FIMA Ch66: Solution

Gu Siyuan simply pretended not to hear.

When face-slapping happens often enough, this group of people will get used to it.

However, someone clearly couldn’t stand it.

Xie Xuanxing suddenly looked at Gu Siyuan, saying pitifully, “Boss, I’m really trash. Even though it’s just a ghost domain propped up by a half-Ghost King, my magical artifact almost got ruined.”

Gu Siyuan glanced at the person beside him. Why is he suddenly talking like this?

Xie Cang glanced at his own grandson and said reluctantly, “Doesn’t that make an old man like me, who has cultivated for half a lifetime, even more trash? From now on, I won’t dare speak loudly in front of you.”

He Pan and the little curly-haired guy next to them immediately understood as well: “Yeah, yeah. In the future, I’ll only dare to straighten my back and mock others when I can single-handedly take down a Ghost King. Unlike some people who naturally have good mentalities; even when they can’t do it themselves, they still have the gall to look down on others who can.”

The speaker has their intention.

And the listener naturally takes it more to heart.

The person who had just spoken mockingly immediately blew his beard and glared in anger.

“Hey, hey. Although this young fellow Daoist is indeed a young hero, you fellow Daoists need not be so modest. We should hurry up and make use of the time.”

Although Chen Qi was also very dissatisfied with Gu Siyuan in his heart, the most crucial thing right now was that half-Ghost King.

“Right, right!”

“Everyone should work together.”

Seeing that the Ghost King was just a half-finished product, the people from the aristocratic families who originally weren’t very willing to go in and exorcise the ghost couldn’t help but feel eager again in their hearts.

If they could capture the Ghost King alive and put it into a Yin Soul Banner, they could instantly create a top-tier magical artifact; even if the Ghost King’s soul scattered, the Yin Soul Pearl it left behind would be a great treasure that could enhance a person’s divine consciousness.

In today’s Age of Dharma Decline, the free spiritual energy in heaven and earth was already scarce. Cultivating until death merely meant going in circles within the Qi Refining realm, so the gap in spiritual power between most cultivators was not large. What truly determined victory or defeat in a fight was the difference in inherited cultivation methods, the strength of magical artifacts, and the level of divine consciousness.

This single Ghost King could instantly change the latter two—how tempting.

Thus, right at this moment, the protagonist gong, Han Mingye, glanced at a clansman beside him.

That clansman immediately understood, taking the initiative to step forward and say passionately, “Everyone, since thanks to this young man from the Special Administration Bureau, we have seen the situation of the ghost domain clearly, why don’t we fight a quick battle to resolve this and rescue the ordinary people trapped inside as soon as possible? This is inherently the responsibility of us cultivators. My Han family, as a metaphysical aristocratic family, is willing to take the lead.”

This person seemed to be the Han family’s external spokesperson usually; his speech sounded extremely pleasant.

Chivalrous and courageous, full of noble and righteous spirit.

The SWAT officers on the side almost got excited just listening to it.

And this group of cultivators, although most saw through the Han family’s intentions, had no intention of objecting.

After all, everyone had their own motives, and having someone stick their neck out was just right.

“Fellow Daoist Han is right. In that case, let’s all go in!”

“Let’s just follow what we agreed before; each family leaving one person outside is enough.”

“Good, good, good. Let’s go in!”

On the Special Administration Bureau’s side, those going in were He Pan, Gu Siyuan, and Xie Xuanxing.

The little curly-haired guy’s sledgehammer had sustained some damage, while the old man Xie Cang would stay outside to back them up later.

However, the old man was very dissatisfied with Gu Siyuan’s behavior of abducting his grandson, and fiercely glared at him several times.

Gu Siyuan glanced at him indifferently, then reached out a hand to hold Xie Xuanxing’s slender wrist: “Let’s go!”

Xie Xuanxing glanced at the large palm on his wrist, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly as he raised his head and gave a forceful “Mm.”

“…” Xie Cang.

What does this guy mean? What does he exactly mean?

He’s doing this on purpose, right…

With the person from the Han family driving their magical artifact to clear the way, the others followed closely behind.

Just as they stepped into the ghost domain at the cave entrance, an eerie Yin wind blew right into their faces.

