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Chapter 344 - 76 - Bridging Past and Future, Where to Look for Spirit Mountain? (Seeking Monthly Votes)_3

Chapter 344: Chapter 76 - Bridging Past and Future, Where to Look for Spirit Mountain? (Seeking Monthly Votes)_3

"Your sword handle always comes back looking very slick, it needs a lot of wiping by Lan Ran and Jing Xiaohua."

"After the battle with the Special Grade Curse Master, Jia Gu, Lan Ran and Jing Xiaohua must have realized what kind of a person you are, but she seems not to care."

"After all, she is still being hunted, the people of Jingling Court are truly relentless. The Soul Realm corresponds to multiple entry points in the real world, they keep sending wave after wave to deliver themselves, and Lan Ran doesn’t hold back, however many come, she kills them all without exception."

"You and your servant are not so different, cut from the same cloth; one is willing to kill former comrades for personal goals, ruthless and cold-blooded; the other is treacherous, sly, and a rascal who specializes in hitting the enemy below the belt. Now that you two perfect beasts have come together, this world is in trouble."

"The route you’ve traveled has witnessed many events, some places sings songs of praise for your feats of slaying demons and removing evil spirits, some places are left in a mess, filled with bitter complaints, far too numerous to count."

"Along the way, one after another, wandering poets have compiled your master and servant tales of Heavenly Defiance into songs, spreading them far and wide, eventually earning you a notorious reputation called ’Peacock Flying Southeast’."

"In the year 2121, accompanied by a magnificent meteor shower never seen before, you arrived at the wilderness of the eastern coast of Xia Country, finding an ancient temple nestled deep in the mountains."

"Inscribed with three big characters: XX Temple."

"This ancient temple appears long abandoned, in ruins, even the plaque is faded and unclear. She searched everywhere inside and out, but there was nothing to be found."

"’Still can’t find it... always just a little bit short... Heh, He was right, ’The powerful thing is fate’..." Lan Ran and Jing Xiaohua looked somewhat dejected, sitting on the ground, watching the stars fall from the sky."

"She looks very lonely, that dejected appearance is indeed pitiable." Because she has your company, she barely manages to not look pitiful."

"? Is this a sin? Aside from you, this beast, who else would think this super female demon who has killed tens of thousands is pitiable?"

"That night, the bond between you and your servant took a huge leap forward, even considering testing the sharpness of your Ziwei scepter. But remembering her great unfinished business, she isn’t willing to indulge."

"You innocently watched the meteor shower all night long."

"Are there too many meteors in this meteor shower?" You suddenly questioned."

"It rained all night, that’s normal."

"A meteor shower all night long? Isn’t that a bit preposterous?"

"Lan Ran didn’t seem surprised, saying to you, ’He told me, when the meteor shower of the Creation Pillar comes, the old epoch will have ended, and a new one will begin, everything will change, all that was hidden must resurface... but where exactly is it?’"

"Who told you? What exactly are you looking for? We had an agreement, I became your Guardian Spirit, allowing me to witness the world of the powerful, to unveil the face of gods! But now, what are you searching for as you run all over the place! What exactly do you want to do?" Unable to hold back any longer, you confronted her directly, bringing up the past agreement."

"Aren’t you enjoying it?" she teasingly said while looking at your increasingly shiny Ziwei scepter."

"Red skull and crossbones, fleeting dreams, form is emptiness, emptiness is form..."

"So this is your excuse for being lecherous whenever you have free time? I thought you had long forgotten our agreement."

"Less nonsense!" Your face didn’t even turn red, because you don’t have a face to blush, you are a lascivious sword handle."

Lan Ran said, "The existence of the Soul Realm is irrational, Jingling Court has disrupted the order of reincarnation, all the spirits that enter the wasteland are annihilated, this is wrong! That’s why I want to overthrow the entire rule of the Soul Realm. I am looking for Hell’s whereabouts, only Hell is the true destination for the souls! Finding Hell’s whereabouts can reconstruct the six paths of reincarnation!"

"Ah?" Staring at Lan Ran and Jing Xiaohua’s face full of longing, you were dumbfounded."

A Death God Agent of the Soul Realm, you betrayed and killed the upper echelons of your original organization, abandoned by heaven, forsaken by the world, you initially thought she had some deep hatred with Jingling Court, but you never expected, her goal was actually to reconstruct the mythological Six Paths of Reincarnation! To restore the ethical and moral order of this world!

