, turning into a white air current.

Its light was vast, square and overbearing, and the faint demonic aura on Guyang's body immediately dissipated when the light illuminated it.

"Hao Ran Upright"

Apart from Haoran Zhengqi, Gu Yang couldn't think of any spiritual light that looked like this.

(End of this chapter)