Gu Siyuan instantly felt a bone-piercing chill, and the palm holding Xie Xuanxing’s slender wrist tightened.

In an instant, everything in sight—the sun in the sky, the surrounding trees, and green grass—completely vanished.

They had directly entered another world.

“Hehehe… So many cultivators actually came. I haven’t had a full meal since I woke up, looks like I can now?”

A bizarre, hoarse voice that couldn’t be distinguished as male or female sounded from above everyone’s heads.

The next moment, the scattered Yin energy, as if driven, suddenly blew violently, and then transformed into giant black vortexes like tornadoes, sweeping towards them.

Everyone’s expressions changed, and they instantly summoned their respective magical artifacts.

At a time like this, cultivators focused on defense felt extremely fortunate.

While those cultivators focused on attacking had just driven their magical artifacts to knock away a bit of this black vortex, but because they were inside the ghost domain with endless Yin energy, it instantly gathered anew.

Everyone was instantly thrown into a panic; where was the awe-inspiring air they had when they first entered?

Gu Siyuan, however, pulled Xie Xuanxing and charged straight toward the vortex.

Those cultivators who were resisting were also shocked. Is this person throwing his life away?

Passing directly through that high-speed rotating Yin energy, Gu Siyuan’s entire body was almost frozen numb.

Xie Xuanxing’s spiritual power was a bit higher than his, so he was unharmed, and instantly slapped a talisman on him.

However, at this time, they were also already safe.

Xie Xuanxing looked around and nodded: “So the center of a tornado really is safe.”

Hearing this, Gu Siyuan looked at him and reminded him coldly: “This place is quite special. This half-Ghost King’s strength is insufficient, and the ghost domain it props up isn’t large, so there isn’t enough space for these Yin energy vortexes to move rapidly. They can only rotate in place or within a certain range. But real tornadoes move rapidly; you can’t just blindly rush into them.”

“…” Xie Xuanxing.

Who can tell this person in front of him that, although he is a cultivator, he has also attended university, unlike those foolish cultivators outside?

While talking, Gu Siyuan took something from his waist and handed it over.

Xie Xuanxing furrowed his good-looking brows: “What is this?”

Gu Siyuan opened the bottle cap, aligned it with his nose and mouth, took a breath, and said at the same time: “Don’t you feel that your breathing is unsmooth? Although the center of the vortex is relatively calm, the air pressure will be very low.”

Xie Xuanxing nodded, furrowing his brows and saying with difficulty: “Yes… Seems to be…”

As he spoke, his entire body tilted, leaning uncomfortably against Gu Siyuan.

“…” Gu Siyuan.

This is feigning injury to extort, right.

He quickly hugged the person tightly with one hand, letting him lean on his shoulder, and with the other hand, aligned his oxygen bottle with Xie Xuanxing’s nose and mouth.

Xie Xuanxing was a cultivator, and his physical strength was quite good. After taking a few breaths, he immediately recovered.

He wrapped both hands around Gu Siyuan’s oxygen bottle, taking it as his own, and even puffed his cheeks to glance at the person a few times.

Gu Siyuan narrowed his eyes: “What are you doing?”

Xie Xuanxing mumbled with his bright red lips, saying slowly: “Usually under such circumstances, don’t people transfer air mouth-to-mouth?”

Gu Siyuan: “…”

What is wrong with young people nowadays.

Because of the obstruction of the Yin wind vortexes, although the other cultivators couldn’t see the figures of the two of them clearly,

That half-Ghost King took in the entire ghost domain. Perhaps seeing that the two of them were too leisurely, it felt extremely indignant in its heart. Its figure arrived rapidly without moving, and the large vortex surrounding Gu Siyuan and Xie Xuanxing suddenly exploded, turning into numerous slender and sharp conical Yin energy arrows, shooting toward the two.

Frost and snow instantly covered Xie Xuanxing’s face.

His slender palm patted his waist, and dozens of Blazing Sun Talismans floated up, shooting like scattered flowers from a heavenly maiden toward those conical Yin energy arrows.

Although the situation was urgent, Xie Xuanxing’s control over spiritual energy was extremely precise. Every single talisman blocked at least two conical Yin energy arrows, and the scene temporarily fell into a stalemate.

Seeing this, the Ghost King was greatly displeased.

