vstars Chapter 370 Slums
Chapter 370 Slums
Chapter 370 Slums
The headless ghost and the half-body ghost suddenly looked at Jiang He and the others, still fiddling with sunflower seeds in their hands:
"The previous waves of academy cultivators suffered terribly. Some were scared away, and others went mad with greed. How dare they come again? Forget about that old man from the Yue family's money. He's like Scrooge. Be careful, he might have the life to take it, but not the life to spend it."
"Yeah, Yue Cheng is usually so stingy, why has he been spending so much money on posting tasks lately? It's not like him."
"Who cares? As long as the Yue family doesn't interfere with our cultivation, that's fine. Those people from the Yue family are always hiring Taoist priests to perform rituals, making it all seem so real. Last time they even threw glutinous rice at me, it was hilarious. I'm a ghost cultivator, not a zombie, why would I be afraid of that?"
Shh, they're coming.
The headless ghost and the half-body ghost immediately stopped talking when they saw Jiang He walking towards them.
As soon as Long Aotian approached the two ghosts, they howled:
"No way, how come you spiritual practitioners have so much yang energy? Stop, stop, stop, keep a safe distance."
The headless ghost felt a burning sensation on his skin.
He squinted at the five people in front of him.
What a strange combination: a half-dead female cultivator, a demonic cultivator, a corpse, and two cultivators with extremely strong yang energy. I don't understand it at all.
The ghost, which had neither a back of its head nor a back, was trembling with fear and hid behind the headless ghost.
Jiang He gave Long Aotian a wink. As Long Aotian took a step closer, the two ghosts took a step back, until the headless ghost couldn't help but speak:
"Are you here to have your fortune told? You just want to buy on credit, right? Let me tell you, you'll live the longest, but you're about to die."
The headless ghost pointed at both Long Aotian and Jiang He.
Long Aotian's eyes flickered slightly, and he stopped in his tracks.
Jiang He didn't pay much attention to the headless ghost's words, and suddenly spoke:
"What's going on with the Yue family? 10 Star Coins, I'll buy information."
Upon hearing Jiang He's words, the other ghost cultivators who had been hiding far away also gathered around:
"No problem, no problem. You ask him what he wants, I'll tell you. I know about the Yue family."
The headless ghost breathed a sigh of relief:
"Oh, so that's what you mean. I almost forgot you came from the academy."
"It's just the Yue family's situation. No problem, one million star coins and I'll tell you."
The headless ghost transformed into a human, with a head growing out of nowhere. He looked like a middle school student, and his face was full of greedy smiles.
Jiang He shook her head:
"If you say 100,000, then it's 100,000."
"Alright, alright, I can't outbid you anyway, let's settle for a fixed price, 20."
"can."
After agreeing on the deal, the headless ghost led Jiang He and the other four back to their residence.
The Yinhe Star is strictly hierarchical. Although they are all planets within the Wanling Empire, the resources of each planet are basically occupied by large families and planet lords.
Wanqi Jingyan's reach is limited. He can still manage planets near Wanling Star, but planets like Yinhe Star are completely controlled by the forces that have been established there.
"The cultivators on Yinhe Star are divided into different classes just like people. After the spiritual energy was revived, the planet was not short of cultivators. There are also many ghost cultivators here. We are actually no different from the lower classes."
Are you all wondering why I mentioned some information that has nothing to do with the Yue family?
You'll understand in a bit.
There are upper, middle, and lower classes. Our area belongs to the lower class, commonly known as a slum. The deceased wife of the Yue family head came from our slum.
The headless ghost sat on the ground:
"Yue Cheng's wife, Yao Xi, is the head of our ghost cultivators. When they met, Yue Cheng wasn't even part of the current Yue family. It was Yao Xi who helped him expand his family step by step. After using our leader, this heartless man, Yue Cheng, cheated on Yao Xi while she was pregnant. It's already difficult for ghost cultivators and spiritual cultivators to have children together. Yao Xi spent countless resources to give birth to a baby boy, Yue Shoucai, who is Yue Cheng's youngest son. Yue Cheng had previously adopted two children from a collateral branch..."
The headless ghost general Yue Cheng, Yao Xi, Yue Shoucai, and Yue Cheng's mistress all recounted their stories.
Just as Bai Zhizhou and Jiang He had guessed, Yue Cheng didn't love his youngest son at all. Compared to the two adopted children, the adopted children seemed more like his own.
"Yue Ming and Yue Hui are the child of a mistress, aren't they?"
Zhong Liyu pursed her lips. Even if Yao Xi disliked her son, she wouldn't dote on Yue Ming and Yue Hui, the two children from the collateral branch, and neglect Yue Shoucai.
"Who says otherwise? That mistress treats Yue Ming and Yue Hui like her own children. In short, the relationships here are too complicated. I advise you to leave. Yue Cheng never intended to be good to Yue Shoucai. He doesn't need an ancestral home. He only did this mission for the sake of face. Yue Shoucai has gone mad. He has to find an excuse. If you go, you will most likely be scared back by Yue Cheng."
Besides, you're still students; there are many complexities and intricacies involved in interpersonal relationships here.
"Aren't you a student too?"
Jiang He countered with a question about the headless ghost.
The headless ghost was momentarily stunned, but then its attitude returned to normal:
"What? I'm no longer a student. This is what I looked like before I died."
The headless ghost's body was not a headless corpse, but a middle school student in a school uniform.
After Jiang He finished transferring the money, she and the others left the place.
Watching the figures disappear into the distance, the ghost, with only half its body remaining, asked in confusion:
"Why did you tell them so much about our slums?"
“These days, young people are full of passion and ambition. They are from those universities. If we can get the news to the higher-ups through them, who knows, maybe one day our emperor will have some free time to take charge of us.”
"Oh, I see."
The headless ghost stopped speaking only after it sensed the departing footsteps of the cultivator outside the door.
Long Aotian returned and brought back their conversation verbatim.
Zhong Liyu: "Now that I think about it, what those two ghost cultivators said doesn't seem to be wrong."
“I don’t think this is right. They say Yao Xi is their leader, but they call Yao Xi’s son, Yue Shoucai, by his first name. It doesn’t sound very respectful,” Li Ling frowned.
Jiang He nodded: "Both sides have problems. Let's not go to the Yue family. Let's go to the ancestral home first to look for clues."
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"Yuecheng, is this team reliable? I see they are all in the early Nascent Soul stage, or they seem to have just been promoted to Nascent Soul. Doesn't that mean they were still Golden Core a month ago? So many Nascent Soul teams came before and couldn't handle them."
"Momo, don't panic. That female ghost in the ancestral house can't hurt you. Don't be afraid. Shoucai has gone mad too. He had a Taoist priest perform a ritual before. That female ghost hasn't appeared in your dreams recently, has she?"
"No, but I'm still worried. That bitch Yao Xi is still haunting us. Even after turning into a worm, she's still so powerful. I just hope she doesn't affect Ming and Hui, those two kids."
"Don't worry, I'm here."
Yue Cheng grabbed Yue Mo and began to grope her.