Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 257 - 257 246 Bound by Karma

257: Chapter 246: Bound by Karma 257: Chapter 246: Bound by Karma The further back the era, the stronger the spiritual masters are.

In other words, modern spiritual masters are not as powerful as their ancient counterparts.

These wicked ghosts from the Eighteen Layers of Hell are seldom modern spiritual masters; they are primarily ancient entities that have survived to the present.

Therefore, their power is formidable, significantly surpassing the average power level of modern spiritual masters.

The overwhelming energy they released caused the spiritual masters behind Jiang Chen to frown deeply, a sense of worry surging within them.

Will this expert be able to hold off the wicked ghosts?

While he is indeed formidable, the wicked ghosts aren’t weak, moreover, they outnumber him.

If the situation turns dire, the rest of the immortals would want to step forward to help, but unfortunately, their strength is far from adequate.

Even the most powerful among them is but of the Golden Immortal realm, their participation would serve as nothing more than a hindrance.

For a moment, the immortals were overwhelmed with anxiety but found no viable solutions.

They could only lament their limited strength, which left them unable to render any assistance.

Leaving aside the anxiety of the immortals, when Jiang Chen saw the wicked ghosts blocking his path, he was merely surprised at their formidable strength but had no other reaction.

Far from showing any fear, Jiang Chen didn’t even pause his steps.

He kept moving forward, drawing closer and closer to the wicked ghosts.

Upon seeing Jiang Chen completely ignore them, the five wicked ghosts’ heart swelled with immense fury and vented it with a cold reprimand.

“Impudent!”

“Seeking death!”

“Ignorant of the mortal danger!”

In their fury, the five ghosts no longer cared about questioning Jiang Chen’s origins, they simply raised their hands to unleash their Divine Ability, seeking to slay him.

In an instant, an overwhelming aura of ghostly energy erupted and surged out, its intent malicious and intimidating, exuding a chilling and harrowing aura.

This type of power, that type of aura could easily smother and extinguish the life of a Taiyi Golden Immortal in its later stages.

Ordinary Golden Immortals who witnessed such a scene, like those behind Jiang Chen, would have been petrified and wishing to flee.

However, witnessing this, Jiang Chen only found it worthy of a derisive chuckle before waving his Soul Subduing Banner.

The very next moment, the Banner flowed with an eerie light, transforming into countless radiating glimmers and rapidly sweeping forward.

Swoosh…

In the blink of an eye, the overwhelming ghostly energy rushing towards Jiang Chen was completely swallowed, leaving nothing behind.

Subsequently, Jiang Chen once again waved the Soul Subduing Banner, causing another wave of radiant light to flow out, rapidly sweeping towards the five wicked ghosts.

“What the hell is that?”

Seeing the wave of light sweeping towards them, the five ghosts instinctively sensed danger.

Without hesitation, they immediately employed their strongest Divine Ability.

In an instant, an overwhelming tide of ghostly energy sprung up towards the sky.

This energy resembled a dark pillar that stood between heaven and earth.

Then, the pillar suddenly exploded into countless fragments, raining down from the sky and creating a myriad of strange images, all rushing towards Jiang Chen.

However, despite the intricate Divine Ability of the five ghosts, it was no match for the might of the Soul Subduing Banner.

With a sweep of the eerie light, the myriad illusions simply disappeared, the ghostly energy devoured completely.

Swoosh…

Simultaneously, Jiang Chen again waved the Soul Subduing Banner.

This time, he gave it his all.

The Banner flowed with mysterious runes, radiating a brilliant glow.

The glow then exploded, releasing myriad beams of eerie light to sweep across towards the five ghosts.

Swoosh…

The countless eerie lights swept across simultaneously, the defence erected by the five ghosts was torn apart as easily as paper.

The light then proceeded, undeterred, onto the bodies of the five ghosts.

“Aah….”

In the wake of a series of chilling shrieks, the bodies of three ghosts, who were Taiyi Golden Immortals in their later stages, were directly torn apart by the eerie light, exploded into vast clouds of ghostly energy and floated in the air.

The two Taiyi Golden Immortals who were fully realised ghosts were not faring any better either.

Under the eerie lights, their bodies began to distort unnaturally, appearing as though they might shatter at any moment.

“Aah….”

“Hold on…”

In a critical moment, one of the wicked ghosts somehow managed to dramatically increase their power by employing a secret method, successfully repelling the eerie light thus saving themselves and the other four ghosts.

In the mid-air, the three clusters of ghostly energy first twisted, then gradually took on human forms, and transformed back into the three Taiyi Golden Immortals of the later stages.

However, having been swept up by the eerie light, the three ghosts were seriously injured.

Not only was their aura significantly weakened, but their bodies also became translucent, seemingly on the brink of fading completely.

“Huh?”

“They didn’t die?”

Seeing none of the five ghosts were slain after a single sweep of the Soul Subduing Banner, a disappointed expression flashed across Jiang Chen’s eyes.

The power of the Soul Subduing Banner is still a bit too low, it couldn’t even take out a Taiyi Golden Immortal in one hit.

While Jiang Chen was disappointed here, the five ghosts, on the other hand, were terrified to the core.

