The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 1557 - 1553: Revenge

Shen Luo slightly pondered before deploying the Indigo Ocean Divine Technique; in an instant, blue ice crystals engulfed and once again froze Ghost Teng Master’s entire body, halting the strange mutations of the head.

"It seems that this Ghost Teng Master is not human but a demon, whose true form is a tree monster. Young Master Shen, you destroyed his divine soul but left his body unharmed—what do you intend to do with his corpse?" Fire Spirit Child said.

"Now there are still six True Immortals on this island. If Ghost Teng Master were to be killed, they would definitely notice that there are others on the island, which would greatly restrict my movements. Therefore, Ghost Teng Master cannot disappear yet," Shen Luo said with a smile, reaching his hand into the blue ice crystal and placing it on Ghost Teng Master’s head, his palm emitting a faint, gloomy black light.

A dark black mist enveloped Ghost Teng Master’s body, seemingly capable of sucking in a person’s divine soul.

Shen Luo started chanting complex and obscure spells; the black mist swirling around Ghost Teng Master’s body grew denser and more eerie.

Faint lights began to emerge in the surrounding void, soon coalescing into a fist-sized phantom of a divine soul, which turned out to be the very soul of Ghost Teng Master. Shen Luo had somehow used some method to call back the shattered soul.

However, Ghost Teng Master’s divine soul lacked the slightest sense of liveliness; it was filled with an aura of deathly stillness.

Shen Luo formed a hand sign and a beam of divine soul light shot from his own glabella, infusing into the interior of Ghost Teng Master’s soul phantom, and the dead aura inside Ghost Teng Master’s soul rapidly dissipated, replaced with a vibrant vitality indistinguishable from that of an ordinary person’s soul.

A trace of joy appeared on his face as his right hand patted down, injecting the divine soul into the body of Ghost Teng Master.

Ghost Teng Master’s eyes slowly opened, brimming with vitality, and a layer of black light immediately arose from his body, returning his head, transformed into tree bark, back to its original state.

Shen Luo sized Ghost Teng Master up and nodded slightly, retracting the hand that was on Ghost Teng Master, resting it on the blue ice crystal and activating the Indigo Ocean Divine Technique. The massive ice mountain rapidly melted away and completely vanished after several breaths.

The blue ice crystals on the Ten Thousand Demons Banner also all disappeared, flying back into the hands of Ghost Teng Master.

Ghost Teng Master’s body landed back on the ground and gave a bow to Shen Luo, his inner mana flowing vigorously, appearing no different from before as if he had never fallen.

Zhao Feiji’s eyes widened upon seeing this scene.

Being of the Ghost Clan, he was ten times more sensitive to living beings and dead spirits than ordinary monks. Ghost Teng Master had clearly died, yet now he was forcefully resurrected by Shen Luo!

"Is this the Soul Summoning Technique? I did not expect you to be proficient in this technique," Fire Spirit Child said, surprised.

"Soul Summoning Technique?" Zhao Feiji hurriedly asked.

"I learned it from the Heavenly Corpse Scripture. It’s just a petty trick that can cleanse the aura of death from a body, making it seem like resurrection. But the Soul Summoning Technique doesn’t last long and will fail after a few days. Nevertheless, these few days are enough for my purposes," Shen Luo explained.

When he first saw Ghost Teng Master, he had this plan in mind, which was why he hadn’t used his full strength to subdue Ghost Teng Master but slowly dueled using magic, figuring out the many divine techniques Ghost Teng Master knew, so that he wouldn’t give himself away when controlling Ghost Teng Master later.

Zhao Feiji understood upon hearing this explanation.

Shen Luo pondered briefly, raised his hand to call out the Divine Rat, asking it to sever its spiritual connection with the Free and Easy Mirror, then handed the mirror to Ghost Teng Master.

"Use your spell to refine this object."

Now that he was going to control Ghost Teng Master, it would be better to have the man refine the Free and Easy Mirror himself.

Ghost Teng Master took the Free and Easy Mirror and began channeling his mana into it, causing the mirror to instantly emit a bright red light.

"Fire Daoist friend, retract the Spirit Refining Array; we have already delayed here for quite some time and must depart immediately to avoid others discovering any flaws," Shen Luo turned to Fire Spirit Child and said.

