It turned out that after Emperor Tianqi followed Huangpu Tao to Heibei City, he had begun inquiring about Ancestor Tianqi.
He wanted to see if his ancestor had been captured by Heibei City.
As it happened, he actually found something out.
His ancestor had been captured and sent to the Artifact Forging Pavilion to work as a laborer.
When Huangpu Tao returned, Emperor Tianqi begged him to ask Ghost King Hei Dun for a spot on the release list.
Then, he had rushed over to save Ancestor Tianqi.
At this moment, Ancestor Tianqi was also shocked to see Emperor Tianqi.
"Why are you here?"
"I'm here to save you!"
Emperor Tianqi was also curious; he hadn't even officially saved the ancestor yet.
How was he already out?
"What? You're here to save me?"
Ancestor Tianqi's eyes widened as he cried out in surprise.
"Huh?"
Emperor Tianqi curiously raised a black token in his hand.
Seeing the token in Emperor Tianqi's hand, Ancestor Tianqi's face turned black, then purple, then red, then white...
Then, he suddenly turned his head, his eyes bloodshot as he looked at Lu Ming and spoke through gritted teeth.
"Give me back my spirit stones!"
His expression looked as if he wanted to devour Lu Ming whole.
Lu Ming waved his hand dismissively.
"Please, I have already fulfilled my promise!"
He meant that he had already brought him out, so the transaction was complete.
At the same time, Lu Ming muttered to himself.
Forget the fact that the promise was fulfilled.
Even if it wasn't, how could spirit stones that had entered his pocket ever be taken back out?
His spirit stones were only for the people of his own sect to spend!
Others shouldn't even dream of it.
Just then, Ghost General Mo Tuo asked in confusion.
"What spirit stones?"
Even Emperor Tianqi was confused, not understanding what was happening.
"Oh! This old man bought something from me earlier, and now he wants to go back on his word and get his spirit stones back!"
Lu Ming explained to Ghost General Mo Tuo.
The ghost fires in Mo Tuo's eyes flickered as he looked at the ancestor with a dark gaze.
"You old man are no good, are you? Doing such things at your age..."
Ancestor Tianqi opened his mouth to speak but finally choked out a single sentence.
"I'm old, I remembered incorrectly..."
"Pfft..."
As soon as the words left his mouth, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
He wanted to report Lu Ming, but he was worried Lu Ming would expose the fact that he had a storage bag!
In the end, he was so infuriated that he literally vomited blood!
Afterward, Lu Ming and the others left with Ghost General Mo Tuo.
"Ancestor, what's wrong?"
Emperor Tianqi asked as he supported Ancestor Tianqi.
"I was cheated out of my spirit stones by that damned Lu Ming..."
Then, he briefly explained what had happened to Emperor Tianqi.
After listening, Emperor Tianqi didn't know what to say.
This kind of luck was truly one of a kind.
A flash of ruthlessness crossed Ancestor Tianqi's eyes as he gritted his teeth.
"Find an opportunity to kill that damned Lu Ming! We'll snatch the spirit stones back."
"Fine!"
Emperor Tianqi's eyes were also filled with killing intent; he had wanted to kill Lu Ming for a long time.
"Ancestor, let's go!"
"Don't you have a spot on the list?"
Ancestor Tianqi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and asked.
Emperor Tianqi nodded.
Ancestor Tianqi's eyes flickered with a hint of pain.
"Save the Tiansheng Sect Leader and make him owe us. We need to recover some of our losses."
Subsequently, the two of them took the token and saved the Tiansheng Sect Leader.
...
At the top of Great Black Mountain, Fengdu City.
Inside a magnificent hall, two rows of ghost soldiers stood tall, wearing armor with hideous faces and green fangs.
Each of them emitted a terrifying aura.
In the depths of the hall, a wide stone staircase led directly to a high platform.
Sitting on a large black dragon throne was a small, chubby boy wearing a black imperial robe.
However, the little fatty was wearing a bandit hood on his head, making it impossible to see his face clearly.
At this moment, the little fatty rested his chin on one hand, looking down at the strangely shaped ghosts with ox and horse heads, muttering to himself.
"Ox-Head, Horse-Face, I miss my Eldest Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother..."
The ghost called Ox-Head adjusted the head that Yama had sewn for him and spoke.
"Lord Yama, that is the 1,238th time you've said that today!"
"Is it?"
"Yes!"
"But I really miss them!"
"Yama, the Great King and the Second King might be thinking of you too. Maybe they'll come to see you..."
Horse-Face also tossed the flowing long hair on his head and chimed in.
"Right, maybe the Great King and Second King have already arrived. With outsiders coming in recently, maybe the Great King and Second King have come looking for you!"
Huang Tianbao shook his head repeatedly.
"No, no, coming here would mean they're dead..."
"Eldest Senior Brother is the protagonist and can't die. He's going to stand atop the world and look down upon it... Second Senior Brother has to be there with him. Originally, there was supposed to be me too..."
As he spoke, Huang Tianbao's voice grew softer. Sob... I miss Eldest Senior Brother and the others...
Back then, after he died, his soul had been swept here by the Hundred Million Soul Banner.
As soon as he arrived, he saw many broken souls.
Missing arms and legs was the norm; having extra limbs was basic.
There were even extreme cases where their facial features were cobbled together from other ghosts...
At the time, it had almost scared Huang Tianbao to death.
Then he realized that he was dead too. He was a ghost now, so what was there to be afraid of?
They were the same species!
Subsequently, he, a soul with a complete body, became the king of these remnant souls.
Thinking that since he had become a ghost and a ghost king at that, he decided to take the title of Yama from the stories his Eldest Senior Brother told.
Eldest Senior Brother had said, If Yama wants you dead by the third watch, you won't live until the fifth...
Listen to that... how domineering, how awesome...
When the time came, whoever he wanted dead would have to die...
After Huang Tianbao became Yama, he integrated these remnant souls.
But seeing these guys so incomplete was truly uncomfortable.
Huang Tianbao thought of a way to repair them.
As for how he repaired them, he did it just like paper effigy crafting.
After all, he had handled plenty of funerals in the past.
So, he knew these crafts.
He first used yin energy as the skeleton and soul silk as the paper skin, sewing and patching what needed to be fixed.
As for missing limbs, it was like building the skeleton of a paper man.
He first used pure yin energy to mold the outline of the torso, then bit by bit, he filled it with those remnant souls that had lost their consciousness.
In this way, Huang Tianbao had forced a paper effigy crafting method to evolve into a Soul-Patching Technique.
To his surprise, the results were quite good.
These remnant souls he had patched, other than being a bit ugly, basically showed no side effects. Some of their cultivation levels even increased.
Of course, he also followed the stories Lu Ming told him to create several special ghosts.
Ox-Head and Horse-Face were his special masterpieces.
Later, after he integrated these remnant souls, his influence continued to expand.
It wasn't that he wanted to expand, but the major Ghost Kings didn't want the massive amount of remnant souls!
The major Ghost Kings only wanted complete souls to mine spirit stones or be trained into ghost soldiers.
Therefore, many remnant souls and those with weak strength came to him...
As his power continued to grow, he was eventually targeted by a joint crusade of the five major Ghost Kings.
When facing one Ghost King, he could still cope by relying on the Hundred Million Soul Banner.
When facing two Ghost Kings, he could just barely manage.
But when facing three Ghost Kings, he was almost beaten to death!
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