Chapter 44: Successful Rescue, Returning to the Real World

After a successful strike, Yun Zhi vanished completely once more, retreating into the safety of her spatial safe house.

Though Old Li’s body could still function after his eyes were pierced by the icicles, his vision was severely impaired. Left with no choice, he abandoned the cumbersome flesh and manifested entirely as a malevolent ghost.

Looking through the floor-to-ceiling window of the safe house, Yun Zhi saw the true form of a ghost for the first time. Completely unlike Old Li’s previous honest and simple human appearance, his true visage featured a sharp, monkey-like face marred by an ugly burn scar, which was likely how he had looked in life.

His semi-transparent body drifted aimlessly around the room as he wailed in a shrill voice, "Come out! Show yourself and come out! If you have the guts to destroy my body, have the guts to face me head-on!"

Yun Zhi: ...

As a living human whose abilities included water, ice, and fog for physical attacks, just how out of her mind would she have to be to fight a physical and metaphysical non-entity of a ghost head-on?

Against entities without physical forms, ordinary physical attacks were ineffective; one had to resort to metaphysical and magical offenses!

Otherwise, Mu Xue would not have handed her the Ghost Dream Bracelet right when she first entered this small domain of ghosts.

Right, she hadn't tested out how to use the Ghost Dream Bracelet yet!

Now that she finally had the chance, she simply had to give it a try.

Yun Zhi had activated the drivable mode of her spatial safe house. Therefore, when she reappeared in the room, she was no longer in her original spot, but in the corner furthest from Old Li.

Moreover, this time when Yun Zhi stepped out, she came fully prepared.

Three peace talismans were worn close to her body, the proxy-death doll in her space had also opened its eyes, and the Ghost Dream Bracelet on her left wrist was activated the moment spiritual energy was channeled into it.

The second she appeared, Old Li—who was at the other end of the room—spotted her. With a flicker of his ghostly shadow, he lunged forward...

However, the Ghost Dream Bracelet on Yun Zhi’s wrist moved even faster, emitting a wave of gray energy that surged rapidly toward Old Li.

This wave was a mutual sprint between Old Li and the power of the Ghost Dream!

As a result, Old Li’s charging soul abruptly froze, halting mid-air as his ferocious expression glazed over into a vacant stare.

His consciousness had plunged into a bizarre, illusory dreamscape!

Deciding to test it out anyway, Yun Zhi raised her hand and flicked her wrist, sending an icicle, a sphere of water, and a patch of mist attacking Old Li all at once as he hung suspended in mid-air.

Unfortunately, the icicle, the water sphere, and the mist all passed harmlessly through his soul body and crashed onto the floor.

The next moment, Yun Zhi pulled out a stun baton and boldly circled behind him to attack Old Li from the rear...

Yet, it still passed straight through his ethereal phantom.

At that moment, Zi Ji arrived. Grabbing Yun Zhi by the left hand, he snapped, "Get back!"

With his right hand, he unleashed a net of lightning that precisely enveloped Old Li’s entire ghost form.

Yun Zhi watched with her own eyes as Old Li’s soul shriveled under the electrical shocks, turning into wisps of ghostly miasma amid shrill screams before vanishing completely.

Yun Zhi shook the stun baton in her hand and asked curiously, "Why could your lightning net touch it, but the stun baton couldn't?"

Zi Ji thought for a moment and replied, "Probably because the electricity in the stun baton requires a conductor to travel. Ghosts themselves don't conduct electricity, whereas my lightning ability can be cast without a conductor, so..."

Yun Zhi suddenly understood: "Then next time, I'll have Brother Lu make me some lightning talismans!"

Zi Ji nodded in approval and hummed, "And have him make you a hundred-year-old peach wood sword engraved with plenty of warding inscriptions. Those work exceptionally well against supernatural creatures!"

Yun Zhi: "Ah? Then should we also get a peach wood sword for Sister Mu Xue... No wait, Sister Mu Xue is also a ghost..."

Zi Ji: "Wait until she advances to Level 7 and can manifest a physical body on her own. Otherwise, she can't use those items; it's a thousand losses to herself for every eight hundred inflicted on the enemy."

The four Level 1 ghosts who had gathered at the doorway due to the commotion of the fight: ...

Do you guys honestly not take us seriously at all?

Aren't you guys ghosts yourselves? Yet you're talking about getting lightning talismans and hundred-year-old peach wood swords—what kind of pipe dream are you having?!

