Volume 9, Chapter 601 – Struck Rich, Ghost Tomatoes Everywhere

Qi Huang reached out and pinched her own thigh. Because her skin was so delicate, a clear sting shot through, nearly bringing tears to her eyes, and the dizziness in her head eased a great deal.

“Ha-ha, heaven never seals off all paths!”

Qi Huang had never imagined that misfortune would turn to blessing and that she would run into such sky-falling wealth.

Thrilled, Qi Huang wandered through the woods, trying to figure out how many ghost tomatoes there were. As time passed, her pretty face twisted with excitement. Who knew about elsewhere, but just this patch under her feet alone held hundreds of thousands of ghost tomato plants!

“Hehehe, as the saying goes, surviving a great disaster brings later fortune. The ancients did not deceive me!”

Qi Huang burst into tears. With so many ghost tomatoes, as long as she absorbed them all, not only could she restore the Divine Sense she had expended, it could also surge dramatically, and then she could carve her way out of the space rift in one go.

Qi Huang turned her head to look at the space rift overhead and found that the thing was slowly knitting closed. Knowing she didn’t have much time, she plunged into the ghost tomatoes, stretched out both hands and worked left and right, one by one crushing them and rubbing the pulp onto her head.

At the same time, Qi Huang could clearly feel her Divine Sense rapidly recovering, the dizziness in her brain disappearing completely; then her Divine Sense began to grow, slowly at first.

Qi Huang felt the pace was too slow. Her Divine Sense turned into countless hands, plucking great swathes of ghost tomatoes, then grinding them above her head; the purple juice gathered at once into a waterfall and poured down.

Qi Huang’s Boundless Demonic Hair was formidable as well, like a bottomless pit, however much came, it swallowed that much. Hardly a few drops managed to drip to the ground.

Qi Huang’s Divine Sense began to soar, and soon broke through to the second layer of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm.

Outside, the Source of Yin Miasma searched for a long while before finally digging her pet and servants out from beneath the thick layer of earth.

“My Lady, are you all right?”

Bai Yun asked weakly. She had been closest to the heavenly lightning, so she took the greatest blow; many bones were now broken, her  internal organs badly damaged. If she wasn’t a zombie, she would have been dead already.

“I’m fine!”

the Source of Yin Miasma replied through gritted teeth. With how bedraggled she looked, there was no way she resembled someone who was fine.

“And that terrifying woman?”

Wang Jun asked, looking around.

“She fell into that space rift.”

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the Source of Yin Miasma gestured at the space rift above, which was a full ten feet long at its broadest.

“Huh?”

The faces of several fiends showed astonishment. No one had expected such a bizarre turn of events.

“Then is she dead?”

The female ghost Bao Ying asked with a hint of hope on her face.

“I don’t know. No one understands what’s inside there!”

The male ghost Yang Sa shook his head.

“How about we go in and take a look? That wretched girl caused us so much trouble, we absolutely can’t let her off lightly.”

Bao Ying proposed.

“If you want to go, you go. I’m not going!”

The golden corpse Yang Sa refused without hesitation.

“Why?”

Bao Ying asked in puzzlement.

“Do you even know what that place is and still dare to go?”

Wang Jun countered from the side.

“I don’t. Do you?”

Bao Ying shook her head honestly.

“Are you stupid? That’s the shattered void the Miss tore open from the cultivation world. Eight or nine times out of ten, what’s on the other side is the Immortal Realm. With our measly strength, going in would be walking to our deaths.”

Wang Jun shook his head helplessly.

“The Immortal Realm? If it’s the Immortal Realm, then as fiends, we’ll be doomed the moment we’re discovered.”

Bao Ying drew in a sharp breath.

“Wang Jun is right. It’s eight or nine parts likely the Immortal Realm over there. As fiends, we absolutely can’t rashly rush in. Besides, I spent too much resisting the Heavenly Tribulation and need time to recover. Let’s find a place to rest first. In any case, whenever she comes out, I’ll naturally know.”

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the Source of Yin Miasma made her decision, then turned and left the place. The other fiends staggered along behind her.

Not long after, Yaoyao hurried back with Mimi. When they saw the space rift and the terrifying battlefield remains, they were directly scared stiff, then began searching mountains and plains for any trace of Qi Huang.

Jiang Feng arrived shortly after and joined the search.

As time flowed by, the mood of “the group” hit rock bottom, because they scoured the entire battlefield and still found no trace of Qi Huang.

“Big Sister Qi Huang… wuwu… where are you?”

Mimi was so anxious she burst into sobs.

Meanwhile, Qi Huang was bathing in a “tomato bath”. As that torrential tomato juice poured down, her whole body turned purple, and the strength of her Divine Sense kept rocketing up: second layer of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm… third layer… fourth layer… fifth layer…

Two quarters of an hour passed. When Qi Huang absorbed the last ghost tomato within her field of view, her Divine Sense had actually leapt six layers in a row, reaching the astonishing seventh layer of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm, stepping straight into its late stage, and the strength of her Boundless Demonic Hair had also increased severalfold.