Clasping its hands together, the sleeves formed by Yin energy gently swung. Just as it was about to increase its attack intensity and shoot Xie Xuanxing into a sieve, it noticed Gu Siyuan controlling something covered in talismans and crashing it toward its head.

The Ghost King thought it was some kind of self-destructing magical artifact and subconsciously tilted its head first, wanting to dodge.

Only to find that this person’s aim was completely off, and the magical artifact just happened to graze past the top of its head.

It sneered, just about to speak mockingly.

Gu Siyuan quietly glanced at it, then slightly narrowed his eyes, took out a remote control from his waist, and gently pressed a button with his finger.

Although the Ghost King didn’t recognize that thing, it just felt something was wrong and looked up.

The next moment, a bright light filled its eyes, as if it had walked out of the ghost domain and stood in the bright human world.

“Crackle!” The sound of several lightning bolts rang out.

Three clusters of electrical arcs, carrying the thunder fire essence from numerous Thunder Talismans, poured down like a waterfall of lightning toward the Ghost King’s location.

“Ah…”

The extra head of that Ghost King was instantly sliced off by half. On its twisted body, silver-white electrical arcs bearing faint thunder fire aura flickered uncertainly.

And the entire ghost was truly trembling frantically and madly at this moment, as if electrocuted.

Lightning was inherently the natural nemesis of Yin and evil entities.

Xie Xuanxing, as well as the cultivators fighting the Yin energy vortexes nearby, were all extremely shocked.

And because the Ghost King was injured, these Yin energy vortexes had also become much weaker. Everyone successively gathered a breath of power and scattered them all at once.

He Pan walked over, asking curiously, “How did you do that just now? What’s the principle? Is it the same high-voltage electricity from before? The effect is so good! And it can be released out of thin air…”

Gu Siyuan glanced at him: “An idiot wouldn’t understand anyway.”

Xie Xuanxing pulled his sleeve, saying excitedly, “What happened?”

Gu Siyuan explained calmly: “I told you inside earlier, the air pressure in the center of a tornado is very low, so the temperature will also be very low. Therefore, the water vapor on the ground and in the air is sucked up, forming a cloud of water mist at the top. And just now, that idiot happened to stand right between three vortexes, which means right between three connected water vapor clouds. Once the high-voltage electricity fell into the middle of those three clusters of water vapor, it ended up like this. Added with the amplification from your pile of Thunder Talismans, do you understand?”

Xie Xuanxing nodded blankly.

Gu Siyuan patted his head. His face remained stern, but his hand was very gentle: “It’s fine if you don’t understand, just follow me.”

He understood this sentence.

Xie Xuanxing nodded fiercely, then smilingly held onto the person’s sleeve.

“…” He Pan.

I clearly didn’t understand either, why didn’t I get the head-patting treatment?

Just because I’m not as good-looking as him; I despair at this face-judging world.

Gu Siyuan had no mind to care about his young boyish thoughts, and said coldly to the crowd: “Stop watching the show. These methods of mine still can’t kill that Ghost King, hurry up and press the advantage.”

The crowd recovered from their shock, nodded, and immediately used various methods, attacking toward that Ghost King.

For a time, various firelights, water bullets, wind blades, etc., took turns to appear.

Gu Siyuan, meanwhile, pulled Xie Xuanxing and slowly retreated a few steps, getting closer to a certain place.

Everyone only thought he was going to prepare some scientific method to kill the ghost again and didn’t take it to heart, even feeling slightly relieved for a moment.

Right at this moment, the Ghost King had already finished removing the lightning from its body. Although severely injured, it had gained an aura of reckless madness.

“Ah…” A violent burst of Yin energy erupted, and everyone was knocked back several steps.

“I’ll kill you all!” When the Ghost King’s pitch-black eyes looked in Gu Siyuan’s direction, they carried an undisguised, chilling killing intent.

Right at this moment, Gu Siyuan and Xie Xuanxing were actually knocked to the ground by that burst of Yin energy just now.

Moreover, something uncontrolled dropped from their bodies, plump and round, rolling with a clatter clatter toward the direction of someone not far away.

That person slightly lowered his head, moving his arm wanting to pick it up.

However, the Ghost King suddenly turned its head and looked toward that thing. The killing intent in its eyes faded slightly, turning into a fiery possessiveness that was almost tangible.