The four Level 1 ghost bodyguards exchanged glances and charged forward together.

Even though the opponent had a Level 2, they outnumbered them, so victory wasn't out of the question!

Ghosts who lingered in small ghost domains were either cowardly and afraid of death, or simply dim-witted.

Any truly powerful ghost would never waste their days in a place so lacking in ghostly energy that advancement was impossible.

If the butler, Old Wright, was a coward too afraid to enter dungeons, then these four Level 1 ghost bodyguards were simply not very bright.

The opposition had just killed two Level 2 ghosts, yet these fools still dared to swarm forward in a pack...

The result was that shortly after, all four Level 1 ghost minions were utterly obliterated, turning into dissipating wisps of ghostly miasma.

Yun Zhi found it somewhat unbelievable: "Xidel is one of the Four Ghost Kings. Is this really all the low-level ghosts stationed at the outpost he sent to gather healing materials?"

Xidel certainly hadn't expected anyone to dare break into his territory and slaughter his ghost servants.

Level 1 and Level 2 ghosts from the public areas couldn't even enter the gates of the castle, as those were protected by restrictions set by high-ranking major ghosts.

In fact, ordinary Level 1 and Level 2 wild ghosts wouldn't even dare to actively approach the territory of a Ghost King's forces.

The only ones permitted to enter the castle were those let in by the butler, or the ghost servants of other Ghost Kings.

The other three Ghost Kings had similarly stationed ghost servants here, occasionally smuggling living people over from the human world or engaging in other petty schemes, but they wouldn't interfere to ruin Xidel's plans.

There were indeed a few Ghost Kings of the upright faction who disdained to associate with the corrupt ones, but they wouldn't openly offend the strongest Four Ghost Kings unless they had a death wish and wanted to become ascension materials for the veteran Ghost Kings.

Furthermore, Xidel's operation of capturing living souls for healing materials had been going on for a long time, and every previous attempt had gone smoothly. He never anticipated that a mishap could occur, so not only did he fail to reinforce the guards, but he had even reassigned a few Level 2 ghosts who had grown bored after staying too long and harbored ambitions to climb higher.

In short, the ultimate result was that Ghost King Xidel's castle had been completely cleaned out of ghost servants.

Following her memories, Yun Zhi arrived at the innermost room on the first floor.

Not knowing how to open the door, she was just about to force it open when it unlocked from the inside.

It was Jiao Yuxuan, who had recovered a small portion of her spiritual energy and mobility after consuming a concealed mental recovery potion upon seeing reinforcements arrive.

This door was easy to open from the inside, but opening it from the outside required the correct ghostly energy frequency, otherwise, it was quite troublesome.

Jiao Yuxuan was still somewhat weak, but at least she could move freely. She asked, "I heard the sounds of fighting. How are you all holding up?"

Yun Zhi replied, "The few Level 1 and Level 2 ghosts in the castle have all been dealt with. Right now, Zi Ji has gone up to the fourth floor where there's a soul-absorbing mirror; he's dealing with that."

After all, Yun Zhi had only recently started cultivating, and her spiritual energy was merely at the strength of an ordinary Level 1 esper—not particularly formidable.

Zi Ji’s soul strength had previously been at the Golden Core Great Completion level. Naturally, she wouldn't be allowed to come into direct contact with a spiritual weapon capable of damaging the soul even at close range.

Jiao Yuxuan asked, "Is there anything I can do?"

Yun Zhi said, "Of course there is! There are three other buildings similar to the castle around here, and they've likely captured quite a few living people as well. Zi Ji and I plan to go check them out shortly. We'd like to ask you to stay here and help look after my two friends!"

With that, Yun Zhi stepped into the room.

The talismans that had been stuck to the backs of Tao Qi and Tian Tian, forcing their souls to absorb ghostly energy, had already been torn off by Jiao Yuxuan.

The two of them were only slightly weak now and were already capable of speaking and moving normally.

They hadn't dared to move around earlier because they didn't know the situation outside and feared becoming a burden to Jiao Yuxuan, Yun Zhi, and Zi Ji.

Yun Zhi stepped forward to support Tian Tian: "The ghostly energy in this room is the thickest on the first floor. Let's head outside first before discussing anything else."

Tao Qi had a belly full of questions he wanted to ask, but in the end, he only managed one: "Yun, was it, was it Sister Xue who sent you to save us?"

Yun Zhi nodded gently.

