Chapter 300

Chapter 300: I Feel Like My IQ Will Fall

"What if it ends up like last time?" The man rebutted . "That person's yellow paper was really incredible, even my leg went missing . "

"Don't worry, don't worry . Look, she's not even moving . She will definitely be afraid . We will soon become a ghost officer . "

"But…"

"If you're not going, I will . "

That strand of yin energy floated into the building . Zhu Yao opened her eyes and looked at the white clothed female ghost who suddenly appeared in her cottage . Her hair was disheveled and her face was covered in blood, her long tongue dragged across the ground . She had a rather terrifying look in the first place, but her tongue just had to get stuck at the seams of the door .

"Aiyo!" The female ghost only realized she was stuck after floating halfway into the room . With her two hands grabbing onto the long tongue, she stomped on the door and acted as if she was competing in a tug-of-war . After pulling for a short while, she finally managed to save her tongue . Yet, because she did not have a stable footing, she ended up falling flat on her buttocks .

Aiyaaaa…

She rubbed her buttocks as she crawled up, her eyes coincidentally met Zhu Yao's stare . She was instantly stunned silly .

"You came up to the mortal realm to scare people?" Zhu Yao asked .

The female ghost obediently nodded . "Mnhm!"

"How many more to become a ghost officer?"

The female ghost blankly stretched out three miserably pale fingers . "Th… Three . "

"Ou…" Zhu Yao nodded, and stopped speaking .

The female ghost blanked for a while . As though she had just recalled her goal, she immediately swayed her tongue and spread out her hair . With two resounding crackles, two ghost fires lighted up on the left and right, looking as though she was anxiously giving herself makeup to look even more terrifying . Then, he plucked out her two legs, and they slowly began to float . With an ominous voice, she said . "Look, I don't have legs… I don't have legs…"

"…" The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched . Was having no legs really terrifying? She immediately stood up and patted on her own chest . "Look, I don't have breasts, I don't have breasts…"

Female ghost: "…"

The room was silent for two seconds…

"Guaahh…" The female ghost seemed to have suddenly collapsed . She laid on the table and cried out loud . "I'm actually less scarier than a human being, being a ghost is too hard!"

Zhu Yao: "…"

Was she sent here from the Netherworld to sell her cuteness?

"Enough, stop crying . " Why did she feel as though she had just bullied a teenage female ghost . "You're really scary, really scary, is that good enough for you?"

"But… But…" She raised her head from the table . Her face was filled with blood in the first place, but now the blood was scattered all over . "In the end, you still weren't scared . I can no longer become a ghost officer, wuuuuu…"

You're blaming me?

Zhu Yao's face darkened, as she looked at the ghost who didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon . She heaved a heavy sigh . Alright, looking at how I was once a ghost, I shall lend her a helping hand this time .

She cleared her throat, took a deep breath, and then, with the most delicate voice in her life, she screamed . "Ahh~~ You're so scary! You scared me to death!"

The female ghost was startled . As expected, she stopped her cries . Dazzling light emitted out of her eyes as she looked at Zhu Yao . Uh… If only they weren't actually emitting out green light . "This is wonderful . Now I'm only left with two more . "

"Grandma!" The door opened with a bang, as little tyrant and Little Eighth appeared at the doorsteps . "What's going on, I heard… a female ghost!"

Little tyrant's expression gravely changed . Forming a hand seal, he was just about to launch an attack . Even Little Eighth was beginning to converge a fireball .

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao immediately stopped the two of them . Though the female ghost looked terrifying, she was actually weak beyond compare . If their attacks were to land, her soul would most definitely scatter . "This is a misunderstanding . " Thus, she lightly explained to them the ridiculous setting of a ghost needing to scare ten people in order to become a ghost officer .

The two's expressions: 囧

"Yet another one!" The female ghost who lacked nerves however had an excited look . She was completely unaware that she had almost lost her life just a second ago . After touching up her own ghastly looks, she gently floated towards Bai Zhiyuan . "Wooo… I'm a ghost… A female ghost . "

Little Bai: "…" Are all the ghosts in the Netherworld like this?

