Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 258 - 258 Two four seven days it's dark

258: Two four seven days, it’s dark 258: Two four seven days, it’s dark Jiang Chen understood the concept of having a killing aura.

It’s unavoidable to carry a killing aura after murdering countless people or ghosts alike.

Jiang Chen, who killed millions of ghosts, was no exception – couldn’t he carry a killing aura too?

But where did this karmic energy come from?

He had not recently committed any acts against the natural order!

This left Jiang Chen rather puzzled.

After some thought, Jiang Chen silently began calculating with the Innate Eight Diagrams.

Quickly, he found an answer in the boundless Heavenly Dao.

The karmic energy attached to him had come from the Soul Subduing Banner.

To be precise, it came from the souls of ghosts confined within it.

killing evil spirits is not wrong, but after killing them, not allowing them to undergo reincarnation, and instead confining and torturing them, that’s crossing the line.

Therefore, the trapped malevolent spirits grew resentful, producing boundless grudges.

These grudges lingered on Jiang Chen, gradually turning into strands of karmic energy.

At present, this karmic energy is feeble and won’t cause any harm to Jiang Chen, but as he kills more and more evil spirits, this karmic energy will certainly grow stronger.

Those burdened with karmic energy will see their fate rot, and at worst, it will usher in the Tribulation Number, leading to a sudden death.

“Interesting, the Heavenly Dao is quite compassionate, not letting me torment them, huh?” Jiang Chen mused, looking at the countless evil spirits on the Soul Subduing Banner he held.

But this was a joke.

The Heavenly Dao wouldn’t bother about whether Jiang Chen tormented the evil spirits; it simply didn’t want Jiang Chen to use the Soul Subduing Banner to imprison the evil spirits.

Evil spirits who are confined to the Eighteen Layers of Hell still have a chance to return to the cycle of reincarnation once their sentence is over.

But if they are confined within the Soul Subduing Banner by Jiang Chen, they will truly be trapped eternally.

The cycle of life and death is the ultimate truth of Heaven and Earth.

A large number of ghosts were imprisoned by Jiang Chen in the Soul Subduing Banner, without being given the chance to enter reincarnation.

This undoubtedly went against the rules of Heavenly Dao, and as a result, Jiang Chen ended up being burdened by karmic energy.

Even if Jiang Chen was not aware of this earlier, with the help of the Innate Eight Diagrams, he now understood it.

After considering it a little, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed: “Okay, want to reincarnate?

Want to be liberated?

I’ll fulfill your wish and help all of you attain liberation.”

In a split second, Jiang Chen came up with a solution for the karmic energy in his heart.

Isn’t it that the Heavenly Dao wants him to release the evil spirits?

He would fulfill the Heavenly Dao’s wish and help all these evil spirits to attain liberation, sending them to reincarnation.

In this way, the evil spirits would gain liberation, and naturally, the karmic energy on his body would also disappear.

Perhaps, due to liberating these evil spirits, Jiang Chen might even acquirer a good amount of merit.

However, there’s a distinction in how one attains liberation.

There are those who follow ancient methods of attaining liberation, while some follow new methods.

Among these methods, two are categorized under Daoism and Buddhism respectively.

When it comes to liberating the living, Daoism is superior.

If it’s about liberating the spirits, Buddhism is naturally the best choice.

After all, dealing with ghosts is Buddhism’s expertise.

This is what we call a division of labor!

As a high-ranking member of the Buddhist sect, the Supreme King Buddha, Jiang Chen naturally mastered all the Buddhist methods, including the Buddhist method of liberating spirits.

However, this time, Jiang Chen was not planning to use the Buddhist method of attaining liberation.

He wanted to use the ancient method for these evil spirits.

So, what is the ancient way?

It’s the method of attaining liberation passed down from the ancient Mystic Sect.

