Rebirth of the Urban Demon Lord

Chapter 59 The Deceitful Ghost

Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Deceitful Ghost

The Dongfang family suffered heavy losses. The front yard was fine, but the back yard was a complete mess. All the windows on the north side of the villa were shattered, the yard was filled with mud, and all the green plants were blown away.

The old butler sighed and could only instruct the servants to clean up after dawn and to make do with what they had to do that night, sleeping in the rooms on the south side.

"How is Ke'er?" Dongfang Jiye asked anxiously, his face turning pale.

Zhuo Yang calmly took his pulse and said indifferently, "Your condition is more serious than Ke'er's. You must complete a full cycle of the breathing technique I taught you tonight to expel the remaining ghost energy from your body!"

When the Dongfang family was invaded, Dongfang Jiye was in the front yard. He was Fu Yayue's first target and was hit the hardest. It is estimated that Fu Yayue intended to spare his life to extract some information from him, otherwise he would have died long ago.

"What about Ke'er?" Dongfang Jiye was still very worried about his daughter.

Zhuo Yang said calmly, "I'll stay with her and wait for her to wake up. I'll use my true energy to help clear her meridians, and then she can rest for a few days. She's just established her foundation, and we can't let her develop any lasting health problems."

It's frustrating that we don't have any real wound medicine on hand; the Rejuvenation Pill is already the best medicine available.

The quality of medicinal herbs in the mortal realm is too low. To refine them into pills, it takes a lot of time and effort to extract their essence, which is several times longer than refining 20,000 Cold Spirit Pills, and there is no guarantee that a high-quality pill will be produced.

Zhuo Yang could only pin his hopes on Zhou Hanxiao of Longting, hoping that he might have something good there.

Dongfang Jiye checked on his daughter again before returning to his bedroom to rest and practice the breathing techniques that Zhuo Yang had taught him.

Zhuo Yang stood beside Ke'er, then suddenly turned to the air and asked, "What's your name?"

A pale figure suddenly appeared. The stunningly beautiful female ghost sat down in the chair next to Zhuo Yang and said softly, "Liu Yubao."

Zhuo Yang nodded and asked again, "Why don't you leave? Why do you insist on staying by my side?"

"Only you can kill me here." Liu Yubao seemed incapable of smiling, always maintaining a detached and indifferent expression. Yet, she possessed exquisite features and was undoubtedly a great beauty.

Unfortunately, she was a ghost, a vengeful ghost filled with deep resentment.

Zhuo Yang smiled helplessly and said, "Actually, it's pretty good to be alive. There's a saying that goes, 'It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death.'"

Liu Yubao glanced at him: "For me, it's not. Living is just torture."

"Tell me your story, I'm bored anyway," Zhuo Yang said with a smile, trying to evoke some fond memories in her. After all, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

Yes, it's about saving ghosts...

Liu Yubao looked out the window and after a long while said softly, "I only remember that my family was very poor when I was a child. It seems that I never had enough to eat. Later, I was married into the Fu family. The dowry was a bag of rice."

"The day I married into the Fu family, I thought the days of having enough to eat had finally arrived. But after I rode into the Fu family in a sedan chair, they locked me in the cellar and starved me to death. Then, many years later, Fu Yayue appeared and captured my soul..."

She spoke expressionlessly, her voice completely still.

Zhuo Yang was filled with rage upon hearing this: "The entire Fu family is utterly despicable. They want to kill you slowly, so that you will harbor immense resentment."

“I know.” Liu Yubao actually smiled. “That’s why my life is meaningless. I’ve never experienced even the slightest bit of happiness in this world. You might as well kill me and let me be free.”

Zhuo Yang shook his head: "Do you want to cultivate and become a true ghost cultivator?"

"In no mood!"

Liu Yubao refused outright, leaving Zhuo Yang feeling frustrated and unable to vent his anger.

Faced with a ghost like Liu Yubao who had no desires and was only interested in dying, Zhuo Yang really didn't have a good solution. However, he couldn't resist the urge to keep a vengeful ghost in the early stages of his life as a follower.