Only, after seeing the thing truly being picked up and held in someone’s hand, it instantly changed into even more intense killing intent and hatred.

“How dare you snatch my thing, kill!”

The Ghost King roared angrily, completely abandoning Gu Siyuan, and flew toward that person.

After holding the item in his hand, Han Mingye instantly recognized it—this was that bronze Yin cauldron.

Suddenly, an inexplicable sense of unease surged in his heart.

The next moment, a violent Yin wind, accompanied by an even stronger killing intent, appeared before his eyes.

At the juncture of life and death, Han Mingye had no time to think, nor could he hold back his strength anymore. He backhandedly whipped out a rope magical artifact, threw it toward the Ghost King, and immediately circulated all his spiritual power to control it.

This rope magical artifact was his Han family’s strongest ancestral magical artifact, an earthly version of the ancient Immortal-Binding Rope. Even his patriarch father couldn’t completely master it.

This time, knowing a Ghost King had appeared, his father feared he would encounter danger, and also hoped he could have a great harvest, so he privately brought it out from the family’s sacred ground for him to use.

He manipulated it very clumsily, but the Immortal-Binding Rope was extremely powerful, managing at least to restrict the Ghost King’s movements.

Han Mingye was covered in sweat, but didn’t forget to glare fiercely at Gu Siyuan, almost wanting to swallow him whole.

He didn’t need to think to know this person did it on purpose. Otherwise, with this person’s flawless calculations, how could he suddenly fall beside him, and just happen to drop that bronze Yin cauldron right by his hand?

The reason this half-Ghost King was in such a sorry state from their attacks now was because back when it was only half-refined, this small cauldron was taken away, so it only cultivated a half-King body. This Yin cauldron was also its hope to continue cultivating to become a King.

Naturally, it would deeply detest the person who took it. What a brilliant move of shifting the blame.

The Ghost King’s struggles became stronger and stronger, and its hatred toward Han Mingye grew even more intense, almost charging at his mind. Han Mingye could hardly hold on.

He shouted loudly: “Why aren’t you all helping?”

Xie Yuchen was the first to react. Struggling for a long while, he with difficulty pulled out a talisman from his waist and threw it out.

Subsequently, in an instant, thunder exploded, electrical arcs flashed before everyone’s eyes, and the entire cave trembled as if about to collapse.

Although Xie Yuchen’s talisman was also thunder, it was several times more powerful than the effect of Gu Siyuan detonating dozens of Thunder Talismans combined with high-voltage electricity earlier.

“Ah…” The Ghost King let out a miserable shriek, instantly tottering on the verge of collapse, its body covered in wounds.

“Quick!” The cultivators hastily exerted their strength together, circulating various magical artifacts to prop up the Ghost King, and then pushed it toward the mouth of the small bronze cauldron Gu Siyuan had just opened.

After the Immortal-Binding Rope and the Ghost King entered the small cauldron together, Xie Xuanxing immediately put on the cauldron lid, and pasted almost all the sealing talismans on his body onto it.

“This half-Ghost King was born from the small cauldron, and only this small cauldron can trap it.”

With the half-Ghost King severely injured and sealed away, the ghost domain could no longer be sustained.

The crowd immediately returned to the human world, a bright expanse before their eyes.

Standing on the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, Gu Siyuan felt quite good, even while being exposed to the scorching noon sun.

Seeing Xie Xuanxing, with his fair and delicate skin, hiding in his shadow, he smiled and, rarely acting childish, spread out his two palms to increase the sun-shade area for him.

Xie Xuanxing propped his fair chin on his hand, looking up and smiling clearly at him: “Thank you, Boss.”

Gu Siyuan gave an “Mm” and said coldly: “Caring for a follower is to be expected; you need to be good in the future too.”

Xie Xuanxing nodded fiercely.

But, what kind of boss makes people be good…

Haha, this person is so silly.

Not far away, Xie Yuchen looked at these two, yet his heart was agitated and irritated to the extreme.

The talisman he threw out earlier was named the Nine Heavens Thunder Talisman, which he learned from the Nine Mystic Talisman Methods.

To say Xie Xuanxing’s Thunder Talisman was the grandson of the Nine Heavens Thunder Talisman would not even qualify it; the power of a hundred sheets combined couldn’t compare.