Buddhism liberates the spirits by using pure Buddha power to cleanse the evil spirits of their karmic energy, hatred, resentment, allowing them to achieve enlightenment and peace, and enter the cycle of reincarnation willingly.

True compassion indeed!

If these evil spirits were formed out of resentment, Jiang Chen would perhaps use this method to help them attain liberation.

However, these malicious ghosts from the Shu Region freely kill, truly deserving of their fate.

If not for the Karmic energy attached to him, Jiang Chen might not even consider helping them attain liberation.

Using the Buddhist method would be too lenient for them.

Therefore, Jiang Chen intended to use the ancient method passed down from the Mystic Sect to help these evil spirits from the Shu Region attain liberation.

So, what’s the difference between the Mystic Sect’s ancient method of attaining liberation and the Buddhist method?

The differences are numerous!

You should know, when the Mystic Sect’s method of attaining liberation was born, the Six Paths of Reincarnation did not exist in Heaven and Earth.

Without reincarnation, where would the liberated spirits go?

Naturally, they would return to Heaven and Earth, completely disappearing without leaving anything behind.

As for these evil spirits from the Shu Region who were sent to hell and still dream of reincarnation, it’s all a dream.

Jiang Chen decided to mercifully send them back to Heaven and Earth, returning to where they came from.

This is also a kind of reincarnation, not the Six Paths of Reincarnation, but a reincarnation of Heaven and Earth!

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Having made up his mind, instead of moving forward, Jiang Chen sat cross-legged and planted the Soul Subduing Banner in front of him.

He began to recite a method of attaining liberation from the teachings of the Upper Qing Saints:

“When the sun accumulates, it forms a spirit, and the spirit has form.

The form is born from the sun, and the sun is born from the moon.”

“When the yin accumulates, it forms shapes, and shapes hold spirits.

The spirit is born from gold, and gold is born from jade.”

“The flux of yin and yang gives rise to the brightness of the sun and the moon, which originates from Heaven and Earth.

The rising and falling of yin and yang generate the aura of gold and jade, which is determined by the time and originates from Heaven and Earth.”

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The Dao Sound reverberated between Heaven and Earth, resonating with them and invoked a mystical force, directing it onto the Soul Subduing Banner.

Rumble….

The next moment, the Soul Subduing Banner began to tremble violently, stirring up a huge amount of Yin energy, sweeping in all directions.

In this Yin energy, countless ghosts restrained by the Soul Subduing Banner were manifested one by one, densely packed.

There were tens of millions of them, too many to count, filling up the entire sky.

Moreover, since their ghostly bodies had been shattered by the spectral light and absorbed into the Soul Subduing Banner, these evil spirits no longer had a physical form.

They were only spectral images that contorted with the contraction of the Yin energy.

Seeing these spirits, Jiang Chen had a thought; he was about to liberate them so that they could return to Heaven and Earth.

However, at this moment, the sun slowly set and disappeared at the edge of the sky.

The sun had set, which meant,

The sky was dark!

Whoo~~~

Inexplicably, a yin wind blew up in the Shu Region, dispelling the last trace of Yang energy in this area.

Simultaneously, the bright moon gradually rose, incredibly luminous, casting down strands of moonlight, flowing like water.

However, that pure moonlight, which was present on ordinary days, now seemed sinister and horrific under the shadow of this ghostly atmosphere, emitting an eerie coldness.

As the moon rose, the Yin energy between Heaven and Earth gradually increased dwarfing the Yang energy.

The stage that belonged to ghosts had arrived!

The night, the rise of Yin energy; it’s the stage for ghosts!

Rumble…..

From afar, in the direction of Qingcheng Mountain, a rumbling noise suddenly erupted.

Then came a sight of a dark pillar of light shooting up into the sky, exploding at the zenith, transforming into countless Yin energies scattering.

No, it wasn’t Yin energy, they were evil spirits!

With Jiang Chen’s sight, he could clearly see that what had descended from the sky were strong evil spirits, not any kind of Yin energy.