Chapter 124 - Stirring up Trouble Seeking Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets

Everyone in the venue watched Ding Ling, some happy for her, others green with envy.

There were also those who harbored grudges against Ding Ling.

Those resentful eyes belonged to Bian Shasha, who had thought she would win and had heavily invested in Spirit Talismans.

However, she didn’t expect to be defeated and now watched as Ding Ling was taken in as a Direct Disciple by a Golden Core Elder.

The hangers-on who had previously surrounded her left, fearing that if they continued to follow Bian Shasha, they would face revenge from Ding Ling, who had been accepted by the Golden Core Elder.

In her heart, Bian Shasha was screaming, “The position of Direct Disciple should have been mine!

I can’t accept this, that dead girl Ding Ling, she will definitely seek revenge.”

Ding Ling stepped onto the stage amidst envious gazes and came before the Golden Core Elder, who publicly gave her a storage bag and asked her to follow him back to his cave dwelling.

Ding Ling thanked her master and, before leaving with him, waved to Lai Jianlin and Mo Wen below the stage.

Lai Jianlin waved back and followed his own master to his mountain peak cave dwelling.

Cultivators keep all their belongings in storage bags and storage rings; they don’t need to pack any luggage.

While Mo Wen was happy for them, he could only leave the training ground with a fallen face.

The competition for Direct Disciples would resume in a day’s time, and he would come then to watch the contests unfold.

As soon as Huang Chen and his juniors arrived at Hell Palace, they discovered that the red light posed a danger to their souls’ dissipation.

Fortunately, their master’s aura enveloped and protected their souls underground, where they learned about the power of the red light and dared not carelessly run out.

Huang Chen and his juniors’ souls took shelter separately inside a Magnet Magic Treasure named Soul Conqueror, belonging to their grandmaster’s artifact refining collection.

When he saw the benefits of this treasure from within, he felt grateful.

Their souls, which had been slightly dissipated by the red light, were nourished by the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, even more effective than the Spirit Supplement Pills he used to consume as a Human Cultivator.

After practicing within for a while, his Spirit Awakening cultivation had become even more consolidated.

A glimmer of hope revived in Huang Chen’s heart as he briefly observed the law of time outside; the red moon’s light lasted only half a day.

He stayed hidden, waiting for nightfall.

When night fell, Huang Chen cautiously peered out from the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror and observed many Ghost Flames floating in the darkness, their fiery eyes drifting through the air.

Having never experienced ghost cultivation before his transformation, he now understood the practice upon seeing these drifting Ghost Flames, recognizing them as his own kind.

Seeing his counterparts actively moving about outside, Huang Chen also began to move about using the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror.

Once he tried stepping out of the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, he discovered the strong suction force of Hell Palace.

This suction force seemed to help Ghost Cultivators’ souls to condense.

Staying in this force to practice for a night, he felt an urge to make a breakthrough.

“Wow, wow, wow”

A Ghost Cultivator with high cultivation detected the unfamiliar soul of Huang Chen practicing, called his minions, and, as they used to do with new faces before, they ganged up to bully Huang Chen.

Suddenly many Ghost Flames floated around Huang Chen, trapping him, as eerie cries resounded from all directions.

Huang Chen, feeling the unfriendly movements of the other souls, first ducked back into the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror.

Facing a multitude of ghosts, he hid as they acted just like he used to when he bullied others, overpowering the few with many.

Huang Chen would never be so foolish as to stay put and let himself be bullied.

With a wild fire in his heart, he was looking for someone to vent his anger on, and these Ghost Cultivators who came to provoke him were about to experience the ferocity of the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror.

Controlling the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, Huang Chen made the treasure emit a smokescreen right onto some of the Ghost Cultivators from the Hell Palace who had just surrounded him.

“Ah…

Ahhhhh”

The Ghost Cultivators screamed in agony as they covered their eyes, the smoke causing harm to them.

Their eyes, normally aglow with Ghost Flames and a reddish hue, were now shedding bloody tears.

With screams, they covered their eyes with both hands as droplets of blood continued to flow.

They kept on screaming, realizing the danger, and started to hide, searching for medicinal herbs that could restore their vision.

They hurried to the riverside to look for a red flower to treat their eyes.

Huang Chen tried it and found it effective, and he burst into laughter within the treasure, “Hahahaha,” delighted that the Artifact Refining work by his grandfather was truly formidable.

In the future, anyone who dared to bully him would taste its power.

News that a formidable new ghost had appeared in the Hell Palace spread quickly amongst the ghostly throngs.

The other leaders were not as reckless as the previous one and voiced their inquiries to the Golden Core Elder, who told them that this was his Disciple, come to lead them against the creatures inside.

The Ghost Cultivator leaders came to float around a small magical treasure in the sky, calling out, “Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow.” The Ghost Cultivator leaders weren’t incapable of human speech; it was just that they needed to lead some of the lower-leveled Ghost Cultivators, and at this moment, they were making those underlings pay respects to the new leader.

Huang Chen, inside the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, saw so many Ghost Cultivators surrounding him and thought they had come to besiege him.

He was about to show them a lesson, but then he saw the Ghost Cultivators encircling his magical treasure, all of them kneeling in midair with their spirits.

Perhaps, before he turned into a spirit, he wouldn’t have understood the strange language of these Ghost Cultivators.

But now, having become a Ghost Cultivator himself, he understood their language and secret signals.

Feeling they were quite sensible, he thought that had they not learned their lesson earlier, they would have known not to come and provoke him, not to disobey his commands.

Huang Chen knew his Cultivation was not as high as those leaders and feared other leaders might rebel, so he spoke from within the magical treasure to those outside:

“I am sent by Master to take control of the Hell Palace.

Master has found that Dragons and Human Cultivators have appeared inside the Hell Palace, so he sent me to command this magical treasure to fight those creatures.

Will you follow my orders?”

“Yes, yes, yes”

The Ghost Cultivators outside echoed in unison, their Ghost Flames flickering in midair, signifying their joy.

“To make you convinced, tonight I will lead you to attack those Demonic Beasts.”

“Ohhhhhh”

Ghost Flames danced wildly in the air, spinning rapidly in circles, symbolizing their ecstatic cheers.

“You must know where those Demonic Beasts are hiding.

Point me to their hiding places, and I’ll show you the might of the magical treasure.”

A large group of Ghost Cultivators sent out a signal with a fire, indicating the location where the Demonic Beasts were hiding.

Previously, the Hell Palace was filled with piles of Ghost Flames, but in an instant, Ghost Flames began twinkling everywhere.

The Demonic Beasts hiding underground seemed to sense danger.

Observing from the entrances of their dark dens, they wouldn’t venture out onto the surface at night unless absolutely necessary due to the strong suction force outside.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Huang Chen instructed the Ghost Cultivators to hide while he controlled the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror to emit smoke inside the Hell Palace.

This smoke was different from the one used on the Ghost Cultivators earlier; it released a poisonous gas harmful to living creatures.

Any creature that inhaled it and couldn’t detoxify would die.