Chapter 423: Ghost Plague Disaster

"Old Lu should break through in three or five days, so you just need to wait."

"Recently, Hanshui City has experienced many ghostly plagues and disasters. If you have nothing to do these few days, you can go to the vicinity of Hanshui City to capture ghosts and monsters. When you return, you can also exchange them for contribution points. I will write a letter of recommendation for you." Elder Gai smiled, showing great care for the three juniors, including Lu Yang.

"Ghostly plagues and disasters?" Lu Yang wondered. Hanshui City had a State Governor presiding over it and the Corpse Driving Sect assisting. What ghostly plague or disaster would dare to rear its head?

Elder Gai sighed, "Wasn't the previous State Governor reported and arrested? Along with a whole host of officials, leading to personnel transfers in the Huangzhou officialdom."

"At this time, Hanshui City suddenly saw many ghostly plagues and disasters. Even using the rules, it is difficult to completely ban them. It should be a conflict in the dark involving the Body Integration Stage."

"The newly appointed State Governor hasn't even stabilized his footing yet encountered this kind of thing. It wasn't handled very properly, so the ghostly plagues and disasters have not been effectively contained."

"The Nine Nether Sect is best at expelling and driving ghosts. The State Governor suspects that the Nine Nether Sect is secretly causing trouble and is investigating strictly, but there have been no results."

"As a famous major sect in Huangzhou, our Corpse Driving Sect naturally takes on the responsibility, encouraging disciples to resolve the ghostly plagues and disasters. The levels of these plagues are not high, enough for you to handle."

"Of course, you can also choose to learn the Corpse Driving Technique in this sect. It depends on your choice."

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou exchanged looks, seeing each other's doubts.

How could it be the Nine Nether Sect secretly causing trouble? They were currently opening barbecue shops with great enthusiasm. Where would they find the time for this? Did they think the barbecue shops weren't earning enough?

No matter who created the ghostly plagues and disasters, as disciples of the Asking Sect, they had to deal with it.

After the group bid farewell to Elder Gai, the Immortal Fairy's voice echoed in Lu Yang's mind.

"The old man just now was not a living person, but a living corpse. The refinement technique is quite sophisticated."

"Who?" Lu Yang thought he had misheard.

"The old man just now."

Lu Yang's thoughts turned a thousand times, instantly thinking of the most likely occurrence, and cold sweat broke out: Elder Gai had died without anyone knowing, and someone had refined Elder Gai's body, using it to create the illusion that Elder Gai was still alive.

"Brother Zhao, I see that Elder Gai seems somewhat unusual," Lu Yang asked tentatively.

Zhao Po extended his thumb, "Brother Lu has good eyesight to be able to see this. The one sitting there just now was not my master, but a living corpse refined by my master."

"What is going on?" Meng Jingzhou and Mangu became interested.

Zhao Po smiled and explained without any hesitation, "We corpse drivers are in contact with corpse qi and death qi all year round. The body's yin and yang are unbalanced, with yin prevailing and yang declining, leading to a weak physical body. Not to mention comparing with a body cultivator like Brother Meng, even the physical body of an ordinary cultivator is stronger than ours."

"A corpse driver's entire cultivation is reflected in the refined living corpse. For safety's sake, corpse drivers who reach the Soul Transformation Stage no longer show their true faces, but let the refined living corpse replace themselves."

"Not just my master, all the elders in the sect use living corpses to walk outside instead of themselves. No one knows where their true bodies are."

"Moreover, most corpse drivers are unwilling to communicate with strangers. They are shy and reticent, so having a living corpse replace them works perfectly. Why not do it?"

Corpse drivers deal with corpses all year round and are very introverted, with someone like Zhao Po being a minority instead.

"So that's how it is." Lu Yang suddenly realized that he had thought too much.

"Next, are we going to our schoolhouse to study, or should I go pick up a mission and go with me to resolve the ghostly plagues and disasters?"