Feeling that meteoric surge of power, Qi Huang’s face broke into a relieved smile. With this stroke of fortune, she not only had the capital to stand against the fiendish Source outside, she had also simultaneously removed the hidden danger that would have kept her from ascending within seven years. It truly was turning calamity into blessing.

Qi Huang spread out her Divine Sense and discovered that the ground beneath her still held quite a lot of ghost tomatoes, just not as concentrated as the patch she had just harvested.

Qi Huang practically drooled at the sight, but the space rift overhead had already begun slowly healing. If she didn’t leave now, she would be stranded here.

Qi Huang fell into thought. If her guess was right, this space was most likely the Immortal Realm. With her current strength, remaining here would be no different from courting death! Besides, even if she really did grow strong here, there was no guarantee she could find a road back.

And more importantly, she had to go back and save the world!

Thinking of this, Qi Huang swiftly swept up the ghost tomato seeds blanketing the ground beneath her feet into her spatial ring, then did her utmost to harvest the nearby ghost tomatoes, planning to use the last bit of time to gather as many as she could.

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At the Pingshan Mass Burial Ground, a red figure descended from the sky. Her beauty was peerless, and she had the exact same face as Qi Huang.

“It’s Big Sister Qi Huang!”

Mimi was overjoyed and was about to rush forward, but her younger sister yanked her back.

“That’s not Qi Huang. That’s Cheng Hongling!”

Yaoyao warned solemnly. She was rather wary of this decisive and ruthless fairy; even though her own strength was far greater, that wariness remained.

“What exactly happened? Where is Qi Huang?”

Cheng Hongling shed her usual icy aloofness and hurriedly asked Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng looked surprised, then quickly described what had happened earlier.

A dozen miles away, in a basin, the Source of Yin Miasma slowly opened her beautiful eyes and lifted her rosy lips slightly. “That should be her main body.”

“Miss, what do you mean, main body?”

Wang Jun asked in confusion from the side.

“I found a woman who looks exactly like that wretched girl. Do you remember the doppelgänger mark at the center of her brows from before? Judging by that, this should be the main body.”

The Source of Yin Qi explained.

“So what do we do now?”

Wang Jun asked cautiously.

“Hmph. It’s all the same person anyway. Kill the main body and the doppelgänger dies too. Since that’s the case, why would I stupidly wait around?”

the Source of Yin Miasma snorted coldly, and her figure vanished from where she stood.

Elsewhere, the more Cheng Hongling heard, the more anxious her expression became, and her eyes were already reddening.

Jiang Feng asked in puzzlement, “She’s your doppelgänger. You can contact her with your mind. Besides, you’re fine, so she must still be alive. Don’t worry.”

“I already tried before, but she never replied.”

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Cheng Hongling answered with a slight choke. Even she wasn’t sure whether Qi Huang counted as her Spiritual Wisdom Soul; if not, then the iron law that when the three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls die, the true body dies too might not apply to her.

“Don’t worry. She was probably fighting before and had no time to reply. Try again now.”

Jiang Feng comforted her considerately.

Cheng Hongling suddenly came to her senses and was about to try contacting Qi Huang again when, at that very moment, a beautiful woman in a black Feathered Dress abruptly appeared before her.

Cheng Hongling’s expression changed slightly, and she reflexively retreated a few steps. Just now, her Divine Sense hadn’t captured the other’s shadow at all, which showed how fast the newcomer was; moreover, a supremely dangerous aura radiated from this woman, making Cheng Hongling’s heart lurch.

The one zombie and the two cats also tensed their nerves, their faces wary

as they stared at the voluptuous beauty.

“Who are you?”

Cheng Hongling asked on reflex. Because the other party showed no obvious fiendish traits, she couldn’t just strike first.

“Just now that doppelgänger of yours was fighting me to the death, and now you ask who I am? You, as the main body, certainly have it easy.”

The beauty mocked.

“You’re the Source of Yin Miasma of the Pingshan Mass Burial Ground?”

Cheng Hongling braced herself as if facing a mortal enemy, and the Blue-Scaled Sword instantly floated before her.

“I am! I was just fretting about not finding her. Since you’ve delivered yourself, I’ll start with you!”

The smile on the Source of Yin Qi’s face turned icy, and then she vanished like a ghost from where she stood.

Cheng Hongling’s breath stalled, because her Divine Sense couldn’t catch the opponent’s figure at all. That proved the gulf in their strength was far too great.

‘So that was the terrifying enemy she had just been facing.’

A sense of powerlessness unlike anything before welled up in Cheng Hongling’s heart. She could only close her beautiful eyes and wait for death. Fortunately, having heard that Qi Huang was safe before dying, she had no regrets.

Cheng Hongling accepted her fate, but the pain never came. She opened her eyes in confusion to see the Source of Yin Miasma staring at her in astonishment, unable to advance another step.

Cheng Hongling lowered her head for a look and saw the other woman’s slender waist firmly bound by a lock of long hair.

Following the long hair with her eyes, Cheng Hongling then saw her own doppelgänger floating before the space rift, saying with utter confidence, “Bet you didn’t expect it. I, Qi Huang, am back.”