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166. Spoils from the Thousand-Child Tree Ghost Realm Trip
"Boom, boom, boom."
Nie Moli knocked gently on the door, and a weak voice quickly came from inside, "Please come in, the door is unlocked."
The voice sounded very weak, but Nie Moli just curled her lips. That guy's voice was just weak. If anything happened, she had no doubt that he would jump up and tear a tank apart with his bare hands.
I pushed open the door and went inside. It was a living room, with all the necessary furniture.
Granny Yu once made a lot of money through unorthodox methods such as walking through the underworld. She not only built a house, but also furnished it with high-end brand furniture.
It is common knowledge that, regardless of the quality of big-name brand products, they all share the characteristic of being significantly more expensive than similar products.
In short—expensive!
Mo Jiang lay on the bed, his face pale and radiating fatigue.
This is the third day since he was carried back. To be precise, it has been three days since five hunting dogs dragged him from the pit at the site of the Senko Tree back to Yubaba's house.
After all, given Mo Jiang's physique and weight, even if Nie Moli and Granny Tang tripled their numbers, they still wouldn't be able to drag him back.
The explosion that occurred within the Turbid Earth Cave was far too powerful; part of the Turbid Earth Cave itself was destroyed, and Mo Jiang was naturally not spared either.
Being caught in the explosion and corroded by the yin energy, although it's not a major problem, it will take a few days to recover on its own.
Nie Moli placed the tray she was carrying on the bedside table. Mo Jiang glanced at the contents of the tray, and the helplessness on his face deepened.
It was a bowl of thick white porridge.
To be honest, Mo Jiang doesn't really like plain porridge. It's bland, doesn't fill you up, and makes you hungry again quickly.
His metabolism struggles to process this food because it provides too little energy.
Mo Jiang expressed in a tactful tone that he did not want to eat plain porridge, saying, "I think what I need is high-calorie, high-protein food."
Hearing this, Nie Moli raised an eyebrow. "That's all. If someone's memory is still pretty good, they should remember that you ate all the meat in the house yesterday."
Grandma Yu is old and her teeth aren't very good. She also lives alone, so she naturally doesn't prepare too much meat.
Yesterday, Mo Jiang ate a meal that could barely be considered oily, only to later learn that it was the amount of meat that Granny Tang consumed in a week.
The family had eaten all but rice left, and that was only enough to make plain porridge.
This morning, Granny Tang went to the market early to buy meat for Mojiang.
In such a remote village, food delivery and daily fresh food delivery are clearly a fantasy.
Knowing he was in the wrong, Mo Jiang could only hold up the white porridge to hide his embarrassment, after all, eating all the old man's food was not a pleasant thing to do.
After quickly finishing the congee in a few gulps, Mo Jiang looked at Nie Moli's wrist and asked, "How are you feeling now? Is the mark of the Thousand Son Tree still there?"
Nie Moli stretched out her hand. Although there was still a black mark on her wrist, it had faded a lot. "The mark started to fade three days ago and should disappear completely in a few more days. As for my body, I haven't found anything abnormal."
"Speak up immediately if anything seems amiss."
Although the Thousand Trees was dealt a severe blow by the Six Burials Bodhisattva, and the Ghost Realm was also caught in the explosion, it should have been destroyed in theory.
However, Mo Jiang had no experience dealing with this type of enemy, so it was hard to say whether Qian Zishu was dead or not. After all, he was a being who had lived for more than 1,300 years and was just one step away from becoming a proper god.
"So what exactly happened after we left that day?"
Although they hadn't known each other for very long, Nie Moli was very clear about one thing: Mo Jiang was very strong.
Whether it was the vengeful ghost in room 444, or encountering a ghost tamer, even when he was deep in the Thousand Tree Ghost Domain, he never showed the slightest sign of panic.
For most people, encountering a ghost is like something out of a supernatural horror movie.
Mo Jiang encountering a ghost is no different from Uncle Ying encountering a zombie; the film should be labeled as "action" or "comedy."
"After being tricked by the Six Burials Bodhisattva, he was so angry that he blew up the Ghost Realm of Turbid Earth Cave and Thousand Son Tree."
He spoke casually, but Nie Moli could sense the danger in his words.
She had personally experienced the ghost realm inside room 444. The level of danger in the ghost realm of the Thousand Trees was extremely high, not to mention that the Six Burial Bodhisattvas appeared later.
Just as he was about to say something, Mo Jiang suddenly pulled out a tree branch from somewhere. "Oh right, let me show you my spoils."
