Chapter 102 Helping Me Climb Higher!

Abe Otsuka watched, dumbfounded. What kind of Spell was this? He had never heard of such a thing.

By merely opening his five fingers, he had forced ten thousand ghosts to submit!

Moreover, looking at that man's demeanor, he seemed to still have energy to spare.

Abe Otsuka felt both panic and anger in his heart; the panic was naturally because he feared he would meet his end here today.

As for the anger, he was furious that the Yamamoto Family had to provoke someone; why did they have to provoke such a fierce god!

He had known for a long time that war fanatics like the Yamamoto Family would sooner or later bring disaster upon the Abe Family!

Abe Otsuka was terrified to the point of despair and hurriedly shouted: "Fellow Daoist, I have something to say!"

Jiang Chen, however, had no intention of listening to him. That golden light continued to rush toward Abe Otsuka with unstoppable momentum.

Swish!

The golden light submerged into Abe Otsuka's body. His eyes suddenly widened, and then, with a thud, he collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

With Abe Otsuka's death, these wandering souls seemed to start becoming restless.

Or perhaps they shouldn't be called wandering souls; these spirits had all died on the battlefield and were summoned back.

Having been struck by the battlefield's baleful aura, their souls were already incomplete, and most of the remnant souls no longer possessed intelligence.

A flash of ghostly light appeared in Jiang Chen's hand, and then one could see the originally vast and overwhelming swarm of dancing remnant souls wailing as they poured into his palm like a reverse torrent.

Until the courtyard returned to tranquility.

Jia He stared unblinkingly at Jiang Chen's palm. He could see that there were still countless remnant souls scurrying about in Jiang Chen's palm, yet they could not fly out of it.

Furthermore, there were faint, painful wails, as if they were enduring immense torture.

Jiang Chen flipped his hand, and the ghosts in his palm vanished without a trace.

In the inner landscape that Jia He could not see, Jiang Chen's Divine Soul of Nature and Intent stood high like a pillar supporting the heavens, its feet braced against the black earth, its head touching the yellow sky.

A crimson Yunji Talisman, trailing a stream of light, was circling and dancing around the Divine Soul of Nature and Intent, much like a sharp sword in the hand of this Divine Soul.

At this moment, suddenly, the inner and outer landscapes connected, the portal swung wide open, and immediately, external spirits attempted to invade the inner landscape.

But that crimson stream of light merely swayed slightly, and an invisible ripple swept across the entire inner landscape, utterly shattering the invading external spirits.

These external spirits were not divine beings, but rather evil entities of the Void Realm. Once they invaded the inner landscape, they would form distracting thoughts; if there were too many, they would become Heart Demons.

When Jiang Chen was weak, he could not sense the existence of these external spirits, and the last time he had opened his inner landscape was during his ordination at the Maoshan Sect.

At that time, in the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws, under the gaze of the Ancestral Masters and with his Revered Master acting as Protector, naturally, no external spirit would dare to invade.

After sweeping away the external spirits, the crimson stream of light seemed to perceive something; automatically protecting its Revered Master, it prepared to strike with a sword at the portal again.

However, it was stopped in time by Jiang Chen's will.

Immediately afterward, a vast swarm of remnant souls came flooding in, seemingly endless.

After these remnant souls arrived in the inner landscape, they thought they had been reborn, and each one was incredibly excited, wanting to fly everywhere.

But they immediately sensed something was wrong; a pressure like the might of heaven had locked onto them.

Then, their bodies, seemingly beyond their control, flew in one direction.

That was the foot of this pillar supporting the heavens. Countless remnant souls seemed to merge with the black earth, beginning to struggle constantly as they tried to escape.

But with the Divine Soul of Nature and Intent suppressing them from above, how could it be so easy?

Moreover, this Divine Soul of Nature and Intent was still increasing the pressure on the black earth. Soon, some remnant souls could no longer endure the pain and torture; their bodies shattered and turned into chaotic black Qi.

This was not the end; even after turning into black Qi, this black Qi continued to disintegrate under the suppression of the Divine Soul of Nature and Intent, as if it were to be crushed into original nothingness.

This was another function of the Three Souls Restraint Technique: it could use the remnant souls of evil ghosts as a foundation for tempering one's own Divine Soul.

