Chapter 317: Ghost City

To better understand the Ghost Bride’s Dao and thus better utilize her power, Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor and Lin Jing subsequently arrived at the Ghost Bride’s base of operations, which was the Buddha City she had occupied.

As for the Buddhist Sect, after understanding the Ghost Bride’s situation, they gave up on fighting her.

Firstly, it was because the Ghost Bride’s strength had reached the Void Profound realm; the cost of completely suppressing and killing her might be too high.

The second and most important reason was that the Buddhist Sect saw that the Ghost Bride’s form was unstable. In this unstable state, she might collapse and vanish on her own after some time.

Since there was hope of waiting for the Ghost Bride to perish on her own without shedding blood, there was no need to pay a huge price to crusade against her.

However, what the Buddhist Sect never expected was that, by a stroke of luck, the marriage certificate Lin Jing brought from the Ancient Kingdom successfully helped the Ghost Bride stabilize her form, transforming her into a ghost with absolute dominant consciousness.

“There are still six months left, Your Highness Saint. During these six months, as long as you cross the threshold of the Path of Obsession, you will be able to better harmonize with the Ghost Bride’s power. Coupled with your advantages, no one will be your match during the Golden Light Gu assessment.”

The role of the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor was not just to provide body-tempering blood; his lifetime of cultivation experience was enough to serve as a teacher for both Lin Jing and the Ghost Bride.

Inside the Ghost City.

Lin Jing looked at the Ghost Bride walking absentmindedly ahead and asked, “Senior, have you remembered your name?”

“Tang Ling,” the Ghost Bride said.

“Senior, you must be thinking about your fiancée. Does she have a name? Only with more information can we find the traces she left behind.”

“Our Demon Court can help you search for her, Senior.”

The Ghost Bride shook her head. “I only remember that she was a Sword Cultivator with great talent. I can’t remember anything else.”

“A Sword Cultivator—” Lin Jing and the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor glanced at each other. This scope was too broad.

The Ghost Bride should be someone from fifty thousand years ago.

Fifty thousand years ago, even the Lord of the Demon Court and the First Generation Ancient Emperor hadn’t been born yet. It would be far too difficult to find traces left by a Sword Cultivator from that chaotic period.

However, since it was something that had already existed and happened, there would be a way to solve it.

The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion of the Ancient Kingdom claimed to be able to deduce future events. If so, it was naturally not impossible to trace back past events.

And those who mastered similar Time Dao abilities were not limited to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion of the Ancient Kingdom; among the Yao Beast tribes, there were also Yao Beasts proficient in the Time Dao.

Lin Jing thought for a moment and said, “After we leave the Western Desert, I will look for an expert in our Demon Court who is proficient in the Time Dao to help you trace back time and find her tracks, Senior.”

“Thank you.” The Ghost Bride’s blood-red eyes looked at Lin Jing with a slightly gentler gaze, though it still seemed quite terrifying to him.

“Next, I will help you comprehend the ‘Path of Obsession’. In my understanding, the so-called Path of Obsession should be an ‘unshakable thought even in death’. Even if one dies, one must crawl out as a ghost to complete a certain task.”

She stopped her pace and looked at the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor and Lin Jing. Through the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor’s explanation, she had gained a deeper understanding of the Path of Obsession.

She also understood why the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor said that as long as her obsession did not dissipate, it would be difficult for her to truly die.

However, after looking at the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor and Lin Jing, she shook her head.

“You have no strong obsession,” the Ghost Bride first commented on the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor.

The Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor’s whiskers twitched. Indeed, its previous greatest obsession was actually to see the revival of the Yao Race, valuing it even more than its own Breakthrough to the Asking Dao realm. This should be the obsession of most experts in the Demon Court. But now, with the advent of the Transformation Pill, this obsession had weakened considerably.

“And you, you also have no strong thoughts. In this situation, it is actually very difficult to comprehend my Dao. I’m afraid there won’t be any results in six months.”

The Ghost Bride also saw that Lin Jing’s personality was extremely free and easy. Growing up until now, he hadn’t fallen into an obsession because of any particular event.

Such a foundation was not suitable for coming into contact with the Path of Obsession.

“No obsession?” Hearing this, the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor looked at Lin Jing. No way, it was one thing for himself, but as a member of the Human Race with the most complex thoughts and emotions, how could he not have an obsession!

The Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor said, “Your Highness Saint, is there nothing you want to pursue?”

Standing among the ruins of the Ghost City, Lin Jing shook his head. “Does strength count? But speaking of persistence, I’m not overly obsessed. When I first entered Qingzhou, I might have been very eager to improve my strength for self-preservation, but after having the protection of the Demon Court, my mindset during cultivation has relaxed a lot.”

“I don’t have any thoughts about having to become number one on the continent or having to achieve Ascension.”

“This is tricky…” The Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor paused. With Lin Jing having the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor originally thought that with the Ghost Bride’s cooperation, Lin Jing could roughly gain a preliminary understanding of the Path of Obsession within six months.

But looking at Lin Jing’s current mindset, it didn’t match the Path of Obsession at all. The difficulty of comprehension might increase significantly.

However, in the next moment, the Ghost Bride found another entry point.

“Although he has no obsession, there seem to be other things existing within his body. The obsessions of those two things are very strong.”

“It might have reached the point where if they aren’t fulfilled, they won’t rest in peace and would revive as vengeful spirits.”

“Hmm?” As the Ghost Bride finished speaking, Lin Jing and the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor were startled.

“Senior Tang Ling, do you mean—” Lin Jing pulled out the Pine Leaf Squirrel and the Ice Soul Gu.

“Ai!!”

“Huh?”

The Pine Leaf Squirrel and the Ice Soul Gu, who were constantly hoarding goods and digesting the power of the Thunder Tribulation Gu, landed on Lin Jing’s left and right shoulders respectively.

“That’s right, it’s those two,” the Ghost Bride looked over.

“The intensity of their obsessions… is terrifyingly strong.”

Lin Jing fell into deep thought, glancing sideways at the Pine Leaf Squirrel and the Ice Soul Gu.

He could roughly guess the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s obsession; it should be the obsession with hoarding goods, right?

The thought of filling all its storage equipment, including its Demon Core space. After all, for the sake of hoarding…

The Pine Leaf Squirrel could even forget to Cultivate.

This was a strong quirk it had even before being contracted.

As for the Ice Soul Gu…

Lin Jing swept his Demonic Divine Sense across, peering into the Ice Soul Gu’s heart. Since he usually didn’t want to infringe on his Pet Beasts’ privacy,

he hadn’t done this before. However, seeing that the Ghost Bride perceived the Ice Soul Gu’s obsession to be no less than the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s, he wanted to see for himself.

In the depths of the Ice Soul Gu’s heart, she saw herself as having a crystal-like spider body, with the image of an ice-and-snow young girl extending from the head.

Her countless legs were suppressing the Pine Leaf Squirrel and the Dragon Carp.

Within her crystal-like body, the Nine Great Miraculous Gu, including the Thunder Tribulation Gu and the Golden Light Gu, were all frozen by her.

“So this fellow’s obsession is this?” Lin Jing was speechless. The Ice Soul Gu’s obsession seemed to be devouring the other Nine Great Miraculous Gu, and after possessing absolutely powerful strength, defeating the Pine Leaf Squirrel and the Dragon Carp. Even the possibility of transforming into the Yao Race was within her obsession to become stronger.