Ghost Compendium

"Burp~ It's a bit stuck in the teeth, but the quantity was okay."

The Fierce Ghost Minions casually pulled out a wild grass from the shore to pick their teeth, as the waters near the pool had already turned completely crimson.

There was no sign of Xu Feiqiong and Dong Shuangcheng's beautiful figures anymore, only the ground was scattered with animal bones, stripped of any meat scraps.

The two maids who were exorcised just now had transformed: one into a monkey, the other into a goat.

This was also the first time Wu Liang had encountered Fierce Ghosts taking animal forms besides the Thunder Ghost.

One could only say... everyone had eaten their fill.

"How would you rate their abilities? Aren't they rather strange too?" Wu Liang picked up a fruit basket, looked at his Fierce Ghost Minions, and asked.

Even the weakest Rental Ghost spoke tremulously: "Indeed, their abilities seem to come more from the pearls on their chests; they actually have no true talents themselves."

Xu Feiqiong and Dong Shuangcheng each also had a pearl, and what was released from them this time was different from the previous Celestial Maiden Pearls.

One could drain blood and peel bones, tearing a person apart alive; another could twist sanity, causing mental collapse.

If encountered by an Awakened or other Symbionts, quite a few might suffer terribly at their hands.

Unfortunately, the ones who mobbed them just now were eight Fierce Ghosts.

There was neither blood nor muscles for them to extract, nor any normal sanity for them to twist.

The two maids of the Queen Mother of the West seemed to swallow their resentment in silence, unable to articulate their suffering.

Especially after the Kitchen Knife Ghost seized an opportunity to chop off the pearls on their chests, the two wanted to flee without a trace of courage to resist.

"OK, now I should understand why the Queen Mother of the West dispatched these maids." Wu Liang felt the warmth of the entrails, then casually tossed them aside and remarked.

He then instructed the Nightmare and Mist to fly up to the sky to search for the corpses of victims nearby.

He wanted to see if there were other ways into the Celestial Pool of Tianshan that might have led these unlucky ones astray.

Afterward, he got into his off-road vehicle, floored the accelerator, and without any of his previous caution, sped forward with a brilliant smile on his lips.

"Queen Mother of the West, oh Queen Mother of the West, you're heavily wounded now, aren't you! Hahaha!" Wu Liang laughed wildly as he raced down the road.

He had figured it out.

The Fierce Ghosts at the entrance, apart from the deadly trap at the end, if you thought carefully about her words at the time and what the Celestial Maiden Pearl said in the hallucination she gave him—

"The lady says this Jasper Pool is a bathing place for celestial maidens, not suitable for gentlemen; please restrain yourself."

"Iron Gate Pass, oh Iron Gate Pass, the Celestial Pool refuses visitors like this, please, gentlefolk, return."

Both essentially convey one meaning.

They were advising him to retreat.

It's unclear how the Queen Mother of the West knew of his formidable strength, but as soon as he entered here, she was frantically advising him to retreat.

But after dealing with the Terracotta Ghost and the Celestial Maiden Pearl, the Queen Mother of the West saw that he had absolutely no intention of leaving, so she sent these two Fierce Ghosts, specifically targeting the living with pearls, to intercept and kill him.

This step-by-step approach revealed a very crucial point—

The Queen Mother of the West didn't want him to reach her location!

But why would a Fierce Ghost refuse the arrival of a living human? Slaughtering humans had become almost second nature to them!

The only reason to refuse the living, could be that the Queen Mother of the West believed he posed a deadly threat to her existence!

"I don't know if you're injured from fighting against other powerful Fierce Ghosts within the Celestial Pool of Tianshan, but since you don't want me here, I'm coming anyway!"

"Celestial Mountain Guzhong, huh?"

"Now I'm going to take over as the Gu King!"

Initially, he intended to head straight to the West Queen Mother Temple with his Fierce Ghost Minions.

But the current situation inspired him with a new idea!

Wu Liang planned to exorcise and devour all the Fierce Ghosts previously located at the West Queen Mother Temple, striving to elevate more of the Fierce Ghost Minions to surpass Red Robe Level, infinitely approaching City-Destruction Level!

Especially since the Celestial Maiden Pearls given by the Queen Mother of the West to those maids each carried the aura intensity of a Red Robe Level Fierce Ghost!

This was simply a great tonic!

I'm going to drain every resource from the opponent!

With this belief, Wu Liang arrived at the Li Quan Cave of the West Small Celestial Pool, where he hid among the Fierce Ghosts guarding the spring for the Queen Mother of the West, ultimately dyeing the spring outlet completely red.

At the East Small Celestial Pool, the place where celestial maidens wash their faces, he swept through like a locust plague.

Whether it was Fierce Ghosts posing as maids or supernatural objects occasionally used as traps, they were all dug out thoroughly!

"The pearls hanging mid-air above the springs referred to this waterfall spilling from the East Small Celestial Pool, and next to it was a source waterfall known as the 'Crocodile Spitting Pearls'."

"So hurry and catch the Fierce Ghost that jumped into the pool under the waterfall to eat them! Treat it as a buffet hot pot!"

Great Celestial Pool, a bathing place for the Queen Mother of the West.

There stood the Sea-Suppressing Ancient Willow, also known as the Stabilizing Needle.

This was an ancient elm tree growing on the northern shore of the Great Celestial Pool and was the only elm tree within several kilometers of this core scenic area around the pool.

Legend has it that a sea monster in the Celestial Pool was causing havoc when the Queen Mother of the West used the treasure hairpin from her head to transform the monster into an elm tree, completely subduing it here.

It was not surprising that this legend was also resurrected by the Fierce Ghost incarnating the Queen Mother of the West.

As Wu Liang passed by, a pristine white Flood Dragon sprang out from under the elm tree, opening its bloody mouth wide, ready to swallow him whole.

But when it realized the texture didn't feel right, it noticed that the living human it was swallowing had somehow already transformed into a flitting little bird sparking with electric light.

And around it surged clouds as dark as ink.

"Damn, a Flood Dragon Fierce Ghost here too? I've dealt with a fully transformed City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost in Chengyang City, what do you count for?"

Ultimately, in a flash of thunder and lightning, the long body of the Flood Dragon Fierce Ghost was directly charred, turning into a water snake over six meters long lying on the shore.

Thus, the Fierce Ghost Minions indulged in another feast.

When Wu Liang looked at the supplies and food in his off-road vehicle, he suddenly had a strange feeling—he didn't seem to need these things at all?

The Fierce Ghosts encountered so far, except for the first Terracotta Ghost, were basically Fierce Ghosts with some plant or animal form.

Not to mention the minions, if it weren't for the feeling of disgust, Wu Liang himself could even go up and take a bite out of their exorcised carcasses!

Right until dusk approached.

When he was so tired from killing that he felt a bit mentally fatigued, Wu Liang finally arrived at the bottom of a long stone staircase.

Looking up, he could see a dim and unlit West Queen Mother Temple not far away.

His slightly weary gaze regained vitality, as he casually unscrewed a bottle of mineral water to wash the blood off his face and hands.

Even though he himself wasn't in the best state, the Fierce Ghost Minions, having eaten all the way here, were in exceptionally good condition!

"Strike when you're weak to kill you!"

"I'm going to exorcise you today, and then rest for a night in this temple to feel what it's like to stay where the gods dwell!"

"Gods? Survive not being eaten before calling yourself a god! In my eyes, you're just prey now..."