Chapter 469: Promotion to the Taoist Platform Realm_2
Additionally, due to the growth of the Primordial Spirit, getting closer to the Yang God level, Su Jie was able to wield the Chaos Dharma Form more frequently and for longer times, which greatly enhanced Su Jie's combat strength.
With a wave of his hand, all calamities were dispersed by Su Jie, and Su Jie's figure slowly floated to the ground.
Crackle.
On the ground, the thousand-hand centipede happily bounced into Su Jie's arms, rolling around in excitement for Su Jie's advancement.
On the other side, Han Ruyan had her eyes tightly closed.
"What's this..."
Su Jie's heart was moved.
The blood-colored wedding dress moved automatically without wind, and a massive surge of Yin Qi erupted around Han Ruyan like a mountain and ocean.
Her body was also transforming.
While Su Jie was advancing to the Daoist Platform Realm, Han Ruyan was also advancing to the Eighth Grade Fierce Ghost.
Back on Blue Star, through the Nightmare Park branches spread across Southeast Asia, absorbing the fearful emotions from numerous tourists.
And with the series of horror films produced by Jieke Group, relying on their unique immersive experience, gaining an excellent reputation worldwide, each film becoming a box office hit, harvesting the fearful emotions of large audiences.
With the absorption of a large amount of fear emotion, Han Ruyan had already reached the cusp of advancing to the Eighth Grade Fierce Ghost.
However, like Su Jie, Han Ruyan wasn't suited to break through in Blue Star's environment, and after accompanying Su Jie to Tianyuan World, she successfully completed the transformation to an Eighth Grade Fierce Ghost as Su Jie broke through to the Daoist Platform Realm.
As the patterns on the blood-colored wedding dress deepened, all vegetation and trees within a kilometer radius withered, trees became twisted and fierce, countless black hair-like roots broke through the soil, forming a Ghost Realm Forest.
Above Han Ruyan's head, a Black Moon slowly rose.
The Black Moon emitted a faint cold light, possessing a mysterious aura of universal extinction.
The phantom of the Black Moon presented a honeycomb-like structure, with dense points of light flickering within. Upon closer inspection, these were not honeycomb structures, but rather sinister and grotesque eyeballs blinking continuously, exceedingly eerie and terrifying.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Numerous eyeballs fell from the Black Moon, and upon reaching the ground, they merged into the earth.
Subsequently, the trees in the nearby Ghost Realm Forest began to change.
The twisted trees, resembling demons and emitting black smoke, each uprooted and became genuine demons, their trunks grew human faces.
Not just trees, even stones quickly turned black, transforming into small and large stone figures with human-like features, roaring.
The corpses of various beasts that had died in the Ghost Realm Forest melted like candles, flowing and sticking together, transforming into grotesque monsters with multiple hands, feet, eyes, and mouths.
This was Han Ruyan's curse ability. Even stones and trees are cursed into such states; one shudders to think what effect it would have on a human.
Han Ruyan's enhancement wasn't just limited to her curse ability; she was strengthened in all aspects, such as the blood-colored wedding dress she wore.
The wedding dress flashed with a blood-colored glow, and a small mountain tens of meters high nearby was instantly cut in half, with the upper half slowly sliding down, revealing a smooth and flat surface.
Han Ruyan held a brass mirror in her left hand, and as its light reflected, the surrounding space became shadowy and indistinct. Many panic-stricken fleeing beasts found themselves inside the brass mirror, becoming the creatures within.
In her right hand, Han Ruyan held a Big Happiness Lantern, tossed into the air, and as the Big Happiness Lantern floated up, the entire Ghost Realm Forest ignited, the cold ghost fire engulfing trees, stones, and beasts.
With Han Ruyan's advancement to the Eighth Grade Fierce Ghost, her control over ghost entities became even more terrifying. Ghosts like the Mirror Girl and Lantern Ghost, which she used adeptly, were cultivated by Han Ruyan to the Sixth Grade Fierce Ghost level, and the capabilities Han Ruyan could wield from them far exceeded their individual limits.
Han Ruyan took out the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, which over the years had continuously absorbed souls, including both humans and livestock, approaching millions. It currently stored millions of Yin Souls, vastly stronger than before.
Han Ruyan glanced at the Ten Thousand Soul Banner before putting it away as it's also a ghost artifact within her scope of amplification, but its operation would be too conspicuous, so she refrained from using it further.
