Wandering Souls, Easily Dealt With

The wind in the forest was chilling, like the wails of vengeful spirits.

Hua Shuya felt the cold seep into her bones, her teeth chattering slightly. The eerie woman remained silent, her expression grim. The standoff between her and Lin Tianlu brought a suffocating pressure.

"You scholar—"

The eerie woman spoke slowly, her voice raspy. "How dare you touch my body!"

"Men and women should not touch each other; I am aware of that."

Lin Tianlu smiled faintly. "But aren't you going to explain about these murdered farmers around us?"

"Die!" The eerie woman's eyes widened, as if blood were flowing from them. At the same time, a chilling aura surged out, like the phantom edge of a blade!

"..."

After a moment of silence, Lin Tianlu looked down at himself with a strange expression:

"Miss, isn't it a bit impolite to curse someone?"

The eerie woman froze for a moment.

In that instant, Lin Tianlu felt the icy wrist he was tightly gripping suddenly slip away. The eerie woman in front of him vanished.

"S-Senior... W-What is this?!"

Hua Shuya's face was pale, and she could barely catch her breath, her right hand holding the sword trembling.

Lin Tianlu narrowed his eyes, took a few steps back, and said gravely, "It seems to be a lonely spirit from the mountains."

"Hiss hiss hiss—!"

A strange sound came from behind him.

Lin Tianlu quickly turned to look, only to see a pale phantom flash before him. The palm hidden in his sleeve struck with fierce force!

--Thump!

The palm strike landed like a thunderous drum.

The escaping gust of wind even made Hua Shuya stagger back two steps, her face filled with horror. "Senior!"

"...Hm?"

Lin Tianlu looked down at the palmprint on his chest, his eyes full of surprise.

He didn't feel any pain. On the contrary...

It was cool and refreshing.

Almost comfortable?

--No.

He gradually realized.

His body was too abnormal.

"How... is this possible?!"

A trace of shock appeared on the eerie woman's pale face.

Just then, before the eerie woman could retract her hand, Lin Tianlu's gaze, sharp as lightning, seized her wrist again.

Without a word, he took a deep breath and struck her chest with his palm.

The eerie woman's face was still etched with shock and confusion as half of her body dispersed into smoke from the palm strike.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!"

An ear-piercing scream suddenly erupted, startling countless birds and beasts.

The eerie woman's body immediately turned into a mass of dim, lightless smoke and fled rapidly into the distance.

"Impossible! Impossible!"

The eerie woman fled frantically through the bushes, her form becoming increasingly illusory, her expression a mixture of panic and terror.

"That scholar... he looked so weak and frail, with such a delicate face. Where did he get such terrifying palm strength?!"

"Pure Yang Realm? Green Spirit Realm? Or a Five Meridian Grandmaster?!"

"No! None of them! This man—"

As if realizing something, the eerie woman's eyes filled with dread.

"I must escape, I must get away from this monster as quickly as possible!"

But she soon noticed something was wrong.

Strange, silvery threads had somehow entangled her entire body, slowing her escape.

Until, with a face full of horror, she froze completely in mid-air, unable to move.

Lin Tianlu stood with his hands lowered, silently watching the direction the smoke had gone, his gaze fixed.

At this moment, he suddenly felt his vision subtly change.

The sunlight filtering through the gaps in the bushes grew dim and illusory, and strands of light seemed to permeate the air, spreading towards the depths of the forest.

Not only that, Lin Tianlu even detected extremely subtle movements around him—

Dancing fallen leaves, swaying weeds and flowers, and some strange points of light he had never seen before were hovering and scattering on the ground beneath his feet.

Streams of light intertwined, weaving a beautiful, profound scroll.

The scenery was uniquely beautiful, and extremely quiet.

In a daze, Lin Tianlu's eyes became vacant, and as if guided by a feeling, he slowly pointed a finger through the air.

"Heavenly Net, Earthly Web, where can you escape?"

A strong wind suddenly rose, whipping up a warm and gentle breeze.

Hua Shuya suddenly felt the icy pressure that had enveloped her body rapidly recede, and her breathing eased. Her surprised gaze swept around. Even the zombies that had surrounded them stopped in their tracks and stumbled to their knees.

At the same time, a woman's pained cry echoed through the deep forest:

"This concubine... is unwilling!!"

"Unwilling?"

Lin Tianlu chuckled, a flash of emerald light suddenly appearing in his eyes.

Within the struggling, trembling soul of that woman, scarlet blood light coiled and flowed, as if accompanied by countless wailing vengeful spirits. Her sins were heavy; who knew how many innocent people had died by her hand.

"--You are not qualified."

