Chapter 30: The Ninefilia Specter (1/2)

ninefilia specter fostering!

legends spoke of special ghosts created when nine maidens, born on a yin hour of a yin day in a yin month during a yin year, were buried alive together in a mother-coffin and eight child-coffins. they weren’t ghosts, in the usual sense, but extraordinarily evil specters that killed without discrimination.

lu yun had only read about this technique in the annals of his sect, but had never seen this utterly repulsive ghost breeding method in practice.

“so ghosts really do exist?!”he reflexively cried out in astonishment when the white figure behind li youcai looked at him.

holding a pile of skulls and giggling mindlessly, the fatty abruptly jerked to seriousness. “who goes there? what is it!” on high alert, he stood up and scanned all around him.

two hands stretched out from the white shadow and covered his ears.

“oh, it’s just a large rat. strange, why’s there a rat in here?” grumbled li youcai. his bulky frame plopped back down, grabbed another skull in a tight hug, and resumed his silly laughter.

“well, we’re in a world full of gods and immortals, so what’s so strange about a ghost?” lu yun murmured placatingly as he observed the white shadow.

a female voice drifting from place to place reached his ears. “who are you?” a face, very pretty but bloodlessly pale, poked out from behind his head.

“you dare come so close to me, hmm?” lu yun smiled coldly. the black fire inside his dantian gently jumped.

“ahhh—” a miserable scream echoed in the air. he turned around to see a girl of around seventeen years old crouching on the ground, trembling. her figure was dainty, and though her features were charming, her face was fully devoid of blood. her body was also semi-transparent.

a ghost!

it was lu yun’s first time seeing one, but there was no doubt as to this girl’s nature.

“i have no power over existences like zombies that exist outside of the three realms and five elements… but how dare a mere ghost like you approach me?” black flames ignited within his eyes. these tongues of fire were the bane of every ghost in the world.

“mercy, mercy!” the young girl knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

strangely enough, lu yun could still see the white shadow behind li youcai. her face was also ashen with fright.

ninefilia specter… nine girls of extreme yin refined into a single entity! it’s a single body with nine souls! lu yun took a deep breath. “who created you?”

the girl looked up blankly and shook her head.

“you don’t know anything?” lu yun frowned slightly.

“i’ve been here ever since i became aware of the world,” the girl answered pitifully.

“have you met the others?” lu yun continued to probe.

the girl nodded.

“where are they?” but he laughed wryly as soon as he asked. “no need to answer, i think i know where they’ve gone.”

it was obvious from the mess of skulls and bones scattered on the ground that she’d killed them all. if not for his arrival, the fat li youcai would likely have soon perished as well, his yang energy absorbed by the girl.

the girl pouted and sulked, “i’m so cold. i can only warm myself by absorbing the yang energy from the living.”

“you might as well come with me,” lu yun offered, his eyes shining bright.

“mercy please, my lord!” the ghost prostrated herself again. “i’ll die the moment i set foot outside this place.”

“do you still feel cold now that you’re around me?” lu yun smiled.

the girl blinked in surprise, then shook her head. ever since his arrival, the soul-penetrating chill that had always seemed to surround her had vanished without a trace.

lu yun waved his hand.

rumble! whoosh!

a haunting wind arose as the phantasmal gates of the abyss opened.