Tao Qi let out a long breath and, supporting Tian Tian’s other arm, walked out of the room together with the others.

The four of them gathered in the living room on the first floor of the castle, as it was the most open space and had the thinnest ghostly energy, while also being safer than the wild areas outside.

After Tian Tian ate some food that Yun Zhi took out from her backpack and recovered a bit of her stamina, she asked, "Yun Zhi, can we not leave right now? I want to get out of this ghost place as fast as possible..."

Yun Zhi shook her head: "I'm afraid not..."

With that, she explained the situation to them.

The portal linking the small ghost domain and Earth could only open naturally for two hours precisely at noon in Earth's time, which corresponded to midnight in this ghost domain.

When it was noon in the ghost domain, which was midnight on Earth, it could open for another two hours.

Entering or exiting at any other time required a transit token issued by a Ghost King.

Activating a transit token required channeling one's own ghostly energy into it, which had to match the previously registered identity information, otherwise, the transit token would explode.

Among the ghosts in the castle, only Old Li had a transit token. Although Yun Zhi and Zi Ji could mimic ghostly energy, their ghostly fluctuations did not match Old Li's.

The only reason Yun Zhi and Zi Ji had managed to enter the small ghost domain this time was pure coincidence: they arrived at the abandoned chemical plant just before one o'clock in the afternoon.

Shortly after they entered, the portal had vanished.

The members of the Haicheng Supernatural Affairs Bureau who rushed over found no entrance to any ghost domain at all and could only wait near the abandoned chemical plant.

Yun Zhi didn't particularly want to stay in the ghost domain for twelve hours. Her and Zi Ji's plan was to check the territories of the other three Ghost Kings and rescue any other kidnapped living humans they found.

Optimally, they hoped to hijack a Level 2 ghost who possessed a Ghost King token and force them to open the portal leading back to Earth.

Yun Zhi felt that to completely eliminate future troubles, the best course of action would be to permanently seal the portal linking the ghost domain to Earth.

However, the information Yun Zhi learned from Mu Xue was that the portals linking ghost domains to Earth were never fixed; they were temporarily generated, changing every month and always choosing remote, sparsely populated locations with heavy deathly energy.

Even if they sealed this portal entrance at the abandoned chemical plant, the four Ghost Kings would only need a few days of effort and a relatively small amount of ghostly energy to open a new one.

They didn't care about the loss of a few low-level ghost servants at all.

The best way to completely prevent the ghost servants of the Four Ghost Kings from illegally entering the human world was to destroy the entire small ghost domain.

This small ghost domain was an SSS-grade spiritual weapon that none of the Four Ghost Kings could bind individually, so they shared its use.

However, the difficulty of this task was still too great for Yun Zhi; it was not something she could accomplish in the short term.

Even Zi Ji in his current state couldn't pull it off.

All they could do right now was destroy the fixed passage linking the small ghost domain to the Ghost Realm.

Once that was done, rebuilding a stable passage connecting the Ghost Realm to the small ghost domain would take them about a year and require a massive investment of manpower and resources.

Yet even this task was quite difficult for Yun Zhi and Zi Ji...

They could only do their best.

Yun Zhi didn't have to wait long in the living room before Zi Ji came down from upstairs.

Yun Zhi asked, "What about the soul-absorbing mirror? Was it difficult to handle?"

Zi Ji transmitted his voice to her: "A bit tricky; the resentment and baleful energy on it are too heavy. I cast dozens of soul-sealing incantations to store that evil artifact away first. Hand it over to Lu Ziji later; he can just have some eminent Buddhist monks perform rituals to cleanse it!"

Yun Zhi nodded.

He glanced at the people sitting in the living room.

Three thunder-energy balls the size of soybeans transformed into a fine electrical net that enveloped Jiao Yuxuan, Tao Qi, and Tian Tian.

Judging by the size of those lightning balls, Yun Zhi knew they wouldn't cause any substantive harm to the three of them—at most, it would feel like being jolted by a stun baton.

She just didn't understand why Zi Ji was doing this.

Noticing Yun Zhi's confusion, Zi Ji explained, "To purge the ghostly energy from their bodies."

Jiao Yuxuan, Tao Qi, and Tian Tian only felt a brief jolt ripple through their bodies, after which they instantly felt refreshed and clear-headed.

Yun Zhi could see a cluster of faint black mist evaporating from their bodies.

