CHAPTER 570: CHAPTER 290: THE LAW OF GHOSTS

It discerned that the elderly woman relied on the water in the ladle, so it channeled all its power into the Water Control of the Water Ghost, Wang Xiang.

But it did not know the weight of Weak Water.

An old saying goes, the Weak Water three thousand deep, even a swan feather cannot float, and the reeds sink to the bottom, referring to this Weak Water River that even Immortals cannot easily cross.

The elderly woman lifted the ladle, took another sip of Weak Water, then her figure suddenly turned ethereal, as if she transformed into a drop of turbid water, which penetrated through Wang Xiang’s arm cage and also passed through the blockade of Witch and Witch Qi.

In the Ancient Yin River Dao, only a raspy echo lingered: "A thousand years later, this old body will come back to settle today’s matter with you."

Xu Qing, arriving at this scene, only felt parched mouth and throat.

The brief clash between the elderly woman and the Ghost Law was already beyond the battles he could engage at his level.

Xu Qing estimated that he would need to practice the Heavenly Gang Axe to at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight levels to break the law of Ghost Law.

The Sutra of Salvation continued to turn pages; after the elderly woman left the Ancient Yin River Dao, she wandered everywhere, during which she tried to teach disciples, preach and spread doctrines and also tried to aid the world and save people.

But over the years, the response generated was rather lackluster.

After such a century, the elderly woman began to resort to any means possible, selecting a few pure-hearted disciples as divine candidates, and the result was that within a few decades, these disciples were almost completely annihilated.

In a world of great calamity, incense is not so easily earned, pure-hearted ordinary people barely survive, let alone new-born divinities with compassion but no thunderous means.

The competition for incense is no less than the struggle for imperial power.

Upon realizing the issue, the elderly woman started patching holes everywhere; since pure-hearted disciples were easily harmed, she sought out those with hard lives!

If those with hard lives couldn’t endure, then she would find disciples with more than one life.

That year, the elderly woman found Wu Qimin, extremely kind and charitable.

That year, Wu Qimin’s identity was exposed, with rumors saying that eating one of his hairs or a piece of his flesh could cure a hundred diseases and live a hundred years; consuming his heart or liver could lead to immortality, to become an Immortal!

That year, the temple where Wu Qimin resided was razed to the ground, and even a single brick was snatched away by people, while the undying people were dismembered and consumed.

The Youyang Zazu has it that: Wu Qimin, lives in a cave eating soil, without gender. When dead and buried, his heart remains incorruptible, reforming into a person after a hundred years.

Later, a glutton who loves delicacies noted: In the east lies the nation of Wu Qimin, whose people, after death, remain with an incorruptible heart, non-decaying liver, and unbendable legs. Bury them and they can resurrect. However, their bodies cannot be eaten, as dividing and consuming them erases form and soul, forever breaking ties with the world...

After Wu Qimin, entrusted with great responsibility, was tragically consumed, the elderly woman did not give up. She successively sought those with limb regeneration abilities from the Witch clans and the thousand-year-longevity undying people.

However, without exception, none met a good end.

Thereafter, the elderly woman completely strayed down the demonic path; she no longer confined herself to humans, seeking the Huangqi, Undying Bird, Nine-tailed Fox Demon...

Until she met Xuan Yu.

At this time, the elderly woman had reached the stage of ’dying before living, breaking before establishing.’

Which means finding disciples with multiple lives, sacrificing one life to cast secret spells, allowing them to escape the observation of the three realms and six paths, unnoticed by the Law Corpse.

This method, akin to a Zombie, is equivalent to ’the dead’s debts dissolving’; once dead, they completely vanish within and beyond the world, becoming people with no record.

Belonging to the three realms, six paths, and Five Elements, there is no trace of them.

This matter has pros and cons, if we are to make an analogy, it is like a kitten leaving the cat’s nest and running into a dog’s den, covered in dog scent; even if one day it is carried back, the mother cat would not recognize it.

However, there might be an extra protective dog dad or dog mom.

With the revolving lantern ended, Xu Qing looked at the elderly woman’s corpse.

Clearly, this was an old dog that only snatched offspring, never protected them.

In Xu Qing’s heart, he held the elderly woman in contempt, though she might merely be an avatar of some ancient deity.

In Xu Qing’s eyes, the moral standards of an avatar often equate to the original.

Although the elderly woman’s moral standards were lacking, her corpse’s standard was not low.

Xu Qing examined the spiritual rewards: a Wind Leading Talisman, a recipe for Making Incense for Rebirth, a drop of Three Lives Stone Dew, and a Soul Reviving Pill.

Among them, the recipe for Making Incense for Rebirth is ranked among human top-grade, Three Lives Stone Dew as earth top-grade, and Soul Reviving Pill as earth mid-grade.

While the Wind Leading Talisman is ranked as heavenly mid-grade.