Chapter 38: Guilty Spirits, Karma Fire, Entering Devilry

  Farewell, this ghost prison has stationed heavy troops, with at least over a thousand ghost soldiers stationed. In his heart, he thought, no wonder I've always heard that the city has 4,000 ghost soldiers, but usually it feels like there aren't enough. It turns out there's another thousand ghost soldiers who have been stationed here all year round.

  It's not easy to get in, after all! I don't know what happened to Shen Tu, is he being held here?

  At this moment, Shentu Qi was wearing a prison uniform, his whole body covered in scars from flogging. His feet were shackled with iron fetters, and he swung the tool in his hand, excavating minerals.

  This is an open-pit mine, densely packed with at least thousands of convicts numbly wielding their tools.

  Shentu Qi tried, and he felt an incredibly strong negative force coming from the shackles on his feet, restricting his strength. Just as his movements were slightly delayed, the overseer's whip landed on his body.

  "Ding ding......" The ore was mined out, transported away for screening and sorting. It turned out to be the rare dark iron.

  This vast minefield is actually all dark iron ore!

  "Roar......"

  But at this moment, more than ten feet away from Shentu Qi, a guilty ghost suddenly turned black and crazy in his eyes, roaring with his head raised. The shackles burst into flight, turning into many poisonous snakes like black air, entwining around his body.

  "They're possessed! They're possessed!" Those originally fierce and intimidating foremen were now crying out in terror, as if they had seen something extremely frightening.

  But at this time, the demonized sinners charged towards the ghosts around them with a roar, regardless of whether they were ordinary sinners or those who supervised, and killed.

  At the same time, he became incredibly powerful, his hands like claws. He easily tore apart the ghostly objects around him and swallowed them whole, chewing with relish.

  This scene made those supervisors even more fearful and panicked.

  A hundred ghostly soldiers rushed to the scene immediately, coming to suppress, clanking in their armor. They fought alongside this demon-possessed sinner.

  These ghostly soldiers were equipped to the extreme, even more so than what Shentu Ji had ever seen. At least their leaders wielded dark iron weapons and armor. They also had formation coordination, logically speaking, it should be easy to slaughter these guilty ghosts.

  However, the battle did not go one-sided. After being possessed by evil spirits, the ghosts became fearless of death, with many holes pierced through their bodies, yet they could swallow and absorb the surrounding ghostly matter to replenish themselves. For a time, they fought more bravely, holding off against these ghost soldiers without yielding an inch.

  "What's going on with this demonic possession?" Shentu Qi's heart stirred. But he vaguely felt that nothing good would come of it.

  Turning back to look, all I saw were those usually numb and dull sinners, with eyes gleaming with excited and bloodthirsty light.

  He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, thinking that if the city guard really released these vengeful spirits to form an army to attack the master, it would be a fierce and fearless team, extremely difficult to deal with.

  Just then, a loud shout was heard: "You wicked creature, how dare you be so presumptuous..."

  Suddenly a spark of fire shot over, hitting the chest of that guilty ghost. This guilty ghost, which was originally connected to the killing of more than a dozen ghostly soldiers, was instantly ignited by the flames. It let out a miserable cry and rolled around on the ground. The sound resonated all the way to the deepest part of every yin soul's spirit.

  "Karma fire. Karma fire. This is karma fire...... The evil spirits that were originally somewhat restless, seeing this flame, all showed fearful and afraid expressions."

  Just then, someone shouted: "The City God has arrived..."

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  "It's time to send troops!" Cheng Huan laughed loudly, but his eyes were devoid of any smile, only a chilling coldness: "If Qi Sheng dies, the luck of that land god will definitely be greatly reduced. This is the best opportunity, and it cannot be missed. Send troops immediately!"

  At the sound of the order, all the ghostly officials, regardless of what they were thinking in their hearts, hastened to obey.

  The ghostly prison guard sighed faintly in his heart, and finally made a move. Having invested heavily, he was now eager to see the outcome. His eyes didn't blink as he said, "Please, God, mobilize your troops."

  "Nature wants me to go personally!" Cheng Huang heard this and burst out laughing: "Without my personal promise, those guilty ghosts won't believe it either. Let's go, to the hell prison!"

  This was far beyond the expectations of the ghost prison guard. Originally thought that this city would only write down orders, but unexpectedly, at this moment, he actually had to go to the ghost prison himself to issue orders.

  So in his heart, he coldly smiled and thought, it seems that this time, God is indeed proud and carefree.

  It turned out to be exactly what I had in mind, and as a result, it had less and less to do with me.

  A group of ghosts and gods came out of the study, directly entering the ghost prison. The so-called ghost prison was a huge open-pit mine. Above it, there were dark clouds condensed from resentment that did not disperse.

  Innumerable ghosts are working in it, and if they slow down a bit, they will be whipped by the devilish overseer's whip. From time to time, you can see thin ghosts, who disappear suddenly while working. Then there is another wisp of resentment, gathering in the air.

  Seeing this scene, the city guardian was even more satisfied. The worse the environment is, the more these sinners will work hard for themselves. The heavier the resentment, the stronger the combat power of the ghosts here.

  A multitude of ghosts and gods stepped into the prison, their radiance shining brightly, illuminating all. However, those sinful spirits were all expressionless, not even one lifted their head to take a glance.

  The prison guard summoned his subordinates and gave them two orders. The subordinates then loudly rang the bell.

  "Clang... clang..." As the bell tolled, those numb and guilty souls finally stopped their work, stood up in confusion, and looked over.

  Wēn was also among them, with endless black air forming a heavy cangue that was even heavier than those on the surrounding sinners' bodies, pressing down on him so much that he could hardly stand up straight.

  Originally, the shackles on his body were not so heavy. However, some time ago, his family took action to occupy the position of the village god at the foot of Fenglai Mountain, and after failing, another wave of sinful energy fell down.

  Beside him were all the evil spirits, with a frail little child. However, because he couldn't afford to pay taxes, when the county official came to confiscate his property, he angrily killed this county official.

  There is another who was beheaded and insulted the Son of Heaven at that time, thus committing a crime, and was thrown into this prison.

  According to Wan En's knowledge, this situation is extremely common. All those who were beheaded by the government in the mortal world would fall into this ghost prison after death.

  "You are all guilty, killed by the government or done something that angers heaven and men. In short, you all have sins on your bodies!" The City God spoke: "As long as you do one thing for me, I will pardon your crimes..."

  As soon as Cheng Huang opened his mouth, those sinful ghosts' numb eyes all showed a hint of spirit.

  Cheng Huang said with satisfaction: "I will give you weapons, go and kill an enemy for me. I will exempt all of you..."