Park Dongxu turned his head, looking in the direction of the main hall, bowing slightly with an expression of utmost reverence on his face, he respectfully called out, "Teacher."
Lin Mo and Yingzi also turned their gaze toward the main hall. From the dark doors, akin to the gates of Hell, slowly emerged an old man with disheveled white hair, wearing a white Heavenly Master's robe and a tall hat. What was most astonishing was his body, which carried a certain degree of translucency; one could even see the buildings behind him through his chest.
"Master, what is that?" Yingzi asked, her eyes wide with curiosity.
The corners of Lin Mo's mouth curved slightly upwards as he murmured to himself, "Just as I suspected, he's already dead, what's left is nothing more than his soul."
Like the Magic Users of Huaxia, the Heavenly Masters of Han Country were also influenced by the Taoism of Huaxia. They continued to develop and extend their own sects, but fundamentally, everything stemmed from the roots of Huaxia's Taoism.
If a Magic User of Huaxia dies but their soul is not immediately swallowed by the heavens and earth, they can find a suitable place to linger and transform into a Ghost Cultivator.
Clearly, the somewhat translucent phantom before them was a Ghost Cultivator. However, the fact that he could condense some semblance of a substantial body must be the result of long-time cultivation.
Park Shiyou was once one of the most famous Heavenly Masters in Han Country and the most renowned in Seoul. However, twenty years ago, he was critically injured by the Sword God Li Yanzhen and subsequently died, turning into a Ghost Cultivator.
The Asakusa Society was fortified with the Great Star Array left by Park Shiyou, which could gather energy from heaven and earth. Thus, Park Shiyou was able to survive in the Asakusa Society and, using the remaining power, he cursed and controlled Li Yanzhen.
But as a Ghost Cultivator, the price he paid was that he could not easily leave the Asakusa Society. Otherwise, his soul would be sensed by the heavens and earth, and eventually be shattered by the Heavenly Dao Laws.
"Who are you, and why have you come to cause trouble in my Asakusa Society?" Park Shiyou frowned, his hollow and vacant eyes filled with confusion and anger.
The confusion was natural, wondering who would dare to forcibly intrude into the Asakusa Society. Even the current strongest forces in Han Country would hardly dare to launch a surprise attack.
The anger, too, was natural. The Martial Artists lying on the ground, slain by Lin Mo, were all cultivated by Park Dongxu. Periodically, he would consume their Essence Blood to strengthen his Divine Soul, and he had not expected them all to be killed by Lin Mo. How could he not be furious?
"Did you go to Huaxia and take a fancy to a girl, instructing someone to bring her back for you?" Lin Mo said, his tone cold. Park Shiyou was momentarily confused, but then he realized. To maintain the power of his Divine Soul, he would generally fall into a deep sleep, only awakening yearly for necessary outings or for important matters. Indeed, he had visited Huaxia last year, where he discovered a spiritually pure girl and had the Li Family find a way to bring her to Han Country.
Park Shiyou did not personally take action during his travels in Huaxia for two reasons: first, because his strength would dwindle to only a fifth outside the Asakusa Society, and second, for fear that taking action would alarm the powerful beings of Huaxia.
The girl's body and soul were exceptionally pure, unlike anyone he had seen in his twenty years of searching in Han Country. Such a body was suitable for his soul to reside in, even to merge, allowing him a chance of rebirth, to tread the mortal realm once again, free from the constraints of the rules.
"Who are you to that girl? Have the Li Family not brought her to me yet?" Park Shiyou asked, brow furrowed, with a bad premonition growing inside him.
"It seems the Li Family didn't tell you that the girl is my cousin. You want my cousin, so I have no choice but to come here and kill you, to prevent future troubles," Lin Mo said indifferently.
Park Dongxu was stunned for a moment, then realization struck him, and he bared his teeth in fury, "Bastard, the Li Family actually dared to betray our Asakusa Society."
Park Shiyou also furrowed his brows tightly, understanding that Lin Mo's discovery of the Asakusa Society meant that the Li Family had betrayed him.
"Does the Li Family not care that Li Yanzhen is still in my hands?" Park Shiyou's eyes glinted with a cold light before he looked at Lin Mo and said, "Since I haven't brought your cousin here, did you come all the way to Han Country just to kill me over a woman?"
"I said, I just want to eliminate future troubles," Lin Mo said indifferently.
Park Shiyou looked at Lin Mo and suddenly shook his head, "It seems you don't understand who I am. Although you're a Huaxia powerhouse, this is my territory; you're no match for me. If you leave now, I'll spare you."
Lin Mo was surprised, "It's me who's here to kill you, not you to spare me."
Park Shiyou's face turned cold, and he said angrily, "Do you really intend to fight to the death, believing I can't kill you?"
"If you were truly confident you could kill me, you wouldn't be wasting your breath," Lin Mo shook his head.
"Young man, you're too arrogant, thinking yourself invincible?"
Park Shiyou was frowning deeply, already carrying a trace of anger.
Lin Mo looked at him coldly, without any fear of his gaze, "Maybe you've been in the Asakusa Society for too long, occasionally revealing so-called miracles, deceiving ordinary believers to worship you, thinking yourself a God. Unfortunately, you're not a God. Even if you were, I'm here to slay a God today."
"Very well, I must kill you today." Park Shiyou became furiously angry, and suddenly the dark clouds in the sky started to surge wildly, a violent energy swept across, and the sky seemed to cast down a weight as heavy as ten thousand jun, pressing down on Lin Mo and Yingzi.
Lin Mo stood firm as a rock, while Yingzi struggled a bit, frowning as she elevated her True Qi to resist this pressure.
Lin Mo placed his hand on Yingzi, transferring a strand of Spiritual Energy to her, and Yingzi finally felt much more at ease.
"It seems my strength is still not strong enough, always causing trouble for the young master," Yingzi frowned slightly, unable to help thinking to herself.
"Evil Ghost!"
Park Shiyou performed Hand Seals, and two evil ghosts each about thirty feet tall with green faces and sharp teeth emerged in the Void, opening their mouths as rolling waves of Black Fog churned in the air, ferociously rushing toward Lin Mo.
"Is that all you've got?"
Lin Mo shook his head, clenched his fist, and golden light shone brightly. He threw a punch at an evil ghost, and the golden light drew out a golden streak, directly hitting an evil ghost and turning it into Black Fog.
With two punches, he turned both evil ghosts into dust.
Park Shiyou and Park Dongxu both revealed astonished looks in their eyes; Lin Mo hadn't even used his full strength just now.
In the quiet room at the back of Asakusa Temple, the emaciated elder finally opened his eyes, which should have been cloudy but surprisingly flashed with a sharpness like Sword Light, "Have they finally begun to fight?"
Li Shashu clenched his fist and said, "Grandfather, are you ready to break free from his curse?"
(7 more, the excitement continues tomorrow, I'm really sorry, because I hit the wrong publishing button, resulting in chapter three being posted repeatedly, and there were also many wrong chapter names, but now I've corrected them all. If there were readers who saw the repeated chapters earlier, just look again in a while, it should be fine.)