“So that means you are the ‘Ferryman’?”
The black-clad leader stared at the purple-haired loli with a gloomy expression and asked.
“What is a ‘Ferryman’?”
The purple-haired loli tilted her head, somewhat puzzled.
“My name is Zi Kui. I’m the boss here.”
Zi Kui wasn’t aware of how others referred to her. She only knew that if someone caused trouble on her turf, she would kill them all.
After hearing Zi Kui’s words, the black-clad leader couldn’t help but smirk.
“I never expected the legendary ‘Ferryman’ to be just a little brat. How disappointing.”
Then he turned to his companions and asked, “You all think so too, right?”
However, he noticed that the expressions of the few beside him were odd, and their bodies were fidgeting.
He found it strange and asked with a frown, “What’s wrong with all of you?”
Then one person whispered back, “Boss, I… I’m done.”
“Me too…”
“Same here…”
Their voices grew softer, as if they were embarrassed.
The black-clad leader was so angry his beard almost stood on end. He kicked each of them and cursed, “Damn it, a bunch of useless bastards. A little brat like that and you all came so quickly?”
“Boss, let’s proceed with the original plan, please?”
“But… she’s really cute, really…”
“Yeah, yeah, we couldn’t see clearly from afar, but when she got closer, she really is cute!”
To break the balance between the Yin and Yang Worlds, they needed to eliminate the trouble that was the ‘Ferryman’.
According to these black-clad men’s original plan, they had two ways to deal with the ‘Ferryman’.
First, completely erase her.
Second, imprison her soul, seize her body, and let everyone enjoy it.
If the legendary ‘Ferryman’ was a beautiful woman, they would adopt the second plan; otherwise, they would use the first.
At this moment, Zi Kui before them was undeniably beautiful. Her face was as delicate as a porcelain doll, her short hair a gradient from pink to light purple to deep purple, like fireflies in a deep valley on a dark night, deep, bright, and intoxicating.
Unfortunately, her flat chest and slender figure didn’t interest the black-clad leader at all. He had planned to directly implement plan one and simply erase Zi Kui.
But he never expected that everyone else beside him had a big problem! Since others had issues and he didn’t, he became the one with the biggest problem.
As the minority follows the majority, they decided to stick with the original plan and adopt the second option. They were fully confident in dealing with the ‘Ferryman’.
“Hehehe, little cutie, try this!”
They showed ferocious grins and took out a green lamp, suspending it high above their heads. The moment the green lamp emitted an eerie glow, countless evil spirits and malevolent spirits around were sucked into the lamp.
Besides that, the wandering souls hidden deep in the River of Forgetfulness that had not yet been awakened also burst out of the water, swarming towards the green lamp in droves.
These wandering souls seemed unwilling to disappear like that, stretching out their hands to return to the River of Forgetfulness, but they were powerless and were sucked into the green lamp.
The wails of the wandering souls rose and fell, echoing through the valley. The scene was both spectacular and terrifying. Ji Ruohan, witnessing all this, couldn’t utter a single word.
“B-Boss… something’s wrong. This ‘Green Soul Lamp’ doesn’t seem to affect her at all!”
The black-clad man holding the green lamp panicked when he saw Zi Kui standing on the river surface, unmoving and calm.
“Th-this shouldn’t be… Could that person have tricked us in the end?”
The black-clad leader didn’t know what to do either. Clearly, their plan had encountered an accident.
The mysterious person who gave them this ‘Green Soul Lamp’ also taught them how to control Rot Qi for their own use.
When they truly turned Rot Qi into a “sharp weapon,” they caused beast rampages across the provinces, bringing chaos to the world while also causing massive casualties among Right Path cultivators.
They were already a group of desperados, and stirring up such a storm in the world naturally filled them with pride. As a result, they became even more trusting of that mysterious person.
That mysterious person told them that by using this ‘Green Soul Lamp,’ they could absorb and imprison the ‘Ferryman’s’ soul. As long as they later found her physical body, they could control both her body and soul.
Craving power and women’s beauty was the nature of these desperados.
And because of the special status and position of the ‘Ferryman,’ it hit their strange and peculiar fetishes. That’s why they were so excited when a cute and beautiful little loli like Zi Kui appeared as the ‘Ferryman.’
But what they didn’t expect was that the Green Soul Lamp had no effect on Zi Kui at all?
Standing on the surface of the River of Forgetfulness, Zi Kui quietly watched the wailing wandering souls in the air with her amethyst-like eyes, unmoved. No one knew what she was thinking at that moment.
“Hey, hey, hey… Aren’t you the one who protects these wandering souls? Are you just going to watch them get sucked into the green lamp without any reaction?!”
The black-clad leader, unable to bear it any longer, demanded of Zi Kui. He tried to use this provocation to shake Zi Kui’s will. If her will wavered, she might show a weakness and have her soul absorbed by the Green Soul Lamp.
However, Zi Kui’s next answer surprised everyone.
“You cause trouble and deserve to die.”
She paused, then said expressionlessly, “But you’re helping to clean up the trash, so you also deserve praise.”
“What… clean up trash?!”
The black-clad leader was shocked.
The dignified Ferryman of the Underworld, guardian of the two worlds of Yin and Yang, who comforts countless lost souls, could actually say such things?
“Not all souls are worthy of peace.”
Zi Kui slowly raised her slender finger, pointing at the black-clad men.
“For example, you are not.”
The black-clad leader glanced at the uncontrolled evil spirits and the souls absorbed by the Green Soul Lamp.
“Hehe… You’re not going to say that from the start, those were all heinous criminals in life?”
“That’s right.”
“Huh?”
The black-clad men were stunned, then the scene before them shocked them greatly.
From behind Zi Kui’s petite body, transparent figures appeared one by one. Some stood behind her, some floated in the air, and as their numbers grew, they gathered into a shadow large enough to blot out the sky!
“Everyone I protect is here,” Zi Kui said calmly.
She merely stood there, and the countless wandering souls behind her were not attracted by the Green Soul Lamp.
The River of Forgetfulness is three thousand feet deep, the Yellow Springs nine thousand zhang long. No matter where one dies or is buried, the soul of the deceased must pass through Zi Kui’s checkpoint.
In the past, Zi Kui protected all equally, but an accident caused a revolt among the wandering souls in the River of Forgetfulness, leading to malevolent spirits plaguing the world. Now she had learned her lesson.
Wandering souls are divided into good and evil, and those destined to become evil spirits are not only suppressed and punished by Zi Kui but also not protected by her.
So just now, they were all sucked away like trash by the Green Soul Lamp.
“Everyone is afraid of that lamp.”
Zi Kui felt the wandering souls under her protection transmitting a great deal of unease to her, so she finally made her next move.
Zi Kui’s body overflowed with Extreme Yin Qi. She reached under her skirt and pulled out a massive dark purple sword that was a full forty meters long, aiming it at the black-clad men and the green lamp.
The character ‘Kui’ means leader and implies a towering stature. Zi Kui was not only the first disciple of Among the Colorful Clouds but also the boss who protected all the peaceful and orderly wandering souls of the River of Forgetfulness.
Though her body was petite, the sword she pulled out seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth in two.
She tilted her head, expressionless, and said in a completely flat tone:
“The River of Forgetfulness does not welcome you. So please, disperse your souls here.”
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