Lin Tianlu simply clasped his hands behind his back and sighed softly.

But the strange woman, suspended in mid-air, turned pale with terror, her soul trembling.

Within her line of sight, the Taiyi Mountains, stretching for hundreds of miles, all trembled. A majestic force surged into the clouds, as if parting the clouds to reveal the sun. Countless spiritual energies erupted from the earth's veins, transforming into world-destroying waves that swallowed the heavens and the earth!

Howling like dragons, radiant like the sun, carrying an irresistible, vast power of the heavens, in just an instant, it completely crushed her soul!

"..."

In the blink of an eye, the surroundings returned to peace and quiet.

The gentle breeze that had been blowing continuously gradually dissipated, and the lingering cold aura completely vanished.

The clouds and mist gradually cleared, and the warm sun once again shone into the forest.

The zombies, originally controlled by the dark energy, seemed to have found release. Their bloody and blurred faces showed traces of joy, and they cupped their hands in a gesture of reverence, bowing repeatedly as if on a pilgrimage.

"Thank you, Great Immortal, for freeing us—"

"We will not forget the Great Immortal's kindness—"

Their bodies turned into wisps of smoke under the sunlight, dissipating into the heavens and the earth.

Hua Shuya looked at the unbelievable scene before her and couldn't help but murmur, "Senior, are they now..."

"Returned to dust, at peace in their next lives."

Lin Tianlu sighed with a hint of melancholy and looked up at the sky.

The young woman blinked her beautiful eyes, gazing at his retreating back with a thoughtful expression.

Bathed in the fragmented afterglow of the sun, that slender back stood so tall and upright, ethereal like an immortal. In a daze, it seemed to gradually overlap with the image she had yearned for since childhood.

However, she did not know that Lin Tianlu was inwardly astonished at this moment.

After he had eliminated that strange woman, a wisp of extremely peculiar dark gray aura drifted over and slowly flowed into his embrace.

Reaching into his embrace, he discovered that these strange energies were being absorbed bit by bit into a broken jade pendant.

"This is... the jade pendant I dug up on the mountaintop?"

Lin Tianlu was somewhat surprised.

He had initially thought this thing was just a rotten old antique, but he hadn't expected it to actually retain some mystical properties?

However, there was still something that surprised him even more.

Lin Tianlu put away the jade pendant and, with a strange expression, clenched his right hand.

He had only intended to try it out, but he never expected... that he had now truly mastered a special ability.

But he hadn't read any cultivation manuals at all, so where did this cultivation come from?

Hua Shuya, this young lady, struggled just to deal with a few zombies, yet he had dealt with the female ghost behind the scenes as easily as snapping his fingers.

He couldn't understand.

But it didn't seem bad.

Lin Tianlu's gaze swept towards the direction where the female ghost had disappeared, sighing inwardly.

This world seemed more dangerous than he had imagined, with such demonic beings truly existing. If he had entered this place as a mortal, his fate might have been the same as these farmers, dying tragically.

Hua Shuya put away her sword at this moment and walked forward with a somber expression: "Senior, has the female ghost been dealt with?"

"That's right."

Lin Tianlu glanced back at her. "Young Lady, are you planning to..."

"These farmers died because of me, after all. When we return to town, I will do my best to compensate and comfort their families," Hua Shuya sighed softly. "It's just a shame I can't bring their bodies back for burial. I truly have no face to meet their families."

A kind-hearted woman indeed.

Just as Lin Tianlu was about to speak, he saw Hua Shuya take a deep breath and bow with her fists clasped.

"Thank you, Senior, for saving my life this time! If you hadn't intervened, Shuya would have already died at the hands of that fiend!"

"It's nothing."

Lin Tianlu coughed lightly, feigning composure as he waved his hand. "Since you're unharmed, we should get moving. This place is sinister and damp; staying here too long isn't good for the body."

"Yes!"

Hua Shuya walked ahead with considerable eagerness, leading the way.

Lin Tianlu followed quietly behind, secretly wiping a bead of sweat.

This way of speaking, like a reclusive master, is truly hard to control. Fortunately, the half-month of solitary cultivation has tempered my disposition somewhat, so my words are neither humble nor arrogant.

Once we reach the town, I must properly sort through all the events since my transmigration.

And this Taiyi Immortal Mountain also needs—

Lin Tianlu turned his head as if sensing something, and his expression immediately froze.

White clouds swirled, resembling a fairyland on earth, with lush greenery covering the mountains and fields.

However...

The mountain peak, which had once blotted out the sun, had vanished.

Where did Taiyi Mountain go?

Where did my Taiyi Mountain, so vast, suddenly disappear to?!

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