As she spoke, a pure white light flashed in her hand, and Nie Moli saw everything around her quickly lose its color. In less than a second, the two of them were standing on a gray, hazy ground.
"Is this...the Ghost Realm?"
It felt like a ghostly realm, but without that eerie, chilling atmosphere.
Looking around, everything seemed gray and lifeless, no wonder Nie Moli mistook this place for a ghost realm.
Of all the places she visited, only the Ghost Realm was devoid of any life.
Mo Jiang scratched the back of his head, carefully choosing his words, "It's not entirely a ghost realm. It's more like an alternate dimension formed by combining the Thousand Son Tree Ghost Realm with fragments of the Six Burial Bodhisattva's Turbid Soil Cave Heaven. I haven't figured out exactly what it's for yet."
The explosion that engulfed even Mo Jiang, and the Thousand Son Tree Ghost Domain and the Turbid Earth Cave Heaven naturally suffered even more severe damage. The Thousand Son Tree Ghost Domain and the remains of the Thousand Son Tree were shattered into many pieces, and the Turbid Earth Cave Heaven also lost nearly a quarter of its space.
The fragments of the Ghost Realm and the fragments of the Turbid Earth Cave merged together during the explosion and attached themselves to a branch of the Thousand Sons Tree.
Previously, the tree branch had been constantly emitting a ghostly aura that eroded Mo Jiang's body, which was why his face appeared pale.
Otherwise, he would have recovered yesterday. But even so, the ghostly aura emanating from the tree branch could only make him look pale and sick.
It took Mo Jiang two days to figure out that the tree branch needed to be infused with holy light to open up the alternate dimension between this fragment of the Ghost Realm and the fragment of the Turbid Earth Cave.
But he had no idea what could be done in this place.
With the existence of portals and inventory systems, frankly speaking, he doesn't have an urgent need for these types of storage space items.
For Mojiang, this place is like a chicken rib—tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away.
Nie Moli looked around and suddenly asked, "How big is this place?"
"It's roughly 100 meters by 100 meters by 100 meters in length, width, and height. There's air, but no biosphere. There are no large organisms or microorganisms at all."
Compared to the ghost realm of the Thousand Son Tree itself, or even the Turbid Earth Cave Heaven, this place is pitifully small.
However, this was an alternate dimension that appeared when fragments of the Ghost Realm and the Turbid Earth Cave Heaven were mixed together during the explosion, and Mo Jiang did not have many requirements for it.
If you rub together pieces the size of a fingernail, you'd be lucky to get this much space.
This can be considered one of the few spoils of war from Mo Jiang's trip to the Thousand Tree Ghost Realm.
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Nie Moli looked at the environment in the alternate dimension with great interest. Although she had entered the Ghost Realm several times, she had always been accompanied by danger.
This kind of alien space without any danger is actually a first for her.
As someone who once received a modern education and believed that the world did not have ghosts, the existence of ghosts and ghost realms not only strongly impacted my worldview but also involuntarily aroused a certain curiosity.
"Is this place only for storing items? I remember that other ghost realms can have certain rules set up."
The Ghost Realm does not strictly follow the rules of physics, and Nie Moli has witnessed the rules of the Ghost Realm, which are different from those of the material world, more than once.
Having had those experiences, even if Nie Moli didn't know what the rules of other ghost realms were like, she could still sense to some extent the rules of the ghost realms that were different from those of the real world.
According to Clash of Clans, Nie Moli's [Inspiration] attribute was boosted because she was exposed to too many anomalous events.
If this were placed in the world of Cthulhu, this person would definitely be an unlucky type, because their high level of inspiration leads them to encounter all sorts of strange things.
But in this place, she felt no unusual rules.
"Everyone says this is just a collection of fragments. The specific rule you're referring to should require a complete ghost realm, or at least a ghost."
Mo Jiang didn't know whether the rules of the Ghost Realm, which were different from those of the mortal world, originated from the Ghost Realm itself, or whether they were due to the existence of ghosts.
In any case, the environment in his alternate dimension generally follows the rules of the material world.
But as he was speaking, Mo Jiang suddenly changed the subject, "However, if you want to see something special, there is something for you."
As he spoke, Mo Jiang led Nie Moli to the center of this alternate dimension. In addition to a desolate land, there was a shrine on the ground in this alternate dimension.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the shrine contained not memorial tablets, but statues of deities.
The image shows the crucified Son of God, but the Son of God looks exactly like Mo Jiang.
"So, you're planning to start a new sect?" Nie Moli asked with a playful expression, pointing her slender white finger at the shrine. "What's this, a fusion of East and West?"
