Tales of the Mortal World
Chapter 334

A Hundred Ghosts Roam the Night

2,424 words•8 min read•0 views
5h ago•

Taking people to meet ghosts and ghosts to meet people-words like these sounded rather chilling, but only under ordinary circumstances, to ordinary people.

Now a divine being had appeared, and they were inside the True Lord Temple. Leaving Yi Shuyuan aside, even Shao Zhen felt more excitement than fear.

Before unease or anticipation could even arise, the divine being pointed with his golden brush. The Hundred Ghosts Picture ahead had already grown as vast as the canopy of heaven, and endless clouds poured out of it.

The next instant, the wind carried the three of them into the clouds.

Shao Zhen could not see his surroundings. Unease and anticipation mingled in his heart. Though he did not entirely understand the divine being's words, he now realized that he might see the many ghosts and monsters he had painted.

Meanwhile, the divine light cast by the golden brush continued spreading through the painting.

The originally cramped Hundred Ghosts Picture seemed to expand without end. By the time Yi Shuyuan and the others emerged from the clouds, a range of mountains stood below them, with a hundred ghosts upon them and indistinct white mist all around.

This clearly was not a technique of the Painting Realm, but it achieved a similar effect to what Yi Shuyuan had done when saving the Carp Demon. With Shao Zhen's lifelike painting as its foundation, it almost felt as though a Painting Realm had been conjured into being.

In truth, the transformation was equally novel to the hundred ghosts in the painting, and they gradually grew excited as well.

Previously, being inside the painting had felt more like being crammed into a flat surface. Now they all felt solid and spacious, a sensation only the Blue-Robed Ghost and the Long-Haired Ghost had experienced before.

At that

End of Chapter
Novel

Explore the wiki