I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Chapter 3712: Chapter 1801: Ghost Ancestor (Part 2)

He remained still, serenely observing the leaf in his hand.

Within the leaf was a cute little Bei Huai head grinning with fanged teeth, screeching ghostly cries.

Before long, the mountain breeze blew, and the locust leaf drifted away with the wind, flying to an unknown destination.

Bei Huai smiled faintly, no longer persuading. After all, Mournful comes and goes freely, like a Shangri-La:

"Then let it be guided by the wind."

...

"Hiss!"

A gentle breeze swept by, causing Jin Ren to shiver.

Clearly, Mournful was filled with spring vitality, lush with vegetation, a scene of exuberant life.

Yet, after using Hua Zhiyao’s identity jade token to enter this place, he felt as though he was in the real "Phantom City," falling into an ice cellar, and his soul shivering from the cold.

"What kind of ghostly place is this..."

Looking around, the mountains lay low like dragons, diving into the earth and emerging through clouds, stretching for unknown ten thousand miles.

The forest atop the mountain was lush, with evergreens and ancient mulberries and locusts aging gracefully.

Birds sang, butterflies fluttered, golden bees buzzed, beasts galloped, creating a scene bustling with life.

Yet everything, apparently a natural creation, also gave off a "lifelike" sensation.

Indeed, lifelike.

As if none of it was real, but artificially fabricated... a Second World!

"Being watched, passive points, +9999."

Jin Ren had no passive system, so there would be no popup message.

The true self had escaped long ago, fearing to come to Mournful and getting entangled with bad karma.

But he knew, if the true self were present, a notification would certainly appear in the information bar at this moment.

Because at this moment, Jin Ren felt watched by countless eyes in the forest but couldn’t locate where the eyes were.

"Shuangshuang truly knows her stuff!"

The maid from Tingyu Pavilion was indeed right.

This ghostly place wasn’t fit for humans, the feeling of being "watched" was truly oppressive.

"And yet Bei Huai hasn’t actively come to find me..."

Jin Ren diligently adapted to the surroundings, thinking that once he appeared, Bei Huai would appear ghost-like with a swish, killing with a face-to-face proximity.

And then he would take on that tone, saying:

"Your soul, is boiling..."

After all, once for Greedy the Cat Spirit, Bei Huai would stop at nothing, disregarding even the life and death of The Holy Emperor Qilin, only wanting to take what others desired.

And now, as the true self merged with Greedy the Cat Spirit, his soul fluctuated in tandem with his own to no avail.

Even if the will arrived, prioritizing intent over form, it weakened the level considerably.

Bei Huai should also sense it and come to ask something.

If not, he could directly catch, and then start his ghost beast research, that would also work.

Doing nothing, in turn, made it terrifying.

"When something is abnormal, there must be demons!"

But clearly, Jin Ren overthought it.

Bei Huai seemed truly indifferent to him, harboring thoughts only for the true self, carefully navigating the forest without appearing.

"Fine, if you don’t come, don’t blame me for being impolite."

Jin Ren wouldn’t think to actively seek Bei Huai, that would be akin to seeking death, perhaps even unsure whether it meant literal death.

He came with a mission.

If "normal" occurrences didn’t happen, then he would induce "unexpected" ones.

This "unexpected" occurrence would be "normal" in other Holy Emperor’s secret realms—polluting the memory imprints of Dao Qiongcang!

"Open!"

The Will Dao Disc spun.

Jin Ren suddenly realized that the Mournful Emperor realm also had numerous traces of Dao Qiongcang, but compared to other places, they were far fewer.

He could count them!

"One hundred and eight..."

One hundred and eight marks, hidden extremely discreetly, each point falling into dark corners unseen by light.

If not for the super Taoization of the Will Dao Disc, Jin Ren truly wouldn’t have discovered them.

"We’ve paid the friendship fee, so I won’t be polite with you, Elder Dao the Flamboyant."

With a thought, he was about to begin weaving, turning Dao Qiongcang’s into his and Dao’s.𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

But before he could make a move, a trance overwhelmed him, the world spun, and Jin Ren’s heart skipped a beat.

"Damn it, it still came."

"Not coming sooner or later, but right when I’m about to act, trying not to scare anyone to death, right?"

...

The world was gray and hazy.

A bit like night, yet vastly different from the night.

Like the beginning of Heaven and Earth, where Yang ascended and Yin descended, but lacking that step where "Yang ascends."

Jin Ren suddenly felt he had arrived in the Underworld.

"Phantom City?"

Hua Changdeng’s Phantom City, with its eighteen layers of h*ll, the Abyss Island, the River of Oblivion, the Other Shore Bridge, the Hundred Ghosts Altar, and other unseen things.

Bazhun’an once said, his Phantom City, was the real Phantom City.

His Fengdu Phenomenon, seemed more than an anomaly, possessing various divine artifacts truly from the real Phantom City.

But at present, this "Underworld"...

"It’s different!"

In the gray, hazy space, no actual objects could be seen below.

Even the ground wasn’t solid but a semi-real, semi-void gray-black mist, stepping hard felt like falling into an abyss, stepping lightly just enough to "float" on it.

Looking upward, there was no sun, no moon, no light, no stars, still a patch of gray-black.

The chilling sense of unease spread deep within his soul.

Jin Ren swallowed hard, already wanting to slit his own throat, but having received orders from the true self, he could only keep looking.

The more he saw, the more the true self would know.

The more the true self knew, the more the unknown of Mournful diminished, when power could rival, perhaps then, the true self might indeed invade the Mournful Emperor realm.

But...

"Doesn’t he consider my feelings!"

What Jin Ren...

What doing one’s best to be human...

Thinking it over now makes Jin Ren want to laugh, the true self never treating his reborn, regenerating self, as a human! How overwhelming!

"Xu Xiaoshou."