243: Defying the will of heaven! The girl of destiny!

“Hey, don't be in such a hurry to call me Junior Martial Uncle.”

Han Yan flicked his sleeve, a subtle force gently supporting Lin Rourou, “I'm just finding a Disciple on behalf of a friend. Whether you can gain his approval depends on your own Opportunity.”

Lin Rourou looked confused upon hearing this.

“Senior, didn't Southern Ghost Emperor, that elderly gentleman, already… ”

“Though the body perishes, the Dao remains.”

Han Yan, with his hands behind his back, paced around, adopting the air of an expert, and began his most skilled endeavor of “fabricating stories.”

With a flick of his wrist, a pitch-black, oddly shaped, and even slightly earthy-smelling broken stone, picked up from who-knows-where, appeared in his hand out of thin air.

“Here, catch.”

He tossed the stone over.

“This is the ‘Ghost Emperor Legacy Stone.’ Within it, my old friend Du Ziren's lifelong Legacy is contained.”

“You only need to calmly perceive it. If you can comprehend the «Underworld Ghost Law» from within, then you will be officially initiated as his sole personal Disciple.”

“At that time, this Legacy Stone will also be yours.”

Lin Rourou tremblingly accepted the stone with both hands, as if it were a priceless treasure.

However, she scrutinized the stone over and over, no less than seventeen or eighteen times.

This… how the Hell did it look like anything but an ordinary broken stone, just dug up from the roadside?!

There wasn't even the slightest energy fluctuation on it!

Her heart was filled with deep suspicion.

But seeing Han Yan's confident demeanor, she dared not ask more, fearing she might accidentally miss out on this Heaven-Defying Opportunity.

“Thank you for your guidance, Senior!”

She could only, half-believing, half-doubting, hug the broken stone, find a relatively clean patch of grass, sit down cross-legged, slowly close her eyes, and begin to try and “perceive.”

Han Yan watched from the side, his heart also in a flutter, beating like a drum.

“Damn it, this trick worked pretty well for fooling Lin Fan and those other simpletons in Tianwu World. I just don't know if it'll work here on Earth.”

“If this backfires, I'll lose face completely.”

He muttered to himself.

… …

Time, minute by minute, passed.

An hour went by.

Fine beads of sweat seeped from Lin Rourou's forehead, her small face flushed red; let alone the «Underworld Ghost Law», she hadn't perceived even a fart.

Han Yan, seeing her scratching her head in frustration, also grew a little anxious.

No, he needed to add some fuel to the fire!

He cleared his throat and began his “live commentary.”

“Back then, my old friend Du Ziren, with his own strength, guarded the Ghost Gate Pass of the Underworld's Southern Region; how spirited and magnificent he was!”

“The «Myriad Manifestations of Yama Art» he created, with one art, could transform into Hell, suppressing thousands of evil spirits!”

“And there was his ultimate secret technique, the «Netherworld Ghost Claw», with one claw, it could tear the Void Realm and capture Divine Souls!”

He attributed all the incredibly powerful Ghost Dao Cultivation Techniques he had read about in novels from his previous life to this “Du Ziren.”

Anyway, bragging didn't cost money.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Lin Rourou was originally agitated and clueless.

But listening to Han Yan's vivid “commentary,” her already chaotic mind gradually calmed down.

She no longer deliberately “perceived” the broken stone.

Instead, she completely immersed her Divine Soul into the Ghost Dao world that Han Yan described, a world full of endless killing and profound mysteries.

Gradually.

Her aura became distant and ethereal.

The originally illusory figure behind her began to solidify at a visible speed.

A chilling, domineering, terrifying aura, as if intending to transform this entire world into a ghost domain, swept out from within her body!

“Boom!”

In less than two hours!

Lin Rourou suddenly opened her eyes, and within those pupils, two points of eerie green ghost fire flickered, full of strangeness and power!

She had actually, during this Epiphany, self-comprehended and created a Heaven-Defying Ghost Cultivation Technique—the «Netherworld Ghost Canon»!

It worked!

And at that very moment!

A crisp “Ding!” sounded in Han Yan's mind!

【Ding! Detected that the Host (Clone) successfully guided Disciple Lin Rourou (Red Luck) to self-comprehend and create the Ghost Dao Cultivation Technique «Netherworld Ghost Canon»!】

【Triggering Hundred-fold Critical Return!】

【Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Complete Version of the Supreme Ghost Dao Immortal Scripture «Nine Nether Suppressing Hell Scripture»!】

Boom!

“Holy shit!”

A stampede of a million grass mud horses galloped through Han Yan's mind.

“This f*cking works?!”

He looked at Lin Rourou, whose aura had surged and who looked utterly bewildered, and couldn't help but ask the System in his mind: “System, this girl's talent is too monstrous, isn't it? She created a Cultivation Technique in less than a day?”

【Ding! Reporting to the Host.】

The System's cold, mechanical voice promptly sounded.

【This world is at the beginning of Spiritual Qi recovery. As the first Red-Clothed Malevolent Ghost born in this world, Lin Rourou's body has already carried the ‘Ghost Dao Luck’ of this world.】

【In other words, she is the… Chosen One of the Ghost Dao path in this world.】

“So that's how it is.”

Han Yan understood in his heart.

He looked at Lin Rourou, who was still a little dazed, and slowly spoke, his voice calm.

“Not bad, you've finally been initiated.”

Then, he changed the subject, a hint of undetectable… anticipation flashing in his eyes.

“However, your current Cultivation is still shallow, and your Foundation is unstable.”

“This Sakura Country, with its dense Yin Qi, is a good place to Cultivate.”

“You should first occupy this entire area. Once your Cultivation Breakthroughs to the Realm of ‘Ghost General,’ I will come to find you and impart the subsequent Cultivation Technique to you.”

“Yes! Junior Martial Uncle!” Lin Rourou bowed in response, then looked up, a little confused, “Um… Junior Martial Uncle, what Realm is a Ghost General?”

Han Yan's mouth twitched unconsciously upon hearing this.

He could only bring out the novel settings he had read again, beginning his most skilled endeavor of “popularizing knowledge.”

“Ghost Cultivators of the Underworld have strict Realms, each step a climb to Heaven.”

“From low to high, they are Wandering Spirit, Ghost Soldier, Malevolent Ghost, Ghost General, Ghost Commander, Ghost King, Ghost Emperor, and Ghost Monarch.”

“You are currently in the Realm of ‘Malevolent Ghost.’”

Lin Rourou listened, her heart swaying, and her eyes, burning with ghost fire, were filled with endless longing for the future!

She bowed deeply to Han Yan.

“Disciple understands!”

“I will not fail Junior Martial Uncle's high hopes!”