A smile hooked on the corner of Lu Yang's mouth, and he said with righteous words, "Naturally, we must go resolve the ghostly plagues and disasters. Old Meng is a Single Spiritual Root, having formed two Single Golden Core. With his pure yang body, any ghost will flee upon seeing him!"

"With Old Meng taking action, resolving the ghostly plagues and disasters will be a piece of cake!"

Although it was a rare praise from Lu Yang, and he spoke the absolute truth, Meng Jingzhou could not feel happy at all.

You are the Single Spiritual Root, your whole family is a Single Spiritual Root!

Sometimes Meng Jingzhou really wanted to give Lu Yang a set of Single Curse Fists, but he didn't dare.

Intuition told him that if he gave Lu Yang a set of Single Curse Fists, the karmic backlash would be even more severe than now, and then he truly wouldn't be able to be saved.

A mere Lu Yang, wait until I become an immortal to give him a set of fist techniques!

"In that case, can we take Golden Core Stage missions as we please?" Zhao Po pondered. With the four of them as Golden Cores taking action, they could sweep through Golden Core Stage ghost missions.

Lu Yang waved his big hand, "Be bolder, we can also take Nascent Soul Stage ones."

Zhao Po was startled, but soon understood. With the four of them joining forces, dealing with Nascent Soul Stage ghosts should not be a problem.

"Good, then I will go find Nascent Soul Stage missions. The three of you wait here for a moment."

While Zhao Po went to take the mission, Lu Yang had nothing to do, so he pulled out the Nine Nether Token, contacted Vice Sect Master Shi, and entered a paragraph of text.

"We, the Heavenly Court Sect, have a Heavenly King currently in Huangzhou's Hanshui City and found that ghostly plagues and disasters have appeared here. The State Governor suspects you did it. Was it you?"

After waiting for a while, the Nine Nether Token had no response for a long time. Lu Yang thought Vice Sect Master Shi was busy with something and hadn't looked at the Nine Nether Token. Just as he was about to put it back, he saw the Nine Nether Token grow hot, and a large chunk of text surfaced on the face.

Lu Yang was speechless, "So it wasn't that Vice Sect Master Shi didn't see it, but that he was frantically writing words."

Vice Sect Master Shi's reply was like this:

"This is pure slander. Those bastards in the imperial court have dumped the dung bucket onto our heads again. Our Sect Master thinks the 'Dialogue in the Shop' proposed by Young Sect Master Lu was very well said. Currently, the powerful experts of the Nine Nether Sect are too few, and we should cultivate with concentration to increase the number of Body Integration and even Tribulation Transmutation Stages. Various activities of our Nine Nether Sect are in a semi-stagnant state, and the entire sect is busy opening chain stores to make money. This was a decision made by the Sect Master."

In the branch of the Nine Nether Sect, Vice Sect Master Shi saw Lu Yang's question and was filled with righteous indignation.

"Our time for making money now is not even enough, where would we find the time to engage in some ghostly plague? What benefits could we get? The imperial court has slandered us more than once or twice. Whenever there is something they can't figure out, they say our demonic sect did it. How could our demonic sect have the spare time to do this!"

He cursed loudly while replying to Lu Yang. If this caused the Heavenly Court Sect to misunderstand, mistakenly thinking that the Nine Nether Sect disregarded the big picture and acted without authorization, it would be difficult to cooperate deeply in the future.

After replying, he felt it was still necessary to explain something more to Lu Yang, only to find that the Nine Nether Token could no longer be used.

"It still needs to cool down for five days, so troublesome."

Vice Sect Master Shi leaned back in his chair to look at the ceiling, and suddenly slapped his forehead, "Oh, why am I worrying about this matter? Isn't the Sect Master right there in Huangzhou?"

He took out another Nine Nether Token and told the Sect Master about what Lu Yang said, to see how the Sect Master said to handle it.

The Sect Master replied very quickly, with only one sentence.

"I am right here in Hanshui City."