Little Eighth: "…" Are you certain that she didn't die from stupidity?

Zhu Yao: "…" Just forget what I just said . I don't know this idiot .

The female ghost demonstrated her scaring tactics for a long while . She realized that Little Bai was not even taking her seriously, let alone being scared . With her teary green eyes, she glanced at Zhu Yao, as though she was quietly complaining: See, even he isn't afraid of me . As expected, I'm not terrifying at all . Wuuu…

You're blaming me!?

"I still need two more…" She pitifully stretched out two fingers in front of Zhu Yao .

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched . She turned to look at Little Bai . "Brother, play along for a bit . "

"…" Little Bai's face stiffened, twitching for a few moments . After a short while, with a monotonous tone, he finally said . "Ah! You're so scary!"

The female ghost instantly celebrated, spinning circles in the air . She then stopped and straightened her index finger . "One more… Just one more left . "

Zhu Yao quietly looked towards Little Eighth . Does a Phoenix count?

"Don't even think about it!" Little Eighth turned his head away . "I, a mighty God race, isn't even afraid of a Devil, how can I possibly… Aiyo, seventh elder sister, you actually plucked my feathers!"

"See, it got scared!" Zhu Yao blew off the bird feathers on her hand, and looked at the female ghost .

"Ten . Ten! I got them all, I can become a ghost officer now . " The female ghost was immensely happy as she raised her chest high with pride . "I just knew that I look really terrifying . "

The three people at the side: "…"

"I'm returning to the Netherworld now, goodbye!" The female ghost waved her hands at Zhu Yao . "In the future, be careful . Don't be frightened by other ghosts!"

Take care of yourself first!

Zhu Yao sighed . She watched as the female ghost float out of the building . Recalling the matters in the Netherworld at the Spiritual Realm, she could not help but clench her fists . She wondered what happened to Wang Xuzhi? Since he had already become a Demigod, he should be able to ascend before long .

And there's… Yue Ying .

"Ghost Chen, where are you…" Suddenly, the anxious calls of a female ghost sounded outside .

Zhu Yao felt it was a little strange . When she headed out to take a look, she saw the female ghost anxiously circling around the straw cottage . "Have you guys seen Ghost Chen? The one that came along with me . "

Hearing this, Zhu Yao then recalled that she did indeed hear the voices of a male and female earlier . "He most likely already returned to the Netherworld?"

"Impossible!" The female ghost shook her head . "Ghost Chen was scattered by a yellow paper before, and from then lost his leg . He can't return to the Netherworld on his own, so I wanted to bring him along . "

Yellow paper? It must be a talisman! Could these two have met other practitioners before this? Also, a ghost could have his or her soul scattered in an instant . He sure was extremely fortunate to escape with his life intact .

The female ghost looked around worriedly, and continued to ask . "Are you guys certain that you haven't met him before? He's a ghost who was hanged to death, surnamed Chen . He's called Chen Zhen . "

"What!? Chen Zhen!?" The hell, wasn't he her neighbour in the Netherworld? "Speak clearly . What yellow paper? What was scattered?"

The female ghost was startled . As though she was frightened by Zhu Yao's anxious look, she meekly said . "It's… back when everyone came to the mortal realm . We were blown here by a huge, huge wind . Many ghosts were sucked into that yellow paper . I was standing the furthest, so I wasn't sucked in . Chen Zhen was standing a little closer, so bits of him were torn off and sucked in . "

"Wind…" Zhu Yao frowned . "You're saying, you guys weren't here in the beginning, but was blown here by wind?"

"Mn, mn, mn!" She nodded hastily . "This place is too far from the gate to the Netherworld, we wouldn't even think about coming here! But that wind was too huge . When we regained our senses, all of the ghosts were taken in by the wind . "

"Grandma…" Little Bai's expression paled .