Mo Jiang looked somewhat embarrassed. Although the image of suffering in the shrine was not his intention, it had appeared there so openly, using Mo Jiang's face.
People who aren't thick-skinned really can't avoid feeling embarrassed.
Mo Jiang felt that he was very thin-skinned.
Ignoring Nie Moli's question, he cleared his throat twice and replied, "Well, this place is a fragment of the Six Burials Bodhisattva's Turbid Earth Grotto-heaven, mixed with fragments of the Thousand Sons Tree Ghost Domain. And the Turbid Earth Grotto-heaven itself is a special space formed by the condensation of the will power of ten thousand people. Do you know what another way of saying will power is?"
The answer to the question wasn't hard to guess. Nie Moli quickly gave the answer, "Incense? Faith?"
This is an alternate dimension constructed by faith, or at least part of it is composed of faith.
As for the Ghost Realm, neither Mo Jiang nor Nie Moli understood its specific structure, and even the books collected by Granny Tang did not describe it in detail.
In the past few days, Mo Jiang has figured out the function of this alternate dimension. Apart from the most basic storage function, its biggest purpose is this shrine.
It's unclear whether it's because of the power of holy light, which is highly related to faith, that it has some connection with this space of willpower. With the help of the power of this alternate space, Mo Jiang is able to "lend out" a small portion of the holy light through the shrine.
The only thing that can be borrowed is Holy Light, and it consumes a great deal of energy, but it can truly allow a living being to use the power of Holy Light.
Yes, living beings, not just humans.
Mo Jiang's tests over the past few days have confirmed that his hunting dogs, warhorses, golden eagles, and even the village's guard dogs can all use the Holy Light, as long as he authorizes them.
"It sounds like they stole the divine position of the Goddess of the Thousand Children."
Nie Moli naturally thought of the Thousand Sons Goddess's shrine in Yao Li's house. She didn't know what the Six Burials Bodhisattva's abilities were, but the Thousand Sons Goddess had launched an attack from a distance through the shrine that time, which was exactly the same as the ability Mo Jiang had mentioned.
Upon hearing this, Mo Jiang curled his lip. He believed that the emergence of this ability was due to the power of the will that constituted the Turbid Earth Grotto.
To put it bluntly, Lady Qianzi has had absolutely no connection with any deity since 1,300 years ago.
God's throne?
You can fool ordinary people, but you've actually fooled yourself?
However, this alternate dimension combined with the form of a shrine does indeed have elements of incense and religious practices.
"You can also try it; just think about things like 'stimulate' or 'launch' to activate it."
As he spoke, Mo Jiang handed over two strips of paper, rectangular strips about the size of a palm. One strip read "Light," and the other read "Eight-part Light Wheel."
With curiosity, Nie Moli first took the card with the word "Light" written on it and threw it outwards. Then, a burst of white light flashed before her eyes, and before she could react, her vision was completely blurred.
Fortunately, the intensity of the light only flashed for a moment, and Nie Moli quickly recovered.
Then the [Eight-Point Light Wheel] was activated, and a palm-sized, high-speed rotating light wheel flew in a straight line, disappearing into the distance in a short while.
"This is all we can do for now. The power borrowed through the shrine currently only comes in these two forms, and in terms of strength..."
Mo Jiang shook his head; the intensity was incomparable to the holy light he had forced out.
Not to mention flexibility; in his hands, both the [Eight-Point Light Wheel] and the [Specium Ray] can be reproduced, but those borrowed through the shrine...
The format was simply fixed.
A shrine that can lend power, with the other dimension as a transit point, but so far Mo Jiang doesn't know what special use it has for him.
To put it bluntly, this thing is really not very effective; the destructive power it borrows is probably not as useful as a gun.
only……
Mo Jiang had a vague feeling that this thing might be of great use to him, but the clue was like a nimble fish, and he couldn't catch its tail no matter what he did.
Shaking his head, putting aside what he couldn't figure out for the time being, Mo Jiang turned his attention to his control panel.
Name: Mo Jiang
[Physique: 6.2]
【Spirit: 3.9】
[Internal Strength: 6.5]
The breakthrough of the Nine Yang Divine Skill into the Ten Yang realm, and the attainment of the Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants realm in the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, caused Mo Jiang's internal strength and physical attributes to soar.
This marks the first time an integer-level promotion has occurred.
Moreover, even after Mo Jiang broke through his realm, his full potential had not yet been unleashed, and he could sense that his attributes would continue to slowly improve.
At the same time, Mo Jiang suddenly shuddered, and two brand new coordinates appeared in his mind.