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Chapter 257 Five Cowards

Chapter 257: Chapter 257 Five Cowards

After wrestling with his thoughts for quite a while, Wang Zijia eventually pushed them aside and glanced at the sky. It was already dusk, so he rose from his seat and left the room.

He was lodged in the best mansion in the market square, hence the courtyard was rather spacious and should rightly be called an estate. Its spiritual energy could even be said to almost rival that of Biyi Court.

Exiting the study room, he moved through several corridors until he reached the backyard.

"Have you finished with your affairs?" Xiang Feifei asked, looking at Wang Zijia with a gentle expression.

"Mmm, more or less." Wang Zijia nodded.

"Today at the banquet, I met with the Emperor again. He still wishes to meet you," Xiang Feifei said hesitantly.

Over these two months, she was often invited to the palace to chat and drink tea with the princesses and other palace women. Because of her age, she somewhat enjoyed these invitations and rarely declined them.

Wang Zijia was also pleased with this situation, as it helped him avoid dealing with the court’s obligations. Xiang Feifei probably had the same intention.

"Mmm. I know what he wants, but I can’t meet his request unless his family is willing to abdicate." Wang Zijia spoke indifferently. The Wanyu Sect kept fairly strict control over relationships with royal families and Wang Zijia had no interest in violating this.

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After engaging in their usual small talk for a while and eating dinner, Wang Zijia did not return to his room. Instead, he took Bai Qian with him and went to the cultivation room.

"Have you decided? There might be certain risks in my experiment this time, though it could also present a great opportunity!" Wang Zijia looked at Bai Qian and spoke with an unusual seriousness.

"Mmm, Bai Qian has decided. Master, you may begin!" Bai Qian said, closing her eyes and appearing ready to follow Wang Zijia’s lead.

Watching Bai Qian’s actions, Wang Zijia’s mouth twitched. If outsiders saw her like this, they might even think he was perverted!

With a wave of his hand, spiritual light surged forth.

"Spell: Sealing Spirit Technique!"

With the fluctuation of mana, Bai Qian lost all perception of the outside world.

Wang Zijia held Bai Qian, allowing her to float behind him. He took the Explosive Spirit Pills that Bai Qian had cultivated over the past two months and opened the entrance to the underground palace.

Descending the blood-red staircase, bathed in the light of the candles, everything was rendered in a richer shade of dark red, as if leading to a blood-red abyss akin to hell.

The entire underground palace was built by Wang Zijia according to the layout of the old Wanyu Sect. Even though it wasn’t overly large at the moment, it had the potential for vast expansion.

He arrived in a huge palace, similar to the sacrificial room he built in the underground base in the Sect.

A huge bloody rune array covered the entire great hall, including the floor, walls, and even the crystal-built blood-red dome.

In the center of the array was an altar-like platform composed of white jade spirit bones. The intertwining of deep white and blood red gave the entire great hall an eerie vibe, akin to a demonic kiln.

Wang Zijia placed Bai Qian, who was in a state of sealed sleep, on the altar. Today, he needed to do an experiment related to the core development of his future path. In fact, he had long wanted to do it, but he wasn’t sure about potential disturbances, so he managed to restrain himself while inside the Sect.

Now that he was finally free, it was time to get to work.

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In his thoughts, a blood-red jade book appeared in his hands. As the jade book opened, five Five Ghosts Talismans flew out, transforming into five Fuwa.

In the bloody array, on the bone altar, a young girl quietly laid. Bathed in the flickering candlelight, it looked just like a corner of hell.

As soon as the five ghosts appeared and saw this scene, as well as Wang Zijia bathed in the blood-red light, wearing a wicked grin as though he were a mad scientist, they shivered in unison.

The familiarity of the sight made them recall their previous horrifying experiences. They huddled together instinctively, some trembling uncontrollably. Wuwa’s eyes were welling up with tears, and if it was not for the fear that Wang Zijia would bother him for crying, he probably would have burst into tears already.

Even at this moment, as he held back his tears, it was clear that he was nearly at his limit. His eyes, filled with tears tinged with red, coupled with his chubby, endearing, child-like figure and his trembling, pitiful look, were enough to make anyone feel sorry for him.

"You guys are wicked ghosts, how did you end up so pathetically wimpy?" Watching the five ghosts huddling together in fear as soon as they entered, Wang Zijia couldn’t help but comment, sounding exasperated.

He was completely unaware that the blood-red glow around him, combined with the backdrop of his deep white spirit bone altar, made his elegant looks appear ominous, almost overshadowing his overwhelming aura of an evil cultivator!

He resembled the infamous, wicked demons from the legends!

Ignoring the five ghosts, his thoughts flickered and several pages of the blood-red jade book in his hand began to flutter, flying out.

Each page depicted a few demonic bats with foul ghostly heads, claws, hawk-like legs, and wings spanning more than two meters — the very demonic face-ghost bats that Wang Zijia had caught with his magic!

Wang Zijia reached out to touch one page, and instantly, a demonic face-ghost bat sprang off the page.

"Wah wah!"

After the demonic-faced ghost bat broke free from the book’s seal, it roared at Wang Zijia upon seeing him, its wings folding in like a wyvern, and its four limbs planted firmly on the ground.

The five trembling ghosts in the corner looked on with a rather sympathetic gaze.

"Shut up!"

At Wang Zijia’s utterance, the demonic-faced ghost bat shuddered. Despite being deeply polluted and its spiritual wisdom nearly destroyed, the bat screamed and struggled on the ground in agony.

Finally, after the deranged bat was tortured to the point of losing control, Wang Zijia stopped his torment with the power of demonic seeding.

The demonic face-ghost bat’s eyes flashed with a hint of spiritual light, staring at Wang Zijia in sheer terror.

Wang Zijia, however, paid no attention to the bat’s thoughts. He opened one of the three gourds beside him. This was an elixir that Bai Qian had concocted during the past two months.

He experimentally gave a pill to the demonic face-ghost bat and quickly delved into its sea of ​​consciousness.

Perhaps because the demonic face-ghost bat hadn’t completely turned into a wicked ghost yet, but was only in a state of madness, its sea of ​​consciousness was still a chaotic whirl, rather than a small, blood-red space like the other five ghosts.

With Wang Zijia’s thoughts flashing, icons of weights appeared out of the chaos.

Cultivation: Late Childhood Stage

Dao Cultivation: One hundred years (29876/50000)

Affiliation: Demonic Beasts

Talent: Demonic Sound Reconnaissance

Status: Under Pollution (Sinners 5432/10000)

Introduction: Deeply polluted, once the sinner seed absorbs enough nutrients to transform into an evil source, it will then completely turn into an evil form. Its current spiritual wisdom is on the brink of obliteration. However, due to the brutal torture by a perverse youngster, there are signs of revival.

Looking at its status, Wang Zijia exchanged the value of the Explosive Spirit Pill for pollution.

Yes, he was increasing its pollution, its only blood-red weight.

"Sinner value +18!"

Seeing the value obtained from the Explosive Spirit Pill, Wang Zijia frowned slightly. It seems that polluted demonic beasts and wicked ghosts are similar, and the effect of the Explosive Spirit Pill has been weakened to a certain extent.