Free Web NovelChapter 542: Chapter 298: Millennia of Withering and Flourishing, Centuries of Reincarnation, One Leaf Covers Heaven (Part 2)
Tonight, with all the ghost servants bowing down, no one can dull the sharpness of the West State Boss!
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In the dream, Qing Lu Ancient Immortal looked towards the present world, an indescribable expression on his face.
He saw in the night sky, the West State Boss had already lifted up the Thousand Leaves, while the myriad ghost servants knelt forward, extending their claws toward the Thousand Leaves... Are they going to unleash the soul-capturing desires accumulated by countless ghost servants over millennia?
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Whoosh...
The cold night wind blew in.
Bai Mo raised the Thousand Leaves high.
From all directions, the myriad ghost servants beckoned, using their power to capture life souls, pulling at the soul fire in each leaf of the small tree!
Each leaf’s soul fire could burn for a thousand years.
But under the beckoning of the ghost servants, this soul fire accelerated its burning, hastening towards extinction.
Each small leaf swayed madly under the capture.
Though the ghost servants were capturing, they also felt troubled!
The life soul within the small tree leaves was too sturdy, too difficult to capture; capturing it was like chewing bark, filling but not poisoning, yet old and hard, damaging their teeth, slicing their mouths, leaving them with a mouthful of blood!
While capturing, they couldn’t help but look down towards the brightly lit city, where there were millions upon millions of appetizing life souls!
It was then they heard the voice of Prince Yellow Springs, coming with a strange rhythm, riding the wind across the sky.
"Heaven rewards diligence, and so does the Ghost Way.
"Do not slack, use all your strength, capture for me!"
They could only tremble, kneel, raise their ghost claws, and grit their teeth, capturing the life souls of the small tree leaves.
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Mo Lanyou was in the live broadcast room, laughing joyfully.
"Haha, hahahaha!
"Did everyone see that?
"What’s wrong with the ghost servants? The ghost servants are working in the sky!
"Justice will prevail!
"Speaking of, let’s talk about our detector and our organization’s Immortal-related personnel inspection activity.
"Actually, we don’t want to interfere with the freedom of Immortal-related personnel, but everyone must understand..."
He sat back in the studio, laughing while live broadcasting.
In truth, doubts had already formed in his heart... His Ancient Immortal Master seemed to be acting strange?
The Ancient Immortal from the Book Pavilion Holy Land didn’t understand the Immortal Grass Destiny Writing Technique, which was fine.
Before, when asked about the Ghost Gate Secrets, he said he didn’t know.
But when the Yellow Springs Robe appeared, he became anxious, and seemed to understand its importance dearly?
Mo Lanyou kept laughing, continuing the broadcast.
"...So, this inspection, this record, is different from what everyone thinks, but also more important than they imagined."
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In the night sky, all the ghost servants had grown thin.
Capturing the soul fire of the Thousand Leaves had dissipated their desires and their ghostly aura, gradually revealing skeletal bodies wrapped in Bitter Leaf.
"The soul-capturing desire accumulated over millennia... truly effective."
In Bai Mo’s palm, the Thousand Leaves had fallen dozens of times, and new leaves had grown dozens of times.
The newborn leaves were fewer, larger, each as long as a thumb, green atop the branches, swaying in capture.
Bai Mo looked at the ghost servants in the sky.
"Those in the front, go to the back.
"Those in the back, come to the front.
"The good stuff shouldn’t be eaten by just those in front!
"Be fair!"
The desires of the ghost servants at the front had dissipated even more, and they were nearly clear-minded by now.
They heard the words of Prince Yellow Springs, their eyes shining, quickly flying to the back, pushing the ghost servants from the back to the front, closer to the Thousand Leaves, more convenient for capturing!
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In the sky, a dozen flying swords swayed.
Guan Yuexi sat on the broadsword, instinctively reaching out, touching her black cloak, looking up at the sky, at the myriad ghost servants, and at the center, the West State Boss.
In her mind echoed the joyful voice of the Ancient Immortal.
"Hahaha, if I guessed right, the seed you snatched is a Bitter Leaf seed!
"That seed plays a big role!
"It was worth risking your life!
"Regardless of what happens to the Celestial Palace, we at Linjian Holy Land can say we are guilt-free."
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Above the night sky, Bai Mo held the Thousand Leaves, only a dozen leaves remained, fewer in number but larger in size, each the size of a palm, growing on this little tree.
"Is it nearly done?
