Chapter 373 - Chef Rages (2/2)

His actions had been so instinctive that Yi Qing did not even have time to react before he felt the entire lower half of his body turned chilly. A strange object appeared between his legs.

Everyone present became silent…

Even the headless ghost who had floated over earlier paused. His head, which had been hanging on by just a piece of skin, fell to the floor.

What was going on?

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The next moment…

A cold aura – even colder than the Yin Qi in the city – rushed out from inside of Yi Qing. The temperature in the city suddenly dropped rapidly, so that they felt like they were going through a particularly harsh winter. The path looked like it was slowly turning to ice and sword Qi filled the skies, surrounding all of the ghost city.

Yi Qing kicked a certain ghost who had buried himself in his pants away. A dragon which formed by the condensation of sword Qi appeared in the sky. “I’m going to slaughter you!”

All the ghosts in the city felt an overwhelming suppressive force pressing them down. They all fell right to the ground, and their bodies threatened to dissipate.

“Chef!” This was the first time Shen Ying saw Yi Qing react this way. After a moment, she tugged at him. “Calm down, calm down!”

“Master, don’t stop me!” This was the first time Yi Qing felt the urge to shake Shen Ying’s hand away. “Let me slaughter him! I have to slaughter him! I really have to! Right here! Right now!”

“Wear your pants first,” Shen Ying reminded him.

Yi Qing paused, as if suddenly recalling something. He hurriedly picked up his pants from the floor. Quicker than he ever did before, he set up an isolation arra and put his pants on, tying a few knots around his waist while he was at it.

Shen Ying waited a full ten minutes for Yi Qing to emerge from the isolation array and appear in front of her again. His expression was cold and hard, so that she imagined snow would begin to fall at any time soon. When he made eye contact with Shen Ying, he blushed.

“Master…” He sounded extremely wronged.

“Heh, don’t worry!” Shen Ying cleared her throat and patted his shoulder comfortingly. “It’s too dark for me to have seen your white underwear. Really!”

Yi Qing: “…”

Now he really wanted to slaughter someone. What should he do?

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Perhaps because of Chef’s sword Qi, more or less all of the Yin Qi in the ghost city dissipated. Sunlight finally reached the city. As energy from the sun filled the place, ghosts that were hidden at every corner began to present themselves.

Chef, who had been held back from beating Song Ren to the point of dissipation with much effort from Shen Ying, looked at the ghosts that were appearing one by one. He had not guessed wrongly there were so many malicious ghosts hidden in this city. Each one looked more terrifying than the last. Some were missing limbs, and others were slumped on the ground like a pile of dirt. It was obvious that they died terrible deaths!

“Why are all of you remaining in the mortal world?” Yi Qing scanned all the ghosts coldly. “And you’re gathering in one city to scare others. Don’t you want to reincarnate?”

All of the ghosts looked scared at the thought of the strange aura they experienced earlier. Each one of them trembled. The Headless Ghost, on the other hand, who had intended to scare Yi Qing and Shen Ying, stood up meekly. “This… Exalted Immortal, it’s not that we don’t want to reincarnate, it’s that… we’re not able to!”

“That’s right, that’s right, Exalted Immortal!” The other ghosts nodded excitedly. “We want to go to the Underworld to reincarnate, but ever since we died, we’ve been trapped here. We had no other choice but to… to look for living people whom we can possess to take us there.”

They’re stuck here? Yi Qing paused. He released his divine perception. There are no arrays around this city that are stopping them from going out.

“What happened here?” Yi Qing surveyed his surroundings. There were many ghosts, and every single one of them did not look like they died a very long time ago. “How did all of you die?”

“Well…” The ghosts all looked confused. After awhile, most of them shook their heads. “We don’t know either. When we woke up, we found out that we had already become ghosts.”

“…”