Chapter 235: 152, Ghost Heavenly Way gave you a thumbs up

Tan Shuchang had cultivated for five years, ten months, and twenty-six days.

Today he encountered a high monk who had come from the Treasure Mountain Heavenly Soil Temple and engaged in a debate on Buddhist teachings with him. The high monk wanted to convert me, and I likewise wanted to convert the high monk, but the high monk did not believe, so I had no choice but to use magic.

All five aggregates are empty, liberating one from all suffering. The five aggregates–form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness–are the body, the senses, thoughts, actions, and ideas, respectively; these five elements comprise a person. When all of these are empty, the person ceases to exist.

And this suffering… if the person is gone, where does the suffering come from?

Therefore, my conversion of the high monk was very successful.

…

After drying the ink on the piece of paper in his hands, Tan Shuchang rolled it up and tucked it into his sleeve. At his feet lay a curled, wrinkled paper figurine.

The paper figurine resembled a monk, adorned with gold and jade, appearing quite prosperous.

This was naturally the same paper figurine of the monk from earlier.

It had debated with Tan Shuchang and came up slightly short, thus it experienced the emptiness of the five aggregates.

And this paper figurine monk had already reached the limit of the power that the Ghost Heavenly Way in the Snake Desire Realm could exert.

After all, the Ghost Heavenly Way in this Snake Desire Realm had only ever favored a paper ghost that had appeared here.

Even after that paper ghost was destroyed, the power from the Ghost Heavenly Way had not dissipated and remained here.

Although the power was of a sufficiently high grade to attract the worship of some fierce ghosts, the scene of a paper figurine monk being summoned would certainly not have occurred without Tan Shuchang’s encouragement.

After all, within the Snake Desire Realm, only the power of the decaying Ghost Heavenly Way could connect to the power of its original Ghost Heavenly Way existence.

Consequently, this paper figurine monk did not leave anything behind for Tan Shuchang.

In the past, when he refined such ghostly creatures, he could always see some memory images and even directly take over their special abilities.

However, just as Tan Shuchang was preparing to send his incarnation of the laws on a journey, a series of faint text shadows suddenly emerged on the paper figurine monk at his feet.

The text shadows quickly solidified.

What appeared in Tan Shuchang’s view was a Ghost Path technique named “Mr. Paper says: Dismantle bones and wrap them in paper, puppets double-living.”

Chu Sheng, also referred to as Mr. Paper, both terms could be used to denote paper.

This made Tan Shuchang suddenly feel a mix of surprise and uncertainty.

Because this was clearly the power of the Ghost Heavenly Way descending!

But logically, this should have been impossible, since the barriers of the three realms were still in place. But then it occurred to him that this time the ghostly game had taken a trip to the Ghost Capital in the Land of Yin and Darkness, which could perhaps allow the Ghost Heavenly Way to use it as a stepping stone for its descent.

While Tan Shuchang was pondering, he noticed another line of text at the bottom beginning to take solid form.

Tan Shuchang looked closely to see the text revealing: All five aggregates are empty, marvelous indeed! Fit for the Great Vehicle scriptures, hence a technique is bestowed.

“…” Tan Shuchang fell silent for a moment.

He then took out the journal he had just stowed away, but there was no sign of anything unusual on it. It seemed that the Ghost Heavenly Way of Chu Sheng “saw” his journal and then granted him this reward.

“Is this what the Ghost Heavenly Way is like?”

Looking at his own journal, Tan Shuchang rarely felt a small degree of self-doubt–was there something slightly amiss with what he had written?

But in the next moment, Tan Shuchang suppressed that tiny flicker of self-doubt.

He was not wrong.

If there was a mistake, it must be this world that was wrong.

Then, Tan Shuchang did not practice the Ghost Path technique “Mr. Paper says: Dismantle bones and wrap them in paper, puppets double-living” but instead contemplated it and, drawing inspiration from this technique, he altered his blood shadow incarnation.

He did not need a technique for incarnations.

The reason he sought the power of the Ghost Heavenly Way of Chu Sheng was merely to snatch the means of such ghostly creatures to better disguise his blood shadow incarnation.

After all, his blood shadow incarnation was just a shadow of blood.

Although it had the ability to change, it was not capable of myriad transformations but could only approximate the general form of other creatures and be exquisitely versatile. For example, transforming into the likeness of a true dragon, the blood-colored dragon shadow would then carry a bit of the dragon’s majestic presence.

Tan Shuchang fetched some ink and brush, painted a portrait, and placed the painting onto his blood shadow incarnation. In an instant, the blood shadow incarnation, which was just a crimson human figure, transformed into an elderly man who looked as though he had just become eligible for a pension.

Then, sensing the creation of a new instance, Tan Shuchang’s blood shadow incarnation went into the instance in place of the Yin God who was originally supposed to participate in the battle.

At this point in the Suffering Buddha Realm, one Yin God was originally reluctant to heed the summoning but suddenly found the summoning interrupted. Feeling joy mixed with confusion, it sought out King Di Mie for advice.

“Worry not; you just be at ease,” said King Di Mie, who had the authority over the Suffering Buddha Realm and was naturally aware of what had happened. Without explaining that it was because of King Lang Shou, the king simply calmed the Yin God with these few words.

After all, matters involving the Greed Law were not to be spread too widely.

Through to the end, King Di Mie never considered that it could be due to other reasons, fully believing that Tan Shuchang wanted to go to that “world shared by humans and ghosts” to offer gifts for the Greed Law.

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However, since Tan Shuchang had openly coveted the laws of the other two realms, the Greed Law had not asked for any offering of greed.

Meanwhile, Tan Shuchang had entered an instance after a long absence.

And as he entered, he found that this instance was very different from the past ones. The previous instances, although always about the players battling the fierce ghosts with standard tactics, were very well detailed in every aspect.

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