"Fuck, she really did, I’m crying... Only now do you realize that this is truly great love for the world! Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua actually has such incredible aspirations, she’s magnificent like a giant!"

"But for a Death God Agent to accept such a complete abandonment of her original principles, this could be called turning from darkness to light, isn’t that a form of cultural export? Then who could such a being be?"

You, touched to the core, lightly stroked Jing Xiaohua’s cheek with your small knife and asked, "So who told you about this Hell you speak of?"

"A monk, but I think it might actually be the legendary Buddha! He told me that the location of Hell is at Spirit Mountain, find Spirit Mountain and you find Hell, find Hell and you can rebuild the cycle of reincarnation, ending the false paradise of the Soul Realm Death Gods! Unfortunately, I searched all human places dealing with spirits and found no records about Spirit Mountain!" Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua looked at the empty ancient temple and sighed deeply, "Where can Spirit Mountain be found?"

"Ah?" Once again, you found yourself plunged into confusion, feeling that each term was easy to understand to folklorists like yourself, but when put together, they formed an eerie dissonance that made your head spin, unwilling to ponder further.

You decided not to think about it, and suddenly you realized that your companion in this life, Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua, was comparable to Luoning that you knew from Capital City Night Boiling; you felt that such characters were beyond the understanding of an innocent little white flower like yourself, but you could try to cling to their influential coattails.

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"Scram, you think you’re some ’innocent little white flower’ from the depths of nowhere! Where do you get the nerve to say that? Your face is thicker than the cliffs of Spirit Mountain!"

"Does that mean if we can’t find Spirit Mountain, it’s the end of the line?" you asked.

Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua dejectedly said, "Yes, do you know where we are? This is the legendary Ksitigarbha Temple. The living Buddha who enlightened me years ago came from here, but now even this place has vanished from sight. Where else can we look for Spirit Mountain?"

Upon hearing this, you felt a surge of vitality. Ksitigarbha Temple? This was Ksitigarbha Temple!

The mention of Ksitigarbha made you very sensitive.

You were here this time to ascertain the truth of the "Tailed Ksitigarbha" in legend, and whether or not your speculations were right, this matter undoubtedly had something to do with Him.

It was because you had chanted the name of Ksitigarbha that you attracted the attention of a Death God Agent and received the favor of the King of Infinity, Althias, who blessed you, and He too was searching for the whereabouts of Tibet, obviously with ill intentions.

Now, you realized that your entire life had myriad connections with Ksitigarbha in a mysterious way, and you began to suspect you might have the chance to uncover the true face of the "Tailed Ksitigarbha" in the real world.

With that thought, you felt a surge of emotion and decided to make an offering here, to try summoning Him!

You proposed your idea to Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua when mentioning sacrificing many bad guys, she had no objections, but you felt uneasy; this was Xia Country’s territory. Although it was most likely not the same Xia Country from your past and present lives, your strong sense of patriotism naturally led you to choose to help the people of Huaxia.

"Not far from here, just across the great plains, lies South Korea. Let’s capture people there for the sacrifice. Also, I’m interested in the ’greasy older sister.’" you suggested.

"What’s a ’greasy older sister’?" the murderous Lan Ran Jing Xiaohua asked in confusion.

You laughed without a word, offering no explanation. Those who got it, got it; those who didn’t, wouldn’t understand even if you told them.

You immediately set off down the mountain and quickly captured a bunch of greasy criminals from a South Korean prison. With enough people gathered, the sacrifice was ready to begin.

Then, on that very night, a slender white-haired man with an eyepatch ascended the temple steps.

He bore an air of unmatched arrogance, looking at the greasy group of your brothers gathered around the altar, he smirked and said, "Yo, miss, your commission of such grievous crimes is none of my business outside of my jurisdiction, but before that, could you answer a question for me... I’m looking for the Spirit Crossing Master of this temple. Have you seen him, or did you kill him?"

The atmosphere instantly became tense, and as you looked at the familiar face, you were suddenly taken aback—

"Holy shit, Teacher?"

The man appearing before you was none other than the most powerful Cursing Master in the Cursed World, renowned as supreme across the heavens and the earth, Spirit Shu!