Zhu Yao nodded . "Soul Beckoning Banner . "

Only the Soul Beckoning Banner could gather ghosts from far away . She felt it was strange since earlier . Though ghosts were supposed to scare people, they wouldn't dare to offend practitioners . Most of them would just scare mortals . Yet this female ghost openly ran into her cottage to frighten her . In the beginning, she thought that this female ghost was stupid in a unique way . So it was actually the work of a practitioner .

"Do you still remember where that yellow paper blew you guys off to?"

"I came floating from that direction!" The female ghost pointed in the western direction .

"That place is…"

"Peaceful Spiritual Forest . " Little Bai replied .

Zhu Yao frowned . No matter what, she couldn't leave Chen Zhen alone .

"Female ghost, hurry and return to the Netherworld . Remember, do not show yourself and scare people anymore! Ghost Chen will return soon as well . " Zhu Yao instructed the female ghost, and then bringing little tyrant along, she flew towards Peaceful Spiritual Forest on her flying sword .

Initially, she had wanted to leave little tyrant here . However, she thought that it would be good to have him face a few situations to strengthen his heart .

"Little Eighth, look after little tyrant . " Zhu Yao turned and cast a glance at Little Eighth on her shoulder .

"I understand . " Little Eighth unwilling leapt onto little tyrant's shoulder, crawled onto his head, and laid still there .

The one using the Soul Beckoning Banner was most likely a heretic practitioner . Using souls to cultivate was a very ominous and dark matter . An ordinary famed and upright sect would condone such acts . Furthermore, though the Ghost King refined by the Soul Beckoning Banner was incredible, the usual souls of ghosts would carry yin energy to some extent . After a long while, these yin energy would seep into the practitioner's body and corrode it . This was why very few people would practice such heretic arts .

The moment they entered Peaceful Spiritual Forest, Zhu Yao released her divine sense in order to search for clues of the Soul Beckoning Banner . However, even after her divine sense covered a large half of the forest, she did not sense even the slightest of yin energy, let alone the Soul Beckoning Banner itself .

"East . " A familiar voice resounded in the depths of her heart .

"Master?"

"In the east, there's a practitioner's aura . "

Zhu Yao's heart clenched as she immediately flew in that direction . Then, following her master's instructions, she stopped in front of a lake . The surroundings were quiet and the scenery was beautiful beyond compare . Surrounding the lake were fresh flowers of various colours, as though they carefully cultivated . Even the nearby trees and plants were especially lush . The sky was shrouded with white-cotton clouds, as beautiful as the realm of fairies stated in fairy tales .

With a gentle breeze, it was as if flower petals were sprinkling down .

"This place…" Zhu Yao and her little companions were stunned .

"Master?" Are you certain this is the place? This doesn't look like a place a villainous boss would be in! It's more like a place where Disney princesses would love to be in!

"Right, nine meters . " Yu Yan said with a solemn voice .

Zhu Yao turned and walked to a flower patch on the right . After walking for a short while, she discovered a formation core concealed within the bundle of pink flowers . It was an exceptionally bright flower that looked like a rose . If not because she sensed ripples of spiritual energy from it, along with the faintly circulating runes on its stem, she wouldn't have realized that it was a formation core .

With a formation core present, it proved that there was a formation nearby . Zhu Yao bent down and instantly pulled out the flower .

Almost at the same time the flower left the ground, the huge lake which reflecting silvery light in front of her, instantly disappeared, revealing an even larger sea of flowers . The flowers extended beyond her line of sight, and at the end of the sea of flowers was a dazzling gold palace . It had even almost blinded her eyes .

Zhu Yao silently rubbed her eyes . This scene was simply more like a fairy tale than an actual fairy tale itself . If a white horse were to appear now, she would dare to ascertain that a prince would be riding on it . Just how childish was the person who built this sea of flowers?

"Master?" What do we do now? Do we enter? I feel like my IQ will fall!

"There's no other formations in the surroundings . "

In other words, she could enter and have a look!