At the same time, within the city of wrongful death full of old ruins.
In the temple burial ground spanning hundreds of miles in radius, a gigantic creature revealed its form.
The creature was enormous, stretching over ten miles. It opened thousands of ghostly eyes, surveying the Ancient Yin River Dao, only to see corpse qi flicker and dissipate on a grave hill three hundred miles outside the field.
The Ghost Law overseeing the city of wrongful death seemed to not believe its own eyes.
It rose in doubt, carrying a sinister cloud of ghostly mist, traveling through the air, and in an instant, arrived at the thousand-foot-high grave hill.
When no ghostly shadows could be seen on the entire grave hill, the Ghost Law finally confirmed one thing—
Its perception was not wrong; indeed, someone with audacious boldness had, right under its nose, reaped all the troops it had left outside the city to await orders!
The Ghost Law, infuriated, immediately dispersed thousands of divine thoughts, attaching them to ghostly beings within a thousand-mile radius, beginning a blanket search.
Sinister ghostly qi shrouded the moon, obscuring the stars.
In the Ancient Yin River Dao, turbidity soared to the sky, with tens of thousands of ghosts aligned.
And the instigator, Mr. Xu, was already carrying the Cauldron of Mountains and Rivers, appearing inside the True Monarch's bone temple.
The cauldron, an artifact of mountains and rivers, was also a utensil for cooking food.
Xu Qing, transforming into a cook, used the Mountain and River Cauldron as a crucible to cook a hundred thousand resentful ghosts, offering them to the Demon Exorcism True Monarch to enjoy.
"Brother Demon Exorcist, eat while it's hot, don't delay!"
The Ascendant Fuluan looked at the large cauldron Xu Qing placed in the temple, initially indifferent, thinking to himself how many fierce ghosts the opponent could capture in less than a half day, and how much could this cauldron hold no matter how capable it was...
However, when Xu Qing lifted the cauldron lid, the sinister qi formed by the gathering of a hundred thousand ghost generals and ghost soldiers suddenly gushed out.
The gluttonous Demon Exorcism True Monarch reacted swiftly; at the moment the piercing ghostly qi overflowed, he let out a low roar, then began devouring like a whale gulping water.
The Ascendant Fuluan's eyelids twitched, he glanced at the cauldron full of a hundred thousand howling wicked ghosts, then at Xu Qing urging the Demon Exorcism True Monarch to eat quickly, an ominous premonition faintly formed in his heart.
"Daoist Xu, where did you capture these hundred thousand wicked ghosts?"
Xu Qing, without looking back, responded as he stared at the Demon Exorcism True Monarch whose form was rising higher: "Picked up on the way, the troops of the Ghost Law."
What did he mean by picked up the troops of the Ghost Law on the way?
The Ascendant Fuluan's heart raced; no one knew the terror of the Ghost Law better than he did, even the Cyan Dragon Divine Monarch, who had gathered millions of incense offerings in the mortal realm a thousand years ago, was no match for the Ghost Law!
After that battle, the Cyan Dragon vanished, leaving only the Ghost Law wandering everywhere in the Yin River.
The Ascendant Fuluan initially thought it would be better to confront the Ghost Law early, but now, when facing the situation, his heart instead panicked and became restless.
The instincts honed over two thousand years urged him once more to retreat quickly.
In the Incense Hall, the body of the Demon Exorcism True Monarch grew to a height of a hundred feet, and his aura became more violent. Xu Qing, looking at the True Monarch who had become a demon god, not only did not feel fear but instead licked his lips with strange sparkle in his eyes.
This True Monarch's body is becoming more and more enticingly sexy...
The muscular man, struggling to suppress the erosion of the ghostly beings, suddenly felt his whole body tense, as if locked by a predator, but this sensation was fleeting.
The Demon Exorcism True Monarch, who had been fighting all manner of wicked thoughts, also came to his senses due to this strange sensation.
He managed to speak, but what came out was not only human language but also ghostly chants mixed with demonic sounds.
"The bone temple's formation has been damaged, and this commotion here won't be hidden from the Ghost Law for long, so Brother Xu, please remember your prior promise, I am deeply grateful!"
The hundred-foot-tall True Monarch bowed his head, and just as Xu Qing was about to respond, the entire bone temple suddenly started to shake!
"Well, I have some matters in the mortal world to attend to, I'll be leaving first, let's meet again another day!"
Xu Qing glanced over, and beside him, the Immortal had already activated the Symbol of the Fleeting World in his hand, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
"..."
Xu Qing was completely speechless.
"He truly is a spineless immortal, no wonder he's survived for two thousand years!"
The Demon Exorcism True Monarch, enduring the pain of the backlash from the multitude of ghosts, said, "Don't mind him, neither of us brothers planned to rely on outside help."
"That abomination is already here, Brother Xu, take care, I will head out first!"
Xu Qing, looking at the True Monarch tormented by hordes of ghosts, cupped his hands and said, "Farewell, Brother Demon Exorcist."
The Demon Exorcism True Monarch charged out of the bone temple; upon hearing Xu Qing's words, his form paused, and then his gaze became determined.
To deal with the Ghost Law, such a master of ghost law, one cannot have even a sliver of a survival mindset; only with a resolution to die can there be a chance to earn a single thread of survival for the mortal world and others.
Farewell forever...
The Demon Exorcism True Monarch no longer hesitated, he let out a low roar, then resolutely charged towards the gigantic figure before him.
Just like a moth to a flame.
...
A thousand-mile grave hill, at the perilous site.
The Ghost Law, surrounded by calamity fire and karma, perched atop the summit amidst the dark clouds, its full form obscured.
But this mere tip of the iceberg was enough to instill an oppressive sense of mysterious suffocation.
The Ghost Law, master of all ghosts across the three realms, assimilated the cunning of fetch spirits, the ferocity of mountain ghosts, the eeriness of water ghosts, the wrath of vindictive ghosts, the resentment of hanging ghosts, and the greed of starved ghosts, essentially melting thousands of ghostly obsessions into one furnace.
In the dark clouds, groups of ghosts shrieked sharply, protecting the Ghost Law as they moved, truly a scene of sinister ghostly qi, with overwhelming ferocity.
"Demon Exorcism True Monarch, so it was you!"
The Ghost Law, beyond surprise, grew angrier!
In earlier years, when it killed the Celestial Tiger True Monarch of the Mysterious Altar, as he returned to the void, the latter had sacrificed himself to cover a ghost god's escape.
And that ghost god was the Demon Exorcism True Monarch.
Back then, it didn't take notice of the ghost god who wasn't part of the formal divine pantheon, nor did it wish to risk devouring him, adding flaws to itself.
The Ghost Law, upon devouring ghostly beings, would autonomously integrate and comprehend the corresponding ghost's divine techniques, while simultaneously possessing the transformative abilities of the respective ghost.