With a little coaxing, Liu Yubao's resentment could be used as energy to break through to the Ghost Cultivation stage, allowing her to directly become a Ghost Cultivator in the Devouring stage, which is equivalent to a Golden Core stage expert!

"I don't want to kill you, we have no grudge against each other!" Zhuo Yang spread his hands, making a helpless expression.

Liu Yubao frowned; this was the second time Zhuo Yang had seen her make any expression or gesture.

“I’ll trade you my bank safe deposit box,” she said earnestly.

Zhuo Yang smiled and deliberately argued, "I don't even care about the things left behind by evil spirits and heretics!"

Liu Yubao thought for a moment with difficulty and asked, "What if I kill her?" He pointed to the unconscious Dongfang Ke'er on the bed.

Zhuo Yang laughed nonchalantly, "You've been trapped inside Fu Yayue's body for decades, helping her kill quite a few people, haven't you? You still want to kill someone?"

Liu Yubao shook her head: "I don't want to, but I want to die."

Zhuo Yang had a sudden inspiration and said in a low voice, "How about we make a deal? You do me a few favors, and I'll make sure you're free from pain and your soul is scattered!"

Liu Yubao nodded without hesitation, looking somewhat dazed and cute, but her transparent body was unsettling.

He beckoned her closer and cleared his throat, saying, "I have a few close friends who need protection. If you protect them for three months, I'll help you get out of this predicament."

"I don't want to waste time." Liu Yubao shook his head, his expression turning blank again.

Zhuo Yang laughed and said, "That's it. I was just planning to deal with the Fu family. It seems you won't live to see their destruction."

Liu Yubao suddenly turned around, her exquisite face instantly turning ferocious, her resentment transforming into tangible black smoke that rose up in wisps.

"Want revenge?" Zhuo Yang raised the corners of his mouth and met her gaze.

Liu Yubao nodded instinctively.

Zhuo Yang said in a deep voice, "Then cheer up and cultivate properly. The Fu family has Fu Ya Yue, but there might be something even more evil out there. I need your help!"

"Give it to me!" Liu Yubao stretched out his hand, and the black aura around him became even thicker.

Zhuo Yang immediately went to Ke'er's dressing table, wrote down a secret technique for ghost cultivation in his notebook, tore off a piece of paper, wrote Liu Yubao's name on the back, and burned it to ashes.

Suddenly, Liu Yubao had a piece of paper in his hand, covered with tiny, neat characters.

"The Secret Record of Cultivation?" She read out the name of the cultivation technique and looked at Zhuo Yang with difficulty.

"Focus on your cultivation. In your current state, you can only help me protect the Dongfang family. You can't do anything else, let alone take revenge!" Zhuo Yang said with a dissatisfied expression.

Liu Yubao was naive and had been imprisoned for who knows how many years. She was still as innocent as a young girl and actually agreed.

Zhuo Yang found an umbrella in the house and let her hide inside. During the day, Ke'er would carry the umbrella when going out. No one would have guessed that a vengeful ghost was hiding under the umbrella.

It could very well be a vengeful ghost at the Golden Core stage!

"Anyone who dares to bully Ke'er, let her release the ghost!"

He tricked a vengeful ghost into joining him... Little sister, Zhuo Yang thought about it and realized there seemed to be some profits that hadn't been factored in.

Fu Yayue's belongings are kept in a bank safe deposit box, along with the secret manual of the "Ghost-Binding Body Tempering Technique".

"Tomorrow I'll ask Liu Yubao for information about the safe. Tonight, I'll study that evil cultivation technique."

Zhuo Yang called Liu Yubao out and asked for the yellow paper containing the secret manual, which he then studied by his bedside.

There are countless paths to enlightenment, and there are so many things worth learning from them.

He had barely sat down when he sensed something and walked to the bedside to look south. Under the moonlight, thick fog swirled around the tombstone hill across the bay.

"The Heavenly Thunder Mist Formation has been activated... Oh no, enemies are attacking Tombstone Mountain!" A murderous glint flashed in Zhuo Yang's eyes. "Yu Bao, stay here and protect Ke'er. If there's danger, take her and escape to the mountain across the bay!"

Before he could finish speaking, he leaped out of the window and disappeared in a flash.