What was that Magic Treasure?

How could it be so powerful?

They are Taiyi Golden Immortals, not ordinary ones either, but among the strongest.

Even so, their combined efforts fell dangerously close to being obliterated by the faint light emitted by Magic Treasures.

It’s just too terrifying!

In their lives, they have never encountered such a treacherously bizarre Magic Treasure that is a bane to the Ghost Dao.

Thinking of this, the ghosts had no desire to fight any longer, and they decided to escape immediately.

However, having come this far, how would Jiang Chen let them go so easily?

As the ghosts were about to run away, Jiang Chen reactivated the Soul Subduing Banner.

Immediately, a vast expanse of faint light unfolded, sweeping over the Ghosts like a covering heaven and earth.

“No good, run!”

Seeing this, the ghosts didn’t have any fighting thoughts and directly tried to escape.

However, no matter how fast they were, how could they be faster than the speed of the faint light?

With a swish, the faint light swept over, directly shattering the ghostly bodies, causing them to burst into large swathes of ghost flames, floating in mid-air.

In the next moment, the faint light flickered, splitting into countless parts and forming a giant net, preparing to sweep the ghost gas back into the Soul Subduing Banner.

But suddenly, something changed.

Among the ghost flames, the two larger ones suddenly writhed and escaped from the net formed by the faint light, reshaping themselves in the forms of the two evil ghosts of perfect Taiyi Golden Immortals.

The instant these two evil ghosts took shape, they immediately turned into dark lights, quickly speeding away into the distance, disregarding their own companions.

Whoosh…

The faint light swirled, bringing with it the three ghosts of the late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals back to the Soul Subduing Banner.

Not to exaggerate, the power contained in these three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals, is almost half as strong as all of the evil ghosts that the Soul Subduing Banner swallowed before combined.

So, after swallowing these three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals, the power of the Soul Subduing Banner surged dramatically.

A significant boost indeed.

Infinite amounts of faint light circulated on the Soul Subduing Banner.

Large groups of new Runes emerged, intertwining to form the Order God Chains, which made the presence of the Soul Subduing Banner more profound and powerful.

Boom~~~~

An immense momentum erupted from the Soul Subduing Banner, sweeping out in all directions and dispersing the ghostly qi permeating the sky.

Immediately, all the evil spirits within three million miles could not help but be pulled towards the Soul Subduing Banner.

The two escaping ghosts who were perfect Taiyi Golden Immortals were also affected, their speed slowed by a strange force.

“Return!”

At this point, Jiang Chen shook the Soul Subduing Banner again.

This time, what surged from the Soul Subduing Banner was not gloomy light, but infinite Yin Qi, like a vast ocean surging forward, overwhelmingly pouring towards the two evil spirits.

Wu wu…

As they neared the two ghosts, the Yin Qi suddenly changed, generating countless evil ghosts.

Each one had the cultivation base of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, howling and pouncing onto the two ghosts with gnashing teeth and claws, biting at will.

Although the two ghosts struggled with all their might, breaking apart evil ghosts one after another with flashes of dark light, the Yin Qi was inexhaustible and the evil ghosts were undying.

Even if the two ghosts killed them with divine abilities, they could quickly resurrect within the Yin Qi, undergoing endless cycles of life and death.

As a result, the two massively injured ghosts soon exhausted their strength as more and more evil ghosts swallowed them up.

“Ah….”

“I’m hatred!”

“If my physical body wasn’t destroyed, how could I be restrained by this Magic Treasures…

”

With the last voices of regret, the two ghosts gradually lost their vital signs, were devoured by the other ghosts, turning into pure Yin Qi and swallowed by the Soul Subduing Banner.

Hum Hum Hum….

After swallowing the two Taiyi Golden Immortal evil spirits, the light on the Soul Subducing Banner shone brightly, and its form solidified by three points.

Looking from afar, it seemed to truly have a physical body, about to transform from Divine Ability into Magic Treasures.

Once the Soul Subduing Banner truly achieved this, transitioning from an intangible and immaterial Divine Ability to an Acquired Supreme Treasure, it would gain the power to counter Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Boom!

The power of the Soul Subduing Banner certainly increased with its evolution.

Its range of devouring evil ghosts also increased from three to four million miles.

Even the Taiyi Golden Immortal level evil spirits that it couldn’t affect previously were now feeling the impact.

Although they still couldn’t be dragged closer, as long as they were in the range of the Soul Subduing Banner, their power would continue to dissipate.

Boom Boom Boom….

For a time, even more evil spirits were drawn in, and the influence of the Soul Subduing Banner was slowly strengthening.

However, as the power of the Soul Subduing Banner continued to strengthen, normal evil spirits already couldn’t meet its demand.

If it were to become stronger, it would have to swallow stronger evil spirits, preferably those on the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

“The journey to killing ghosts is long, I still need to continue working hard.” With a sigh, Jiang Chen continued to walk forward with his feet stepping on the void.

However, after only a few steps, Jiang Chen suddenly stopped, his face becoming uncertain.

Just now, Jiang Chen had suddenly found that a tremendous amount of killing intent and a faint hint of karmic power had appeared on his body.