Watching Han Ruyan demonstrate her various abilities following her advancement to the Eighth Grade, Su Jie watched in astonishment, repeatedly amazed.
Su Jie could feel the surge in Han Ruyan's strength; one must know that the Heavenly Soul Sect Master Lu Jingshi's natal Fierce Ghost was merely an Eighth Grade Earth Evil Ghost.
And Han Ruyan, transformed into a Fierce Ghost from the Heavenly Spinning Jade Light Body, was naturally the Empress among ghosts; at the same level, Han Ruyan was the unparalleled No.1 among Fierce Ghosts, with no rival.
Han Ruyan slowly opened her eyes, the color of the wedding dress returning to normal, her gaze landing on Su Jie.
"Husband, why are you staring at me? Is something wrong with my face, is it not pretty?"
Han Ruyan's face displayed a smile, and it was a very gentle and ladylike smile, just like an elegant young lady.
In the past, even when Han Ruyan smiled, it felt extremely desolate and cold, sending chills down one's spine.
This sudden change shocked Su Jie, causing him to be stunned for a few seconds before reacting.
"You are my wife, how could you not be beautiful."
Su Jie blinked, knowing that Han Ruyan's powers had grown stronger again, and her 'Seven Emotions and Six Desires' had been restored even more, including the memories from her past life. Han Ruyan was becoming more and more like a normal human, rather than a Fierce Ghost.
This was also the biggest difference between Han Ruyan and other Fierce Ghosts.
Other Fierce Ghosts, even if they were a Ninth Grade one, had almost no emotional awareness, usually having only slaughter and death on their minds, without considering anything else beyond killing.
"Husband, you're really good with words, no wonder you're so popular with women."
Han Ruyan gracefully moved closer to Su Jie and linked her arm with his.
Su Jie's expression stiffened slightly, then he heard Han Ruyan continue: "Liu Yingying, what is she to my husband?"
This could be bad.
A few beads of cold sweat dripped down Su Jie's forehead.
It could be attributed to a woman's natural jealousy; after regaining more of her emotional capabilities, Han Ruyan's first instinct was to catch a cheater.
"Actually, I've known her for quite some time."
Facing Han Ruyan's beautiful eyes, Su Jie coughed dryly twice.
"Then, what am I?"
Han Ruyan looked up at Su Jie, her smile gradually fading.
"You are my wife."
"And her?"
"Also."
"What about Ning Xinyue?"
"Also... cough, cough, she's not."
Realizing, Su Jie looked at Han Ruyan, who showed no expression, and explained, "I really have nothing going on with that little girl."
Han Ruyan stayed silent, just staring at Su Jie's face repeatedly, without knowing if she believed Su Jie's words.
"Sizzle sizzle."
The thousand-hand centipede crawled to Su Jie's shoulder, baring its fangs and claws at Han Ruyan, pointing at Su Jie with its pale corpse hand and then at itself, as if to say that in Su Jie's heart, it was the most important, and Han Ruyan should be behind it.
"Little bug, you're quite a nuisance."
Han Ruyan maintained a dignified expression but her words were incredibly provocative, who knows if she could understand insect language.
The thousand-hand centipede was so angry it hissed madly, stood up, ready to pounce on Han Ruyan, but fortunately, Su Jie's quick eyes and hands caught the thousand-hand centipede's body in time, holding it in his arms, preventing it from fighting with Han Ruyan.
"What are you fighting for attention, you bug!"
Su Jie stroked the head of the thousand-hand centipede, looking both helpless and amused.
Han Ruyan and the thousand-hand centipede naturally clashed, and now even more so, she crossed her arms and said indifferently, "Little bug, you are still in the Seven Refinements state, when you reach Eight Refinements, come talk to me again, for now, you're not enough for me to fight."
The thousand-hand centipede was quite agitated, turning back to look at Su Jie pitifully, opening its mouth and continually pointing inside, making it obvious that it wanted Su Jie to feed it more Poisonous Insects so it could quickly ascend to the top grade Eight Refinement Gu, to suppress Han Ruyan.
"Okay, okay, I'll feed you more later, making sure your stomach is full every day."
Su Jie stroked the thousand-hand centipede, promising.
Fortunately, thanks to the thousand-hand centipede's interruption, Han Ruyan didn't continue to pursue the matter with Liu Yingying, allowing this bout of jealousy to temporarily calm down.