Fire Spirit Child nodded, forming a spell gesture to retract the Spirit Refining Array from outside and then, together with Shen Luo and Zhao Feiji, they slipped into the Carefree Mirror.

Ghost Teng Master flicked his sleeve, collecting the nearby Mahayana Corpse Refining remnants, then raised his hand to beckon.

The Blood Thorn Vines, which had been stabbed into the nearby walls, shot back to him, their blood-colored light reigniting, sweeping over every corner of the Cave Mansion, eradicating all traces of the recent battle.

Having done this, he swallowed the Carefree Mirror into his stomach and then turned into a streak of black light, flying out of the Wilderness Mountain and toward the deeper parts of the island.

Inside the Carefree Mirror, Shen Luo shook the Corpse Raising Bag, and Zhou Tie’s figure flew out from within.

Arriving at a completely unfamiliar place, Zhou Tie didn’t panic but instead, calmed down and surveyed his surroundings before his gaze settled on Shen Luo.

Although there was a small person made of flames beside him, he could sense that the teenager before him was the main decision-maker of this place.

"Brother Zhou, it’s been a long time since we last met," Shen Luo said with a smile.

Zhou Tie looked at the young man before him with a puzzled expression.

"It seems Brother Zhou no longer remembers me. I am Shen Luo. We parted ways in Chang’an City that year; who would have thought it would be so many years before we met again," Shen Luo said with a smile.

"Shen Luo? Aren’t you the freelance cultivator friend of the young miss! How come Ghost Teng Master’s Corpse Raising Bag is in your hands?" Zhou Tie quickly recalled and widened his eyes.

"These past years, I’ve had some fortunate encounters, and my cultivation has made some achievements. That Ghost Teng Master has already been killed by me," Shen Luo said calmly.

"You killed Ghost Teng Master?" Upon hearing this, Zhou Tie was completely shocked.

Back in Chang’an City, Shen Luo was but a monk at the Grain Avoidance Stage. Now, in just over a hundred years, he was able to kill Ghost Teng Master, who was at the True Immortal Stage. Could it be that Shen Luo had become a True Immortal?

Although Zhou Tie was unaware of the intricacies of monks’ cultivation, he still knew very well the huge gap between the Grain Avoidance Stage and the True Immortal Stage!

"Thank you, Mr. Shen, for avenging my young miss!" It took a while for Zhou Tie to come back to his senses, then he bowed deeply, kneeling before Shen Luo.

"My friend Elder Brother Xie and I were good friends. These matters were simply small efforts for me, but the regret is that I failed to learn of her plight in time to come to her rescue," Shen Luo sighed as he helped Zhou Tie up.

Zhou Tie also fell silent.

"I’ve learned some of the events of that year from Ghost Teng, who said Elder Brother Xie came to the Boundless Sand Sea in search of a Yan Technique that could grant mortals immortality. Why did she look for this technique?" Shen Luo then asked.

"The young miss led a life of suffering; all that she did was for her worthless brother, Xie Xuan. Had it not been for him, she would not have met her current fate," Zhou Tie suddenly said with anger in his tone.

"Elder Brother Xie’s brother? I recall Elder Brother Xie mentioning that her brother was harmed by a villain, his divine soul and meridians utterly destroyed, which is why she sneaked into the Refining Body Altar in hopes of stealing the Body Refining Secret Manual to restore her brother’s divine soul and meridians. She had obtained the Body Refining Secret Manual; could it be she couldn’t heal her brother’s body?" After some thought, Shen Luo asked.

"I heard from the young miss that she got that Body Refining Secret Manual from you, Mister Shen. She used the methods within the manual to fix that Xie Xuan’s body and soul. Unfortunately, Xie Xuan had been bedridden for too long. Although he awoke, his cultivation was utterly wasted. Selfish and heartless, he was not grateful at all for the years of the young miss’s life-and-death dedication for him. Instead, he constantly urged the young miss to find ways to restore his cultivation. The young miss, out of familial duty, sought far and wide for spiritual medicine and secret techniques, but Xie Xuan’s body was too badly damaged to recover," Zhou Tie said, forcefully suppressing his fury.

"What happened after that?" Shen Luo frowned upon hearing this and asked.