While grinding the remnant souls, the Divine Soul of Nature and Intent would also continuously grow stronger.

However, because this technique was both righteous and evil, it was righteous if used by a righteous person, and evil if used by an evil person.

Therefore, only Disciples permitted by the Maoshan Sect Leader could Cultivate it.

For Jiang Chen, using ordinary ghosts to Cultivate was too cruel; even using animal souls had the suspicion of harming the natural order.

But as for the ghosts in the Yasukuni Shrine, he could use them with a clear conscience, without a shred of guilt.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, Jia He watched, dumbfounded, and asked.

"Junior Martial Uncle, didn't you say you were going to transcend the wandering souls? What were you doing just now?"

Just now, Jiang Chen had made countless wandering souls vanish with a flip of his hand. In his view, it seemed as if Jiang Chen had caused all the wandering souls to have their bodies and souls destroyed.

"Physical transcendence is also transcendence." Jiang Chen said calmly.

"What, do you feel it's too cruel?"

Jia He hurriedly shook his head and gave a thumbs up: "No, no, these animals committed many evils in their lives; they should not have remained in the world long ago. Junior Martial Uncle, well done!"

At this moment, the remaining wandering souls in the hall were already trembling with fear.

Especially the one that had wanted to run away at the beginning; it was now completely curled up, not daring to release even a trace of ghostly Qi.

But this was all in vain. Jiang Chen slowly walked into the Soul-Summoning Hall, with Jia He following behind.

"Everyone, today is the Obon Festival, a fortuitous day. I invite you all to inherit your past Bushido spirit and set off on your journey early."

There was silence for a long while. Jiang Chen no longer waited for them to throw themselves into the net, but instead prepared to cast a Spell to eradicate them.

Just at this moment, a sinister voice came from the direction of the memorial tablets.

"Your Excellency, doing this, are you not afraid of attracting retaliation from the cultivators of the Island Nation?"

Jiang Chen said softly: "That is exactly what I desire."

The voice paused, then said with some anger: "My Island Nation still has eight million gods!"

"They are merely demons and monsters; there is not much difference between them and all of you."

The voice did not speak again, hiding within the memorial tablets, not knowing if it was healing its wounds or gathering strength.

Jiang Chen could not wait any longer.

"It seems you have all lost your past Bushido spirit. Then I do not mind helping you recall it a little."

Having said this, Jiang Chen raised his hand, pointing his fingers as a sword. A powerful Shangqing Image-Aspect Sword Intent brewed at his fingertips.

Jiang Chen had no intention of holding back at all. Pure killing intent was unleashed wantonly, making one's hair stand on end.

The leader of the evil ghosts could no longer sit still and began to incite the other evil ghosts to attack.

As a former leader of war criminals, even after becoming a wandering soul, it still retained a certain level of intimidation.

Sure enough, under its incitement, immediately there were evil ghosts who could not hold back and rushed out.

Pfft!

Without causing the slightest ripple, Jia He only saw a silver light flash rapidly through the room. The evil ghost that had rushed out was already reduced to nothing but a wisp of green smoke, then dissipated into the air.

Jiang Chen had used thousands of fierce ghosts as the foundation for ascending in the inner landscape, and it would be difficult to fully digest them in a short while. At this moment, these fierce ghosts outside did not have much more utilization value.

Therefore, Jiang Chen decided to be a good person to the end and simply transcended them all together.

Hmm, it was physical transcendence.

However, the leading evil ghost still did not intend to come out, remaining holed up in the memorial tablet.

"If you won't come out, then never come out."

Jiang Chen turned and walked out of the hall. Seeing this, the evil ghost breathed a sigh of relief.

It thought Jiang Chen had given up on killing it, but then, a feeling of horror rose within it.

Its body suddenly flew out from the memorial tablet, wanting to run away, but it was too late.

A powerful Sword Qi wove into a net, intersecting and striking every memorial tablet. Inside, whether they had fled or not, all the evil ghosts experienced Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering under this Sword Qi.

Boom!

Just as Jiang Chen walked out of the hall, the entire Formation of the Soul-Summoning Hall had already been destroyed, and the Soul-Summoning Hall collapsed with a roar!