The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 199 - 196: He’s Not a Monster, but the Mountain God

Chapter 199: Chapter 196: He’s Not a Monster, but the Mountain God

"Whimper!"

The little lamb let out another mournful cry.

Numerous red filaments, like a spider’s web, sprouted from Sister-in-law Cui Fang’s soul, stretching towards the little lamb, wrapped around him, and dragged him back.

"Ah! No! Don’t want this!"

The proprietress, using a special method, refined Sister-in-law Cui Fang’s soul to control the little lamb.

The refining process was excruciating, akin to being gnawed by myriad ghosts and scorched by fierce fires.

Sister-in-law Cui Fang’s soul let out scream after scream.

The immense creature, with the head of a sheep and the body of a man, flailed his powerful arms backward, breaking apart some of the bloody filaments.

He could have run away if he wanted to, but hearing his mother’s screams of agony, he couldn’t help but look back and, with reckless abandon, sprinted towards her, heedless of everything.

Because she was his mother.

She was the first person he saw when he opened his eyes to this world.

Even if he was a monster, his heart was as pure as a blank slate, driven by instinct to protect his mother.

To protect his only kin, even though she detested him so much.

"Fool!" the proprietress sneered coldly, "She’s not worth all this from you!"

"Whimper, bleat, whimper!"

The large body shielded his mother’s soul behind him.

His clean, pure eyes pleaded with her.

Enraged, the proprietress’s aura became even more terrifying, "She caused the death of my child! She also caused the death of her own child, why do you still protect her!"

It had taken so long to find this wretched woman’s reincarnation!

She wanted her to lose everything, to taste nothing but misery!

But in the end, why was this fool still thinking of her, protecting her!

The crimson mist grew denser; the blood filaments turned into blood-red skulls devouring Sister-in-law Cui Fang’s soul.

The sanity in the little lamb’s eyes slowly faded, gradually becoming a bloodthirsty, violent, unfeeling creature, who would only obey others’ orders henceforth.

"Boom!"

The sound of a gong reverberated through the heavens.

Boom, boom, boom!

Several consecutive sounds directly interrupted the proprietress’s spell.

The Puppetry Technique gradually lost its effect, and the little lamb’s eyes regained their normal clarity.

He looked around, only to find that Sister-in-law Cui Fang was nowhere to be seen.

His eyes held such intense sorrow and loneliness, the little lamb foolishly looked towards the proprietress.

Then he foolishly asked, "Will you, will you be kind to me?"

This was his first sentence in human language, so awkwardly crafted, clumsily grasping for something, as if resigned to his fate, really believing that this woman would love him like a mother.

"Yes, I will."

The proprietress had been on guard, searching for the source of the gong sound, but upon hearing the little lamb’s query, she turned to the tall creature with the head and body of a sheep and showed a satisfied smile.

With a flick of her fingertip across her brow, a drop of fresh blood emerged in mid-air and flew towards him.

She said, commanding, "Bond with me."

The Sheep God, known for its rain-herding ability, should have been a Mountain God. But years ago, it encountered a deceased deity, lacking a fleshly body, possessing only a soul infused with evil energy.

She found out that if the Sheep God was abused and died after birth, it would become an extremely dangerous Ghost Beast, controllable by Ghost Cultivators, and become a formidable aid for them.

The little lamb before her had been killed by its birth mother, and its resentful energy reached the skies. If she turned it into her puppet and sacrificed the entire town’s people to foster the resentful energy inside it, it would become even more powerful, a mindless killing machine that could later be used to confront the netherworld envoys and the Heavenly Masters of the human world!

Just as the innkeeper’s blood was about to fly into the little lamb’s brow, a golden light struck.

The golden light knocked off the blood, then formed a barrier of light, isolating the innkeeper and the little lamb’s souls.

Qin Zhao jumped down from a tree outside the door, "So your goal was to contract it."

He was holding a copper gong he had picked up, and just now, Qin Zhao had applied his Divine Sense to it. The resounding gong sound could instantly break the puppetry technique in progress.

"You actually managed to escape."

The innkeeper was somewhat surprised to see Qin Zhao.

She had thought that the long-robed man could hold off Qin Zhao, which is why she gave him the magic artifact, aiding his temporary escape from the mansion. However, she didn’t expect Qin Zhao to escape so quickly.

"A Heavenly Master? That’s all you are!"

The innkeeper glanced at the grievously injured and unconscious Shangguan Qiu, then turned into a blood mist and attacked Qin Zhao.

Qin Zhao looked indifferently at the blood mist, then struck the copper gong again.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The gong was engraved with spells.

As she struck the gong, the sounds directly dispersed the blood mist.

Qin Zhao kicked the copper coin sword on the ground, drew his sword, and his imposing aura seemed to lift mountains and rivers.

With one slash, Sister-in-law Cui Fang’s house began to collapse.

That was still Qin Zhao holding back some of the force. As for the innkeeper beneath the blood mist, who still looked somewhat human, she had turned half-transparent, no longer able to coalesce into blood mist.

Qin Zhao’s Spiritual Power was too strong; Shangguan Qiu’s copper coin sword shattered in her hand.

She waved her hand, and the scattered copper coins arranged in various positions formed a special Array, enveloping the innkeeper’s soul, and her rebuke was cold and harsh as if it were divine judgment.

"Turning to the path using a ghost, harming others, attempting to refine Ghost Beasts, you must be executed!"

"No! Lord Heavenly Master, please spare me!"

Trapped within the Array, the innkeeper finally felt fear.

The Array formed by copper coins was like a golden cage. Every time she tried to escape, the spells carried by the coins would weaken her soul.

It was then that the innkeeper realized she had provoked an existence she shouldn’t have.

"Lord Heavenly Master, I did it for revenge! In her previous life, she caused me such misery that even after death, I couldn’t reincarnate. I drifted for many years before I found a way to cultivate.

My poor child was immediately swapped out after he was born and then thrown into the river to drown! How could I not hate, please have mercy on me!"

The innkeeper begged, staring at Qin Zhao, hoping she would let her go.

Qin Zhao sneered, "Having cultivated to this point, taking revenge on a mere mortal should have been a simple matter for you. Yet you schemed to have her conceive a child with the Demon Race, and you wanted to refine this child into a Ghost Beast, under your command. Your purpose has long since strayed from mere revenge!"

Ghost Beasts were creatures that Heavenly Masters found very troublesome to deal with. Refining a Ghost Beast required a large number of tragically killed people to augment the Ghost Beast’s resentful energy—the more people died, the stronger the Ghost Beast became.

Successfully refined Ghost Beasts were not only incredibly powerful but also addicted to killing.

Thus, every time a Ghost Beast appeared, it was a major disaster, resulting in numerous mortal deaths.

The innkeeper’s intentions were correctly guessed by Qin Zhao, and she fell silent out of a guilty conscience.

After being able to cultivate as a soul, she not only wanted revenge but also craved ever-increasing power. She happened upon the injured and fallen Sheep God and tricked Sister-in-law Cui Fang into worshipping it, claiming it could make her pregnant.

Sister-in-law Cui Fang spent a night with the Sheep God, but both were unaware, thinking it was a dream.

After returning, Sister-in-law Cui Fang became pregnant.

She thought this would keep her husband, but when the child was born, the innkeeper assisted with the delivery, switching the baby and claiming it was a stillbirth.