"How far until Heaven-Covering Leaf?"
Although it’s just a semi-finished product, Bai Mo could already feel the plant’s mysterious and terrifying aura!
He looked at the sky, at the ghost servants with dissipated desires and ghostly aura, at their drained-like appearance, and opened his mouth again.
"Go behind the door, call out the lost ghost servants, the sleeping ghost servants, the crazed ghost servants!"
One by one, the squeezed-out Ghost Messengers suddenly sprang up!
Go back?
Go back behind the gate!
"Oww..."
"Ah..."
They growled lowly, scrambling to fly back!
This time, they’ve decided to hide away and never come out again!
The Prince Yellow Springs continued.
"The delicacies you tasted, the happiness you enjoyed, must be experienced by them too!"
The Ghost Messengers froze again, each glancing at Bai Mo, thoughtfully, and sped back inside the Ghost Gate.
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A few hundred miles away.
Silver City.
The girl stood on the Celestial Platform, facing the cold wind, with Array Runes emerging one by one in her eyes, forming a telescope to help her see the distant West State.
This is the Immortal Technique of the Array Path, named [Dragon-Seeking Eye], capable of perceiving subtleties, breaking through obstructions, and viewing afar.
"Those Fallen Immortals just dropped a Bitter Leaf seed.
"And tonight’s situation is entirely lost?"
In her mind, the Ancient Immortal sighed.
"Not just one seed.
"Too many things happened tonight, leaving you confused, and you didn’t see clearly.
"A Bitter Leaf that grows wide robes and long sleeves—what a mystical Immortal Technique!
"A thin Pill Fire membrane shielding the Ghost Messengers’ perception—what a mystical Immortal Technique!
"A Fire Cloud entering the Yellow Springs and flying out again—what a mystical Immortal Technique!
"Tonight, the mystical Immortal Techniques are truly numerous.
"Any single one of them is actually enough to be astonishing.
"But when they all appear together, it rather makes you ignore them.
"And these are just the ones we can see.
"What mysticalness is there in the Immortal Techniques we cannot see?
"The way of Immortal Techniques is full of myriad wonders, residing within the heart, used freely, like arms and fingers.
"This speaks of him, doesn’t it!"
The girl nodded.
"Indeed.
"Actually, Master, you say my previous warning, did it help him as well?"
The dreaming Ancient Immortal chuckled.
"Who knows, maybe it did?"
This girl is surprisingly the Holy Land Inheritor of Yin Mountain Holy Land!
Previously reporting at the Immortal Committee office, the funeral hall worker killed by the Ancient Immortal was not the real heir, just a scapegoat she arranged to stir up some commotion, to attract the Immortal Committee’s attention, to let them detect the enemy planting Bitter Leaves.
Her Dragon-Seeking Eye saw the sky of West State, where Thousand Leaves had evolved to the final step.
"My heavens...
"Is the historically unseen Heaven-Covering Leaf coming?"
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The last Ghost Messenger, dragging a weary body, returned to the Ghost Gate.
The door seam suddenly closed.
The giant Ghost Gate covering the sky, its outline blurred, color dimmed, gradually disappeared, gradually vanished.
The citizens of West State, the live-streaming viewers, had already started cheering.
"Hahaha, we’ve won!"
"Won again!"
"West State is the safest place!"
"Buying this house was worth it!"
In the night sky, only Bai Mo and four Immortal Beasts remained, wearing wide robes and sleeves, embracing a pot of Heaven-Covering Leaf that had just completed its transformation.
The leaf sprang up, elongated in shape, over two meters long, slanting out of the flowerpot, lightly swaying in the night wind.
The surface’s patterns and veins were covered by Bai Mo with Pill Fire, not shown to others.
Bai Mo finally pressed his lips into a smile, looked at the night below, gazed at the night scene of West State, saw the tall buildings, glanced at each member of the Immortal Technique Committee, looked into their eyes where Ancient Immortals resided.
"A thousand years of decay and glory, a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, a leaf covering the heavens.
"Without your setup, I wouldn’t have seen the secrets of Yellow Springs, nor obtained this Heaven-Covering Leaf.
"Grudges are noted for now.
"Gratitude is thanked here."
Whew...
The night wind blew, carrying the flowing clouds.
The flowing clouds swiftly departed, returning to the night sky.
And Bai Mo, recently floating in the air, along with the four Immortal Beasts, had vanished.
Leaving countless gazes still focused on the sky, carrying complicated emotions that couldn’t be calmed.