Zi Ji continued, "If we didn't zap them, it would naturally dissipate in a few days anyway, though they'd be quite weak during that time. But since we're still inside the ghost domain, it's better for them to keep their mental states sharp."

At the very least, if they ran into the weakest Level 1 ghosts, even if they couldn't beat them, they could outrun them.

The three of them quickly expressed their gratitude.

Next, Yun Zhi and Zi Ji had to leave the castle and check out the territories of the other three Ghost Kings.

Tao Qi and Tian Tian definitely didn't dare to go. Jiao Yuxuan, on the other hand, felt rather eager to try, but she also knew that her strength was only sufficient against Level 1 ghosts; encountering a Level 2 ghost meant she would have no power to parry and would only become a drag.

Staying behind in the castle to wait for Zi Ji and Yun Zhi was the best option for her.

Although Jiao Yuxuan didn't quite understand why Yun Zhi was only Level 1 and her ability was water-based—which offered no advantage against ghosts—yet she could face Level 2 ghosts without the slightest bit of fear.

Yun Zhi must have had other abilities, such as... invisibility?

Perhaps even more than that—how else did she know so many secretive pieces of intelligence about the ghost domain?

However, Jiao Yuxuan didn't pry too deeply. Regardless of anything else, confirming that Yun Zhi and Zi Ji were standing on the side of humanity and Huaguo, and that they wouldn't use their abilities to commit atrocities, was quite enough.

After leaving the castle, Yun Zhi and Zi Ji went to the South District first.

For ease of operation, Yun Zhi could no longer afford to save points, so she activated the dual-driver mode of the spatial safe house once more.

The South District was the territory of the female Ghost King, Hong Yan, and her stronghold was a courtyard residence built in a classic, ancient style spanning four courtyards deep.

There were four Level 2 ghosts inside, and an even greater number of Level 1 ghosts—eighteen in total.

Most of them were young and attractive women, while a small minority were handsome young men.

Aside from the two living people trapped in the innermost room, twelve of the Level 1 ghosts had originally been living humans who had stayed in the ghost domain for more than three days and had truly transformed into ghosts.

Under the control of the four Level 2 ghosts and six veteran Level 1 ghosts, they dared not disobey; disobedience meant beatings, and dying meant dying all over again.

Watching this scene, Yun Zhi felt a heavy weight in her chest, deeply regretting that she hadn't discovered this small ghost domain sooner and saved how many originally vibrant lives from being ruined!

After figuring out their backgrounds, she exterminated the wicked ghosts who had committed many evils and harbored dense baleful energy. However, she temporarily spared a Level 2 ghost—an ordinary-looking middle-aged female ghost who held the transit token given by Hong Yan.

Usually, Hong Yan would send her to sneak into the human world, pretending to be a pitiful person whose child was lost and who was battered by her spouse, using the sympathy of young girls to get close to them.

Once close enough, she would drug the young girls into unconsciousness with a volatile sleeping potion before telling outsiders that the victim was her daughter who had fallen ill, thus naturally taking the person away.

Once brought into this courtyard and turned into ghosts, she was also the one who abused those innocent girls the most—she was utterly deserving of damnation!

Yun Zhi certainly wouldn't spare the life of such a vicious ghost, as otherwise who knew how many more innocent girls she would harm. For now, however, she was exceptionally cowardly and afraid of death, so she was kept alive to open the gates of the ghost domain.

Yun Zhi used the Ghost Dream Bracelet to control the vicious ghost, while Zi Ji used his lightning ability to physically send them to transcendence.

As for the good ghosts who had never committed evil deeds, Yun Zhi told them to stay put in the rooms and wait for further notice.

After purging the ghostly energy from the two rescued living people, she sent them back to the castle and left them some food.

Then, she continued sweeping through the strongholds of the other two Ghost Kings.

The East District was a villa, and the North District was a small Western-style house.

They held four and three living people respectively; had Yun Zhi and Zi Ji not arrived in time, all of them would have turned into ghosts within a few hours.

True to form, vicious ghosts were physically transcended, while good ghosts were temporarily spared.

One wicked ghost possessing a Ghost King transit token was also kept in reserve at each location.

After escorting the hostages back to the castle, the next task on the agenda was of a much higher difficulty: how to destroy the passage between the small ghost domain and the Ghost Realm?

Before destroying it, Yun Zhi wanted to first send those good ghosts into the Ghost Realm.