While in S City, he used two spirit stones treasured by the Xie family, along with many precious materials gifted by Han Mingye, and spent seven full days to successfully refine it.

In today’s Age of Dharma Decline, the entire Xie family’s collection of spirit stones amounted to only a few pieces. Even the Han family, as one of the four great aristocratic families, probably didn’t have many spirit stones in their collection. If he wanted to refine another Nine Heavens Thunder Talisman, who knew how long he would have to wait.

If he hadn’t seen Han Mingye at the juncture of life and death, he absolutely couldn’t bear to take it out and use it.

Han Mingye squeezed his hand, his eyes full of storms.

Being used like this and reduced to such a sorry state was an extraordinary shame and humiliation for someone who had been arrogant his whole life.

This matter would not pass just like this.

Gu Siyuan would definitely pay the price.

Gu Siyuan naturally sensed this malice. He raised his eyes and carelessly swept a glance over those two people.

In the original plot, the two of them cooperated like this and obtained the Yin Wind Pearl refined from the Ghost King, significantly improving their divine consciousness. Han Mingye’s combat power and Xie Yuchen’s talisman-making ability also increased as a result.

But now, the small bronze cauldron was in his hands.

Although after the Ghost King inside the cauldron was refined, the Special Administration Bureau would definitely share some benefits with these aristocratic families, taking the lion’s share was vastly different from splitting it with everyone.

Moreover, this time the Special Administration Bureau would definitely take the bulk.

On the other side, the SWAT officers and firefighters who had waited for a long time had already rushed up and rescued all the people trapped inside the small train.

However, having stayed in the ghost domain for a long time, these people were infected by Yin energy and had all lost consciousness.

Old man Xie Cang directed the firefighters: “Put everyone out to bask in the sun.”

Xie Xuanxing melted a few talismans in water, and the SWAT officers fed a few mouthfuls to each of those passengers.

Soon, formless black energy was seen leaving people’s bodies, and everyone slowly opened their eyes.

“Holy crap, that was thrilling. I’m not in hell now, right?”

“Ahhh, we’re at the foot of the mountain, we’re saved.”

“Ah, Mr. Police Officer, you finally came to save us…”

Some people directly hugged the nearest firefighter and started crying.

Gu Siyuan sat in the SWAT vehicle, talking with He Pan.

He Pan smiled at him: “We really owe it to you this time. Otherwise, let alone the Special Administration Bureau bringing back the Ghost King, I’m afraid we wouldn’t have gotten anything at all.”

Gu Siyuan’s expression was detached: “As long as you know. After we go back, remember to give me the access permissions to the research materials collected by Special Group Two, as a thank-you gift.”

He Pan stroked his full beard, saying helplessly: “Why are the personalities of you two brothers both so unlikable?”

Gu Siyuan glanced at him indifferently and reached out his hand: “Give me back the small cauldron.”

“…” He Pan.

Indeed unlikable, right?

He Pan looked at the others in the car, preparing to ask for backup.

But only received a glacial look from Xie Xuanxing, and a schadenfreude look from old man Xie Cang.

As for the little curly-haired guy who was supposed to be on the same front, because when he mentioned Gu Siyuan just now, he also included his brother who couldn’t control him—who also happened to be the little curly-haired guy’s idol—he was ignored out of dissatisfaction.

“…” He Pan.

He Pan touched his face, his eyes suddenly lighting up. He looked at Gu Siyuan and said joyfully: “Speaking of your brother, he just contacted me. He just came back from the Kunlun Mountains, found out you came to meet the Ghost King, and said for you to go wait for him in the capital; he’s going to settle the score with you.”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

This person’s expression of watching a good show was truly too obvious.

Probably the biological brother of this body was indeed also quite scary.

In his memory, the reason why the original owner—such a lazy, luxurious, and licentious guy—hadn’t yet reached the point of violating the law and discipline, was entirely thanks to his brother’s fistful of love.

Beside him, Xie Xuanxing seemed to sense his mood. He reached out his fair, slender fingers to hold his large palm, his gaze sincere: “Don’t worry, I will protect you.”

“…” Gu Siyuan.

Seems I’m going to be a kept man again.

So happy.

Heh.

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