Otherwise, once the small ghost domain lost its connection to the Ghost Realm and the source of ghostly energy was cut off, the existing ghostly energy would quickly dissipate, leaving the ghosts here with no way to survive.

The dead could not be resurrected; no matter how unwillingly they had died or how much attachment they held toward the mortal world, they could never go back.

The tasks that followed exceeded the scope of Mu Xue's commission.

Moreover, if one traced the root of the matter, the Ghost Realm system deity also bore responsibility for failing to manage things properly.

If those Ghost Kings were allowed to run amok unchecked, it would eventually escalate into a major conflict between Earth and the Ghost Realm.

After communication was relayed through Mu Xue and the chat group system... a consensus was finally reached.

Regardless of whether they were good or bad, the remaining ghosts in the small ghost domain were all uniformly transferred by the Ghost Realm system deity into the self-judgment beginner dungeons.

Its control over SSS-grade spiritual weapons that had broken free of dungeons wasn't absolute, but if it was willing to expend a large amount of ghostly energy, it could manage them if it wanted to.

Upon entering the self-judgment dungeons, the fate of the wicked ghosts would mirror their own judgments, while the good ghosts would be granted a single opportunity to manifest in dreams and pass down final dying words to their families in reality, alongside receiving quite decent rewards.

As for how they would fare in the Ghost Realm afterward, they would simply have to rely on themselves.

Yun Zhi asked the chat group: "Ghost Realm consciousness, why on earth did it create an SSS-grade spiritual weapon that even it finds hard to control?"

The chat group actually answered: "Sigh, it couldn't control that either. It's just like parents having a rebellious child who refuses to listen to advice—if bad people use it to do evil, can the parent just go and directly destroy their own kid?"

Yun Zhi: ...

In short, all the ghosts in the small ghost domain were instantly transferred into the [Self-Judgment] dungeon by the Ghost Realm system deity.

Only two vicious ghosts were temporarily left behind for Yun Zhi to open the doors, and they were immobilized by Zi Ji's immobilization talismans, unable to move a muscle.

However, the stable passage between the small ghost domain and the Ghost Realm still needed to be dealt with personally by Yun Zhi and Zi Ji.

The reason being that the Ghost Realm system deity was unwilling to expend any more energy.

Because this was a stable passage, it wasn't generated by ghostly energy, but rather crafted over time and with great effort using numerous spiritual artifact materials.

In short: physical attacks work!

Yun Zhi dismantled every single material she could detach from the passage on the small ghost domain's side.

Mu Xue dismantled whatever she could detach on the other end.

As for the parts that couldn't be dismantled, Zi Ji pulled a ton of explosives out of his storage space...

Yun Zhi: ...

Splendid! Very powerful!

And then, that passage was blown to smithereens.

When the sounds of the explosives echoed, Yun Zhi, Zi Ji, and Jiao Yuxuan had already departed from the temporary passage, bringing along a bunch of successfully rescued ordinary people.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged female ghost under Queen Hong Yan and the young male ghost serving the East District Ghost King—who had used their transit tokens to open the temporary passage for them—were left behind.

The two ghosts were on the verge of crying tears of joy: Oh mother, those two plagues have finally been sent away!

The middle-aged female ghost muttered: "I wonder if those two thousand-slash villains were actually humans or ghosts?"

The young male ghost replied: "Doesn't matter! As long as they're gone, that's all that counts! So what if we lost a few living souls and some low-level ghosts who served as our reserve rations or spare faces? However many the Ghost Kings want, we can just find and get more for them!"

"Right, right! The top priority right now is to return to the Ghost Realm immediately and report the situation here to His Majesty the Ghost King..."

Just as they wanted to head back through the ghost domain's passage to the Ghost Realm, they abruptly heard a succession of continuous "Boom-rumble-rumble—" explosions.

Terror painted both of their faces: "The passage to the Ghost Realm has been severed?! How could this be?!"

"It must have been those two scourges again!!!"

However, they had no time to harbor any further grievances, as the Ghost Realm system deity swept them directly into the self-judgment dungeon.

Depending on the evil deeds they had committed, they were destined to experience being abducted and murdered countless times within the dungeon.

Normally, the Ghost Realm didn't bother managing such low-level affairs.

Dozens or a hundred ordinary people dying unjustly was a heavy blow and immense harm to those families.

Yet to the Ghost Realm consciousness, it was merely equivalent to a few dozen or a hundred ants appearing on a vast mountain slope of its territory.

Had it not been for the fact that one of the little ants could provide toys it found interesting, and that these ants had entered through the small ghost domain—a work it had DIY-ed with its own hands and casually tossed into some dungeon as a reward when it felt bored—it wouldn't have noticed such a trivial matter at all.

Having expended quite a bit of ghostly energy, the Ghost Realm system deity wept piteously to the chat group system, its heart aching: "Wuwuwu, baby, I took a massive loss this time. That Tao Qi has to buy me a thousand paper-cut doll dresses before I'll feel better!"

The chat group system replied: "Can you have a little ambition? Where is a thousand little dresses enough? New dolls, all sorts of wigs, cosmetics, accessories, shoes... those all need to match as well!"

"!!!"

"You're right!"

On the other side, the location where Yun Zhi, Zi Ji, Jiao Yuxuan, Tao Qi, Tian Tian, and the group of ordinary people emerged was still the abandoned chemical plant.

Qin Lei and several members of the Haicheng Supernatural Affairs Bureau were waiting here, wearing gas masks.

Seeing them appear, they immediately hurried forward.

As for the temporary passage generated by ghostly energy that linked to the ghost domain, it vanished the moment all of them stepped out.

Afterward, everyone was taken to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.

Yun Zhi, Zi Ji, and Jiao Yuxuan went in to report the details of the operation.

Yun Zhi and Zi Ji shared what could be shared and glossed over the rest.

Jiao Yuxuan didn't know too much either, so she simply recounted what she had witnessed firsthand.

As for the ordinary people other than Tao Qi, Jiao Yuxuan hypnotized all of their minds, making them believe they had merely undergone an ordinary kidnapping and been rescued by the police.

Tao Qi's memories were not intentionally hypnotized because, following this trip into the ghost domain, he had unexpectedly awakened an ability, forming a still-fragile ability crystal core within his mind.

The Haicheng Supernatural Affairs Bureau couldn't precisely categorize what type of ability it was, as nothing like it had appeared before; they only knew it was related to "dreams."

Yun Zhi, however, knew that it must be the dream-weaving ability akin to Mu Xue's.

With this ability, dealing with ordinary Level 1 ghosts would be quite easy for him, and even against Level 2 ghosts, trapping them could buy him a few seconds of escape time.

Naturally, he could use it on Earth as well, though the dreamscapes he wove would mostly be populated by various ghosts...

This was a gift bestowed upon Tao Qi by the Ghost Realm system deity out of selfish motives, terrified that if he died, there would be no one left to diligently collect pretty little dresses for it.

In the end, Tao Qi signed a confidentiality agreement. Since he didn't meet the recruitment standards of the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, he didn't join them for the time being, but should he ever use his ability against ordinary people, he would still need to file an explanatory report with the Bureau.

As Tao Qi’s relative, Tian Tian would have plenty of opportunities to come into contact with Tao Qi in the future. She was given the choice to either sign the confidentiality agreement or undergo hypnosis...

After much inner struggle, Tian Tian ultimately chose to be hypnotized.

Although the ending turned out fine, the terror and panic upon first being dragged into the small ghost domain had been very real. If she didn't accept the hypnosis, the material for her future dreams would forever feature the ghost domain as a backdrop...

As for the fact that her cousin and Yun Zhi now possessed abilities, she could learn about it later if a suitable opportunity arose, and if she didn't, it wouldn't matter much—it wouldn't have any major impact on her life anyway.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the emergency task: Mu Xue's commission! Reward: 2000 points!]

Yun Zhi bargtered: "What I did went far beyond just Mu Xue's commission! I also rescued many innocent civilians and even blew up the passage between the Ghost Realm and the ghost domain. Shouldn't you show a bit more appreciation?"

The chat group system attempted to argue: "That was Zi Ji who blew it up..."

Yun Zhi: "He's a companion I brought in, so what he did equates to what I did. Furthermore, he relied on my space to conveniently exterminate those wicked ghosts... Anyway, you need to cough up more points! Otherwise, the next time there's a high-risk task like this, I won't do anything extra! Don't assume I don't know—the more good deeds I do, the more merit you harvest!"

The chat group system: ...

This host was getting harder and harder to fool!

[Ding! Because the Host also additionally rescued multiple innocent civilians and severed the link between the ghost domain and the Ghost Realm, an extra reward of 1000 points is granted! Along with an additional trading opportunity with Lu Ziji from the cultivation world!]

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